RED ALERT HYDERABAD!!

Bombay was on red alert and I was on my way back to room. And I suddenly realized I was walking down the area which is potentially the most prime terror target in the city. The hotel where we celebrated with our first salary had mechine guns popping out of sand bag bunkers at its entrance. Travelling in one of the cabs watching those loud decoratre Hyderabadi autos zip by... My cabbies' playing the famous Mohra numbers, while autowalaas here have loud sub-woofers. You can actually feel the melting pot that this city has become off late in the music these dudes play. Chillin in Hyd.. Great place to be.. the story about the numerous supercars on Hyderabad's roads'll be some other post.

SMILEY IN THE SKY :)

Today's one of the days when i saw these small immeterial things bring a smile to you in a rather pissing off day, which is all that really matters in the end. People around me know what's pissing me off. What my last post was all about.. the fiasco with my mails today and all this reminding me of my Ultimate Blues.

But this cumulative depression was suddenly cured when I was walking back from site. I looked up at the sky... BEEEAAUTIFULL!! the moon, the eversparkling lady Venus and Jupiter smiling down at us. The smiley in the sky cheered me up so much, i didn't even mind the evermad traffic of Hyderabad that was hellbent on steamrolling every pedestrian out there. Hyderamad traffic made me smile again when we guys spotted a typical hyderabadi auto, decorated loud, had 'BACHNA AE HASINO' written behind it.

Coming back to the smiley in the sky, I'm reminded of my sky-gazing days. Promise myself to get back at it. For the uninetiated just try and spot Venus, one of these days in the evening.. and I bet you'll be seduced into sky-gazing.

Can't help but imagine tonight's sky as nature sarcastic reaction towards the way we guys on earth are tearing each other apart. Reminding us that, "Hey! we'r in such a beautiful place!!"

SPANKING NEW BRAND OF ATTACKS! MODERN URBAN WARFARE, NOW IN INDIA!!
Yes its new! But look at it instantaneously, 'people running around in downtown Mumbai pelting grenades and firing AK47s, run out of primary ammo? make do with handguns', its nothing but a small scale enactment of how the Red army would've driven Nazis out of Warsaw, the script just going wrong about the conclusion, India successfully holds on to Mumbai.. or so it appears. The funniest part being, the made in India side of the story. Think of it, some of the attackers might have even voted in an election along with us!!
Going forward, enter new age weapons and technology, and we'll have the opportunity to witness modern urban warfare in a nearby neighborhood. I'm not going to write anything constructive. I'm busy, as well as pissed at the same time, so use my writing as nothing but a vent. Assuming that this new breed of terrorists are as relentless as the normal bomb blasters, we could well agree that we're perpetually at war. Cut the crap about everyone at war with terror all the time.. this is proper war you know.. grenades AKs and all? Correction, we're always on the defensive. OK lets be frank, we lag behind in our own defence. We don't even defend ourselves, we wait to be punched in our face and hold a first aid box in one hand, "READY TO MEET ANY EVENTUALITY!!". Yes that's what a shameless politician just shouted from the tube!

So why cry about the economic dowturn and a growth rate less than 8%?? After all at 6% we'll still hold the record for the highest wartime economic growth in history! And i'm sure this record'll stand unbeaten into eternity. As we can do what no one else can. Just don't give a dam when Indians die, atleast NOT before they die, you'll save up enough to post a wartime growth.

This might be the most pethetic blog i've ever written but it gives me immense pleasure and satisfaction.

Also Read: So They Can Blast Again and Whome Are We Kidding

RELY ON US: MERU, ANTITHESIS IF THE LONDON TAXI DRIVER

They say the London caby's are the smartest. And today, I arrived at Hyderabad for my ILP, and found their antithesis in one of the Meru Cab drivers. However convincing their punchline 'RELY ON US' may try to be, one can't rely on a chap who drives a cab and doesn't know where the Rail Station of the city is. Next I asked him to go to Gachi Bowli, where the ILP training center as well as the accommodation is, he asked me if I know the rout to that place!! Now at this point it is prudent to specify that Gachibowli and Hi tech city are the most frequented routs due to high corporate traffic directed there. Finally, we somehow reached Gachibowli and our man misses the place drives a couple of kilometers and then turns back again. Accommodation is decent, but I feel like a construction worker, with almost a whole new country coming up from scratch all around me. And the ILP accommodation at Gachibowli guy's, its no different. Its actually a half constructed building that's recovering its costs even before getting completely built. Jokes apart, as rickety as it may look from the outside, interiors are decent. Beware of mosquitoes guys you don't wanna be down with Chikungunya during ILP. It's also a bit of a letdown that girls live somewhere far off - Now that explains why so many ILP blogs talk about people staying late at the CMC center, till they'r kicked out including weekends.

ps- This post was Originally written on hyderamad.blogspot.com

A - A - A.. SERVE SOMEBODY

Yeah.. So when I was bout to say I've joined the earning population of this great society, I came to realize that I won't pocket any money while i'm training.. As in, I'm being paid but the salary will be credited only after the ILP's over, so Cheers!!

I'm on pocket money for sometime to come..

But whatever I'm one of the lucky few to have been called early enough, when companies are loath to pay even the people already on rolls. Well if you gotta serve somebody (i'm listenin to it right now), guess TCS is the best option..

Heeeee..

So what the hell am I cribbin bout.. Cheers again!! Btw nice song, n a good video too.. but the track i'm listenin to is different, Dylan's Guitar'll get you tranced in this one

SO THEY CAN BLAST AGAIN / THE DOVE IS KILLIN EVERYONE

I took her out, it was a Friday night
I wore Cologne, to get the feeling right
We started making out, and she took off her pants
But then bomb blast behind me

And that's about the time they made a ghost of me
Indians shouldn't take their lives so seriously.. Wat
ever happened to national security
Compassion is hypocrisy
And they say i should take it chill
So they can blast again
So they can blast again

Then later on, they wanna try phone
They called a mob, from a paid phone
The f****in circuit closed, the detonator charged
They'd all the marbles n the keels

And that's about the time they praised The One who weeps
Indians shouldn't take their lives so seriously.. Wat
ever happened to national security
THE DOVE IS KILLIN EVERYONE
But we won't go strangle Laden
So they can blast again
So they can blast again

And that's what the status quo does to me
Cos I do take my life seriously
Can't have'em doin their thing in my home
THE DOVE IS KILLIN EVERYONE
But we won't kill'em in their camp
So they can blast again
So they can blast again

So they can blast again

Another Set of Serial Blasts! This time in Delhi. Another song I reworded.. this Blink182 number's was a wierd target for me to reword. But for some reasons it just had to be this one.

I'm freaked out n frustrated..

Again referring to the absolutely pusillanimous international security policy I'm now more hopeless and less optimistic than what i was while writing 'WHOM ARE WE KIDDING?'. I've chosen this happy punk song cos first of all the recurrence of the attacks is well reflected in th recurring "SO THEY CAN BLAST AGAIN" and also i feel the contrast between the feel of the music and that of the lyrics i've put in, is striking. This difference i hope brings out how cheap n easy it is to take Indian lives.

In a faint hope that next time we vote, we talk politics, we write or express our views in any dam fashion, do anything socially significant.. We have national Security at the top of our minds.

Huh.. Guess i should try writing songs now rather than reword them..

PERPETUAL UNIVERSE: SWEET CHILD O' MINE

Bewildered by crazy concerns about the earth eating black hole I thought does the universe actually end? Certainly it does if it has a beginning. The point is.. how sure are we of a beginning? Retracing the expanding universe to a tiny unity is one thing, but looking beyond this extrapolated time line i feel a perpetual machine is a logical possibility. A universe where the cycles of expansion and collapse are more or less sinusoidal.

The very thought of a perpetual universe amazingly reminds me of something I thought of when I was a toddler. As a lil kid who didn't quite know of something called death, I very conveniently explained immortality to myself. I used to be up to all mischievous things and when stopped by my parents i would yell back that when I grow up.. all of you will become little and then, I'll boss over you!!

As illogical as it may sound, I feel that's the most natural conclusion for anything perpetual. Conceiving the notion of a perpetual universe, i feel would indeed throw a very different light on.. everything (and would certainly prove Einstein's wronged theory right!). Hypothetical as it sounds now, an unending universe for me is a signal that existence can indeed be sustainable. That all beautiful things are not doomed. That life in fact can be immortal!

Come to think of it, immortality of humans or that of life in general, is neither illogical nor immoral. If mass and energy together can be indestructible so can life. Again just like them life'll have to change forms. Yes the world as we know it will come to an end. It happens everyday to many people.. but life goes on. A belief in this perpetuity might give a new more moral question to humanity in general and to astrophysics in particular. The question of what we want the universe to be rather than what Universe has in store for us..

By the way the CERN experiment is not about a perpetual universe, and certainly not about immortality. Its just gonna checkout the conditions immediately after big bang.. (if at all there was a bang)

WORST PAKOMENTARY!!

Off late the Pakistani's have found a befitting reply to Sidduisms. In fact they go one up, cos they're so successful in missing the context completely! Here's the best of Pakomentary that I observed during many matches of the tri-series in Pakistan, courtesy Ramiz Raja with some help from Aamir Sohail.

Its not clear as to how complimentary it was of Ramiz to say that "Simon Toffel won't refer to the third umpire unless it was absolutely not necessary"!

Though the "halp from flet track" accent could be accommodated the basics for all curators went for a six, when Ramiz gave this expert comment during the pitch report,"Its as flet as a mirror, a nightmare for the bats.."!

Cut to the middle of a blazing Sehwag innings and the Pakomentric sense of humor cuts loose complimenting an in form Sehwag. A boundary past midwicket n Aamir Sohail says "Sehwag's lovin it" and Ramiz snaps back"cos he ate at Mcdonald's".

That's not all that they find funny. There's no stopping this duo from having a blast in the box as they get overjoyed to see Mohammed Yousuf bust his package while fielding, dragging they're giggles into the countless replays they relish.

There's no end to Ramiz's fantasies as he fancies branding the Dhoni-Rohit partnership which was decently consolidating the innings, "this Dhoni-Sharma relationship.."!

After analyzing the match (and taking tables for bar charts) our man arrives at the presentation ceremony, where he promptly cautions the presentation party to handover the correct trophy to the man of the match!

Top it all up as the match referee is called on to receive his memento, our man blurts out, "YOU CAN REMOVE YOUR GOGGLES, THE MATCH IS ALL OVER!!"

GET IT RIGHT BEFORE LATE, IT'S INDIA OR CHINA NOT INDIA AND CHINA

I would like to start this reply quoting our Finance Minister Mr. Chidambaram. He said "Some people in India do not want India to b ahead of China". My friends please.. its my humble request, we the people of India need to realize that the greatest threat to India today is from China. China is our greatest, strongest, meanest, and most hazardous enemy ever. Its common Indian mentality to hate the people who are at the top, who dictate terms because of their success. USA is one such country which, like any other successful country is trying to control world affairs. India has always held its own turf against USA.

1. We snubbed USA when it came to protecting our farmers at the WTO on the issue of farm subsidies.

2. We have always been vocally against USA on the issue of attacking Iran.

Now lets examine another excerpt from the mail i got: "USA does not like the amicable relationship between India-Iran and also India-China. If India-China relationship gets stronger, then both these can rule the Eastern Part of the Globe which USA wants to break as pertheir divide & rule."

This part of this communist propaganda is nothing but a personification of hypocrisy.
It is impossible to divide India and China any further. China has always acted like our enemy and still does. I'll show you how:


1. Any man women or child who says "I'M PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN" will never take China for a friend. Last time we befriended them they replied with a war which has still scarred our nation with deep divisions in Tibet and the north east. It was a slap so bad no one, with any dignity can forget. Its simple.. "IF YOU FEEL ANY DIGNITY IN BEING AN INDIAN YOU'LL NEVER THINK OF INDIA AND CHINA AS FRIENDS. CHINA IS OUR ENEMY. PERIOD."

2. Everyone knows we could have won the war with our superior air force. But Nehru the coward visionary got scared and left the North East to fend for itself. Ever since that time China has supported the Junta in Burma and use it as a potential base against India. They build logistic support there and maintain military capacity in a clandestine fashion, they're also building ports and canals there to get access to the Bay of Bengal. They have always supported Pakistan, Maoists supported by China are gaining ground in Nepal like never before, they own Myanmar from all practical and strategic perspectives, now they're building ports close to Andaman and as far as Sri Lanka and increasing their influence around India."CHINA IS ENCIRCLING INDIA IN A VERY THREATENING WAY" If we still don't wake up.. India will forever be a Subordinate to China, like UK is to USA, ever since its misadventures at Suez.

3. CHINA CLAIMS SIKKIM. If you don't know, they refused to give Visas to Sikkim IAS officers as they claim Sikkim is theirs and Sikkim residents need no Visa to travel to China.

4. CHINA IS INHUMAN. I don't even need to elaborate on this. Go search the net and you'll find how communists in general and China in particular fare in Human Rights. So far as Government is concerned CHINA KNOWS NO RELIGION, NO DIGNITY FOR HUMANITY, NO DECENCY, to say the least. Any religious buildings preserved are only for the sake of tourism. How Cheap can you get?!

5. CHINA IS IRRESPONSIBLE TOWARDS MOTHER NATURE. You'll get ample info on this too. It'll also serve well to prove that we cannot afford to increase the production of thermal power any further.. Its unethical.. Its suicidal. Global warming (of which China is the leading cause) will soon cause Gangotri and with it Ganga to vanish!!

6. CHINA ATTACKS INDIA IN ANY CHEAP WAY POSSIBLE. IT'S DIVERTING WATER FROM BRAHMAPUTRA TO STOP INDIA TO GET AMPLE WATER SUPPLY. When north east's development is hurdled.. the divisive sentiments are used against Indian intigrity.

7. CHINA IS AGAINST ANYTHING SYMBOLIZING INDIA. China is the only country in the world that supports TIGER SKIN TRADE. China wants our national animal extinct. It has stooped low enough to actively support hunting and trade of tigers hunted inside our national reserves. This could be controlled only when Dalai Lama appealed to Tibetans.

I think its enough to break any illusions one might have about India and China prospering together " to rule the eastern world!!!" LAUGHS :D

Coming to Nuclear deal.

1. Our military purpose reactors will not under any IAEA scanner whatsoever. We're not dependent on USA for fuel. We have lots of suppliers like France, Australia, New Zealand to choose from.. including Russia(Keep that in mind).

2. Do you realize what this deal means? We will be the only nation outside the NSG to have supply of Nuclear fuel and technology while we rightfully pursue our military nuclear program. Its a vindication of India being the most responsible Nuclear weapons state.

3. Safety of fuel supply. There's every provision for India to stockpile nuclear fuel. We can develop a contingency stock for our reactors, which can be used if India does Nuclear tests, and if any country unintelligently decides to stop supplies. After all this, if the deal is broken, who cares, we can even use this fuel to develop weapons. No one can dictate terms to India in such a scenario. As such it'll be very bad business sense to stop supplies.. even if India does a nuclear test.

4. Don't you see the opportunity?! Why do you think USA wants the nuclear deal. There's no oil in India for American companies to exploit. India has only 1 greatest resource in the world. They want to exploit India's abundant cheap labor. Which the IT sector already facilitates in India and the manufacturing industry, in China. NOW.. Remember America is all about the capitalist interests of its companies. American nuclear companies, through this deal would be hoping to develop cheap technology in Asia rather than expensive productuion in America. This is impossible in China, their only remaining option? India.
Ones production facilities are established in India.. India will be the cheapest provider of nuclear technology in the world. We will then be the people laying sanctions not recieving them. DO YOU REALIZE THE STATURE OF INDIA IN THE WORLD THEN? You don't become a superpower through sheer hard work. You need to be smart.

AFTER ALL THIS.. IT'S CLEAR:

1. BOTH U.S. AND CHINA ARE RIGHT IN FLEXING THEIR MUSCLE AGAINST POTENTIAL ADVERSARIES. ITS WE WHO NEED TO STOP ACTING FOOLISH AND REALIZE THAT THE THREAT IS FROM CHINA NOT U.S.A.

2. U.S.A NEEDS US MORE THAN WE NEED THEM.. WE HAVE MANY OPTIONS.. THEY DON'T.

3. CHINA AND INDIA ARE BOTH RISING, AND ONLY ONE OF US WILL SURVIVE TO WORLD SUPREMACY.. ITS A FIGHT TO DEATH.

INDIA'S POWER WILL GROW ONLY AND ONLY WHEN CHINA'S POWER WILL BE FULLY OR PARTLY DESTROYED

WAKE UP!!!!!

WHOM ARE WE TRYING TO FOOL? WE AREN'T 1 BIT RESILIENT.. WE'RE JUST NOT BOTHERED, WAITING TO BE BLOWN APART

One more blast and we've got the intelligent Bangalorean reiterating that we're resilient and won't be bothered by such cowardly acts. We almost claim victory by 'not being scared'. Agreed scaring us is the prime aim of terrorism in general. But to complete the whole story.. We ain't scared, that is, until we or someone we love is blown away, in one of these blasts which we, by our own (sometimes proudly) admitted resilience, have accepted to be a norm of life in India. Loose a limb in this blast and you'll be scared for the rest of your sad life.. but if the blast didn't let Venkat Babu complete his snack at Gokul Chat... hmm.. no I'm not scared, I'm 'resiliently' NOT BOTHERED! By the way, i really can't expect a lot many people to remember Gokul Chat.. After all we're so proudly amnesiatic about terrorist attacks on our nation, we're so not bothered when Indian lives are lost. This is the absolute and grim reality of our public perception which we're dubious enough to brand as the "never say die spirit" of the Mumbaikar and the "resilience" of the Bangalorean.

Fine, so we can't be not bothered.. Done- I'm angry at all these attacks, matched in their regularity only by the fall of wickets in the Indian batting lineup. So what do I do? Cancel my plan t hit Elevate tonight? No! I could start by at least cutting the crap about not being bothered. I could believe that collectively we could all act to make terrorist attacks at least a rarity if not history. We could agree that we and our indifference to the whole scenario has some part to play in today's blast. We could all express our opinion in ways even more effective than writups or blogs like these.. Anything that would make national security an issue.. a "Chunaavi Muddaa".

Lets face it.. We as public find a lot of issues more important than National Security. This, in an amazing organic democracy like ours has translated into a pathetic and shamefully reactive international/security policy rather than a proactive one, in existence, I would say, ever since the days of Nehru (remember the sweet memories of the crushing defeat to Mao?- i wasn't even born then). We the junta where no one is aam have to take strong steps towards spreading awareness that National Security and a more aggressive international policy are the most alarming national needs to be addressed by us, the Nation, today. This threat today is as dangerous from China as eternal it has been from the fundamentalist forces. Sadly, both these threats are increasingly finding agents in Indians (Bangalore attack could be a made in India). I find it prudent to quote Chidambaram here.. "There are some people in the country who do not want India to catch up with China. They do not want India to be ahead of China,". I do not wish to get diverted, but you see Naxals are as big a threat to Indian lives as the fundamentalist terrorist groups. Yes we are being soft on all anti Indian elements.. But we are a democracy and we can today, change this by putting the right issues in perspective. But for that to happen we first have to be... yeah.. BOTHERED!

U D R

Upload to Download Ratio. A simple way to measure how much information one puts on the Web in return of what the web provides us. Heres the inspiration:

1. We are all always, surrounded by information provided by people. Today our exposure to web increases our exposure to information.

WAIT not just information, 'Knowledge'.

This Knowledge varies with the culture of the Authors.

I've heard many a concerned parents say:
"Internet has ruined my children and exposed them to 'western' influences"

2. From many genuine points of view, chiefly from a logical standpoint, this exposure to the web has detrimental effects on exposed culture(s) and communities which do not contribute to the majority of the content on the web,

I've heard some wise man say..
"Preserving diverse cultures is preserving diverse interpretations of life itself"
So,

3. If we measure the amount of content contributed by individuals (and thus groups of individuals) on the web in relation to the amount they read or absorb i any other form, it could to be a tangible measure of what influence is an individual is having on the web in return to the influence the web has on the individual, thus giving the Upload to Download Ratio or the UDR.

4. Obviously the higher the UDR the higher influence the concerned individual has on the web.

5. Encouraging higher UDR will help the web become a better represented place. Naturally when we take groups of people with common culture into account.. the cultures with a higher UDR are better preserved while being exposed to the web and all its influences.. Good or bad.

6. Further more a software can be written to simply measure the UDR at every connected terminal, and provide the details to not just the individual but also to a central server to analyse the data on a group, population and country level.

information>Knowledge>culture>content>(ratio of content written to content read)>UDR

WE(b) 2.0?

For most, socializing is a natural evolutionary progression. In fact, out of the confines of the house, school was our first platform for socializing... Information not just from a limited source and medium but from various sources syndicated by various people and then is given to us in various forms. Now to my eyes the original source blurs in the layers of syndication in this brave new world. Much like whats happening on the web today.. we are increasingly interacting not with chunks of information or code but effectively with people.

So doesn't it sound like WEB 2.0? Social networking, syndication, wikis, communities facilitating more and more collaboration among people... Are we today observing a replay of our own evolution, as increasingly social beings, in the virtual world? This video sure did get me thinking..



Perhaps theres no better version of the wondrous invention web is. Web 2.0: Same old web, new methodology, new objectives.. socialize, collaborate.. its just a brand new us. WE 2.0?

wat say? C'mon i need some feedback here..

WHERE IS THE PRIDE??

2 Women molested on new year's eve in Mumbai and the Police chief was in with some inspirational words:

He termed it "just an offence", and asked the media not to "blow the case out of proportion", adding that TV channels and newspapers were "itching for something like this to happen."
add to that..
"I cannot post a cop to police every man in the city. These things can happen anywhere, even right here where we are,"
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Next,
Terrorists attack Indian Army barracks and the police official in charge says: "Sometimes they succeed, as sometimes we do."
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Ultimately, I feel, the failure at work isn't as incredible as is the attitude itself! An attitude that is so accommodating of failure! These incidents took place in two different parts of the country and we all know this attitude isn't limited to cops alone. All we ought to ask ourselves is, WHERE IS THE PRIDE?