Thursday, October 8, 2009

Flood for Thought.




He was sitting on the drivers seat with his trousers folded up till his knees his bata sandals lying on the dashboard of the bus behind the steering wheel the bus conductor managed to arrange for some tea from the guy who used to appear wearing a raincoat and a huge black umbrella with 10 small glasses of tea from the by lanes and disappear after selling it all for 5 bucks a glass in less than 2 minutes to come back with more. sipping on a hot cup of chai my dad told told the conductor ">yaar ye baaris rukne wala nahi hain sayad". He spent 30 hours sitting on the drivers seat which was an inch above water all the other passengers had abandoned the bus he could not.

26th July 2006, was the day when Bombay beat the world record for maximum rainfall in a day, and i am reminded of those floods today because of the grim situation Andhra pradesh and Karnataka, about 500000 people are living in refugee camps, 300 people died, Orissa as a state should be completely evacuated looking at the rate of floods, droughts cyclones that break the states back year after year and its only increasing. People who have to bear the brunt of climate disasters have contributed zilch in causing it and the irony is poor guys dont even know why they are at the recieveing end and who is responsible for it.

But we know it don't we? its us, the rich and when i say the rich i mean the rich of the world discounting the Geographical boundaries, its a fact that Climate change is being by accumulative emissions of over a hundred years of industrialization, its the west who has caused it and they will have to take the lead in cutting down emissions but wait a minute in causing the problem what the west did to us aren't the Rich of India doing the same to the poor of India? We can continue telling the world their emissions are about luxury where as India's emissions are about survival and thats because we are country of over a billion people but think about this.

If the world emissions come down the same as India per-capita emissions which is less than 2 tons per annum climate change as an issue wont exist then but if over a billion Indians start having the same lifestyle like an urban middle class citizen then apocalypse wont be far away.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Coal at what cost?

Eight year old, curly hair wearing dirty knickers, no shirt playing in sweltering heat with his favorite toy, a JCB to excavate coal and load it in a tiny little truck. He pushes that toy truck loaded with coal over a crack spewing fumes and smoke. That’s a day in the life of a kid in Jharia, A small town in Jharkhand, the town is a part of the district which is called as the coal capital of India, Jharia alone has almost 60000 cr (us 12 billion $) worth of coal under its belly which has been burning since 1916.

October 7th 2008 I was in Calcutta, the city was lit up with millions of lighbulbs, loudspeakers blaring music at high decibel, shops, restaurants, flea markets, theatres, buses, trams, rickshaws…it looked like someone has switched on a big halogen lamp over the city, it was the biggest festival in Kolkata, I was in transit to travel to a Jharia assisting British photographer peter caton for documenting a place which is often referred to as “Hell on Earth” We took an early morning train “black diamond” to Dhanbad from Howrah station.

The parking lot at dhanbad was choc a bloc with 100’s of ambassadors that ply as taxis, we hired one with a driver named salim who said he knows all the “phayar “ places in Jharia at the back of his hand. We started out day around 1:00 pm after having lunch.

Jharia is a small town in the state of Jharkhand, its claim to fame is that 60000 crores worth of coal is buried under the town and has been burning nonstop since 1916, there are as many as 70 sites spread all over Jharia where you can see the ground beneath your feet breathing fire. The villages in Jharia literally breathe coal. One such village is bokapahadi exactly opposite rajapur coal mines, all men in the village work in the mines while women and children collect coal illegally from the mining dump to earn some extra food for the family.

Hundreds of families breathing toxic fumes of coal which has been burning under their homes for generations, most of them suffering from breathing disorders, 90% kids don’t go to school, no electricity struggling day after day for every meal on the land which they inherited from their forefathers. Why are they suffering so much? The answer is simple, they were born on coal reserves worth 12 billion us $, they are living on the source of energy which is pumping India’s GDP.

So the question I want to ask is why are these villagers in Jharia not party to all the development happening in the country . During durga pooja in Calcutta when thousands of homes switch on their first plasma tv why does Shankar bhuiya’s family continue to eat their modest meal in the light of a kerosene lamp? Coal for sure is destroying the planet but is it doing any good to humanity?

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Muthalik and his monkeys.

i would like to start this with a quote of pramod muthalik who in an interview said "pyar karne ke liye koi day kyun?, aaj karo, abhi karo kabhi bhi karo" well thats what froms the basis why he and his army of monkeys are up in arms to beat the shit out of anyone who is found expressing his/her love on valentines day. the leader os these monkeys resorting to making youngsters life miserable can be understood, he's old, unmarried, he has never had a crush on any girl ever in his life, cos its not indian culture, he might have never loved someone cos its not indian culture, i can bet he never got laid in his life cos its not indian culture. Kamasutra is not indian culture actaully vatsyayana was not an indian he was a russian, his full name was vatsyayana boobpreski, he was sent by the Indian national congress to write a book on sex so that BJP's image can be tarnished in 20th century.

Khajuraho is also not Indian culture, it was made by george bush way back in 1600's to help the tourism industry flourish in india. Indian culture is torturing women and treating them as slaves, . Indian culture is killing newborn baby girls, Indian culture is expecting wife to do a sati if husband dies, indian culture is husband marrying in a months time after wifes death but if husband dies the wife has to spend all her life alone practising celbacy in a white khadi saree.

If sri ram sene wants to be self appointed to preachers of indian culture, i suggest they should first read up a little about it, I would like to know which book is mr. Pramod muthalik referring to for promoting indian culture, He should first correct himslef and start saying that he is trying to fight the influence of western culture on hindu culture, and before he says so he should read up more on hindu scriptures, vedas, granthas etc....

this idiot muthalik doesnt have a clue what he is talking about, thank god he was not born when krishna was alive, he would have crucified the poor guy for openly flirting with all the chicks in mathura. let me ask this, Indra dev can get drunk on madira or somras and enjoy an item number from an apsara every evening, and if we wanna enjoy a cold draft and shake a leg then hindu sanskriti is at threat, lord shiva can be doped out 24 x 7 but our parties are raided, dropadi can have 5 husbands at a time, kunti can make out with the sun and have a son but we are not even allowed to publicly display affection for our girlfirends ???? why?? for gods sake even guru kripacharya was making out with his babe in the forest under the open sky when youdishthir spotted him pants down or dhoti's down and got a shraap for being a peeing tom, sculptures of orgies and gay and lesbian sex are plastered all over khajuraho, and that mr muthalik is not a private loo of your non extistent father in law, kajuraho temples were made to be seen by people, outside, in the open.

so screw you muthalik, or i suggest some one else should screw you, what ever your preferences male female or shemale i suggest you should get laid, if you need money we wil all pool in and make sure you get laid but please leave us alone. i request every one to clebrate valentines day and clebrate every day a a valentine day and show the middle finger to muthalik and his monkeys.

May god not have mercy on you and you die of a bobbit while getting laid.