Europeans the reason for all the mess in the World?

One of my brother's friend's friend came down from Finland and then she was quite irritated the way we Indians are when compared to the Europeans. She had few points like:

1. Why do we Indians always think "Me first"?
2. Why do we Indians never follow the traffic?
3. Why do we Indians never follow the rules?
4. Indian cities are in mess???
   
5. Why do Indians always want to become hero? Where as we could easily become a good team player?
   
6. Why are we so much money mined and self centered?
   

I really think Westerners don't understand what we Indians are and then try to curse away and not understand our view point. I really think we Indians are not exactly they way she thinks we are...

Every Indian is very tolerant... Indians have allowed raiders, burglars, and thieves etc to come to our country and then allowed them to become the Kings and Queens of this country...

Just to brush up the history why we are like this...

India was ruled by Mughals who came from Iran… We didn’t invite them but when they came we asked them to stay and make this their home… After that Aurangzeb wanted to convert every Indian who was either a Buddhist or Hindu into a Muslim with force… We didn’t trust the Mughals anymore and then came the British…

They stayed here for 400 years… They tricked and cheated us for 400 years… They forced us to pay taxes for the Rice and Wheat we grew on our fields... They forced us to grow Indigo on our fields even if the field doesn't grow any crop in future... They forced us to become slaves in our country... British took away our money and resources and then broke the country into India and Pakistan… In terms of development they made the railways… other than that???

Now it’s in our blood that we have to fight and go ahead of the other… We don’t trust anyone… Got the reason why we are like this? Someone gave the observation… I suggested the reason… For 1000 years keep someone a slave, when you give him independence how can you expect him to be a matured and sophisticated adult? Give us time we will improve and become better…

Now let’s talk about Politics

This country has 85 % Hindus… When Manmohan Singh (a Sikh) became the prime minister the oath was given by President Abul Kalam (who is a Muslim) and a Sikh became prime Minister because a Christian, Sonia Gandhi, didn’t want to become a Prime Minister… I say again that India is a country with 85% of Population Hindus… Where else can this happen? We are tolerant just stop cheating us…

Every Indian was given voting rights as soon as we got Independence... The Americans didn't allow the Women to vote till early 1920s and the Black Man could not vote till 1965... You call that progress?

When the world compares India with US and Europe it means we are getting at par with them… US gained Independence in 1778 and now its 2008… So it took them around 230 years to achieve what they have become… USA has had its own problems and they have slowly and steadily solved it… The world has given India 60 years and we have done enough to prove ourselves…

Also let us talk about what great achievements the Europeans & Americans have done…

1. Remember slavery?? Who stared it? Europeans… not Indians… so how can the Europeans say that they are nice people and Indians are bad in culture?
2. Remember the number of Jews killed in 2nd world war? It happened to be Europe and not Asia…
3. Remember 2003 Iraq invasion?
4. Remember 2001 Afghanistan Invasion?
5. Remember taking over Australian continent 2 centuries ago from the Natives and asking the natives to work as laborers?
6. Remember when Robert Mogabe of Zimbabwe asked the Europeans to leave Zimbabwe, how much the United Nations cried? You didn’t teach Mogabe how to love others? You took the family and the farms away from the Black man, what do you expect from him? “Apple Pie with added mixed fruit jam on it” !!!!
   

India is the only nuclear power to have never Invaded any Nation !!! We have the third largest army whose sole purpose is to protect our borders and not invade others borders...

How many countries has India invaded? How many countries have the Europeans invaded? I guess more than 150… Every 2nd day we see BBC and find out that a small country in Africa is celebrating its 20th Independence Day or 30th Independence Day from Britain or Portugal or Spain or France or blah blah blah blah… I think the Europeans should stop talking about being nice and polite because we as Indians understand “WHEN THE KETTLE IS CALLING THE POT BLACK”

Also if Indians in every team & in every company want to become hero, then what’s the harm? Who remembers a team player? But everyone remembers a hero… It’s in our blood now… We can’t just be normal team players… It started with a man with 1 meter of white cloth on his body threw away the mighty British empire without firing a bullet… His name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi…

Let me list down the achievements of Indians...

1. The world’s biggest steel manufacturer is an Indian… Laxmi Mittal…
2. Hotmail was started by an India… Sabeer Bhatia…
3. Bose, the world’s best speakers manufacturer, was started by an India...
4. If people remember the movie SIXTH SENSE, it was made and directed by an India… Manoj Knight Shyamalan…
5. The ex CEO of Vodafone (the world's biggest cell phone service provider) was an Indian... Arun Sarin... Studied in IIT KGP...
   
6. Sun Microsystem was started by a group of friends and an Indian was one of them... Vinod Khosla... Alumnus of IIT Delhi...
   
7. Around 60 % of the software companies in Silicon Valley in California were started by Indian… if they were just team players we would not have these companies…
8. India has never had dictatorship in the 60 years of its independence… How many countries have achieved this? Look at our neighbors for a change…
   

You left us in mess and we are trying to come out and yes we haven’t being doing bad either… These are just few points what I wanted to share as a start…

If any European wants to know the achievements of Indians then I can send emails for the next 5 years…. 1 name and one story every morning for next 5 years… With a good morning message… How is the idea?

We have had our share of problems… We are trying to solve them… We have become best in 1 sector already; SOFTWARE....

The world has started looking at us as competitors and have started saying “YOU ARE TAKING AWAY OUR JOBS”… Relax boss, its anyways inevitable… Indians and Chinese are one third of the world population… By sheer percentages every third worker in the world must be an Indian or Chinese… Isn’t it?

Super Eeshtaar

We met Narai Karthikeyan at the airport while going to Frankfurt.
Cool pic isn't it?
:-)

India VS Pakistan

I was watching this video online and it made me feel proud.

May be India hasn't become as great a nation as Mahatma Gandhi or Pandit Nehru or Sardar Patel or Bhagat Singh or Subhash Bose would have dreamt about, but yes few of the systems in India are great.

Like in India the Army cannot run a country. The Army, Navy and Air Force are our defense systems and every Indian thanks them every second for protecting our borders, but they are not above the people. The people elect the government and the Defense Minister, Prime Minister and President are above the armed forces. This hasn't happen in Pakistan.




This video here shows the leaders of Pakistan talking about the political scenario there and they talk about India and asks Musharaff Saab to look towards India and learn from India. How India has made its political scene so strong that whatever happens the Government will be run by the people and not by the army. I am sad to say that out of the 60 years of Independence more than 50% of the time there has been dictatorship in Pakistan.

Love this Photo

Its a very old photo taken in Feb 2005 during my last trip to Amritsar...

I just love the setting of this picture... Misty day winter day in Amritsar, me all head covered, trying to be nice & hands folded... :-)

Perfect !!!

Roti, Kapda, Makaan Aur Sachin Tendulkar

FIRST ABOUT HOCKEY

India played exceptional hockey in Malaysia and came second in the tournament which had 4 teams playing in Olympics. There were seven teams playing in the Azlan Shah Tournament: India, Argentina, New Zeland, Pakistan, Canada, Belgium & Malaysia. New Zeland, Pakistan, Canada & Belgium have qualfied for the Olympics and these teams were not the top 2 teams in this tournament. So now the question is "are the teams who are playing in Olympics the best 12 teams in the world?"

What I think is that the 12 teams which have qualified for Olympics are not the best 12 teams in the world. Teams like Argentina & India should have qualified. Ok we got the chance and didnt qualify but teams like Belgium & Canada will never be able to compete against the odds of Australia , Netherlands or Spain.

The system of qualifying was so horrible that International Hockey Federation had to ask the world champion "Germany" to play the Qualifiers. They lost to Belgium in a Tournament and so they had to play the qualifier. Utter non sense. Same with India & Argentina. the performance of the Argetinian team in the past few years wasn't looked at and canada qualified based on some minutes of madness by Canada. Argentina qualified for the Champion's trophy which is going to happen in few weeks time and their performance in Azlan Shah Tournament was exceptional. Don't they deserve to play in the Olympics?

What should have happened is that the top six teams should have qualified directly to Olympics. So Australia, Pakistan, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Korea should have made it directly to the olympics based on the performance since the past 2 years. Every Continent level tournament & world level tournament is rated in the International Hockey Federation. Good thing. And the next 12 teams from 7th to 18th rank should have played a mini world cup kind of thing. The top 6 teams qualify for the Olympics. As simple as that. no host country nothing of that shit. Play the tournament and qualify.

Now some might say "It is possible that Argentina & India could have come 7th or 8th in that tournament" Yes it is possible but they would be having more opportunities to defend their place. One bad match wouldn't allow they to not qualify.

Lets hope the IHF takes note of this mess and the best 12 teams of the world play the Olympics and the World Cup in future.

Ok all said and done... I saw some videos of Sachin Tendulkar online and thought of sharing them here... Enjoy...



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Thank You "Aaj Tak"

I hate this Hindi news channel Aaj Tak but when they exposed the Indian Hockey federation General Secy "Jyotikumar" taking bribe , then I thanked every person working for Aaj Tak. I knew we could now say, "Gill और उसके पिल्लों का पाप का घडा भर गया"
And thats what happened.
On 28th of April Indian Hockey federation was thrown away, Gill and his nonsense was asked to get lost. Some of the earlier players were made the members of an adhoc commitee which will run the Indian Hockey for the time being. We dont know how much successful this will be but we are already witnessing some changes right away.

1. Today they have announced the team for Azlan Shah Tournament and the team looks very young. Most of the guys are from Indian - A team, they are not looking at winning this tournament but are looking at making a good team for the future. This adhoc commitee wants to see what the Indian team is doing in 2010 & 2012. So lets look at the younger players.
   
2. They have got a new head coach A. K. Bansal who was the coach of Orissa Steelers. Coach Bansal has also got lots of support staff, which includes Rick Charlesworth and Joachim Carvahlo.
   
3. Good thing is that they haven't thrown out the earlier coach. But the bad thing is that they have made him an Observer, now what the hell does that mean?
   
4. It means that the current hockey administrators trust him for few of his qualities but don't believe in him completely. This doesn't mean that Carvahlo is bad or worse. Its just that they want him to assist the new coach.
   
5. May be they want Carvahlo to help the players gain the best fitness. We did see that the players under him were leaner and fitter. Carvahlo and Bansal would work together with Bansal's brain and Carvahlo's work ethic they can build a better team. And to help them both we have the legend of Rick Charlesworth.
   
6. Rick Charlesworth has been made the adviser. We dont know how much of his ideas would be taken seriously by the head coach and the observer lets wait and watch. Hopefully these three can clear this कचरा of Indian Hockey.
   

Few of the things Indian government has to do is "BUILD MORE THAN 100 TURF FIELDS IN THE COUNTRY." If we don't have more turf fields we might just not be able to see India playing the Champion's Trophy ever.
Another thing is that Rick Charlesworth has said which is very sad but true "India should understand that we are not the top 12 teams in the world"
Lets hope for the best for Indian hockey!!!
आमीन !!

New Camera

My Younger bro got a new camera and its a piece of magic. He clicked few photos. I was very thrilled and hence posting them on the internet. really cool camera and a very steady hand. Atta Boy !!!
Chennai Sunset from top of the building.

Birds and the sun setting. Its really amazing to see the birds flying back home when the sun gets ready to go back home.
Saint Thomas Mount from our roof top. We stay in Adyar and the camera has an amazing zoom.

Brilliant Photography !!!!

The sun and the mobile antennas.

Crow at one of the antennas. :-)

Sun going down. 1.

Sun going down 2.

The airplane taking off. Good work by my bro. Captures the airplane and the antenna in the same frame. IT Revolution? Absolutely right !!!

Chameleon on the mango tree near our house window.