Why Modi?

The Congress and its allies must be delusional.  Their supporters must be even more so.  Or else how could someone who thinks there was no loss to the nation in the 2G spectrum allocation scam still be expected to show up in the media at all?  Wouldn't anybody with even a modicum of brain want to hide such a fool from the public eye?  

Yesterday, Finance Minister Chidambaram made a condescending remark about Narendra Modi saying it appears as if Mr. Modi is taking an interest in the economy of the nation.  An interest?  No kidding!  A man who knows nothing about the economy can actually reform a state and make it the most productive, sought after investment destination in the nation?  Really?  Where the hell does this attitude to ridicule come from, after failing in almost all economic tests?  Inflation, out of control!  Current Account Deficit, massive!  Imports, increasing!  Exports, no growth!  Savings of Indian people, going down!  Some record this!

Chidambaram had the gall to say he welcomes people taking an interest and hopes that they will try to learn, first by unlearning, and then learning anew.  No shit!  This great learning is what has caused India's coal reserves to be looted, its spectrum allocated to random parties with huge losses to the exchequer, labour shortage in agriculture, terrible schemes like the rural employment guarantee schemes in which nobody benefits while the nation becomes full of beggars waiting for the next round of freebies ... the list goes on and on.

There were real opportunities - to rope in a huge amount of energy security for India.  Venezuela was willing to sell oil at below OPEC prices to certain nations, and India was on that list.  Iran already had a great relationship and was even willing to purchase in rupees!  What did the bloody Congress do?  Refuse Venezuela and agree to "wean" itself off Iranian oil, because that white female political goddess Hillary Clinton thought we needed to be weaned, like fucking babies.  She is the same woman who once said Mahatma Gandhi ran a gas station in St. Louis, Missouri!  Can you believe showing this moron any kind of respect?  There wasn't one Congress member with any bloody spine that told her to shove it.  Obama would have understood - that's the way the Americans are.  If you're straight with them, they get it.  But these slave minds are bent, crooked, even to us, so of course they'd bend over backwards for a white woman from the USA!  What we need to wean ourselves off is dependence, and sycophancy.

Here is why I will vote for Modi and hope he becomes PM of India - the guy actually has a track record of growth, a model of development, and a showcase of work he is willing to do.  Gujarat is not a hot destination for nothing.  This guy actually thinks he can do that to the rest of India.  The idiots in Congress, starting with their puppy, think India needs to be on life support, and they are the heroes that will provide it.  Modi thinks India can do better and do much more, and we don't need condescending and insulting programs - and he thinks right.  He will make India work.  That alone will get me to vote for him.

Screw the Congress, screw being lethargic, and screw being stuck in rhetoric.

Rahul Gandhi says he would like to see young people in politics.  Hello!  He's young and he's a dodo.  What if more young dodos join politics?  That's not what we want.  We need able people to run the show.  Age is just a number.  Just because Manmohan Singh is proving to be senile doesn't mean age is the problem.  Being senile is the problem!  Rahul Gandhi is proving you can be senile at a pretty young age.

Kapil Sibal wants a debate?  Seriously?  What for?  For Modi to waste his time?  Is this the best tactic to weaken Modi - so he can be debating with this fool instead of campaigning for the BJP?  How much of a debate can you have with someone so hopelessly delusional?   I am sick of this Congress lot.  Just to get them out of the way I'd vote for the BJP.

The Congress is the best party to rule a nation that no longer exists.  It is the Congress that created that weak nation, and it is the Congress that needs such a weak nation, in order to further their unimaginative agendas, sycophantic dynasty, and retarded notions.  Despite their strongest efforts, India has managed to come out of the delusion, and is now taking a deep, good look at itself.  Indians are frustrated, not because of not having enough to eat, but because of being suppressed from reaching their true potential.  

We don't need free food.  We need a free nation.  A nation free from the Congress party's antics.  A nation free from Kapil Sibal and Chidambaram.  A nation free from the pseudo intellectual Delhi high society coterie imagining it can run a nation.

I'd vote for Modi - nothing political, nothing personal, just for the fun of seeing fools kicked out.

- BSK

IPL closing fiasco.

Miss South Africa IPL Bollywood? Well, that's a hard one to live up
to. The girl who just won is shaking to Akon's music. Akon is the
real article, but what the heck does Miss. Dune Kossatz from East
London really have to do with IPL or Bollywood? Absolutely nothing,
and she doesn't look like she will play any real part in any real
Mumbai movie either, because for heaven's sake, she is a white girl,
and very white if I may add.

Why does the IPL suffer from the insecure mindset? Who cares about
the cheerleaders and so called Bollywood celebrities at the end of the
day, when Gilly is tonking a 30 ball 80 or when Murali is weaving his
magic on the pitch? Who even cares about the thousands of people who
are already in the ground watching the match telling us how great the
IPL is and how great Modi is? Why did we have to make a TV event out
of IPL donating money to schools in South Africa? It isn't as if
there are no schools in India the IPL can donate money to, but that's
another matter all together.

We really got more than fatigued with the DLF maximums and
cheeseburger level marketing stunts that could get nothing but
"cheesy". Try putting together something Philips brilliant and
Vaseline dull at the same Timex time, Fevicol together! To add to the
endless list of senseless associations Modi can throw together in his
cart called the IPL, now we have a contest amongst women selected on
TV, from live audiences at cricket matches, ostensibly to work with
the biggest loser of them all, Shah Rukh Khan! Apart from a cheap
noise level generated amongst those curious about all things Indian,
what can this possibly do, for cricket or for the IPL in particular?

Oh, here comes Katrina Kaif, who herself cannot make up her mind
whether she is an Indian. What's with her totally fake accent, and
oh, God! Just when I thought I'd never hear this song again, here we
go with Jai Ho! What heartless organizer would make Katrina Kaif
shake to this overrated piece of crap? Those topless brown skinned
fools dancing around her look straight out of the wannabe actor failed
list. Oh, let's not forget the namaste at the end of it.

The real deal South African product on view is really good. The lamps
that lifted into the sky, the fire act, Akon himself, and the rest of
the hypnosis is not bad. Original to some extent, almost creative,
definitely not bad. The moment there is something Indian to fuse
with, they are thrown out of rhythm. How does that happen? Well, it
cannot get any better with A R Rahman's Jai Ho nonsense passing off as
something "Indian", can it?

The funniest part of the night was definitely the speech by the South
African president, Mr. Jacob Zuma. It was as if we finally had to
reduce this event to an ancient Doordarshan style underwhelmer just to
keep our feet on the ground. Zuma certainly ground us to death with
his boring speech when the spectacle was already unfolding in the
background. Pathetic, but funny. It was as if Modi had decided to
cruelly balance all his extravaganza with a little tempering of
people's enthusiasm!

I wonder if any speech by any head of state can hold its own against
the spectacular Phoenix Fire act the South Africans put up. What a
show! Phew! And the fireworks, indeed, the best part of any event,
but perhaps overdone for the IPL? If we can forgive Shah Rukh Khan's
overexposed presence at all loser events of the KKR and Shilpa Shetty
trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life when she can't
tell if her team lost or won, that is.

Another real article now, again South African - a genuine performer
again - Eddy Grant. You cannot miss quality when it is this obvious,
especially when it comes from a seasoned pro. But why do the
presenters always have to ask us if we are READY? Would the program
really wait for us if we weren't? Oh, never mind.

What we were definitely not ready for is the lousy television coverage
of the closing ceremony. It appears as if the same company covering
the cricket had been thrown an extra bit of work. A sports coverage
unit does not have what it takes to cover a stage event - they're two
different animals all together. What kind of clown but Modi to
oversee such a blunder and cover it with some more glitz? Covering
Sivamani during a Chennai Super Kings match is very different from
covering a full blown professional performer unleashing his full
bandwidth on the stage.

Now, after the "closing" ceremony, we come to the Highlights, and we
might even care to remember the trophy has not been presented! Heck,
we don't even know the man of the final! Basically, the IPL hasn't
yet been closed. But the ceremony is over. We haven't had the
winners celebrating, or the commiserations to the runners up. I
wonder who has been the most tortured by this cruel twist of event
design.

Basically, with Modi, anything goes. There are clowns like Samir
Kocchar calling the IPL trophy beautiful, while anybody with a
molecule of taste will puke at that terrible design. He can even be
forgiven for calling the closing ceremony an opening ceremony, but the
"beautiful IPL trophy"? Come on! The IPL is a monstrosity. It has
its best moments on the field, in the essence of the cricket being
played amongst some very good competitors, but the rest of it really
is like a Mumbai movie, loud and unnecessary, but always THERE,
hitting us in the face. Modi would have made the perfect "Bollywood"
producer.

America, we love you!

On NDTV last night, Modi, the Gujarat Chief Minister, was the subject
of debate. Quite a subject this man, since controversy seems to
follow him no matter what he does, or more famously, doesn't do.

Guilty or not, culpable or not, one of the most shocking points of
deliberation against the man was that he is a persona non grata in the
USA! Sure enough, there are enough and more people who are willing to
defend Modi against this line of attack, but it must be demeaning for
us as Indians to even have to bear mention of the fact that Washington
has an opinion about Modi.

Why is it that we need Washington's approval of any of our
politicians? It should humour us indeed that if G W Bush were to be
tried for the war crimes he is charged with, the International Court
of Justice would throw him in jail!

Why is it that our companies celebrate being listed on the New York
Stock Exchange as some sort of landmark badge of achievement? Why do
we celebrate our students coming out of Yale and Harvard business
schools? Quite obviously, the New York Stock Exchance, fuelled by the
way Wall Street plays the game, has driven the world economy down the
toilet.

Indian students coming out of Yale and Harvard admire the fools who
graduated before them, as if we should ignore the fact that these are
the fools who not only drove many of the leading Wall Street
speculation based growth engines, but also held positions in many
companies that threw all wisdom to the gutter and ruined the US
economy and dragged the rest of the world down with it - almost. Yet,
we admire the fools that are yet to come out of Yale and Harvard,
still considered the best among "business" schools in the world!

Does it ever occur to any of us that America has as much of a right to
go wrong as any third world country? Just because America has been
responsible for the invention of the aeroplane and the motor car and
thousands of other innovations doesn't mean they will get it right all
the time, does it? Why can't we Indians get the simple fact that
capitalism is in itself in an advanced state of experimentation and
abundant opportunity doesn't necessarily translate to abundant access?

We live in an acutely flawed world, with no perfect system that can
adequately address our innate selfish nature as humans, and the need
to take care of the collective in order to be socially stable. This
is the time to examine alternative thought processes, potentially
radical changes to the way we view our own world, and kick out dogmas.

So, why this obsession with the USA? Why is a country which was so
vehemently opposed to communism now using tax payer dollars to "bail
out" companies that have failed because of excessively liberal and
irresponsible capitalism? Think about this - three top executives of
the biggest three automobile companies in the USA flew to Washington
to beg for the bailout money. They flew in on three separate private
jets. The American taxpayer pays for this nonsense, of course!

Washington, particularly the White House, has been responsible for
some of the most irresponsible foreign policy decisions taken in the
history of mankind, recently leading to the loss of 600,000 Iraqi
lives, a huge spike in terrorist issues worldwide, and left us with a
polarized world that indeed Obama is apparently keen to diffuse
tensions in.

Over the years, if we can ignore the Cold War, the USA has been
meddling in the affairs of so many countries, it would be ridiculous
to even start counting the instances. The CIA has been overtly or
coverty involved in so many illegal operations to overthrow
non-Washington friendly governments, given completely illegal military
support to anti-government forces in many countriies, and continues to
fight the war on drugs outside, not doing anything worth mention about
curbing its enormous consumption of illegal drugs.

If we had an anti-US Indian government, which was willing to support
for instance, Iran's nuclear power program and North Korea's missile
program, and if we were a nation that absolutely believed in and acted
to maintain a balance against the USA, the USA would not have wasted
any time funding and arming all the naxalites, terrorists and anti
government bodies in our country. It is perfectly plausible that
without Sept 11th, the Lashkar e Toiba would have had the blessings of
the CIA.

Why then is America any kind of good example? It is becuase of
countries like ours, that worship white skin. White people told us
that they're electing their first black president to the highest
office and we bought it hook, line and sinker, not even bothering to
consider Obama has one white parent! America now tells us that we are
"Incapable of dealing with terrorism" and we could agree, but just to
put Obama in place, we should really tell them to shut up.

After all, how many countries can tell us we are incapable when they
have attacked the wrong country, didn't convict a single person for
the greatest act of terrorism the world has known, and have failed to
restrict the Al Qaeda or the Taliban, whose lines seem even more
blurred now? The outcome of every one of America's military moves is
getting to be monotonously nebulous, and victory and defeat all seem
rolled into one big mess. The world's lone superpower doesn't seem
all that super based on performance.

But, it's the image! The image of America as the driver of the
world's economy, as the leader country, that more than Americans, many
of us Indians seem to be finding difficult to live without clinging
to. The mental bankruptcy runs deeper than that. We are used to
living under kings, under the rule of colonial leaders, and we still
cannot get over the fact that we do not have to have any sort of #1.
We love to be slaves, as long as we can agree on whom to be a slave
to. That's as far as our democratic mindset goes.