'Pay-to-Play !', The Blagojevich Scandal, The Voice of American Citizens and Me.

Today I came to know about the Blagojevich Scandal in America and then I realized how complex yet how similar our world is. The more I read the more I got fascinated. So here is my opinion on the issue.

I wanted to list my thoughts but that would not make any sense, so I have copied a number of points and comments from various websites, proper citation would be difficult so kindly bear with the links provided.

1. The Case: Barak Obama was elected President of the US, thus his seat (as a senator) got vacant. The Governor has the power to nominate someone as a replacement for the post, Gov. Blagojevich thought of making some fast money by (mis)using this power, on one side and on the other the fundraisers (the [American] Indian Businessmen) tried to bribe him so he nominates that Jesse Jackson Jr. for the post. All the parties are under the scanner and the investigations are going on.

2. My Views:
a. The Bloddy Indians: Soon we will see an American Raj Thackray emerge to deal with the bloody Indians, who are bent upon spoiling their value system. This person or rather group won't understand that the problem involves both the parties. The person accepting the graft was a WHITE American and the dollars were being raised and rained for a BLACK American. As I have said earlier, A corrupt person has no ideology apart from greed and selfishness, nor does he have a nationality, religion or ethnicity.

b. Corruption and the Value Sytem in India and beyond: I accept that we have corruption at chronic levels in our country and we have learnt to live in this but we must also accept the truth, the reality. The truth is, the Value System that is being talked about is fast fading all around the world thanks to our unabashed support to Individualism. Each person is a competitor of other, the enemy of enemy is friend, and the only thing that matters is success guided by greed and selfishness.
We have long bid goodbye to the philosophical aspect of the religion and have tried to bribe even gods in one way or other to forgive our wrongdoings. Society is only a concept nowadays, people don't even know people in their neighbourhood. But the frustration, the guilt, the anger inside us don't pour out, we don't rebel because many things are at stake, we don't kick these people who are bent to spoil the whole world because of either our guilty conscience or uf plain laziness. (call it apathy, inaction, indifference anything but it is failure to accept responsibilities that come our way simply for a day's comfort.)
To deal with the situation,we have to completely reform our education system as soon as possible, the human values, the trust, the friendship, the compassion, all need to be a part of our existence and we must strive to make it possible. As I have said earlier, Moral Science should be made a compulsory subject with double the marks allotted to Mathematics.

c. The US of A and India: it's very easy to say you people are corrupting my country. The right wingers in India say that Americans are spoiling our culture, their leftist counterparts say America is after our sovereignty. Think for a moment the right-wingers all ape westerners especially Americans, they wear Denim Jeans and T-shirts, watch English movies, yet criticize Americans. The Left, what to talk of them, first, at the personal level, the children of most of the Leftist leaders are studying/living abroad. Leaving that apart, given the current state of our polity America need not cut deals with UPA, Soniaji and Mannu Uncle, it has the resources to buy off most of the Member of Parliaments and nobody would know. I know CIA can do that and all that crap talk of sovereignty. I say to hell with a sovereignty like China. The point is they all are doing politics, POLITICS IS POLITICS AND POLITICS IS DIRTY EVERYWHERE. (till good people don't come in to clean the dirt.)

d. The Bloody Indians revisited: Thinking of Politics, I see these professionals, Engineers, Doctors, MBAs, Entrepreneurs and Businessmen are very active in American Politics, but these people don't give a damn about politics in India. Is it due to the insecurity stemming from lack of power and influence over matters or some genuine interest in changing the American society (for good). Only time can tell. If we can find this trigger, what makes them not only participate but actively participate in the politics we will be able to change India for sure.

e. Lessons to learn: apart from the obvious, the first point is America is not a picture perfect story, the romanticized America can fool you, many of the admirers want to emulate everything America does must now wake up. We must aim at a better and caring society. Second, Corruption can be dealt with successfully only by focusing on it in the entirety (and to define entirety here requires imagination and creativity, and reforms start with oneself) , the terms Political Corruption, so and so are all jargon, in this world everything is connected to everything. Third, we cannot avoid the involvement in politics, we can't leave voids in our systems for the corrupt to come, sit at the top and decide our futures. Everybody must participate in politics. Last and the most important point, we all are facing same or similar problems and we can help each other in it. We must help each other in this great cause.

3. The Solution: New state ethics law targets 'pay to play':
Key provisions of this law include:
• Businesses with contracts or pending bids must register with state election officials naming their owners, affiliates and key executives.

• The Illinois State Board of Elections will create a searchable database with contractor information.

• Contractors must tell lawmakers when making a donation to their campaigns that they're registered with the state.

• Donations are prohibited to the state officeholder controlling the contract or any candidate for that office.

• Violations can result in contracts being voided.

4. Role of Indians/Indian Americans: Some Comments from here,

With the xenophobia fueled by the current US recession and fears of outsourcing, there have been public accusations that Indians were good at "subverting" the system in the US.

"It is amazing how people come (to the US) and think we should change our entire value system to suit themselves," said one reader on the web site of the Daily Herald, a suburban Chicago newspaper.

Another added, "Indians are very sneaky. He is getting back something from donating to these politicians."

A third reader wrote, "You need to go to a different gated community, buddy," referring to a prison.

In a segment, "Indian-Americans play politics in Chicago" broadcast nationwide over National Public Radio, Chicago-based journalist Ashok Easwaran said "there was a certain degree of embarrassment" in Illinois's Indian community which was recently excited over the ascension to power of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, both of whom had the vigorous support of the community

Dick Simpson, a political science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who was the other speaker in the programme, said the Indian community had a greater impact in politics compared to larger minority groups like Latinos and African Americans.

"They use money rather than numbers to break into the political process," he said, adding, "It could take more time for the Indian community to build sufficient power to get (their own) candidate elected to a major position. Their best hope in the meantime is to become key allies to major politicians."

5. Some More Comments: from here ,

*'The election was about the lesser of two evils.'
*'The lesser of two evils? We'd elect a monkey if he ran as a democrat.'

*'People are swayed by Advertising(Positive or Negative). We need Election Campaign Spending Limits and Term Limits on the amount of time spent in public office( 6 years or less).'

*'Tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee, makes no difference who would have won -- both are owned by the "Bi-partisan Combine."
And that's just the way they like it, they pick the candidates in each party and no matter who wins -- they win!'

*'Hey, quit your complaining. You fools deserve this.'

*'it is politics. they ALL do it, because they have to raise money to keep their job. I don't see a problem to try to get some campaign cash out of the power...If we don't like it, change the constitution...it is up to the people.'

*'If we want to have leaders who work only for us, then it will cost us. Until there is public financing of elections, the politicians will need to spend all their time raising money for their campaigns.'

*'Let's face it; character means nothing. Platform means nothing. Ideas mean nothing.
The only thing that matters is how well you can work the middle for the GOP. For the donkeys it's how many special interest groups you can accumulate.
That's not leadership; that's politics.'

*'The voters get what they vote for, and deserve whatever happens. The majority of voters are pretty mindless, not having the ability to see beyond the media hype and bias, or the unending torrent of BS coming from the speechwriters, via politician's mouths...If the voters of Illinois want something different, then they can vote for it. Unfortunately, the democrat party has nurtured an ever-expanding group of dependent welfare suckers who will keep voting their way as long as the freebies keep coming. These "voters" are the problem, and the main reason the corruption of the Chicago machine remains strong.'

*'It has been a long time since we weren't voting for the lesser of two weasels.
We used to blame it on the Irish politicians but it seems to be rather widespread.
Must be the gene pool.'
[The Most Innovative Explanation for Corruption I have ever heard or read.]

*'The reality is depressing. The fact is BOTH parties are tainted with corruption, and BOTH parties have demonstrated terrible judgement. The underlying culture and system of fundraising in this state make it almost impossible for a politician to avoid scandal. . .
What is even worse? Because of the connection with the President-Elect our states inept politics are now on display for the whole world to see. It tarnishes our reputation abroad and more importantly distracts the national discussion away from the issues that are so vital if we are going to get the country back on track.
If ever there was a time to straighten out Illinois this is it. We need to get our political offices out of the hands of these annointed families who aren't really serving the public good. We need to rethink campaign financing rules. Finally, there needs to be continued federal investigation to unravel the aweful network of influence and bosses that permeates every niche of our state government.'

*'Wouldn't it be cool if we just elected ethical people and didn't need the laws. A girl can dream.'

*'Pay to play has been a part of Illinois' problems for decades. The massive problem is nothing new. What's pathetic is law makers in control are just now taking steps to try and remedy the problem.
Far too many political hacks in control have been focussing everyone's attention on regulating the citizens of Illinois, when they should have been focussing on regulating the real crooks, the crooked politicians running amuck in Illinois. There's a reason why they haven't focussed correctly. (Who wants themselves scrutinized?)'

Is it not something we all feel, think and say.


JUST THINK OVER IT !

JAI HIND.

अब गुंडे-बदमाश हमें बताएंगे, हम जिंदा कब कहलाएंगे !

[HINDI FONTS HELP HERE.]

मन तो कह रहा है पंगा मत लो, होगा तो कुछ नही, गुंडों की हिट-लिस्ट में आ जाओगे. घर पर, घरवालों पर या फ़िर दोस्तों पर हमला हो जाएगा या ख़ुद पिट जाओगे और कोई पूछने वाला तक नही होगा.

पर अब ओखली में सर दे ही दिया तो मूसल से क्या डरना.

बात एक 'युवा नेता' की है जो विधायक बनकर देश की जनता खासतौर पर भोपाल की जनता की सेवा करना चाहते हैं. हाल ही में संपन्न हुए विधान सभा चुनाव में ये प्रत्याशी थे और इस वजह से इनके चीखने-चिल्लाने (भाषण) को सुनने का सौभाग्य हमें भी प्राप्त हुआ. हालाँकि ये चुनाव हार गए पर अपने बाहुबल की एक झलक ज़रूर दिखला गए. अब शायद विचार लोक सभा का चुनाव लड़ने का है इसलिए शहीदों की कुर्बानियां और बेगुनाहों की मौतें की इनको याद आ रही हैं.

जैसा की मैं पहले बता चुका हूँ कि मैं पुलिस और नेताओं से सौ हाथ कि दूरी बनाकर रहता हूँ और जिस सड़क पर ये चल रहे होते हैं वहाँ से तो मैं निकलता तक नही, तो इन महाशय के बारे में मैं सिर्फ़ सुनी-सुनाई और पढ़ी-पढ़ाई बातें कर सकता हूँ.

इनके विषय में मैंने पहली बार कक्षा ११ वी में सुना, लोग बताते थे कि इंजीनियरिंग कालेजों के अगर कोई बेताज बादशाह हैं तो ये हैं, पढ़ाई से कोई लेना देना नही, कई बार फेल हो चुके, गुंडागर्दी और मारपीट में अव्वल, कई बार बलवा करवा चुके, कई बार बाजारों पर हमला करवा चुके और कई बार ज़मानत पर छूट चुके, इनके जानने पहचानने वालों में कई नेता, अफसर, पुलिसवाले और इन्ही की बिरादरी वाले (गुंडे-बदमाश) हैं. भोपाल के किसी भी इंजीनियरिंग कालेज में अगर कुछ 'काम' हो तो इनकी शरण में जाएँ.

मुझे तो इनकी सेवाओं की कभी ज़रूरत नही पड़ी और भगवान का शुक्र है इनका और मेरा आमना सामना भी कभी नही हुआ. अलबत्ता जो मित्र इनके गुणगान करते थे उनको ज़रूर चिढा दिया जाता था की एक चार फुटिया तुमको हमसे कैसे बचाएगा.

धीरे धीरे या फ़िर बहुत तेजी से समय बीता और पता चला की महाशय ने दो/तीन(?) इंजीनियरिंग कालेज खोल लिए हैं और साथ ही साथ एक कंस्ट्रक्शन कंपनी भी खोल दी है. खेल तो तभी समझ आ गया, बंदा कांट्रेक्टर बन गया, अब बनेगा नेता. राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान (एम.ऐ.एन.आई.टी.) में इन्होने संस्थान के कुछ भ्रष्ट लोगों के साथ मिलकर घोटालों की झडी लगा दी. (बात करोड़ों रुपयों के हेर-फेर की है, खैर. )

और इन घोटालों से जो पैसा मिला उससे उतर गए चुनावों में. चुनावों में भी इन्होने कोई कसर नही छोड़ी, खूब शराब बंटवाई, हजारों रूपए बांटे, झुग्गी बस्तियों के अनेकानेक दौरे किए, 'माताओं-बहनों' के बेटे बने, 'पिताओं(?)-भाइयों' का आशीर्वाद प्राप्त किया, लाला बस्ती (कायस्थों) से इन्होने जाति के आधार पर वोट मांगे, और आखिरकार दूसरे स्थान तक पहुँच ही गए.

आज इन्होने हमें बताया की हमें नववर्ष कैसे मनाना चाहिए, हमें पहली जनवरी २००९ को आतंकवाद और अपराध विरोध दिवस के रूप में मनाना चाहिए और मुंबई से मिले हुए घावों को हरा रखना चाहिए. हमें यह साबित करना चाहिए की हम जिंदा हैं!

क्या हम जिंदा हैं? अगर हम जिंदा होते तो क्या इन जैसे गुंडे-बदमाश हमें यह पट्टी पढ़ा रहे होते, अगर हम जिंदा होते तो क्या दैनिक भास्कर जैसे प्रतिष्ठित अखबार से इस तरह के हैवानियत भरे इश्तेहार छापने का हिसाब नही मांगते, अगर हम जिंदा होते तो क्या इस कार्यक्रम के 'सफल आयोजन' और 'सरकार के प्रति जन-आक्रोश' (०२/०१/२००९ के दैनिक भास्कर में पढ़ लीजिएगा यही छपेगा) का पर्दाफाश नही करते?

अगर हम जिंदा होते. . .

काश हम जिंदा होते. . .


[अधिक जानकारी के लिए कृपया इस वेबसाइट पर जाएँ: SAVE MANIT.]

A Vote of Thanks: Jago Bhopal Blogger Symposium 2008

Thank you all for making this event the most successful one I have ever organized in my life. You will laugh at this statement but this is the truth.

These four responses to my words from people I don't even know, I haven't even met, are more precious to me than those from people I know. It fills you with pride that such people are there in our society who are ready to listen to strangers, it fills you with responsibility that people are listening to you, watching you, talking to you.

Since this was an unadvertised (and random) event by an unknown representative of an unknown party , I was hoping for just one response this year to continue this mission, but got four instead. Apart from the above, it also signifies that how grim the situation is, how fed people are with the system, how they are willing to change it, even run it. It hurts all of us that our country is not going in the right direction and we are unable to do anything about it. As said in 'A Wednesday', we are a part of this rot not by choice but by force.

I want to stress again the point that this problem stemmed from democracy and democracy alone can solve it. The secret ballot is the most powerful weapon in this war, nobody can tell whom have you voted, that's a power par excellence.

The main problem today however is the Crisis of Leadership, we don't have right people at the right places, I think most our problems will be solved if we can ensure this. For this people, the common citizens have to come forward to contest elections and participate actively in our polity. Nobody has probed the pulse of the citizens, Jago Party can and should be that platform, why should people be afraid or ashamed of doing something right.

The job that requires the least qualifications but has maximum impact on our lives has no takers of good people, why do we fear this job, we just have to order the bureaucracy and the government machinery that people want this get this done. They have to do it, its their job to do it and the job of people's representatives is to ensure and supervise this work and change the leaders of the teams if found inefficient. Is it a very hard job? Why don't people come forward to accept this simple fact and their responsibilities?

These four people are thus worthy of respect and a hearty thanks, because they came forward when nobody else did.

Leaving you with this video hoping that you may awaken (pay attention to what Gehlot has to say):



Do you remember the lines,
Shame on you if you fool me once,
Shame on me if you fool me twice!

Keep thinking over these lines, think about what's going wrong,

Jai Hind.

Latent Dissent.

The Cabinet is Balanced ! (Shivraj Singh, MP's Chief Minister)

[PHOTO: Everything is balanced and under control.]


“The cabinet is balanced. It has been formed keeping in mind the regional balance and caste equations. Efforts have been made to give representation to all the regions and castes in the state,”
- Madhya Pradesh's Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. [READ FULL STORY HERE]

See I have no problems with how these politicians balance their seats and power, I have a problem with the way it has been made essential part of our polity where even a single politician may hold the government at ransom claiming to be of a particular region or caste. And they claim to work for eliminating casteism and regionalism from our polity. This will never be done, never by these people, what they will do till their deaths is to hollow and divide this country so that we are again captured by some foreign powers. Remember not a large army was needed to subvert India in the past be it the Plunderers or the Traders. It is not impossible that one day Pakistan will be ruling India.

Have people voted you for caste and regional issues Mr. Chauhan, where's the development card you were playing before elections. I have said in my article on MP's election results that your real test will be held in 2013, not in 2008. Till then balance your 'kursis', 'gaddis' and 'satta'. By the way, for your kind information, your predecessor Mr. Digvijay Singh, whom you call Mr. Bantadhaar, also tried this kind of social engineering and see where he has been exiled to, hope you learn from his mistakes too.

For all my friends I want to say see for yourself how the tone, language and vocabulary of politicians change after elections.

"This is the victory of the BJP and its government's policies specially the welfare measures taken by the ruling party for the people of the state. It is a victory of 6.5 crore people of the state," jubilant Chouhan accompanied by the party's national general secretary and state incharge Anant Kumar told reporters at his official residence." [READ FULL ARTICLE HERE]

JAAGO INDIA JAAGO !

United For Terror:

[N.B.: The person who has written this text seems to be mentally deranged, kindly read with caution!]

OK the Mumbai attacks have at least brought unity in our country’s political parties both seem to be United FOR Terror, each issuing a new message to terrorists and Pakistan with each passing day. Here is a small compilation of these statements in form of open one-sided contract:

1. The UPA led by Congress:

1. Terrorists may attack at will, we will ensure that all our administrative and intelligence machinery will sleep, to allow them safe passage.

2. Pakistan’s foreign ministry need not worry, we will ourselves create rift between the Hindu and Muslim communities, so that our citizens may not ask hard questions from you.

3. We promise that the changes in our administrative system will be cursory, the depths where the real rot is will be left untouched.

4. We are a secular party but behind the doors we believe in the concept of ‘Transmigration of Souls’ (mentioned in Gita) and we have applied it in real life. Our Real Life Gods, our leaders ensure that whoever loses his seat is fixed at a new place (seat) as soon as possible. The Transmigration is based on loyalty to ‘The Family’.

2. The NDA led by BJP:

1. Attacks would not be tolerated especially if they are on politicians, but we promise to fulfill all the demands in cases of kidnapping and abduction.

2. Pakistan’s foreign ministry must be prepared for some random acts like we will fight while having summits, shout ‘Hot Pursuits’ and ‘Aar Paar Ki Ladaayi’ but sit over our arses, so that the confusion persist for long and we can take any stand depending on the situation.

3. We promise far reaching changes, we will make stringent laws but won’t change the system so that we can use them for our benefit, we will further polarize and crystallize prejudices against Muslims in Hindus. We will ensure the adrenaline rush so that half of people die of heart attack and the rest fighting in riots.

4. As you know our party is based on Hindu ideology, our leaders ride ‘Rathas’ (Chariots), we firmly believe in the concept of Transmigration of Souls and Seats. The Transmigration is based on person’s utility, power and money, either the profiles are changed from high to low, in some rare cases the person is kicked out from the party.

3. Hearing that we were doing a story on Terrorism (which is selling like hot cakes nowadays), many other important politicians contacted us, here is a compilation of what they have to say:

1. We promise to disrespect the country.

2. We promise to disrespect its martyrs and true leaders.

3. We promise to disrespect its people as and when possible, in as many ways possible.

4. We promise to create hullabaloo during election days and first few days of any crisis, rest of the days we will do what we are best at doing. (details of this work have to be filled by the reader!)

So friends this is a small compilation of our political parties’ stand on our war on terror where we are not united against terror but UNITED FOR TERROR, take it in writing the next attack is very near.

JAI HIND!

[P.S.: KINDLY TAKE THE ARTICLE IN THE WAY IT IS INTENDED, FOREIGN FRIENDS BEWARE!]

[Influenced by successive statements of politicians: Vilasrao Deshmukh, R.R. Patil, V.S. Achutyanandan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, A.R. Antulay, Jaswant Singh, Digvijay Singh, and others.]

SALMAAN’S PAKISTAN & ANAND’S HINDUSTAN

ANGRY OVER PAKISTAN’S U-TURN ON THE TERROR ISSUE READ THIS.

People got more angry with Pakistan’s U-turn on the terror issue, the attitude is reflected everywhere be it newspapers, TV, weblogs or face to face interaction. Many of us feel that Pakistan needs to be taught a lesson and the best way to do it is to go on a WAR with Pakistan. As I have said earlier, I don’t support the view of a war with Pakistan; I want to say it again in the light of new evidences and findings that have emerged.

We can now take a strong stand diplomatically on Pakistan and its policy of dealing with terrorism. However seeing the reactions of both Pakistan’s President and Prime Minister we can say that Pakistan is very reluctant to act on terrorist groups and their leaders.

Let us try to understand the situation once again. Pakistan’s reluctance not only signifies that they are supporters of terrorism but it also shows us the power of the terror outfits and the influence they have over their government. In such case think of the level of planning they might have done in case India attacks them, we are vulnerable from North (via Nepal), East (via Bangladesh) and West (via Maharashtra and Gujarat). Think of all the terrorists and the materials (read RDX, AK-47s, IEDs, etc.) that might have already been smuggled into the country through these routes. Just imagine we send our troops there and a war starts inside all our major cities.

I want to talk about the influence of the terrorist groups over the Pakistani government in detail because we can understand the phenomenon easily by looking into our own system. If you noticed it, the Patna High Court yesterday reduced the statement of the ’bahubali-neta’ gangster/member of mafia Anand Mohan from death penalty to life sentence. He murdered an upright District Magistrate in broad daylight along with some of his followers. We all know the condition of our jails especially that of Bihar (watch Prakash Jha’s Apaharan) and they way they operate. With this life sentence at hand, he would sit in the safe havens of jail and carry out his illegal/mafia activities. And following the Bihar Model of Power Sharing, his wife will contest an assembly/ Lok Sabha election, come to our legislature, make (or break) the laws and we would all sit and watch.

Isn’t our system more oriented to save the criminals, think of all the Syed Sahabuddins, Pappu Yadavs, Arun Gavalis, Mukhtar Ansaris, Anand Mohans, whose place is at the gallows but are sitting in our Vidhan Sabhas and Sansad Bhawan, deciding the future of our country, its people like you and me. If our great country with democratic ethos, independent judiciary and well functioning elected government can’t punish such elements can we blame a defunct state like Pakistan to act strongly on terrorist groups? They are the power centers be it India be it Pakistan, and government fears (and thus respects) them and tries with all its strength to protect them.

I too want a WAR with Pakistan but only when we have set our house in right order through comprehensive reforms, any hasty step could have serious repercussions for our future leave apart the humiliation in front of the whole world.

A dialog of Rajkumar comes to my mind ‘Jaani, Jinke khud ke ghar seeshe ke hon vo doosron ke gharon par patthar nahi fenka karte. . .’

PAK PRESIDENT LOVES NUMEROLOGY:

We all know that India submitted a list of 20 most wanted criminals and terrorists to Pakistan which was rejected by Pakistan, with excuse of executing these criminals in PAKI courts. What we all don’t know is what went behind the closed doors of diplomatic affairs. Here is a part of the meetings.

Indian High-Commissioner to Pakistan (HCP): Good Evening, Sir.

ZARDARI: Oh, Hello! Well I am sorry to inform you that your list cannot be executed by us.

HCP: May I know the reasons.

ZARDARI: (becomes angry) You people haven’t done your homework and you come seeking our help. You don’t even know about our country, our people but you don’t seem to know much about me.

HCP: (confused) I still don’t get your point. Sir.

ZARDARI: We have problem with the number of people India has sought.

HCP: So we must increase or decrease the number of people?

ZARDARI: What is this? I have never been humiliated like this in my entire life. You are HCP and you don’t know my lucky number?

HCP: Sorry Sir.

ZARDARI: Take this down in writing so that you can use it in future. My lucky number is 10 (TEN). I am the baap of all the Das-nambaris in the world. People in Pakistan address me as Mr. Ten Percent with love. Got it!

HCP: Yes. S. . . .

PATIL’S CONFUSION:

Well I am talking of Chhota Patil i.e. R.R. Patil. Because of his height he sometimes starts believing that he is Shahrukh Khan. Well not your fault totally Mr. Patil. But you must remember that leisure activities are strict no-no in workplace. You forgot that you are not sitting in front of Kajol but media that eventually erected the set of your Tyaagpatra.

Well you can now practice your lines in leisure. Why don’t you contact Mr. Deshmukh, he can fix a role for you in Ramu’s film.

RAM AND RAVAN IN MAHARASHTRA:

The other day I met a bongali friend, intellectuals as they are, he was very angry with Mr. Deshmukh’s shameless behavior. In anger his speech was distorted somewhat and Day-sh-mu-kh was sounding like Dau-sh-mu-kh.

I retorted that Mr. Deshmukh is factually correct, they both were playing roles in a secret Ram-Lila, in which he was Das-mukh or Das-aanan or Ravan and Ram(u) came following him. Ram(u) had to destroy Vilas-yukt Das-mukh, which he did too, although symbolically by taking his post of CM.

TRIVIA:

WHERE DID MUKHTAR ABBAS NAQVI GO AFTER HIS RECENT COMMENT ON LIPSTICK-POWDER TIE-COAT PROTEST?

ANSWER: HE GOT TWO HIGH LEVEL ASSIGNMENTS AS A RESULT OF HIS COMMENT. FIRST, HE BECAME THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSION CONSTITUTED TO PROPOSE DRESS CODE FOR PROTESTORS. THE COMMISSION WILL ALSO LOOK INTO THE IDEAL PLACE FROM WHERE A PERSON SHOULD START A PROTEST LIVING ROOM, BED ROOM, DINING ROOM, TOILET OR TERRACE.

IT WAS A CHANCE DISCOVERY THAT HIS TALENT OF SPOTTING LIPSTICKS AND POWDER ALONGSIDE COMPLETE IGNORANCE OF WHAT THOSE LIPS AND FACES WERE SAYING CAME TO WORLD’S NOTICE. FOR THIS HE GOT AN INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENT AND HE RUSHED TO SOUTH AFRICA WHERE HE WOULD BE A JUDGE OF MISS WORLD 2008 CONTEST.

GREAT GOING MR. NAQVI, KEEP IT UP.

Achuthyanandan Speak:

The statement of Kerala’s CM was not telecast fully.

Here is the edited part: . . . being home of a martyr a number of people visited the home. A lame dog got interested as he might get some food. Uncle shooed him out, but he started barking. People thought it is a rabid dog and has gone mad, so they hit him in the back with a steel-tipped lathi. He quickly ran away. If it would have not run away people were prepared to go for the final kill.