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Raise of Rahul Gandhi

Rahul GandhiThe whole world knows that one day he will become the Prime minister of India but when it will happen is the question. Especially with the parliamentary elections coming up in April 2009 and considering Mr.Manmohan Singh health condition  the question will be speculated by every media org.

Irrespective of who wins the election Mr.Rahul Gandhi will be a winner because all his moves are carefully planned and backed up by Ms.Sonia Gandhi the advantage Mr.Rajiv Gandhi lacked and we all know his end.

My personal opinion is Congress would allocate him the much hyped Information and Broadcasting ministry which was held by Ms.Indira Gandhi if Congress forms the government in 2009 which would get him the much needed experience to control the coalition parties.

If congress looses the election its actually better for him since he would have the much needed anti-incumbency factor from the 2009 goverment which in turn would get him the majority to form goverment in 2014 or earlier.

Until then the PM/opposition leader from congress will be Mr.Pranab Mukherjee or Mr.Manmohan Singh if his health permits.

We Indians are so used to the dynasty culture that we choose to elect kings in a democracy.

We only can..

I can’t understand why would General Fonseka of Srilanka call TN politicians a joker which is absolutely right but he doesn’t have the right to cell them only we do.

If this makes him happy there are lot of Indians who will call this politicians jokers so general please don’t even worry about that. Well if you do want to call them names please do apply for Indian Citizenship.

I don’t remember where I read this statement “Every country in world have their army but only pakistan,turkey army has a country”. Looks like Srilanka as whole will also be added to that list of armies having a country sooner.

We don’t need Condemnation

We Condemned assassination of Rajiv Gandhi 1991
We Condemned demolition of Babri Masjid 1992
We Condemned 1992 Mumbai riots
We Condemned 1993 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned 2001 Indian parliament attack
We Condemned 2002 Godhra train bombing
We Condemned 2003 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned 2006 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned so many blasts this year
We have Condemned Mumbai 2008 blasts as well.

We have Condemned all along and all the perpetrators who causes this incidents are still roaming around freely in this world.
I’m tired of Condemnation and as a Indian I Condemn the government for its inactions.

Tamil Nadu census site

As usual I was browsing around and was surprised to find the Tamil Nadu census site online containing the most recent census data from 2001 with all kind of data like male,female,working,literates count etc with district,taluks,blocks based maps and charts.

Good to know Tamil Nadu has a 73.5% literacy rate.

It would be nice if they get some neat charts. I was able to find the Indian Census site but wasn’t able to view data since it requires a login created which is free. So if you got time and curious check it out.

Sabapathy one of a kind

There are some movies that you can watch n number times because they are so well made and the plot of the movie still applies today. Sabapathy released in 1941 falls under that category and a precursor to all comedy movies in tamil.

Most of the new comedians mostly take a thread from this movie and repackage to the current trend. One simple example is the repackaging of the master servant switching places story one example I could remember right away is Ullathai alithaa which was big hit in 90′s.

Some other surprising things I noticed are:

  1. People bribed even before India got Independence and it was even shown in movies. So bribe was something that we had it not something we generated after independence. Still we haven’t fixed it thats the sad part. Almost 70 years of promises by politicians.
  2. Tanglish was born and brought up even before the Dravidian parties was formed and it flourished. E.g ‘ivan nusiance thanga mudiyala sir’,'vera enna seilam brother’,'brother ithalam ippadi vaika’. The percentage is still low but Tanglish had it roots long before.
  3. Sabapathy father complains about his son not knowing to right 2 pages in tamil and my dad shares the same feeling. View @ 19.00 Minutes in Video 1.

70 years of time has passed but people haven’t changed.

What ever may be this is one good movie that I can enjoy watching any time any where rather than watching the new ones.

Please watch the movie if you get a chance.

Who is he?

Is he a Tamilian?
Is he a Muslim?
Is he a ex-President of India?
Is he a Indian?
Is he a professor?
Is he a Scientist?
Is he a Writer?

No he is none of these he is an living example of how one person should be and aspire to be.

Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam deepavali interview. Please watch it.

Please do let me know what do you feel about him.

Director Seeman/Ameer please watch it before speaking again.

Happy Deepavali..

Happy Deepavali to all my readers.

I always wonder whats the difference between diwali and deepavali..if any one knows let me know..

Is it a boon or bane..

50 is a reality no more a value just for ease of calculation,

50 is a boon no more a night mare for NRIs,

50 is a bane for people buying petrol in India,

ICICI NRI services sucks..

If ur wondering Y I haven’t blogged for the last week is because I have been trying to open an NRI account with ICICI bank which is a real pain. They made my life so miserable by each call center representative/ relationship managers/ online resources giving me different instruction for me resolve the discrepancies.

I wasn’t treated like a customer it was like as if I’m begging them to save my money in their bank. My dad worked for ICICI and obviously I liked th organization since he worked their. Not any more and I’m so pissed with them that I’m not going to recommend ICICI to any one or may be I will go one step ahead and request my friends to close their accounts with ICICI.

Looks like the good old days of ICICI serving its customer has gone or may be I was treated differently snce my dad worked with them.

What good will it do

What good will it do especially after the last fiasco with with Karnataka govt.

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