My ramblings on Corruption

Anna Hazare Plays - Kaun banega corrupt pati oops..Crorepati..


Amitabh looks at Anna:
Amitabh: Namasthey. Anna Hazare ji..welcome to the show...this is your first question and chance to win 10,000 Rs.


Amitabh: What is the the shahenshah of corruption A Raja’s full name?
Anna: With a dry smile: Andhitmuthu 2G Raja


Amithabh: Are you sure ..taala laga diya jaayen?
Anna: Yeah..he should should have been behind taala long back. please do it right away

Amitabh: Hazara ji..you are a funny man :) in any case your answer is corrrrect!! you win 10,000 inaam daar rupees..clap clap clap


Amitabh: Here is your next question for 20,000 Rs. . After the report on common wealth games scandal is completed who is anticipated to be named as master mind of this shameful show in front of the world? Here are your choices:
A. Suresh Kalmadi
B. Shiela Dixit
C. Snake
D. None


Anna removes his Gandhi topi ..scratches his head..and then smiles showing his lost teeth..and exclaims...”The Snake” !!
Amitabh:Brilliant.. you are 100% right...You did not even use a life line and you are bang on target. That is right ; the snake, that showed up in the athlete’s room during the games is the perfect answer!!! It brought disgrace to the nation by showing up in the poor athlete’s room. It will be sentenced to life imprisonment.Amitabh: Anna ji, you are doing excellent. Because of your special stature..we will promote you directly to our final round and here is the question for 1 crore. --- How many buffaloes were involved in the fodder scam in which Lalu was accused of embezzlement of crores of rupees?
Here are you choices:
A. 2
B. 4
C. 11
D. None


Anna thought...and thought..he looked at Amitabh...
Anna: I would like to phone a friend:
Amitabh: Sure..who would that be?


Anna: I would like to call my sister and friend Medha Patkar
Amitabh: Sure..Let us call Medha ji.


The call goes to Medha Patkar and the question is repeated by Anna.....Medha after hearing the question loudly laughs like Narmada over phone and says..the answer is simple..it is 11.


Anna turns to Amitabh and says that is my final answer.


Amitabh is in a shock..he jumps out of his seat and shouts..Anna hazare is our new crorepati....music..sound....applause.....the answer is perfect!!!


Crowd cheers and gets ready to light candles in front of Red Fort for Anna..Amitabh requests crowd to wait for few seconds before they rush off to light candles.


Amitabh asks......
Medha ji.. how did you know the answer? How did you know that there were only 11 buffaloes?


Medha replies..Amitabh ji, I have been a social activist for long and know many politicians’ back ground. Lalu and Rabri have 2 sons and 7 daughters..all put together..hi hi hi..
Anna walks home in his simple chappals, Gandhi toupee and a potli of crore rupees to sit under the tree.


-nandan

Family blog: Nandan's first here

After very long time (almost 2 years) I felt like blogging again. Taniya has been blogging frequently but some how I lost interest. I used to be active in www.r2iclubforums.com but after our turbulent return to India followed by return to America, I am disillusioned and never had the enthu to blog. I keep reading Taniya’s blog; came close to writing couple of times and finally liked her idea of family blog; yeah why not we blog together? So here it goes….

Having moved from one country to other back and forth last few years in search of satisfying life, I have started to notice things from a different perspective. I used to have this attitude “deal with life as it comes” i.e. never made strong choices; pick any job, own any place, eat anything, visit any popular place and on and on. A life where you do not have to make choices or being in a situation where you can’t make choices is better may be? I never realized until I met Taniya that I never made choices; see the list below:

1. All my friends did engineering, so did I.

2. All my classmates moved to US, so did I

3. All my friends switched to IT, so did I

4. Most of my friends\relatives got married through arranged marriage, and………this is where my life changed!!!!

And then came the period of choices, no more were the decisions easy:

1. Should I move to India

2. Should I live in Kolkata or Bangalore or Hyderabad

3. Should I return to US

4. Should we live in Chicago or Philadelphia

This decision-making points are becoming more and more complicated.

In midst of all this confusion something pleasant happened without me realizing – “Our home in Bucks county”. It has been less than a year since we moved in and the experience has been very good. It is growing on us. We have a cozy back yard, the right size of living space for us, lot of greenery around, a little creek nearby to Kayak now and then, good coffee places and shops where can walk to and decent enough commute time to work if not ideal one. We like it here so far. There is uncertainty in our life but the experience living here in Bucks County has been good. We considered living in Philadelphia, Chestnut hill and other places but finally this place worked out for us. After visiting southern California (which I previously thought was better than east coast before seeing it in person) during vacation I seem to like this place even more.

Everyone has his or her own preferences as far as place to live is concerned; we are happy that we found ours good enough to be called “Our Home”.