Is there an actor in Me :)

Sometimes many funny things do happen without your knowlwdge.In mycase this video happend to me.

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Meeting Sonia Gandhi

People of AP are curious to know what transpired between Sonia Gandhi and YS. Jagan Mohan reddy. Here is satirist account of that meeting

Jagan Enters Sonia Room.

Sonia : Mr Jagan Welcome To 10 Janpath

Jagan : (Hurriedly) I Want to Be CM ...maam.

Sonia : How are you doing ? Did u recover from the shock that your father untimely death caused to your family?

Jagan : I Want to be CM Maam.

Sonia : Fine what to do u want to have for now- Tea,Coffee,Juice.

Jagan : I want to be CM Maam...

Sonia : C'mon Jagan I understand that you want to become CM....I am asking about what do u want now ..Tea, coffee, something….

Jagan : I want juice.

Sonia : What kind of juice Mr Reddy?

Jagan : That one maam which is blood in color

Sonia : What? What blood in color...

Jagan : Sorry maam we always talk about blood in AP I guess you are aware of my family back ground...sorry it is red in color.

Sonia : Mr Sardarji? get this Jagan blood juice.....

Sardarji : Blood juice ? Maam what are you talking?

Sonia : Sorry sardarji ?I am really going nuts  this morning after seeing this kadapa MP. Please bring Carrot juice.

sardarji : Ok Maam saab.

Jagan : See maam how great I am I also changed your mind. I can change anybody or everybody in AP. I'll chnage the face of AP .That is the reason I want to become CM.

Sonia : Stop Mr. Reddy. Be serious.

Jagan. I am quite serious about CM.I want to become Cm....I want become Cm ( He rhymes like school kid).

Sonia : Fine Reddy I have a small assignment for you before I consider your CM claim.

Jagan :  What is the amma.. If I do that will u give me CM post. ( like school kid)

Sonia : There is Blood cover  book on the table....sorry red cover book on the table...I am going nutts today.

That is 200 pages book prepared by IB.

Jagan : (interrupts sonia ) What is IB maam?

Sonia : You do not know what is IB and want to become CM?

Jagan : I did not prepare for the assignment. I did not bring "Chittis" along with me. In My school days My KVP

Uncle always used to put so many chittis in pockets so that is the reason i used to score good marks.

Sonia : are you grown up  Mr Jagan ?

Jagan : That is precisely the reason I want to be CM.

Sonia : Please go and read the Blood/red book.

Jagan : Ok Maam . I can complete  inhalf an hour.

Sonia : in 1/2 hr? This is 200 page book man?

Jagan : I can read very fast i am educated in English medium. So that is the reason I want to become CM?

Sonia : Stop man....go ahead and read the book and come back to me. After that I’ll consider your claim for CM.

Jagan : You'll surely consider no maam?

Sonia : Cmon go ahead......

After 30 minutes Jagan returns.

Sonia : Did u go through the red book.

Jagan : Yes maam.

Sonia : what you have to say.

Jagan : I need my uncle KVP beside me.

Sonia : WHy jagan? Mr KVP are you there outside?

KVP : Yes Soniaji.

Sonia : Check it Jagan seems to be in need of your help.

Jagan : KVP uncle...KVP uncle... Sonia is fully aware of all our shady deals...it is better we leave this place.

Jagan leaves 10 Janpath rhyming

( Jagan know little bit Italian)

Syanora Sonia

Syanora Sonia

I thought you did not know about our shady deals.

I thought you did not know about our shady deals.

Please save Sonia Please save sonia

Please save Sonia Please save sonia

(KVP Chorus)

Syanora Sonia

Syanora Sonia

(Jagan)

I do not want to be CM for now

I do not want to be CM for now

(KVP Chorus)

Syanora Sonia

Syanora Sonia

My Best Wishes To Andhra Jyothy News Channel

Dear Srinivas and AJ Family,

         Ever since I heard about your news paper - Andhra Jyothy is planning to float a news channel I thought of writing this mail to you. At the back of my mind, I was worrying about the reception this mail gets from you and your editorial board it but certainly tried hard to hold me back, though not longer.

             I wish I should have written in chaste Telugu on neat paper to impress upon Telugu news paper editor. But I have chosen English to write this mail in. Pardon me for that. Reason being as kid growing up in small remote village in Mahabub Nagar District- speaking or using few English words in conversion or for that matter in answer sheets in exam was something considered as an achievement. That was 90's mindset. 2000's are really different so as my yardstick to measure achievement.

Changing Societal Trends - Media role

           This change not only happened in my life but also in society. So many changes happened in society, in news reportage, in societal values and traditions and in economic status of individuals including poor. I have serious doubt whether these changes captured by media, really well? This is debatable. It is apparent from kind of reportage that we are seeing in local print media and local news channel that Media is not catching up with societal changes in the truest sense. And also, you agree with me, true journalist responsibility is to Mirror the views of people/society to that powers that control them and also mirror the society own wrong doings to itself. 

       And also I believe that Journalist responsibility also that of a watchdog -keep an eye on society movements (wrong direction that if it is taking) and suggest it the course correction that is required to put it back on track. I think that you agree with me on this too. I do not want to remind any journalistic responsibility to a Doctorate in journalism -you and whose news paper editorial policy is wedded to truly journalistic values and traditions. I thank you very much for up keeping the journalistic values even in toughest times.

Emergence of New Tribe - "I Too Love Democracy@ my convenience"

         Recent happenings -after math of YSR death prompted me to write this mail. I am as disturbed in this state as any right thinking citizen of the state should be. I am referring to" Jagan To Be Made CM" demand. In this episode one thing crystal clear is that Media (yours is an exception) and individuals are keeping the individual interest much ahead that of the state. Room of criticism to this demand is shrinking day by day. It appears that deliberate attempt has been made to silence the right thinking citizen's voice. This is not good for the democracy. This is classical example how feudal leaders can be dangerous to the democratic fabric of the country.

           I was appalled by these feudal leaders' plans to even thwart the National Media. I heard they plan to go to court against "Mail Today" of India today group with the fear that their reportage in Delhi news paper may thwart their efforts to make somebody- CM. Being far away from New Delhi it seems Andhra Pradesh is less exposed and eventually become less tolerant society. Lallu Yadav or Mayawati have done a fraction of corruption that leaders of AP did that should have become national news and made them to mend their ways. Unfortunately AP news does not gather more eyeballs at national level so these gentlemen are escaping. These individuals do have a feeling that they even silence National media as they tried all the tricks in the hat to silence you and failed.

          Reason behind these things is lack of understanding the democratic values. I was really surprised by the fact that these VERY individuals are saying the congress Hi-command is not respecting the "People SENTIMENT". As Pandit Nehru observed democracy is not only that majority opinion inclined to but it is majority of opinion judiciously mixed with wisdom of the leader, society observers and interest of the state. It seems that, sir, these "New Breed of Democracy Lovers" under the head of business men are using and abusing the democracy to promote their vested interests. It is common knowledge that business men are quite adept at this art. These SAME individuals suppressed the long standing democratic right of Telanganis for their state. I earnestly feel that power and money at the few individuals' beck and call will certainly pose much danger to the society. Any right thinking citizen or journalist should not allow this to happen.

            You and your editorial board (Adithya and all) seems to have observed this wrong trend and tried level best to expose these dubious intentions but you seem to have not achieved its objective as you are primarily in print media. As you made an attempt to give a voice to your noble thoughts with new "News Channel". I sincerely hope that you surely find success in this venture.

All The Best Once Again

Regards

Mahesh Thipparthi

Whats is the Best Development Approach For India

This is infact a diffrent kind of post. I rather call at as response post .

I have written this post in response to following post :

http://arunjoecool.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-path-to-sustainable-development.html.

I can't match him in explaing complex things in such lucid language but i made an attempt to do that.

             What kind of development approach is needed for our country? I always hear that some gentle men say that decentralization of power could solve our rural problems. Some other say “centralization” of power is the need of the hour as Indian are yet to come out of “Colonial Hangover”. Some reason that local people can better plan their future rather than somebody sitting in “AC Office”. (I really do not know where this “AC Office” syndrome comes from- probably this might have been coined by our left friends- these leftist have spoiled the Indians by planting anti-capitalist seeds in their minds by hi-jacking the ICSE,NCERT,ICHR). I am of the view that this country really needs not top-down approach or bottom-up for sustainable development. It really needs “Spatial Model” – participative development model. This model succeeds only when we have Bottom-up or top-down model along with functioning democracy.

How top-down model failed in this country?

         India started with “Top-Down approach” for development with its five-year plan. Then political leadership thought that given the illteracy and lack of leadership at the gross-root level, this country needed “Centralized planning”. It was not successful as it was set out to be. Reason is very simple. In our country there is trust deficit between one constitutional body and other, center and state, state and municipality, municipalty and panchayat. In fact this gap is really widening day by day. I’ll tell you 2 incidents to buttress my point.

1.          If there is famine or national calamity, news channels and print media send battery of reporters to cover that. They cover it and sensitize that political leadership- state and central. After a week or so prime minister makes whirlwind tour of the region and announces that “CENTRAL team” would be visiting in a week or so to assess the loss to the state. By the time central team comes our state secretaries prepare nice report saying that “2000 Crs of loss”. Central team visits and announces only 200 cores. Based on state govt plotioctial affiliation will accuse / praise the government for its generosity/stupidity. – this is first incident of TRUST Deficit

2.        Ever since Rajeev Gandhi came up (one more bottom up guy) with law for devolution of power to local bodies, panchayat are demanding “Check Power” for them. State govt are not willing to give that power to them. Reason is obvious - TRUST Deficit.

What is trust deficit?- fear of misusing the power . This very trust deficit made this approach of development no longer tenable for India’s growth.

Why bottom-up will fail or failing?

            I talk about my village here – Gram panchayat gets funds from state and central governments through many schemes. They are SUPPOSED to held gramsabha and plan what is needed for their village. like our assembly and parliament these “Gram Sabha” are mere farce( of course parliament is much better- even though they do not discuss about country’s problems- thank god at least they convene once in quarter). If any indivual raises a voice that guys will be beaten black and blue. After liberalization and availability of Information through Televisions, villagers aspirations are sky rocketing and at the same time options are limited to grow. This is putting pressure on them to look for easy means of making money. 

            Not only does that Viallage leader neither have the expertise to solve their problem nor the will to do the same. They started approaching the village issues with “What is in it for me?” approach. This approach is rendering any model useless, in particular bottom-up. However I read some stories about some village’s panchayat doing splendid job. These account for minuscule number. Can you afford to have centralized plan or decentralized plan for a success rate of 0.1%? This is the “Gross root democracy” in this country. We Indian have to really thank god that “our assemblies and parliament” do not work in the same fashion.

What’s the road ahead- what approach suits India better?

Spatial –Model – Any development model + functioning democracy.

             Though English speaking –not InEnglish educated one I have to be proude of “OUR largest Functioning democracy” to not to invite the wrath of fellow beings, given the in India’s neigherberhood we got be happy about our democracy. Though we are far away from “Longest democracy”- Unites states of America. Defunct Democracy and corruption are only things survived in this country for the past 60 years. I am sure that they’ll survive for 60 more years too reason being they are inseparable.
             I understand that there is nothing “flawless” in this world including our democracy. I also understand the fact that to have such democracy in the lines of longest democracy -USA in India is also utopian dream. To have sustainable development to meet the ever increasing demands of the people need of the hour is to have functioning democracy in this country. This alone would set the stage to solve all the problems of India irrespective of the development Model we approach

If I Have To………

As you know my brother has fathered a girl child a month ago,since then I have been waiting to pen down few words about her, her arrival into the family and what it means to many of us. It took a poetic turn instead of routine prose. Here is my little poetry for the first time on my blog.

Here it is for you Ladies and gentlemen.

If I Have To………

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If I have to describe in one word
She is "angelic"
If I have to do the same in two
She is "just superb"
If I have to say it in three
She is “lovable by all"
If I have to put it in four
She is "the most much awaited" angel
If I have to borrow my mother words
She is "THE thing happened to her" and “Worth Gold”
If I have to repeat my brother words
She is "Goddess Lakshmi just arrived"
If I have to echo the feelings of my dear workers at home - Fatima and Kalavathi
She is "first generation Chinna Patelemma waiting to be kissed and pampered”

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Recents Books I Have Read

As you know I love "Thomas Friedman" books. I happened to read one of his greatest books "Lexus and Olive Tree". This was his first book on globalization (before "World is flat"-you can refer one of earlier posts to see my review). This is one of the best books I have ever read. Though "world is flat" is much more popular. I rate “Lexus and olive tree” right on the top of his 3books I have read. After reading this I found (WIF) that to be "abridged version" of this.

This is 490 pages book. It really tests your patience. But at the same time it engages you all the way with Thomas Friedman small little stories with his characteristic style of beautiful explantion.He put across his points nicelyl in the minds of readers with these stories.

I also attempted to read his latest books “Hot Flat and Crowded”. I really did not like this book much reason being this book is primarily aimed at the American audience, in particular American policy makers. I strongly believe that America is great country but at same time I hate to hear/read in every other sentence that “American is great country”. I strongly feel that he should have avoided that. It really does not engage non-American readers. Good thing about Thomas Friedman is that he accepted that he had written that book for American audience in his latest interview with Barkha Dutt on “Imaging India in Hot Flat Crowded”. This is one of the best programs on NDTV in the recent past.

But for all my friends who are thinking that "What is in It" for me in this blog,continue reading the blog.one key take away from this book(HFAC) as I understand is that you have excess money do invest in companies that are in Green technologies. In Indian context few thing that come to mind are

“Praj Industries”,
“Punj Lloyd” ,
“Suzlon”.
In US you can try “Suntech “ and other some semiconductor companies that have invested heavily on “Photo Volatic Cell” area like “Cypress semicponductor”.

I recommond all to read "Post American World" By Fareed Zakaria.You can expect a post from me on this after some time. keep waiting ..........

My New Indulgence - Trekking

Of late I got into new indulgence-Trekking I am careful with my words-indulgence not hobby. No intensions to make it a hobby given the risk and pain involved in that. Trekking as a concept is nothing new to me as you know I am from beautiful village-Rangapur at the foothills for “Nallamala forest Range". Well before I attended my primary school I know this but what i do not know is that there is beautiful word for that in English.

My co-villagers used to do this trekking to make ends meet. Even my mother used to go for this to get leaves from forest to make leaf- plates to sell at the market 100 units@ 5 Rs.The entire woman folk used to do this in the villages to be financially independent and also to supplement the family income. This was part time job of my villagers at that time. Guys from Hyderabad used to come to our villages to buy these leaf-plates. Whenever they come to our village, for children it was a festival time. You know which child does not like financially independent Mom. If mom is healthy and wealthy, children would me much happy. That was when we used to get a chance to spend 1Rs. In my case it was always for “Mysore Pak”.

We city bred (sans me :)) thinks that all our politicians are bad people and they won’t make good policies. I think this helps you to understand why our policy makers would prepare the policies around women. I’ll talk about my beautiful village some time later. I‘ll reserve all the good and bad of villages to some other post.
Let s switch to present

Recessionary pressures have taken a toll on everybody who are directly or indirectly exposed them to liberalization and enjoyed the fruits of the same for a long time. So I am no exception to it. To understand my views on globalization please refer my earlier posts. To get away from this I was desperately looking for an escape.

One of my great friends called me to say that he was going for trekking. I immediately asked him if I can join him and he said Ok after due confirmation with organizers. Everything went as scheduled contrary to my expectations. We started off from Bangalore by 10PM.We travelled to Coorg by mini bus. We reached our destination in time. We started off our moon light trekking at around 4 AM. It was terrific experience-given my fear for snakes.

After morning breakfast, we climbed few mountains and walked through the forest daring the snakes and elephants. We had great team of individuals (of 12)-who are very co-operative and sensitive to other problems. I am not revealing more about place as we are under oath from the organizers (in fact I do not want to bore you with the details :) ...I think organizers are not listening). Organizers are pretty good bunch of people. If somebody wants to go refer this site: http://www.backpackers.org.

Key take aways from Trekking

1. I read somewhere - enjoy the journey not the destination. I told myself then that it is utter bull shit.only losers say this. This trekking changed my perception. Here only journey matters not the destination.
2. I became better team player after spending 2 days with individuals with great character.
3. I buckled to pressure of surmounting the mountains, and given up trekking many times on the journey, but realized at the end that with the right encouragement, there is nothing insurmountable.

I can only say Big thank you to all of you for being an object to learn something from. I love you all.