Bollywood & its new affair with health disorders ;)

Yesterday, I was watching newly released movie, "Paa", starring Bachan's dual of Father & Son, Vidya Balan.

Movie was really nice and it adds new perspective to these rare disorders which never gets known or noticed by ordinary people.

In this film a child "Auro" was suffering from "Progeria - A rare abnormality marked by premature aging (grey hair and wrinkled skin and stooped posture) in a child". The role was played very well by Mr. Amitabh Bachan.

There has been couple of movies released on the same lines of health disorders recently.

It all started with "dyslexia - Impaired ability to learn to read" in Taare Zameen Paar played by Ishaan.

"Black" had Rani Mukherjee starring as blind girl who struggles hard to study and get a degree taking help from his teacher played by Amitabh.

In all three, "Taare Zameen Paar", "Black" and "Paa" one very important aspect of life was also touched called Parenting. Generally we fail to miss this part which is of utmost importance because of our attraction towards the stars starring rather than the design and script around it. I just hope that parenting aspect is shown in more better way so that it catches the general public's attention and add value to the society...

Then there were few other movie which had packaged the disorder with bollywood masala like love, dance, fights, comedy, etc. Like "Ghajini" starring Aamir Khan playing role of Sanjay Singhania suffering from amnesia with short term memory loss. Ghajini is more remembered in a funny way of short term memory loss and good fights rather than any other aspect :(.

Hope the change and momentum in the direction of "Paa" continues......

Google Vs Apple

Whenever one hear the name of Google or Apple one think of Google search engine or Apple's

Mac OS, iPod, iPhone, respectively. But it seems Google has agressive plans to intrude into the Apple's core business. Apple will not be sitting silently for sure after observing the aggressive plans of one of its allies. In last 12 months, google had a $10 billion of profit on a revenue of $20 billion,

whereas Apple had a $8 billion of gross profit on a revenue of $30 billion. Both are technology giants and will definately grow bigger. But google is supposed to grow more faster once its investment starts yielding results. What is Apple going to about it? Will the business allies turn into fierce competitors ?

Google's recent foray into new domain like mobile framework and operating system it seems the technology giant wants a bigger pie of the technology market.

The recent demonstration of Android OS speculates a war of technology powerhouses. Microsoft is not even a major player in this battle. After Vista, many of my friends say it Visaster (read disaster), even though it might believe in itself being one

of them. Google started with a google chrome browser, and many speculated the os to be the next step, which is true. Microsoft is no doubt the leader in the os market now, but after vista will it be able to come up with something which can beat the chrome, + Microsoft's reputation with all those bugs and crashes. So if you ask me, its a battle between Apple and Google. Microsoft is soon going to be a history in the OS market.

Android Mobile venture as Open Mobile Alliance, which has a strong backing up from Motorola and couple of other OEM seems be platform in which google will launch itself with a big bang. Android OS is leaped a

great deal ahead with Motorola nearly dumping all its old platforms and putting all its eggs on Android. Its more like demise of Windows Mobile & palm OS. Android phones will be competing with Apple's iPhone, and definately a google app store is expected to come soon to take on Apple iphone app store.

So it seems like in Desktop OS + Mobile OS google is definately expected to beat Microsoft's Windows XP + Vista & Windows Mobile. So its more like Google chrome OS v$ Apple's Mac Os and Google's Mobile Android OS v$ Apple's iPhone. With Google chief resigning as Apple director, battle is about to heat up more.

When will strikes stop in my Kolkata (Calcutta) !!!

For some or the other reason, West Bengal have been in news for quite some time, be it Singur or Lok Sabha elections, or Mamta Banerjee's Rail Budget or Maoist threat in Lalgarh. There was strike few days back called by congress and its back again by some unions today.

Lot of people outside of kolkata anticipate that most strikes are because of communists in W.B. But, it seems now the trend has changed and strikes are called by someone else, sometimes congress, sometimes Trinamol congress or some other union. The baseline is whether communists are there or not, strikes have become a part-and-parcel of us in kolkata. So lets not blame CPI(M) alone for the strikes.

I just hope that the peace returns in West Bengal soon.

Sri Lanka : War is Won - What about Peace ???

Sri Lankan Government may have won the war against LTTE, but what about winning the hearts of the Tamils? For me its just a territorial gain and nothing more than that. The estimated amount of the people displaced is more than 250,000. I just hope that Rajpakse govt. will try to give some more powers to the tamil population there and treat them equally, and not as a 2nd class citizen. I have been reading many blogs written by various tamils from Sri Lanka staying outside. And everyone says about one thing with one voice, whether he is a hardline Sri Lankan Tamil or moderate one, "discrimination against Sri Lankan Tamils". The LTTE came about as a result of the oppression of Tamils by the Sri Lankan government. One never knows what will happen next. Its the best time for Sri Lankan government to give all the Tamilians the rightful place in their own country.

Not sure how they managed to kill Prabhakaran . But there seems to be many versions floating in here and there. Sri Lanka has to come out of its etnic loyalty culture ever since they gained independence from British. I feel sad at the death of Prabhakaran (Even though I don't agree with his methods). Noone can deny that he had a goal and he was working to achieve it with all resources he had. But really what makes Sri Lankan govt celebrate more is that LTTE was more of a one Man Ruled private limited company with no norms of liberation organisation. And with all the top leaders of LTTE dead, none knows what lies ahead of the Tamilians in Sri Lanka.

I pray to lord Shiva that he bless all the souls innocent or warring one peace at the Resting Place.

ARPU

To the list of jargons used in the telecom field this is one of the few. This acronym stands for "Average Revenue Per User" or "Average Revenue Per Unit".

Now the mobile is in the hands of 50% people and we are entering the third quartile. Most of the people who are going to be added are expected to be from low income group. The countries which are going to contribute to this bulk is China, India , Pakistan and Bangladesh. With the declining ARPU, mobile services can be profitable only if there is a continous high growth at the same time the processes are corrected to make it more efficient and cost effective. recently I read that Aircel has announced plan to provide life time services for new subscribers @ Rs .49 ~= $ 1.2 for existing subscriber @ 249 ~= $6.2. And with the voice call rates declining day by day from where are the operators expecting to earn much of the revenue? How they are planning to be profitable?

The crux of the story is the shift in the contribution to the revenue by the data services.
The revenue percentage for the services provided by the mobile operator are continously shifting from Voice services to the Data services like SMS etc. Data services are more frequently used in the urban areas which is resisting the decline of overall ARPU. In India, Popular serials ,like Indian Idol or Bid2Win, are one of the factors in the rise of revenues from data services, as more and more people are voting/bidding using sms. And these operators are expecting mobile banking to start contributing.

But still it needs to be seen if the data services can offset the decline of ARPU to an inclination.

Indian State's defence Budget Allocation

The allocation for defence is being raised by 10 percent from Rs.96,000 crore (Rs.960 billion) to Rs. One lakh five thousand six hundred crore (Rs.1,056 billion),' Chidambaram said while presenting the budget in the Lok Sabha Friday. The allocation is still below 2.5 percent of the GDP, even as successive parliamentary committees have recommended this be raised to at least three percent if the armed forces are to rapidly modernise...... The reason this is happening is that there is more allocation to other departments like health, etc and the beauratic hurdles in modernising the military........ "India's military expenses at $26.18 billion (Rs 105,600 crores) were less than half of China's expenditure in absolute terms" ...How they are going to protect our country ?


Still I see chinese citing India as threat and hiked spending to nearabout 17.6% compared to 10% by India.... Chinese have developed a massive infrastucture near the Indian borders.....And what was the response of India ...

1. lowering of defense budget (%age of GDP). 2.1% in 2008-09 against 2.17% in 2007-08.....
   
2. Allocating funds for Arunachal that for the southern parts....Reason, chinese may use the same infrastucture for their adavance ment
3. Inability to spend the allocated budget, which is already low.

Even this defence budget of china is not real....the real one is much more....

See the extimations in the table.


The only Thing I wanna say is to the politician to wake-up ....and remove this those bauracratic hurdle....and Modernise the Indian military into a might Military capable of protect our territorial integrity and at the same time punching the countries out who might even dare to do it.

Gigolooosssss.......

Few days back when I was in Hyderabad I was watching a movie related with Gigolos....coincidently when returning from there I saw a magazine with a a coverpage dedicated to gigolos....in India.....

So who are these gigolos..... in simple words you can say them as "male prostitutes" .... Actually I was actually shocked after knowing abt it ..... Though I could believe that its quite possible in western countries ..... But even a stray though didn't came to my mind about a possiblity of these peoples adopting it as profession in India..... But as per that magazine...thats true..... Though at first I envied them ..... But later on thought .... not everyone can do everything ..... After I thought what will those guys will do when they face some one homo - people.....

So I just thought that about this phenomena from various perspective ....

First of all Who are the clients of these gigolos :-

1. a) Married Females

• Husband staying Far away or not in contact with their husband for quite a long time
• Husband either being not interested or unable to fulfill there desires
• they might be seeking some variety
• Just for fun.

1. b) Divorce or Widow Females
   

• This might be because of their sexual desires unfulfilled beacause of absence of their hubby

1. c) UnMarried Females
   

• They might do this for experience
  
• May be scared of entering into any kind of relationship
• Or may be just for fun
• Some May hire them even just to show that they have a boyfriend
• They might be homo and to avoid it getting noticed they might use gigolos to pretend as they have a Man.

1. d) Males (homo or bisexual)

• Now these people may not be finding partner
• May be they want to hide their homo sexuality behaviour

1. e) People (male or female) with some un-common characteristics or old

• people who might be too fat or too small or too large ....etc might look for the gigolo services as they might need fulfill their desires naturally or because of social reasons.
• Old people who are not able to fulfill these desires.

Who might be gigolos ?

Any male who gets paid for his services which includes sexual pleasure or strip shows but not limited to these.

Potential Age group :-

May be 18 -28 (No hard and Fast rule)


What could drive a person to be a gigolo ?

1. No employment
2. Money
3. Sexual pleasure
4. Gifts, or travels they might get as a part of services
5. Parties which they might attend

Drawback a Gigolo Might have ?

1. After Some time or because of something like Age or physique : He can't persue this a career for lifetime
2. Social Acceptance is not there
3. Marriage or his personal relationship might get affected
4. His own choice of sexual desire is not counted
5. Its not easy to be a gigolo.

Is it going to get acceptance in the society?
What are implications of such behaviour in Society ? Both , in west and in east?

Still lot of questions keep on cropping ................

Modi -- Winning against All Odds

Narendra Dāmodardās Modī , Commonly known as Modi or Narendra Bhai, was sworn in as Chief Minister of Gujrat for the 3rd Consecutive time defying all the anti-incumbency factors and the open rebellion within the party.

SWOT analysis:-

• Strengths -
  
  1. Awesome Campaigner and great public appeal
  2. Image of a Clean and Honest Man ("Mein Khata Bhi Nahin Hoon , Khane bhi Nahin Detta hoon")
  3. Economic Growth during his tenure as CM of Gujrat
  4. No Terrorist strike in Gujrat(2002-07)
  5. Social Reforms

• Weakness -

1. Modi's Role in Gujrat Riots
2. Open rebellion Against him by BJP members.
3. No campaigning from VHP and other hindu organisations for him.
4. Media most of the time against him.
5. Anti-incumbency factor.

• Opportunities

1. Sonia's Speech refering him as "Merchant of Death" used to raise the communal sentiments.
2. Demoralisation of Congress workers beacuse of acceptance of BJP rebels.
3. Gujrat elections centered around one agenda Modi.

• Threats

1. Open Rebellion by his own party members
2. Minority totally against him
3. No Camaigning from KeshuBhai a prominent BJP leader
   

Why We Indians Have Double Standards ?????

Why is that we Indians have so many double standards? Not only politicians but also the self proclaimed great Human Right activits and all the so-called secular intellects also follow double standard.

There has been a lot of articles in all around the Indian Subcontinent by the adriot media persons criticising the attempts made by some Hindu backed organisation trying to stop an Art Exhibition depicting Hindu Goddess in unacceptable forms. They all tell it suppression of ART. Even I have been reading articles by people with great intellect like Shashi Tharoor , who might have become UN secretary general.I read his articles in Times Of India describing about Ellora and some temples and the association with the art displayed in Gujrat. But didn't saw a single word for protecting the Art work by people like Salman Rushdie, who is a great scholar. Critics say praise a lot for all the contribution made by MF Hussain and the critcise people who were hurt by his paintings. Just because MR MF Hussain hurted the feeling of Hindus and Hindus are themselves divided between themselves. The intellect who is criticising the so-called suppression of Art is also a Hindu.

Why none of the critics ever stand up and take one stand. That all arts will be allowed without any parity. Why they have never said a single word criticising the people who opposed and suppressed "Satanic Verses" by Sir Salman Rushdie and banned it. Why is the barometer different to protect Art Works differnt? Is it measured in terms of the community whom it is affecting? Why were there world wide protest against Danish Cartoons are apllauded and felt by everyone, but at the same time the protest against the Arts in Gujrat are localised and subpressed and crticised viciously?

I expect only those people to acclaim or critcise any issue, who dare stand and take one view - unaffected by politics, vote bank, community , back ground, religion, be unbaised. If one thinks the art should be protected in form of paintings offending Hindus , then the various form of Arts should also be protected which offends Muslims. I am not against Muslims or Hindus or against Art.

I hate the part when anyone proclaiming himself the greatest critic give a high toned voice for the same root issue, but at the same time a complete mute in respect to the other issue.

Today is World Refugee day

We the general people (Aami Admi) are least concerned about it. Infact with all the pandemonium of urban life we are least bothered about these events. I am still least bothered about the dates, but when thinking about the plight of being refugee I feel that we are in a much better position. How they might feel staying in a foreign country unwillfully? How can one ever forget his place of birth ? Once hearing the term "Refugee" I remembered the plight of Tibetans, Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian Kashmiris (both Hindus and Muslims).

India is about hoem to 250000 refugees. Though out of these refugees who belongs to different nations, communities , etc. I have came accross Tibetans hundred of times and most of the times in restaurants. They have been living here for more than 3 decades. Still the Chinese who occupied Tibet are not even giving them autonomy and None in the world cares a damn about it.

Kashmiri Pandits were butchered in there home country beacause people with malicious intentions sitting accross the border desired to do so..... :(

I don't know about Tibetan or Iraqis ..... But yes , I feel bad looking at the people having their roots based in India being thrashed by some other countries....

I dont like the Gandhian approach by India for issues related to its own people. Also India should take moral responsibility for Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism as these are the three religions which doesn't have majority in any country of the world.People may question me why not christanity, Islam or Buddhism. I dont have anything against any of these. But all of these has some countries with majority of population like Japan,Sri Lanka, China, Thailand (Buddhism), Most of the Middle East Countries, indonesia (islam),US, europe,(christanity).

Now if u think for Jainism, Hinduism and Sikhism , other than Nepal for Hinduism you dont find any country other than India for them. So I strongly believe India should be aggressive regarding people belonging to these religions. It should consider itself similar to Israel which is for Jews. I dont intend in any manner that it should opress any other religion. I just want to say it should act more as saviour for these three religions.

Take for example India should agressively make sure that Turban, which is a holy symbol for sikhs be allowed without any partiallity in any part of the world. India should not be sitting Idle looking at the ethnic Indians in Fiji. Even a person of Fijian ethnicity, Cmdr. Banirama, felt the partiality being done and made a coup. US, EU , Australia and New Zealand have imposed sanctions for this rightfull act of his. This act was for equality, to remove corruption , for justice ( not to let people who tried coup earlier escape from the law). On the other hand, countries with dictator like General Pervez Mushrraf are termed as a soldier of war on Terror. This same country, Pakistan which is responsible for the plights of all people of Jammu & Kashmir (India) and Afganistan. So its clear India should stand up and help people who have roots in India as they have none to lookupto.

Also to add-on, one of the great contributor to this refugee problem is

1> Pakistan ( so called "soldier of War on Terror")

2> India ( Having pessimistic approach towards the problem of refugee, A sitting Elephant)

India never took any aggressive action on pakistan for supporting terrorism in India.And also never heard the humanitarian plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka after the sad demise of Shri Rajiv Gandhi. I am not saying support LTTE, I would say destroy LTTE but support the Tamils in Sri Lanka who are being opressed. Once even in news I saw Sri Lankan Tamil s asked to leave colombo just because they are Tamil. a pure act of ethnic cleansing.

I dont know what made me write this one diverting from the main topic of Refuggee day ....But i dont edit by blogs....

Oceans apart,
day after day
And I slowly go insane
I hear your voice on the line
But it doesn't stop the pain

If I see you next to never
How can we say forever
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you

Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I took for granted, all the times
That I thought would last somehowI hear the laughter,
I taste the tears
But I can't get near you now
Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me going crazy

I wonder how we can survive
This romance
But in the end if I'm with you
I'll take the chance

Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me going crazy-

Madi, "Right here Waiting

Well....blogging after a lot many day s.......


Mind is in much more stable possition now.......
And dont wanna reveal those absurd things out....

Professionally there was very less work for last one week.....
Most of the time concentarted on the Ideas generated in the ESA scrub churning session.....
Got one reply for the idea submitted for patent by the reviewer .....need to respond by tuesday lets seee......

Well about weekends.....
Navin has come to bangalore .....for some interviews ....and it really felt good that he is here with me......
He is a very nice techie chap......
possibly will convert all of the calls.... I wish him luck.....

Next week too someone is coming from kol......
someone for whom I have been waiting for long .....
Had made a lots of plan .....

Also needs to meet relatives in weekend ...just got call from bhua to meet .....

So many things to do in weekends .......And I hope I am not neglecting the most important one i.e. CAT......

I need to make sure its never in the backseat ....
So my first priority is CAT ....
Though not preparing at war level .....But it seems need to start it very soon than later ......

Had got an offsite meet from sasken somewhere next month .....
Lets see ...that too will consume some time.....

This is where the prob start ....
How to use this 24 hrs to make it effectively equivalent to 28 hrs ....
So many things to do ...so little time.....
Need to start running in the morning .....But dare not wake up ....Lazy
need to join Gym for the tummy which look small now but scary ........Need to make sure it vanishes.....
CAT , friends, office work , relatives......................


Time keeps running and making one more and more busier .....
Now I must hangon .................

How the Goa Trip Began

Hey ! Had an excellent 3days weekend since we got a holiday on 1st May....
As far as Goa Trip is concerned it was not planned....
How it happened???
Friday I went to fac-z to watch the movie....
but that was not being played that day bcoz of QBM....
So when i was leaving the Fac-z .. I saw Amit Bansal and had a talk with him...
After observing him with some luggage i asked hime ," Are yaar kahan jaaa Rahe hooo !!!".
He Replied that they are going goa......
I was shocked and cursed hime why didn't he told me....
Than i saw vinay....
he came to me and we have a chat....
then suddenly what clicked to me i asked how mnay people are gooing and whats the capacity of the bus ...I found that no. of peoples were much less ...and said him If I can come...
he was very happy to hear those words from my side and said if u can get back in 30 mins i will be there .....in the bus for goa...
as people for goa trip had already started arriving..........
So i just rushed in my Pulsar to home..... breaking to traffioce signals....
and came back in 45 mins...
fortyunately they were waiting for me....
and they said that they have just waited 10 mins extra fro me....
I was very happy ...as atleast I dont have to spend three holidays sitting at home getting in so called lively city "bangalore".....
And yes the trip started...
Most of the people very from Sasken,.... few people from other Cos had also arrived like hcl,....
And we went ahead for the trip.......