Awaara! Man what a Tapori Movie!

I was surprised to realize that I had never watched the movie "Awaara", a supposed classic movie by Raj Kapoor, loved in the Soviet Union and a favorite of Chairman Mao. I still remember a Chinese roomate of mine, once informing me that she knew an Indian song and then proceeding to sing, " Awaala hoon, oooh oooh ooo! Awaala hoon, oooh oooh ooo!" Wonder how I missed this "Great" movie, as I am sure that it was shown many times on Doordeva-darshan. Anyways, I just watched it on DVD, and man what a crappyyyyyyyy movie. It is a mixture of bad acting, bad dancing and improbable situations. It has a crew of bad actors starting with Pritviraj Kapoor, who speaks as if he has a lizard stuck up his ass throughout the movie and expressions of pure pain in having to speak his dialogues. Followed by KN Singh, one of the worst villians Indian movies have ever seen, who speaks as if he is reading bland prose, and believed that acting was all about staring interchangebly with narrow and wide eyes. Raj Kapoor, acts either as a bufoon or waxes melodramatically. Nargis is half way decent. Overall movie is pretty shitty. Raj Kapoor made a lot of movies speaking up for the downtrodded, but I doubt he did anything to help their cause, atleast I am not aware of it.

Is India Doomed?

Many a times this question comes to mind. With the commies murdering citizens in Nandigram, they have joined the legions of the Hindutvawadi murderers in Gujjuland. Murderer Modi is still CM in Banialand and the commie ass Buddha is now trying to get away from his Modisque justifying of murder in his state. In Orissa the Maoists seem to be behind the opposition to Posco and Tata Steel. Why can't the Indian state for once get any resettlement right. While industry is necessary for the country to eradicate poverty, you cannot ride roughshod on the shoulders of some poor people to benefit the rest. Whether it is Narmada, or Koyna or the various SEZs for which the land grab is on. I think the govt. should get out of the land accquisition business. Let private industry negotiate directly with the owners, with the owners, with the govt. only stepping in if some troublemakers try to hijack the deal by spreading false information and blackmailing industry.

Shameless behavior has spread like a virus

There are many things India and Indian do that make me ashamed at times to be one; The Gujarat riots; Rajeev Gandhi's infamous comment; "When a big tree falls.... barbarians get to strut their stuff; the constant riots, the blatant casteism, the inane obsession with fair skin etc. But now this disgusting attitude has reached the cricket field. What started by Guju yahoos in Vadodra; continued to the ghatii yahoos in Nagpur continued to the Indian yahoos in Bombay. The disguting gutter born fanatics have been making monkey gesture and noises at Symonds the only black player in the Australian team. What was surprising was that the 4 people arrested were parsees from Napean sea road. That just goes to prove that money cannot buy class. Not that they were the only culprits. The worse thing is the ostrich-like attitude adopted by the Indian establishment, cricket, political and police. They seem to believe that if they ignore it or try to rationalize it away; it will cease to exist. The general consensus is that brown skinned Indians cannot be racist. What bull!!! Just look at the fairness cream sales in India to get an idea of the Indian obsession with fair skin. Dark skinned people are constantly called Kalia or kallu. The Indian-Chinese singer on Indian Idol was constantly called chingo-mingo by one of the judges. All these morons are oblivious to the feelings of the target. The pathetic losers in the Indian press point gleefully to a report by an Australian commision about racism in Australian sport. What these hacks do not realize is that the fact that there is a commision, is a acknowledgement from the Aussie establishment that there is a racism problem in Aussie sport and they are trying to do something about it. While the jokers in India try to ignore it away. Off late the crowds in Bombay have turned from being the most sporting and knowledgable to being the most boorish and jingoistic. So maybe Bombay is finally turning into Mumbai . Balls Thokare has finally gotten his wish

Sakubai for President

What the hell is wrong with India? Or more specifically with the Congress party and its leader Sonia Gandi. Is the only qualification needed to become the President of the country be that you should be rady to lick the Gandi family's butt. Here is the latest example, Sakubai has be nominated to the highest office in the land. No matter 99% of India has no idea who she is. Her only claim to the seat is that she has stuck to the Gandi family through thick and thin. Along the road she has be forgiven for all irregularities commited by her family. Seems like a pattern here started by Indira with Sardar Zail Singh, who famously when asked why he opted to be President, said that if his leader had asked him to take a broom and sweep the streets, he would have obliged. So for that cretin being the President of India was akin to being a sweeper. For all the faults of the BJP, they nominated a decent man to the post. Someone who the country could look up to with pride. The congress is fast loosing its relevance in mordern India. Unfortunately there is no sensible centrist party to take its place.

Resisting Lady Nicotine

I am one of those weird nuts, who succesfully resisted the temptation to smoke through my teen years and college, only to succumb to it after I got out of Grad school. I guess one reason I resisted smoking was the suspicion that I had the addiction gene. It ran in the family. But smoking had a kind of fascination to it. As Ayn Rand describes it in Atlas Shrugged:

"I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression."

Ayn Rand's books had a tremendous impact on me, changing me from a left leaning teen to right of center adult. But one of the bad side-effects of her books had been to reduce my resistance to smoking. Also the camaderie that comes with sharing a cigarette, finally made me take up smoking. For the first few years I thought that I could quit anytime I wanted to. But soon realized that I could not. For the last eight years I have tried quitting many times, so I have a lot of practice. My attempts have lasted from all of ten minutes to a maximum of 48 hours. But invariably they have failed as soon as I took that one puff. No matter how much I convinced myself that this one cigarette would keep me going for another day, I relapsed to my regular pattern withing a few hours of that one puff. As I enter the second half of my life, I am making yet another attempt. Right now it has been three days since my last cigarette. It is very difficult and the cravings come in waves. From all my readings, these cravings can last for upto two weeks. Can I be strong enough?????

Jet Blues: Morons are a dime-a-dozen

For the past couple of weeks, Jet Airways has been in the news for the wrong reasons. A company who also has registered the name Jet Airways, but does not operate a single plane has aked the Dept. of Homeland Security to deny permission to Jet Airways(India) to fly to the USA, on the grounds that Jet may be linked with Dawood Ibrahim and in turn with Al-Quaeda. While the American company may be trying to make a few bucks out of this, today an arm-chai expert on evrything, Muthuswamy Moorthy, has written to the authorities to ban Jet too. Moorthy is a well know kook and Muslim-baiter-hater, who loves to hear the sound of his own voice,(or the sight of his name in print). He even sent a copy of his letter to the Hindustan Times, who were jobless enough to publish the story. Moorty who runs a website , is a jobless nuclear scientist, who spends his days writing long winded and boring essays, which he calls analysis on his site. The rest of the time he wastes trying to promote his ideas on Suleka.com. While he can be ignored as a Kook, he seems to have generated a following in the cyber-parivar, which is the online version of the Sangh Pariwar. Made up mostly of underemployed insular Indians, who are unhappy with their life in America, but would not make as much money in India. These guys live their insecure lives dreaming of India's golden age, which they think was destroyed by the Muslims. Ramesh Mahadevan has a good writeup about their outlook in life. Anyways, these guys have a lot of time on their hands and can be of high Nuisance value to Jet Airways. Its for all of us who are looking forward to a decent Indian airline to oppose them.

Alphonso Burps

Finally the taste of the incredible Hapus! A couple of weeks ago I got the opportunity to visit Toronto and taste the Alphonso mango after 13 years. Oh!! USA you do not know what you miss by banning this King of Mangoes from the country.

Forget Roses, RAPE is a better tool to woo your beloved

The courts in Desh have gone totally nuts. A Sessions Court has acquitted an accused in a rape case after he showed willingness to marry the victim. So the message is loud and clear. If you cannot hope to get the woman you have the hots for to agree to marry you, just go ahead and rape her. The mai-Baap courts in India will make it all OK. The woman involved also seems to have the IQ of Forest Gump. Does she really expect this criminal to stand by her. On the top of it, he is a Katlu, so the great Indian Constitution allows him to divorce her by just uttering three words. Just this week there was another such 'Proposal', in a Delhi court. Luckily the woman in this case did not budge and the court had to sentence the culprit to life imprisonment. Hope the SOB enjoys being the bitch of the Jats in Tihar Jail. What is wrong with our judicial system and our soceity that we even consider such 'proposals'.