The Angst Of Resented Viewer

Note : The Adds taken for ripping off are purely based on swings of my whim. Any resemblance to a particular product is off-course absolutely uncanny and is restricted to the stretch of reader's wild yet vivid imagination.


One of those days wherein I desperately wanted to write on some topic but was falling short altogether.  I couldn't even think of single topic. So I had some time last month to go through my thought process and chose what is that am ripping off this month. It’s tele commercials. Now I presume the readers to have an idiot-box at home and all there furniture is pointed to that box. Gone are the days  wherein advertisements  were only considered for creating awareness about particular product. These days there is a huge difference between message conveyed through advertisements and the actual product.Most of the adds don’t even have any sorta connection with short  video and marketing. This blog is just meant to convey the message that SELLING PEOPLE A FALSE ILLLUSION IS NOT COOL ..MAKING A REDICULE OF THERE DISABILITIES IS NOT COOL

To start with, out of many such adds I have listed quite a few adds  which I think were totally useless in content / making/ morals. Here you will find the adds that not only have achieved new low in creativity but dug it even further.  So without much ado .. Lets DIG !!

Cosmetics:

Fairness products. Probably they are the masters in selling the illusions. What is wrong with dusky skin tone anyways??They make add in such way that a girl with dusky ,or dark might  as well, skin tones is guilty about her tone. At the beginning of the add they show a girl who is rejected , untalented , unsuccessful. Somebody suggests her a fairness cream and it comes with a fairness meter (HorseShit ..Rite??) so that she can closely monitor ascent in her skin tone. She consistently applies the cream for 3-asifIcare-4 weeks and Bam !! There she goes looking like a Apsara  with a confidence of Pamila Anderson running in Baywatch . Does this fairness cream come with fortune changer or something I wonder ?? If not then how did a dumb-ass chick become a space scientist ?? And Guess what that is not even ridiculous part .. The most exasperating part comes in the end. As she walks the people just cant stop staring at her as if they haven't seen a Girl in there lives. Advertisers are here portraying a wrong image of pervert society that regards Fairness as an important trait  for living , WHICH ITS STRICTLY NOT !!

Listen Girls, if fairness was important to us guys we would have Dolly Bindra as our laptop wallpaper. Be just content with your tone because in guy's dictionary fairness is not even a parameter to look for in a girl. A girl is beautiful because of her character and personality, and strictly NOT because some stranger on internet told her that she is "Beautiful".Enough said.!!

Banking:

These adds are easy to spot. They end with 'MutualFundsaresubjecttomarketriskspleaseread theofferdoumentcarefullybeforeinvesting' . Its as ironical as it gets because seconds earlier they took you on a dreamy trip about your "Secure Future" and then they shove this note on your easy listening ears. A common man has enough risks already .. Risk of riding his bike carefully, risk of crossing the road, risk of being ditched by his GF, risk that his neighbor reads  his newspaper  b4  him , risk of being shot by a Grammar Nazi , risk of being fired without a Notice in these hard times of looming recession, risk of losing followers on twitter, risk of being smitten by a chick which he doesn’t even know etc .and if all these risks were not enough you ask ME to take a market risk. ARE YOU OUTTA OF YOUR BALLS ADVERTISERS ??  Not only that , they make you live a LIE .A lie that you witness once all your money is gone and only the guilt of investing it in a wrong scheme remains.I have nothing against there policies. Banking is also one the oldest profession and the vital aspect of civilization but the leverage against which they bait there policies is an inconvenient territory altogether.

 I remember a add wherein a kid not more than 10years old asks his DAD "पापा मेरे फ्यूचर के बारे में सोचा है  ??  (Dad do u think @ my future?)This is as unrealistic as it gets. Come on , what kid asks such a question?? I mean when I was 10 the question that concerned me was where does Pamila Anderson live ?? How do I get her number ?? Why is Bachchan making shitty films like Lal Badshah?? How Indians will bat after Sachin got out?? (This question I got till late last month as well) .Who on earth is David Beckham? Will Agent Smith and Trinity make out? (Matrix Comix) ,Is Harvey Dent a Dentist ?? How does Karishma Kapoor manage to look so beautiful without a makeup? Why is Melody so much choclaty? A kid of 10 yrs has these kind of questions and some one who could barely spell F U T U R E   is concerned about it is quiet a lot of exaggeration. And this  DUDE (his father) outta nowhere gets poignant thinking for his kid's plans. Get a life bro, get your kid a playstation, play some Call of Duty 4 with him and teach him some manners not to ask such nonsensically ass biting questionnaire.

Another such commercial was the one of some Insurance company.  The guy is going out of station of few days , sits in a Taxi , Ta Ta's his wife and is on the way of airport. On a way to airport he suddenly remembers that he forget to give money to his wife.(That’s an impossibilty .. Women are always aware of monetary matters in house and even when husband is going for office , they make sure they have adequate amount of money to run family expenses atleast for a  week or so.. But anyways we are not getting into that). He U-turns to his home and reaches. Now his wallet atleast has 16 ..Rs.100 notes he takes some 5 or 6 and is headed towards his wife. No sooner he begins to leave the Taxi Driver says " What if you don’t come for a week?"  the guy thinks "Oh yeah rite" takes another two notes  and is about to leave again but the driver is persisitent to ask " What if you don’t come for a month" ..What the Fuckerey  .. Mind your own business man and I am sure that involves shutting the fuck up and driving the passenger to his destination .. But this dude is quickly intimidated and takes a couple of notes more.  That should have been enough but the dickheaded driver  has a few more questions.. He shamelessly asks " What if you don’t come forever? Will this suffice your wife?? " ..The dude should've slapped him so  hard that he would 've come back from a trip to Galaxy within a few microseconds and  stubbornly ask this " WHY ON EARTH ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT MY WIFE SO MUCH , TO HELL WITH YOUR TAXI , GET LOST " .. But as learned earlier our's  is a FATTU dude who turns into a paranoid  listening to strangers. He has a moment of realisation that he should actually have an insurance plan.  The conclusion of this add is what I find twisted  which highly depicts nonexisiting insecurity in your life. It said " सर उठा के जियो " and I was like "Say Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? आबे हमने ऐसे किया ही क्या है सर झ़ुकानेको ?? और इतने भी बुरे दिन नहीं आये के टैक्सी वाले हमे सलाह देने लेगे !!  "

Miscellneous Products:

Well next up in the list is one hall of famer. This is one of bathroom utilities. What happens in the add is :

A umpire is standing amidst a cricket match. The bowler(who looks even worse than Laxman Shivaramkrishnan ) bowls the delivery to which batsman fumbles and is caught rite in front of wicket. He obliviously is out but our desperate umpire raises his pinky suggesting he needs to pee.  What on cricket field is happening. If the umpire was so very obsessed with his bathroom utilities why didn’t he watch lying in his bathtub?? He could have a Eureka moment deciding the things off the field. Advertisers would have thought of this before giving shitload of there product.

Consider Mumbai for instance. According to wikipedia 60% of its populace resides in informal housing. This figure includes Chawls , Dharavi as well as some semifurnished flats.  With that amount of people residing as a tenant or even as a landlord, being fastidious about a particular product say wash basin , or its TAP or a peculiar sanitary utensil  is so not the thing. As a tenant why would I give a damn about changing something in a rented house. As a landlord why would I change anything if all I have to do is rent the house. It’s a loop and this telecommercial is meant only for high classes of society.  Its because of such adds a devoid is created in a society targeting the upper middle class and scoffing at economically lower classes. The censor board should actually have a nom against all adds and make GENERALISATION for every one in society.  

The last and the final one in the list is a shaving cream commercial. (Oh you will love this!!) The add begins with stat. It says 89% of women like clean shaven men. I am not even going to describe this add. Every time this add features I switch the channel as I am obviously pissed at this (infomercial??) commercial. Before arriving at this stat.. I only have one question , 'Was the survey taken in some south Indian village or something ??' To rip off concept of this add lets date back to Dwapar Yuga ..

Narkasura.. The bro of all the asuraas. As we are not from that Yuga the character sketching in our mind is hugely dominated by the mythological TV series. In those it shown that the guy had Not One , Not Two but 16000 wives. (WHOA DUDE!! Way to go man )  . Isnt that magnanimously significant of fact that Girls DO NOT ,FROM THE CORE ,HATE GUYS WITH MOUSTACHE AND LITE BEARD (16000 is quiet a number)??  On the other hand look at Indra (King of all Gods) is always clean shaven. (OH MY MY !!) Urwashi ditched that dude for all bearded and well-mustachioed Vishwamitra. That’s exactly my point, having a moustache is sexy having a beard with it is even sexier. World is dominated by men with moustache. Hitler,Che Guvera ,Mitchell Johnson (Recent ashes .. The guy rocked and showed the world he is much more than Tattoos) etc.

I find selling a product with a tagline " 89% of women like blah blah " in itself is quiet daring, as most of women get exclusively whimsical when it comes to judge men & in no way I think it is a globally acceptable figure. Look I am not a moustachavinist  neither do I have anything against clean shaven fellas its just this stat which I find abundantly disturbing. I mean just think of Anil Kapoor and Madhuri dixit used to be a good duo. And times are such even Romeos are having a manly , stupendously well-trimmed , highly ingenious mustaches for there respective Juliets.(Ramleela)

Actually there are loads of commercials like Telcom companies , Electronic items , beverages and strictly speaking the list is never ending . But the days we live in the sequels are trendy.  So finally my unwillingness to abruptly end a blog is over and here I proudly announce the sequel to " The Angst Of Resented Viewer (TARV) 2"

To be continued.. (sometime in 2014) 

Game Of Thrones Questionnaire

As many people those many fantasies. This post is one such Fantasy of mine. The fantasy is being interviewed by Morgan Freeman.  So out of the craze i took a quiz thinking Mr. Freeman would ask me these question. So behold the questionnaire and get entertained instantly.







Q. Who is your Fav Character form Game of thrones book and the sitcom?
A. Book Sansa stark .. She is depicted strong in books. After all that she is been through how is her not being made fav character of.  Fav character sitcom of . Theon Grejoy .. There is a depth to this character and it starts growing on you as the series progresses. He is a fav .. All because of this ..




Here u go …



It is more like ..




Q.Fav Quote..
A.Lannisters always pays his debts.
Lannister send their regards. I like House Lannister so much that i even designed a sweat shirt by its name.




Q. Where would you want to live in GOT world?
A. On the wall.. first of all somewhere I feel the men at nights watch are doing a decent job keeping the white-walkers away from the realm and second of all I resemble like Samwell Tarly. Reminds me of my childhood when I was too fat for my own good.


 Q. Fav. House
A. Lannister offcourse .. Bad guys run the show .. 


  Q. Who would u ship?
A.  Asha Grejoy.. Not a strong character in books also in series ..


Q.  Picture that express your reaction to the show..
A.  RED WEEDING !!



So after this weeding i was like 




Q. Favorite moment in book …
A.  Spoiler Alert Ahead :  Book 3 .. Storm of Swords .. Page # 551.. Chapter Name : Tyrion


 


Q. Favorite moments in show..
A.1) All the convos between Jon Snow and Yigritte .. & incidentally all of those ended with "You Know Nothing Jon Snow"
2) The Battle of Blackwater Bay .. And the Tyrion Speech
3) The convos between Arya Stark and Tywin Lannister .. Interestingly these don’t exist in books.
4) and the BAAAP of ALL the moments  Joffery Getting slapped by his uncle Tyrion.. There is no beating this.






Q. Least Favorite Character
A. Ser.Barristan Selmy .. I mean ok the guy is Ace Gladiator and Bullshit but if I don’t like him I don’t like him.


Q. If you had a direwolf what would you name it?
A. Stannis.. The name has nice ring to it.. And u can always call him Big Stan . ( No offence to house Baratheon)


Q.Three words that describe GOT
A.  Delicious Fictional Bliss 


Q. If you had a house ..a) What would be the name ?b) What would be the sigil? c) What would be the words?
A. House Vebster.. Moustache would be the sigil .. Words : Fly High Fly Far .. Infact I even made a logo.



Q. What Stark would you be ?
A. First of all I wont be stark , second of all if I had no choice I will opt out with Rickon.. To find a justification  "READ THE GOD DAMN BOOKS"!!


Q. Invent a character that would fit in GOT.
A. SpolierAlert : there was impeccable chemistry between The Imp and his sell sword Bronn.. But during the trial for Joff's  murder Bronn chose money over master ..and with Tyrion on the run I would invent a character as loyal as POD and as brutal as Sandor Clegane to accompany his highness during this tough time.
Name : Ser.Websy Bratney  ht : 6 feet 2  WT : 192 pounds .. Moustache offcouse and light beard ,strong build not the one with obvious looks but Brute force hell yess, wearing a Lannister Armour and has a decent taste in women.  He would meet Tyrion at some Bar and would be his BEST sellsword to date . Something like this ..




Q. Whatz the most interesting thing about GOT ?
A. Unpredictability  is the word.With so many characters to keep a track of  as I said it is indeed a bliss. Also the series is perfectly in line with books as long as crucial details are concerned.  Nothing is predictable. You like a character and bam its gone .. This held true for Ned Stark , Rob Stark , Lady Catlyn , Ser Mormount  (The One on Night's Watch) Yigrrite.. HOLY FUCK !! DID I JUST SAY THAT ??


Q. Theon , Cersie, Jammie . Marry, Fuck, Throw off the cliff   What would u do ?
A. Fuck Cersie, then Marry her to Jammie coz Incest and then throw Theon off the cliff as a redemption for this Incestuous Sin.


Q.Who would you see battle it out ?
A. Bitch Fight :  Lady Mellisendre  vs Cersie … Maragery vs Danerys Targarean ..
     Bro Fight :  Sandor Clegane vs Ramsay Bolton … Stannis vs Jorah Mormount  .. Jon Snow vs Bronn



Q.What charcters death would be okay with you?
A. Interesting !! The gay Tyrell kid .. Jojen Reed his sister Meera … and the fucktards  Walder Frey and Roose Bolton.



Q. Top 5 fav characters.
A.1) Jon Snow
2)Lord Petyr Belish aka Little Finger.
3)Theon Grejoy
4)Tyrion Lannister
5)Arya Stark


Q.Give yourself a GOT inspired character name
A. Just did that earlier.  Ser.  Websy Bratney


Q. Give some advice to your Fav. characters.
A. I tweeted about it couple of months earlier. I was watching some 5th episode of third season. It was for Theon Grejoy. "Hang in there buddy , Revenge comes later." And one for Jon Snow .. Brace yourself dude coz we believe .. "Baap ka, Sautli maa ka, Sautele Bhai ka, Sauteli Bhabi ka , do wolfs ka(Lady and Grey Wind) , sabka badla lega re tera Jon Snow."






Q.Lord of the rings or Game of Thrones .. Pick one
A. I wont .. I don’t like the question.


Q. Fav Chapter in the Book..
A. Off all 3 I have finished reading .Storm of swords. I would pick above aforesaid chapter .. Tyrion .. Second best Tyrion again form book 2 clash of the kings.. Third choice Catlyn storm of swords Red Wedding


Q.Fav Episode
A.The one in which Jon Snow and Yigritte make out. The best romance I have ever seen, books TV Cinema all included.



Q. Best moment in the show.
A. Tyrion Speech during the battle of black water bay. I beleive that is very thing that got him Golden Globe. Every time I watch this i cry like a soldier.
Check this out ..





  *Partyz Over Guys*

The Man With The Arrogance Of Napolean

When time comes where I have accomplished every single thing on my wish list ,  like Avinaash( ANAND movie) I will buy a lot of balloons , donate a few to kids  and will leave rest in the sky. I will do that someday, singing "Wohi Chun kar Khamoshi, Yun Chale Jaaye Akele Kahan?" . This thought was developed after watching song of life of first superstar of Indian Cinema. What I see in the song is a man who is happy , is walking toward nothingness with balloons in his hand , cheerfully singing Good Bye.  

Wohi Chun Kar Khamooshi....

One of my earliest recollections of his period was ANAND. I may be 10 years old. For me—exposed till then to the usual Hindi film, where the hero always had a love interest, and where there were few (and mostly pretty melodramatic) moments of tragedy—Anand was different. There was never any doubt that Rajesh Khanna’s character was the hero. He was ebullient, full of life, charming, friendly, yet (in those moments of solitude) sensitive. I kept waiting for a heroine to pop up. Come on every kid has a first favorite heroine. Mine was Hema Malini, Karishma Kapoor,Urmila Matondkar and so on(list is big…may be in  some other place).Instead, what came was the deathbed scene. There was Anand, slipping away from life, falling suddenly silent—and his friend, the helpless doctor (played by Amitabh Bachchan) breaking down, begging Anand to speak. I couldn’t believe it. For me, heroes in Hindi films didn’t die. They were indestructible; through fire, explosions, crippling illnesses, armies of attacking villains—whatever. They came through it all. Most of all, they didn’t die of a disease I could barely pronounce. I was certain this was a ploy. Somewhere, it would turn out, someone had messed up. Medical reports had been bungled, and it would emerge that Anand was perfectly well. Just about now, he would open his eyes and smile that trademark smile. And all would be well.

And then came Anand’s voice. “Babu moshai, zindagi aur maut uparwaale ke haath hain, jahanpanah. Use na toh aap badal sakte hain, na main. Hum sab toh rangmanch ki katputliyaan hain…”

The last sentence made my hair stand in the end. That was the first time when something on screen made me cry. Whenever I remember the scene I get upset. What epitomizes Khanna's   acting spectrum are the songs of Life or poignancy arousing Deaths. Remember Andaz it was actually a Shammi kapoor film but Khanna made a cameo in it but WHAT A CAMEO!!!! If there is something called as shouting in tongues , there is another thing called as Laughing in EYES. Bachchan being the master of former , Khanna is the maestro of the later. Song (like these) picturized on him are and will be always be the anthem of the youth.   He is the one who actually inspired me through this dialogue "Zindagi Lambi nahi Badi Honi Chaiye".

Frankly put, this is how I want to be remembered.

Ironically a reel life hero cannot be such in real one. I guess that’s the curse of being a superstar.  The critics claimed him as "The man with the arrogance of Napoleon." All accomplished but as a actor you don’t expect to be respected form the Rajesh Khanna. Rajesh Khanna like all other industry pros had ups and ups. But unlike others he failed to real life hero. He took audience for granted. He went into his den when his days were declining  and stayed there licking his wounds reminiscing the glory days .Khanna was left stuck in a time warp, a sad and bitter man, living inside a bottle, wallowing in self-pity, still clinging on to delusions of grandeur. It must be hard for him to digest the fact that somebody would take his place. Look at his contemporary actors. People know everything about Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand. Dharamendra and Jeetendra might have been a yard less compared to him in those times but when it comes to remember the yesteryear superstars now , they strike your mind before Khanna.

My mom always scolded me as a kid when I heard the Rajesh Khanna collection from my DAD's cupboard. The reason being his songs arouse a sense of poignancy. Little did she know that Poignant is Khanna's middle name.

Sigh! And sigh again. Rajesh Khanna’s decline and descent, depressing as it is, serves us well. All of us. Fame and fortune are fickle lovers, ready to be courted by the next suitor — someone younger, richer, more accomplished. Nobody is spared. Not Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and Queens. But unlike Khanna they strive to rise above ashes . The Havell Fan's commercial seriously made me weep.I personally love all Rajesh khanna movies...such stories, such songs, such acting...made us drool though we don't belong to that generation...but I guess too much pride in oneself can destroy anyone. The word stardom was minted only & only for khanna. When we lose a loved one something within us dies . We lost a bit of us on 18th July 2012 with enigmatic star called Rajesh Khanna.

…SAPNO KA RAHI,CHALA GAYA SAPNO SE AAGE KAHA………..

Once Upon A Time In 1770's….

Magic Happens when u go through these pages 

Books are just chunk of pages if the reader has got no imagination. Same is the case with movies. Hence comes the concept of targeted audience. Some movies appeal to certain sector of people. Like the place where I come from , Solapur. The blokes around that region are so frenetic about Sanjay Dutt movies that no matter what the movie is a block buster is word . Yes I am talking about super floppies like Dus , Zilla Gajiabad and to make the matters more worse "Vaah! Life ho to aisi ". But my taste in movies is quiet different. I remember the time when I watched Taxi Number 9211 twice and not regret the same. Same thing happened a couple of days back. I finished watching Jolly LLB twice. This blog is meant to throw some light on legal affairs and court of law.

A lot of people these days ask me" If I were not an engineer what would I be ?" The expectation that they have is a writer of a sort . But to my interest advocacy would be the profession I would have chosen . Sure , I love words but what I love more is the application of words. I learn words not to get the meaning while I read but to implement the same words while I speak with people  or when I write . Advocacy has appealed to me ever since I have read some parts of history. People like Napoleon, Adolf Hitler , Winston Churchill were not only effective military generals but they were also blessed with good advocates to mark there achievements off the field.

 Why go international ? You are not a Maratha if you are unaware about instrumental role of Jeeva Mahal in Pratapgad war where Shivaji Maharaj killed Afjal Khan.  Throle Bajirao Peshve …. The Invincible warrior who was never registered with a defeat on a field should be complimented more for his Advocacy Skills than the Bravura in plotting a particular battle. But the best was yet to come. This is rightly said that the night is darkest just before the dawn. The darkest part  of night arrived in form of Loss of third battle of Panipath . Not only was that a economic loss but a moral defeat. It is said every house in Maharashtra has a ancestor lost in the battle of Panipath. It required more than Law , Order and Financial Discipline to shape the structural economy of once magnanimous Maratha Empire. The empire was in ruins and the responsibility of bearing such a huge load of loss was critical. Young Madhavrao Peshwe , age 16 , steps up.

Thorle Bajirao Peshwe 

King is as good as his attorneys. Shivaji Maharaj had baggage of people like Tanaji Malusaray , Jeeva Mahal , Dadoji Kontdev but more than anybody Jejau Maasaheb who contributed with blood and sand in laying the strong foundation of Swarajya. Same was the case with Thorle Bajirao Peshwe. His team had the likes of Shindes , Holkars , Gaikwads and Pawars. All of them have credentials that render Bajirao Invincible. But the same cant be said about Madhavrao Peshve. Even after having a long list of brave family members they were all to lenient to shoulder the burden of Empire. In such a scenario it needed much more than the ability of Madahvrao to get Marathi out of the zone of this fluid economy . Enter RAM SHASTRI.

The integrity of this man is unparalleled in the accent of Maratha empire post Panipath. Ram Shastri was astute man apt in knowledge of Law ,State Affairs and Politics. His debacle with a pontiff took 5 days of argument to settle. He was the one who stood like a rock behind the young Madahvrao.  Considering the poor economy that Maharashtra was suffering he even refused the royal gift made to his wife. The period marks Shakespeare Portryal of lady McBeth with young decisive Narayanrao being a faint copy of Hamlet. The highlight of Ramshastri's life was the case of narayan rao's death. To understand the case let me tell you a story….

Raghunathrao(Raghoba Dada) was the uncle of Madhav rao Peshwe. He always caustic about being second best . Being youngest son of Throle Bajirao Peshwe and Maratha Empire in its  heyday , the guy was treated as a prince. But that was no compromise for his bravery.  Raghoba dada was a valiant swordsman and an astute cavalry leader. Having said that , the facts stays till date he was too innocent  to run the State Affairs. Innocence is a bad word when it comes to describe the Prime Ministers (दौलतीचे पेशवे). It was due to the bravado of this man that the Maratha Empire spanned from Karnatak to Auttock (now in south Afganistaan). He was the military general during the Auttock Regime. Unfortunately Good soldiers don’t make a good king.At that time his elder brother Nanasaheb Peshwe was the Prime Minister and he was a General.

The cloud of Peshwai was marked with libidinous lining and Raghoba dada was no exception and so was his elder brother Nanasaheb. Nanasaheb was instrumental in developing Pune city. He did build a lot of good structures like Parvati , Katraj Dam (old one), revamping of Shaniwar Wada but he was also the one who legalized brothels. One of the establishments still stands tall juxtaposing Shaniwar Wada (the residence of peshwe) and that street is called Budhwar Peth. On 14th Jan 1761 , Makar Sankranti day , while the entire Maratha generation vanished on the field of Panipath, Nanasheb was busy in his 3rd matrimonial ceremony with a 9 year old. Even Raghoba dada did not go on a war owing to the fulfillment of his lustful desires.  With a loss of manpower and economy Nanasaheb could not sustain the pressure and died soon thereafter. Raghoba was more than sure that prime ministry is his. But the King had different plans.  He opted for young blood in Madhavrao Peshwe and made him the PM. Thus struck the first discord in Peshwa family.

Sawai Madhavrao Peshwe in the center at Ganesh Bhavan in Shaniwar Wada 

No matter how great were his war tactics , family feud took Raghoba away from the battlefield and always kept him out of war zone. Young Dynamic Madahvarao with Ramshastri and Nana Phadanvis took over  the Maratha Empire when it was in shambles and was under the burden of huge debts. The discipline was  almost nonexistent. It  was the time when Madhavrao looked all the depts. Administration Accounts and Treasury. The family feud  between  uncle and his nephew grew bitter and bitter. To analyze the character , and to state a fact Raghunath rao  was not a bad person but having a bad company is what makes him worst amongst all of Peshwa Clan. He tried an assassination attempt on Madahvrao which was futile. Madhavrao had to take some tough decisions to bring an end to all of misery.  This is where Raghunathrao faces a house arrest. Even his wife is accused with the same charges and faces house arrest. 

Sawai Madhavrao Peshwe 

The biggest grudge of Marathas is King was always short lived. The very founder of Swarajya Shivaji Maharaj died young at 49. Another notable leader after him Thorle Bajirao Peshwe died at 40. Third in line of short lived kings was Madhavrao Peshwe. He died even younger at the age of 26 of Tuberculosis, not before getting the economy out of ruins. Economically Stable , Politically Unstable Maratha Empire was asking for law and order of sorts as Raghunathrao was sensing his long lost unfulfilled ambition to become a Peshwa come true  and he was ready to go at any level to make that happen.

When you are deprived of your likelihood for a long time , justifications of your actions or inactions is immaterial. Thus began the ugliest episode in Martha history. A nephew killed by his own uncle when uncle wasn't even sure what orders are carried by his soldiers. It so happened….

Somewhere in 1773 Gardi gaurds enter Shaniwar Wada and create chaos. Sumer Singh Gaardi is the agent of chaos who leads this commotion. Raghoba and his wife are facing a house arrest since he unsuccessfully tried to backstab recently expired Madhavrao Peshwe. Raghunath rao wanted to be a Peshwa of highest order , but first he had to free himself out of house-arrest. The patrol was not so stern as the Maratha Empire did not yet finish mourning for there late king. Advantage Raghoba. He sent a message to Sumer to catch the recently acting minister 18 years old Narayan Rao Peshwa (elder brother of Madahvrao) . Literally saying , नारायणला धरावे !!  The message not only got intercepted but also manipulated by none other than his beloved wife Anandi. Little did anybody know ,the one alphabet manipulation would cost Narayanrao his life.  The manipulated message was नारायणला मारावे !! Literally meaning , Kill Narayan.  Raghoba had no idea of this 
mis-communication.

The Gardi's created a turmoil. Made Narayanrao run for his life. Narayanrao , confused agitated scared all at the same time started to rescue himself. The innocent kid thought his uncle would come to his rescue. He ran for his life chanting "काका मला वाचवा"( save me uncle). It was just matter of time that Raghoba saw his own nephew slaughtered rite in front of him and he had no idea what orders were supposed to be carried out.This sorry act brought ill fame to administration of Peshwe.

Ram Shastri 

The matter needed investigation of sorts. Ram Shastri carried out the investigation and the official matters were looked by Nana Phadanvis. The investigation conclusively ended with Raghunath rao, Anandi, and Summer Singh guilty.  But the brat that Raghoba was denied his charges , pleading the welfare of the state was his main motivation. The judge did not consider the plea for leniency. Rather than staying the puppet of Chief Justice , Ramshastri stayed true to his job. Raghunatrao , Anandibai and Sumer Singh were found guilty and ordered to be prosecuted. Althought Raghunath Rao was aquitted , Anandi was declared an offender of the state and Sumer as the culprit. This was a stern decision , given the fluid period in Maratha empire.

Ramshastri handled such a complex case and conclusively passed the strict decision. The man with frugal lifestyle that he had , he stayed the same. After passing the decision, he relinquished his office and privileges and left for pilgrimage.

इति:  राम शास्त्री!!     

   

आरे निंदकाचे घर असावेच कशाला ?

In 17th century there was ace saint Tukaram Maharaj and he used be dedicated worshipper of his deity and a born poet. One of his poems goes like this " निंदकाचे घर असावे शेजारी " meaning the house of a critic should be in the neighborhood. This philosophy did not work in times he lived in , how on earth is it supposed to work rite now and in some situation when it seems that its working it is ignorance. This blog is meant to amputate that critic link.


People are Rocket Scientist, Doctors, Engineers , Industrialists, Politician, Street Sweepers, Toilet Cleaners and when they are nobody they are criticizers.


Look people for me there is lot of effort involved in writing a update, tweet or forget that even a sentence. If you are not interested to admire the effort went into writing a particular sentence that is not my problem and if you went on criticizing and criticizing some more efforts have to be put in to silence the critics. I only have one philosophy of life "Involve yourself so much in self improvement that the world blurs." But then sometimes u take a break only to find there are lot of criticizers for the work that u have done. Fuck you Critics !! Writing is not my source of earning livelihood, I have a full time job and I am damn happy with it. This is a passion. You condemn what you don’t understand. And if you don’t understand something how the fuck is that my problem. Even I never understood the paintings of Husain's but why would I give a damn about it.


 In same ways if u don’t want to understand why do u give a fuck to my updates with ur critical statements. I have born talent to handle critics but I never used it but times are such that I think I have to use that card. There was good reason I did not use that card. I just didn’t want to be known as the guy who is only good in handling criticism I wanted to get better in dealing with it. But when the silence is taken as ur cowardice it is high time you make full fledged effort to slap it then and there. Be a actor, dancer , writer , spot boy, tea stall owner why be a Critic?? To tell people how bad they are in work they did is not a good job. What gives u the rite and who on earth u think u are and it is not even the case of getting back at me . What have I done/not done to deserve this unending humiliation. That's it enough is enough.


Facebook is such a beautiful creation. Most of the users are overwhelmed by the fact that it helps you stay connected with your friends but people like me are more interested in making there page look good. They are less wary about the things that are happening on there TL but every time they visit FB they just go to there profile and think of the ways of improving it. Here is a revelation. When I am on FB , I update my status. Check my timeline for not more than 3 scrolls, like something smart and move on to my profile. Oh yes I forgot to mention "Not to pass a critical statement" or "like one." With that said I don’t understand ur part to get back. Apart form my profile I have three full time admirers I wont disclose the names but will give u an idea who they are
1. A High Flying Businessman atleast his twitter profile says that
2. A Doctor who happens to be school friend
3. A diplomite whom I call in moments of extreme joy or extreme depression.


I believe to the core in that these three guys are enough to point my mistakes because they have come a long long way. I respected them form orkut days , I will respect them as long as I am on any network.


This is good conversation between Joker and Harvey Dent in an epic movie The Dark Knight
"I am a dog chasing cars. Do I look like a guy with a plan. I might not know what to do when the car stops and somebody comes out. I just DO things."
In a similar manner I believe in doing things. Compliments and Complaints are not to be taken seriously , Criticism should. But to belittle people you should have accomplished something of note. When we all are strugglers here, whatz the point of being a naysayer. People write , posts photos, share updates is not called passing time. It gives a glimpse of there soul. There is no point in hurting  with sadistic comments. Think about it. I am just a fellow user of Facebook who used to write his diary once , still does and always will but at the same time considers FB ornamental and an effective tool of self improvement. I may not be as good friend as my friends think but I am definitely not as bad as criticizers think. I was very close to make my profile private and keep all the updates to myself but that would be killing the essence of beautiful thing called FB. I would still do it when I feel I want no more of criticism.Admit it wouldn't u love if u had only admirers. I know its not logical but flying 200 tons of steel was once considered a idiocracy. But Wright Brothers slammed the world by flying the first aircraft.  How are u going to get things if you don’t ask for it ? I think I have made my point to be in a virtual space  that is free from critics as long as commercial aspect is not involved .


My life was and always will be a open book , and it is not my problem if you cant read my handwriting.

The Great Indian सब-CD

 To start with , if u get a newspaper today u will come across shit load of terms u don’t understand and caricatures which should have been better. I am not an Economist and I am not going to crib like one. So the object of this blog is to look at Budget from my  lenses. But before getting to more serious discussion let us start with good humor. What is common between Sonakshi Sinha, 2BHK and this years budget ? Ans:- All are flat. Yeah I know, the health of humor in this joke equals the significance of this years budget.

Lets get started by defining a problem . What on Mothers( sorry  no bad words) earth is Budget anyway?

Well it means something in dictionary , but in India it means

" The budget is a democratic process of money transfer  from those who work to those who vote"

The Attitude

I will get to the budgets , but before I go there somebody please explain me what on earth is women's bank. I really don’t understand such a radical concept . What does it mean in first place? Are the banks so scarce that there is need for such a thing. What is the problem with normal banks? Do they discriminate women? Are they unsafe for women ?Apart form women employment I don’t see any point. What is that supposed to encourage Entrepreneurship, Loans at lesser rates, Empowerment …WHAT?? But on a more deadly note standing on front of Women's Bank will be closet I will  ever get to be near heaven". Anyways what will they call this bank? I came up with some names I also wanted to pin down She T bank , but people out there will say it like shitty bank so I had to cancel that name.

1)HDF "SHE " Bank

2)Kotak Mahila Bank

3)State Bank of Mrs.India

4)पंजाबन नेशनल बैंक

The most classy way to criticize any budget is to say ," Rich will be rich and poor will be poor" , but this time around with " This budget is anti-poor and anti-people." To start with ask me what corporate people do during there weekends. Hangout should be the most popular answer. This budget has ensured that u never get out of ur house. There would be service tax at every AC restaurant.  That leaves us going to Terrace Garden Restaurants and Evening buffet. Facebook , Twitter , Youtube and Pinterest will be the only places for a free hangout.If the goverenment wants to tax me for eating in AC restaurant , I will go to a non AC restaurant and take my own fan instead !!! Screw Them !!And on one day when I  will be really really rich I will take the restaurant to my AC home.

The Player

Our honorable FM has said that " There is a bit of Azim Premji in every tax payer" ,Oh yeah?? Never knew Azim Premji was such a player !!

Moving on ,Nirbhaya Relief fund !! Rs 1000 crore were invested to ensure safety and security for women. This is good in a way that Govt.cares for women in this country. But of all the bodies Govt. is supposed to proactive and not reactive. Funding for women who got molested just doesn’t click. But of all the points this for me was positive aspect of this years budget. Something is better than nothing.

Story of Me and Thokkia

The next highlight was increasing rate of mobiles. I use Nokia N72 like since forever and I had silently promised myself to buy a mobile on my birthday. My mobile has undergone 2 body transplants , a couple of formatting , 2 headsets and 6 chargers in 1993 days of its tenure with me. People don’t call it Nokia anymore. Here is the catch phrase "Thokkia". But Congress has ensured that I am struck with this Thokkia mobile, forever and ever. In rail budget they give free Wi-Fi & in aam budget they increase the price of mobile ! Well played Congress!!  You compensated the price of the Wi-Fi usage. One more thing owing to this policy. They make set-top boxes mandatory and now increase the rate of that accessory. I guess Congressmen are making sure they yield enough money before going out of power  BIG TIME in 2014 !

But I can say one thing very conclusively , I am a poor person. Ask me how and I will give you 3 good reasons.

1)I Don’t have a SUV

2)I don’t have a smart phone.( friend of me says " Smart phones are for dumb people)

3)I don’t smoke

हे सगले श्रीमंतांचे चोचले !!

No AC restaurants,  No Foreign brands , No MaC-D . This is my month end status , now the entire month has got the same story. The object of this budget was to make Super rich to rich , rich to upper middle class , upper middle class to lower middle class, lower middle class to poor, and to poor BPL. (I really expect u have seen ZNMD)

Memories Of A Bookworm

First of all this is my first blog of this year. So I will like to start with greeting my Blogdosts Happy New Year for next 10 months that remain and all the best for next month, its March and don’t even get me started.

It is rightly said that I you have nothing sensible to say , you always have the option to shut up. I chose latter for last couple of months, but something happened that got me nostalgic yesterday. The thing was finished re-reading of 3 mistakes of my life, and I got nostalgic about how I finished the book overnight in June of 2008. This is the story of how I managed a coup of finishing the book on the trot.

To understand this story lets travel back a couple of years. The year is 2006, I am newly admitted to Engineering College and by now I had good experience of reading books. But my reading was dominated mostly by Marathi but English books that I read would be counted on figures. And when I visited college the bookworms in this city were busy flaunting Atlas Shrugged, Tale Of Two Cities, Who Moved My Cheese and I was totally unaware , so I could not participate in the discussion . But somewhere deep down I felt urge of reading books in languages known. I made friends with brat who would buy books for a showoff. I requested him to get me Atlas Shrugged and he did. Now the thing with it was certain momentum is required to read through the pages back to back, but before that momentum is reached it was "Learn-The-Word" exercise for me. With Ayn Rand , a new reader might  get struck at two words in every sentence. So by default I carried a dictionary in my sack and a notebook. Not only I wrote the words I was struck at but every night I re-read the sentences where I was struck and try to bludgeon my newly added sense to it. I finished the book and I felt happy.  I took double time to read it but most  of all I gained confidence in bits that I could finish a English Book , if things go only according to my schedule. I kept on reading things over and over during first semester. Thankfully it didn’t affect my studies. One reason for being so was that I did not have a laptop during that time. So only entertainment was to be with friends or be in reading room. I choose latter.

During the next semester I noticed an interesting thing. The guy who never read any book  told be about the first novel he read. I thought he was bragging just to add reading feather in his hat. But to my shock the guy was serious. I couldn't help but ask who and most importantly what did he read.  He answered both my questions,

He said:-"Dude, I read Chetan Bhagat and his first novel '5 Point Someone'"

 I shrugged "Five Point What"

"Five Point Someone,  kept me engaging for a week"

"When did u start reading books?"

"I haven't but reading first couple of pages got me glued and past week was best week I have had since days."

"U said Chetan Bhagat rite"

"Yeah."

"Alright. "

C-Bag

Nope it did not ring a bell. Indian Author writing in English was not a thing. But someone who is not interested in reading finished this book and felt happy about it. I was reading The Da-Vinci  Code during that time which I finished very early , a couple of days before I scheduled it to finish. I wanted to read something in English written by Indian Author. I went to Net Café wiki'd Chetan Bhagat. Not only did I read about him but also his books. Two were published. What got me interested in his case he was an Mechanical Engineer. I was studying in 4th semester of Mechanical Engineering. Gosh ….The glitch was clear, I had missed the fun of reading his books .

The story I was about to tell is between me and C-Bag's third book " 3 Mistakes Of My Life". During college days mass bunk was a tradition. On one such day of mass bunk I was left stranded. Laptop had entered my life so reading was meager. The score without laptop was 1 book per month reduced to one book per semester . Final year first semester. I didn’t even have a "Books to read " list. So plan during most of the mass bunk was actually to go to a movie. I went to multiplex with my friends, parked my vehicle , but before going to box office I requested my friends to first go to crossword. Since the movie was not running full-house so  guys agreed. At that point I saw this book Three Mistakes of My Life and book chose me. The money which was meant for ticket was spent on a book. I told the guys that I am not going to watch the movie and took all the criticism that came my way for ruining the plans. Oh yes , I do that a lot. Come on guys , Rock On could be watched later but reading was , is and always will be my priority number 1. I don’t regret dumping the movie plan and opting a book.

This was first time I read a book on a trot and finished it overnight.

My roommate asked "Are u OK ? Exams are due for Dec ." He had obvious point. The reason I got nostalgic was I re-read that book yesterday. I so wanted to say in one night , but I could not. Mass Bunk  is not greatest virtue of corporate life. The office timings are 11am to 7:15pm minimum, but by any possible calculation it takes 8 to get to home. Since last 2 nights am sleeping at 4am in the morning and Call Of Duty 4 has nothing to do with it. When I read the novel first divided it in Pre-Vidya and Post-Vidya  stages. I did pre-vidya day before yesterday and post- vidya yesterday. Felt the same happiness I did when I read it first.

What great coincidence I dumped a Abhishek Kapoor movie(Rock ON) to read the novel, and now I re-read that novel to go to movie of Abhishek Kapoor. I am not expecting anything from the movie but I will still see it and I will not review it. I have done my job.

For guys out there , never judge a book by its movie. However good the movie is the book is the best. Treat Yourself , if u will!!!