Human Chain in Tamilnadu (or) Children Torture?

School children who don't have any information about LTTE, proper geography of Srilanka or Tamil Eelam were made to stand hours in heavy rain. The reason for forcing them to wait since the morning - The CM was scheduled to pass by 5 PM and wave at them by sitting in his comfortable cozy vehicle without a drop of water falling on him.

Bloody hell!! The behaviour of this idiotic & irresponsible government is becoming worse day by day.

We are talking about eradicating child labour, improving child education, reducing female infanticide and providing better food at government schools; but this is the height of torture. Will the CM and his "clowns" (read Ministers) take responsibility if many of the school children took ill because of continuous standing in the rain? Grrr ...they might give 1000 Rs to each of the "affected families" (truth is even that 1000 will not reach many of the families and goes into pockets of ward counsellors, municipality)

Shame on leading newspaper like 'The Hindu' who indirectly supported this human chain with the headline 'Thousands participate despite rain'

Will the stopping of alleged killing going to stop by this human chain? How long these kind of Great Indian Political Tamasha is going to be witnessed? God can only help the Indian public from the clutches of these rotten political system.

New steps to tackle power shortage in Tamilnadu

Will the present chief minister, his cabinet minsters and past CMs, minister have the literacy to first save power at their offices and homes rather than charging the public for domestic consumption? It is agreed that the public need to be educated and disciplined for excess usage, but why not the same rule apply for politicians?

1. Why can't politicians be charged for wasting power for any political rally? (and additional charge for holding up traffic in many parts of Chennai).
2. Electricity is free for the ministers. Ok, they "govern" the state and have the "privilege" to get free electricity. But why can't a maximum consumption be levied and ask them to pay like public?

It is always public who have to pay out of their pocket while ______________ politicians (any bad adjective for the blank can be prefixed and would suit aptly) sit in their cozy couch and enjoy everything in life in the name of being "government servants" when they actually do nothing for which they get salary as well as bribe (the later much more in magnitude)

Thank God - Phelps was not born in India!

After an Indian won the first gold for the country breaking its 124 year old record (of not claiming an Olympic Gold following the principle of "Secular stand" in allowing other countries to win), a flurry of offers made. The governments of various states came out with unheard cash prize amount. Sadly, this happens every time. But none of the useless politicians think about putting the amount to better use through the champion by setting up good infrastructure for producing more winners

Good that Phelps was not born in India. He may not have won so many gold medals if he had been born here which is a different topic altogether because we never allow anyone to achieve so much fame.

I am trying to imagine what our state governments would have done if Phelps indeed won so many gold medals being an Indian. Probably,
1. Donate the entire state to his name
2. Bring the entire nation to a halt by doing a hartal that the centre rename the state to sound something like 'Phelps'

Getting to see Jeffrey Archer

Just midway through a gruelling cricket match at Pachaiappa's College (not because of the opponent, but courtesy heat), I got a call from my wife that there is a book reading session at 7 PM at landmark stores, Nungambakkam by none other than Jeffrey Archer on his latest book 'The prisoner of birth'.

We decided to somehow make it even though my limbs were slightly aching after playing in the hot sun for little over 2 hours.

We parked at a safe place and walked to the venue and true to the personality of the author, it was crowded. If we had gone by 5 PM, we would have got a comfortable seat and got to him much closer. Anyway, we cramped ourselves in the middle of two book shelves and got to see and hear him.

I had just finished his 'False impressions' and my favourite is 'Kane and Abel'. But I never knew he had such witty one-liners and amazing sense of humour. He kept the audience delighted through out his speech.

The best part according to me was when one of the audience asked about whether he follows Indian newspapers and how much he is up to date with what is happening. He said that the first 6 pages are about Bollywood and next 6 pages is about 20-20. What followed next was unexpected, but very true. He said "20-20 is not cricket. Cricket is VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid playing and defeating Australia in Australia" which received a thunderous applause.

Veerapan - Hero with Wikipedia

He may be the most notorious gangster, smuggler, kidnapper and ruthless killer, but he is not considered such a bad guy among the vanniyar klans. In fact, he has been mentioned in a very dignified way. No, No ... It is not me who is making the claim; but the interesting link of "List of Prominent Vanniyars" in Wikipedia which I came across accidentally @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prominent_Vanniars

Before someone picks this (definitely has to be a politician or qualifies to be one) as a controversial entry and seeks justice at Supreme court to take Veerappan's name of the "prominent" list, I captured the screen shot to preserve it. Here it is for everyone to take a look.