Finally the way to people even readers minds, memory, hearts i don't want...is through their stomachs...looks like & i have resolved to make my blog worth a read. Considering the whole world is writing, despite loads written on all of this...so what...me too...
WInter time is good for delicious food acutally wc month & time isn't...i think food rules stomachs & people's lives. So come winter i will begin with the favourite Gujju dish -Oondhiyu.
This is a fantastic concoction of number of vegetables
Suran - white yam
Kanda - Purple yam
Ratala - sweet potato
small potatoes - these are modern additions...better than me giving you details of how small you should chop them
Surit Papdi - beans
peas
most avoidable veggie -Brinjal - my oondhiyu doens't have this...you want u can add
Rajali keli - Rajali variety of Bananas semi raw
lentils - spring onions and its greens
Ingredients
100 gms surti papdi, stringed, whole
100 gms chopped raw bananas, unpeeled
100 gms yam (suran) cubes, peeled
100 gms purple yam
100 gms small baby potatoes
100 gms sweet potato
100 gms small sized brinjals (baingan / eggplant), slit
4 to 5 green chillies, crushed
1 tsp grated ginger (adrak)
1/2 tsp crushed garlic (lehsun)
1 tbsp finely chopped coriander (dhania) leaves
1 tsp whole wheat flour (gehun ka atta)
4 tbsp oil
1/4 tsp asafoetida -hing
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp ajwain)
salt to taste
1/2 tbsp sugar
lemon juice to taste or even tamarind paste....little
For methi ghatta:
100 gms finely chopped fenugreek (methi) leaves
1/2 cup besan (Bengal gram flour)
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tbsp grated coconut
salt to taste
1 tbsp oil
Method
Form a paste of chilli, ginger, garlic, coriander,
Rub the chunky veggies with oil and masala paste.
Marinate for 30minutes.
Heat oil used for frying ghattas to proceed.
Add all the chunky vegetables, stir well.
Cover and cook for 4-5 minutes.
Add papdi, turmeric, flour, ajwain and salt.
Cover and cook on low till the yam is almost done.
Add coriander, lemon, and sprinkle some water if required.
Add sugar, stir
for ghatas
Mix all ingredients, make stiff dough make small roundish oval shaped muthiyas.
keep oil to heat on slow flame...check by dropping the dough, if it comes up isntantly the oil is hot enough...else wait...deep fry till red coloured...
pdrain oil and mix in the Undhiyu
now for the health conscious avoid too much oil...else ensure there is decent amount...i won't suggest it.
I would also suggest don't go by this amount...sometimes you may or may not get some veggies...the paste is very important...that also don't make it wet. roast is in a frying pan...coconut, coriander the masala..put some goda masala -maharashtrians know of it...it adds to the flavour. Avoid sugar...put some jaggery instead...don't make it spicy...the flavour of vegetables are sooo delicious, you don't need spicy...eat it with hot fulkas dripping with ghee, parathas or even hot boiling rice...
khamang....my mouth is already watering...its like your urge to eat should match the orgasmic feeling...
Monday, December 13, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Road to being millionaire
Now, I'm NO millionaire. My face also shows I'm NOT deprived. so am i neither here nor there? NO, no. I'm clear i'm on the path that is tread by millionaires.
How? Simply i think so. I don't strive towards it. I just happen to be there where the Millionaires go. ANd here i dont' mean those ones who have built hideous structures forcing themselves and their family members to live in them. No not these proclaimed millionaires or trillionaires. These are the ones who went first to Bhuj after the 2000 earthquake -because they claimed their roots were here & they wanted to start charity here. So even before the first buried was pulled out of the debris to give the dead a respectable farewell, the company's banner was put up proclaiming they had adopted the village. Its another story except us media and the army even relatives of teh dead weren't there. The company or its charitable people were completely absent.
And now MA is still competing with his younger sibling on mear ghar tere ghar se jyada bada hai..dekho meine kya banaya, tumhare pass ky hai? so younger billionaire sibling goes & builds yet another tallie scraper...these billionaires of a totally separate lonely sky scraping trip...
I'm talking of the few quiet millionaires who have shown the way in Mumbai. They were born with the qualities of valuing where they were born, from where they came and whatever they had they should give back to the society. The other day my young friend MI & I went on our daily walks. I saw Adi Godrej & asked the bawi friend if she saw the elite company we were in. "No who," she turned & saw AG's shoes.
This evening while returning fm Pune as i was on my back fm the toilet i saw a Rolls Royce whiz past in few seconds. A familiar face. Who sent his drive to McDonalds, rushed with his hands filled wt packets, sat in the navigator's seat & the person driving is one of the richest * sough after men on this planet.
Shahrukh Khan! Yes, after he went i overheard a man call his souse on cell & said, "You know who jsut went by? You won't believe, SRK. Its time i changed my cell. I wanted to capture, but sala this cell doesn't have a good camera. You have to help me choose."
I felt bad, i wanted to ask SRK about how long his tyres lasted on our Indian roads. Does he take his cars fm India to get a feel of phoren roads, or does he go to car rental agencies & then take phoren brand cars. yes, that once in a life opprtunity will come again.
I think i am on the right road. Haha definitely NOT to make that kind of money, but getting company of the billionaires on my path.
The difference is Adi Godrej at this age also walks. He exercises & like 2 mad women who do the same, he too walks up & down the steep slopes & stairs of Malabar Hill Perhaps keeps him so trim. I have hope that means.
But ofcourse in the mean time, i have to think big & work towards to that HUGE thought. what my commitment is & what is do, is a personal thing not to be publicised -another quality like AG. good so the path in front is long, but I'm' sure to reach there. yeah...seeing is believing, living it reiterates it....
How? Simply i think so. I don't strive towards it. I just happen to be there where the Millionaires go. ANd here i dont' mean those ones who have built hideous structures forcing themselves and their family members to live in them. No not these proclaimed millionaires or trillionaires. These are the ones who went first to Bhuj after the 2000 earthquake -because they claimed their roots were here & they wanted to start charity here. So even before the first buried was pulled out of the debris to give the dead a respectable farewell, the company's banner was put up proclaiming they had adopted the village. Its another story except us media and the army even relatives of teh dead weren't there. The company or its charitable people were completely absent.
And now MA is still competing with his younger sibling on mear ghar tere ghar se jyada bada hai..dekho meine kya banaya, tumhare pass ky hai? so younger billionaire sibling goes & builds yet another tallie scraper...these billionaires of a totally separate lonely sky scraping trip...
I'm talking of the few quiet millionaires who have shown the way in Mumbai. They were born with the qualities of valuing where they were born, from where they came and whatever they had they should give back to the society. The other day my young friend MI & I went on our daily walks. I saw Adi Godrej & asked the bawi friend if she saw the elite company we were in. "No who," she turned & saw AG's shoes.
This evening while returning fm Pune as i was on my back fm the toilet i saw a Rolls Royce whiz past in few seconds. A familiar face. Who sent his drive to McDonalds, rushed with his hands filled wt packets, sat in the navigator's seat & the person driving is one of the richest * sough after men on this planet.
Shahrukh Khan! Yes, after he went i overheard a man call his souse on cell & said, "You know who jsut went by? You won't believe, SRK. Its time i changed my cell. I wanted to capture, but sala this cell doesn't have a good camera. You have to help me choose."
I felt bad, i wanted to ask SRK about how long his tyres lasted on our Indian roads. Does he take his cars fm India to get a feel of phoren roads, or does he go to car rental agencies & then take phoren brand cars. yes, that once in a life opprtunity will come again.
I think i am on the right road. Haha definitely NOT to make that kind of money, but getting company of the billionaires on my path.
The difference is Adi Godrej at this age also walks. He exercises & like 2 mad women who do the same, he too walks up & down the steep slopes & stairs of Malabar Hill Perhaps keeps him so trim. I have hope that means.
But ofcourse in the mean time, i have to think big & work towards to that HUGE thought. what my commitment is & what is do, is a personal thing not to be publicised -another quality like AG. good so the path in front is long, but I'm' sure to reach there. yeah...seeing is believing, living it reiterates it....
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Ratan says Tata
Now imagine if Indian politcs were to become completely transparent & we'd get to see or read the individuals & wc corporate honchos contributed to political parties booties...whatta fun it will be.
the need of the hour is we must know who all people, which companies & indivuduals have contributed to the party funds of all our political parties. Some regional parties like Shiv Sena came up through extortion. MNS claims its different, but its roots are very much sowed in Sena. Now they claim their president has construction business from where they divert the funds. All the more reason i would like to know how much is black money, how many 'favours' how many donations and of what kind.
One loyal funding family to the political world has been the Tatas. Like with their social commitment and helping the masses or poor, the Tata sons have always made a rather fat contribution to the election duty-given funds. Over a period of time from a Congress stronghold, Indian voters & political system oscillated between Cong held regimes - well they have been; to Janta party rule to the modern coalition party led regimes.
Even in democracy we have regimes, coz they all are thugs basically. Anyways the Tata sons stood strong behind Cong. Though they were compelled to fund Sena-BJP in Mah and later for NDA. see, the latest chmn Ratan Tata's reply to Rajeev Chandrashekhar. He makes it clear that there were maximum policy flip-flops during the BJP govt.
This all comes back to the 2G spectrum controversy. All i understand is that many telecom companies were given licences out of turn, they were favoured, cuts were taken & the telecom Minister made the most. what i've not understood is that did the others envy the cuts & wanted a share, they expected to get licenses, motives are NOT clear...even those of the media persons along with the PR lady named.
Howevre Ratan has said his Tata to all & sundry...politicians. He is losing it over the last few months i think. I admit to hainvg a high regard for the Tatas thanks to JRD the man & his policies. I've personally seen Simone Tata on innumerbale occassions at West Side, she comes in quietly, shops, buys products fm her own shop, guards don't recognise her. She pays & walks away all very quietly. I've seen her take a hair cut, pedicure in Lakme' salaon. She is a classy graceful lady.
Now this next gen Ratan Tata is a simple nice man. Kept his nose to the ground, despite all criticisms he continued building and more so expanding his empire. He also continued the Tata's tradition of being the 'solid silent types.' However he has moved with teh times. From being complete NO Comments, don't cross your boundaries, how he hired Radia and handed over all this Corp comm to her is still a mystery.
She mastered the art of building the wall, not just boundary. Media & Tata sons, all group of companies. However the one remarkable change we saw in the last decade, slowly but steadily was that RT began smiling, becoming more media savvy, however reluctantly. His business has grown, so has his confidence.
But i never understood why he opted for Gujarat. That he agreed to, despite being sooo very critical of the BJP, this is paradoxical. It confuses me. It is also way off the policy of Tata sons that they carried all these years. THey have been for pro-secular rest has been 'no comments,' being 'politically correct'so this sudden paradigm shift of being pro-Gujarat even if it were for Nano was a shocker to many Tata fans. Let's not forget Tata the name was famous in India, we know the singer Tata Young of Dhoom fame...was named after this group....
Now comes the whole telecom rada...every day a shocker after another. He said India is becoming a Banana nation - well late PM rajiv gandhi's 'humey banana hai' had nearly taken us to that level. Then screamed the BJP govt demanded cuts when tats wanted to float an airline. then RT kept quiet, but chose NOW to speak abt it. Latest he is screaming that BJP demanded cash.
The siutation is getting more & more interesting, though RT comes across quite pathetic. Only wish he would've spoken at the time these things had occurred. I always told my father there's NEVER a right time, its always now or never. Later no one will take you seriously. I can't help thinking like this, coz i don't connive. One can't be calculative & stroke when the iron is hot, one is often seen as oppotunist. Though this really nice, educated man says something which i've live by all my life - "I can sleep easy at night, knowing i've not paid money..." i do want to believe it...he may not. But yes he has hired somoene else to do his dirty work & well how she does!
the need of the hour is we must know who all people, which companies & indivuduals have contributed to the party funds of all our political parties. Some regional parties like Shiv Sena came up through extortion. MNS claims its different, but its roots are very much sowed in Sena. Now they claim their president has construction business from where they divert the funds. All the more reason i would like to know how much is black money, how many 'favours' how many donations and of what kind.
One loyal funding family to the political world has been the Tatas. Like with their social commitment and helping the masses or poor, the Tata sons have always made a rather fat contribution to the election duty-given funds. Over a period of time from a Congress stronghold, Indian voters & political system oscillated between Cong held regimes - well they have been; to Janta party rule to the modern coalition party led regimes.
Even in democracy we have regimes, coz they all are thugs basically. Anyways the Tata sons stood strong behind Cong. Though they were compelled to fund Sena-BJP in Mah and later for NDA. see, the latest chmn Ratan Tata's reply to Rajeev Chandrashekhar. He makes it clear that there were maximum policy flip-flops during the BJP govt.
This all comes back to the 2G spectrum controversy. All i understand is that many telecom companies were given licences out of turn, they were favoured, cuts were taken & the telecom Minister made the most. what i've not understood is that did the others envy the cuts & wanted a share, they expected to get licenses, motives are NOT clear...even those of the media persons along with the PR lady named.
Howevre Ratan has said his Tata to all & sundry...politicians. He is losing it over the last few months i think. I admit to hainvg a high regard for the Tatas thanks to JRD the man & his policies. I've personally seen Simone Tata on innumerbale occassions at West Side, she comes in quietly, shops, buys products fm her own shop, guards don't recognise her. She pays & walks away all very quietly. I've seen her take a hair cut, pedicure in Lakme' salaon. She is a classy graceful lady.
Now this next gen Ratan Tata is a simple nice man. Kept his nose to the ground, despite all criticisms he continued building and more so expanding his empire. He also continued the Tata's tradition of being the 'solid silent types.' However he has moved with teh times. From being complete NO Comments, don't cross your boundaries, how he hired Radia and handed over all this Corp comm to her is still a mystery.
She mastered the art of building the wall, not just boundary. Media & Tata sons, all group of companies. However the one remarkable change we saw in the last decade, slowly but steadily was that RT began smiling, becoming more media savvy, however reluctantly. His business has grown, so has his confidence.
But i never understood why he opted for Gujarat. That he agreed to, despite being sooo very critical of the BJP, this is paradoxical. It confuses me. It is also way off the policy of Tata sons that they carried all these years. THey have been for pro-secular rest has been 'no comments,' being 'politically correct'so this sudden paradigm shift of being pro-Gujarat even if it were for Nano was a shocker to many Tata fans. Let's not forget Tata the name was famous in India, we know the singer Tata Young of Dhoom fame...was named after this group....
Now comes the whole telecom rada...every day a shocker after another. He said India is becoming a Banana nation - well late PM rajiv gandhi's 'humey banana hai' had nearly taken us to that level. Then screamed the BJP govt demanded cuts when tats wanted to float an airline. then RT kept quiet, but chose NOW to speak abt it. Latest he is screaming that BJP demanded cash.
The siutation is getting more & more interesting, though RT comes across quite pathetic. Only wish he would've spoken at the time these things had occurred. I always told my father there's NEVER a right time, its always now or never. Later no one will take you seriously. I can't help thinking like this, coz i don't connive. One can't be calculative & stroke when the iron is hot, one is often seen as oppotunist. Though this really nice, educated man says something which i've live by all my life - "I can sleep easy at night, knowing i've not paid money..." i do want to believe it...he may not. But yes he has hired somoene else to do his dirty work & well how she does!
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
daily news updates
Considering the blogs are too have become commercial i need to do something. I can NOT write abt sex & acts of love making or abt other crap...so daily news up dates.
Nicholas Sarkozy & wife Carla Bruni's visit to Mumbai
unlike in Delhi where Sarkozy looked tired, sleepy & looked bored wt the politicians around...well look at the men around women at least are better looking here...Lalus, Paswans, Singhs, Pawars where should he have looked...right besides him was his squeeze Carla so he reached his hand out...
In Mumbai they were sombre. first police gym for 26/11 memorial...tributes galore.
SO the poor J Yadav, RPF officer was called to stand aside. he told "madam , GM saab ko bola gaya humey bulayeeye..hum aa gaye, ab pata nahi kahan jaba hai, kisse baat karni hai...he stood b/w the Railways officials...he was NEVER called.
then Kaambir Kang the brave survivor of Hotel Taj looking older, tired was there to receive an award. Also Devendra Verma of Hotel Trident...2 brave citizens.
Then Sarkozy made scathing & scorching remarks against Pakistan. He said, "It will never be tolerated or accepted that Al-Qaida and Taliban are given safe haven in teh frontiers of Pakistan."
"It is unacceptable that co-conspirators and masterminds who planned the 26/11 attacks are being protected in Pakistan."
carla stood behind...too serious & savagery talks were taking place...she stood in a white top & skirt behind her male squeeze. she didn't steal glances, far too serious stuff was happening. At one time Sarkozy sounded like he was firing. He realised he gone on a little to criticial ...
then he switched to the positive side of maintaining peace in the sub continent...need for good judicial methods & humane ways to deal with terrorists...
later in eve just when we thought we can call it a good day...go home early..bomb phat...blasts in Varanasi...
the police say there is a terror mail...all details of a mail traced to a IP add in malad west.
so, another round of blasts in India. Tomorrow cong was to respond to the JPC demand made by the opposition in parliament.
while life in state assembly too is tough...here too in Nagpur the opposition has demanded Jt probe in adarsh & oppn says sack all tainted babus..
wait to see will there be random arrests? suspects to be arrested? alfateh00005@gmail.com is the incirminating email add...
Nicholas Sarkozy & wife Carla Bruni's visit to Mumbai
unlike in Delhi where Sarkozy looked tired, sleepy & looked bored wt the politicians around...well look at the men around women at least are better looking here...Lalus, Paswans, Singhs, Pawars where should he have looked...right besides him was his squeeze Carla so he reached his hand out...
In Mumbai they were sombre. first police gym for 26/11 memorial...tributes galore.
SO the poor J Yadav, RPF officer was called to stand aside. he told "madam , GM saab ko bola gaya humey bulayeeye..hum aa gaye, ab pata nahi kahan jaba hai, kisse baat karni hai...he stood b/w the Railways officials...he was NEVER called.
then Kaambir Kang the brave survivor of Hotel Taj looking older, tired was there to receive an award. Also Devendra Verma of Hotel Trident...2 brave citizens.
Then Sarkozy made scathing & scorching remarks against Pakistan. He said, "It will never be tolerated or accepted that Al-Qaida and Taliban are given safe haven in teh frontiers of Pakistan."
"It is unacceptable that co-conspirators and masterminds who planned the 26/11 attacks are being protected in Pakistan."
carla stood behind...too serious & savagery talks were taking place...she stood in a white top & skirt behind her male squeeze. she didn't steal glances, far too serious stuff was happening. At one time Sarkozy sounded like he was firing. He realised he gone on a little to criticial ...
then he switched to the positive side of maintaining peace in the sub continent...need for good judicial methods & humane ways to deal with terrorists...
later in eve just when we thought we can call it a good day...go home early..bomb phat...blasts in Varanasi...
the police say there is a terror mail...all details of a mail traced to a IP add in malad west.
so, another round of blasts in India. Tomorrow cong was to respond to the JPC demand made by the opposition in parliament.
while life in state assembly too is tough...here too in Nagpur the opposition has demanded Jt probe in adarsh & oppn says sack all tainted babus..
wait to see will there be random arrests? suspects to be arrested? alfateh00005@gmail.com is the incirminating email add...
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Police goof on customs sex party, sensible verdict
The High Court mid last week gave one of the most sensible judgements in a long time. Bombay HC acquitted all the customs officers who were caught with bar dancers for indulging n pornography. The judge further said that adult pornography when indulged in and recorded within one's private four walls is NOT illegal, especially when it is consentual. vv important landmark judgement. For those freakin' losers, over excited moral brigaders looming within our society and in police force. Who have become unncessary pains by intruding in people's private worlds -homes or parties. Remember i wrote a piece on this on this very blog 2 years ago.
How such swooping down on people's private party won't hold good in courts of law. I gave the reasons too. Consential sex, porno, party among adults is NOT a crime. Yes, it often is the envy of the neighbour, but it can lead to many legal issues for those who are intruding forcibly and the envious ones. Quite deserving, if you ask me. if behind their four walls and behind the curtains any individual is indulging in different forms of sex that are not violating the concerned persons rights or any legal issue then so be it. Nobody has the right to disrupt it.
I still think what is more pertinent is how is that all the customs officers of that branch got officials leaves on the same day? Who passed those leaves? Why were they passed? Did the holiday mostly casual leave impact on the customs official work, functioning? If so then how? Who supervised the work? Who funded this party? who paid for the bar dancers? Where did the money come from? Were the funds as form of any cuts or bribes? Or were they simply money of the individual officers. What about the booze, who paid for the alcohol. From where was it acquired? Who solicited it? who brought the bar dancers? Were there any middle agents? were the agents connected to the underworld?
If the customs officers themselves have contacted bar dancers-wc in all likelihood is NOT the scenario- then what was the modus operandi? How regularly do they splurge their money? is the money spent in the dance bars bribes? any kick backs?
Now as a citizen, more so a reporter i am more interested in the above questions rather than who slept with whom. Who cares, each one needs to mind their own business. It is NOT who sleeps with whom that makes for the story. What's important is how was it done? under what circumstances? Because if the underworld has certain consignments to be passed and that's why they sponsored, then it is VERY important to investigate this matter on the lines stated. Now the police goofed yet again. In the courts snooping in on pvt sex can NEVER hold good. The cops can't blame the courts and law for their lack of investigations.
http://neeta-coolcat.blogspot.com/2008/08/sex-scandal-involving-customs-officers.html
How such swooping down on people's private party won't hold good in courts of law. I gave the reasons too. Consential sex, porno, party among adults is NOT a crime. Yes, it often is the envy of the neighbour, but it can lead to many legal issues for those who are intruding forcibly and the envious ones. Quite deserving, if you ask me. if behind their four walls and behind the curtains any individual is indulging in different forms of sex that are not violating the concerned persons rights or any legal issue then so be it. Nobody has the right to disrupt it.
I still think what is more pertinent is how is that all the customs officers of that branch got officials leaves on the same day? Who passed those leaves? Why were they passed? Did the holiday mostly casual leave impact on the customs official work, functioning? If so then how? Who supervised the work? Who funded this party? who paid for the bar dancers? Where did the money come from? Were the funds as form of any cuts or bribes? Or were they simply money of the individual officers. What about the booze, who paid for the alcohol. From where was it acquired? Who solicited it? who brought the bar dancers? Were there any middle agents? were the agents connected to the underworld?
If the customs officers themselves have contacted bar dancers-wc in all likelihood is NOT the scenario- then what was the modus operandi? How regularly do they splurge their money? is the money spent in the dance bars bribes? any kick backs?
Now as a citizen, more so a reporter i am more interested in the above questions rather than who slept with whom. Who cares, each one needs to mind their own business. It is NOT who sleeps with whom that makes for the story. What's important is how was it done? under what circumstances? Because if the underworld has certain consignments to be passed and that's why they sponsored, then it is VERY important to investigate this matter on the lines stated. Now the police goofed yet again. In the courts snooping in on pvt sex can NEVER hold good. The cops can't blame the courts and law for their lack of investigations.
http://neeta-coolcat.blogspot.com/2008/08/sex-scandal-involving-customs-officers.html
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Season of scams
Haha did we think we've had like enough of scams for the year? Not really. There was first Adarsh Society scam. One age old scam that gained momentum yet again, thanks to the immense lobbying by a former chief minister of maharashtra who is now in Union ministry while he wants his MLA son to get a berth in the state.
Congress high command over stepped their line. On what basis have they sacked Ashok Chavan? Because he recommended his in-laws? That according to NO court of law is illegal or criminal. He is NOT involved in any breach of norms, or sanctioning by misusing his powers. The person to have done that is the man who managed this whole episode.
The real reason for 'scam' & uproar or outcry was that the plot where this multi-storeyed building has come up was alelgedly reserved for Kargil war widows. Now, this bit of news itself is a scam & needs to be investigated.....only because a leading newspaper said 'war widows' it was accepted as a seal. The papers show mention of the society including names of war heroes and the 2 names have little to do with teh kargil war. The 3rd in fact is a nominee. Interesting how this scam wreaks of Babus, armed forces officials & politicians who have breached environmental norms & other norms, like taken exrta FSI, etc. Sad part is there is always a scape goat and here it was ONLY Ashok Chavan, the others have gone untouched.
The 2nd is CWG, but i really don't intend to get into it. The key person Suresh Kalmadi's real misdeeds need to investigated even more. the whole Indrayani, shatabdi express started on Mumb-Pune line, the land amassed by Kalmadi and family is really not new. The Sai services agency which deals with Maruti cars is owned by Kamadi. Half of Pune Kalmadi's taken over, the other half mr Ajit pawar has. So the fight for corruption goes on.
The last one is vv important. The Barkha/Radia/Vir gate. Yes, the tapes leaks of 2 big names in Media. Vir Singhavi & Barkha Dutt. Now need i say more? The names are big, because the media, their respective news organisations have made them super personas. They made them feel good. Obviously the organisations 'also' have benefitted, although they may have benefitted the most. considering they have that much more information & are actually not just sources, they seem to be 'negotiating' the stakes have been more than one can imagine.
1.journalists can't have special immunity & say 'sources' said or fed rather. 2. Journalists can't cheat by saying we have creative freedom. 3. Don't deride people on your platform, we are ONLY moderators, catalysts we are NOT the hallmark that can seal any decision. 4. Journos are not above law-any law. 5. getting info & details is 1 thing. how it is used is altogether something else. 6. this info was 'used' bartered. it comes with a cost..7. the means used are equally imp as the end. 8. can journos determine who should or shouldn't be in any cabinet/ministry? 9. what are their stakes? 10. Journalist including editor reports, you opine in your columns only, otherwise report neutrally.
guess this all is forgotten...lol!
Congress high command over stepped their line. On what basis have they sacked Ashok Chavan? Because he recommended his in-laws? That according to NO court of law is illegal or criminal. He is NOT involved in any breach of norms, or sanctioning by misusing his powers. The person to have done that is the man who managed this whole episode.
The real reason for 'scam' & uproar or outcry was that the plot where this multi-storeyed building has come up was alelgedly reserved for Kargil war widows. Now, this bit of news itself is a scam & needs to be investigated.....only because a leading newspaper said 'war widows' it was accepted as a seal. The papers show mention of the society including names of war heroes and the 2 names have little to do with teh kargil war. The 3rd in fact is a nominee. Interesting how this scam wreaks of Babus, armed forces officials & politicians who have breached environmental norms & other norms, like taken exrta FSI, etc. Sad part is there is always a scape goat and here it was ONLY Ashok Chavan, the others have gone untouched.
The 2nd is CWG, but i really don't intend to get into it. The key person Suresh Kalmadi's real misdeeds need to investigated even more. the whole Indrayani, shatabdi express started on Mumb-Pune line, the land amassed by Kalmadi and family is really not new. The Sai services agency which deals with Maruti cars is owned by Kamadi. Half of Pune Kalmadi's taken over, the other half mr Ajit pawar has. So the fight for corruption goes on.
The last one is vv important. The Barkha/Radia/Vir gate. Yes, the tapes leaks of 2 big names in Media. Vir Singhavi & Barkha Dutt. Now need i say more? The names are big, because the media, their respective news organisations have made them super personas. They made them feel good. Obviously the organisations 'also' have benefitted, although they may have benefitted the most. considering they have that much more information & are actually not just sources, they seem to be 'negotiating' the stakes have been more than one can imagine.
1.journalists can't have special immunity & say 'sources' said or fed rather. 2. Journalists can't cheat by saying we have creative freedom. 3. Don't deride people on your platform, we are ONLY moderators, catalysts we are NOT the hallmark that can seal any decision. 4. Journos are not above law-any law. 5. getting info & details is 1 thing. how it is used is altogether something else. 6. this info was 'used' bartered. it comes with a cost..7. the means used are equally imp as the end. 8. can journos determine who should or shouldn't be in any cabinet/ministry? 9. what are their stakes? 10. Journalist including editor reports, you opine in your columns only, otherwise report neutrally.
guess this all is forgotten...lol!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Social Network - film
I wanted to see this film, for the story behind facebook. The people, their dynamics, the aim in setting it up and the destination for this site. What was the premise on which this site began?
Revenge, one-up manship, competition, to get 'hot' gals on the site. What is the peronality of the kind of person; his/her mental, emotional set up. It all fell in place. A person who thinks he is god's gift to human kind, who isn't kid to competition, not at all innocent. Someone who has altogether NO skills for socialisation, plll absolutely ridiculing pre-disposition. Although i admit Zackeberg is amazingly intelligent.
The fact that he provalims his IQ, reminds me of yet another journalist who i know is contemptous of others with lower IQ. I however do admit this film took me NO where cinematically.
Some dude out of frustration types at extremely high speed punching his fingers into the key board. May be he thought he was John Nash when he wrote some formula on the window for public display...well we'd be taken to task had we to do it...that didn't stop us from scribbling on odd places.
So what was it that happened? besides chatter and banging on key boards, there were loads of dialogues. NOTHING was shown. I mean many Hindi films are a disaster, but this was pathetice. How can anyone give it excellent rating? How can anyone call it a brilliant film?
This Zuckeberg fellow is the youngest billionaire. Great, fantastic idea no doubt. Loner -sure and how! He's confused, can't take it that some most unexpected person, undoubtedly his ex-best friend has got admission to the most exclusive club. These were plain teasers to the Elite Harvard School we got no real insight into it. The twins uset their father's name. What's so significant? How does it make a diff to the dean or not? these were superfluous things touched upon. The fact is this kid did think big.
With little or NO social skills -well most software walas, don't have. Yet, he has taken the society to a higher level, the whole concept of interconnectivity, inter-personal relations, however superficial or deep have been taken to a next stage which is uncertain. most importantly one's private abso perosnal lives is on public display for the world to see. From personal feeuds to caste, community, national & international disputes become one. The world has become small. Out of nowhere your one time old flame, first love springs up, throws a surprise at you, totally leaving you rattled. It's helped share ideas, views...but none of it was displayed on cinema as i would have loved. Most randome people from the remotest corner of each country seem to be connected...why, how, when did this all expand??
No answers either real or cinematic....guess that's why it's ONLY a facebook
Revenge, one-up manship, competition, to get 'hot' gals on the site. What is the peronality of the kind of person; his/her mental, emotional set up. It all fell in place. A person who thinks he is god's gift to human kind, who isn't kid to competition, not at all innocent. Someone who has altogether NO skills for socialisation, plll absolutely ridiculing pre-disposition. Although i admit Zackeberg is amazingly intelligent.
The fact that he provalims his IQ, reminds me of yet another journalist who i know is contemptous of others with lower IQ. I however do admit this film took me NO where cinematically.
Some dude out of frustration types at extremely high speed punching his fingers into the key board. May be he thought he was John Nash when he wrote some formula on the window for public display...well we'd be taken to task had we to do it...that didn't stop us from scribbling on odd places.
So what was it that happened? besides chatter and banging on key boards, there were loads of dialogues. NOTHING was shown. I mean many Hindi films are a disaster, but this was pathetice. How can anyone give it excellent rating? How can anyone call it a brilliant film?
This Zuckeberg fellow is the youngest billionaire. Great, fantastic idea no doubt. Loner -sure and how! He's confused, can't take it that some most unexpected person, undoubtedly his ex-best friend has got admission to the most exclusive club. These were plain teasers to the Elite Harvard School we got no real insight into it. The twins uset their father's name. What's so significant? How does it make a diff to the dean or not? these were superfluous things touched upon. The fact is this kid did think big.
With little or NO social skills -well most software walas, don't have. Yet, he has taken the society to a higher level, the whole concept of interconnectivity, inter-personal relations, however superficial or deep have been taken to a next stage which is uncertain. most importantly one's private abso perosnal lives is on public display for the world to see. From personal feeuds to caste, community, national & international disputes become one. The world has become small. Out of nowhere your one time old flame, first love springs up, throws a surprise at you, totally leaving you rattled. It's helped share ideas, views...but none of it was displayed on cinema as i would have loved. Most randome people from the remotest corner of each country seem to be connected...why, how, when did this all expand??
No answers either real or cinematic....guess that's why it's ONLY a facebook
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