PRG's Thoughts

Read some stories in the paper today found them quite amusing and confusing. Wrote up some random thoughts on them. Hope you find them as amusing and confusing as I did. Karuna's fast Alright this might be mean and silly because it was "supposedly for a good cause", but did anyone else find Karunanidhi's 6 hour fast hilarious? If you see the pictures in the TOI you might see the humor in it. Now, I am not debating whether this fast was for a good cause or whether it was a political move to get votes. What I do think is that it was down right hilarious. Picture this if you will (and read it in a suspense filled tone). It is 6 am, Karunanidhi, a pretty "healthy" man (ok fine he is fat) lays down, as if he is Mahatma Gandhi, on a bed, ready to sacrifice his life for the Tamil's. The tension in the air is sickening. He is surrounded by his family and supporters all hoping that he will break his fast or that the violence in Sri Lanka will be halted, else thi

Encouraged by some very interesting debate in the comments on the How Should One Vote  post, I decided to share a few more questions that were raised. I do hope more discussion continues as it is helping me clarify my thoughts and encouraging healthy political debate. Once again this post has nothing to do with my political views on parties or candidates. It was created based on comments I have read on this blog as well as others.  Taking a Risk A lot of comments on the previous post talked about taking a risk on an independent. Everyone is aware that this election might be one of the closest we have had in years. Frankly, at this point the level of fragmentation in the political system is mind boggling.  Less than a year ago Lalu Prasad Yadav spoke in parliament in favor of the Congress  government during the vote of no confidence. Today we know that the RJD is pitting candidates against the Congress. The BJD has broken its alliance with the BJP , there is a third front and a fourt

While I do admire that Mrs. Meera Sanyal took it upon herself to be an instrument of change, I just wish the instrument was better tuned before it began playing in the orchestra. When it comes to representing south Mumbai and being a member of parliament, I am afraid Meera Sanyal is in unfamiliar waters and it is clear that she has no idea what she is doing. I had the opportunity to hear Mrs. Meera Sanyal, Mr. Milind Deora (Congress), Mr. Mohan Rawale (Shiv Sena), Dr. Mona Shah (Professionals Party of India) and Mr. Bala Nandgaonkar (MNS) speak at an event organized at Altamount Road in South Mumbai this evening. It was a great platform for voters to meet their candidates and get to know what they are all about. I was most curious to see what Meera Sanyal was like. Much has been said about this lady and she seems to be gathering support in some circles. Needless to say she was drastically disappointing.   Five minutes in to her speech it was easy to judge that she was clueless on

Dear Friends,   If you are feeling down and depressed and need something to cheer you up, don't bother with re-runs of Friends and Seinfeld. Just pick up a paper and read the great manifesto that the Samajwadi  Party  (SP) has laid out for India. I guarantee that you will laugh till it hurts. As far as howlers go, this one is an all time classic. While most political manifestos and policies aim to move the country forward, this is the first one I remember reading about that aims to move the country backward. To sum it up, the party is against computers and mechanized farming. They want to abolish the use of english in education, administration and the judiciary and my personal favorite abolish stock trading. Computers create unemployment, is the logic of Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav, the party's national president. He said that where computers are not necessary things should be done manually as it would lead to job creation. The party has used the same logic of computers on mechani

Why is there so much being made about Shahrukh Khan's comments about what Sunil Gavaskar wrote on John Buchanan? The super star actor is correct. King Khan has won 11 Filmfare awards for acting, he has endorsed almost every product in India and was at virtually every IPL game of his Kolkata Knight Riders. If only he had starred in Lagaan instead of Aamir, he might have been captain instead of M.S. Dhoni. What does Sunil Gavaskar know about cricket in comparison to him? All Mr. Gavaskar has done is scored 10,000 test runs, led his country on the field and is the probably the greatest opening batsman in the history of the game.   If you aren't sick of my sarcasm, read on... For those of you who have not watched the news in the past two days you missed Shahrukh Khan's rather aggressive response to an article by Sunil Gavaskar, in Sunday's Hindustan Times, on John Buchanan , the coach, of SRK's IPL team . It was a fair critique on the coach and his mentality, and was

Check out the sports page of the Times of India today, (sorry no link available for the article), Praveen Amre, the Mumbai Indians coach, says his goal is that his team reaches the semi finals of the IPL as the league toppers. As a Mumbai Indians fan it irks me that the aim of the coach is to reach the semi final. Err....Coach, why not aim to WIN the FINAL? I would understand this statement if Amre was the coach of the Indian Football team that was playing in the World Cup for the first time. Then it would be alright to just put up a good show. But in a cricket league where you have Sachin, Sanath and Shaun in your team. That is just weak. To think that the owner of this team only aims high and seems to always exceed his aims. In sports and in life you have the high aimers and the low aimers and usually, they get what they aimed for.  The High Aimers Have you ever heard Derek Jeter (the captain of the New York Yankees) talk about his team? For Jeter, his teammates and Yankees fans arou