The Indian Justice!!!

You guys deserve it.

A standing ovation.

And we give it you with all our heart, a standing ovation from the entire nation, with its broken heart and shaken trust .

And we are also proud of the justice you meted out to the nation. You spend Rs. 105,600 this year on national defence, nearly 14.1 per cent of total central government expenditure on "National Defence" undermining the importance of Health, Education, Services and Infrastructure and terrorists still attack the poshest and most "High Security" areas of the country and kill people randomly . I am sure they could any day bomb the India Gate and you could still be sleeping. And one day you just might reach for that office of yours, the "beautifully designed piece of architecture " by Lutyens and find that it's been wiped off the face of the earth and still only manage to dish out lines that are sourly boring and as interesting as eating toilet paper. I can hardly stop laughing when you guys , in your crisp white kurtas and Nehru jackets blabber the same lines like parrots, the ones that go "we condemn the attacks, the guilty will not be spared, we stand united, we share the grief, it's the nations shared grief". Oh! You also think that the resignation of your "Home Minister" is the greatest condonance and will set right all the wrongs and failures and wipe out the pain felt by the friends and relatives and shared by everyone but you.

Who are the guilty my dear ministers? Who will you catch hold of? Who will finally be tried in your courts of justice and who will be the judge?

By the way, as Visa, my younger brother, suggested, why don't you teach those courageous journalists how to shoot with your imported, high perfomance guns? They are doing a great job of shooting and with perfect aim at that with their cameras. And not withstanding the fact that they were there at all those sites, beaming videos of the attacks across the world much earlier than the National Security Personnel, who for all we know, realised the emergency through those news channels and reached the site after 8 hours.

And of course the million dollar question that everyone's asking and has created a chain of smses going around..Where is Raj? Would the nation love to see his "marathi" face now!!!

We are waiting for your justice , pardon the inverted commas , "Milord".

The V Day , the whos and the cries...

It's Valentine's Day. You ask what's the big deal. I ask the same.

What's so big about it that the saffron brigrade goes lengths to make sure all rose shops are closed and all shops selling cards and gifts are vandalised and gives a damn that not all road side vendors are Bill Gates and not all shopkeepers have an insurance.Atleast not one that covers all its losses. They burn and picket whatever they can and in the meanwhile also manage to annihilate, damage and deface a lot of public property which if they looked closer with their "far" sightedness is the people's money.

And all in the name of saving our culture. So who appointed you as the saviour of our culture? And what i pray is Indian culture to you? Is it Godhra or is it Bilkis Bano? Is it Babri Masjid or is it Raj "Thug're"? So Marathis are not Indians and yours truely just landed from Mars. Mumbai still remains my favorite city in India and i can't imagine my Marathi friends shooing me away with a stick and a broom on my next visit to Mumbai. Oh sorry that was a spear wasn't it?

The things we do in the name of culture. The things we say as being Indians.Why are we becoming such an intolerant lot? Do we really have nothing better to do? At a time when we still have poverty, at a time when people still don't get two square meals a day do we really need all the hue and cry from the "who" and "sly"? Why can't we see through the politics of the political ambitions of one man? I seriously have nothing againt Raj Thakre, the bigger Thakre or the biggest Thakre. Morons being morons will be morons.. But what's with our people? The Indians that make India? Are we so foolish? Or has our sense of humour increased so much that we humour people like these? I have nothing against BJP or agaist Shiv Sena or RSS or VHP or any other Sena. We do have our own Kalinga Sena , locally born saviour of India and specifically Orissa and as Indian and Oriya as Ricky Ponting. But i do have a thing or two against my co-patriots who think this will save India. I do have a thing to say to the people who think being Indian means killing people, burning trains, instigating people in the name of region, religion and if nothing better they'll sure invent something sillier and stupider to fight about.

I still am an eternal optimist but pardon me for saying this, with as myopic a view as one we are going ahead with we just might hit a big big wall ahead and then there would be no going ahead.

We already have loads to be ashamed of. Let's not add regionalism, communalism, shamelessness and intolerance to the list.

Suspended Animation!!

There it goes, out of the window..my resolution not to write about the politicians..

But these guys are such great entertainers.. Try as you might, can't really ignore them..They just love hogging the limelight..And in what ways..

B.S. Yeddyurappa resigned..finally..after a week in power..with all hullaboo of being the first BJP Chief Minister of any south indian state..

The hanging balance with a pact of 20 months power sharing has been doing some drastically amusing see-saw movement the last three weeks providing some great entertainment to the countrymen..Deve Gowda has suddenly woken up from his slumber (no pun intended) with sudden rise in patriotism towards Karnataka, which has been facing some real problems in governace and administration under his rule..Let's not even think about the Karnataka being on the top three list of highest concentration of farmer suicides. Now, he has suddenly opened eyes towards a 'secularist state' and even if you try to close your eyes to it, can't really ignore who his sleeping partner (no pun again) was for the last 20 months..

A quick flashback: No single party majority in the last elections(2004) -> BJP single largest party -> every party talks to every one else as well as against -> an unlikely duo of JD(S) and BJP coalition with a pact of 20 months power sharing -> JD(S) takes over first as the first stake is theirs in the mutual blackmail -> 20 months over -> party over -> JD(S) pulls out -> national drama -> reunites and BJP does the victory dance -> Deve Gouda re-awakens with an MoU which prove to be the divorce papers -> final "Talaaq"(hopefully).

Suspended animation!!!

Animated suspension..President's rule , re-election or another coalition..These people have lost it..completely..

Can you guys,the politicians i mean, please realise, we are all watching you..And this isn't, i repeat, isn't "The Great Indian Stand-up Comedy Show".

Footnote: Keep your eyes open as the drama unfolds..Gets me thinking why we have failed to create alternative options in politics anywhere in India, Be it Narendra Modi in Gujarat, CPI(M) in WB or be it Mr Naveen Patnaik in my state.

To be politically correct

i really didn't want to write about politicians in my blog because they get their due from thousands already.

This is just for a show of solidarity to all bloggers out there fighting a silent battle through their mighty words and writey pens..

Sometime back, i had written about mutual blackmail in political throes..Now, we see the implications , from Islamabad to India, from Nondigram to US, Baghdad to Cuba. The shamelessness jangles my dear and the reverberations are heard in every brain worth it's grey cells.

See the pattern?

Nuke deal and Godhra...Saddam to Imran, Mush to Bush, the hypocrisy shines through more than those shiny bald heads hidden beneath the supreme white "Gandhi topis", turbans, caps and hats!!.

I would laugh at the joke my dear politicians if it wasn't for the lives of people you are playing with..

Footnote: Headlines on all channels went, "Left goes soft on Nuke deal". Wonder why that sounds 'oh-so-predictable' after the Nondigram issue.On the other side of the fence, "Bhutto taken off from house arrest".Propaganda? Nah! That's politics!!!