Isn't it Ironic!

The pakistani people and government are trying to save Aafia Siddiqui who is a known offender by her own sons accounts and admissions.

Pakistani government is commendable or not I don't know since they are leaving no stone unturned to help a convicted pakistani who has been on their terror radar.

Pakistani DNA, justifies wrong doing and in face of damning evidence says " Innocent until proven Guilty". From Paki politicians to Cricketers all are corrupt.

But I compare this sequence of events to our Indian who was arrested in US Airport.

Vijay Kumar was a film maker and he was harassed by US officials for carryign some material which their own American Film makers carry.

The Indian government should be ashamed of itself. It has to take a leaf out of the Paki government in terms of protecting its citizens when they are innocent.

But of course if they do that who will play the game called "amass the Common Wealth".

The Indian gullible public continues to vote for the congress party even though they have been a failure on all fronts.

At least our sportsmen are not corrupt.

God Bless India!

Quote for the day

you might have heard of ..."Ashiq ka janaaza hain zara dhoom se nikle"

I think it is apt for the Pakistan cricketers spot fixing scandal....every day there are new facts emerging from the scandal.

"Besharmoan kaa janazaa hain zara dhoom se niklee" :)

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Hi,

I was offline for a long while. Meanwhile I became a proud father of a baby boy. His name is Partha. Right now I am marooned in this country called sweden. And I wish Suhasini & partha were here...:(

Around the world, In pakistan cricket has found a saviour with the PCB and its own Government.

They are in an eternal state of denial ofany wrong doing. They have planted stories that the paki cricketers caught accepting bribes is manufactured by indian intelligence.

They have put the director of inception to shame. Such wilds ideas do get planted in the illiterate moslem population of Pakistan. & so the politicians make hay with the US givernments Relief package. Tha Paki Army is pocketing billions of dollars of relief money.

Whatever happened to the original intent of the name "Pakistan" ...he he he

Qotm: Dubai Duty Free

Q: What would Mossad agents say after the killing of the Hamas leader ???
A: Dubai Duty Free

Q: What will you say to Hamas leaders in Dubai ???
A: Shop till you drop :)

The Dubai story appears to have archaic connotations with the Avatar movie. Well I might be entering the areas of dark humour here. Where the Protagonist in the Avatar movie belongs to a Gang which dons the Natives roles to infiltrate and get their land. This incident had some suspects using British ,French, Irish & german passports to enter Dubai and eliminate the Senior Hamas Leader.
It sure sounds like a Hollywood movie which has been turned to reality TV after footage of the suspects moving around in hotels appeared on youtube & was continously displayed on TVs.

The Avatars looked in business as usual and its hard to imagine that their "business as usual" was actually eliminating a hamas leader ;)

while the average israelis will be humming "these are the some of my favourite things"
I wud ask the same question the protagonist in Munich movie had....Will this changed anything ?
If it stops terrorism then it might be good. But in all probability many Hamas leaders would emerge due to such incidents...There is no happy ending to this tale unlike the Avatar movie climax.


/Adios

Cupid strikes with a vengeance : Love is all around

Alright some recap to the headline...today being Valentines day Suhasini & myself lurked around the Shoppers stop outlet @ Bannerghatta road....& Sure enough all the love struck couples were in hordes trying to buy goodies for their loved ones...It was a Full house and we had to wade through scores of people to get anywhere in the store. I felt these days bank balances and buying capacities are deciding factors for a woman choosing her purrfect man. Some would say its a Alpha male thingy ;) ...well I am not writing about dating etiquette here....just my mere mortal thoughts.

Did you just say 'Get A Life' eh ? well in Bangalore it would be criminal to sit at home on weekends considering the number of eating joints, Malls and other entertainment centres which have sprung up. For me there is a different take on the happenings in the city.

I hail from a Mumbai middle class family and never relate to such things...for me life is still the fast life we used to live in mumbai...meaning work life is a strict balance. People are less pampered in such a society with goodies they can live without.
Mumbai life is etched in our DNA such that life in Bangalore is a luxury.

These days I commute 3 hours in a day so when I get back home I hardly have energy to blog. That should explain my prolonged abstinence or absence from my web logs.
Commuting 3 hours in a day makes you feel if you are really doing justice to your family in terms of providing Quality time, Happiness and Health to them. Well I strive to do that.
That seems to be the objective while doing justice to our jobs & earning bread in the process.
Its starting to get little hot & sticky in Bangalore and so maybe time for me to head back to Lund,Sweden.

We had been to Rammurthy's house earlier in the day for a luncheon and it sure was nice meet up.

At least for me I would avoid & advise anyone to just pass MNIK movie.
I hate pakistan supporters. I hope there is some day a software for TV which can block news tagged with words such as "MNIK", phew!

I also took my nephew to the park today and he is one hyper active kid always in for some action.
I also noticed some kids are the real Fussy sorts. Actually we are expecting a baby in June so I kind of hope
our little one is a little less Fussy :) . Since I was a different kind of introvert I would hope my kiddo turns out an extrovert.

Controversy Quotient CQ

Nowadays its just plain fashionable to be in the News for the wrong reasons. After all celebrities need to be in the NEWS and to satisfy this eternal craving they have started to resort to getting publicity of the wrong kind.

Shahrukh is a case in study, Aamir khan & his 3 idiots is another study for the indians.
Both the actors have reached their pinnacle of success. They strive to better themselves( so at least they think) but they end up in the cess pool of the Media Hungry celebrities. May it be Rahul Gandhi, Bal thackeray all the men seem to be in a hurry to kick up controversies...
Personally I am fed up of all this senseless bickering.

Shahrukh is a study in contrast, his support to Pakistani cricketers is not strange to me since I saw him declare on a TV show that his father is from Pakistan and so has sympathises towards Pakis.
His charades at the US airport was a well timed kickstart to his controversy career.
His Movies off late have faded into oblivion and his publicist seems to be more talented than the Actor himself.
The Chetan Bhagat 3 idiots spat was timed to trigger sagging book sales and some movie publicity. Aamir though contributes to the 'Indian' ethos and just clamours for controversy for the greater gain of the Distribuitors & himself. The Notion of Nation is still evident from his actions.

& its where shark khan crosses the line is in support of the Paki cricketers.
Running a team in IPL is tantamount to know the Business of Cricketing Finances.
Thus Shahrukh very well knows that money into Pakistan is nothing but Money in the hands of the Terrorists. Which will be eventually unleased as more terror attacks in India or Mumbai.

While sporting is a good way of establishing goodwill. After the Munich Olympics where jews were slaughtered by the palestinians it should be a known fact that supporting such events with criminals is perpetrating the crime itself. Moreover Shahid Afridi who was caught red handed tampering the ball seems to have refused to play in the IPL. Such players deserve no mention leave alone sponsorship. God bless Bob Woolmers soul which might have many more sordid tales to tell.

I would say I dont respect Shahrukh anymore. After its uncovered that Pakistan via David headley had orchestrated and continues to abet terror he should have refrained from such statements.
Since he also ignored the Pakis he is being un faithful to his fathers tribe in a way.

Bottomline seems to be Controversy is tantamount to Popularity.
Survival of the Fittest and the Controversiest :)

Pakistani cricket is always mired in controversy,
Its funny how its Controversy Quotient has even started affecting Indian Politics due to sympathisers like the Shark Khan.

whats an Actor & his Movies without some Controversy!

/P

The Quintessential Ethos for Start-ups - Ad Venture Capital

The concept of start-ups in india is not new. But the nurturing of start-ups is maybe still nascent.
We do still have the independent contribuitors like Narayana Murthy, Vinod Khosla and the The Indus Entrepreneurs network. But what is needed is Government initiatives which can stream roll the process and we could then see the light of the day for more indigenous innovations from our own indian stables :).

Operating costs are still high in India compared to China and some other countries.
A major roadblock for our country is the power costs for running an office. A civilian nuclear power supply will reduce the power costs and a factor of our operating costs. I feel the government has to study the grey areas for Entrepreneurs in a new light after the recent Global meltdown.
The Success of Israel is one such example.

The governments Right perspective in the nick of time would be a bliss to the budding Entrepreneurs.

/// Prasannå

Closing Quotes : 2009

The Year 2009 ended on a Tragic note for Kannadigas with the death of a very fine actor and Even better human being, Dr Vishnuvardhan. His YearGlass is over turned and maybe he is already landed someplace else (Avatar ?? )
It was sad that his death was so early and his ever increasing contributions to the celluloid have been cut short. His Funeral procession was marked by Violence from people who in my opinion do not qualify as Fans but only as illiterate Hooligans. Its sad the Police could not control the situation even after a similar incident during Rajkumar's funeral procession.
I understand the irritation of trying to keep the sensible peace when everyone else is deliberately upsetting it for nothing. can be tough!

Well for me i rely on the Darwinian saying... thus spake..
" It is not the strongest or the most intelligent that survive but the ones most responsive to *change* "
its time the police in India became tougher smarter. The Supreme courts recent observations on molestation amounting to rape are a new paradigm shift in Indian Judicial machinery. This will cut short the lives of Criminals in positions of power. But of course more needs to be done to avoid ridiculous impotent judicial system which happened in Ruchika's case.
The CBI has turned out as a Central Bogey of Investigation and I feel all indians have long lost all hope from it.

I wonder if the Government has the nerve to re-open similar cases against people in its own Hierarchy ??

I guess not!!! otherwise Skeletons will tumble out of every closet including the presidents office, The Judiciary and the Politicking class (as Mr Tharoor would call it).

///Prasanna

Compulsion to Clarity

When I moved to Sweden last year I lived a life of compulsions until i could get a grip.
These days its all about Clarity and enjoying the Life as I come to terms with the harsh weather and the nice people.


Its been a collage of experiences as I travel across Europe from the Scandinavian side of the world.

Stockholm Syndrome ;)

Remembering the Martyrs contribuition

Shaheedon ki chitaon par lagenge har baras mele, watan par marne walon ko yahi baaki nishan hoga!

http://bhagatsinghstudy.blogspot.com/2008/01/photographs-of-bhagat-singh-his-family.html
has more photos of our Freedom Fighters.

In the light of the Congress governments reluctance to participate in the Vijay Diwas celebrations, it appears the above quote's meaning has changed.
Shaheedon ki chitaon par sirf phool chadeynge lekin jaise shaheedon ne socha tha waisa samman usko congress ki sarkar to kabhi nahi deygi.
Aisa lagta hain unka tyaag vyarth gaya!
Sad state of affairs in India. People like Emraan hashmi ; Rakhi sawant are given more importance than the Kargil martyrs. the Media is also to blame largely for this sad situation.

Hope i could contribute like the Martyrs have done to the Country!
until then their slogan leads me onto that path in my own small way!

Jai Hind
Vande Mataram!

Starting from a Scratch :)

I was teaching a Java concept to my friend and i used the phrase when you design stuff from a scratch! you ought to take many things into consideration.He casually asked me why to design from a scratch and why the word scratch came into being !!'

I was left scratching my head :-) LOL

I had to explain to him that not long ago there were absolutely no computers and people had to use the Pencil and Paper to design new things.Nobody had seen a keyboard and something called Software back then. Now we have Spice, Matlab, Simulink, Excel etc etc. Nowadays an engineering problem is always looked to be solved in Software first and then if not possible.looked at from the Hardware point of view.
Probably thats why when it comes to Engineering design, Software Engineers are in demand. ( Well lets say for Arguments sake Software Engineers solve Engineering problems in software, I am aware that nowadays all that is being done through out the world is Software Maintenance and its mostly redesigning stuff to suit your new requirements which keep changing often.)Currently the Silicon Valley is Frozen and despite that there are innovations coming now and then.This shows that every day we have new Engineering problems and its our quest to solve them in a better way that will give us immense Satisfaction.The Engineer in me is poking his head out and peering into the wilderness :-)

Adios!

IT the industry

Its been more than 8 years for me working in the IT industry.
I have seen it all from Sun Solaris to Oracle DB to the Embedded Systems industry.
The Latter one being the Longest of them all.
What is fascinating is that some abstracts models which are purely theoretical have been constructed and work wonders. And I know that this industry is not that old.

I feel sometimes if we have the same kind of improvements or enhancements in Human lives we might someday become immortal ??
Why I think so ??

Read this http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/01/are-we-close-to.html

^P^

EOIAW - Every once in a While.

Every Once in a while I type general nonsensical stuff and call it a day.
{Of course it shows up here :)}

I wonder sometimes should I have an email address at all ?? I feel email addresses serve to distract more than help. I mean if you are working on something and there is a related email then it matters but sometimes it throws your attention span out of the window.
I think I should check email once every 2 hours.
it might help me work better, focus better, concentrate better !!
This is something which has dawned on me after working @ Ericsson Mobile Platforms.
At EMP, one is given or provided with all the tools, Knowledge & guidance which helps him or her to do her Job Better. They also provide a Table whose height can be elevated. Which means I can stand and work for hours.
Well. ... Thats my kind of the "Stimulus Package"....(not the kind US economy gets though).

Coming to news in neighbouring pakistan, the Stri lankan cricketers were targeted by pakistanis and i feel they should be thanking their stars today for their survival.
Chris Broad, the ICC Match referee was quoted as saying that Pakistan had promised "presidential-style security" but "it was not there when we needed it".
Apparently they were promised "presidential-style security" which is akin to being butchered in broad daylight in pakistan :-)
Remember the history of Zia-ul-haq, Zufikar ali Bhutto & Benazir bhutto.
Death is like always round the corner in Pakistan.
The Srilankans are scared to death by now. hell i am not even hypothesizing...!
I guess the Srilankan government will know better not to trust pakistanis from now on.

These days its just bad lay-off or bankruptcy filing news from everywhere...I often wonder whether I have ever seen such harsh times before. Never mind, I forget the bad times too often.
Its been awhile since i read a News paper physically. well News without paper is boring sometimes...Isnt it ?

You know 1 fact is that not every once in a while I walk in snow trying to learn Swedish.
Tired of my blog ? It smacks of lethargy hell yeah I am tired!!!

And !!! one more fact I purchased a cycle and bicycle my way to work or around the city, that way I contribute a little less to the Pollution - Call it a life less ordinary :)

One practical thing would be for me to hit the bed. Thanks for reading.
( Did I just hear you scream 'Good Ideaah' ?)

Endgame - Smile like one size fits all :)

Life in the Slow Lane

Methinks the Eagles famous number

Life in the fast lane...Surely makes you lose your mind...!

Should be changed to

Life in the Slow lane...Surely makes you lose your mind...!

These days its been like watching the massacre in the rear view mirror and just being paranoid about the situation. The Job cuts are horrific...entire towns have been wiped of jobs.

The Toll surely is bigger than most Natural Calamities

The Economic Depression is a Travelling Circus called Recession!

One day here gone tomorrow to another region.

Little bit rusty and little bit late. The Recession has raised its Ugly head in 2007 (quarter 4) & by now has taken its Biggest toll uptil now.
Though Recession taught some people some things. Some people will never will learn. Stubborn stiff dumb asses.
I will elaborate during the course of this post.
Companies are getting bailed out. But beneath the bail out lies the story of how some largesse and how some scamming has ended up
in Tax Payers money being swindled.

I think the bailed out Folks might be sippin their Tequila at a bar and wondering
wow that was really something Man...coming out of deep shit like that and having your job still (Not to mention the occasional party & vacation at thailand).
World over Finance Ministers kick started the bail outs claiming "We are in Recession"!
Its like ........Elementary My Dear Watson !!!!

Companies I feel had the politicians on payroll for rainy days like this.

They elected the yester year politicians into power today

& Now want the same power to get at the Tax Payers money to fix their slandering and philandering.

Especially the Bankers have committed the highest order crime with their outrageous Lending Schemes in the US.

In India the Ramalinga Raju Phenomenom has hit the backbone of Indian Export revenue. All the while when the Rajus had scammed and siphoned off funds to their family enterprise Maytas no politician gave a damn. The Andhra government in fact gave many projects to this Family Enterprise.

But after the slowdown Raju found himself in a possible arrest over Frauds with American companies. Fearing which he gave up to Indian Police.

Shows to what extent Money can drive the Evil inside the man like Ramalinga Raju who was awarded one of the Highest honours in Business.

Still it remains clear how he managed such a Fraudian Enterprise without the help of the Auditors (PwC).

The Share holders and the employees have been taken for a ride.

He deserves the severest punishment suiting to his crime.

I hope this year the industry gets some semblance of shape balance & poise.

/Prasanna

Still born Children

If Nehru called India/Pak Midnights children. Then I can go one step further and call Pakistan a Still born chld and India a Handicapped but brilliant child. Not that I am taking sides. But just blurting out the reality.
Lets rewind say 100 years back. There was no India/Pakistan.It was Hindustan back then. When we talk of India & Pakistan history, we would be lying if we dont talk of the 2 Religions.The Hindus were a Majority and Muslims were a minority. How did the Muslims become a Minority. That is something to look at.
Hindustan was attacked from the West by Muslim invaders. They plundered the country. Demolished temples and forcibly converted women to islam.
The Muslim invader Muhammed of Ghazni used to attack Indian Kingdoms and marry indian queens after defeating the Kings.He started a process of infusing islam in India. He also did a big thing of demolishing the temples and killing the women & children.He took the men as slaves. If you see the 26/11 Mumbai blasts (notice I do not use the word latest because it loses its meaning when we have inpet people running the Government). Nothing has changed. THe attackers from Pak came in boats and attacked the instuitions of wealth & power and tried to destroy it.They were also merciless in killing children and Women. The Nariman House victims were tortured in the most brutal way. Not that the others were treated better. They were just lucky to get instant death rather than suffer like the Nariman house victims.
So the point is nothing has changed since maybe 100 to 200 years. Hindustan or India is still attacked from its west.
Going back to Hindustan it was a Commercial Powerhouse and was known to be very Rich and Prosperous. Please see attached image above for details.
That being said. India in the present day also is a equal self of the yester years Hindustan. It is Mighty Military Nuclear Power.It has not borrowed technology but indigenously built it. Pakistan on the other hand is hand holded by China.Which may be a best short cut for Pakistan. Because they do not have institutes like IIM/IIT/IISc.
So Pakistan today is a Still Born child. It created the Taliban which is in line with the Idea of Pakistan.Pakistan was meant to be a state for the muslims. But the current Pakistan harbours terrorists from all over the world.
India on the other hand is a peaceful country. yes its weakend by the Politicians who run the country.Politicians who have never passed a Professional exam call the shots. This is what is the biggest weakness of the country.Each response to the Terror attacks has to come as a voiced protest after carefully weighing whether the Muslims in India are offended or not.In fact I feel there are more muslims in India than Pakistan.
What India & Pak have to do....I do not have anything to say to Pakistan. It was born with a concept which has lost its meaning. There is no political will in Pakistan to give the average citizens a peaceful life. The Pak Military has its relatvies study in UK and US. They are not bothered about the proper pakistani people.
What India needs to do... Establish a Federal Government. Change the average qualification level of the MLA/MP to Post graduate.The Political class has to come from the Military. By this I dont mean the current politicans should be sent to Military.Chances are they will spoil the Military. It should establish a time frame for this.
lastly I truly madly deeply feel India needs a Dictator who needs to give a foundation for these.Because the above suggestions will never be approved by a Congress-Left Government which relies heavily on the Muslim vote bank.
Jaago India Jaago...one of the ARMY/NAVY/AIR FORCE Chiefs has to rescue india from the depths it has fallen to.where murder of 200 every month(so many more in a calendar year) is just a 'chota mota' incident to the Politician.Accountability at the Highest Levels does not end with a Resignation of Shivraj Patil.Comments made by Antulay to garner muslim votes are such a shame. Muslims in india do not condemn such Antulay characters, little do they know that the politician is after making money and assuming power.He is not there to save them from their problems like it happened with the Actor turned politician Govinda. He refused to help people in distress simply because he felt it was not upto him to do the needful.
Afzal Guru should be hanged immediately and he should be called an Enemy by the government.Nobody in the government has guts to do that.lastly the Ghost of reservations has to be addressed. Why was a Reservation clause meant for just 20 years lived more than 50 years in India.Are the reservations for the deserving class ?
The reservations were a result of past prejudices and pressures. Someone somewhere has to set them right.
Just appointing P Chidambaram did not and will not solve the Mumbai issue.When CNN IBN presented a set of ideas to the Home Minister he accepted the book with a smile.He might have a smiling face but what transpired was even worse. He made a statement that average Indian should become a law abiding citizen.
HELLO .... whats the current problem What was it caused by Did Hemant Karkare or Vijay Salaskar not follow the law ??
The Mumbai crisis was caused by Pakistani Terrorists and not by Indian nationals. I shudder to think what such a Home minister can do to such an important portfolio. His statement shows that Indians are not law abiding citizens.
Last and not the least is the comment by the Kerala minister at the Martyed NSG commando's house . I hate to even recollect what that dog said.
I am harping about india needing a Dictator who should be strong and can resist any pressure.The BJP government did it during the Kargil crisis and during the Pokhran tests. Just that it did not have a young leadership to take it forward.
The mandate for Government was never for the congress and coalition politics is the cancer which causes problems.
The Indian Police Force for instance has not improved though other sectors improved after Globalisation.The Indian Intelligence Fraternity is the usual failure because nobody really ventures into it when you get a different life with the IT industry or entertainment industry. Thats why i feel Military service should be compulsory for all able bodied Indians And only a dictator can enforce this in India.
Again in short i want to say we need a Dictator who can install a Federal Government and remove the problems in the COnstitution of India.
For Pakistan I know it will crumble under its own weight. Just calculate how we could develop our country better with $5.4 Billion US Dollars. Its rumoured that the money from US given to Pakistan for the War against Terror was misspent. read this for more details

I feel the Terror Attack in Mumbai was the corner stone in helping Pakistan limp out of this debt. American Tax Payers money might be finding its way into the Laskar e tayyiba militant outfit.

Its funny how a innocent tax paying Americans in US might be actually funding attacks in India through this discreet funding via PAK.

The US does not ask Pakistan for accoutabilty and just deposists $80 million per month into the Pakistan Foreign Ministry.

The Mumbai attack was mounted such that the Indian government could not do anything due to elections.

The Obama administration would have asked uncomfortable questions to Pakistani military.After the Mumbai attacks the picture changed to such an extent that Britain in fact paid millions of pounds to Pakistan.The Criminal mind at the heart of Pakistan has well orchestrated manouvred and wriggled out of this financial crisis.Obama government can ill afford to discipline the Pakistanis now.
But i still feel eventually the Taliban will strangle Pakistan and it will die at the hands of its own Frankenstein monster.I am waiting to see that day !

/prasanna

Who are responsible for the Deaths ?

I still vividly remember the Russian theatre hostage crisis where the Russian Police used Sleeping gas to counter militants and get some hostages alive.

That was in 2002. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Read the link in detail please... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

Its hard to believe the Indian Forces did not utilize anything like this ???
I was all the while thinking the Taj Nariman Trident Oberoi places would be tear gassed and the militants would be subdued temporarily to pave the way for NSG commandoes.

The Russians had used the Ventilation systems to pump sleeping gas. Indians could have done the same at Taj!

Remember !!! The terrorists wore no masks nor were they having gas masks!!!
This element of Surprise could have paved a faster tackle of the situation.
I felt the high-profile guests forced the Police not to use such means...!!!
But at what cost ???

At least they could have saved the Nariman House or many other hostages which the terrorists used as Human Shields.

In The Russian incident the Media was used very effectively by the Russian Secret police.
They fed reports of a strike via the media and did not do any strikes which confused the Terrorists and made them complacent. This is where I feel our media is also murdering our Commandos by feeding inch by inch details of the Operation.
The Media could have been used better. Or all the TV inputs to the Troubled buildings could have been cut off.
The Media is shameless in its quest for viewership. It calls actors and producers or movies and discussed about the greatness of the Taj which was not relevant at the time the operation of the Commandoes was ongoing.

I feel a law is required to curb such inept TV Media so that the Terrorists do not gain mileage from the TV which seems to be their main aim.

What is also apalling is the news that the Intelligence Warnings the Police in Mumbai and Centre had received time and again.
3 days into the Massacre and I hear no resignations. In fact the Government invited the perpetrators for an Explanation which was promptly denied !!!!

Will anybody resign at all ?? Who claims responsibilities of the lives of the ATS and NSG commandoes and scores of innocent bystanders which could have been avoided by acting on the Intelligence tip-off ??

We in fact are in such a helpless state. The Prime minister would not attack Pakistan when it should. There are hapless people being killed. and We ask the neighbours to do the needful.

I feel I Would have attacked Pakistan the moment i knew the Terrorists were dropped by from Karachi.

Pakistan is in its dying stages yet it wants to cripple India's Trade.
Its bloody jealous !!!!

Its time we deliver the Knock out Punch to them !!!!
its time we set the record straight once for all !!!!

My Salutes to the Martyrs & Condolences to the Families which lost a Family member.

-Former Mumbaikar & current Bangalorean!

Met with -10 degrees

Its snowing in Sweden and we met with -10 degrees for the first time 3 days back.
Remains to be seen wether v r gonna meet any more negative degrees anymore.
It gets damn slippery with the snow. I had my first fall this fall :-)
I was coming out of the Department store and undeestimated the ICE. Fell on my back with a thud.

Snow is wonderful to see...but the cold winds or breeze in Sweden are murderous.
Had been to Paris and it was warmer there. But its still close to -2 deg so ....you can imagine.

Negativity comes with No Sunlight and the sub zero temperatures...its in the air...its dark and gloomy... Waiting for the Sunlight...

///Prasanna

Sunny Sunday Soliloquies

I can't believe it's been nearly 2 months since my last post - where has the time gone? Oh yep I know, Marriage and the things that go with it [ or is it that come with it:) ].

Fact is ... Haven't really had a lot to say lately :-(

Grow through your life...Thats what seems to be the IN thing in my life now.

I am consumed by the daily chores of a Married person's myriad hues.
Luckily for me I have found a Perfect Match in Suhasini. Shez adjusted to the New enviornment in a pretty short span of time. Well I do miss my Yoga and the Energy Bundles which come with it.Thinking of starting up on Yoga from tomorrow.

That apart...Things are getting more and more hectic whereas I always try to find tranquility in chaos.
Prafulla my twin visited us for the Marriage which was a good thing as it had been a year since my Twin Californicated himself (moved to California for work).

will get Blog-active after today. Can't emphasize the Mind over matter rhetoric nowadays,

after all I am Single no more and have to think of my Better half in all my meanderings.
Incidentally her favourite, "Stairway 2 Heaven" is also my fav and there have been many occasions when we have watched "Led Zepp" bootleg version videos.

I have moved from a "So So" taglineto "So Good" he he he....

Hasta La Vista !

When did you last do soemthing for the 1st time

Hey ,

I am talking of Marriage [ don't get zany ideas :) ].

Of course I can think of Marriage as one of the things i am doing for the 1st time and hopefully last time. I am getting knotted to Suhasini. Really after hanging out wid her all the Saat Janam ka Bandhan emotion comes alive. Well as of now ( 7 days before the D-Day April 20th) we both are smitten [badly i mite add :) ] by each other and seem to be made for each other.

I feel Hinduism is the mostly perfectly designed religion and the Hindu Gods have created the perfect Template Class from which you can derive Meaningful solution to a generic entity called "Life Partner" .

So Far So Good. Shopping, inviting friends & foes has taken up my time.

Right now a severe calmness is getting o0over me. Or is it me being lethargic on a Sunny Sunday Morning ?

A little something about Suhasini,

On the face of it she appears a very confident woman who knows what she wants.

She is a Fair complexioned and appears to be a social animal. She has lot of patience...which is obvious since she is marrying a cynic like me :). Jokes apart she can take my crappy talk on the fone for hours. But then we both are polarised and then talk cannot be more meaning ful as i see it now. She is from a very rural setting Ainapur in Belgaum. I am a very Urbane individual with upbrining in Mumbai and Career in Bangalore.

Regarding the Honeymooning part...I've decided to head to Kerala and to a place where Vegitation & Forestation ABounds and where the Urban gadgetry and bigotry is unheard of.

I want to have a Rural experience for sometime.

Then I head back to the rigmarole @ office. Work wise some really interesting requirements popped up while i was trying to put a temporary shutdown to my routine procedures.

TC Fellas!

~A very Single Prasanna :) Signing off

( well this could be my last blog as a Bachelor, well who knows i may get consumed by my married life and may lose my personal space. It may also happen that I acquire a different view point than what I currently hold on certain things :) .... well i am sure excited to the core)