Of oppositions, atheism, agraharams and atyachar

A guide to Tamil Nadu politics

Udal mannukku, uyir Tamizhukku(the body is for the soil and life is for Tamil). These were the words which brought Annadurai’s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam to power in the 1960′s.  So great was the margin of their victory that the congress was literally driven out. This was at a time when the rest of the country wasn’t aware that parties other than the Congress even existed.

Tamil politics are, without any exaggeration, the most contradictary, confusing, and weird in the nation. First off, it’s been over four decades since a national party came to power in this Dravidian state. It’s people are cut-off from the national mainstream and want to be disassociated from the rest of the nation.

Talk to an average Tamilian and he will say “I am a Tamilian first and an Indian second. The Tamil interest is of much greater consequence to me than that of the nation.” And this is clearly seen from the fact that it’s denizens overtly support the man who was responsible for the assassination of our former Prime Minister. Tamil pride is way more important to them than national pride is.

Before you start judging the people, please think about the reasons for their behaving in such a way. Tamils are pretty much ridiculed and hated in most of north India. This post does not support either side, but merely tries to analyse the cause and consequence of the emotions which run high in our country. Most Tamilians feel the centre has been unjust to their state ever since it’s formation, which is why the anti- Hindi movement was such a huge success in the 1960′s.

Most people who visit from the north are disgusted by their adamance to not speak Hindi even if they know it, but the reason, contrary to popular belief, is not just because Karunanidhi encouraged it. Rather, MooKa encouraged it because of the public’s obstinacy.

Further, hardly anyone spoke Hindi in Tamil Nadu throughout. After Hindi was made the national language, all milestones and roadsigns were written solely in Hindi and English. Apart from the fact that they wanted it written in ther own language, it’s also true that a not so well educated guy’s vocabulary in the national language is limited to “arey bai acha acha.” Protests to get it written in Tamil as well did not yield the Congress government led by Rajaji, who even made it a compulsary language in schools. At the same time, Dravidar Kazhagam, a social service organization, spawned the Dravidar Munnetra Kazhagam- it’s political faction. These guys started the agitation, and the rest is history.

In any part of the country, it is a big thing for a Dalit to win an election anywhere except a reserved constituency. Here, on the other hand, a Dalit candidate is a norm. A forward class candidate’s win is the equivalent of a Dalit winning in another state.

The state of Indian politics at the moment:

The Congress has allied with the DMK. Another comical case of desperation overruling ideological differences. The congress is mainstream while DMK is anti-national. The Congress wants Prabhakaran dead for killing it’s leader and doesn’t mind killing a few insignificant civilians during it’s course. It therefore, supplies weapons to the Sri Lankan government. The DMK leader on the other hand calls Prabhakaran his “friend” and says he wants the LTTE to survive and fight.

End result: weapons are provided from the centre to SriLanka and the state starts an agitation against Sri Lanka using those weapons, provided by their allies. But the Congress and DMK are chaddi buddies

That’s a merger of difference in ideologies. On the other hand, let’s compare the two biggest parties in the state.

The DMK and AIADMK don’t have an iota of difference in ideology and are sworn enemies.

DMK was started by the champion of Kanchipuram- C.N. Annadurai. The AIADMK was started by MGR in memory of Annadurai to implement his ideology.

Dialogue from the movie Iruvar(translated) to best describe the difference in these two parties: “Our ideals are one, but our fortresses are different.”

Let us examine some more contradictions in my home state:

In the land of Iyers, Iyengars, Agraharams, Ayyanars, and Andal, the biggest atheism movement in this part of the world grew. Notorious for their idol breaking and blasphemy(which runs till date), the then Congress chief minister Rajaji of the Madras province, had no choice but send off his deity Balaji of Thirupathi to neighbouring Andhra when the states were formed. In exchange, Tamil Nadu got industrialised Madras, the southern port of the Brits. I digress, but that’s why Madras Tamil has Telugu and Urdu words sparsely peppered in it. e.g: jobi, Kosam, kastam, Nizam, Inam etc.

Looking at it even more microscopically, you’ll find that each district is a microcosm to this contradiction. DMK is the party which has a problem with god and religion and indulges in blasphemy. AIADMK only arrests religious heads and brings in conversion laws. The most religious of places in Tamil Nadu(Hindu) are Kanchipuram and Madurai. They are extremely religious and support the atheists with a vengeance. Thirunelveli, on the other hand, has a Christian majority, and that’s a stronghold of the AIADMK, the party which brought anti-conversion laws to the state.

Karunanidhi is a staunch atheist in the open. He asked “who is this Ram? Which engineering college did he graduate from?” when religious heads opposed the Sethusamudram project because it involved the breaking of a bridge, believed to be built by lord Ram. But it is rumoured that he visits the temple in his street at 2 in the morning to apologise for his blasphemy. Also he wears a yellow shawl, which people say is associated with religion. He is against all languages except Tamil, yet his TV channel has an English news programme.

Jayalalithaa is a very strong willed person, but not a very adept politician. During MooKa’s rule, rowdyism is given a free hand, and police powers are very limited. During her rule though, they come down on miscreants with an iron hand. She believes in numerology and is a devotee of Sri Sri Ravishankar, yet she arrested the Sankaracharya when he was suspected for murder, that is something not many politicians would be willing to try for fear of losing the Hindu majority vote bank.

She also proved that she is not for or against any religion by bringing in conversion laws at the same time. To curb the conversions to christianity through force and money, she brought in some guidelines which missionaries have to follow while carrying out conversions. This bill was soon removed because the missionaries went on a hunger strike in Velankanni and Bishops appealed to the entire Christian community to vote against her. This was again a very bold move on her part, because Christians too, are a large chunk of the population in southern TN.

The reasons for Jayalalithaa losing the 2006 elections were mainly because she fired over 7000 state government employees for staging a protest, the conversion laws, the Acharya arrest, and the Vijaykanth factor. Quite a few people who traditionally voted for her, voted for Captain. As a result of this, Captain won a lone seat in the assembly elections but got his deposit back in most constituencies. The DMK vote remained intact on the other hand. This way, the DMK gained a majority, not because of its own credibility, but because the entry of Captain into politics got Amma to lose.

I’ll end my post this time not with a poll analysis but my opinion of the two parties, and why I support one of them.

The DMK harasses the public in the name of law enforcement. MooKa changed the date of the Tamil new year. The month Chitrai is like January in the Tamil calender. He changed Thai to the first month of the year. That’s equivalent to changing new year from January to October. The only thing I can fathom from this is that he is old and will soon kick the bucket, and wants to do something to prove his might like Augustus Caesar, who tried to make August the most important month of the year.

Not only did he change the date, he also passed an oral order saying the traditional reading of the Tamil calender in temples on new year’s day must be stopped. He, as an atheist, has no reason or right to stop a community from celebrating a festival. It goes against democracy.

Also, he has increased reservation percentage to 77% in the state(as far as I remember), when the constitution clearly mentions that a figure over 50% is not permitted. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against reservation for the oppressed communities, but you don’t make the general quota to be lesser than the reserved. The forward communities are not intelligent or privileged enough to get admitted into colleges with 23% seats.

Jayalalithaa has her own flaws. She comes down too strong on issues she believes strongly against, without pausing to think about why it was caused and what effect her actions will have. But at the same time, she is fair and just. More so, she is a woman who has stood up against MooKa, who vanquished all his foes by force on his way up the ladder. Standing up to him is no small feat, even more so for a woman.

Last but not the least, she is extremely well educated, intelligent, and talented. She has an entire library of books, each and every one of which she has read. She has prowess in nine languages, and has much more experience in dealing with issues. For reasons wrong or right, I feel the educated are much better informed and can handle situations in a much more comprehensive manner.

Whether Amma is going to win this time or not is a different issue, but my support she definitely has, and I urge my fellow Tamils to follow suit.

Going 2 steps down

Never have I seen a state where former chief ministers are small fry. In the present Karnataka elections, you have S. Bangarappa-(CM from 90-92 representing INC) fighting B.Y. Raghavendra-son of current chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa in the Shimoga constituency, and opinion polls show that the latter has quite a good chance of winning(it’s his first election).

Deve Gowda, a former CM and former prime minister lost to a new entrant Tejaswini Gowda of the congress by a margin of 1 lakh votes in Kanakapura in 2004!

Veerappa Moily(CM 92-94 INC) is performing Dare Devil antics. He’s leaving his constituency which voted him in for the past 15 years and is standing in a far off place. Bold move. A bit too bold in fact.

As for the others such as Dharam Singh and J.H Patel, they don’t even have an appearance at the moment. S.M Krishna and Kumaraswamy have been reduced to whimpers after completion of their terms.

In the end, it’s the present CM who tramples in everywhere and says “I’m Yet-your-appa”

The Swiss, the swindler, and the stupid

We all know that one of the BJP’s points in the election manifesto is to bring back the approximate amount of Rs. 25 lakh crore stashed away is tax havens abroad, particularly Switzerland. The Congress response to this was that they are doing the “requisite” to bring this money back and doesn’t need lessons from the BJP. The media response to this was to laugh and speculate in jest.

Hardcore supporters of the Congress even question as to why the BJP didn’t do it’s part to bring this money back when in power. Since NaMo* or LalAd** have not been instrumental in giving their reply so far, I shall do my part in giving a(largely) neutral account of this.

The attention span and memory of the public is shortening at an alarming pace, and the media, as usual, conveniently forgets, the real reason why this point was brought out by the NDA.

Let’s get to the heart of the matter. Switzerland has certain tax laws which enable citizens of other countries to open numbered accounts in their banks. These banks have security measures which make Fort Knox go green with envy. They won’t reveal the identities of these account holders even at gun point.

As a result, you have the rich from all over the world making trips to the Alps every year to stash away some of their “hard earned” money. Recent information reveals that it’s the heads of state of the poorest countries in Africa who hold the largest accounts. They aren’t able to enjoy the money themselves as they are under the public eye at all times, nor do they let the country use what’s rightfully theirs.

Back to our story. The Swiss goons usually never reveal the identities of their clients, because their laws protect them. But what happened last year was, the head honcho of the guys who speak the “high” form of their(the Swiss) language(for the Deutsch illiterate, the Germans), pressurized the Swiss govt. to release the names of the Germans holding accounts in some particular banks.

Needless to say, they obliged, and in that list, the Germans found the names of about 300-400 Indians as well, along with citizens of other countries. As they had no use for these, they sent word to each of these countries. When India received this information last year, it came under the jurisdiction of the then finance minister- P. Chidambaram. He was told that the information would be given, but they need to ask for it in writing as a formality. He in turn gave them a request which a only a man trained in Harvard can:

“Give us the list of all the income tax payees from India holding numbered accounts in Switzerland.” Now I’m assuming my dear readers have something in their craniums/crania, and thus I ask you all to think;

how is the German government supposed to know/ infer who in that list is an income tax payee of India and who isn’t?

And so that list remained in a shelf in Deutschland and is gathering dust till date. And the UPA claims they are doing the “needful” to obtain that money. Wow. No prizes for guessing why PC did such a thing.

THAT is why the NDA couldn’t do this during their own time.

Update: Swiss bank rules were relaxed only in 2006-07 under pressure from USA, UK, and various countries in Europe including Germany. Before that they were rock-solid. Remember Bofors anyone?

And as for the members of the press poking fun at Advani for bringing this point to the fore; please read the article titled”Swiss ask US to drop tax evasion case” in the Indian Express-27/4/2009. The summary of the article is that UBS, a bank in Switzerland, has agreed to pay the American government a penalty of $ 780 million, and also reveal the identities of 300 of it’s American clients to avoid legal trouble, but Obama has refused and the case continues. The reasons for the US and India pursuing this is the same- recession. This money can save us from all our troubles.

Article titled “NaMo rules Nanoland” in “The Week” calls this statement of a 55 year old security guard in Gujarat “Times have changed and there is recession. We need this money now” blind faith towards Modi. But I feel that’s very mature coming from someone of his stature in society, and I agree. I’m not blind to the sins of Modi either.

These banks are estimated to have in totality around $ 11 trillion, that’s 11*10^ 12. For those who think in Rupees, it’s Rs. 5.5*10^14 or Rs. 550 trillion in today’s exchange rates. Of this, the Indian amount is estimated at Rs. 25 lakh crores. That’s 13 times larger than our foreign debt! The interest generated by this itself will be larger than our budget. This amount can not only save India from the recession but also eradicate poverty and get our GDP up by more than 50% (this is when I get dreamy and assume that a social evil called corruption does not exist).

Coming to the Advani bashing(you thought I was lying weren’t you), Chidambaram said the right thing when he said LalAd was unwittingly warning the guys who actually have accounts up there, and they can easily make arrangements to transfer their money elsewhere. Assuming the BJP does come to power, it will take a while before they can actually get through the bureaucracy and start letting the money flow in. By the time you get to the banks, the money would have vanished. A job like this has to be conducted in absolute secrecy, with even the second and third level politicians not catching a whiff of what’s going on, and the media being kept as far away as Yasser Arafat from a Barmitsvah. And if that’s done, the human rights activists and fans of “democracy” will cry foul.

Secondly, getting it back is by no means a simple job. For one, Switzerland in not the only country which is a tax haven, it is just the most well known. Various other countries in South America and islands around it, Mauritius and the Cherman islands also have such provisions. It is just not possible to tackle each and every one of them.

And third, supposing you do manage to get your hands on the account, it’s contents, and the name of the person who holds it, you will not find anyone willing to own up to the account. The reason is this:

If you have an account containing 50 crores worth of cash, not only will the government seize that money, but also charge you with a penalty for that amount. So you’d be better off losing the account alone.

Due to all the other factors mentioned, this cannot be implemented by the NDA and will not be implemented by the UPA even if they could.

In the end, you’re still going to have the ameer baap ka bigada bachcha(spoilt son of a rich dad) who’ll squander his inheritance just to change the colour of black money, and you can do nothing to stop him, so there. I said it before and I’ll say it again- corruption can be removed(or tackled very effectively) only in movies like Sivaji.

* NaMo: Narendra Modi

** LalAd: Lal Krishna Advani/ Lalchand Kishenchand Advani

Sorry I’m a thambi at heart. Every politician has to have a name like “MooKa.” It’s fun

Other such names- anyone who can guess who all of them are wins a free trip to where ever you are right now

SoGa, LaPiYa, MuSi, RaGa, JaJa, ChaBaNa, SuSwa, RaSi, DeGo, BooBha, MaSi, NiKu, VaRa(ha), (ma)RaTha, ViDesh.

Don’t aske me who they are. I might forget the acronyms myself in a while.

Twin spark, fuel injection and Transformers

Bajaj does it again. Right from the “Humara Bajaj” days to the beginning of the “definitely male” saga, they never failed to strike a chord with their target audience. This is by far their best ad ever! It even received a mention in autoblog. The two R’s of the auto industry in India, Ratan Tata and Rahul Bajaj, have raised the bar real high. I raise my hat to you(figuratively).

Plus, Bajaj is launching it’s new 300 cc Pulsar with twin spark ignition in the US market! Here are some comments I found in autoblog.

Jeff Banks:

Upon checking their website, i’m even more pissed off.

They have a picture of their Pulsar 220 with the rider putting his knee down on a track. Plus it has:

-F&R disc brakes
-Fuel injection
-Tubeless tires
-Digital readout w/ oil temp

Air-cooled thumper sport bike? Yes please! Plus it’s probably cheaper than the Ninja 250 (which is Kawasaki’s best selling bike by far)

Asifgrkhan:

@Jeff Banks
Here is what will piss you off more. The 220 probably costs less than $2,000 in India. That is in a country where an Accord V6 or the Passat 2.0 retails for $50,000+.

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Rahul my boy, you have nothing to worry about. It’s all written.

Pulsar 300

Mayawati and her party BJP

Hai I am an uber cool guy who started following the elections last week and boy am I excited. In my family, the people who are least interested in politics are my brother. I told him to start following but he say he want to study for entrance exam. He doesn’t care about our country waste fellow.

I am a student of Chemical engineering third year in aniramzee’s college. I don’t like wasting my time watching sitcoms and youtube videos. I want to be busy always. So I joined a web-designing class last month. I also joined an off-roader building class this semester conducted by the mechanical department. That is how I know Anirudh.  My classmates told me I was fool to join but I told them I want exposure in all branches of engineering before I graduate. So what if I don’t have any projects related to Chemical on my resume? I’m learning that only in college na why waste time learning more about it outside?

I don’t understand any of what they teach in that class yaar, so I keep asking Anirudh questions in the middle. He said he also doesn’t understand but how can that be? He’s in mechanical na. He should know.

Today in class Anirudh was very quiet. Because I am interested in politics, I thought I would talk to him also. Maybe he also is interested in developing the country.

I am a very big fan of Mayawati and her party BJP. Anirudh told me her party is BSP but how can that be? I saw her right hand man on TV last week. He is a very good guy. I liked his speech. He told they are all just like the common people. They go to the villages and talk to the public, they partake food with them and drink water from their wells. Stupid Anirudh said that will make them stay hungry for a whole day but what does he know, he didn’t sawed that speech na. Uttar Pradesh has developed like mad after BJP came to power. Everyone is happy and has electricity.

Initially even I thought he was faking, but I could see he had something in him. He spoke from his heart. I thought I will vote for the elephant only this time in Bombay. Then I came to know from Anirudh that BJP is there only in Uttar Pradesh. So only I have decided not to vote for them. Now I have to look for another party to vote for. But I don’t think anyone can be as good as Mayawati.

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Sigh…you do have these cases everywhere don’t you.

BTW, I’m not exaggerating one bit. All characters in this post are purely original. Resemblance to certain persons alive but should be dead do exist and is not coincidental.

Update: A friend in my hostel didn’t find anything wrong with his thinking BJP was under Mayawati. He said it’s his “opinion.” Another product of Manipal University.

The poonal poem

Ode to the threads which straddle my left shoulder

Three threads for the Elephant king riding his mouse,

Six for the protector of the universe on his giant snake.

Nine for mortal men doomed to die,

None for the kshatriya kings on their golden thrones.

In the land of TamBram, where the kudumis lie.

Three threads for celibacy, nine threads for family,

One day to hold them all, and in the temple, don them.

In the land of TamBram, where the kudumis lie.

Key:

Brahmins wear the sacred thread, which is called the poonal. When unmarried, they wear 3 threads, after marrying it becomes six, and finally, depending on the sub-sect they belong to, they wear nine either when they become fathers or when their own father passes away.

The elephant king refers to Ganesh, who is a brahmachari, i.e, he is unmarried.His vehicle is a mouse.

Vishnu is the protector of the universe who resides on a giant snake with his wife Lakshmi, and he doesn’t have kids. Hence the six threads.

On the day of Avani-Avittam, Tamil brahmins perform a ceremony to cast off their old thread and don a new one.

Kudumi is the Tamil word which refers to the bun Brahmins in the olden days used to tie their hair in.

TamBram- Tamil Brahmin

Education was wasted on those who haven’t seen the original:

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

But where did it all come from?

Recession? What recession?
You hear it all these days;

1.I’m sorry I can’t call you this month sweety. My dad’s wallet is affected by the recession.
2. The fish aren’t biting these days. Probably cos of the recession.
3. The guys aren’t trying to grab my ass in the bus.Oh maybe recession.

But amidst all of this, when we’re bang in the middle of the Parliamentary elections, deep inside the recession with a myriad number of security threats, the country has people with enough money to hold the IPL in another country with just as much grandeur as they would’ve in India.

To top it all, thousands of citizens have the moolah to travel to South Africa and back for pure entertainment value.

But where did it all come from?

Drive like a dick-you’ll drop down like one too

A guy I know but am not too close to thinks he’s the next Rossi.And he’s slightly on the retarded(sorry if that’s politically incorrect) side as well.
I heard from a friend that he met with an accident a couple of days back.I wasn’t too surprised, considering the way he drives.Seems he was drop-dead-anytime-drunk and driving his bike in the outskirts of Manipal.
Obviously a person’s judgement is impaired when in the influence of alcohol, but you’ll be surprised…
He saw a stationary truck, and thought he’d do a Mission Impossible(drop sideways and slide down from underneath it!) and show off to his girl in Delhi the next day.
Well,he partially managed to slide it.Only he wasn’t on it when it did.He fell off and the bike got stuck under there.One mad truck driver,a face which now has skin between bruises and umpteen number of stitches later,he’s now in Delhi to show his girlfriend his booboos cos he isn’t in a position to attend classes.
When I heard this, I wasn’t like “is he ok?” I was more like “what a SOB! he got what he deserved.” Call me a bad person if you like. Like the Chennai Police’s campaign against drunken driving says- Devdas never drove.

A random post about nearly everything

This post is about nothing in particular, and yet it’s about everything I’m thinking about currently.I’m gonna try to tag people and get them to do the same thing.Let the words just flow.Random shit, totally incoherent, and yet, has to be fun to read.Here goes…

I hate BSNL’s caller tune concept.You pay to let your callers listen to a song you like when they call you, and in all probability, a normal person who isn’t busy picks his phone up in 2 or 3 rings, so you aren’t going to hear much of it anyway.My mom has a BSNL connection.Everytime I call her, I get this “Tring Tring(rings twice first) indha paatu ungalukkku pudichurindha unga BSNL tune aaka star buttona press pannunga kattanangallukku uthpattadhu.”

Translation: Tring tring(sorry can’t translate) if you like this song, press star to make this your BSNL tune.Charges apply.

Damn that Japanese sequence in “lost in translation” makes so much sense now

I’ve got to hearing the first few syllables of the song exactly four times so far in the past 2 months.

Karthik Kumar aka Evam Karthik is a decent actor but even Vijay chooses better roles in films.I’m saying this because I saw a play by his theatre troupe and though “The importance of being earnest” was a flabby show, I could see this guy has something in him.His role in Tamil movies is a template.There’s a main character, Karthik is his friend or some stranger whose parents are trying to get the female lead to marry him(Karthik).Our man i sitting in the US or is a US return(he was way more versatile in “poi solla porom.” He played someone who was leaving for the US!Multitalented personality!) He swaggers in everywhere with a fake and irritating US accent.Towards the end of the movie he’s stuck in India,no girl in hand(no bottle in hand either) and is celebrating the “louw” between the lead pair.

Mokka time (been a while.I’m rusty)

What do people do in the beach?

Kadala eating, kadala putting, kadalla swimming

(not worth translating)

Funny conversations or monologues I’ve heard in the past N years

1. I’m talking to a friend of mine.My tamil sucks.She’s trying to humiliate me(and did) cos she isn’t a Tamilian and her Tamil is even better.

She: What do you call Saturn in Tamil?

Me: Uhh…Shaniyan?

She: No that’s you.Saturn is Shani

2. Two friends of mine in Manipal. One’s hobby is to beat up the other.One fine day the beater walks into the beated’s room

Beater: I’m in a particularly violent mood today. I saw the movie “Salo” yesterday so you have to let me beat you up.

Beated:  On the contrary, I saw “Gandhi, my father” last night so you better respect ahimsa.

3. In the engine’s lab, we were performing a test on an ancient 2 stroke Bajaj Chetak engine;

Stupidguy: How many strokes does a Pulsar engine have?

Wiseguy: 1 and a half. When you kick it’s half a stroke.This triggers the engine and it performs another stroke by itself.

(this was more situational.Can’t blame you if you didn’t find it funny).

4.  In my first semester, there was a guy from Ramagundam in my hostel.His english wasn’t too great but he made up for it with his wit and attitude.In English speech class, his prof. told him to come forward and speak. Our man goes up to the podium…

“I talk, teacher FLATS! Teacher having small small bachches.I talk, teacher flats, bachches get anyayam.So I no talk.” And walks back calmly.

Teacher flats.

5. This one takes the cake.  Me and another guy in the hostel discussing politics;

Me: What do you think of those rumours of Sonia Gandhi being a bar-maid in Italy?

Sonia hater: Seems very possible. He sodomised her with a Rum bottle he found lying around. Reason enough for her.

6. Happened last night (18/4/09).

Naan: Dei nee yaaruku vote poda pora indha vaati?

Nanban(bodhaila): Advani paradesi nai da. Pota Soniave poturunum. Ava ponnum super. Mudinja avalayum poturven.

Translation:

Me: Which party are you going to vote for this time?

Friend(speaking from his heart): Advani bears resemblance to canines. Sonia is in her prime. Her daughter too, is right there. If she stood for the elections, my hand(in the polling booth) will go for her button.

That’s all for now.I’ll keep adding stuff to this post whenever I feel like it.Keep checking.

Yet another…yawn…election post

These elections are by far the most boring I’ve seen.There are way too many choices is the main problem.The fun lies in being able to pick one bad guy and swear at him for two months, and swear at him more if he wins the polls.With these many choices, its no fun swearing at everyone other than your favoured party.The two party system rocked!

It’s like the difference between test matches and T20.And no one person is going to win the election by himself.Coalition parties are…zzzz.Read the opinion polls of any state and instead of rejoicing or tearing the magazine apart, you feel like tearing your head apart.Politics should become something more commercial (I mean in a more entrepreneurial way).

The highlights of this election were the shoe throwing incidents.Chiranjeevi,Captain,the fourth front and the other losers out there,I’m ashamed of you all.You just removed the fun out of sofa  speculations