Battle at Kruger

This is the batter at Kruger. Filmed at Kruger National Park in South Africa. Wonderful video, amazingly showing the old saying, 'United we stand'

End of story?

So finally, whatever that rises, is due to fall. It might take a little while, but it does FALL!
Now the real test begins, for the two mainstream parties, how they will maintain this coalition together. Till now the only binding force for them was a united opposition to Musharaf. Now when musharaf is gone, what will keep them together is the main issue.

hoping for the best for the people of pakistan.

Happy Independence Day

So once again, we're celebrating independence of India. Indians seem to be happy all over the world. Truly its a day to celebrate, but what are we celebrating for?

When i thought this for a while, I got optimistic as well as pessimistic. Optimistic, because to see India grow economically. We see the economy growing, people all over the world taking about India's economy. India becoming as a back office of the world. that makes me proud.

But when i think more deeply, i become pessimistic, to see how my country is ripped apart today. Things are beyond anybody's control. Bombs are going everywhere, people are dying. even today, after such a growth in economy our farmers are ending there own life just to get rid of there loans. Our politicians have no class, corruption is all time high. There is no basic infrastructure in the whole country.

It seems we still have a long way to go...

House warming party!

finally yesterday we did our house warming party. It was fun, because we did a bar-b-q party. I got a new grill (3 burner gas grill). was fun watching all that chicken being cooked on it. Also for vegetarian people we did 'paneer tikka' {grilled cottage cheese}. hopefully people enjoyed a lot. the fun part was the cricket match played later on. It was funny to hit shots after having couple of beers and soo much chicken.

will upload more pictures soon...

Laloo and Maya

These are 2 jokers in our Indian politics. Both are well known for there corruption and uncounted wealth. One became famous because he ate 'chaara' and other came to fame, because of her dirty remarks made on Hindus












(picture send by dipankar deb roy)

Trend of breaking news!

Recently my parents were visiting us in US and for them I got them Hindi channel package, so that they can entertain themselves, or at least see Indian news channels (as my parents are always watching news).

Watching with them all these news channels, I realized, that nowadays every news channels has a 'Breaking News'. It can be from anywhere to anything. Just that they have to give a rubbish news but print it as 'BREAKING NEWS'. Anyway, here are few samples, but I won't say them as breaking news but they should be called as 'BARKING NEWS'

Sam in Pool

Home Sweet Home!!!

Well here I'm after a long time. Will not lie, I was lazy for quite some time. Never felt like writing anything. Also we were busy in house hunting. And FINALLY, got the dream house!!!!!

Few old pictures!

Well in my last post, I tried creating an album on my blog, which was pretty cool. So i thought why not create another one, with the old pictures of Sameer what I have. So here it is...

X-mas Party

Well it was really fun having a x-mas party at friend's place. It was awesome party, and offcourse we drank a lot. so here are few pictures for you guys to enjoy :)

Finnland Airport!

Here's Sameer enjoying his India trip. While going to India, we had a stop over at Helsinke airport, so he was all set to drive his car, which had 2 steering wheels :)

Back in US!

Well here I'm back in US again. Went to India for my brother's marriage. Will be posting pictures of marriage soon. But till then enjoy this video of Sameer, dancing on his chacha's sagan party. :)

Jai Sri Ram!

A good friend of mine(Mukesh Kachroo), just send me this funny thing, so thought of sharing with you all.



Sri Rama surveyed the Ramsetu and said, "Hanuman, how diligently you and your vanara sena built this bridge. How remarkable that it has withstood the ravages of time, considering that a bridge at Hyderabad built by Gammon using the latest technology collapsed the other day even before they could stick posters on its pillars."

Hanuman said humbly, "Lord, it is because of your grace. We just wrote your name on the rocks and threw them into the sea and they held up. No steel or cement was used. But Lord, why rake it up now?"Said Rama, "Well, Hanuman, some people down there want to demolish your bridge and construct a canal. The contract involves lots of money They will make money on demolition and more money on construction."

Hanuman asked, "Why don't we go down and present our case?"

"No," said Rama, "Times have changed. Historians will ask us to submit proof of our existence. Do we have a birth certificate, a school-leaving certificate or a driving license? As for address proof, the fact that I was born at Ayodhya is itself under litigation for over half a century. If I go dressed as usual, the ordi- nary people may recognise me but politicians will take me to be a lost Ramlila actor."

"But I built it! I'll swear on oath!"

"My dear Anjaniputra, it will not work. They will ask you to produce the layout plan, the project details like financial outlay, how the project cost was met and the completion certificate. They may even want to see your engineering college degree."

"Lord, I don't understand. You have given darshan regularly to 'historical' figures like Surdas, Thyagaraja, Jayadeva and Tukaram, yet people disbelieve your existence? Should we replay the Ramayana on earth to set the government record straight?"

The Lord smiled. "It won't happen. Ravana is terrified that Karunanidhi will make a saint of him. And his mama Mareecha, who appeared as the golden deer to tempt Sita, refuses to step on earth for fear of Bollywood hunters. Let it be."

deal is DEAD

finally the ball has been dropped. Its now a fact that Indo-US nuclear will not go ahead. after showing all the courage, congress party finally gave in. this makes me think that after all, personal greed gets so high that people forget about nation at all. today we're riding on 8-9% growth rate, which means future is good, but how are we gonna survive at this rate without the energy security. Or are we (oooopsss... i mean the left parties of India) thinking about to repeat china mistake and blacken our skies overnight by using coal based energy.

frankly speaking, i have never been a congress supporter. I have always experienced that congress party is one of the most corrupt parties in India (which doesn't mean other parties are not) and also one of the parties which has always landed India into mess. but for some reason, i started developing some respect for Manmohan Singh and Congress party as how they made a stand against left. but in the end, its the same story repeated again and again.

Left parties are still day dreaming that one day they gonna see a red flags everywhere, and communism is the way forward, but they need to look around and see, China (whom they follow blindly) has also embraced capitalism. the only problem with left is that how can they align with US. these guys have rejected US even in there sleep. And now the govt. whom they support, is aligning or shall i say tilting towards US. So its an ideological question for them. (without any thought process involved)

As far as I can see, deal is DEAD. And so is India's energy security. The best option would be that Congress party should negotiate with BJP to support the deal. (after all some credit goes to Vajpayee govt. too, to get this deal done)

On second thought Congress asking for help from BJP!! (am i day dreaming now...?)

Sameer talking

Sameer's first music video

Please enjoy Sameer's first music video. This is my first try, hope you guys like it :)

Sameer at Arkin's Birthday

enough is enough!

Well left is again up in arms with Congress over nuclear deal issue. Seems like left is always there to commit blunders in the history of India (details were in my previous post). I'm surprised the way they're opposing the deal. There are only 2 parties which seems to be benefited if this deal gets scrapped, Pakistan & China. And its well know from past that Communists still seems to follow China, and consider them as there masters. From there actions it has always been that CPI wants India to be a secondary power in Asia, and not be as powerful as China. Is this in national interest? But who thinks about nation anyway, they're busy doing there pity politics.

Was also surprised to read the comments from Mr. B Raman (former Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India). He was describing that how Mr. Sitaram Yechury, raised hue & cry over the visa issue. He was describing that before Chinese president visit to India, a Chinese company won a contract for construction of gas pipeline and wanted to bring 1000 engineers from China. They requested visa for them, but home ministry & Intelligence Bureau was not clearing the matter. Indian govt. queried the Chinese company, that why can't they hire Indian Engg. here in India. On this Mr. Yechury pressurized the govt. so much, that in the end, they had to clear those 1000 visas. Would he have done the same thing, if US company wanted to bring those many people? I doubt! So basically there integrity is with China, not with India.

I think time has come when we need to decide who's with India and who's not. If someone is not, like the Left parties, they should better get visas for China and leave this place. We're bound to become a world power and no 'left' & 'right' can stop us.

Sameer calling wildlife!

Sameer feeding ducks!