World at odds (WAO)

It is an epic battle, that was at best tried to be avoided and it promises for sure a bigger audience than in any place on earth. Predator has meet alien, and for sure such epic meetings are hard fought. Who will survive has to be seen.

I hope you people do not mind, but these are two circuses in offering as far as I am concerned. One comes back at show every 1 year and other is supposed to come back after 5 years but with these jokers burning down the house even before it is a month is now a common phenomenon.

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Who you will vote for, who will you cheer for, I know you do want to burdened with such mundane questions, I also know you have switching loyalty. You are always on the winning side, like me. One question you may have asked for sure, what’s in for me?

The thing which annoys me the most is both the events are labeled Indian general election or Indian Premium League. No political party has an agenda that is of national concern, they just pounding on some kind of survival on the basis of regional influences. Indian premier league in RSA, and I really do not know what kind of regional support they will be thinking about when the whole format is absurd and is just a commercial ploy to rope in money.

I am from Chandigarh catchment and do not have any loyalty whatsoever to the team from that region, I may cheer Chennai, as I like Hayden. Point is whole concept is flawed, it will take years for people to emotionally bind to thy teams, you have to have kids playing in, who learned cricket with these franchises and rising up. Who cares as of now, money is what they all looking for.

Coming back to election, they were so insecure that IPL will over shadow the election, make them not support the event at all, and excuse being security. Guys the enemies of states have been striking as thy wish list, IPL or election, they do not care till some innocent people are not killed.

I am loosing the plot here as getting late to office, but guys I know you will be part of these events by compulsion of being an Indians.

Happy democracy in a Cricket Country!!

West00

Labels: citric, cricket, Generic/vyom, Nation

How can i forget that moment when i was going back from my hometown to Delhi to go further going down to the Oxford city of India. Trains were delayed due to the fogs in the  month of Jan. To catch my flight i had to leave that train and find some alternative to reach Palam airport on time. So i left Kisan expess at a the small station of Bahadurgarh near Rhotak.it was not much crowded early morning at 9 am. While i was rushing to find some alternative and picking all my luggage to get out at this small platform, an unforgettable strange thing happened.

One Sardarji just standing on the other side of the platform beside a railway tea stall under a small shed..eyes focused on the paper..like alone in this whole world..this platform seemed too small for his type. Don’t know from where a stray ugly looking,hairy,medium size dog of some unknown breed was running ignorant of his poor existence between humans..although tortured, fed and used by same humans. Just coming like a unguided missile towards sardarji and can you imagine he just jumped on sarderji…and out of sheer surprise..sardarji became aware about what was happening around him…aware about crude reality that ugly dog was on him….to take little bite of his flesh….

Widely followed ahinsa philosophy in this country suggests that attacking first is not a righteous trait of living in the egalitarian society…even you can take 3 attacks before deciding your strategy of revenge....or you may wish that this ugly thing would be punished in the next birth with same force and terror by some unknown superpower of universe which has created us to strike a true balance between the mortals..or…may be last thing which could have crossed your mind is if you have strength,courage enough to take teeth for teeth in this world itself without asking for any divine intervention…it seems due to perpetual attacks on northern region of country…nature taught this thing in better degree to them..

Dog would seem foolish now and must have cursed his luck to attack on such a unfateful day…things took another crazy turn….Sardarji was quick enough to escape the jump of dog…and with a lightening speed grabbed dog from his tail…it seemed like magic how he was able to manage things so quickly…with dog flying in air in circles and his little tail supporting whole of his body…dog seemed so surprised with his cute face…that even he was not able to bark…his red, long watery tongue was out of his mouth..like he was also enjoyin g his luck in the hands of the sardarji….bold sardarji…with his red angry face…big eyes…big turban seemed like Mahakal (God of Death) to the poor dog..at that moment it seemed anything was possible for him with that courage & boldness

And the next moment dog was flying in air…guess what the sardarji did next….he just left the tail of the dog after 3 full circles…and the dog was trying to catch the ground with his legs in the air..and when he landed on the ground…his previous lion like roar turned into a mere myew-myew of cat…without wasting a second…dog just vanished from the scene..Sardarji handled situation so dexterously like an experienced hand on such kind of things..

I wanted to congratulate him as a curious watcher..but another journey to the airport had already started on noisy,pollution friendly auto rickshaw..

Labels: Ankoen dekhe, humour, Nation

I am not writing a movie review, this movie is obviously not that great to have a mention here on WAO. But the phrase used for the movie title is quite contemporary to the modern times. Movie is sensible but it has nothing to be a blockbuster.

Let me put it in Indian context, how we have lambs leading a time of lions. Have you heard we Indians fought one kargil war.I do not we won or lost or it was a draw. But for sure people died and for what no one knew. Enemy was sitting on the doors, but he was not the neighbor like it used to be early years.Few 1000 of jawans lost their lives and we had some good old politician taking credit for some fancy called operation Vijay.

One day few young boys with backpack and motive to kill come by boat to kill few 100 of people in Mumbai. They did it and left few stooges again making a political fuss of it.Still some political sensibility prevails in India else it would have the opposition party who must had hand in it. Again some Lions died and lambs come in praising the utmost selfless sacrifice of the young.

Same goes for America I suppose, some of the senators have direct interest in the company like Harleburton and so, Charlie Wilson sounds cuil now in movies coz it was the days of cold war.

I am predicting what no one has done before, American will go nuclear if tested more, I think they will not take these small defeats in battle well for long, will go down to won the war at any cost.

World will surely will looking for new world order soon, it is getting uncontrolled everywhere, I suppose.

Labels: citric, Manthan, movies, Nation, Review

Khalil was a young boy of 24. He was having a curse on him, of being educated and unemployed, that prevented him from doing humble work. Poor boy son fought like this for a year, and ultimately run out of money. For the last two days he do neither he had shelter nor he had food.He was looking shabby and at his untidy best.

The thing he do next changed his life forever. With frustration creping into his life like never before, in disgust he sat on road outside the mosque.He did not realized he will be in few minutes will be mistaken forever. Someone threw a coin at him. he did not realized why that person did this, buy the time he realized what is happening, it was dark and lots of coin were surrounding him. He had enough to have a nice meal and smart brain to buy a bowl for the next days. He has realized, he can survive,without working and getting paid for something he is not even pretending to do.

He kept on going like this for a year, when frustration creped in again, he was founding stagnation and there were no hikes and competition has come into what he was not doing. It was not like the days, when he started off. He started looking for options and alternative to get paid for doing nothing. He noticed a journalist and somehow that person looked like a religious rhetoric too, throwing coin at him everyday. He has identified the opportunity, only thing he has to do was utter some words in English when he passed by. He  did that and he was making the headline of a national daily “ A Muslim educated youth’s plight, forced to beg,ignored by the system”. In next few days Khalil has been to all major news channels studios and even he was paid for an exclusive interview cum story by a foreign channel.

He has moved up in his life, but he now knew can do better in the field of being paid for doing nothing. His fame and his association with a minority was enough qualification for the next lok sabha polls. Begging or i say getting paid for doing nothing was an art he has learnt, in last few months. Before the blink of eyes he was the youngest man into the assembly of stooges.

What will amaze you his career headline changed, now everyone knew him, the young leader of minority who was educated against odds, now representing the cause of people. Inside Khalil knew, he had moved ahead, he has a new job, a hike, being paid again for doing nothing at all.

Life went on like this and sooner in the democratic system of this nation he was the new Prime Minister, he got all this coz he learnt early in life to being paid for nothing at all.

Labels: citric, Manthan, Nation

Satyam was in news for days now but what happened today was an absolute shocker. Saurabh messaged me telling Satyam promoter has accepted for fraud. It is another Enron kind of story. I too got curious and spend the day tracking logs across the net.

I read Raju’s letter to shareholder, his confession just tell how murky the whole affair would have been. I doubt what he has disclosed is what all he knows or what he want us to know. A share falling from Rs 180 to Rs 30 in one trading day. Indian IT industry was rocked like never before. Mr. Murthy even comes out with a statement to take strong action against Satyam as this is tarnishing India’s image. Government will set up inquires that what it knows to do. I would love to know who the auditors are.

Quote of the day “I was riding a tiger but did not know how to get off without being eaten up.” Mr. Raju now you can tell lots of story. You were into money making business not into philanthropy so now why complain. Your net worth in satyam is just 8 % and I am assured you would have amassed more in this fraud. Wonder if you would have been able to buy Maytas for Rs 6400 crores, there would have been parties at your farm till turn of next century.

I heard and read such cases too happened in corporate Japan and Korea. Daewoo was such kind of story. Some of these corporate took so many honors that they resort to suicide as the only way to get rid of guilt. No I am not asking for hara-kiri from Mr. Raju. He spoke coz he has to save lots of skins. It was not fictional number he added up, there are people responsible for corporate governance who should be held accountable. Everybody knowing about this sorry state should be barred from doing business, holding any office of importance and send packing bag home.

I am sure Satyam will bounce back under new Management. Raju will fade away. It is us who will learn a lesson. 52,000 employee and thousands of investors will have sleepless nights.

Labels: Generic/vyom, Nation

Labels: Nation