My favourite TV show

Well what could be better? For a TV buff like me who watches loads of crap and a bit of useful stuff on the ibox (I prefer intellingent to be used in place of idiot for i), it would be quite an ordeal to single out a single show and call it my favourite. I mean I just watch so many of them and like so many of them. But for this show it certainly would have been a tough choice but having this show play on the TV makes it almost a no contest. So folks here and now I announce it... My favourite show on TV is BOSTON LEGAL.

Now that I think of it I just can't seem to find anything else which could change my mind. I mean how can it be something else. The show has got everything, a protagonist who loves to play with the law and has wicked ways of dealing with wicked people and takes twisted ways to get the law to go straight and get the guilty punished, we have a voyeuristic and promiscuous lead who brings the funny side and adds spice, we have a female lead who is the most sought after woman in the office, then we have numerous psychologically challenged people. All in all its fun and in all the fiasco and chaos the court cases and the closings by the famous lawyers from the 'Crane, Poole and Schmidt' firm are certainly enthralling. The judges are pure characters and all these ingredients make up an hour of extremely lovely and intriguing TV watching.

For someone like me who is an avid TV watcher it is hard to find something which really interests me besides the news, sports and comedy and here we have finally found a show which I love. I strongly recommend the show to everyone of you but obviously with an advisory that don't watch it with your parents or your children 'coz there would be moments when you would find yourself extremely uncomfortable.

Have a wonderful time watching it on Saturdays and Sundays at 10 PM on Star World....

SM

Thank You readers..

Dear Readers,
I would like to express my sincerest of gratitude for your encouragement. It is only through your constant feedback and encouragement that I can carry on with this endeavour. It is really nice to hear about you people reading my blog.

I will try to be more regular in my postings. Guest writers and requests for articles on specific topics are always welcome.

SM

Elections Ahoy!!!!!

Well finally its that time of the year again when the country is abuzz with campaigns and slogans eulogizing the governance and initiative of the government in power on one end and the opposition trying to bring forth the mismanagement and incompetent administration of the incumbent on the other.
Well it has to be said that this election as always has once again awaken some very old leaders from their long slumbers and they are once again at it. Manipulating and strategizing their next course of action to achieve the magic figure of 272. Congress has already come out with its list of 23 candidates which contains some prominent former SP leaders. Well treason and defection in the political world is called shift in ideology and hence I respect and empathize with the rapid change in ideologies in this country. Well it is not the thing of the past but rather the present and it is here to stay because the Indian system is a multiparty one and with the growing influence of regional parties and increasing number parties the government is bound to be a coalition and the very base of coalition is built on compromise and manipulation. What this in turn means is that no single manifesto will give the clear direction of governance to be followed and not even the big two the BJP and Congress could claim to show the Indian people a glimpse into the future through their manifestoes. So governance will once again be a cocktail. Lets just hope that it is a yummy one and that India continues to grow amid all the hues and cries and rallies and campaigns.

SM

My unfateful encounter with an Indian Ignorant Hedonist

A big, fat, OBNOXIOUS, ignorant, happy about nothing guy whose ultimate aim in life is to spoil himself in the petty and frivolous - No, he is no more only an American anymore but rather he has finally arrived... in my dear old India. Today I had the fortunate (read as 'unfortunate') encounter with this very being in my college canteen. He came with a beaming smile and a chuckle ever so nauseating which seemed to arise after every end, and sometimes even in the middle, of a sentence. Happiness and bliss was oozing out from him and somehow he always seemed so compelled to give his own bland solutions to every global and political problem being discussed there and was quite efficient in relating it to his own solutions. I don't know if it was just me or my perception of the person but somehow I ended up analyzing that my friend believed that all the world's problems could be solved if one is happy. Everything else was immaterial, be it the ever so imminent threat from terrorism or the recession looming large in the global economy, if he could get a burger with fries along with a coke in a McDonald outlet on his way to a two star rated movie, the world was perfect. His analysis and comprehension of our overzealous and effervescent debate on the condition of the India was that if you don't have the power, who are you to debate on the issue. He was not only critical in pointing out to us our shortsightedness in having a debate on an issue which we could not change as we obviously did not have a hand in it (and I thank God for it). Our data and information laden rationale was obviously just numbers and it was always in mankind's interest in just shutting its mind, eyes and ears and in looking around to find a TV remote to change the channel of the TV ,which had almost changed to a News channel, and switch it back on to watching the actual idols on the music channels battle it out on a biker show.

Well obviously these are the after effects of passing out of our Hinglish education system Schools where the children are much more concerned and worried about preparing chits for the exam and getting micro xerox copies of a girlfriend's notes than studying for the exam.

May be I am an idealist but these acts of ignorance are intolerable to me. I want people to understand that before any change to happen there needs to be feeling of discomfort and anguish against what is to be changed. There needs to be knowledge of what is the system and where is it going wrong. A mechanic is able to fix and engine only because he knows it inside out. Hence change can only be done if we know and understand what is the actual problem and what needs to be changed. Considerable thought and discussions are a part of the change process. It is these discussions and exchanges that will enrich us and arm us and as and when power is bestowed on us and we become capable we would be able to sort the problems out because we know them. Our friends who think that thought is needed and necessary only when power comes would be caught unawares. Money and power are fickle things and change hands very quickly and frequently. Hence to make the most of it we need to think about it now and act when we get the chance and not lose our chance in understanding the problem during our tryst with power because there might never be a next time....

Signing Off...
SM