Oil price and the Leftists

I am happy with the Leftists when ever the global oil price surges as they nudge petrol price hike for a few days as I do not get poorer by some 50-100 rupees or depending on the space left in my petrol tank of my vehicle. The reality soon sets in and the government explains the reality that the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait etc are not districts in Kerala even though a sizable number of people there speak Malayalam and hence one needs to buy oil from them at the price they quote. This drama is enacted at close intervals as the oil producing nations keep increasing the oil price. If this was enacted by RJD or SP or JD (A to Z) I would not get serious, rather would treat their protests with the seriousness that Tom and Jerry show on cartoon channel deserves. What perturbs me is the elite intelligentsia that forms the members of the politburos of CPI and CPI (M) (does anyone know why there are two different parties?) enacting this populist drama. If they are truly worried about aam admi should they not coerce the government to taking concrete steps for securing energy resources for the country for the next 75-100 years?

Comrades of the Left, accept that only constant is change. We need to change. You are now in a position to catalyst the change for the nation. If you do something, the new generation of this nation will express their gratitude and vote you with a majority like you have been voted in West Bengal. Please comrades.

The Daily Quota

With quota protests getting shriller by the day, let’s fast forward to 2050 and see what the popular newspaper of that time, The Daily Quota, has on its headlines.

I pray the almighty that my prophecy never becomes true.

Tags: Quota reservation Arjun Singh

Crash course in Home Making?

Parents going out of town meant suspension of luxury room services for me. Each time this happens most of the surprises come to me as a rude shock.  The problem is not just about food, which seems to be the least problem on a short term basis; going by the index of least tasteless food one can manage something in the cafeteria at my work place.

The problem starts when the cable TV at home does not seem to work when I return in the evening, courtesy the neighbor whose building is under construction perpetually. Cable operator’s mobile phone number now reaches some bar owner’s phone and I have to listen to him in French before I understand the problem.

Yoghurt (without which I cannot exist in this universe apart from oxygen of course) – is not just as easy to prepare. One needs to perfect the art of mixing the right amount of curd in the milk and based on the weather the amount of time to be exposed outside the refrigerator. I dabbled with the preparation only to end up with yoghurt which appeared like a heterogeneous mixture of some thick solid particles in water.

Ingredients for cooking could not be estimated or forecast. Had to run to the nearby kirana stores several times for curry leaves to onions. There again the price of beans was 10 rupees for a quarter kilo; the newspaper had a column on the price shoot-up the same day lest I would have engaged in a verbal duel (very limited grade of course)  with the shop keeper.

Just as I had begun to appreciate managing the household, my parents returned. Within 10 minutes the duo found that plants in the balcony looked like they were planted in the middle of Thar Desert. The dust-bin had all that was trashed since a week. Mails were lying under the front carpet. Ants and cockroaches had taken over the reigns at home with the absence of the daily dose of lakshman rekha.

I need a crash course in home making? Or was this one?