Posted by Pwnster on
July 27, 2008
The Nuke Deal (or No Deal)?
In my last post I talked about the trust vote. In this post however, I try to focus on why is there a deal being done. Remember I do not represent any party and the views in the post are completely mine.
Now, The Nuke Deal, 123 agreement has had it’s share of criticism, people are asking questions if it means power or something else?
The question people are really asking are :-
1. Does India really have a shortage of the Nuclear Fuel, Uranium?
Answer : That’s actually wrongly put, Uranium is not the only nuclear fuel used in nuclear reactors. Other stuff like Thorium are also used. India has however been designing fast reactors based on thorium as fuel requiring very less uranium as the start up fuel. India has 0.8% of world uranium reserves that’s around 78,000 tones of that metal. Isn’t that enough? Yes it kinda is to generate electricity for India needs. India has also been able to built the FTBR (Fast Thorium Breeder Reactor) which can work wonders. Although this technology is still not implemented, people are quite sure that this process will work. This reactor basically breeds Uranium and Plutonium. Thus, we can double our capacity every 15-20 years, theoretically.
2. Does India have shortage of nuclear fuel [Uranium] and its technology to reprocess?
Answer : The development of FTBR, which not only breeds plutonium [Which can be used as input] but also breeds uranium. It is also called twin core reactor for its unique design. These all inputs prove that indeed we do have the technology to process and re-process nuclear fuels.
3. Is re-processing so important that without it we can’t prosper?
Answer : Hell to the yes, we need reprocessing of fuel to breed it and enhance our overall potential to generate power or electricity, whatever we use it for. This was in fact India’s three step program to achieve independency in nuclear power
4. Now the big(gest) question : What’s the purpose of this Indo-US deal then?
Answer : Today the world is not the correct representation of its constituents. The NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) and CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) do not treat responsible countries with a different attitude rather it favors only specific countries. No country can undo the process of the NPT or the CTBT. So basically to gain backdoor entry into nuclear club, this nuke deal is being done.
Being said that, I would further say this is not the only reason. In case of India, it gives it an opportunity to legitimize the nuclear weaponisation of the country. It also provides an opportunity to override the international rules for non-nuclear country as per the NPT. India has its own nuclear weapons programme. I earlier did say that our Uranium reserves are enough for power generation, but these very same reserves are also needed for the weapons programme. If they are used for weapons, we will not be able to re-process them. If this deal goes through, we can use the indigenous nuclear fuel for our weapons programme and use imported fuel for our power generation.
My reaction is quite obvious I guess, I kinda do support the Nuke Deal and I do expect the educated people to understand why. Heck, we can’t have a person who can’t even talk in English be the Prime Minister of our country nor can we have a extreme Hindu man becoming our PM, he’ll fuck the minorities up. The Muslims were rumored to be against the N-deal [WTF?] Omar Abdullah actually cleared that up in his speech on the day of the trust vote, it happens to be one of the best speeches made that day. Anyway this deal might be good for country and it might be bad, whatever it is, it’s gonna go through. So why don’t we just hope that it’s something good and that finally the government has started thinking about the common man? Even though that’s quite unlikely. I also don’t think that the government should hide the text of the N-deal. One of the people I discuss politics with actually went ahead and said there should have a public voting on this issue. I guess if they did have a public voting it would have wasted time that this government and the Bush administration didn’t have. Anyway now we’ll see some reforms which the Left didn’t approve of being made, so I guess that’s a good thing.
Posted by Pwnster on
July 26, 2008
The Nuke Deal: Why was there a Trust Vote?
It’s been a long time since I posted something on politics and seriously it was mainly because nothing was really happening in the world of politics, until the UPA won the trust vote in parliament. Now most of you already know a lot about how the UPA won the trust vote and why was there a trust vote in the first place. I am gonna focus on the latter in this post, I’ll try >.<
A trust vote was held in the Lok Sabha, the Indian Parliament of the people because the Left had withdrawn support when the UPA decided to go to ahead with the Nuclear deal between America and India. The Left said that they ‘know’ that the Indo-US Nuke Deal is bad for the country and it will mean that India will be ‘under’ the US. Other opposition parties like the BJP, BSP and other small parties decided to join in with the Left to bring down the government. Comments like ‘This government is in the I.C.U, will it survive?’ were thrown around by opposition leaders during the Parliament sessions held a day before the trust vote. While the Left and their alliance thought they were gonna bring down the Manmohan Singh lead government.
The UPA decided to get SP to back them up for their deal. Now all that is good politics but everyone kinda forgot why was there so much politics being played. Answer : The fucking Indian-American Nuke deal! Now, the UPA says that the deal is good for the country of India and it’s citizens and if this deal goes through [which it will, now] India will be regarded as a nuclear state. The Left however, even after loosing the trust vote decided to stick with their new motto which is ‘The UPA and the deal are both bad for this country.’ Supporting them the BJP was not really interested in the deal, they just wanted power so they joined the Left for wrong reasons. There were rumors going around that even the BJP came into power the deal would go through, BJP quite obviously called all these rumors bullcrap and blamed Amar Singh [President or something of the SP/Amithabh Bachan's 'brother'] for spreading these rumors.
Now, the N-deal basically from what I now will give India nuclear energy. All good? Not exactly, there have been some criticism over some of the text in the deal about the America not letting India producing nuclear arms, now I don’t know how much of this is smoking mirrors but I know that America won’t sign a deal wherein they don’t get anything, no country will actually. The text of the deal hasn’t been made public yet and it’s doubted that it ever will.
This deal has been going around since a long time and now finally it’ll go through. Maybe it’ll all be for the good of the people or maybe we’ll end up like Iran [you know, fucked up.]
I was actually supporting the UPA on this and I saw the whole Parliament session on the day of the trust vote, nearly. And I was convinced that they would win when our Prime Minister went ahead and showed his ‘Victory’ gesture to the media. Though many people think that India is gonna be in a sad state after the N-deal, I actually doubt it. Heck, everyone knows that I love this government [You know the same government which has bought VAT taxes, inflation rise, fuel price hikes among various other things to this country.] <3 So yeah, I support the N-deal!
There now can I have my 30 crores? :/
Note :Next post will cover how the UPA won the Trust Vote.
Posted by Pwnster on
July 9, 2008
The Amarnath Land-Row: Explained
On July 6th, about 50 Kashmiri Pandits, protesting the revocation of the land allotment to the Amarnath shrine board, were detained on Sunday after they barged into Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz’s home in New Delhi. Kashmiri Pandits gathered at Jantar Mantar to voice their anger against the Jammu and Kashmir government’s decision to revoke the land transfer order.
Now what the problem seems to be is that the Central government had allotted a certain amount of land for the ‘yatris’ of Amarnath, a holy place for Hindu’s. However the state government revoked the land transfer order. The Congress spokesperson said that they had temporarily allotted land and not ‘transferred’ it.
Anyway, there was a bandh held by the B.J.P [Bhartiye Janta Party] in all the states of India. The Bandh even affected the capital and the financial capital of the country. One person was also killed during violent protests in Indore on the day of the ‘India bandh’
This soon became a matter of religion and more than 60 people have died so far. The Governor of J&K [Azad] resigned soon after that because he ‘couldn’t handle the situation’ Making the already weakened government to be sad about something else too.
Even though the yatris and the government of J&K said that the ‘yatra’ was going on ’smoothly’ the ‘Hindu’ parties refused to believe it and went on with a bandh. Which caused, the life in Jammu and Kashmir came to a standstill for quite a while.
Now the questions most of the people ask are why was the land ‘taken back’ from the yatris? Now I can’t answer that nor can Google [atm]
The Amarnath yatra is taken by thousands of yatris every year and there have been no/poor facilities for them since the start. So why the sudden need for facilities? Okay, fine lame question, but the yatri has been going on since a long time and the Kashmiri Muslims have always supported the yatra. Now why this? The Kashmiri Muslims, on their blog make it a point to focus on the fact that they think the land should be given to the Shrine board, hell every educated Muslim is probably thinking the same thing now. And I agree with them but sadly the people don’t run the government even in a democracy.
The yatra has now, however been resumed and as India limps back once again from communal violence, we at The Drunk Santa, feel the need to tell you that riots and violence and politics won’t solve anything in our country.
A extremist Hindu wants to murder every Muslim man out there -An extremist Muslim wants to do something similar. We’re not America nor are we the United Kingdom, we are the worlds largest democracy in the world, and it’s time for us to grow up, we are however also quite famous for communal politics. And no, we are not telling you to be Gandhi. We are trying to tell you that if this keeps happening, it’s not gonna just affect the Indian political party leaders or the family of the people who die on the streets, but it’ll affect us all, it’ll affect our society.
So what do we do? We blog about it and write it in our diary, hoping that the government would listen to the people for once. While the government focuses more on how-they-will-survive-the-nuclear test, we the people suffer and witness bad communal politics.
Posted by Pwnster on
June 29, 2008
Ekta Kapoor’s, Kahaani…Aarushi Ki
After one of the most intense and hyped double murder India has ever seen, Ekta Kapoor (famous for making shows which just ‘work’) decided to cash in on that story. If you still don’t know what I’m talking about, you need to watch more of those annoying news channels.
Balaji Telefilms, headed by Ekta Kapoor decided to take a lesson from that murder and put that in their Indian-women orientated show ‘Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii’ (Tales of every house) The show which has been on since a long time, was gearing up for a change in its pathetically predictable storyline. However, Vandana Talwar, Dr Rajesh Talwar’s sister-in-law didn’t want this to happen, so she approached the Women and Child Welfare Minister Renuka Choudhary over the issue. Vadana said that this was literally mocking the family of their loss.
Nivedita Basu, creative head of Balaji Telefilms, said they were in no way harming anyone’s sentiments and that they just wanted a better storyline because their TRP’s were dropping.
She said, and I quote “We are saying that the characters in the planned episode in the serial concerned have no resemblance to people in the actual crime. And if it all there is any, it is purely coincidental.”
The girl who was gonna play Aarushi, in the episode “coincidentally” had a striking resemblance to her.
Why would Ekta do this? The answer is quite simple, if you have a business mind. She knows that people are interested in the case, so their viewership ratings will go up, which will get them more sponsers, which = money.
Usually I am a big democratic guy who loves all kinds of freedom, but if you saw their commercials for this particular episode you might agree with me when I say, that sensitive stuff like this should not be made into dramatic soap episodes. It’s fine if you wanna make a documentary, but making a pathetic episode on a 17 year old’s death? I’m sorry, I just don’t get it this time. You need to understand that the world isn’t literally your stage. Also, we should seriously stop with the character assassination of that poor girl, even India TV totally assassinated the character of Aarushi by telling its veiwers that she was found to be in a MMS sex scandal, when it wasn’t even true. And India TV happens to be ‘news channel’
What I’m basically trying to say is, will Ekta Kapoor like a show made on her which just might give the wrong impression of her personality after she is murdered? Probably not, so why in the world put a real life story in your pathetically reel life story when you know you’ll probably end up putting some shitty songs in it from some lame-ass romantic movie and/or the movies she has produced.
Anyhoo, the episode has been dumped and old ladies who hate their husbands, will probably be sad, because heck, this is the only entertainment they got.
[Yes, I know this is old news, but wth you expect me to post something on my birthday?]
Posted by Pwnster on
June 6, 2008
The UPA gets hit ‘Left’, Right and Centre.
So, as all of you know/should know - the prices of fuel have gone up. Petrol prices by five rupees and diesel prices by three rupees per litre. Our now-very-famous UPA government doesn’t stop here, LPG prices have gone up by fifty bucks a cylinder. The Left called the UPA a not very directional government, and other ‘names’ after the price hike. However, the puppet who happens to be our Prime Minister, defended the fuel price hike and said that the hike is due to the soaring rate of food and crude oil. He also told the people that the Government is bearing 90% of the loss, and only 10% of it is being born by the people. And then the people truly supported his decision and said there should be a more price hike in the fuel, yeah right. -_-
What the puppet doesn’t get is, is that the government happens to be a huge body with lots of money with it. And also, that with this, the transportation cost will increase, with that, the basic needs of a person like the “roti” will also increase (For the Youngistaanies : ice-cream prices will go up again!) He probably gets that, he is supposedly qualified.
Also the inflation will reach around 9.5-10% for the next few weeks, which means, more price increase in everything, mostly and probably a huge jump in edible items.
The price of petrol was gonna be hiked by sixteen rupees earlier, but then they decided against it, because they care for the common man so much. The customs on crude oil have been cut quite drastically to make the hike as small as possible, says the Government.
This time, I blame the U.S.A., because they use too much of fuel and hence we have to pay more for it! How unfair is that, and no, I am not the next George Bush of India.
I guess the people who are getting married now ask for lifetime supply of petrol instead of a car as dowry. Because you can get a car for one hundred thousand rupees. But petrol is like “OMG-expensive.”
So what will the common man do, now? He’ll probably get a CNG kit installed in his car, as CNG is quite cheap - like 21 bucks a kilo. Plus I guess, CNG is a cleaner fuel than petrol. Most of the new Maruti cars already come with CNG pre-installed in them. Obviously no “rich” person will buy a Maruti, and no BMW owner is gonna get CNG installed in their car. But they are not the common man, they are the elite group of people.
So go ahead and install those CNG kits in your car! And make this world a cleaner place to live in!
Posted by shailja on
May 29, 2008
The Dad who Killed
The news channels are currently showing loop after loop of the testaments made by different, fat and ugly policemen of different ranks who talk with extreme pride, in heavily accentuated wrong English. The accent by the way is not wannabe American or Brit, but more Haryanvi mixed with Punjabi.
They all are talking about the recent, sad murder of the 14 year old kid in Noida. The police woke up to the murder after they made their much publicized blunders of course. They blamed the missing 40 something year old domestic aide. The phones of both, the kid & the aide were missing. Eureka. After almost 2 entire days, a family friend who happens to be a retired police official gets onto the case. The guy discovered the dead body of the domestic aide on the freaking TERRACE of the house! It was discovered after almost 2 whole days & the girl had already been cremated & her family had left for some place to get rid of the ashes as well. A proper blood trail, blood outside the doors & a disgusting smell of rotting flesh wasn’t enough to wake up the intelligent Delhi police, who as their slogan claims are ‘with you, for you, always’. Isn’t it like logical to inspect the entire crime zone? Search dogs are a compulsion in the murder cases as well. But neither did they search through the entire house, which obviously includes the terrace as well as the staircase leading to it which by the way had blood on almost every single step, nor did they bother to get the search dogs who would have sniffed their way to the domestic aide’s body within minutes. Efficiency & interest in solving the crime well demonstrated. This case was especially highlighted cos the kid belonged to a decently rich family, lived in a good neighborhood & attended a pretty well reputed school, DPS Noida. The DPS society for once made sense & genuinely tried to help by letting the kids’ make their statements & by ensuring complete security to their parents, well wishers and insecure selfish judgmental people refusing to interfere etc.
The police now claim that the girl was murdered by the parents. She apparently was dating a guy, was physical with him etc. This by the way is almost normal behavior practiced by most kids her age & some even younger to her. I personally know parents who get extremely suspicious/worried if their daughter is single & I don’t really blame them. My own family refuses to believe I am single & cross question me to heights of irritation trying to get me to ‘trust’ them & ‘be friends with them’ and tell them about my non existent boyfriend (sometimes even a girlfriend is considered! Like, omg wtf how can they even think like that!) because they apparently are extremely comfortable with the thought of me having one. Oh and as far as the physical aspect of the relationship is concerned, there is a certain, aim / belief / peer pressure / bullcrap need to ‘do it’ before 17. The guys certainly believe in achieving it more than the girls & I’m not saying that literally every kid is supposed to do it but this weird need is more apparent in the younger generation of the 13-15 year olds. Gawd I know kids who have gone way more farther than what I’d ever imagine and they’re barely 13-15. And the DPSes aren’t known for conservative, cultural academic environments anyway. Heck, weird, conformists still scream ‘vo MMS wala school’ (that celebrated school with the MMS case) every time they hear any mention of DPS RKP. So well, the physical aspect is pretty justified to me atleast. Quite alota parents are pretty cool with it too. Facebook is a proof of such parents where couples have posted pictures of themselves hugging/kissing & their parents have very sweetly commented on the pictures as well. This practice though is not that common though but alota my friends share these ’secrets’ with their parents pretty freely. My own brother who is well, of another generation since he is about 14 years older to me is genuinely happy to discuss my relationships etc and usually has wilder advice for me. So if young Arushi was seeing someone & was intimate with him as well, I’m sure the parents won’t go blind with rage enough to murder their own daughter days before she turned 14 by slitting her f**king throat in her own bed. Oh and murdering the domestic aide as well since ‘he knew’. Maybe they did kill the two, but then what has the world come to?! Family living in one of the best residential areas of quite a cosmopolitan capital of the nation, daughter studying in a reputed school, apparently dating someone so parents go ahead & murder her to save the family name & then kill the old servant cos he knew. Unbelievable to me atleast. Would’ve been a little convincing if the family was below poverty line, not educated & obviously conservative. The police might just be framing the parents since there is literally no other clue & they cannot bother enough to bust their asses trying to find some until the media, the youth & the opposition take it personally.
I thought of writing about this as my Dad, usually beyond ignorant about my activities, whereabouts, friends etc suddenly demanded all my friends’ addresses & their parents’ phone numbers. He even threatened me saying that I won’t ever be allowed to step outside the main door if I don’t give him the correct addresses of the kids I’m going with & the place I’m going to. Now that is extremely hard for me since me & my um, quite like myself friends are never decided about the destination of our travels & weekend night outs together until we actually get there. This makes it really hard to be truthful to dad since, well i won’t really know the true destination till I get there right? So well, this hasn’t really got anything to do with the issue but what the hell, my Dad is kinda unreasonable & kinda ignorant of the device known as cell phone through which I can be contacted at any hour & I’d obviously tell him where I am then. Sad part, alota parents have similar reactions & demands which is obviously making already hard lives harder. So well, this irritates me more since this sudden ‘regulation’ is the consequence of him & other parents watching the loops of the girl’s boyfriend being discovered by the police & parents not knowing anything about who her friends were, where she went etc. I’ll see to it that this regulation is never practiced by me atleast & my friends can obviously be trusted to do the same cos, heck its impossible for us to practice it ^_^!
Back to the point, the Indian Police are practically known for framing the innocent, accepting bribes, corruption etc all over the freaking world anyway. I wish they don’t practice old habits again, but then wishes related to the system hardly ever come true.
May Arushi Talwar’s almost 14 years old soul rest in peace
PS: The case hasn’t obviously been solved as yet, the parents are in the line of suspects. The post will be updated regularly with all the recent developments.
Updates:
Arushi was going to turn 15 according to the Times of India & the Sunday Times, 14 when she was murdered & 16 by a prominent news channel. usually a kid in 9th is 14 years old, but well the exceptions are always there, not to mention misconceptions <_<.
The police declared Arushi’s father as the murderer & made scandalizing comments about the poor girl’s character. An officer was suspended because of this. They even went ahead & indirectly claimed that the father has confessed guilty. The father has been arrested for questioning. Arushi’s mother is busy with press conferences claiming that her husband could never kill Arushi. If you ask me, he very well could have, but who knows. The police claim the father killed Arushi since she had issues with him over his ‘affair’ with the neighbor. She supposedly got ‘close’ to the 40year old house aide. He got pissed and killed both.
As if all her friends & the guys in her school had died.
Posted by Pwnster on
April 16, 2008
OMG the Inflation!!
So, yes a very ‘in’ topic these days in the rise in ‘our’ daily expenses, which is caused by *tada* something known as inflation, the topic which the finance minister loves to talk about. Now, what the heck is inflation? The process is similar to that of an inflating balloon, however this is more interesting. Inflation generally means the increase in prices of goods, mainly the day-to-day products one uses.
So, yes, the inflation is at a staggering 7.41%, this clearly tells us, that the current ruling party, were fucking us up for the past four years. The industrial growth has slowed down, the media is hyping the inflation, thus causing people to panic and even raise prices of the goods they deal in, even if they didn’t have to do it. April 1st, milk prices were increased by four bucks a liter, thus causing ice cream prices to go up, and those prices are not gonna go down, not now, not ever, its an upward trend, which isn’t so surprising to me.
So why the sudden burst of the inflation topic? Well it’s kinda because of the slow economic growth of our great country, mainly industrial growth. I mean hell, the inflation was rising all this time, but nobody cared, because the people had the money, now when they are making losses/not earning like they used to, they struggle, which causes the sudden notice of the inflation. Even a buck which is increased in any of the daily wanted products causes people to wonder and make budgetary cuts, I am here obviously talking about the middle and the lower class, who are on a fixed salary, in other words ‘the common man’. Plus, as most of you know, the media wants to take a subject and go on ranting about it for weeks, until they get an interesting rape case or maybe a murder case, or better yet, a rape case, where the victim was murdered and then it was found that she was on drugs!
I say blindfold the people, our system is great at that anyway! If you look at it nobody can’t be just a ‘consumer’ of goods and services, so if the services he uses hikes prices, or the goods he buys get expensive, he will hike prices of the goods he deals in/services he provides.
So, how does it affect, ‘us’ the ‘Youngistaan’? Well, the junk food is gonna get expensive, yeah well -_-