India is a Super Power !!!

For four years Times of India keeps on harping how we are in the same league as the developed countries US ,UK ,FRANCE ,GERMANY and just the super power about to happen . And we the guliable readers are ofcourse ready to bite the bait . Even though our salaries may not have increased in the current appraisal but the feeling that the nation we are born in is some kind of Super Power in the community of nations makes us feel so great.

Now our newspapers are quite aware that we all know really that there is poverty all around us .And that our cities are the dirtiest and the filtiest in the world unless you are only comparing with Bangladesh .we are no where near the literacy rates or per capita income of the

Now a clever fellow coined the term BRIC . The Russians and the Chinese and the Brazilians were proud to be cemented with each other in some kind of brotherhood deviced by Investment Bankers . Anything can go wrong but it is impossible to disregard the wisdom of a research done by one of the Big 5 American companies . So India was just about to happen .

But then just before the Olympics were truely about to happen most miraculously the Power all over India went off . A Super power with no power for days all over the country was quite a painful experience to the fist thumping patriots . And loo when the power returned to the patriots the sight of Indians finding themselves no where near the Chinese and Americans in Olympics was a big blow to the super Patriots of TOI kind . Hope they refrain from using this Super Power phrase for India atleast for some months after these Olympics and concentrate on the definition of Poverty Line like "The Hindu" does.

Sons of Soil vs the Outsider

The question used to be Political , some thought it was economic but now I am sure this has become hilarious .The last few days has been tragic to the point where it became dubious and then laughable .Poor Bodos are killing the very poor Bangladeshis .Sons of Soil vs the Outsider . Sounds like the latest game launched by Nintendo .The "Us vs "Them" game has come full circle .

North East People working in our lowermost strata like security gaurds and cooks in small restaurant make a frantic exodus from their adopted cities .I cant think of a more stupid tragedy. It doesn't even make sense .It makes no economic or Political sense whatsoever.

Hindus always hated Muslims and Muslims always hated Hindus till recently . It created such a one sided equilibrium that it became Politically irrelevant.Now people who where so used to getting political mileage from the Politics of hatred are perplexed . They are experimenting and fomenting new types of hatred most ably amplified by the sheer hatred that all of us have for the "Other". This Other could be -Region , Religion , Caste , Sub caste ,Language ,Gender , Idea , Ideology - anything under the Sun that Separates Us from them.Some people are so refined in this game that they have created a new form of hatred . Political vs Non Political .

This Sons of Soil vs the Others game is not particularly Indian . The game is played globaly and is a superhit everywhere .Lets see a few examples of this SoS vs others game played in its different versions around the globe.

Obama is promising to make sure jobs don't go to Indians .He is making speaches against jobs going to Bangalore like they used to make against the speaches against the mighty Soviet - Union in the 60 s and 70s . I hope he gets to see the data of poor Indians living below a dollar a day.

Australians were beating Indian students black and blue without reason (unless they were trying to avenge Harbhajan Singh.

MNS and company were beating up the poor taxi wala till they realised they needed one to go home after the beating was over .

In Srilanka it was SoS Singhala's Vs the Tamils . They didnt stop till they painted a very green country quite Red with each others blood .

Hindu's thought there was some kind of shame till a 500 year old Mosque was not brought down .And they brought it down with all shamelessness.

The Taliban thought that the Bamiyan Buddha was standing too tall in a Taliban country . They brought it down with equal shamelessness.

Back in country the Kashmiris  have always thought they needed some kind of special status ,for God knows what reason except that they are fairer than other Indians ,which anyways automatically gives a special status to anyone in this Colour Maniac Fair and Lovely loving country of ours .

Lets understand the present tragedy .The people of North-East have been fighting as SoS for last 65 years . To them everyone else is an outsider ofcourse and since they have not much to share with others they want to have everything for themselves .If you thought North Eastern people are one think again . The people of Nagaland , Manipur , Assam , Sikkim , Mizoram , Meghalaya, Tripura dont exactly behave like brothers to each other .They have been fighting pitched battles among themselves for quite long . Its only in Delhi and Bangalore they realise that they are after all treated as one by the equally SoS people who consider them outsiders .

My state and your state my country and your country is a ridiculous definition . You don't own the whole state and its work environment just cause you were born in it .And in Assam its just poor people killing the very poor people.The insecurity in the minds of North East People in Bangalore needs to be dispelled and they must feel free and secure to work there . Just cause they come come from poor states doesn't mean they need to feel insecure. And historically all of us are Migrants or Outsiders , The Aryans were migrants, The whole population of Australia and USA is Migrant. .Still Feel proud about it like Columbus and Vasco.Going to some other land in search of opportunity should be looked as aspirational and cool.

While we can keep blaming Pakistan for this tragedy and every other tragedy,of course an Outsider is the best person to blame for any tragedy ,its time we look into ourselves .Hate spreads like love does . We have to decide which one to let loose.

Selling Spirituality

I just heard it a few hours back . A top league "Baba" is selling the water used for washing his feet - "Charna Amrit" for Rs. 5000/- per person . It seems the said  Baba has caught bad cold since they continously washed his feet to meet the massive surge in Demand for this "Charna-Amrit".

In another news published in TOI a highly educated ,long time  athiest has suddenly turned devoted and is seeking the blessings of another Guru and started running his Ashram.

 I have now changed my views on how religion should be treated after realising its Economic Significance and Business Prospects. There is a limit of selling something that is tangible like Rice and Wheat , Iron and Steel. But there is no limit to selling intangibles  like..... you gusses it right..... insurance ! Its real fun when you look into it.More intelligent people sell something more intangible - Reinsurance . The most intelligent invention has been the paper money. Those who can print it can keep all power. Those who have power can get it Printed. Finally the powerfull people can print it and keep it all and throw a few penny at us.

Now taking into consideration that we are not brilliant as the West in inventing  economic products ,dubious or otherwise ,and in the near future no one in the world is going to buy Reinsurance from us, its a brilliant idea to sell spirituality in as many ways as possible.Its Intangible . Intelligent people are already selling it . We have been historically professionals at selling spirituality. We just need to corporatise it to make sure genuine talent is not left out and investment comes in quickly.Spirituality has this USP, you can declare the monopoly over strange powers quite incomprehensible by awestruck laymen ever ready in a queue to buy everything under the Sun .

The product basket is amazing ,you can sell bookish Religion , services like Astrology ,Vastu -Shanstra (competition with Feng -Sui makes it more interesting ) and Products like Nazar Shuraksha Yanta , healing methods like Reki and ofcourse spiritual retreats to hill stations .Real earnings lie in collaboration with top corporates. It even helps HR guys to show something new in their scorecard.

Entrepreneurship is not lacking in our country .People have already Run television channel like aastha and yoga schools etc . But these are not far reaching and are not able to get the kind of investment that is required and the ordinary household savings is taken away by the inefficient neighbourhood Astrologer .We must concentrate on the most hardseller of Spirituality ,the modern "Baba" or the "Guru". They already have the marketing machinary let them get the much required investment .

But the problem is most of the money coming to these Gurus is big Black money and hence the demand of Ramdev is absolutely justified . If Indian Black money goes to Switzerland how will the fledging Spiritual Industry contribute to national growth. Bring back the Black money for sure let it used for the prospering homegrown Spiritual Sector . Indeed corrupt people have this strange love for spirituality . I dont know what they really are trying to do . Either they are trying to bribe God by offering a cut or trying to make God a partner in crime. Whatever..... it is for sure ,the Spiritual Industry has the power to roll the Black Money back in the economy just like Casinos.

Its time to take it to the next level.I suggest that Religious , Spiritual and Yoga gurus should be allowed to form companies and list them on BSE and NSE . Many would suggest that the way people are selling Spirituality, it has now become a commodity and should be allowed to trade at MCX !

If America has grown on the strength of brands like Nike and Coke we can ofcourse grow on the strength of  powerful brands like Nazar Shuraksha Yantra . All it needs is Global marketing and an efficient distribution network they already have amazing ads ready for televison . And ofcourse think if America can be so powerful selling Coke at half a dollar per bottle what wonders can our spiritual industry do selling Charana- Amrit at Rs. 5000.- per bottle .

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Now what was a problem to Bertrand Russel is a solution to us . Let the wise men keep wasting their time doubting . I am now on the side of the fools and the fanatics . We will make good business out of Religion & Spirituality .I am finding it very difficult to resist this as a career option myself . Given the talent that I already possess of being certain about myself I find myself exactly fitting  Russels quote !

Jai Baba Abhishek!!! Doesnt sounds quite catchy to build even a Milion Dollar Spiritual Company.  Guys suggest me some great Pseudo names that somehow attracts Dollars and Euros!

JLT

I cant understand how people can believe in 'afterlife'. I have to pinch myself to keep believing  'life' itself is real.

Nowhere to go Nowhere to hide .

The worlds so big The world’s so wide

Nowhere to go Nowhere to hide

From the scorching sun

From the Blazing Gun

From the sinister lies 

From the earthly ties

From the daily run

From the lack of fun

I think I am a bit rebellious 

I think am going delirious

I think I am going mad

I think you were poisonous

And that makes me a bit sad

The worlds so big The world’s so wide

Nowhere to go Nowhere to hide .