Can social media change the Indian politics scenario??

Read the news that Indian politicians are going to get iPads and Samsung Tablets to draft their memos and bills. Of course , the pros and cons of the resolution of Janlokpal goes on without using paper and done through by MPs on their shining tablets.
This might be a very innovative step since if used properly by the MPs and can help the country to solve problems at the touch of finger (yup but gut says they will not). Would not be surprised if the caste based politicians might ask for the gadgets and features for free citing there age old reservation issues.

But this practice will also put forward whether these politicians will use the social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter to connect with the people.The recent Janlokpal movement with there social media usage generated a buzz around and spread the info about the Janlokpal among the classes and masses. Although masses are not as connected through the social media but the electronic media jelled well to spread the message.

Thus , the question which comes in mind is that is social media can enhance the growth of our Indian politics? The answer is thumping "YES" since this Anna Hazare movement has shown. Its open platform for the MPs to have interaction with the people of its constituencies . The debates and discussion on the social media sites were much better than the ruckus which we see in the studios of the media moguls panels . The further fight for the right to recall , right to reject will be interesting .
We have seen earlier how the similar FB posts had started the jasmine revolution in the countries like Tunisia, Eygpt, Yemen , Bahrain, and the Arab Spring . The Social Media was used in the proper way where people used the Facebook, Twitter ,Skype such that it called for unity to fight the oppressed regime of the government of respective states. We are proud that our Janlokpal revolution was in sense properly channeled under leadership of Anna Hazare in a peaceful and non violent way . Since it was done in non-violent way and with no rhetoric's but a simple way to stress the point. The members of the India Against Corruption (IAC) did a brilliant job by posting every development through posts, tweets and videos , keeping the flame of fight through the movement.
Thus , the media which is regarded as the fourth pillar of democracy through its new elements of social websites have changed and strengthen the game of politics and governance . The transparency which was lost by the recent scams and involvement of few media honchos was retained by the likes of the post on FBs and re-tweets on Twitter from the netizens.
Hope this Janlokpal Bill is passed in the parliament through proper debate in the house and outside the house through media and corruption is minimized in India.
GANAPATI BAPPA MORYA !!!

IS THIS INDIAN TEAM STILL NO.1 IN TEST CRICKET??

124 for 8, confused its not just set of numbers and symbols, this is the situation in which England was in the first innings at Trent Bridge test match. It just took a whirlwind innings from Stuart Broad which just throw the match out of gears from India's hands. Its not the first time we have these situations in Test cricket, but with Indians it has been a regularity . We have seen similar inning played by Kamran Akmal , Michael Clarke and many debutantes where India in the spirit of the game give a lending hand to be great.
But reviewing the Test, its obvious that India was clearly outplayed by the Englishmen in every department. The way India made a mockery of Dravid's fine century is in reality states the sorry state of India,s middle and tail order.The way Dhoni casually comes and goes out without a sign of disappointment,shows this guys price  has price  for his wicket .The position we were at 267/4 to 288 all down was one of the most horrible fall out like a pack of cards .The wicket of Harbhajan shown what blunder BCCI did in not using the DRS with LBW decision for reviews, when it was clear it was an inner edge to the pad.


The second innings of England was surprisingly with super shots and bashing where Indian bowlers where hit all around the ground. 56 boundaries !!!! whoop in a single day in test. It also created the drama about Ian Bell's run out just before Tea. By the rules of cricket , it was pretty clear decision that Bell was out . But the English crowds booing and in sense the meeting between the English skipper and coach in Indian camp made the furor. Dhoni reversed his decision and recalled Bell to play again raising debate was it right in law or spirit of the game. Whatever the opinion would Dhoni had taken the similar type of decision if the opponent was Pakistan, Aussies or a crunch game or situation.

When Pakistan toured way back in India, Tendulkar was run out with collision with Shoaib Akhtar . The crowd at Eden Gardens were furious and started throwing paper missiles and the authorities emptied the stadium and the match was finished with no crowd in one lakh capacity stadium . At that time no Pakistani skipper got back and said in spirit of game we recall Tendulkar , since they knew what blunder it would be. Thus , the only point to be made is it was not necessary to play taking only spirit of the game as excuse, you have to fight hard within laws of cricket. Since from then on due to the commotion , England in a fit of rage might have thrown wickets and the Indians would have an advantage. In a fit of becoming hero Dhoni made the sacrifice.
Chasing 478 target was next to impossible but the test was how Indians fight each session and make a statement for being No.1. No doubt there was super bowling display from Broad, Tim Brensen , Andersen with there swinging and short pitch bowling abilities. But the way Raina got out it seems he still was in the T20 phase of IPL. Dhoni form is very bad but not to offer a shot and got out was horrible. Now India has to take a tough ( in my sense easy decision ) to drop Harbhajan Singh , since he doesn't has the variety and every batsman can read him easily.

Overall, it was a very sad end to a great start by the Indian bowlers and determined century by the WALL RAHUL DRAVID !! Hope so the arrival of Sehwag changes the fortune of Indian team and bring in sense of positivity in the players .

Ala Ala Shrawan Ala , WOW Welcoming Shrawan The Holy Month !!

The end of the Gatari Amavasaya where usually  whole night merry clinging glasses of beer and enjoying spicy non-veg feast , the day ahead we welcome the holy month of SHARAWAN . The month is auspicious since it accompanies many religious festival, Shrawani Somvar and Shaniwar celebration all the month along . The month long pious month even makes a die hard non veg connoisseur to leave that and enjoy the delicacies of sweets and veg. dishes in Shrawan .


The week starts with the Shrawani Somvar where people visit the temples of Shiva and fast for the day . The major enjoyment of Sharwan is the enjoyment of feast after the fast in the evening . the major delicacy is the spicy alu wadi . It is a great bliss to have the home-made aluwadis which make to feast in sharawan a pure enjoyment. Its nature great surprise to us that the same vegetables like alu, moongacha bird, bhendi ,maath ( red leafy vegetable ) taste so nice in this month . The evening delicacy of dinner to eat on a banana leaf is a treat in itself . the enjoyment of having varan -bhat -tup, mughacha birde, alu vadi the combination is fundu out of the world. then the dessert which usually on shrawani somvar is narayandas ladu (rawa ladu) is simply great.

The festival of Nagpanchmi is also celebrated during Shrawan which people do puja of naagdevata. Now,people have stopped feeding milk to the poor snake whole day and using small idols of naag is welcome sign of modernity . But the major part of the nagpanchami is the sweet delicacies it offered. the patoli, is the sweet which is prepared from rice flour, jaggery and coconut which is wrapped in the haldi leaves and steamed which give the fragrance and taste of he leaves is great.Then there are sabudanyacha fenya that crunchy munchy fried stuff which we enjoyed with its crackling noise in the mouth .

No one can forget the festival of Raksha bandhan /Narali purnima The day people prepare various sweets of coconut like naarali wadi, burfi and my favourite naarali bhat. I enjoy it since its very simple dish from coconut , rice , kismis, but usually tastes better and best on this day only.

This is followed by JANMASTHAMI, the birth of Lord Krishna, which is followed by day long fast which is broken at midnight with basundi and puri.



Thus overall the month of shrawan which plays all month along the hide and seek with rains. there is a sudden burst of very heavy rains with lull for next few moments described aptly as "SHRAWANSARI". The green dense cover in the city is a dream come true which this month brings along.

So friends welcome the month of SHRAWAN with an open heart and enjoying fasting and feasting month along !!!

Whiff of New Air!!!!!

Just within 15 days span saw two movies which were completely different from there normal genre. Shaitan and Delhi Belly were completely from the hatke lot. Shaitan had a complete novice brand of actors and sort of edgy feeling , while Delhi Belly with the known production house and young heartthrob was being famous for its cuss words and shit.


Shaitan the movie which revolves around the gang of rich buddies who through there share of mental trauma and to acquire high try to break the mould enjoy LSD things to get the kick. Even if it fills the run of mill story but the treatment given is fresh and engrossing. The only they missed on was apart from Kalki, Rajeev Khandelwal and Shiv Pandit , you fail to remember the other actors who have given the fine performances.the movie always remind of the real life incidents which are of course the plots on which movie is based as the makers say , how the nexus of police and the uber rich try to hide the crime . apart from it the similar situation like peepli live where media blares its own trumpet to make the situation worse for all. Kalki and Rajeev have given excellent performances . over all Anurag Kashyap has stuck to his dark genre of films but with bright and edgy characters . the remix of " Khoya Khoya Chand " is fantastic .
the movie really delights in sense even though zero stars still it is worth dekho.




Delhi belly was complete surprise package regarding the way it generated the buzz for its swear  words .The duo who completely loss the credit between was ABHINAY DEO and the film writer Akshat Verma . The script which uses the usual normal youngsters lingo makes the movie very close to our heart. After the dud GAME with reasonably good star cast , Abhinay throws a surprise with funny adult situational comic caper.super performance by trio Imran, Weird Ass alias  Vir Das , and Kunal. the don acted by Vijay Razz and his cronies also give superb support cast . Poorna Jagnathan was the new surprise packet in the movie with very reliable journalistic performance. Shenaz was okie dokie. The film break the barriers of being nice and brings all of us in there elements. Its guaranteed that while leaving the cinema hall people will be yelling " f*** what gr8 movie".

Yup, these two movies really are turning out to be the latest version like T20s in the movie which will give you a fast paced , whacky and right to the point kind of movies which makes us to want more !!!! THANKS AAMIR and ANURAG to bring 'A' class product which we always enjoyed watching in Hollywood rom-coms.

Mesmerising Movie-Balgandharav

Watched BALGANDHARAV this Sunday , very anxious to know about it since as I know very less about his life rather than his natya sangeet.Its always difficult to make biographical film on the legend since a slight mistake can cause major storm in the cup.But here Director Ravi Jadhav has made a great job. The also makes the audience go into the era of natya sangeet which was the type of first class entertainment .


But major and the only credit goes to actor Subodh Bhave whose wonderful acting and impersonating woman role was fantastic. to wear bharjari sari and jewelery , and to act with finesse is simply superb act.Plus it was a surprise to watch the events through which Balgandharav has to go through , the mountain of huge loan over him and death of his closed ones . The moment he decides not to cancel, even though he knows that his daughter has been expired before the show is really heart drenching . Every minute details were maintained by Nitin Chandrakant Desai as producer to make it lavish and surreal. the music by Kaushal Inamdar was superb with PARVADIGAR was fantastic . Overall , must watch film and enjoy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DUM MARO DUM -ok one timepass movie :(

Was very excited to hear nice reviews about the movie DUM MARO DUM which was told to be different type of movie from the usual run -of the mill types . The movie in the start created excitement by the scenic beauty of Goa and the beautiful shots of emotions like fear enjoyment . Prateek Babbar has done an excellent job who got the full time exposure in this movie. The movie the events are getting back in fro which makes the puzzles of certain screen very clear . the movie main star cast Abhishek Bachchan has done a decent job but stone face of his acting at times makes the movie bore bit at times . The new comer Rana Duggabati has good screen presence but no real stuff to act, just hanging the guitar and moving on his bike which looks so small for his physique. Govind Namdeo seems to dragging the role similar tone in SATYA . Bipasha role nothing short of just sleeping over and exchanging beds. the biggest and worst was selection and role of Aditya Pancholi nothing of his act seems a grey charcter.


Overall, a film saving grace was beauty of Goa , Prateeks nice act and dum maro dum title which blended with the situation. songs were also a dampener were the thrill of the movie was lost . the movie was similar to RGV style but was not executed with the sharpness and finesse of RGV thriller flicks. in the end, the movie DUM MARO DUM mein kuch kam DUM lag gaya :(

Ramnagari - a nice light hearted simple comedy

Watched RAMGIRI play on the life of actor RAM NAGARKAR . A very simple light hearted comedy with life antics and phases of the actor who wrote his autobiography with the same title .
The lead role played by the actor Kishore Chougle , who has got into the skin of the character.
The story of barber (nhavi) who is fond of life of enjoyment shows the simple and care free life of Nagarkar who enjoy life to the fullest . The Oppostion he faces from his family, to the way he is desperate for romance with his wife and the way he shines all over India with his Lok Kala with Rashtiya Seva Dal.





The actor Kishore has worked as a one man army in the drama with fantastic comic performance be his body language ,dialogues were simply great . The other characters in the play very new cast were equally good and supported it well.

Overall, a great and enjoyable evening with nice and funny play. A PLEASANT SURPRISE !!!!