Thank god for SEBI

Hmm, finally SEBI has done something. Oh, i'm not talking about the depository scam and all that. I mean the newspapers.

5 days of talk about bulets, and deranged brothers and B+ was driving me crazy. SEBI managed to take over the front page, and the BSE Sensex responded gallantly.

Wow.

Talk of an economy in motion.

So much for Indians being attracted to emotion. I say they are attracted to money ! 12,000. Whee. Maybe i should save up and invest too...

Just something I ran into - Nash

I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.
-- Ogden Nash, "Everybody's Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"

I support Iran

Okay okay, so this is one of my nifty support thingys again.


But why not let Iran have the bomb. Its a nifty geek thing to have. If we can trust a silly twit to be the President of the USA with rigged voting machines and false hopes, if we can have North Korea with a nuke and no rice, whats the problem with a religous fanatic who belives in converting the world. After all, all us good people go to heaven when we die...these brave, responsible men should be designated propehets. The earlier prophets only promised to show the path, these men will escort us there....talk about customer service !

Let him make a nuke...and if we hear of another earthquake in iran , then we know what was up...

Dance Dance

So much for moral policing....

While our government makes new laws and sends ordinances which render bar girls jobless, the rest of us are left to cool our heels in traffic .

I guess its more important to have good morals than to survive. Alongwith a ban on dance bars, i also propose a ban on..


1. Cops

2. Thieves

3. Politicians

4. paper pushers

5. Organised religion


Thats should give us good morals. After that we can worry about simple things like clean water, more trees and other such minor worries...

I support Reservations

Sure i support them. All these seats Arjun Singh wants to give away. Perfect. What are minister's for, except to be generous and throw things away? Kings did it for generations, now its the age of ministers...

i support reservations if

1. Arjun Singh "reserves" a part of his house (ok, his free ministerial bunglow) and lets it be used as a Reserved Candidates Hostel.

2. There is a reservation created in the central cabinet for the same grades...even if it means he has to resign from the cabinet himself to make way for them.

3. VP Singh (the "father" of Mandal Commission implementations, agrees to be treated for his cancer (or whatever else he keeps being treated for) by a doctor who got a seat through his reservation policy..not through doctors in the UK.

4. If all those who support the reservation, show that they themselves are willing to sacrifice their own, or their kids careers at the alter of "morally correct"


Why is it that competence has so little space? No wonder we have people willing to leave the country...can't say i blame them...imagine an Eienstien next to a chap who can barely pass his X standard, and both being treated as equal.

Crazy world, isn't it?

Necessity for new words

There have been times when I have wondered why people keep inventing new words. There are already more words than I can manage to remember...or use. But today I found a REAL need for new words.

I was watching the Davis Cup Tie between India and Pakistan, the doubles match. The commentary was so.........insipid? silly? stupid? uninspiring? I can't find a good enough word to describe the torture it was to listen to them.....viewers should sue them ! If you lower the volume, you can't hear the rest of the atmosphere (cheering fans., the thump of the racquet hitting the ball..) and if you raise the volume, you feeel like pulling your hair out, shooting those guys and doing the salsa, all at the same time.

Anyone who belives that privatisation is not good...WATCH THIS TELECAST ! (Our local Commies, please !)

Why do we need God?

We cannot assert the innocence of anyone, whereas we can state with certainity the guilt of all.
Religions are on the wrong track they moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

God's sole usefulness would be to guarantee innocence.

Don't wait for the Last Judgement. it takes place everyday. That is why our heroes, our achievers, are vilified everyday. Locked up. Killed. There are always reasons for murdering a man. On the contary, it is impossible to justify his living.

Don't know if this post will make sense to anyone but me...crossing my fingers and hoping it does....

Whatever happenned to a sense of humour?

As a resident of Bombay (yes, Bombay, you can call it Mumbai or whatever else you like, for me it stays Bombay) , I have been subjected to a lot of advertising and special offers in the last 12 months, especially since two new newspapers have been launched in that period. All for the good, espically since the ToI seems to stopped numbering its pages (..all the pages should have the number 3)

But reading DNA seems to make me feel that the term newspaper is a bit of a misnomer. Too many opinions and too little news. And what little there is, is distorted.

Lets take an example in todays paper (can't give you the page no or the article name cause I trashed the paper in the nearest bin after reading this article).

A lady expresses teh opinion that coffee shops in bombay are delibrately insulting women. Fair enough. Proof? Apparently a coffee shop in InOrbit Mall (Malad..no I don't stay that side) gave her a coffee, with a coaster or something similar..which had the following printed on it "Women should be obscene, not heard - Groucho Marx"

The writer is outraged at the shop for such indecent behaviour and proceeds to derive conclusions that are extreme, to say the least.

As I see it

1. Groucho Marx is the man who makes me laugh easiest.
2. ALL his comments were outrageous, and made as a joke....
3. Thank God this lady isnt in charge of anything that require logic, computers for example....i am pretty sure that if she reads this post she will willingly believe I am some kind of Nazi wife beater or worse.

Maybe I should start a newspaper for people with culture, intelligence and logic...people like Groucho !

Wait-a-minute , isn't a blog a start ?

:-)

Biz Books run late....

One thing I figure about business books......they are the exact opposite of scientific books. Think about it. Most scientific publications are full of theories...which take decades, or atleast years before they are proven right..or wrong. Most business books, on the other hand, are written by consultants who have seen the practical parts work in a dozen places before they spot the pattern and write a book about it.

Easier to write a business book? Maybe. Who knows. To each his own.

Attila was exactly what mankind deserved !

This is my first post on my own blog. This blog won't talk about me at all..Thank God ! Hopefully I'll manage to get some poor sods to read my comments on everyone..most likely, all my entries will be about books I read, or insights I get into all sorts of silly and trivial stuff, articles I end up finding interesting and so on...

Welcome to the blog who thinks Attila was exactly what mankind deserved..(Who was Attila? Try www.Wikipedia.org)