BJP need a Bing touch

It was June 1, 2009 when a room packed by Microsoft pioneers waiting for launch of their new search (decision) engine. Being the part of this release I have seen redirect traffic going from 0 to 100 % that night and enjoyed every moment of it. The Microsoft has re-branded their LIVE search to Bing, the decision engine. The initial response is good and they are marching ahead in search arena which is undoubtedly dominant by Google. The rebranding has certainly helped them and given user a choice to Bing.

After being so close to this release along with keeping hawk eye on this 2009 election I was trying to create some analogy with my sane brain. The election was so well poised that 3rd front also dreamed for PM seat. The election which was marching towards hung parliament and none of them was near to majority ended with Congress forming govt quite comfortably. The Congress has not really gained the seats but their rival parties have lost them. The left has always being bottleneck to liberated thinking and BJP revolved around their old ideologies which caused them their seats. If we closely look at key blunder made by BJP then I could think of Varun Gandhi Pilibhit case, excessive attacking on Manmohan singh and Hindutva agenda. They have never decoupled themselves from Varun Gandhi so called doctored tape (I just read a news 30 min ago that forensic has given report that Varun’s hate speech CD was not doctored) where as Congress has revoked seat from Jagdish Tytler after opposition from Sikh community. The country which was badly hit by terrorism played safe by keeping BJP hard line agenda at bay. The BJP major vote bank was Indian middle class (as they were never able to penetrate villages) so called intellectual class which sideline themselves from hard line politics in period of global terrorism. BJP need to revisit their ideologies. They are still seen as bunch of extreme politicians painted by saffron brush. Though they are trying hard to fade this color but they are unable to disown it completely. The internal turmoil has popped up in recent BJP executive meeting held to post mortem the recent debacle in Lok sabha election. It clearly indicates that there is rift in party which needs to be sorted out. The country does need a strong and stable opposition which will impose few checks and measures on running government. BJP do need a man like Vajpayee to reunite and revive them. They have to brainstorm and derive more secular and liberal solution in this tough time. They need a sort of rebranding to get rid of their long imposed image of Hindu Party towards a party which keeps development as first priority.

C-103

This was the apartment number where we use to stay. The reason for keeping it as title is to give it a filmy effect (after 13B). It was Muddu , Baba and me who rented it and started living into it and Sandy Surg moved in later. Journey begins with lots of party and masti. Each day was fun whether it is stingy act of Baba, muddu’s PJ , surg chating n cricket mania or sandy’s langadi tang :-) (I hardly do anything because I never had enough time ). When Muddu and Sandy left they were replaced by ABHI and Uppi, the casino guys. I enjoyed their anti apartheid behavior because they like the black color of jack as much as their brown skin.

Only three morons (me, ABHI and BABA) were left to njoy its final days. The only thing which tickled me was impeccable dostana of ABHI and BABA which was far stronger than Jay-Veeru Jodi. The baba left for India and it was ABHI and me left to carry/shift the debris left by these living legends of C103. With each passing day the thought of cleaning and shifting haunted me. Every spot on the carpet and each stain reduces the $ count in my account but it was divide by N concept, which relieved me.
The D day arrived when we need to start our shifting. Our situation was like the Somalia and Zimbabwe whose internal system was so ruined that we survived on food supplies of most generous being PU and KB. It was the determination of ABHI which worked in such time of crisis. We remembered each living legend in this scavenging task, whether it is brand new vest of muddu which brighten the cook top or sandy jeans which helped to clean basin. It was the surg towel which wiped the kitchen floor and who could forget BABA’s contribution in cleaning bathroom floor.

Finally it was the combined effort of all the previous residents that we were able to prepare a revived C103.The journey ended on Sunday night at 4 am when whole apt was given a new look. The cleaning ended with brief photo session which will remind us of our effort. The move out charges, which were presumed to some high 3 digit number was brought down to 2 digits.

Kudos to living legends of C103.

[This post is meant for HCL's Bellevue/Redmond resident only]

Big Fight

The pub assault in Mangalore has raised many doubts in my minds. The moral policing done by extremist grps are questionable. Let me start this way…

It was yr 2001 when I joined the college as a hosteller and it was thought of ragging that haunted me and nothing else. Being an alien in the city I had no option but to opt for hostel as that would be the best place I could think of. Ragging was a known concept to me. I heard a lot abt it during my coaching but SGSITS is the safest place for fresher’s as far as ragging was concerned. There was always an explicit condemnation of ragging and implicit support. When you are at receiver end you condemn it and support it to some extent (condition apply) from other side of table. You will always find the extremist supporter of it as they will always revive the wave of ragging and no one can change their dogmatic thinking.

Similar analogy I can draw in these gory acts going on in the name of moral policing. Whether it is Valentine day mayhem or pub assault, such acts are condemned widely across the country but the convicted were never prosecuted and the implicit support never stopped.
Ragging was the noble concept which lost its sheen over a period on time. So question that remain unanswered are, whether ragging is good if done within the purview of students interest? Is there any sanity in this pub assault? Has pub culture affected the vulnerable section of society?

Good bye 2008.....Welcome 2009

So one more year passed and u r marching towards ur graveyards. If someone ask me if I again want to live my life which I lived 5 years back then my answer would be ‘NO’ , because with each passing year I learnt a lot and each grey hair brings lots of experience to me. I can’t afford to waste all my rich value earning and I don’t regret the life I lived.
2008 passed by with lots of memories. This year I would regards as one of the most eventful year in my life. Some of the incident will have everlasting affect on me.
The year was best for Indian sport starting from Cricket (T20,IPL,Clinching Test Series) , Olympics (Abhinav Bindra and Boxing)and then chess (Vishy) all where memorable and unique achievements.
The most horrifying memories are plummeting stock market, Inflation, Global recession and worst of all terror attacks in financial capital of India, Mumbai.
Every New Year brings some hope and most of the sane brains on this mother Earth try to give deep thinking to their acts, introspect and plan for the future. Now it is high time for some serious resolutions and my resolution for Year 2009 goes here.

1.Take social responsibility at par with ur personal responsibility. Next time when I travel in train/bus or visit places I will be more vigilant.
2.Finance the education of one girl child.
3.Continue to save energy as much as possible.
4.Do not waste food.
5.Keep up reading habit.
6.Avoid casual attitude toward money.
7.Do not let these resolutions to turn into humbug resolutions.

[Vote on left panel.]

Tasteless Khichdi ……RNBDJodi….

Aditya Chopra was back with his love triangle featuring Raj , Mr Suri and his wife (I neither remember her reel nor real name). The much awaited movie of the year finally released but it was a lackadaisical attempt. The director was not able to use his magical wand on people as he did in his last two directed movie in terms of business/popularity.
Usually I keep myself safe from watching such mainstream movies and enjoy some off- beat movies but as it was much talked and Shahrukh really influence a common man (I have seen people emulating his reel role in real life and end up in stalemate situation.) that made me to see it.

Back to movie…

The Raj is again in lime light for his cupid act, but it is first time Raj got defeated from common men. The film starts with Shahrukh in his old scooter which reminds me of Swades. His transformation to Raj reminds me pre-intermission Shahrukh for KKHHai. The song with multiple heroines is OSO reminder. Some of the Raj PJs reminds me of Salman of Hello Brother. Some of the stunts which do not go with the mood of the film were useless and unnecessarily copied. The scene of golden temple is so common but first thought came into my mind was RDBasanti. The way of proposal by illuminating Amritsar was earthly version of Kyon Ho Gaya Na (Vivek/Aish). The fight with SUMO was similar to Akshay’s encounter with these Japanese creatures in Mr & Mrs Khiladi which was justifiable but for Mr. Suri it was a fluke. The heroine eventually falling in love with her Husband and does not elope was Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam concept.

The good thing is in this era of aam aadmi where this middle class rules Mr. Suri strengthen them. Shahrukh himself admits that 99.9% of men are like Mr.Suri (though I don’t agree with his % but I could understand his message). Second best thing was ‘Haule Haule ‘which was the main attraction and currently my favorite which again turned out to be plagiarism. Another catching line was “tujhme rab dikhta hai” which I could understand only after watching movie which puzzled me earlier in people’s orkut caption.The last but not the least it boosts the arrange marriage.

Overall good attempt which was njoyed by a section of society and as far as brand Shahrukh goes he is still King Khan. Long live Shahrukh.

***Hum hai rahi pyar ke
****************Phir Milenge
**********************Chalte Chalte

[Disclaimer:The views expressed in this blog are 100% personal which was not meant to offend Shahrukh and his film lovers]

Attitude Vs Aptitude

The over heated debate between this “t” and “p” has never ended. The “t” has always over shadowed “p” and we find missing “t” in each one. If you add each letter of word “Attitude” corresponding to their numeric value (A=1, B=2…….) then it makes perfect 100 score but “Aptitude” fell short by 4 to perfect score of 100. So everyone agrees and mathematically proven that the “t” wins. Now some different views on this: to attain “t” u should hav certain level of “p” because you need to know the importance of “t” in order to have perfect score of 100. Certain degree of aptitude is required to achieve a right attitude (mathematically also 96 < 100 and you need to score first 96 to get a century).

[The articles under label Bizarre are just to read. Do not apply more brain on it.]

Height of Ignorance

When did we re/acted in a way that we regret? I know it’s very difficult to remember because each one of us is so smart that hardly any one of us makes any mistake. I have read in school that children are “kaccha ghada” which can be moulded into any shape, that time I thought what’s wrong with adult, now I understand.

I am so rigid regarding my so called values and behavior that I am not ready to listen to someone. Every time someone opposes me I try to downsize him. I am so obsessed with my smartness that I turn my deaf ears to others. My stubborn nature usually hurts other but I stand still enjoying the helm of egotism.

I tried my best to find a survey which determine how many people think they acted always correct and who actually does? But couldn’t as this is not deterministic to calculate. Every human being act by using his best brain still fell well short of perfection. Here comes the ignorance “the depth of stupidity”. I describe ignorance as the factor behind ur action which act as an opaque curtain and restrict u from appropriate action. The people involved in corruption, terrorism, stealing and any type of unsocial activity have sane brain to think and they act perfectly as per their understanding but we know that they r ignorant. You speak harsh to a person and you may be correct but still it hurts that is ignorance. You restrict urself from interacting with people and carry the burden of ur cynical thinking, that is ignorance. You may have some assumption regarding different person and they end up creating turmoil in relationships, that is ignorance. You work in a project and never involve in it, that is ignorance. You try to outsmart others, that is ignorance and you still codes in C++ when C# is available, that is ignorance :-).

So you might have understood the msg I am trying to convey and there could be innumerable ways to describe our ignorance but still the smartest r not ready to accept this.

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

[Add your experience of ignorance, at least one point which u hav experienced or re/acted.]