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Nearly Eight weeks since, the Petrol prices were raised and the lending rates of the Banks increased. The acclaimed “Dream Team” of Montek, Manmohan and Chidambaram’s acumen of FINE Economics has brought us to an unhealthy state of 13% inflation. The “AAM AADMI” is left lurching in the Scorching flames of fiery Commodity prices. The FM had vehemently and immaturely attributed the rise in prices of Edible Oils, cereal grains and the double digit inflation to the sharp rise in Crude Oil Prices, which was at its maximum of $150 a barrel, the Inflation index at this stage measured in the whereabouts of 8-9%, now when the Oil prices have fallen significantly and have settled at about $115 a barrel the Inflation is at 13%. Sadly inflation has continued to rise for 3 consecutive weeks. The hike in CRR has also not helped in curtailing the vices of high inflation. Still, the Govt continues to downplay the issue, and is not ready to accept it as a national concern and call far a Parliamentary...

The Olympics has just ended and it has given us a couple of more reasons to cheer and look forward for the next edition. A Bronze in 2000, Silver in 2004, and this time we have a Gold (after 28 Yrs and the first in an Individual Event), and 2 bronze medals, in Wrestling and Boxing. The Growth has definitely been progressive, but the Star that Shone today fails to shine again. In 1996 Indian Tennis received a Shot in the Arm with Paes winning a Bronze, In 2000 Weight-Lifting, thanks to Karnam Malleshwari; 2004 Silver in Trap-Shooting, a fete well accomplished by Rajyavardhan Rathod the Flag bearer of the Indian Contingent at Olympics, this time. It is Unfortunate that we haven’t been able to repeat the act, whether it is the same Star or the same event, we have not achieved the target for a second time, Only Individual performances on the given day and for given Circumstances have put Indian name on the medals tally (in plain words, it makes one doubt that it ...

Nearly 20 days now and I’ve not posted on my blog. Though a relief for my readers, I’m loosing out on the immense pleasure that rushes in my veins, when the ink exudes on to the paper. The very reasons that kept me away from my blog have been the driving point in this post. When I sat back, letting my feet wet, by the tiny droplets of rain percolating through the plastic roof of my balcony and thought, over a cup of hot badam milk, did I realize, the reasons that mired my literary escapades being, a religious function at my house, the technological overloading as part of an ambitious effort to put my “CAREER” an TRACK, the myriad of Sporting Actions on the television (The Premier League, Olympics and the !dea Cricket Cup), the dose of viral symptoms for this calendar served against my will to post on my blog. But most important and comprehensible reason was that I stayed away from my “Corner”. Yeah, the 2”X6” mat at the corner of the Room, w...

For “Gods Sake”, Fight U may; But Do it not, the brutal Way. Terror Terror Go Away; Is What the Govt., wants to Say, Don’t Make the Innocents pay, And Dump your Bombs In the Bay. We Beg, Plead and Also Pray; Terror Terror Go Away. Do u think, this kind of Nursery Rhymes, will help tackle the Security Issues staring starkly at the face of the Nation. At the SAARC meet, apparently this was what done by Mr. PM; The newspapers Heralded nationwide in Bold Letters “IND DELIVERS A TOUGH MESSAGE TO PAK”. In the past 2 weeks there have been more than 10 counts of breach of LOC and the Ceasefire sponsored by the Pak Army and Masterminded by the ISI, we are just so content in Delivering a Message at a Cozy meet. There is a need for more robust and standalone laws and a dedicated federal unit to implement them, equipped to take the terror bulls by the horn. 80’s and Early 90’s saw the birth of various terror groups around the peripherals of the country, and nearly three decades into it and still w...

The representatives of my revered citizenship have set a bench mark in Political Ethos and Conduct of Parliamentary Affairs of a Sovereign Republic Like Ours, and unfortunately at the abyss of whatever can be called as the bare minimum. The Govt was expected to scrape thru the trust vote but it has SCRAPPED THROUGH the trust of its electorate, thanks to the abstentions and cross-votings. I would like to pose a question to those liberal, secular, well educated fellow countrymen who felt ashamed to be called Indians when the International Media lamented upon the Gujarat Riots to voice their opinions now, when the same media has been scorning at the So Called “DEMOCRATIC” of the country. False on my part and my political perspective, to not to mention the pathetic, infuriating and desperate actions of the BJP, which too made a tamasha of the Parliament, by flashing wads of currency notes on the floor of the country’s pinnacle of national representation. It just wanted to highlight the Ill...

People say, to achieve your dreams & be successful one must have the will to work and some luck; more poetically phrased as Lady-Luck. God knows who phrased the term Lady Luck, but it is done aptly so, One need to have a lot of luck to have a lady of Luck by his side. If you are the one to follow the movies (especially Indian Cinema), U’ll come across umpteen numbers of them where the Hero and Heroine bump into each other in a crowded bus, or in a lonely compartment of a moving train (and the journey is absolutely romantic, through tunnels, valleys and over the rivers, and suitably long too), or in a cinema hall, where they happen to sit next to each other, or simply at a moment when the girl needs help and the hero is the only person around. Why isn’t in my life there is no Lady or no Luck?? Never Have I had a fortune of bumping into a girl, why is that always some skunk occupies the seat next to me in a theatre? Why do always Kids (quite a lot in num...

The DRAFT of the N-Deal has been leaked and now the Govt. has made it public, the draft says that India can place few Select reactors where the Nuclear fuel will be enriched for civilian purposes under the purview of the IAEA. The deal ensures India adequate supply of Nuclear fuel, but does not specify the sources for doing so, the NSG member countries are governed by the NPT and it has nothing to do with regulation of the nuclear fuel prices unlike the OPEC (the Governing body of Petroleum Produce). The Image that has painted by the Govt. for the public is that of a well informed move by the govt, risking its own majority for the better of the common man. From a skeptical point of view, look at the timing of approaching IAEA with the draft, the Country is to face general elections in about 10 months from now, although the Govt. can scrap through with the support of SP, if in case it fails to prove the majority, the Govt. the can continue in the of...