Tuesday 26 June 2012

Dear all
The arrest of Abu Jindal with the help of Saudi police is indeed a very great diplomatic victory for India. His extradition to India and has now become a shot in the arm for the Indian investigative agencies. I feel that this response from Saudi  Arabia should be viewd by the change in strategic posture of India due to the close proximity that India has with US agencies and the change in geostrategic postures due to this India-US axis emerging after the declaration of Pakistan among  imbedding Failed states. Pakistan’s release of Sarabjit is also to be viewed in this context

Now the question is how far our legal political system responds. It should be remembered that jindal’s  compatriots are still at large with the big fishes still in Pakistan. With Kasab facing the gallows (hope it happens before he has a natural death) Jindal will be lucky  to enjoy India’s legal and political laxities.

Sanyasi

Thursday 21 June 2012

Dear all

It is said that sport is not only a physical activity but also mental in nature. A teams success depends on the mental connect between the players which we generally call as  team spirit.

The London Olympics is round the corner and as usual we have now the Tennis crisis ; Leader wants to play with Sanya and not Bhupati and all sorts of ego hassles tripping our  tennis aspiration in the Olympiad .

The arrogance of Leander is quite evident on his postures as reflected in the press and I feel that he should be  junked  irrespective of his stature.I hope the new kids like Bopanna and Vishnu vardhan etc can  bring fame:

Whether it is cricket or tennis, it is high the to junk the old hats irrespective of what ever be their records or glory


Sanyasi:

Friday 15 June 2012

Dear all

Today it is day of shame for all of us in Gujarat. A magazine publised on behest of the Goverment of Gujarat as part of the sarva siksha abyam scheme, was filled with vulger jokes. First of all the universities and schools in Gujarat is far below the national standards, with sub standard teachers guided by some elite trustees whos only qualification is that they have pots of money to build big campuses.
See the mushrooming of Engineering and MBA colleges here with inferious facility and faculty. Guys and gals here seems interested only for a degree for a social status related to marriage or business. Intellectualism is far below normal.
It is high time that the goverment be serious enough to bring in good quality faculty and standards in its State and private managed institutions. I conclude by a joke in the children's book where a lady is asked that she has a 4 yesr old child inspite of her husband dying 9 years before, to which the lady says , that she is still living. Hahaha let the kids laugh

Sanyasi

Thursday 14 June 2012

Dear friends

While reading Nithyananda’s religious books I didn’t expect that a casino was hidden in him. When the Tamil actress’s CD was circulated and while watching it I felt that it was not real. However having now heard about the American lady’s lamentations of the Nithyananda effect, it seems that there is some fire in the smoke:

The issue here is the Business of Spirituality: Very recently I had spent an hour with a clean shaven, white sari clad lady who introduced herself as Ma Purvi who gave me a power point presentation of a yogic exercise ( needless to say,  seeing this  beautiful lady I had thought of only one  yogic exercise) which will benefit the stress induced corporate sector . The induction fee per participant was only Rs 3000 and she also offered me a corporate discount as well  .

I was thinking, as to what difference is there between me a Corporate Sales Man to this spiritual Sales women

The Astha channel is a breeding ground for such spiritual mosquitoes where a baba or swami with innumerable followers around them addressing   day to day issues. These babas are now a   brand in them self . Some talk of healing through the scriptures and some on yoga (in this case you get a ticket to be in politics via team Anna), or the Art of making a living . The business model is simple, set up an ashram (Capital investment), do discourses (the operating cost is minimal) and the revenue is exorbitant, and the IRR is infinite. In fact I feel now besides Marketing and Finance, Business Schools should start a PGDM in Spirituality.

I heard that there are 1 million spiritual gurus in India, with an unaccounted market size, may be a sizable share of our GDP. If you have the habit of waking up at 5 O clock in the morning and open up any TV channels (fortunately I wake up at 8) you can witness  this huge market size.

Here i would recommend you all to read Meera Nanda’s book named the God Market where she has indeed done a research on this .

Where are we heading to? The answer is simple, as globalisation and 9% growth became a reality, there is a cash formation which needs an outlet for spiritual healing from the anxieties of the present day:

Sanyasi

Monday 11 June 2012

Dear readers

The refusal of Supreme court, to stay the order of the Andhra Pradesh High court on the 3.5% sub quota was a matter of interesting reading today; I was remembering the Mandal commissioning agitation of 80s where the students in Delhi took the issue  to the streets and one Goswami who self immolated.( he died later due to some other reason)

Our solicitor general argued in the court that the delay in implementation of the sub quote will jeopardise the future of 350 IIT aspirants  selected within this quota. Those sentiments were pooh-poohed  by  the learned judges. At last i read a good news in the new paper which I was waiting for long , as I always read reports on accidents , robberies  and corruption to fill the  platter during my breakfast reading of news papers.

An interesting article in the Editorial column of the times of India’’ s Ahmadabad edition is  worth reading on this topic for  the day. Also thanks to the SC judges who stayed the order and let Goswami’s soul rest in peace . For me the judgement gives hope as  chances of my daughter getting into an IIT is not further beaked: good day:
Sanyasi:

Sunday 10 June 2012

Dear friends
The goverment of Gujarat is spending Rs 2500 crore to built a statue of Sardar Patel over the narmada river. It would be a gujarati version of the statue of liberty. Gujarat I agree is a rich state, so the statue would be a matter of pride for the Non Resident gujaratis returning home to take  their kids for picnic.
But the other side is when our Mayavatiben spent similar amounts for a statue of her, we had all this brohaha. However when Gujarat is into such a extravaganza nobody has even noticed. ....

Sardar Patel himself was a common man''s leader and just imagine what he would have said if alive to this extravaganza...

Really a thought to ponder upon.

Sanyasi

Tuesday 5 June 2012

Dear all

Two events warrants attention one is the swearing of Sachin Tendulkar as a   Rajya Sabha MP and that of Viswanathan Anand becoming the world Chess champion.  Knowing both Cricket and Chess, I am a bit partial to chess because it is game of sheer individual skill . Anand’s triumph need to be acknowledged by larger recognitions. While we talk of giving a Bharat Ratna to Sachin and make him an  MP or give make Dhoni a Lt Colonal, we are quite partisan while recognising  other individual and their sport in the same platform. Well we can always lament Cricket is a mass hysteria while chess is a sport on the fringe. Jai Ho

Sanyasi

Monday 4 June 2012

Dear all,

The coal  gate scam and the joining   of Anna and  Baba Ramdev is the new news. The two stalwarts have now heated up the media space again . So lot of fireworks and tamashas, and prime time media nightingales chasing team anna and the baba .

Is the Anna Movement an orchestrated public movement.  Of course it had a good beginning when  the youth took  on the mantle last year. But this youth back up make me feel that it was only a chocolate euphoria and since lost its charm. To be more sarcastic, it seems to me that some intellectual Delhiwalas uses a sincere but tactless crusader for their advantage . Attention changes from Lok pal to individual corruption and election issues. The baba seems to have won in getting a synergy from the movement. Somewhere the whole DNA of the movement is lost.....the common man like me and you still searches a leader...
What do you think , DO write and participate

Sanyasi
4-6-12