Marathi Manoos + North Indian = INDIAN

I wonder how the family of these maniacs can remain mute spectators to unparadonable atrocities causing communal disharmony on the streets of one the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, MUMBAI. My family would have thrashed the daylights out of me if I had attempted anything remotely similar. I would first question the family of such people who call themselves “leaders”. Leaders of what ? Leaders who lead a gang of hoodlums and sting them to create ruckus all over the city/country and beat up poor defenceless people and divide communities for their own hidden agenda….

Then the state government raises it’s head, with much hesitation and apprehension, to give the local police orders to arrest the concerned “leader” due to whom it all started. These leaders get arrested for making inflammatory speeches, which was the cause for this violence against North Indians. Within two hours of getting arrested these leaders are released on bail for a measly Rs 15000 to achieve a hero status in the eyes of ???? A few tobacco chewing, good for nothing a******s shouting slogans for their leader. I pity the local police for not holding them for few years. At least in those two hours the police could have shown them “the sun and the moon” and then released them with an ambulance waiting to nurse them. A big political game. I will not even step in that circle. Let’s keep it basic.

I am full of questions at present about what has happened in past few days. These questions are to myself as I am one of the Mumbaikar’s who have done zilch against this unfair action, which divides communities within a country and instigates attacks on innocent people coming to cities in Maharashtra, especially Mumbai, to earn 3 meals a day.
Just the other day I had gone to fetch my wife, quite a distance from our house on one of these unpredictable days. At the risk of sounding a hoodlum myself, if we were attacked or had I seen anyone getting attacked, rest assured it would have been “eye for an eye” . And knowing me, to avoid the “if”, my mother insisted that she accompanies me, which I couldn’t decipher at first. But as an afterthought, “eye for an eye” was an foolish thought on my part because this is not our culture or what we want, this will ignite the situation and be instrumental in planting seeds of mutual hatred and cement enmity between people living in peaceful city like Mumbai and this is precisely what these b******s want, communities, cities, country fighting against each other. In short a mayhem filled environment.

But I am glad that a educated Maharashtrian from a cultured family was not in support of this division which was tried in Mumbai, which if pursued more would have created bad blood between existing communities. Only good for nothing and power hungry people can think and do something like this in the hope of acquiring hero status in the eyes of bunch of nincompoops. Does he not understand being a educated person, that his kind of parties breed nothing but hoodlums and absolute nitwits who have no aim in life then act as battery powered robots and cause destruction without thinking on their own and hence cannot predict the outcome of their actions.

As mentioned earlier, following are some questions looming in my mind and I am presenting my expressions in a form of a letter to this “leader”…….

Dear, “self proclaimed leader” of a worthless party.

Here’s a definition of a leader for you :
Leaders lead a nation to harmony, prosperity, integrity.

It would be very interesting to study you or your behavioural pattern or your brain like eg: criminals, terrorists etc… It would be a good case study for students and me, for how it functions and gives you commands to do certain things/actions which are harmful to the society and thereafter whether you realize the repercussions.

If I may ask, was there any need to rake up this community issue between Maharashtrians and North Indians in a city like Mumbai ? I couldn’t agree more that Mumbai is getting burdened by hordes of people from other cities coming to Mumbai for jobs. BUT there are various ways to deal with this acute situation. Put on your glasses and read “VIOLENCE IS NOT THE SOLUTION”. With violence, you are waiting for the distressed to retaliate by pushing them against the wall and trigger a civil war. Is this what you want ? Raise your hand with all your might if anyone threatens your family or our country. BUT, beating up innocent samosawala’s and taxiwala’s mercilessly, by snatching away their livelihood with the help of your sponsored eunuchs, do you think that will help oust North Indians from Maharashtra ? Do you think that's power ? Power is when you can bring happiness in other's lives and make positive changes in the society. And why should other communities leave Maharashtra ? They are in their own house. I hope you understand what it means by “in their own house”. If that’s what you want, I suggest get all the Maharashtrians back to this country who have left their motherland and are taking shelter in some other country to earn their daily bread AND in all probability are snatching 3 meals a day from a local person. At least, these “North Indians” do not leave their “house”, their motherland. But then, can anybody stop anyone from migrating from one place to another ? NO. Likewise, you can't stop anybody from entering or settling in any state, region or country.

I am sure you are educated enough to have made a simple announcement to your party workers for not resorting to violence in the last few days and henceforth I hope you do the same before you and your party workers decide to take up a issue regarding Mumbai or any other cause. To congregate for a announcement shouldn’t be difficult task for you, since anyways, you like to regale audiences through many press conferences.

I am dead sure that a thinking Maharashtrian must not have supported your silly mission or would not join your party, which is like school kids forming groups and creating purposeless hubbub to attract attention and then later getting asses whacked by teachers, parents for disturbing the environment.

Who has benefited from this drama. No one. It’s just going to get more ugly and pit the communities one on one. Enough of this. If you think you have the power, do something constructive and productive for the society/country which will give YOU a genuine satisfaction and bring accolades at your feet, from, not a Marathi Manoos or a North Indian, but a INDIAN. Also, it may give you, instant publicity and thrust you in limelight which you were pining for years, rather then drawing publicity by taunting Amitabh Bachchan, who was, is and will be much loved and the greatest superstars world has seen. So lay off him.

I suggest you think in tranquility on a vacation, where you are with yourself and your FAMILY ONLY.

Regards
Kapil Suvarna
PS: It may sound inane, but if you want to satiate your urge for “division”, just get a birthday cake and slice/divide it in as many pieces you want, with your family and hired goons cheering you to boost your inconsequential ego or whatever you are…...And IMPORTANTLY please convey this message to you KITH AND KIN…..

Kip expressing :)

Movie Reviews : Business Killer

We watch a movie, like it or dislike it and then just forget about it. It takes a minimum of 1 to 6 months to make a film OR more then 1 year to make a more complex film AND JUST 2 ½ hrs to judge it.

It’s a free world, a person walks in a theatre and gives his comments, good or bad. A filmmaker aware of all the risks in filmmaking business, produces the film and screens his creativity hoping that his film will be a box office success and fetches him some accolades. Fair enough.

When a film releases on it’s 1st day, critics put pen to paper and start writing reviews which in today's jet age takes no time reaching the public through various means of communication such as print, TV, radio, internet. Along with freedom of speech, critics have to earn their bread and butter. Again, it's fair enough.

Viewers just watch a film liking or disliking it, whereas critics watch a film and help diminish it's business from the very 1st day. I strongly feel curiosity level lessens when a person reads/listens to a film review before watching any movie, irrespective of the review, good or bad. The reader starts creating a "certain" image in his mind about the movie and if reviews are bad, it just expands the image. I guess it’s natural, if any product is bad I’ll will think twice before buying it. Similarly any movie is a product, which is presented to a wide audience and negative reviews will make a person think twice, if it’s worth the effort to visit a movie hall and buy a ticket for a particular movie which eventually affects a "certain" movie by robbing off it's "probable" viewership. Out of 10 movies released how many are truly box office champs ? 2? 3? max 4?......I don't deny, good reviews may increase the prospects of a film at the box office BUT since the probability of films getting bad reviews is more, it’s anyone’s guess what the final outcome be. A single man's judgement cannot be a final say on any movie.

There are people who don’t depend on reviews ( like me ) OR without regard to the reviews, positive or negative, film aficionados still head straight to movie halls to catch a "1st day 1st show". BUT sad part is, there are millions out there who depend on film reviews or word of mouth buzz. That’s where the fault lies. 8 out of 10 people watch a film for "pure" entertainment and are least interested in the “Technicalities” of the film. When lights switch off in a movie hall the viewers want to enter a different world for 2 ½ hrs forgeting their own. For these people if a movie manages to hook them for 2 ½ hrs and has “entertained” them, then a movie is “good”, if doesn’t then its “bad”. Period. These are the people who really make or break the film, that is, if they “REACH” the theatre, thanks to the reviews by our critics who sometimes I feel, write a movie review to showcase their writing skills.

I myself used to be a avid reader of film reviews in newspapers, on websites every fri/sat/sun, not that I was/am dependent on a review. But now I have stopped reading reviews of the films I wish to see, since reviews act as visualizers creating certain pictures in mind which increase or decrease our expectations towards a film and influences a mind to a large extent.

I feel it's really unfair for a film, which may find it's audience and "might be liked" by viewers, stay away due to negative reviews and most importantly that too in "FIRST 3-4" days, which are very crucial for a film to consolidate it's position box-office wise. Hence I feel the media - print, tv, radio, internet should not publish/telecast/upload reviews in the first 3-4 days which will give every film a chance to stand on it’s own merit. Good or bad. Let the people decide. Something to think about.

Kip expressing :)

Eee PC - Easy, super efficient and fun to use

How would you like to whip out a small gadget with a sleek body from your handbag, without puffing it up, to surf the net and check your emails wirelessly or work in word and excel document or perhaps a presentation in ppt, or may be in mood to chat or skype with someone while you download some files or listen to music, watch videos, or play games etc etc…. with ease and quick efficiency….? And lots of eyeballs admiring your machine ??? Sounds terrific? Exciting? To me, that’s what Eee Pc does and what hopefully Macbook Air will do ………

I am not going to review Eee Pc or Macbook Air nor am I going to pit these two awesome works of engineering against each other. I will just draw a quick picture in words about these two stunners and their capabilities.

Easy, super efficient and fun to use, this is what I would use to describe Eee PC and Macbook Air. Eee PC and Macbook Air are small extremely light and super efficient laptops which can do just about everything as mentioned earlier with ready to go softwares pre-installed at your fingertips. AND I can VOUCH for Eee PC since I own this baby.

Before I could lay my hands on Eee PC, a lady in a Hong Kong electronic mall, Mongkok Computer Centre to be specific, showed me a small laptop of same size by a Korean company, which was equally enticing and had more or less same configuration with 1gb ram instead of Eee Pc's 512mb ram and Windows XP installed. BUT, the cost was double of Eee PC and I would have seriously kicked myself, if I had bought it and later seen Eee PC. After setting my eyes on Eee PC and knowing it’s capabilities, our ( me and my wife ) decision became firmer to buy it and it’s price, sealed the deal.

I would not demean these two machines, Eee PC and MacBook Air by calling it, only a traveller’s dream companions. Just about anyone can start using it without an iota of computer knowledge. I haven’t used Macbook Air as yet, obviously as it’s just been launched, but from it's configuration it tells the whole story.

For uninitiated following is the basic configuration for Eee Pc and Macbook Air with Eee Pc pictures. Well, my Sony T200 digital cam insisted on doing the honours.

Eee Pc which is by ASUS and introduced in the market very recently -

1) 7” display - intel mobile chip with Linux

2) Solid state ( Flash drive ) 4 gig disk and 512mb ram

3) Lan port, optional phone port, mic and earphone outputs.

4) Memory Card Slot, 3 USB ports, External Monitor Port

5) Wi-fi and Web Cam

6) Loads of pre-installed softwares to start with....

Macbook Air

1) 13” display with Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2GB memory with MAC OS X Leopard

2) 64GB solid-state drive or 80GB Parallel ATA, 4200 rpm.

3) With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

3) USB port, audio out, Micro DVI

4) isight camera

5) No optical drive. But there’s a feature in MBAir, by which you can access a optical drive from any other computer near you, Win or MAC to load softwares.

The know more head to :

Eee PC Website

http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product.htm

Macbook Air Website

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html

Kip expressing :)