Star of the week - Babu Bhai

We all know the nexus of the police and politician but still Indian police sometimes spring a surprise package and with the help of media they build up a story and then after the initial round up they do the actual goof-up behind the scenes. So star of the week is MP Babu Bhai Katara who was caught taking a woman out of country on the passport of his wife and police is exploring the links to human trafficking. I have got it confirmed from my sources that Katara has plans to challenge the police in the court where he is going to prove that the lady with him was his actual wife and he got married only two days back in some Arya Samaj Mandir. They were going to Canada for a diplomatic honeymoon. Anyways, the lady has already made his life difficult by accepting that she is some Paramjeet Kaur who had her Canada dreams like of many Punjabis and she is not married to Katara. Katara’s lawayers are going to challenge this argument by the fact that the lady is insane or who pays 30 lakhs to go to Canada. Instead you invest the money in some property and can legally take the immigration route.

Well, these politicians and their lawyers and the police (trio) can do anything. A pan waala who has been caught in the racket is saying that there are many more MPs involved in it as they take the safest route of using diplomatic passport and diplomatic cover to transport people to abroad. I have seen this classified in one of the leading dailies “Wanted MP preferably present Lok Sabha member to transport my One Year Healthy Dog to South Africa, anyone who is going to any other African country like Nigeria, Kenya or Zimbawe are also welcome but then you have to make arrangements for transportation through land, suitable remuneration in six figures (Indian rupees) assured and can further be negotiated”. Well, within 3 days of the publishing the Nigerian embassy received 20 different application for diplomatic visa from MPs. Pakistan is in talks with some of the MPs to transport Osama from there to somewhere here in India and they have offered suitable remuneration in the form of gold, oil wells apart from two way return airfares (compensated in Cash).

Well, have just one question to ask. Kya hoga desh ka mere bhai (mere Babu Bhai)? So here we present star of the week Mr. Babu Bhai Katara. Access his home page here.

Indian Politics - Let's enlighten the lesser mortals

Have decided to publish politics update and will try to keep it as biased and opinionated as possible. Well, I am not getting much time to write about anything but still politics is something which all Indians enjoy expressing their frustration on and I guess I am missing out on the fun side of it. Our newspaper are flooded with all kind of happening and poiliticians are giving them enough reasons to smile. So I have also decided to come up with a political monthly update so that atleast I will write something for me and my blogger friends. Le'ts enlighten each other.

Air Deccan - Still has long way to go

Lost mail-

I was looking for the ticket that I booked some one month ago and found that I didn't have any kind of confirmation receipt in my mail and not even the pnr number on my computer which I normally take a screen shot of and save the web page. No communication from Deccan in one month, surprising and with all the reports about overbooking flying high I still thought that this is something completely unprofessional. The ticket was booked for my friend and she was panicking as it has round trip tickets and new bookings to Delhi will surely cost a fortune. I did complete search of all my email account and did a google desktop to find any document containing airticket, deccan, or even Delhi on it. Even manually searched for all the image files on my computer (Some 20000 one). Then finally I realized that the only possibility is that I didn't get the PNR and they didn't send any mails confirming the booking.

The call which never went through-

I tried their call center number of Tamil Nadu, Chennai and even of Bangalore and Delhi. You hear the voice that your call is being monitored for quality audits but I wonder if they ever do that. I don't know what kind of policies they have in their call center but surely they are far behind from call centers who have the policy of answering the calls within 3-4 ring. May be deccan has that time frame of like 30-40 minutes. So anticipating that I even put my cell on loudspeaker mode for 30 minutes but it kept repeating after about 30 seconds that your call is being transferred which never got transferred. I tried Bangalore number but after spending like 15 minutes, it was of no use. I too was panicking that what will happen if they simply refuse to acknowledge the booking because all I had was just a credit card reference number that some payment has been made to Deccan, So finally we decided to check out at the airport.

It seems that everyone is flying Deccan only-

There were booking counters of almost every airline lined up in the corridor at Chennai airport and the only one which really was crowded was of AirDeccan (none others even had a single person lined up). This proves two things, either those people are highly efficient and have the policy of 0 waiting time, or Air Deccan is the only one on which actually people are flying. Anyways, that can't be given as an excuse for mismanagement. To make the matter worse, there was only one system working in the cubicle and the receptionist had troubled time answering the querries. She took my request after 15 minutes of squeezing ouurselves through the queue and then after another 30 minutes she refused to help. I asked her the number of the office which she wrote me on a card and it was the same number where you just keep hearing the music. Everybody standing there have tried calling Deccan atleast thrice and none of them ever got connected. Too good to be a co-incidence.

Well, maybe Air Deccan is feeling the volume pressure but still, when you are a professional organization you can't give petty excuses like this. You might be having the lowest fares and making people fly high cheaper but, still it's a long way before you can really aspire to fly high as an airline. All the best.

Read her testimonials..

http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=7532880825063317819

and you will see why she didn't deserve to die like this. Meenal's scrapbook is filled with messages which she won't be able to read ever. America has freedom for people but what kind of society is that where there are no gun control laws? Anyways, aren't these people the most unsafe ones? the most afraid ones? I feel pity on those people who call India unsafe.

Weird Dreams..

Last thing I remember was that I was walking on the side steps and suddenly a car horn jolts me from my thoughts. I wonder, man! I have walked almost 500 meters and that too sleepily. Suddenly this thought occurs to me that what would have happened if this speeding car would have just passed over me, I realized that I am actually walking on the road and not on the footpath. I don't even remember when did I leave the sidesteps? And then my thoughts went over something like should I buy an insurance cover for me now? I am getting weird dreams now and most of them with open eyes.

6 months Jail for running over 7 people.. No respect for mathematics also.

Getting the mathematics right..

Have heard that Bombay high court has asked the police to put every piece of evidence together and present it in the court for the case to be re-addressed. Anyways let's see even if some marginal improvement is there.

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Well, it has been hypothesized since long that the Indian judicial as well as criminal investigation system has no respect for the 300 million + people who live below poverty line and sleep under open sky and cases like of Allister Pereira will go a long way in proving that hypothesis. This guy is escaping with just 6 months of imprisonment for running over 7 people and injuring other 8 who were sleeping on the pavements. Well, like every other case involving rich dad, rich son this also has seen lacklusture police investigation, hostile witnesses and a policemen who did not carry his spectacles to his duty.

Well, we know that you do not respect people sleeping on the pavements. (It's their mistake that they dont have any other place to sleep) but at-least show some respect for mathematics yaar. It's sheer insult 6 months for 7 people. Atleast have 7 months or something.. what do you say?

Indian Ocean.. One hell good of a music band.

I watched them performing live only once but then have instantly came to like them. Before that show I think I have ahrdly heard any of their songs other than Bandeh but can say that they are simply superb.They sound different and they sound arrogant. This arrogance in their music is what makes them contemporary and perhaps differentiates them from the rest of the pack. Was watching one of their videos "Jhini" on google video.

Life has its own ways.

Truly it has its own ways to reward and punish. It leaves you with happy and sad memories, gives you something better without expectations and sometimes takes away everything from you without even a whisper about it. I always hated myself for missing out on the final lap. Every single thing that I have lost in my life was not because I was not capable enough but rather because I was not doing enough. My slacky nature have always made me pull out of things at the last moment. Somehow I always managed to pull through but I knew in my heart that I have been an underachiever all these years.

Well, time has just punished me in its own way. I wanted to major in finance and take up some investment banking job or something but, tide of luck have brought this thankless sales job for me which was completely unexpected and unwanted. But then, after spending the first day in the field, I think that this is the first challenging assignment and this time I should not back off. I don't know what I have to achieve in my life as suddenly it seems that I am all alone in a sea of people where everybody is selling something and everybody wants to buy the best at the cheapest price. I look at my price tag, but then it seems that it's missing.

Honest Salesman.?

Honest salesman? Well, as most of you might be knowing that I have started working for Henkel India and will be assisting their sales team for the next 11 weeks as a part of my summer internship. So have started writing parallely on my other blog Honest Salesman. Well, I don't know much about the life of a salesman but will try to be honest with the treatment of that life on my blog. Hope to see you reading some first hand experience of sales.

Mistakes that we all make..

One moment you are happy and you feel that you have everything in the world, the next moment you are left shattered and as if you are the poorest soul on this planet. You have nothing to clutch on. Two extreme kind of emotions and being felt at the same time. I guess its truly unique experience. We all make mistakes consciously or unconsciously. Sometimes we hurt ourselves with our mistakes and sometimes we leave others with bad memories of our deviant behaviour. Well, if I have to give life a character to it, probably I will prefer calling it a comedy. It truly is a comedy. I don't know why I am turning philosphical but perhaps I guess I have gone mad over the past couple of weeks. I am out of my senses speaking crazy things, doing crazy things. Becoming overdemanding with my friends and even with my family members. Hope this mood swing of mine wont reflect at my workplace from tomorrow. Want to write a lot but then for the time being I prefer to keep the things inside me. Hope my frustration would help me find some meaning in my life. Well, what a beautiful week I had. Last week was really awesome in every sense.