So a typical tuesday morning, get up check the papers, and lo and behold something else to talk about.
It seems our government has lost it(not that they ever had it but more so than usual).
The story starts in rural Haryana where the khap panchayat has decided that inter-gotra(same lineage) is forbidden. The government tried to intervene but was told that they are interfering in a caste matter. As soon as these magic words were used the government backtracked, as it always does when caste matters come to the fore.
The government treats the caste issue as some political hot potato something that is always meant to be handled with gloves and if possible put out of sight as fast as possible.
This is the 21st century and all the talk about india becoming a superpower is total and utter b.s. How do we expect to become a super power when we still have hangups for what our ancestors did over a hundred years ago???
All i can say i feel sorry for all the singhs of the country cause if those village idiots manage to modify the hindu marriage act then legally two singhs will not be allowed to marry even if they live on two opposite ends of the country and are related because at some point in the past(well over 500+ years ago) some singh had 30 kids and they all went their seperate ways and never saw each other again.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Mayavati and the Garland of Death
I think we all read the news and were suitable outraged at the fact that Mayavati got a garland of 1000Rs notes amounting to however many crores.
And the funniest thing happened the day after that, she got another one albeit made out of 100Rs and 500Rs notes, this was to underplay the one given the day before.
So mayavati is the leader of the "people" the common man yet she spends government money as if she herself has worked hard and earned it and paid it as tax.
The worst part is that supposedly an income tax investigation has been started but will mostly come to nothing.
This is to add to the recent spending Mayavati has done(again at public expense) to build statues of herself and the founder of the BSP. All done on the publics account.
When will this mad woman stop??
And when will we wake up and do something about it??
We have been passive players in our government too long always having to choose between the lesser of two evils and most of the time the guy we voted for ends up being either a money hungry neta, or a go-with-the-flow-for-votes neta.
With no accountability netas do their best to go out of their way to rob us blind.
This is literally government at its lowest, and reminds me of a time(the time being ancient rome), when the the senators of provinces would try and wring as much money out of the province as they could in their tenure to satisfy the goal set by the senate for their taxes and keep as much as they could for themselves.
And the funniest thing happened the day after that, she got another one albeit made out of 100Rs and 500Rs notes, this was to underplay the one given the day before.
So mayavati is the leader of the "people" the common man yet she spends government money as if she herself has worked hard and earned it and paid it as tax.
The worst part is that supposedly an income tax investigation has been started but will mostly come to nothing.
This is to add to the recent spending Mayavati has done(again at public expense) to build statues of herself and the founder of the BSP. All done on the publics account.
When will this mad woman stop??
And when will we wake up and do something about it??
We have been passive players in our government too long always having to choose between the lesser of two evils and most of the time the guy we voted for ends up being either a money hungry neta, or a go-with-the-flow-for-votes neta.
With no accountability netas do their best to go out of their way to rob us blind.
This is literally government at its lowest, and reminds me of a time(the time being ancient rome), when the the senators of provinces would try and wring as much money out of the province as they could in their tenure to satisfy the goal set by the senate for their taxes and keep as much as they could for themselves.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Stupid Common Man
Something to think about Shiv Senaiks....all of them must read this...
21st Feb 2010.
Dear Mr Shiv Sainik,
I trust you have read Rajdeep Sardesai’s open letter to Mr Uddhav Thakeray
doing the rounds on the internet. Frankly, for two reasons I won’t be
surprised if you haven’t. One, it is in English. And two, it is extremely
well-written and very thought–provoking. If you haven’t read it I suggest
you ask your children to translate it for you. Like the offspring of most
Shiv Sainiks I presume yours too are studying in the most elitist of convent
schools.
But first, let me introduce myself.
I am just a Stupid Common Man. Have you seen the film *‘A Wednesday’*? You
must, even though it is in Hindi. Nasiruddin Shah’s soliloquy at the end of
the film where he spits out his pent-up anger against the system and all
politicians will make your hair stand on end. He calls himself just a Stupid
Common Man. That’s what I am too, as are the faceless thousands and
thousands of us in this city. And like the Stupid Common Man, we are a very
angry lot today; angry at your silly and immature antics, and angry at the
city being held to ransom by your aging leader and his coterie of Yes Men.
I have tried to understand what your core values are, but I am stumped! Let
me spell out why.
Your agitation against Shah Rukh Khan, Rahul Gandhi, Mukesh Ambani and
Sachin Tendulkar turned out to be as riveting as a deflating balloon. Nobody
paid heed to your leader’s call, least of all we Bombay *manoos *who you
have turned into a kind of experimental guinea pigs in the political
laboratory. What kind of wishy-washy, spineless, sloppy fellows are you!
Sorry, Mr Shiv Sainik, the nation did not want an apology from SRK – far
from it. They just want good, edge-of-the-seat cricket. And the nation
showed what they think of your fading leader by making SRK’s film the
biggest grosser in Bollywood. What Rahul G gave you gentlemen was a
resounding slap-in-the-face by doing what your leader has never done – Rahul
mingled freely with the ordinary *manoos* in Bombay. Sachin endeared himself
to the whole country by proclaiming that he was an Indian first. As for
Mukesh Ambani, please await the next chapter.
Now let me tell you why we are an angry lot. Your creaky gramophone record
about Marathi pride being hurt has ceased to convince us any more. During
your current tenure at the BMC, 35 Marathi municipal schools were shut down.
Is this your idea of pride? Rahul Bose (I don’t think you gentlemen have
even heard of him) in a recent TV interview gave statistics to show that
Bombay has already lost out to Delhi in virtually every department of
administration. Forget Delhi, it is losing out to Ahmedabad and Hyderabad.
Is this your idea of pride?
And your flip-flop about allowing the Australians to play in Bombay has many
of us in splits. If you are against immigrants, surely you should be
supporting racism in Australia! And if you are protesting racism in Oz, does
it mean that you have had a change of heart about the North Indians? Is this
pride, or total Alzeimeric confusion? Yes, we are angry at your threats to
paralyse Bombay at the drop of a sparrow’s droppings. And, more important,
we are angry at your wanton destruction of public property. Your loss at
successive elections is enough proof of the adage *“You can fool some of the
people all the time, or all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool
all the people all of the time.”*
Now let me tell you why some countries are great and the others are not.
This will perhaps appeal to you, if you have progressed beyond high school.
You have probably heard of a country called USA – it is the most powerful
nation in the world today. It is so because of the way it allows the human
potential to flower and flourish. Leaders – in politics and in business - in
the US come from all parts of the world. If you ever were an avid newspaper
reader (real newspapers, not the Saamna variety) you will recall that there
was a man called Henry Kissinger. He was a German refugee from the
Holocaust, and he became Secretary of State. That Mrs Indira Gandhi gave him
a bloody nose during the ’71 war is another story. But let me give you an
example that you would probably relate to better. You surely have seen
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s films. He flexes his biceps and can put Salman K to
shame – iconic and breath-taking stuff for your stone-throwing, public
property-destroying foot-soldiers. He migrated from Austria about 40 years
ago determined to make it big in the US. Arnold is presently Governor of
California. And there are several Indians in Obama’s (he happens to be the
President of the US) administration, including a few Marathi *manoos* (No,
Please, Al Gore is NOT a Marathi *manoos*). And their contribution to
American society and economy is just enormous.
The point I am making is simply this: you can throw out the ‘outsiders’ only
at your economic peril. All along you have been talking only about job
reservations. Have you ever given a thought to job creation? Have you ever
wondered why very, very few Marathi *manoos *make it to the IFS, IAS, IRS
and the higher echelons of the armed forces? It’s now high time you gave a
thought to that, AND DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!
Now try to picture this. Bombay accounts for about 35% of the income tax
collections of the country. This you probably know. What you probably do not
know is that companies pay income tax in the city where their registered
offices are situated. Now just imagine - and please try to do so seriously
because we are not talking *kaanda bhajiya* but real big mega stuff – what
would happen if the big 3 suddenly decided to shift their registered offices
to Baroda, or Bangalore, or Delhi? Do you recall the downfall of Calcutta
when Charu Mazumdar and his naxalite thugs ran amok there? And the ruins of
Uganda when Big Boy Idi Amin threw out the Indians? In economic terms it’s
called flight of capital. The Tatas called Mamta didi’s bluff and shifted
the Nano project lock, stock and barrel to Gujarat. That left Bengal gasping
for breath. Mukesh Ambani is already talking of shifting his registered
office to Jamnagar . . . I leave the rest to your imagination.
And have you ever thought what would happen to Bombay if the film industry,
what Bombay is really synonymous with, decided to move to Noida?
Sorry for being harsh on you, dear Mr SS, but I am just a Stupid Common Man
letting off steam against your apathy, utter lack of vision and foresight,
and utter lack of concern for us.
Now let’s see what you gentlemen CAN do. You are controlling the BMC for the
moment. And I say for the moment because I see the Rahul G tsunami in the
distant horizon fast approaching Matoshree. SO IT’S TIME YOU DID SOMETHING
FOR BOMBAY! You have until 2012. Merely changing names of cities and roads
and monuments, and creating an identity crisis for everybody, will not help.
I’ve never heard you gentlemen talk of
· Urban planning
· eliminating corruption, especially in the BMC that you presently
control,
· giving us good roads and footpaths,
· parks and gardens,
· upgraded municipal hospitals and schools,
· uninterrupted water and electricity.
All that I’ve heard is the tinkling of shattered glass panes of the IBN
Lokmat office, cinema theatres and of *bhaiyya*-owned taxis, and attacks on
Kumar Ketkar.
And you gentlemen have woken up to the existence of Vidarbha only when they
started demanding a separate state. It just boils down to plain neglect; so
much for your oft-touted Marathi pride. This polemics has ensured your
survival, but it has not taken you very far. You are fast approaching a
dead-end. In fact, when the obituary of the Shiv Sena is written what will
be remembered will not be the flyovers you built, but:
· Bashing up south Indians
· Bashing up north Indians
· Digging up cricket pitches
· Damaging the only world cup trophy brought by Kapil’s Devils
· Enron-Dabhol scandal
· Michael Jackson fund-raiser and the funds that disappeared
· Miandad-Supremo camaraderie
· Flight of capital and business (Hope you read ET. There must be a
Marathi version)
But there is hope for you yet. *Start talking economics* and you may just
survive the Rahul Gandhi tsunami. But above all, please read Rajdeep’s mail.
If you survive you will have Rajdeep Sardesai to thank.
Yours angrily,
Stupid Common Man
Dear Mr Shiv Sainik,
I trust you have read Rajdeep Sardesai’s open letter to Mr Uddhav Thakeray
doing the rounds on the internet. Frankly, for two reasons I won’t be
surprised if you haven’t. One, it is in English. And two, it is extremely
well-written and very thought–provoking. If you haven’t read it I suggest
you ask your children to translate it for you. Like the offspring of most
Shiv Sainiks I presume yours too are studying in the most elitist of convent
schools.
But first, let me introduce myself.
I am just a Stupid Common Man. Have you seen the film *‘A Wednesday’*? You
must, even though it is in Hindi. Nasiruddin Shah’s soliloquy at the end of
the film where he spits out his pent-up anger against the system and all
politicians will make your hair stand on end. He calls himself just a Stupid
Common Man. That’s what I am too, as are the faceless thousands and
thousands of us in this city. And like the Stupid Common Man, we are a very
angry lot today; angry at your silly and immature antics, and angry at the
city being held to ransom by your aging leader and his coterie of Yes Men.
I have tried to understand what your core values are, but I am stumped! Let
me spell out why.
Your agitation against Shah Rukh Khan, Rahul Gandhi, Mukesh Ambani and
Sachin Tendulkar turned out to be as riveting as a deflating balloon. Nobody
paid heed to your leader’s call, least of all we Bombay *manoos *who you
have turned into a kind of experimental guinea pigs in the political
laboratory. What kind of wishy-washy, spineless, sloppy fellows are you!
Sorry, Mr Shiv Sainik, the nation did not want an apology from SRK – far
from it. They just want good, edge-of-the-seat cricket. And the nation
showed what they think of your fading leader by making SRK’s film the
biggest grosser in Bollywood. What Rahul G gave you gentlemen was a
resounding slap-in-the-face by doing what your leader has never done – Rahul
mingled freely with the ordinary *manoos* in Bombay. Sachin endeared himself
to the whole country by proclaiming that he was an Indian first. As for
Mukesh Ambani, please await the next chapter.
Now let me tell you why we are an angry lot. Your creaky gramophone record
about Marathi pride being hurt has ceased to convince us any more. During
your current tenure at the BMC, 35 Marathi municipal schools were shut down.
Is this your idea of pride? Rahul Bose (I don’t think you gentlemen have
even heard of him) in a recent TV interview gave statistics to show that
Bombay has already lost out to Delhi in virtually every department of
administration. Forget Delhi, it is losing out to Ahmedabad and Hyderabad.
Is this your idea of pride?
And your flip-flop about allowing the Australians to play in Bombay has many
of us in splits. If you are against immigrants, surely you should be
supporting racism in Australia! And if you are protesting racism in Oz, does
it mean that you have had a change of heart about the North Indians? Is this
pride, or total Alzeimeric confusion? Yes, we are angry at your threats to
paralyse Bombay at the drop of a sparrow’s droppings. And, more important,
we are angry at your wanton destruction of public property. Your loss at
successive elections is enough proof of the adage *“You can fool some of the
people all the time, or all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool
all the people all of the time.”*
Now let me tell you why some countries are great and the others are not.
This will perhaps appeal to you, if you have progressed beyond high school.
You have probably heard of a country called USA – it is the most powerful
nation in the world today. It is so because of the way it allows the human
potential to flower and flourish. Leaders – in politics and in business - in
the US come from all parts of the world. If you ever were an avid newspaper
reader (real newspapers, not the Saamna variety) you will recall that there
was a man called Henry Kissinger. He was a German refugee from the
Holocaust, and he became Secretary of State. That Mrs Indira Gandhi gave him
a bloody nose during the ’71 war is another story. But let me give you an
example that you would probably relate to better. You surely have seen
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s films. He flexes his biceps and can put Salman K to
shame – iconic and breath-taking stuff for your stone-throwing, public
property-destroying foot-soldiers. He migrated from Austria about 40 years
ago determined to make it big in the US. Arnold is presently Governor of
California. And there are several Indians in Obama’s (he happens to be the
President of the US) administration, including a few Marathi *manoos* (No,
Please, Al Gore is NOT a Marathi *manoos*). And their contribution to
American society and economy is just enormous.
The point I am making is simply this: you can throw out the ‘outsiders’ only
at your economic peril. All along you have been talking only about job
reservations. Have you ever given a thought to job creation? Have you ever
wondered why very, very few Marathi *manoos *make it to the IFS, IAS, IRS
and the higher echelons of the armed forces? It’s now high time you gave a
thought to that, AND DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!
Now try to picture this. Bombay accounts for about 35% of the income tax
collections of the country. This you probably know. What you probably do not
know is that companies pay income tax in the city where their registered
offices are situated. Now just imagine - and please try to do so seriously
because we are not talking *kaanda bhajiya* but real big mega stuff – what
would happen if the big 3 suddenly decided to shift their registered offices
to Baroda, or Bangalore, or Delhi? Do you recall the downfall of Calcutta
when Charu Mazumdar and his naxalite thugs ran amok there? And the ruins of
Uganda when Big Boy Idi Amin threw out the Indians? In economic terms it’s
called flight of capital. The Tatas called Mamta didi’s bluff and shifted
the Nano project lock, stock and barrel to Gujarat. That left Bengal gasping
for breath. Mukesh Ambani is already talking of shifting his registered
office to Jamnagar . . . I leave the rest to your imagination.
And have you ever thought what would happen to Bombay if the film industry,
what Bombay is really synonymous with, decided to move to Noida?
Sorry for being harsh on you, dear Mr SS, but I am just a Stupid Common Man
letting off steam against your apathy, utter lack of vision and foresight,
and utter lack of concern for us.
Now let’s see what you gentlemen CAN do. You are controlling the BMC for the
moment. And I say for the moment because I see the Rahul G tsunami in the
distant horizon fast approaching Matoshree. SO IT’S TIME YOU DID SOMETHING
FOR BOMBAY! You have until 2012. Merely changing names of cities and roads
and monuments, and creating an identity crisis for everybody, will not help.
I’ve never heard you gentlemen talk of
· Urban planning
· eliminating corruption, especially in the BMC that you presently
control,
· giving us good roads and footpaths,
· parks and gardens,
· upgraded municipal hospitals and schools,
· uninterrupted water and electricity.
All that I’ve heard is the tinkling of shattered glass panes of the IBN
Lokmat office, cinema theatres and of *bhaiyya*-owned taxis, and attacks on
Kumar Ketkar.
And you gentlemen have woken up to the existence of Vidarbha only when they
started demanding a separate state. It just boils down to plain neglect; so
much for your oft-touted Marathi pride. This polemics has ensured your
survival, but it has not taken you very far. You are fast approaching a
dead-end. In fact, when the obituary of the Shiv Sena is written what will
be remembered will not be the flyovers you built, but:
· Bashing up south Indians
· Bashing up north Indians
· Digging up cricket pitches
· Damaging the only world cup trophy brought by Kapil’s Devils
· Enron-Dabhol scandal
· Michael Jackson fund-raiser and the funds that disappeared
· Miandad-Supremo camaraderie
· Flight of capital and business (Hope you read ET. There must be a
Marathi version)
But there is hope for you yet. *Start talking economics* and you may just
survive the Rahul Gandhi tsunami. But above all, please read Rajdeep’s mail.
If you survive you will have Rajdeep Sardesai to thank.
Yours angrily,
Stupid Common Man
Thursday, September 3, 2009
what the f**k???
so i was reading the paper... and i came across another stupid article...its an attack on tintin...our beloved never aging reporter...in the leagues of asterix and obelix and other such comics... so some congo man is suing yes suing tintin for glorifying colonial life in the congo coz of tinitin and congo the comic... i mean hes suing a guy who died and who wrote this 60+ years ago like it makes an f***ing difference in our world now...y do people take things so seriously. sue the makers of blood diamond they portrayed some african nation as a place where people essentially go to die nothing else... or on any stupid movie where white people go to africa n come across superstitious black folk..i mean for gods sake its a comic book..has it affected ur life in any way do u think if u go to congo today u wld meet a black guy?(srry polictically correct african guy) and think y isnt he bending down n worshipping me??? no ud be like a black guy in frikking africa wow wat a surprise.... why do they allow this crap to be published and why on earth wld a court entertain this nut bag???? it makes no sense...has he world gone mad?? next thing u know asterix and obelix will come under flak for the racist things they have said...
Friday, June 19, 2009
Retarded or just stupid?!?!? Part II
So once again the people on this earth have proved just how stupid they are...it all starts with walking in on a stupid news clip on tv abt how barack obama just swatted a fly on national television during an interview...ok thats slightly stupid but then the next day i open the news paper it seems peta has decided that they want to boycott the president for ANIMAL CRUELTY?? hmm....i leave the question to you guys are they retarded or just stupid???
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Retarded or just STUPID?!?!?!?!?
Once again the government has decided to screw us icse cbse guys over...its seems almost impossible that they could find new ways to do it every year but damn they did it AGAIN. Our new edu minister thinks hes so smart in actuality it just shows how retarded he really is and shows how retarded the people running the state are. i mean imagine xaviers had a hundred seats. 50% is christian quota then like 25% is reserved....we general guys get 25% out of which we are only gonna get 10% of those seats also.That roughly comes to 2.5 seats. What the hell?!?!? are the ssc guys so scared of us. I mean we make up 2% of all schools in the state and they still think were gonna steal their seats. I say fine they really wanna implement this policy then atleast put some sense into it give the icse/cbse schools time to set up the icse/cbse equivalents of hsc don just rush it for votes. How stupid do u have to vote for someone who is so fickle minded that he won’t look after the good of the children in the state just worry if the move will get him elected next term. Word of advice Mr. minister do the right thing put a ittle thought into it and I guarantee you will get elected again. for now you deserve to go to dilkush special school....
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