Sameer Shaikh - The mudblood in Politics

Ameer Minai - Unki Hasrat

2011-12-21T00:58:00.000-08:00

उस की हसरत है की दिल से मिटा भी न सकू
ढूँढने उस को चला हूँ जिसे पा भी न सकू

दाल के ख़ाक मेरे खून पे कातिल ने कहा
कुछ यह मेहँदी नहीं मेरी के मिटा भी न सकू

ज़ब्त कमबख्त ने और आ के गला घोटा है
के उसे हाल सुनाऊ तों सूना भी न सकू

उस के पहलू में जो लेजा के सुला दूँ दिल को
नींद ऐसी आये के उसे जगा भी न सकू

बेवफा लिखते है वों अपनी कलम से मुझ को
ये वो किस्मत का लिखा है जो मिटा भी न सकू

Voter Registration - Pune Municipal Elections 2012

2011-10-17T05:41:00.000-07:00

In case you have not had your name in the voters list, please make sure that you take the opportunity to register yourself... details below:

To register yourself Download and Fill up the following form -> CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

For correction/change Download and fill up the following form : CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Forms can be submitted at the polling stations below :

205-Chinchwad : Click to see the list http://pune.gov.in/puneCollectorate/election/205chinchwad/205-ps.pdf

206-Pimpari : Click Here
http://pune.gov.in/puneCollectorate/election/206pimpri/206-ps.pdf

207-Bhosari : Click Here
http://pune.gov.in/puneCollectorate/election/207bhosari/207-ps.pdf

208-Vadgaon sheri : Click Here
http://pune.gov.in/puneCollectorate/election/208vadgaonsheri/208-ps.pdf

209- Shivajinagar : Click Here
http://pune.gov.in/puneCollectorate/election/209shivajinagar/209-ps.pdf

210-Kothrud : Click Here
http://pune.gov.in/puneCollectorate/election/210kothrud/210-ps.pdf

211-khadakwasla : Click Here
http://pune.gov.in/puneCollectorate/election/211khadakwasala/211-ps.pdf

212- Parvati : Click Here
http://pune.gov.in/puneCollectorate/election/212parvati/212-ps.pdf

213- Hadapsar : Click Here
http://pune.gov.in/puneCollectorate/election/213hadapsar/213-ps.pdf

214-Cantonment: Click Here
http://pune.gov.in/puneCollectorate/election/214punecantonment/214-ps.pdf

215- Kasba : Click Here
http://pune.gov.in/puneCollectorate/election/215kasbapeth/215-ps.pdf

More details can be found at ceo.maharashtra.gov.in

Pune Municipal Elections 2012

2011-09-21T06:13:00.000-07:00

Well if you are a Puniete, you must be aware that the Municipal elections for Pune are right on door.. Looking at the status of a lot of wards I along with a few contributors decided to put a know your ward thread that will describe some stats , names, issues and potentially the "would be" candidates from those wards...

The effort will be split in 76-90 days considering 76 wards in the city... please do share / contribute... if you are willing to join this effort, leave a comment and I will respond.

The Common man in Politics, Sameer Shaikh for Pune Youth Congress -

2011-09-11T04:42:00.000-07:00

2 Years ago, I had openly expressed my wish to be a part of Politics. I wrote about it here. The objective in my mind then was to be a part of the system not just to try and change it, but also to convince more professionals, educated and passionate folks to be a part of this system and finally work towards the reason why we achieved Independence.... "Removing Inequalities", "Taking India to a new era of Development" many more but the one and only.." Have Happy Indians"....

Rahul Gandhi who has been for years persuading Youth to come join hands, Youth for him referred to Young people from NGO and non political background, educated and passionate people who want to eliminate corruption, work towards development of a great nation.

Then earlier this year I took my first step... I joined Youth Congress Pune.... [Wrote about it here ]. Today I write to tell you all that I am now getting integrated into politics and am contesting the first level of elections for getting elected on the working committee of Youth Congress Pune...

Though this is the first and small step... I am sure I would keep those values of Honesty, Loyalty, Integrity and hard work that I got from my family and friends. Now I come to you and ask for your help in whatever way you can to help me to succeed in my attempts to bring a change in Politics?

For now to let you know, I contest for the General Secretary position of the Pune Youth Congress the elections are on 17th and 18th September, an I am hopeful that the voters for this elections would definitely work towards giving a chance to the commoner.

Jai Hind. Jai Maharashtra.

Sameer

Mumbai Burning

2011-07-13T12:14:00.000-07:00

This is not it, the anger valid the rage acceptable. Just when we came out of march 1993 and 7/11 and 26/11 we are forced into a 13/11. With the spirit alive, with the city showing the best levels of humanity... our sufferings are unmatched, our patience beyond tests.

For those of you who have no shame in doing this inhuman act, beware. Our condolences to the families who lost their near and dear ones, for those who are injured our wishes you get well soon and for rest of us let's show how we stand together against any form of terrorism. The blasts today in Mumbai at Zaveri bazaar, Dadar and Opera House are severely condemned.

Creating (c)Evil Gods

2011-07-04T07:41:00.001-07:00

Pardon me for the offensive way of putting this, specially to those Internet world aggressive supporters of the (Not so) but still a Civil society who try to harass and fight with you with words, tweets and protests the moment you put any argument against the concept of Janlokpal, Ignore the fact that many have no clue what the Jan Lokpal bill is about. So to begin I beg to differ that the movement Anna Hazare started is a mass movement, secondly I always thought that dictatorship or lawless society was all about black mailing, hi jacking and kidnapping with ransom demands. In my 32 yrs of life this was the first time I saw that Democracy can be effectively used to blackmail anything and anyone.

Now a lot of these people who took part in this mass blackmailing of Government and of course call themselves the civil society/supporters of it are not known to me (Hence I will defer from making any personal comment) but knowingly or unknowingly they have given birth to the Evil God and they are striving to give birth to a group of Evil Gods. When I first read the Janlokpal Bill with the limited knowledge of policy making I have I thought it was a child's art work who want his toys in time before he starts crying. The JanLokpal bill that is going to introduce the Lokpal is one Evil god that I see getting created... for various reasons which we can discuss only if you keep your prejudice and ego away.

Years ago we created an Evil God.. a God that would help let a lot of us Indians live in communal harmony. Some call it secularism. I am unsure if I understand it correctly. Secularism was never supposed to be about majority and minority, it was instead about communities leaving in peace and harmony. However the Evil God created never let it happen and bench warmers used this God to their benefit in the way they wanted. Even today a lot of political parties use this GOD to get into Power.

Then came a time we created another Evil God, A god who would distinguish us based on casts so we get different benefits. Some call it Reservation. Again when I read parts of our constitution I felt that it was supposed to be a priest that would leave its way once things get back on track. Till date I don't understand why one's caste should define what he should get and not his merit. I may be forced to remove this part of the blog, but I just don't understand why my 73% are not good enough to get me sit beside a guy who secured 43%.

Then came a time to structure the way we do business.. We created a license and Permit Raj. Believe me until 12 years ago, this GOD really did things to us. So on we kept one creating Evil Gods one after the other that did too much harm than good for the development of nations.. I am sure we can talk about several Evil god and talk endless. I never named POTA and others here.

Now we are forced to swallow another Evil God right through our throats, JanLokpal. First the Evil Society that is trying to bring the Evil God in picture thinks that Lokpal is the answer to corruption. I don't know how. So for the better facts I thought I will pull this..

Ombudsman Success:

I always heard about Sweden and Denmark as an argument by the Evil Society, But why doesn't the Evil society educate its supporters about the other countries? These are the figures of the most corrupt countries from 2009 and a Corruption Index provided by Transparency International. Compare this with the list of countries that already have the office of Ombudsman Aka Lokpal here . Now if these countries who are since long [As early as 90's] not able to get the Ombudsman control corruption, why does the JanLokpal think it will?

Politicians = Corrupt?

Talk to any Evil Society supporter. He would begin talking with a pure assumption that every Politician is Corrupt. In fact on records the Evil Society members went ahead and said Ministers and Politicians are liars. I believe the Evil society has a great PR team, they have touched a serious point, Corruption and got a lot of Politically illiterate people stand blindly for them. I have to say that this assumption should not be the base for creating an Evil GOD. Moreover the best part is that they leave no argument talking about 2G, CWG and other scams. What about the corruption in general? Why does the Evil Society doesn't talk about corruption in Private sector. Anyways. It all goes with assumption so the Evil Society doesn't listen talk about this.

Democracy to Hell :

"Well I will fast to death if this demand is not fulfilled"

"Junta (Public support) is with us and we will show you your destiny"

Name one, I have heard one and many dialogues that monologued like a bollywood film to me. I don't say I am disappointed, but I have to say that do these people think that democracy means freedom to talk and freedom to do anything they want? Well keeping democracy at a fray the constitutional anarchy is about to hit us with the Lokpal. One of several reasons is what I read in the following places :

Harini Calamur : My issues with Janlokpal

Marya Shakeel : It undermines democracy

(Col) Anil Athale : Why I oppose Janlokpal

Amba Salelkar : Unconstitutional, Un necessary

Atanu Dey : Janlokpal

Sanjeev Sablok : The over hyped faith in Janlokpal

@Offstumped : A Robinhood Lokpal

And Balaji : India Against India Against Corruption's blackmail

Cure or Fix? Cure what? :

The latest war as on July first week was about getting PM in the ambit of Lokpal and so on that the Lokpal will monitor the behaviours (Voting and talks) by MP in the parliament. For the first point I really am confused.. I always thought that the MP elected by people is accountable to the people, Cabinet Ministers and PM accountable to the parliament (Elected MP's). Are the Evil society members wanting to say that everyone in parliament is not doing there jobs? Well why would Lokpal do then?

2. The monitoring of Voting and Speeches of MP.. On this topic I go back to the Anti Defection law.. This law should be worked on instead of another law created. Let the MP's make there decision of voting on Bills. If they can decide what is right and what is wrong instead of party whips, the issue of monitoring them would loose. Lokpal's idea of monitoring doesn't seem to work.. You cant put camera's on parliament, MP, his office, his people, his toilets to ensure he doesn't do wrong. Give him freedom under which he can effectively work.

Accountability :

When I put a debate with a supporter of Evil Society, I heard an argument that Lokpal will not be corrupt, he will be accountable to the people. I see no difference in what a MP and what a Lokpal has in terms of accountability, yet with 1 difference that 1 is people's own democratic choice and another unconstitutional, unnecessary. Any one can lodge a complaint with Lokpal and recall him? Why not reform for MP's too? Why make another system to manage them?

Reforms :

Evil Society doesn't want to talk about reforms:

Electoral reforms :

1. State funded elections / campaigns

2. Effective recall of MP's, parliament members.

3. Transparency of offices that deal with finances

4. Transparency of links of public servants with businesses and their assets

5. Economic freedom

6. Improvisation of POCA

7. So many more things to discuss and debate about.

Over and over I can tell you that the more I think about Lokpal the more I believe that we are trying to find an ocean looking at an oasis without being in the desert. Step in learn the pro and cons, debate, decide and then take an approach. 16th August as a deadline sounds like a laughing material and can be as un-realistic as the Evil society being accountable to the people of this country.

The Royal Bengal Affair

2011-05-16T09:48:00.000-07:00

With the Trinamool Congress sweeping the polls in the 2011 assembly elections pouring the 34 years old communist rule in West Bengal... The Royal Bengal Tigress also known as Didi has proven that only hard work gets you there in Politics.

Showing a very effective mode of leadership Mamta Banerjee invited the Congress and SUFC to join the government inspite of having a clear majority in the house...

Way to go....

So what if we don't have wings

2011-05-11T14:05:00.000-07:00

We have sources to fly :) Rise high for world wants to see you reach the sky...

A photo a day - keeps the blog's death away

May the 13th

2011-05-11T02:45:00.000-07:00

The assembly election results are going to be out... the Exit polls that are already giving an upper hand to the Congress and alliances.. shows which side people stand. It was never about a party it was about a political party that takes actions that are required and that talks development...

Taking serious steps on people who are charged with corruption no matter if they are from own party or a powerful ally... only one thing is shown.. There is something called GUTS to take action.. Anyways.. while the results are waiting to be announced I am very sure Congress and its allies will form government in TN, West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Pondicherry.... errrr all states?

You don't need Diwali for having fireworks

2011-05-09T05:59:00.000-07:00

Sometimes your cricket team just gives you opportunities.

Go Pune Warriors...

Good Times are ahead

2011-05-06T01:22:00.000-07:00

When some astrologer told my wife last year that the period until June is disastrous, I jokingly told her that it always was ;) but as time closes by I know what he meant.... Well good times are ahead. I am enjoying my last few weeks [I call it transition] with so much of development happening...and I am sure this will continue as long as the positivity leads it through....

First I met some real Sr. people in the Pune Political arena and they blessed me with some guidance on how to move further in life... with their regards I am preparing a vision and a roadmap for myself ;) this time I will have it short-termed.

Then I am inspired by a set of folks on twitter.. all of them entrepreneurs and really doing well in their lives. When I shared my view and some Ideas with them they appreciated it and think that I am maybe thinking in the right direction... Execution may have to fall in place.

I feel inspired from within as some of the folks at work are shaping up very well, for some time I was displeased but now I see good stuff getting along and falling in place. I am sure if they continue doing that they would lead to a good future.

I started writing more again... if you have noticed this blog was dead for the last year and the PM blog was suffering from hit and miss options.. I am writing more dedicatedly now and hoping I will improve.

Next.. from this week until next I have some time to spend on my blog... I am hoping this will help me grab a nice template.

I intend to swim, jog and run.. and it already helps me feeling fresh...

Last but not the least... I am enjoying my short lived bachelorhood since the wife is gone to in-laws for until the weekend...

Corruption, Hazare, Lokpal and reality

2011-04-18T01:28:00.000-07:00

5th April 2011, marked a day in the calendar of India for the attempt to revotunalise Indians by the great deed from the man who has almost spent his entire life fighting against corruption. Yes I talk about Anna Hazare. The reason I put this blog is not to praise or criticise his efforts, but try to emphasise on those points that always triggered a debate from people defending it or opposing it. Over the next few days I am going to make several posts around this and target a few of the critical learnings that should be extracted from this whole episode. This is also my way of explaining my critics on a valid point they are not able to catch up yet.

To give a bit of a background when I tweeted and argued over the content of the Jan Lokpal bill and my opinion that some of the demands Mr. Hazare made are un-realistic, I faced heavier criticism from some of my folks, something that I believe is going to come in the way no matter whether you are Anna Hazare or Mahatma Gandhi or a comman man like me...

So first lets begin with what those issues are..

1. Is this really War on Corruption? The Jan lokpal Bill? Is India really against corruption?

Well after the fast was initiated by Anna.. a few hundreds started pouring emails, media boxes, tweets and Facebook posts asking and demanding support for India Against corruption. There were other bunch who took candle march, street protest, support fasts etc.. However what disappoints me in this whole episode is the fact that everyone who talked about corruption blamed it on Politicians. It's not new I understand, someone has to be a scapegoat for someone's deeds... but then corruption is not really restricted to politicians only is it? I have never heard a word where people say that a common man can also be corrupt, when he tries to pay off a small amount to get his thing done from the government office. Well because what triggers the volcano is never looked at, what is always seen is the aftermath of the volcano.. so the volcano of corruption is simply finding a scapegoat called "Government" or "Politcian". So are politicians,officials the only people spreading corruption? I think everyone reading this knows the answer.. NO.. Off all these guys who are shouting against corruption not corrupt themselves? I read a few funny tweets on this.. one was like

"Hypocracy ->; Person tweeting against corruption does that from the pirated copy of windows"

isn't it funny enough? Well ask those guys who try to produce fake degree's to get jobs, fake bills to evade tax, pay agents to get documents faster, hide real estate costs to save money on Tax and Stamp duty, produce fake travel bills to get the LTA allowance blah blah blah.. I am sure the list will go and become a unreadable book. Anyways the point is not that who does corruption here.. point is will this Bill solve our issue? I am not a real cynic out here.. I am just trying to pose my concerns.. if corruption is not thrown out by majority, we will never be able to free ourselves.. You get a Jan Lok pal Bill or any other. So to conclude this part... Unless the human soul within us become a Anna Hazare.. we are not going to be able to fix the problem of corruption... [To those who felt I was criticizing Anna, this is the best gesture I can give to show how much I respect for what he is doing]

Now.. why I think Anna is fighting a wrong battle? I have to say this is not war on corruption.. it is a war on people in govt to get something done that can so-called stop corruption. And here are my points that I will elaborate in the next few blogs on how it will not.

1. The issues I think are problematic with the Jan Lok pal

A. Doubts over the selection process. If people of Indian origin and winners of Magsaysay ward are going to select the lokpal committee who is accountable? In general when there is a issue [Terrorism, price rise, economic trouble] we hold the government (members elected by people) accountable for the issue, in this case who from this so called civil society should be held accountable?

B. How will corruption be tackled? There is no significant theory demonstrated in the Jan Lokpal Bill

C. If your trust on Court, Police, Army, CBI, CVC is so less, and since you are creating another power house.. what is the guarantee that the same lack of trust will not be faced by the Lokpal office?

D. Why is it restricted to Officials and Politicians.. why is the scope and jurisdiction not laying hands on corporates?

E. What if every citizen starts filing complaints against each other? Will the lokpal office not be busy scrutinizing false complaints?

F. People who are not using the governments RTI, Grievances readdress .. what is the guarantee they will use Lokpal?

G. Members who drafted the bill and who are going to be a part of the lokpal office, if they are civil society members.. how are they accountable and liable to us?

H. Why did it take some of the members of the current draft committee to wait since 1969 to revise this?

There are many more questions on why this battle is a wrong battle to fight, a few of them here:

1. Sue Motto : How will it help to ensure that there is no dictators rule followed here?

2. How will investigation and sentence come in such a short time? 2 months - 2 years

3. How will un-biased behavior be expected from Lokpal draft committee?

4. What is the reality behind getting it passed or not?

5. Which public offices do not come under jurisdiction of Lokpal?

6. Will the Lokpal office be under RTI?

Many more questions are unanswered and I am sure as time passes the questions are going to be echoed more fluently by many of those who currently stand blindly on supporting this cause. I also want to mention in clear that the Lokpal or the efforts to bring Lokpal are not criticized for the sake of being cynics, they are criticized due to the form they are in.

2. Shouldn't we cure the disease, instead of fever?

I am not sure if many of you are aware but what Bill Gates Foundation is doing is said to be that it is trying to Kill Malaria and not trying to build hospitals so that the patients affected by malaria can be cured. Read here. Now if we go by the simple logic we need to figure out a way to stop corruption, not ways to find out how to Punish the corrupt..

Here is a glimpse of what needs to be done to put try catch on corruption. Of course this is not all and many reasonable and serious thoughts needs to be given on some of these things..

A. Electoral Reforms : A big multi value jargon. In simple words put a few checks and conditions on :

1. Qualifications to contest elections

2. State funded campaigns

3. Development accountability for MP's

4. Remove the Defection law (Originally drafted by one of the members of the current civil society group). If X party issues a whip, a member of the house either has to vote for the party or face a defection motion making him in-eligible for the post he is holding. While switching parties to form government should be blocked, it is necessary that the MP's vote for what they think is right.

5. Compulsory voting? I am not sure how we can achieve it though.

6. Recall rights : Currently we have very difficult process to recall an elected member. If we need the corruption elements to be seized we need this to be made clear and easy.

Lot more......

Constitutional Reforms:

1. Currently our Constitution holds a split of executive, legislature and judiciary as our prime systems while judiciary is highly independent. Legislature gets the maximum control over the entirety. So thus government controls execs / institutions except court. This needs to be changed so independence is achieved in all 3 sects and the powers are equally distributed.

Lot more... the biggies must think of this.

I am sure while many who have initially voiced there strong opinions over (Jan) Lokpal Bill are now going to come back and question its fruitfulness... not far as I already see... Mr. Hazare himself claiming that the conditions to get the Bill passed by 15th Aug can be eased after the first meeting that was held on 16th April. I am sure the reason is clear... its not a easy thing to just put this bill in place and he realize it now.

For the rest that will come over this blog, stay tuned....

Renewing this blog...

2011-03-29T05:51:00.001-07:00

A new design

A new section

A new format

and a new Aura... Believe it or not this blog has gone unchanged for the last few months and I certainly am looking to fix it... hold on for a while and I will improvise my contributions...

For those of whom I am not in touch with... apart from finding time for myself over facebook, twitter and the pm blog.. I am also reading the translated Quran and the Final Verses a book by Abdul Qadri...

Believe it or not I am trying to effectively improvise my beliefs and understand Islam in a better way... and to mention.. these mornings are pleasant and the evenings are smooth.

Joining Youth Congress

2011-02-15T05:17:00.000-08:00

For some of you to know.. I have done my part of the participation towards Youth Congress.. and soon I am going to be the member of the youth congress wing. The thought of joining politics at active level has always been in mind, just that I never had courage to step up and say that YES I WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE for the nation. I feel proud now that I am participating in a movement that can bring youth into active politics and curb those issues that have always been hurting us...Though I intend to run at a semi-active level for now I am sure sooner or later [atleast next 5-10 yrs] I am going to be highly active in.

Just so that I dont sound like a desperate newly wed... It took a moment of definitions on what and why I wanted to do this... but I havent yet figured out completely on how I will contribute to the Youth Congress wing.. I surely want to spend a lot of my hours and energy into it, so that I can help my nation.

Some asked me Why politics... why not NGO's etc?

Well I have a simple experience in my life, I always chose things that did not work well... today everyone just wants to make politicians responsible for whatever issues be it corruption, terrorism or natural disasters, I want to change this. I am sure I cant do this alone.. so the I is going to be We always. From a personal ground I am a people person, I love public speaking, I love interacting with people, I love been a part of the change and more importantly I love brining in the change.. I have patience to stick around, I have mindset to learn and improvise. I have mentality to grow and let people grow. I hate corruption. I am sure I am not greedy for money, and since you have known me for a while you also know that I am honest. Now that this blog post has become my memorandum... I would seek your contribution in helping me and this nation get back on track..

We together can be a revolution.. we together can help India be India and remain to be India... The good part of been a part of Youth Congress is that the vision and ideology of Youth Congress matches to how I think, I choose congress as they want to get some development done. I better get basic necessities for those houses in the rural and urban areas who struggle hard for it, I better create job opportunities for those who are unemployed and get some blessings from them than fight for a temple or mosque, some city or state...

Wish me luck, in my new journey

A Salute to Yashwant Sonawane

2011-01-27T10:23:00.000-08:00

A day before the republic day, while India was preparing to celebrate the foundations of our great constitution... Manmad a small time town in Maharashtra saw the Additional District Collector burnt alive by the Oil Mafia... Just before his brutual murder.. Sonawane who is an IAS officer recorded a video of the Oil mafia doing rounds of kerosene and oil from the tankers carrying it.

While the nation sees newspapers full of news of corruption and political war games.. this guy with his life has really set an example to others... a lesson to everyone of what loyalty, honesty and patriotism is all about...

Dear Mr Yashwant Sonawane... We Salute you .. You are a true national hero...

Has the youth got it yet?

2011-01-26T09:59:00.000-08:00

Well it definitely has... The issues around price rise, corruption while are making rounds in the internet-sphere... no weightage was given to the recent issues directed to create problems, affect communal harmony or peace be it Ayodhya verdict or be it the recent events of Flag hoisting in Lal Chowk.. no issues that are political war games take a big toll... people know the reality and with time and awareness they are getting closer to know themselves the ugly face of gross politics... and thats another reason why there is a wave of opinions from youngsters to join politics, be a part of it...

Yes we have issues, Yes we have people who are corrupt, Yes we have to work our way out to get things right... and the youth is definitely working towards it... Today I met many of the young guns who want to join mainstream politics, just not become members of certain political party to stay connected... I think this is the right step towards future....

We need to get in the sewage of politics and governance to clean it... Are we ready?

New CM, New Thoughts

2010-11-14T09:12:00.000-08:00

The New CM seems to have triggered off a wave of fear amongst the buerecrats, ministers and officers working for the State... Through his way of been into details and his 16 hr day he has been already passing right signals to the people of the state... All I would say is that the new wife is very respectful.. let the marriage settle and we would see if we should comment or not..

Indian version of Halloween at home

2010-10-31T09:31:00.000-07:00

Winning Smile

2010-10-12T10:33:00.000-07:00

Make me feel Proud

Rehaan with his medal

2010-10-12T10:29:00.000-07:00

The shokotan championship. Rehaan with his silver

Rare to have nature right at doorstep

2010-10-04T12:03:00.000-07:00

The white swan.

Why is Bigg Boss 4 so adorable?

2010-10-04T10:59:00.000-07:00

I dont know, I really dont know to be honest... But I am sure that if you have been watching the last 3 seasons of Bigg Boss, you are going to love this version slightly more....

So somebody asked me a question on why? So while the Bigg Boss team was busy getting todays show on the TV with the editing and cutting , it was already released leaks that Bunty the Oye Lucky fame was been ousted by Bigg Boss for mis behaviour...

Well it is true... Bunty is now out. for abuses and man handling of Bigg Boss den equipments... I wish and intend to push through the bigg boss blogs in a more effective and spicier way... lets see

The panorama view from Pune hill - Now no more

2010-09-14T08:55:00.000-07:00

Its been ages

2010-08-03T12:15:00.001-07:00

Yes almost 7 months today... from the last post... I feel I cheated this blog... Well never mind.. never too late when one has to come back...

I finished reading Sidin's DORK today.. hilarious read I must say.. I wish to write all my possible reviews... movies, restaurants, books and so much more here...

You think I will find time? Well what the hell do I do anyways till 4.... I will try to paint more over here...

Dance India Dance Season 2 begins

2010-01-08T12:18:00.000-08:00

It is fun, the 18 contestants have been shortlisted and are now ready to entertain the world for the next 12 weeks. I will on this blog try to bring you some unseen videos , uncensored interviews and sme photos from Dance India Dance season 2 contestants and judges...

Steay tuned

Raj Thackerey Aagey Badho, Hindustan tumhare saath hai

2009-11-10T03:27:00.000-08:00

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"

Finally a Government in Maharashtra

2009-11-06T13:44:00.000-08:00

November 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

Vande Mataram and Me

2009-11-06T13:08:00.000-08:00

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..

A Political Rape of Institution in Pune

2009-10-29T13:52:00.000-07:00

A 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 ...

Yes Politics should be a profession

2009-10-26T12:11:00.000-07:00

Politics 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.........

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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

Kamaal Khan is thrown out of big boss 3 house

2009-10-24T06:17:00.000-07:00

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....

Will I? Will I Ever?

2009-10-22T12:35:00.000-07:00

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?

Bombay - Gang Mafia, Mumbai - Political Mafia.. Why Mumbai????

2009-10-07T06:20:00.000-07:00

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?????

Where is the Gandhi!!

2009-10-02T14:50:00.000-07:00

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!!!!

Raj, Rajya and Raje of Maharashtra Elections 2009

2009-09-29T12:05:00.000-07:00

For 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

NCP - Congress fail to cover rebels

2009-09-28T05:38:00.000-07:00

After 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....

Pune Elections, Pune Weather, Pune Girls and Pune Ladies

2009-09-23T11:25:00.001-07:00

All of these are messier than the other...

Pune 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?

Living Michael Jackson

2009-07-18T04:57:00.001-07:00

An 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...

A Rainbow in Wales

2009-07-17T13:31:00.000-07:00

A Cool Rainbow in Wales...

India's Got Talent

2009-06-27T08:14:00.000-07:00

Those 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

55 Word Fiction - Dad

2009-06-20T11:28:00.000-07:00

Its the 4th Grade English Grammar class, He opens his assignment book and is supposed to read todays essay writing homework "My Best Friend", Teacher asks him to read it for class. He keeps mum, waits for a while gathers it and starts reading....

"My Best friends name is Sharad, he is none other than my Dad.... I love him so much... 10 mins of read and he concludes "He is no more with us since I am born, he was killed in a terror attack then, I miss you Dad, You are still my Best Friend"

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I feel so lucky.... Thanks Dad for being my Dad. Happy Father's day

Customer focus its not just about making Customer Happy

2009-06-20T11:06:00.000-07:00

Yes .. I know apart from a few direct one liners, a couple of 55 word fictions I am not doing much on the internet specially on the social front... reasons??? Yes you deserve to know...

1. Work
2. Work that I am not doing
3. Work that I am still supposed to do

Now call me lazy or call me mis managed.. I am spending 3-4 hrs of my late evenings on internet but not even logging into FB, Blogger or even Orkut to that matter...Eventually I found a very strong reason today to keep myself awake and on internet...

Yes.. the reason is CUSTOMER FOCUS... questions???? go read it out..

I begin my day today at 2:00 in the afternoon... with my kids and wife I went to visit the travel agent to get the still pending travel card that we can use from next time on our travels abroad...

Case 1: Customer representative of Travel Agent greets me with a face (The usual Dammit I forgot to take care of his task!!!!) she greets me and asks me to have a sit... with my 2 kids floating around their office she is trying to hide her eyes behind the computer screen.... after 15 mins I ask her "Is it going to happen?" She says "I am sorry Sir, We cannot do it today it will have to wait for 1 more week atleast"...

I ask "Why is it taking so long? COuld you give me some travellers cheques atleast?"
She replies "No, we dont deal with it, I wanted to tell you , but thought I will manage it"

With my usual "" attitude I take off from there.. asking her to give me a call when it is ready...

Moral : Be Honest with Customer , Atleast the expectations are set right

Case 2 : I visit the ICICI Branch of Viman Nagar... its 3 in the afternoon , The security at the Bank branch tells me the office is closed on saturday at 2.. I put my hand on my heads saying "Shit, I messed up again"... One gentleman dressed formals entering the office asks me "Whats up Sir, Can I help you?"

I answer : "I need to visit the branch urgently, eventually I am late due to a wrong information given by Telephone Operator...., I have to withdraw some funds urgently"

He takes me along with him into the branch office and instructs the staff to help me out...He mentions that it will take time as it is out of process service since the office hours are closed ;) It takes a while but I finish the transactions and before leaving I thank him... he comes out of his cabin and asks me if I got my things done...

On my way out I get a note from another staff member... "We support urgencies , but please make sure you help us follow certain rules" I am glad... they make customer realise that they are God's but with certain limitations...

Can this make me more customer centric????

2009-06-06T06:23:00.001-07:00

Aussie power 2 down in 1 over, Looks like T20 is going to be Disaster20 results

2009-06-04T14:40:00.001-07:00

With my Mind freezed I can only think of one thing... "Kill the web, produce strings again to build a web"

2009-06-03T14:11:00.001-07:00

American Pie , TV and a never ending evening without a working VPN or Internet connection

Salman ghouse khan wins the dance india dance

2009-05-30T11:25:00.000-07:00

Good less blogging but the dance india dance results are out and salman khan wins the show

Jai kumar nair out of dance india dance

2009-05-30T09:43:00.000-07:00

Unfortunate but jai kumar nair lost the dance india dance war this season

Short Story - Blind Man

2009-05-23T12:52:00.000-07:00

"Can't you see" Man rushed into him and got him on the ground...

2 minutes silence and then heavy sounds of breaks. Crowd yells "OMG He is dead, what a bad accident
"
He stood up took his white cane, fumbled and started to walk without knowing if the who got him on ground is alive

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55 Word Fiction - The Man of House

2009-05-22T07:59:00.001-07:00

"Aryan runs this house, his father is just a drunkard, He is my only son and we have no life without him. I wish to see the restaurant owner to justice" Lady to a Cop

"He was just in the kitchen when the cylinder blasted"

"How old was he?" Cop to Lady

"9 yrs".............

Thoughts, Thoughts, Thoughts thoughts..........
Do we still think child labour is not a sin?

A House wife?

2009-05-21T07:16:00.000-07:00

"Mom , take this" 2 yr old child to his housewife mom

"What's this son?"

"You work so hard, take this and buy something for you"

"Son, we dont give this to Mom, Mom works for the house not to be paid"

"But you always pay our maid?"

Thoughts , Thoughts , Thoughts.... Do you have an answer?

P.S. Let me tell you that I am obsessed by THIS and let me see how long I last

2009-05-20T03:28:00.001-07:00

Getting ready to be smashed, its my wedding Anniversary and I am still at office....

2009-05-15T23:19:00.001-07:00

Vinod Khanna trails... BJP concedes

2009-05-15T23:18:00.001-07:00

Election results: http://ping.fm/Fh2Ko Suresh Kalmadi leads by 16K ... 2nd round counting

2009-05-15T21:37:00.001-07:00

Election results: http://ping.fm/dKFsf First result out.. Daman goes to BJP... India to Congress

2009-05-15T21:27:00.001-07:00

Election results: http://ping.fm/Dpd3r Sharad Pawar leads by 33,000 votes in first round.... gosh he gonna make a record

2009-05-15T21:18:00.001-07:00

Election results: http://ping.fm/KhJVa Shirur Adhalrao of Shiv Sena leads by 10K votes..

2009-05-15T21:03:00.001-07:00

Election results: http://ping.fm/zHrcJ Sonia Gandhi to get a bouquet worth 1.5 lakh rs... Advani get a Rose

2009-05-15T20:59:00.001-07:00

Election results: Rahul Gandhi effect UP sees Congress on 19 seats... is Varun worth ?

2009-05-15T20:53:00.001-07:00

Election results: 131 to uPA , 94 to NDA, 34 for left.. UPA cruising

2009-05-15T20:48:00.001-07:00

BJP neck on neck but with Left front... hahahha.. Advani PM in waiting forever?

2009-05-15T20:39:00.001-07:00

This counting is funny ... the NDA is royally screwed yet claiming to form government....hahhaha

2009-05-15T20:27:00.001-07:00

Pune sees Suresh Kalmadi leading... 8K votes

Congress starts off well in early trends

2009-05-15T19:58:00.000-07:00

It seems that congress is improving as counting of election votes held in 5 phases goes on... early trend showed BJP 10 of 14 which converted to 14 of 23 for COngres... though these trends are not very complete...

I will keep this post updated

State Total Seats Trends/Win Cong + BJP+ Left Others
West Bengal
Jammu Kashmir 6 1 1
Karnataka 28 8 2 6
Maharashtra 48 1 1
Tamil Nadu 39 1 1
Madhya Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh 42 2 2
Gujarat 26 4 3 1

BJP looses war before the battle begin

2009-05-15T12:17:00.000-07:00

The counting of election results is yet to start and it seems that BJP has lost the war even before the battle begin. Excpecting allies from aiadmk and 3rd front today bjp lost trs prp and nitish already. So election results are definitely going to cause bjp a fortune . I m still curious for punes election results

Election Results more curious as Exit polls show hung parliament

2009-05-13T09:48:00.000-07:00

The election results on 16th May have become more curious now than ever... with the last phase of elections finishing finished today the election commission allowed the news channel to now show people their own verdict... before the poll results are out almost all the news channel shows that the Indian 15 th parliament is no more going to be in a majority state... its the usual hung state..

However it seems that NDA led by BJP is going back seated inspite of having around 190 seats won based on various exit polls... it looks like UPA led by Congress is winning approximately 210 seats. This also means that the 3rd front led by communists are winning around 100 seats and are likely to be a part of the new government + support the UPA if required.

SO one option is left open to people that they can definitely see the dirty face of politics now with BJP and Congress already involved in wooing the smaller parties... I am sure the recession is not going to affect the government formation.

Early Exit polls for Indian Elections

2009-05-13T04:48:00.000-07:00

The results are due on 16th May but as the last phase of election gets over the exit polls have already started... no correct trend but it looks like UPA will come to power...

Criminals Wanted!!!

2009-05-01T11:41:00.001-07:00

These days I have being out of sync... honestly Yes.... out of sync of all the latest and local news, all the shitty crap where people call you to news-update you the news that you are least bother about. Last 2 months I am being involved into more of political blogging... and a sort of tracking my blog visitors again... However back to the basic point I am a bit surprised that these days we dont want protectors and Saviours we demand criminals.... I read this post Hackers Wanted then I read this post talking about people with some criminal record needed to join the firm for collections and this one to be funny ... amazing, I am glad that people now want to take help of criminals to sort things for them and make biz....

Imagine the costs we will save as we dont have to put in those serious money ads for classifieds .. instead just visit the police station and choose the wanted one....Every time I pass by the famous Koregaon Park area I read a message on the house opposite to Cafe Mocha "Messiah is coming" I am sure the way things are moving one day we will put up banners saying "The Devil is back"

Mumbai @45 % , India falling?

2009-04-30T13:00:00.000-07:00

Why is the Youth so miserably behind in India? The question is directed towards the youth of Mumbai probably for one simple reason being that they have being keeping themselves away from votes... surprisingly dont know why...

Mumbai out of 13 million population in all has around 60%+ of people between 18-35 years of age.. and considering that a major portion of people who voted are in this zone not even half of the percentage has really come out and voted this elections... so there are 2 questions really..

1. The mumbai Youth thinks that there is no point in voting as nothing is going to change

2. They are really really careless of who runs the nation...

Now the 1st case is probably not true cause I went through a blog search and there were atleast 500 blogs that mentioned problems around mumbai and wanted to change a part of their MP's to bring some difference... considering that these blog users and the several thousand tweets around mumbai elections were genuine it hurts to see soo less voter turnout...

What is a misery is that the election commission inspite of warning has chose a date of 30th April which comes with a long long weekend.. and now isnt it obvious that the population is vacationing?

God help India

I am sure this attitude of people will not change Mumbai or anything... A surprising fact that the last 7 days search trends show that there were approximately 3,00,000 searches for hotels / resorts in and around mumbai areas..

Mumbai North will see Sanjay Nirupam beat Ram Naik

2009-04-26T13:05:00.000-07:00

He maybe the past Shiv Sena most known leader, He may be known for his critics approach, he may be knwn for loosing to late Congress leader Sunil Dutt Sahab, He may be the one who wa seen on TV reality shows, and finally he may be the one who was under allegations from Sanjay Dutt recently... Much to his knownliness ;) Sanjay Nirupam is the winning contenstant.. standing against last time looser Ram Naik the former minister of railways and of course a BJP big gun who lost the last time war to film actor Govinda by 48,000 votes...

Sanjay Nirupam seems to have orgnised his campaigning very well.. you can see him with almost 4K follwers on Face Book , You can see him on twitter, you can see him on his blogs and of course on the local cyber cafes.. Yes Sanjay Nirupam smartly chose all the campaign modes and sees himself running ahead way ahead of the traditional campaigner Ram Naik...

In 2004 elections when Govinda won this seat from Ram Naik it was not Govinda who actually won it, it was Ram Naik who lost it fairly and firmly.. People chose Govinda for the reason that all through the five years Ram Naik was not accessible to the constituency people as many claimed.. in later it was also found the same for Govinda... and thus Congress smartly got Govinda out of the fray and preferred the 2 time experienced Sanjay Nirupam..

Mumbai North seat has a 2 lakh + Muslim population and around 80,000 + North Indian population.. leave the Gujaratis, Marwadis and Marathi poplation to the similar figures... a majority of votes if gained from the above few vote banks can definitely bring Sanjay Nirupam lead the race this time by a similar margin.. the Threat that Ram Naik has at the moment is the traditional BJP votebank is now turning towards MNS who has smartly chosen the local and Marathi Manus slogan...

Over and Over ... Mumbai North sees Sanjay Nirupam winning it...

Pune goes to Congress, Nation to hung state?

2009-04-26T12:57:00.000-07:00

Yes.. 40% of elections, Good news for politicians , bad for Puneities. People chose to watch IPL matches, Go meet relatives, enjoy vacations or just stay a home and relax eventually killing the spirit of pune and bringing pune to a disaster state... not that Pune will see any difference but the Pune seat can definitely...

Though it looks like Pune will see Suresh Kalmadi winning the elections very easily thanks to all vote shares and regional, religious and personal politics played by MNS (Ranjit Shirole), BSP (DSK) and Anil Shirole (BJP) that lead to a congratulating voting..

Pune would see an MP that will sit on the ruling party side... be it hung or be it a COngress Led government... I am hoping that whatever happens the nation keeps consistent with the growth rate.

How Many Indians?

2009-04-26T12:47:00.000-07:00

Well the question is open, but the one that probably needs to be anwered by all of us... all of us Indians.. Inspite of so much of crowding @ the Election booths pune only saw 40 % electorates turning down for voting.. a major part covered during the morning and late afternoons.. Everytime I travel a train or bus there is a general cribbing session going on almost every corner of the train or bus... all claiming that how prices have gone high and how the government is not doing anything... but considering the voters turnout I believe we deserve it...

How many of us(Indians) come out and vote? or make people vote? or join to change the system? or really contribute in changing the system? 40% by and large? of almost a million people we have in Pune only 700 thousand this that they should vote? Pune this year saw more than 2 hundred thousand voters newly registered... that means that we have almost 200 thousand people more or less all less than 20 yrs of age.. Pune already sees 40% of its population less than 30 yrs of age... what the heck are we doing? this is not just about pune this is about the entire nation... If we crib about people we are also expected to do something about it..

I hope that the remaining phases see better voting thus so that we can at the least avoid a hung parliament where money will play its role over the people actual votes...

In anways we have a question to answer... Can we not simply step up and do something about it? Can we not push our friends, relatives, neighbours, acquintances etc to go vote? Can we not try and volunteer in helping the nation?

I want to stand up and do this... do you? If yes come join hands..

Candidates in Pune and their Criminal records

2009-04-23T03:50:00.000-07:00

Name Party Criminal Cases
ANIL SHIROLE BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY
KALMADI SURESH INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 1
D S K ALIAS D.S.KULKARNI BAHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY
ARUN BHATIA PEOPLES GUARDIAN

GULAB TATYA WAGHMODE BHARIPA BAHUJAN MAHASANGHA
BAGBAN JAVED KASIM INDIAN UNION MUSLIM LEAGUE
VIKRAMADITYA OMPRAKASH DHIMAN RASHTRIYA SAMAJ PAKSHA
VINOD ANAND SINH PROUTIST SARVA SAMAJ PARTY
SHIROLE RANJEET SHRIKANT MAHARASHTRA NAVNIRMAN SENA
SAVITA HAJARE PYRAMID PARTY OF INDIA
SANGHARSH ARUN APTE PRABUDDHA REPUBLICAN PARTY
AJAY VASANT PAITHANKAR INDEPENDENT
ADAGALE BHAUSAHEB RAMCHANDRA INDEPENDENT
ASHOK GANPAT PALKHE ALIAS SUTAR INDEPENDENT
KAMTAM ISWAR SAMBHAYYA INDEPENDENT
KULKARNI KAUSTUBH SHASHIKANT INDEPENDENT
KHAN AMANULLA MOHMOD AL INDEPENDENT 1
KHAN NISSAR TAJ AHMAD INDEPENDENT
P. K. CHAVAN INDEPENDENT
CHOUDHARI SUNIL GULABRAO INDEPENDENT
CHOURE VILAS CHINTAMAN INDEPENDENT
TATYA ALIAS NARAYAN SHANKAR WAMBHIRE INDEPENDENT
TAMBOLI SHABBIR SAJJANBHAI INDEPENDENT
DATTATRAYA GANESH TALGERI INDEPENDENT
BAGADE SACHIN MARUTI INDEPENDENT
BALU ALIAS ANIL SHIROLE INDEPENDENT
BHARAT MANOHAR GAVALI INDEPENDENT
BHAGWAT RAGHUNATH KAMBLE INDEPENDENT
RAJENDRA BHAGAT ALIAS JITU BHAI INDEPENDENT
VIKRAM NARENDRA BOKE INDEPENDENT 1
SHINDE RAJENDRA BABURAO INDEPENDENT
SHAIKH ALTAF KARIM INDEPENDENT
SHRIKANT MADHUSUDAN JAGTAP INDEPENDENT
SARDESAI KISHORKUMAR RAGHUNATH INDEPENDENT 1
ADV.SUBHASH NARHAR GODSE INDEPENDENT
SANTOSH ALIAS SOMNATH KALU PAWAR INDEPENDENT

I have highlighted the prominent ones though...
Criminal cases of only Anil Shirole of BJP is not available...

Anil SHirole Missing

2009-04-23T02:53:00.000-07:00

Its not even end of the election day and it looks like the politicians true face is out...

I see 2 candidates running out from the internet world to start with. I dont understant why Anil Shirole from BJP choose to shut off his web site on the election day when my blog itself sees several search queries for Pune candidate details... Have they already lost the war?

The other candidate who left the internet war is Ranjit Shirole of MNS... his web site too is down and I am sure he was the one lot of internet kids were looking at.. surprisingly I dont understand if they are dumb enough to move themselves out or is it again going to be blamed on Suresh Kalmadi for getting there web sites down?

The Raj Thackerey effect though is still present in Pune amongst locals... Ranjit shutting his website is a setback.

Here is Anil SHiroles web site that is down : www.anilshirole.com

Here is Ranjit Shirole's web sie that is off the grounds : www.ranjitshirole.com

Surprisingly DSK, Suresh Kalmadi and Arun Bhatia still have their web sites running...

God Bless Ranjit Shirole and Anil Shirole today

Pune Elections Predictions Suresh Kalmadi , Anil Shirole struggle. Ranjit Shirole grabs some votes

2009-04-23T02:23:00.000-07:00

Pune comprises of 5 Assembly constituencies of Pune.. that finally make up the city loksabha seat which sees a multi candidate was leading in the race Suresh Kalmadi , followed by Anil Shirole of BJP, DSK of BSP and Maay Marathi candidate Ranjit Shirole...

I met a few friends today majority of them involved in campaigning of one or the other candidate and tried to have a quick glance of what there personal thoughts are... over and over it looks like Suresh Kalmadi who was until yesterday a clear leader today will have to struggle to get more and more people to vote for him... At the same time Ranjit Shirole eats up the votes that were always a part of the Shiv Sena BJP cadre.. this time due to the fact that Anil Shirole talks about Pune development while Ranjit Shirole talks about local community supports, Marathi issue, employement to locals etc... DSK on the other hand seems to have affected some of the Muslim and Dalit votes ....

While Both BJP and Congress are going to be affected by the MNS candidate Ranjit Shirole and BSP candidate DSK .. it also looks like Anil SHirole and Suresh Kalmadi may loose the traditional strong hold... Going through the electoral assembly break ups.. here is what I think would lead the candidates when they go to results...

Remember it is half a day and the peak hours of voting just begin now... so the predications will be changed when I get some information from the Electoral officer/ friends/ reportes etc...

Here is what I think would be the ranks in each of the constituencies for the Pune seat

Kasba Assembly Seat
1. Anil Shirole
2. Ranjit Shirole
3. Suresh Kalmadi
4. DSK

Shivaji Nagar
1. Anil Shirole
2. Suresh Kalmadi
3. Ranjit Shirole
4. DSK

Parvati
1. Suresh Kalmadi
2. Anil Shirole
3. DSK
4. Ranjit Shirole

Wadgaon Sheri
1. Suresh Kalmadi
2. Anil Shirole
3. Ranjit Shirole
4. DSK

Cantonment
1. Suresh kalmadi
2. DSK
3. Anil Shirole
4. Ranjit Shirole

Kothrud
1. Anil SHirole
2. Suresh Kalmadi
3. Ranjit Shirole
4. DSK

Vis a Vis though both Anil Shirole and Suresh Kalmadi looks to be winning 3 assembly seats each the leads they are going to get from each of these seats doesnt look to be more...With Shivajinagar and Kothrud being densely voted Kasba Peth is relatively less votes and same applies to Cantonment .. so over and Over if Ranjit SHirole takes a pan cake of 20-25 K votes in this elections and it the same number is reached by DSK then Kalmadi and Anil SHirole see a war ending with a margin of 25,000 to 50,000 votes... but Vadgaon Sheri, Cantonment and Parvati has always stood by Congress and this time with a restructure Shivaji Nagar also looks very much in favour of Congress Suresh Kalmadi seems to be taking the lolly

Pune Elections sees fair enthusiasm

2009-04-23T00:53:00.000-07:00

Last time Pune voted approximately 54 - 55 % .. it looks people want to come out and vote... Morning saw enough crowd and I beleive enough votes and most of the polling centres...

People now have options to check at the Election Commision web site if there is confusion... I thought I would myself put this up for those enthusiastic voters who want to see if they have their names in the voter lists or their right to vote is demolished by some documentation bug...

Please find details below:

IF YOU WANT TO CONFIRM YOUR NAME ON THE VOTERS LIST

Please check your name and polling booth in www.pune.gov.in .
1. Click on Voters List 2009
2. Click on your constituency.
3. Click on Summary
4. Identify the area you belong to and the Part no.
5. Click on ' List of ---Parts' ( on the left side of the screen ).
6. Click on your Part no.
7. Scroll down to section 2 to identify your locality no.
8. Scroll down to section 3 to identify your polling booth location.
9. Scroll down further to voters lists and check the list which is numbered with your locality no.
10. Search your name

The alternate official url http://ceo.maharashtra.gov.in where you can search by your name is non-functional currently.

You could also call helpline 2026 1003, give your name and address. Your name will searched and you will be advised whether you are a regd. voter.

You are a Regd Voter but you have changed your residence.

1. If you have moved house within the same constituency, download form 8A from www.eci.gov.in

2. If you have moved house and are now in a different Constituency, download form 7 from www.eci.gov.in, submit it to the Electoral Registration Office at the old Constituency, get the acknowledgement slip and attach it to form 6 for submission to Electoral registration Office of the new Constituency.

Correction of Details
If you only want to correct details in existing electoral roll e.g name spelling, correction in address details, download form 8 from www.eci.gov.in

Pune Elections - Predictions are never good

2009-04-22T07:24:00.000-07:00

Pune goes to its elections tomorrow... The 4 constituencies that make Pune really Pune is going for elections tomorrow with Shirur, Baramati, Pune and Mawal Lok sabha seats going fr elections it looks to me that NCP wins 2 of the seats while Congress and Shiv Sena take one each...

Supriya Sule from Bramati that covers major part of the Pune city too is going to have some challenge in keeping the winning margin as her fathers specially due to the fact that this time Warje, Kothrud, Paud , Hadapsar and various other areas of the Pune city have gone under the Baramati constituency where Sharad Pawar or Supriya Sule has little or less influence... Eventually the race is not a race... Kanta Nalawade and other contestants of the elections have known the fact that they are loosing by a bad margin and to avoid the end of their political careers they are not contesting hard...

So overall considering Supriya Sule's popularity and presence her winning the Baramati seat is more or less done. Margin my best guess is 3 lakhs

Pune City Loksabha has seen soem rumours, allegations and lot of uncertainty... however it clearly looks like Suresh Kalmadi is winning the race beating the BJP contestant Anil Shirole by a margin of atleast 1 lakh vote... Pune has always being a margin of 1 lakh vote when Congress Won or lost.. this margin has never changed... it was stated earlier that DSK the BJP candidate will give Suresh Kalmadi and Anil Shirole a run for their money looks to have lost the elections in ground reality... for the fact that he spent more time on publicizing his face than asking for votes really... On the other hand once an ally of Suresh Kalmadi , Shrikant Shirole has his sone put up for elections under the infamous Raj Thackerey banner... Ranjit Shirole doesnt look to be promising in thie elections atleast... On How Anil Shirole sees his future... I guess the BJP made a mistake by pulling him in for this elections... they could have easily got Anna Joshi who has defeated strong congress candidate in Pune. Arun Bhatia and others are not even getting 15K votes shared with others

Overall considering the campaigning and people support...it looks like Suresh Kalmadi will win the margin by 50K to 1 lakh votes.

Shirur ... fought by Vilas Lande from PCMC has really done well, taken the support from the NCP faction this NCP leader has really bought the congress and NCP in one roof and looks like though he has a good fight scheduled with Shivajirao Adhalrao patil.. he may not be able to make against Shivaji Rao patil. Vilas Lande looks to have tough fight planned... I dont want to predict this but whoever wins will not win by 25K

The last Mawal seat sees Azambhai Pansare of NCP fighting Gajanan Babar of SHiv Sena.. though Shiv Sena candidate has more power and base to him.. it is unlikely that he will will specially cause of the structure of the constituency that goes in favour of the pune localite Azam Bhai Pansare...

So on an Pune sees 3 seats straight in the bucket of Congress and NCP (majorly NCP with 2) and one which will have a tough fight.

Bhatia Allegations against Kalmadi - Late and Stuntious?

2009-04-20T05:38:00.000-07:00

is it a sheer election stunt or it is a real truth... technically it may be an issue for Kalmadi who seems to be winning the elections even when the polls are not done... Yes the elections that are going to be held on 23rd April sees Pune having Suresh Kalmadi lead the campaign and of course the support... however as usual Arun Bhati has dropped the bomb by saying that Suresh Kalmadi has not declared his assets correctly. He mentioned in his allegations that the property in Mundhwa named under her wife Mira Suresh Kalmadi and some other partners was not disclosed...

This way ususally candidates try to create a fuss around pointing that other candidates are corrupt and so on... however sources reveal that the property mentioned by Bhatia was actually gifted by Mira Kalmadi to her daughter way back and they have supporting documents for the same. Thus since the property no more belongs to Suresh Kalmadi or his dependants at the moment it is a not so worth allegation...

Now the question arises that why was Bhatia quiet until now with this? Is this a stunt to just try and mal-align the canddiate? in any case we will leave this to the people of Pune.. but while the election campaign for the second phase of Poll ends today I see Anil Shirole, Arun Bhatia, DSK and Ranjit Shirole deep in their barricaded... with a hope that they dont have to loose their deposits...

Will Pune still support Kalmadi? The answer is yes.. it looks like. He has bought some real good funds to the city and I am sure Kalmadi can bring in some good fate to Pune... an Asian Game at the least very soon.

Lets Not vote for Criminals

2009-04-20T03:23:00.000-07:00

I read through the interesting web site http://myneta.info/ eventually if we decide not to vote for people with criminal backgrounds... we are definitely going to be kept listed with very few candidates and yes then our choice is easier...

Now going through the web site specially for Maharashtra I see several people contesting elections having strong criminal base... amazing no? Going through I see several parties that have posted their favourites as candidates eventually cause if they dont place them they loose the seat?

Although not all people listed there with criminal records should not be voted for... like instance there are 2 BJP candidates who have defamatory cases against them... I am sure these would be based on some hate speech or some opposition person filing it... Also I see some candidates having negligible case as in cases where they were involved in some protests etc... We are a democracy and we have a right to protest...

Some are serious offences... Murders, Attempts to Murders.. and thats scary... I hope the election commision some point brings in a law that anyone with any criminal case cannot contest the elections and I am sure that will bring some good life to us...

Happy Voting... However Please ensure that you choose the right candidate... I am a fan of Congress candidate in Pune... but I request you to choose someone who is a better person in your constituency...

Advani's Rally in Pune was a waste

2009-04-19T01:31:00.000-07:00

It started 1 hour late, The time chosen was not appropriate, specially considering the fact that 7:00 PM in the highly traffic-sucking area this rally of Advani was a full waste not only for the Party supporters of BJP in Pune but also for Anil shirole the BJP candidate from Pune...

He thought that Gopinath Munde, Advani and Modi can bring life to his dead campaign but it seems that they have added to his problems... Advani yesterday burried the dead Anil shirole campaign and now today it looks like Gopinath Munde would put garlands on it.

Advani started the sppech by promising the people that in 100 days after the gvernment is formed he will bring all the Money from India that is being stored in the Swiss bank accounts... surprisingly Advani who was the Home Minister / Deputy PM earlier never spoke about such money when he was in Power...

Also one more thing that amazes me is that Advani who is so claimed to be a Strong PM candidate also in an interview mentioned that he was not awae of the Kandahar Air Hijack release of terrorists... Amazing no? The so called Strong candidate doesnt know a lot of thing or doesnt do a lot of things...

Advani in his speech also proclaimed that the Congress has screwed the nation by its own policies ... but forgot to mentione any such policy, he claimed that people in the nation are scared to come out of the houses surprisingly his party never forgets to claim that his rallies get support in thousannds...

Anyways... Advani did not talk relevant, he had like Modi no clue ofPune politics and I am not sure if he is aware that the closest ally of BJP in Maharashtra is in power in pune city with NCP...

What Anil shirole should do now is to probably depend more on himself than these leaders whose body language says that they have lost the lections even before it started...

L K Advani overall failed to add to Anil Shirole's gains in Pune and now I am somehow feeling that Anil SHirole may have to tie up with BSP candidate DSK and MNS candidate Ranjit SHirole to see if they can help defeating Suresh Kalmadi ... or the future of Pune is bright.. ;)

The Election with no National issue!!! What a shame!!!

2009-04-16T10:34:00.000-07:00

Well as the polling for the first phase of election is over today with a reasonably satisfying voter turn out (I dont believe that 40 % voters are still keeping away from elections) there doesnt seem to be any national issue out here... atleast the opposition doesnt have any to fight for..In anycase BJP and opposition parties have chosent to take personal wars... of course I would limit it with BJP for the moment though...

Advani's luck is not favouring him.. I am somehow feeling that like Atal Bihari Vajpayee Advani is also very very desperate to become the Prime Minister... dont know what difference he would make specially because he could have projected his party better than projectig himself better... after all the entire nation knows that the most eligible person is sitting in the Prime Ministers chair...

While the nation still has issues like :

1. Terrorism
2. Recession
3. Infrastructure
4. Global Presence
5. Poverty and Corruption

I am surprised that BJP and parties are trying to talk about weaker and stronger parties... while COngress is not too far behind and they have also now stepped into the tug of war with Advani .. but they still have people who are talking about development...

Anyways... BJP's language both body and vocal shows that they are off in this elections and maybe the nation is going to bring them in 2 figures or even less... I am however surprised that the third world front (oooops did I mean 3rd front?) and BJP dont want to talk about development projects and work...

God Save India, Atleast I have a better manifesto than that of BJP or other major parties to start with...

Anil Shirole lacks passion, DSK support and Bhatia visibility in Pune Elections

2009-04-16T10:24:00.000-07:00

The Maharashtra state is moving towards Congress... as it looked a couple of weeks back there is no more a pendulum... its now a either or state... For the 13 seats that went in poll for Maharashtra today saw 54 % voter turnout... this is slightly higher in terms of last elections in the same constituencies and higher voter turnout always go in favour of the ruling party...

While I forsee 6 seats of 13 going in favour of NCP - Congress alliance based on the candidates like Praful Patel, Mukul Vasnik and a few other big shots... it clearly looks like BJP-SHiv Sena alliance is not far behind with 4 seats...3 are going to see a tuff fight as per me.. this is based on the campaigns

On the other hand Pune that is going for elections on 23rd is clearly seeing a winner... Yes Kalmadi is appearing as a strong winner in Pune... atleast expecting a margin of 90,000 to 1,25,000 votes at the moment.... while DSK and Ranjit Shirole are no more closer to get any more than 25,000 votes together Anil shirole's fear and body language seems to be showing up in his campaign....

The BJP workers are waiting for the rally from Advani in Pune and hope that the rally will make some miracle... but it looks like luck is not on Anil Shirole's side.... he has lost it already ... not enough focus on ground campaigns.. and no visibility on internet is making me feel that Anil shirole is going to be hit badly..

In Pune Advani will have to show courage and courtesy

2009-04-15T10:29:00.001-07:00

Not just in his speech , Pune is not expecting courtesy and courage from Advani is his acts, gestures and speech.. why???? Pune has never had a reputation of communal riots.. and if Advani tries to drill over the popular Ram Mandir then he is not appreciated here...

Well I am expecting Advani to speak over how Suresh Kalmadi has developed (read it not) or BJP/Sena supporters may create a chaos on my blog... eventually I am also expecting Kalmadi to talk against Sharad Pawar and Sonia Gandhi... and why not??? BJP thinks that the way India Shining took them down now personal remarks will bring htem up... but somebody forgot to tell Advani that the time is over and tomorrow's elections have already given a bigger mandate to Congress and Allies...

Also as time is passing by Advani and BJP's presence over internet and rallies is vanishing... am I correct in mentioning that the Gujarat rally collectively done by Advani and Modi earned as much crowd as Congress president's convoy???? I believe people were impressed by the Akshay Kumar starrer movie 8 * 10 Tasveer so only 8-10 people attended the rally....

Anyways the 17th April rally in Pune is going to be just a fuss or a broken arrow specially because both Anil Shirole BJP candidate from Pune and Advani Prime Minister candidate from BJP both show a looser's body language...I am not sure if I can make it to the rally.. but I have asked a friend to record it just in case the EC needs it ;) With the desperation of BJP clearly visible the way they are commenting and attacking personalities as opposed to talking about develeopments... I see Advani standing in a corner in terms of seats... bet this elections are going to bring BJP back to their 1984 count?????

Regards
Sameer Shaikh

P.S The Advani rally is scheduled on Friday the 17th in Pune, 5:30 PM.

Now BJP talks drift between Ambedkar and Congress

2009-04-14T22:54:00.001-07:00

Well it was a bad timing by Advani for the nation .. when he mentioned yesterday that the "CONGRESS DID INJUSTICE TO DR. B R AMBEDKAR"... this statement is nothing but a clear part of BJP's SATTA- NITI I call it satta niti as they are doing all this just to get in power.... and believe me I wont call it Raj as somehow I am feeling that Raj has being refferred to as HATE SPEECH, PROVOCATIVE ACTIONS these days (Please remind me of Raj Thackerey)

Back to BJP... yes Advani plays dirty... i mentioned this in the last post where I said BJP is looking for a new approach to grab power... the Raam, Daam, Rang Bhed.. and this is a part of the Bhed operation where Advani thinks that saying Congress did injustice to Dr. Ambedkar will mean Dalit votes going away from congress...

I know Mr. Advani always being claimed as DOWN TO EARTH... but so down that you cannot look in the eyes of the most literate and honest and intelligent Prime Minister of India? Well this also reminds me of his age and I guess BJP needs some Energy to be injected (Of course not from people like varun Gandhi and Ashok Sahu) who knows and understand that politics should be played for development of nations and not creating drfits between religions...

So now do you think BJP will get more than 150 seats in this elections???

Will Good Ideas generate votes for BSP Candidate DSK in Pune

2009-04-14T01:52:00.000-07:00

Well DSK was online on a webinar today and I took the opportunity to ask him 2 questions...

1. Question 1
A. While Pune has being a battlefield for a straight out war between Congress and BJP where does he sees himself standing.
B. His vision is more related to what others have , what is the different thinking that he brings in?
C. What apart from Traffic and Water do you want to do?

2. Question 2
A. Would you continue contributing your plans and vision if you dont get elected?

DSK is a smart businessman and he definitely has good control over english. He preffered to answer the question in Hindi, I believe this is a good gesture as he wanted to address not only people watching the webinar but also people wanted the people around him to hear that....Good stuff

The answer from DSK shows that he knows what he has being doing best for the last 30 years... he mentioned what is written in his website that he is a self made man... DSK mentions that the development plan pune had needs to be upgraded and yes thats true... he also wanted to grow the city horizontal and vertical and have transport available through rails to various parts and zones. DSK visions to use the natural resources to reduce power and water problems in a well desired way...Trains, BRTS, Air Rail, Cycling paths.. Fair enough

Overall his answer and the way he wants to achieve these things is promising, howver not very much convincing.

The answer to question 2 was aggressive... he mentioned that he promised to plant as many trees as many votes he get.. and the confident BSP candidate from Maharashtra has already planted several trees... (I am glad DSK that you are helping make pune Green). He also mentioned that he has being working hard but it never worked out for him as politicians always wanted to drive things away... now that he knows nothing is working out its best to use a platform (BSP) to stand for elections and make awareness...

My Opinion

I think he is a nice guy, no matter what people talk he is a businessman and he knows how to brings organisations to profit... and this is what a developing nation needs at the moment. Now inspite of he being honest and hard working and wanting to bring a difference to politics... it doesnt look like he will make it by a margin... I bet he is going to eat up a few hundred votes in the poll.

Anil Shirole way behind Suresh Kalmadi

2009-04-13T11:11:00.000-07:00

The election campaign atleast has shown the trend of future... Kalmadi has taken a big lead in the election campaign.. The first phase planned by Suresh Kalmadi has being over last week and he has already initiated the second phase where major leaders of Congress and NCP are already taking rallies for him it looks like this first phase competition has ended in a miserable way for Anil shirole who is still trying to catch up the pace of elections and just one major rally of Narendra behind him which also could not bring a majority crowd...

While I see Suresh Kalmadi's second phase very aggressive I think the tech savy MP of Pune has already won a part of the elections... I went though his facebook page today and amazing support on facebook , orkut for him...

Also while Anil Shirole is still going traditional with door to door visits Suresh Kalmadi seems to defeat Anil Shirole in the campaign war by a major margin. And I am also sure that the election results wont be too different...Why is Anil shirole so dull on election campaigns???? My answer is his body language shows that... Shiv Sena doesnt seem to be very active in the campaigns, The BJP unit in Pune itself doesnt seem to be collectively fghting the war... and majorly the focus of Anil Shirole has being on the western part of pune which has ditched the BJP always so over and over it looks like Anil shirole is still trying to wait till the rythm and momentum works while in full swing Suresh kalmadi is bound to hit him right in the bulls eye.

Well Done Suresh Kalmadi... you literally make BJP look invisible in Pune... So while the election results of pune loksabha seat are due only in May... my conclusion is that you are already winning by at least 100 thousand votes as of today... are you looking for more?

Kalmadi bought us on the roadmap, didnt he?

2009-04-13T10:57:00.000-07:00

Well I have no place to deny, Inspite of me not so much fan of Mr. Kalmadi there is no way I can deny that he really bought us on the map... Common Wealth Youth games, National Games, Pune as a railway hub and so many other things that he really did... I am sure if he had the power and support in the municipal corporation he would have done pune more proud...

While I read his web site that doesnt talk everything... but a few things that I would definitely like to say is that no MP gives a detail of how he spends his assigned 2 crores... simple to do development of the city 2 crores is not really enough... if Pune had 2 crores budget you will not be able to have one single road fully and corretcly functional... so what Mr. Kalmadi has done by brining Common wealth games to the city has helped us build good raods and some better infrastructure to the city at shared costs....

Can you deny that pune sports has beng also on the map now? Well go talk to Mr Rahul Aware, check on the various sports complexes, Balewadi.. so many things....

WHile I see that a winning Mr. Kalmadi can definitely bring some more funds and good development options to the city... I see the only candidate who has detailed on what he wants to do...

Go for it Suresh Kalmadi....

If I was contesting the Pune Elections!!!!

2009-04-13T10:22:00.001-07:00

Well This is my reply to the nasty email that I received today from a very strong supporter of the communal party... believe me I now have a very strong opinion that its all about communal politics by this party.... be it Pilibhit or Kandhamal be it Modi,Priyanka war or Advani and Manmohan war be it Varun Gandhi or Ashok Sahu or Jawant Singh or SIddhu or SInha ... or be it Uddhav Thackerey or Murli Manohar Joshi... I am damm sure about it...

Here is the comment and a Question that i received in an email from my anonymous friend who promised to keep writing to me till I stop talking about BJP , Shiv Sena or their demise in these elections...

"BJP had being supporting all castes.. people like you have corrupted India. If I had power I am sure i would have driven you all out of country" I am not really offended by this because I know I have 100 million people to stand beside me to get out of the country where such dogs stay... and I would really be re-habitating a better world outside instead of dying for no reason.

Here is the question that was posted along with "Why you talk so much, tell us what you have done and will do?"

Well I am not sure if I am contesting any elections at this level in atleast next 10 years... But if I have to here is what my manifesto would have being and unlike other standing politicians I am going to clearly state how I would do it:

1. Reduce Power cuts in Pune
Considering Pune's geaography and the strong support it gets from the surroundings , Sahyadri's and the zonal equitibility... I would like to generate the idea of building wind farms around the belt.. The Pune University professors and masters have great ideas around this and I would form a committee to do this analysis and a deadline for this would be around 2 yrs...
I would also add this research as a part of University curriculum so that the students can get some practical exposure and we get an additional man power.

Alternatively the thought of generating wind farms would also help to generate the required energy for the agricultural usage.

Second option is to prote use of Gobar gas around. The commitee formed would help do this. There will be a part of this committee who would work on with the MSEB fractions to stop theft of electricity by various set of categories.

2. Traffic problems to be tackled

A. 2 Ring roads around the cities . 1 for outer belt to let the vehicles pasing over transit without having to enter the city. Inner ring road to help outskirt traffic move from outside without having to block the major inner city traffic.
This is possible between 1-3 years .. the funds can come from what is mentioned below

B. Pune's rich river belt can be used to drive more metro traffic and the Metro project can be kicked off... 2014 being a timeline given by Delhi and Bangalore metro the Pune metro project can actually kick start

C. Partially privatise local commute through tender process... involve provate transporters to run city buses more frequently and in more zones. PMPL to provide a roadmap and guides for timings and routes of various buses... this is possible to be done withing first 2-3 years...privatisation would also mean more employement options to local people.

D. Conjestion charges for brining cars and other bigger vehicles to he cities. Would help fund the implementations for the above projects.

E. Flyover are helpful but time consuming costly and less effective in long runs... instead roads to be widened in areas possible with rehab for the businesses in the local transport hubs

F. Initially brining one way for all the city roads enabling smooth flow of traffic and building flyovers on high confluence points. this would be cost effective

G. Vehicle free days in the city for atleast 1 day... helping green peace world

3. Infrastructure
Pune is rich now in terms of the industries these industries can contribute to the development of the city roads.. imagine 500 companies located in 3-4 IT parks can help the city roads and fund them to brand the roads and locations which would be beneficial to all.

B. More FSI grants for outside city developments.

C. Every construction has to ensure that they acquire a certificate of planting atleast 5-100 trees , this will be monitored and certified by a committe. PMC, Eco committes and varius other committees to co-ordinate on this.

D. Added benefits to private sector companies providing Internet facilities in and around the city. This can be done through leting them brand themselves... like M.G. Road wifi enabled by Reliance... and they can use these branding options through various means.

E. Waterboards to be set up for each of the wards.. these boards are headed by citizens on a 2 yrs rotation. Citizens by choice and by law are to participate in this. This would help us generate more leaders who can participate more actively... vigilantly only people between 25 - 45 t be allowed to do such activities.

F. Social service a part of council tax. Every citizen to participate in one of each such committe. The appointments can be done by individual units so that no politicizing possible...

Well since the post is bigger, The second part f my manifesto would come very soon. maybe tomorrow....

The DSK / BSP Bubble, He cant win but he can defeat

2009-04-12T09:51:00.000-07:00

DSK is fighting this election for the reason I dont understand... I read a comment today in Pune's leading news paper that talks about a comment made by Raj Thackerey in his Pune rally from Ranjit SHirole... he says that maybe he got some projects in Uttar Pradesh (BSP party's home ground where they are in the ruling in the assembly) or maybe he has realised that its time to really do some good work... anyways ... I went to 5 places today... not to election campaign but just to take stock of voting awareness and tried to find out whats with this BSP???? and how much power or momentum has BSP candidate DSK gained... eventually it loooks like he is getting enough crowd.... but none of them really going to convert it into the ballot? Yeah atleast it looks like...

A simple thing that I knew from my past experience... is once you do a walking marathon in various areas around and address rallies.... you need to have a team that notes the reactions... like for example... you would find thousands of people in bigger rallies from Bal Thackerey, Advani and Modi... reason being simple.... they are not the necessarily the voters.... many of them are their to just find how the **kers entertain them....

DSK is being hitting around most of the slums... ofcourse many of the Dalit votes come from these areas and it has happened in the past that these votes make a tremendous difference.... I am not sure if the EC has released any figures but it appears that a majority of voting in pune really and really comes from slums...eventually it is a right move by DSK to go to these areas specially cause many of the slum dwellers dont know him and using the BSP flag of they can literally step high... on the other hand it looks to me like DSK is not taking the right path... he is not on social media as opposed to his contenders and is also very much invisible on the parallel circuits to wooo the voters by aggressive plans... a simple thing is the vision is very much affected by a grand BSP manifesto than going literal local agenda...

Long back I read Johanna Rothman saying "Think Global , Act local" I also wrote a perpendicular post on it .... It would have been wonderful if DSK had tried that... with the amount of global experience he has it would have definitely bought a new perspective had he thought of it that way....

Any ways a few reasons why I see DSK campaign not hitting the brains of the pune voters :

1. Very limited campaigning, Mostly road shows and rallies in slums (60 % of slum dwellers work all day).. time to hit them is important...

2. He is not on the social circuit (Though Mayawati has being expressing that her idea is bringing the socials together through a grand network)

3. He is not agressive enough to show what he can do. He too is talking Modi and Advani way of telling people what Congress is not doing.

4. Where is the youth in his campaign?

5. People know about DSK builders and developers... where is DSK as a politician?

6. I dont find him questioning the other candidates and the media coverage is too less for him.

Overall considering that a faction of Dalit and muslim votes would be stolen from the Congress it looks like BSP candidate is not running for winning this elections... its probably an attempt to eat as many votes as he can so that Mayawati can decide if Pune / Maharashtra can be her destination any time in future....

My recommendation to Pune voters... he doesnt seem to be fighting for us as yet... he seems to be fighting to get the votes and may really defeat a better contestants hopes in this election...

BJP's new Niti Raam, Daam , Rang and Bhed

2009-04-12T09:16:00.000-07:00

Last few days I have being watching almost all the rallies done by LK Advani and Narendra Modi... wow its a riot, riot of allegations.. honestly in the last few days.. it looks like BJP has literally collectively thought of their best approach... it all started with some events which took over and built this strong approach... In the last few weeks BJP is literally trying to tell what Congress and UPA is not doing than what BJP will do for the nation if bought to centre..

Anyways... I link this approach to the famous pholosopher of Indian politics... Chanakya... the Philosopher, Guide and mentor of Emperor CHandra Gupta maurya... who introduced the "Chanakya Niti" to the nation and it has over a period become a bible for politicians.. many of them learnt it well and implied it well enough to be in power... the Niti as it is called was simple..

Saam, Daam , Dand and Bhed...

Saam = Explain them and bring them together so you can rule peacefully
Daam = Buy them with money and keep them with you to be in power
Dand = Use force on them and be in power
Bhed = Create difference amongst people so you can rule easily..

Now BJP has bought its own Niti it seems to be in power...

Raam, Daam , Rang and Bhed... Yes...

Raam = When elections come they talk about Raam, the God who spread love. And Here under the name of the GOD several politicians are using it to get in power.... this has being BJP's truimph card to gain votes.... Be it LK Advani saying that Ram mandir is what they wanted to always do or be it Varun Gandhi whos controversial speech has bought him in the jail and he now holds the NSA (Threat to nation act).

Daam = We saw how Jaswant singh has being distributing money in the video published for which he has being rewarded a EC notice too... in the past the famous Lalji Tandon did the same through an event by distributing Sarees and other things to the voters to woo them... As if it is not enough there is a whole bunch of similar allegations across...

Rang = I dont believe that Narendra Modi has also being so rude to bring color for votes... In his speech today when he said that the White skinned people in Delhi buy wheat@1800 Rs... dammit... The last thing we want in India is racism.. and here you go... the guy who was declined Visa in USA for his role (now specially when his minister in his cabinet is arrested for the same) is back to get votes byt dancing dirty....

Bhed = This has being BJP's truimph card... They split religions(Created the Babri Masjid issue) and religions and parties.. atleast they try to make alll those attempts.. no wonder this party is always called communal by every single party... include those who were with them and now apart...

Overall this elections literally has shown the real face of BJP... I am not sure if sleeping on for votes is going to help but I hope that the leaders dont do things that would hurt our emotions enough that we start hating them (I have always liked Advani , specially the way the rath yatra and the famous Jinnah quote).. I admired his politics and how he came up the ladder... I always admired Modi for brining Gujarat to become so self dependant.. little did I know that the last RTI used on the state for checking the suport it got from the centre shows that Gujarat has got more than enough always from centre.. and guess what the BJP lied on this fact.

So now going this new Mantra... BJP atleast seems to have lost my VOTE....

Questions to Arun Bhatia - People Guardian Party candidate from Pune

2009-04-09T06:11:00.000-07:00

The person who was supported by various citizen groups and who won his way back to the allegations of corruption against him... Arun Bhatia is the name that trigered the 2004 elections in Pune... Contesting the mighty Congressmen Suresh Kalmadi from the Pune seat, Arun Bhatia was being supported by a lot of student groups.. of course I was inspired but unfortunately since I dont end up in the same constituency anymore I could not vote him... however I stepped up to tell my friends that he is a honest man .. and who in htis worlds steps up against the powerful politicians... maybe he is the man that can change it... however things changed... last 5 years as Suresh Kalmadi I did not hear this name .....

So here are a few questions to Mr. Bhatia...

1. Where were you in the last 5 years? Why dont we see anything that you did in the last 5 years?
I dont believe that you need to be in power to do something... but who would remember you if they see you once every 5 years asking for votes cause you are honest? Dont you know the basics of marketing???? Hammer it again and again and everyone would know you... Why do you think people remember Colgate???

2. What authorities do you wish to bring to the committees who are going
to lead the Police, Finance and other committees you want to implant for better governance???

I hope you wont bring the social animals from the Page 3 into this...

3. You say you want to cover the traffic problems...Well isnt BRTS meant for the same? isnt the Delhi Metro proposal doing the same? what else do you think you want to do?

4. Why are you guys looking at 2014 for Pune's growth??? Why cant it bedone in phases every year?

5. Why dont you contest the state assembly and the local councils? cant you make a difference if you are not at the centre?

6. How will you tackle corruption? One man cannot make a difference dude... how will you get people like us to do so?

7. What is your opinion on

1. BRTS
2 Wind Farms around Pune?
3. Ring Road
4. Using IT and other big sector companies to contribute to the Infrastructure development

And the last but not the least....

Do you think that if you alone go to the centre you can make a difference?

Call me or email with your responses.. Mr. Bhatia

Arun Bhatia - Honest but invisible?

2009-04-08T02:58:00.000-07:00

Yes... I am talking about Arun Bhatia one of the contestants for the Pune Constituency in Maharashtra... competing against the likes of Suresh Kalmadi of Congress and Anil Shirole of BJP. I went through Arun Bhatia's website in the last elections as he was one who would have caused major troubles to Suresh kalmadi who is trying his luck from Pune for the 4th consecutive time.

As I remember last elections Arun Bhatia failed miserably to convince the youth of Pune that he can make a difference... I now go to his web site and it asks for volunteers and youth to join his campaign.. I think he is a nice , honest person ... but maybe not fit for politics.. you may argue on this that people should elect the character and not the party... but is it really possible?

Arun Bhati had a terrific career as a IAS officer.. 26 transfers in 26 years, denial of promotions, I remember seeing him when he was placed in Pune as a Commisioner of the PMC... wonderful time.. demolishing illegal constructions, bringing the illelegal towers and hotels down, digging out tax evaders, giving the local corporaters a run for their money.. and several more things.

Eventually what his Manifesto says needs tremendous amount of support not from people but also from people who sit around the Parliament and unless Arun Bhati join hands with one of the big parties his win would not have any importance... specialy cause sometimes the voice doesnt get shut it cannot be raised at all...

I read through a decent but complicated looking web site of Arun Bhatia.. which only talks about his work of course meaning his IAS career path... eventually Bhatia focusses more on corruption and Rapid Transport 2 of them being the prime issues... while I read through his web site no where I find him writing what he would be doing at a higher level... for instance Pune has some bitter issues that so far no has addressed in their manifesto's...

1. River belts that get flooded.
2. Water break downs in the city during summer
3. Riverside roads to reduce traffic problems
4. Pune Ring Road to avoid heavy transits out of the city

Anyways... while some of the issues are tried to be covered.. Bhatia clearly misses the visibility... be it due to the public that really wants to go with the National Parties or be it that Bhatia is more or less once a 5 year kind of person... Atleast he awakens only in elections it seems...

So my conclusion to Arun Bhatia is that he is gonna run behind DSK and Anil Shirole in the race...

Anil SHirole Website promises a lot

2009-04-07T01:10:00.000-07:00

Surprisingly... Anil Shirole the BJP candidate from Pune who is going to challenge the maestro of Congress Suresh Kalmadi from pune has being a bit shaven over the web site design... I would have liked if Anil shirole had not commercialized himself by putting a domain on www.anilshirole.com to the least the designer company shouyld have suggested that he could have used a .in (L.K. Advani did as http://lkadvani.in) or a .org as Suresh Kalmadi did http://sureshkalmadi.org anyways... shows the knowledge of the candidate and the supporters..

Reviewing the website I literally found that the header is very promising... but the manifesto is a disaster...I am sure Anil shirole had lesss of a SEO support if he is targeting the internet crowd of pune...

A few misleading things on the website are:

1. Traffic problems... I wrote in the earlier post how he turned supporting the BRTS which was proposed by Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi.

2. He mentions that Pune would be changed by 2014 instead of 2020 which is promised by Congres... how silly, it took almost ages for the BJP government to come to power before they lost it easily to the others.. and Shirole thinks he can do what is already done?

3. I am surprised that he is not talking about the issues like TDR scams, Water issues in outskirts, kill hill projects that are on the way and surprisingly not about how he can bring city the fortune?

4. He is not able to justify if Suresh Kalmadi or the government is doing nothing for pune how come so many job opportunities are still around in pune in the IT sector? Not to mention that Pune has tons of IT parks providing jobs to so many in and around pune include the migrants..

5. The web site doesnt chalk out any plan as Suresh Kalmadi did on how to take the city to next level....

Overall the website is just an attempt to show poeple that BJP and its candidates are high-tech... surprisingly opening their faces to the techies...

On the other hand we have a commercial Maestro competing the elections... Yes I am talking about D.S.Kulkarni the local construction giant in pune... what else can you expect from a businessman who opens a domain again for dont know what sort of commerce...http://dskforpune.com. I am well aware the issues people have faced in DSK Vishwa the project run by the master himself.. where people had to take a rally to DSK's house demanding supplies of water... what would DSK do for the city when he cannot provide water to his own township...

Fun isnt it?

Questions to Anil Shirole - BJP Candidate from Pune

2009-04-07T01:09:00.000-07:00

Dear Mr. Anil Shirole,

I read your vision for Pune..and your funny statement that you dont want to make/promise to convert Pune to Paris or Barcelona... had you used more developed cities I would have been glad... but like your website and your vision speaks I have not much to say... the people would learn themselves that you dont know what to promise....

Your vision is amazing... short and sweet.. and I am sure if you get a chance a majority of this would be achievable by you...and why not? The few of the items are already been taken care by no?

So here are my few questions to you...on your vision

Following are few of the actions I assure to plan with immediate effect.

1. Improve quality of Roads and foot paths.
How would you do that? and What exactly and where would you do that? I am not saying the pune roads are the best in the country.... but they have been worked on well already... from Baner to Shivajinagar, from Dhankavadi to Deccan, From Kharadi to Yerawada ... name a place and we see expandable roads all over... I am sure you remember the Common Wealth games we had and a majority of the roads were bought in best of the shapes ever...

2. End the need for Load Shedding.
How again? Do you run a plant to generate electricity? And BTW if you have any plans why cant you share it with the PMC already? that would have made you a selfless person...

3. Arrangements of clean, safe and reliable drinking water supply.
Amazing... again your ward seems to have several issues do you know that already?

4. Remove corruption from government organizations.
Thank you... it would be so great of you.... Are you going to work with someone on it or you doing it on your own?

5. Increase number of police officers and improve law and order situation in Pune.
No terrorist attacks in Pune, Less riots since the BJP-Shiv Sena not in power.... however some of the allies that you work with seems to be causing troubles I always felt... for instance... do you promise that your allies supporters would not go on rioting the city when their leader is arrested?

6. Provide effective and realistic public transportation system.
Eg: A bus every 5 minutes on important roads during peak hours.
I am sure we wont need a BRT for this?

7. Practice and widely implement every norm of Environment protection in Pune.
What are norms can you elaborate please?

8. Rehabilitate Slums over every 7 years.
Hmmmm.... I know when Wakdewadi slums were planned to be moved there was a chaos.. so was when there were plans to move wadarwadi... how are you going to tackle your vote banks in first place? and then we can talk about rest...

9. Plan more sports centers which can be utilized by normal Puneites on everyday basis.
Ofcourse... we dont have much... Where exactly can you build these sports center? Balewadi????

10. Provide basic amenities for horizontal expansion of Pune.
Electricty? Water? roads? wot else?

11. Providing Modern facilities like Piped gas lines, Broadband connectivity.

I thought the broadbands are available almost every where execpt my area... but this is definitely good... I was also wondering if this is been a task of individual companies.. the infrastructure support is already there for them no?

12. Implement PMRDA with immediate effect.I would wait.... if you dont win can you suggest this to Suresh Kalmadi please?

13. Provide Affordable housing.
The recession has already bought the prices down.. and if you are thinking of the Kill Hill project please dont..

14. Establish Advanced Sewage water treatment plants.
Sure. Where?

15. Provide an conducive environment for rapid growth of IT, BT and other sunrise industries.
Yes at the moment Pune is dying for new setups.... but somehow I thought the traffic issues are becuase of growing industries too... anyways... Bio Tech Parks, IT Parks and what else and where?

In all I see you have vision probably drafted by someone... I would suggest that you take the vision and create a draft plan on how you would do these things... I like you in person but when it comes to city please make sure that you go prepared to the public...

2009-04-01T10:56:00.001-07:00

Trying to check if the API's of various tools really work...my good pass time in the evenings...

Varun : The Violent Gandhi??

2009-03-30T01:36:00.000-07:00

The moment the name is uttered it is directly linked with respect, non Violence, Sacrifice and patriotism.... Be it Mahatma Gandhi - No one need to tell what he is for India or Indira Gandhi who gave her life for the nation or Rajiv Gandhi who was a prey to terrorism and smiling sacrificed his life for the well being of the countrymen... or very recently Sonia Gandhi..... while several people talk about her being from Italy and a foreigner she could have easily gone out with his kids and settled down as an Italian.... but hasnt she shown enough? She has lost her husband, Mother in Law and I am sure the fear always will be that there maybe still more sacrifices from the Gandhi family in coming future....

However if you read the news papers in the last few days you find it difficult...Varun Gandhi Son of Menaka Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi is no more sticking to the tradition... Guess he was looking out for a change....a Change that is not appreciated by the educated class ... I am not sure why varun chose to go with such a hate feeling.... A well educated young lad I believe chose the wrong company and when this happens the reputations of families are definitely at stake.

Yesterday I happened to view the so called hate speech of varun over You Tube... believe me it is disappointing to see that he has so much hatred for his own countrymen? well forget about anything else... why to cut hands of people now? Things are running in peace.. there are no more Gujrat's happening, people are living in peace but yes Varun chose the easy way to get importance in politics... as others....

I am not sure if National Security Act is going to be of any help... but I defintely feel that Varun needs some lessons on peace. Surprisingly BJP that was so far claiming that the dynasty rule in India should be killed thoroughly is now cashing on the Varun arrest drama and the name Gandhi.... I bet they are on all 4 trying to gain as much of votes as possible from this episode... forgot to mention that with BJP the experience has been this... when they cant seek vote based on the work they do.... they turn towards religionism...

All the best Varun and BJP ... but we pray god that you and your party never gets a chance to lead India ... just so that we Indians can stay in Peace

Pune City Loksabha - Anil Shirole gets BJP Ticket

2009-03-27T07:14:00.000-07:00

The guy who was known for his aggressive nature in the Pune Municipal corporation is the candidate for BJP from the Pune Loksabha seat.... wow interesting... The RSS believer who has himself being a swayamsevak is going to be in the fray for the pune loksabha seat....

Three considerable notes around Anil Shirole's candidature from Pune loksabha seat ...

1. He has been good for the work he has done in his ward where he was a corporator earlier.

2. He has being clear... I never heard of criminal cases against him

3. He has taken a step of not attacking the opposition candidates until now...

I had met him once in the BJP Yuva morcha campaign and have found him not very charismatic but someone genuine... atleast his stance on the PMC has always been considerable...
The elections 2009 would defintaely see this guy from BJP fight with the very very Strong Suresh Kalmadi who has been very agressive on his campaign inspite of strong opposition from own party workers...

3 things that make me feel Anil Shirole has made path easy for Suresh Kalmadi:

1. No presence beyond party... I havent seen him much in the city politics as Girish Bapat or Anna Joshi or Pradeep Ravat

2. He has to first fight own allies... Sunil Shirole from MNS (Young guy with some confidence), Opposition from the faction of Vinod Tavade group and of course some intelligently placed Arun Bhatia and BSP candidates

3. Just getting Narendra Modi , LK Advani wont get him votes .. and I am not sure if he is opting for it...Anyways whatever happens it seems that Pune has got a weak candidate from BJP...

IPL T20 will be a RIOT?

2009-03-25T23:22:00.000-07:00

4 Captains for KKR , 2 captains for Bangalore Royal Challengers... and dont know how many new decissions for the other teams... this IPL is definitely going to be a RIOT... a RIOT for captains as I see... Oldies gone , newbies making there way.... I am wondering if Piyush Chawla can captain as well or rather we see a 14 yr old selected kid asked to captain a Sr. team... why not gives a different experience and confidence.....

I remember while being at age of 10 when I was first asked to bowl a 30 yr old batsman what I felt... 2 matches and I had confidence to beat anyone... so what if I am not in the Indian Team... the moral definitely changes when you start doing things early.... and I am all set for that. Life becomes a LOLO when you start early... and what life has taught me is definitely early to rise early to bed.... I meant early to start early to retire.... ofcourse with tons of Dollars.....

Anyways ... Let IPL be successful with all the multi captain concepts we just want to see good cricket .... and let the innovators not bring dirty politics to cricket...

IPL News - Kolkatta Knight Riders will have 4 Captains

2009-03-25T03:54:00.000-07:00

Going with his creative instincts and tendency to innovations in cricketing field, former Australian coach John Buchanan has decided to go with what the rumours claimed over the last few months.... Sourav Ganguly aka Royal Tiger of Bengal.. will no more be the ONLY captain of Kolkatta Knight Riders or KKR... Yes Shahrukh Khans Team will now have 4 captains each of these captains will be nominated in each game... wonderful isnt it?

Chris Gayle , Or Mcculum or Ganguly or to that matter a local lad to captain the stars .. this will bring a new life to captaincy...(Are other nations now ready to adapt to it?)
The change of captains in every game sounds good however raises a question on the team selections as each one of these captains will have a different view on the game and players... are the Knight Riders now ready to kill themselves through their own captains?

whatever happens this is a confirmation to the fact that Aussie coaches are not lucky for our Ganguly

IPL Finally moves to South Africa

2009-03-24T20:43:00.000-07:00

It starts on same time, it starts on same day, the Teams and Franchisee's remain the same... just one difference... the time zone where it is played... Yes Lalit Modi and company after making a full disappointment has moved the Season 2 of the IPL to South Africa... starting in Mid of April the IPL is not going to see full house stadiums as we saw in the world cup matches too... and since it is going to be combination of Teams it doens t look like the local support is going to be huge...

Anyways not to disappoint Mr Lalit Modi and the Franchisee teams I believe the IPL season 2 is going to be only popular on screen and not on Stadiums... unless the CSA does something to attract the local crowd and the franchisee brings the Bollywood stars to the stadiums to cheer not only the Teams this time but also the crowds....

Wow... Amazing no? This time cricket will need cheering for crowds...

Indian Premier League in UK , South Africa but not India

2009-03-24T04:51:00.000-07:00

Well its like selling the Indian Curry in the non Indian markets... anyways I read Sachin Tendulkars response around how unfortunate it is for the crowd... I dont worry much about the money the critical part is the experience that the youngsters would loose if IPL starts getting hosted in other countries.... Getting IPL out of the nation is also like stripping the clothes of a shy person on a stage full with audiences... OMG Did I forget to remind you that Cricket is a religion here? or that there are people who are ready to die for cricket here?

What we loose with IPL not being in India is not the Money... :

We Loose experience that our guys from various cricketing academies were getting interacting with the International stars who are cricketing gods.

We Loose watching local talent getting brilliant exposure... Do you remember the guy who was a local club player and was asked to field as a substitute for the Mumbai Indians ?

We Loose the waves of unity... Isnt it fun to see Indians cheering Everyone on their home grounds? And Pontings and Symonds and Smiths and Morkels and Gibbs and Murli's contesting together?

Its not that if its not in India many of these things will not happen... but If it is not in India are we saying that the Terrorists who wanted to kill cricket in Pakistan virtually killed cricket in India or rather Asia too? Are we giving our cricket up for those who are against humanity?

Anyways... let Lalit Modi decide the fate today if it is UK or South Africa... my heart stays in India... let Sony Max bring the matches to us live anyways how many of us were actually hitting the grounds to watch the IPL no?