Sorry For Being AWOL

One of the hard things about having a blog is making sure you write there. There are always a few people (who know of the existence of this tiny inconsequential in the vastness of cyberspace and the fewer who want to read random musings of an unknown idiot) who want to know why I have not written. I could lie and say that I was very busy tied up in all sorts of things but far be it for me to lie when the truth can show me in poorer light. I was lazy and though there was much happening in the world,I decided that I would rather play games when I switched on the computer than bang away on the keyoard trying to construct sentences.
However I promise that from now on I shall write every day. To make it easier I have zoned in on five topics, one for each day of the week (Even us unemployed people do not work on weekends) which shall be the source for my ramblings.

Monday: I shall ramble on politics because I know that we are all so concerned about the state of this nation (smsing NDTV, ranting against Laloo, Sonia: Saint or Sinner) that we should begin our week by sparing a thought for the nation

Tuesday: I will ramble aabout sport which means mostly cricket since we hardly play any other sport

Wednesday: I will ramble about someone I met, something I did or did not do

Thursday: I will rant about one ad that i have seen the reason for this should be out in a week

Friday: I will profile one man/woman/issue that has taken up much of our mindspace

I hope that seems like a fair deal and if i do not follow the schedule then please forgive me


And since this is a Monday lets talk politics

I have been fascinated by this office of profit controversy. The way I see it politicians are in politics because they want to profit from it. Some of you might have the temerity to suggest that politicians are in politics because they want to hold office. I, however, reject this theory on the basis that politicians are too wily not to know that the office is a fickle place decided entirely by fickle voters who are easily swayed by caste, religion and money. So while an office might help a politician profit it is more likely that profits will help a politician into office.

Having said this let us now train our attention on SoniaG (I have added the G to sound respectful lest some congresswallahs come and blacken my face for calling the great lady by her maiden name)

SoniaG has been canonised once again by her sycophants within the Congress for her supreme sacrifice. In mumbai, where I live, overnight we saw posters bearing her pictures, come up praising her sacrifice and quite naturally pictures of the congresswallahs who have printed these shabby posters. The TV channels love SoniaG and the 'Sonia - Sinner or Saint' sms your verdict polls have been running ceaselessly. As an aside I have always been mystified as to who these mutts are who send long inane text messages. But for all I know maybe these chaps eagerly wait for their name to come on tv and then sms all their friends and relatives how their wondrous comment is on air.
Coming back to SoniaG her stint in politics is becoming like a Manmohan Desai movie, all too predictable. Here is how the plot usually goes.
The Congress think tank screws up, they insist they have not screwed up, they try something shady, the BJP cries foul, the BJP tries to target SoniaG, the BJP calls Manmohan Singh names, the Left says ignore the BJP and then Sonia Gandhi resigns.
I for one cannot bear to see her mumble in Hindi about the greatness of the nation and her lack of desire to hold any post. But then I am alone. For the moment, like Amitabh Bachchan, she somehow manages to come out trumps at the end of the movie all the time and everyone seems to love it. As for the BJP like good old Ranjeet they always seem to get caught in a trap of their own making.
My wish is that one of these days SoniaG does a Greg Chappel and just shows the finger and say, "Yeh un sab logon ke liye jo mujh pe hamesha ungliyan utha rahe hain'. She can always claim later that it's the Italian way of resigning or forgiving ones rivals. I know it won't happen but hey you never know.

As to those of you who are wondering whether I think she did the right thing or not politics is not about right or wrong but about opportunism. And what she did was indeed the most opportunistic thing, in her place I would have done the same.

PS
Last heard the BJP is trying cut its losses while the Congress is profiting from the whole drama. A friend suggested that Indian politics could use a tagline which CNBC uses for a recruitment drive which simply says 'Indian Politics-Profit from it'