Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Water of the Melon

Every now and then they have researches on Viagra and some natural way to get its effects.
Well for one, news like this gets attention and affects readership.
Readers are usually the men who anyway have this scary thought of unable to produce, what is their sole domain for a few more years, and performance anxiety.
I read for two reasons, primarily, it must be the first one, secondary, as it involved Watermelon.
Well being in food processing, I am quite clear that this piece of news would be helping us quite a bit.
Truth is inconsequential; it is the perception that matters.
The Viagra like quality though comes not from the red matter of the fruit but the reed of the fruit.
As consumers can’t do much with the reed, they would perhaps not even register it to their brains and stick to the pulp part.
Last few years, us along with the industry have been doing a lot of work on fruits like this, Jamun for example, it is believed that the fruit and the juice is good for cure of diabetes.
Well, partially it might be true as it is the seed and not really the fruit.
We have a market to cater to, and we can only sell juices and not seeds or reeds.
I should guess, there must be some 500 MT of pulp of both these fruits of lying with the industry, which they are unable to sell.
With some help from Viagra and media, it won’t be long for the frozen pulp to be liquidated soon.

I have seen tons of Watermelon thrown at siliguri Agri markets, and reeds being eaten up by cows, wonder what effect must be happening on them? I
at the Peak season watermelon becomes dime a dozen, and a respite from the food processors would be a big help to the farmers.
So, do go to the big retail outlets and ask for juices of these exotic fruits.
One thing that would surely last longer is our existence,
cant tell much about your libido,
some yoga would help perhaps.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Scary thought

Reasearchers in Washington D. C have found that, Copulation atlest thrice a week can keep away erectile dysfunction. They have also found that erection at morning time would mean 2.5 times more chances of having erectile dysfunction.
Well that is scary for people who have a tough day and avoid intercourse reaching home tired at night, leaving the job for the morning time, when the body has recovered from fatigue and is fit for longer duration of pleasurable activity.

Happy Birthday II

Happy Birthday Sweet heart,
I would dare not ask your age, you are young enough to hold the flame of liberty for all these years.
No, You do not know me, and we have not met. though I do plan an acquaintance some time in the future and kiss your airs.
we have a saying in India, the gist is " darkness below the lamp".
which seems to be true about you, the flame you are holding, though has lit up many souls, it seems yours is burning.
Today, India has gift wrapped you the civil nuclear deal.
Also today there was news of a woman in Florida who is selling her house with herself. Novel, I would say.
The Soul is for sale.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Convinient truth

Last two days I have been wearing shorts and floaters to our office.
Being at the ground floor with a small lawn in front though has advantages in a hot summer day, but when it is monsoons it’s horrible.
The attendance drops by 80% and efficiency 100%. Everyone has reasons for not doing their jobs, factory is closed, dispatches are not possible, markets are inaccessible and payment can not be received.
It’s frustrating, and over and above they have climate change on the media menu these days, with opinions on both sides, and you also have Al gore telling us an inconvenient truth.
Well, I obviously do not like the water logged streets and bad sanitation, and I don’t think I can blame the climate for it, if there is anyone to be blamed, it is me, who is part of the society who has created a system of not cleaning drains, even after taking responsibility for doing so, and most of all after being paid for it.

Ice caps are melting and flooding the streets of Florida, Mumbai and even my own backyard. Calcutta will disappear in say 70 years and all of Bangladesh will be refugee I guess in my same flooded back yard.
New Zealand is getting tough on emissions norms as they have suffered the most of refugee problem.
If ours was not a socialist and welfare state, I would have welcomed the refugees, as they would have meant cheap labor for our factory and consumers of our juices and jams.
But then in a socialist country I will have to dole out higher taxes, to accommodate them, to provide cheap housing and free food.
Socialism makes me selfish to the tune that I am inhuman. Though, free market also makes me selfish, but I become more human to the needy.
Refugees though will be consumer to different kind of business people. Politicians, where I would be meeting with their tastes of pickles, politicians would be meeting their insecurities in form of religion.
However, does it really matter, that the ice caps are melting and climate is changing. It has been changing over a billion of year, even when humans were not there. Well Poor ol Al, has me convinced that we can do our bit, check emissions and all that, supposedly slow the process of global warming.
Well delay, till Al and you and I have gone past this place, but the truth remains that, climate change is inevitable.
Well the best that we can do is to invent good boats, and land that can float, energy that can be renewed and stored for a couple of hundred years, grow food in bottles and develop gills at the back of our ears.
I am doing my bit, I am preserving food, and you can eat as good even after 36 months of packaging.
I am told fantasy is different that fiction, which in turn is different than science in reality. But then every thing starts with a dream.
And why should we do it, if we can delay it, well the answer is for our children. They would call us fools and destroyers any way, but I guess we have to make them aware of the situation and get prepared for it.
As for now, my daughter loves this situation as holiday from school and playing in the puddle is what she says she can do all her life.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Hamey maaf करे

आपके आंखों मे है नमी
शायद मुझ ही मे है कुछ कमी
जो आपका दर्द न समझ सका
आपकी आँखों को न पढ़ सका
आसु, nadan कहा samjh sakey,
voh भी मर्द, जो इस पानी से darey,
आप आए apney को अलविदा कह के,
hamari zindgi को sawarney,
हम ने आप को संपत्ति समझी,
पर संपत्ति के sapne नही समझे,
अपने डर को gussa बनाया,
apko dhal अपने को तलवार बनाया,
hum nadan इतना न कर सके,
अपनी भूल को ख़ुद ही maaf न कर सके,
आप मे है ज़्यादा himmat,
आप ही धीरज रखे,
hamey karney दे गलती,
और hamey maf करे.





Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Zen and the art of driving

India is getting to be a Nation of drivers.
Driving in all senses is being in control, not just your self but to an extent in control of others too.
Being denied control of one self, it is an obvious reason why Indians in hordes are picking up the skill.
First it was nature that was in control of all human kind, and then came religion, kings and then governments.
Something that guarantees freedom in the future is technology. But then one needs skills to master it, Or you become a slave of the machines, as we have, now become slaves of democracy and governments supposedly chosen by us, which were at some point perceived as emancipators.

Driving for Indians is freedom and being in control of the machine.
Indian government through their various pro poor schemes, like PMRY- Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Yojna and Kisan credit cards, provide cheap and subsidized loans to purchase auto rickshaws and tractors. And time to time they waive of the loans too, this time it has been a whooping Rs. 75000 crores
Direct beneficiary to all this money are obviously, the auto and tractor companies. But somehow, the poor loanee feels that he is actually the beneficiary.
Truth is perception.
The important thing is that he can drive himself and a few more people to their required destination.
See places and know more about machines. He is getting ready for tomorrow.

But, then where does one drive? Where are the roads?
If you have good roads, guess one can see ahead a few hundred yards, and plan maneuvers.
In my district, Vaishali, a 16 km stretch takes a full hour, and while driving all I can look ahead to, is the bonnet of my car. I just can’t go beyond it. One pot hole and the other.
Well that is the problem. If you can’t have good roads, you can’t look ahead, you can’t anticipate, you can’t plan, you are at the mercy of all eventualities in life.
If I do not have a basic infrastructure, how do I plan, all day, I just run around to manage electricity, fuel, banking and basic fundamental services which are being denied by a failed state.

Gujarat and Maharashtra are shouting at the top of their voices that, they pay maximum taxes and their money is being spent in useless places like Bihar. They are absolutely right.
Modi Bapu, I will tell you a secret that even Newton could not discover.
It was the Hen before the egg.
Invest in Bihar, give them good roads, and all the drivers will see all the way to Gujarat. Then Gujarat will not have to drive anymore, as Bihar will do so, and all Gujju bhai’s can see further, till US of A. and some Americans will go to the moon and some to Afghanistan. Gujarat will rule the world, by just building the roads in Bihar.
But then you like Thackeray get bothered about Bihari’s building roads in your state and can’t see beyond the obvious.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Movie Review

Weekend was movie time, and this is what I learnt.

Jab We Met: Karina is as jovial as ever, Shahid imitates Tom Cruise, it gets kind of difficult to see Tom in a Hindi flick. His, anguish of having lost Kareena, is Visible through out the movie.
Two Lovely Songs. But then there is a problem with all these movies, the lady being denied love by one, has to find another by the end of the Show. Not Done. Why Cant she just walk into the sunset alone, with a big smile on her face. Why Do these movies try to preach empty moralities to the society, all middle class women would think eventually that, one has to have a man in her life to be happy. Nonsense.

A Good Year : Great Movie, I would someday want a house like that and life like that. Best line, " My lips find, joy in unusual places".

Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic: Crap movie, Rani looked like as if she was not paid for the film. One good song.. Lyrics actually..meaning.." ever since I have seen you, My life makes sense, Twisting of Lips is called smile, falling water is rain... etc. etc.". Amisha Could be that Hot, I never imagined.
Moral: Never ask for less from God, He Grants a few people whatever they ask for at least once in their lifetimes. it is just that it could be any day of your life. Not all beings can Cry.. and feel good about it as well.