Earth Hour

So how many of you celebrated the Earth hour?? or rather how many even  knew about it?? I switched off all the lights and fans at 8:25pm except the TV. Why not the TV?? Because my dad was watching his favorite song on Zee cinema...and he is DAD...u cant order him!!! So as soon as the song was over 15 min later, even that flickering light went off.

But it gave me an interesting question to ponder over? How effective would it have been as IPL is going on in this cricket crazy nation.But given that people have now started taking sides and Delhi did not have its match today, the IPL  effect would have been minimal in Delhi. But i was intrigued with another question instantly? What if Sachin had been playing? Not talking about others, would I myself had switched off the TV then? I would have if had he got out but definitely not while he was playing.For the Earth hour can be postponed for some time,huh! But if I have been so considerate for Earth hour, would I have prayed for Sachin to get out? Naah,that would have been a much bigger crime.Something, for which even God wouldnt have forgiven me,i guess.No Indian can pray that even if takes sides.For Sachin is above all sides!.

So now the TV lights were also gone. The only illumination came from the cellphones. I messaged few people to switch off their lights. Hopefully they did.Both of us started waiting eagerly for clock to strike thirty minutes past nine.It was as if some timer would go off at 9:30.Dad was resisting his temptation to switch on the TV,for he was feeling as if the time had stopped.But,he was the person who initiated the idea of switching off all appliances in the morning.So, that added to the pressure. He controlled,watched the cellphone time after every 5 minutes..but alas coudnt resist and switched on the TV at 9:25pm. I still think not a bad duration. We were in the dark for the complete hour.

I felt, a siren should go on all over the city indicating the start and end of the Earth hour.I feel everyone should switch off the lights atleast once a week. Not just for climate change, but also it will help reduce your monthly electricity bill :).

All this while in the dark, I was eager to put this down in the blog.It appeared as if the mind was working overtime giving creative ideas in the dark.Any relation between the two,huh?

Women Reservation Bill

So,8th was the Women International Day.It seems something happens to people on these sort of days...Women Day,Valentine's Day Rose Day etc etc..the list is endless.Everytime, lots of people come out on streets for and against the day.So this time our MPs decided to join the bandwagon.Ramu can defiinitely get one hit movie if he bases his theme on the ruckus in Parliament.One can only enjoy the scenes going on there,but yeah it gets a bit monotonous after a while.the slogans shouted in the well were nothing but hilarious.I just wonder what the poor 70-80yr old(does it matter 70 or 80?) Ansari could have done except calling marshals.


Anyways,the bill was passed somehow and was hailed as an historical event for Indian democracy.All of a sudden,every women seemed to be empowered,every MP thought he has done the lone task required to reach heaven(thinking of apsaras!!). It talked about empowering women and bringing them on par with men with 33% reservation,seats being reserved on rotation basis for 3 consecutive general elections.Lalu and Mulayam opposed it but the arguments they provided could'nt have made for more non sense.Soon they would demand quota for Buddhists,Jainists,parsis.etc..and then there are 33cr deities in Hinduism alone..Dont forget,there could be a demand for men reservation also in some time.There is always a scope to expand you pond.

For me, the bill is nothing more than a hypocrisy.It tries to potray that women can come on par only if men want them to.Does Sonia(India's most powerful person is a lady) need a  legislation to empower women? The rotation system violates the basic principles of democracy.Not only 2/3 MPs would be compulsorily unseated after every election,but also restrict the choice of voters to choose women only(Though catfight has always generated lot of interest.).This might have helped had they been Miss Indias!!But instead, we may see many more Rabri's in the fray.Also,because of compulsory unseating,there would be no incentive to nurture the constituencies and plan the development(Atleast will provide them a legal reason not to do so).We already know our attitude towards people coming through reservation.Add to it that they are women..What respect will they get??

Now you will call me anti-feminist,anti-women.No,I'm not. I oppose it with full force.We want people like Sheila Dixit in Parliament,not Dimple Yadav.Let us not forget that the people in Parliament are the same who are running the political parties. I mentioned about hypocrisy earlier. Why not these same guys,the pseudo-feminists, give 33% tickets to women mandatorily in the elections.Now here is another catch.They may give tickets to 33% women but in constituencies that are de facto losen.The solution may be to categorise units in form that 1 out of every 3 party candidate is women.The units for Lok Sabha could be state,for assembly it could be contiguous LK constituencies.Penalise them if these norms are not followed.This,I believe, will bring only serious candidates in picture and promote natural leadership based on abilities and perserverance.And voters can choose between both men and women.
There is lot more I can talk about the bill,its negative consequencies are still many,I only touched the tip of the iceberg.As someone said, if you want to work sincerely,you dont need regulations but if not, then you can find zillion loopholes in a single regulation.

I believ Indians are still better off than the West in this regard.We have a woman President,US still doesnt have one;we had a woman PM,US might never have one.The most powerful person in India is a woman.But still we Indians tend to copy models from the West everytime and everytime we never fail to pick up the failed models. The above model is based on erstwhile Soviet Union and never brought the desired results there. May be these MPs show some manhood and copy the European model of party based quotas.I am not expecting innovations.

Saade satti..!!!

So one more year starts with a bad note....this has been continuing for quite some time now and seems have relegated to it. The previous year ends on a very good inspiring note to be washed away by the new year.But I have even stopped losing heart over it now,infact have given lots of gyan to people having similar results. The cat results will not dampen my spirits this time,I have told myself.

This year,it seems,has brought added misery to me.For there are many reasons to get depressed-health issues, not getting the desired recognition for putting the hard work or say ignored,issues on relationship front and many others.Infact, ma had warned me about it last year. She had talked to the panditji who told her that mera bura waqt shuru hone wala hai...mere upar shani ki chaya hai(the word shani can scare the shit out of anyone)...something called saade satti(Before that I had heard only of satte pe satta!!)..and ye to sabhi jaante hai ki jispar shani aaya, uska kuch nhi ho sakta.....and i just wondered ki abhi aur kitna bura hona baaki hai..and am still wondering..!!!Ma says that even when shani was born and opened his eyes,there was a solar eclipse.!!!Talk to ma and she will list down all the action items to be done to prevent the bad effects...shani mandir jao, shanivar ko daan do,peepal par paani chadao and lots more..i cant even remember...its just  another type of torture..!!!




So just out of curiosity,I opened the Kundli software on my system and fed the inputs from my kundli.You must be wondering why it is even there on my system.Maa had used it extensively to find my bro's match(reminded me of the game,"flames" we used to play in school).Generally, reading one's kundli gives a very good feeling for all the nice things have been written in it.(atleast this is true in my case :P).So after feeding all the inputs, I found that what maa was saying was all true.There was everything negative written about what was going to happen to me.Frightened,I just preferred to close the scary software!!!

With what all is going,I somehow started to believe in it a little.After going all through this, I wondered how long will this last..a month or two..maximum.So i asked maa casually..The conversation went like this:

A: maa,kitne din aur rahega ye saade satti?
M: pata nahi, abhi to shuru hua hai.
A:shuru hua hai..matlab?
M:Haan paditji keh rahe the 2-3 saal to rehta hi hai...
A:Huh?? 2-3saal..!! kyu bachhe ki jaan lene par tule hue hai shani bhagwan..kya bigaada hai maine unka aisa..
M: beta, ye to nhi pata ki tune kya bigaada hai...par tu seva karne lag jaa unki nahi to wo bahut kuch bigaad denge..

And I was,ab aur bhi kuch bacha hai bigaadne ko...!!

Now now somehow the scene is like anything not happening to my wishes is blamed on shani bhagwan and his saade satti... and it seems it has a long way to go...koi to bachao!!!