In the course of my endless and mindless pursuits in the evening yesterday, I seem to have glanced up from my laptop towards an India map on the wall as Prabhu Chawla was trying to allow one of his guests to speak, forget who!!! And I was staring at that map, a lil thought crossed my mind...... If I were to draw a line beginning from somewhere near and in the whereabouts of Varanasi and extend it diagonally across UP, through Jharkhand and into the Arabian Sea, I would have single handedly ensured India's GDP growth at 12 - 13% instead of the 8% we are at now!!! I somehow saw 2 Indias on there.
On the one side which I shall henceforth call the front side (for some strange reason), you had pretty high literacy rates, pretty decent mortality rates, pretty good growth numbers etc as compared to the national average. On the other side, which I shall call the backside (for obvious reasons) you had dismally low literacy rates, abysmal levels of mortality and growth numbers better not shared in a public forum.....
If you have agreed with me so far, then will it be too far from the truth if I said that 30% of India is pulling back 70% of India from realising its true potential... (Pareto Zindabad!!)
Because whether u agree or not, it is true!!!! States like UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal (yes, West Bengal) are pulling India back to the Hindu Rate of growth days. Well, we all know UP, Bihar, Jharkhand et al but West Bengal must be shocking to you...... Even if it is, please do not call a bandh..... pleeaasssssseeeee.....
When did you last hear a news that read, 'New factory comes up in West bengal', or 'Bengal top state for FDI in India'. Well, I have never heard any. I somehow cant relate West Bengal and development. I dont think anybody can. It is very saddening to note that Bengal was once the seat of Imperial power in India. But the problem started when Bengal never came to terms with the fact that the British had left.... Sad but true..... In a lot of other places, Mumbai for example, the Gateway of India was a hisorical monument and a place worth seeing, so was Victoria Terminus. Today, people still go to see these two monuments but what they also go and see is the Bandra Kurla complex (BKC)... Well, my great grandfather's greatest memory about Bengal was Victoria memorial and my greatest memory about Bengal....Victoria Memorial... That is sad...
And to add to that, we have a group of nincompoops in power sitting on their nest laying eggs of wisdom which nobody wants!!! Ever wondered why they are called the left.... not because of their ideology, but I think they are called more so because they are never right!!!! Cos I am a 100% confident that Karl Marx did not see it this way....Whatever little was there to grow and develop on the left made sure it never reached the right places at the right time.... The idiots!!! They then come in at the Centre and make sure they screw things up for everybody....
It is not that Bengal lacks opportunities. The opportunities are there...loads of them.... If it lacks anything, it is the will to succeed and for that will to come to the forefront, Bengal will have to come out of its mummified exterior and realise that it is the 21st Century and things work differently... It cannot afford one more Singur or Nandigram..... What also needs to happen is that the lefts need to be thrown out and thrown out in such a way that they do not dare to contest again...... I think the logic of using the left to clean sh** is in our way of life.... but hey the left is itself in so much sh** and 2 lefts will never help!!!
To continue from where I left off, if Bengal were to improve its GDP growth to atleast around the national average, it would help us as a nation.....
Analysis of other states in the BIMARU to come soon.....
Eminence signing off!!!!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Frustrations Unlimited!!!!
I am back.... after a longer hiatus this time around.... 6 months....I am becoming a semi annual blogger nowadays!!!
Anyways, cutting to the major story of the day.... An another sect in India ended up getting 5% reservation yipee!!!! India has matured that much more as a democracy today!! A thought just struck me on reading about the whole fiasco about the issue. I have already iniated the process of getting all of my family together for this protest that we plan to have on getting some reservation for the P family..... I figured that if the world really did start with Adam and Eve, the P family (extended) must atleast have a half a million people, far higher than the small community that got 5%. I am sure we will manage atleast 8.5% - 9%. All it takes is blocking a couple of major roads, burning some public transportation and the likes.... In my home state where I got educated, if we did get 9% reservation that would mean 69% to one caste plus 12% for another plus 3% plus our 9%..... Darn!!! Still leaves about 7% untouched.... Gotta think of something for it.....
Any other family interested..... 7% at stake..... Contact us....
And to think that all of these were oppressed castes...... Tch tch.....
Eminence
Anyways, cutting to the major story of the day.... An another sect in India ended up getting 5% reservation yipee!!!! India has matured that much more as a democracy today!! A thought just struck me on reading about the whole fiasco about the issue. I have already iniated the process of getting all of my family together for this protest that we plan to have on getting some reservation for the P family..... I figured that if the world really did start with Adam and Eve, the P family (extended) must atleast have a half a million people, far higher than the small community that got 5%. I am sure we will manage atleast 8.5% - 9%. All it takes is blocking a couple of major roads, burning some public transportation and the likes.... In my home state where I got educated, if we did get 9% reservation that would mean 69% to one caste plus 12% for another plus 3% plus our 9%..... Darn!!! Still leaves about 7% untouched.... Gotta think of something for it.....
Any other family interested..... 7% at stake..... Contact us....
And to think that all of these were oppressed castes...... Tch tch.....
Eminence
Friday, December 7, 2007
Back with a Bang!!!!
Hi everybody.....
The Eminence returns.... With a bang!!!! Been a long time since my last post.... around 8 months now!!! Just goes on to show the excitement in life at this point in time... Nothing...absolutely nothing to look forward to!!!
Its marriage season in Delhi and Gurgaon.... and I have been attending marriages for some time now.... And every time I attend a marriage, my faith in myself diminishes by a teeny weeny bit and I start thinking as to where the H#$% am I headed and what am I doing and the most dreaded question...where I see myself in 5 years from now!! During my first job interview, when asked this question, it was a piece of cake as we had rehearsed answers.... but after spending 2 years at work, I think I will still have the need to rehearse answers for these questions, because, simply put... I still dont know... I neither know what i am doing, why I am doing it...and I am trying to find myself in a timeframe 5 years from now!!!
Will keep you posted on where I find myself!!!!
Cheerios!!!
The Eminence returns.... With a bang!!!! Been a long time since my last post.... around 8 months now!!! Just goes on to show the excitement in life at this point in time... Nothing...absolutely nothing to look forward to!!!
Its marriage season in Delhi and Gurgaon.... and I have been attending marriages for some time now.... And every time I attend a marriage, my faith in myself diminishes by a teeny weeny bit and I start thinking as to where the H#$% am I headed and what am I doing and the most dreaded question...where I see myself in 5 years from now!! During my first job interview, when asked this question, it was a piece of cake as we had rehearsed answers.... but after spending 2 years at work, I think I will still have the need to rehearse answers for these questions, because, simply put... I still dont know... I neither know what i am doing, why I am doing it...and I am trying to find myself in a timeframe 5 years from now!!!
Will keep you posted on where I find myself!!!!
Cheerios!!!
Monday, April 2, 2007
Review - Water
Am back after a long time!!!!
Watched Water over the weekend.... A suggestion before you watch the movie- if you think you are frustrated cos you feel discriminated, pls watch this movie.... It will make you think that you are the luckiest person surviving on this earth and in this country... Based in the early 30's, this movie is about the plight of widows then and also explores the idea of widow remarriage...
Halfway through the movie, you begin to get disoriented because we have been told all through our lives that India had a glorious history etc... but one look at this movie takes you to that medieval era in Indian history which could aptly be termed as 'the Dark Ages' of Indian society...
Performances are outstanding as expected... . Seema Biswas, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Lisa Ray (She looks hot as well!!!), and John Abraham.. all have given good performances that make the movie an all in all good movie which at the end of it makes you sit back and think.... on a lot of things....
Was just wondering, if a movie that got nominated for the Oscars and did not win was so good, how good would the movie that won be??? Leave you to munch on that!!!
Regards
Watched Water over the weekend.... A suggestion before you watch the movie- if you think you are frustrated cos you feel discriminated, pls watch this movie.... It will make you think that you are the luckiest person surviving on this earth and in this country... Based in the early 30's, this movie is about the plight of widows then and also explores the idea of widow remarriage...
Halfway through the movie, you begin to get disoriented because we have been told all through our lives that India had a glorious history etc... but one look at this movie takes you to that medieval era in Indian history which could aptly be termed as 'the Dark Ages' of Indian society...
Performances are outstanding as expected... . Seema Biswas, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Lisa Ray (She looks hot as well!!!), and John Abraham.. all have given good performances that make the movie an all in all good movie which at the end of it makes you sit back and think.... on a lot of things....
Was just wondering, if a movie that got nominated for the Oscars and did not win was so good, how good would the movie that won be??? Leave you to munch on that!!!
Regards
Monday, March 19, 2007
Another weekend!!
And hence cometh another Monday!!! And why!?? I do not know!!
Had a pathetic weekend.... Started and ended with India vs Bangladesh on Saturday.... What a disgrace!!!! Pathetic.... It was a naked display of the gross stupidity that the Indian team brings to the table amidst its other capabilities like hypocrisy, idiosnycracy, over confidence and bullshitting!!! A suggestion here... Why not ban the Indian team from all forms of cricket for , say, 10 years..... This would allow stalwarts like Dravid, Sachin and Sehwag to train their sons to come and play for the country!!!!!
To engage myself in other activities, I watched two movies over the weekend,......
The first one on Satuday was '300'.... A great movie on the resistance of a few hundred men to the whole Persian Army..... Was a very well shot movie and had some amazing dialogue delivery and screenplay...... Came to know that the Oracle was a creation of the Spartans and then she was quite young..... Guess that is why she was really old in the Matrix trilogy!!!! :) The only disonnect is that she seemed to change along the way from a blonde to an Afro- American!!!!!
Watched 'The Pursuit of Happiness' on Sunday... Nice movie....A really great performance from Will Smith. He seems to have come along way from Bad Boys!!!
Will signoff now in the hope that India shall beat Bermuda in their encounter today!!! Keeping my fingers crossed!!!
Regards
Had a pathetic weekend.... Started and ended with India vs Bangladesh on Saturday.... What a disgrace!!!! Pathetic.... It was a naked display of the gross stupidity that the Indian team brings to the table amidst its other capabilities like hypocrisy, idiosnycracy, over confidence and bullshitting!!! A suggestion here... Why not ban the Indian team from all forms of cricket for , say, 10 years..... This would allow stalwarts like Dravid, Sachin and Sehwag to train their sons to come and play for the country!!!!!
To engage myself in other activities, I watched two movies over the weekend,......
The first one on Satuday was '300'.... A great movie on the resistance of a few hundred men to the whole Persian Army..... Was a very well shot movie and had some amazing dialogue delivery and screenplay...... Came to know that the Oracle was a creation of the Spartans and then she was quite young..... Guess that is why she was really old in the Matrix trilogy!!!! :) The only disonnect is that she seemed to change along the way from a blonde to an Afro- American!!!!!
Watched 'The Pursuit of Happiness' on Sunday... Nice movie....A really great performance from Will Smith. He seems to have come along way from Bad Boys!!!
Will signoff now in the hope that India shall beat Bermuda in their encounter today!!! Keeping my fingers crossed!!!
Regards
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
1 year flies by
And hence cometh Wednesday!!!! The middle of the week...... Have you ever wondered why there are 5 working days in a week. Its to ensure that you work 2 days, take a break and work 2 days again.... That is why there are 5 working days!!!!
Yesterday, I was speaking with a couple of friends when suddenly the realisation dawned on us that our juniors from our MBA campus were graduating on 24th March.... And trust me, it hit me pretty hard.... Feels like it was just now that we graduated but its almost a year now!!! A year gone is a year wasted is what people say....... Looking back, I try to think about what all I have done in the past one year..... I was supposed to get 'x' amount of pay/year and at the end of the year I end up with 0.3x.... Dunno where the 0.7 went.... The government took some... I must have spent some...and if indeed I spent so much money, what hits me even harder is that I do not have any assets to account for the capital expenditure made.....
Had only heard and read great people say.... 'Money is never enough'.... Have now lived through it!!!!! Hope Financial year 2007-08 is more easy on the pocket!!!
Dudes and dudettes!!!!Truly money is never enough!!!!
And So I rest my case!!!
Regards
Yesterday, I was speaking with a couple of friends when suddenly the realisation dawned on us that our juniors from our MBA campus were graduating on 24th March.... And trust me, it hit me pretty hard.... Feels like it was just now that we graduated but its almost a year now!!! A year gone is a year wasted is what people say....... Looking back, I try to think about what all I have done in the past one year..... I was supposed to get 'x' amount of pay/year and at the end of the year I end up with 0.3x.... Dunno where the 0.7 went.... The government took some... I must have spent some...and if indeed I spent so much money, what hits me even harder is that I do not have any assets to account for the capital expenditure made.....
Had only heard and read great people say.... 'Money is never enough'.... Have now lived through it!!!!! Hope Financial year 2007-08 is more easy on the pocket!!!
Dudes and dudettes!!!!Truly money is never enough!!!!
And So I rest my case!!!
Regards
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