Tharoor, his tweets and the four walls

Shashi tharoor is always found in controversies with his tweets and this time again he comes up to revolt within his own ministry. To remark the new guidelines set up by Home ministry in order to make visa norms strict, While tweeting, Tharoor had wondered whether tightening of the visa norms for foreign nationals made any sense at all and if it would actually "protect" security. Contending that "26/11 killers had no visas", the Minister of State for External Affairs had asked whether India
would allow terrorists to make it a "less welcoming" destination.

Tharoor had come on fame with his cattleclass remarks on twitter with an agitation after flying economy class. This had completely shaken up the aam aadmi policy of Congress and Tharoor had to explain his thoughts and later apologize. Was Tharoor really guilty to express his own thoughts before the internet connected world? Had it been great to mention the common man of India as God and then tear out 4000 crore Rs to make the people of India feel cattle class? Had he done a great task by delivering a hate speech and started riots among communities?

Indian officials have never been able to restrict Raj Thackery from beating up the poor taxi drivers in Mumbai, they have never been able to catch up a culprit like Headley, They have been saving a DGP and DIG who are alleged of rape for years, they have been unable to cope up with the terrorist activities but yes they have been really successful in threatening Tharoor against his tweets. They will be happy if the issues related to the governance can be discussed within the four walls of ministry and then applied to the common men of India. Tharoor is just making the democracy accessible and that too before the people who can think and analyze situations instead of just voting and cursing the ministers.

I believe this tweet controvery will go on for longer times and Tharoor will keep tweeting and making us more approachable to the bureaucrats. I hope it doesn’t flash out its darkness before us and enlighten the four walls of Indian governance.

God Does Exist

In a class of philosophy, the atheist teacher was discussing non existence of GOD. One of the students started arguing about it and tried to depict some points. He explained the absence of heat as cold, existence of brightness as darkness and finally the absence of Evil as the presence as God. This so called genius was Einstein (some people say Neil Bore or some APJ kalam but idea is important) and his idea about Gods’s existence was phenomenal.
I too believe in God for several reasons and just another reason for His existence was given again but this time not so well known scientist. There was an American scientist who was very keen to find the existence of God. He spent so many years in America and European countries but couldn’t find the sign of God anywhere. Then he came to know about the craze for God in India. He came to India, stayed here for 3 months and went back to USA. He just went to the church and started praying to God. People were sure that he must have met with God or found His existence. Now he explained “During my stay in India, I found it to be a very strange country. There is not even a single language that this whole country can understand or speak. There people hate each other. Rich people hate poor people. Hindus hate Muslims and Muslims hate Hindus. Upper class people hate lower class people. Even the car owners hate auto wallas. There is so much hate in that country but the country still exists and moreover it’s developing fast. So I believe it’s only God who is running this country and therefore I start believing in God”. I am again thrilled with the explanations these great scientists find out to prove the theories but now I too strongly believe in the existence of God and I am very confident to say that God does exist!!!!

Eat less, Talk more - Potatoes 29 Rs and Mobile charges 29 Paise

Traveling through a jam packed road to my office today in the morning, FM in my cab was playing Masakkali-Matakkali song. I was just in a mood to swing along with the momentum of this Rehman mania that goes all through Delhi-6 to Slumdog Millionaire. But always the FM channels need sponsors to entertain us when we look out from our windows and wait to get the traffic signal go green. It was the time for Uninor who claim it to be their number now (Ab mera number hai!!!!) with perhaps the cheapest mobile call rates in India with just 29 paise per minute. WOW!!!! What an amazing idea it’s…just 29 paise. I felt as if the cost of living is going down every day with such schemes. But suddenly I remembered the incident that happened yesterday with me. To prepare our dinner, we needed some potatoes and I went out to the shopkeeper to get a KG of it. The shock couldn’t be controlled when I had to pay for potatoes. 29 Rs was what I had to pay him for a KG of unboiled potatoes…I was feeling as if the earth stopped revolving around its axis and started moving around mine. Thankfully my signal was green and we could go ahead. But I was in no mood to control thinking about these two incidents.

We are living in a 21st century full of gizmos, computers, online communities and everything we ever dared to even dream. And the same I couldn’t ever dare to dream thinking about the cost of my potatoes. I somehow can manage both with my dinner and calls, but I can’t stop thinking about those who strive to survive starving. Should the poor people of India be allowed only to make calls and chat with their families and friends or they should be allowed to fulfill their stomach needs? We anyways crossed all signals and traffic jams but this question is still jammed in my mind and heart…should India eat less and talk more?