Telangana??? What After that??

People (innocent Osmania University students egged on by the political leaders???) are fighting for a separate Telangana state. Was the ruckus of demand for a separate state politically driven or common man driven? That is a highly debatable question. Now lets assume that the demand is very reasonable and the separate state has been formed. What after that? Does that mean all our problems will be resolved? Will every student who is fighting for this cause end up with a well paid job (both Government and private) irrespective of the required skill set? Will the omni-present corruption ( so unselfishly being fought against by Mr Anna Hazare) vanish for ever? Will the political leaders change in to sadhus and think about the well-being of the people all of a sudden? Will the dry farm lands of Telangana become well-irrigated overnight?

I really dont think so...The only thing that would happen according to me is that new kings will take charge and same story of cat and mouse (in this case the politicians and common man) will repeat itself over and over again till this system is completely rotten beyond any chance of resurrection. Ok fine!!! lets trust these so called babus. They tell that if Telangana is formed, Krishna waters will be with us in its entirity. If that is true then why is our state dilly-dallying this issue in front of the tribunal for all these years? Will Telangana achieve what our entire state put together has not been able to achieve for so long? I doubt it.

Forget about the natural resources. Lets consider something that is in our control. The political leaders are promising our students that everybody will be employed after the state formation. I really want to know from where will the jobs come? If only all the Government jobs were filled all this while in AP, our employment rate would not be so dismal. Even if we are made to think that everyone will be given jobs, can we safely assume that it will be done free of any bribe? Now what about private jobs? If the jobs in private sector are made compulsory for all the Telangana students then will that mean companies will recruit even if they dont have the required qualification or skillset. I doubt if any company would stay with so many restrictions in this world of liberalisation. The growing Telangana agitation along with bandhs and strikes has already caused many companies to go to other cities. Hyderabad, once competing with metro cities like Bangalore (When Chandrababu naidu was at the helm) in IT has fallen in standards so much that even tier II cities like Baroda are performing better. Will the emergence of Telangana cause even more decline has to be seen?

Many questions and less answers. Will these questions remain questions for ever?? That is another question. I only have a single and simple answer. Enough of distruction and instability. As they say it, together we stay and together we grow. Lets make it a point to put all these things behind and strive for a progressive state. For once lets forget all the differences and work for the development of this state. That would yield more results.

Father of Jan-lokpal bill

Anna Hazare,

This name was not as popular just a few months back. Now that has become a brand name even an LKG kid would know in every Indian home. Such has been his popularity (almost everybody including the media is following him) now that people are considering him as second Gandhi. If at all there was a prophecy (like sadhus and gurus who prophesy these days) that Gandhi would resurrect himself after 64 years then it has come true.

‘Con’gress has unleashed almost all its con weapons and ammunitions up its sleeve to dent the confidence of this little old aging, fasting until death, never-say-die Gandhian. Like Keanu Reeves in the English movie ‘Matrix’, he has dodged almost everything including abuses. Like an iron man he has stood firm deflecting everything through his shield of resilience.

One cannot discount the fact that if this law comes into force then almost everybody in the parliament would find themselves in Tihar. Probably this also one of the reasons why everybody wants to vilify this movement by terming that some external forces are behind this. Given a chance they might also say that Aliens from outer space are also behind this movement.

Should say, this has been one of the most defining moments of Indian politics in the recent past. Our Government so used to finding ways implementing everything (whether passing bills, getting votes, increasing prices or proving its majority) it wants to by corrupt means has all of a sudden been jerked from its inertia. It just cannot digest that even an ordinary Indian could challenge its supremacy. The Omni-powerful and Omni-present Government has been too reluctant to accept the fact that it is not all that powerful or present in each and every common man’s heart. The once oblivious R K Laxman’s common man is not all that oblivious or anonymous any more. When the need arises the common man will raise to assert that he has the true power in Democracy. This is the real truth. And Anna is that face of a common man.

Why is Anna getting so much of support? The reasons for this are many. If on one hand his pristine character (with no political overtones and selfish desires) being the reason then on the other is the recent incessant waves of corruption (2G, CWG etc.). All these things not withstanding for years the common man has been coming face-to-face with corruption in every phase of life from getting a license for a two wheeler to getting a ration card. If one says only these are the avenues of corruption then that’s a mistake. Corruption is in everything and in all forms from constantly withering roads with the slightest drop of rain, overflowing drainages, incomplete projects pertaining to roads and rivers etc. Every small misuse of the public money that goes unnoticed and effecting the quality of our lives is a cause of corruption. This is also reason enough for India as a nation will ever be a developing (not developed) country. Every time the television is switched on or one sees the front page of a newspaper only scams meet the eye. Our country can be called a developed country at least in one aspect. That would be in range of scams. If the first scam cheated the common man in lakhs then now that’s gone up to Crores.

Now all this is about to change. If it has to start this way then let it be. Let us all be a part of this Movement and cease this moment to be a part of history which is in the making every passing second, minute, hour and day. Hopefully this will just signal the beginning of something new and better tomorrow. Let’s give a better future to our future generations.

When Sauce was a Tomato once upon a time

There was a scream in the kitchen. Expecting some kind of a mishap I ran over. My wife was in a state of shock standing like a statue. I doubted if some sage had converted her into a stone for not adhering to her husband. As Lord Rama stepped on a stone, Ahalya had a second life. Similarly I thought I too should do something like that. Well! I was not so lucky. The reason for the scream was she had forgotten to watch her daily serial and a good 15 minutes already had gone by. She almost high jumped over me to the hall, the place of existence of our beloved idiot box.

1002301th part (not sure about the number of years of its running) of the daily super mega serial of “Kyunki Sauce bhi kabhi Tomato thi” had already started. She breathed a sigh of relief as yesterday’s part was still being shown. Should say this was 15 times slower than the super slow motion of a cricket ball touching the bat. I am amazed at her punctiliousness in covering every part twice (Today’s night part is repeated tomorrow morning) as if there was some kind of exam next day and she had to be the topper by any means. And believe me she is so irritated if she misses even a single dialog or a scene. Nobody is supposed to do any cross talk at that hour.

I am not sure why people are so mad about such serials. I find it very brain damaging, annoying and quite silly. It is even more when I just come home from office and want to relax by watching some nice English movie in our recently bought 32” LCD flatron Sony TV. And I am snubbed every time I request for the remote. Being the broad minded that I think I am I always have to succumb to her requests. I then normally divert my attention to other activities like reading a book or newspaper just to forget the pain of not able to watch the TV. But occasionally I just happen to catch some of the parts.

I just cannot stand the same clichéd characters walking in and out every time you see. Rich joint families (that is so outdated), all the characters clad in such grand costumes and artistic jewelry that a middle class woman would never ever be able to wear even with a savings of life time, innocent looking “bahus” with loads of pancake on their faces, glycerin pouring through their cheeks every minute like a Niagara fall, supercilious “sasu maas” looking down on everybody including their no good side-kick husbands , villainous sister-in-laws showing the “Bahus” in bad light just for the sake of it. The list can go on. In the name of God can somebody please shut these things down?

Anyways now the serial had started. In a marriage scene there was some high emotional drama going on. All the ladies were sobbing because their distant cousin sister, third daughter of their step mother’s daughter whose father had divorced her to marry another (Confused??? Me too, I am not sure if that kind of relation really exists), who was getting married would be leaving them after marriage and their husbands were consoling them. Thinking that this was a third marriage in their family I told my wife that I saw a similar scene a month back. With eyes glued on TV, with watery eyes, almost breaking down unable to bear the emotional scene, she told me that this was the same marriage and was still going on.

I almost fell of my seat!!!!