Failed Strategy

It took a cricket match that made me realize that truth should be onething that should never be hidden. There is a moment to tell that certain risks are not worth taking it. I was pretty amazed when our captain decided to open the batting completely against the strategy that was discussed for the week before the match. Instant reaction from me was full of curses and abuse. I had lost the plot and had left the team worrying about this than taking it up later after the outcome of the match. We lost the match with our captain getting dismissed in the very first ball and our star batsman getting out in the next over.

Our Captain now had forgotten everything that was laid out how to get the scores. Our Pinch hitter was not send when the score needed to be accelerated. He has totally forgotten about the chase and I with my rather laid back attitude and curse to myself was thinking about not speaking out. I made the greatest mistake listening to my friends when my mind was distinctly clear about the truth. The truth was about the risk that someone was going to take. Was that a truth? May not be. I felt and has read about all the good stories that tell about people who took risks when nobody believed him or her and was successful. Now I need to tell here that people obviously talk about perceptions they have about a particular thing. Here I did not have a perception. I had data and analysis on the talent part. The captain just had an average of 7 and a strike rate under 70 as an opener which obviously helps me understand that he is not the greatest hitter or a batsman by any means at the current rate. He is a high risk stock which if it clicks is good and bankruptcy if not.

I felt awful after the loss. My friends had the theory that our team vibes will be lost if I had spoken the truth. I am pretty sure that after the match, players are more worried about the captain now and vibes is they hate him for what he had done. If on by chance I had spoke about this there would not have been any hate but an open democracy that would have thrown open ideas. I had a link this up with the current scenario in India and my friends observation was that it would not have gone well with him. Yes. They are true, as leaders are averse to criticism and that it would always be good for telling to people who actually listens.

I am back to this article after a week and the truth now is I am slowly coming out of the defeat. It is just one among the many defeats. Interestingly I read an article about individualism in India, It speaks about why Indians are better individuals than team players. Once a decision has been made still they feel that their part has been right. They never follow the consensus. I was again thinking what has happened in the match. First of all I was not there in the decision making process. The simple thing is I was not considered worth discussing it. This means my point of view would never have been a concern. Hence why would I bother about it.

The answer why I bother is I have the passion for winning. When I am playing the game my only idea is the team to win. This is the one thing I am waiting for in the whole week. When I go their I am not looking to enjoy myself. I go with a zeal and the mood I get from it is what that drives me for the next week. Without the match I feel I am incomplete.

Just now I am getting ready for the next tournament. The only difference would be I will speak the truth and play for the team.

DIg Me, Influence Me

I was in Land mark when I found that there are some interesting things people do. They are the new guys in town armed with social engineering skills. I was just looking into Rocky part II cd back cover when this guy came and just started on conversation

" hey this is the best movie I have ever seen". I could just relate to the marketing tactics that is told in books to start on a conversation. I just turned to the guy and I know I am caught here. i am caught in the embarrassment of not having seen Rocky in my entire life time till now. Devil in me that always hate ignorance has to tell something. I just replied him I am a great movie collector and my decision is to whether to own the CD or not even though I have seen it n Number of times. I had to be like somebody to tell something that i possess. I told him that in spite of a seventy mm membership for watching movies I am in a decision making process. He asked me what I do and I had all the answers that he needs. What I do and what I am good for.

All was fine and he asked me to keep in touch and I have to give away my phone number. Five minutes passed and I had another guy looking at me with great surprise and tells me he has seen me. Unassumingly I have to repeat my entire past to see where I had met him. Towards the end I have to give him my number. I was gone flat in flattery. I told the same to my father and he had all the information that I have been trapped by some Indian intelligence. I was quite upset that my enthusiasm for the day which I got from talking to the strangers has to end like this. My fear got over when I finally got the call from these guys mentioning about the great business opportunity and that they are the Amway terrorists looking for mercenaries to do the direct marketing.

Formula One

I had read about various ways how people get rid of telemarketers. One way was quite interesting. It is like this; when some one calls you, try to sell some product to them. I got my fair chance when one lady representing Barclay Bank called me. Conversation goes like this

Exe: Hai Is this XYZ
XYZ: Ya it is me
Exe: Sir, we are interested in giving a Barclay card to you.
XYZ: Oh finally. I work for Ascendas Software. I was looking eagerly for a call.
Exe:Sir
XYZ: We are into CRM and we have excellent suits designed especially for you
Exe: I am not understanding
XYZ: See every day you call and get lots of curses. Our highly efficient software that especially uses natural language processing capabilities inside highly customized application suits gives info on customer behavior and spending patterns .

Exe: What?
XYZ: Please help me
Exe: How can I help you?
XYZ: Please give your supervisor no
Exe: I don't have that
XYZ: Give me you number
Exe: I do not have one
XYZ: Please. I am new to this job and you know how difficult it is to market a product. Please help me.
Exe: You know Hindi?( Sir tone is gone)
XYZ: yes
Exe: tell what is this in Hindi
Xyz: Mein Ascendas mein kaam karta hoom and Mera paas ek beshkimti product hai jo aapko badi kaam aa sakthy hain.
Exe: Ok I understood. I will ask my supervisor to call you .
XYZ: Please do that...

Supervisor called me after 5 mins and it is up to audience to imagine. I got an appointment next Wednesday to sell the product.

Looking forward for the same........

Basic Instinct

Basic Instinct, ie what I will try to reason out my new venture to find Indian Sex mentality and porn sites in India. Started with a google search on Indian Aunties. I have weblinks to all over explosive sites in my first web page. Chinese or Japanese aunties gave my smile back that the word has respect. I was aware that the word aunty has a different meaning to Indian minds. Neverthless, the next venture was into erotic stories and to be surprised there were several of them with Indian stories. Imagination gone far and wild.

Indian teenagers hooking on to them will be another cause of concern. Certainly I was hooked with the imaginations that people have in the mind. The worse thing to find out was that certain guys at the end of the stories are leaving their email address for ladies to mail to them. I may call them a looser, but fact is that any body in the networld is believing that the bait is to be thrown. Let it be anything that gets the bait, a transvest, abuse throwing strangers he always believe there is a chance. All on the basis of “ Hope “ on which the whole humanity survives.

To judge anything from the porn sites would be a far less conclusion compared to the world view. There are more Mallus who are creative in the sex stories department. They have thrown up the imagination to all fronts. In the incest stories they have kept the aunties as their classification of incest. It is infact good to know that they are still afraid to be writng about their parents. Infact I think that is the only help conditioning has given to an individual in India

Neverthless, with all the MMS clips in the net, next time you make love to your wife or girl friend there should be one prayer that there is no camera anywhere. Who knows whether you are there as a superstar in the Internet? Far from that if you think more people are looking at you curiously then the first conclusion that should come to the mind is that you are out there in the internet. I may have been gone out of the topic but the fact is that there is an Indian voyeur who is ready to take the snaps of your private life.

Another cause of concern is that the ladies are not aware about these possiblities or are they? For Female I believe sex is more about a long term bonding than the moment. I believe most of the MMS clip there in the internet are the pictures taken in extremely private moment. I don 't know whether their boyfriends or husband's intended the damage. Far from that even if you have seen the same I am sure from my part I may not remember the face. Still I have come across some guys who know the porn so well they exactly remember the sequence and the faces.
Girls still need to be aware that net is useful and that there is always the mask factor that hampers the potential. In one way it has such a powerful impact that the positive and negative balance each other.

Let us be more open to the fantasy world. It is a bait for the weak and the unassuming but it can also be used as a relaxation exercise. With all the busty and the sirens there it can be one hell of a time pass. Addiction will be for a short duration but I believe it will make you more involved in trying to get a body than a mind. Hence beware of adventures and always be sure of the condom when you cross the limits since there are millions who are also living the dream.

Sub Maya Hai............................

BJP is one party that surprises me a lot. They have new ways in every thing they do. The latest one is about making one of their chief minister God. No other country can ever attempt this other than our secular India. With their good deeds these guys are now in a better postion than any body else. They are well placed and soon they will have temples. They will demolish places of worship telling that their leader was born in the place. My imagination is taking me to places. Here are few

1. There will be statues all over India with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as Brahma, the creator since he is very creative( writes unwanted poems) Advani as Lord Vishnu the preserver and Praveen Togadia as Lord Shiva the destructor.

2. Babu Bhai Katara as “Rakshasa” Ravan as he tries to traffic Human Beings in the latest Pushpak Vimana ie Air India.

3. Narendra Modi as Lord Parashurama who is beheading all Muslim Fundamentalists.

4. Rajnath Singh is the Game maker Lord Indra

5. Narad is none other than Arun Jaitley

6. Muqthar Abbas Naqvi is “Lord” Vibhishna who has defaulted from his family and joined Lord Ram MrShekawat( Decency still intact)
   

7. Mahakali Uma Bharathi has already left the stream and made a new party.

With the list going on and with the number of Gods in Hindu mythology and all over world there can be no difficulty in finding a duplicate for them in BJP. I am surprised what all the Bhajan songs will be for these great leaders. One will be the following

Om jai vasundhara ji namahe swami Om Vajpayee

Bhakt Janom Mein Advani

Bhakt janon mein ....

Infact people I believe the Kalki yuga is where you can get Moksha and with so many Human Gods floating around there is no looking back. At every election they will have utsavs and do not hesitate to worship them with votes. Check near a seat near you when you are sitting in a Bus, train or anywhere and try to be on their feet. Worship them, help them and get something from them.

“No wonder Politicians are Gods. You can only tell them your complaints. They will not reply back. Pray to them, feed them and cry, they will never listen”

Aunty Bhi Kabhi Young Thi.....

My aunt and Uncle came from Trivandrum with a mission of seeing Bangalore and Mysore. It was in effect opportunity for me to prove that I am the real guide with in house expertise in travel and tourist destinations. For the present my brain analyzed permutation and combination and to make their trip a really purposeful one, I decided to take them to Mysore. The story anyways is not about the travel but an interesting part on the interesting psyche of a 60 yr old normal woman’s world view.

We had our last destination in Mysore, the Brindavan Gardens. Here there was an interesting couple, who were involved so romantically that they actually forgot the people around them. This invited serious looks from my aunt who was naturally more affected due to the excesses. Her face had so many expressions that were a mixture of hate, surprise and anger. I never posted any questions at that juncture and tried to catch a nap so that I feel fit for the journey back to Bangalore.

After a very peaceful drive, when we are about to enter Bangalore my aunt had another chance to see some of this totally romantically addicted couples. I had an intuition that this is coming and it came.

Aunt: These people have nothing to do. I feel they are not married.
Me: Yes. True. They are totally in love
Aunt: How can they love before marriage? These are dirty people
Me: They are having fun but
Aunt: They do not belong to good family.
Me: They have pretty decent clothes. It seems to me they are well off.
Aunt: What is the use?
Me: It protects them from cold and heat.
Aunt: I am not talking about clothes.
MeJ Yes I know
Aunt: I saw the same thing in Lal bagh
Me: What?
Aunt: These dirty ones and they have T-Shirts over their navals
Me: The Guys?
Aunt: No the Girls
Me(silently thinking): It would have been good. Did they pierce anything?
Aunt: They make a mockery of their culture. Dirty Ones.
Me: Aunt but why do u talk about the culture?
Aunt: We never lived like that.
Me: So u did not have any chance?
Aunt: What chance?
Me: Opportunites
Aunt: I did not understand(Silent look from my Dad to me)
Me: Fine. When did u get married?
Aunt: 20
Me: Did u go to college?
Aunt: When?
Me: At any time
Aunt:No
Me: Ok
Me: Now the world is free. We are free people and we can live on our terms. Boys and girls are equal/
Aunt: They are dirty. They are hanging around after 10
Me: It is good right. The city is safe.
Aunt: Yes that is true.
Aunt: But
Me: What? Do you watch the daily soaps in TV
Aunt: I watch almost all
Me: What do u see in that?
Aunt:
Me: Aunt
Aunt to Mom: Now they also show ladies with 2 husbands. Oh all the dirty ones.

Me: Here it goes. I feel in most of the films the hero and heroine is not married. When they get married it is THE END.

Aunt: They are the dirty ones though
Aunt: These movies and serials.
Me: U also watch them
Aunt: These days girls are worse. They corrupt guys also.
Uncle: Enough.
Me: Did u get corrupt?
UncleJ
Aunt: Fine we will not allow any of the girls in Bangalore to get married to any of our kids

Me: Sorry I will marry according to my wish
Aunt: He also would have some girl friends. The dirty ones
Me: __$#%#(silently)
Dad: Check the girls for your bro in Bharat Matrimony once u reach home

HandsUp.............I have a gun behind you

Noting down the events like Richard Gere kissing Shilpa shetty, jailing an art student for having painted nude pictures; it seems people are getting more and more polarized in terms of religion, caste and region. This I believe is a recent identification problem with in India due to the country’s growth engine which is accelerating year after year.. The liberal and rational mind has taken a backseat owing to the vast number of people trying to gain acceptance due to identity crisis.

The number of Television channels in India has grown so rapidly that lot of information floats around which unfortunately people are made to breathe. Also this has created a series competition to decide on what is news? The result of people trying to be creative is more often reflected on the moral front. Media knows that Sex is a kind of taboo and that with the world’s largest growing population being interested in the same needs to reconfirm that we are different and that the Indians have a culture. Modesty of a woman has been the forefront in these campaigns.

Morality is something that is a by product of religion and with the mixtures of religion that we find in India it is strongly advised that all acts as to be very cautious. Hence I could coin that the branding of religion is one thing that has become a part of 60 yr old India. The point is simple. If Muslims are passionate about their religion which they marketed well during the Prophet Cartoon controversy Hindus do not want to be left behind. They took to the paintings of Husain and now on a student who wants to announce that he has arrived. Even christians are not left far behind as was evident in the DaVinci Code protests.

I had a look at paintings in what can be called a fanatic site of Hindu Jagaran Samathi(http://www.hindujagruti.org/). Except for a painting that depicts Hanuman carrying Sita in the tail almost all pictures were in acceptable standards. Their version is why Prophet Mohammed is not drawn like that and that most of temples in India never show their deities as naked and only exception probably would be Mother Kaali who is semi naked. My curiosity was to check on the Khajuraho and Ajanta paintings. After going through most of sites that I felt genuine, I feel the pictures depict human figures and not the Gods. The identity crisis is for an individual who believes in supernatural power, is that it exists in one or many planes higher than what he is. Hence he feels that his mind which is prone to desires cannot accept all the truths that formed in him due to the inability to ask questions.

Now with floodgates open in the form of information there is confusion everywhere. There are experiences you can know just by sitting in the house. Indian think tank in the 1950’s were trying to protect his people from change and trying to give them a routine life. This was like a parent trying to protect his kids. Genuinely the kids should grow and protect the parent. The parents turned old and kids did not have freedom and neither could they protect them. The kids had some kind of formal training and when he went out this somewhat helped him initially. Now the kid is confused as what to give back and his notion about the world has changed all of a sudden. He knows his parent is a looser and constantly irritates because he tried to protect him and never prepared for the world. Those who were protected remained in their domain and they never liked their fellow brothers who has ventured out.

The guys who stayed in finally became the guys without identity. They have to find an identity which eventually turned out to be religion, sect and caste. Fact is that they still need security. Hence what they felt is that the guys who went out did not help them. In one way they want to be protected. In effect morality, love, brotherhood, team work, reservation was all preached. The best way was to tell like this. “Please move the stone and we will be in the comfortable zone”. In one way the philosophy of the guys who moved the stone was that they will be making the rules. Hence each group tried to fight with each other. For one the weapon was money and the other it was the group they belong to.

The prayer is simple. “Hey God I will dress you in clothes, give you beautiful, dignified wives. I will respect you. Give me a girl like Shilpa Shetty; give me some talent to attract beautiful girls. Please make me feel the comfort. Let me get food for free and let me sleep with beautiful woman. Till I get all this I will not allow anybody else to have this”.