Uninterrupted Vitamin I Supply :)

By "Vitamin I" - I mean India ofcourse. Looking at how Shilpa Shetty won the Big Brother reality show it makes me proud of my Indian Heritage. I think the day has come when you cannot spot a product without any Vitamin I in it. Well the Indians are there when it comes to Beauty and they top the charts when it comes to Brawn.

And products with less Vitamin I or none are products which are unfinished :-).

Anyways, my pointers are not towards India being a Mass Human production machine.

What i am driving at is Indians are better than any other race currently operating in 2007

[ u can call it my Hitler monologues]. I hear laughter but don;t be stupid. Don;t ignore whatz happening around you. If you do you are allergic to Vitamin I and are a Naive and sick person :-).

Take the case of Big Brother. Despite many insults heaped on Shilpa she did not call anyone names. No swearing under her breath was seen. This was one reason I think she won the contest hands down. This shows what Indian culture and heritage is all about.

Also if you look in Outer Space you see Sunitha Williams, gelling with the Americans and co-working woth them. She is just continuing the good work Late Kalpana Chawla had started.

Who said its a Man;s world ??

While indian women have overtaken the Worlds Men. Indian Men are the most silent of the species. This Vitamin I of M(men :-) ) variety is so common through out US/Europe/Asia and Australia that god knows what can happen if and when these Vitamin I;s come back to their homeland for good.

With WORLD minus Vitamin I ....=>

Will the Start-Ups in San Jose, California cease to work as most are run by Vitamin I.

Will the Research labs in the US stunt in research progress.

Will the beauty contests have a dry run :-) ?

~P.

Of _Ironic_ and _Paradoxic_ times

January 2007 is a Typical case in History :-)

Two Late Great World Leaders were remembered for all the wrong reasons.

Parody waz very very Ironic.

• A Theatre act portarying Hitler as a struggling Gay Painter by a Jewish playwright drew lot of criticism.


• An advertisement featuring Gandhi rocked the nation for sometime.

The hitler episode raised a very uncomfortable question among the germans.

Whether they could digest a joke on Hitler. A popular play in Europe made fun of Hitler. The fact that a jew did it made this a little more complicated. But I was happy the way the german people reacted to it. The Lukewam response was what was expected. The new generation germans are ready to take a joke or two about Hitler. It speaks volumes of their Tolerance. Which i am sure Hitler wud not have liked in the first place :-). Hitlers infamous intolerance (towards any other race than Aryans) iz what caused the Great WORLD WAR II which took many innocent lives in its garb. New age Germany is all about Tolerance and its a Sanity Fair if you ask me :-) . Zia Gute deustcheland !!

The Gandhi ad was ironic case in the other sense. It shows gandhi - an apostle of non-violence - indulging in violence, dancing with women, brandishing an automatic rifle and gyrating to music. Gandhi was supposedly a champion of Tolerance. Having read his book "my Experiments with Truth", one would know gandhi indulged in drinking and womanising in his early part of his life. THis is by his own admission. Now his grandson has come out with one more of his affairs which ossured a tad later in his life.

So the ad would not have perturbed him much apart from the gun slinging part. But knowing the Lawyer brain Gandhi was, I assume he would have taken it in his stride. Alas...People of india could not digest it.

Gandhi was an exact Opposite to Hitler's character/persona. The ad generated heated feelings while i believe gandhi himself would have enjoyed the Advertissement. The media went to town showing the footage. Two channels were chided by the government and asked to submit an explanation. Cmon this is not democracy is it ?. The media is not allowed its fair share of free and fairness.

So whilst the Pre WORLD WAR II Germany was about intolerance is
Tolerant in the 21st Century.

India seems to have slipped the charts of Tolerance this century.

Indian government itself being currently run by the Gandhi family this seemingly Over-reaction of the people had Official backing. Though Manmohan Singh and APJ Abdul Kalam might have taken this in alighter vein.The Politiks of running the country and the Father Figure image of Gandhi forced them to do what *they would never have done * in ordinary circumstances.

The Irony is too much. Cmon india itz time u grew up !!!

When Jay Leno can make fun of Bush and get away with it !!!

When Germans can take a joke on Hitler in the right spirit!!!!

Where is our Sense of Humour headed in this 21st Century ?

For the Benefit of the
reader I am providing the link to the interesting letters Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi wrote to Adolf Hitler

Happy reading Fellas!

~P

False Positives!

The recent win of India over West Indies just appears to be a false positive as India are good on Indian pitches. The very fact that almost all boundaries scored did not require much footwork tells the tale.India may have outplayed West Indies. But the likes of Gayle and Chanderpaul can take apart any bowling on any pitch. This cannot be said about the indian team. They have many a bastsmen with feet which get stuck when it comes to Foreign Pitches. With just months away from the world cup this confidence can be good and bad at the same time. The Fanatic in Me still wishes the INDIAN TEAM ALL THE VERY BEST for the WORLD CUP.
:)
~P

Diabolic Designs

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I read up the recent snubbing of India by pakistani diplomats.

Last week our Foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee was snubbed at Pakistan on his routine visit. The Paki Dictator Pervez Musharraf refused to attend the SAARC summit where Pranab was inviting him.

Sure enough the Paki premier(dicktator) refused to oblige, He is not used to such courtesies.
He being a Mohajir wants to prove his allegiance to his adopted country at all costs. He will not see eye to eye any indian or indian initiative in the right context.

lets see what were some things which were wrong here.
On one hand india does not agree to a Dictator driven pakistan and on the other hand they invite the dictator over to a Democratic Conference. I guess they have no choice they need to keep the dialogue going. But then I feel in our strategic interests we can cease this dialogue with the diabolic machinery running Pakistan.

What then are the options for India ?
This behaviour is in tune what Musharraf had done to Vajpayee when he had visited lahore. I mean Kargil was an immediate happening of the visit. Thus the devious dicktator known for his cunning ways(at kargil) should be handled with due care(diligence). The indians need to give the Devil his due(which can mean a kick in the butt and head if you ask me :-) ).

I feel the Foreign Ministry should cease all dialogue negotiation with pakistan unless democracy is restored. The US knows india champions democracy in Bangladesh, Srilanka and Nepal. This is the admission of its own intelligence agency reports.
The foreign ministry can remind the US goverment of the ills of a Nuclear Dicktator run Pakistan.

Its high time Musharraf retired. The US needs no ally now that they know all al qaeda is holed up in Pakistan. They can turn the heat on pakistan any day and get the rat out of the hole.
Pakistan is in knee deep debt(read as shit) in terms of world bank loans. It cannot afford to say No to the US now(or never).

Recent Chinese progress along the Indo-China border is a cause of concern not only for India but also the US.

Post-War on Terror the US administration sees no need for pakistan as an ally. So the Paki general appears to be busy building the rapport with the Chinese. China is the only super power which can stop the US anytime and bring it to the Dialogue table.

The worlds highest bridge at Lhasa(Tibet) and successful running of Trains fixes the chinks the chinese had in their armour. Now it can attack and destroy india anytime. The same kind of progress has been made in Joining Terrains of Pakistan occupied Kashmir and China. The world's best highway is supposedly at this place which joins Pakistan and China.

Slowly pakistan is emerging as the most trustable confidante of China. The Silk Road is a tour any adventure enthusiast would not miss if he loves the Himalayas. But this very road is cause of concern for us all indians and in future for the US. Pakistan will use this old ally to stave away any pressure from the US. Any censors or sanctions from US will have minimum to nil impact as the Chinese are well-connected by rail transport. Thus a Pakistan in the event of a tiff with the US will survive on this channel much like the North Koreans.

At this point of time there is no solution to this from the indian point of view(or is there any ?).

Readers are encouraged to read this link which will substantiate my hypothesis to a great extent. US nuclear policy towards india had alienated Pakistan. Pakistan naturally turns to the Chinese for Nuclear know how to measure up to indian nuclear might.

This parity war needs to be capped by the US. Making sure pakistan does not get such nuclear know how will actually help the US in the long term.

If pakistan is starved of such nuclear know how it can only mean the US is starving the Islamic countries and the Terrorists from this technology. Itz about Time the US administration pulled the plug between China and Pakistan friendship.

Its also time the Pakistani General;s long holiday(Dictatorship) comes to an end. Itz time the US asked Musharraf to give a time frame to disband the Dictatorship and return democracy to pakistan which will give balance to South Asia.
And of course in the process give a chance to peace in the region!

Readers are encouraged to read the below links to know more on this

• Soldiers of Fortune: Doubtful!
• 3-Way Relations: Pakistan, China and Saudi Arabia
• Pakistan-China military exercise concludes
• Pakistan, China close to free trade pact

Yellow Journalism ... Papparazzi et al.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly
reported in a newspaper.
-George Orwell

I swear …

2 Days back a Pub Bouncer was murdered in Bangalore in full public view on Brigade Road. It did qualify as murder in Broad-Night Light as Brigade road has the maximum attention of all areas in Bangalore. The accused were 3 youngsters. The Bouncer met his death for throwing out 3 rich and spoilt kids for mis-behaving in his pub.

One among them was a Police Officers Son. All the newspapers reported every damn thing about the case in detail. Except the name of the Police Officer’s name whose son was the co-accused.
This made my blood boil. How can all Newspapers avoid this ?.
It only goes to prove that we have hardly learnt anything from the Jessica Lall murder case. The People in power are shielded by all and sundry for fear of retribution. In the Jessica Lall incident the FIR was fudged witnesses turned turtle. I agree its not the parents fault if kids commit crime. But people in power who can direct or indirectly help the accused should be removed from such a position (a kind of Offfice of Profit ain’t it?).

In this brutal murder of the Bouncer, the Media turned turtle. I mean itz yet another case of irresponsible media. Had they reported the name it would have alerted the general public and any attempts to tamper evidence would have been known upfront (and cud have been thwarted by many a Good Samaritan).

This incident has one more important bearing and that is the accused are miles and miles away by now.
Being the son of a serving police officer gives the accused that much more leverage to get away from the police dragnet. Sadly many more such Jessica Lalls are sacrificed at the hands of such the Rich and Powerful people. The law and order machinery needs to get a fillip from Media/Judiciary.

Until then we have the likes of Rakhi Sawant and Mallika Sherawat keeping the scribes busy and happy.

~P