Saturday, April 20, 2024

Modi Hatao Recipe

Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar are running a spirited campaign in Karnataka. Revanth Reddy, Tejashwi Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav are doing a great job in their states.

With their effort, we will beat the Modi menace. Here is how.

State Seats
South India 130
Maharashtra 25
Bihar 20
UP 20
MP 15
Rajasthan 15
Other States 30
Total 255

Of course we cannot count on Mamata, She is a Modi stooge. Had it not been for Mamata, Nitish and Sharad Power treachery, the vote would have been a foregone conclusion. Modi would have retired in Sabarmati.

But all depends on us. We need to go out and vote. Remember, the opposition candidates need to get 10% more vote than the BJP candidates to account for Amit Shah’s EVMs.

So if you want to kick the Modi-Shah-Ambani-Adani brigade back to Gujarat, please vote.

Sunday, April 07, 2024

Nehru

This book is a must read for every Indian. The full book should be made part of the school curriculum.

Not just for its historical significance but for getting a better understanding of India and the world.

The observations in the book are so in depth, the conclusions drawn are so accurate that even after 90 years they shine as diamonds.

This man alone understood India and we are so fortunate that he was gracious enough to write down his understanding in a book that is such delight to read. Through his work we can get a glimpse of India and the world.

He loved his country so much that every sentence of this book oozes out his empathy for his country men and his hatred for tyranny in equal measures.

I have never seen a politician so honest, straight like an arrow.

These days I enjoy reading classic fictions more than dry history. But this book is a delightful exception. I have about 100 pages left and I am almost sad that it will be over soon.

But that does not mean that I will start Discovery of India immediately 😀 I don't love India so much, not yet.

Next book - Three Musketeers, swashbuckling gallants and beautiful dames 😀

Friday, March 22, 2024

A Diabolical Conspiracy

The strong man Modi is scared of Arvind Kejriwal. So he made a plan to take him out of the campaign trail. Just after the election dates are announced, Kejriwal is arrested in a three year old corruption case. The ED seems to be the most active department in Modi’s government.

The timing tells it all. He had to be arrested just one month before the election so that there is no chance of getting a bail and it is guaranteed that he will be out of the AAP campaign.

Now I am not discussing the merits and demerits of the case. Every party needs to fight election and hence needs money. So AAP may as well have collected illegal money and Kejri may as well have taken a cut. I am discussing Modi’s actions, not Kejriwal’s. I do not like Kejriwal at all.

But I think Modi miscalculated this one. Kejri in jail is a better campaign prospect for AAP and the opposition than Kejri on a podium.

Even after subverting all the institutions, after using all the government machineries to cripple the opposition, after spending thousands of crores of public money on self-promotion, after completely eliminating the free press, he is petrified to face the public wrath.

For him only Modi matters, country, party, society can go to hell.

Do you want this insecure, self-centred, vengeful, mean person to be your next PM?

Please think and vote.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Pisir Chora

Thik duppur bela
Pisike dilo ke thela
Pisi ulte pare
Kapal gelo chore
Samne asche vote
Pisir kapale chot
Pisir kato na rango
Dekhbe e pora Bango
Khema dao pisi ebar
Shasti diecho dedar
Bange ebar dhando
Pisir dokan bando

Bangalore Development

Bangalore Development

2004-14 2014-24
Bangalore Aiport Terminal 1 - 4 years Bangalore Aiport Terminal 2 - 12 years
Bangalore Metro Purple Line - 4 years Bangalore Metro Purple Line Extension - 11 years
Nice Road Bangalore Mysore Highway
Bangalore Metro Green Line Empty Promise
Aiport Expressway Corruption
Electronic City Elevated Expressway Contractor Extortion
Tumkur Elevated Expressway Sell Electoral Bonds
Old Madras Road Topple Elected Government
Signal Free Outer Ring Road Hijab Controversy

Some Notes:

  1. Most of 2014-24 Bangalore had triple engine sarkar, albeit illegitimate.
  2. Bangalore Aiport Terminal 2 - Most work including land acquisition were already done by 2008.
  3. Bangalore Metro Purple Line Extension - Most work including land acquisition were already done by 20011.
  4. Bangalore Mysore Highway - Nicely Done.

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Five Years in Tejas

Five years passed in a flash. Did I enjoy those five years? Mostly yes, except for the fucking pandemic.
This is the first time I learned how to work from remote. I still struggle to manage team from remote. But I have no choice.
Job was fun. Great people, no politics. Only engineering.
We did some solid work. For us, for Tejas for the country.
Pay was decent.
The best part is, for the first time, I loved my team members. That’s because I have become very old. But still it feels good.
Overall it was a good decision to join Tejas.
Let me hope that the future is also good 🙂

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Glorious 75 years

Our self-proclaimed uneducated Prime Minister (He uses this title as a badge of honour when it suits him. But arrests others who call him uneducated) keeps reminding us how India has suffered due to the slave mentality of our leaders in the last 75 years. He primarily attacks Nehru and his family and Congress and its associates in general. I guess he accuses them of not being Hindu fascists and not standing up to the Muslims, Pakistan and our erstwhile colonial rulers.
Nehru and the Congress under his leadership have indeed rejected Hindu fascism and they did want to maintain a good relationship with the British. But let us analyse this claim that they did not stand up against Islamic aggression from Pakistan or discrimination by our colonial rulers.
  • First, Congress took on the mightiest empire in human history single-handedly with no arms and no violence. Nobody supported them, not the Muslim league, not the Communists, and for sure not the RSS. The only thing they had on their side was their sense of justice and their courage of conviction. They suffered enormously but never gave up. Nehru spent 14 years in British jail. All the Sanghis put together did not spend 14 days in jail. Finally, they not only kicked the British out of India but decolonised half the world.
  • Then Nehru whipped the Indian kings to join the Indian Union. To the hell with their treaties and promises by the British. The kings bowed in front of Nehru and were forced to join India against their wishes.
  • Then he gave an ultimatum to the Portuguese. “Get the fuck out of India or else…” Now the Portuguese were a part of NATO. So they thought no one would dare to touch us. And they were right, in the history of NATO, no country dared to attack a NATO country due to the Article 5 guarantee. Not even the Chinese dared to take back Macao or Hong Kong by force. Only Nehru did. When the fucking Portuguese did not listen to him, he attacked them, killed 3000 of them and kicked them out of India. No fucking body lifted one finger against India. Not only that but just after that, when Nehru asked for help from Kennedy during the China war, he bent over backwards to help India. Such was Nehru’s charisma. India was a very poor country back then, with no lucrative defence deals to offer, and no market for Tesla.
  • In 1971 when Pakistan was carrying out the genocide in Bangladesh, with active help from America and England, Indira ordered them to stop. Nixon warned Indira that if India intervened to stop the genocide America and China would attack India. Then he sent a carrier group to the Bay of Bengal to carry out his threat. Indira was completely isolated. Countries like Jordan, and Turkey were sending planes and tanks to Pakistan. Indira told Nixoin to go fuck himself, cut Pakistan in half and gave birth to Bangladesh. Imagine ChaWalla doing this! He would have made 1,000,000 of his statues and installed them in every square.
  • India withstood western pressure and refused to sign NPT because it was discriminatory. 1974, Indira again gave the middle finger to the West and blasted an atomic bomb on their face.
  • In 1984 Rajiv sent armies to the highest mountain in the world and kicked the Pakis out of Siachen.
What is the track record of the Sanghis? They collaborated with the British and betrayed the freedom fighters. Never sacrificed anything for the country. Never went to jail, not one of them died for the country. They took over a country that was rebuilt and made prosperous by so many years of hard work with pure lies and propaganda. And now they are only attacking the Congress. Even now, they do not dare to stand up to Pakistan or the West. They only take on the Congress. Because they know that Congress will not hurt them.
If they were such nationalists, why didn’t they assassinate Jinnah, or Mountbatten in 1946? If they are so Hindu lovers, why didn’t they protect the Hindus during partition or during the Bangladesh war?
Have they ever done anything good for India? I can't recall any.