No Pakis in IPL 3

I really couldn’t control myself from writing this piece and posting after going through two news articles on Google news.

The first on TOI – which quoted famous Pakistani celebrity social worker Asma Jehangir in the Jaipur literary summit saying the foll:

Justifying the anger in Pakistan, human rights activist Asma Jahangir asked, "What if we did that to you?

And what exactly did she mean by that?

Stop Indian players from playing in Pakistan Premier League?

Or stop Indian actors/actresses/obese musicians from performing in Pakistani film industry?

Or stop Indian cash starved rock musicians from publishing albums in Pakistan?

ROTFL


And btw, TOI is the same newspaper which tied up with a newspaper in Pakistan and came up with the genius of a campaign- called ‘Aman ki Asha’ and printed full page adverts along with news items of LeT camps in Pakistan preparing to attack India in 2010.

Also FYI- TOI happens to be from a business house which categorizes ‘news/media’ as ‘infotainment’- trust me on this- and if you don’t- just lookup anyone who worked in TOI in a senior position, on Linkedin.





The second news item on the same topic was:

SRK wanted Pak players in IPL

Well, if he wanted, why didn’t he take one? Isn’t he still one of the franchisees? Or has he secretly sold it off to some one else after last years’ fiasco of KKR?

Instead he comes up with the filmy dialogue about his fathers’ Pakistani lineage and how the youth of India and Pakistan should not hate each other? And not believe in the hatred which politicians start.


Well, SRK- the present prime minister of India was also born in a place which is currently in Pakistan, and Parvez Musharraf was born in Delhi. Your dad wasn’t the only one!


And more importantly, the youth of India doesn’t hate Pakistanis, or Pakistan just because they are a nation or of a nationality.

We hate them because of what they do-spread, protect, nurture and use terrorism as a strategic tool against India.

I am very sure- if one of your neighbors’ family member comes and attacks you and his brothers and family support him and give him shelter and feign ignorance, repeatedly- you cant be friends with that neighbor and distinguish between the family members who attacked you and those who didn’t.

I admit, majority of Pakistanis might be friendly towards India- just like majority of Indians are!

But this people to people contacts and solidarity campaigns are not going to make anything better- unless people in Pakistan force their leaders to stop using terrorism as a state and strategic tool.

We can’t roll out the red carpet for them along with being in constant danger of being hit by a terrorist attack. And Pakistanis can’t get away from the blame by calling state supported terrorists as non-state actors.

We don’t distinguish between a good Pakistani and a bad Pakistani- just as we don’t distinguish between a good American and a bad American.

And this message has to go in clear to the Pakistani public as well as their policy makers.

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The start of any search for the ideal girl starts with the following prologue:

You can’t start looking for someone, unless you don’t have hard data about that person, data which is unique to that person or at the least, limits the search results to a manageable number.

Attributes which are immeasurable like ‘good looking, loving, caring, traditional and modern’ –don’t work. Same goes for attributes which are controversial – like ‘good character, fair looking, innocent etc’: P

And if you are doing this- the chances are extremely high that you will get a million search results with an extremely low level of relevance.

But before you realize the impact of the ‘low level of relevance’ you would have already looked at some 500 girls and would have got frustrated that they don’t match most, if not all of your search criteria- and with only a matter of time you would start believing that the world has lost All Its Hot Women OR There are no Hot Women who wants you OR even worse- you would start liking the women whom you find and with the search fatigue getting in and time moving fast- And then One Day you would stop searching; put blindfold on your eyes, sit on your dining table and point to one of the pics which your parents put in front of you :| END !!

And it’s all because you chose the wrong key words for your search AND not because you were damned. Trust me on this- most girls, internationally use more Search Engine Optimization techniques than what most web companies do.

So be very specific on what you want- quantify it and more importantly – Give her a name.

Yep! A name! Remember all the names which used to make you feel stimulated as a teenager.

The human brain reacts to many stimuli and most people associate names to a person’s personality and looks. So once you have her attributes in your mind- just give her a name- a name which gives you the kick-

Priyanka, Preity, Sonam, Deepika, Bipasha - anything- (but don’t just give a very rare name like phungshuk wangdu- you would have to go to ladakh for that)



And start your search with that name as the key word.

Well you might not get a hot gal anyhow- but it will narrow the search results with a high level of relevance, also it will give a new dimension to your search and hence will help beat your search fatigue.

And as a parting thought- if the theory- that names do have a correlation to a person’s personality thing is even 10% true- then my friend-you have a high chance of hitting the BULLS EYE!



Epilogue: Frankly speaking I don’t have a name which opens up the hidden contours of my romantic subconscious- so instead of searching without a name (which is kind of beating my own theory) or going with several names (which is a lot of work for One hot gal), I’m going to take a little known name from one of the mid 90’s Pepsi Ad- which had a pretty gorgeous babe in it– who with time became part of my early teenage pantheon of hot babes.... And I’ve been drinking Pepsi since then:-)

That name was Sanjana- and to make the name more appealing, I am going to add some guns and ammunition as her surname – and call her Sanjana Ganguly!

2010

Happy 2010 folks:-)

Hope you are all as upbeat about 2010 and the new decade as I am- yeah I am more than upbeat.
This is the year in which I will lose weight, and grow more hair on my head :P

And no, it has nothing to do with my belief in numerology- its just that this year has all public holidays on weekends- which means it has more working days- so I will be working more and losing fat :D

Also, since some people will get more time to pull at my hair- I hope of growing more of them as well.