End of the political Menopause

When the month of November had started all political activity both international and domestic had some lows.

But this month proved to be heightened with political pot shots by seasoned vile politicians.

While on the international scene pakistan has had some serious back room dealings.Benazir arrived to her death trap only to escape by sheer luck.and Now Nawaz sharif has come back. Both the events had the Musharraf conditional approval i believe.

Both the former PMs know they cannot enter without his backing, who himself is backed by the US.Thats why both demanded 'Return to Democracy' instead of a more strong tirade against the Musharraf coup.it remains to be seen which of the two make it to the highest post. It sure will take 2008 for that to happen.

On the domestic front the Gowda clans unleashed their lies, bigotry to an extreme extent such that even their own family members and relatives might not trust the Father-Sons Combination.

While all accounts seemed to point this as a highlight of november, in came the Nandigram Massacres.

Farmers were beaten up in an attempt to acquire their land forcibly.

This was state sponsored and the Buddhadev bhattacharya government to this day justifies Nandigram. Which is such a shame for a democratic setup like india.

The Left government started drawing severe flak from all quarters and from even the West Bengal High Court.Thats when the cunning government seemed to have scored over the Deve Gowda Politics.

They unleashed religious fundamentalism out of the blue to divert the attention away from the Nandigram Massacre to the 'Taslima Nasreen hate'.

This was an occasion the Moslem Fundamentals in Kolkata had been badly waiting for. They totally played into the hands of the left and started a Riot to evict Taslima out of Kolkata.

The Buddhadev Bhattacharya government in what seemed(?) a knee-jerk reaction moved Taslima to Jaipur after 2 days of rioting in Kolkata.

I think Taslima was a victim of the Nandigram controversy though she is in no way remotely connected to it, but the overtones found its way to her. an issue over her was raised Out of the blue & she had to leave her Safe house in a hurry.

This only shows how mean and self-centred the Politician is today. I think the Bengal politicians have squarely beaten the karnataka counterparts this november.
Well lets see today is just Nov 25th and a full 5 days to unleash some more dirty politiks.

Lets see which state comes a topper.

~P

What Karnataka/India needs now ?

NO we don;t need elections, we also despise the politicians. We need educated Bureaucrats who can introduce schemes to improve quality of life.

It does not take much for instance to do get started on the below activities as a start.

HealthCare:
Computerise all the Doctors Clinics such that each patient information, Diagnosis etc is stored in a Central repository.
This way each Doctor is accountable. The populace has a right to information about the diagnosis. Also gives a count of the population density etc.Statistics on the health ailments per year/per quarter basis.

Education:Centralise the admission and educational details of each and every student in schools/colleges.This is not difficult at all.better Statistics on the output and where the students are headed can be derived per year based on the results.

Transport:Identify requirement for subways and Bridges at intersection which cause accidents.this might be bit expensive but what the heck is the TAX paid for ??As a heavily taxed professional I need to know why it is not spent on such activities rather than on needless party banners/meetings/ show of strengths etc.

Prognosis:

Why does the CM have to travel in Skoda when he is just a public servant and a normal Ambassador would be just fine.Unless of course it is his own income. But then Farmers owning swanky cars is un-heard of. Which leads to the TAX question. does he pay tax if yes then how can he afford the luxury ??
These three things at a minimum would summarize what i would do immediately to improve life in Bangalore and Karnataka for a start.
Hey all these require a miniscule amount of the Treasury. Yet we do not see this being done.There are no hopes also for such schemes in the near future.
What does it need to be a Politician. The person has to see beyond what an average individual needs as part of his basic amenities. This person has to be really empathetic to people needs.An average guy like me can best serve a typical cubicle job.Who then can do the above activities with panache.

Sudha Murthy or Narayana Murthy are strong contenders.

They distribute wealth.which is kind of unheard or sacrilege to our present day politicians.
Overall things are going from bad2worse to even worse.With the JD(S) tactics/antics, the Political landscape is a mudslinging and lying zone, unparalleled maybe during our ancient times in India.
JD(S) can put even Chanakya to shame with their back stabbing, lying and cheating techniques.

Surely the DNA of the Politician has matured over the years (for the worse).
At these times i feel a dictator is required for India.The Nandigram shameful episode shows the Congress-Left high handed acts. Which are a complete disregard to Human Life. The people of Nandigram had to resort to exteme measures despite voting for the Left from many years.Why did this happen ? The Left is mostly made up of hypocratic Zamindars and land lords who seldom even think of the populace. This is reflected in the growth of West bengal which is ordinary compared to other states.

Nandigram massacre was a bad day in the History of India. Was it possible to avoid such land grabbing by the Ruling party ??Then what was required in the constituition to prevent other such incidents ??

Was our constituition framed in a Hurry ? or is it that its a Frozen piece of document which is taken for the ride by the present day coalition governments. We surely need a dictator of the mould of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. On name which crops up immediately is Shashi Tharoor. But that is not to be!

But its such a pity we are bound by our so-called Democratic value system which leaves holes for the parasitic politicians to come in and bleed the country!

~P

[Weekend Musing] my Guitar weeps

Lost is the feeling inside...

Caffeination won;t help today i know...

Once upon this time .... not long back though ...I used to Jam Systolic

‘the Reverbs’ really used to stir me to potent new levels

bringing out the hidden vocal part of me to life...

the music in me just waiting to exhale...

my guitar weeps ...(Gibson)

Weekend Happiness iz calling where am i ?

Music is for the battered soul

some caviar for the greased out soul

My dictionary is missing pages ... or is it just me ?

Tired i may seem but thatz in thots only ...

The countless whisperings of friends I want to relate to but never get the time...

this birthday was a dry fruit something...sweet and short...gone too soon...

I seem light years away from a total 'Freak Out' partdee (read as SYSTOLICa-JAM)

Something is headed my way or is it am certainly headed some way...!

Did I hear someone just say ? Get well soon Mamoooo!

hey ... Apan ke Kaann baj rele hain kya ? or is it just only me ??

Thoda jyada likh diya na ?? :)

I Curse you all Sangeet Premi to have a great weekend :)

(including me of corz : the curse works recursively you see ROTFL)

Baap ka maal samjho life ko aur aish karte raho :)

~P~

Global Harming - Look whos talking

Itz the election season(mania ?) in the US of A.Your Tely might be filled with trash on how global warming is screwing the world.

The US media talk seems to be centred around the third world and other countries contributing to the global warming phenomenon.

If not for the Wars the oil consumption in the US has reached alarming levels.

Thanks to the oil price check and bohomie with the OPEC.

The Gasoline consumption levels reach new highs in the US.
US is actually throttling the Globe into a world devoid of any Oil.

and they talk of Global warming and its causes :)

wow, who started it all ? eh ?Global Harming was the Bush Famili affair wasn;t it ?
But then who cares...until oil prices for Texans are under control. Texan George W cares two hoots about Global warming/farming etc.

He has done his best in the Harming variety and now it is upto the next Moron to take it further :)

Really he has given it his 100% ROTL.

Omigosh what the others can do to salvage can never match the rate of depletion caused by warring with islamic countries, going after them hammer and tongs [or was it Hummer and Bombs] was the quickest way to carbonize the world and deplete the Ozone layer.

"Homeland security" assumed a new meaning with the americans attacking their (quite) far off neighbours (iraq) with preposterous charges(nukes, chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction, ha ha ha).
The bad blood formed recently between Russia and US over critical Defence standings just points to a Coldest War emerging which can have disastrous consequences if ....anyways ... god forbid.

It surely is no harbinger of times but the stillness before the storm.
Bush's "war on terror" was taken an extra mile by the Pakistani general this week. For him any pakistani is a Terror and hence the "War on Terror" continues un-abashed,

albeit with a new stylish and fascist name "The Emergency".

and now something totally different

A prayer for the Pakistanis in their hour of Emergency

~ 'Om Shanti Om' (read as Home Shanty Home)

How B-Czar !!!

Manmohan singh continues to be the b-grade Czar and the A-grade still rests with the Czarina. Why did Ronen Sen and the Government show such (perhaps nasty) impatience in signing a deal.

This was and is by no means a small deal which can be signed without the Czarina's permissions.So does that mean the pressure mounted by US was too much to handle for Manmohan singh. Sonia was always for the deal. being Italian obviously has its effects in this one.
Restricting and constraining our nuclear dimensions spoils the Nuke edge india has over pakistan. Also mighty China will then make mincemeat of india.
The american flirting is not Funny at all.

Like the saying goes...way to a man;s heart is through his stomach. US seems to be trying by stuffing unwanted pizza down indian throat.

The Nuke deal is most bizarre...Its like a Joint account owned by India and US.But then the account is locked from day one for indiaIts one helluva bad way to make friends, if it happens to be the US interest then they are way off ...

When the chips are down US comfortably allies with the Fench,Germans,Chinese also. So India should not live in this false hope of "Friend with Benefits" theory in the long term.

my objections might sound mere observations. But then eminent scientists have this opinion.

vile question save from whom ? czar and czarina seem to be in a hurry !

czarina might well be saying "eat cakes if not bread"

Forgive the questioning and slightly lecturing overtones of mine.

The Indian in me just comes out clean soemtimes.

~P

Wild Wild East

Ah .. so very Quiet mornings i like them...today being sunday...its unusually tranquil.

this Sombre morning has a big news....Pakistan in turmoil again...Emergency declared.

Musharuff the famous baby sitter for Al Qaeda, Taliban has bushwhacked his whole country, which is not something new.

If you follow one of my old blogs you would notice i had predicted this 6 months before. I also have predicted :-) a possible Musharuf assasination on the lines of Zia.

Taliban and al qaeda seem to be the Frankenstein;s monster Musharuf cannot control now.

The spinning wheel seems to have stopped again for now. The lawlessness resembles the Wild Wild West ha ha ha...Indian politics also follows suit. But there seems to be some semblance of Democracy still in india.

Moot Question : Why doesn't Musharuf get along fine with other pakistanis ?

Being a Mohajir he always wanted to prove his loyalty to Pakistan and rise among others. The result was Kargil....which resulted in significant gains and mileage for musharuf. But he seems to have lost it now. He cannot control the Judiciary nor the bureaucracy. The vile politicians anyways fight among themselves so he luckily need not control them. Right now he just commands the Militia.

Well whats in the 'know' may not be the truth....musharuf has the media under wraps. So what you see is not whats the ground reality.

Musharuf is reduced to a bullet proof shit head who is commanded partly by the US.
There is no semblance of sanity for pakistan since he took over the reigns. Terrorism was sponsored by ISI and surrogately managed by the Pakistan Army commanded by musharuf.

This had its most severe implications when the army tried to disassociate from the hardliners. They could not...Terrorists by then had complete control of the Madrasas and the general public. The piece of shit that pakistan is reduced is its own undoing. It Never does mind its own business. poking its head here and there....to borrow a lie from Ronen Sen ... like "Headless Chicken" ha ha ha.

Bothering neighbouring state politics is its survival card. The Internal debt notwithstanding sometimes it feels its control and influence in neighbouring Islamic states politics is the only option to bargain with the US. While it might be true, musharuf realises that he is just a bullet away from death.

And hence he can never give democracy a chance in pakistan. It might be too costly for his life. His Love and favouring of terrorism has bought forward his own downfall.

Always the Pakistan army has bent the rules and broken them at will in its proxy war against India. But while India is pre-occupied with its increased Global Economic Powerhouse image, Pakistan is not doing its "Problem-Child" image any good.

I might sound like a genuine philosopher, But yes i feel Pakistanis need maybe Buddhism which teaches non-violence and meditation which is the need of hour...

[It tantamounts to sacrilege i know, I might even be eliminated for suggesting this "Losing Religion Thingy" :) or invite a Fatwa]

But what the heck I know nobody;s even listening to that or buying that ;-)
Musharuf can't help himself from the deep shit he;s gotten into, forget about helping the pakistani people. No pensions either for him, he cannot say from here lead a normal life outside of the dictatorship.

Mostly pakistan politics today is comprised of F$%^in hypocrites.

Sharif, Musharuf, Bhutto...all have had their moments of shame...no one can claim they resurrected Pakistan.

so what would the doctor (not Kofi annan for chrissake) prescribe to the pakis right now? valium ? morphine ?

Like i can say sitting here in Bangalore-"Wish you were here !!! what a Wonderful World !!!"

No paki can ever say that about Pakistan where Violence persists in the age of Tolerance.

~P

[QOTM] Men will be Men

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

- George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist, essayist, and critic.

Cunning men will be Cunning Men till their death....

Some might be educated, but education transforms them to educated thugs.

People like Musharuf are a menace to mankind. ( i don;t call him a General, i don;t think he is one...he breaks the rules so thats not militist behaviour)

Karnataka politicians are also in the same league of extra-ordinarily cunning politicians.

call them plotticians rather :)

When you have leaders like then who needs enemies.

ZZindagi ki fat fati...

apun bas bina break ki gadi ke jaisa hogayla hain.. rukne ka sawaalich nahi...

Meere bare mein in logon ko thik se maloolmeich nahi?

Apan ko jyada machmach ka aadat nahin haan...kasam se...

Shaan patti karich nahi sakta apan ... malum hain Life main ek time pe mandwali karna padta hain bawa... warna Kharche pani ke wande honge naa ...

baaki aajkal Office main sab bhai log underground ho gayela hain...diwali hain naa...saala chutti pe chutti maar rahe hain... mereko chutti nahi mil rahela hain...

bole to Manager logon ki pungi baj gayi hain :)

cut to cut bole to .... bombay janeka plan hain beedu ...

bombay ka bahut yaad ata hain..

udhar saala dombivali main apun mast maje main rehta tha.

Life main cricket ek chod ke aur kuch cheez ka parwaich nahin rehta tha...
idhar IT main phas ne ke baad se aila life main bole to shendi lag gayela hain...IT industry main dimag ka dahi hogayela hain
udhar woh ganpati ka chanda ikhata karne ke vaste apun punter log sabko salam thokta tha...
bole to alag majaa tha...
bindaas nachte the dahi handi pe building ke khopche main holi jalate the full aag lagake...aur woh shivjai kaa killa bananake waste woh mavle logon ko ekdum mastse sajata tha...maa kasam....kya majaa ata tha re..
baaki sab jhakaas ...bole to apun hill jaata tha - har saal ganpati - holi - dahi handi ke time pe...
kabhi bheja satak jata ta tha to Nehru maidan mein jaake cricket khelte the beedu log sabakkha mumbai firse ek baar ghoomne kaa lag riela hain baap...
waise apunka life bhi mast gayela hain ... school / college main mereko chikna bolte the...chikni log ;-)apan kisi chikni ko line nahi deyta tha...saala bahut darta tha...chikni log sochti thi kya ajib dhakkan hain line nahi deyta :)arey apan ko chava banne main interest to tha lekin saala daring nahi kar paya kabhi...sab chirkut samazhte the saala apan ko...
woh keedaich nahi tha mere main....laundiya ghoomane kaa...waise apan ko maloom hain ... ladki patana halwa nahi hain bawa ...
Item log abhi idhar se kalti maarneka...mereko apanke gali ke punter logon ke saath dinner pe janeka hain

Ekich biradriwaley hain sab...khaneka aish karneka..yehich apne life main hoenga :)
Aey tension nahi lene kaa ... idharich ruk main chota sa break mafiq gaya aur aya kya ?

woh kya hain naa...cut to cut baat karne ka apna to aadat hain !
Chal weekend ki pungi mat bajaa....jaake mast se ek picture dekh le...

tu bhi kya yaad karenga... kisi Sircuit se pala padeyla tha...

~P