Being SK

This is the best story i have heard of, defining politics….

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, “What are Politics?”

Dad says, “Well son, let me try to explain it this way:

#1. I’m the head of the family, so call me The Prime minister.
#2. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government.
#3. We’re here to take care of your needs, so we’ll call you the People.
#4. The nanny, we’ll consider her the Working Class.
#5. And your baby brother, we’ll call him the Future.

Now think about that and see if it makes sense.”

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parent’s room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.

The next morning, the little boy says to his father, “Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now.”

The father says, “Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about.”

The little boy replies, “The Prime minister is screwing the Working Class, while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is in deep s%*t.”

“It really surprises me – you are so consistent and I’m not”- Sachin Tendulkar, on his 33rd birthday, thanks mediapersons for their unwavering love and affection.

oops, what else he can say with the current form he is in. One can feel the pain in his words, his quest for runs. Am sure he will come back with a bang. (So will my ‘Thalai‘ Sourav). Just wait and see!!

Cheers!!

I took this test and the result i got was

Result Summary:

85% scored higher (more stupid),
3% scored the same, and
12% scored lower (less stupid).

What does this mean? You are 12% stupid. This means…
You are far from stupid. Congrats on a great accomplishment!

After living a well-respected life of 76 years, Kannada’s cine icon has passed away last week. This is just a news to me. But what is shocking to me was the mob violence against the police by the furied fans, who were not able to see the face of their superstar, one last time. Lot of public properties have been destroyed. Worst-of-all 6 peoples were killed. The fans could have given Dr.Rajkumar a better farewell.

Violence, bandhs and lives-lost, after the fall of a movie star is not a new scene. It has almost become a common scene in South India for the last 3 decades or so. Some ardent fans are ready to give anything for their film idols. Sometimes that includes their precious life also. As many as 31 people commited suicide on hearing the death of actor-turned-politician MGR. The numbers were equally high for NTR (Ramarao) also.

Now comes the million dollar question, why some people see actors as demi-gods? I feel this is because they are so emotional towards the movies. After their daily hard-work, the supreme form of entertainment to them is to sit in the front-bench and watch the movie( of course, dancing and whistling whenever possible) without caring about anything else in the world. Guys like MGR, Rajni won these people’s heart simply by doing some of the down-to-earth roles. MGR choosed and acted in ‘Padakotti’, ‘Rickshakaran’ kind-of roles, which brought him closer to the have-nots. Rajni followed his footsteps by acting as a ‘Autokaran in Batsha’,'Ulaipaazhi’ kind-of roles and became a Super-dooper star. Now Vijay also is doing the same thing. In most of his films, he is trying to get the image of a man-next-door by acting as a mechanic, or a dull student in the college etc.,

People see the actors like demigods because they often correlate the movies to their lifes.Actor in those roles do what normally these people dream to do but cannot – like making a beautiful girl to fall in love with him, brings down the baddie and his sidekicks to dust etc., The demi-god image will live forever, unless these people understands that the reel life is different from the real life.

The election fever is on. Everybody talks about politics. Glam-dolls (temporarily) lost their places to the smiling politicians, in the cover of the weekly magazines. All the public and private buildings are ’sticked-with-bills’. Almost all the entertainment channel has special feature programs on politics. News channels are busy updating people on things like who’s supporting who and analysing the political parties election manifesto. From the corner tea-kadai in the streets to the cafe-coffee day, the talk-of-the-town today, is politics.

Yesterday evening one of my colleague told me a ‘big breaking news’ in politics with great interest. And really I don’t know how to react. I told him I was never interested in politics & it never turned me on. He was surprised and wisely changed the topic to some other issues then.

Now in this lousy afternoon, I am thinking about my attitude towards politics. I am a complete ignorant and my knowledge is lesser than that of a frog-in-the-well, when it comes politics & politicians. All I know about politics was this one-liner, “Politics is made up of two words, ‘Poli’, which is Greek for ‘many’, and ‘tics’, which are a group of blood sucking insects”. And politicians to me are mere jokers, whom never fail to tickle my funny bone with their statements & false-promises. So far, three times I have had the chance to register my vote & I really cared a damn about that. Moreover I never bothered to get my Voter ID card, until recently. That too, just for the sake of ID proof.

All of a sudden, I am so embarrassed on this. The patriotic dialogues & dialogues that tells the importance of voting are running wild in my mind. I decided that I am going to register my vote this time. I am going to collect details about the individuals contesting in my constituency & try to find the better guy among them. If none of them are convincing enough to win my vote, I will vote for ‘49-O’ which says, “if an elector whose roll number has been entered in the register of electoral rolls in Form 17A, decides not to vote, a remark to this effect shall be made against the said entry by the Presiding Officer and the signature and thumb impression of the elector shall be obtained against such remark”.I read about this in this week’s Anandha vikatan and in the Hindu.

Anywhichways, this time I am going to cast my vote and with this I found a reason to extend my weekend and not to come to my workplace on May 8th, which is a Monday

Cheers!!!