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Today is a big day for the people of Telangana. We had polling for both the newly formed Assembly and the Parliament. I voted for Narendra Modi. Yes, you heard it right. I voted for Modi, not just BJP. In that I voted for a Leader. I voted for a visionary. I voted for the statesman who would walk the talk. His being a BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate is incidental for me. I am no weatherman to tell if there is Modi wave or not in the country. Let me reserve that till May 16 when the Parliament election results would be out in the open. No prizes for guessing. I do not hesitate to wear it on my sleeve, my support to Modi for PM. I can't see any better leader in the recent times. I am for the development of my nation and I yearn to see Modi as PM. In the process, I put down my views on him and the endless controversies around him, from my own little understanding. Let me start the discourse with the standard disclaimer. I follow political activity of the nation without m...

Having resisting myself from writing on the hot topic of Telangana statehood for so long, I felt a time has come for me to write on this in my blog. First I need to wear my credentials on my sleeves, before commenting on this sensitive issue. It also matters, sometimes, WHO said it, rather than WHAT is said. My father's great grandfather belonged to this land of Nawabs, Hyderabad. My grandfather has migrated to the Andhra region and father came back to Hyderabad a decade before I was born. So you may agree no less that I am a truer Hyderabadi than our own Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy. This reaffirms my capacity to comment on this topic, dispassionately. Being born and brought up in this Hyderabad City, I am not exposed to the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, now euphemistically called as the "Seemaandhra" regions. This word itself is a misnomer, as people of both these regions do not accept or agree with each other, Andhra people and Rayalaseema people do not...

Gurave Sarvalokanaam Bhishaje Bhava Roginaam Nidhaye Sarva Vidyanaam Dakshinamurthaye Namaha Today is the most auspicious day in the Hindu almanac, being Guru Poornima. Today is the day on which Bhagavan Veda Vyasa was born to Saint Parashara & Satyavathi. It is also called Vyasa Poornima. "Vyaso narayanena swayam" , Vyasa is himself Vishnu and is one of the greatest gurus who has given to this world the Brahmasutras, Ashtadasa Puranas and who has divided the Vedas into four stratas. That is the regard that the believers of Sanatana Dharma has on this great guru. Incarnation of the Trinity, Sri Guru Dattatreya shows you the tradition of Guru-sishya(preacher-disciple). So is Shirdi Sai Baba. This day is celebrated in the famous shrines of Lord Dattatreya and Shirdi Sai Baba with devotional fervour for this reason. Dakshinamurthy, the form of Shiva who is the preacher, is called Adiguru or the first preacher to the Universe. Then you have "Krishnam Vande Jag...

In the past few days, we are inundated with the coverage of the protests led by Anna Hazaare. First it was the positive coverage, lack of government's appropriate response, solidarity extended by various individuals, among others. Later, the celebration of the victory, its hailing, etc. Last heard, the controversies surrounding the members. It is not apt for me to go on these topics bit by bit. I shall instead focus of the prime aspects of the circumstances that led to this mammoth show of public angst in this movement. Recently one of my friends has asked me who this Anna Hazare is? He said he came to know of this man only after he sat on hunger strike at Jantar Mantar. He is absolutely fine with his question. Though I dare not to say that I too am in the similar situation, it would not be proper to tell that I knew all about this legend. To my memory, atleast in a couple of occasions, this one-man movement called Anna Hazare had caught my attention in the past. All I knew about...

Each day we are welcomed with the flood of reports on leaks from different parts of the world. One is WikiLeaks, which is by a whistle blower non-profit organisation founded by Julian Assange. He or his organisation could not be labelled blackmailers or armtwisters in disseminating the information contained in cables and wires sent by the diplomats the world over. It definitely makes an interesting reading as you get an access to what happens behind the cosmetic cover of the niceties and pleasantries in the diplomatic circles. Some are amusing while some are shockers of their kind. People have a right to know these form, in some cases, a trove of information to the general public. Assange and his team had to face a lot of pressure and were discouraged constantly from revealing the contents of the cables dated till 30 years back. The servers were crashed and there was hacking and he was booked on a petty case and later arrested. Then comes a story akin to a daily soap in the name of Rad...

We have our daily dose of the scams, scandals and the corruption charges. To borrow the word from my friend Srinivas, we have our preoccupation with the GAFLAs(a hindi translation to the word SCAM). So much so that our appetite for the new gaflas is increasing with each passing day and we gratify by reading and knowing about more and more scams happening in this nation. Trust our politicians, they would never let us down. They all would ensure that we do not starve and get disheartened by not giving us something new gafla to read and crib about. What is the end result, is anybody's guess. We write, talk, read, discuss, watch elaborately about the gafla till the time we find someone unearthing a new one from thin air. We hear so much about a particular scam and start counting zeros in the gafla amount. Then we start justifying, based upon our own personal affiliations, leanings and beliefs that this gafla is bigger than the previous ones and so it is worth cribbing about. Then the j...

There was the story of some great emperor who had a wise minister as advisor, couldn't recollect well if it is Akbar Birbal duo or some other combination. One day two ladies come quarelling to the king's court claiming a baby to be their's and not belonging to the other one. The Court had a tough time deciding the true mother among those two. The wise minister tells a way out of this and then suggests to the king that the baby boy be cut to half and divided equally between the two ladies as both their versions seem to be genuine. On hearing the judgement from the king, one of the ladies offer to the lordship to withdraw from the claimon the baby so that cutting her baby could be avoided. On hearing this, the King concludes her to be the real mother of the baby and punishes the other lady for coming to the court with a false case and wasting the court time. This is in short the story I read in my childhood. Fortunately then, there were no experts to judge this judgement.Othe...