A few bloglets
A few bloglets to round up all that I wished to blog over the past few days but could not due to several reasons.
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Finally watched Sarkar. Had a good time watching it. Favourite bit of dialogue is when the big evil politician played by Ek-shunya-shunya(I refuse to call him by any other name) brags "Sarkar main chalata hoon, CM main hoon, inquiry commission bithegi, 2 din mein chhooT jaoonga", and Abhishek calmly responds "Main bhi yahi chahta hoon". Smooth!
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Uma Bharti is beginning to resemble a headless chicken more and more as each day passes by. Some commentators in the media, like Vir Sanghvi have been portraying her as some sort of a principled sanyasin who was undone by the wily intrigues of intra-party politics. I think she was just plain outwitted at a game she played and miscalculated badly. Now for some hilarious reason, she is digging up the issue of Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin. I recommend a few years in the Himalayas for Miss Bharti. By that time Sonia would have made way for one of her kids and Bharti may be forced to think up a real issue.
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The Shivsena situation is rather fascinating. Raj has openly revolted and has effectively burnt his bridges. If even after such a public outburst, he lets himself be sweet-talked into a "truce", he will meet the same fate as Uma Bharti and Saurav Ganguly. After such an outburst, a "truce" is facile. It never works in favour of the rebel. There is no way Raj can, will, and should join the Congress. The NCP is a possibility, albeit distant. And if he is thinking of following in the footsteps of his uncle and setting up a new party, he is vastly overestimating the strength, both of his followers as well as his ideology.
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Time is running out for Ganguly. Considering the position at which he bats, he will get a chance to shut his critics up only if Sehwag, Sachin and Dravid fail. It happened in the first test, but instead of stroking a fifty and making a statement, he first ran VVS out, and then returned to the pavillion himself. Ganguly owes himself a dignified exit. Since he himself dug his own grave, the least he can do is pick out a pretty tombstone.
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Oh yes, Vantage Point crossed the 3,00,000 mark a couple of days back. :)
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Finally watched Sarkar. Had a good time watching it. Favourite bit of dialogue is when the big evil politician played by Ek-shunya-shunya(I refuse to call him by any other name) brags "Sarkar main chalata hoon, CM main hoon, inquiry commission bithegi, 2 din mein chhooT jaoonga", and Abhishek calmly responds "Main bhi yahi chahta hoon". Smooth!
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Uma Bharti is beginning to resemble a headless chicken more and more as each day passes by. Some commentators in the media, like Vir Sanghvi have been portraying her as some sort of a principled sanyasin who was undone by the wily intrigues of intra-party politics. I think she was just plain outwitted at a game she played and miscalculated badly. Now for some hilarious reason, she is digging up the issue of Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin. I recommend a few years in the Himalayas for Miss Bharti. By that time Sonia would have made way for one of her kids and Bharti may be forced to think up a real issue.
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The Shivsena situation is rather fascinating. Raj has openly revolted and has effectively burnt his bridges. If even after such a public outburst, he lets himself be sweet-talked into a "truce", he will meet the same fate as Uma Bharti and Saurav Ganguly. After such an outburst, a "truce" is facile. It never works in favour of the rebel. There is no way Raj can, will, and should join the Congress. The NCP is a possibility, albeit distant. And if he is thinking of following in the footsteps of his uncle and setting up a new party, he is vastly overestimating the strength, both of his followers as well as his ideology.
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Time is running out for Ganguly. Considering the position at which he bats, he will get a chance to shut his critics up only if Sehwag, Sachin and Dravid fail. It happened in the first test, but instead of stroking a fifty and making a statement, he first ran VVS out, and then returned to the pavillion himself. Ganguly owes himself a dignified exit. Since he himself dug his own grave, the least he can do is pick out a pretty tombstone.
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Oh yes, Vantage Point crossed the 3,00,000 mark a couple of days back. :)
