Its really been along time since I posted anything on my blog. This must be one of those 'Most un-wanted' blogs ever. Just occupying a sought after and precious virtual space without adding to the richness of its existence or complementing the beauty (or the beastliness ) of fellow blogs.
Topic have not been scarce, its the reason to write. Not what to write but why to write. Words are limited isn't it and economics has taught us that limited resources should be used very carefully, who knows what might happen if they end?
So many things get written everyday in newspapers, magazines, on the net. So many new books both fiction and no-so fiction appear every week. These cover a gamut of topics...apart from the seven deadly sins, there is history, philosophy,science, politics, motivation; everything today is printed and published beautifully and artistically decorated in hardcover by reputed and new stream of authors. Arre bhai, do people read, I mean do they actually read, try to fathom the meaning apart from the literal meaning.
Do the readers read the brutality of holocaust and pledge not to create one in the 21st century. No they go ahead to make Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan,Burma, Tibet. My beloved nation has been in such turmoil since my great grand fathers' time. Never mind the economic boom.
Apart from political crisis, forget the economic liberalisation; if someone gets a job it goes without saying that someone must have lost it. There is social malfunctioning. Perfectly sane people with average IQ, full understanding of right and wrong feel nothing wrong to go the worst way possible. For what guys, whats the high that encourages them. And the worse doers are not confined to any particular region or religion or gender. Their fraternity is so universal, they have created a global village of terror, corruption and nihilism.
I write for my bread and butter. Create catchy, short and meaningful headlines to sell flour, soap, services day in and day out. Elaborate copy to explain the clients services to their prospective clients. I write but at the end of the day I cannot help but think when things far more important are not read, how do my words get read?
Monday, March 17, 2008
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The call of the 'have nots'
Last week we 'the people of India' celebrated 60 years of our independence. People were happy not because it was a historical occasion but more so it was a chutti right in the middle of the week. Call me a traitor and I will show you a liar!
As a country we have definitely come a long way from the unsteady steps of a toddler to a confident stride of a grown up self-reliant man of new age. But the road ahead is tortuous not so because of the uncertainities but thanks to the fellow companions.
It is not a routine when we in India take a strong stand for or against an international issue. For heaven's sake dont say we have a stand on terrorism, on empoyment, on poverty eradication they have cease to be issues long ago. They are necessary part of behavioural functions of a democratic state. When I say issues, I mean nuclear missiles, armaments, rapid industrialization,racism; issues that fuels the progress charts of any nation. Day in and day out our policy makers exhorts us to work for the country, the question is when will they start thinking about the country let alone work for it?
No single initiative introduced by one political gets unanimous support from other parties even if the new policy is sinfully good for the country. The problem is opposition has taken the meaning too much in the literal sense. They want to oppose any and everything. Forget them even the allies are so much a trouble that they cannot be trusted.
The latest political crisis in India regarding the nuclear deal with US indicates the tomfoolery that goes into making of a successful politician. The communists have never bulit anything. Their very foundation is based on the destruction of several entities. They have been in power since last 30 years in West Bengal. A state that always has the possibility to do great but always fall short. A state which is always an underdog. There are no industries, no good agriculture, hardly any empolyment
As a country we have definitely come a long way from the unsteady steps of a toddler to a confident stride of a grown up self-reliant man of new age. But the road ahead is tortuous not so because of the uncertainities but thanks to the fellow companions.
It is not a routine when we in India take a strong stand for or against an international issue. For heaven's sake dont say we have a stand on terrorism, on empoyment, on poverty eradication they have cease to be issues long ago. They are necessary part of behavioural functions of a democratic state. When I say issues, I mean nuclear missiles, armaments, rapid industrialization,racism; issues that fuels the progress charts of any nation. Day in and day out our policy makers exhorts us to work for the country, the question is when will they start thinking about the country let alone work for it?
No single initiative introduced by one political gets unanimous support from other parties even if the new policy is sinfully good for the country. The problem is opposition has taken the meaning too much in the literal sense. They want to oppose any and everything. Forget them even the allies are so much a trouble that they cannot be trusted.
The latest political crisis in India regarding the nuclear deal with US indicates the tomfoolery that goes into making of a successful politician. The communists have never bulit anything. Their very foundation is based on the destruction of several entities. They have been in power since last 30 years in West Bengal. A state that always has the possibility to do great but always fall short. A state which is always an underdog. There are no industries, no good agriculture, hardly any empolyment
Friday, October 06, 2006
Let loose law
In civilised society as has been put down by all political scientists, judiciary occupies a position of unparallel importance. Its functions and powers have the authority to equate the richest of individual with a begger. But how long is it going to continue to stand on this pedastal of honour not even time can tell.
A person rapes and kills a minor girl. He is arrested and the case drags on for more than a decade and when the court of law sentences capital punishment, voila we have saints incarnated in the form of NGOs who wants the sentence to be modified to life term. Why? A case of 'Dead Man Walking'?
A young educated man with a drive for life falls in love and decides to fulfill his commitment is brutally murdered. The court keeps sending summons to the key witness who not only leaves the country but adamantly stays away. Why? Love exists, does it?
A man accused of conspiring to blow up the highest seat of democarcy of the largest parliamentary democratic country of the world is sentenced to death. All the people of its state are storming the world to get him a official pardon? Why? Do these people realize that they are supporting a terrorist?
One question intrigues me why do people all of a sudden becomes saint when their guilt is unravelled.
Every other day the world loses many bright young talented people for no fault of their own. Their only mistake we can say is they choose to become soldiers for their motherland. Why cant our NGOs gherao Saddam Hussein, why cant they go and plead with Osama, why dont they threaten LTTE. They can never. Such act needs GUTS and no stupid sentiments.
We want law and order in the society yet we are the first people to protest against it the moment it enters our personal comfort zone. If the accused is a celebrity he should be put under microscope, dissected and left dry but if a spoilt rich brat commits the same crime then the entire equations change. Salman Khan should be sentenced for rash driving but Sanjeev Nanda is a cute kid: Fardeen Khan be hanged for drug possession but Rahul Mhajan is just a bit depressed.
This is not fair at all, let law live. We need it.
A person rapes and kills a minor girl. He is arrested and the case drags on for more than a decade and when the court of law sentences capital punishment, voila we have saints incarnated in the form of NGOs who wants the sentence to be modified to life term. Why? A case of 'Dead Man Walking'?
A young educated man with a drive for life falls in love and decides to fulfill his commitment is brutally murdered. The court keeps sending summons to the key witness who not only leaves the country but adamantly stays away. Why? Love exists, does it?
A man accused of conspiring to blow up the highest seat of democarcy of the largest parliamentary democratic country of the world is sentenced to death. All the people of its state are storming the world to get him a official pardon? Why? Do these people realize that they are supporting a terrorist?
One question intrigues me why do people all of a sudden becomes saint when their guilt is unravelled.
Every other day the world loses many bright young talented people for no fault of their own. Their only mistake we can say is they choose to become soldiers for their motherland. Why cant our NGOs gherao Saddam Hussein, why cant they go and plead with Osama, why dont they threaten LTTE. They can never. Such act needs GUTS and no stupid sentiments.
We want law and order in the society yet we are the first people to protest against it the moment it enters our personal comfort zone. If the accused is a celebrity he should be put under microscope, dissected and left dry but if a spoilt rich brat commits the same crime then the entire equations change. Salman Khan should be sentenced for rash driving but Sanjeev Nanda is a cute kid: Fardeen Khan be hanged for drug possession but Rahul Mhajan is just a bit depressed.
This is not fair at all, let law live. We need it.
Monday, September 04, 2006
Nature takes revenge
When I was in high school, we had a poem in our English syllabus called 'The River' by A.K. Ramanujam. The poet describes how human beings in their pursuit of riches exploits a river and when the latter unable to take any further agony, strikes back it is pure devastation for the mankind. So the inference was that even nature can take revenge.
Natural calamities has always been there since Noah's ark but are they really be taken as nature's revenge or a question of man's inability to harness it adequately which underlines the point that whatever height of achievements man reaches it can never control the nature and its' elements.
I am not undermining the strength of human potential, it would be against my faith in me. But after the cyclone in Orissa, tsunami in Dec 2004 in most of South Asia, earthquake in Gujarat in 2005, hurricane in USA in 2005 and now the flood in most of north and west India, is it not time to pause and ponder the inevitable question as to how far the human fraternity should tread on nature's arena. It has nothing to do with ceasing all developmental activities but definitely a review with correct perspective of doing the work is desirable.
I want us to go ahead with our construction of dams, canals , roads and other necessary infrastructure but on the same hand I am totally against the rising population, the deforestation, polluting of natural water bodies and each of those activities which harm our natural heritage without adding anything substantial to our life.
Natural calamities has always been there since Noah's ark but are they really be taken as nature's revenge or a question of man's inability to harness it adequately which underlines the point that whatever height of achievements man reaches it can never control the nature and its' elements.
I am not undermining the strength of human potential, it would be against my faith in me. But after the cyclone in Orissa, tsunami in Dec 2004 in most of South Asia, earthquake in Gujarat in 2005, hurricane in USA in 2005 and now the flood in most of north and west India, is it not time to pause and ponder the inevitable question as to how far the human fraternity should tread on nature's arena. It has nothing to do with ceasing all developmental activities but definitely a review with correct perspective of doing the work is desirable.
I want us to go ahead with our construction of dams, canals , roads and other necessary infrastructure but on the same hand I am totally against the rising population, the deforestation, polluting of natural water bodies and each of those activities which harm our natural heritage without adding anything substantial to our life.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Heights of Diplomacy!!!
So we had another blast. Again the financial capital was the target. And again it was the middle class that paid through its blood...Literally.
The first and the second world were quick to express their grief...So sweet but when the time came to accuse the perpetrators of the heinous crimes they want proof, proof engraved maybe on the walls of Babylon..well it's no longer there but then the proof has to be very concrete!
Come to think of it we are a nation of over a billion people, the entire amount residing in India itself and across the globe we have quite a good million scattered so it will be sometime before the enemy succeeds in wiping us out completely. But will that day come. I don't think so. We will be saved because we are needed!
We are needed by the most biggest of the companies of the world. If we disappear won't their inventory costs sky rocket? Then who will purchase the outdated weapons, who will purchase the medicines that are defunct in other nations but are prescribed and consumed with elan over here.
Some major software companies need the best of our brains to run, what will happen to them. Whenever there is a military offensive the Indian troops are sent to the death zones, from where the sacrificial goats come if we all perish.
So my dear brothers and sisters of India don't worry, we are safe.
The first and the second world were quick to express their grief...So sweet but when the time came to accuse the perpetrators of the heinous crimes they want proof, proof engraved maybe on the walls of Babylon..well it's no longer there but then the proof has to be very concrete!
Come to think of it we are a nation of over a billion people, the entire amount residing in India itself and across the globe we have quite a good million scattered so it will be sometime before the enemy succeeds in wiping us out completely. But will that day come. I don't think so. We will be saved because we are needed!
We are needed by the most biggest of the companies of the world. If we disappear won't their inventory costs sky rocket? Then who will purchase the outdated weapons, who will purchase the medicines that are defunct in other nations but are prescribed and consumed with elan over here.
Some major software companies need the best of our brains to run, what will happen to them. Whenever there is a military offensive the Indian troops are sent to the death zones, from where the sacrificial goats come if we all perish.
So my dear brothers and sisters of India don't worry, we are safe.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Phew....wat a month!
It has been quite a "sporty" month, isn't it? The India- West Indies test series, the Wimbledon and finally the biggest sports show of Planet E, the soccer world cup......all of them in one single month. Although no one is complaining yet for that poor thing called heart and its health, it was a pretty testing time. Whenever the fortune of the favourite team or player see sawed from good to bad and then to worse, it was a pure tortuous time for the heart.
But one thing that cannot be denied is the pure joy which the entire mankind, with access to the games, have had for one month. That Rahul Dravid is not just 'the wall’ but very easily could be called 'the rock of Gibraltor' or that the king of grass can be fooled on clay but on a grass court it is FEDex from start to the end or that whatever the punters may say or the armchair experts say it is not the star studded team but the fighters who finally claimed the World Cup.
Some performances were spellbinding(the way Argentina played) whereas there were some which was expected(Roger Federer winning) yet there were shocks, Brazil not even making it to the finals, Nadal defeating the ever popular Agassi, Brian Lara snatching the ball from the hand of the umpire and ICC not punishing him!!!
I could not watch all the matches in either of the three spectacles but experienced three different emotions one was of triumph with India winning the test, one of pleasure of watching a well fought contest in Wimbledon final both men and women and finally a pain that words cannot explain when Ballack wept I could not control mine. After 4 years of wait he could not again play in the final. So we wait for another 4 years.
But one thing that cannot be denied is the pure joy which the entire mankind, with access to the games, have had for one month. That Rahul Dravid is not just 'the wall’ but very easily could be called 'the rock of Gibraltor' or that the king of grass can be fooled on clay but on a grass court it is FEDex from start to the end or that whatever the punters may say or the armchair experts say it is not the star studded team but the fighters who finally claimed the World Cup.
Some performances were spellbinding(the way Argentina played) whereas there were some which was expected(Roger Federer winning) yet there were shocks, Brazil not even making it to the finals, Nadal defeating the ever popular Agassi, Brian Lara snatching the ball from the hand of the umpire and ICC not punishing him!!!
I could not watch all the matches in either of the three spectacles but experienced three different emotions one was of triumph with India winning the test, one of pleasure of watching a well fought contest in Wimbledon final both men and women and finally a pain that words cannot explain when Ballack wept I could not control mine. After 4 years of wait he could not again play in the final. So we wait for another 4 years.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Celebrate
Another two months and we will be bidding goodbye to 2005. Its' been a good year for me professionally and personally but for thousands around the globe, it may not be so.
While Iraq is yet to recover, US herself is being ravaged by natural disasters continuosly and now with the earthquake in India and Pakistan, its' not exactly a celebration.
Anyway in India festivals are as omnipresent as the human beings and currently its the festive season across the sub continent.
I hope people all over the world get to enter the new year joyfully.
While Iraq is yet to recover, US herself is being ravaged by natural disasters continuosly and now with the earthquake in India and Pakistan, its' not exactly a celebration.
Anyway in India festivals are as omnipresent as the human beings and currently its the festive season across the sub continent.
I hope people all over the world get to enter the new year joyfully.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Advertising rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I never imagined that one day i will be working in an advertising agency....but i am and now its' more than a year.
It has been a thoroughly mesmerising experience and had to be after all this is the third agency in past one year.Not quite a healthy factor to portray in the resume but anyway thats that.
Lets not talk about the past 'coz the present is too good.
Work is good...results are good...life is ok..with a stiff neck since last three days what else could have been!!!
My ad of Malaysia Airlines is all over South Asia............god it feels fantastic.
It has been a thoroughly mesmerising experience and had to be after all this is the third agency in past one year.Not quite a healthy factor to portray in the resume but anyway thats that.
Lets not talk about the past 'coz the present is too good.
Work is good...results are good...life is ok..with a stiff neck since last three days what else could have been!!!
My ad of Malaysia Airlines is all over South Asia............god it feels fantastic.
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Things happened too fast
last one year in the madcap world of advertising has been quite fun...literaly. have met a lot of people, spoke to a double number of them, made friends with a quarter of them. things have been hunkydory since the first day.....work was alwayson deadline...recving rejection from clients was reaaaaaaaaaaaally tough but every acceptance from seniors or the clients did alot to the confidence
on top of it. i fell in love..jumping off from a cliff would have much better than what followed..never thought that i the rudest homo sapien who has walked on the earth..thats why i was thrown out of venus....could ever feel so mushy mushy chosweet for anyone...i swear some evil spirit got the best of me during those days.
good that it ended lest me getting a saccarine attack...but fact is those days when we used to talk for hours over the phone were really very interesting..its not that bad but i think one has to be quite lucky to get happiness in love just bcoz i got hurt does not mean that there is anything wrong with love itself..getting toooo sweet.
on top of it. i fell in love..jumping off from a cliff would have much better than what followed..never thought that i the rudest homo sapien who has walked on the earth..thats why i was thrown out of venus....could ever feel so mushy mushy chosweet for anyone...i swear some evil spirit got the best of me during those days.
good that it ended lest me getting a saccarine attack...but fact is those days when we used to talk for hours over the phone were really very interesting..its not that bad but i think one has to be quite lucky to get happiness in love just bcoz i got hurt does not mean that there is anything wrong with love itself..getting toooo sweet.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Intoduction
Hi everyone...
this is my first day on blogger. i heard about this site in reader's digest and decided to try this wonderful medium. i hope to enjoy my outings on the site .
this is my first day on blogger. i heard about this site in reader's digest and decided to try this wonderful medium. i hope to enjoy my outings on the site .
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