Friday, June 17, 2011
The man who used gate of a residential house as a tool of intimidation
The man who used gate of a residential house as a tool of intimidation
Udhagamandalam Singboard Part II And Octacamund Municipality
As i probe further, some other signboards in Udhagamandalam are:
- There is M Kamaraj University Distance Admission and Education Centre on one side followed by Monalisa Enclave Ladies Beauty Parlour & Training Centre.
- There is Regale Bakery Confectionery and General Store.
Fetish for foreign names begins from here:
The Shanghai Company Sports and Chinese Footwear; the Chungwah Chinese Restaurant
Shinkows Chinese Restaurant distant from those fascinated with Shanghai the concrete jungle.
On Acommodation and other on day to day necessities:
- Prime Rose Lodges: Tourist homes , dormitory and rooms
- Crabtree Modular Plate switches
- Indian Xerox: STD, ISD and fax.
- Kabab Corner and other with Kabab and Tandoor Mahal rampant.
The signboard of litter free zone are equally noticeable but the adherents are fewer and invisible.
The walk lasting beyond an hour brings me across YBA (Young Badagas Association) 44, Church Hill Oty. Adjacent to this is Breeks Memorial Anglo Indian High Secondary School. This was established in 1874. In proximity is Breeks Memorial Anglo Indian High Secondary School Centenary Building 1874-1974.
Above Nice Stay Residency is Cafe coffee Board
"Say bye to plastics and hi to queen of hills". Perhaps conveying there is no competition to this queen of hills
As you step inside Octacamund Municipality, the information is all there.
Octacamund Municipality
Constituted 1866
Constructed 1894
Extended 1946
M Krishnaswami B.A. B.L. Chairman
And finally, the Nilgiri Library established in 1859 and still going strong.
- There is M Kamaraj University Distance Admission and Education Centre on one side followed by Monalisa Enclave Ladies Beauty Parlour & Training Centre.
- There is Regale Bakery Confectionery and General Store.
Fetish for foreign names begins from here:
The Shanghai Company Sports and Chinese Footwear; the Chungwah Chinese Restaurant
Shinkows Chinese Restaurant distant from those fascinated with Shanghai the concrete jungle.
On Acommodation and other on day to day necessities:
- Prime Rose Lodges: Tourist homes , dormitory and rooms
- Crabtree Modular Plate switches
- Indian Xerox: STD, ISD and fax.
- Kabab Corner and other with Kabab and Tandoor Mahal rampant.
The signboard of litter free zone are equally noticeable but the adherents are fewer and invisible.
The walk lasting beyond an hour brings me across YBA (Young Badagas Association) 44, Church Hill Oty. Adjacent to this is Breeks Memorial Anglo Indian High Secondary School. This was established in 1874. In proximity is Breeks Memorial Anglo Indian High Secondary School Centenary Building 1874-1974.
Above Nice Stay Residency is Cafe coffee Board
"Say bye to plastics and hi to queen of hills". Perhaps conveying there is no competition to this queen of hills
As you step inside Octacamund Municipality, the information is all there.
Octacamund Municipality
Constituted 1866
Constructed 1894
Extended 1946
M Krishnaswami B.A. B.L. Chairman
And finally, the Nilgiri Library established in 1859 and still going strong.
Sporting assignments and 27th the monthly holiday by Puneet Rajhans
AS i come across the booklet titled "Race programme compiled by original vel: The sports news", there is another "Best Of Luck The Sports bulletin". These two booklets were in plenty when the sun rose in this part of the world. As the sun began to set to rise the other day the booklets were hardly there with most taken by those who have fascination for this particular sports but no such sentiments for the government which fails to give sports its due. More such booklets could set the stage for those having fascination for different sports to take a vow that at least one member from their family makes it to sports.
Coming to other sporting assignments underway, if you indulge in transporting yourself from one part of the country to another in a space of 14 hours, saddled with the commute taking four different buses in this very period, this act of destination-reaching is no less than a sporting foray given the physical and mental faculties that come under continued stress. THe dislocation that doesn't happen, you can thank your stars and the constant nudging that comes from the manager doubling as caretaker on the schedule to be adhered on check out - non-adherents have been brought face to face with the shape and colour of eviction - and you and your followers, visible and invisible, not losing patience to dislocate him are the virtues of modern-day travelling.
The modern-day travelling empowers you to disempower others like lodgewallahs when any query directed at them they respond in a manner befitting them and yet taking an untimely descent. The other day looking to break the deadlock that had just set in, and not something brewing in for months which the govt. of the day is faced with, i was looking for options that could be tried in the spare time. One was to reach the sea shore and before i could reach the beach the manager reached me. He reached me with the precise brief that time had come for me to part ways from the accommodation i had occupied for the past two days and yet to turn 36 hours. By no means i wanted to empower him to a point where he could get into a brawl and i having a mighty fall, i told him that accommodation had been restored to its original glory and i had kept my luggage next to a parked lorry. He kept moving with the umbrella in his hand and just nodded his head acknowledging my parting stand.
I moved to the beach, probably having covered the two mile in one entire feat. As i moved adjacent to the waves, i saw a man engineering response on a cell on an activity which were entirely forbidden from his place of stay and probably from the place of work if he had any. The precious moments he spent near the beach caught between cell-talk and a small walk were also the moments when in his pant and shirt he could keep an eye on others besides the small frittered rocks. I, for one, could not entirely make out the purpose of his visit to the beach as the looks on the face conveyed his battle of an encircling siege.
The moment of my arrival to the beach saw fewer and fewer collection of men, women and babies and in a space of half an hour it swelled and began to make its presence felt.The Chavakkad beach, for one, has been spared the erosion that human habitation brings and this is a major plus. Perhaps fewer visits and even if the collection is huge there aren't many on a short fuse. When i set on my return journey, i could see a momentum of those heading to the beach and this fairly looked to be a crowd which won't create any mayhem.
The return journey also laid the possibility of my another face to face interaction with the manager-having-not-yet-turned-proprietor. My reading of the situation unfolding every hour was perhaps he belonged to a family who ran the accommodation centre but they were steadfast in their demand that the baton could not be passed on to a figure who had served as a manager and yet had failed to engineer mass arrivals to the lodge. Arrivals were there but not plentiful and departures were hasty leading to customers wear and tear. So the refusal of the lodge high command that the manager won't be made the proprietor in total command had led the manager to manage beyond his call of duty and if one sought the passage to a place where nature's small calls could be answered, he handed them keys to a lavatory which was as dysfunctional as any man-refused territory. Well all the lodges don't cruise in that frame of mind but there are some where managers have yet to become enlightened proprietors.
Stories abound about managers and lodges, it is natural to shed a light on state transport corporation buses and how they haven't lost their momentum. The other day as the bus began to move from its stand, the people on either side of the road were watching it for the precise reason that it was moving at a speed not known to mankind. The roads had become dysfunctional following the heavy and unrelenting movement of heavy traffic round the clock and teared to a point where only tears could be seen in the eyes of those taking such roads. But no tears were visible as far as the STC bus driver was concerned and he maintained the speed status no matter how worsened was the road status. Most passengers reached their destination, with a view that stc buses have their comfort level and discomfort is entirely due to the different body structures we are endowed with. It is this different level of body structure that has led one city centre ac shopping arcade in a city to put a hoarding on the monthly holiday it would have the freedom to avail. it is 27th of the month when all shopping and seizing activities would come to a standstill in this shopping arcade and who all would be visible are the entities who dare not visit before 27th and after 27th to see this 27th as the golden day when they could park themselves for entire full day. The 27th holiday has been declared precisely for the reason that the employers and employees believe that due to unforeseeable reasons there are months and years when shopping centres operate with no break and 27th declaration would be strictly adhered come what may. No amount of pestering would do and no amount of ransom threat would be approved. For all those associated with the shopping arcade they have been freed from the the lengthening bond: of getting ready, taking the bus and reaching the centre on time and yet reporting to the home well before you had your share of wine. This day they have the freedom to take any number of calls on cell and landlines as they are at home with their newly traced brothers and friends, who remain untraceable for the remaining 29 days.
Taking a cue from the 27th declaration, shopping centres across different tiers and tears have decided that in order to give a breathing space to their employees and the customers, it would be made mandatory that every month they would have particular dates as holidays, different from national holidays and sundays, and the declaration to this effect would be put on the hoarding. Non-adherents would be strictly dealt with and adherents would be asked to rope in more followers to the holiday-declaration agenda.
As for commoners like us, there are no holidays as we are subsumed with the theme to observe the happenings around us even if that means that the occupants on either side of a cafe happen to be someone who have no interest in browsing and yet have turned browsing buff for reasons best known to their family members. Browsing they never did the life they have dutifully lived; the sudden urge emanates from the sudden emergence of emergency-like situation with the sole agenda of information dissemination. Information that is hard to come given the filtering that is taking place at a regular pace and every turn.
Let my countrymen know howsoever hard the country roads may be, how discouraging the lodgewallahs might be(not all of them), the stride to know and flow would have the momentum row.
Coming to other sporting assignments underway, if you indulge in transporting yourself from one part of the country to another in a space of 14 hours, saddled with the commute taking four different buses in this very period, this act of destination-reaching is no less than a sporting foray given the physical and mental faculties that come under continued stress. THe dislocation that doesn't happen, you can thank your stars and the constant nudging that comes from the manager doubling as caretaker on the schedule to be adhered on check out - non-adherents have been brought face to face with the shape and colour of eviction - and you and your followers, visible and invisible, not losing patience to dislocate him are the virtues of modern-day travelling.
The modern-day travelling empowers you to disempower others like lodgewallahs when any query directed at them they respond in a manner befitting them and yet taking an untimely descent. The other day looking to break the deadlock that had just set in, and not something brewing in for months which the govt. of the day is faced with, i was looking for options that could be tried in the spare time. One was to reach the sea shore and before i could reach the beach the manager reached me. He reached me with the precise brief that time had come for me to part ways from the accommodation i had occupied for the past two days and yet to turn 36 hours. By no means i wanted to empower him to a point where he could get into a brawl and i having a mighty fall, i told him that accommodation had been restored to its original glory and i had kept my luggage next to a parked lorry. He kept moving with the umbrella in his hand and just nodded his head acknowledging my parting stand.
I moved to the beach, probably having covered the two mile in one entire feat. As i moved adjacent to the waves, i saw a man engineering response on a cell on an activity which were entirely forbidden from his place of stay and probably from the place of work if he had any. The precious moments he spent near the beach caught between cell-talk and a small walk were also the moments when in his pant and shirt he could keep an eye on others besides the small frittered rocks. I, for one, could not entirely make out the purpose of his visit to the beach as the looks on the face conveyed his battle of an encircling siege.
The moment of my arrival to the beach saw fewer and fewer collection of men, women and babies and in a space of half an hour it swelled and began to make its presence felt.The Chavakkad beach, for one, has been spared the erosion that human habitation brings and this is a major plus. Perhaps fewer visits and even if the collection is huge there aren't many on a short fuse. When i set on my return journey, i could see a momentum of those heading to the beach and this fairly looked to be a crowd which won't create any mayhem.
The return journey also laid the possibility of my another face to face interaction with the manager-having-not-yet-turned-proprietor. My reading of the situation unfolding every hour was perhaps he belonged to a family who ran the accommodation centre but they were steadfast in their demand that the baton could not be passed on to a figure who had served as a manager and yet had failed to engineer mass arrivals to the lodge. Arrivals were there but not plentiful and departures were hasty leading to customers wear and tear. So the refusal of the lodge high command that the manager won't be made the proprietor in total command had led the manager to manage beyond his call of duty and if one sought the passage to a place where nature's small calls could be answered, he handed them keys to a lavatory which was as dysfunctional as any man-refused territory. Well all the lodges don't cruise in that frame of mind but there are some where managers have yet to become enlightened proprietors.
Stories abound about managers and lodges, it is natural to shed a light on state transport corporation buses and how they haven't lost their momentum. The other day as the bus began to move from its stand, the people on either side of the road were watching it for the precise reason that it was moving at a speed not known to mankind. The roads had become dysfunctional following the heavy and unrelenting movement of heavy traffic round the clock and teared to a point where only tears could be seen in the eyes of those taking such roads. But no tears were visible as far as the STC bus driver was concerned and he maintained the speed status no matter how worsened was the road status. Most passengers reached their destination, with a view that stc buses have their comfort level and discomfort is entirely due to the different body structures we are endowed with. It is this different level of body structure that has led one city centre ac shopping arcade in a city to put a hoarding on the monthly holiday it would have the freedom to avail. it is 27th of the month when all shopping and seizing activities would come to a standstill in this shopping arcade and who all would be visible are the entities who dare not visit before 27th and after 27th to see this 27th as the golden day when they could park themselves for entire full day. The 27th holiday has been declared precisely for the reason that the employers and employees believe that due to unforeseeable reasons there are months and years when shopping centres operate with no break and 27th declaration would be strictly adhered come what may. No amount of pestering would do and no amount of ransom threat would be approved. For all those associated with the shopping arcade they have been freed from the the lengthening bond: of getting ready, taking the bus and reaching the centre on time and yet reporting to the home well before you had your share of wine. This day they have the freedom to take any number of calls on cell and landlines as they are at home with their newly traced brothers and friends, who remain untraceable for the remaining 29 days.
Taking a cue from the 27th declaration, shopping centres across different tiers and tears have decided that in order to give a breathing space to their employees and the customers, it would be made mandatory that every month they would have particular dates as holidays, different from national holidays and sundays, and the declaration to this effect would be put on the hoarding. Non-adherents would be strictly dealt with and adherents would be asked to rope in more followers to the holiday-declaration agenda.
As for commoners like us, there are no holidays as we are subsumed with the theme to observe the happenings around us even if that means that the occupants on either side of a cafe happen to be someone who have no interest in browsing and yet have turned browsing buff for reasons best known to their family members. Browsing they never did the life they have dutifully lived; the sudden urge emanates from the sudden emergence of emergency-like situation with the sole agenda of information dissemination. Information that is hard to come given the filtering that is taking place at a regular pace and every turn.
Let my countrymen know howsoever hard the country roads may be, how discouraging the lodgewallahs might be(not all of them), the stride to know and flow would have the momentum row.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Let no commoner suffer at the hands of a CA who has ruined lives of others on the back of resources he is flaunting
Let no commoner suffer at the hands of a CA who has ruined lives of others on the back of resources he is flaunting. It is resources and resources alone that leads this CA to wreak havoc in the lives of others ably supported by his servant ram who steps out time and again to scream, shout and instigate others to create mayhem. First other henchmen and later followed by servant ram have screamed(from 2006 onwards): "Ladke ko lao, nikalo bahar" and a lot of other unspeakable remarks.
The CA has flourished on the back of this servant ram and other henchmen who hurl abuse and create a fuss to instigate others. The CA's fiefdom is strong and expanding given the way his sons have conducted themselves. It is the strong fiefdom illustrated by his sons screaming: "ladka yeh tv channel dekh raha hai" This clearly shows the power they command as they can very much make out what one is doing at home. CA's sons have since 2006 observed repeatedly: "Ladka kab aaya, kal raat aaya ki aaj subh aaya. Ladke ko bahar nikalo. Similar golden observations have come from the CA who believes that money would get him what he desires. If one starts detailing the unbearable torture that a commoner has been subjected to since March 2006, it would clearly show the rampant abuse of money power that the CA has repeatedly indulged in.
The CA has flourished on the back of this servant ram and other henchmen who hurl abuse and create a fuss to instigate others. The CA's fiefdom is strong and expanding given the way his sons have conducted themselves. It is the strong fiefdom illustrated by his sons screaming: "ladka yeh tv channel dekh raha hai" This clearly shows the power they command as they can very much make out what one is doing at home. CA's sons have since 2006 observed repeatedly: "Ladka kab aaya, kal raat aaya ki aaj subh aaya. Ladke ko bahar nikalo. Similar golden observations have come from the CA who believes that money would get him what he desires. If one starts detailing the unbearable torture that a commoner has been subjected to since March 2006, it would clearly show the rampant abuse of money power that the CA has repeatedly indulged in.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Search for veg puffs and the man parked in a corner of National Tea Centre
Search for veg puffs and the man parked in a corner of National Tea Centre
It was the search for veg puffs that led me to different tea centres across the length and breadth of the town. The veg puffs come in the range of Rs 5, 7.50, 8 and 10. Those coming with 10 may appear a bit steep but not that steep fare at which the bhojanalaya next to a park in co'or dished out the thali for. A steep 70 rs was the price and with most of the preparations dripping in oil. While some compatriots decided to look for other options, i was game for it given no substantial fill had gone inside since morning. As for the meals the settled rate is 40 with one guy suggesting that somewhere 300 metres from municipal office the meals can be tried for Rs 20! The meals have the appropriate incentive given the unlimited serving of different vegetables. Even rice is plentiful and enough to see you take long strides for the next six to seven hours.
The tea has been the necessary ingredient to infuse the requisite spring to your movement and at one place the morning cuppa was strong for others to park for several hours. I, for one, had been visiting the Tea Centre with the precise aim to to get a new look to the outlook that lay in tatters if i had denied myself the cuppa for over six hours. Seated on the bench, i scanned through the proceedings inside the centre (the joint goes by the name National Tea Centre) and saw the assembled crowd at peace with itself. One such occasion, which was more of an aberration, the arguments between two guys had a spill over effect. The argumentative picture had more characters to it and at one stage it threatened to spill over to the road running adjacent to it. But that did not happen and it also spared commoners like us from putting our heart and soul to the exercise underway. But what could not be ignored in entirety were the attempts of some to park themselves in the corner bench of this joint and ruminate over things which even the pay and use toilets are not found to be conducive. First let's break the unnerving situations that these pay and use structures are confronted with before attempting to break the code of the ruminating individuals in the corner of tea centres.
Well extending the online and awakening debate on the pay and use toilets and how they have turned centres of excellence as far as parking of individuals who are fired with immense imagination after their stay there for a period visible and known to them and not to the custodians of these prime properties seated outside. Well the stay is elaborate and the activities tied to nature. Apart from the natural course of action underway the prime users of such facilities are fascinated by the prospects that they facilitate you to brood beyond fret-and-fume bait.
Here the users who are naturally those who have been thrown in the turmoil of daily existence given the loos that they wish to visit next to their place of stay and yet prevented from doing so as it is always occupied by someone preoccupied with innovative thougths. So to let the innovations take their shape, the users move to the pay and use option to make optimum use of them - and herein the innovation thinking is at its prime best by prime users. Among users, the prime user scan the walls and read deep into the script etched there and do their bit to give a new colour. Once all colour and shape activities are over, the prime user steps out and yells to the assembled crowd - the look on their faces suggest they have been waiting for ages to get inside - and departs with the promise that he would be back soon as and when the natural laws of existence demand.
As for the individuals parked in the corner bench of tea centres, they are deep in thoughts after scanning the walls of tea centres lashed with messages and beverages on offer. The messages are neither on the heat the political firmament is facing nor from the heroes of the film industry who would have visited the tea centre and left the indelible imprint.
These messages are more of a guidance. Guidance towards the places where pay and use structures abound and how they can make the best use of them after having spent the quality time in tea centres. The quality time that these qualified and yet to engage in employment are being asked to spend. From the quality mind at work, the qualified individual makes a rush to these pay and use structures only to find the rush to be no different. He waits for the opportune moment to get inside. Once inside, the innovative mind is siezed with innovative agenda.
So for all those thronging the tea centres/joints, there is a rider before you step in : Cells and cell-geared inmates are barred from using such centres as innovations best happen when the body from top to toe is not in the kissing distance of any instrument that mankind would have not devised for its slow-and-yet-happening
destruction. That's the reason why all those who throng such centres and bench themselves in a corner are devoid of cells as intimacy with no strings attached is at its best.
It was the search for veg puffs that led me to different tea centres across the length and breadth of the town. The veg puffs come in the range of Rs 5, 7.50, 8 and 10. Those coming with 10 may appear a bit steep but not that steep fare at which the bhojanalaya next to a park in co'or dished out the thali for. A steep 70 rs was the price and with most of the preparations dripping in oil. While some compatriots decided to look for other options, i was game for it given no substantial fill had gone inside since morning. As for the meals the settled rate is 40 with one guy suggesting that somewhere 300 metres from municipal office the meals can be tried for Rs 20! The meals have the appropriate incentive given the unlimited serving of different vegetables. Even rice is plentiful and enough to see you take long strides for the next six to seven hours.
The tea has been the necessary ingredient to infuse the requisite spring to your movement and at one place the morning cuppa was strong for others to park for several hours. I, for one, had been visiting the Tea Centre with the precise aim to to get a new look to the outlook that lay in tatters if i had denied myself the cuppa for over six hours. Seated on the bench, i scanned through the proceedings inside the centre (the joint goes by the name National Tea Centre) and saw the assembled crowd at peace with itself. One such occasion, which was more of an aberration, the arguments between two guys had a spill over effect. The argumentative picture had more characters to it and at one stage it threatened to spill over to the road running adjacent to it. But that did not happen and it also spared commoners like us from putting our heart and soul to the exercise underway. But what could not be ignored in entirety were the attempts of some to park themselves in the corner bench of this joint and ruminate over things which even the pay and use toilets are not found to be conducive. First let's break the unnerving situations that these pay and use structures are confronted with before attempting to break the code of the ruminating individuals in the corner of tea centres.
Well extending the online and awakening debate on the pay and use toilets and how they have turned centres of excellence as far as parking of individuals who are fired with immense imagination after their stay there for a period visible and known to them and not to the custodians of these prime properties seated outside. Well the stay is elaborate and the activities tied to nature. Apart from the natural course of action underway the prime users of such facilities are fascinated by the prospects that they facilitate you to brood beyond fret-and-fume bait.
Here the users who are naturally those who have been thrown in the turmoil of daily existence given the loos that they wish to visit next to their place of stay and yet prevented from doing so as it is always occupied by someone preoccupied with innovative thougths. So to let the innovations take their shape, the users move to the pay and use option to make optimum use of them - and herein the innovation thinking is at its prime best by prime users. Among users, the prime user scan the walls and read deep into the script etched there and do their bit to give a new colour. Once all colour and shape activities are over, the prime user steps out and yells to the assembled crowd - the look on their faces suggest they have been waiting for ages to get inside - and departs with the promise that he would be back soon as and when the natural laws of existence demand.
As for the individuals parked in the corner bench of tea centres, they are deep in thoughts after scanning the walls of tea centres lashed with messages and beverages on offer. The messages are neither on the heat the political firmament is facing nor from the heroes of the film industry who would have visited the tea centre and left the indelible imprint.
These messages are more of a guidance. Guidance towards the places where pay and use structures abound and how they can make the best use of them after having spent the quality time in tea centres. The quality time that these qualified and yet to engage in employment are being asked to spend. From the quality mind at work, the qualified individual makes a rush to these pay and use structures only to find the rush to be no different. He waits for the opportune moment to get inside. Once inside, the innovative mind is siezed with innovative agenda.
So for all those thronging the tea centres/joints, there is a rider before you step in : Cells and cell-geared inmates are barred from using such centres as innovations best happen when the body from top to toe is not in the kissing distance of any instrument that mankind would have not devised for its slow-and-yet-happening
destruction. That's the reason why all those who throng such centres and bench themselves in a corner are devoid of cells as intimacy with no strings attached is at its best.
The town that has its own beat: Udhagamandalam
Best wishes to the residents of the town and its broadening periphery. The best part,while there are many, is how with ease you are able to connect with anyone right from dawn to dusk. The activities/enterprise they indulge in are simple and the lives they lead are free of disgruntled voices and disparaging conduct. The best pulse can be gauged through long walks deep inside the hills and taking the state transport corporation buses that brings you face to face with their mundane existence.
Come to think of a territory that remains unflustered by the scale of personal transport that tourists bring - and that sizeable honour would in all probability go to Udhagai. The vehicular pollution is on the rise but that hasn't dismantled the spirit of residents to stay rooted to the ground, with a fair sprinkling of honesty, simplicity and generosity. The features that would be hard to locate in any metropolis where the maddening rush if allowed to get better of you leaves you in a state of terminal illness. Terminal illness from which recovery is not swift and not all that simple given the willingness of some powerful hospitals in the private sector to fleece and strip you. Most of the ailments that the urban chaotic centres are saddled with - enormity of the unnerving situations paints a grave picture- have their genesis in the surroundings they work and move around and the constant clamour to get better of others when the need for such rampant retribution is none whatsoever.
For commoners like us who don't see the clamour to call themselves the rep. of all-engaging-and-yet-losing footprints of civil society, their heart and mind would always be for such towns, sprinkled with simplicity and generosity, and yet not baffled by the commotion that outsiders (from other slipping-yet-existing urban centres)bring. Commotion that outsiders are not justified by any yardstick and the commotion that only defames them. Spare such centres of peaceful coexistence from your ill thoughts and let it live a life which it has successfully lived, with no fissures whatsoever.
Best wishes to Kasthuri Paradise (Veg) restaurant in Kotagiri and to the old man probably with glasses who was serving; best wishes to the state transport corporation buses and to the men handling them; best wishes to the internet cafes and their generosity to give discounts (Genesis in particular and the some 400 metres away from municipal office); best wishes to the tea centres for the tea they served and the alert founding it unleashed; best wishes to the meals centre which served the meals and the bountiful thoughts that spawned; best wishes to Station Master of Udhagai for clearing the air on the prospective movement of train services; and best wishes to all those who cared and appeared now and then.
Best wishes to Murugan travels for ensuring smooth access-cum-travel across Udhagai.
Best wishes to the town going by the momentum it desires and let people live with their simple dreams not at the expense of your immediate neighbourhood nor at the cost of the exchequer.
Three cheers for such centres of sobriety and best wishes to Udhagamandalam.
More could be written about the town and its outpouring of affection but given the time constraint this could be managed at this point of time.
Come to think of a territory that remains unflustered by the scale of personal transport that tourists bring - and that sizeable honour would in all probability go to Udhagai. The vehicular pollution is on the rise but that hasn't dismantled the spirit of residents to stay rooted to the ground, with a fair sprinkling of honesty, simplicity and generosity. The features that would be hard to locate in any metropolis where the maddening rush if allowed to get better of you leaves you in a state of terminal illness. Terminal illness from which recovery is not swift and not all that simple given the willingness of some powerful hospitals in the private sector to fleece and strip you. Most of the ailments that the urban chaotic centres are saddled with - enormity of the unnerving situations paints a grave picture- have their genesis in the surroundings they work and move around and the constant clamour to get better of others when the need for such rampant retribution is none whatsoever.
For commoners like us who don't see the clamour to call themselves the rep. of all-engaging-and-yet-losing footprints of civil society, their heart and mind would always be for such towns, sprinkled with simplicity and generosity, and yet not baffled by the commotion that outsiders (from other slipping-yet-existing urban centres)bring. Commotion that outsiders are not justified by any yardstick and the commotion that only defames them. Spare such centres of peaceful coexistence from your ill thoughts and let it live a life which it has successfully lived, with no fissures whatsoever.
Best wishes to Kasthuri Paradise (Veg) restaurant in Kotagiri and to the old man probably with glasses who was serving; best wishes to the state transport corporation buses and to the men handling them; best wishes to the internet cafes and their generosity to give discounts (Genesis in particular and the some 400 metres away from municipal office); best wishes to the tea centres for the tea they served and the alert founding it unleashed; best wishes to the meals centre which served the meals and the bountiful thoughts that spawned; best wishes to Station Master of Udhagai for clearing the air on the prospective movement of train services; and best wishes to all those who cared and appeared now and then.
Best wishes to Murugan travels for ensuring smooth access-cum-travel across Udhagai.
Best wishes to the town going by the momentum it desires and let people live with their simple dreams not at the expense of your immediate neighbourhood nor at the cost of the exchequer.
Three cheers for such centres of sobriety and best wishes to Udhagamandalam.
More could be written about the town and its outpouring of affection but given the time constraint this could be managed at this point of time.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
The places that gave you the best curd and veg puffs
The places that gave you the best curd
The one at Kasthuri Paradise (Veg), the one next to Hari Mess.
The one at Kasthuri Paradise (Veg), the one next to Hari Mess.
Learn high power English
As i find it increasingly difficult to dodge such hoardings making such tall declarations, the need to replace them with party affirmation - not just political party; other parties in other sizeable fields intend to do in the foreseeable future - is still a tall order. The order that the government of the day would be advised to bring in so as to prevent a sizeable section from falling prey to the task of learning high power English as any nascent effort would be least tolerated.
As i find it increasingly difficult to dodge such hoardings making such tall declarations, the need to replace them with party affirmation - not just political party; other parties in other sizeable fields intend to do in the foreseeable future - is still a tall order. The order that the government of the day would be advised to bring in so as to prevent a sizeable section from falling prey to the task of learning high power English as any nascent effort would be least tolerated.
Singboards with a fresh coat
Signboards that convey a lot. The one on "Learn Spoken English. Pay after satisfaction." This signboard does not engineer a whole tribe to register for this course. Even if there is a rush to have the aptitude as far as spoken english is concerned, the satisfaction is hardly visible to say the least. Satisfaction that is hard to come given the way Spoken English classes are conducted and the people you are made to share space with who are already armed with having the luxury of speaking halting-and-finishing english. So faced with those who could halt and finish english to those who could start and not finish, the challenges are large and attending classes the insurmountable task.
As some came across one such hoarding which doubled as directions to a particular place, the urge to get registered was minimal given the havoc such learning classes unleash. The 24X7 schedule takes a knock as you are in the learning mode not only during the classes but when the learning centre is truly and completely past you. While taking a shower or trying to get some sleep which you have been deprived the entire day, the thought on how you could embrace the challenge and do better than your peers in learning the language that actually had its spread far beyond the spread of graft in the liberalisation-learning phase. So the time that should have gone in getting the sleep or meals is taken by the new-found urge to get the basics right in the language we feared the most in the past and yet struggled to have a blast.
It was liberalisation that made the learning schools imparting spoken english get a new drive to their business as earlier these schools were more of a driving one failing to get the recognition of a language learning school as the instructor didn't have the mandate to go beyond drive and thrive. It was only when those who intended to take driving lessons intentionally showed the inclination to have driving lessons in the language desired by prospective drivers that established drivers decided to learn more than a thing or two on a language they despised and discouraged their peers from. Precisely from here the driving schools started turning to language schools and the language schools gained the momentum that driving schools began to lose. This explains the current crop of signboards across nook and corner of cities and towns that are more on english language schools and less on driving schools. The very fact that signboards cropping up now and then are like : "Don't mix driving with Drinking" "Don't mix drive with english-driven cell strive" "Conversations on a cell desired in English" Bare out your heart in the language you have gained skills of late " . These essentially convey that though driving schools are struggling to stay in shape, the longevity of english language schools can't be questioned given the appearance and reappearance with fresh coat of paint of these signboards in English-cum-Hinglish.
As some came across one such hoarding which doubled as directions to a particular place, the urge to get registered was minimal given the havoc such learning classes unleash. The 24X7 schedule takes a knock as you are in the learning mode not only during the classes but when the learning centre is truly and completely past you. While taking a shower or trying to get some sleep which you have been deprived the entire day, the thought on how you could embrace the challenge and do better than your peers in learning the language that actually had its spread far beyond the spread of graft in the liberalisation-learning phase. So the time that should have gone in getting the sleep or meals is taken by the new-found urge to get the basics right in the language we feared the most in the past and yet struggled to have a blast.
It was liberalisation that made the learning schools imparting spoken english get a new drive to their business as earlier these schools were more of a driving one failing to get the recognition of a language learning school as the instructor didn't have the mandate to go beyond drive and thrive. It was only when those who intended to take driving lessons intentionally showed the inclination to have driving lessons in the language desired by prospective drivers that established drivers decided to learn more than a thing or two on a language they despised and discouraged their peers from. Precisely from here the driving schools started turning to language schools and the language schools gained the momentum that driving schools began to lose. This explains the current crop of signboards across nook and corner of cities and towns that are more on english language schools and less on driving schools. The very fact that signboards cropping up now and then are like : "Don't mix driving with Drinking" "Don't mix drive with english-driven cell strive" "Conversations on a cell desired in English" Bare out your heart in the language you have gained skills of late " . These essentially convey that though driving schools are struggling to stay in shape, the longevity of english language schools can't be questioned given the appearance and reappearance with fresh coat of paint of these signboards in English-cum-Hinglish.
From Mouthpiece to Organ: The show has begun
The arrangement that DMK decided to continue with UPA close on the heels of Cong mouthpiece blaming DMK and DMK alone for being sole party and beneficiary-not-turning-to history of 2G scam shows the divide the two share but not enough to have a different affair. Well, the piece in Cong mouthpiece aims to rest the fires blazing, some see it as a seesaw battle siege where one leader after another is coming under spectrum siege. Those opposed to Cong and yet to join other party pond believe the piece in Cong mouthpiece has been penned with the view that DMK alone was the beneficiary of gifts and rewards that emanated from 2G Stable and had this been equally shared among existing and departed allies the tone and tenor of piece would have been peaceful. Seeing the Cong mouthpiece, the DMK Chief decided to pen his piece in DMK Organ Murasoli where he would explain to his cadres that 2G and other freebies are meant for his followers and one can't expect them to be equally distributed.
In the battle of 2G siege and mouthpiece, what one fails to gauge is that 2G, 3G and busy bee are attempts by establishments from across the border and seven seas to unleash disturbance in Hindustan so that those scouting for peace weep and fail to get the requisite sleep. This the establishments see as an opportunity to create upheaval in the Indian heartland which despite scams and shocks vibrates and refuses to sedate. Well pieces from this mouthpiece and that organ would be rampant, so equal would be the rampant nature to raise the bogey of "foreign hand" in an endeavour to create their own rocking band.
Away from this is the Anna Hazara Hardware and Co striking a note of optimism here and a note of pessimism there and herein lies the magical moments of the nation state. Here at one hour you can be optimist the second hour pessimist and the following hour with no stick. Followers tied steadfast to fast at dawn and dusk would come and go but what would be vibrant nation's democratic credentials that would be strong and a big show. Let my countrymen know AH Hardware and Co may have struck the note of oblivion but nation would continue to steer ahead come fast or no fast or fast followed by feast to be followed by another round of fast threby making it the long lasting indefinite fast in indefinitely independent India.
In the battle of 2G siege and mouthpiece, what one fails to gauge is that 2G, 3G and busy bee are attempts by establishments from across the border and seven seas to unleash disturbance in Hindustan so that those scouting for peace weep and fail to get the requisite sleep. This the establishments see as an opportunity to create upheaval in the Indian heartland which despite scams and shocks vibrates and refuses to sedate. Well pieces from this mouthpiece and that organ would be rampant, so equal would be the rampant nature to raise the bogey of "foreign hand" in an endeavour to create their own rocking band.
Away from this is the Anna Hazara Hardware and Co striking a note of optimism here and a note of pessimism there and herein lies the magical moments of the nation state. Here at one hour you can be optimist the second hour pessimist and the following hour with no stick. Followers tied steadfast to fast at dawn and dusk would come and go but what would be vibrant nation's democratic credentials that would be strong and a big show. Let my countrymen know AH Hardware and Co may have struck the note of oblivion but nation would continue to steer ahead come fast or no fast or fast followed by feast to be followed by another round of fast threby making it the long lasting indefinite fast in indefinitely independent India.
Udhagai: Signboards and those soaked in (Part i )
The signboards that you come across while taking a stroll minus any brawl sends interesting mix of images. As you step out and already past 50-odd shops which you failed to notice as some other thougths on fasts and feasts occupied your mind, the need to read and register the signboards become mandatory after the country you reside in has successfully broken from fast-cum-feast fever.
There are signboards that convey instant quality photos from digital cameras, memory cards, pen drives, cell phones, cds, dvds and film negatives. Perhaps this signboard conveys the nature of quality photos one can access and the routes for the same.
As the Lady Bird, the exclusive women shop, has no takers the commotion isn't swift either at a shop showing the prowess of photo scanning, negative scanning, including the facility on online passport application. From The Quetta Shoppe to Biryani Hut to Capital Saloon, all are there and immersed in a world away from undefinable commotion.
Offering from the En Vee meals: Chicken Variety(VT), Soup VT, Mutton VT, Biryani VT, Fish VT, Chinese VT, tandoori items and Chettinadu items.
From the Regin Digital Photo Studios emerge some entities quite enthused with the pictures they have of themselves which they hope to preserve till posterity.Moving further is S bakes.In the S bakes there is a noticeboard saying all donations through association. The other declaration:
" We have no arguments with competitors who charge less. They know what their product and service is worth. Consumers would also realise that quality is never an accident. It is always the result of dedicated efforts." This noticeboard probably conveys the heat they faced from their competitors and how they sailed in the heat and dust of sunmmer-changing-winter climate.
From S bakes' stable:
tea, coffee, hot samosa, hot puffs, cutlets, variety bun and lot others.
As these stores are in plenty so are the thoughts that they spawn with a clear understanding that simple and simplicity are virtues clearly rooted here.
There are signboards that convey instant quality photos from digital cameras, memory cards, pen drives, cell phones, cds, dvds and film negatives. Perhaps this signboard conveys the nature of quality photos one can access and the routes for the same.
As the Lady Bird, the exclusive women shop, has no takers the commotion isn't swift either at a shop showing the prowess of photo scanning, negative scanning, including the facility on online passport application. From The Quetta Shoppe to Biryani Hut to Capital Saloon, all are there and immersed in a world away from undefinable commotion.
Offering from the En Vee meals: Chicken Variety(VT), Soup VT, Mutton VT, Biryani VT, Fish VT, Chinese VT, tandoori items and Chettinadu items.
From the Regin Digital Photo Studios emerge some entities quite enthused with the pictures they have of themselves which they hope to preserve till posterity.Moving further is S bakes.In the S bakes there is a noticeboard saying all donations through association. The other declaration:
" We have no arguments with competitors who charge less. They know what their product and service is worth. Consumers would also realise that quality is never an accident. It is always the result of dedicated efforts." This noticeboard probably conveys the heat they faced from their competitors and how they sailed in the heat and dust of sunmmer-changing-winter climate.
From S bakes' stable:
tea, coffee, hot samosa, hot puffs, cutlets, variety bun and lot others.
As these stores are in plenty so are the thoughts that they spawn with a clear understanding that simple and simplicity are virtues clearly rooted here.
The sleep that should have come in the normal course.
In the times we live in and the challenges we ignore, the mandate to get the requisite sleep is with those who have done the necessary groundwork to get the same. Apart from physical exhaustion-cum-terminal impatience, the other situations that guarantee sleep of the week are essential skipping of tv not meals and essential skipping of cell not weep. From the study that is established and not floating a good amount of weep before crashing to bed is mandatory and if one has done that then no force on earth can prevent you from sleeping the hours you desire which your foes aspire.
In the times we live in and the challenges we ignore, the mandate to get the requisite sleep is with those who have done the necessary groundwork to get the same. Apart from physical exhaustion-cum-terminal impatience, the other situations that guarantee sleep of the week are essential skipping of tv not meals and essential skipping of cell not weep. From the study that is established and not floating a good amount of weep before crashing to bed is mandatory and if one has done that then no force on earth can prevent you from sleeping the hours you desire which your foes aspire.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
When taps went dry in Chennai Central
When taps went dry in Chennai Central and it was still two hours away for the train to depart. The summer months lead to insufficient supply of water to stations in metros and Chennai Central was no different. as i looked forward to a journey by west coast i was reminded of the trials and tribulations i had been through to reach the destination of my choice. The National Capital had become some sort of a monster given the high stakes some had placed in getting on the nerves of others. The big money these monsters were playing with and big monsters they had unleashed made it entirely appropriate to look for a setting that was calm and serene. It won't be appropriate to logically conclude whether the place of your choice has been attained or you are in close proximity to that.
Having stayed in Chennai in the past , the time of arrival was odd and this led me to fight different odds. With accommodation in place and a train ticket that showed W/L 2 i was confident the train could be boarded with the commute involving the day and no night. The stay at Chennai Central was comfortable except for the taps that had gone dry and the sanitary worker taking offence to washing hands from a tap that had visible drops coming. The scuffle settled i moved forward to board the train only to come across the sea of humanity that had converged there. This was in sharp contrast to the crowd that hardly looked menacing in the mid-90s when in the dead of night the numbers who collected there were few. Even during day time the collection was less than what you see during nights now.
The train located i moved to occupy the seat. Since the W/L status hadn't changed much the boarding was logical and lawful. I reached the destination not on time but at least with the plate of peace that was not in short supply.
Some could argue that it is sheer wastage of resources and time by settling in a place where nothing worthwhile is happening. All activities can't be traced to the returns it gives you. The best barometer should be how peaceful has been your environs given no maddening rush from your side.
Having stayed in Chennai in the past , the time of arrival was odd and this led me to fight different odds. With accommodation in place and a train ticket that showed W/L 2 i was confident the train could be boarded with the commute involving the day and no night. The stay at Chennai Central was comfortable except for the taps that had gone dry and the sanitary worker taking offence to washing hands from a tap that had visible drops coming. The scuffle settled i moved forward to board the train only to come across the sea of humanity that had converged there. This was in sharp contrast to the crowd that hardly looked menacing in the mid-90s when in the dead of night the numbers who collected there were few. Even during day time the collection was less than what you see during nights now.
The train located i moved to occupy the seat. Since the W/L status hadn't changed much the boarding was logical and lawful. I reached the destination not on time but at least with the plate of peace that was not in short supply.
Some could argue that it is sheer wastage of resources and time by settling in a place where nothing worthwhile is happening. All activities can't be traced to the returns it gives you. The best barometer should be how peaceful has been your environs given no maddening rush from your side.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Let sanity reign from all sides
The root of the present-and-yet-to-defuse crisis in the plains of North can't alone be blamed on the scorching heat as monsoon takes its own sweet time to reach there. It is still 24 days away and till then the respite is next to nil. The heat is enormous, the capacity to think and degenerate is more than your permissible level and here you have the govt of the day cornered from all sides being told to yield and if not then bleed. THe collection at the Famed Ground surged and this gave the Yoga Honcho to splurge.
The tacit understanding which the Yoga Honcho agreed to and later renege, as per the version given by the govt, was enough for authorities to move in and clear the space. Here one is not getting the real grasp of the enormity of the situation. Had the sant-turned-satyagrahi stayed put and let the collection surge beyond mine and your imagination, how he could have broken the stalemate. By letting him and his followers take the hospital bed and let passion reign supreme and disorder agenda beam . We should thank our stars that though authorities could have exercised little restraint, the ruckus that followed did not lead to any major untoward incident. It is a major plus, believe me. The ground was cleared and the Yoga Honcho was given all the freedom to fire missiles at the Establishment from His Yoga Dwar. At least we have been saved from pitched battles being fought on the street and the art of taking pot-shots in all shapes and sizes coming from his fiefdom as a new beat. Here the Yoga Honcho doesn't know, notwithstanding the four hour operation conducted on him and his followers, that there was no way he could break the deadlock as the face saver he was looking for evaporated the moment when in the space of one hour he agreed to having reached a deal and later disagreed.
What a shame that in this season of dharnas, agitations and assimilations, threats are being bandied out as if the governance has come to a standstill. It seems as if there is no government at work and it is civil society and civil society alone that is not willing to shirk. The civil society, which by no means is a broad representation of the entire society given five members, doesn't realise that the agitation they are spearheading can well go out of hand and lead to a civil war which they themselves would find it difficult to douse. Those opposed to the establishment including Opposition have to exercise restraint as they would unnecessarily keep fires burning and which later they themselves would find it hard to contain.
In the right spirit the agitations could make the govt work towards a logical solution but don't throttle its right to govern by staging agitation in different centres by seeking more than incremental support from different blocks. Mind you if the civil society in a way to bring pressure on the govt seeks the support of the Opposition, that very civil society would distance itself from this alignment if it feels that they alone can achieve what they are expected to do. So seeking support here and dismantling the same there is the premise the civil society is raised on and hoping against hope that in the season of discontent and disconnect the press briefings, sharing space with different set of tv anchors on debates and agitations would get them the clout to prevail. The doublespeak is very much evident from the debates they put their heart and soul in one night and the press briefings the next day where a new view is an emerging sight. Had this civil society been actual representation of the society, the first task would have been to not fan the fires but to douse them. Don't thrust on the people a movement which may not get the desired Lokpal and instead let the mayhem and distrust have a smooth ball. Let sanity reign from all sides.
The tacit understanding which the Yoga Honcho agreed to and later renege, as per the version given by the govt, was enough for authorities to move in and clear the space. Here one is not getting the real grasp of the enormity of the situation. Had the sant-turned-satyagrahi stayed put and let the collection surge beyond mine and your imagination, how he could have broken the stalemate. By letting him and his followers take the hospital bed and let passion reign supreme and disorder agenda beam . We should thank our stars that though authorities could have exercised little restraint, the ruckus that followed did not lead to any major untoward incident. It is a major plus, believe me. The ground was cleared and the Yoga Honcho was given all the freedom to fire missiles at the Establishment from His Yoga Dwar. At least we have been saved from pitched battles being fought on the street and the art of taking pot-shots in all shapes and sizes coming from his fiefdom as a new beat. Here the Yoga Honcho doesn't know, notwithstanding the four hour operation conducted on him and his followers, that there was no way he could break the deadlock as the face saver he was looking for evaporated the moment when in the space of one hour he agreed to having reached a deal and later disagreed.
What a shame that in this season of dharnas, agitations and assimilations, threats are being bandied out as if the governance has come to a standstill. It seems as if there is no government at work and it is civil society and civil society alone that is not willing to shirk. The civil society, which by no means is a broad representation of the entire society given five members, doesn't realise that the agitation they are spearheading can well go out of hand and lead to a civil war which they themselves would find it difficult to douse. Those opposed to the establishment including Opposition have to exercise restraint as they would unnecessarily keep fires burning and which later they themselves would find it hard to contain.
In the right spirit the agitations could make the govt work towards a logical solution but don't throttle its right to govern by staging agitation in different centres by seeking more than incremental support from different blocks. Mind you if the civil society in a way to bring pressure on the govt seeks the support of the Opposition, that very civil society would distance itself from this alignment if it feels that they alone can achieve what they are expected to do. So seeking support here and dismantling the same there is the premise the civil society is raised on and hoping against hope that in the season of discontent and disconnect the press briefings, sharing space with different set of tv anchors on debates and agitations would get them the clout to prevail. The doublespeak is very much evident from the debates they put their heart and soul in one night and the press briefings the next day where a new view is an emerging sight. Had this civil society been actual representation of the society, the first task would have been to not fan the fires but to douse them. Don't thrust on the people a movement which may not get the desired Lokpal and instead let the mayhem and distrust have a smooth ball. Let sanity reign from all sides.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Degeneration that is inevitable
Why accommodations don't let you degenerate
Degeneration is inevitable if accommodation centres are not pliable.
The experience from the saint to the less visible sinner would make you believe that accommodations across the world are all about money and leaving you with nothing new to carry. As one scouts for accommodations that could engineer fewer defections, one is reminded of the luck quotient that you are blessed with and hope-turning-to-opportunities you are faced with.
In the times we live in and the requisite sleep we seek, the best way forward is to skip the impediments that come our way. The requisite sleep if and when happens gives you the advantage of making the right moves.
Degeneration is inevitable if accommodation centres are not pliable.
The experience from the saint to the less visible sinner would make you believe that accommodations across the world are all about money and leaving you with nothing new to carry. As one scouts for accommodations that could engineer fewer defections, one is reminded of the luck quotient that you are blessed with and hope-turning-to-opportunities you are faced with.
In the times we live in and the requisite sleep we seek, the best way forward is to skip the impediments that come our way. The requisite sleep if and when happens gives you the advantage of making the right moves.
The Fast-And-Emerging Sector : Let New Ones Take The Hot Seat
The Fast-And-Emerging Sector : Let New Ones Take The Hot Seat
THis piece of news is miles away from those who have gone on a fast to be followed by those who intend to go on a fast on a particular day when the sun would be at its best and they would have had enough meals and sleep the previous day to see them through for the next 24 hours which apparently makes one full day.
The news that we are talking about to hit the fiefdom of emerging and established entities is also miles away from those those who are caught in a quagmire of sorts given the nature of development they have come across strong enough to forbid them to go on a fast now and foreclose their options for future as well. The development in different spheres of life is sturdy, according to them, and they see no need to go on a fast given the tummy's nature of demands and the development agenda that the govt of the day has been in command.
What piece of news we are talking about has unfolded in the past 24 hours. These are fast and furious species who have been halted in their tracks given the order issued by a state govt that increases the permissible age for taking hard liquor from 21 to 25. There are three things here. First, the age which is permissible and not promiscuous. Second, the liquor that has to be of hard stuff and finally, upping the age ante from 21 to 25; not a day more or a day less.
What prompted the Maharashtra Govt. to promptly act in haste in upping the permissible age for drinking when quarter of the nation's rising population has expressed its willingness to go on a fast. The fast from Yoga Honcho's stable to Anna who rarely trembled was on corruption and corruption alone. But graft could not be seen as something solely catching the public imagination; there were issues in the wilderness that needed to be brought to the forth. Essentially to make it catch the growing and frowning imagination.
When Anna was on a fast, some suggested the timely intervention of the govt of the day that prevented him and his compatriots from having a hospital blast. How timely it was is debatable but his difference of thoughts with Yoga Instructor is a way to ensure his flock survival.
Though the govt of the day understood the ramifications of the fast which Anna observed and broke, ultimately leading to UPA 2 celebrations for completing two years at the helm as an act of no master stroke. THe govt understood the message and got in touch with different state governments to resolve the deadlock that had arisen from Anna holding the public imagination with a new rock.
The first state govt to engineer efforts in this direction was Karnataka. Herein the Yeddy Govt. won the trust vote and yet the Opposition did not resort to a fast for Yeddy's attempt to win a trust vote when none was sought by them(Opposition) whatsoever. Second to follow and quite successful has been Maharashtra, where by a single order, the govt wants to up the permissible age as far as adult functioning -cum-activities are concerned. In one master stroke, they have a revolt brewing against them from those floating between 21 and yet to touch 25 - a day less than attaining 25 included - who see this act in haste as a perfect propeller for them to take recourse to a path which has been the preserve of Satyagrahis.
The state govt is in complete agreement with the Central Govt and believes that once the denied youth community (denied from taking hard and hitting liquor in full public view)agitates and fasts their counterparts in other states, existing and soon to be declared ones, would do the same to desist the authorities from ever slapping them with this drastic denying hard liquor ban. Soft liquor won't do as it is hard and only hard liquor that can fight their career-cum-caretaker blues.
As a result, those joining the movement would not only be those who have yet to attain 25, gone past 25 or triple of 25 - 75 and beyond - as they in all likelihood would be demanding restoration of drinking hard liquor rights as their peers work under tremendous pressure and they need to get their due. The govt of the day would be of the view that with the rising disposable income and with disappearance of employment bureaus across tier I, II III cities and towns as employment opportunities have quadrupled and avenues to have a blast not even multiplied, the stir for restoration of drinking liquor rights would be severe and a hard hitting one. And this would be the riposte to those who want to take the graft battle as the sole battle holding public imagination as if earning your livelihood and leading a contented life is just an act of sensation.
As for some other fasts that should have been in the public realm
- A Big No No to the use of Personal Transport in cities that personally belong to you. A fast-not-receding-to-a-feast should be held on this one.
- When school fees get torrentially increased, the parents and prospective ones need to undertake a fast-unto-fame to bring the perpetrators of increased fees to justice.
- And finally the much-desired fast by those who want to break free from employable circle, family bonds and commitment taunts as the breathing space they seek can only come through fast-unto-freedom. There would be an entire tribe that would be fascinated by this agenda given the hellish and cloistered existence that cities and towns of different tiers and tears promise.
So let my countrymen know that there are willing forces willing to join the fast mainstream to relieve themselves of responsibilities that was thrust on their shoulders knowing they won't beam . So all Satyagrahis need to exercise caution and show display of mind: The competition in the fast sector is emerging fast and this is one sector they can lose control of given the innovative minds at work who have been on fast for ages but never declared to the public as they never wanted to be seen as sages.
Let us steadfastly resolve to unbuckle the fast seat and let the real emerging competitors take the hot seat.
THis piece of news is miles away from those who have gone on a fast to be followed by those who intend to go on a fast on a particular day when the sun would be at its best and they would have had enough meals and sleep the previous day to see them through for the next 24 hours which apparently makes one full day.
The news that we are talking about to hit the fiefdom of emerging and established entities is also miles away from those those who are caught in a quagmire of sorts given the nature of development they have come across strong enough to forbid them to go on a fast now and foreclose their options for future as well. The development in different spheres of life is sturdy, according to them, and they see no need to go on a fast given the tummy's nature of demands and the development agenda that the govt of the day has been in command.
What piece of news we are talking about has unfolded in the past 24 hours. These are fast and furious species who have been halted in their tracks given the order issued by a state govt that increases the permissible age for taking hard liquor from 21 to 25. There are three things here. First, the age which is permissible and not promiscuous. Second, the liquor that has to be of hard stuff and finally, upping the age ante from 21 to 25; not a day more or a day less.
What prompted the Maharashtra Govt. to promptly act in haste in upping the permissible age for drinking when quarter of the nation's rising population has expressed its willingness to go on a fast. The fast from Yoga Honcho's stable to Anna who rarely trembled was on corruption and corruption alone. But graft could not be seen as something solely catching the public imagination; there were issues in the wilderness that needed to be brought to the forth. Essentially to make it catch the growing and frowning imagination.
When Anna was on a fast, some suggested the timely intervention of the govt of the day that prevented him and his compatriots from having a hospital blast. How timely it was is debatable but his difference of thoughts with Yoga Instructor is a way to ensure his flock survival.
Though the govt of the day understood the ramifications of the fast which Anna observed and broke, ultimately leading to UPA 2 celebrations for completing two years at the helm as an act of no master stroke. THe govt understood the message and got in touch with different state governments to resolve the deadlock that had arisen from Anna holding the public imagination with a new rock.
The first state govt to engineer efforts in this direction was Karnataka. Herein the Yeddy Govt. won the trust vote and yet the Opposition did not resort to a fast for Yeddy's attempt to win a trust vote when none was sought by them(Opposition) whatsoever. Second to follow and quite successful has been Maharashtra, where by a single order, the govt wants to up the permissible age as far as adult functioning -cum-activities are concerned. In one master stroke, they have a revolt brewing against them from those floating between 21 and yet to touch 25 - a day less than attaining 25 included - who see this act in haste as a perfect propeller for them to take recourse to a path which has been the preserve of Satyagrahis.
The state govt is in complete agreement with the Central Govt and believes that once the denied youth community (denied from taking hard and hitting liquor in full public view)agitates and fasts their counterparts in other states, existing and soon to be declared ones, would do the same to desist the authorities from ever slapping them with this drastic denying hard liquor ban. Soft liquor won't do as it is hard and only hard liquor that can fight their career-cum-caretaker blues.
As a result, those joining the movement would not only be those who have yet to attain 25, gone past 25 or triple of 25 - 75 and beyond - as they in all likelihood would be demanding restoration of drinking hard liquor rights as their peers work under tremendous pressure and they need to get their due. The govt of the day would be of the view that with the rising disposable income and with disappearance of employment bureaus across tier I, II III cities and towns as employment opportunities have quadrupled and avenues to have a blast not even multiplied, the stir for restoration of drinking liquor rights would be severe and a hard hitting one. And this would be the riposte to those who want to take the graft battle as the sole battle holding public imagination as if earning your livelihood and leading a contented life is just an act of sensation.
As for some other fasts that should have been in the public realm
- A Big No No to the use of Personal Transport in cities that personally belong to you. A fast-not-receding-to-a-feast should be held on this one.
- When school fees get torrentially increased, the parents and prospective ones need to undertake a fast-unto-fame to bring the perpetrators of increased fees to justice.
- And finally the much-desired fast by those who want to break free from employable circle, family bonds and commitment taunts as the breathing space they seek can only come through fast-unto-freedom. There would be an entire tribe that would be fascinated by this agenda given the hellish and cloistered existence that cities and towns of different tiers and tears promise.
So let my countrymen know that there are willing forces willing to join the fast mainstream to relieve themselves of responsibilities that was thrust on their shoulders knowing they won't beam . So all Satyagrahis need to exercise caution and show display of mind: The competition in the fast sector is emerging fast and this is one sector they can lose control of given the innovative minds at work who have been on fast for ages but never declared to the public as they never wanted to be seen as sages.
Let us steadfastly resolve to unbuckle the fast seat and let the real emerging competitors take the hot seat.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Pay-and-use: Dare not use before you pay by Puneet Rajhans
Pay-and-use: Dare not use before you pay
From pay-and-use-accommodation to pay-and-use toilets of excellence. Well, the travel agenda makes you bump into such centres of excellence which were raised to provide services of immaculate nature but ended up serving as seats for those who had lost all hopes of getting gainfully employed. I, for one, have not been a strong admirer of such pay-and-use structures which abound in quantity in places where they are not required and are in scarcity in places where they are needed most.
From the moment you enter a lodge in a city, well my experience in the city of Mumbai has been bitter and won't turn better anytime soon, the foremost demand from the man on the other side of the desk was the quality of treatment you would be providing to their rooms, notwithstanding the rooms they preserve have lost all qualities of being liveable. The man would run a quick check from top to toe and to cut him short from asking for an exorbitant rate the plea would be for a simple accommodation with an attached bath. The room that has just a bed to crash on and a table to park your luggage won't come with an attached bath. The attached bath is a luxury for which they would extract from you all the stored and preserved penny.If by chance in your previous outing they gave you a tv set which malfunctioned more than than the maladministration in the city, this time round they make it sure that it remains invisible. The rush to the common loo is not that taxing but the stairs t you need to climb to reach his power of seat (from where the manager-cum-caretaker issues summons and orders of high magnitude including on the need to stick to time to check out which is more reminiscent of a walk out before the scheduled time) is alarming.
As for other cities, including the one in Chennai,the pay-and-use accommodation has been a learning of sorts with no bitter experiences but equally damaging to their repute when some shut their doors as they wanted to have rents for two days when stay would have been plainly for a day and two hours. Better sum up the courage to fork out the sum demanded by them failing which your access to pay and use accommodation would be nil.
As for pay-and-use toilets, the first point of friction is on account of their faulty positioning in the city. You walk for miles to locate and once you have located to do what you were supposed to do, essentially leak and not litter, the man at the counter frowns for paying one rupee less. Despite reminding that the rupee would be handed once hands are washed the man appears to be unrelenting. Unrelenting to the point of even physically stopping you from washing hands. So some experience with these centres of excellence-cum-surveillance have been pathetic, more than the quantum of pathetic roads we hit in the countryside.
These pay-and-use structures need to rise to the occasion where their excellence stands uncontested and uncontested is the number of those who line up to leak and live.
The pay-and-use centres of excellence have rarely excelled and time is right to bring their functioning in the public realm.
From pay-and-use-accommodation to pay-and-use toilets of excellence. Well, the travel agenda makes you bump into such centres of excellence which were raised to provide services of immaculate nature but ended up serving as seats for those who had lost all hopes of getting gainfully employed. I, for one, have not been a strong admirer of such pay-and-use structures which abound in quantity in places where they are not required and are in scarcity in places where they are needed most.
From the moment you enter a lodge in a city, well my experience in the city of Mumbai has been bitter and won't turn better anytime soon, the foremost demand from the man on the other side of the desk was the quality of treatment you would be providing to their rooms, notwithstanding the rooms they preserve have lost all qualities of being liveable. The man would run a quick check from top to toe and to cut him short from asking for an exorbitant rate the plea would be for a simple accommodation with an attached bath. The room that has just a bed to crash on and a table to park your luggage won't come with an attached bath. The attached bath is a luxury for which they would extract from you all the stored and preserved penny.If by chance in your previous outing they gave you a tv set which malfunctioned more than than the maladministration in the city, this time round they make it sure that it remains invisible. The rush to the common loo is not that taxing but the stairs t you need to climb to reach his power of seat (from where the manager-cum-caretaker issues summons and orders of high magnitude including on the need to stick to time to check out which is more reminiscent of a walk out before the scheduled time) is alarming.
As for other cities, including the one in Chennai,the pay-and-use accommodation has been a learning of sorts with no bitter experiences but equally damaging to their repute when some shut their doors as they wanted to have rents for two days when stay would have been plainly for a day and two hours. Better sum up the courage to fork out the sum demanded by them failing which your access to pay and use accommodation would be nil.
As for pay-and-use toilets, the first point of friction is on account of their faulty positioning in the city. You walk for miles to locate and once you have located to do what you were supposed to do, essentially leak and not litter, the man at the counter frowns for paying one rupee less. Despite reminding that the rupee would be handed once hands are washed the man appears to be unrelenting. Unrelenting to the point of even physically stopping you from washing hands. So some experience with these centres of excellence-cum-surveillance have been pathetic, more than the quantum of pathetic roads we hit in the countryside.
These pay-and-use structures need to rise to the occasion where their excellence stands uncontested and uncontested is the number of those who line up to leak and live.
The pay-and-use centres of excellence have rarely excelled and time is right to bring their functioning in the public realm.
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