Friday, March 29, 2013

If tears can be magical...

Hello People,

Buffet Buffet Buffet....way to go on making bigger n better deals, be it the Heinz or now the Goldman sachs...he makes the right moves n hence an inspiration to the entrepreneurial world!!! Way to go

Picture of the post is from Coorg, yes one of the beautiful locations in Karnataka, India. Coorg apart from it natural beauty also houses a Tibetan Monastery which attracts many tourists.The Golden statues of Lord Buddha are a quite a feast for the eyes.


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We Indians are so good when it comes to forgiving and forgetting sins & sinners. Don't we?? Let the sinners do any sort of sin, we still have a big heart to accept them back when they shed a bucket full of crocodile tears. Sometimes we give them their status back and honor them too. Well, as long as the sinners have realized and repented, forgiving and forgetting is considerable but may be an option outside the law. Does that take away from the grave sins they have committed?? Can those who suffered because of their deeds forget the past and pardon them??? Okay, the sufferers apart, can the law pardon those who committed crimes (in case there is no corruption) when the evidence against is strong and when the accused accepts his/her involvement??? These questions may have some honest answers as long as the accused is just another 'fame'less citizen. But what if he/she is a celebrity who has immense fame and comes from a reputed family and works in a well known industry?? Guessed it already? Yeah, you guesses are right...He is none other than Sanjay Dutt. The buzz around his arrest, accusation under POTA act, previous jailed term, release and now imprisonment again etc., ufff its endless. 
Especially the media, which is so curious about minute details of this man and his current public behaviour including the no.of tear drops shed by this masculine lad is certainly going overboard. Media folks, please don't forget he is a human before a celebrity, emotional tears are such a natural phenomenon unlike those reel tears which flow out of glycerin overloads. Now finding out whether they flow out of emotion or out of guilt or out of the acting experience is another topic and the related debates are endless. Stop writing dramatic stories about his human behaviour which is quite inevitable given an instance like that. The media portrays dramatically that the demi-god status he enjoyed has suddenly strolled down to a normal human.  And our sympathetic Btown celebrities shout out from their twitter rooftops expressing their grief and certifying his goodness. So to say, these celebrities seem to forget that he is a citizen of the country first, before being one of the Bollywood celebrities. The evidence that he possessed arms that weren't supposed to be with a common citizen (even a celebrity) is clear and the news that he has partied with the underworld & mafia men was also making rounds. If those endorsing his innocence think all this is not a big deal and he should be pardoned in spite of these activities, are they indirectly asking for a special (could be illegitimate) proceeding where the so called 'nice & good' celebrities should be exceptionally treated and trailed. 
The fact that he had unlicensed weapons and contacts with some criminals of the mafia cannot be ruled out. Just because he has wife and kids, the above fact doesn't fade out in any way. If all those related indirectly with terror attacks shouldn't be trailed, there will be many loose ends in the cases. Usually fatal attacks or blasts aren't operated by one or two persons but a group of people collectively sketch and plan them with the support of some locals. Let people like Mr.Dutt be involved knowingly or unknowingly, he has been under the scanner. He might be a man of virtues but he has been proved to have made a mistake. If he still strongly denies it, he could hang on to the case in the courts and fight for justice, but the present case doesn't seem to give him any more chance to plead. 
Its better if the media stops the over excitement around this episode making an annoying buzz. If tears alone could wash away the sins, we don't need any courts and law. When Sanjay himself agrees to abide by the law, don't know why the media folk & Bollywoodies cannot stop showering pitiful stories on him.
Anyways, I don't think he would be serving the jail term unlike many other common criminals as it is an open secret that celebrities & politicians & few bureaucrats tend to enjoy luxury treatment in the jails. 
On a lighter note, Sanju Baba may plan to write his biography which would set him by the side of many other legendaries who have served jail term and came up with biographies during the term. In his case, the biography might became a biopic at some point. Isn't it a good idea Sanju??

Cheers

Jyostna 



Thursday, March 14, 2013

Freebies??...seriously sleazy

Hello pals,

Spring is here, so much colour, so much vibrance, the weather seems a little hotter than usual here in Bangalore, but the full bloomed trees around holds the flavor of the season. Can't wait more blooming n brightness.

Picture of the post is very much spring's favorite flowering worldwide, the cherry blossoms. Pictured in Kew Gardens, London, these pink blossoms are my most favorite.

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Free Free Free..as soon as this tag catches our eye, we rush in to find what it is and grab one without asking why it is free? This is most common human syndrome...we can't ignore the freebies. Just because they are free they need not be useful or attractive. Just the term 'free' associated with it is all worth the pain to grab it. We don't mind the long queues, claustrophobic lanes, crowded malls, long waits anything will be withstood. With the same craze for freebies, we often run behind those masquerades who in the name of free schemes cash this vulnerability in us. 
Just like the big businesses when under pressure tend to offer discounts, freebies and attractive offers to lure the customers, those masquerades also follow similar strategy. All is well as long as the business runs well, it could be because of the quality offered, or the top notch services or for its sheer variety. The free scheme strategies step in only when the business starts sliding down in the market. Proper recovery strategies could be something like inspecting and retrospecting internal flaws. Since this is tedious and involves some serious commitment to be better, and only those businessmen who are quite committed and passionate to keep up their business standards go for retrospection, the rest opt for easy alternatives like free schemes. This is easy because, the proclivity to get freebies never dies down in us. 
Across pan India, so many chief ministers have been vouching many freebies from rice to power, from health to travel, from books to laptops if they were voted. Some of them did keep up their vows..recent freebie event was at UP as you all know. Laptops were the giveaways as part of the event. May be next time, they could giveaway nano cars for those people below poverty level to 'to erase the economic boundaries' as they call it. At least the nano cars will provide some shelter to live, as anyways their economic status will not support them to fuel the car. With such expensive items as giveaways how else can we show gratitude except accepting them to swallow huge chunks of public money to fill in their big bad accounts.
So our tendency to love and enjoy freebies is strategically exploited to its best. We never imagine what they are asking in return or what they are trying to grab in return...do we?? As a cousin of mine said.."why should we? we got what we want and they will take what they want..who cares". Yes we hardly care. That is why they pay big bucks to buy our 'right to chose',..in other words 'our freedom of expression' is bought and molded as per the buyer's wish. Yet, we don't care..because we aren't smart when it comes to resisting the bait.
Of course, the offers are too alluring to resist...there are color TVs, laptops, free rice, free health, free education etc; To run those free laptops and TVs,there should be power and many states are already in shortage. Hence, the laptops become real piece of poster hoardings (for the ex-CM). When one can't afford a square meal, what else they could do but watch that free color TV with starving stomach. The free health offer for below poverty line people could kick up the other prices high into the sky as even the well put up families use that scheme masking themselves as poor...and free rice scheme could help us accumulate more and just more carbohydrates as other staples will be at unusually high prices. The free education could get any tom dick & harry graduate no matter they are interested or qualified. So where are we heading??? In spite of all these big time side effects, we still can't get over the freebies.
Never do we ask those masquerades to govern us in such a way that we get the basic necessities at affordable prices,stop the worthless schemes which brings the lazy bugs out in us, corrupt free governance that doesn't allow us and them to act as per own wish, and let them know that we cast the votes only on performance basis but not for the gimmicks they play.

Don't you think offering those freebies is sleazy???

Cheers

Jyostna