New Dawn for UPA!!

The BJP, in particular, must seri­ously ponder over the reasons for its successive parliamentary election defeats. What should worry the party is its drubbing in several stronghold states (thanks to the anti-minority stance that it has taken) Biju Janata Dal’s Naveen Patnaik has delivered it an equally severe blow to the party by demonstrating in Orissa that the BJP, as an ally, is an avoidable pack. This fares ill for the BJP as the NDA it leads may no longer be an attractive proposition for ex­isting and potential future allies and JD(U) in particular in the near future.

Individually for the Congress, its performance in Uttar Pradesh, should be very satisfying. For almost two decades, the Congress leadership has been looking for that elusive sign of party's organisational revival in the state in election after election. The party has reasons to smile as it has doubled its tally of Lok Sabha seats from the state, partially crediting it to Mulayam’s idiotic stance and Rahul’s charisma relegating in the process its rival BJP to the fourth place. In fact, the Congress is not far behind the two strong parties - the BSP and SP.


The Con­gress, contrary to many projections, has also retained power in Andhra Pradesh assembly in an ebullient man­ner. The mandate gives the much needed sense of govern­mental stability the country needs in these testing times of economic slowdown. It should allow Manmohan Singh's second ministry to deal with many pressing con­cerns without having to yield to the unreasonable de­mands of the troublesome partners it had in the form of Left.

The pioneer of the econom­ic reforms programme that Singh is, he will have the challenging task of shielding the country's economy from the global recession and bring it to high growth trajectory to protect jobs and incomes. In the last year of its term, the UPA government was weighed down by the stock market meltdown, high inflation rate (mainly due to US meltdown). The looming general elections had, to some extent, constrict­ed his government's ability to boldly tackle the econom­ic challenges. Now, the emphatic nature of the renewed mandate should enable the ever cheering Singh to unveil a new deal for the nation.

Singh is King!!

The Indian voters have delivered a stunning mandate in favour of a decisive coalition government at the Centre headed by the Congress. It is a victory for the political stewardship of Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Ministership of Manmohan Singh. If the Congress, which ran the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for the last five years, was pleasantly surprised by the man­date it got in 2004 to rule at the Centre, the Saturday's clear-cut verdict is a reflection of the wisdom and matu­rity of the voters. The party's poll strategists did exude con­fidence of winning more than the 145 seats the Congress got five years ago, but their best case scenario for the par­ty was no more than 175 seats. The final tally has, howev­er, far exceeded the expectations, while the UPA as a com­bine has secured a near-majority in the 15th Lok Sabha. This mandate has effectively put an end to all pre-count­ing talks of wheeling and dealing to muster the magic number of 272 seats in the 543-member Lower House of Parliament.

In the process, the voters have rejected the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance's case, if it had one at all, very convincingly, for a return to power. The rejection of the BJP-led NDA and its prime ministerial candidate L. K. Advani (Iron Man??) is as decisive as the endorsement for the Congress-led UPA. The intelligent voter has also severe­ly punished each one of the UPA constituent or partner who had deserted the UPA ship in the course of the last two years. On top of this list is the Left Front that had withdrawn support to the UPA government last year.

The Left suffered its first ever defeat in its West Bengal bas­tion in over 32 years, and the worst ever in Parliament elections during the same period. The CPM's disas­trous performance in West Bengal and Kerala is a seri­ous warning signal to the leadership headed by party general secretary Prakash fucking Karat. The PMK and MDMK, who too had quit the UPA, were made to bite the dust in Tamil Nadu. Lalu Prasad's RJD and Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Jan Shakti Party paid a heavy price in Bihar. Lalu and Paswan are no longer king­makers in Delhi. Indeed, Paswan even got a drubbing from the elec­torate. In Andhra Pradesh, the fate of the TRS - another erstwhile UPA ally - is no different. On the con­trary, the voters rewarded the DMK that remained with the UPA. It is time for all these parties and their leaders to honestly introspect.

Dev D Roxxxxxxx

Nothing, not even the quirky intelligence of Anurag Kashyap's earlier works could ve prepared us for the stunning beauty of his latest film Dev D. The film is based on Saratchadra Chattopadhyay's doomed young man who drinks himself to death: Devdas,, the quintessential loser protagonist is blinded by a haze of alcohol and ego, is unable to marry his childhood sweetheart.

Dev has always been a brat, the son, the scion, the young Punjabi male. He is the sugar factory owner's son, she, the manager's daughter. The background of the wedding, against which the drama of Dev and Paro's meeting will play out is an another old favorite, all expected, what we do not expect is Paro's blazing outspokenness.

Told a lie about Paro's sexual appetite Dev is driven to rage and according to him a woman must retain her virginity even if the male doesn't. Paro points out this hypocrisy to him with some choicest of words of abuse and liberating candour. After this angry exchange, Paro gets married to a rich widower from Delhi, Dev grabs a bottle of Vodka and drinks himself into senseless stupor.

He runs away to Delhi where he ends up with a sex worker named Chanda, who was once a named as Leni and a daughter of an Indian father and a French-Canadian mother, who goes to college by day and lives the other life by night.

Amit Trivedi's superb music is integral to the film, the 18 compositions add layers of texture and mood. "Emotional Atyachar" in its first band version is raunchy and hilarious. but the rock version is intriguing and accompanies Dev on the road to self destruction that remains with us.

Kashyap has said that he believes in second chances and so should we all. But at the end Dev is a rhetoric.....just into the one way mirror

Hare Rama......Hare Rama!!!!!!!

The return to the construction of a Ram Temple at the Ayodhya as an election issue at the BJP National Council meeting shows the acute poverty and chronic lack of strategy and ideas before the general elections. The invocation of Lord Ram's name may excite some hawkish and rogue elements in the party and the rabid hindutva bodies in the Sangh Parivar which makes up the flank forces, but is highly unlikely that it is going to have any effect on the general public.

The country has moved forward in the last many years since the demolition of Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992, and the Ram Janmabhoomi issue is no longer potent. It would only showcase how the BJP is cut off from the reality.

The NDA has shrunk in size after the last general elections and even those with it would find the issue (Ram) unacceptable. JD(U) leader and Chief Minister of Bihar has already pointed pointed out that the issue is already outside the NDA election agenda. The very same BJP had de-emphasised this and several others like uniform civil code, and article 370, little will be gained from resurrecting them.

Terrorism and its handling of the government has been a favorite issue with the party, but is unsure with the UPA's proceedings of the same. The BJP is also DEFENSIVE on terror (just remember the remark made by Pramod Muthalik of Mangalore Pub Attack fame on Malegaon blasts) after the role of the hindutva organisations came under scrutiny in the acts of terrorism.

The same confusion is seen in the return to the Gandhian economics (rural stuff..... blah......blah) as an antidote to the current economic crisis. At the end of the day, the BJP leaders have hazy and uncertain ideas with an incoherent and non-appealing electoral strategy.

Lost Sparrows.......

Way back in early 90s, me as a kid of around 7 or 8, I used to frequent Bangalore with my grand parents and parents, I used to spot a lot of Sparrows in and around Sankey tank, Tata Farm, and generally in and around the area of UAS.

For me as a kid Sparrows were a special companion. They came in droves twittering freely, accepting feed from us fearlessly whenever I went around the aforementioned places with my elder cousins. When we gleefully dived at them in our attempt to catch them, they would fly away in a flash-only to return challengingly chirpin and fly past our eye brows menacingly yet very gently........

With the population of the city galloping, with 5000 people being added daily to the existing ones, parks and spacious houses have simply vanished without trace (thanks to the real-estate mafia) and huge sky scrappers being built instead. The verdent greenery and the serene atmosphere which was the hallmark of our Bengaluru, is covered with green house gases and dust.

In the mindless race between development (at what cost!!) and nature, the former has won (an illusion of course)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bangalore or as it is now called as Bengaluru (just for the sake of a few kannadigas like us!) is no more a home for these little winged charming ordinary yet extraordinary beauties..... They do not get the love and the care of the people they want to live with. They have flown away to a far off place unknown to mankind.......Perhaps they will never return!!

Slumdog Millionaire Sucks.......Fucks!!

The film Slumdog Millionaire doesn't have the sincerity and the straightforwardness of a "Salaam Bombay" or the films like "City of Joy" nor does this perfectly disguised tale have the cultural integrity or the firm rootedness of the above mentioned scripts. The real Slumdogs are the producers and the promoters of this film who are stashing in millions worldwide.

It is really the xenophobia......its a well cinematographed film.....but it lacks soul. The film is a modern version of the fucking West's view of India in general, and United Fucking States of America in particular. Its a well-made caricature of our mother country. The entire narration is a germination of a terribly sadistic and complex(!!) mind with the only aim of satisfying the western idea of India.

When the fucking USA wanted Indians to embrace them warmly and their companies and by extension their businesses all the Indian women who contested the global beauty contestants won and now when the the mother fucking western world is in a worst crisis, losing their businesses and jobs to Indians; this is a well-timed "flick" to showcase India as a land of open air toilets, slums, communal riots, arson, corruption, child labor and every possible negative thing that the mindless hypo critic West can think of and paint our mother country as a "Slum dog" but whereas the real DOGS are the masters in the Western world or more sarcastically referred to, by themselves as the First world..........

The sound track by the talented musician A.R. Rehman and the performance of the child actors who were picked up in the slums of the Mumbai in and around Victoria Terminus, who are by far grossly underpayed by any yardstick (500 pounds) are the only things which live up to the hype.

We have better mainstream films than this sadistic piece of chicken shit which is endorsed (read it directed) by a protagonist called Boyle, and the actors who cant even utter some hindi words like their mother tongue.

Just turn on to some of our best made mainstream Hindi film industry (not bollywood) blockbusters for a better entertainment than watch-ing this Idiotic piece of crap.

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