Thats-so-Raja !

There are many hilarious reasons for the Greek’s present debt crisis but this one is the jewel. The Government created a committee to manage Lake Kopais. The committee had been working sincerely ever since and earning their worth until now. Just that the lake had dried up and disappeared since 1930. The other tummy-ripping-funny story that comes close to that is from the Indian Administration. A particular state had a lot of sandal-wood trees in its forests that needed to be protected from smugglers. The rangers demanded horses for their surveillance. So a committee was formed to procure horses. These jokers swindled all the money and returned back with some ‘don’t-know-whats’ that come out of crossing horses and donkeys. The rangers found them only as useful as a rubber mouth on a wood-pecker and stopped using them. The brilliant committee did not even check for the genders and the animals started reproducing profusely. Thus the committee found its reason for existence - maintaining t...

[Sequel to ' The Battle of the Buddha '] How much land that we own that we don’t use? How much food do we have in our fridge that we may throw away later? How many dresses that we left hanging unused? How much of cosmetics we threw those dint fulfill our whims? How much did we spend on health due to self acquired illnesses? How compulsory are our additional second car, third TV, fourth phone, fifth watch, sixth shoes? How much excess money that we hold on to, that doesn’t help to save a life of a fellow human? Have we stopped buying? Have we stopped wasting? Do we realize what we are doing to our lives and to those others? Simple Truth! This market economy works based on the demand. In other words, GREED. Greed is GOOD! - Capitalism. But with our greed, we increase the demand and the affordability of the essentials. With our greed we keep the poor poorer. With our greed, we kill the soul of some child somewhere right this moment. Why go that far? Aren’t we killing our own sou...

Do you know who Jesus was fighting against? When the world went down with the great depression in the 1930s, do you know who was celebrating? When you are itchy of acquiring anything which is an economical stretch far beyond your potential, do you know whom you are worshiping? Do you know who Buddha was preaching against? When the Wall Street guys robbed innocents off their retirement funds and yet splurged on the public money in exotic resorts, do you know who felt flattered? Do you know who Gandhi strived to keep away from? Do you know who is the reason for all the inequalities on the earth today?

Have you combed an Indian metro recently? What struck you as the blinding flash of the obvious? The shining India? AND also in a few meters, a POOR nation caught in the slip stream of capitalism? An economic divide ? AND hence a cultural divide ? In short, did you notice the Class Conflict ? It’s the same class conflict or “alienation” that Karl Marx saw in the late 1800s. This has been a cause of my reluctance to move back to India. Because common sense and history tells that such class conflicts will result in social unrest and ugly revolutions as small as “mangalore bar attacks” (google it) to something as catastrophic as the French Revolution. What is the cause for this great Indian divide? The answer is “Knowledge Economy” and the “Knowledge Workers”. Let me dummify these terms first. Think of a line (like the poverty line) called the machine line . You are above the machine line if machines are your slaves. For example, a biotechnologist or a banker who uses a computer to get hi...

From Obama's transport in the pervious post, lets look into cost cutting in the corporates. Not for the eyes of CFOs.

Boy, drawing Obama really gives a bang! Please float your wits here folks, will try and cartoon them.