How did it come to this?

Why do we have to struggle so much to get our basic needs? People struggle everyday for years, claiming that they do so for the welfare of their children. In that pursuit, we take almost everything for granted, right from availability of grains and water to the fact that we will live on until a certain age. The moment something goes wrong, the express of life comes to a jolting halt.

We all work for a living… all the time, at offices, workshops, on the move, at night. We are connected to the web of information even when flying or on a remote island.Yet we don’t have time to sit down with our near and dear, why, even one’s own children when they need us most. Both parents are away at work when this poor child is kept silent watching pokemon or Ninja turtles on TV. And when the teachers complain that the kid had beaten up another or broken stuff throwing them around, the parents’ ire is shown on the kids!

Corporations spring up like weeds overnight and claim to provide ‘better products’!! Cut throat competition is seen as a virtue. Getting to the top spot in the market, by hook or crook, is considered an ideal worth anything in this world, even if it costs one’s health, family or even life. Greed knows no end, yet in the name of development only greed is getting developed. Why do we need 40 different brands of electric toothbrush or mattress? How does it matter whether you travel in a Benz or an Alto, when in the end all you want is to reach your office?  We see ‘we love our customers’ in supermarkets…. but NO!!, they love our credit cards! End of the quarter… oh, this deal needs to be done… revenue targets, beat the sales figures.. consumerism… consumerism… consumerism. This is consuming this world slowly and surely.

Why do we have to be like a machine, devoid of basic feelings of companionship to our fellow living entities? Why can’t we lead simpler lives? When did life become so complex that we get need counseling on the art of living? When did we become so hard at heart that we don’t stop to help an injured man or animal on the road? When did we become so short sighted that we would stand on the branch of a tree yet start hacking at the root?

Where is the purpose to this life? What are we doing here? How did it come to this?

Congress Govt….? Zzzzz…

Wake up, you morons!! You fools are squabbling over which portfolios to give to which party, when other countries playing ‘inky, pinky, ponky’ on our country’s lands for choosing which one to take.

http://maps.google.com/maps?complete=1&hl=en&source=hp&q=India+Map&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=India&ei=2GrHSq-aB8uAkQW2u5ncBQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1

Do you see Kashmir or Arunachal Pradesh in India? This map is found in some place in China.

India Redrawn

Demon in a bottle

What is it about a bottle of beer or whiskey that makes so many people grin from ear to ear? I frankly don’t understand the concept of fun in drinking! I have seen people being normal when they are sober, but transforming in to something really disgusting, after they had their ration for the day of the sarakku.

Social drinking… you just get to a party, then you socialize, while drinking… that’s it? Oh… no way! Here’s more. How about vomiting all the crap you put inside your stomach on your girl( or boy)friend’s dress? yuck… not nice! Hey,how about letting out the secret of how you got to do the deed with some nameless bitch years ago? Ouch… that slap from your wife must hurt! Or How about having to lie all night in a ditch that you fell in to, until your friends realize that you took a step to the wrong side trying to get in to the car last night?

It is a shame that even the governments nowadays encourage this by opening liquor shops.

I guess I will never quite understand obsession that people have on this kazhudhai muthiram (donkey piss, tamil words courtesy of ‘Naan Kadavul’ film).

Misc. rants

1) DMK fools are up to it again. These people will never improve… including their grand old man, who has given a new definition to ‘family politics’!

2) Our fellow citizens chew too much paan. There is even one called ‘Honeymoon special’ costing Rs.100 with ‘chittu kuruvi lehiyam’ (no clue on what it is actually, but claimed to be an aphrodisiac… ). *Quack warning*

3) There are too many ’swamijis’ around. Those who want to get cheated, get cheated.

4) Too much of ‘light’ pollution… its been some years since I had a clear view of starry sky at night.

5) Too many people dig their nose and fart in public. The look on their face when ‘discovered’ is, well… I will leave at that. Nasty.

Sach ka saamna?

Our people have no originality. Even in cooking up reality shows, they need to ‘emulate’ their western ‘buddy’ networks.

Never seen this show on TV as such, but from what I hear, it sounds more like the Maury show or Jerry Springer shown across US networks… may be a bit more dignified in staging than the above, but yuck, nonetheless.

A poser to those who wish to come on the show:

Why not just let skeletons in the closet be just that and move on with your life? The temptation of money, even if it amounts to the risk of admitting your dark secrets and destroy a couple more lives, is too strong to resist, is it?

45% of the world’s wealth destroyed

Or so this article quotes the CEO of Blackstone

Wealth? What wealth? Minted paper and psychologically enhanced ‘value’ is now being called wealth!!!

Who can say what is the actual WORTH of a square feet of land?

What use is ‘paper’ money, if you can keep printing ‘$2,000,000′ notes and you need just one to buy a loaf of bread? (don’t know what I am talking about? Check on Zimbabwe’s economic condition in Google).

Who does care or even know about actual wealth these days?

Its funny and sad that we churn out a zillion MBAs and PhDs every year and yet we cannot answer the simplest of questions without using some hi-fi jargon.

Yet for all the subtleties…

I just got news from home that colleges in TN have been asked to close until Feb 08, 2009.

Reason? Support for Tamil people suffering in Sri Lanka. Absurd. Ridiculous.

The only good thing that comes out of such a decision is a whole lot of students who can really take a break from the drudgery of college working days are very happy.

Seriously… is it real concern for people who are suffering? Or is it veiled, subtle (or may be not so subtle!!) support for LTTE? The photo in this news clipping makes me think it is the latter.

Oh, I forgot to add…

From http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090130/jsp/nation/story_10460494.jsp

“Chennai, Jan. 29: A youth burnt himself to death today to protest the Centre’s alleged failure to save Sri Lankan Tamils, a day after Pranab Mukherjee returned from Colombo.

R. Muthukumaran, a 30-year-old DTP operator with a Tamil magazine run by PMK leader S. Ramadoss’s daughter, set himself ablaze at Shastri Bhavan, a complex of central government offices in the heart of Chennai. He was rushed to hospital but succumbed to his burns.”

You know what I think? This fellow, for all his admirable tamil spirit, was just plain DUMB. Who knows what indoctrination he was put through to come to such a stupid decision?

Get the hint between the bold parts? Me thinks so!

When it comes to politics, my friends, our politicians are no better than terrorists!

Seems like this is…

… my 100th post on the blog. Well… I never kept count of it, but just happened to notice it today.

Its been a really, really long time and two deleted blogs since I wrote anything really heavy… I mean, something which is sure to start fires in the pants of some people who might be reading this blog.

So. Here comes.

Anyone from TamilNadu would be very much aware of the current spate of hunger strikes and human chains… all being held “in support of the suffering Tamil people in Sri Lanka”.

Whats the deal? Seems like innocent “Tamilians” are caught in the war between the SriLankan Government forces and the LTTE. And I have seen the Tamil Actors’ guild call up a day of hunger strike, weep their tears, pledge money for assistance to the “Tamil Cause”. Blood relations, they call them. “Eminent” directors Ameer and Seeman were arrested a week or so before for speaking praises about “Annan (big brother)” Prabhakaran, the LTTE chief.

Karunanidhi, the chief minister of TamilNadu, is in a sad position. Neither can he vocally support LTTE, nor can he say publicly that LTTE is a terrorist organization. So, as brilliant he is, once the LTTE has been cornered in the north, he gave a loud call for ending the “genocide” against Tamils in Sri Lanka. And all of his “faithful dogs” (oh, the elected MPs, I mean) submitted token resignations in protest of the “genocide”.(I don’t even want to get in to describing the emotional drama put up by people like Vaiko of MDMK, Pazha. Nedumaran, Thirumavalavan, Ramadoss etc.)

A nice way to save the LTTE and at the same time score political points, no? Not to mention the distraction it provides from the current severe power crisis in TamilNadu, thanks to the inept skills of the Power Minister Arcot Veerasamy. (The funny part is he was very quick to put the blame on the previous Government run by Jayalalitha, saying that it had not done enough power schemes!!!)

So, where am I going with all these? I just have 2 points to make:

1) The war in Sri Lanka should not be stopped until Prabhakaran and his lieutenants have surrendered or are either captured/ killed. Much blood has been spilled on their account and leaving them free would guarantee another bloody decade. LTTE must disappear as a terrorist organization, completely, for peace to flourish in any place within Sri Lanka.

2) War is never fair. People will die, no matter the precautions taken. So, for all those idiots who wish to fan the much advertised flame of “Tamil” blood and whatnot, I say “Shut the f*** up!!”. No matter how much they cry, it is the internal issue of another sovereign country and you CANNOT dictate terms to them. Only thing you can do is to request them to end this war quickly and find a permanent solution. But making school children stand in heavy rain and blocking traffic for miles and miles makes you look stupid. (Oh and PLEASE don’t tell me that all the schools and colleges that participated in the human chain craziness did it voluntarily.)

To all those “Tamil” sentimantilists, I ask you these:

1) Do you justify LTTE’s methods and propaganda?

2) Will you send out your support only for another “Tamil” person? Why don’t you use your humanitarian concern and organize demonstrations and collect money in support for “humans” in places like Somalia… or support the democracy movement in Myanmar?

3) When you ask for Tamil Ealam for your “blood brothers and sisters”, do you also agree to the demands made by the militants from Pakistan who demand Kashmir for their “blood brothers and sisters”?

4) To the unscrupolous politicians… you people show too much emotion looking at the videos circulating around claiming how the Tamil people suffer in the war. Why now and why not before? This is a 30 or more year old problem… where were your emotions till now? Are you trying to save the innocent tamil people or the LTTE?

I have seen and heard so much crap the last few weeks, that my lips curl in disgust everytime I hear some politician fool speak about this issue.

Enough. May God save the innocent people.

Mega Serials, reality shows – mega bullshit, real problem!

I should probably believe that I am not the first one to rant on the domination of mega-serials and reality shows that have taken over “sensible entertainment”.

On Mega serials:

I think almost all of the current tamil mega serials are IDIOTIC, PUTRID, PUKE-WORTHY stories. I mean, who wants to sit through 30mins in front of the TV, watching a woman getting down the stairs for 10 mins, a man rocking a chair for 5 mins… bah, the list goes on. I cannot bear to stand in front of the TV once my mom and dad (yes! you read that right) start staring at the screen glassy eyed. What’s worse? Here…

In the TV, a man:”If you don’t co-operate, I will kill your wife”

Outside TV, my folks: Adi seruppaala… rascal! Ivana mathiri aala yellam suttu thallanam.

Me: (thinking “WTH????”) Its a bloody TV serial!!!! Shut up already!

My folks: You shut up. We are watching TV.

Me: (pulls hair out)

On Reality serials:

Seems like everything is a copy from USA and Hindi channels. They even have a copy of “Takeshi’s castle”, for crying out loud. And I have people watching, slackjawed and all, some poor guy or gal crying on stage. And the dance shows are the worst. I don’t have to explain about flapping flabs, grunting faces and absolutely horrid dance styles and themes in some cases.

Someone rid the airwaves of this nonsense.

This is getting weird, day after day

I am thinking of documenting my search for a life partner here. I am feeling now that it will become a mega-hit in the blog (or a flop. Never mind that. )

So, I see a girl’s profile today… seems like she is the only child in the family. Her description went somewhat like this. “… only child. Parents will stay with me after marriage. Will marry only after completing PG.” (she’s just completed her BE!! :O)

Riiight. A brahmin iyer girl, putting up a profile, say, 3 years in advance, with a demand that will elicit a sure shot “NO” from 99% of prospectives. Hmmm.

By the way, I am slowly beginning to understand the dynamics of this whole ‘arranged marriage’ thingy. Oh-so-many preferences on Gothras, ancestral origin, subsect… blah blah blah. I see soooo many profiles which state “Only Vadamal/ Brahacharanam people need respond”. People, remind me. Which age are we in!!? Sheesh!

Oh and this too… “only boys with H1B/ Green Card need apply” (Am I applying for a job or something?) and ” Must support her higher education” (*DING!! bulb glows overhead* Ah ha! I see it now!).

Get this… an unwritten rule that many people follow (including my parents, who do it sometimes): “If you don’t want to proceed with an alliance with a prospective bride or groom, don’t respond to their mails or calls. They will get it”. I simply respond… “No, you just made yourself look discourteous”.

I wish some girl (conditions apply )agrees to marry soon and spare me any more of this nonsense!! (Ok, OK!! I am just venting, alright!? Can’t a guy just vent in peace?)

The Great Hunt has begun. Any hope?

Oookey… its official then. The great hunt has begun.

I am not talking about the Robert Jordan book. Me talks about the hunt for the person who will have to suffer me for the rest of her life. (Take a joke, ok?) But guess what the trouble is!!!? There are hardly any girls who fall within an acceptable height compared to mine (about 183cms) and even those that do come close, seem to be always from the same, dreaded “Bharadwaja Gothram”. Sucks. And if somehow I manage to find some to my liking, the great Gods (read ‘parents’) throw thunderbolts of flimsy (IMO) reasons to reject it.

Oh well, s***t happens.

But I must confess that I have had quite an amusing time browsing through profiles at you-know-where and am surprised to see that almost every Jane Doe is “God fearing, respects elders, respects tradition, soft-spoken” and would like their partner to be “tall, fair, handsome, well settled, well read, respecting elders and traditions”. Almost 75% of the crowd I have looked at seem to work in either Infosys, CTS, TCS or Wipro. And to boot, many of them prefer only an ‘Amarickaa Mapillai’… and have a fine print saying “would like to pursue higher studies”. (I got nothing against such arrangements but just feeling sorry for unfortunate males, like me, who have to shell out parents money and drag our asses across to USA and get a degree. )

All in all, People, the future looks bleak for me.

Sad state of affairs

Students commiting suicide

News like the one above makes me very, very sad. Committing suicide in fear of exams? What must have driven those young minds to take such terrible, desperate steps? What kind of stress those kids must have been going through before coming to such a disastrous decision? And here we are, complaining about stress at jobs, stress in marriage and what not. We have thousands of crack pot stress relief programs to teach us how to ‘deal’ with stress, effective or not. What do these innocent kids have? Who is to tell them it is alright to have failures in life, leave alone in exams, as long as one doesn’t loses hope? Who is to encourage them to face failure and try again, without denting their confidence and self-esteem?

Education in India is mostly driven by strong emotions of parents who want to see their child ’succeed’ in life. Parents, esp. in India think that hurting their child’s self-esteem by making negative statements about the kids abilities, like comparing their kids with someone else’s, threatening the child with humiliation in event of ‘failure’ (as defined by the parents), will actually make the child want to put in more effort and make the parents proud.

But what does a child know about pride? What does a child know about Indian family politics, where ’status’ is determined by how much one earns and the name of the company he/ she works for?

Statements like

“If you don’t get good marks in the board exams, you will spoil your entire life!”
“All your friends will ridicule you if you don’t study for engineering or MBBS”
“Why don’t you get smart and have only the top rankers in your class as friends?”
“You have to put study efforts for at least 14hrs a day… 8hrs at school, 6hrs at home. If you don’t, you will not get good marks and then you will become worthless!”
“You got only 85% marks!! Miserable wretch! You are only fit to herd pigs!! May be I will get you 50 pigs… no, you won’t be able to do even that!”
…

don’t actually help a child! These kind of comments blows holes in the child’s confidence like a shotgun firing through a sheet of paper. It breaks the fragile minds, giving them a feeling that no matter how hard they try they will not satisfy expectations. Some also begin to believe that if they ‘fail’ in something, ‘they’ have proven to be worthless.

Instead of giving love and affection, parents end up scorning, beating and sometimes even endangering the child’s future as well as life.

I don’t usually see hindi movies… hardly, actually. But I saw ‘Taare Zameen Par’. Excellent movie. There is one statement in that movie which sums up the solution to problems faced by millions of children (Indian, too) throughout the world.

“Parents should stop burdening their children with the huge weight of their own ambitions.”

I completely agree with it.

I hate SMS!

It might seem ironical.

But I really, really am beginning to hate SMS. Don’t get me wrong. I love the utility part… where in if you don’t want to speak to someone, you can just use a template and shoot a message.

What I do hate about SMS is the fact that people begin to replace a 1 min verbal communication by not less than 3 messages! I have seen people glued by their fingers to their mobile phones… always tapping out something… tap tap tap tap tap tap… Arrrghhh!!

First, its painful on your fingers if you overdo it, given the size of the mobile phones and their keypads. Second, its rude to do it when you are with company, especially when you are out at lunch with someone and you keep typing out your messages when the other person is trying to have a conversation.

Even technology has a time, place and circumstance for usage… ‘proper’ usage.

Few things I would like to do…

1. Enforce a rule saying all new bore-wells should be dug bottom-up… not top down. Too many children make it to the news because of such things!!
2. Decree that any school that does not enough space to park at least 500 cars in their grounds should be shifted out of city limits.
3. Convince the city corporation to gather all able-bodied beggars in the city and give them the job of keep Marina beach clean… and make sure they clean it to earn their living. Of course, they will also be covered under the provident fund and are entitled for promotion and salary hikes.
4. Put a blanket ban on use of all types of vehicle horns within the city.
5. In order to reduce the chaos due to the previous rule, introduce a new rule saying that all vehicles should move only at 20Kmph within city limits.
6. Ban all wall-poster printing and posting within the city. The unemployed from that industry can be employed in scratching out, cleaning and re-painting the scarred walls of thousands of buildings in the city.

Yep. Thats about it for now.

Need to get attention?

What a waste of resources and time!
So now that the government has decreed that the pongal day that begins the month of “Thai” will be celebrated as the Tamil New Year, everyone will start doing so? Hardly!!

Only the “Kalaignar TV” channel’s news reporters will be able to find such celebrations. How? Anywhere people celebrate pongal, the idiots will showcase it as if the people are very happy about celebrating New Year!

How this is a contribution to the tamil community is beyond me… since people have been celebrating the first day of Chithirai month as the Tamil New Year without any issues for as long as I have know.

And the article claims “the Tamil scholars showered encomiums”. Who are the scholars? Surely Karuna’s cronies Duraimurugan and Jegatrakshagan don’t count in, do they?

“This, they said, was the renaissance period of Tamil language. “

Oh, oooh… aaahhh, wow! I can hardly breath. I can imagine Avvaiyar, Kambar, Thiruvalluvar etc. praising this old man from the heavens for his great act!
Stupid asses. Attention whoring at its finest, IMO.

Obnoxiously obsessed

I don’t usually watch much of the regional cable channels (thanks to Discovery, NatGeo, HBO, CNN etc…), but while browsing through the channels yesterday evening, the “Makkal” TV caught my attention. There was this guy singing in a voice that would rival any bulldozer and his troupe was playing some really horrible music, if I might add.

I was wondering why the hell would someone want to publicly humiliate himself (and others) and then the lyrics caught my attention. He was singing in praise of tamil, in tamil, while berating people about using the “Northern Language” (presumably Hindi/ sanskrit here).

Then it suddenly dawned on me… this was just another tamil obsessed idiot, being paid for self-humiliation by a channel run by cronies of an equally demented crackpot.

Honestly, people need to have better idea of of “ideologies”!

(My previous article on Tamil Obsession can be found here)

Road trip

So, after a very long time, we decided to take our Santro and hit the road for a 200KM drive to a temple town. I have traveled that particular highway several times before 2003 but I was pleasantly surprised by the 4-lane roads, which were in excellent condition. It was completely divided by a median for the 120Km stretch we had to travel before turning away to country roads towards our destination. Before, it would be extremely hard to reach and maintain speeds of a 100Km/hr. But now, anything traveling below 80Km/hr is a nuisance on these roads! (For the record, we cleared the 120Km stretch in about 1hr and 20mins, including 2 toll gate stops and about 30mins to get to the city limits from our home )

There are always problems though. People crossing the roads at random places, slow moving autos and careless two wheeler drivers… it is an extremely dangerous drive at night. Add to this the problem of the high beam loving freaks and you can hardly see the road or anything crossing the road about 50m ahead of you. Oh and the bloody bus drivers who think they should always stay ahead… every time you try to overtake them, they step on the gas, just for the heck of it!

But overall, it was an excellent trip and I really enjoyed the driving part.

Shut your horn!

I have been thinking… may be I should make out a poster that reads “Only fools blow their horn at a traffic signal” and put it on the rear window of my car.

Nothing… and I mean Nothing… irritates me more than an idiot blaring his/her vehicle’s horn when waiting for a traffic signal to turn green. These are not just the career drivers, who are mostly undereducated (or uneducated). I am talking about people driving (by themselves, of course) Toyotas, Benzs and Hondas, for crying out loud!

Like I said to an idiot driver sometime ago… “You look like a Gentleman. Why don’t you drive like one?”.

Statues causing trouble

Ambedkar statue defiled. Tensions grip Bhopal

Hey, I have something to say to all those people who get angry because of their favorite leaders’ statue (not just Ambedkar’s) being defiled.

Please gather funds and build a watch tower near each statue. Appoint a watchman, a hunter with a gun and an umbrella holder. The watchman will be able to sound the alarm whenever someone gets within 10 ft of the statue. The hunter in the watchtower will be extremely useful to shoot down crows or some birds which poop on the statue. The umbrella man will be able to shelter the statue if it gets too hot or if it rains. This way, for each bloody statue, there will be at least 3 families that earn a living.

Indian cricket… but whose money?

I am no hardcore fan of cricket. I do not follow any match schedules, I don’t sit glued to the TV every time a match is on. But I do like to see the Indian cricket team win, now and then.

So, India won the twenty20. Great! Wonderful! It sure should feel good to win the first world cup event in that category. Yuvaraj hit 6 sixes in an over! Wonderful again! It sure takes a lot of skill to pull such a feat. (But, you know, I would also say that it was just sheer luck too, to a good extent).

But with all the drama that followed the win, especially with the politicians getting involved, one wonders if people can get anymore insane! I wonder if these sportsmen will be summoned to campaign for these politicians once the election bells ring. The way the ‘fans’ (many of them are just hypocrites, I tell you) make it to be, they would have committed suicide if the team had lost. Worse, they would have probably lynched the team when it landed (seems like vigilante justice is becoming prevalent, isn’t it?). These people have partly proven the words of G.B. Shaw about cricket to be true… “11 fools playing, 11000 fools watching”. I am not sure about the team being made up of ‘fools’ but as for the other… make that 11 million… it fits the scale now.

Rewarding talent is all fine. But in a country where thousands starve through the day, spending money like water for just a cricket series win is disgusting.

Who’s money are they giving away so freely?

Learning to live?

People are attracted towards yoga programs and self-proclaimed spiritual retreats for several reasons. For many, its a just a matter of faith. For some its the “feel good” and “brand” factors. But for a very few people, it has to be a matter of the credible aspect of truths about life that a particular person propagates. Many popular groups are just hazy, one-size-fits-all kind of yoga programs. From what I have heard people tell me, there’s less about spirituality than about making the individual feel good about him/herself, getting rid of stress or getting a mystic feel about oneself.

Personally, before one thinks about improving the way of life, one must think as to “why we live? What is the purpose of life?”. I don’t think this question is addressed… and if some do touch upon it in a tangential way, its mostly the same old “your life is what you want it to be” kind of stuff. Add a bit of esotericism and word play (like… “not expecting anything is also an expectation”)… and voila!!! You have people “oooh”ing and “aaah”ing!! Yoga, in the most direct sense, means to link oneself with the Supreme. Unfortunately, this is not even close to what is taught (or skipped) by the blatantly commercialized versions, rife with new-age cliches.

I have nothing personal against brand yoga practitioners or teachers. Whatever good they think is being done through their humanitarian ways, I am sure many would be very appreciative.

Its just that I do not have the same views of life and living as they do.

iProtest

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/220763.html
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200709242238.htm

For whatever its worth…

I strongly protest against this bandh that has been called for by the ruling party and its cronies in TamilNadu on Oct 01, 2007.

To me, this simply looks as an arrogant stunt to divert attention of people away from comments made by MK on Rama and the violence that ensued. And now he has begun the usual crap on ‘communal forces’ obstructing development.

“Karunanidhi also asserted that his remarks on Ram Setu will not cost the party its Hindu votes. getStoryCSSNew(); “

May be. But, Mr. MK, I won’t be too sure that this will be the same case for your comments on Rama.

I wish someone can file a PIL in SC and get a ban on this bandh!

 

Tamil obsessed…

Tamil world, Tamilian esteem, Tamilian values… a language has become the campaigning slogan for many ‘dravidian’ parties in this state. Sure, I like tamil for its depth and antiquity… but, I can never understand how some of the tamil ‘leaders’ think that propagating tamil would add boost to people’s esteem or value to someone’s life.

It is a well known fact that many of these ‘leaders’ openly support the LTTE movement (oh… LTTE guys are ‘freedom fighters’… not ‘terrorists’ to these leaders, BTW!) JUST because LTTE claims to be fighting for tamil speaking community in SriLanka. How they justify their reasons for such support is beyond me.

Here is something which I think as funny: Many of the tamilian leaders, without doubt, hold the ‘Thirukkural’ text in high esteem. And one of them is our own M.K, the hyped up rationalist. Did he start reading the book from back and leave out the very first verse written by Thiruvalluvar?

Reservation and self respect, social justice… whatever that means

The wordings used by the Supreme Court in slapping a stay on the reservation for OBCs are pretty strong. And they are right… it happens only in India… that communities line-up for being labeled as “backward”. So much for self-respect and sense of identity!

India’s hall of shame… the likes of V.P Singh, Arjun Singh, Ramadoss, Karunanidhi (oh and the communist idiots too) were (too) quick to react. Seems like the Supreme Court just put a dampener on their hopes of winning the next elections!

And as predictable he is always, the old man of TamilNadu thinks this is a grave injustice to the ‘oppressed millions’ and calls for a total strike. Does it happen anywhere else in the world, that a ruling government calls for a bandh? I haven’t heard about it.

I believe that E.V. Ramaswamy and his breed of politicians have done more harm than good by propagating an ideology of hate in the garb of social justice. He and his current day followers have come to follow the steps of very same evils they were meant to fight in the first place, by having taken up the exact weapons they wanted to destroy… ‘caste’ and ‘class’. And thereby they lose any credibility in their proclamation for social justice.

Cricket fever… cured?

I am just amazed at how people can be so… so… emotional about this stupid game. The funnier part is they bring in patriotism to justify all the craze.

So the Team from India lost the game. Boohoo! Your lives are going to end! You have to walk with your head down in shame ! You spew acid at your favorite cricket Gods for all the prayers they simply rejected!

So Dumb!

Stupidity and Fame

I sometimes wonder why some people can be so famous as an intellectual and yet can be so stupid. I guess becoming famous makes them want to cling on to it no matter what, even if it means simply ceasing to think.

Mr. M. Karunanidhi is one. “Free color TVs for poor households”. Stupid. Enough said.

Office of profit bill… a disgrace!

The seemingly pointed and speedy execution of the process to send the “Office of Profit Bill” again to the President’s assent has clearly shown that this spineless ‘Congress et al’ government has nothing more than its own political interests as its priority.Instead of coming up with a comprehensive solution as suggested by Dr. Kalam, the government has decided to go ahead with the insta-fix that will ’save’ the heads of several MPs, including that of the speaker.

In my opinion, Dr.Kalam should resign his post instead of signing this bill and shame this government, if there is no other alternative given by the Supreme Court

Shut your horn!

If there is one thing I absolutely hate about living in the middle of Chennai… it has to be the incessant honking from the vehicles on the roads. Starts early morning… goes on and on till night.Its driving me crazy!