You ask me THAT? How dare you?

The reservation saga going on in India for past fortnight brings the ultimate control of power Indian government exercises over its citizens. It is just insanely crazy that the dimwit minsters make up a decision and arent even willing to give a proper explaination as to why they choose to give 27% reservation in the first place.
Case in point is Arjun Singh's interview by Karan - it is bizzarely funny - imagine what must be going on inside the head Mr.AS

"Yeah, he is going to try to rap me a bit, but I will just say that I dont know in as many possible ways as possible"
"Who the hell he thinks he is really, I AM THE UNION CABINET MINISTER, and shouldn't that make me above reasoning"
"It is an interview, where I talk and people listen. People dont question me"
"I am not answerable to no one - Indian public is herd, thats right goats, sheep, cows, holy-cow at that"
"What, really? He wants me to answer that. Wait, can he reall ask ME THAT?"

I am sure, this is the attitude many politicians in India possess and thats what they grow up with. No wonder they turn out to be so asinine and callous.
Democrazy is what is India today - Indian public moves one step forward and politicians pull us two steps backward. They divide us in the name of caste, religion, gender, skin color, language, race and myriad other ways. They dont care about governance, all they care about is seeking power and keeping that power.

Amids't all this nonsense, Sensex loses about 1500 points, and billions of dollars are lost. I am sure that it is the powerless middle class small investors are the ones who lost their shirt, but our ignominous government never cares for him. After all - "isnt being poor" - a celebrated treatise according to great Congresswallahs? So why should there be any middle class - there should be poor and then should be Netas...

Mangoes Mangoes

Mango Mania
True, all of get these cravings for the heavenly tasting mangoes (be it alphonso if you belonged to Mumbai, be it Noogiveedu or Banganipalli if you belonged to Andhra, or someother 'brand' if you belonged elsewhere), every once in a while, especially when you live out of the country now.
So, this article titled "Mango Mania in India" (What a rhyme too, but needs free registration), it readily caught my attention. It immediately brought fond memories of eating ripe mangoes during summer vacation when we visited our grandparents and all that endless fun. I also remember how all of us cousins locked ourselves up in the dark room (which was where the unriped mangoes were stacked inside the dry grass) to be right there to eat when the mangoes would 'come of age' (ok, no corny thoughts).

To break all this innocence, the said article got some fiesty passages, which makes me wonder if the author is really talking about mangoes indeed.

Inside knowledge always helps, so this reporter called upon Deepanjana Pal, a wine critic in Mumbai who is just as enthusiastic about mangoes. The most important lesson: How to eat a mango, presented in a three-part mime. She first holds out a cupped hand, in which sits the imaginary glistening orange oval of a whole peeled mango; she then deftly flicks her hand at the wrist to propel the phantom mango against her mouth, which gets busy sucking the flesh down to the seed; finally, outrageously, she deploys the full length of her tongue to lick her arm, elbow to wrist, to recapture an inevitable trickle of invisible mango juice.

"That," she says after a long moment's rapture with a fruit that's not even there, "is the best bit." She goes on to speculate that there is something alchemical in the mingling of sweetest mango juice with a salty sheen of sweat.

(Later, a local driver reacted with horror to the mime. "So you don't eat them like that?" I ask. "Well yes, at home, of course," he says. "But not in the streets! People will think that's where you live.")

Happy summer! Well, there gotta be something good associated with excessive heat, right?
cheers
-P

Desi done by Videsi

While I was looking for interesting hindi/telugu videos on google, I came across these two video clips, where non Indian guys were singing Indian film songs.

I liked the Ricardo bit, but the hindi clip is also funny and amusing. So, enjoy em.

Nicardo Telugu Song

German engineer sings bollywood hindi song

Sanjay Gere Kehta hai...

cheers
-P