Rockstar

Jordon rocks - bollywood is not full of empty heads after all. Retirement time for the likes of Farah Khan and Akshay K.IMDB Rating
All good but what about the way indian media and police was portrayed? Or was it correct? I believe that the media and police are the true reflection of society. So was the desciption correct. Ofcourse the public really liked Jordon, girls were crazy about him(both in real and reel life). 
This movie is released in  the aftermath of the (still ongoing) Anti corruption movement and in the meanwhile we also have Swami Agnevesh on indian version of big brother.
Entertainment industry playing a big role here to make an immediate and direct impact on mindset of Indian public.

Where is the Jan Lokpal bill headed? What if the promise made by government are not fulfilled. does he Indian public has the will the rise again? Will it come back and join Anna for next level of battle (RA 1 level 2 ? ).

Did you noticed that the Free Tibet flag was blurred out on(objection by China). So, this is how free we really are. This is what we are. This is not independence. This is politics, this is the price we pay avoid facing the dragon.

I could never undersand what killer version of budhism do Chinese follow. This country is never at peace with any other nation, still they follow the most peaceful religion of the world !

Gujarat's CM Modi, on his China business trip, if media reports are to be believed, stated the correct terms what Indian position regarding ongoing boundary issues, pakistan is, and it really makes me think if he can really be the next prime minister of India  and do what Sardar Patel and Indira Gandhi left behind.

Watch out for the battle royale' in UP. Maya's (metal) elephant versus the scion. May the true UP ian win.

Answering the Why-Me question

Why should this generation do all the work?  Clean up the mess created and left unattended by the older generations? Why cant we just let things be the way they are and carry on? 

I mean are we not supposed to be busy making our career and enjoying our lives with friends and twitting around driving classy cars .. eating out in restaurants and drinking beer in decent beer bars in biggest malls in asia?

So, does this corruption thing really affects the generation Y, Z. how does this matter as long as good times continues the way they do.. now.

But are you really having a quality life? How many hours do you spend stuck in traffic jams each day? how is the quality of roads in your town? can you go running around the place you live or the nearest ground is 5000 mts away? when was the last time you ate something pure, with no contamination? Why is your big name IT office a cramped space with 100 people in a space reserved for 50? Why are there no padestrian/bicycle walkways? and what about the frequent terrorist attacks? where is all the green spaces? why has your neighbour encroached upon road and may be your land too? why does blue lines kill so many people each year? seen the conditions of our hospitals, colleges, govt. schools?

If you care about quality of your life, you must care about corruption and you must care about honesty.

May be Mr. Gandhi understood it. May be that 's what he wanted to tell us all the time.

To be fair to the the older generation, they had their fights, jobs were tough to find, survival was the priority, I think we can concentrate on living.

Choices we make, make us [Gandhi's definition continued.]

We Indians are a busy lot. hard working worried family oriented people - and yes we are proud of it, we are proud of our culture, family values, and we also take pride in getting things done out of turn for ourselves and our kin through acquaintances, contacts. I think that's corruption. 

Next time your Dad says he can have this done quickly, refuse it. Go stand in a queue, fill forms and you will feel proud of yourself.

Well, I am sure everyone of us knows a person or two specializing in name dropping. Knowing people at important places who can get the jobs done easy and fast and they are really proud of the fact. Mine was in the college I attended.

Well why do anyone want to get a preferential treatment? why does it gives him an ego boast? Does it have anything to do with  the caste system prevalent in India since centuries? Is caste anything but the edge over other person? - by default.. just like that

Or does it have its root in 200 years British rule that makes us think the way we do? Were we always like this?

I dont really know why are we the way we are, I am sure its not good the way we are. I also know that we can change, we can change ourselves, we can change the way  we see ourselves, the way our next generations shall see us and the way we want them to see us.

And why should this be done? why not enjoy the privileges one has by virtue of his family's contacts? the answer is simple - there are no free lunches in the this world. The total remains the same.We have to pay everything back. If your work is done, someone else's is not done or is delayed.You don't cheat ever, you do n't hurt ever, but do you really don't ? Would you be happy to steal? Yes, this is corruption.


Let's do our bit.

Saying is easy, doing it is the real thing. Every time I go back to India, the first 15 days of driving on roads is a nightmare, but I drive like a role model and I get loads of honks, wicked stares (and near abuses) I get, I know what a lane is, i know honking is bad, I know what indicators are then I forget. I forget everything. or may be then I discover my real self, no truck, tempo or car can get get better of me.

But I am going to try again, at least once in every week back in India, going to drive good. Make things better for all. even if I am able to inspire one person to do the same, it will be worth it, doing it for the lifetime.

That's my way of doing good and be happy about it....... What's your's ?

What am I planning to write next about?

Why should this generation do all the work?  Clean up the mess created and left unattended by the older generations? Why cant we just let things be the way they are and carry on? 

I mean are we not supposed to be busy making our career and enjoying our lives with friends and twitting around when we are on traveling?  Eating out in restaurants and drinking beer in decent beer bars in biggest malls in asia?

Corruption: Gandhi's definition

Sitting on a couch on a weekend in suburban chicago, an engineer - a s/w engineer from India - me is writing an essay on corruption. What the hell? another one of those troubling millions of electrons for nothing!

I changed the title a twice from 'what is corruption' to corruption's definition to the current one.It is not long ago that Munna Bhai made honesty, compassion and gandhigiri popular and we Indians connected again to those principals.

Time for some confession ....I am not a saint.. I paid for passport verification and paid many traffic police men bribes to get away for not having bike's and later car's papers, driving on wrong lane etc..

Before I write any further, I would like to offer my apologies to my fellow country men and the land where I was born  - for not standing up and putting my foot down. 

So, I was wondering what possibly Mr Gandhi would have twitted about corruption scandals that have swept the country from north to south, east to west. 

I grew up with a notion that Army was the cleanest organization in India, it employed the best men and there could be nothing wrong with it, till they messed up with coffins in Kargil and the adarsh scam. 

I also want to address the reason why it took a 79 year old man(The great Anna jee. hats off to him)  to stir up the imagination of whole country with his  agitation -  because for him it was not the truth. For him corruption is not the truth, is not the way things should be like. 

Rest of the country has, at least, till then accepted corruption as a way of life - from postman to marriage certificate to doctor's appointments to a blockbuster (black) tickets - one pays - not to do something good or exceptional but to survive, to live, to go to office each day and return, we pay. paying extra is embedded in our psycho. 

And its not only that the reader of this blog pays. everyone pays - vegetable vendor, ice cream, auto/cycle rickshaw everyone needs to give away a percentage of what they earn.

We all have had polio shots, Indian TV broadcasts messages each season, schools teachers and other government officials go home to home to find children and administer polio drugs to babies. Big B is on it too, he says even if one child is left without polio vaccination, the country is not safe. The same is true for corruption. Eliminate it and our life become beautiful. 

Each one of us has his little own cycle of corruption. This cycle needs to be broken. A start needs to be made by each of us. Can we do it? Each one of us has his cycle of corruption. Can you break the the cycle you are in? Can you give it a slight jolt today and second tomorrow and another the day after? Try it, it should be fun and you will feel great. 

I am not able to arrive at Gandhi's definition of corruption, I wish to do so soon. 

A extract from my next blog -

We Indians are a busy lot. hard working worried family oriented people - and yes we are proud of it, we are proud of our culture, family values, and we also take pride in getting things done out of turn for ourselves and our kin through acquaintances, contacts. I think that's corruption. 

Next time your Dad says he can have this done quickly, refuse it. Go stand in a queue, fill forms and you will feel proud of yourself.