3 Idiots -Amir Khan,Chetan Bhagat & Shankar Dayal Shrama

I havent seen the movie. neither have I read the read book.And so when I read about the controversy surrounding the movie, I should be the last one commenting on it.Yet I have some opinion on this controversy.Becasue you dont ned to burn your fingers in fire,to know that its hot :)

First,like all controversies in Bollywood,I am sure this one might be a 'worked up',to benifit the film.And the book as well! For people will be tempted to watch it or read the book..So the issue raked up by Mr.Cheatn Bhagat,does't harm any one.And most likely, sores up their bank balances.

Personally feel it’s also an ego issue(apart from financial).For a true literary person, should not have craved for some extra publicity. And Amir Khan and his team, should have been little more forthright in accepting the fact that ,they were more than 'inspired' by the book.Becasue,it is not unsual practise in Bollywood,whose own imagination and creativity is next to zero.Take for example,Amir’s film “Gajani” ,a poor copy cat of Hollywood flick “Memento”

Seems even creative people are losing their moral antenna just like our politicians. Last month S D Sharam N D Tiwari, governor of Andhrapradesh, was caught in sex scandal and yet had the audacity to claim his chastity. The octogenarian has history of such acts .S D Shrama  N D Tiwari should have just said,that he was testing his 'Brhamchrya' vow after the death of his wife!!!This would have saved him,like it did to Gandhi in 1940's.Rather than usual  cry of political conspiracy.

P.S :I had incorrectly  named AP governor.Thansk to Deepak Rawat comments :)

Jumping to Next Orbital

When was the last time I took any resolution ?Dont remember any.But This year gonna be different. I have new year resolution. In fact, it would be slightly misnomer to call them new year resolution, for I am already doing it, since last few months! My only resolution is to keep them doing and never to stop from that routine .So here's the list.

• Keep reading more and more on finance ,history and politics. Atleast four to five books in a year.

• Become a fitness freak.

With this 'resolution' I bid adieu to 09' which was a wonderful year for me.

Cant say the same for the whole world.2009 was a year of depression economics. Add to it the human cost of war in Afghanistan, economic blockade of Gaza by Israileis , bloodbath in Iran, hunger , poverty and despotic rules in half of African continent and the catastrophic failure of Copenhagen ,to say a few. 2009 was one more failed year.

What about 2010?I dont see 2010 to be any different than 2009.It will be year of slow painful economic recovery. More geopolitical skirmishes by the arrogant US in middle east, Iran. Possibly a slowdown in China.

India will remain less affected by continued global recession. Thanks to its domestics demand, unlike China's export oriented economics India anyway was not steaming ahead like China,So also it wont be slowed down much. But I foresee more internal problem in India. Increased Maoist tension. More regional politics clouding the national politics.

Hunger deaths wont come to an end in states like Orissa. Northeast will remain entangled in insurgency. Telangana will be interesting to watch out.I am confident we will add one more states in our list of 28.While India will grow, Bharat will remain entangled in sorting day to day existential issues.

In spite of all this ,the hope deep in the heart refuses to go away. I wish,some miracle help us all to uplift our lives a notch better than what it was in 2009.With this prayer in heart ,I say goodbye to 2009,wishing for all the inhabitants of this planet ,peace and better life.

Abortion:The Inconvinient Truth

Whats the big deal about an abortion?Nothing.Absolutely nothing.Its a personal choice of a person.If a personal finds its better to do abortion of the unborn,he just need to visit a doctor.Fill up some consent form.And it can be done within half an hour.And you are ready to go back home and resume your normal life.

So I used to think,till I saw some videos on YouTube.To my horror,shock and disbelief,abortion is not as simple as it occurred to it.First,the method it self.It is self evident ,it is a cruel method of eliminating life.I think butchering an animal(not the Halal way) is more humane than aborting a pregnency.I don't think may people will have the courage to do ,if they have any iota of the process,what the doctor is going to do the unborn.

Can you stand to see a doctor's forceps enter the womb,dismember the limbs and body part of the baby ,one by one,and taking it out,while the heart of the baby is still beating with life.And in the end ,crushing the still developing skull of the baby and and taking it out in the end,as it is the biggest part.Sometime,when the foetus is in very early stage of development,it may be sucked out simply using a device similar to vacuum cleaner(more humane,at least).


And yet hundred of thousand do it every year.All over the world.There may be medical cases neccessiating,such as congenital disease or genetic issues.Or may be in case of incestuous rape etc.I am not sure.Its not that I have become anti-abortionist.But my viewpoint have definatly taken a u-turn on the subject,looking at the barbaric methods of abortion.

I am still pro-choice.But I am also pro-lif now.Seems contradictory.Well,my stand is,that abortion should be a personal choice,not dicated by law or religion.Its a person's life.Afterall the society or the government is not going to take care of the child's future,education,livlihood.What I sugguest,is that even though it should be left to individual's choice,one should try to avoid it.After all it was not the baby's fault.It was most likely the falut of person himslef/herself.And so why penalise someone who is not even remotely concerned with his own existance.

But what I feel many people do it just for their personal convienence,sex selection etc.And thats what I see as the most selfish act.First you have unsafe sex,first fault.Abortion second.

Religion,pile of bullshit

Marx may had been wrong on capitalism.But he was ,bull's eyes on religion.He could never be more right,when he compared religion with opium.I second Mars viewpoint ,religion indeed is an opiate of the masses.Like opium it could be used for beneficent purpose,but like opium,it never is and is the source of most of the miseries of mankind,since its invention.

Mankind has been looking for the unsolved puzzle of the cosmos,since the time of stone age.The most baffling ,the genesis of life and the afterlife ,if any.All religion try to explain the world in its own spiritual and mystic ways.With stories,with the concept of supreme and benevolent power,called GOD.Bible,Kuran,Ramyan,Mahabharata,etc are stories at worst or half cooked myths and history,which has proven to be the universal bestsellers for since the beginning of intellect.

But if one tries to do the litmus test of the concept of GOD as enshrined in all the religion,it takes no time to make the concept of GOD,debatable.It takes no brain to see the miseries all around us,and yet not question the existences of God or the intention of God or the power of God.Either God is not all powerful or He is not always the benevolent,the most merciful,all loving.

For the simple reason if there was a God,who was all powerful,all merciful,benevolent,then the He would not have created such a pathetic state of the affair.So those who blindly follow religious teaching without applying their mind,are nothing but bunch of goats!Not everything that a religion tells is wrong.But not everything is correct either.After all ,it is man who invented it,and not otherwise.Its only utility can be that it can act as source of hope and positive bent of mind.

If one day God,tells the humanity,"Dude!I wont send you to hell,whatever you do,whatever sin you do.My kingdom of heaven is open to anyone and everyone.Who so ever wish to join me can do so at his own sweet will at his own appointed time.I wont decide anything.Good souls,bad evil souls all are welcome.From now on,I am retiring from the business of punishing and rewarding you guys."

Will people still 'love' God?Why will they?In the absence of fear ,what is the incentive of worshiping God?Anyone who proclaims he 'love' God is probably a liar.He actually FEARS God and is afraid of the consequences,that's why he 'love' Him.I think most of this heady mixture of hell,heaven and God was created to streamline human action around the ethics and morality of civilized world.

So I am always open to the idea of who created whom.Did God create all this or we created GOD?

Death of Copenhegen,Birth of Telengana

After a week of haggling over climate issue,we are back to square one.Almost.No credible and binding and transparent mechanism to fight the Climate change.My doubts turned into reality,as I had said in my previous post.Seems the western world need some shock therapy before they realise how dangerously close to self annihilation we are .

The future ,not so very distant one,will very soon looks apocalyptic.Cross the 2 degree temperature barrier and face the music,which many of the inhabitants of this planet are already facing.The tragedy is the failure of law of action.The results of the human greed and degradation of planet are meted out to those who are least likely to cause the problem in first place.The underdeveloped third world citizens.

So where from here,after the failure of Copenhagen?Only time will show.Till then the party is still not over.

The other fascinating event of the week was the Telengana.The fifty years struggle for separate statehood of Telengana looks to have reached interesting milestone.My opinion is very simple.Create a new smaller state, if it helps in real development of the local people of that area.If Jharkhad,Chattisgarh and Uttaranchal can be carved out of bigger states why not Telengana?

Uttaranchal and Chattisgarh seems to be doing well.Though same cannot be said about the Jharkhand.The corrouption in Jharkhand seems to snatch the fruits of development from the hands of Adivasis of the area.So the question bounce back again.What if the political class of region start in self aggrandizing mission,instead of region's development?

Whatever,if the people of Telengana wants a separate state,be it so.The ruling class of Andhra have done next to nothing for the upliftment of the region.Though they had the luxury of time .So those Andhraites who oppose it and call for united Andhra have no moral backing to claim for united Andhra.Because they did not cared for half of their brothers for half a century.

Its time to experiment and give due weight to the voice of Telengana.And specialy when the Congress has given its promise to support creation of the Telengana.All of sudden they seem to develop cold feet.It will only exacerbate the issue for a bit longer.In the long run,I forsee a separate Tengana for sure.Its just a matter of time.A cursory look at history of Jharkhand,Chattisgarh and Uttaranchal will tell you why.

Games People Play... :)

We had official Christmas party ,last Thursday,where we played a game.Everybody had to write something about himself/herself,which no body knew,and others had to guess who it was.Below are some of the interesting 'secrets' of my colleagues,including me!

• While at school I had a business ,building speaker cabinets and DJ consoles.


• I once promoted unsigned bands and paid for around trip around the world from the profits.


• I was in Air Force


• I was seen begging in the street wearing a leotard


• I illegally smuggled currency out of the Soviet Block


• I have been to space mission control centre


• My hobby is sketching


• I was once pulled by police for speeding whilst naked.


• I turned down the chance to play football for my home town to play ice hockey


• I was requested by company director to take her daughter on date,and obviously I did!


• I once drank until dawn at an after hour club with lead singer of a famous Heavy metal band...and I didn't believe that he was who he said he was


• I can play double bass


• After a heavy night of drinking I fall asleep on the Circle Line and woke up after 2 hours ,had done nearly two full circle....


• I was kissed by an English Earl


• I was once in a figure skating pageant with bunny ears and a tail

Of the above the most amusing was the one ,getting pulled over by police for speeding,while driving NAKED.And the person was a female member of our team!!

Albatros round the neck

US has Albatross round its neck.But nothing is new.Its in the habit of having it.Vietnam fiasco,Iraq and now Afghanistan.

US has reached a stage in history,where it has to face the consequence of its past wrong doing.While its power is slowly waning,and its clout over the global politics is definitely loosening,US still lives in its past glory.Its humanistic deeds have bind ed it to Afghanistan now.

Come what may,it is embroiled in Afghanistan for along long time.Even though it may have a dead line for recalling its military from Afghanistan,it wont be able to meet that target.

Simply because,it wont be able to stabilise Afghanistan in such a short span of time.And if it quits without stabilising it,it will make fool of itself in the eyes of world and a laughing stock among Muslim nation.Like Vietnam,Afghanistan is a losing battle ground for US.The AlQaida ,Taliban and Pakistan's sinister design for the region wont let US nap even for a second in the region.

Before they can stabilise Afghanistan,US need a major revamp of its policy toward Pakistan.One cannot run with the hare and hunt it too.That's Pakistan policy.And US and this region is paying through its nose for Pakistan folly.US must realize this.

Next and equally important issue will be Afghanistan itself.The solution is simple.Leave it at its own.Or divide the region along tribal line.Make each new tribal region a kingdom,ruled by the tribal warlord.Let them fight among themselves,if they so wish or live amicably for their own good.Trying democracy in the region is decade long process,for which no one is willing to invest.

Till such time.US and its president will be a joker in many nation.The picture above is ample proof for that.By the way,its a pen stand,making huge sale in Iraq.That's what I was told.

Copycat Bollywood.

What the fuck!!!!

Yes!You read that right.Thats what I said to my self,when I happened to watch theis movie"Bruce Almighty",staring Jim Carrey.And thats becasue last year I happend to see"God Tusi Great Ho",staring Salman Khan.

Now while I liked the concept of GTGH,and also liked the movie,though it failed to answer many question,on the subject it had attempted to answer.Yet,overall I was left with positive impression about GTGH.

But when I watched Bruce Almighty,I had to say,man why cant Bollywood produce stuff like Hollywood.They seem to directly lift story line,scene,plot everything from good Hollywood movie.And that's what GTGH was.A direct lift.I dint know how they managed copyrights!

And even after copying the movie,they could not make a better version.Even acting wise Salman Khan is way way behind Jim Carey.No match.I wonder when will I watch a Hollywood movie which will be remake/copy/inspired by a Bollywood movie.Will I ever,in my life time.Good joke,perhaps.

Amidst,fear and hope...

Once a king was very depressed,because of some problem in his kingdom.A wise hermit was called for to advice the king.The wise hermit,gave a chit into the hand of the king,and went away silently.

When the king opened his palm,and read the chit.a smile played on his tensed lips.He felt less anxious and bit more sure of himself.The chit in his palm read "This will pass too".The hermit had been able to pass on a great truth of life to the king.He realized,nothing last for ever,neither joy,nor sorrow.Neither good times.Nor bad times.Its ephemeral.Everything has to end.Even bad time.

When I cam here last year,I was very afraid of the situation.I had a lot of doubt about my new job profile,my own suitability for the new job and hence the job security.I was new to the job,in an alien culture and alien country.And the time was not so promising on top.The economic recession has just started to surface.And all this made me nervous and anxious.And All I had was hope .

It has been more than a year since.Things are not as bad as it was last year.The economic pundits are still very cautious.Keeping their fingers crossed.But I am more confident.My employer is doing well.They are optimistic and so am I.Looking back,it all seems like miracle,a dream.I could not have asked for anything better than this.Imagine,someone offering you a job,because he saw your profile on Linked in.Touch wood!

I am still not very much sure of job security.But I am much more at home now.Lot of water has passed under the bridges on Thames.I wish and hope,I keep learning more.I know the clouds are drifting apart,and the sunny days are approaching fast.But as I said,nothing last for ever.Even good time.But after every dark night,a dawn awaits.And this is what we must tell our self to keep us going.

After all,what is life without an impossible dream!

Nepal's Gadhimai Fair

There is a special fair going on in Nepal.Its a called Gadhimai fair,where every five year,one can sacrifice animal of his choice,to appease Gods.People from neighbouring states of India like UP and Bihar flock to this place in Nepal in lakhs.Because animal sacrifice is banned in their local ares.Some to just to see the 'Mela' and have fun .

But most of them ,to sacrifice animal on the altar.Because they have some trouble in life and they think God will be happy if they sacrifice animal and all their trouble will vanish in thin air.When I read such stuff,I am exasperated.How can people be so cruel.Its insane.Its plain murder in cold blood.Its greed.

Sacrificing animal,with the sole intent that God will be pleased,is sort of butchering humanity.How can any sane God be pleased when we kill His creation,that too in His name.And if there is any such God,who is really pleased by such acts,then probably he is not worthy of being worshiped.Because then he is equivalent to devil or Satan,not God.

One such person named Raman Thakur of Bihar butchered 105 buffaloes,to show his gratitude to Goddess.A son was born to him after lots of prayer and hence his act.What a shame.What a waste of livestock.What a cruelty to animal.What if Raman Thakur had daughter born into his house.Such persons would probably slaughter their newborn daughter too.

I wonder why does God full fill wishes of such wicked souls.Or is it that He really enjoys the bloodbath?Killing innocent animal for petty selfish ends.What a poverty of humane emotions.