2008!!!A Year to be Forgotten!

Its 31st December today and its 4.30Am in the morning and i just felt like waving good bye to a year which has been nothing less than a Hurricane.They say that destruction breeds creation,but thats just a saying ,destruction has its own after effects.2007 was full of chaos and panic too for reasons which i dont remember to list down here, however on the night of 31st dec 2007 i was just wishing that 2008 be a better year and now here i am writing about it.

To list down the happenings and mishappenings of this year let me begin with the Global arena ,this year saw one of the greatest disasters in the history of economic downfall as one of the worlds richest, largest and oldest bank collapsed on the ground leaving many investors with just crumbs to feed upon.Well that was just the beginnning and we all know what followed ,i can list down all the economic disasters but cant do it since this write up isnt meant to convey those stats.

With that we come to our own country, which we live in, the biggest tragedy of the year without any doubt (apart from the economic downfall)was the senseless act of attacking Mumbai by some people who dont even know the very purpose of their existence.This mishap brought in chaos and our relationship with our supposed neighbours has turned from sour to bitter.Political to economical ,we experienced all sorts of downfall.

Moving on from the country to my own arena,well this has a lot of things in store and readers of this article(who know me,obviously) will figure out what am talking about.to begin with the biggest disaster i failed in the very exam which i had high hopes on ,post clearing it would supposedly add value to my existence,wrote the exam once again and results awaited ,so let me keep my finger crossed.Then came a time when many of the people i knew departed one way or the other ,some went abroad ,some got married,some got married and went abroad,some got bored of me,some of them dont even know why they left(They are too dumb to figure that out),reasoning was not a criteria for them i guess ,they just went with the weather and well there are several other cases.Ultimately i landed in a place where i knew nobody ,my frequency did not match to any of them around me (i was substandard ,you could say that) and i was just put in situations which made me wonder and be amazed almost everyday for some reason.

Uncertainity throngs this year as well,to begin with my results ,to proceed with the global crisis ,some armed robbery ,some more terrorist attacks and to end with some more people leaving ,but this time i dont think its gonna bother me much on the last issue as i feel there are bigger issues which are worthy of a discussion or sh0uld be given a space in the column,whats gone is gone and nobody cares and moreover this time i am not even sitting and wishing for 2009 to be gala and good ,as one of my friends always says "If wishes were horses ,beggars would always ride on them" ,so as unanticipated the happenings of this year is ,i wish to remain uninformed.

Ramesh Karnani

Stock Market Victims Detour!!!!!!!!!

“He who laughs lasts”, so went the line on my Bloomberg as I signed in this morning

These heady days, as markets gyrate and doomsayers galore, a bit of humor certainly helps to gain back perspective.

I am glad to pass along something that will likely make you laugh.

QUESTION: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Me: It depends on who you ask!

So let us ask some people who we think we know! Enjoy!!


Why did the chicken cross the road?

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for change! The chicken wanted change!

JOHN McCAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One! that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either for us or against us. There is no middle road here.

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

SARAH PALIN: Where's MY gun? That chicken's got no choice!

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and pitfalls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty ! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay, too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side.' That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

EVERYONE'S GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one???

Good Lesson(Humour)

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to thevillagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs10. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at Rs10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers
stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at Rs20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started
catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to Rs25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rs50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at Rs35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to him for Rs50."
The villagers squeezed up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.
Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!!!
Moral of the Story...

"Never Invest in Reliance Stocks!"

India's Road to being a Super power

India’s Road to be a super power- A Distant dream


We are a nation of one billion plus with more than half the population struggling for power (Electricity) to light their bulbs at home, so the nation becoming a super power is definitely a long road ahead.

India’s image in the rest of the globe is that of a soft and mediocre nation whose economy has boomed courtesy talented people and the price charged for their intellect. We are a society full of rules but no followers and nobody to execute. No Super power in the world has become a super power with out an element of dictatorship in their execution. So we need leaders who also have dictating abilities in order to administer things.

Gone are the days of protests which fetch results after years of struggle and a few deaths to add on to. The road is there but we drive too slowly, in order to establish itself as a commanding nation India needs a severe change in policies and systems. Countries cannot become super powers by buying weapons and aircrafts, but by inculcating some basic amenities which would make the civilization strong. The entire world counts on a decision made by a super power and all the global economies are linked to the super power in some way or the other and this can happen only if the civilization of the country is resourceful and strong enough to make an impact.
We need to market our abilities in a much more systematic manner in order for people to realize that we are not a land with just people all around, but a land of geniuses who are not mediocre by any means. To add-on to we should not remember these things on specific occasions like the Independence day and the feeling of enthusiasm should be there year around.

Unconventionality is the need of the hour and implementation of unconventional rules will attract a lot of protest. All super powers in the world have been opposed to or protested but they still remain to reign over the world.

Since the occasion is the biggest for any Indian and patriotism will be flowing in the nerves and veins of many, for the day, many of them who read this might disagree to what is written above and be optimistic about India becoming a super power in the near future. But since democracy allows you to express opinions I feel that there has to be a huge wave of revolution for us to achieve something like that, and that wave also can be bought about by the people of the nation.
But it takes a lot of effort to do that and hopefully we all put in the same .

To conclude :In order to achieve something you never had ,do something which you never did.