I don't envy Dharam's ladies - Hema Malini

Headline(s) of the day -

I don't envy Dharams Ladies - (Why the hell should she? He is 60+ and she is still drop dread gorgeous.)

Well, Hema Malini has to say that she is not envy of Dharam's ladies. I am glad that she said that but a bit after some 30 years. She married Dharam as his second wife and it's no surprise she is not jealous of anyone on the screen or off the screen. Anyways, the family drama on the CNN IBN is continuing since last four days and only Isha and the other sister is left. As they don't have enough screen presence so they might be interviewed together.

Anyways, if you see that what is the need for this kind of news then I must admit that they are eye catching. And this Dharam ji's family drama was to get some publicity for their latest release "Apne". I have heard that "Apne" is a good movie on the theme of boxing and the caste is the best in the industry (for boxing ofcourse). Sunny and Dharam are obvious choices but my doubts are about Bobby Deol who is more apt in shaking legs than landing punches. Anyways, Let's see how this family drama unfolds on the screen. Off the screen IBN is taking good care of the marketing part.

Apple's IPhone Review . A sneak Peak

Needless to talk.. here is the video reproduced from Wall Streen Journal. The only bad news is that it won't be available in India for next few months at least till Nov. The good news is that finally we have the slickest of all hand held computers.

India Want Answers

These are all the serious charges and India need answers. The fact that the senior congress leaders are shielding her from the media and public is making all the things look hazy. Even the prime minister goes to the extent to say that it's mudslinging. Well, the fact is that if you have so much mud/dirt around, someday someone will sling it on your face for good. With all respect the whole country knows that we have a captive PM, just think about a CAptive president and its not very hard to imagine another emergency like situation. India wants answers.

Paris Hilton out of Jail..

Headline of the day -

What can you say about a gorgeous beauty like her? And the fact that she is wild and reckless just adds to her sensuous curves. She talked about her life in Jail and how was it different from the outside world live with Larry King. Well, that's the headline for the day. Gosh! we all know that a jail is jail and we all know that life in a United States Jail is obviously different from a jail in India. So for whom was the headline? I guess the only people who are happy are New York Taxpayers whose tax money was going waste in keeping Paris in jail.

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Headlines of the day - Old Mumbai Buildings and Sunny's Underwear

1) Old Mumbai buildings dread rain.
Well, perhaps the new buildings are going to celebrate the rain and people who have no buildings to live in are going to jump with joy seeing the old building people dreading the monsoon. It's a new revelation by IBN that only old buildings gets affected by rain because their reporter who have reported this news lives in an old building and he/she dreads the rain.

2) Shy Sunny talks of his underwear.
There are no major hindi releases so CNN IBN is catching bollywood stars talking about funny things. Bobby talks about his daddy, Sunny went deeper and talked about his undergarments. After all he is brand Ambassador for Lux Cozi and "ye andar ki baat nahi hai". Great news reporting but they missed the audience's attention by a mile. Had it been Rak** Sawant talking about the same, it would have been made a lot of difference.

The kind of news reporting that these news channels are doing is simply great. Let's see how it goes along.

Fashion Kills.

Fashion Kills..

It claims more lives than we can imagine..

A touching Advertisement campaign.

The advertisements of today give me a headache. Print ads are somewhat good but it's the TV ads that are truly spoiling the experience. I really want a TIVO. Talking about print ads, I was surprised to see one print ad from Rajasthan Education board (which came to me as a routine forward from one of my software engineer friend). The image on the left is the advertisement about women education. The ad shows that how the traditional mindset have kept the girls away from school. The text implies that girls have to help their parents and do the household chores and boys have to go to school. Even the teacher is a male. A touching one as it advocates a change in the system and which has to start with a change in the mindset. The companies with ads like "Taste the Thunder", "Aakhiri Thumsup", "Happy recharge to you" and others should take a leaf out of this kind of creativity.

News of the Day -

My blog will now feature news of the day column which will ensure atleast one article a day. The idea is to write about the kind of news that is being sold to unlucky web surfers like us who refresh a news site 30 times a day to read the same boring news. Few days back, the top of the page on one of the most popular news channel read - "Rani is engaged to Aditya" and the bottom of the same page read " Rani denies the rumours of engagement". Well so I am bound to write this column as there is enough supply of ridiculous news out there.

Headline of the day -

"My Daddy's Strongest - Bobby Deol"

The news is about Rajiv Masand's discussion with Bobby Deol (don't ask who is he and who is hid daddy) Well, Bobby Deol was a known person sometime back, I mean before he signed movies like Jhoom Barabar Jhoom or that one with Upen Patel (gosh! I forgot the name of the movie also) and now he has to go ga ga over the strength of his father. Well, by strength perhaps he means that Dharam Paji has to pull the movie alone because Sunny Deol has made a fool of himself by doing "Fool N Final". Poor Bobby and Sunny.

Well, no doubt Dharam Paji is strongest because even at this age he had a strong screen presence in the movie "Life in a Metro". But Bobby explains in the interview that it's the mental and emotional strength he is talking about and not about physical strength. Anyways, for the news channel this news will mean Abhishek giving interview about his daddy being the strongest but everybody knows who is the strongest. Poor Dara Singh, where is his son?

Sivaji - "The Hype"

Since the last few days I am finding myself into several unwanted discussions about "Sivaji'. Well, if you are in the heart of Tamil land then this is expected after every release of Rajini but I am glad that I am here for only two years and given the record of Rajini there will be only one movie in 2 years so I am braced. Have never seen or imagined this kind of hype in my life. We use to hear stories about the temples built and idolizing Rajini but we use to think that those are stories yaar. One year in Chennai and all those images are coming back. People do worship Rajini or what else could explain mad rush for the movie tickets? But what is interesting is the new way of marketing the movie.

New(s) channel of marketing - With the no. of digital news channel soaring there is a competition for news and normally the headline reads something like "Rani is engaged to Aditya" the other channel will air "Rani is not engaged to Aditya". First the news channels aired the advance booking hype that how people stood in a one kilometer long queue or how much they paid. They interviewed all sort of people.

Building the hype -
In the week before the movie they started a controversy by comparing Rajini and Amitabh. I am a north Indian and I have seen that even South Indian audience watch Amitabh movies but honestly speaking I don't know any old friend of mine who liked Rajini. Well, maybe I have a limited friends circle.
After the first week, the hype was about collection. Sivaji has made impressive collections in Southern states and overseas and there was news about how it made into UK top 10 in the first week itself and was the first Tamil movie ever.

"Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" Vs. "Sivaji" - Well, news channels went gaga over this fact and nobody even aired a single line about "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" which was released with Sivaji and have collected 150% of what Sivaji grossed in the first week. (The image above is snapshot from IMDB) JBJ which I have already voted as a trash movie, I think for a movie like this beating Sivaji in collections in the first week was an impressive feat. But yeah, no news channel reprted this. That indicatees that what we hear on news about Sivaji maybe paid advertising. Or may be it's normal for Hindi movies

Well, there was another hype about the number of screens in which the movie opened, if we compare UK market then JBJ opened in 47 screens compared to 12 screens of Sivaji. Sivaji was no doubt had the better average per screen but the popularity meter indicates that still A Rajini hit in UK cannot spark the acceptability in more screens.

Sivaji is a sure hit and may it be the hype, may it be the music, may it be the idol worship. My only point is that there are no point in debating whether Amitabh is better or Rajini. Or Sholay was the top grosser or Sivaji? Who has better business sense or who has better screen presence? Who is more popular? There are thousand ways to prove and disprove the same thing. News channels sells controversy because people buy controversy. I don't know the mad rush even make people say things which nobody in their sane mind should speak like "you can't pirate Sivaji" Well, for those people I have this advice - "World is bigger and smarter then what we imaging it to be." (this is the download torrent) So let's not act like fools.

Images that Changed the world..

These are the images from our history which helped shaping the modern world. They are the spots from our past which helped raise the consciousness of people and triggered a social change. Some images are really brutal but still a nice compilation. Check them out.

However, I still love photography of hope and optimism so this one on my left about the first human flight is my personal favorite.

Highway to Everest -

- And India don't even have proper approach roads to some of its cities, forget about lakhs of the villages.

China is allegedly building Highway to Everest and IBN is carrying a report on it. Environmentalist will raise their concerns and ecologists will pour in with their views but China adopts a headstrong approach everywhere. If they are in, they are in and they don't care what is hitting them. Almost the same policies like of US. If they want to attack Iraq they will do it, if they want to bomb Afghanistan they will bomb it and if they want India to give up their missile program, Indians will do it. Similarly if China takes away some 30000 sq. kms of Indian land nobody points a finger, but if India fights for PoK the whole world comes to rescue of Pakistan.

Anyways, I don't think that this highway will earn them revenue but then its a strong statement of power that they can reach anywhere. After reaching Tibet through railways now Chinese can soon find themselves on a luxury coach headed to Everest. And for Indians, I remember that there was a report about how a village in Jharkhand can only be approached through Chattisgarh and the irony was that village had a paramveer chakra winner (the supreme award of bravery) which was awarded to late Albert Ekka. I wonder people still compare India and China.

It;s still raining in Chennai and don't ask about roads.

The cold weather has stretched to its fifth day. It started drizzling on saturday night and rained cats and dogs on monday evening and the weather has become awesome. However, the roads are getting worse and its has become difficult for pedestrians to walk and even for those people who have to take buses as most of the roads are waterlogged. I live in Nungambakkam and currently braced from the waterlogging but today I took a walk down the lane till Valluvarkottam Road which connects Kodambakaam High road to Nungambakkam High road and literally got my feet dirty.

Well, rains for Chennai is not natural and this kind of rain is completely unwanted. It's famous for rain in Nov-Dec and not in June. Last year I remember that the weather was quite pleasant throughout July and August but then the irony is that what we people feel as pleasant is actually inconvenient and a cause of worry for the millions of local residents. Chennai is actually changing. I don't know its good or bad.

Bill Gates's Convocation Speech at Harvard..

Bill Gates timely dropped out of Harvard and floated his own company Microsoft with two of his coder friends. Bill Gates was one of the best coders know to the world at that time and he created File Allocating table code in some college competition which is still a part of the Windows operating system. Essentially his principle was of Beg Borrow or Steal but Microsoft outpaced every other thing around it in growth. He comes back to the same institute after nearly 30 years to collect his degree. Check what he said. Full text of the speech is available at this link. Click Here..

iT raINED iN cHennAI..

I was talking on phone with my friend when the first of the drops fell on my arms. I thought it's just one of those teasing drizzles which I am seeing since the last three days. The hovering clouds will just build your anticipation and then will tease you with light drizzles before dwindling away. The next drop hit me hard and then drops kept hitting me here, there and everywhere. It was actually raining. Chennai received the first rain of the season. First good rain and good means it rained intermittently throughout the night. I love rain because it brings memories along with it for that reason I love it like anything. During my school days, when most of the paeople used to wait till it stop pouring, back then also I preferred walking in rain. The first drops touching your skin and then traveling all the way down your spine finally to break off your body, that feeling is amazing.

I kept talking on phone. Though I was worried about my phone but still it's Nokia. Nothing happens to a Nokia phone. I started walking down the street and was the only maniac doing that. Normally in this weather what you need is hot steaming cup of Coffee/Tea and unlimited supply of hot and fried snacks like pakodas. Back home I would have stayed in Balcony enjoying the sight or sometime I play with kids on the terrace. My mom always had a hard time dealing with my mud soaked clothes but still she never tried to take away this idea of fun from me and I remember how I use to drag my friends to play football which use to become mudball.

Chennai is a metro and the rain here is not as beautiful as the rain in Ranchi (its a small hill station) because here the rain is associated with a lot of problems like water logging and the infamous smell. But still, I guess that the first wave of showers have washed out the heat from the city. The following days will get hotter but still everytime it will rain, it will bring back some fresh stories from inside.

Worlds' Cutest Salt - Pepper shakers.

My friend Monica have put up this cutest image of a salt n pepper shaker on her blog.

This cute set of salt (white) and pepper (black) shakers is ergonomically designed to fit comfortably in your hand, while making a statement of brotherhood on your table. Cool aren't they?

Movie Reviews of Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.. The bias..

Are these people biased?

Rajeev Masand who is a popular reviewer at IBN writes all the bad things about this movie but in the end awards 2 star to movie which is the same rating that he gave to Chenni Kum after writing all the good things about that movie. And Bheja Fry also got 2 stars. A case of sheer bias as it shows. Bheja fry and Chenni Kum are movies from small banners and Bheja fry was not even released across India. It was test marketed in some territories and then was later released in other territories. Cheeni Kum is fresh and a honest movie which is actually one of the best performance of Amitabh "the Angry old man".

So it clearly shows that there is some subjectivity playing in the reviews with big banners and big stars passing off with good reviews.

The second review I read was actually the music review of the movie Jhoom Barabar Jhoom but it confuses audience by writing so much about the movie. All but a clever approach of marketing a bad product. This review builds the hype of Shaad Ali & Yash Raj Banner and goes on to tell that the movie is awesome. No doubt the music is good but Shaad Ali has not contributed anything to music. It's Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy.

In fact the movie Jhoom Barabar Jhoom and movies like Fool and Final are crime against theater audience. And people who misguide this audience by writing biased reviews are also a part of the crime. Perhaps Yash Raj Movies needs some creative people to give it a direction. Adlabs is investing into smaller budget movies like Namastey London which have done a brisk business and Yash Raj Movies are wasting their money and audience's time with ventures like Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.

Movie Review - Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

A Musical Trash.

Only the trailer is worth watching or watch out the video song Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. Nothing else is noticeable in the movie.

Few Directors can dare to make a movie out of a song but Shaad Ali has dared to do it and predictably has done a blunder. I am glad that he took credit for only the direction and not for the screen play. Habib Faisal whose other disaster at screen play was Ta Ra Rum Pum has done the scripting. Well, I wonder that where is the script or for that matter screen play in the movie. The movie looks like a pure drama and people were actually beating their heads. During the interval people were actually discussing that the only reason holding them there in the theater after interval was the AC. Well, its Chennai so you can understand the need for the AC. I wonder what kind of people will watch this kind of Trash cinema.

The movie starts with a song, end with a kissing scene and in between packed with incredibly boring stuff. So boring that even the kissing scene don't attract attention of public. Abhishek and Preity meets a railway station and talk about their engagements and they actually talk their way out to fall in love with each other (such crap and the direction was again crappy). Then they meet in a disco with their partners and sang and danced for half an hour (same tune that is being played since the start of the movie). Finally Bobby falls in love with Lara (who is playing a prostitute) and Abhishek get his girl Preity. The soundtrack is impressive but in the end it all looks like repeating like hell. In three hours how many times you can listen to the same song? That is the tragedy of this movie. The director actually wants to check this out.

Movie has poor dialogues, a poor narration and Amitabh has been there for what you call an item number. Shaking his legs three times in the movie (start, intermission and the end). He wears a funny jacket (the deisgner claims that he made that out of cutting shawls and blanket). Why the hell you need to do that dear? You must have borrowed a beggar's dress from some railway station in England. They wear better coats instead. I watched fool and final sometime back which was another disaster but now I guess that comparing to this JBJ, FNF was a little better.

Well, if you have money to waste or even time to waste please care for your brains at-least and don't go for the movie. Well, this is my personal advice and you are free to act against it.

Ten Commandments for Manmohan Singh..

Seasoned writer Swaminathan Anklesaria is giving ten commandments to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh just in sync with the ten commandments issued by prime minister for Industrialist of India. Read them here.

Well, Manmohan Singh is echoing the sentiments of Gandhi Nehru family. Nehru once told to JRD Tata that profit is a dirty word but was essentially talking about economic profit and not about his own political profit. Politician talks about Corporate Social Responsibility but they forget about the political social responsibility. Indira Gandhi nationalized all the big banks and don't ask about Sanjay and Rajiv. The way politicians use law and constitution is not hidden. It's all evident that if you want to make money you can't do without paying a part to politics and these politicians make money just like that. So ofcourse Manmohan is just following the trail. To do hell with his economic principles. Well, let's say when Montek starts speaking the same language.

Cockroach for President..

Nice theme for a blog. The cockroach blog.. Well, cockroaches are really useful. They are omnipresent everywhere, no one likes them in-spite of the fact that they are the most primitive inhabitant on the earth even older than dinosaurs. Well, my nomination for a presidential candidate is a cockroach. Let's see if I can get enough support or not.
Well, cockroach for president sounds nice. So let's vote for it. Please register your comment.

Is India ready for a woman president?

What a weird question?

I am wondering how people can ask such questions. Does it matter we have a woman president or even a dog, bull or cow? Does it matter at all who we have as a president? The only legal requirement is age and yeah its difficult to find a bull or cow or any other animal of that age. Two most suitable candidates are then cockroach and tortoise. And both truly symbolize the Indian politics. Cockroach can survive anything like even if you chop its head off, it will die only of starvation because they can't eat without their mouth and they die of hunger and not due to trauma. Indian presidents are supposed to take anything without giving a buzz Well, Tortoise symbolizes the slow moving political development (is it actually moving at all?). A wise man like Kalam can't do anything about Gujrat or Bihar (he didn't do anything when Gujrat was on fire and he put presidential rule in Bihar and forced a re-election when there was a clear democratic government coming up) then what can we expect from a true Gandhi family loyalist. Let's see who is the next president and what does he/she symbolizes. Tortoise, Cow or Cockroach?

ABCDs - Dear All.. India is changing..

One more contributions to the IFMR's jargon world. Well, one is popular with crossover cinema and if you have watched movies like Flavours or American Desi you might be familiar with the jargon ABCD which stands for American born Confused Desis. Well, these people look American, they dress American, they eat burgers and pizzas (or crave for that) and from the core of their heart they want to change the world. And to make the matter more complex they think that India is one place where they can find a lot of developmental work partly for two reasons -

1) The image of hungry India, poor India projected by the media world over. The BPOs have been projected like cheap labour all over the world and no one discusses that how BPOs are adding to the bottom line of the top MNC's. Else many US based MNC's have to close shops and then find peace in no other place than Himalayas. Koreans, Japanese, Chinese and now Indians are all set to take them head on. So it serves as an ideal destination for developmental work and perhaps they can reduce their cognitive dissonance by serving their ancestral land. Well, this is what I term as Mother Teressa Syndrome.

2) A little money goes long way here and this is one of the reasons that why people are attracted towards this country.

My little Story -

They come to this country with lot of suspicion and doubts. Like malaria, sketchy toilets, sketchy restaurants, water etc etc. I remember my MIT friends coming with 20$ mosquito nets which they never got a chance to use. We were carrying out some developmental work in Punjab in association with Design for Change at MIT and on a village trip, they wanted to interview some villager. Well, inspite of all the well built houses in that remote village of Punjab they chose to enter a small house with thatched roof to find a glimpse of hungry poor India but they were surprised to see fridge, air cooler, colour tele vision and other comforts in that small house. They gave me a puzzled look and I answered with a smile that " I think, India have changed dear". I can't say the same about a village in Bihar and Orissa but then for that matter there are still many misconceptions about this country.

Recent encounter -
Recently I read a blog post of one of the summer interns at our institute who is I guess an American born but of Indian origin. I laughed after reading her worries about Garnier Fructis Conditioner which she thought she won't be able to find in Chennai. Gimme a break! for god sake at-least you have to know that Chennai is a metro. I did my engineering from a village in Punjab and I was buying Garnier Fructis (almost all varieties) since last 4 years. What to say about such kind of worries perhaps India will become one of the most important markets for Garnier in next 3-4 years. Anyways all I can say to these people that "India have changed dear".

They have notions in their mind about inviting stares and attention and may be that feeling of supremacy or being the foreigner or special. You walk to a place like Sathyam cineplex or Mayazaal complex or for that matter any shopping malls, you will find people minding their own business and nobody stares at nobody. But if you walk with your consciousness weighing some extra pounds perhpas wherever you will go you will feel people are staring at you.

Anyways, its not like I am glorifying India it's just like there are always two sides to a coin or for that matter a city or a country. It depends which side you prefer to focus on. I can't ignore the pot holes on the roads but at the same time I couldn't ignore the expressways either. I am aware of the poverty ridden states like Bihar and Orissa but then there are Punjab and Haryana also. If you come with a mindset of that Indians are poor, India is conservative, under developed blah blah, you will see it all around. If you come with a mindset of adapting to a new culture, exploring a new side of life, you will find a lot of life around. This country truly is changing and I have been a part of it.

BCCI in habit of burning their fingers..

A habit of sort - It has almost become an habit. First they reject a candidate who is desperate to take up the job. Well, he is desperate but his coaching credentials speak of his potential (Dav Whatmore) and perhaps the best in the world. Then they shortlist a candidate who has no credentials at all and perhaps not even known to half of the players of team India. They have never heard of him (John Emburey). And they do all this drama to pick a candidate who promises them the world and delivers nothing.

Doing away with responsibility - Graham Ford, plainly rejected the offer because he knew that though he is being offered the best pay package in the industry but not the freedom which any world class coach would have wanted to. He had to manage with the present support staff and with the kind of egos he has to deal with will make the task even more difficult. On the top of this, giving him only one year makes it sure that board is not entrusting him with the responsibility rather just doing away with theirs. Dav Whatmore was literally shouting that "I want the job, give me this job" but BCCI chose to ignore all this to receive public bashing in the end.

The endorsement issue - Coaching post is not the only thing. The endorsement contract was another issue where they will again burn their fingers. They announced that not more than 3 products can be endorsed by a player but then they make relaxation to seniors who have more than 3 and then one fine day they are telling that they need to look into the matter. It's clearly an eye wash gesture because of the early exit of the team from world cups. And then now when its time to glorify victory against Bangladesh they can set the records straight. Well, they are forgetting this thing that at foreign pitches even Bangladesh can beat them. Bangladeshis are happy that when it really mattered we beat them, what happened now was just another series.

Anyways, let's tell these people sitting in the board office that there is something called shame and there is something called public humiliation. I think that they are unaware of these feelings. Shameless fellows.

BCCI really upto some mystery ..

The two possible candidates for Indian team Head Coach's position have one strange thing common (apart from playing cricket and coaching teams). Well, they both have been fired from their coaching jobs at-least once.

1. Graham Ford - It was he who was the coach when HansieGate happened and he was fired with Hansie Cronje. Later Cronje admitted the crime and it's believed that Ford paid the price for being the coach. But anyways, he was the coach and somehow he failed in his responsibility.
   
2. John Emburey - Well, the second man has impressive credentials of being fired for more than one time. First, he was fired from Northamptonshire, then he returned to Middlesex. Again he went to Northamptonshire and again got fired with one year of contract to run. Well, he was appointed as Middlesex's coach, taking over from old team-mate Mike Gatting. In six years he struggled to motivate a side in transition, bringing in some distinctly average players as well, and at the end of 2006 the county were relegated from the top flight in both the Championship and National League.

So we see, one coach was involved with the match fixing issue and the other even brought a side close to relegation. Well, dont know if they can churn out some magic for India or not but are John Emburey or Graham ford suitable fit for coaching a side with likes of Sachin and Rahul or for that matter Kumble? Why BCCI didnot consider people like Sandeep Patil, Amarnath or Viv Richards? Anways, no point in debating beause future hold the answers.

Nerds and Geeks of this world please unite.

Nitin Pai writes that Nerds and Geeks should lobby for the Scheduled tribe status as they fulfill almost most of the criteria. And in some of those criteria they even out score Meenas and Gurjars. Well, as per the Indian Costitution (ST) Order 1950. The criteria fixed for inclusion of a community in the list of STs are:

1. Indications of primitive traits,
2. Distinctive culture,
3. Geographical isolation,
4. Shyness of contact with the community at large, and
5. Backwardness

Well my explanation on all these criteria are -

1) Primitive Traits - Unshaven face, long hairs crying for comb, unwashed clothes, they all are indications of primitive traits. They can be found living in dilapidated one bed room flats in the outskirts of the city paying exorbitant rentals.

2) Distinctive culture - Microsoft calls it caffeine culture and anything with caffeine in it is free for the employees. Apple calls it "90 hours a week and I am loving it" culture. People have to work like dogs here and don't ask BPO workers they will tell you a lot about how distinct their culture is.

3) Isolation - Well, these people love dark places and the only company they normally desire is a lap/Palm/Desk top. Unlimited supply of coffee and fags (cigs) is all they want.

4) Shyness - not required to be explained as they are treated as some cheap labour by MNCs and back in India they are again a separate community and have their own language (in bits n bytes and abbreviations like T/P/C/E(L) and TLAs). The kind of salary that they get (mostly freshers) makes it harder to socialize. They prefer drinking beer in the isolation of their homes.

5) Well, with fulfilling all the four criteria makes this fifth one redundant (perhaps the fifth one was written to fill the pages only, or to include some more people as it cannot be defined). Who could be more backward than this? Not even Meenas or Gurjars. I am sure.

Well, so what next? Dharna, strikes or what? My advice - don't do any of this. Chinese are knocking at the door of your organizations. And politicians don't care about you because you don't vote. But anyways you are true STs and not those who are fighting it out on the streets.

BIggest loser Jitega..

Sahara One's reality show "Biggest Loser Jitega" will award weighty people for loosing their weight. The person who will loose most will be awarded the biggest loser. Well, the entry criteria is weighing min. 90 kilos (female) and 100 kilos for males. I don't know whether this reality show will trigger people to loose weight or not or may be desire to become a TV icon will prove to be the perfect incentive to start a healthy way of living. Anyways, however hard people try, the biggest loser crown will ofcourse go to Adnan Sami who has reportedly lost 60 Kg. My god! it's one and half the weight of Urmila Mantodkar and 10-15 more than any average female. His stereotyped voice is now not finding any takers but then, perhaps soon he will be on chat shows and gossip shows selling his 1001 ways to loose weight. All the best (to Sahara One, Adnan and the biggest loser).

There is one thing about the future..

"There is one thing about the future, when you look at it, it changes". Well, I don't know whether we simple human beings are blessed with the power of looking at our future or not but this is true that everytime you try to look at your future, something changes. That's why some weird dreams never come true and some happy dreams too.

Well, but don't worry, there are persons like Sara Fedrer, who are there to look into your future for free and that too sitting/standing some 10000 miles away from you. I have got like 100th mail from her telling me that 1st/2nd/3rd/4th.... and so on of Jan/Feb/Mar..... and so on will be my luckiest day which will change everything for me and for that magical day to happen she will need to perform some ceremony and I have to get rid of some 100/89/49 dollars for that. Small price to pay for something unknown. Her calculation also tells me that I have big chances of winning bets. Don't know about that but wanted to bet money on DLF's IPO which is coming on 11th June. Analysts say that its' overpriced and a bad investment but I can bet my money because you know who "Sara fedrer's calculation told me that". I don't know she ever heard about DLF or IPO for that matter.

My luck will stay with me for 3 months that means september 18th. God! get me placed in some good company before that or can I bribe my way back by asking Sara to perform one more ceremony and extend this good luck period? She told me some 6 months back that my success will be unprecedented but then I did not pay her to perform any thing. Now she is again using the word unprecedented. Well, if this communication has to continue then I will make my move at the right time, just before my placement week and then a month before joining my first company. With the kind of effort I am putting into my studies, may be I will need Sara Fedrer for my bout of success.

Anyways, I am wondering that Sara has tried to look at my future and the big question is that will it change? If I take her advice and shell out the kind of money she is asking my bad luck will start and I will get closer to become mentally and financially bankrupt. So perhaps that will be the change. So Sara please please please stop looking at the future of innocent people like us. We don't want it to change.

Who is the most backward and Poor?

Nowhere else in this world people fight for proving that they are the poorest and unprivileged. But in India, people rock buses, burn trains, break into shops and stop traffic just for the point that they are poor. Well, all these action do show that they are poor but mentally and morally not financially.

Who is to be blamed? -
Congress govt. played the card for OBC reservation last year just to appease a section and garner votes. Arjun Singh was frustrated over his rejection as a PM candidate and he played the card to bring shame to the govt and he was successful. He thought that at the worse they will get sympathy from a wide section of public and at the best they will get their sure votes. Anyways this appeasement program run by Congress since last 50 years is setting a wrong precident and people are literally fighting over the issue of poverty, backwardness and privilege. Gurjars in Rajasthan are saying that they are backward, Meenas are saying that "if Gurjars won't stop then they will also settle things in street and prove who is the backward".

And media is out finding a story in it and not the fact. They did that with the fake shootout case where they safely ignored that Sohrabuddin was wanted in more than 14 cases of Rape, Extortion and Blackmailing. Well, Media will play its part in branding CM as a villain or something but the fact of the matter is that more such wars will break out across the country. And if someone is to be blamed then it's the congress government of present and the past and congress party as a whole which promoted caste based politics in India and till date it's following the same agenda. Dividing India and then divinding Pakistan they are masters of division and now with their caste based policies they are out to divide the states on caste lines. God save the country.