I opened my eyes today morning and felt just the way Arthur Dent once felt in the dreaded Heart-of-Gold when in its improbability drive. My head was shaking like a space-craft being hit by a blast-o-presto. The pain resembled a hangover of having 10 awful bottles of the blasted gargle-blaster.
I recovered very quickly, as the Woosters generally do and prepared myself to relish one of Jeeve’s trademark pick-me-ups. My mom very generously made some ginger tea for me, making sure of adding extra-pint of ginger to make sure the explosions inside my head resulting out of drinking the liquid has the desired effect.
I had got out of bed before tea to complete my brushing ritual, but the noise inside my head prevented me from adding other things to my list of worries, and these other things started to tap me all over to grab my attention. Each part of my body registered pain in my brain, which was pre-occupied with other worries.
Nevertheless, the enthusiasm of reading a newspaper pumped some eager blood into my limp feet and I looked around with half-open eyes for the paper. As soon as I opened page 1 and saw the face of the stinking Lalloo, my mouth opened and took in a gallon of air. Within a second, my body compressed all the air, turned my nose and mouth into a triple-barrel air gun and then blasted away. The outburst of energy didn’t stop with that. It played havoc. My eyeballs protruded out as if suffering from the second type of Goiter. Both my hands started to feel as if the blood vessels running inside were pulled out to make a violin or to be used as the string for a medieval Indian’s bow.
My dad heard the blast from the triple-barrel air-gun and came for my rescue. Looking at my half-popped eyes and seeing me clutching both my hands together to ensure that the blood vessels inside them don’t snap, asked me if I had cold, if I had head-ache and if I had body-pains. That’s when I said “Ha…bhai…ha”.
It was then that he wished me good morning.
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Friday, July 02, 2004
CB Naidu and RS Reddy
This was the latest circular pasted on the notice board of my apartment - "We are unable to provide 24 hr running water since we don't have enough water underground. This is because we did not have enough rains on time and also because we do not have any water-harvesting infrastructure in the complex. We request residents of Srila Towers experienced in water-harvesting techniques to help us design a good water-harvesting system. This project would be started immediately so that we ensure better underground water at least by next summer'.
When Chandrababu Naidu, CB Naidu as he's better known in international circles, was talking about the so called water-harvesting and pushed HUDA to set up regulations to make this compulsory in every structure raising on Hyderabad soil, there was a hue and cry. Now, after CB Naidu was bundled out of the CM's office, people realize the importance of his words.
Technology is not something that caters only to the high-strata of society. The cause of Science and Technology is to make life easier and more enjoyable. Naidu tried to use Information Technology in trying to make varied information accessible to general public, but people were not ready for it. His was a long term plan, which, when allowed to progress the way it has been, would have made life easier for everyone in the State and would also help Naidu increase his personal bank balance ten-fold.
Well, for all those who say, "Naidu was a corrupt politician", please also go on to say if Rajasekhara Reddy is any better. If Naidu is good at making PowerPoint presentations, Reddy is good at shedding tears without glycerin. Maybe he took special training from old NTR, we never know. One of Reddy's statements when in power was that "Naidu is a puppet in the hands of the World Bank". World Bank has been so generous to have funded several projects in AP and has the right to make suggestions and to take actions whenever deemed necessary - whenever it feels that the fund is not being invested the way they would want it to be. And when a suggestion made is cogent and convincing, a wise man always values the suggestion and implements it. Newspapers today reported a statement from Manmohan Singh about Naidu "Naidu has done a good job in some areas and he will always be remembered for that". Please let me know if I am missing something here.
Politicians in India have always been corrupt and upliftment of self will always be prioritized over upliftment of the poor. As a general statement, I support the idea of prioritizing your own development before thinking about developing others. But politicians exploit their position to expedite their development at the expense of other unfortunate sections of society and I don’t think there is any one living, who can provide a solution to resolve this.
I feel that if Reddy is given a chance to enjoy a full term at office, which looks inevitable, he will rollback everything done by Naidu and leave AP the way it was 10 years ago - struggling with extreme financial debt and lack of development. And please do not give me President Abdul Kalam's fascinating speeches. He is doing his job - giving a speech and I am doing mine - writing a blog.
When Chandrababu Naidu, CB Naidu as he's better known in international circles, was talking about the so called water-harvesting and pushed HUDA to set up regulations to make this compulsory in every structure raising on Hyderabad soil, there was a hue and cry. Now, after CB Naidu was bundled out of the CM's office, people realize the importance of his words.
Technology is not something that caters only to the high-strata of society. The cause of Science and Technology is to make life easier and more enjoyable. Naidu tried to use Information Technology in trying to make varied information accessible to general public, but people were not ready for it. His was a long term plan, which, when allowed to progress the way it has been, would have made life easier for everyone in the State and would also help Naidu increase his personal bank balance ten-fold.
Well, for all those who say, "Naidu was a corrupt politician", please also go on to say if Rajasekhara Reddy is any better. If Naidu is good at making PowerPoint presentations, Reddy is good at shedding tears without glycerin. Maybe he took special training from old NTR, we never know. One of Reddy's statements when in power was that "Naidu is a puppet in the hands of the World Bank". World Bank has been so generous to have funded several projects in AP and has the right to make suggestions and to take actions whenever deemed necessary - whenever it feels that the fund is not being invested the way they would want it to be. And when a suggestion made is cogent and convincing, a wise man always values the suggestion and implements it. Newspapers today reported a statement from Manmohan Singh about Naidu "Naidu has done a good job in some areas and he will always be remembered for that". Please let me know if I am missing something here.
Politicians in India have always been corrupt and upliftment of self will always be prioritized over upliftment of the poor. As a general statement, I support the idea of prioritizing your own development before thinking about developing others. But politicians exploit their position to expedite their development at the expense of other unfortunate sections of society and I don’t think there is any one living, who can provide a solution to resolve this.
I feel that if Reddy is given a chance to enjoy a full term at office, which looks inevitable, he will rollback everything done by Naidu and leave AP the way it was 10 years ago - struggling with extreme financial debt and lack of development. And please do not give me President Abdul Kalam's fascinating speeches. He is doing his job - giving a speech and I am doing mine - writing a blog.
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