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- Comrade Chakra
- A highly partisan viewpoint of the world around me...or thereabouts. The thoughts are mostly original or so my ignorance would have me believe!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Anew!!
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Assembling my own Desktop
For a very long time I have been thinking of assembling a desktop. I never really had a home computer, did not need one.
So on 13th April’10 (14th April was a holiday) I went from office to purchase all the stuff…thanks to the net and BW’s own website I knew exactly what I wanted.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Move over IPL, here comes ILL!!
When was the last time you went to the zoo? Try to remember …you go to the zoo all excited hoping to see a whole lot of wild animals running around.
Truly it was the J&K Assembly that pioneered the whole movement with an inspired show from its members on 9th Apr’10. A cracker of a reality show….it was like going to the zoo and chancing across a Nat Geo moment being played out before you.

Of course all the national TV channels ensure these events get maximum coverage. After all IPL and Mr Lalit Modi have long moved out of our headlines, what choice do our media have?
I do not remember the last time the J&K assembly featured in the national news, do you?
Three cheers for Parliamentary democracy.
I think we have a winning formula here. Let's have the new IPL – call it the Indian Legislators League –
Have a ‘free for all’ show in every session of Parliament. Set aside some time for it…. (we have Zero Hour, call this… Hero Hour?) and allow our MPs to have a go at each other. Hammer and tongs, no holds barred.
You can follow a model similar to IPL where you start with iconic team captains (Sonia, Mamata, Advani, Lalu etc) and bid for the other players. So you can easily trade your team members once in a while. I am sure corporate sponsorship of every kind will be readily available.
If you step back and think the present set up is not very different.
The key advantage the ILL will have over Parliamentary Democracy - this would be transparent and a lot more fun.
Let the leaders we voted to Parliament at least provide us with some entertainment.
With the IPL under a cloud and allegations of match fixing, the time maybe ripe to win over the IPL crowds to our newly formed ILL.
Long live ILL.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Here's to a new beginning
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
How was your weekend!!
No it is not the usual Monday morning blues. What I dread is the question that has become all too common among today’s working class.
'So how was the weekend? What did you do?'
Here’s one that is worse: - 'How was this weekend?' (Note the accent on the article).
Actually come to think of it, it can get even worse….
'God, what a weekend!! How was yours?'
Or someone scoring brownie points – ‘I may have worked all weekend but I am feeling much better having completed all the reports. Is yours done?’
Now, I do not know about you, but if there is something I am looking forward to doing on a weekend then it is nothing.
Yes, that exactly is my weekend plan, every weekend of the month and year. Do nothing.
While that may not make a very exciting Monday morning conversation, it does make me feel very good.
And I am good at doing nothing. Remember the adage….if you like what you do…it will be like doing nothing…or something like that!!!
However I do not like the condescending or patronising look that inevitably follows the revelation of my weekend activity, rather the lack of it. And if the other person does not know me well, he will most certainly walk up to me the coming Friday saying, “Hey you know what….I have a great idea of how you can spend this weekend.”
Go away!!
I have tried lying (not one of my natural skills), sarcasm (natural skill) and show of plain disgust and lace my answers with these expressions at random to make sure that there are no repeat offenders. Unfortunately you keep running into new people and many of the old people keep forgetting.
I even started giving advance warnings on Twitter and Facebook – Sunday evening updates like….’a great weekend…did nothing’. But even that doesn’t work. Those that do read it actually come back asking….’No tell me…what really made the weekend great?’
Well, it is getting late now…time to shut down/shut eye and tomorrow morning in office….'Shut up!'
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
King George lives!!
In response to the gruesome killing of its operatives in Afghanistan, the CIA has come out with the rather Al Qaeda like statement:-
“The CIA has sworn to avenge the killing of seven of its operatives by a suicide bomber at a forward operating base (FOB) close to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border…”
Is this not the language of those who the US liberally calls terrorists?
Without trying to apologies or anyway condone the terrible act, is it not true that this is the way of war.
After all, how many innocents have the US killed over the decades and most recently in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan? What that the term they so love to use…”Collateral damage”
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
N D Tiger Woods Tiwary and 3 Idiots
I somehow ended up with a free pass to a Friday show of the new Aamir Khan film “3 Idiots”. It is a movie about 3 guys and a girl.
But no sooner had I got over the movie, I learnt of another movie that has been shot. This is about 3 girls and a guy!
I think this is a tremendous opportunity for the Indian male to capitalise on and market its sexual prowess. This country is known for its software, BPO industry and its emerging economic might. Now for once, a true leader of India has risen above all, and shown what else the Indian man is really capable of!! This year's Incredible Indian - N D Tiwary!
I think, in the right hands, this can become the greatest advertisement of Indian sexuality since the Kamasutra.
TV news at this time of the year is really boring with year end wrap-ups and mushy Christmas sentiments, M/s Tiwari’s sexual romp actually brings on much cheer!! Thank you NDT, thank you ABN (the Telegu news channel).

I am sure with some research, Mr Tiwary’s prowess in the horizontal sport can be attributed to anything, depending on who is marketing it. Yoga, if you are Baba Ramdev, Indian spices (Indian Spice Board), Hindu asmita (if you belong to the BJP), or Viagra or and equivalents to let horny old guys get into a foursome.
If there is one guy who is finishing the year (and probably his career) with a bang we know who that is!!! Attaboy!!!
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