More Challenges for the Physically Challenged

As I was travelling on the Old Mahabalipuram Road, oh no its not OMR anymore, it is IT- Corridor Road, horseshit I’m wrong again, it is IT Highway, may be I’m wrong again it is Rajiv Gandhi road, Jesus Christ, I believe I’m right this time. It is not only this road got many names in Chennai, Mount Road alias Anna salai, kamaraj salai or Beach road and many more, at this rate a single road will have multiple post codes in the future. I’m not kidding. Anyways I would like to call this road conventionally as OMR which makes lot sense.

During the construction of this OMR, goddamm, I thought its going to be 4 liners each side, as it has come to completion now, it stood to 21/2 liner at most places and 3 liner at other places, as median takes rest of space, as wide as a liner, worlds widest median, with no foot path for the pedestrians and no separate sideway for cyclers to encourage cyclers as provided in any international standard roads, even after witnessing the fuel shortage, TNRDC has taken no steps to encourage neither pedestrians nor cyclers. Worst part is cyclers has to travel along with other motorized vehicles risking there life, in most of the place of OMR, and don’t forget OMR is called as a highway built with international standards.

Median has literally forced all the vehicles to travel, at least a couple of kilometers before they take a U turn, I don’t read any sensible note on this, but still, cant expect more from these morons. For pedestrians there are couple of over bridges at some calculated distance, at deserted areas, I don’t understand what the purpose of this over bridge is?, is this for the pedestrians convenient? TNDRC over bridges at deserted areas will be deserted too, and don’t blame the poor pedestrians for not utilizing your functionality, as it is of more strain to them. Make some sensible decisions morons, use your brains and not kidneys, probably that’s the reason why your ideas stinks.

The more sarcastic part is how a physically challenged person is gonna cross the road, it is challenging question to TNRDC, lets not ridicule this (TNRDC) handicappers any more, I’m not kidding, I have seen many physically challenged people literally crawling to cross the roads, as they are unable to crawl that long to reach the over bridge or even to climb the over bridge, so they dare to challenge their lives in front of speeding vehicle. And we know for our IT professionals, they are humans in Onsite and beasts while on offshore. They care about Lane disciple onsite, offshore they give a shit to it. They don’t have time to worry for this crawlers, what if even if they are hit dead, India has more than a billion population, we can still manage. Goodos to TNRDC and ministry of Highways for joining their hands with Ministry of Health for drawing a smart way to bring down the population by challenging the lives of Physically challenged and Pedestrians.

This writing is not for making fun, or just for ridiculing someone, please think it over, you may have one person from your knows who may be pedestrian or Physically challenged on this OMR. I definitely believe that you don’t want to risk their life, unless you are a moron.

Purachikalanazhar in Boston

I’m little bit scared to open a conversation with Ganapathi (Guppy), I know it’s not my fault for his bad mood and frustration, how do I confirm that he knows that as well? Its a million dollar question isn’t it? On this lovely weekend, Karthick, Guppy and I decided to go to “Lakshmi Temple” in Framingham located in the outskirts of Boston. As thisi s my first visit to USA, I take enough time to explore things around me and take photos both on camera and my eyes.

We three are in south station to board to Framingham, few more mintues for the train to departure, suddenly Karthick ran towards ATM, to withdraw cash, and said something to us which I failed to catch, I believe Guppy too, he followed him and he decided to withdraw some cash too, I don’t know what to do I bluntly followed Guppy, towards ATM, and I stopped at a distance to ATM, it is not to give privacy to Guppy, but to watch, rather explore a bull made of wood, by some school children in Boston and presented to south station on some occasion, I just had a Glimpse to confirm is Guppy still there at ATM, and started reading the importance of the BULL, after reading the history of the bull I decided to take a picture of the same and was about to open my camera pouch, in the very moment I felt the hand on my shoulder, its none other than Guppy, asking me where is karthick? I replied to him how do I know? I was following you and not him, it was a total miscommunication as Guppy was in a conclusion that I will be with karthick since he is withdrawing cash, I was fully loaded with the bull and just keeping half eye on Guppy for my security, and Karthick was seen no were, we searched for him for some time, and gave up, assuming that he would have boarded the train to Framingham, Karthick was in Boston for almost an year, so he knows better than us.

Guppy some how handled the situation and said to me that we will find when is the next train to Framingham and will go to the temple as planned, and that sounded good to me, we bought the tickets for the next train and pizza for breakfast, and we are sitting in the waiting area, Guppy was sipping coffee after the breakfast all of sudden I could see a brightness in his eyes, as if he saw something really surprising and he said “Hey, look there, its Vijaykanth”. I asked him where, Guppy pointed his finger behind me, I could see no VijayKanth there, I asked him again where, he said “there, in that man’s vests, printed VijayKanth photo” pointing to the gentleman to my left. I said “come on Guppy no way, its Boston”, Guppy with little command in voice “I swear, he has Vijaykanth’s photo printed in his Vest, if you don’t trust me you go and have a look” I could feel a confidence in his voice. Not that I don’t trust Guppy, but I really want to see that person who is advertising for Vijaykanth, I got up from my seat and started walking towards the Gentleman who is waking towards the Enquiry counter, to my surprise he is wearing a vest with Vijaykanth photo and his new political party name printed.



I introduced myself to him and he said his name his Dave (I’m sorry I didn’t catch his last name) and asked him did he know who is that person in the photo?, to my astonishment he said his name is “Vijaya kaanth” pronounced almost correctly, and I interviewed him for few mins:

ME: How do you know him?

Dave: I was in Pondicherry for few months, where I learned about him.

ME: May I know what you learned about him?

Dave: I learned that he has started a new party and I happened to hear his political party’s manifesto, and was really surprised to see down to earth and practical vows for the welfare of the people, I wish he wins and keeps up his promise. I also watched couple of movies which are really good, is he an Indian James bond?

ME: (Tittering) a kind of? He is more like action hero.

Dave: Oh I see, he should win.

ME: what makes you to say so? I mean may I ask you why?

Dave: Well, I been to few places in south India, and I was really unhappy to see the pathetic living conditions of the people, I could also see the carelessness of the Government on this, all that India requires at this time is a leader like him, who has an urge to server people, I wish we have one Vijaykanth in America as well.

ME: Good to hear that Dave, Nice talking to you, Can I have your photograph?

Dave: Sure, why not?

He poses and I photographed him, and went back to my seat where Guppy is waiting for me, Guppy asked me what was all about the conversation? I narrated him what went on with us, and I thought probably we missed the train to interview him, Guppy remained that we got few more minutes to catch the train.

We boarded the train to Framingham and Dave words are still lingering in my mind.

Peace talks Vs Inability

India with a population of 100 crores, standing second in the world, forecasted to be the first in next couple of years, I’m not here to discuss, is India becoming first in the population is good or not, I’m here to discuss will India become first in population or at least retains its current position.

Human life are taken for a toss here, uncontrollable inflation, corrupted government officials, irresponsible leaders, ritual riots, religious riots and adding fuel to the fire are insensible and unhealthy citizens, are available slow poison to India, and to add to the list is the terrorism an unanswerable question across the world, who funds them what is there goal? Why are they doing this? What is there aim? All these are unanswerable.

There were serious of bomb blasts over the past few years in India, 1993’s Bomb blast in Bombay, is still a partially closed case and verdicts are not strong enough to hold Terrorism in India, worlds biggest Democratic parliament was attacked by terrorists and we were holding peace talks with them, while they talk to us using AK 47 and gelatin sticks. I know that India has singed for the Non Aligned Movement (NAM), and I appreciate that they still stick to this on the glue of Indian citizens.

The recent Jaipur blast, Bangalore blasts, Ahmadabad and the Delhi blasts has taken dozens of Indians lives, and India is on peace talks, if strict and strong actions were been taken on Bombay blasts, the story wouldn’t have continued, I don’t know how many more lives they require to take serious actions on terrorism, It is not only the inability of the Government it is the inability of the citizens as well, the tendency to compromise on almost everything. It’s a shame on our intelligence department and on us for not governing them well.

The world has reacted on terrorism very badly Twin towers blast in USA has left the debris in Afghanistan, Militants in Israel, given Israeli military a noisy entry to Palestine and so on, back in India, rather invading we surrender our lands to them, known is Pakistan occupied Land, unknown is China occupied India, which is a silent killer to India.

I wonder how People have healthy sex, to bring their offspring’s in this unhealthy situation, proving manhood but living a eunuch’s life. The citizens of India are not vasudev, to produce as much as possible searching for Lord krishna, to kill Kamsa. We are living a slave’s life, let come out of our slavery for the freedom of our offspring’s.

I’m not giving solution, for this situation, as we are used to spoon feeding, we failed to use our Right to Vote, sensibly so as the sixth sense. There are only two groups who use sixth sense effectively, Politicians on how to goof people and Terrorist’s on how to destroy people?

Economic Growth

After the 61years of independence where are we standing on the grounds of economic standards, people who say that we are self sustained, and we have a grown a lot on the economic grounds I want them to think again, I was surprised to watch in one of the special programs hosted on the Independence day, the pride that today’s youth have on the growth of economic standards is scaring me, rather it turns out to be a nightmare to the country. Below are the points that were fired to support for there views.

1) Obsolete of “No vacancy” because of globalization, even a fresher gets a on today’s market.
2) Luxurious life since the availability of international brands
3) Average income exceeding 15k per month and so on

I was stunned to see the youngsters living in such an illusionary world, let’s see the reality in the points they have registered,

Anyone who steps in Chennai, can find a job easily, unless and until he is the laziest creature in the world, or a self respectful person, yes I mean it self respect, almost 60% to 80% of the Chennai sleeps during the day and works during night, I mean job in International call centers, night shifts are not new to our community, right from the stone age there are people who were doing night shifts, to safe guard the sleeping persons from wild animals and enemies. But our youngsters are burning their midnight oil to burn their dreams, this is the worst suicide I’ve ever come across and in many places where both work in IT or ITES industry, it turns out to be an homicide which ultimately leads to genocides. Don’t say that they are working hard to safe guard the country or their families or themselves at least but the reality is they are actually ruining all. For a hand full of salary the youngsters dream is buried forever, with this lump sum amount, and globalization what ever product or goods the youngster buys happens to be an international brand, obviously he works for international clients, the normal cotton shirt which costs around 300 to 500 INR max, is now costing him 1500 INR min for the brand he wish to buy, goodos to the globalization and yes there is an economic growth which enabled him to spend thrice of what the actual price is. In many case the initial salary of a youngster earns is twice or thrice his/her father’s salary, but actually not, father’s salary is broken into bits and pieces like allowances, dividends and pension. Any which ways who cares for long term benefit, He is ready to buy a property by offering twice or thrice the actual price, since there is huge money without future benefits he thinks he can afford too, but unfortunately he regrets half way down, but thanks to the international banks for immediate help, to give another illusion of support, with pride that he owns a property now, sarcastically it lasts only for a near future, by the time he closes loan, he owns only a jalopy. Same thing goes with the plans of owning a vehicle, no Indian car suits his/her need, the new economic policies and globalization has already seized the Indian automobile industry, he/she can buy a foreign car or an Indian car manufactured with a foreign collaboration, profiting multi national companies, again thanks to international banks for supporting our youngster now he can buy car, but owns a jalopy.

From inner wears to outer wears, from car to property, from phone to home appliances what ever he/she buys in India is not from an Indian company, whatever he earned the lion share, probably the whole share is given to the international giants again. Thanks to globalization.

Where is the economic growth to India? I can see only western countries growth on Indian’s hard work and their self esteem
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It is not only with ITES, It is 100% applicable to software engineers as well, the only difference between them and call center executives are their shift timings, unfortunately not all times. Whatever paid to our youngsters is been taken back through life style they live and through the globalization imposed on them. In today’s market their buying power is huge to buy any products or goods by paying twice or thrice more then the actual price, if this trend continues the trend of assassinating farmers, one meal price will be astronomically huge and their buying power will just look like an atom when compared.

If that is called as an economic growth, yes we are on its way.

India 1947 to 2008

At this historical moment, where everybody seeing future, I planned to divert from them to look back nation’s foot steps over these 61 years, I don’t know how many of us know that 15th August 1947, the first Independence day of India was not celebrated by the father of Nation and to the worse he boycotted the celebrations, for which he said it’s the treaty of separation between India and Pakistan, sarcastically he is the one who encouraged that treaty, who welcomed that separation, as he was afraid to loose father of nation title to Jinnah. The first step towards nation’s future becomes a wrong move.

It is in 1947, the treaty to hand over Subhash Chandra Bose alias popularly known as Nethaji, was signed, and was duly accepted by all political leaders that includes Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and many others. Nethaji, was one of his kind of leaders who had passion towards country, but yet to get his freedom to LIVE in his country for which he was ready to give his life and never called that has a sacrifice. A great leader, the real meaning for the word patriotism has been removed from the dictionary of India. People may have forgotten the leader but Nation will not.

And it continued right from electing the first prime minister of India, thou Nehru made some good process by enlightening Green and Blue revolution, however before they deep root, Green and Blue revolutions had been uprooted by Industrial revolution. Prato’s rule has been perfectly applied here, for 20%’s well being 80% farmer’s life has been challenged, and still its been challenging for them.

Communal harmony, there is no secular party in India, there are only two types of parties one who favor Hindus and who doesn’t. From 1994 communal dispute to 2008 Amarnath Land dispute it was always been a vote bank for all the parties, I really don’t understand what secularism means in Indian dictionary, I don’t want to kindle any communal disputes by my writing, however I would like to ask all the communities, if holding a membership in Madarasa or CSI is not an religious affair, then how come holding a membership in RSS or VHP becomes a communal disgrace. I request all the communities to come out of such religious taboos, and I also request all the political leaders not to exploit such community and force them to hold a membership in such groups because of the disparity shown on communities, which will definitely lead to such memberships.

Political drama, one the eve of Independence day celebrations both the State and Central government has declared a salary hike to their employees, as state government has already visualized the government employees power in the previous elections, which they want to bank again has shared their secret with Central as well, I would have said on the eve of the elections rather on the eve of Independence Day. It was rightly said that person is a human and people are sheep’s, hearty welcome to the slaughter house.

New economic policies, we are proud to have a Prime Minister who consummates in economics, however I doubt his proficiency in the subject inflation close to 13%, he still finds hard to control it with his well renowned economist who also holds the ministry of Finance. There are so many Special Economic Zone’s rooted raised and still being getting planted, its all good but what are we going to eat, I believe humans have still not developed a technology to digest software’s or electronic goods.

India’s true economic growth is in the agriculture industry, what ever economic growth that we see now is an illusion, and we are seeing this growth at a distance closer we go it will disappear like a mirage. I have seen people, who just don’t care about this they are such an introvert they just want to live for them selves, and they don’t even realize that their heirs has to live in this world as they haven’t found anything new yet to Live.

Live Let Live… Jai Hind

Horse Trading Vs Whore’s bargaining

In a democratic country like India, people elect there leaders (supposed to be there servants as per the constitution) with the confidence that the elected leaders will bring shine to there life, unfortunately the leaders who showcased themselves as altruist for the vote bank, proves to be a square peg in a circle hole. After gaining the confidence from the people, the government has to again gain the confidence from the parliament, whoever wins the losers are always the people either these scapegoats burn there own pocket or their lives.

Today the D-Day for the ruling party to gain the confidence from the parliament, to retain their thumb over the fist, after the left withdrawn the support on N-Deal, congress hauled, short and loud to prove they are right, I don’t say there actions are all vain, but they should be. The MP’s who were against the government few weeks back are now sharing the plates with the government. I’m surprised to see these non-schooled philologists describing the benefits of the deal.

It is a cheap drama of the Congress, as I mentioned in my earlier blog’s, when Congress raised the fuel prices, there were protest all over India, to handle this they created the demand for the fuel, within few hours, people as scapegoats are ready to buy the fuel at any cost but all they need is a supply, when barrel was costing 140$, there was a price hike now it has come down below 130$, but government has taken no steps or signs to reduce the price.

Now N-Deal issue, Congress projects the N-Deal as to fulfill the India’s future need for the electricity, for which there is a protest from the various parties, to goof the common people (Aaam Admi as per the Sonia’s terminology) Congress has now created an artificial demand to prove to the public that we are not sufficient with the electricity supply as well, there are power cuts all over India including the metropolitan cities like Mumbai and Chennai where people react soon .Our PM knows how to play with demand and supply strategy, I accept he is an economist but let me ask one question after independence Congress has ruled India for almost 40+ years and we are not even sufficient with any thing, including a leader with more than 1 billion population, probably that’s the reason they want a foreign origin to rule our country, fortunately A.P.J didn’t allow that unfortunately he was not allowed to continue his seat, the sadist thing that can ever happen to India.

Yeah, there is one "Inflation", Finance minister has been saying that it will tamed in a week or so, for the past 4 or 5 months, now the economist (both FM and PM) are realizing the heat of inflation rate when they actually started there horse trading with MP’s, to add the fuel, the horse’s didn’t kept their mouth shut unlike traditional horses they bargained like bitches, and finally sold the confidence of the people who elected them.

It has been more than 50 years since independence India is no more an adolescent country in economy as projected by our elected swindlers, let’s live in convalescent India after eliminating these swindlers.

Toll Plazas in OMR

As Chennai under gone lot of renovations in the past few years, road network have improved a lot and new roads are laid to keep Chennai moving on its alarming growth rate. A few such landmark ventures are ECR Project, OMR Project, Inner and Outer Ring Road project and Pallavaram Highway Project and it keeps adding to the list.

The recent project which is in the completion mode and widely used by the public or probably forced to used, since all the IT companies are moved here, major part of the population are forced to use this Road, so it obviously becomes the Government’s responsibility to improve the road standards, when you ask a section of people to move an isolated location, it becomes the Government responsibility to organize the things for them, for which they any which ways collect taxes and why the fine as well, I mean the toll price.

I was shocked to hear that there will be a toll plaza imposing fines on the motorists for using this road, as if I’m volunteered to use it, I was forced. Any which ways Property Tax, Road Tax, Corporation/ Panchyat Tax are collected for the welfare of the area apart from this, billions are collected as tax from the Public for fulfilling there basic needs, which includes the road transport as well. It is purely there responsibility to provide these amenities to the public from the tax they have collected if they can’t do this they don’t know proper budgeting. I know that the lion share of the tax collected is given to the Defense and security system of the Nation however the catch is major share of the tax collected tax is bribed to the leaders, who are good at converting the White to Black. This is not a myth an undiscovered and unexplored truth.

Every political leader in India is a Bermuda’s triangle anyone tries to explore disappears leaving no trace of the investigator. Below is the rough calculation that the government would like to swindle from the public and my calculations are based on the minimal percentage at any given point of time and will definitely be twice or thrice the figure which shown below.

The entire OMR project was estimated to INR 290 CR, and the collections are turned out to be INR 33.3 CR (which is bare minimum and expected to be twice of this) per year assuming that there is no increase/decrease in the vehicles in 10 yrs with this collections rate, Government can earn a profit of INR 50 CR (Approx) excluding interest. As a common man I would like to know what has happened to my Tax money which I have paid for my amenities. Hope I don’t get an answer from the Government stating it has been utilized for paying interest, sarcastically. An additional monthly expenditure that any person will incur due to this swindle is given below.
Remember I have already paid 30% tax for this expenditure, after paying the tax for this income I’m utilizing this for paying the fine, and this increases as my number of trips to home to office, and office to home increases. Thanks for the polls which got these tolls.

If I planned to drive from OMR to ECR, or vice versa, I’m bound to pay fine at both the tolls, which is even worse, rather I would say it as lethal. I don’t know how it gonna workout in this situation, if they say I have to there any way where I need have to. At this rate of compromise we don’t even care if someone grabs our property or molests our girl. We compromise, we no longer wroth to be called as animal with six senses, when we are not even behaving like animals, who don’t compromise, have you ever heard an ant compromising with human.
When an ant has no fears for human, I wonder why human fears his/her fellow creation.