3 more books to the list ....

As usual after giving up on 2 books after reading less than 50 pages of them, I finished reading 3 books over the last two months, the first took few weeks, the second a few days and the thrid one just 26 hours (Thanks to an exam called World class manufacturing where you might fail if you study). Addiction is the right word to describe my current stint with books .... here goes the list

Undoubtedly one of the best books written in the last century... It had been long pending for over an year since the first time i borrowed it from the library ... The book is about a teenager Holden Caufield who had a series of expulsions from schools all over America, coz he would not do well at studies. He came from a well off family which could manage to get him admission in one of the best schools in the country, but he never would reach the expectations.. The book starts off with him being expelled from Pencey .. and the journey he takes after deciding he would go away a few days early from the school and spend a week's time loafing around in the city and then go home ... During his day long stay in the city of New york he decides he would go home only once and meet his sister and then go Hitch-hiking and start working in some farm or somewhere and live a life in his own way, not having to bother about anything in this world. After a failed attempt at tryin to have fun with a hooker and getting beaten up by an elevator guy in the hotel, He meets a couple of freinds, goes to his place to meet his sister for one last time... Due to the trun around of events he decides against his original plan of living a life different from the "Phonies" as he calls the people around him... This narration of a teenager with references to his adolescence is just a perfect story any teenager might enjoy and every adult having a tennage kid would appreciate that they themselves had been through a turmoil of emotions during that phase... This book is a classic depiction of the mind of an American teenager born in the first half of the 20th century ...

The immortals of Meluha - Not sure if many people will like it, but i did. The moment i saw the email from the librarian that the book was on shelf, i ran to get it.. Unfortunately i had to wait for 2 long days to get hands on it. The only reason i wanted to read this book is the fact that it was in sync with my take on Indian mythology. After having argued with people trying to explain the difference between mythology and history and failing to influence people with my ideologies, i decided not to waste energy on it anymore ... Amish is number three on the list of writers from IIM whose books i have read... and he seemd to be the biggest of crackheads among them ... keeping him aside, the book is a different take on Indian mythology, a little spooky in its ways, enough reason for a VHP activist to calla bandh demanding the ban of the book considering the fact that they do not have much activity these days, the book depicts the legend of Shiva who is a Tribal head from the lake Mansarovar who goes to meluha - the perfect country- on invitation from the king, looking out for a better life for his people away from the war with other tribes of Tibet.. A mysterious reaction - a side effect of administration of a medicine called somras leads to the discovery of Neelkant .. the saviour of the world who has to fight the evil and save Meluha which he does over due course of time only to land up in confusion over " fighting for the right/righteous side." meanwhile he falls in love with Sati, the princess of meluha. After defeating the Swadweepans in the war and taking control over ayodhya, shiva has to still avenge the death of his Brother like Brihaspati who was killed by Naga warrior who had been following Sati from the first time Shiva had met her..

The Secret of The Nagas - After thinking a lot about what is right and what is wrong, shiva gives up the thought and leads a life in peace smoking weed in Ayodhya with his friend badra and a pregnant Sati who gives birth to Karthik... After being attacked by the Naga and finding out possible connection of him with a Kingdom called Branga what we today call as West bengal and Bangladesh, Shiva plans a journey to find out the existence of the Nagas.. After reaching the Branga kingdom, he decides he needs to find a cure to the plague which had been killing people in branga, which leads him to a Bandit called Parushuram, who apparently belongs to the clan of vasudevs, an elite brahmin community. meanwhile Sati goes on a mission to save a village from Maneaters and the story takes a turn when the Naga warrior too follows her to the same village wanting to meet her ... Later Shiva the Neelkant who is realizes that all the evils he had been fighting until now are all belivers in the legnd of neelkant sets on a Mission trying to find the secret of the Nagas who live some where in todays maharshtra and whose capital is actually a few miles from where i have stationed my self over the last 18 months ....

The best part about the first two novels of Shiva trilogy is the way amish has brought together the History of Indian Civilizations with the Mythology. Few lines in the book make you feel you are either stoned or the author had written the lines when he was stoned. A part of the second book might get boring in between but over all it was a nice experience reading the books and am waiting for the third part...

* up next - The Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy, Chanakya's Chant and Shantaram .....

Hey Ram ......

M K Gandhi = { National Holidays, Munnabhai MBBS}

Unfortunately, this is the status M. K. Gandhi enjoys today ... In one of my recent posts about Che Guevara i mentioned how Popular guevara is in our Urban society- knowingly or unknowingly. Today is Gandhi Jayanti and most of the people around me do not remember it.. They remember the date very well coz it is another dream company coming today on the campus, but it did not strike some people until 9 in the night atleast once that it is Gandhi jayanti .. Inspite of few people shouting around that it was dry day, they still could not recollect it .. After seeing Relax was closed, they still could not recollect it ... You might say, what is so great about Gandhi jayanti and why should i remember it ... Ask the same fuckin question the next time you shout , Bharat Mata ki jai when India wins a Tonty Tonty match against Bangladesh or when you dress up like a "true Indian" (oh shit, u r wearing Puma Sandles + kurta + jeans and callin it traditional wear) on the independence day or Republic day ... Ask the same thing to yourself every time you say, " Mee Anna hazare" .. If you have forgotten Gandhi, you cannot be Anna Hazare .... People spoke of Gandhigiri and clapped, broke their hands when Sanjay Dutt and Bapu came together on the screen in Munna Bhai MBBS and then quoted some fancy dialogues for a week and then got back to Chindhigiri .....

Leaving these lesser mortals aside, when ever i think of Gandhi and his deeds, i feel the only big mistake he did was lending his surname ... Some people have taken infinite leverage of this and have taken the nation to dogs ..... Don't know how the REAL Gandhi family must be feeling, but as an admirer of the great man i am mighty pissed off with the abuse of his name ......

MANAGERIAL COME-EUNUCH-ATION - for success in movies ..

One of my friend (RM) during my engg was a very big fan of A R Rahman and would buy every casette of movies which had Rahman / Harris Jeyeraj as the composer .. Such a chauvinist, he would even gift those casettes to people on their birthday .... One of the gifts that i got for my Birthday was a Boys audio casette which released just before my birthday .. Ok, i put the casette in the old phillips tape recorder..( oopss 2 - in-1 as some say) So i was trying to listen to atleast one complete song but could not .. i did not understand the lyrics of any of the songs. I tried very hard and put the words together and still i landed up with lines very much similar to Sidhu's commentary .... I gave up for the day and in due course of time forgot about the puzzle 'better not be solved' ... And to my horror, every where i go i would listen to the songs of the movie and people singing the songs with strange lyrics which were totally different from what i heard the first time ... Of course they did not get the lyrics right, but what mattered to them was they just fell in love with the songs .... This is quite a phenomenon you would observe in most of the songs in tamil movies dubbed into telugu ... You just have to fit in words and leave the rest to the audience to decipher the Da Vinci Code ...... And to add to this, the music director does not find any one better than Udit Narayan to sing the song to make sure 99 % of the words are pronounced wrong ...

Here is the translation of the lyrics of one of the song in the movie BOYS

Chillula Dabbilo prema Durithey pillana Grovounu - If love sneaks into a box with holes, it turns it into a flute ( a broader, shorter version of a flute i think, what do you call it anyway)
Saale gootilo saaleedulamai ooyalaloogedam - Lets become spiders in a web and swing (i mean lets swing on the swing)
Kullipoyina maamidi lo Jathapurugulam audaam - Let's be a couple of insects ( insect couple may be) in a rotten mango ...

Now after i got this cleared i never again dared to listen to any song from the movie except for times when i had to sit in RM's car while going to college ...

Few years later released a movie called Aparichitudu which was from the same league as Boys ... Shankar + telugu Dubbing .... This movie had two ( or may be more) songs which had encryption standards as high as the digital fortress .... Finally i used my own TRNSLTR and figured out the meaning ... Before that i had to search for the lyrics online coz i could really not make out the third language used in the song apart from telugu and English and to my horror found there was no third language ..... here are the results of decryption of few lines

Naku neeku Nokia , Ika repo maapo mafia - For you for me Nokia, So tommorow or later Mafia
(I could translate this but cannot interpret this, i think it is some extra terrestrial stuff)

Thermocol shilpamla nuvve vunte, ninnante chinna tella bantule nenule
If you are like thermocol statue, i am the small white balls which stick to you :-(
Premala rojula putta, kalalanu thintu periga, nadiche manasunu kalisa eenade 
I was born on the day of loves, i grew up eating dreams,And Today I met a walking heart ...

Cyanide Cyanide lookutho, granide granide guritho, siggu bidiyam champe hanthakuda
With cyanide cyanide looks, granide granide aim , oh killer of shyness and decency ...

And then there are songs like " telephone dhwani la navve daana " and "chiku buku railey" , " Muqqalaa - Muqabla " which have been translated to both telugu and Hindi and have been successful in hitting TOP CHARTS on Superhit Muqabla on Doordarshan without people understanding a single word of that Shit ...

I would like to put an end to this post by qouting the most famous song of the year .... I think this explains my frustration of being forced to listen to these songs while travelling in APSRTC buses , Seven seaters, or while i am having my favourite Butter Masala Dosa at an udipi hotel ...

KILIMANJARO LADKI PARVAT KI YARO, ISKI ROOP NIHARO YARO YARO

MOHENJODARO ISKO DIL MEIN UTAARO, JUNGLE JUNGLE PUKARO YARO YARO

and now go listen to the song if you haven't , but only once .....  

FACEBOOK POLICIA .. WHERE ART THOU ????

If I were facebook policia the biggest crime would be narcissism ... and the punishment would be expulsion from facebook for a year .... I am mighty fuckin pissed off with facebook some times and have deactivated my account many a times .. but i get back to it coz of some compulsions .. Just the way telephones became popular coz we did not want to see few people, Facebook is because we do not want to talk to people or listen to their voices (at least for 0.001 % of the population of which i am a part) ... I have finally been successful in refraining myself from making sarcastic comments on the Walls of people and have found out that insulting people in public does not bring about any change in their behavior, a phenomenon i would like to call - FACE BHOOKH - an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder resulting out of narcissism ..... If facebook were to exist for another 30 years, most of our kids would say " What an asshole my dad was" or what a dumb fuck my mom was."

Every one of us who writes something has a source of inspiration.. for some it could be boredom, for few it could be other writers. For me off late the biggest inspiration for my blog has been facebook coz most of my posts find their origins in people or their statements on facebook .... What did i see now which made me write this ??? Here is my friend who got married recently .. No, i am not giving any link this time .. Anyways it was his wifey's budday yesterday, So he got her a greeting card .. very good .. Then he put a photograph of his wife and him holding the greeting card like a mixed doubles wimbledon prize .. What makes it even more abhorable is the fact that the person who posts the photo on his wall on facebook himself clicks on like and tags himself ... I mean show me one person who would post a pic if she/ he does not like it .. and why do you have to tag urself in ur own photo ??? One thing that i find most often on my wall is the list of people changing their profile pics ... i keep searching in the list for new pics, but i hardly find one or two new pics in a list of 10 .. I then realize that the person has just cropped the old pic for a better fit ... It is really difficult to control making comments on such losers but you know how life is in a hostel ....

Facebook ain't no fun if you cannot comment on such Public Display of Autism ....

Here is a valentine's day cupid stunt

I say Go Fuck yourself ..

Here is a 13 oops 30 year old all excited about her budday ... FML ... i feel really young now....

You need a reason to support Anna hazare ... Will it help if i say CHICAS ...

This friend is really worried about Facebook being shutdown ( i wish) and there are people who actually have ensured him saying it wont, i still wonder there are no likes on the post or the comments ... how did they miss this ..

*** deleted img coz people have suddenly started to look into my blog n i do not want to offend them ....

Quién es Ernesto Guevara?

This is one of the things i never could understand .. Che Guevara is the face which is found the most on T-shirts in India. I think he beats Gandhi in this aspect .. Infact he beats everyone in the world .... His Photograph 'Guerrillero Heroico' is the most famous photograph in the world. While i have read about him a lot of times in bits n pieces from his autobiography, what gave a better understanding of him is the book Motor Cycle Diaries and of course the movie ...  A lot of people have told me they loved the movie but they could not tell me who exactly Ernesto guevara was and what is his claim to fame ... And most of these people are management students who burry their heads deep into newspapers every morning to improve their general knowledge ....

Anyways while i was talking to few people about the movie / book or as a matter of fact when there were questions in my quiz about him, i realised lot of people do not really know Che Guevera by his name .. If i had to conduct a survey by asking people who che Guevara was, i would get lot of answers and 99 % would say " Do not know". No problem with that coz learning is a matter of opportunity and not every one gets an opportunity to learn everything . Even i did not know who Anna hazare was until he was in Media recently.... Even people who supported him do not know his story even today .. So coming back to the title of discussion, since many people did not know who Che guevara was i decided to show them the 'Guerrillero Heroico'  and luckily many people seemed to identify him but could not give the right answer .... here is the typical response you would get if you asked thousands of students who they thought Che Guevera was after looking at the photograph......

While the first 5 answers have been doing rounds and are totally acceptable and to an extent tolerable, i am sure some one will definitely give me the last answer and i am prepared for it ....

MANAGERIAL COME-EUNUCH-ATION - STUDAAPAA

*STUDAAPAA - adj - extravagant , flamboyant, bombastic, flashy blah blah .... can be substituted for any words used to appreciate somebody .. generally used by people who have problem recollecting english words ...

This word was introduced to me by  Gulshan . Gulshan is my classmate and holds the award for most number of citations for the word Studaapaa ... unfortunately Gulshan is not one of those who comes into the category of people catogorized under people possessing Studaapaa ...

Typical depiction of Studaapaa in a B- School might comprise of the below mentioned events. The list is not exhaustive coz it can never be and you could add a few more points.

• Wearing Sunglasses while going to drink tea at kaka's tapri.
• Do a sideway somersault to salute and impress a girl who is probably engaged before joining the college.

• Discuss 4 Ps of marketing for more than an hour so that everyone in the library can listen and appreciate your talent ....
• Accidentally jump into discussions about parties and get invited for some dumbfuck's party even though you hardly know them .. for these studaapaas please refer to last paragraph of  fraaandss furr evarrr
• Have sennheiser earphones on your ears all the time regardless of the fact that you are in a group or you are not listening to music at that moment so that your ears look like this ...      
• Always be dressed up as if you can be called for a party any moment, even at 12 PM ( though the college gates are closed at 10 PM).. no i am not talking about girls ...
• South indians pretend like they are north Indians ( fake punjabi accent, aquired rajma/ chole taste ) coz they lived in Delhi for few years but have all the while been eating, idli, sambar, rasam etc and speaking nothing other than tamil / telugu at home ...
• Changing display pics on FB twice a week if busy and atleast four times a week if there are no assignments and stuff ... and changing status message every one hour .. jumping from romantic one liners to deepak chopra shit to updates regarding free blood donation/ heart surgery ( this mesg has already been copied a million times over the last 2 years).
• Being the first one to download a Himesh reshammiya song and play it loud in classroom and gather a bunch of assholes and sing together ...
• Listen to Himesh when in the Boys hostel and switch to Link-fuck-in-park when in the college classroom ...  

I can write for days about these things, but on some days i really cannot use profanity .. so i better stop here ...

Tonty Tonty, CWG, EPL, F1 ... ETC ETC

After having two rounds of Sambar rice with Aloo gobi fry i felt like i have come back to earth after a trip to vulcan alonside Mr.Spock .. So much for Sambar rice ???  Yes i was dying to eat something since i just recovered from fever and was not in a position to move since morning ... Anyways after i ate so much, i headed towards the TV and sat there watching the highlights of CLT20 match between Bombay Bachchans and Chennai Rajinis .... At a point when Mumbai needed some 30 odd runs of 20 balls Dhoni missed a stumping and assuming the fact that the dumbhead sitting next to me knew it was highlights, i felt like he was over reacting by shouting " Ohhhh Shiitttt , he missed it ". The match was over 40 hrs ago bastard and i remember u watching the match live .. Then why the fuck are you shouting NOW ??? And that too for a fuckin stupid match in chennai where the stadium is 25 % occupied .... Now you get to see a lot of such dumb fucks pretending to be great fans of the Games / Teams and what not ..  Here is an excerpt of what i have seen here at college and the heights of 'Studaapaa' people show to impress ..... i don't know who ......

Tonty Tonty cricket is the best bet. If you are from a place like Baroda or Indore or Ahmedabad, you can support the winning team which most of the time is Chennai .. Unfortunately people from Pune and delhi havn't had a great time, so they are not seen near the TV room during IPL but they will turn up for CLT20 to support Dhoni or Sachin or Mallya's team.. 5 years into this crappy mode of cricket and i still don't realize how a major chunk of the youngsters are so fanatical about a Mumbai team Sans Sachin sans a single player from Mumbai. I understand the passion for cricket as i myself am a big fanatic, but what i see here is people praying that Malinga finish off all the games for Mumbai Indians with his batting .... yes, what else can you do if Rayudu has lost his mind and Symonds' vision is deteriorating coz of his age ... Some people even watch matches between Ruhune and Cape Cobras with the same enthusiasm as the above mentioned bollywood action .. I don't want to comment much on cricket this time coz of the respect for the other formats of the game ... let me move onto other games ..

EPL comes next in the fan following .. While there are genuine fans for the Devils, The Gunners or Chelsea who have been watchin football from the time they knew it existed, i have seen some dumb fucks who have become great ManU fans over night. These Assholes sit behind people like me and keep telling about the past legacy of the teams and keep asking about players from the teams .. These bastards are googling out the names of the players while watching the match and pretending as if they know every thing ... They don't even turn to watch a ManU match until you go and tell them there is a match .. If you call yourself a fan then you can fill a football with your fart .... By and large the Fake supporters of Formula 1 are a subset of these fake EPL fans ...

Now the most hilarious of all the fans i have seen is during the Commonwealth games ... I just loved watching these dumbfucks support Indian players they haven't heard of ever and will not remember the next day ... Have you bastards ever heard of names like Heena Sidhu and Annuraj Singh ... All the people who have supported them that day coz u saw a small india flag displayed on the sore board do not even remember their names now .... So much to impress guys stayin next to you ?????  Keep aside shooting, how many of us know the rules of boxing ???  Gymnastics, lawn bowls and cycling for godsake were some of the most watched and cheered for sports ... I don't know where do these people learn the rules of these games from... 

The point i actually wanted to make is, most of us do not know what we want from life or what we really are interested in.. Considering a small fact that we become overnight fans of a team coz the coolest of the people support it, we can thus say that the youth is losing its individuality and getting pussified in the process of trying to be like some one else ... Some of the students cannot make out which company to apply to during campus placements .. I can understand that it is a tough decision to make sometimes especially in my college coz not many companies come here, but you cannot be as stupid as asking questions to your alumni working in the company like " How many annual paid leaves/sick leaves are provided there? " . Dude all the companies by and large have a similar kind of leave policy .. What are you trying to prove by asking such questions even after working in a world class company for 4 years ???  Some of my classmates cannot even make out if they want to sit in the class or walk out when the prof says ' I will give you one minute, people who do not want to listen can go out ' ... These approval junkies discuss this with the guy sitting next to them to decide if they have to sit in the class or not ... Grow up fuckaaa .... Will you make you own decision to Jerk off or will ya ?????