VAMPIRE CHARMING

She led an ordinary life, a life no different from most of her peers. A life that encompassed usual parameters of family and career. Weary of the turmoils ( an ample share of which she experienced), she, ended up in the struggle for survival. Struggle to emerge victorious out of the wearies of life. Her life overshadowed by the truth and practicality, lost somewhere the address to the Utopia she'd built around herself. The reality, which was her present, subsided the urge she nourished of someday living in the Utopia.

The whip of reality indeed made her love the life even more. Afresh ith the wisdom of a conqueror, she lost her innocent dreams. It was untill one day when she came across "him" that she rediscovered her long lost dreams. The broken hopes and bespattered desires which lay underneath the debris of her dreams were unearthed.

"Silly", "Idiot", and many such adjectives would be directed towards her, for what she unearthed was the Mirage of her dreams of Love. She came across her Prince of Utopia at the most glorious time of the day....The Twilight. The time when the sun shines in its most magnificient aura. His beauty was magnificient. A prince indeed he was, but was not a human embody. When he exposed his bare body in the Sun, She came across the most wonderful phenomena she could ever witness.

It was done..she was struck by the unimagineable....and hit by cupid.....in the strangest of way that can ever happen.


Hey guys....enough ...its done..! Well lets not be sarcastic, but Edward Cullen is worth all such stupidity. Come'on dude....which gal wont get awestruck by his appeal. Guys its real boo-boo to deny the silly quoient that is present among all us. I m no different from the species family i belong to. And what better option of spilling out the "out of the world" dreams i endear than VAMPIRE CHARMING. We grew up hearing the fairy tales of some Prince charming.....enough.....what d f@$k man!....who said that prince can only posses such enchanting, mersmerising beauty..! This time we got something really hot and unusual served for us.....indeed it seems dam delicious..! But hard luck we are no " Bellas" to manage a quick "Bite"...! So all we can do is to WATCH...wid our tongues hanging out...! Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......! Gals always long for Bad Guys being good to us.

"PAA"-RA_RUM_PUM...!

The most unique form of relationship that is shared among the mortals is the parent-child relationship.The relation no matter how much is spoken, read, seen or written about, there seem to be some manifestation of the form that is still left untouched.

Recently i caught on to A.B.Corps' "Paa", and what effected me more than the film making or excellent performances from the cast and crew of the film was the depiction of parenthood and its versions in varient. The relationships potrayed in the celluloid were although distinct but shared the similarity of bonding and emotional strength.

As i steped inside the hall, i was quite sure about shedding tears during the climax, sighting the subject of the film and my previous experience while wathching the well appreciated "Taare Zameen Par", but what i actually went through the course of the film was absolutely unbelieveable. I learnt that parental support is not only necessary for taking the most unlikely decission of ones life but also for making the most dangerous and unexpected choices. The survival through the turbulent junctures of the life becomes so very easier with your parent standing right beside you.

The expression of "Do you want the child or not?" by the charecter of Vidya's mother or Auro's "Bum" laid the foundation of the unimagineable to follow. Where as Vidya's unconditional love and support to her Progeria inflicted son Auro, who inspite of being made aware of his uncurable disease and the ultimatum to follow, led a very normal and happy enough to be envious social life.Vidya not only gave Auro the freedom to live his short life the way he wants but her strength and support gave him the exuberence to enjoy every moment of his life to the fullest and thereafter to embrace his death in the most lively way. The strength abstated him from succumbing to the moments of embarrasement, which he barely had any, and the fear of his decreasing lifetime.

Auro was indeed special...............but what made him more special was his mother......VIDYA. The lucky one .....i envy him.

COPENHEGAN COIN

Melting icebergs, rising temparatures, water shortages, withering species - the crazy attributes of global warming. We all are indeed aware of what the misuse of power and resources can ferret out of the environment. World is falling prey to destruction as a byproduct of pollution. Our focus should be towards the eleminating the cause if this environmental depletion, or at least curb the harmful effects of global warming.Government of India have also extended favourable support towards the cause.The result being the decrease of India's carbon emmission rate to 5.4%.

India- the, most popular & populated Democracy, that is how i would love to identify her in the international forums. Being the largest "DEVELOPING DEMOCRACY" of the world, India is all engaged in its bid to emerge as a world power. But somewhere in the wake of her ambitions she has become apprehensive about standing for its own cause. Like any other third world countries, India today is more inclined towards following the tenets laid down by the World Biggies rather than applying her own discreetional abilities. A fact that has been proven yet another time in the 20:20 World Summit and probably would be proven again in the G-77 summit to be followed at Copenhegan. She agreed to the curricullum of cutting down its carbon emmission by 20 to 25%, inspite of strong condemnation comming from various stratum of the Indian society.

It is ironical to watch India paying a price almost same in comparison to the First world countries, who were and are the largest contributors to global warming. The injustice meted upon us is unjustifisble when countries like US have a much higher rate of carbon emission than India's by at least 70%.

I see an acute prevalence of faovouritism and convinience in the Anarchist-led World. Sighting over our growing dependence upon & economic relationships with US, it will be surely very difficult for India to take a strong stand without stirring the Hornet's nest. Indeed the Negotiations in Climate Change has Not been Global, what is now left to be seen is that will India be able to overcome her dillema or will she succumb to it.

What is left to be seen is India's stand at Copenhegan.....Will she follow the tune of US sighting her growing billateral relation with the country....or , will she stand for her virtue.

The Dying Legacy....!

The Indian youth today aspires to build up their careers in corporate sector or big business houses. All they urge for is a secure career that could earn them respect, recognition and ofcourse moolahhh.... all the parameters that is needed for the upliftment of their social integrity.While considering our career prospects how many of us....the Indian youth...look forward joining Indian Armed force? With the legacy of selfless impeccable service to nation behind, the Indian Armed forces are left today with enormous shortages of officers. Indian Army presently is facing a shortage of 11,200 officers, the situation is almost the same for India Air force and Navy. Once considered as most respectful of the professions, Indian Armed Forces are today witnessing disregards from the on the job officers also....who are desparetely looking for premature retirement. There is an uncanny erosion in the respect of in the once considered most respectful of pledges for the country.
Why is Indian Armed Force witnessing such detioration of respect? Is it because of Indian Army losing its invincibility or are there some other reasons attributing this degrdation. The rich tradition is withering away. It is in the verge of dying. Army officers who dedicated more than 20 years of their lives serving the country, the once who followed a dedicated family tradiion, does'nt wants their sons to join the Indian Army.............."If my son said he wanted to join the army, i would have shot him" ....said a retired brigadier. Disenchantment is an emotion nurtured by most of the army officers today.
Well for those joining the army money is obviously not an issue,only if their thirst for respect and integrity was quenched. Today army officers are summonedwhen situation goes beyond what police officers could handle. Army officers are deputed for the security of the Mother Nation..but Indian Army officers mow-a-days find themselves mostly caught up in flood reliefand control programmes and worse their efforts goes UNNOTICED & UNRECOGNISED.
Army is no longer an attractive prospect. Poor Promotional avenues, steep pyramidal structure, zero oppurtunity for lateral induction are reasons attributed. With civilian hierarchy in th administration Indian Army is going today nowhere.....With such blessed uncertainty How many Indian Youth would like to risk thir futures in the army....It is said army officers are only recognised when they die serving the nation. The government dos little for the army officers themselvs ,live alone paying due compensation and rspect to the famly of the martyrs. Bureaucracy is eating up the legacy. Civilian Authority having almost Zero knowledge about the defence thinks themselves higher than defence itself. Army officers with years of experience and service to the nation behind often have to face humiliation once they intend to stand up against such malpractise.
Well poor pay scale revisions and pension facilities are dissapoinments for the army officer. For those who are "trained to die for nation" all they achieve is mere fake promises, and often not even that. Recently retirede army officers returned their medals achieved during their terms of services to the President Mrs. Pratibha Patil. This was a gallant show protest against their demands of One Rank One Pay not being granted. But the Protest that saw thousands of Army officers and their families on street failed to trigger the concious of the government.
Well all i could do is to write a blog regarding the pittiful condition of the Indian Armed Force........I am suppossed to express my views through this blog....all i have is disgust....as a youth of India I dont know what can be done in such sorry state of affairs.....all i want is to spread awareness about the issue...so that from the next time we crack any criticism about the army and army officers we think over and over again of the onditions in which they serve us....yes we sleep soundly at our homes only because they stay awake in some distant frontiers.....!

KOLKATA>>>>>STATUE......!

The city of joy almost came to a halt on thursday afternoon with hordes of Trinamool Congress supporters choking the important streets of the city even the Howrah bridge as a display of protest against High Court's decision to grant bail to the Tapasi Malik case accuseds, Suhrid datta & Debu Malik.
Well the "Chakka jam" attributed allround unrest in regular civic life of the city. With causing delays in 15 flights, Trinamool claim themselves to be resposible enough to effectively undertake the state's governance. Well friends let us site their act of responsibility. The blockades were to last ten minutes, instead it continued for almost an hour triggering massive congestions in the major centres of the city like...Girish Park, Manicktala, Amherst street, Park CIrcus, Park Street, Gariahat and so on. Major hospital location like R.G.Kar saw terrible jam as well.
The question pondering over my mind now is that, tis true that the accused of the Tapasi Malik case deserves punishment but why in the heaven are the thousands of innocent Kolkatans are compelled to succumb to such maltreatment? How are their suffering vialble enough to fetch punishments for the concerned accusseds? Think of the hundreds of commutters who were forced to walk down the Howrah Bridge on Thursday afternoon because of the demonstrations.
Well the Trinamool's protestors were even seen rush towards the buses at BBD Bag. Well ofcourse one can well understand the reason of their rush connoting a well devised instrument to scare the public to get down the buses. Well so can this show be a justified protest against the HC's decision? The Trinamool supporters displayed a threat to the City life on Thursday withthe Kolkata Police standing by as a mere spectator. What punishment can be convincing & justified for such inconvinient displays?
This is'nt something new for people living in Bengal, we are often victimised of such calcavades. Calcavades earlier were resorted for harnesing the benefit of the citizens....who can forgat the famous Gandhi March....But now-a -days street rallies and demonstrations are merely reduced to the sheer display of party powers, and who the sufferers are for this early deterioration...we the commonmen.
How long can we keep calm and accept such irresponsible acts from the various parties operating in the country. Bengal now being known for its political unrests, unnecessary calcavades, deindustrialisation and illegal uprooting of the farmers, rather than its rich heritage of tradition and culture is rather a disgrace brought upon the state by the so called rulling & the opposition parties. Lets see if such jestures can pull some favourable numbers to their concerned vote banks, which ofcourse is their ultimate urge. And ofcourse whether or not HC act according to Trinamool's whims is yet to be unseen. At least if they succeed in their aim then we can console ourselves of having contributed something to the process of fetching Justice for poor Tapasi Malik. God bless her soul....what else can i pray for her whosedeath is even being comoditised to win over publicity to the concerned party.

STAR STRUCK...!

Well friends lets talk about the latest trend culminating this season - The collision of politics and film stars...all set to adorn the responsible positions of MPs. The emergence of bollywood stars in parliament has become rather an endemic. If we site the general elections of 2004 almost seven bollywood stars stood as candidtes either for Bharatiya Janata Party or Congrss. There were twenty nine bollywood actor & actresses who took part in the party campigning. The overwhelming share of glamour in politics is thought as a successful & effective mean of attracting voters. The political parties often strive to recruit bollywood stars for their campaigning purpose to mobilise the largest possible chunk of voters. With every election there seem the urgency to resort to the glamour for the campaigning.
Well politics have a major role to play in determining a country's future developements. It must have a depth & decorum, it is expected that the political leaders would perceive politics beyond the narrow role of a spectacle which is attached to it. It has been seen in past specialy in case of Sohern India the film stars play an importanat role in the region's all round developements. Hence their participation in the politics is much expected and welcomed but the scenario is different when we consider the case of north India. Bollywood stars participating in Politics are rather ignorant. With their blessed ignorance how effectively they could manage the constituencies they are fighting for is rather a big question mark. Most of them are not even familiar with the names of the constituencies leave alone their knowledge of the local language being spoken there of. With such minimal knowledge and zero experience is it at all safe to allow them stand for the elections.
With the popularity and glamour the stars possess its not quite difficult for them to win the elections. But this win emphasis keeping the future of the region at stake. Unavailibilty of them during emergencies, unallocation of funds send for the constituency & absence during parliament sessions are few to mention among the attributes of getting or rather achieving a bollywood star as a MP.
Yestur year actors like Dharmendra, Shatrughan Sinha,Vinod Khanna & Raj Babbar already adorn the parliament. To join the crew are actors like CHICHI and our very own MUNNABHAI. Well chichi's unavailibility during the mumbai emergencies already raised a lot of hue & cry since he stood from one of the constituencies from Mumbai itself. Will Sanjay Dutt be successful to cast his spell in politics is yet to be apprehended. So we can conviniently say that politics has become an effective harbourage for bollywood actors but how well they can fulfil thein obligations of acquiring such responsibility is utmost uncertain.
Being the citizen of the world's largest democracy i must put forth the question that do we deserve to be taken at stake???? The convinience with which the Political parties transfer our country's fate to such ignorant batch must be combated. Stars look good playing their cards on screen, with depressing examples of siting failures of these Filmstars in politics the country must be awaken to the truth and abort the possibility of ressurgence of bollywood stars in Politics.!

The GR8 Indian Fraud...!

The biggest scam ever in the history of Indian economy at Satyam Computer Services took the very interior of corporate India by storm. The promoters of Satyam, led by the company's chairman, B.Ramalinga Raju, are alleged to have siphoned out a huge amount from the firm. To veil the fraud they manipulated company accounts and forged the documents to understate their liabilities. Andhra Pradesh CID even made allegations that the compay had only 40,000 employees against 53,000 it claimed to have. The remaining 13,000 was fake salary account that pocketed about Rs. 20 crores to the chairman and his associates in crime in the fraud over 5 years.
The investigations have lot more to reveal. The Satyam scam was rather an audacious and outrageous one that led the company near collapse.
The Satyam fraud shockingly points out the failure at all levels of governance to prevent the differences occuring between managers and promoters on one side and shareholdersor stakeholders on the other.Governance is meant for the security of the small and marginalshareholders. Their duties constitute to monitor the complicit activities of the pvt. joint stock companies. The ostensive fraud not only went unnoticed by the govt. auditors but was also unnoticed by the firm's auditors. This left a hole of Rs. 7,000 crores in the company accounts over the years.
The Satyam episode is not only an attribute of the individual greedbut also is the result of regulatory dilution and failure. In such a siuation instead of isolating the company steps must be taken to recur its functions and discard the possibilities of any furthe frauds.

India-Pakistan Analogy.

Israeli miitary action against Gaza connote the idea og military actions being preffered as a ntural answer against terrorism.But this anlogy does not apply in case of India & Pakistan. The recent abatement of tension between the two neighbours reassures New Delhi not being in favour to use military actions against her close neighbour. But how long the danger of an outbreak of a conflict can be prevented is a question whose answer lies with Pakistan's possible stands. A second atteck in India after 26/11 by a Pakistan based militant organisation can raise the possibility of an outbreak of a conflict.
The gruesome 26/11 attack on Mumbai wavered the diplomatic class of the international forum. The pressure is mounting on Pakistan to destroy the terrorist outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba nurtured in the country . India is also all set to take some serious actions against any possible terrorist upheavals in the country in the name of jihaad.
Pakistan's adament stand against handing over India the key terrorists or to destroy the terrorist outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba who are responsible for repeated terror assaults in India is instigating the later to apply coercive diplomacy against Pakistan. The prevailing situation between the two neighbours will continue to heat up untill the progression of the events between the countries result in something worthwhile that would help tracking down the organisation nurturing terrorism in the name of jihaad.