India and China

China pumped in $675 billion dollars to stimulate their economy and India with limited reserve could spend a paltry $7.5 billion dollars. This is the original fate of our country. So next time if you hear someone comparing India to China, please ask them to fuck themselves. Sadly, India is no league to compete with China.

IPL is not about national pride????

B. Raman wrote an article in rediff about postponing and chasing away the IPL matches from India.

http://cricket.rediff.com/cricket/2009/mar/09/braman-ipl-not-about-national-pride.htm

I totally disagree with Mr. Raman. Nationalism will exist, only as long as the common commercial interest exists. We never had a common commercial interest in the past to exist as a single country. Now we do and that’s why we have a nation called India. If terrorists are winning over in spoiling our commercial interests then they are winning the very war they are waging, the war against the core that unites us to be a single country.

By sending IPL to another country, what is the signal the government is sending to foreign investors? Are they saying that India will stop all its activities when it’s election time? That India doesn’t have the bandwidth to handle the security requirements? That India is unfriendly to businesses?

In my opinion, the government and the election commission should have acted responsibly. They could have conducted the polls in January. They are conducting the polls in the height of summer months which by itself is very stupid. How can they expect voter turnout to be good? Election commission knows very well about the IPL craze in India and the revenue it generates. People keep saying that the billionaires are gaining money by this. Why, now they don't consider tea shops and the other vendors as small businesses? Aren't they profiting from this event? I am not an economist but isn't that how the economy is supposed to work? I even read that political commentators like Cho dismissing it as an entertainment. I wish he had considered the revenue of the entertainment industry in India.

India will not change unless the unfriendly attitude of the government toward businesses changes. This needs a generational change. All the Gandhian era people should retire so that the next generation can move the country ahead instead of just lingering in nostalgia of the freedom movement.

Motorcyle Dairies

I read the motorcycle dairies for the 3rd time this weekend. It is not one of the best books I have read, but it is definitely one of those books that touch your inner spirit that longs for freedom and adventure. Every time Che travels on road and shares his experience, you feel like you want to do the same thing. He learns from his travels. He learns from his own experience. To me that is the true learning. One can read thousand books about great warriors but one has to be in a battle to understand the magnitude of it. How can reading philosophies make man a philosopher?

If we keep questioning every aspect of our daily activity, many of the mundane acts makes absolutely no sense at all. Well, at least to me.

SUN TZU - Art of War

I wouldn't have read this book in thousand years. One of my friends kept saying about this book all the time. I had no idea if he had ever read this book or any other book for that matter. None in our team had read this book. I guess probably that was the reason he kept going on and on.

I somehow successfully finished reading this book. Damn, it was fucking boring. It's a great book but one of the worst written books.

Today, I casually mentioned that i read the book to my friend to discuss how boring it was. Guess what, he stopped talking about this book all together.