Lata Mangeshkar

Today rumours of death of lata mangeshkar made rounds on internet. The news which was far from truth. The news which was false , news which was fabricated and news which was rumor.

Lata mangeshkar had to login to her twitter account to quash the rumor. She tweeted,” Namaskar. Pls don’t believe any rumors which are doing the rounds about my health & well-being. All is well, by the Grace of God.”

But this is not first time that a celebrity death rumor has surfaced. Time and again death rumor of many celebrity have emerged in various parts of the world. Just two days back I was shocked to see on youtube video posted which claimed that jackie chan dies of heart attack!!!!!!!!!!!

Even aishwarya ria bachchan had become victim of such rumors. Years back news of her death in car accident did shock the internet world. Obviously such news was false.Even britney spears too was victim of such rumors when she was going through bad phase emotionally and career wise.

Paul McCartney (beatles) has some thing wierd and interesting to deal with. Rumor had spread that Paul died in 1966 and was replaced by look alike!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Rumours started to decline when, on 7 November 1969, Life magazine published a contemporary interview with McCartney in which he said,“ Perhaps the rumour started because I haven’t been much in the press lately. I have done enough press for a lifetime, and I don’t have anything to say these days. I am happy to be with my family and I will work when I work. I was switched on for ten years and I never switched off. Now I am switching off whenever I can. I would rather be a little less famous these days.

Dont know what makes such rumors happen. Is it in quest of being sabse tej such things happen or is it someone trying to have fun at cost of emotions of fans and celebrities?

Lata mangeshkar is fine and i wish her more healthier years ahead .

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Today is historic day in modern India . Supreme court the apex court of India has cancelled 122 licences which where alloted by A RAJA as telecom minister which he used as private firm!!!!!.

Out of 122 license which got cancelled . Here is list of 122 cancelled licence :

•  Videocon was granted 21 licences all over India except Punjab.
•  Loop telecom was granted 21 licences all over India except Mumbai.
•  Siestema Shyam was granted 21 licences all over India except Rajasthan.
•  Tata telecom was granted three licences in Assam, Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast.
•  Etilsalat DB was granted 15 licences in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh East and Uttar Pradesh West.
•  Idea was granted nine licences in Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kolkata, Northeast, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
•  STel was granted six licences in Assam, Northeast, Bihar, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir.
•  Unitech Wireless Ltd (Uninor) was granted 22 licences all over India.
•  Spice (Idea) was granted four licences in Andhra Pradesh, Delhi,Haryana and Maharashtra.

Also tata, uninor ,swan would have to pay Rs 5 crore as fine.

Now uninor was among first to react and expectly they played being victim of verdict part. They cried foul that they are being punished for following existing government procedure of that time.”We expect the authorities to ensure that our 36 million customers, 17500 workforce and 22,000 partners are not unjustly affected. ” is what uninor said.

Coming to safeguarding interest of 36 million customers, 17500 workforce and 22,000 partners , well uninor do have a point. Why should these people suffer because we have one company wanting licence by any means and corrupted upa wanting to give license at cost of exchequers.

But Licence scrapping is welcome step. Also Supreme court has given time of 4 months for cancellation and TRAI can issue new licence to them by abiding to new procedure which should be auction so that government doesnot go on to make loss of 1,70,000 which it did in 2g Scam.

This cancellation of license verdict is slap on face of UPA and especially Kapil Sibal who had made bold statement of Zero LOSS in 2G Spectrum sale.

Now what does this mean for corporate world?. Well it is understandable that corporate world dont make policy but abide by policies made by Government but in this case money had flowed to kanimozhi’s ngo account , money was flowed to a raja’s aide and that money came from corporate which is not part of any official policy. Corporates must change the way they do business or else be ready to face the music.

Coming to congress led upa , governing people is job not proprietorship. UPA has been most corrupted government ever and it is insult to people who voted them , people who founded congress and it is high time they pull their socks and do what they where voted to do rather than filling their bank accounts .

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‘Don ke dushman ki ek hi galti hai ke woh don ka dushman hai’. The dialogue is from srk’s movie don but it seems don ke dushmano ki list badti ja raahi hai. Shahrukh khan is always in lime light. Be it for his movie or through his ads which are on air 365 days in an year. Be it be for some award function hosting or winning some award . But he at times makes news for many other reasons too and this time he is back in news for ‘Slapping Farah Khan’s husband, shirish Kunder’.

Why srk slapped shirish has many different versions. Farah Khan camp maintains that srk slapped shishir unprovoked. While another version says that srk was stalked by shirish since shahrukh entered party and finally frustrated shahrukh couldnot control his anger which got manifested in form of slapping shirish kunder.

This is though not first time that shahrukh khan has landed himself in controversy. He made headlines when he made statement about allowing pakistani players for IPL. Shivsena took on srk and srk did win that bout .

Shahrukh khan had made similar headlines when he got involved with ugly spat with salman khan in party thrown by salman for celebrating katrina’s birthday. Both salman khan and shahrukh khan have made good statements about each other since then but they are not in talking terms.

Shahrukh Khan-Aamir Khan saga went on to become news maker for quiet a long time . Though aamir and shahrukh both maintain that they are friends but it seems both love to take dig on each other.

One man whom shahrukh rubbed on wrong end unprovoked is amar singh. While anchoring an award function shahrukh made comments on amar singh and amar singh let his party workers loose on srk.

When you are public figure , highly successful , it is always likely that some or other controversy would always have chances to get erupted but in last five years shahrukh khan seems to have entered one after the other and interestingly in last five years aamir khan has went on to become biggest star while salman brand is roaring top position and big b is going still strong while young guns like ranbir are ready to compete with khans and kumars . Is srk loosing his cool due to work pressure or desire to remain number uno and finding it tough to recreate himself?

Only shahrukh can answer this question but as of now shirish too became famous by entering in duel with shahrukh khan!!!!!!!!!

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India became independent from Britishers in 1947. So what did brits leave behind?. They left behind Pakistan and 500 plus kingdoms which sardar patel united into country which we know India today. Before Britishers took over India , current India as country existed during mughal regime and during Chandragupta regime. So we had India thrice in history and for most parts of history India was divided into many small kingdoms.

Even during mahabharata times , we had many kings and kingdoms in country which was then called Bharat . So when India got independent from Britishers , it took some one like sardar patel to unite India and vision of panel headed by baba saheb ambedkar to make our consitution which defines what India today is.

Consitution is not piece of paper or exist for sake of it . It is vision of our founding fathers about what kind of country they dreamt of . Hugely diversed country like India needed constitution to have any chance of becoming what it has become.

I have found many opinions of constitution , while some are sensible , some are bizzare. Many are angry and slam consitution for special status given to jammu and kashmir . Many protest on inclusion of word secular by Indira in constitution of India .

When nation as diversed as India becomes free from foreign rule , we need a strong constitution which guarantees co existence of all and right to life of dignity. According to me consitution of India is one of best creation of human mind ever. I salute the panel which came up with constitution. India is not just a land ,it is one of most complex country in the world. The home to all beliefs , India has many caste , different languages , different ethnic identity.

It is duty of any nation to make sure that all of its citizen’s right are protected and constitution safe guards that right. Starting from freedom of speech to live life of dignity constitution provides all those rights.

As we celebrate 26/1 , let us salute the makers of constitution because of which India is what it is .

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When Anna Hazare movement got cold response in mumbai in December , many people including sections of media seemed happy. Many disagreed with Anna movement since its inception , while many disagreed with Anna team’s decision to campaign against congress. Many considered anna as fascist and his comments on canning people who refuse to leave alcohol didnt go well for many across board. Many also considered anna hazare as threat to democracy.

Personally I dont believe in canning those who consume alcohol. I do believe in parliament democracy and want parliament to get strengthened instead of weaken but on anna’s fight against corruption , I am with him . Why?

Well our great political system has given the following since 1947 :

1. Jeep Purchase 1948
2. BHU Funds 1956
3. Mundhra Scandal 1957
4. Teja Loans 1960
5. Kuo Oil Deal 1976
6. HDW Commissions 1987
7. Bofors Pay-off 1987
8. ST Kitts Forgery 1989
9. Airbus Scandal 1990
10. Securities Scam 1992
11. Indian Bank Rip-off 1992
12. Sugar Import 1994
13. JMM Bribe Scam
14. Fodder Scam 1996
15. CRB Scams 1997
16. Stock market Scam 2001
17. Stamp Paper Scam 2003
18. Scorpene Submarine Scam 2005
19. Ali Khan Tax Default 2008
20. The Satyam Scam 2008
21. 2G Spectrum Scam 2008
22. Rice Exports Scam 2009
23. Orissa Mine Scam 2009
24. Common Wealth Gams Scam 2010
25. coffin scam -1999
26. Cash for vote scam (dr singh govt)
27. Karnataka Minning scam (yeddy was sacked)
    
28. Adarsh scam

Now above are just few in the list. Needless to say most of scams happened in congress led government while BJP too has its share of scams.

Now looking at above list tall claims by Rahul Gandhi falls flat because no matter how much Rahul claims about putting ministers in jail , above is what we have got in long rule of congress in last 64 years.

Does that make BJP holy cow?. Well far from that. Only difference both party seems to have is opportunity. Since congress got most opportunity to rule , they have most number of scams during their regime!!!!!!!!!

So what we have and does change of government make difference?. Answer is unfortunately no because what we have is culture of corruption.

Do we need strong lok pal bill?. Obviously yes but at same time we need holistic approach where we ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY AGAINST CORRUPTION.

Along with lok pal bill we need electoral reform . When we have corrupted people entering parliament and assemblies accepting administrative system working honestly is like expecting Rakhi sawant go without controversy for rest of her life.

We need right to reject . I understand it would be practically difficult task to accomplish but we need review system for MPs and MLAs under which we can review performance of our politicians.

Citizen charter is must and it would really do wonders for curbing corruption.

But along with above things we need to have culture of no corruption and onus lies on aam aadmis as well as on government. For every bribe taker , there is bribe giver. So onus lies on us too.

CORRUPTION Is cancer and unless it is eradicated we cant have strong nation . Scams in India must become history , if we want our country to realize its true potential.

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UP has population of 20 crores!!!!!!!!. If it had been country it would have been fifth largest populated country after china , India, USA, Indonesia!!!!!!!

Upcoming uttar pradesh election is extremely important elections not just for uttarpradesh which is largest populated state in India but also for three leaders and their future.

These three leaders are RAHUL GANDHI , AKHILESH YADAV AND BEHN MAYAWATI.

1) Rahul Gandhi :

His only credentials in politics till date has been that his surname is GANDHI. The surname which was hijacked by nehru family are now first family of Indian Politics. But Nehru clan didnt just hijack surname , they hijacked Congress too. The party which was ones party of every one is not reduced to be party of first family.

To be fair to nehru clan , they have had their share in making of what India is today. Be it be nehru or Indira or Rajiv, they did do lot for the country but at same time they reduced great party into ‘yes madam/sir’ party where top most post is reserved for either nehru clan or chosen one by nehru clan!!!!!!!

The yuvraj of congress Rahul Gandhi has been honest to people and himself. He knows that it is because of his surname and other surnames like schindiyas or pilots or pawars or latest tandon or singh is credential to enter politics!!!!!!!!

Rahul has been working to get actual aam aadmis in the party but his true test would come in uttar pradesh. Many believe Rahul Baba would be elevated to prime ministership in 2014 , if upa wins election.

The passport to prime ministership would come from uttar pradesh. Congress is already at rock bottom in up and even if congress does reasonably better than last election , congress would be quick to hail rahul gandhi.

But if congress looses elections miserably then congress would call it collective responsibility and still manage to promote Rahul Gandhi.

Then why is this election important for Rahul?. He got to prove himself to himself and also to people of thinking India and his credentials other than merely being born in privilege family would come from Uttar Pradesh.

2) Akhilesh Yadav :

Why should congress have all the fun?. Most political parties including BJP of up are getting their sons/daughters into politics . They have example of congress which has been hugely successful in that.

If Congress project Rahul as yuvraj of India , SP is projecting akhilesh as yuvraj of up. Akhilesh is main campaigner of Samajwadi party. Though Akhilesh maintains that his father would be chief minister , the baton of leadership would pass on to akhilesh in coming year and performance of sp in up is important for akhilesh to cement his position and emerge as generation next leader of sp.

3) Mayawati :

So what is she is crorepati?. So what that there are cases against her?. So what that no one does question her asset of 89 crore officialy while she has been full time politician since 20 plus years, mayawati remains popular leader of up.

She would be fighting against tide and if she wins this election , her next step would be 2014 general election where she would like to play important role. Her google ad campaign in 2009 elections showed her ambition of becoming prime minister.

But if she loose elections , her path ahead seems rocky.

For BJP it seems fight of two yuvraj and dalit ki beti would create situation of their advantage. So let see how up elections unfold…

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Hai Muscular , Hai Popular , Spectacular, He is saleable

Pappu ki gaadi tej hai (ferari), Pappu kudiyon mein craze hai

Tata ki ghadi hato mein , Perfume paris wala, but pappu cant bat saala….

IPL aaya to kismaate chamki , aur pappu ke muh mein thi chandi ki chamchi,

hey hey he , pappu ke paas hai paisa, hey hey he haatho ke mel ke jaisa,

pappu staro ka star hai, but pappu cant bat saala…

shrikant kaaheta tha bada naam karega , mera pappu to aisa kaam karega,

hey hey hey pappu ke paas hai ad any day,

hey hey hey karta hai australia mein holiday,

pappu race bike chalata hai ,jahan jaata hai cha jata hai..

but pappu cant bat saala…

Imagine you earning 10 crore per annum , have no accountability of outcome of your efforts and targets and in spite of that being continued to be paid in crores!!!!!!!

There are only two careers where this can happen , one is politics in which in spite of corruption same old faces keep coming back and another is cricket in which in spite of loosing 7 straight overseas matches , hype of cricketers continues.

Disaster is perhaps lesser word to describe India’s performance in england tour and current Australian tour. Aussies which had tough time against new zealand found Indian team too easy to beat. When team has likes of shewag , gambhir , laxman, dravid , dhoni and sachin tendulkar in its line up , that team seems too powerful to beat atleast on papers. But reputation counted little when India went to tour aussies. Instead of aussies fighting hard , it seems like cake walk for them.

Indian team played like college team not even club team . Getting fold in 2 days , 1 and quarter session in test match is something which even bangladesh wont be expected to do.

Spineless batting by batting greats that too for 7 straight matches is something which cannot be excused off. As India plays last test in australia , I as cricket fan hope , India survives five days . Shameful might be right word to be used for current level of performance of Indian cricket team…

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swami Vivekananda

India is known for its creation of amazing thinkers , amazing philosophers since thousands of years. Since India is one of oldest civilizations and India has had continuous civilization , India’s ability to keep producing great thinkers continues.

One of greatest thinker , philosopher was man called Swami Vivekanand.  Though he lived for only 39 years , his words, his thoughts , his life , his passion for knowing god , his love of country makes him one of most influenced thinkers , a hero and inspiration.

I have had good influence of vivekanand on me . His works in form of books like vedanta , Four yogas and letter of vivekanand are which I am fond of.

Letters of vivekanand gives quiet a bit of information on how and what vivekanand thought. His quest , his zeal. Through this book one can get glimpse of this great man .

Vedanta is one of greatest book of vivekanand. In this book he explains the evolution of religion too.  In simple words he covers the idea of evolution of religion and that is what makes vivekanand revolutionary. Rather then taking words of ancient books as absolute truth , vivekanand tries to understand them logically and interpretate logically.

Vivekanand thoughts on religion are inherently secular . He explains that co existence of religion is requirement of human growth. He understands that disagreement among humans provides platform for growth. He understands that god willed to have so many religions , otherwise it wont have existed at first place.

His ideas where mentioned by Barack Obama in his speech to Indian Parliament and vivekanand’s words mentioned in Obama’s speech applies to every organized religion which considers other religions as false hood.

His one of my favorite quotes is as below :

“All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.”

Personally for me swami vivekanand was spiritual being in real sense. His life has been mediation on eternal question. Swami Vivekananda is awesome story of journey of man committed to his quest.

He dared to say that 18th century was dark century of Hinduism. According to vivekananda during this century Hinduism turned from being school of reason to being school of mugging ancient books!!!!!!!!!. Knowledge equalled who knows how many sloks that meaning behind the sloks…

Another Very important thing which makes swami Vivekananda different is his passion and love for his country. Born in era where Britishers ruled India , his quotes and his belief on youth shows his thoughts.

Here are few of quotes of vivekanand :

1) Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

2) Women will work out their destinies—much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.

3) The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is the fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment.

4) Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life–think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Others are mere talking machines.

As we celebrate Vivekananda’s birth day tomorrow , let us work for betterment of our selves , our family , our society , our country and our world…

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In latest news of anna team , Veteran lawyer Shanti Bhushan has been found guilty by allahabad high court of evading stamp duty. He is said to have shown value of plot far less than 19 crores and thus evaded stamp duty of the same. The plot is located in civil lines which is one of posh areas of allahabad.

Shanti Bhushan is one of most important member of Team anna. He was infact the person who had brought first ever LOK PAL bill in parliament in 1968 when Indira Gandhi had her first rule as prime minister of India.

Shanti Bhushan had however claimed that the fine is incorrect and he would file writ petition in the high court challenging the fine…

Shanti Bhushan and Prashant Bhushan had earlier found their names in another controversy which is CD Controversy where Amar singh claimed bhushans were discussing fixing judges!!!!!!!

Earlier another important member of team anna , kiran bedi landed in controversy when she used to charge business class and travel by domestic , thus saving money which she claims to be using for her NGO.  Argument which many didnt buy.

While Arvind Kejriwal was slammed fine of 9 lakh because of breaking of bond. Unlike bhushans and Kiran Bedi , most viewed arvind’s case as attempt by government to harass him.

But what now?. Would team anna whose four members have landed in controversy would be able to gather same amount of support from people?. If we go by mumbai’s anshan , the movement is soon dying .

I am not happy with movement dying because it was only hope in recent times. The cancer of corruption which had spread in every department and touches lives of every India , needed a credible public movement with credible face to kill this cancer.

Anna Hazare provided the face and needed thrust . He seemed to be finally the answer but with allegations of its members emerging (though with political reasons in some cases), with movement taking political shapes, with anna’s health , the movement seems to be heading towards slow death.

Though none , not even biggest critics of Anna Hazare can take away credit from Anna for taking issue of corruption to center stage and literally forcing government to bring lok pal bill frozen for ever back to life , in practical terms the movement seems to serve less of the purpose.

What the movement has done is alerting politicians to change the way they play their game. They have got that no more they can take aam aadmis for granted  but at core they are still the same and they would reinvent their ways to suit their purpose. Yes all politicians are not corrupt but culture of corruption is very much induced in our political system.

As Anna recovers in hospital , he would have many thoughts going on his mind and latest would be shanti bhushan stamp duty case. Would Anna movement die down or would it reinvest itself?…Only time can answer that.

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Challenge For Congress - Sycophancy

During days when kings , nawabs , sultans used to rule India , they use to have state kavis. Many of so called kavis use to invest their talent in writing poems on their kings , nawabs , sultans. By doing so they use to get inaams .

The trend can be seen all across the globe and chamchagiri or sycophancy seems to be trait which has helped careers of many and it seems to be timeless trait!!!!!!!!!!!

World has changed a lot in last few hundred years. Today governance too has changed. We have democracy in most parts of world. The communist still hold ground in countries like china , north korea . Kinghood still holds ground in muslim countries like saudi arabia. But lately saudi too has seen more people centric governance system. Voices of change , democracy were heard in various parts in 2011. People are getting more aware about their right as human being and in all possibility governance would see more people centric systems where rule of law would have people’s view incorporated in it in future.

In such times one thing seems not to change and it is art of chamchagiri or sycophancy. Indian National Congress is oldest party of India and is chief party which contributed most in India’s struggle of Independence.

The party was unique in a sense. It had people from all walks of life , all caste , all community , all faiths. Be it be parsi or hindu or muslim or sikh , you name it and congress had people from that faith. Congress had people from dalits , people from brahmin , people from south , people from north. In era where woman was considered to be responsible only for household activities , congress had women too in it. Congress truly represented India .

After Independence Nehru began prime minister and unfortunately for Nehru ,Congress and India , most of top most leaders like mahatma , sardar patel , didnt live much and with death of maulana azad , nehru lost close guide,friend .

But most unfortunate thing for India was death of lal bhadur shashtri. The event gave India a very powerful prime minister called Indira gandhi but at same time the event laid foundation to new dynasty of India that is nehru clan.

Insecure Indira had group of selected few whom she did trust . Nick named as kitchen cabinet , they had strong say in governance too.  Indira’s rule saw corruption rise . When we seen today people coming on streets to say corruption down down , many dont know that similar banners made their way to streets during 70s too when Indira ruled.

Congress from being party of all voices soon became party with main trait as being loyal to one person and family. Culture of sycophancy entered the great party called congress and today in 2012 the above ad given by some congress man shows how deep rooted the culture of chamchagiri had become.

Challenge for congress if at all it wants to go back to glorious congress ,then challenge would be how it can bring people on merit who can stand upright and whose survival in party in not based on loyalty to one family but on what he/she brings on board.

Challenge for congress would be how they bring in actual representation of people of India . Rahul Gandhi claims to be working for it with youth congress but as long as top seats are reserved for one family , I am not sure how this would work?.

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