June 2013 Status Updates

· BCCI: We have a winning strategy for the 2015 ODI World Cup.
Reporter: Really! What?
BCCI: Well Dhoni’s the captain… and… err… it really doesn’t matter who the other 14 squad members are!

· While watching Two and a Half Men I always feel that Charlie Sheen is just on vacation and he’s going to come back any time soon and kick Ashton Kutcher out of the house.

(June 29)

· TV serial Suits is so squeaky clean: Like all the characters, scenes and even dialogues have been scrubbed thoroughly with hot soapy water.

· With citizen privacy issues we go ballistic.
With celebrity privacy issues we go voyeuristic.
Either way privacy is great publicity.

(June 28)

· Moustache (Ranveer), Moustacher (Shikhar) and Moustachest (Sir Jadeja).

· India’s 2012-13 world tour with Sri Lanka…
We’ve played with them in Australia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and England.
Now we’re off to play with them in the West Indies!

(June 27)

· Cockfight: In some parts of the world organizers get two cocks which fight till they sometimes bleed.
Panelfight: In India, a TV news anchor does a similar thing and gets one from the Congress and one from the BJP.

(June 26)

· If they had a VDIS for donations during national calamities, we would get an excess of funds. The amount of readily available black money just lying around is not funny.

· I miss the offline world.
There we’d have heated arguments and forget about it in minutes.
In cyberspace every word hangs in space till infinity.

· Very difficult not to get into a “Tu tu main main” situation on Twitter/Facebook with zillions of conflicting opinions clashing with each other all the time.

· Don’t worry if you die a failure.
You’re simply a great idea whose time hasn’t come.
On to the next life/afterlife/existence…

(June 23)

· Sampoorna Bharat: Beech main middlemen, side main fringe groups, upar main politicians aur neeche dare hue maare hue battered aam janta.

· 1947-48, 62, 65, 71, 84, 99…
Kashmir-NE-Punjab-Lanka…
Floods, earthquakes, natural tragedies…
Is there ever a true “peacetime” for our armed forces?

· In Bollywood, South Indians will get the Hindi ling wrong 100% times.
Getting it 100% wrong is as difficult as getting it 100% right.

(June 22)

· Mamata means soft.
They probably thought she’d have a soft personality.
Instead she’s gone totally soft in the head.

· West Bengal politics: Curiouser and curiouser.
Mamata: Absurder and absurder.

(June 21)

· I think the Law of Averages finally caught up with Bihar.
It couldn’t have been doing so well for so long.

· If April 1 is “All Fools’” Day, then should June 19 be declared “One Fool’s” Day?

· At this rate we’ll have a 100 movies in the Bollywood 100 crore club soon.

· Superman left Krypton in 1938, 1948, 1952, 1978, 1996… yawn! …and now 2013…
Why do they have to keep reinventing superman?
Why can’t they just give us an exciting movie for a change assuming we are not blithering morons and actually know who superman is?

· Let’s get married!
Should we do it in the court or in a religious place or should we simply do it in the bed?

(June 19)

· Without female models, the ad industry and the music video industry would collapse.

(June 18)

· Most politicians are corrupt, dynastical and arrogant by nature.
Most business houses are corrupt, dynastical and arrogant by nature.
Given the chance, most Indians would be corrupt, dynastical and arrogant by nature.
Phir Congress to raj karega hi na India par!

(June 18 )

· I’m sure even one day before the General Elections, the Congress will do a reshuffle. That will also be attributed to the “genius” of Rahul.

(June 17)

· The English weather!
Only two Englishmen could have ever thought of it!
(Duckworth-Lewis method)

· Why not call them… NaMo RaGa SoGa MaSi NiKu MuYa KuMa RaSi PaCh KaSi NaPa ShPa ArJa SuSw…

· A day will come when the umpteenth Congress reshuffle will bring us back to the very same team we had five years ago.

(June 16)

· Nowadays political decisions are taken instantaneously.
However, the announcement is made 10 days later to get maximum media coverage, high-pitched debates and intense speculation during that period.

· Come to think of it, even criminals and chargesheeted politicians at least won their Lok Sabha seats.
Manmohan Singh couldn’t even do that much.

(June 15)

· SRK…
Delhi da Munda bana Mumbai cha Superstar.
Chennai Express
Kolkata Knight Rider bana Chennai Super King.

(June 14)

· Cyberspace…
US spies on them.
India arrests them.
China makes them disappear.
North Korea is the safest.
Hardly anyone uses the Net there.

· Why not have a detailed reality show on the Indian Postal Service delivering its last actual telegram from the sender to the receiver.
Wonder what it’ll say.

· People are comparing PRISM to 1984.
Amazing.
In PRISM, your emails are intercepted and read.
In 1984, you are intercepted and read.

(June 13)

· The IPL clean-up begins.
Step 1: Shoot the messenger…sorry…
Shoot the cheerleader!

· Tuesday’s dilemma…
Moochche Dhawan jaise ho ya Sir Jadeja jaise ho?
Ye kaisi paheli hai?

(June 12)

· Grey’s Anatomy is good competition for Sex in the City.
In fact it should be renamed Sex in the Hospital.

(June 10)

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani = Wake Up Sid on steroids.

(June 9)

· 1 Sir (Ravindra Jadeja) in 1 day…
At least 1 six, 1 four, 1 wicket, 1 catch, 1 run out…

· The Conflict of Interest argument…
If I am equally Interested in cricket, business and politics, then where is the Conflict?

· Politicians can be criminals.
Politicians can be businessmen.
Politicians can have stakes in media houses.
Politicians can be cricket chiefs…
Jab leaders ka ye haal hai to cricket ghanta conflict of interest maanega.

(June 6)

· Take tonnes of green ink and blend it in millions of newsprint pages.
Celebrate this colossal wastage as World Environment Day.

(June 5)

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The Modi factor…

• Pre-1989, the entire mainstream went after the Congress and projected VP Singh as an alternative.
Pre-2014, the entire social media went after the Congress and projected Narendra Modi as an alternative.
Times haven’t changed.
The media has.

• I am imagining the final headline…
In a blow to Modi, he is sworn in as PM.

• If Modi becomes PM, then it would be Independent India’s biggest self-fulfilling prophesy perpetrated (initially in reverse) by his haters.

• Number of failures…
Modi: Many. Pappu: Zero.
(Because Modi has tried many things and Pappu is yet to do anything in life and hence yet to fail)

· Online India leans Right because Offline India leans sharply Left.
If Offline India was neutral, then so would be Online India.

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More ICC Champions Trophy musings…

· Dilip Vengsarkar, Kris Srikkanth and Sandeep Patil were in the 1983 World Cup winning squad.
As chief selector…
Vengsarkar won the 2007 T20 WC.
Srikkanth won the 2011 ODI WC.
Patil won the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy.

· Q: Are you currently the most popular Indian?
Narendra Modi: I am not even the most popular Gujarati!
(Ref: Sir Ravindra Jadeja)

· The Cricket India Redemption Law…
Whenever a major scandal/scam occurs, a major tournament/series victory is just round the corner to balance it.
That much is fixed!

· ODI World Cup, T20 World Cup, ICC Champions Trophy, ICC Test No 1, ICC
ODI No 1, ICC T20 No 1, IPL, Champions League…
Chalo, Dhoni ke critics sab bolo: Luck! Luck!! Luck!!!

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ICC Champions Trophy musings…

∙ World Cup Lifetime Chokers Award: South Africa.
ODI Tournament Lifetime Chokers Award: England.

∙ The First Dhoni Era spanned from 2007-11.
The Second Dhoni Era has begun in 2013.

∙ Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have it thrust upon them…
…and then there’s of course, there’s Sir Ravindra Jadeja.

∙ Most only dream of the Sir title. Some get knighted after they retire. Hadlee achieved it towards the end of his playing days. Only Sir Jadeja got knighted at the beginning of his career!

∙ English weather: The only way an England team can ever win a major ODI tournament.
Even that wasn’t enough in the end!

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More Congressi musings…

· It’s ironical how many mainstream media journalists look down on the PR industry without realizing that they themselves are the PR industry of the Congress party.

• Behind our very unsuccessful Prime Minister is an extremely successful woman.

• June 19, 1862: US Congress prohibits slavery.
June 19, 1970: Indian Congress gets their next leader to be slaves of.

• The Congress time bomb…
2013: Introduce Food Bill.
2014: Third Front comes to power.
2016: Food Bill destroys economy, Third Front falls, midterm polls,
Congress returns.
Voila!

• Sonia Gandhi is the Mother of the Nation.
(Badi maa ke saamne sab (leaders, editors, opposition, civil society) dare hue sahame hue bachche)

· Thought control forced on India by the grand alliance of Congress, mainstream media, Left parties-historians-academics and Civil Society is akin to fascism.

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NDA communalism musings…

·...yaha se pachaas pachaas kos door gaon main jab secularist/civil society/Congressi bachcha raat ko rota hai to maa kahati hai beta soja ..soja nahi to Modi pradhan mantri ban jaayega…

· Finally media, Congress, JD(U) have formed a pro-BJP outfit: RSPCA.
(Royal Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Advani)

· The Bihar BJP-JD(U) marriage is like a husband and wife getting perfectly along but divorcing due to father-in-law problems.

· Bihar BJP’s new war cry…
Modi for CM! Modi for PM!

· Dear Nitish Kumar,
You have successfully uninstalled Communalism and installed Secularism on your Political Computer.
Don’t be under the illusion that your computer won’t totally crash or at least keep hanging from now on.

· Na rahega BJP ka baas to nahin bajegi NDA ki basoori.
Arthath: For BJP, currently self-preservation is more important than coalition.

· How?
Modi = Communal, Genocidal, Dictatorial.
Hence Anti-Modi = Secular, Humane, Democratic.
Congress = Communal, Genocidal, Dictatorial.
Hence pro-Congress = Secular, Humane, Democratic.

· Journo 1: My favourite dish is Banana Split. What about yours?
Journo 2: NDA Split!

· BJP was touchable till 2004.
Now its untouchable.
2014: If it gets 40 more seats than Cong, then politically it’ll become highly touchable.

· NDA to sasura 2004 main hi mar gaya tha.
Log abhi kyun maatam mana rahe hai?
2014 ki picture baaki kya, shuru bhi nahin hui hai!

· Somewhere in the world, they are trying to revive the extinct mammoth.
In Bihar, BJP-JD(U) are desperately trying to revive an extinct Laloo.

These versions by Sunil Rajguru