Nirvana

Indian Express, Bangalore edition, today carried a piece of news from Ashok Kheny, managing director of NICE (Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise, working on the Bangalore-Mysore six lane highway). Seeing his attempts to complete the highway being stalled by the Govt and highly frustrated, he called Deve Gowda the Ravana, HD Kumaraswamy the Kumbakharana and his two brothers (Revanna and Balakrishna) Bakasuras.

Apparently, Deve Gowda found it below his dignity to respond to Kheny, to which Kheny responded that the question does not arise, as HDG does not have any dignity. Apt, I must admit - you also need to commend him for his balls.

Congratulations to India for having won the Twenty-20 World Cup, here’s a good piece by Dileep on Dhoni. Hmm, I wonder if any of this will be remembered in the coming two months when we play the Australians and Pakistanis.

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Sonia Gandhi was listed 13th on Forbes 100 most powerful women this month.

Born Antonia Maino in Italy, Sonia married Rajiv Gandhi from the (non?) illustrious Nehru dynasty and has risen to become the president of the Indian National Congress, a political party in India. There are rumors abound that politicians flock around her aware of the wealth amassed by Rajiv during the infamous Bofors scandal and also by her power hungry mother-in-law Indira Gandhi.

Her greatest service to the nation to-date is to refuse the post of Prime Minister when offered and instate Manmohan Singh to the post. Or was this a politically motivated move to pull the strings behind the screen?

She was in Bangalore this Sunday to address her political party workers - hundreds of people from villages flocked at Palace Grounds to see her and hear her speak. Never mind the rumor that they were paid 100 bucks and were offered free meals and transport to gather. The meeting was held in the heart of the city resulting in chaos of the worst order, traffic jams and roads were trashed with paper cups, plastic bags and banana peels.

For a more dubious sketch of her by Subramaniam Swamy, you can visit this cached page.

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I recall my first acquaintance with a US news channel in 1999 - the prime news featured was a cat stuck on a tree that had to be rescued by firefighters (no less!). I was quite amused by it all and was thankful that Indian media was sober, covered news of significance and was to the point. Alas, no more!

The Indian media has begun to ape the USA in sensationalizing trivial affairs and news. Are we really that dumb that they have to wash it down for us ? Who really gives a hoot if Saurav Ganguly is in the team or not, what Sachin had for breakfast and what Ajay Devgan had to say about his new movie?

Dont we have larger issues at hand - why not focus on those issues and bring about a change in the mindset of it’s viewers/readers ?

Disgusting!

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Saluting the heroes and paying homage to the Indian jawans who lost their lives in defence of our Motherland and thwarted the enemy’s machinations on the seventh anniversary of Kargil war.

Jai Hind!

In a lighter vein, here’s an anecdote from annals of Indian politics.

In the Parliament, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia raised the issue of the ongoing China-India border dispute and asked Nehru what steps he had taken to resolve it.

Nehru replied that it was barren area not worth taking any steps. Dr. Lohia retorted that as Nehru’s head was bald and barren, why didnt he offer it to china. Nehru’s face was flushed with anger on these remarks.

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Israel, a country that is approximately 160 times smaller than India, proclaims the act of capturing two soldiers by Hezbollah an “act of war”. It bombs Lebanese key areas like the airport and the bridges and blockades the Lebanese waters over the past two days warning that there is more to come.

India (politicians that is), having lost 200 people to Mumbai blasts on 7/11, is busy twiddling it’s thumbs, offering rhetorical statements about how the guilty will be punished when captured and praising the resilience of Mumbaikars.

Two soldiers v/s Two hundred citizens.

The ignominy of Indian politics. A week from now these incidents will be long forgotten and the leeches will be back in their comfort zone playing caste politics.

Mulayam defends SIMI movement indulging in vote-bank politics. Arjun singh and Karunanidhi are all for reservation for Muslims and Christians. Manmohan and his colleagues without adequate security measures open the Indo-Pak routes as part of peace process. We have a spineless PM who is trying his level best to hold onto his power.

The focus is on installing hundreds of CCTVs in Rashtrapati Bhavan to protect these nincompoops NOT for the citizens on the streets, airports, borders or stations.

How long are we going to stand by and notice these suckers rape our motherland?

Apathy is the worst crime of all, India is sadly an example.

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