After the last ball of the IPL was bowled and fate of IPL 3 sealed, Modi was clean bowled. When at the presentation ceremony Mr. Modi was busy garnering public sympathy and banking on the emotions of the crowd, BCCI announced a decision that in all probability might have been taken days ago. Goodbye Mr. Modi, you have been suspended from the office of Chairman and Comissioner of the IPL. What you have just made is also your farewell speech. Modi’s golden run comes to an end. However this raised some very fundamental questions about IPL in my mind.
1. Was IPL all in all a separate concern or was it a sister concern of BCCI? Was BCCI the main governing body and the IPL committee the operational body? Was any such structure defined? Documented? Whose moral responsibility was it ?
2. If BCCI was the governing body then why didn’t it lay down a strict constitution/ rule book for IPL?
3. There was an IPL committee right? Then why was Modi given so much authority and power that it started looking like a one-man show. Like one man running a huge corporation? Why wasn’t the authority decentralized?
4. Why was there a hidden understanding that the names of the stake owners and their stake in each company won’t be revealed? Why couldn’t the stake be revealed?
5. Why couldn’t the profits be chalked up, taxed and made public for everyone to see?
6. What was the BCCI/ IPL committee trying to hide? Or rather the right question would be who was it trying to protect?
7. IPL is not a social cause. It is a business. Then why was the stamp duty for it waived? A stamp duty of 2000 crore! Money that belonged to the people of this country…Money that could have been used for the progress of the country. Add to that the entertainment tax that was waived…..Another 5 crores! Why?
8. Why has the income tax department started investigation into the assets of the team so late? What was it doing for three long years?
9. Is IPL being used as an instrument to make black money legitimate?
10. Are we exploiting the passion that the masses have for cricket to fatten the pockets of industrialists, film stars, politicians all alike?
11. Lalit Modi deserves a punishment….but he is being punished for what? Is it for bringing down a Congress minister?
12. Or is it for exposing the ugly behind the scenes reality of IPL? Is he merely being made a scapegoat to protect some very big and influential names?
13. What more lurks behind the IPL?
Is it justice?
Or is it just a cover up?
Sorry Mr. Modi you have been caught in the trap you laid for someone else!
But thank you, Mr. Modi you have brought forth all the dark secrets of the IPL, So what if it was to hide your own secrets! And so what if it was 3 years too late!
Enjoy your retirement Mr. Modi!
Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?
Congress has been an integral part of Indian politics since ages.
I represent the educated middle class of my country and I believe Congress has neglected me….for ages.
Congress is the farmer’s party, the village simpleton’s party. Party that lives by an age old agenda! Party that has reached a stagnancy in reforms. Party that is afraid to venture into the new realm of reforms. Reforms that don’t necessarily start in the villages. Reforms that demand a revolution. Reforms that demand a dynamic and fast thinking government. Reforms that cannot be implemented in a tried and tested manner but reforms that have to be implemented in a learn as you do manner. Though people of India have immovable, immense faith in congress leadership, what they fail to see is that the leadership is not really leading them anywhere, it is just running your country like say your mom runs the kitchen, no innovation, no experimentation, no breakthroughs, no progress but one day follows the other and everyday we get a meal on the table.
This is where I advocate that we need a BJP like alliance to govern us once in a while. To help come out of the shadow of the old man called congress. The last term that the alliance had at office it brought us a little revolution, a little dynamism, a little life, a little glimpse of the dream of progress. Remember the golden quadrilateral, taking mobile connectivity to villages, e-chaupal, improving the quality of education in the country, asserting India’s stand at world assemblies, giving it a sense of identity as a progressive nation in the world. That is the kind of progress that affects me directly. That’s the kind of progress congress has neglected! Though where BJP lost was on utilizing the “rural” votebank, a votebank upon whose sympathies congress has been playing for ages.
Congress has always been a party of votebank politics. And it puts so much effort into appeasing its vote banks that sometimes I feel the party has no spine. It has to appease the SC/ST, Dalit vote bank hence it will grant them more reservation, It has to appease the minority vote bank, hence it will mollycoddle them, grant them special privileges, It has to appease the huge north Indian vote bank in Maharashtra, hence the party refused to stand up for the rights of Maharashtrians!
Congress also has traditionally been the party of showman ship. Rahul Gandhi staying in a Dalit village, traveling in a local train, Priyanaka Gandhi waving to the crowds and believe it or not Congress pulls in votes based on the showman ship of these Gandhi kids! People who are not even officially a part of the official Congress leadership! Oh and the actual leaders that congress has provided….our madam president for example…come on….couldn’t they at least give us a president we could be proud of ?!
I m not saying I m anti congress. Congress has always been the party to bring about fundamental reforms in the country. Make judicious economic policies, handle crisis efficiently. But that is what congress is a disaster management technique not a progressive one, for that we need a BJP like alliance.
For ever 5 years of congress governance, 2 years of governance by BJP to balance out the kinds of progress that the two governments make.
Again, I am not anti congress. I am just pro progress.
I represent the educated middle class of my country and I believe Congress has neglected me….for ages.
Congress is the farmer’s party, the village simpleton’s party. Party that lives by an age old agenda! Party that has reached a stagnancy in reforms. Party that is afraid to venture into the new realm of reforms. Reforms that don’t necessarily start in the villages. Reforms that demand a revolution. Reforms that demand a dynamic and fast thinking government. Reforms that cannot be implemented in a tried and tested manner but reforms that have to be implemented in a learn as you do manner. Though people of India have immovable, immense faith in congress leadership, what they fail to see is that the leadership is not really leading them anywhere, it is just running your country like say your mom runs the kitchen, no innovation, no experimentation, no breakthroughs, no progress but one day follows the other and everyday we get a meal on the table.
This is where I advocate that we need a BJP like alliance to govern us once in a while. To help come out of the shadow of the old man called congress. The last term that the alliance had at office it brought us a little revolution, a little dynamism, a little life, a little glimpse of the dream of progress. Remember the golden quadrilateral, taking mobile connectivity to villages, e-chaupal, improving the quality of education in the country, asserting India’s stand at world assemblies, giving it a sense of identity as a progressive nation in the world. That is the kind of progress that affects me directly. That’s the kind of progress congress has neglected! Though where BJP lost was on utilizing the “rural” votebank, a votebank upon whose sympathies congress has been playing for ages.
Congress has always been a party of votebank politics. And it puts so much effort into appeasing its vote banks that sometimes I feel the party has no spine. It has to appease the SC/ST, Dalit vote bank hence it will grant them more reservation, It has to appease the minority vote bank, hence it will mollycoddle them, grant them special privileges, It has to appease the huge north Indian vote bank in Maharashtra, hence the party refused to stand up for the rights of Maharashtrians!
Congress also has traditionally been the party of showman ship. Rahul Gandhi staying in a Dalit village, traveling in a local train, Priyanaka Gandhi waving to the crowds and believe it or not Congress pulls in votes based on the showman ship of these Gandhi kids! People who are not even officially a part of the official Congress leadership! Oh and the actual leaders that congress has provided….our madam president for example…come on….couldn’t they at least give us a president we could be proud of ?!
I m not saying I m anti congress. Congress has always been the party to bring about fundamental reforms in the country. Make judicious economic policies, handle crisis efficiently. But that is what congress is a disaster management technique not a progressive one, for that we need a BJP like alliance.
For ever 5 years of congress governance, 2 years of governance by BJP to balance out the kinds of progress that the two governments make.
Again, I am not anti congress. I am just pro progress.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
An interesting conversation
Namrata - We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and MISUNDERSTANDINGS.
Yashada -
We quarrel because there are accusations
there are accusations because there are misunderstandings
there are misunderstandings because of difference of point of view,
There is difference of point of view because we have an opinion,
We have an opinion because we have an independent mind......
So to avoid the quarrels shall we give up an independent mind? Hell no!
As much as it pains us, drains us and hurts us to quarrel, if the cause is just we must quarrel other wise we will be unjust to our independent mind...and once we start telling our mind to shut the hell up and take the easy way out we are going to keep doing it, get into that habit and stifle the independent mind that we have developed over years!
Really, is it worth it?
Gaurav - an independent mind negates the need of the logic of being rational and makes one's thinking prejudiced. all it is meant to say is, be independent, but also rational. think of the implications it has on others and then work out a logic that could avoid confrontations due to misunderstandings. now, that is one hell of an ideal "independent" mind... See More! :)
You saying the quarrel is justified if the cause is valid. but then who decides if the cause is valid from the universal point of view? it is again a jaundiced view of what you think is correct. so, it is the need of the hour to be rational and impassionate while also being logical and working out solutions to avoid stand-offs.
Do not stifle the independent mind that is so painstakingly developed over the years. But it is also necessary to be generous and considerate at times. So, eventually, your independent mind has to make a selective choice. standing up for what is right, or standing down in the impeding risk of losing out a friend.
Yashada - Gaurav you are awesome!
And I do agree, you have to sometimes calculate the trade off and then decide....whether quarreling ( I won't call it quarreling, its simply taking a stand and standing by it) is more important than your peace of mind, or your peace of mind is important :)
But if we keep on about thinking about someone else's feelings, most of the times we forget to think about our own feelings and hurt ourselves all the more in the process.
P.S - Sorry, Nammu! But it was such an interesting conversation, it had to be kept somewhere from keepsakes. Hope you don't mind!
Yashada -
We quarrel because there are accusations
there are accusations because there are misunderstandings
there are misunderstandings because of difference of point of view,
There is difference of point of view because we have an opinion,
We have an opinion because we have an independent mind......
So to avoid the quarrels shall we give up an independent mind? Hell no!
As much as it pains us, drains us and hurts us to quarrel, if the cause is just we must quarrel other wise we will be unjust to our independent mind...and once we start telling our mind to shut the hell up and take the easy way out we are going to keep doing it, get into that habit and stifle the independent mind that we have developed over years!
Really, is it worth it?
Gaurav - an independent mind negates the need of the logic of being rational and makes one's thinking prejudiced. all it is meant to say is, be independent, but also rational. think of the implications it has on others and then work out a logic that could avoid confrontations due to misunderstandings. now, that is one hell of an ideal "independent" mind... See More! :)
You saying the quarrel is justified if the cause is valid. but then who decides if the cause is valid from the universal point of view? it is again a jaundiced view of what you think is correct. so, it is the need of the hour to be rational and impassionate while also being logical and working out solutions to avoid stand-offs.
Do not stifle the independent mind that is so painstakingly developed over the years. But it is also necessary to be generous and considerate at times. So, eventually, your independent mind has to make a selective choice. standing up for what is right, or standing down in the impeding risk of losing out a friend.
Yashada - Gaurav you are awesome!
And I do agree, you have to sometimes calculate the trade off and then decide....whether quarreling ( I won't call it quarreling, its simply taking a stand and standing by it) is more important than your peace of mind, or your peace of mind is important :)
But if we keep on about thinking about someone else's feelings, most of the times we forget to think about our own feelings and hurt ourselves all the more in the process.
P.S - Sorry, Nammu! But it was such an interesting conversation, it had to be kept somewhere from keepsakes. Hope you don't mind!
March 2010 in Faceook status messages
March 2, Just because I am bindass, does not mean I am loose.
March 3, I m not a cynic....I just believe in Murphy's law.
March 4, If you have a problem with my smile, well, that's your problem not mine!
March 6, We are the generation that grew up on "Jungle Jungle baat chali hai, pata chala hai, chaddi pehen ke phool khila hai, phool khila hai"
March 9, Is happily ever after ever happily ever after?
March 11, We have to do what we have to do in order to do what we want to do.
March 12, A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone’s face.
March 17, Its the darkness that makes you appreciate the presence of light!
March 18, "You say it best when you say nothing at all" is the euphemism for "Shut up!"
March 20, After much contemplation I have realized...that my only talent is talking! :)
March 22, Sure God created man before women. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece :)
March 28, If you think Himesh started the trend of singing through the nose...try listening to Gori Teri Aankhen and ek pal ka jeena by Lucky Ali...
March 29, I hate it when people give replies like k, k thanks, and fine..it makes me regret saying anything at all.
March 31, Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
March 3, I m not a cynic....I just believe in Murphy's law.
March 4, If you have a problem with my smile, well, that's your problem not mine!
March 6, We are the generation that grew up on "Jungle Jungle baat chali hai, pata chala hai, chaddi pehen ke phool khila hai, phool khila hai"
March 9, Is happily ever after ever happily ever after?
March 11, We have to do what we have to do in order to do what we want to do.
March 12, A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone’s face.
March 17, Its the darkness that makes you appreciate the presence of light!
March 18, "You say it best when you say nothing at all" is the euphemism for "Shut up!"
March 20, After much contemplation I have realized...that my only talent is talking! :)
March 22, Sure God created man before women. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece :)
March 28, If you think Himesh started the trend of singing through the nose...try listening to Gori Teri Aankhen and ek pal ka jeena by Lucky Ali...
March 29, I hate it when people give replies like k, k thanks, and fine..it makes me regret saying anything at all.
March 31, Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Yes I’m rude! You got a problem with that?
If you think I am rude, you are right.
I would rather be rude than fake being nice to you.
I would rather be rude than be polite and stand your non-sense.
I would rather be rude and have people be a little scared of me than having people walk up to me and saying what they please and how they please.
I would rather be rude and say something unpleasant to you on your face than laugh about it behind your back and never let you know about.
Yes I would rather be rude, and have my rudeness thrown back at me, than be nice and yet have rudeness thrown back at me.
I would rather be rude than say I like you when I don’t.
I would rather be rude than say I agree with you or lets do it your way if I don’t want to.
I would rather be rude, than have you take me for granted.
I would rather be rude, because if I am polite to you, when I don’t feel like being polite, I am deceiving you, I am deceiving me and I am building our interaction on a bitter and false foundation. Foundation which may easily give out some day and hurt us both in the process. Yes, I’d rather be rude, than abuse my conscience and yours, insult my intelligence and yours.
I would rather be rude, because if you stick around in spite of my rudeness I know you are a friend worth making.
Yes I would rather be rude because if you look past my rudeness to see the goodness that hides behind it…you are a friend worth keeping.
Yes I would rather be rude because if you stay long enough and try hard enough to wear down my rudeness, and understand the real me, you are a friend worth loving.
I would rather be rude than hurt.
Yes I’m rude! You got a problem with that?
I would rather be rude than fake being nice to you.
I would rather be rude than be polite and stand your non-sense.
I would rather be rude and have people be a little scared of me than having people walk up to me and saying what they please and how they please.
I would rather be rude and say something unpleasant to you on your face than laugh about it behind your back and never let you know about.
Yes I would rather be rude, and have my rudeness thrown back at me, than be nice and yet have rudeness thrown back at me.
I would rather be rude than say I like you when I don’t.
I would rather be rude than say I agree with you or lets do it your way if I don’t want to.
I would rather be rude, than have you take me for granted.
I would rather be rude, because if I am polite to you, when I don’t feel like being polite, I am deceiving you, I am deceiving me and I am building our interaction on a bitter and false foundation. Foundation which may easily give out some day and hurt us both in the process. Yes, I’d rather be rude, than abuse my conscience and yours, insult my intelligence and yours.
I would rather be rude, because if you stick around in spite of my rudeness I know you are a friend worth making.
Yes I would rather be rude because if you look past my rudeness to see the goodness that hides behind it…you are a friend worth keeping.
Yes I would rather be rude because if you stay long enough and try hard enough to wear down my rudeness, and understand the real me, you are a friend worth loving.
I would rather be rude than hurt.
Yes I’m rude! You got a problem with that?
Monday, April 5, 2010
Simply Awesome
Disclaimer : This is not written by me. It was sent to me by a friend called Avinash, but it was so beautiful that I had to share it with as many people as I could.
"They will always smell good even if its just shampoo.
The way their heads always find the right spot on our shoulder.
How cute they look when they sleep.
The ease in which they fit into our arms.
The way they kiss you and all of a sudden everything is right in the world.
How cute they are when they eat.
The way they take hours to get dressed, but in the end it makes it all worth while.
Because they are always warm even when it's minus 30 outside.
The way they look good no matter what they wear.
How cute they are when they argue.
The way her hand always finds yours.
The way they smile.
The way you feel when you see their name on the call ID after you just had a big fight.
The way she says "lets not fight anymore," even though you know that an hour later...
The way they kiss when you do something nice for them.
The way they kiss you when you say "I Love You."
Actually ... just the way they kiss you...
The way they fall into your arms when they cry.
Then the way they apologize for crying over something that silly.
The way they hit you and expect it to hurt.
Then the way apologize when it does hurt. (Even though we don't admit it)!
The way they say "I miss you."
The way you miss them.
The way their tears make you want to change the world so that it doesn't hurt her anymore...
The way they fish for compliments even though you both know that you think she's the most beautiful thing on this earth...
Yet regardless if you love them, hate them,
wish they would die or know that you would die without them ... it matters not.
Because once in your life, whatever they were to the world,
they become everything to you.
When you look them in the eyes,
traveling to the depths of their souls and you say a million things without trace of a sound,
you know that your own life is inevitable consumed
within the rhythmic beatings of her very heart.
We love them for a million reasons,
No paper would do it justice.
It is a thing not of the mind but of the heart.
A feeling, only felt."
"They will always smell good even if its just shampoo.
The way their heads always find the right spot on our shoulder.
How cute they look when they sleep.
The ease in which they fit into our arms.
The way they kiss you and all of a sudden everything is right in the world.
How cute they are when they eat.
The way they take hours to get dressed, but in the end it makes it all worth while.
Because they are always warm even when it's minus 30 outside.
The way they look good no matter what they wear.
How cute they are when they argue.
The way her hand always finds yours.
The way they smile.
The way you feel when you see their name on the call ID after you just had a big fight.
The way she says "lets not fight anymore," even though you know that an hour later...
The way they kiss when you do something nice for them.
The way they kiss you when you say "I Love You."
Actually ... just the way they kiss you...
The way they fall into your arms when they cry.
Then the way they apologize for crying over something that silly.
The way they hit you and expect it to hurt.
Then the way apologize when it does hurt. (Even though we don't admit it)!
The way they say "I miss you."
The way you miss them.
The way their tears make you want to change the world so that it doesn't hurt her anymore...
The way they fish for compliments even though you both know that you think she's the most beautiful thing on this earth...
Yet regardless if you love them, hate them,
wish they would die or know that you would die without them ... it matters not.
Because once in your life, whatever they were to the world,
they become everything to you.
When you look them in the eyes,
traveling to the depths of their souls and you say a million things without trace of a sound,
you know that your own life is inevitable consumed
within the rhythmic beatings of her very heart.
We love them for a million reasons,
No paper would do it justice.
It is a thing not of the mind but of the heart.
A feeling, only felt."
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Calculus, male mind and the female mind
Calculus, male mind and the female mind
Male mind is like differential calculus. Whenever men are faced with a situation/ problem/ question, they never look at it as a whole. They take a look at the complicated problem curve P and break it down into small elements, dP1, dP2, dP3....dPn till the curve (the element) starts looking like a straight line. Then they look for a solution to this linear element. This style of thinking comes from the fact that the male brain is single minded i.e focused on one and only one thing at a time, multitasking or multithreading is not their forte. Male mind places logic and simplicity of solution above anything else. It does not like limits, dependencies and non linearities.
Female mind on the other hand functions like integral calculus. It looks at a problem curve, considers the domain variables, the dependencies, the limits and then it integrates P to come to a solution. Thus the female solution is not only for the Problem curve P, it is one degree higher so that the solution for P does not give rise to any other problems. The female mind revels in non linearities. It looks at the bigger picture to come up with a solution. The solution is not necessarily a simple one but it is more long lasting.
Male mind functions on the principle of differential calculus, the female mind functions on the principles of integral calculus. Though both the things are diametrically opposite, they are very much complementary. One is incomplete without the other.
Male mind is like differential calculus. Whenever men are faced with a situation/ problem/ question, they never look at it as a whole. They take a look at the complicated problem curve P and break it down into small elements, dP1, dP2, dP3....dPn till the curve (the element) starts looking like a straight line. Then they look for a solution to this linear element. This style of thinking comes from the fact that the male brain is single minded i.e focused on one and only one thing at a time, multitasking or multithreading is not their forte. Male mind places logic and simplicity of solution above anything else. It does not like limits, dependencies and non linearities.
Female mind on the other hand functions like integral calculus. It looks at a problem curve, considers the domain variables, the dependencies, the limits and then it integrates P to come to a solution. Thus the female solution is not only for the Problem curve P, it is one degree higher so that the solution for P does not give rise to any other problems. The female mind revels in non linearities. It looks at the bigger picture to come up with a solution. The solution is not necessarily a simple one but it is more long lasting.
Male mind functions on the principle of differential calculus, the female mind functions on the principles of integral calculus. Though both the things are diametrically opposite, they are very much complementary. One is incomplete without the other.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Passion is everything...
Passion is everything...
Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts..sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.
Passion gives life meaning, Passion gives it a direction. Passion is everything....
Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts..sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.
Passion gives life meaning, Passion gives it a direction. Passion is everything....
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