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Stayed up till 2:30 in the morning to watch the match as Deccan Chargers, the winners of the wooden spoon in the competition last year scored a thrilling 6 run victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore to emerge the champions of Indian Premier League – 2009.

What an awesome month this has been.  The chaddi gang routed in the elections.  Deccan Chargers coming out of nowhere to win this year’s IPL.  Twenty-20 world cup coming up in another 10 odd days. Yay.

Missing the sleep was worth it.  Tonight, i will have a contented sleep

It was a double whammy for Vijay Mallya yesterday.  His Formula 1 team, Force India just missed out on the points table and his cricket team, Bangalore Royal Challengers just missed out in the finals.

Pictures courtesy: IBNLive & Rediff

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Who will win the Indian Premier League -2009?  Will Gilly and his boys do the trick for the Deccan Chargers or will the old wily fox, Kumble pull one final trick and win it for the Bangalore Royal Challengers ?

The war begins in approximate 4 hours.

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The long winding IPL 2009 finally comes to a close this weekend.  The semi final line up is ready.  Deccan Chargers take on the Delhi Daredevils in the first semi final today (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday), the Chennai Super Kings take on Bangalore Royal Challengers in the second semi finals.

Go Deccan Chargers Go 

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Just started off, so not much to say about the book.  Its not a small book (almost 500+ pages) and considering the speed at which i read, its bound to take more than 2-3 months for me to finish

Meanwhile, I will put up a small review from Amazon.com.

India’s recent economic boom—similar in scope to that of the United States during the early 1990s or Europe’s during the 1970s—has triggered tremendous social, political, and cultural change. The result is a country that, while managing incredible economic growth, has also begun to fully inhabit its role on the world political stage. In this far-ranging look at the central ideas that have shaped this young nation, Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani offers a definitive and original interpretation of the country’s past, present, and future.

India’s future rests on more than simply economic growth; it also depends on reform and innovation in all sectors of public life. Imagining India traces the efforts of the country’s past and present leaders as they work to develop new frameworks that suit India’s specific characteristics and challenges. Imagining India charts the ideas that are crucial to India’s current infrastructure revolution and quest for universal literacy, urbanization, and unification; maps the ideological battlegrounds of caste, higher education, and labor reform; and argues that only a safety net of ideas—from social security to public health to the environment—can transcend political agendas and safeguard India’s economic future.

As a cofounder of Infosys, a global leader in information technology, Nandan Nilekani has actively participated in the company’s rise in the last fifteen years. In Imagining India, he uses the global experience and understanding he has gained at Infosys as a springboard from which to discuss the future of India and its role as a global citizen and emerging economic giant.

A fascinating window into the future of India, Imagining India engages with the central ideas and challenges that face the country—from within and as a part of the global economy—and charts a new way forward for a nation that has proved itself to be young, impatient, and vitally awake.

Above image and review from Amazon

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As elections close by, all the hunting dogs of the chaddi gang (BJP, Shiv Sena, ABVP, Ram Sene, Bajrang Dal etc..) are out in full force.  First it was the Ram Sene molesting / beating up women in a pub in Mangalore and now the some more morons beating up women in full public glare in Bangalore.

Am not surprised that everytime BJP comes into power in any state, we start to see their favourite brand of hate politics happening.  Once the master is in power, the dogs are out hounding and trying to impose their talibanic version of culture and religion on people.  It happened in Gujarat, Orissa and now in Karnataka.  Not to mention Madhya Pradesh and UP where such things happen with alarming regularity.

Read the full news about the attacks on hapless women by some eunuchs and Taliban of Indian culture.

Vote out BJP and its chaddi gang friends. Make a strong point that we will not cow down to some religious morons who try to impose their lifestyle on us.  That we will not bow down to the politics of hate. The constitution of India gives us the right to live our lives according to our own wish as long as we dont break the rules of the land.  Its the chaddi gang members who are breaking the law.

Its time for the women to fight back.  Take a moment and think.  You might believe that since you were not attacked, this doesnt concern you.  Yesterday, it was someone in Mangalore, today it was someone in Bangalore, tomorrow it could be you.

So, what can you do?  Pressurise the police to act on them.  Each one file a case on all the fellows who you think are involved in this.  Write to the media, appear on the media, make your voice heard.  The next time a politician comes begging for votes, ask him to first arrest the goons and lock them up, get them sentenced and then only come to you for votes.  Geraho the politicians and make them give public assurances and act upon them.  File FIR against the leaders of hate, file a PIL in the Supreme Court against the ‘Ye dur dur dur appa’  government for sitting back like a eunuch and watching the fun when they were elected to protect us from such morons.

Fight back.

Read Prem Panicker’s take on the issue here.

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