Russel Peters – This guy is good!!

I mean he doesn’t need my approval or certificate of merit from me…but he’s hilarious….

OK ‘m a sucker for stand up comedy….I try to see all…. of all colour, creed and nations

from our own home grown versions(laughter challenge) to a diverse set of people in US, u know the black Americans, whites other immigrant types like south Americans, Indians even mixes(Jap/Indian)… 

I saw almost all whats there in Utube for this guy(he’s a Canadian born Indian immigrant)…

Worst part is he’s in India doing his thing in selective cities but seats are full and tickets are high priced

‘m just waiting for m good man out there to put those in the Utube

India to Visit Chanda Mama!!

 

Chandrayaan-1

 

This is going to be a proud day for any Indian for sure…..

We are now in the elite band of six countries who have done escapades in and around the Moon.

Great moment for all and way to go ISRO!!

For me why I think its special is cause this is something truly indigenous and not some assembled piece of equipment bought from others, like most of the other stuff we claim to be indigenous like our commissioned planes, missiles and war-ships etc etc, you know its not like we can’t make it, yes we can and probably better than others but because we are somehow restrained from………..for reasons like vested interest, political ill will and ohh! forgot the main thing – The huge kick-back the pimps get to get a deal out for the foreign arms dealers.

Anyways thats sad, but this is good and i truly hope and believe that we are moving forward to create and build stuffs and make India a prominent republic on the face of the earth.

Brilliant Win – India Beats Australia!!

Zaheer Khan the hero of the last day!

Last five test matches if seen played between Australia and India this year, counting the 3 tests in Australia and 2 in India- India actually won it 2-1.

This only shows that India has come up quite consistently this year and this is not a one-off incident.

Now for most of the things people have started talking about (which always happens either when India wins big like this one or losses horribly), I would say a slump in Australian champion form is for there to see, I mean the retirement of the star bowlers like McGrath, Gillesepie, Warne, McGill have left Australia with a serious hollow in bowling department and Ponting, Hayden is definitely not in there prime after Gilli is gone.

But ‘m sure they are going to resurrect very soon, given there track record and there superb infrastructure back home.

Other than that Dhoni the Super Captain and Amit Mishra the wizard bowler has a long long way to go to actually get all the praise they have been getting off let. I guess everybody actually played well and lets not forget other bowlers, Tendulkar, Ganguly and Gauti who actually out played Australia.

Now for our Cricket soap - It would be interesting to see if Anil now comes up and captains the last two tests or sit out (Oops injured!), he is sitting on a double edged sword, Mishra did well coming for him and Dhoni won the test for India, this is going to be interesting to see. Kumble if ‘m not wrong would have a tough call contemplating playing after the home series in over.

Ganguly again playing his last series and people already talking his come back even before he bows out!!!

I personally wish he calls it a day as decided cause that would be a really brilliant way to go out you know….specially after what he has gone through as a player. If he goes out after the series I would say - his would be probably the best way of hanging the boots Indian cricket or rather cricketers have seen for quite some time, taking into account all the legends who have moved out of the team in last 10-15 years.

So as usual a lot things to watch for in the series and also after it……

 

JetAirways did an u Turn, Naresh Goel the Pilot!!!

Now this is what we say a “Great U Turn”.

“I’m a very emotional person and not driven by economics”

“I have a kid who’s 19 yrs old, and people who got fired are like my kids”

“We are a one big family”

Now these statements of Naresh Goel is well……ummm….how do we put it…INTERESTING!!

You know what ever may be the reason, the management doing it with out discussion with him, or he don’t subscribe to this kind of measures…..It’s fine as long as people get back there jobs.

Some also speculates that there must have been some pressure from different ministries as well.

All n all it was a real fun thing to watch. I guess it happens only in India, and also a relief to see that there’s still some mechanisms working in India to strike a balance between rational approach to a company problem and “fire all” policy –to give aleast some net of safety to the private employees from mindless job cuts.

Kingfisher and Jet – Others fly kites!!

                 

                  

                       Yellow coats get pink slips!!

This Jet-Kingfisher joining up and the things that followed like chopping of sectors and people from the payroll is really really sad.

Now I guess modern India gets a taste of what really a capitalist economy means or in the other words blindly following the bad/mal practices of American economy. You know chopping of jobs of 800-1000 people is not a simple thing, people might think its not unheard of in India!! Banks did it, factories did it from time to time!! You know what banks did was giving 40-45 up people voluntary retirements!!!

Things which happened with factories are well documented and is probably a history, in case of Bengal it was mostly the faults of the marwari business men and idiot and corrupt labour union heads. But here young people coming out of college and institutions, taking this industry seriously as serious career option, giving their prime and formidable years to it, are shown the door. What good is an industry if it cannot give or rather sustain careers of bright and young Indians, what good are these Indian companies anyways.

The funniest part is after all this they still want the bail out packages from the government. FOR WHAT??!?? I mean you have already shred-ed more than half of your crews, you have jacked up prices of the tickets. By the way isn’t it what capitalist economy is all about and who knows it better then them cause they are the ones who proactively did hire and fire in the first place isnt it. So that was fun right, firing people saying the market has open up. I mean government did not asked them to bloat up there employees in the first place. And isn’t it a law of the economy that if you can’t run your thing either you shut down or get buy out by somebody else??

Frankly theres not much of a rocket science opening up an aviation service industry, you donot do much, It’s not much more than a glorified transport business, where you buy some cars and put it in-line for rent a cab, its not like you are making a jet engine for god sake!! I really say if government give them money might as well take some stocks cause if things are not controlled in time anyways things have to be taken care-off later on, “Fed taking over all the big investment banks in US” rings any bell!?!

I really would like to see how the big national parties would react to it and see things unfold, cause otherwise the small regional parties would anyways exploit this already messed up situation!

Durga Pooja in Bangalore – I

It’s a glorious four years of pooja in Bangalore…..ok not so glorious but I had fun nonetheless.

Each year there were different things to feel about, different Poojas to see and different people to go around with. I kind of try to grab the happy mood, you know the pooja spirit and all and try having fun. People asks me being a bong what the hell ‘m doing here in pooja, well the answer is simple, i have seen enough of it in Kolkata i.e if you can ever have enough of it, and that I save my breaks for a better time to go meet and be together with my dear ones. Plus you get to be an expert or a Pooja secialist for that matter, u know being a ”been there done that” guiding and giving consultations on “what to do where to go” to all hopeless and morose bongs who managed to get stuck out of Kolkata in Poojas, you know rising there spirits up and taking them to our home grown Pooja pandals here.

MahaSashti went really good….been to Koramangala the star pooja of south Bangalore(Disclaimer: thats what i think!?!) well now that you have two happening in walkable distance there, what more do you ask for!! Now only if the rest of these days goes well with ma-er-Ashibbad!!