Will Pakistan breakup

Read a nice article in SAAG(South Asia Analysis Group)
The title of the essay is the question posed by Selig S Harrison, Director Asia Program of Center for International Policy to an assembly of people at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in June this year.

For South Asia it is a disturbing question and as it is for global security. Bruce Riedel, ex-chair of President Obama's AfPak study group, describes Pakistan as a complex and combustible society undergoing a severe crisis. "America helped create that crisis over a long period of time. If we don't help Pakistan now, we may have to deal with a jihadist Pakistan later?"

Whether the nationalists want to accept or refuse to accept the fundamental reality of international relations today is the overwhelming reach of the US in global politico-economic affairs. UN Charter, characterized by John Foster Dulles as a 'pre-atomic document' and various international covenants cannot undo the reality of American hegemony over global affairs.

From time to time various countries do try to assert their Westphalian sovereignty in national/regional affairs. But at the end of the day both developed and developing countries have to ask for American lead to steer out of the global complexity despite American culpability in the current global meltdown. Fidel Castro has all but vanished and his 'arrogance' in the eyes of the Americans has little value. Venezuelan Chavez and left leaders of Brazil, Chile, El Salvador and Nicaragua can have little influence beyond their borders and the inflaming of socialist spirit in Latin America does not appear to be the solution of the financial woes afflicting the region. One must, however, admit the change in the conduct of foreign policy with the change of guard from "wrecking ball approach to foreign affairs" doggedly pursued by George W Bush to a more accommodative and consultative approach of Barak Obama.

The change, the detractors would say, is more confined to the US willingness to listen to the views of her Atlantic allies and perhaps, giving some weightage to those of emerging economies but is yet to be seen as a credible interlocutor in the Palestinian issue, for example, breaking the shackles of Jewish influence at home. But in the eyes of many Barak Obama's Cairo speech heralded a new beginning that brought a breath of fresh air. His words were soothing and promised justice to the long suffering Palestinians in bondage. "There is so much fear, so much mistrust" Obama said that has built up over the years. "But if we choose to bind by the past, we will never move forward." He disagreed with the thesis "that we are bound to disagree and civilizations are doomed to clash" .

Journalist William Galston ( The New Republic- 4thJanuary 2009) thinks that if Obama is right in his assessment that now is the time ripe for change then he will be a "transformative President of historic stature". But then the election of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israeli Prime Minister and the appointment of a Jewish extremist as Foreign Minister may mar the prospect of George Mitchell as Barak Obama's point man in the Middle East echoing John Cavanaugh's (Institute of Policy Studies) observation that "so far what you are seeing is rhetoric that we cam make bold changes in our foreign policy. But when he lays out specifics it is not as transformational as the rhetoric"

But the developing world has expectations of the first African-American President of the US partly because, remarks Robert Dreyfuss (The Nation-July 21, 2008), "with his Kenyan and Indonesian roots Obama can credibly claim that he has an inherent understanding of the crushing burden that poverty, disease and lack of clean water and education taking place on the Third World population. And he has said that such abysmal conditions can make angry, oppressed population susceptible to the appeal of violent extremism"

The violent extremism found expression in the destructive activities of al-Qaeda, its terrorist acts of 9/11, and in many parts of the world before and after the 9/11 atrocities. The problem has now been centered in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Though Islamic extremism was basically given its power by the US and Pakistan in their desire to end the Soviets occupation of Afghanistan by installing the Taliban in Afghanistan, the al-Qaeda installed themselves in that country under the patronage of the Taliban.

Professor John Mueller ( Foreign Affairs-April 15, 2009) observes that the Taliban was a reluctant host to the al-Qaeda in the 1990s and felt betrayed when the al-Qaeda started to issue inflammatory statements and finally sponsored the 9/11 attacks "which the Taliban had nothing to do with" but led to the expulsion of Taliban from Afghanistan's seat of power. Mueller argues that the Taliban has very little interest in areas beyond AfPak region and should they come to power the Taliban are unlikely to sponsor any terrorist acts against the US that would inevitably lead to outside military intervention. But the activities of the Taliban in disrupting the recent Presidential election in Afghanistan and the virtual occupation of Swat till recently, declaration of Sharia law in Swat and adjoining areas belie the assessment of many about the strength of Taliban in the two countries.

The death of Baitullah Meshud by US drone attack from across the border and the announcement that Hakimullah Meshud is the new leader of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan demonstrate that the TTP has "consolidated" its fighting force that was thought to be in disarray after the onslaught by the Pakistan army in Swat and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Though the selection of Hakimullah Meshud has momentarily stopped the tide of factionalism in TTP the very fact that his rival has been made the Taliban chief in South Waziristan displays factionalism in the movement because South Waziristan is reportedly the center of TTP's strength.

This does not mean that the jihadists no longer constitute a threat. They are and will remain a significant threat in the foreseeable future? (Kamran Bokhari & Fred Burton-The counterinsurgency in Pakistan-August 2009-Stratfor Global Intelligence). Pakistan army's long held love with the Islamic extremists had to end due to continuous US pressure on the Pak authorities to break up with the Islamists, not as a strategic manoeuvre as General Musharraf had done after being faced with "for us or against us" threat by Bush administration, but among others by Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Admiral Mullen's public chastisement that Pakistan's spy machinery-ISI-was riddled with Taliban sympathizers. Added was the Mumbai massacre that brought the two countries to the brink of war, an economy on the verge of collapse, and finally the terrorism unleashed by TTP and al-Qaeda elements who are reportedly hosted by Beluch Pashtuns and FATA tribals angered by the killings of innocent women and children in US drone attacks on Pakistan territory. Change of ISI chief in September 2008 by Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani and replacement of scores of intelligence officials were dictated by the factors enumerated above.

As mentioned earlier in June this year (2009) Selig Harrison of Center for International Policy raised the question: WILL PAKISTAN BREAK UP? In answering this question Harrison delves into the UNTOLD STORY OF INDIA'S PARTITION (Narindra Singh Sarila, a retired Indian diplomat and ADC to Lord Mountbatten) that as early as March 1945 Winston Churchill and British General Staff were promised by Mohammed Ali Jinnah military facilities that were refused by Pandit Nehru. As a reward they deliberately set out to create Pakistan. This version contradicts former Indian Minister Jaswant Singh's assertion that Nehru and Patel were primarily responsible for the partition and Jinnah was a great Indian, a "sacrilege" for which Jaswant Singh has been expelled from BJP. Harrison argues that from the beginning Pakistan being an artificial entity that put together different ethnic groups was bound to be dysfunctional. The independence of Bangladesh is a testimony to the artificiality of the making of Pakistan because religion alone cannot be the binding force of nationalism as is evident in the existence of many Arab Muslim countries and of the Western world professing Christianity.

Even after the liberation of Bangladesh Pakistan today consists of Punjabi, Baluch, Pashtuns and Sindhis where the Punjabis dominate while the rest account for 33% of the population but 72% of the territory. Apart from the Baluch grievance that their natural gas is being sent out of Baluchistan by the Punjabis on unfair terms, Harrison reminds us that "prior to the British rule the Pashtuns had been politically unified since 1747 under the banner of an Afghan empire that stretched eastward into the Punjabi heartland up to the Indus River. It was traumatic for them when the British seized 40000 square miles of ancestral Pashtun territory between the Indus and the Khyber Pass, embracing half the Pashtun population, and then imposed the Durand line formalizing the conquest.

The British subsequently handed over the territory to Pakistan in 1947 after a controversial referendum in NWFP". The referendum was largely boycotted by the Pashtuns because their demand for an independent Pashtunistan was not included in the referendum. Till today Afghanistan does not recognize Durand Line as the international border between the two countries. Dr.Hasan Abbas, a research fellow at Harvard ( Solving FATA-The National Interest) points out Pashtun domination of more than 27000 kilometers of mountains terrain of FATA along with adjoining NWFP and the influence straddles Pak-Afghan border areas as well. This influence is rooted in ethnic affinity and tribal ethos.

The Pashtuns, according to Hasan Abbas, are proud of the fact that they provided space to Pakistan army, ISI, and the US to train and arm fighters to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Bruce Riedel was told by a senior ISI commander at that time that ISI had trained eighty thousand fighters from forty three countries After the Soviet withdrawal in 1989 many of these fighters drifted back to Pakistan as did the Taliban after their defeat at the hands of the Americans and now the al-Qaeda leaders have reportedly taken refuge in Pakistan-a charge the Pak government denies. Many analysts are not optimistic about the secularization of Pakistan. They trace the "Islamization" process of the Pakistan society, in particular the of the tribal areas to the regime of General Zia-ul- Huq who saw Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as an Indo-Soviet plot to destroy Pakistan and hence his determination to form a force to defeat this 'plan'. In the process General Zia encouraged in the army devotion to Islamic ideals and practices and was blind to the growing religious extremism in Pakistani society. The policy was followed by General Musharraf who saw his interest in dominating Afghanistan and fighting India being served by the religious extremists both in the armed forces and outside.

The present army chief General Kayani was ISI head under Musharraf. The difficulties now being faced by the civilian government in their control of the army is nothing new. In addition to its enormous fire power the army has wide ranging business interests estimated at $38 billion. Mumbai terrorist attack proves that Pakistan?s banning of Laskar-e-Toiba and Jaish-i-Mohammad are more a matter of form and the rogue elements either cannot be controlled or are being patronized by the authorities. Even US pressure does not appear to be effective or Richard Holbrooke, President Obama's envoy to AfPak may be convinced of the earnestness of the Pak authorities claim that fighting al-Qaeda is no less necessary for the country?s survival as it is for global security.

One has to remind oneself of Leon Haader's (of Cato Institute) warning to Washington to view Pakistan "as a reluctant supporter of US goals at best and as a potential long term problem at worst" He did not see former President Musharraf''s decision to join the US on its "war on terror" as reflecting a structural transformation in Pakistan's policy but a tactical move to cut losses resulting from the demolition of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Besides, the reported choice given to President Musharraf by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage of either to cooperate or be bombed to stone age helped to expedite Pakistan's decision to join the US in the war on terror.

Owen Bennet-Jones of BBC quoted political analyst Frederic Grare's recommendation that Pakistan be treated as a rogue state. Grare wrote in 2007 that "Pakistan state bears responsibility for the worsening security situation in Afghanistan, the resurgence of the Taliban, terrorism in Kashmir, and the growth of jihadi ideology and capabilities internationally". South Asian expert Stephen Cohen writes in his book THE IDEA OF PAKISTAN that the Taliban grew out of a generation of leaders who had received their education in Pakistan's religious schools in NWFP and Beluchistan who sought to gain power in Afghanistan and then purify it of contaminating elements. Their success was due in part to support received from Pakistani intelligence and various Pakistani military groups, especially JUI. Unfortunately for Pakistan the Taliban began to see Pakistan itself as a ripe fruit to be plucked. The defeat of the Taliban at the hands of the Western powers had a blow back effect on Pakistan in the form of sectarian violence, appearance of drug culture, easy availability of guns and general social breakdown that came with a big cost to the socio-political structure of the country.

Neo-conservative Robert Kagan dismisses the possibility of cataclysmic effect of "the struggle between modernization and Islamic radicalism" on international affairs because "Islamic resistance to Westernization is not a new phenomenon" and "in the struggle between traditionalism and modernity, tradition cannot win". The contrary view is expressed by Historian Bernard Lewis that democracy is peculiarly a Western concept devised to conduct public affairs which may or may not be suitable for other people. Lewis mired in his belief of eternal clash of civilizations between Islamic vs. Christians and post-Christians, rigid theocratic hierarchy vs. permissive secular modernism argues that the millennial rivalry between the two great religions has been caused by Muslim humiliation over being defeated by the "inferior Christians and Jews". He further argues that while democracy requires democrats, "even when in power to give freedom and rights to Islamist opposition. The Islamists when in power are under no such obligation. For Islamists, democracy, expressing the will of the people, is the road to power on which there is no return". Francis Fukuyama differs in that the Islamic countries cannot practice democracy because often they do not separate the mosque and the state and therefore can not sustain a true liberal democracy and may use "one man, one vote, one time as a route to establishing theocracy of the sort that exist in Iran today" is necessarily reflective of the situation prevailing in the entire Islamic world. Fukuyama cites the examples of untiring efforts by the Islamist party ruling Turkey to change its laws in order to get into the European Union (now all the more uncertain after the French and Dutch referendum on the European Constitution), Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai and post-Suharto Indonesia of countries sustaining democracy.

In the case of Pakistan it is possible that because of the lack of practice of democracy that the people of Pakistan was denied for the better part of its existence by the military-industrial-landed aristocracy combine who wanted to hold on to power aided by the existence of low literacy among the landless peasants, and the tradition of obedience to the Tribal elders/Maliks that democracy will remain fledgling for the near future. The reluctance of President Zardari to cede the powers usurped by Musharraf back to the Parliament has forced Prime Minister Gilani to shake the hands of the military and thereby halt the transformation of the country to democracy as it is universally understood.

Bruce Riedel paints a black picture that the terrorists may be able to tap into the deep anger of the landless peasants in the India-- bordering provinces of Punjab and Sindh where the extremists already have considerable support to mobilize a mass movement similar in some respect to the one that toppled the Shah of Iran. His thesis is supported by reports that anti-landlord agitation partly contributed to the Islamist's victory in Swat. It is, however, difficult to accept that Pakistanis who are largely not wedded to Islamist ideology and more particularly the army would let it happen. It is possible that given the structure of Pakistani society and the fact that the country was born to be a homeland for the Indian Muslims a degree of Talibinization of the country is almost inevitable. The opposing factors will include a large segment of the armed forces and the civilian population, albeit deeply religious, but unwilling to accept the strict dictates of the Taliban. The greatest opponent will be the Pakistani women who would not accept Taliban edicts on education, dress and pursuing independent professions of their own.

Given the immigration barriers put up by the developed countries to keep themselves away from the contagion of suspected terrorism and forcing the Third world people to remain in badly governed countries, a form of historian Nial Ferguson's global division between islands of affluence in the midst of sea of poverty, the failing states have to be given assistance to bring themselves up to a level of economic development that Francis Fukuyama, Joseph Stglitz and Milton Friedman will be comfortable with, taking these countries on an irreversible course of democratization. But given the Indo-Pak tension in the subcontinent mainly due to Pakistan's notion of India as the primary threat to her sovereignty it will be necessary to engage India for constructive talks with Pakistan (the composite talks were suspended after Mumbai terrorist attacks) on all issues including the intractable issue of Kashmir. The main global players and the US in particular will have to continue their efforts to ease the Indo-Pak tension and free South Asia from the stigma of being called "the most dangerous place in the world?"

Donnie Darko Amazing movie

I have just seen this not very popular movie "Donnie Darko" This is one of the best movies i have seen in the past few months.The complexity of emotions along with the highly imaginative personality who i can relate to in the form of "Donnie" has really fascinated me.The science element of time travel is only a backdrop for the wonderfully created an emotional movie with avenues for alternative theories for the storyline.This must be a creation of a genius and that is Richard Kelly(Director)
Here is the video on the ending of the movie with a commentary by Richard Kelly and Jake(the protagonist)

Bowling to Colombine

Just watched the documentary yesterday an interesting documentary about gun control in America and also delves in the racial and financial Crisis over the years and how they are related to each other

2Movies on the weekend

2 Movies on the weekend "White Chicks" a funny movie with the Wayan Brothers and Street Fighter 4(Anime)

Great Obama Sppech

I liked this Obama Speech on the Race and Equality issue to NAACP(National Assocation of Advancement for Colored People)

Twilight Movie

How did i miss this movie before cause it was released on Nov 08 but i came to know about it only after watching the MTV Movie awards.It is based on the novel "The Twilight Series" involving the protagonist "Bella Swan".This is the story about the love affair between a teen and a vegetarian vampire Yes vegetarian seems like the Cullen Vampire cult have managed to control their vampire thirst for human blood and instead try to feed on animals and vegetarian food.Apparently the novels was a such a hit having sold around 37 million copies world wide.I have come across this novel before but i missed it seeing the story is about a vampire.Some of the reviews say that the novel was way better than the movie But I'm not into romantic novels so the movie will do for me.Cant wait for the sequel "The New Moon" which is expected to be released on November 2009.This movie was a visual and musical treat with the amazing photography and soothing music.

India Questions Russell Peters

This is my favourite comedian ,the Indian Canadian Russell Peters Finally in India

Indians Protest in Australia over the race attacks

THE anger and frustration of Indian students spilled on to the streets of Melbourne yesterday as scuffles broke out during their protest against continued violent attacks.

There was pushing and shoving on the steps of Flinders Street Station after the crowd of about 2000 refused to move and began pelting the windows above the station entrance with stones and bottles.

Up to 60 police, some on horseback, soon restored order and pushed the crowd back onto the streets.

An Indian law student, who did not wish to be named, said the police had caused the trouble by pushing people back. One man, a 22-year-old from St Albans, was charged with riotous behaviour and criminal damage.

Gautam Gupta, a spokesman for the Federation of Indian Students of Australia, said late last night that the protesters had issued a series of demands, which the State Government must meet.

"We want a multicultural police section and we want crime statistics made public so that we know the extent of the problem," he said.

The protesters also wanted on-site accommodation for Indian students at all universities and colleges.

"We want blanket cover for all international students, covering them for accidents and assaults and the government should run an ad campaign highlighting positive influence that migrants and international students have made to this country."

Mr Gupta blamed outsiders for the trouble outside the station, saying it was always meant to be a peaceful rally.

"People have been angry over the past few weeks, especially the young people, but it was supposed to be a peaceful rally. Unfortunately there were some agitators there, stirring things up … They had their own agenda," he said.

Yarra Trams said services along Swanston and Flinders streets had been disrupted since 2.30 pm yesterday and would not run until the area was cleared. Cars were also blocked along Flinders Street.

As the night drew, protester numbers dropped to about 600, and they decided to stage a sit-down protest.

A protester shouted: "If you are a real Indian, you will not leave until the morning", and many agreed.

The march started peacefully earlier in the day at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where 25-year-old Sravan Kumar Theerthala remains in a serious condition in intensive care after being stabbed in the head with a screwdriver at a party in Hadfield two weekends ago.

Nearly 2000 students chanted as they marched down Melbourne's streets, carrying signs which read "I pay fees, I pay tax, I get stabbed in Oz" and "Racism is more dangerous than swine flu". While there was widespread support for the rally, there was also evidence of the racism the students were protesting against.

Several bystanders yelled racial slurs, one man shouting at the protesters to "f--- off home".

Among the marchers were friends of Mr Theerthala.

Srikanth Guttapalia said that the 25-year-old was now breathing unaided, but his long-term prognosis was still uncertain.

"We are hoping, praying for the best," he said. "But these attacks have been happening for a long time, and it is very serious. People are scared. Everyone has roommates and classmates who have been attacked."

Suresh Chokkakula said agencies promoting international study "painted a picture that Australia is very safe".

"But it is not safe; the picture is very different. We do not feel safe, we do not feel welcome, in this city."

Baljinder Singh is still recovering in The Alfred hospital, a week after he was stabbed in the stomach with a screwdriver by two men as they robbed him of his wallet.

"My advice to every Indian student now who wants to come to Australia is, 'Please don't come'."

Jay Leno Bloopers

Mancow and Olbermann

This was an interesting interview where Mancow the right wing radio talk show host who tried waterboarding himself and admitted that it was torture after campaigning in the previous two weeks that it wasnt

MPV on IFRS

MPV of Prime Academy on how to present in Exams

ICAI President interview on students

Achmed the dead Terrorist

This is a hilarious clip of Jeff Dunham the Ventriloquist doing one of his famous characters "Achmed"I have been watching his videos for a long time now and they are simply amazing and you wont get offended by the racial stereotyping as it is extremely funny.This is one such clip

The Young Turks

Nice video by Cenk Uighur about the Fox news debate on Pelosi

The 3rd movie in the Terminator series but not the best but yet seems to be satisfying to see the end of the saga(Not really as the 4th installment is already on its way due for release in Mid June with "Christian Bale" in the lead)Finally we can get the entire story behind the Man Vs Machine battle.It was very confusing in the first two parts but the third one explains everything.Surprised to come across this movie on Youtube.Even youtube allows movie(though a little old) to be uploaded.Here is the entire movie Enjoy

Wanda Sykes White house Correspondents Dinner

THis is a hilarious segment of Wanda Sykes berating Rush,Cheney and HAnnity

17 Again

This is the movie i watched a couple of weeks back.It stars the Friends star Mathew Perry and the High School Musical Fame Zack Efron.It is the story of a middle aged man who is unhappy with his life with a divorce and his job was'nt very endearing.Suddenly he realises that he has gone back to his younger self of 17 years due to some magic.This unforseen incident leads him to take a look at his life and relive his younger days and enables him to take a positive outlook on his life.THis is a comedy movie with not much comedy in it.Probably this is an average movie with nothing special.Probably could watch it once.

Funny conan Stewart Colbert fight

Behind the scene look at the Late night fight

Rachel Maddow

She is the most popular liberal news host on tele in USA .She talks some sense into the mostly conservative America like here

Eternal Sunshine

This is by far the best movie i have seen this year I cant just seem to get away from this movie Came across this discussion about the movie with the cast and crew

Duplicity movie

Last week i have seen the movie " Duplicity " which stars Julia Roberts and Clive Owen.This is a corporate espionage thriller with a very different ending.I would consider it to be a good movie with some nice scenes.There is very good chemistry between Julia and Clive.This must be a good comeback for Julia.

IPL moving to South Africa

I was really fascinated by the inaugural IPL and had a nice experience watching it last time as it had fulfilled my dream of watching a domestic League of any sport like the NBA or EPL and as indians we must give all our support for such a domestic competition.The western countries have succeeded in developing a strong domestic leagues of every sport and milk money out of it.The US Basketball team finished fifth in the last World Basketball championship but still the NBA earns 50-100 times more than the rest of the world put together.The English soccer team has never looked like winning a world cup but they have the highest earning league in the world which is about 30 times larger than the Brazilian league who never looked like not winning a world cup.Why is this anomaly , shouldn't money follow talent.Not necessarily,cause a country may be good at a sport but if they dont have the economy and adequate infrastructure to showcase the sport as a spectacle then it will not be successful in promoting their league.The United states and England are masters at this game.They have made sure that all their domestic leagues dont just have a loyal support of the local public but also made sure that the world watches their leagues.The EPL has equal number of viewers outside England as in England primarily in the Asian region.Now this is where i think the rest of the world should wake up.
This is where India has joined this game,already IPL is right up there with the top 3 sporting leagues in the world.Now you can call it as a disappointment that the league has moved to South Africa but it will be good if we could market this on a global level and make it entertaining for the global viewer to watch "OUR" league ,then we all could say that India has finally arrived on the Global Arena.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

What a great movie if you are really into it
Will say more about this movie afterwards

American History X

This movie blew my mind away.This was the most honest depiction of the race issue in America.Edward Norton has excelled in this movie,he should have won an oscar for this movie.His role as Derek as a estranged youth by the death of his father and moved towards a racist group against the Blacks and other immigrants.

I will never forget this movie,this is an insight into the family of a troubled youth and how he tries to deal with it.

Amazing Mickey Rourke acceptance show

This is the most honest acceptance speech ever

The Reader

Just finished watching "The Reader" A great movie with the emotional journey of a former SS Guard Hanna Smitz played by my favorite actress Kate Winslet. The story revolves around the affir she has with a 15 year old boy and how she then disappears from his life.
The boy meets her again 8 years later when he is at a law school and is audience to a Nazi trial case in which Hanna was the suspect.She get convicted for Life imprisonment based on the statements given by her fellow guards as she is the leader of the Guard and wrote the report in which 300 prisoners got killed when they were locked inside a flaming church.
The boy knew she was innocent as she is an illiterate and enjoys being read to as she cant read but still keeps silent as he thought that she deserves the punishment for her involvement in the murders.
Years later the boy now a married man with a daughter starts sending taped versions of books to Hanna in jail.She takes interest in the tapes and starts learning to read and write with the help of those tapes.
After she has completed her term of 20 years she is visited by her "Kid"(thats what she used to call him) who says that he has found a job for her with a tailor and a place to stay and ask her to lead life quitely.
When the day of release comes,Hanna hangs herself and writes a will to give the 700 Marks left in her possession to the daughter of the lone survivor of the fire.
Her friend then narrates this story to his daughter when they visit the grave of Hanna Smitz
I just cant believe the number of times Kate Winslet was naked in the movie(it was like forever during the first 20 minutes) .This is an emotional story and totally deserves an Oscar for the screenplay and the story.Must have been a wonderful book to read.This is a nice movie to watch for anyone who likes to get filled with emotions.
Kate winslet you rock and the Oscar was long overdue and Im glad you got it for this movie

My favourite actress Kate Winslet (English Rose) has finally won an oscar for her role in "The Reader". The funny part was that she had joked in the Comedy TV Series "Extras" that she can win an Oscar only of she acts in an Holocast Movie.Looks like she was heading for the right direction from the start.Anyways here is her acceptance speech and the scene i referred in the Extras

Brian williams

Nice video of BRian Williams the TV guy on David Letterman Nice interview

Video of India winning the 2nd ODI

Australia Newzealand ODI Thriller

What a match in Perth today
A Close one
First the Kiwis bowl out the Aussie for 180 Odd thanks to the Mills 4 Wicket burst
Finally the Kiwis scraped through the last ball of the match
Probably they should have finished it earlier than they have but this proves that the Aussies are going down with their 4th consecutive Loss in Odis at home but its good for the Kiwis to win some matches

India unveils Cheapest Laptop

India is bringing revolution with the launch of Rs 500 ($10) laptop. The government is planning to produce the computer on a mass scale to provide this unbelievably cheap computing device to thousands of students, schools and colleges across the country.

According to reports, those cheap laptops comes equipped with 2GB memory, WiFi, Ethernet, expendable memory and consumes a mere 2W of power.

The computing device has been developed by Vellore Institute of Technology students and scientists at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. The laptop will be named as ‘Sakshat’ and will bringing in a computer revolution of sorts in the country.

The government will give Rs2.5 lakh per institution for 10 Kbps connection from the 11th plan outlay of Rs4,612 crore and also subsidies 25 per cent of costs for private and state government colleges by providing computer infrastructure and internet connection to over 18,000 colleges and 400 universities and institutions.

Paul Blart Mal cOp

THis movie was on top of the movie chart thats why i watched t online but the comments on it was awful.How could such an awful movie be a topper on the charts no idea
Slumdog Millionaire is having a ridiculous high ranking for such a bad movie(in indian context)

Watching two movies atonce

THats it just tried it Watching Curious case of Benjamin Button and Final destination 2 at the same time How about that Multitasking at the best

Yes MAn movie review - YES!!! MANNNN

Nice Movie Jim has done it again He has managed to make us feel good in the holiday period with a nice movie with a lot of laughs and less of craziness which is good Who doesnt like to see a funny mellowed down jim carrey This is a nice movie on how to be positive in you life and look forward to gettin it right Did i say nice before ok again Nice movie

Hitch & Once upon a time in Mexico

These two movies i was able to watch in youtube Two great movies

Jim Turley Speeech

Indian Military sows th pirates whos the Boss

THE Indian Navy’s daring and successful operation against pirates off the coast of Oman has suddenly shone a ray of hope on the seemingly intractable crisis of a hijacking spree near the Gulf of Aden where Somali pirates have been picking off ships and tankers almost by the day. The heroic action by helicopter-borne marine commandos, who took off from INS Tabar, a guided missile frigate, and landed on a merchant vessel in time to thwart a band of pirates, came on November 11, within 24 hours of the world’s strongest navy - that of the US – expressing helplessness when pirates seized a Saudi ‘supertanker’ that was transporting crude oil worth $100mn. The robustness and alacrity with which Indian marine commandos sprung into mission mode contrasted with the overcautious and clueless attitude of other international naval forces who are currently participating in a joint endeavour to secure the safety of the vital sea lanes between Europe and Asia.
The persisting menace of maritime piracy off the Somali coast would cloud any premature celebration of India’s naval glory. This is not an occasion to revel over the sinking of a pirate ‘mother ship’, because any correct assessment of the significance of what the Navy’s stealth class frigate has achieved would preclude silly jingoism. A single ship and a navy acting by itself cannot cover the 100,000sq miles vulnerable to piracy. The protection of cargo ships and oil tankers in the high seas calls for a concerted international naval effort. India has just asserted its autonomy and ability by swinging into action for collective global good.
India’s daring operation might not have come off but for the pre-existing agreement with the Sultanate of Oman under which INS Tabar is provided berthing facility in the port of Salalah. Along with more regional states, the Indian Navy needs to collaborate with other navies to increase naval presence off the Gulf of Aden. The agreement between India and Qatar that lays out a structure for joint maritime security and training as well as exchange of visits is an ideal opportunity to work towards this end. India could also arrive at a similar arrangement with Saudi Arabia. The fact that it was a Saudi ship that was the first beneficiary of India’s new policy to place its navy to fight off pirates is a good augury. When Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries have no hesitation in receiving Indian naval shipping, the dynamics of the ties thus established can have far-reaching implications.
It is high time that the civilian leadership in India wakes up to the changed international reality and opportunities that call for a larger Indian role in many spheres. Protecting commercial vessels from pirates is one of them, and can be a key entry point. Besides the ongoing naval initiative and augmentation in the Gulf of Aden, there’s much more that needs to be done. It should take the lead in pioneering a diplomatic effort with other countries to address the problems on land. There is already the example of Malacca, where piracy was quarantined due to regional co-operation between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Similarly, there is a strong case for India to encourage a regional naval task force and try to solve the issue by building up a multilateral initiative.
The Gulf of Aden has become the world’s number one pirate hotspot with 95 attacks on merchant ships, including 35 hijackings, and extraction of millions of dollars in ransom in 2008. Nigeria comes second with over 25 incidents, while Malacca Straits have slipped to the third with only 23 incidents, mostly due to effective patrolling by littoral states. While in the past, pirates would have taken over the ship and looted its valuables, the new tactic is to take the vessel to a neighbouring port and hold it to ransom. The pirates’ job has been made easy by the lack of effective governance in Somalia where the ships are anchored until a price is agreed upon. Ships are often kept for ransom for several weeks until a price is settled upon — the Japanese Stolt Valor was released on November 16 after two months of captivity. Pirates demanded $25mn — the biggest demand for a ship so far — for the giant Saudi crude oil tanker.
Earlier this year, after the hijacking of the MV Faina, a Ukrainian freighter loaded with T-72 battle tanks, the UN Security Council had passed a resolution allowing ships to patrol Somali waters, permitting co-operative countries to enter the strife-torn country’s territorial waters and use “all necessary means” to stop “piracy and armed robbery at sea, in a manner consistent with international law.” But given that Somalia has no government to speak of, there are limits to such pursuit. As the recent hijack has shown, the pirates’ heightened mobility vis-à-vis slow moving cargo ships has enabled them to expand their area of operations.
Since most ships have multinational crews and carry the flag and cargo of different countries, most nations have been content to pass the buck rather than take action. When pirates strike, shipping corporations are often left alone by national governments to conduct negotiations and pay hefty ransoms. They are forced to divert their vessels to avoid shorter but dangerous routes like the Gulf of Aden. These circuitous routes push the running cost to unmanageable levels. The rising incidence of piracy and the alarming rate at which they continue to raise the stakes have put the victim shipping companies and their respective governments in a major quandary about the appropriate response.
Indian shipping too had paid the price on more than one occasion.
It was a loss of face and morale for the country to see its vessels become victims of piracy without being able to act in self-defence. After some hesitation, the government a month ago decided to respond by sending its own vessels of war to protect Indian shipping, and the Indian Navy has proved the exception in recent weeks. Now the navy has again been given informal international mandate to take offensive action against suspected pirates inside Somalia’s territorial waters. Armed with this international “approval”, the navy is also sending one of its largest and most powerful destroyers to the Somali coast to operate with the INS Tabar. Since India has invested in building a blue water navy, why not use it for policing the Indian Ocean to stamp out a global menace?
But the manner in which the pirates hijacked a Saudi supertanker 500 miles off the Kenyan coast suggests that they are not novices driven by poverty, but motivated people with political backing. Four main pirate groups led by Somali warlords are reportedly operating with radars on some of their bigger vessels that are equipped with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. They have advance information about ships, communicate via satellite phones, and use fast speedboats. Considering the fire power and reach of the pirates, a more co-ordinated system has to be put in place. India has already sought deployment of warships on the high seas by various countries, particularly those in the Gulf, jointly under the UN flag. The time has come for the international community to co-ordinate national efforts and launch a concerted counter-attack on maritime piracy.

Punisher 2 the War Zone

This movie is just released and got a chance to watch this movie.Man i did not expect much from this but went ahead as it has opened in the top 10 list (Box office).This movie has Mr Ray Stephenson(you would recognise him as the bad guy from a lot of movies) in the lead role as The Punisher (a famous marvel comic character) this is a sequel from the first Punisher movie in 2005 which does not have Ray in it but the story starts from the first part
Jack Castle(Punisher) has been in the vigilante business for the last 6 years and his recent infiltration of the mob has resulted in the death of one of the FBI undercover cops.This disturbed Jack who visits the cops family to express remorse over his actions.The mob boss whose face got disfigured cause of Jack wants to extract revenge on the Punisher and the undercover cop and holds the cops family hostage How can the Punisher save the family and bring them to justice is the rest of the story

Crappy movie and no scene worth noting about

Final Fantasy VII

Based on the famous japanese game with the same name
Watch Video

Amazing video of the capture of the terrorist

Watch this amazing video about the capture of the terrorist

Mumbia terror Take this politicians

HAHA get OUT you stinking Dogs

Mumbai Terror Attacks

The stupid international media As always ignorant about the mumbai terror attacks
Here are some clips show casing their Lies

Lets start with PAKISTAN TV Just laugh at this idiots statements


And some Conspiracy theories like these

Anamorph

I came across this movie on Megavideo

Let see how it goes
This movoes stars Willian Dafoe in it This seems to be a psychological thriller about a murder trying to mirror the previous one .

Role Models Movie Review

This was in the Box Office Top 3 in the US So i thought i should watch it
So Lets go to great movie site and have a look

Role Model
Allright here we go

Now our two heroes Sean William Scott(American Pie)fame and the other guy are reps of an energy drink they go to schools & colleges encouraging the kids to stay off drugs and drink their energy brand instead.Shitty Job it seems for Danny(the other guy) who has worked here for 10 years and his colleagues conducted a party for him and he was ostracized by his girlfriend for being so mean & serious in his life and taking everything seriously
Suddenly our man decides to marry his girlfriend as a solution to all his problems
but much to his chagrin his girlfriend refuses not only to marry him but also moves out This really disappoints Danny who takes his anger out at a middle school meeting and a parking violation leading to a fight with the police
Ultimatey both of our heroes has to do 150 hours of community Service at SturdyWings - an organisation for Adults to spend time with kids for them to have a nice experience and the fun & comedy at the centre

Scenes i enjoyed

Justice League : the new frontier movie review

This has to be one of the most serious animation movie to have ever produced

This is a movie released in 2008 which in itself is surprising and looked more or less like a political movie. Yes with dialogues like we are not democrats or republicans but we are just Americans would have made its way into any jingoistic war movie but this is a marvel comic story that’s unacceptable

The movie wasn’t bad but watchable if you like to watch it as a serious war movie .

X Files 2 I want to believe

This week it is X Files 2 hopefully i will be thrilled by this movie after the disappointment with "Vaaranam Aayiram"
X Files 2 Movie Review
Man i have watched 75% of the movie and i like it till now
It starts with the disappearance of a FBI Agent (Female) and the involvement of a psychic(A convicted paedophile Father Joe)who apparently had visions of the missing agent and led the FBI to the location where a severed arm of a man was found.Now the FBI enlists the help of former agent Sculler(our girl) to persuade Agent Mulder(our man) to come out of isolation and fugitive to help them as he has experience in dealing with psychics.Since The Father is a convicted felon neither the FBI nor Scully believes him to be a psychic but involved in the kidnapping itself but Mulder seems to believe his visions and pursues on his search for the missing agent.

The rest of the story and my comments on it afterwards

Quantum of Solace movie review

Just Started Watching The movie Quantum of Solace

Megavideo Link: http://www.onlinevideodb.com/mv/?watch=Quantum_of_Solace_2008&id=TjRGTzA2U1YhRnJlZSBPbmxpbmUgTW92aWVzIWh0dHA6Ly93d3cub25saW5lbW92aWVsaW5rcy5uZXQv


Allright planning to watch this movie just after the end of days play at Nagpur 4th day.
Some of the comments in the site are not satisfactory about the quality but I wont care anyway being the movie freak as I’ am

This is a 86 minutes(quite short don’t you think) film so lets hope that it is entertaining


Hey this is bad the first few minutes are missing from this clip anyways I have always got Wikipedia to know the story
The film continues from Casino Royale with Bond driving from Lake Como to Siena, Italy – with the captured Mr. White in the boot of his car – when he is attacked by chasing henchmen. After evading his pursuers, Bond and M, interrogate White regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's trusted bodyguard Craig Mitchell turns traitor – allowing White to escape – Bond chases Mitchell across Siena and kills him. Through forensic investigations involving tracked banknotes, Bond heads to Haiti to find Mitchell's contact, Edmund Slate and kills him. He then poses as him, learning Slate was sent to kill Camille at the behest of her partner, Dominic Greene, the ruthless chairman of Greene Planet and a member of Quantum. Bond pursues her by motorbike and watches her meet with Greene, learning the businessman is helping General Medrano – who murdered Camille's family – to stage a coup d'état in Bolivia in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert land

I didn’t actually miss the entire storyline as mentioned above but only the opening car scene.

Almost ten minutes into the movie pure action till now not much of dialogue ….
WOW nice scene where he shoots Mitchell Just full of action till Now

Greene has Camille escorted away on Medrano's boat as a "sweetener" for their deal. Bond commandeers his own boat to rescue her (though she is unwilling) and leaves her in local care. Bond follows Greene, through the cellphone of Greene's henchman Elvis, to his private jet, which flies him to a performance of Tosca at Lake Constance, Austria. This is a clandestine way for members of Quantum to plan the coup, with each member communicating through special earpieces concealed in gift bags. Bond himself obtains an earpiece and disrupts the meeting. He then sends MI6 cellphone photos of various Quantum members as they flee the arena. As Greene abruptly departs from the opera, he is intercepted by Bond and a gun fight ensues in a restaurant. Bond confronts a bodyguard of Guy Haines, (who is an advisor of the British Prime Minister) on a rooftop, but the ensuing struggle causes him to fall on the hood of Greene's vehicle. Greene apparently does not recognize him and has him killed.
Here there is some extra information to add here is that Felix the CIA agent in Casino Royal is in this movie as well and CIA is involved with Greene cause they believe that the barren piece of land which he is going to get from General has oil…….

Believing Bond killed yet another potentially vital source of information, M has 007's passports and credit cards revoked. Bond is still able to travel to Italy by boat, where he reunites with his old ally René Mathis, who now lives in a hilltop villa awarded to him by MI6 as compensation. Both immediately relocate their efforts to La Paz, Bolivia. They are greeted by Strawberry Fields, an MI6 field operative from the local British Consulate. Although she explains Bond must return to the UK on the next available flight, he disobeys and seduces her in their hotel suite. That night, they attend a fund raiser being held by Greene, where Camille reappears. The Bolivian police attempt to set up Bond by putting a beaten Mathis in his car boot. As Bond picks Mathis up from the boot, the policemen open fire and fatally injure Mathis. Bond disarms and kills the policemen and comforts the dying Mathis, who asks Bond to forgive Vesper Lynd, and forgive himself for what happened to her.

Bond and Camille drive to the location of Greene's intended land acquisition, surveying the area in a Douglas DC-3 propeller plane. They are intercepted by a chopper and a fighter plane sent by Medrano and subsequently shot down. Before crashing, both Bond and Camille jump from the crippled plane and then freefall/parachute into a sink hole. There, the duo discover Greene is not interested in oil, but has been blockading supplies of fresh water, hidden in underground rivers. After this revelation, they return to La Paz, where Bond meets M and discovers Quantum murdered Fields by symbolically drowning her in oil. M orders Bond to disarm and end his activities in Bolivia, but he escapes by overpowering four MI6 operatives accompanying him in a lift. After this escape Bond encounters and speaks to M, stating he is not finished with his operation.

What not oil but blocking fresh water to the poor residents of Bolivia you got to be kiddin me….. HEHEHE

Bond meets his CIA ally Felix Leiter at a local bar, who informs Bond of where Greene is set to complete his deal with Medrano. Bond flees when other CIA agents arrive to kill him because of their deal with Greene for a share of alleged oil supplies in Bolivia. Bond and Camille go to an eco-hotel powered by hydrogen fuel cells, located in the Bolivian desert, where Greene is finalising the coup. As the various parties depart, Bond attacks and kills the departing Colonel of Police for betraying Mathis and sets off a chain of explosions when a hydrogen fuel tank is destroyed. Camille kills Medrano and Bond captures Greene. After interrogating him, he leaves Greene stranded in the middle of the desert with only a can of oil. Bond and Camille drive to a train station, where they finally kiss before she departs.
Bond goes to Kazan, Russia, where he confronts Vesper Lynd's former boyfriend, Yusef. Yusef is a Quantum henchman who specialises in seducing high-ranking women to get them to give up government assets as he stages his kidnappings, and is doing the same with Canadian agent Corinne Veneau. Bond has Corrine alert the Canadian Security Intelligence Service as he confronts Yusef. Later, Bond leaves Yusef's apartment and is confronted by M who is surprised that Bond did not kill Yusef. M reveals that Leiter has been promoted at the CIA, and Greene was found in the desert shot dead with motor oil in his stomach. Bond sets out into the cold night, aware that Mr. White and Quantum are still on the loose, and throws Vesper's necklace in the snow.
Man what a movie but fresh water has become so valuable now in the world that we now have to fight wars over it as well no wonder this is already true as far as India is concerned
Overall nice action movie and it will make millions all over the world as usual

SAW 5

Great I have just started to watch SAW 5 Hopefully this movie will be a fitting end to the series If at all it is the last movie
Link to the movie
http://www.onlinevideodb.com/mv/?watch=Saw_V_2008&id=SVpDUVdaSlchRnJlZSBPbmxpbmUgTW92aWVzIWh0dHA6Ly93d3cub25saW5lbW92aWVsaW5rcy5uZXQv

Anand loses his first game

Yeah Terribly disappointing for me cause i expected a complete cleansheet from Anand in this world championship cause he was so in form for the last couple of years
Anyways he still only needs a draw from the remaining two games to win
Hopefully the whole of India will be celebrating Anand on Wednesday

Chetan anand Wins

News
Three set thrillers in finals of Bitburger Open

06 October 2008

Chetan AnandIndia had impressive results at the Bitburger Open winning two events and gaining runners-up in three categories. Denmark won both the men’s and women’s doubles and achieved second place in the mixed doubles event. Spectators were gripped in the finals as three went to three sets and were close in the deciding points.



Denmark’s emerging doubles partnerships proved their talent at the Saarlandhalle in Saarbruecken, Germany. The venue for the Bitburger Open 2008. Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen denied local players Kristof Hopp and Johannes Schöttler a chance for success in the men’s doubles final with a convincing 21/11, 21/15 win. Helle Nielsen and Marie Roepke defeated Indonesian combination Shendy Puspa Irawati and Meiliana Jauhari in the women’s doubles final 21/15, 21/18.
India had a fine tournament winning the men’s singles and mixed doubles events. Two Indians made it into the men’s singles final and the spectators were treated to a thrilling final. Chetan Anand (pictured) lost the first set against compatriot Arvind Bhat 23/25, however Anand came back and the match could not have been closer as he went on to win the deciding sets 24/22, 23/21. The match lasted one hour. Peter Mikkelsen of Denmark and Bjoern Joppien of Germany were the losing semi finalists.

India won the mixed doubles event with Diju Valiyaveetil and Jwala Gutta beating Danish duo Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christina Pedersen in a gripping final 8/21, 21/17, 22/20.

Maria Febe Kusumastuti of Indonesia won the women’s singles event beating Aditi Mutatkar of India in the final. Ella Diehl of Russia and Juliane Schenk of Germany were Europe’s best representatives, both reached the semi finals.

To view all of the results from the Bitburger Open 2008 – click here

Bill Maher on Larry King

This is just after Super Tuesday which ensured Obama as the Democratic Presidential Candidate

Bill Maher - i Likeee

Who is this Guy, i stumbled upon him like i do everyone else while U Tubing apparently he is a famous comedian doing his show "Real Time with Bill Maher" and he has recently released his mockumentary on religion titled "Religulous"

Here he is talking about his movie on CBS Early show

Nice Match between Nadal and Federer

This is the interview after the loss to Nadal

indian premier league BBC View

Excerpts from Obama Speech

Excerpts of Obama's speech after NC and Indiana primaries

By The Associated Press – 1 hour ago

Excerpts of Barack Obama's speech Tuesday after Democratic primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, as provided by CQ Transcriptions:

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"You know, there are those who were saying that North Carolina would be a game changer in this election. But today what North Carolina decided is that the only game that needs changing is the one in Washington, D.C.

I want to start by congratulating Senator Clinton on what appears to be her victory in the great state of Indiana.

___

I want to thank, of course, the people of North Carolina.

I want to thank them for giving us a victory in a big state ... in a swing state, in a state where we will compete to win if I am the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.

You know, when this campaign began, Washington didn't give us too much of a chance. But because you came out in the bitter cold, and knocked on doors, and enlisted your friends and neighbors in this cause, because you stood up to the cynics and the doubters and the naysayers, when we were up and when we were down, because you still believe that this is our moment and our time to change America, tonight we stand less than 200 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.

More importantly, because of you, we've seen that it's possible to overcome the politics of division and the politics of distraction, that it's possible to overcome the same, old negative attacks that are always about scoring points and never about solving our problems.

We've seen that the American people aren't looking for more spin. They're looking for honest answers about the challenges we face. That's what you've accomplished in this campaign, and that's how together we intend to change this country.

This has been one of the longest, most closely fought contests in American history. And that's partly because we have such a formidable opponent in Senator Hillary Clinton.

Tonight, many of the pundits have suggested that this party is inalterably divided, that Senator Clinton's supporters will not support me and that my supporters would not support her. Well, I am here tonight to tell you that I don't believe it.

Yes, yes, there have been bruised feelings on both sides. Yes, each side desperately wants their candidate to win. But ultimately this race is not about Hillary Clinton; it's not about Barack Obama; it's not about John McCain.

This election is about you, the American people.

It's about whether we will have a president and a party that can lead us toward a brighter future.

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Somewhere along the line, between all the bickering and the influence-peddling and the game-playing of the last few decades, Washington and Wall Street have lost touch with these core values, these American values.

And while I honor John McCain's service to his country, his ideas for America are out of touch with these core values. His plans for the future, of continuing a war that has not made us safer, of continuing George Bush's economic policies that he claims have made great progress, these are nothing more than the failed policies of the past.

His plan to win in November appears to come from the very same play book that his side has used time after time in election after election.

Yes, we know what's coming. I'm not naive. We've already seen it, the same names and labels they always pin on everyone who doesn't agree with all their ideas, the same efforts to distract us from the issues that affect our lives, by pouncing on every gaffe and association and fake controversy, in the hopes that the media will play along.

The attempts to play on our fears and exploit our differences, to turn us against each other for political gain, to slice and dice this country into red states and blue states, blue collar and white collar, white, black, brown, young, old, rich, poor ... this is the race we expect, no matter whether it's myself or Senator Clinton who is the nominee. The question then is not what kind of campaign they will run; it's what kind of campaign we will run.

It's what we will do to make this year different. You see, I didn't get into this race thinking that I could avoid this kind of politics, but I am running for president because this is the time to end it.

We will end it — we will end it this time not because I'm perfect. I think we know at this phase of the campaign that I am not.

We will end it not by duplicating the same tactics and the same strategies as the other side, because that will lead us down the same path of polarization and of gridlock.

We will end it by telling the truth.

We will end it by telling the truth forcefully, repeatedly, confidently, and by trusting that the American people will embrace the need for change, even if it's coming from an imperfect messenger, because that's how we've — that's — because that's how we've always changed this country, not from the top down, but from the bottom up, when you, the American people, decide that the stakes are too high and the challenges are too great.

The other side can label and name-call all they want, but I trust the American people to recognize that it is not surrender to end the war in Iraq so that we can rebuild our military and go after al-Qaida's leaders.

I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did.

Nice Dhoni video

Very nice namma chennai captain

NEIL MAXWELL's office at the Mohali Stadium in the Punjab region of northwest India has panoramic views of the Himalayas.

What was a swamp with deep ravines not so long ago is now one of India's best cricket stadiums.

But Maxwell hasn't had any spare time to take in the scenery in his new role as chief executive of the Kings XI Punjab, one of eight franchises in the fledgling Indian Premier League.

"What we're trying to do in two months would normally take 12," Maxwell said.

"The business plan on what IPL is built on is a sound one, but it will take time to bed down.

"Granted a few things have fallen through the cracks, but people back home have got to remember IPL is one of the most exciting ventures in world cricket in the last 30 years.

"When you are building an asset, it does take time to build the brand.

"We are filling the stands and building on the fan base."

Maxwell, a director of the Sydney-based Insite Management Group, is no stranger to the subcontinent.

This is his 53rd visit in 14 years.

But what is different this time around is he has moved his entire family, wife Rachel and three pre-school children, to the city of Chandigarh.

Where once the Maxwell children had a leafy backyard at one of Sydney's better addresses on the north shore to play, home now for the duration of the tournament is a modest two bedroom suite at the Taj Hotel, the only four-star rated establishment in all of the Punjab.

"The temperature outside right now is 40C and it hasn't been easy on Rachel or the children. This isn't the most kid-friendly place in the world," Maxwell said.

"It has been hectic. My normal working day starts at 9.30 in the morning and I don't get home much before 11.30 at night on match days.

"This tournament has happened so very, very quickly that the work at times has been quite draining, but it was too good an opportunity to knock back."

Maxwell says he expects the Punjab franchise to break square financially this year and show a profit in year two having been told there will be no new franchises established in the near future.

"Each of the franchises receives 80 per cent of the broadcast revenue, 60 per cent of the sponsorship, and all gate revenue," Maxwell said.

"I'm not being unrealistic in saying that, but with time and effort it will be achievable."

Maxwell has assembled a fair sprinkling of Australian talent at the Kings XI Punjab, coached by former Test and West Australian all-rounder Tom Moody.

The playing roster includes Test quick Brett Lee, Simon Katich, James Hopes, Luke Pomersbach and Shaun Marsh.

He's also lured Cricket NSW team physiotherapist Paddy Farhart and video analyst Andrew Ware.

Meanwhile, the Australian Cricketers Association has called on Cricket Australia to develop a Twenty20 competition along similar lines to the Indian Premier League. Paul Marsh, the ACA's chief executive, also in India to monitor the opening week of the IPL, said the expansion of the concept could follow soccer's model.

"The Indian league will be the Premier League, and then you have the Australian league as the second league, or even the English league," Marsh said.

"Over time players could go and play in one of these leagues and then you'll have a situation where the ICC could license each league, get a return and distribute it to each of these boards."

The initial success of the IPL has other countries trying to think of ways to benefit financially from the Twenty20 concept.

Support is also growing for the ICC to implement a set time each year for the IPL so it doesn't overlap with Test and one-day internationals.

"We need to find this window and then find how to get a return from it for each of the boards," Marsh said.

"We might find a window and it opens a door for a whole lot of these leagues."

- Additional reporting: Agencies

Harbhajan & sreesanth

HARBHAJAN SINGH is alleged to have slapped his Indian team-mate Sreesanth yesterday after the latest match in the Indian Premier League.

Punjab Kings fast bowler Sreesanth was left sobbing after the bust-up with Mumbai Indians skipper Harbhajan in Mohali. It seems Sreesanth made a comment and the fiery spinner responded.

Punjab captain Yuvraj Singh said: “This is really an ugly incident. You do not want to see such things off the field, especially after a win.”

Kings beat Indians by 66 runs.


Pollocks last moments

More take on the tata takeover

April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Count investors among the wary in regard to Tata Motors Ltd.'s $2.3 billion agreement to buy Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford Motor Co., announced last week.

Starting last October, when Mumbai-based Tata Motors first surfaced as the leading bidder for Ford's U.K. auto brands, Tata common shares have fallen about 25 percent so far, more than the 14 percent drop for the Bombay Stock Exchange's main index and more than the 22 percent drop for the Bloomberg Europe Autos Index.

Tata says it will have to borrow heavily -- a $3 billion bridge loan for 15 months -- and will sell assets to repay the debt and to provide funds for costly investments in new models, such as the $2,500 Nano microcar it plans to start selling in India later this year. The carmaker's five-year credit-default swaps, reflecting the rising default risk of the company's bonds, have more than doubled in price since Ford named it as the preferred bidder on Jan. 3.

A key question, beyond finances, is whether the Indian conglomerate's lack of experience in the global luxury-car arena will hobble its collaboration with Jaguar-Land Rover's British management. Besides money, Tata doesn't bring much to the party, as Volkswagen AG did when it contributed the engine block and other parts for the Bentley Continental GT after buying the Bentley brand.

We Know Best

Ford looked as if it had everything when it bought Jag. But its top-down ownership strategy failed because the automaker tried to inflate sales by palming off mass-market cars at luxury prices. Ford's losses at Jaguar since buying it in the late 1980s, so far undisclosed, might be $30 billion or more, according to estimates of some outside analysts.

Over almost two decades the Dearborn, Michigan, automaker tried to push Jaguar's unit sales toward 200,000 annually by designing pedestrian models such as the X-Type and S-Type that weren't special in terms of design or features, even though they carried fancy price tags and competed against Lexus, BMW and Mercedes.

After having to discount the X-Type and S-Type, Jaguar's image was cheapened, hurting sales of its bigger, more expensive models such as the XKR coupe that costs as much as $92,000. Jaguar unit sales last year were roughly 60,000 worldwide; Land Rover sold about 225,000.

Off-Road Winner

Ford did well with Land Rover, keeping it profitable, though the automaker never could forge a comprehensive strategy for luxury vehicles that also included Lincoln, Volvo and Aston- Martin. Ford's chief executive, Alan Mulally, who took office 18 months ago, decided to streamline luxury marketing around Lincoln and raise cash, first by selling Aston-Martin and then the remaining two English names.

Tata Motors, posting only one annual deficit since its founding in 1945, has assembled trucks for Mercedes-Benz and slowly developed its own models, first trucks and utility vehicles and later cars. Among them is one the company claims to be India's ``first full indigenous passenger car'' in 1998, the subcompact Indica. The Tata family's industrial empire, by contrast, has global interests as varied as steel and tea.

In all likelihood Tata will allow Jaguar and Land Rover to pursue their current business plans. ``The Tata Group has done a lot to say they will pursue a more or less hands-off approach,'' said Simon Warr, a company spokesman in Coventry, England. He says operations of the two car lines now are profitable.

Heir Apparent

Jaguar's first big test is its replacement for the S-Type, the XF sedan, introduced in the last month as a competitor to the BMW 5-Series. Depending on options, XF is priced between $50,000 and $62,000.

Edmunds.com, an automotive Web site, gave XF a positive review, complimenting its ``refined ride, sporty handling, apart-from-the-pack interior and exterior design (and) powerful performance from V-8s.''

Tata could do worse than to study how Volkswagen bought and revived the failing Bentley brand in 1998, giving it just enough support in terms of money and technology, while letting British management take care of business.

David Reuter, a Bentley spokesman in the U.S., said 2006 was the first year for which VW has disclosed any financial information about Bentley's performance, reflecting a profit of ``several million euros.'' What VW doesn't disclose -- and what Tata soon will learn -- is how many billions VW and other makers of luxury cars must invest to stay current on myriad technologies in order to keep pace with new regulations as well as Lexus, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche and others.

The prospect of such outlays is at least one reason so many holders of Tata stock and bonds have voted with their feet.

Yet the risk of a catastrophe with Jaguar and Land Rover is one that Tata must accept if it intends to be a worldwide automaker instead of a local one. Tata has a golden opportunity to gain knowledge and expertise in world luxury markets.

Absent such expertise, the Indian company could one day become the bauble of some other automaker trying to capitalize on the rising Indian car market.

(Doron Levin is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)

To contact the writer of this column: Doron Levin in Southfield, Michigan, at dlevin5@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: April 3, 2008 00:01 EDT

More take on the tata takeover

April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Count investors among the wary in regard to Tata Motors Ltd.'s $2.3 billion agreement to buy Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford Motor Co., announced last week.

Starting last October, when Mumbai-based Tata Motors first surfaced as the leading bidder for Ford's U.K. auto brands, Tata common shares have fallen about 25 percent so far, more than the 14 percent drop for the Bombay Stock Exchange's main index and more than the 22 percent drop for the Bloomberg Europe Autos Index.

Tata says it will have to borrow heavily -- a $3 billion bridge loan for 15 months -- and will sell assets to repay the debt and to provide funds for costly investments in new models, such as the $2,500 Nano microcar it plans to start selling in India later this year. The carmaker's five-year credit-default swaps, reflecting the rising default risk of the company's bonds, have more than doubled in price since Ford named it as the preferred bidder on Jan. 3.

A key question, beyond finances, is whether the Indian conglomerate's lack of experience in the global luxury-car arena will hobble its collaboration with Jaguar-Land Rover's British management. Besides money, Tata doesn't bring much to the party, as Volkswagen AG did when it contributed the engine block and other parts for the Bentley Continental GT after buying the Bentley brand.

We Know Best

Ford looked as if it had everything when it bought Jag. But its top-down ownership strategy failed because the automaker tried to inflate sales by palming off mass-market cars at luxury prices. Ford's losses at Jaguar since buying it in the late 1980s, so far undisclosed, might be $30 billion or more, according to estimates of some outside analysts.

Over almost two decades the Dearborn, Michigan, automaker tried to push Jaguar's unit sales toward 200,000 annually by designing pedestrian models such as the X-Type and S-Type that weren't special in terms of design or features, even though they carried fancy price tags and competed against Lexus, BMW and Mercedes.

After having to discount the X-Type and S-Type, Jaguar's image was cheapened, hurting sales of its bigger, more expensive models such as the XKR coupe that costs as much as $92,000. Jaguar unit sales last year were roughly 60,000 worldwide; Land Rover sold about 225,000.

Off-Road Winner

Ford did well with Land Rover, keeping it profitable, though the automaker never could forge a comprehensive strategy for luxury vehicles that also included Lincoln, Volvo and Aston- Martin. Ford's chief executive, Alan Mulally, who took office 18 months ago, decided to streamline luxury marketing around Lincoln and raise cash, first by selling Aston-Martin and then the remaining two English names.

Tata Motors, posting only one annual deficit since its founding in 1945, has assembled trucks for Mercedes-Benz and slowly developed its own models, first trucks and utility vehicles and later cars. Among them is one the company claims to be India's ``first full indigenous passenger car'' in 1998, the subcompact Indica. The Tata family's industrial empire, by contrast, has global interests as varied as steel and tea.

In all likelihood Tata will allow Jaguar and Land Rover to pursue their current business plans. ``The Tata Group has done a lot to say they will pursue a more or less hands-off approach,'' said Simon Warr, a company spokesman in Coventry, England. He says operations of the two car lines now are profitable.

Heir Apparent

Jaguar's first big test is its replacement for the S-Type, the XF sedan, introduced in the last month as a competitor to the BMW 5-Series. Depending on options, XF is priced between $50,000 and $62,000.

Edmunds.com, an automotive Web site, gave XF a positive review, complimenting its ``refined ride, sporty handling, apart-from-the-pack interior and exterior design (and) powerful performance from V-8s.''

Tata could do worse than to study how Volkswagen bought and revived the failing Bentley brand in 1998, giving it just enough support in terms of money and technology, while letting British management take care of business.

David Reuter, a Bentley spokesman in the U.S., said 2006 was the first year for which VW has disclosed any financial information about Bentley's performance, reflecting a profit of ``several million euros.'' What VW doesn't disclose -- and what Tata soon will learn -- is how many billions VW and other makers of luxury cars must invest to stay current on myriad technologies in order to keep pace with new regulations as well as Lexus, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche and others.

The prospect of such outlays is at least one reason so many holders of Tata stock and bonds have voted with their feet.

Yet the risk of a catastrophe with Jaguar and Land Rover is one that Tata must accept if it intends to be a worldwide automaker instead of a local one. Tata has a golden opportunity to gain knowledge and expertise in world luxury markets.

Absent such expertise, the Indian company could one day become the bauble of some other automaker trying to capitalize on the rising Indian car market.

(Doron Levin is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)

To contact the writer of this column: Doron Levin in Southfield, Michigan, at dlevin5@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: April 3, 2008 00:01 EDT

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Another view on the Tata acquisition

How Tata can beat the 80% failure rate for M&As
Declan Mulkeen - 03-Apr-2008

Following Tata's purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover last week there needs to be an awareness of the challenges which a cross-border acquisitions may produce.

AutomotiveThe current trend towards international mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures is resulting in organisations not only having to deal with the merger of different corporate cultures, but also of two or more national cultures. While Tata will be more familiar with British business culture following its recent acquisition of steel producer Corus and its ownership of Tetley Tea, it will need to work hard to understand the unique culture of the British car maker.

Jaguar and Land Rover, previously owned by US car manufacturer Ford, are familiar with North American management and business practices so the change to Indian ownership should be an interesting challenge for management and production staff alike. With estimates suggesting that as many as 80% of international mergers and acquisitions fail, Tata will need to take extreme care and consideration to ensure that it fully understands the national and corporate cultures of the companies it has bought into.

There has already been employee suspicion over the secretive nature of the three month purchase negotiations when Tata was named ahead of private equity company One Equity and Indian automotive group Mahindra and Mahindra. Delays were put down supply contract negotiations with Ford and pension and job security issues.

Key to Tata’s success will be the ability to maintain clear and open channels of communication with all Jaguar and Land Rover employees. Information is the lifeblood of any organisation and the way in which it is communicated can make the difference between a productive and committed workforce and one that is sceptical and unreceptive.

All the senior management teams must communicate accurate information transparently, explicitly and as quickly as possible. Information must then be cascaded throughout the entire business in order to effectively convey the key messages. While rapid and efficient communication should help to ease feelings of doubt and insecurity, managers should understand that employees need time to digest and understand the impact of the acquisition and gain a clearer understanding of the business objectives.

How the cultures differ

All parties involved also need to recognise the importance of understanding the underlying values and attitudes of each culture. To put it simply, they need to understand the other culture's perception of 'how we do things': this will include differences in levels of formality, tolerance of risk and methods of decision-making.

Different perceptions of time may also be a particular challenge for Jaguar/Land Rover and Tata. Before business is even discussed, Indians will typically take much more time than the British to meet the employees at all levels and develop relationships. This could conflict with the local approach, which often expect things to be done more quickly right from the start.

The human element

Jaguar/Land Rover and Tata should also take careful steps to ensure that the human element of the acquisition is not ignored. It is the employee who will have the greatest impact on the successful outcome of this acquisition and carefully selecting respected people in the organisation to help communicate change and policy will help ensure they feel cared for. Without taking the time to fully understand the effect that a changing organisational culture can have on employees as well as the challenges of bringing together national cultures, companies are risking everything.

Mr Tata

Many people probably have a misperception of the Tata Group, perhaps identifying it as an emerging market’s upstart. However it has been operating since 1868 and has often won accolades in valuing its employees as much as it values profit. It prides itself on equality and fair management which can only be seen as positive attributes for Jaguar and Land Rover. Mr Tata has a passion for innovation with the most recent example being the launch of India's own Volkswagen - People's Car. Called the Nano and costing just $2,500 it has opened car ownership to millions of Indians, proving that Mr. Tata and his empire is out to make a difference.

Declan Mulkeen, Marketing Director at Communicaid, Europe's leading Culture and Communication Skills consultancy. It acted as cultural consultant to Corus during Tata’s purchase.

The system was down for a couple of months so the time has come to keep a record of certain interesting issues going on in the world one of the most interesting is that Tata the large indian conglomerate has taken over two of the luxury brand cars in the world Jaguar and Land Rover. Lets see what the UK thinks about it
Tata's takeover of Jaguar and Land Rover will be a key turning point in the car industry's history, automobile experts say.

Coventry-based Nick Seale of the Warwick Manufacturing Group believes that the takeover will also be of global and historic significance.

Seale said: "When the history of the motor industry is written, they will look back on this event as one of the key turning points.

"The Indian purchase of two of the strongest brands in the world car industry is really significant because the industry, 20 years from now will be very different, and if I was a betting man I will say India will be a major player."

He told the Coventry Evening Telegraph: "The US companies have been world leaders for 50 years now but they are experiencing difficulties. The Japanese have risen and out of the Japanese/US power struggle we've suddenly got the emerging world of India and China becoming a real force.

"An Indian company buying two of the world's largest brands is really significant and it will be a turning point. Although there's going to be no visible change in the short term, it's a really significant move.

"I've been doing some work with a motorcycle company in India and India is absolutely fascinating from an industrialisation point of view. Indian companies are going to be increasingly powerful in the world."

According to Seale, Ford had "sold off a really good business", and added that it was not Tata's style to come in heavy handed and make sweeping changes which is excellent.

Jaguar-Land Rover could also benefit from Tata's business portfolio, which is spread across an array of sectors from IT, services to tea production and steel with more than 289,000 people in its workforce in 80 countries, Seale added.

"One of the strengths of Tata is they have such a broad industry portfolio which is protective in terms of world changes in industry. You are not tied in to the motor industry. It's really an exciting time and is fascinating to see all these things going on. Tata are in it for a very long time," Seale said.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown echoed Seale's optimism this week during his visit to Coventry.

Brown said: "The important thing is we continue to safeguard jobs in the future and what the Tata company has said is they will invest in Jaguar Land Rover and still maintain apprenticeships in the area and will invest in new technologies of the future.

"And so for the 16,000 people who depend on Jaguar Land Rover the future is, as Tata says, one we can safeguard by everybody working together to make this a great success."

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