Monday, August 24, 2009

The Turmoil!

From my childhood, I have been educated on the Hindutva, its principles and policies and more or less the tolerance Hindutva has had towards anything and everything. BJP (Bhartiya Janatha Party) for me was a symbol of Hindutva and positivity. A party which could probably, catapult India into the extrordinary league of spiritual and scientific greatness through the policies of Hindutva and Hinduism. Not for the fact that the party has been avert to ideas from other sects of the so called Indian minorities like Islam or the Christianas, but for the same reason that it could imbibe the ideas of anyone who thinks positive and propagate the same across the nation!

The BJP has been strongly influenced and structured by the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh - RSS and Vishwa Hindu Parishat - the VHP in its own constitution, the two other organizations striving to revive the Hindu culture and ensure that the relegion does not die in its own motherland. I respect both these organizations as well, minus their activities which create intolerance in the society. The fact that the intolerence may have the 'hand' of other political parties or unhealty elements is a different story and a much debatable issue in another blog!

The reason for this post was much necessicated by the turmoil in probably one of India's most democratic party. I have never felt Congress is democratic given the dominance of Gandhis and their own aye sayers around them! Leave alone the regional parties, their leaders are more interested in putting up their own statues then improving the conditions!

The BJP fired one of its founders Jaswant Singh last week for his book on Jinnah! Jinnah was one of the architects of India's partition and being in a country where one has the liberty to speak/ read / write what they want, he had the perfect right to pen down his thoughts on any one else other than Jinnah too! Jaswant, in his book, blamed Nehru and Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel equally responsible as Jinnah! This is where things went wrong and the craker called BJP started to burst!

The party lost the 2009 general elections due to known reasons. Bad leadership was reflecting across the nation and was un noticed by the party top brass. Stalwarts of BJP even took names of these leaders post debacle, but for all unknown reasons the structure still remains the same. Jaswant was one of the few who raised his voice in public and then now, released his much sought after book. This lit the cracker and BJP started bursting each of its cracklets one by one. Sudheendra Kulkarni, a long term aide of the BJPs pillars Vajpayee and Advani cracked sooner as well.

Just today, there are rumours that Arun Shourie may be sacked for comments he made to public television. Well if you ask me, he must not be! If it is, then its sad that the BJP is not a democratic party as well. There may be people at the top who are commanding the cadres to sack their opposition. But its time for them to learn that they cannot grow without the party's stalwarts.

The party has exposed itself publicly this time and its image is at stake. The national leaders at helm are not really performing to their role and they seem to be lost. There is no confidence in Arun Jaitley or Sushma Swaraj any more!

The BJP however can raise back like a phonenix form the ashes. They must revamp their leadership. First get in loads of young blood (which may be a problem, with me and you sitting and blogging, than join the party cadres ;)). Get their next level up by the next year. If required influx RSS and VHP top brass as well. Then on infuse positivity into the states where they rule. Positivity as in reach out to the masses, ensure good roads etc... I did hear from one of my cousins that Modi's Gujrat is amazing, from just one visit to Ahmedabad, alas, I find it hard to say the same about BSYs Karnataka! Overall, they need a very very positive branding and total image makeover. Believe, even the RSS and VHP need to build up some tolerance and pass on their intolerance to the younger Senas that have come up, at least to rebuild this political arm of Hindutva!

The Future is Bright and the Future is Saffron! Well just a matter of time, before this dust settles and a new BJP arises and fights back. Lets all support the organization rather than criticizing it given its current situation. Jai Hind!

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Market back with a bang!!!

Looks like the market is up! Naukri.com are back with their Hari Sadu ad on the Television! Was quite surprised in fact to see the notorious ad back! Someone even had a litigation against it to get the name "Hari" changed as they were getting teased by their mates! Comon... this is too much!

The ad though rocks!

Videocon has launched a set of new Ads as well! The "Change is Good" ad is awesome. The concept and the thoughts behind it are really great. Videocon, when I buy a new one or upgrade my current videocon (iske peeche koi nahi hai) refregirator I will buy a Videocon one for sure! Of course change is good... :) I too agree! The Chow Mow characters in the ad really are great! One of the ads can be seen on the below link!

http://www.afaqs.com/perl/advertising/creative_showcase/index.html?id=13410&media=TV

End of a long weekend!

Finally its the end of one lovely lazy long weekend! Need to try to get out of my holiday mood. Its been over a month since I am back from India and absolutely, I have done nothing!!! The last one month has been spent in looking for a rented house, watching movies, browsing, driving, riding and of course sleeping! Hoping to start off the next month with a new energy ;) of course my country is 62+ and Aj has passed a comment that the auto drivers in front of the Sri Theater are better than us as they celebrated independence day and distributed sweets!

The last one month has also proved worthwhile watching quite a few good movies and of course equally bad ones! Eddelu Manjunatha was a starter. It was my first movie in a Gandhinagara theater and well it was bad! Me, Harsha, Maddy and Jiggy had a terrible time with a not so upto the mark movie! Jaggesh was at his absolute best with the witty dialogues and acting, but the movie had no substance in it to carry on!

Then on it was time to hit the theaters back again in Mysooru! A revamped sterling in rainbow colours, new seats was unexpected for me as Aj and Abhi showed no surprises staring at the crowd! Love Aaj Kal hit another low. But to be honest we enjoyed the tea in the Darshini hotel opposite Sterling, which was our only option to avoid the torrental rain. I had 3-4 glasses, which of course may be the reason for me to catch cold!

This week Raghu declared that we must get the "Independece Day Bravery Award" for 2010. Reason:- We watched Kaminey in Shree theater at the peak of the swine flu scare, we were in Mandi! :) OMG then I need to get a bigger award! Its been hardly a month since I am in India! However the movie was worth the risk we took though!