Rule of the fourth

The week so another cabinet minister quitting. Moreover we saw the great portrait called Karunanidhi lamenting the monstrous power of media. He and his party has become part of the media witch hunt.

The same teams who once distributed free Televisions, cable connections, Radio channels and threatened other media moghuls to sell their stake now fear the fourth estate. The king maker is merely a pauper now. Can’t help but reminiscence an old poem wondering at the amazing site of a King reduced to an alm seeker.

It’s not just case with India. The media moghul Murdoch, who specialized in exploiting the weak minded, is living up to see his most famous publication close down.

Look at poor Hazare. He was the modern day Gandhi, now we are too bored of him and prefer the clown, Ramdev.

A country for perverts

Last Saturday, I were on a train and brought an evening newspaper to while away time. The 3/4ths of the local section was filled with sex rackets. Scores and scores getting arrested- from youth to old men. The new sensation is one in which a dad pimped for her daughter. The family hailing from a respectable background.

Our country is very well blessed with lots of perversions, no matter how many MF Hussains we chase away. The debate rages on with intelligentsia arguing that repressed sexuality is the reason behind ugly manifestations. Some go on to say that getting used to seeing naked women from childhood reduces the lust.

The secret pleasures Indian men indulge in was evident in another case. A young guy registered himself in Yahoo Messenger as a women and offered real photos of women. He uploaded pictures from other sites, He made it into a paid service and reaped rich rewards until he decided that heaps of money in his SB account may alert the police and redirected the money into his ignorant mother’s bank account.

Well the ones who read the news and moan about the morality are saintly enough. The perversities manifest in all, one way or the other. I recently chased off a very faithful blogger friend of mine by treating her to very vulgar comments. I feel really sorry for hr.

The boundary line between decency and perversity is very thin.

The Wise men who rules the country!

Once we cried the illiterate leaders are the curse of the country. Now the concept has turned over its head.

Ahluwallia claimed in the morning newspaper that the increaing the fuel cost will bring down inflation over a longer period. These American educated bastards know to dress very well and look prim and proper. We have a weakness for everything foreign and gulp down the wise saying silently. But then again, how long would we have to wait for the ‘long term’? What are the 70% of Indians, who earn 20 Rs, going to eat for a long term?

Manamohan has gone a step ahead when he says the media is witch hunting his ministry for corruption and this prevents his officials from taking any decsion with out fear. He has gone on to say the government cannot be blamed for corruption because they take decisions with out any post facto knowledge. This guy still has the guts to think he can drown the country with an amazing bounty of scholarly nonsense.

The government is modifying the banking act to allow the famous Indian conglomerates to enter the banking arena. The claim is that currently government has no reach in rural India. The Ambanis and Tatas and Birlas are going to fill the gap! The statics in the hand of government suggests 60% of rural Indians still miss banking services. Interestingly another statistics says 70%earns only 30 rupees per day. And the wise men from American universities hopes to start Term Deposits from these people.

Or are we being the fools?

Staff

We had a staff meeting last day. The first one for me in this place.
I was quite surprised to see people standing up and telling the managers how much they hated her.

I have never seen this passion, not atleast in the work place.
Sadly, the management institutions like the government is trying to dealienate the common man from the management. The good thing about this is the institution can get a free hand in running/persecuting the working class. The working class on the other hand is trying to jump desperately into the management class.

Value for the corporate

Football may not matter much to Indians. But tit does still matter to a few. So when JCT announced closure, it was a disaster soon waiting to happen. But the reason baffled me. JCT will restart the club when it generates ‘value for the corporate’.

How true! The one who spends the money rules. Last week I was in for a training. If they talk about the financial inclusion in the first sentence, in the next sentence they would dissuade us from giving out loans to poor villagers. It would go on to become NPAs! Well, if the nationalized banks fear to invest in the poor fearing the fall in market, then who will. Are our policy makers banking in on Ambanis and Tatas to pour in money in villages!

After a hiatus

I have been on a holiday for the last two weeks. I have discovered that thenew profession has very well eaten into my creative mindspace.

But then we have been cursed to sweat for our food. We will have to live with it

But the last two weeks helped me in making friends in my own age. It was a welcome relief. It's not just the job, a bad manager can also make your life hell. I am learning to live with it!

Lesson-4 The ugly man

Today a man came to the bank. I couldn’t dare look at him, as every inch of his visible body was filled wit tiny tumors. He was very well dressed. I heard strains of conversations he had with the cashier. He had come to pay up his daughter’s fees. My mind flattered on imagining that this hideous looking man has a family and a daughter to dot on. How many different people are there on this earth? Or is it my partial blindness that males people look different?