Mahalocha in Maharashtra

Its always been the dilemma for me whenever I started to write something. To be more precise I have always been extra conscious about writing the politics in my blogs. As the people we are we are very political, its the beauty of India where we always have something to say and politics is that forum. Even though we all don't actively take part in it but surely have the opinions.

The recent election in Maharashtra is been the biggest gabled played by every political parties. This was the first time where there were more than 5 political parties who were trying there luck. It was really fascinating to see the debates and ever changing scenarios in all the political parties. It was very touch and go election where no one opened there cards every one was waiting for the last minute.

At the last moment the two main groups Cong-NCP and SS-BJP got split. They had there own explanation but the confusion go over and every one had whole of Maharashtra state to win. There were on seat sharing, no exchange of the seats. The logic was simple "Just get 144".

souce: http://www.elections.in/maharashtra/

I am not going to go into all the politics that happened afterwards. Specially the add campaign by the BJP which I really thought was in very bad taste. "Where have you taken my Maharashtra" campaign got to far and was ridiculed on the social media. Everyone in Maharashtra knew where it is but Probably BJP got so blurred by the Gujarat model that they forgot where it is. I thought promotion Gujarat model was great in other states but Maharashtra has its own model and way ahead of other states. Gujarat has lot of catching up to do. There was lot of negativity there and probably it must have costed some seat or clear majority to BJP.

Finally SS mends its ways and came in the folds of BJP Government and what looked like a sensible move. As there supporters patience running thin, it was matter of time when time ran out for the call for sitting outside which by the way they did tried.

Now whats in store is the major question. After 15 years of Cong-NCP rule we have new government at the state same as the center. Everyone is hoping for better co-ordination between them and Fadanvis looks a practical person so its time we give this new government the much deserve time before starting criticizing them.

As far as I see, I don't think this government will last its full tenure as there is clear split between the two coalition parties at the vidhan bhavan in Mumbai. They are on collision course which is good news for the opposition, they know what it is. To be partners in the government and work against each others on the grounds. There is a clear cut Modi Wave which will benefit BJP in short term but in long run if they don't do what they have promised. This surge of BJP in India will be short lived.

We hope this goverment will serve in the best interest of the people in Maharashtra but with all these combination of the numbers and views controrary to each other it looks like a big locha...or rather..mahalocha...:)

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India restless...waiting for 'Achhe Din'

Its look like everything the PM Modi said in his spirited campaign in the 2014 General election come down to 10th of July. This is very important day for me specially but will be for everyone in India. This is probably the most anticipated and keenly watched Union Budget in recent times. This is not only watched by the Indian's but world as well.

As India is beco and also the one that has raised a lot of hopes. In fact, the maiden budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, due to be presented on July 10, can also determine the economic trends in the time to come.

After Modi-led BJP clinched absolute majority in the Lok Sabha post a highly charged pan-India campaign that helped identify local needs and aspirations, people are now looking forward to the first Union Budget of the new government with a lot of enthusiasm.

Narendra modi wore lots of hats in the past and is a vivid fan of the hats. The cap of the prime minister of India is going to be a difficult one. One which demands many things from him and I hope he will deliver on this. From the first few days it looks like he is a no non-sense person but what kind of legacy he will leave will only time will tell.

This blog was written quite a while back but had to complete it as he is the most controversial and talked about figure in India. I myself never been a big fan of Narendra Modi but then he is now the prime minister of india. In a democracy like india where no state is same in the same state there are people who would not understand the language. This diversity will be the key challenge for him to take the all kind of the people together and take the whole of india forward.

Whenever I saw MMS, I saw a helpless man but for the change we have now the different perspactive on the PM position. Lets hope he will bring the 'Achhe din' as he has promised to us all. I am an optimist and practical person. I see surely doing a great job if he stay away from hard-line communal line. He looks like doing lot of talking but India need progress and rightful place in the world. We always been the number 1 country in the world for major part of the history of the human civilizations.

As always I will end in positive note and hope that Achhe din will come and remain there for future.

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Masterchef England - Time to cook the Captain Cook

"Thank god that final the misery for Team India is over. Mahendrasingh Dhoni must be having an awkward feeling where he was on the moon for after World cup and IPL championship wins. He was immediately dragged on to the ground and into the dust. As Sixty per cent of his team back to the home country, he must be very eager to see his new home in Ranchi. In this blog there are references of the today which are happened in the past, but pardon me for that as this blog is in the making for last 1 month. I have almost finished it but did not publish it so…

It was really good for me to be busy this week as I did not get the chance to watch the TV. Like me there were not many so fortunate and had to watch it. It’s really been the heartbreak to all Team India fans as there team performed miserably on the field. This was really the shocker of the performance as Team India did not looked like number 1 ranked team in the world. Even though there were good performances, they were never consistent. Is this really the end of the domination or is there another story to it.

 I got the chance to watch it for full day and India has scored 300 score after 7-8 test matches. It’s good to see that with little bit of fight from the Wall and the tail, it reminded me the old Indian teams in the past. Whenever they visited the foreign soils, this is what India always performed there. I have seen great India collapsing in the past but somehow I or we forgot that. Once upon time India were called Tigers at home and hapless visitors, so now you know why that was."

You might have go confused about what was all that about. Have I gone mad? or Am I forecasting the results of the England tour? All of you are wrong, above there paragraphs are form the blog which I did not publish. That blog was about the India's cricket teams performance after last tour of England.

Captain cook under pressure

As everyone I had lots of hope with the team India last time, as it was the number 1 team in the world. Everything was going for team India as that time. Probably it was the twilight period for our greats but surely wasn't the end of it. They had some batteries reserved, we had exciting new talent in the bench but as per murphy's law 'Whatever needs to go wrong will go wrong'. Thats what happened all the players collectively got out of the form except 'The Wall'. Looked like everyone is getting injured with half of the team nursing injuries.

This England series going to be different this time as unlike previous series where our team looked exhausted, this team looks fresh and oozing to do better. Unlike last time Team England is not in form, there top order looks unsettled. There body language is down after disastrous Ashes series where they were literally manhandled by Michel Johnson. They look out of sort against spirited Lankans well led by brilliant Angelo mathews.

England tour was one of the toughest tours I have seen with 4 matches(Later on Australian tours were equally disastrous). After that India hardly won out side of the country in Test matches, our team had very close calls in SA and NZ in recent past but nothing to show on paper. Both series our new middle order showed some courage and fight but in the end could not deliver the desired results.

This time around we have the batting line up which is envious to say the list. Gautam Gambhir was a good selection in these inexperience bunch. His form is surely the problem in the past but he has the experience in those condition and will surely come good for the team. Virat, Vijay, Cheteshwar, Ajikya and Dhoni, will be handful to the English bowlers but again they need to prove the world and to themselves a point to two.

Even though we have brilliant batting line up, our bowling looks inexperienced. We have superb bowlers in Bhuvi and Shami but they lack in experience in the English weather and pitches. And there's ever unreliable Ishant Sharma, who is a real conundrum for selectors. I am hoping, he does badly in 1st test match and did not play for rest of the series. This way we can play extra spinner against the Poms which is obviously an Achilles heel for them.

If Team India does well in this tour, they will surely mark there arrival on the World stage. For that they need to perform and keep fit for the 2 month long Test series. If you ask me who will win the series. My answer will be the fittest team will win the series.

Lets hope our team keeps fit and win the series in England. This remind me of my old land lord who always use to tell me about Ajit Wadekar that 'He bearded the lion in his own Dane'. May be the new punch line would be 'Doni cooked cook in his own kitchen'.

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Inner Conflict

As usual I woke up late after watching the Quarter final between Netherlands and Cost Rica which by the way ended very very late. Barring that I had excellent rest today with lots of sleep which did not get because of my new found love for football. I will be lying if I say that I am a football fan but I do like to watch that sport. Its most exhausting sport one can play and I am definitely not the person to get involved. So watching it on the TV is the only option, I guess....

You might think that this blog is about the football which will be the second part of the World cup related to blog I wrote 4 years back. I really wanted to do that but world cup is almost over and now I am not interested as such so until and unless you fans..;) insist on it(which I know they are not..:D), till that time I am going to avoid the temptation

As I said I was awake late nights to watch the football matches even though I am not a vivid football fan, show my confusion about my likes and dislikes. This happens with everyone and I am surely not alone with this thought. 

In this the mind plays a very peculiar role where it plays both the sides of an argument. On one had it tells use one thing and in the next second it gives the extremely opposite views. I always wonder why thin happens and why our thought process is not linear, which surely make our life easy or maybe not. Let’s explore this thought…so shall we..:)

Inner conflict

Also the question arises with the Inner conflict is whether having Inner conflict is right thing? I have conflicting view on this and many of you will concur with me. With the This I think some people may call it mind games but there is no way to avoid it.

May be that's the reason why human history is full of conflict? Its the inner conflict in each of the us gave away to those violent actions. I think as humans whatever we say or pretend to be, we are by nature violent. One might argue that it’s not the first nature of the humans. My counter argument to that will be ‘The positive or negative energy coming out of our inner conflicts had to channels somewhere’.  With such humongous organ called brain we have to have those thought and eventually the actual conflict.

But is that everything bad out the inner conflict and has to end in a actual conflict, may be not. As we became more civilized and domesticated, we learn to leave it it. It not the day to day life, which we have the conflict with or because of which have those inner conflict in the first place.

It is becoming more confusing a paragraph by paragraph for me also so I can guess how confusing it would be for you but we all look for answer and this is my litter effort to seek one. My first effort question was ‘What is an inner conflict?’ and second was ‘Whether having inner conflict is really bad?’

As reader of mistakenly diverted user, do you really have the answer for this? If answer is affirmative then I surely would like to hear from you. Please do write the comments so that I can take this subject forward as I have one view that I am far from over.

This is the first blog I am writing after having my beautiful daughter and I have absolutely no inner conflict that whether she will love me or not…but there are things about which we have inner conflict and lets bring those in open….

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