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Now since US and the European union are the global decision makers, they tend to do some blah blah blah also… :) Now they are sure good at it, trust me on this as more than 60-70% Americans doesn’t know what the global issues are, and the rest of the 30-40% doesn’t care.

Now coming to the actual point of discussion here.. Sometime back Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had a comment on the global food crisis and the price rise. Now since the comment was made there is an uproar in India about the same blaming US to look into their own dinner table than peeking into others table to smell their menu… :). There is also some articles pointing out that Ms. Rice admitted the UN report on the global food crisis, which reasoned it to the bio-fuel program of the US. Considering all these facts from the UN, still we can say US is going to attack Asian countries for food shortage. Since they cannot wage a war against the Asian countries, they take the blah… blah… blah… way though…war of words... Also the self proclaimed dictator of the world Mr. Bush of the US also followed his Secretary of state to blame India and China for raising food prices and the global food crisis. As far as his comment is concerned, none should really care as his comments and decisions are baseless and mindless. But still since the comment was made without reading the morning news paper while having his morning tea I guess, someone will obviously respond. The UN report straight away says it is because of the Bio-fuel programs of the US and the European Union the world is facing the crisis. You can read the report in the UN news centre.

Bio-fuel production is ‘criminal path’ leading to global food crisis – UN expert

As I see it, this is going to take an ugly turn, which already is evident by that fact that US has stepped up its blame game. By diverting the attention of the world, on India and china, for raising fuel prices. The crude prices touched $120 today and its expected to reach $150 and may cross $200 mark soon by the end of the year, analysts say. This blame if everyone believes will have a major effect on the emerging economies as environmental impact also comes with the consumption of petroleum products. Since reducing the consumption of petroleum will reduce the green house gases which in turn reduce the climate change over the years. But this reduction are to be done by the largest consumers of these fuels than by the low consuming countries. The whole world knows the fact that middle eastern countries are always under war because of the largest consumers of the petroleum being greedy to get the bigger part of the pie.

Last year it was found that US is in total opposition to the G8 climate proposals as per the BBC. Greanpeace activists leaked out a document which was altered by the US before th G8 meet between June 6-8, 2007 in Heiligendamm, Germany. This largely exposes how interested is the US to control the climate changes by reducing the petroleum consumption and to help earth survive. Basically the US wants to still drive their lioving rooms (SUVs) which give a mileage of 3-9mpg and blame the Asian countries who drive cars which gives nearly 35-45mpg.

The number is just an average and not the exact statistics as it involves actually calculating the number based on population and certain facts like the availability of public transport in each country. US largely is known to have very less interest in public transportation as they are used to driving their own cars and having 2-3 cars per home is a very common scene in the US. Whereas considering the countries like india and china, having a single car is by itself considered to be a luxuary and 2-3 is insane.:).. so Mr. President, just doing blah.. blah.. without the exact numbers do not make sense. Please ask your office to do the required home work and help you to frame your speeches and bloopers sensibly.

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The inspiring rags-to-riches tale of Sarathbabu

What lies beneath...!!!

So last Saturday… that’s 3rd of May… I was just at home doing nothing but watching my favorite pass time..TV it is… hehe…. Outside temperature was at 40’C and had no plans to get out of home.. but at around 1.PM the power went off and I could not sit at home… So planned to come to office as the AC is on here. On the way I came to know the reason for the power shut down. Saw a construction site truck entangled to a power line cabe near my office. Unfortunately I could not capture the truck in my frames. Later after reaching the office I realized that strangest things that I failed to notice. Then I was lucky that except for the truck all situation is still the same. 2 concrete electric poles still hanging on the lines above. Its the lines holding the poles now rather than the other way round. Some of them are captured below.

The 2 poles pulled down by the truck


The broken electric pole

Now the close up of the broken poles reveals the thing I missed out to notice in my first seeing. Now below is the real close up of the broken portion of one of the poles. If you notice, there are no standard gauge steel rods inside the poles. This flashed to me because I had not seen any electric poles earlier which had broken in this manner. They are made to resist impacts even more powerful than getting pulled by this truck which may be moving at around 10-15kmph on this road. So basically as far as I understand the poles were not built to specs from the standards organization. Anyway so donno how many are still on the roads like this holding high power lines and waiting for a great fall still.


Close up of the broken part (No steel reinforcement)


The second pole


The crashed pole

Now who is to be blamed none know as they have not cleared it yet. Hope some one will clean up this mess as the poles and the lines are hanging dangerously over head to so many users of the road.

Location: Behind Raheja Mindspace, Hyderabad.

The ecoSystem

Everyone knows about the ecosystem we live in… from the beginning to the end the system has evolved, improved… but am not talking about this kind of a natural ecosystem. Its more modern and the one we have made.

An ecosystem of politicians, actors or engineers, doctors, teachers, students…etc.., for that matter.

Ecosystem by definition is “An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro-organisms (biotic factors) in an area functioning together with all of the non-living physical (abiotic) factors of the environment.” as in wikipedia.

The system I am talking about doesn’t fit this definition. As each system functions independently without knowing the link between each other. Examples as I see…

1. Political ecoSystem: This is the most talked about ecology in the whole world. We can identify all kinds of organisms in this system. One politically talented organism against every other to show off the ego and sometimes to prove it, even going against the needs of the people who elected them with no other choice (helpless and hopeless).

Funny it may seem, these are the people elected by the so called people who are eligible to elect. A system built on another system. None of the systems are going for any improvements. So there will be no improvement in this ecosystem for sure.

2. Engineers ecoSystem: Now this in a country like India is majorly identified as software engineers community. These are the organisms spoilt by the false sense of plenty. They don’t have much of common sense and they don’t care about the facts of life.. J. These people are driven by brands, style and conscious about their life style. Cant blame them for this as this is what the above political community want. Keep these so called intelligent people busy, and they will not involve themselves in others ecosystem. Like most of these engineers don’t vote or make a political statement anytime. There are examples for that matter. As anyone can consider the fate of Bangalore or Hyderabad or any other IT hub.

This community pays the heftiest of the taxes for all reasons as these are those who earn a lot and everyone else has the right to exploit their talent. Talent to spend and talent to stay ignorant of the facts. Like in all the IT sectors the rickshaws, taxis, tax-men, eat outs, etc., etc., etc., all exploit these poor engineers who sometimes hardly see the light of day, and still they don’t complain.

In cities like Bangalore, these engineers sometimes spend more time in traffic than in their own office. Still they don’t blame any for this. They just say it’s a part of their life. J so nice of these guys. Some 60 – 70% work in BPOs and they have the infamous cabs to ferry them from home and office. They don’t comment on the driving skills of the cabby or their behavior. They just take it straight in and enjoy the ride. But these will be the people who crib about people not following lane discipline or traffic rules when they are driving their own vehicle. They are the ones who enjoy their drivers honking skills while in their cabs and crib about the honking of others when they are in the driver’s seats. When I say honking, Hyderabad is one hell of a place. Here you can see all kinds of sexy wheels. The ones you want to just touch and feel at least in your dreams. But the people driving them.. Oh! shit..!!. They honk sitting in a BWMs and Mercs, oh what the hell... Even in Bentley, Rolls Royce..;). Anyway.. People never change or at least improve.

3. Teachers ecoSystem; This is one respected community anytime in India. But the way things are going, I don’t think they can catch up now. This community is the ones who form the basis for any system. But then if they don’t take interests in the basics of a system, then there is no hope for any to improvement. There are some individual and fundamental needs of every person, student or a child which are to be addressed and those can be addressed by this community. But they are not proactive to do it or they are not allowed to do it. Either way the system is a failure. ;) The so called our culture, and our nation built on the centuries of teaching abilities of our great old teachers.

This takes me to a discussion of culture that is to be taught in during the very schools. Our nation is a religious nation with more religions and sub-religions than any other. And I don’t have to say that most of the educational institutions re built of religious backgrounds giving preference to the religion and not the children themselves. This actually has already ruined the very definition of our so called Indian culture, and the very understanding of the difference between the culture and religion. As in my view, the whole of India is built on Hindu culture which is more Indian than the religion. This is the difference in the teachings in all the educational institutions built on religious values than the cultural values. No wonder the modern student is inclined to foreign culture than his own as he is never taught about his culture. No point in blaming him/her for this as it is easy to pick up things than to be taught. I appreciate china and many other countries for keeping their culture intact with their system. And they grow stronger each day while we are going weak.

Now the right move by one small group in Bangalore to explore the true meaning of Democracy. This link from NDTV shows how a small group of people are ready to change the system and take control. Something all should know and try to understand. Hope this works.

Enough now on the system as its not going to end. Its boring rather.. :)

The Beginning..

Tght I’ll blog for a while… just to see how it is?... Fact is I get bored very easily… so am not here to stay… I am doing it to get a feel of the blog… had been a reader of blogs for a while now… sometimes its fun.. n sometimes, its ridiculous… but either way its a informative…