Rahul G

Heard Rahul Gandhi in person for the first time. His speech at the Congress' plenary session was a pathetic one, uninspiring to say the least. The person is not cut out to be a politician. Please someone ask him to take retirement.
Can't see any more of this torture being dealt to our nation.

Rahul the clown Gandhi

The middle aged moron Rahul Gandhi has done it again. He keeps on coming up with these gems. Is this what our country awaits for a future Prime Minister.
I hope that the so called yuvaraj of Congress gets some good advisors. If he wants my services are available for him. But I know he won't be taking the services of an Indian, that too a frustrated one who has reached this state because of his ongoing family tree. The party mow needs to come clean and state why their projected PM was talking to the lowly Ambassador of the US about India's internal matters. If he had to discuss it he should have approached at least the US President.......like his other family members betrayed the country.

India China relationship

India ki China se phatti hai..... we are damn scared of China. It is time that our political leadership accepts it. All our establishments are shit scared of the middle kingdom.
The visit of Chinese Premiere Wen Jiabao proved this beyond doubt. Our Prime Minister, if he should be called that anymore, doesn't even have the gust to put Indian point of view. The visit was a complete failure as far as India goes.
We have given into all their demands, while at the same time unable to get any of ours from China. They have snubbed us on UN Security Council seat issue, Brahmaputra dam issue, involvement in POK and even terrorism of Pakistan. It is still time that we review our foreign policy.

Barkha dutt the invincible

Did you ever wonder why Barkha Dutt is not suing her bretheren in the so called main stream media? So let me know if you get a clue. The woman and her parent TV channel NDTV had sued a poor blogger for his post on the net. But they don't seem to have the b***s for doing the same against they bretheren.
For once Barkha Dutt and Prannoy Roy controlled NDTV have got a dose of her own medicine. The entire Barkha nee Vir nee Radia episode has empowered the social media immensely. Hope that the biggies find the courage to sue their brothers (and sisters) who have snitched on them.

fixing journos

The shining names in journalistic fraternity had egg on their faces. The role models of several generations have revealed their true faces.
It is a matter of concern now that when will these people stand up and apologise. They had shut up bloggers before but can they silence their own fraternity. And mind it that it is not just professional jealously that is keeping the Radia stories growing against journalists. Maybe it is time that Vir and Barkha, along with their other fraternity brethren, are questioned by the investigative agencies to bring out the truth.

Biased Indian media

The Indian media is an elitist and biased non-organism. More so the English print media. Its vulgarity was on full display today. The two leading dailies didn't deserve it fitting to write properly on last night's incident of multi-storeyed house collapse in east Delhi.
Had this incident happened in south Delhi they would have gone to town about it. But the two masters of the Delhi print media market didn't think that migrant labourers living in squalor deserve proper treatment.
No surprise that western countries still treat us as sub humans when we aren't treating each other with the respect we deserve.

Wrong attribution Doordarshan style

Doordarshan may be the national broadcaster but it has been facing a severe crisis of credibility over the past several years. The national broadcaster has been facing several controversies including allegations of corruption in the Commonwealth Games telecast rights allocation deal.
When it comes to broadcast of important national and international its presenters have repeatedly proven to be out of touch with the present, the past as well as the culture of the country. Though they continue to attribute several things to India's rich cultural heritage.
A presenter during the live telecast of President Obama's visit to national capital attributed the famous couplet "kaun jaye Zauq ye dilli ki galiyan chod kar" to Ghalib rather than its original writer Zauq. The presenters on the national broadcaster should try and prepare a script if they want to quote or attribute something from our rich cultural heritage, rather than attributing it to the wrong person.
This is the worst form of beizzati that a poet can expect.

Obama mania

Obama Obama everywhere....
Does he deserve this much coverage in the Indian media? No he doesn't. He should not be guven this much importance as he is not that important for us. He wants our business more than we need his. He doesn't offer anything to us rather he has asked for sops from India.
It is time that we focussed on solving our own problems rather than asking the US to come and solve them for us. There is no need for his referring to the K word as we are better off without him.
When we have already stated that it is a bilateral issue why do we want his interference.
Can't we just make up our minds....

On God's Mercy

The capital of India and every citizen living here has been left to God's mercy (Not that even He can do anything about it or that I believe He could). The biggest police force in the world manning a city has once again proven its inefficiency.
They were clueless. Found wanting and downright sloppy. even their reactions were slow. It is time that a proper police investigations and intelligence gathering department is established. The Delhi Police didn't even know for two full damn hours that a bomb was ticking away just a few metres away from the attack site. The police force is nothing but a burden on the tax payer. We should disband the bloated and expensive good for nothing force which employs people who don't have any knowledge apart from talking and doing trash. And please employ professionals who are given deadlines and incentive based promotions if they are able to make the city safer.

No to CWG

We have no business organising an extravagance like Commonwealth Games. It is a waste of money when we can't even provide basic food and security to our citizens.
The countrymen should give a call to boycott games which is a wastage of taxpayers money. Please do not visit the games or support them.

Salman is right

For once Salman Khan is right. I completely agree with him that Indian government and the over pious media in our country was taken aback by the audacity of the attack due to the selection of targets.
See the facts before the Mumbai attack: there were repeated and regular, rather periodic attacks on Indian civilians. In cities across the country the targets were lower middle class, working class, commuters and policemen. They were killed with impunity and a regularity that has never been witnessed across the globe. The government didn't react half as strongly.
The media and the powers in our country only noticed the attacks after they were specifically targeted. The people in power were targeted. This was the sole motive of the 26/11 terror attacks. What the hell you can even see the difference in coverage by the media while covering CST, Nariman Point and the five star hotels. The Taj and Trident were focussed upon too much. I am stating facts and everyone knows it is the truth. In fact, Salman should be congratulated that he has tried to raise such an important issue which deals with the very fact that a common man doesn't figure in the scheme of things of our country's established bosses.

Peepli bajao

Peepli live has done to journalists that not a single movie has been able to do. The electronic media has been shown its aukaat truly and audaciously. The scene where the reporter, based on a real life journalist of a same name, goes on to classify the texture and colour of tatti (excrement) is the true depiction of the level of journalism being practiced in the electronic media.
A refreshing movie that opens the eyes of a viewer regarding how everything is becoming driven by these frivolous channels who have their faith in the three masterstrokes to gain the TRPs, bhoot, bhabhoot and ch**t.
Time that the media focuses on real issues and not those which get it the eyeballs. Reporting a genuine story once in a while hasn't hurt anyone.

Kashmir

The Indian government seems to have lost the plot as far as Kashmir is concerned. The government has been unable to rein in the separatists and put a stop to stone pelting. And the foreign media has gotten into the act by trying to sell the protests as Indian intifada.
It is time that the government takes a look at its policies, reviews them. If it doesn't want to review the Kashmir policy then it should have the guts to stand by what it believes in. Don't make a fool out of yourselves and the country. Act like China or Israel. These are the two countries we need to follow as examples.

Naveen Jindal

I never expected this from a person who fought for our Tricolour. I thought you were a progressive politician. Glued into the modern era. But you also seem to be picking up the colours of any other common politician. I never thought that you could stoop so low and attend a khap panchayat just to appease your voters. This was a ridiculous act that you did and you have lost all the respect that any right thinking citizen might have had for you.

Chinese (net)invasion

The Chinese have finally revealed it. They are the new unsung commanders of net espionage. The New York Times has broken a story which has revealed that Chinese hackers have entered and compromised Indian defence and other establishment computer systems.
I had through the posts (check my other blog) also made it known that the Indian days of being the self-proclaimed IT superpower were numbered. The Chinese have now mastered the art that we were too proud of. It is just a matter of time before the start targetting our commercial and economical establishment as well. The Indian government will keep on sleeping despite spending crores in employing Babus to the IT ministry. Why shouldn't IT honchos be employed in the ministry? Isn't this a thought that need to be looked into.

hindu vs express

When will the media stop taking the high moralistic stand? Today's article in The Indian Express is nothing but a poor attempt at interference in someone else's business. It has been widely known and acknowledged that in the media world a dog doesn't bite another dog. The paper has cross the Lakshman rekha of the sector and now may have to pay in the way of a suit by The Hindu. By the way what is the Express's stand on CEOs from a same family heading the business. I know. So shut up.

Maya's garland

What is the big deal if UP CM Mayawati is wearing a garland of currency notes. When leaders of other political parties are being feted by gold headgear, silver wear and currency during similar celebrations, what is the big deal if she does it. The media has once again gone to town with an irrelevant story. They should not indulge in double standards as such instances being indulged to by other "mainstream" parties also be looked at in the same view. While naming of parks, government institutes, projects run on tax payers money and other facilities is ok if they are named after a particular family but everyone cries hoarse if they are named after someone else. This attitude needs to be checked. And what is with the moralistic tone of the media. They would be the first ones to line up at the feet of Mayawati if she is doling out advertisements.

India vs China debate

The political class has of late tried to give a new perspective to the India-China rivalry. The politicians are busy convincing us that the Chinese nation is able to go through this phenomenal growth and expansion because it is an autocratic nation. And they claim that we aren't as India is bestowed with democracy. This is a bit too much for hiding their inefficiency over the past few decades. I hope that they could come up with better excuses.

Pillai wakes up

Union Home Secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai on Friday stated that the Maoist objective was to overthrow the Indian state by 2050 (didn't the intelligence agencies working under the home secretary wake him up to this fact earlier).
While speaking at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis in New Delhi, he even claimed that Maoist forces may be currently receiving help from ex-Armymen.
He stated that analysis of Naxal attacks had revealed detailed and precise planning. (what does he mean by this that they are planning more than his intelligence outfits and security forces?)
"Right now, they were looking to regroup and build their own army towards their plans." And, Mr Pillai said, they were using administrative vacuum and underdevelopment to do this. (Duh. Wasn't this all known for far too long....they could seek my help if they need better info than this. Anyone who has lived in that part of the world or has studied extremist close at hand.) God save this country if we have such people at the helm of affairs. And by the way what is an IAS officer doing at the head of a security set up of the country. Shouldn't an officer who has dealt with such issues through his life be appointed to this position?

Captain martyrd

There was no need for the young captain of Indian army to die in a firefight with the militants. The intelligence was a failure, which led him to a trap waiting for his death. The local police's and intelligence gathering agency's role in this entire encounter is suspect. There is a need for an independent inquiry into the incident as to who led this young officer to his premature death.
I am not undermining or undervaluing the lives of two other jawans killed in the encounter. But the point here is that an officer killed in war is a morale dampener for the forces and this should not be allowed in the future. We have to save other Devender Singh's from getting killed.

Adieu Maruti 800

Maruti 800 was the car that changed the country. The car was the sole reason that the country got into an overdrive. It aspired the middle classes that they could own a possession and flaunt it. The car became a symbol of achievement of the middle class and also caused the downfall of the Congress which had till then kept the country in a tight leash.
Though the delivery of this vehicle has been stopped by the company in several cities across the country, due to environmental norms compliance conditions, this car has stood the test of time on Indian roads. The car unshackled the country, everyone wanted to own a 800 and there was an even a premium amount on the vehicle. But the most important thing that it did was to make people try and get out of the license quota raj regime. Though it took a few years for the middle class to gain its confidence, but Maruti can truly be called the one thing that aspired and filled the masses with the will to grow and unshackle. It was the complete opposite of what Hamara Bajaj (sic) stood for.

BJP's singing ways

At the outset I want to clarify that this post is not intended to hurt the sentiments of the musically inclined. But this is too much a chief of the saffron national party and chief minister of its largest ruled state are busy singing songs.
Maybe this is the fate of the party. Instead of acting like a tough opposition they are busy fooling themselves at one of their numerous shivirs that do not yield anything. It is a party which doesn't show any promise and prospects in the near future. I hope Nitin Gadkari is really better at what he has been brought in to do.

Rahul baba takes local train

The Congress is a master strategist. The local train ride has kicked the Shiv Sena right where it hurts the most. The party has again proven why it has remained the most popular in India even after several decades of misrule.
The aam aadmi may be breaking his back with steep rise in food prices but the party will spend crores on making such empty gestures which will never benefit our nation. The party is in power at both the Centre and the state level, for the past several years. So it has to make things happen and just stop taking people on a ride. And that too on a Mumbai local.

PS: And as for Shiv Sena they know they can never grow outside Maharashtra so they need to keep on harping on the Marathi manoos issue. Though I feel that the party has become irrelevant in its "own state".

Sania quits?

It was a shocker when I heard that Sania Mirza had announced that she will quit tennis after getting married and that she had left the decision on her husband.
Though it will be a personal decision for Sania Mirza if she wants to quit tennis. Whenever she wants to do it. However, she must remember one thing that she has been seen as a person who has stood up to societal pressure and taken on the fundamentalist elements within her community. She was seen standing up to the mullahs who had demanded that she cover up before going on court. This is not a frivolous issue and will affect the womenfolk in a community known for its backwardness. Any decision taken by her will have far reaching impact. So please act cautiously.

Jyoti Basu

Why this hue and cry over the death of Jyoti Basu? It seems that we have forgotten the way he had turned the state around from being a forward state to a backward state. It is only Indian culture that has stopped the media from bringing up this fact that he was the sole reason for the flight of industry and educated professionals from West Bengal. So please stop these sob stories and let him rest in peace. For what he did during his lifetime was worse than whet the Laloo rule did to Bihar over a period of 15 years.

Spooked out

Why can't the government find normal people for posting into Raj Bhawans across the country. The practice of posting spooks to these positions is only creating one bad precedent after another. Will the government let them retire or continue to get its dirty work being done by them posted in hostile states.
And by the way what is with this way of posting Governors without the say of local elected government. We aren't living in the British imperialist era anymore. So the state government should have some say, if not equal say, in the appointment of Governors to their respective states.
This is one point which needs to be looked at urgently to avoid a fiasco like Andhra Pradesh.