Friday, September 4, 2009

Cheats online!!!!!

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Are Indian talent shows plagued by regionalism??

For the past one year many Indian TV channels have been telecasting talent shows being telecasted throughout the country. Talent or "Hunar" as they choose to call it in some recent shows is being called anything that is entertaining and can leave you gasping with your jaws wide open. But may be thats just in theory and not in pratice...
As far as my sight goes there are 2 things that we need to consider. The first is the word risk while the other is decision. Lets look at these issues one at a time. Risk would mean that people from all parts of the country are coming forward to participate are being given a fair chance and put in thier best to clear each level. Some have a magical voice which has been harnessed over many years while others can pass swords through thier body. The most astonishing amongst all these was a performance where the participant was able to lift a couple of bricks bound together by a rope with a mere eye!!
So much so that even one of the judges could not see this part and covered her eyes by the 'pallu'of her saree. The guy was talented for sure but was it entertaining ? wasn't there too much risk involved!! What if this would have resulted in an on stage disaster

The second is the decision. Having said that the process of selection and shortlisting after a certain level is completely in the hands of the audience. It is the votes of the 'Hindustan ki Janta' that matter in taking the talent to the next level. In a group of 10 people only 2 are selected and as we say in statistics in sampling distributions, there are random and stratified sampling. Agreeing to the fact that the competition is very high we need to select the best of each sub group unilke the situation now where even if all 1o in the group are much better than the other 10, clearly the deserving dont get to the next level.

While these are probably flaws with the game, there is something that the audience needs to ask themselves. Are they voting for talent or for people belonging to thier regions. Once we speak of talent its clear that someone who can lift bricks with one eye is much more talented than a group that can do 'bhangra with coordination' and then invite the judges to dance with them on stage. Yet, the bhangra group is voted for and reach the finals...and yet its called a talent show with 'Hunar hi winner' whereas i think it should be called 'punjab hi winner'.

Lets take a moment to decide together whom to vote for keeping in mind we are 'Hindustanis' and not just people from our region and that we need to vote for talent and not for a state or its representative to win. If we do this we will do good on two aspects

The right guy will win and we will be more united as India, which is what we need more than just being our own state.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Kashmiris : the community

WHY ARE WE MARRYING OUTSIDE THE COMMUNITY: LETS SEE MY ANALYSIS?

‘Im practical…’

‘I go with the flow…’

We are different but whose right??

U, me or both…

The above four liner says it all. Now that we are in the later half of the new millennium we have the new demographic dividend of Kashmir’s, all eligible bachelors (..oops their parents) looking for would be’s some through ‘Koshur Samachar’ and others through their own Samachar.

Some experience tells me that all of the past generation including my mother and father were happy with the system of arranged marriage and yes it has worked fine with low procession time. At least to produce kids like me who can at least put their thoughts on paper and make it to a magazine to publish it. So what’s the problem now??

This world of Kashmiri’s has three types of people. The first of their sort are the kind of families who have a Kashmiri surname and do the bare minimum to justify their existence as a Kashmiri, they announce themselves as Kashmiri’s, do ‘Herath Pooja’ and still wear the ‘Janehu’. When it comes to the second generation of these set they still have the name and nothing else and are open with absolutely no social pressure on maintaining the community spirit and marrying within the community. So it’s clear why they marry outside the community. The second set is a little more extreme. They have the surname still but otherwise are typically ‘Generalized Indian or may be American’, didn’t stay in Kashmir after school, studied outside the state or country and then their second generation kids are just like any other Indian/European/American…The Kashmiri who mingles with the crowd!!!! So why should you blame him if he/she marries outside the community.

Well then comes the complicated third set! This is the only set which gives advertisements in the Koshur Samachar for marriages. They are people who studied outside Kashmir (or maybe not…) but came back before the migration/war. Wherever they live in India they speak Kashmiri, try to bring Kashmiri’s in that area together and want their children to also keep up the spirit. Their second generation kids are the ones who speak Kashmiri, know as much about the culture, festivals etc. and are brought up with the idea that marrying outside the community is something wrong. Their kids are absolutely the same as the above two categories probably even in dressing sense and other lifestyle. So why do they marry outside the community?

The story is something like this. Since the child has known that his family will not accept any one else but a Kashmiri they grow up with this thought in mind so as to no annoy their family. Yet there are two things that happen. The first is that the person blocks his mind against relationships with ‘Non Kashmiris’ and leaves it all for the parents to decide. The second is that since they cannot control some feelings they get into a relationship going with the flow…If family says no they marry forcefully (arranged…) still loving the person they loved always. The intersection of the above two people leads to the entire problem I have trying to point out in this whole essay. This is because everyone knows that the second thing could happen and given that most Kashmiri kids are engineers and Doctors, it’s difficult to get economists to calculate probability of marrying the second kind to the first kind! So when two families proceed with the meeting after matching the Teknis etc. The boy tries to gauge whether the girl is marrying under parental pressure or is she genuinely not into a relationship. The girl is scared to commit to a guy who looks quite ‘modern’ in his views yet says he wants arranged marriage. Is it a farce! So there is a big gap. This deepens further with ‘reference checks’ which could be fatal for the first group. Given the fact that all her life the girl/boy of the first kind has lived like other kids for who guy friends and being with them is not such a big deal and not a Taboo. In some cases there are also special friends! They spend time together yet without commitments. The reference check tells the boy’s family the girl’s story at work place and then the gap widens. They could confuse the first for the second. Same could happen to the guy. Even in 3-4 meeting s there is tryst to know each other but also the gaps and reports which make u thing 100 times about committing. This happens over and over again until you get into a give up stage and marry outside the community.

Why is this so special only in Kashmiris! That’s a million dollar questions. Here is my analysis. We are nomads, we have no place to go back to, and everyone’s dispersed. There is no state for us where you can find us. After the given up stage if a family comes to a conclusion that may be love marriages are better, where does the girl find a Kashmiri boy!!!

She lives in New Delhi or Bombay; she meets thousands of people everyday but Kashmiris less chance! And then to match intellect, thinking, looks, desires, geographical location..phew!!!..it has to be a fairytale to come true.

What you get in the end is an asset, of course!

The father has a big file with about 200-300 profiles of Kashmiri boys with no.s 22/36 etc. written on it. He can again do two things with them. Sell it to the ‘Kabbadi waala’ for 30 bucks or open a job consultancy. But with the current world crisis I think the first option is less risky.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

nash equlibrium and love

in case of love there is on nash equilibrium because people dont look at each others benefit in matters of love. in fact they do the opposite! more to come in a few days....