Random Ramblings, Random Reflections!!

Q. Whats common between Aamir Khan / Big B / Rajiv Narayan? A. All three are bloggers We are all starry eyed. We all look up at Hollywood stars more than we look upto to the heavens above. We want to know what he/she has done today. We all want to read what Aamir Khan and Big B has to say in their blogs.. We all do not want to read what Rajiv Narayan thinks/does! Well, suffice to say that i wouldnt mind the bouquets and the brickbats.. So come read me and leave ur impressions in the comments box... Well, who am I talking to???? :) PS: I dont have a dog named after someone which keeps licking my toes!

This post is a corrigendum to my earlier post 'Left of Centre'. Reading the blog online, i have noticed innumerable errors - grammatical and typos... Apologies for the same!!! Which reminds me of an interesting statement a friend of mine made just after writing his 12th standard Board English exams: "English today was the easiest exam i have written. I will surely get very good marks. I have made no grammerical errors at all" i rest my case!

Flashy cars, flashy mobiles and precariously hung laptop bags define the city of Bangalore today. Congested and traffic riddled roads define the geographical entity called Bangalore. Road rages and impatient drivers define the trait of a stressed out Bangalorean. The city, which has become the back office of the world, has for some time been bursting in its seams thanks to an influx of migrant knowledge workers. Compounding the traffic woes is the omni present ‘call center cabs’- an imposing sight in your rear view mirror is a Qualis breathing down your neck, packed with 5-8 people either setting off to work or going back home to give their haphazard body and bio clock some rest. Rash and reckless driving by these professional drivers have led to an increase in road rages and accidents in Bangalore. Something in me ticks when I see these call center cabs. That something is most often ticked by the drivers who have not an aorta of patience and have an uncanny knack of cutting in front o...

In a country where even the center leans towards the left with socialism as a pillar of the constitution, it isn’t hard to imagine how slanted the Leftist parties would be to the left of center. Leftist movements and parties took birth thanks to the widespread prevalence of feudalism and exploitation of labour by the lords of the land. Karl Marx, in his epoch making treatise “Das capital, outlines the ills of capital and why the labouring classes should unite. Marx, in his magnum opus, focuses on structural contradictions than class contradictions but strangely, does not propose a theory of revolution. He merely suggests that due to the peculiar circumstances (exploitation of labour by capital); capitalists by themselves create a situation of the working classes working against the capitalists. And then Marx assumes that while efficiency of capital will lead to increasing wealth, concentration of wealth will happen, thus creating class wars. I believe that all economic theories are the...