Well, well well (all dry). By now, monsoon should have covered all of Bihar, most parts of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and the Gangetic plains of UP. But that hasn’t really happened. It is stuck around the Deccan Plateau and the coastline of the Gult-land and Orissa [3]. I live in Bhubaneswar, and I don’t think monsoon is here yet (Bhubaneswar is only 60 Km away from the Orissa coastline by the way).

What has been the impact so far?

• Prices of Indian Spices have gone up [1]
• Private water suppliers in Rajkot have found a nice pretext to ask for almost double the usual rates [4] and
• Elephants in Rajaji park are just not moving their asses [2]

And why the fuck has the monsoon delayed? My first answer would be God is no better than Government. But I do have a better and boring answer. A study published in the January2009  issue of Geophysical Research Letters had the following [5] to say:

Rising global temperatures will likely lead to an eastward shift in monsoon circulation which could result in more rainfall over the Indian Ocean, Myanmar and Bangladesh but less over Pakistan, India and Nepal, the study found.

Ah, if only the officials at Rajaji park had known about the result of this study, they could have kept the park open for some more time (yes – they closed it last week assuming that monsoons would arrive – when monsoons arrive the elephants migrate away). Also – those who are into masala export business, be happy. My only sympathies as of now are for 1. the Rajkot junta because they are going to be charged more year after year and 2. myself because I want to start running on roads once again.

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[1]http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINBOM43616820090615

[2]http://in.news.yahoo.com/32/20090618/1053/tnl-monsoon-delay-hinders-elephant-migra.html

[3]http://in.news.yahoo.com/32/20090617/1053/tnl-monsoon-delay-not-cause-for-worry-ye.html

[4]http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-58165.html

[5]http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jlEsxGrBmhmZZKiKaJF7GQ34jb6Q

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Your video, bike trip, may have audio content from On The Road Again by Willie Nelson that is owned or licensed by WMG.
As a result, your video has been muted.

I was so taken aback by the above message. It was thrown at me after I was done editing and uploading the first part of my bike trip video. More than taking me aback and all that, such a response (however ethical and proper it may have been) frustrated me. All of us need background scores when we make personal home-videos and all that.  The most common source for such music is the stock of the billion songs that we have on our comps and elsewhere. Now YouTube won’t even let us upload videos, without muting them, if we use a copyrighted track? Phew! This is a new thing.

I guess YouTube’s database for hindi songs is not yet updated for in spite of having so cleverly detected the ‘On the road again’ track, it clearly failed to pick up ‘Emosional Atyaachar’ (from DevD) that my bike trip video also had. So guess what, I am busy re-editing the video, replacing On the Road with country hindi tracks. What a waste.

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I got an internal company-mail just now which I think should be made available on my blog, verbatim, for everyone to read:

Government of India has an online Grievance forum at http://pgportal.gov.in Can you imagine this is happening in INDIA?

The govt. wants people to use this tool to highlight the problems they faced while dealing with Government officials or departments like Passport Office, Electricity board, BSNL/MTNL, Railways etc.

Many of us say that these things don’t work in India. Couple of months back, the Faridabad Municipal Corporation laid new roads in his area and the residents were very happy about it. But 2 weeks later, BSNL dug up the newly laid roads to install new cables which annoyed all the residents. A resident used the above listed grievance forum to highlight his concern. To his surprise, BSNL and Municipal Corporation of Faridabad were served a show cause notice and the guy received a copy of the notice in one week. Government has asked the MC and BSNL about the goof up as it’s clear that both the government departments were not in sync at all.

So use this grievance forum and educate others who don’t know about this facility. This way we can at least raise our concerns instead of just talking about the ‘System’ in India.

Invite your friends to contribute for many such happenings.

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Chapter 3<<

|| God speaks ||

So you know, all this stuff about Karm-Yogis and Non-Karm-Yogis – the Yoga-funda in brief, I had revealed it all to Vivasvan, the Sun-God. He later kept boring his son Manu with all this gyaan who in turn passed it on to Iksvaku – his son. Thus this gyaan-passing game went on for actually quite some time you know. But even then I must say that it was mostly confined to the Rajarsis – the royal sages, and gradually people forgot about it totally.

So beta, you really are a lucky bastard ‘coz you got to listen to all these Yoga-fundays directly from me.

|| Arjuna speaks ||

Saale, kuch bhi bolega? How old are you, haan? 30? 40? 200? How the fuck did YOU reveal all this crap to not even Manu, but to seedha Manu ka Baap?

|| God speaks ||

Chootiye saale – why are you forgetting that I am a bloody GOD! Kuch to izzat de! Unlike humans who forget about everything about their past lives when they take birth, I remember everything. Got it now? I reveal my real identity to people only when I see that there’s hardly anyone around who has any fuckin’ clue about this Yoga stuff and that there are just too many bastards everywhere, spreading evil, doing evil in this world . Don’t tell me that you have never seen my Yada Yada hi Dharmasya…  line written on all those glossy posters of us and this chariot that are sold over footpaths all across India?  Every couple of centuries, I have to start teaching this Yoga thing from start, quite a pain  if you ask me, but what to do! I have been doing this since long dude – since really really long. Actually, all you fellas are ultimately a part of Myself and once someone realizes this fact, he / she returns to Me after leaving the body and stuff. All the Brahmans, Ksatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, just about everyone – was created by me.  All those who realize this, don’t have to worry about being responsible for their actions.

He who sees an erection in an otherwise plump flaccid penis, and plumpness flaccidity in the erect ones, is the wisest – he is THE Yogi, Yo babbeee! Only such a dude is capable of stopping to worry about everything else and even when he does ‘nothing’ – as you would put it, he is into action at all times! And you Arjuna, you have to be a Karma-yogi and realize that if there is erection – there is plumpness flaccidity, if there is happiness – there’s sadness, if there is success – there is failure! The bottom-line is beta – a Karm-yogi is someone who realizes that his job is to keep doing what he is supposed to do ‘coz everything else is being taken care of by Me – and at the same time, he also understands that whatever he does, should be done only to benefit everyone else – not simply to feed himself. Now, that’s sacrifice for you – that’s the bottom-line – that’s Brahma – that’s all the shit you need to know about!

There are various ways in which people offer sacrifice – but that’s not really important here. I mean you can go to Wiki for more stuff on that or even pick up a copy of one of the Vedas from Landmark. What’s important for you to know is that, sacrifice performed through knowledge (of my existence and how I am responsible for so many things) is much much better than throwing away dead goats in fire and other such material stuff. As a Karma-yogi, you should let your faith rest in this knowledge of my existence, you should rest your faith in Me and get back to your work without any attachments – shanti tere ko tabhi milegi. As long as you keep living in doubts, as long as you are not sure that everything goes out from Me and then comes back to Me wonly – you will never ever be happy baby – never!

Chal, ab bahot hua abhi ke liye – shed your doubts and confusions, and go FIGHT for GOD’s sake!

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Lying on my bed, ready to sleep early, as I was reading Nehru’s Autobiography, I read something that I HAD to share with all and so I jumped up, switched on the laptop and here it is (quoting from page 139 of the book) -

“Politics,” says an American Socialist (quoted by Sir Stafford Cripps), “is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.”

Alright, back to book and bed. See all ya fellas in the morning (by the way FYI, Shita – Chapter 4 shall automatically get posted after mid-night).

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