Second Car

Seems a new rule has been introduced in chennai by which one is expected to show owning parking space for the second car. Now the policy looks very good on paper. In one forum I read a person replying to this news saying RTO already pockets lot of money as bribe and now they have one more reason to increase the bribe.

In our country there is no dearth for good rules where we lack is in implementation. People will as usual show bogus addresses and blueprints for parking space and will keep buying cars.

This will only develop a market around the bogus blueprint preparation, bogus address generation etc but wont solve parking space issue.

RTO's will get richer i mean not the office in general i meant the officers. Even 1000 Indians and 1000 Anniyans can't change this fate.

KURBAN

Just came from watching the movie KURBAN. The movie has a very simple plot but the movie doesnt touch our heart. The movie does have some nail biting moments but all leads to nowhere.

As most hindi movies that come nowadays this movie is set almost 90% in NewYork with lot of whites playing vital roles. The movies plot is something which might attract everyone especially Americans as it deals with a very important concept called terrorism.

A group of muslims plot some terror attack and another muslim tries to stop it. This is the story in one line. But towards the ending the movie goes in lot of directions and it becomes chaotic. If was done with some care the movie would have been a lot better.

Afternoons

Its Sunday afternoon when i m typing this post, which prompted me to type this post. Sunday afternoons have this unique laziness attached to it. Be it in London or in Chennai I can almost touch that feeling.

When in london I used to be sitting before the laptop and listening to the sound of an occasional car zipping past London road. Here in chennai I can hear the person who collects old paper cycling around the sleeping colony shouting "Papeyee Papeyee" amidst the sound of a lonely cawing crow. These are unique to Sunday afternoons. Though it will be same for weekday afternoons as well I dont get to witness that being at home on weekdays.

But Saturday afternoons are not the same as there will be excitement in the air but sunday all excitement goes down the drain and I sit here suffocating in that choking feeling. I dont know if it's the thought of Monday being so near but Sundays are always the same. They start with lot of excitement and slowly as the day progresses its like you are in a lonely desert with no sight of any activity around you.

Rediff

I have noticed that Rediff reports news like Ant fallen sick in Mumbai, Flies from Mumbai suffering from dysentry but never tries to report any news from the south.

When entire Tamilnadu was/is witnessing heavy rains there is not a single news about that where as when the same pressure moved west towards Mumbai and when it started to drizzle there was a picture report about Mumbai in rains.

Its a double standard followed by these websites for whom India stops where people stop speaking in Hindi.

If you take the case of http://www.thatstamil.com/ they report any news that happens in entire India.

Now who sufferes because of the double standards followed by websites like rediff, its only north indians who depend on such websites. Their knowledge will be limited to whatever they read in rediff. But if you take the case of people who visit thatstamil they will have knowldge of whatever is happening in entire India.