THE AAM ADMI PARTY AND ITS RELEVANCE

                The success  of Aam Admi Party in Delhi  did not surprise me much. The  the public anger, in the especially in  urban areas,  against the political parties were growing due to corruption and nepotism of  political parties. The anger was mainly due to the emergence of new media culture which exposes many such issues in to public domain than before .The  urban India has been going through a period where the social interaction are quickly due to the social medias. The the major political parties and their managers are aware of it  and  they are trying their level best cope with it.  The unknown fact  is that the majority of social media users are politically neutral or the politically floating public and they started reacting than before and it is good sign too.In Delhi  it was evident as the poling percentage has grown up.. The anti public policies and the pro corporate style of the main political parties are the major concern to the general public. The bureaucracy too, even today after the RTI and other acts  still hard to handle and corruption at this ground level huge and  rampant everywhere The new style of function of AAP is interesting  and lets hope they could sustain it for long.

           I am optimistic that the  whole political system  will get changed one day or evolve in to a new one. The  new  political culture in  urban India  are getting changed and to get this in to rural areas of India is challenging too as the majority of rural people still  under poverty.At national level the regional parties shouldn't be allowed to  contest  as they are purely regional and they can compete only at regional level. There are many  loopholes in our democratic and political set ups.   

               The mere victory doesn't fulfill the  all expectations of the public in Delhi and as party of new bread across India. They have huge responsibility to  deliver good and whatever they preached to be implemented soon. Otherwise it will be another catastrophe in the minds of general public. So be successful in power and deliver goods  are more difficult  than to criticize the power and system. I wish Mr. Kejriwal  and his intellectual team all the best and let's hope for the best.

Remembering the experience of the 2004 Boxing day Tsunami.

                    December 26 th again and this time it is the 9 th Anniversary of 2004 Sumatran -Andaman earth quake and followed by the colossus Tsunami which took lives of almost 3 lakh people across the glob. I was in Port Blair capital of Andaman and Nicobar and experienced one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.

                  It was on a boxing day Sunday early morning in Port Blair at about 0635 hrs ,I was watching the boxing day cricket match between Australia and Pakistan live on TV,suddenly heard a huge sound followed severe shaking quarters. Initially I could not sense it was an earth quake..All the items in kitchen and showcase were started falling down and we could not stand on the floor. Suddenly we heard the sounds of the SOS from  people who could come out of home and  they  started screaming too. We could not come out of home as we were in first floor and my younger kind was just 6 months old so we lied on the floor,suddenly i noticed that the quake is getting harder and ceiling started vibrating as if it it could fall down at  any time. we were helpless and the ultimate danger signals flashed on us. One moment we thought all over..... but some how after few seconds we could just sneaked out of home. Those moments we cannot forget in our entire life!!! It lasted about 2 and half minutes. 

                  After the quake I thought everything will be normal and I went out soon to see what happened outside and in the Dilanipur the near by junction i could see a big deep gap on the road, similar ones were many in the city. In office too the the ground floor broken.All the people were out side and they were in total disbelief about the quake and this was first time they were experiencing such huge tremor. At around 0700 am we could see the people were fleeing from low lying areas and when inquired they told sea water is coming up and that was the first waves is tsunami and again around 0830 we could see that sea water was filled in the beach which included the marina park, the football ground and the swimming pool and Indoor Stadium where i used to by this time everyday with Shaji M Raghav and Ramalingam Natarajan sir. Luckily that day we did not go as Shaji had morning duty.

                      Following days I experienced one of the worst time in my life as no water as all the under ground pipes were broken and no electricity either.Schools were closed indefinitely.But we decided not go native immediately , thanks to my wife Smitha who stood with me and supported that decision and later it was found correct too. People were panic as the relatives causalities were coming out from near by islands. When we go to markets we observed that a total death silence everywhere. When relief camps set up in Port Blair we paid visit to there to see the affected people. Heart breaking scenes we could see , there were many people who lost all relatives and everything, there were many who could not talk due to the psychological impacts of quake and tsunami. Luckily in port blair no much death casualties but in near by islands the death toll was huge than official and in many islands and total chaos followed .The Andaman Archipelago was twisted due to impact of quake and In port Blair was about one meter down and many beaches including famous Corbyn's Cove washed out. 

I was proud and lucky to be part of the famous live SOS phone in program started by AIR Port Blair immediately after the earthquake to help the victims and survivors of distant islands. There was no means of communication other than satellite phone and AIR in islands which helped many to contact and convey the whereabouts of affected people. I could still remember the long queues in front of office to send messages.                    

                    All the memories are vivid like yesterday and I am thankful to those who stood with me and family especially my friends Ramalingam Natarajan, shaji m raghav, Biju PVKiran KP , manoj vayoth and Staff of AIR Port Blair for giving all the support needed during the catastrophe .

Ttelegram service comes to an end in India

                          The last telegram went out in last Sunday, making an end to of service that lakhs of Indians relied on the for the fast communication until recently. The BSNL says the declining revenues forced it to end the service and it had become obsolete in the age of new mode communication 

                                The telegraph was the first form of communication and the messages  could be sent from a great distance. This was a one of the  landmark inventions  in the  human history. With the advent of the telegraph, messages were transmitted instantaneously to  farther and farther till it connected people from around the world by pressing a few buttons. Samuel Morse refined this technology and later led to the invention of wireless Radio Communication by Marconi.

                         India's telegram service began in 1850, when the first telegram was sent from the eastern city of Kolkata to Diamond Harbor, a southern suburb nearly 25 miles from the city center.At its peak in 1980s and 1990s6 lakhs telegrams were sent everyday from the birth announcements to job appointments  court summons to college admissions the telegram was main way communication to the millions of Indians and it was used until recently in many official purposes. It was not  informed by the government which way of communication they use in future..

The thought of cricket fan

             I don't know  why I stopped writing blogs. I had many issues in my mind to scribe. May be I was not organised self to do that or the inherent laziness would have pulled me out. Couple of years passed since my first blog which was on cricket betting that shook the lovers of cricket in to despair and dismay.The recent news on that heartened me that both  convicted players ,  Salman Butt and Mohammed  Asif,  they not only admitted the spot betting but they apologized to the public for their wrong doings.  This made me think the Pakistani  angle again ,whatever I read about  the Pakistan democracy and judiciary was always depicted as mockery or sub standard or controlled by the all powerful Army, but these incident made me to think otherwise. Here in India  many players and owners of IPL  have been accused of spot fixing and match fixing but none of them are convicted so far, though they were barred from international cricket still those who cheated the cricket lovers and tarnished   game are  still in power, one even made as MP that too in ruling party and he even made as the president of another sports organization and other people walk around freely   and no case are pending against them  in courts. We always talk high  about our democracy ,judiciary and our human right records and too often compare with Pakistani systems.Anyway at least in  cricket it is different. Recently  another  IPL spot fixing case came out and media just celebrated it for some days and depicted the players involved in the case are culprits as they got the details of phone calls and video footage showing as they are involved in it the  and players were remanded to judicial custody for a week or so. Lets see what will happen next few months  of time . Now the same media  started glorifying the some of the players. The the face saving work by BCCI and the police authorities will not stop the betting in cricket, since the powerful people are  involved  and  the cricketers they follow their all powerful owners in betting.
             What happened to us  even Pakistan could do this much  why can't our celebrated  democratic systems couldn't do  anything, may be the money and the political power  involved the game are above everything.