Around 4, I remembered that I got to visit library. My membership expired, and I really didn’t want to renew it before Durga Puja. So I and srijo went out for another brigade walk together. We had lots of those in past couple of years. By that time rain has been slowed a little.

Once library work was done, srijo expressed his year long urge to buy a slr camera once again. So we entered GK valle. It’s a pretty descent shop with lots of varieties, and srijo got what he wanted but it was sealed.  The sales guy clearly explained to us that we wont be able to handle it before we pay. So we immediately left the shop and ran for canon gallery.

The centre of attraction there was actually a bike, and surely it was not a canon stuff. So immediately we started taking pictures of that bike using various cameras kept there for demo purpose. After a while a sales guy reminded us that they are going to close soon.  And at that very moment we came to know that they actually don’t sell anything from that gallery. Eventually we had to run again and luckily we made it before closing time.

For appetizer we hit motera cafe. I had a grand piece of blackforest consisting of few lakhs of calories. Next stop was shangrila where I had a korean chicken salad called “paad khai”. While coming back, the auto driver was playing astonishingly fast. So srijo asked him about he is not considering joining some race. He grinned and informed that there is actually a secret street racing syndicate for auto drivers. They arrange race every friday night in brigade road at around 2am. Thats all for this week.  Next week belongs to sallu bhai. Can’t wait to see DABANG!!             

So, we had a great time at nakshatra last Sunday. It’s been almost a month since we last met.  The occasion was mrinal’s brothers marriage. We missed the reception in Delhi, but mrinal was gracious  enough to compensate that. As you know, am always ready for good food, so naturally I was the first one to reach the place. Sinha came last, as he was carrying a brand new  N900 (which is a little heavier than his other set .  Shaleen did his best to restrict sinha from geeky lecture, but the gadget was really awesome.  Am personally impressed with both the camera and video quality. Only ashwin was silent. I guess he got bored with  our childish discussions, or maybe he was thinking about some unsolved problems from codechef.  We really din’t realize how 2.5 hrs got over.  I had a thrilling auto ride on my way back to home. It feels heavenly to glide through deserted inner ring road.



You see, reservation is not a new stuff in our country. And most of us know that it’s not an option. Still most of us favors it. The reason behind this is different for different people. Some of us are enjoying it, as they fall under minority tag. Some of us are in politics, and we  love minority vote bank. And there are many people, who doesn’t have an opinion. So they remain silent. Taking advantage of this situation, our government is introducing various types of reservations for various stages of society.

The result of this:-

1. Incompetent people in important positions.

2. Worst affected area is the medical profession, probably. It gets hit in 3 phases. First, they are getting advantage in entrance test( this heinous injustice may be compared to maradona’s hand of god incident ). Secondly  some incompetent people become doctor, which is pretty dangerous for public health.And because of these incompetent doctors, the meritorious doctors who belong to reserved category, gets affected. For example, I personally avoid going to schedule cast doctors fearing he is incompetent(Provided, he is totally unknown to me). Trust me, there are plenty of people who thinks in my way.

3. Reservation in any form, ignites racism. It’s like acknowledging races in official way.

4. It’s like wasting tax payers hard earned money to give some people undue advantages.

5. Some antisocial built their business around this situation. How? they provide fake sc/st/obc certificates to so called “higher” cast people. So that they can enjoy the fruit of  reservation unlawfully.

6. Countries overall growth suffers.

I know I have missed a lot of points in the above list. To be frank, that list is endless. So how to improve the condition of  backward people ?  I must say, Darwin was politically incorrect when he talked about survival of the fittest. We fail to accept that success and prosperity is not for everyone. Able and hardworking people will move forward, regardless of his cast. And rest of us will stay behind to form the backward class of society. In my opinion, if we really want to see more people in the upper crest, we may consider these ………..

1. Provide proper primary education, nutrition , freedom of thought , access to knowledge resources at early stages rather than pushing him into iits or iims at a later stage.

2. Arrange for scholarships for economically backward people, and please for god’s sake don’t select them based on cast or religion.

3. Teach the minorities not to think themselves as minorities.

4. And obviously, stop doing cast or religion oriented politics.

After all we are human not vote bank. Politicians should realize this.

1. I appreciated argentina’s talent, before match . Never argued with others in this regard.

2. I didn’t canceled any previous commitments for this match.

3. I concealed tension, and excitement too

4. I jumped only after 2nd goal. Rest of the time, I was in my usual posture.

5. I dint cut loose after the win.

6. I didn’t called all my argentine friends

7. I told 4 street dogs that germany has beaten argentina by 4 -0 , while having dinner in a road side restro.

Thats all.So I guess, I changed a lot compared to 2006. Am I matured now??? or did I just got old !