16 May, 2011

Mr. Singh - Please liberate us by liberating yourself...


This is an open-letter to the most celebrated Prime Minister in India's political history - Mr. Manmohan Singh.

Mr. Singh, this is a humble request from the concerned people of India to please do the right thing and put forward your resignation. I don't say this for the reason that people think that you are a "weak PM" or that you are simply a "tool". But the real reason behind my request is that you are criminally wasting the most powerful seat in India. Trust me, nobody would have been happier to see you become the Prime Minister of India on 22nd May 2004 because your honesty and intellect in politics was by far unprecedented. But unfortunately, you have terribly let us down over the past 7 years, by simply - DOING NOTHING!

You have kept mum through thick and thin. You kept mum when Mumbai was literally raped in full view of the whole world. You kept mum when the likes of Ashok Chavan and Vilasrao Deshmukh siphoned money out of defenders of our country and other countless voters. You kept mum when Suresh Kalmadi budgeted CWG which could finance 5 such events and A. Raja tuned in losses which would provide 10 nations with mobile telephony. You stood by your decision of chairmanship of CVC, later blaming it on Prithviraj Chavan and the fact that an OLD CV was presented in front of you. Are you freakin' kidding me? You mean to say that in spite of all the hue and cry by the opposition, you could not obtain information of legal proceedings against a corrupt individual?

And what did you do? You have helped Pakistan generously through hard times in floods when you knew where does that money land up ultimately. You preferred sucking up to Obama when your nation was being rocked by Adarsh. You didn't mind dispatching consignments of monetary help to Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar even when people of your nation are dying of hunger due to rising prices of food. Which of course you could have controlled but in the words of Prince of India (Rahul Gandhi) "your hand are tied by coalition politics". In short, the fact that your party needs to be in power is suddenly much more important than lives of people who stupidly vote for you.

Being Prime Minister of a nation is a huge responsibility and I respect you for trying to take that. But sir, you have failed miserably. Please let someone who can at least do something about corrupt and wrongful deeds occurring under his nose. Give us a Prime Minister who can speak. Kindly do us this little favour and for the last time, do something - QUIT !

18 February, 2011

Pursuit of Shamelessness

*ing Sachin Tendulkar as himself.

The maestro, the little wonder, the cricket god are some of the names we use for this cricketing legend. The man recently made headlines off the field when he refused multi-million advertising deal to endorse a liquor product. However, the fact that he signed a multi-million deal with Coca Cola to endorse a hidden poison wasn’t discussed anywhere. Such is the charisma of our Mr. Tendulkar.

Talking of millions, I would not miss saying that, in my opinion, Mr. Tendulkar is perhaps the most miser man on the planet from the evolution of man-kind till date. Just today I read in a news item that this begging god has asked Maharashtra Government to relax FSI rules so that he could build a lavish gym and flat on his property. Is Mr. Tendulkar above law or simply ignorant that FSI can be purchased for a premium? Perhaps, from his past behaviour it seems that he is simply not interested to shell out a single Rupee for a thing he can get for free using his celeb value. Talking of past experiences, who can forget that his own accountant had filed a recovery suit for services rendered to the tune of million Rupees and that the beggaestro himself pleaded the Indian Government to waive customs duty for his imported Ferrari.

Well done Sachin, you refused liquor endorsement deal as you wanted to set a good example on society. Hope you will succeed by teaching people how to seek exemptions from law and stealing tax money. Go Sachin go !!!