What vindication ...

When I wrote the last piece on the Indian presidential elections the last I expected was the the kind of disclosures on Pratibha Patil. In any other country the candidate would have withdrawn or there would have been mass hysteria. Indians are tolerant for all the right things and agitate for non existent issues.

I was just trying to recapitulate the charges against PP

- Shielding people involved in homicides
- Bungling a bank in her own name where even the central bank has indicted the management
- Some non-sense comment about "purdah"
- Closed sugar factory with non payment of dues etc

I am sure many more such slanderous event will come out of the closet in the run up to the elections and the junta of this country is helpless.I have not even heard about a single word from the mouth of the lady .. leave alone clearing her name from the mess. Any person with self dignity would have come out in the open. Sonia Gandhi has it is obvious has already a stranglehold.

Congress has done it again !

I cant find words to describe how the congress party went about choosing the president of our country. All norms of propriety have been left behind. Loyalty has a new meaning. Sycophancy has been taken to new heights. Even though the presidential post is ceremonial it carries a lot of respect and dignity and the UPA has shown utter disregard for the popular opinion. We had a subservient obliging prime minster who does not seem to have any say in his own government and now we will have a submissive president who will be more than willing to dismiss state governments 24/7 and dancing to madam's tunes. UPA has foisted a person non grata on the people of this country. The way the congress party went about choosing the president was very disturbing ... the names themselves don't inspire any confidence ..most of them cant even win a corporator's election.it is very obvious that any tom dick and harry can aspire and become the president of India, the only criteria is to stoop down and bow to the madam

7 race course road is the new temple for the Indian public to pay obeisance what a shame. I am surprised the how come the so called pseudo secularists not supporting. The indian public should never forgive the congress party and its "left front" stooges. Kalam had displayed rare qualities of being upright and not getting cowed down by the machinations of the government - there are
enough examples where the UPA had tried to force him to submission with limited success.

What an image we project to the world - like the caste based quota system which clearly gives preference to the all the other factors other than merit and we repeat the same mistake of having a president who will be undeserving brought into the public lime light by some sheer coincidence which we will never know. It is feels disgusting how the elected representatives of this country take the public for a ride and without any remorse what so ever. The " left front "should be renamed as the " No front " they are spineless and like the dogs who bark but seldom bite. The whole ruling front has gone against Kalam !

God help the country !

Seat Belt

This is my very first video on You tube ..

Voila another landmark !

It missed my quirky eyes .. I have got 1000 hits. A personal blog with some content which only interests me and still managed to reach this landmark is remarkable. The more surprising element is that I have managed to keep it going for so long consistently ... probably this will go down in my personal history as one great event. I realised pretty early that the only way to keep this going was to write for myself and dont bother of what others think. Lot of times the grammar has been bad and out of shape, the thoughts have lingered on without any direction, the articles most of the time seem half finished without getting down to agenda for which it was started or worse have been tangential.

Nevertheless I am still there ... and will keep it going.

Battle at Kruger

A great video though a bit lengthy at 8+ mins.. the end is simply awesome

Hollywood calling bollywood !

Watched Spiderman 3 and POC - at worlds end over the last couple of week ends, both have been spectacular blockbusters across the world shattering box office collection records. One of the most striking feature for both the films in my opinion was the emphasis on the emotions/relationships particularly love angle. Even though the films are a benchmark for their special effects and action sequences - some how in the trilogies the dialogue writers had more work. Love triangles, good becoming bad, bad becoming good all are the forte of Bollywood and now Hollywood has embraced it to good effect atleast financially. Another similarity is that both films have done very well in India. The best movie in this genre was " Mask of the Zorro " - I cant still forget the during the climax when Anthony hopkins actually takes the hand of Zeta jones and hands it over to Antonio - Classical hindi movie ending.

Where as bollywood is on the other way around though the standard fare of song and dance are still very much needed to make it a blockbuster. Krish and Dhoom 2 are prime examples. Krish was a mixture of all western superheroes and still dancing around the trees with a pretty lady in tow. I never understood why Dhoom 2 was such a huge hit - none of the scenes were that great , it had no story thought Ash looked stunning and Abhishek horrible and Hritik continues to amaze me with his dancing skills.

We as a nation have matured. The so called alternate cinema is doing well - Bheja Fry is the latest example what returns on investment a movie of Rs 60 lacs generating Rs 12 crores at last count. It was a short and sweet films with no songs, limited characters , no big star cast. A lot of small budget / cross over films are ruling the marquee. The audience have a choice now and with the multiplex mushrooming all over the place even the film makers can target the discerning junta and do not have to necessarily dish out the tasteless song and dance fare, back in the 80s

The Curse of Being a Hindu in Modern India

I always had similar feelings and wanted to write what Saurabh Saxena has written, in my opinion a brilliant article well articulated without the risk of being branded as communal for the so called pseudo secular glitterati.

A worth while read

Tales Of Mere Existence "Saturday"