Indian Idol 5

I am not sure what made me write this blog about Indian Idol, after the first Indian Idol i was never a follower , but this year something made me watch Indian Idol from the prelims and in the Ahmedabad audition i noticed an Unique voice in the name of Sreeram and My colleague and myself did agree that he got the talent... Sreeram i just want to say that he is an amazing singer , versatile, and can handle any kind of songs... You deserved the title... He is the singer to look forward..

One irony is i never voted for any in Indian Idol .... :)

One touching Video

Yesterday one of my friend shared a video clipping with me... it has touched me to an extent where i was forced to put this in my Blog. The video talks about how important is Family... Its an eye opener for me !!

Directed by the critically acclaimed and award winning film director, Yasmin Ahmad, and commissioned by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports "MCYS". The story portrays a mother's love for her husband.Family Singapore MCYS Youth Commercial

Make a Difference

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind... let it be something good."

Whats the purpose of having a Consulate ?

This Morning Me and my Director had to go to The Indian Consulate in Dubai for an attestation Work ...the whole point of Having an Embassy or a consulate in a Foreign Nation is to help the Nationals who are based in that particular Country and looks like the People who work in those embassy forget that particular message !! We all know that there are rules and regulation - keeping the security risks involved - But they should say it or convey it in the right way and should also be educated to convey the message to the Indian Citizens who approaches them ... The common answer that you can find in the Consulate was " I am not sure. I don't know , Check with India Office... It cannot be done here, u get it done there , and it clearly shows the lack of acceptance to take the responsibility and making the people ( Nationals of India ) to run around ... And some of the Citizens who are not dressed properly are treated ever bad... I was observing it when a poor old man approached one of the staffs to renew his passport or something( His looks and the tone explains that he doesn't earn much and he is not much aware of the system) And instead of speaking to him politely why this can't be done she was like this is not there , why this copy why not other copy ? Arey instead of asking many why can't you just explain what needs to be done !!
This its only the second outing for us and god only know how many more left !! And the our Head office team has be corresponding with the Indian officials for a month now and its the story again !! Arrey what we need is just an attestation .... Finally after spending 2 and half hours we needed to leave without getting what we wanted !!

Now the ball has been turned to the TamilNadu Home department !! It pisses me off when i think about the attitude of these "Our Indian" officials !! They all should be trained on " Take responsibility" !!
And they should also be trained on the purpose why they are in that position and what is the purpose of having a system called as consulates !!

Interesting Article that i Happened to go through

Nightmare 2012: Chinese Special Forces cut off Siliguri corridor

2010-04-17 17:47:11 Last Updated: 2010-04-18 20:13:48

Bharat Verma India has the potential to be to Asia what America is to the world - a symbol of hope, liberty and freedom. Closed societies like China or Pakistan do not fit the bill. Due to authoritarian regimes in Beijing and Islamabad, in times to come they will remain preoccupied with growing internal societal turmoil. Therefore, they will naturally tend to threaten democratic India, militarily and with the help of their irregular forces to divert attention from the brewing internal storm. Also because on one hand, the Indian democracy negates their authoritarian philosophy, and on the other, the Union is perceived as a soft target to be conquered or ruptured. But technology driven 21st century cannot be China’s century in Asia as is being touted by its proxy Pakistan or the Chinese themselves. Simply because these are very brittle, regressive and perpetually paranoid societies. Societies that cannot sustain such enlarged influence and get into an over reach. While the People’s Liberation Army, the largest in the world, consists of 3.5 million soldiers to project power, Beijing employs whopping 21 million to police internal dissent. Military threat from such dictatorial regimes to free societies like India will increase as the western democracies retreat from Asia. There already exists a severe trust deficit between China and the small countries in the region. Editor’s Pick Unprepared and Unwilling The killers’ mace of the dark visitors ‘Is war around the corner?’ Bows, Arrows and Nuclear Weapons India is the perhaps the only country in Asia that can boast of the potential to occupy the strategic high ground gradually being vacated by the retreating western forces, provided it develops offensive orientation at the political level. Unlike China, its soft power increasingly impacts on Asia. The young demographic profile will continue to propel Indian economy to greater heights at least till end of 2050. China’s ageing profile shows trends that it will, first grow old then rich, unlike Japan, which grew rich then old. India if governed fairly well, will grow rich and then old like Japan. India’s multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious society is the melting pot in Asia that benefits from rich diversity and open society. However, it is not as fortunate to be situated geographically in a safe haven like America, which is surrounded by nations with similar values. THE HISTORICAL THREAT Historically, the direction of demographic flow for centuries saw invasions from Central Asia to capture Delhi. Every fifty to hundred years, the subcontinent due to the genius of natives tends to generate wealth. From time immemorial this attracted hordes of invaders from Central Asia. Delhi Durbar was unable to defend itself as it neglected its military. Time and again, the rulers in Delhi were subjugated, as their incompetence in wielding the military was pathological. Once again India is generating vast wealth. Once again it refuses to defend it! Despite historical lessons of defeat at the hands of marauding armies, Delhi Durbar’s incompetence and ignorance in equipping the excellent military machine inherited from the British is again on display. Today the danger of disruption to the Union is much higher than in the previous centuries. Worse, the lack of offensive orientation in political thinking degrades the ability of the military to defend the Union from the extraordinary threat developing on its borders. The level of danger continues to creep north from “orange” to “red” on our land borders primarily on two counts. First, as a deception plan Pakistan on its birth professed to be secular, while in reality the leaders wanted a purely Islamic state. As a result the minority Hindu population of more than thirteen percent in a population of 76 million in 1947 got reduced to barely two percent even as the population of Pakistan increased in 2004 to 156 million. After refusing to share power with the Bengalis in the East and breaking up their country, the Pakistani Sunnis, not satisfied with this calibrated purge, now want to eliminate the Shias and expel the Ahmadiyas from Islam. In its devious journey towards fundamentalist Islam, it also wants to lock the women folk inside their homes under Taliban diktat, thus negating fifty percent of its population. This dangerous religious philosophy based on extreme form of imported Wahabi Islam is intolerant of worldview of others, wields nuclear weapons, nurtures a Talibanised army that runs a large irregular guerrilla force solely motivated by Islamic fundamentalism, and partners with China. The ideology of Pakistan is in direct confrontation with the values cherished by India. Worse, Pakistan’s financial bankruptcy exacerbates the internal instability. This in turn provides cheap human resource, to be used as cannon fodder, by the Jihad Factory run by the ISI. One feeds on the other. Islamic fundamentalism occupies Pakistan’s political space that in turn negates Indian influence, which wisely extended up to Afghanistan during British rule. It was the British Indian Army that kept a check on the repeat of a history of invasions from Central Asia. Ironically, instead of consolidating and integrating Kashmir, pacifist New Delhi is permitting the birth of a similar pocket of influence with extreme philosophy in the valley that will come back to haunt India in the near future. THE THREAT FROM NORTH Second, to add to the woes of New Delhi, a bigger threat in addition to the existing one is posed by communist China. While too much ‘god’ motivates Pakistan, China pretends to be a ‘godless’ state. Unlike nations that boast of an army, in Pakistan the army owns the state. On the other hand, in China the People’s Liberation Army is loyal to the Chinese Communist Party and not the state. Dissent in both is a ‘no-no’ in varying degrees. Both, Pakistan and China, unlike India are paranoid about open societies. Thus, Beijing and Islamabad share commonality of purpose and together direct their energies to upstage India in international forums, on the borders and by fomenting internal dissent. In a unique ‘jointmanship,’ Islamabad clandestinely transfers sensitive defence technology it receives from the west to Beijing on ‘barter basis’ as there is ban on transfer to China! The concurrent rise of China and India pits them against each other, as they compete for the same resources, but one with an authoritarian regime that is scared of the Dalai Lama and Google, and the other with a free society that revels in religion, Dalai Lama and Google. The threat from China was evident from its maps in 1946. Mao with the help of these maps described Tibet as the palm of a hand with its five fingers - Ladakh, Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan and NEFA as Chinese territories that needed to be liberated. Tibet was liberated by force while New Delhi slept. Nepal found India’s refusal to defend Tibet as a sign of an unreliable ally and thought it prudent to open communications with Beijing. Today India stands encircled by China. THE THREAT PERCEPTION To be supreme in Asia, and impelled by the necessity to divert the attention from the growing internal turmoil, Beijing is likely to design a limited but visible military victory in a joint strategy with Islamabad. Pakistan under severe threat of fragmentation would be more than a willing ally. With Afghanistan being abandoned by the West, beginning July 2011, Islamabad will craft a strategy to take over Kabul with the help of Islamic fundamentalist groups. The irony is that in the aftermath of the exit of the West, the Taliban will occupy the Parliament being built by India in Kabul and connive disruption from there of the Indian Union. These groups will not target the West immediately since the latter retains the ability to re-intervene once inaction is deemed as ‘suicidal’. The Taliban will initially concentrate on unraveling a soft target like India in concert with Beijing -Islamabad -Kabul or Chinese Communists- Pakistan Army- Irregular Forces axis. The physical threat to India will materialize in 2012, after the exit of the American forces from Afghanistan. Earlier India had to contend with a single threat from its West/Central Asia. Now another threat posed from the North under a joint strategy between China and Pakistan has emerged. The developing scenario suggests that henceforth GHQ Rawalpindi will further orchestrate provocation against India to regain lost ground in J&K by way of rallies in PoK or Lahore and through military machinations on our borders. It will provide fillip to terrorist attacks, export of fake currency, inserting terrorists in India through Nepal, activation of sleeper cells, and raising controversy on non-issues like water. Beijing, while talking ambiguously up to the 2012 buildup, will continue to support the Maoists in Nepal and step up training and funding to Maoists in India. The intensity of Cyber War will meanwhile increase. In nutshell, the objective will be to keep India off balance. THE STRATEGY By 2012, to unravel India, Beijing is likely to para-drop a division of its Special Forces inside the Siliguri Corridor to sever the Northeast. There will be simultaneous attacks in other parts of the border and linkup with the Special Forces holding the Siliguri Corridor will be effected. All these will take place under the nuclear overhang. In concert, Islamabad will activate the second front to unhook Kashmir by making offensive moves across the IB in the plains and the desert to divide Indian reaction capability. Meanwhile the fifth columnists supporting these external forces will unleash mayhem inside. Two key question for New Delhi: 1. Will India go nuclear if its territorial integrity is threatened? France’s stated policy is that it will use the nuclear option, if Germany is attacked. Germany is not likely to face a nuclear adversary, yet France will use nuclear option if it is attacked. India faces threat from two nuclear powers in its vicinity. Will India shift its stated position of second strike to first strike, if the territorial integrity of the Union is under threat? 2. Will New Delhi have the gumption to order the Navy to retaliate and stop the flow of cargo in the Indian Ocean being freighted to China? Or will it order the Air Force to conduct offensive and decisive strategic strikes inside Tibet? New Delhi requires to develop offensive orientation in its thinking for the answers to be in affirmative. India has produced more than its share of great thinkers in civil affairs. However, being a pacifist society, it does not boast of a single military thinker of repute. Therefore, we should not hesitate to import knowledge from the best military thinkers to create an assertive society, just as we need to import the best defence technologies to set up the most modern defence industry hub that ensures expansion of democratic space in Asia. The ideal opportunity for China to dismember India is between 2011 and 2014 on multiple counts. People who read this also read: Nervous China may attack India by 2012' Exclusive:Pakistan Terror Map Time to divide Pakistan? Why Pak-China will win First, to divert attention from the growing dissent within. Second, beyond this period, Pakistan as a fragmented nation may not exist to support the Chinese. Third, the change of generation by 2015 will witness an assertive India. Fourth, the new Indian assertiveness will ensure rapid modernization of the Armed Forces with robust military capabilities. And last but not the least, given the fact it does not pose threat to any country, India will create strong international alliances. It is in a unique position, and gets along well with the West, as well as countries like Russia and others. In fact, the international opinion will decisively tilt in favour of India if it shrewdly deals with the powerful geo-economic card held in the arsenal. The answer to the outlined nightmare stares India on its face. India simply needs to take out the cost-benefit ratio from the game plan of the opponent by rapidly acquiring the requisite military muscle that outguns and outclasses the adversary. War is akin to business. If there is no cost-benefit ratio, it cannot be imposed! Such assertive actions will also naturally propel India in Asia as the most influential player and arrest the slide of retreating democracie

Big B on Mohan Lal - http://bigb.bigadda.com/?p=5139

Big B on Mohanl lal (http://bigb.bigadda.com/?p=5139)


So yes, a number of assignments are being finalized now and I believe that when they shall hit the studios and the floors, I shall be in a position to talk about them. Its always better to do that. But yes MohanLal, that great exponent of his art and craft, one of the finest actors of the country, from Kerala and Malayalam cinema had come over to finalize dates and schedules for the film he is making directed by Capt Ravi. If you remember he had met me during my short visit to Kerala, when I had gone there to attend the honor ceremony for Resul Pukutty, on winning an Oscar. Its all in order now. Its a small guest appearance and I had agreed. They had come over to officially sign me on and make payments etc.. Ha..!! Payments ? Fees ? Remuneration ? For a guest appearance of 3 days ? With MohanLal who has always had my greatest admiration ? No way !! I don’t charge money for such acts. And told them so. I shall just gloat in the honor that I shall derive by working in a Malayalam film and that too with the exceptional MohanLal !! Respectfully declined their offer, gave them some home made tea, shook hands, embraced and saw them off. It will probably be shot in Ooty, the picturesque and quaint hill station in the beautiful Nilgiri Range of mountains down south.

I just loved this !!

MY Sahara Medical Centre Experience

I have been suffering from tonsillitis and fever for the last few days so Yesterday i decided to meet a Doc... it was a Friday and not many medical centers were open... The appointment that i made didn't work either !! So i decided to go to Sahara Medical Center which was near to my FLat !! As i walked in to the center it was around 7 in the evening and there were only 2 patients waiting... I went to the receptionist guy and told him that i need an appointment with a GP ( General Physician ) He asked me to wait and when the wait crossed 15 mins i decided to walk out ... I got up from the seat and asked my colleagues who accompanied me to follow me after few mins.. Realising our intention the receptionist called us and by that time i was out of the center .. Then my colleague called me inside to do the registration ... for registration i paid AED 50 which apparently is the consulting fees too... This time the wait lasted for ten mins, meanwhile i noticed a beautiful couple ( i would say wife looks beautiful) making a conversation with the doctor and what i picked up from the conversation was " we can't afford it" and i smelled something and asked myself have i reached a hospital which we see in movies !! Apparently that couple made a bill pyt of AED 350 !!

After few mins i heard my name being called and i walked into the room !! One Malayallee not good looking Nurse walked to me and asked "Vat is ur Name?" As i replied to her , here comes the next qstn .. Are u married ? I looked at her and asked does that matter? She was struggling to cover up ( I should have understood that its part of Rapport Building and Making you feel comfortable ... i shouldn't have asked that !!) Then she got the thermometer and also checked my BP, which i understood was part of the check up ... But asking me to measure my weight was little surprising for me !! ( One way it helped me to know the present weight that i am carrying around... Man i need to loose some fat )

Then comes one Filipino Doc ( Again not so good looking) She started asking me Qstns i explained her the issues that i was facing which included my throat, ear and fever - She asked me to open my mouth and then she made a Sad face ... I was like what happend ... she said its very seerious.. you need to take a Injection ( Some how i managed to know the rate for an injection before getting into the room and that was AED 75) I told the Doc ... Doc i am not comfortable with the injection may i know what is this injection for ? She said please wait i shall be back and after sometime she joined me with a senior Indian Doc ( the same doc whom the couple was having a discussion) She said Hello and started why you don't want an Injection - I said i don't want as simple as that !! I asked what is this injection for ( she replied its just an antibiotic ... i said then tablets will be fine !! ) I could see a disappointment in her face !! ( the expression read there goes AED 75- Missed my target )

Then both the doc's started talking about my weight i informed them that i have already taken an action on the same... then they came up with Ayurveda Slimming and they could provide me a good offer !! I replied wow do give me the brochures !! The they offered me a total check up of my Body and that could cost me very minimal charge ... and the minimal charge is only AED 350... Oh god why are they not taking about the reason that i am here for !! I reminded them and then they gave me a chit with some descriptions !!

Never in my life i said no to injection !! Here i had to do because i felt it was not necessary and its just one procedure to get Money out of me !! The Prescription that they gave me cost an additional AED 125 !!

It makes me think about other poor labor's who could walk into these kind of center and i am sure all these guys will be ripped by them !! Thank God i didn't open anything about my Sinus !! I need to find a good medical center now !!

Sachin's retirement

Billions of hearts will weep…..on the day when Sachin (GOD) retire.
Indians wish that day never comes. It would be one of the most disappointing days of our life. Ever since I started watching cricket, it was Sachin, Sachin & only Sachin who made them feel cricket so special ( Though Mr. Azharudin was there too - who was referred as gift from GOD - but here SRT is called GOD himself) . Sachin is responsible for making cricket a religion in India. They haven’t experienced watching cricket without Sachin. Whether he was injured/rested, there was always a ray of hope that he comes back to team soon. But after retirement, he will never be backing………..If anyone wants to achieve anything in life, Sachin is the best example for them.

I feel most people find it hard to digest that Sachin will no more be a part of Indian cricket…….on that day, isn’t it?

JUST Visualize the day, when Sachin plays his last game. He comes to bat for the last time, and everybody in the stadium claps & the chants of SACHIN!!! came for the last time after he gets out, while walking back to the pavilion, the entire crowd gives him a stand ovation . Many of them will be in tears, millions of eyes will go wet watching their hero play for the last time. An era ends. The end of a legend has come……..The bond between every generation breaks. Would you miss Sachin a lot? I think most of people would say “YES”. The saddest day of Indian cricket- when genius retires…LOVE YOU SACHIN!!!

That will be a day ...

I am back

I am back after a gap of 3 Months and i have a new tag to carry its nothing else that " i am married" ... No More single !! Can't believe it though !! More to follow