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Tuesday, November 10, 2009Raj Thackerey Aagey Badho, Hindustan tumhare saath hai Date : 10th November 2009 Time : Sometime during the day Venue : Maharashtra State Assembly Occasion : Oath taking ceremony for the newly elected Members of Legislative Assembly Incident : Rape.. ehhhhh.????? No wasnt it a political stunt? Niether political rally? then it must be some Netaji doing some speech? No , No, No???? darn what was it? Me : You tell me My soul : An open rape.. Me : Cheeey.. no way My soul : Indeed, It was .. Me : Why do you say that? Who raped and who was raped? My Soul : Democracy was raped, openly. People who raped it had taken Viagara to ensure it was raped inhuman. Not only that, with pride people who raped walked away!!! This is what happened yesterday as all of you may have known.. a few elected members demanding that other elected members can only take Oath only in Marathi the native state language. People who did not know or deliberately did not want to chose to go the national language and the rape happened. Anyways... we dont care about it.. We are the mediocre Indians who would say "So what, it happens... what can we do anyways" in other words the nation is saying that "Raj Thackerey continue doing what you do, we all will keep mum" I am sure the hooligans would not wait to target me when they read the blog so will they do reading several other blogs that say the same thing... So what all happened and not just the rape? 1. Some Buses were stone pelted in the city 2. Some shops were forced to close 3. Some school children were scared as they did not know what to do , when people on roads were shouting slogans and were in an aggressive mood. 4. Some loss of public property 5. The broken microphone which was used to take Oaths. 6. Some comments from decent people that this is not accepted 7. Suspension of 4 people suspected of raping democracy 8. Statements made by the Semi volted fuse saying we will go to court to handle this 9. Some more rapes.. this time of the pride of the National Language, spoken in majority of the country 10. Smile... This is how you run a House...... Well he said it, he did it.. for those votes that he needs desperately.. he chose to ruin democracy and freedom of choice. But we will keep mum.. Current Government : We wont do much Police : We cant do much People : How can we do anything Hooligans : We will do it again and again. So the nation will not stand up against this and in other words Silence is acceptance... meaning Raj Thackerey Aagey Badho hum tumhare saath hai" With Regards 
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Friday, November 06, 2009Finally a Government in MaharashtraNovember 7th 2009 may not come again... and it is special.. because after the election results declared on 23rd October, it took long enough for the Congress and NCP to finally align and accept the Cabinet and Ministries sharing formula to form government... of course the past post holders of the Chief Minister and Deputy does not change... but as the seat sharing before elections took time.. it took time to finally form the government... Good that we will have some government who some mediocre's can blame... All the Best Ashok Chavan ji With Regards
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 A few days ago... the Jamaat-e-Ulema the body governing Islam courts in India raised a dictat thats its a sin for Muslims to sing Vande Mataram... I always heard this... right from when I was 7 yr old.. Honestly I never understood why... so today I spent time googling around and actually got a translation of the patriotic song from one of the referring lyrics web site... Here is the translation.. I dont know the authencity.. but I believe it is true.. Translation by Shree Aurobindo Mother, I bow to thee! Rich with thy hurrying streams, bright with orchard gleams, Cool with thy winds of delight, Dark fields waving Mother of might, Mother free. Glory of moonlight dreams, Over thy branches and lordly streams, Clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver of ease Laughing low and sweet! Mother I kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to thee I bow. Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands When the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands And seventy million voices roar Thy dreadful name from shore to shore? With many strengths who art mighty and stored, To thee I call Mother and Lord! Though who savest, arise and save! To her I cry who ever her foeman drove Back from plain and Sea And shook herself free. Thou art wisdom, thou art law, Thou art heart, our soul, our breath Though art love divine, the awe In our hearts that conquers death. Thine the strength that nervs the arm, Thine the beauty, thine the charm. Every image made divine In our temples is but thine. Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen, With her hands that strike and her swords of sheen, Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned, And the Muse a hundred-toned, Pure and perfect without peer, Mother lend thine ear, Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with thy orchard gleems, Dark of hue O candid-fair In thy soul, with jewelled hair And thy glorious smile divine, Lovilest of all earthly lands, Showering wealth from well-stored hands! Mother, mother mine! Mother sweet, I bow to thee, Mother great and free! Now why is this dictat? and why so much of politics? I really dont understand...whats the harm in Saluting the motherland? whats the harm in praising Motherland? whats the harm in saying that we are proud of you Mother India? I dont know... now leave the people behind the dictat.. why is it so important for some people to force others to say it when they dont want to? and even they are forced to say that.. does it mean that those people will be trusted? Well Opportunism has taken its place on this topic... and the Vote politics on this can change future for the political parties that are now in disaster state... Are we Indians ready to let that happen? Hell No... I am happy to sing Vande Mataram, I Like it for various reasons...it gets goose bumps on my body with the first word... I feel proud for my motherland...I like to hear good things about the motherland.. With Regards
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Thursday, October 29, 2009A Political Rape of Institution in PuneA renowned Air Hostess Training institute was almost ransacked today by a set of people.. A lot of them with flags of political parties were roaming around the heart of the city and the premise of the training institute... This time as usual the hooliganism was due to something that to me doesnt sound any meaning.. Some students of the so called Training institute called up a Political party for help saying that the Training institute offered them courses at the cost of tons of money with a promise that post completion of their jobs they would be offered by Airline companies... Allegation : They took our Money and did not get us desired jobs Wow... event started in the morning around noon when some members of a political party gathered outside the training institutes office and started shouting slogans... few minutes a bunch of more members from different political parties gathered and started doing the same.. cops called , the training institute shut down... amazing scene... I have never seen so many political parties fighting for a cause... but what is the cause here????? The Airline companies are going down in recessions, We know Air India was recently bailed out. SOme other major airliners in the country going down and cutting staff becuase they are not doing good.. Where will the jobs come from???? Darn it , the political parties made a good rape of the cause.. but do they really understand the scenario? is it just about getting credit? Is it just to show people that they are awake? Stop it... Stop vandalising the image of Politicians... Please ... With Regards
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Monday, October 26, 2009Yes Politics should be a professionPolitics is not a SERVICE anymore but a PROFESSION An Important Issue: MUST READ . Politics is not a SERVICE anymore but a PROFESSION!!! Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament (MP) Monthly Salary : Rs. 12,000/- Expense for Constitution per month : Rs. 10,000/- Office expenditure per month : Rs. 14,000/- Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) : Rs. 48,000/- (eg. For a visit from South India to Delhi & return : 6000 km) Daily DA TA during parliament meets : Rs. 500/day Charge for 1 class (A/C) in train : Free (For any number of times) (All over India ) Charge for Business Class in flights : Free for 40 trips / year (With wife or P...A.) Rent for MP hostel at Delhi : Free. Electricity costs at home : Free up to 50,000 units. Local phone call charge : Free up to 1, 70,000 calls.. TOTAL expense for a MP [having no qualification] per year : Rs.32, 00,000/- [i.e.. 2.66 lakh/month] TOTAL expense for 5 years : Rs. 1, 60, 00,000/- For 534 MPs, the expense for 5 years : Rs. 8,54,40,00,000/- (Nearly 855 crores) AND THE PRIME MINISTER IS ASKING THE HIGHLY QUALIFIED, OUT PERFORMING CEOs TO CUT DOWN THEIR SALARIES...... This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and price hike on our regular commodities......... =============================================================== I read this in one of the orkut groups, written by a young Pune concerned citizen... eventually the Moral of his post turned aggressive... Long back I had a discussion with Kari.. we discussed that Yes Politics should be made as a profession there should be a org chart and there should be a progress card for each elected person. The Prime Minister / Chief Minister should be the acting reporting Manager and should appraise the MP's MLA's based on their performances... as we calculate the ROI... the performance of a Member of such house should be calculated... It would only work well when people take it as a profession... at the moment it is NOT a profession, it is just another working body of people who once elected are not afraid of loosing their jobs for 5 years... Change of Constitution???? Yes why not With Regards
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Saturday, October 24, 2009Kamaal Khan is thrown out of big boss 3 house Day before yesterday... The Big boss threw Kamaal R Khan out of the house on account of his violence in the house and fights by kamaal Khan with Rohit Verma and Raju Srivastava.. Eventually kamaal khan achived what he coudnt with the movies... publicity.. the searches on his controversial movies increaded by 5 times in the last 30 days.... a quick view here.... With Regards
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Thursday, October 22, 2009Will I? Will I Ever?Yes... an honest question I have being asking me for a while now... I have a very strong urge to join politics.. I may be an a**hole and I want to prove that I be the same a**hole when I join politics... Today when the election results for the State Assembly are out... I call myself and Ask.. Will I? Will I ever be able to join politics? In other words will I ever go to politics? Even if not now... I see myself in the next 5 yrs moving towards politics... NO I dont want to just run a election, win and earn.. there are reasons I want to be in politics... 1. In the last few years of working I have seen a professional attitude built in me.. and I guess this attitude will bring a different perspective in political arena.. 2. I think I am happy with what I have done in my life.. I think whatever I did I did well, and where I did not do well I took my lessons right. 3. I want to give something back to the community... I know that other modes can let me do that, but the opportunities to do it better will not be there... 4. Its time to step up and show the city, state, country and world that we want to change it.. there are so many who are stepping up and there is a need to support it by not backing it but being up in front. 5. I think I like it.. Well now its just not that I wanna be.. I have being thinking of putting a five year plan to step up and do this... unlike sitting back and waiting for an opportunity I am going to think of stepping up and earning this opportunity... Year 1 : Look out the contacts in a national party and try to involve in side line activities that are under a specific division and area. No I cant get into politics as an independant or from some small party that has no existing political support... Difficult, but what is not in this world? Year 2 : Presence : Make it felt, not by party but by a set of youth. target Youth oriented activities, sports, counsel younger generation in slums and various other areas. Join force with an existing party entity: there is nothing better than having a God Father. Year 3 : Run campaigns, Innovate , Bring technology to support activities in the region. Study the area that you target to opt for. Break the area up into: 1. Type of localities 2. Subsidy wards 3. strenghts and weaknesses of area (commercial, functional, natural) 4. Put up a roadmap for every 500 houses in a given area. 5. Build the Team to look after the breakups. 6. identify potential revenue earners for the area (Hoardings, bill boards, over bridges, companies in the area etc) these revenue earners can be forced to suppport infrastructure activities. Year 4 : List down common problems per 500 houses. 2. Build a workaround list for it 3. Build a long term goal 4. Target problems and self dependency options per 5 units (rain water plant, solar plants, personal wind mills ) etc 5. Use providers and big brands to advertise and support energy saving options within the region. Get sponsors for such things. Year 5 : Step in to be in politics.... Dirt yourself so you can be one of them and then step up to show how you can clean yourself and others... In these 5 years I have several ideas that can be put up in the plan... a few examples: 1. Find corporates in a given area, make them to advertise themselves by : a. Sponsoring energy saving items on road lights etc (Solar plants) b. rain harvesting plants in outer , unskirted belts c. Promote local and stable employement opportunities d. Generate multiple common areas to generate smaller business around those places 2. Self help female units.. a. generate personal opportunities by letting house wives generate businesses like laundry, food and beverages and messers. b. micro banking units to help save on daily basis c. invite College social groups that can help slums and other under privilidge areas with home schools and night schools 3. Medical a AIDS, and other medical awareness programs. b. get help groups to generate physical and mental health opportunities 4. Promote local and micro business opportunities like auto rickshaws, tourism vehicles etc. 5. Create innovative public place to invite more tourism options 6. Install road and rail congestion charges to private vehicle owners 7. promote recycling abilities to support reusability ...... many many more... My referandum should probably hold this... but this is something that I would like to start planning on initially.. I hope I will do it right if I do it.. Will I do it is the Question... Will I? Can I? With Regards
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009Bombay - Gang Mafia, Mumbai - Political Mafia.. Why Mumbai????Karan Johar had to apologize for making a wonderful movie and contributing to the Indian Cinema with his fine and glamorous movies. Karan Johar had to apologize because someone in Town did not like what he made Karan Johar had to apologize because he used a word in the film that represented a city name in the past as it was called ? So.. some touts of our famous wanna be self proclaimed Marathi Leader vandalised and stopped the screening of "Wake up Sidd" the much awaited film from KJO as Karan Johar is called....eventually while reading the online version of the news paper a collegue from my UK Team walk past and after reading the KJO incident asked on Why Bombay is named as Mumbai? I am sure he had read Shantaram .. and was aware of Bombay... and Bombay mafia... My Answer : I dont know Honestly I dont know why we changed Bombay to Mumbai, probably because someone decided to call India as Hindustan, or somebody thought that calling it Mumbai would bring its Marathi flavour back!!!! But whats the logic of changing the city name? Ask a Seth Godin and a change in name is a NO NO , specially when it is a well adapted brand...why would one want to change the name of the city? I am glad they aint asking to change the name of the country we already have a bunch of them as in "India aka Bharat aka Hindustan" ... I dont know, Moroever whats the logic in rampaging someones office because he called Mumbai as Bombay.... wuffffff when will people really learn to talk Development and not after whom should he roads, bridges and cities be named? Well I hope the elections have the ballot that would show the prouds a mirror... Sometimes I wonder on how big people can think of themselves, inspite of looking in the mirror????? With Regards
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Friday, October 02, 2009Where is the Gandhi!!Early Morning for the first time I switch my puter, go to the first web site of the day... www.google.com and you see the google logo changed to  What a tribute, to whom we call "Mahatma" The Noble soul.. I accessed www.google.fr and the screen doesn't change... A glimpse in my colleagues calendar... "Gandhi Birth Anniversary"... wow.. isn't he one of the most admired person???? I am glad and amazed with the amount of respect he has got across the world.. Gandhiji... We love you!!!! With Regards
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009Raj, Rajya and Raje of Maharashtra Elections 2009For those new to Pune and Maharashtra... a bit of native lessons ;) Raj - refers to Rule, In Maharashtra refers to Raj Thackerey Rajya - refers to Kingdom Raje - The King... Eventually when the general elections happened in May... The Raj factor took over everything for a few and took out everything for a few...Yes.. Shiv Sena and BJP alliance had a fall on the face, Congress won majority places, NCP got afffected but not much... When the assembly elections were announced and until a week ago when political parties were struggling to set the allies right... Raj factor was already eating half of their minds... however on the last day of withdrawals of nominations of the assembly polls, the Raj factor is looking more or less missing.... He had good support from youth, he is liked by a few , admired by a few remaining just hate him as he gets them 3rd on the voting counts...But this election I see a different pattern.. people already seem to have lost the flair interest in him... many say that he talks and does nothing, some say that he cant do anything till he wins.. and he cant be a winner this time... should we go with someone who we know is not winning? Exactly my point... the Raj and Rajya seems like going to be between Saffron and Tri color alliance... rest all would be like the peddlers in the street who will have to put their winners in either bucket to get something ...The Raje in this case looks like between Nitin Gadkari , Gopinath Munde , Vilasrao Deshmukh or Sushil Kumar Shinde... So the Raje is being taken out of Raj ... and I am sure he would still kill a part of Shiv Sena and provoke the rest of the gambling in a hund assembly With Regards
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Monday, September 28, 2009NCP - Congress fail to cover rebelsAfter 25th September when the filing of nominations for the Maharashtra State Assembly elections was completed.. almost all the parties saw a big band of Rebels.. Yes almost every political party in Maharahstra is undergoing that rebel-Me bandwagon... NCP , Congress , BJP and Shiv Sena all of them seeing a noticable rebel count across the state.. MNS the Raj Thackerey Sena is also seeing an effective amount of rebellion.. not only that .. the invisible 4th Front in Maharahstra opened by the Dalit Mascot Ramdas Atahawale also faced a set back when R. Gavai took a shelter in the Congress camp. Now whats with the rebel's and who benefits most? With the last date of withdrawal of nominations set to 29th.. Ouch is it tomorrow???? it doesnt look like the parties are going to get any benefit.. to me it looks like with time its going to worsen.. and its going to a hung assembly for sure.. Eventually it is evident that almost all the rebels have found a new home in the opposition alliance.. be it Anna Joshi the veteran from BJP who would contest as the NCP candidate from Kothrud Assembly seat in Pune or be it Mr. Rajale who now turned to the saffron alliance in Nagar. I am in prep to publish the list of candidates contesting the assembly election seats in the October elections.. but lets wait if the official candidates also turn their faces back to let the rebels get their nominations done... The Game on is wait and watch.. the change may come , but it may be positive as we saw in the Indian General Elections.... With Regards
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009Pune Elections, Pune Weather, Pune Girls and Pune LadiesPune Elections Pune or in fact the state goes to elections this October... after the nation went to election in May '09 , The state of Maharashtra goes to elections in October '09... cant think of how more can we tax payers see our money being wasted... Honestly in spite of liking the way a certain political party is doing in the state.. I have fairly lost interest this time, not in elections but wanting to know what will their state manifesto be. Above all the alliances are still discussed... with the last day of nomination filing being the 26th, these parties have just not got through the seat sharing completely... 1 of my near and dear friend has being denied the ticket, just because the seat sharing agreement got the contesting seat to another party. One of my friend got a ticket but he is a bit unsure as he got to contest from a different constituency(non native)... Pune Weather It is really getting nasty... 2 days of heavy rains, 2 sunny hot days , one windy day and the one that I see coming today is full of moisture followed by a dirty drizly spell of shower.... I took a chance to visit the medical shop (deliberately avoiding the doctor) and saw a bigger crowd as there was a feast there and the chemist was distributing money... Yeah Yeah... I know I am not a good citizen.. but by no chance I am affected by a Swine flu... I was 2 hrs in the bathroom having bathing fun with kids , then I took my opportunity to run in the rains and last I chose to have a few cold drinks to get my throat stone hit... Pune Girls I start my day when a girl chatting on phone while driving comes and bang me from behind. Wow... good day to start specially when you are waiting for the signal to show you a green light... I park my vehicle to visit the chemist and just before I ignite my bull, the same girl comes and bangs my vehicle from front.... OOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPS and Sorry Darn thing... isnt it? Sorry for the dented piece of vehicle, that cant really be insurance claimed and is going to cost you some bit of money? Pune Girls???? Grrrr I meant ladies I thought when a girl grows she turns into a lady...My fault... I was wrong... when will girls grow and become ladies? By No offence please. I am not trying to blame the gender nor I am a malist (My version of antonym for feminist). In one day a female can be as bad as you would want it to be (specially if it is for the closest and biggest of your FOE)... Right when I reach home I get a call from the Credit Card company saying You have to pay Rs. 80,000 by tomorrow, she also tells me that she has being calling me and speaking to me for last 2 months and I am dodging her...Wow.. is it?... Asks for my birth day and on answer tells me "Why are you giving wrong details now".. I calmly reply "I am not the one you are looking for" .. but I guess it doesn't go easy... she has learnt from the books of Salesmanship and Management that don't leave your prey free and thinking.... she says "Don't Lie!!! I have a son your age and I can catch lies on phone too" Hola , Huppa... I am trapped... "Madam, I am Sameer Shaikh... who are you looking for?" "You dont make stories now, or I am tapping your phone and will get the police there" she says "OK.. I will handover the cheque to you tomorrow morning. can you send someone please?" I said "what address" she asks "The same one that you have in front of you from where you got my number" I say "OK, If you dont pay, I am bringing dogs with me" she says.... Wow.. people scare with guns.. she scares with dogs.. and I have no clue why dogs?.. how does she know I am scared of dogs? As I keep the phone and get into the shower.. another call... same lady.. "You cant fool me.. I want the money now or I get police" she says I started to enjoy this now... just as I am enjoying my cold and cough.... I say "Sorry Madam, Please dont do this. I apologize. But I will handover the cheque tomorrow for sure, if you want I will come first thing to your place and hand it over." She says "ok.. listen if you dont do this, you are a dead meat" Wow.. scary.... End of Conversation and its almost 3 hrs and I have only 8 more left before I am dead...because I cant arrange those 80,000 Rs and give her a cheque because I dont know why I should pay for someone.. just because a lady scared me to death ???? :P Lol 1 hr later... I get another call.. this time a lady who wants to speak to her husband.. I said wrong number and shut it off.. Yet another call..same lady looking for husband .. I reconfirm the number and correct her saying she is dialing a wrong one.... 5 minutes later.. My wife looks at me with a suspicious look 1 time is mistake, 2 times co-incidence, 3 times????? I dont pick this time. 5 minutes another ring... Darn.. I get crazy... I pick up the phone and tell her "I am with another female and enjoying, please leave me alone" and bang... I am sure this lady will now really find him out, even if he is in heaven or hell..20 minutes later I call back, pure courtesy and with a fear that a poor guy might have being killed, I ask the lady if she found him!!!! Lady replies "Yes, he was in his office in a meeting, I am sorry I was dialing a wrong number" Fun isnt it? Labels: pune weather With Regards
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Saturday, July 18, 2009Living Michael JacksonAn amazing series on ITV 1 today.. all over the interviews , high's and low's of the King of POP... what was amazing to know was MJ called himself "Peter Pan" , what was more amazing is that Neverland is a full frolic Fun park with several rides, zoo which has bunch of animals and above all the Peter Pan view. It's touching on how much MJ loved his kids Blankett, Prince Michael and Michael II..Well he is no more here.. but the show that runs all day today is just brining back the memories... With Regards
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Friday, July 17, 2009A Rainbow in Wales A Cool Rainbow in Wales... With Regards
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Saturday, June 27, 2009India's Got TalentThose few who are really talented and not able to showcase there talent ever... Here is the good news.... On the theme of Britain's Got talent and America's got talent, India too will show the show "India's Got Talent".. In the country of millions and millions of talented people I am eager to see what this show has got.. specially because I was amazed to see the shows Britain's got talent and specially the talented Susan Boyle.... The show is going to be shown on Saturday and Sunday on Colors channel at 9 PM for an hour... with Shekhar Kapoor (Director of Elizabeth) as one of the judges it is looking that it is going to be exciting... I will write a review of it later some time ... however I am sure India's got talent will bring a huge Talent out and the country would love it... Dont forget to watch ... India's Got Talent on Colors channel at 9 PM saturday Labels: colors, india got talent, india talent colors, indias got talent With Regards
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