Pomposity and the great game of the Land...Amitabh Bacchan.

Recently, Amitabh Bacchan bought a piece of land in Daulatpur- U.P where he'll be building a girls-school and christened it ‘Aishwarya Girls school'.

(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2728101.cms)

The school- as it was originally supposed to be- was not named after Harivanshray Bacchan, but named after Aish. This was surprising. Surprising considering that Amar Singh would have been the next most obvious choice after Harivanshrai Bacchan. But then again, he was present at the inauguration ceremony alongwith a few other seasoned politicians, thereby quashing all the doubts about this inauguration ceremony had a tinge of Politics to it. There wasn’t a mere tinge, but a whole ring of Politics to this name game.

Naming of public places or other such places of importance has always been an interesting issue. In India, it’s gotta do a lot with culture. Traditionally, public places, places of importance, are always named after someone who’s passed away. It’s been a sort of a pre-condition: You won’t have any public place named after you, till you are dead. This is because, for some reason, Indian tradition holds it inauspicious to name a public place after a living person. But this’s no longer the case.

Other than that condition, of you necessarily having to be dead to have a public place named after you, which admittedly is rather tough ask, the whole naming business was remarkably easy. Like… all you had to was become a PM without an adequate mandate, undermine the country’s defence, ruin the backbone of the economy, botch up a war, and you’d have it made. You’d have a whole slew of schools, colleges, public projects, institutions, roads and corridors of power named after you, thereby assuring you a significant place in public memory and inscribing your name in the annals of History.

But that’s past. Doing anything of that order is tremendously difficult in these times. Whatever you do, the economy grows at 8%. You make the most abominable piece of pabulum as TV serial and that too goes on to shatter the TRP records. Times are indeed tough for anyone to actually have a place of public importance named after himself or his kith and kin.

Which is precisely why, you know, you gotta give it to Amitabh. He did it. This is how Amitabh would’ve advice us about how he managed to do it: Ask Amar Singh to illegally to allot you a piece of agricultural land in Barabanki in UP. Eye a piece of agricultural land in Pune which is only available to a farmer. Show the land in UP as a proof that you are a farmer. Let the court decide if your owning the land in UP as farmer was legal. Thereafter let the court cancel the allotment suggesting you are a trickster. Then, buy another piece of land in Daulatpur- UP to build a school. Then contend that your sole intention behind buying the agricultural land in Barabanki- which unfortunately was taken away by court- was to build a girls’ school, which now you are compelled to build in Daulutpur. And name that after your glorious, exalted daughter-in-law, in case you too think your son is a sucker.

Thus, demonstrating that he and Aishwarya both are pompous, puffed-up, conniving twats who think the collective IQ of Indians is that of the symbol of Samajwadi party- the bicycle. Which is why, y’e know, you gotta give it to him and Aishwarya. They did it. Seriously folks, if there’s any one who deserves to have his/her name etched on a school after Harshad Mehta, Ketan Parekh, Bhujhbal, Pawar, Vilasrao, Telgi, Bharat Shah, Qutarocchi, Charles Shobhraj, Pramod Mahajan etc, it’s gotta be Amar Singh…no wait…Aishwarya Mulayam Singh. No!…. Aishwarya Amar Singh, no one sec…Aishwarya Abhishek Bacchan…Wait-a-minute…Yea, sure. Got a bit confused actually, just took Amar Singh’s statement that "Aishwarya is our (UP’s) bahuu" a bit too literally.

Amitabh and Aisharwaya aren’t the only ones though, wallowing in such a grandiloquent display of pomp and self-inflation. Mayawati has ordered to build her statues alongside Babasaheb Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram. The statue-building exercise is being conducted on a war-footing. The narcissist-ic steak of etching your name on public places is to be witnessed in a few other cases as well. Roads in UP have been named after Raj Babbar and his wife. Akhilesh Das, the ex-mayor named an entire locality as ‘Akhilesh Das Nagar’.

Looking at the affairs in UP, I gotta admit that not only can you be alive while etching your name on places of importance; you can be thoroughly worthy of doing the same. Perhaps as worthy as the great personality whose family had a blooming great relationship with the Bacchans at one time?

Thanks to indifferent Orkutians, Adnan Patrawala won't come back!

Hello friends! How are you all doings? I am writing this in tributes to our Orkut friend hu made fraandships with us- Adnan Patrawala. My name is Hoopesh (how's my pic?). The following write-up has being transplanteds from Hinghlish to English. Here the write-up is:

Adnan Patrawala-the personification of ‘Innocence’, a 16-year old who drove Skoda, and most importantly, a person who dedicated his tender age in services of Orkut- has indeed become immortal, regardless of whether he comes back alive from death or not!

One would have expected the whole of Orkut community to join hands, pay their homage to their fellow, passionate Orkutian, and wish for his return, after the news of his being murdered brutally was confirmed. But instead what did we see? Just a few random chaps professing their ‘love’, ‘their best regards’ to Adnan? Just a few handfuls! An insignificant minority, which was/is as good as ZILCH!

The whole point is this: If only enough Orkutians- at least a majority- would have come forward, posted messages on Adnan’s scrapbook, started umpteen communities along the lines of “Pay Homage to Adnan”, “We are Adnan fans”, Adnan would have definitely resurrected, come alive and returned to this world so that we would have had a chance to savor his face, his angelic looks for some more time.

As a fellow Orkutian, I can only shrug my shoulders looking at the following facts:

Only 27 communities have been started paying tribute, homage etc to Adnan.
Only 11,xxx k scraps have been posted on Adnan’s original profile in 7 days.

Further, the max members in any one of these communities were just 2,196. What happened to other Orkutians? Sure, the number of Orkutians in these community far exceeds the number that’s seen in useless communities which discuss farmer suicides/drunk-driving etc.. But then, the number is much less than compared to the ones we witness in communities which discuss equally important issues that confront us- for example “Abhishekh-Aisharya fans unite” community, “Meri C***h Men Tera L**d” community, etc.

But still, there’s a little solace to be derived, for one-time-but-no-longer passionate Orkutians like me. A lot many people who scrapped Adnan on Orkut genuinely looked like people who desperately wanted Adnan back, and who seem to acknowledge what a great contributor he was to the larger cause of Orkutting. Out of more than 11k scraps posted on Adnan’s scrapbook in 7 days, some are indeed inspirational and worth-mentioning here:

may god treat you well???can you use a comp.in heaven than reply me if you can....

good morning bro!!!

waiting 4 u 2 accept my friend request.......brother.......god bless you dear....

hey dew'd....
may god bless you nd may u return back safe!!!!!

Even if you all promote da Community for juss 5 mins then also it will make a difference…just copy and paste da links in ADNAN and ANGEL’s profile or scrap your frends ask them to join…..This is a global issue and its high time v put our foot down and ensure dat innocent lives are not lost…!!

may god bless you dear...........and hope u r fine whereever you are.........

I also think media didn’t do enough justice to Adnan-story. Sure they ran headlines- “A 16 year old kidnapped” for full 3 days and also discussed shades of personal life of Adnan- his habits, his love for cars, how rich he was, etc. Some of them conducted special panel discussions too. And the coverage given, surely, was greater as compared to the coverage any useless, irrelevant story- such as flood that had occurred in Gujarat a few months back- has ever received. But was the coverage even remotely comparable to “who’s gathered outside Salman’s house?”, after he was sentenced, or “what did Sanjay Dutt eat on his first day after he got bail?”, or “Why was Reshamiya wearing a burkha when he visited Ajmer shrine?” Not at all!

Whether Adnan comes back or not remains to be seen. As I have pointed out in my earlier statements, if only more people would have started Communities and scrapped in Adnan’s scrapbook, with some aid from the media, Adnan would have returned for sure. Alas, that wasn’t the case!

Allow me to speculate a bit.Let’s say, he returns. In that case, I don’t think he should make a comeback on Orkut. Quite frankly, Orkut doesn’t deserve Adnan! Let us all read his profile and express our condolences.

about me: wrds cant describe me but i m always coool wht more?

passions: driving all da way & cricket..

sports: i jas like playing cricket.....nuin els

activities: only drumming

books: i dont read dem much ......

music: hmm..there are load's and load's of them

tv shows: the amazing race, pimp ma ride,discovery ,nat geo and all...

I am compelled to say, he should-if he comes back- shun Orkut & join Facebook! I have already initiated a community, whose name is “Adnan, come back and join Facebook”. I shall put up its Orkut link here soon.

Also, in future, unless the Orkutains get up from their lazy, slothful arses and actually go out and press the button for joining a community started for member who’s dead, or preferably start one by themselves, and put up an Herculean effort in scrapping the departed member at least once in every 10 minutes; let me tell you what will be the dreadful consequences: The kidnapping, murder of the members will continue unabated, if not increase. Further, there will be no justice for the dead-person’s family members and most importantly, dead person won’t even feel like coming back to this world and Orkut after seeing such a lousy, indifferent, base & blasé reaction of Orkutians to his/her death.