Season for Intolerance

Is it just me or are we entering a phase of pseudo machoism and total intolerance. The heights (pun unintended) is the fight over Pakistan on an Air India flight. Imagine the plight of the passengers. Then there is this Bom..Ooops Mumbai affair! Can you believe that goondas who could care less whether you call it Mumbai or Bombay were out ruining someone's Friday! All because they called Mumbai as Bombay. I am sure the Tamil Kudimagans are waiting for people to call Chennai as Madras. It would be the day when they launch a protest in Bangalore to rename Old Madras Road as Old Chennai Road! As ridiculous as it sounds, I actually feel there is an idiot waiting to do just this. It seems that everyone is waiting to pounce on what the other guy seems to be doing!

Can we collectively take a break as a nation and just chill!

Slumdog or Cat...I am not the Millionaire!

Can people stop talking about it. Big B has to say something and others have to agree or disagree. How can they show India like that say some. We are like that only say the others.

I am bugged with all of this! This is a movie and yeah it has been shot in India. If you like the story watch it. If you dont like it, move on! Yes this happens in India and no, the Indian Poverty is not a secret. Everyone knows about this. 

So puhleeze! Let us move on. If it is wins an Oscar great! If not, great! The producer of the movie is the real millionaire...not you...not me!

Who pays for the Doosra?

I was in the car and made to wait. The head honcho of the land was crossing. I had a ring-side seat for this. All cars were stopped. No traffic on the road, not even a dog managed to come out.

Then silence

Then the came the cavalcade. At least 20 cars. Ambassadors that were packed with Machine gun wielding security folks. I was half worried that in the crowd, one of them would accidentally press the gun.  Then there were cars with plain clothes men looking at suspicious people. One of them made eye contact with me! 

Then came the radio jammers! My first experience. I was listening to the radio and then came the sound 'hissssss' 

Then came a bunch of cars. One of them must have had the man.

And I find out that he is going from House number one which has family number one to house number two which has family number two. So these 100 people are all on the road and putting their lives at risk so that we can protect the supreme leader to go from one wife to another!

Just wondering, who pays for all of this? If it is the govenment, then have we started official patronage of polygamy?