THE SRIWIDU BLOG

Why can’t writers write in simple English?

sriwidu — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:56:05 +0000

“There is a creature lurking in the dark,sitting on the mammoth structure and waiting for the immortals.It waits,waits and only waits till the last of the silver lines lying on the contours of the distant clouds disappears”.

Well,Authors give so much build up to only say that there is cat sitting on the wall till late night, and is bored to death!!!

A note to all those who claim to be a suffering lot because of the agitation in Telangana

sriwidu — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:51:38 +0000

A bandh will never help anyone,but the cause and outcome expected out of it will certainly help,and people are optimistic about it reaping fruits in the long run.15 days of bandh for children? But I still say that they would pull it off,and then the real concern should be if an year is wasted away from a kids life,and if bandhs would have resulted in such a situation,people in telangana would have never opted for bandhs.

I would request you to dig these questions or file an RTI for facts speak more than mockery.

1) What is the percentage of government degree colleges in districts like Krishna,kadapa and Guntur when compared to regions in telangana?

2) Do you know the percentage of people who have emigrated from Mahaboobnagar district alone in search

of daily labour? No other district in this state had such a fate.

3) Water – True that there is lot of considerable water potential in telangana,but unless refined and

elevated even you are nothing more than a dead rock.

Unfortunately the vast resources in this region have never been utilized ,to their fullest potential ,for people who most deserved and required them.

By the way,don’t forget to check the architecture of Nagarjuna Sagara Dam,the water inflow and outflow…and what role does the left canal play,and also the method of irrigation currently in place in both the regions.That should say it all.

Underdeveloped regions are everywhere,but you should check and compare the ratio of underdevelopment which is approx 7:3 btwn these two regions.Given the plight of rayalaseema too,rayalatelangana would be good option as their concerns need to be addressed too. Demands will still remain even after telangana,but when people had no other option,they unfortunately had choosen the last option – Telangana.

Otherwise,Why would anyone bother to burn themselves down?

Yes,I agree that KCR and his followers are sick,and I never support those politicians who enact as if they are fighting for this place,and have never done anything in action.But,the cause is out of despair,followed by prolonged hope and expectations getting killed with time.

The demand of telangana was made keeping in view of the fact that this region deserves fair share of resources born in its womb.Everyone should recollect that there were wide range of consultations and submissions made with the government about the plight of this region years before the agitation took this turn.The situation you are seeing now,was not something which was built and formed overnight.

All other options which you people love had already been tried and tested,but were never respected.None have been addressed,and worst…the gentleman’s agreement of 1956 was never respected but was only violated.

- Sriwidu

Telangana siege!!!

sriwidu — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:53:43 +0000

Politicians throw shit on you and you take it…your gf dumps you for a Mr.NRI or a Mr.MBA,and you still carry her in your heart…Though you repeatedly crib about your work and workplace,you work your a** off…you bear all the incovenience on the roads to reach your destination…When you’ve endured so much pain against your will,then why complain about the so called incovenience caused by the agony of the T-Activists turned into a fight ?

Ans : We aren’t ready to take the pain when it belongs to somebody else and fetches us nothing.When we are ready, we get closer to Mahatma!!!

—- Sriwidu

My take on Lokpal

sriwidu — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:30:20 +0000

Indians now believe that a second freedom struggle is now in progress, and that lokpal, if implemented, would change the current fate of this great nation. But, when I tried to hypothetically apply the solution to the current society we live in, it raised a lot of concerns. Further, Many feeble apprehensions I had had, have now become deep rooted. Read on…

In my opinion, any problem should be given a permanent solution, and permanent solutions devised to resolve problems at the scale of corruption cannot produce fruits overnight. Lokpal is a force, and is only a temporary solution or can even be called a workaround. It primarily focuses on how to crack down the corrupt, but fails to focus on preventing corruption, and doesn’t even come close to addressing it. Prevention is an ever-lasting solution, and that is what we need to focus on. Unfortunately, Lokpal loses its points here!!! It is like whipping a child when he had already placed his dirty hand in your wonderful desert.

Further, Lokpal, if in wrong hands could dangerously backfire.

A similar lokpal bill has worked inMalaysiaand gave wonderful results. Why doesn’t it work here?

I am a Database Administrator. To perform an upgrade on a production database or to even apply a single fix or a patch, I prefer to test the change on a test database, which matches my production in all its parameters. It is only then that the results and performance can be matched. A test on a higher version of database will not give the same results on another database at a different version or usability.

Summing it up,MalaysiaandIndiadiffer.Indiais a country with lot of complex variables each intertwined with each other. Complex enough for things to backfire and become irrevocable. To find a solution, each variable needs to be considered. We need to consider people,religions,castes,sub castes,sentiments,resources,idolizing…literally everything around us, failing which there would be a series of conflicts of interests and conflicts of rules. Expecting Lokpal to give similar results inIndiais only ignorance and wrong extrapolation.

Rules inIndiaare made to resolve problems, but even before you start resolving them you would find that other rules, resources and sometimes the system itself obstruct them.

In gandhinagar, there exist 3 schools affordable enough, thereby enabling the kids living in nearby slums to attend. A simple stare at the school buildings is enough to conclude that the schools don’t meet all the mandatory standards (except that they have a wonderful fire exit plan because they don’t even have walls). It doesn’t take much brain to understand how these schools might have got their permissions.

Now, if the schools had to follow all the rules, majority of them a mere overhead, they would’ve been costlier, and out of the reach for a rickshaw pullar’s kid. Who knows? They might not have been setup in the first place.

My question is -

If there is someone who is happy with basic education with basic amenities, then why impose overheads and deny the child basic education by making education unaffordable? (A problem intertwined with other). Instead, only give what can be afforded; scrap the rest of the rules, which are not applicable. If possible, make education free!!!

In this example, crime of bypassing the rule by corruption was not done for a luxury but it was done as a necessity, and because of no other way out. I am not saying that it is right, but doing so makes sense. Further, as long as the children receive education, I am happy with how the access to education is made possible for those tiny-tots.

Gandhi Vs Anna?

This is the most assumed and emotionally driven comparison I had ever seen.

Why?

The path chosen by Anna may be gandhian, but his demands are definitely not. Gandhi would have never wished for punishment or a rule to punish people. Instead, he would have first worked to reform the system, more importantly, educate people!

Yes, education and enlightenment are the keywords. Even before we got our independence, Gandhi made a major accomplishment. He succeeded in uniting the Indians to fight for freedom.India’s freedom struggle then came under one roof. He did so by educating people. Gandhi gave speeches and spoke at length trying to motivate and educate people. Anna straight away started the struggle; unfortunately, he didn’t start by educating the nation importance of the absence of corruption.

Lokpal of honesty

Jan lokpal assures that it only recruits honest members to fight corruption, but doesn’t explain how it does that. It should at least explain what is honesty, and how the honesty of a person verified. To recruit even a group of 1000 honest people with high integrity is a daunting task. To cater to the cases across this great nation, just imagine the scale of recruitment, which needs to be carried out for a body like lokpal.

Credentials can be verified and intelligence tested, but what you cannot do is to measure the honesty of a person and compare it with a threshold value.

There are atrocity acts, which impose strict punishments on people harassing others with their caste. But how many of us know that at the grass root level it is misused at unprecedented levels. Lands were grabbed, superiors are even blackmailed by the subordinates when questioned about illegal dealings thereby hindering the work and leaving out possible chances of maintaining integrity.

Jan Lokpal is much more powerful that such atrocity acts put together, worse, there wouldn’t even be a CBI anti-corruption wing or a CVC to keep a check on lokpal members from getting corrupt, for, both the CVC and the anti-corruption wing would have been integrated with the Lokpal.All it takes to verify and safeguard people from corrupt lokpal members is “THE SUPREME COURT” itself. Human rights will constantly be compromised if Lokpal is not continuously monitored.

Don’t you think this will turn out to be an additional overhead and load the Human Rights Commission?

Aren’t strict laws enough to prevent corruption?

No, definitely not! Time had proven it. We have had laws to punish a murderer, a rapist, an arsonist and even a husband. But still, people still get killed and women are brutally raped in the capital city ofIndia. Time has proven that laws neither stop people from taking vengeance nor do they stop people from quenching their lust. Unless and until a person has a clear conscience of what he should do and he should not do, no one can stop him from committing a crime.

Be honest, be the change yourself and spread this message as much as you can. The change in the system will be slow, dead slow…but the change will definitely be permanent.

Remember – “Law can only punish the criminal, but it can never prevent a crime!!!”

- Sriwidu

The heat is on….

sriwidu — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:06:18 +0000

Swami Nithyananda Scandal Quote

sriwidu — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:14:12 +0000

Loved this quote to the core

“It is possible to find god, but it is impossible to find a hidden camera..!!!” – Quoted by one of my Managers.

Just a doubt: Isn’t being gay or lesbian against the nature?

sriwidu — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:47:40 +0000

English is hyped in my country.

sriwidu — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:19:29 +0000

An unexpected experience ahead of telugu new year day:

I was waiting in a queue at an ATM in warangal, and there was a father standing with his son in front of me.Give the fact that the queue was quite long for an ATM, the impatient son who couldn’t wait any longer asked his father,”Nanna ikkada dabbulu theesukogaane vellipodhaama?”.The next moment a loud SPLAT!!!.The father slapped his son and replied,”How many times should I ask you to speak in English? and never say “dabbulu”, you should always say “Money” “.Thats it, there ended the father-son conversation though tears continued to drop down the boy’s cheek.

People, let me get this straight.The next worst thing which got me hyper after seeing caste obsession in this state is this incident.I have only few points to make here, and I am not going to enlighten on how important is our mother tongue and all.

English speaking is important, agreed!, but before that each one of us need to learn how to communicate.I am sure the father mentioned above has not even given a thought about the fact that communication and logical thinking are more important than english.I’ve been working as an IT Coolie for the past two years, and an open fact is that to advance in a career your knowledge and attitude are the only things which will take you up in the ladder, english to some extent facilitates it.For example,Some of the best DBAs I’ve met in this state are all from Telugu Medium and they didn’t know how to talk in English till they got into graduation.Today their knowledge and insight about the subject and the business as a whole is excellent and have learnt English to such an extent that they can make all formal communications the way they are intended to be.On the other side, several of their team members who are known to be masters in English speaking couldn’t even reach half way of what and where others have reached.Without the requisite skills,knowledge and grip on any subject no english speaking person can go ahead.English or any other language would only be a tool to communicate, and is never the first source for career growth.English hyped in this country which has so many languages and dialects.

Moreover,I feel that the father would, for sure, insist on his son talking in english especially in parties and social gatherings.Show off!.If any such fathers or future fathers are reading this, please note that English speaking isn’t that cool a thing to show off, a better choice would be your beautiful Wives.Just get into other’s shoes and think-What would you think if some father-son duo starts talking in english in front of you in a gathering? -”Ahh, chesaaru le over action, adhe edho pedha ganakaryam chesinattu.Maa chintu gaadiki kooda vachu english”.So if you are one of such fathers, then your only problem is to tell others that you have better assets( in the form of your children) than those of others, and especially if you still belong to a middle class family then I am sure your father must have tried and dreamt about you in the same way like you are doing it now, and unfortunately he failed!

More reservations? Where are we going?

sriwidu — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:43:32 +0000

Welcome.

I, sriwidu, an IT Coolie of this country, welcome you to India.A country where women now have 33% reservation.Thanks to Sonia Gandhi who is now on a spree.Bills and amendments in this country happen based on and only on her interest.Woh kisi baap ko nahi sun rahi hai, and when it comes to amendments in RTI-she is not even listening to the PM.People opposing, debating and pointing against her interests are ignored,warned and remembered(for future actions) respectively.

Reservations never did any justice at the community level nor will they do in the future.33% reservation for women in parliament would only mean that an opportunity is given for the parties to pull down or put aside all those ministers ,who speak against their respective parties, and replace them with women who would only speak when asked to, who would only sit when asked to, who would only get out when asked to do so.In my view, it is just a strategy to increase their hold in parliament by giving more strength and concentrating it at the controller level by weakening the branches.

So are we still talking democracy?

Yes, we only talk about it,but on the other side, we hardly live by it…and still people vote for…!!! Thanks again to Indira Gandhi, and special thanks to her family and above all I thank to the ignorance of the majority who made this possible because of their sentiment towards god’s own family of this country.

My dear ignorant and sentimental fools…even this country’s name might change and you could even see special reservation for anyone who belongs to the Gandhi family…and you still live with goddamn expectations…hoping that someone would change your lives when in reality there exists only one family in this country who has benefited out of it ,and whose name is being written on every road and street of this country.

Happy Holi :)

sriwidu — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:25:46 +0000