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									<description>Reading my mind is so easy and accessible!</description>
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									<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Gateway to thanklessness!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/39926</link>
						<description><![CDATA[&gt;&gt; Click here to view original post  This is taking thanklessness and shamlessness to another level altogether! These are men who are ready to give their lives if need be, who stay away from their families, get a paltry income... and look at the treatment being given to them. They are protecting the monumental Taj Mahal Hotel, that charges tens of thousands of rupees for per room and lakhs for the President Suite... The same hotel that could spend crores of rupees for its restoration after the 26/11 attack. But, this is how the men protecting it are living. Out in the wind with just a plastic roof protecting them.  And look at these shameless people. After two whole months the SRPF DIG, Ashok Dongre &quot;will look into&quot; the welfare issues like proper food and accommodation facilities. Mind you, he will only look into it.   Department of archeology and museum Meena Joshi cannot believe the pics. She will send her own team to report! Wonder what they would &quot;report&quot;.&nbsp; But the worse is Anand Ingle, Sr PI who says there should be no fuss over a string of clothes! Whoever is saying anything about policemen&nbsp; causing trouble. These people are so dense and callous. He only cares about the fact that the place is looking shabby.   If the authorities are not humane enough to sympathise with the cops, let them think about what sight the clothesline and luggage it must be making for the tourists. Rs 1.9 crores has been spent on beautifying the place but no money can be spared for the cops. So much money will be spent for the one year memorial of the attack for the people who lost their lives... what about those that are living to protect the monument?   Dunno if I'm right about this or what, maybe the bigwig Ratan Tata can do something for them. If it's not his job, he can take it as moral responsibility. Tata Tea ka hi slogan hai na, jaago re!?  ]]></description>
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						<title>Should he take her back or not?</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/39895</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Keshav lives with his parents, elder sister and her two kids. His elder brother died in a road accident. The sister is separated from her husband. Mother is a housewife and father retired. His father and sister are both quite foul-mouthed, ill-tempered and demanding morons. And, the family is not particularly well to do either. The egoistical sister chooses to burden her parents instead of taking compensation from her husband for her kids' education and upbringing.   Keshav decided to make things a bit better by getting married and finding a companion. Thankfully, Meena got along very well with Keshav's mother and they both found agreeable companionship in each other, an escape from the sister and father. All was well till the sister started troubling Meena also, to a point that Keshav and Meena had to move to another flat after Meena's pregnancy. Meena delivered a baby girl and they were content in their little lives. Till Meena got pregnant for the second time and something got into Meena as she moved to her mother's for delivery.  Meena said she was hurt and resentful because she, and not the sister, was asked to move out. It's the sister, who is working and technically should be the one living separately and the daughter-n-law has more right over the family and the house. And, she thinks they don't want her in the family. Keshav has done everything he can to persuade her to come back especially for their two daughters' sake. For over two years, he had been going there every week sometimes everyday. But Meena wouldn't budge. So, he gave up because he had a lot of other things to worry about anyway.   Unfortunately, Keshav's mother had an accident last year and suffered a paralytic attack, after which she has been bed ridden. Keshav has to work, be at their other flat and make sure that the insane father and sister don't drive his mother to her deathbed with their constant nasty behaviour and screaming. (I believe that she would have recovered if not for her husband and daughter's behaviour).   Last week Meena's younger brother died of cancer, leaving his wife and one year old kid behind. Her elder brother is an invalid and father no more. Now Keshav feels Meena wants to come back since there is no financial security at her home. He says honestly he doesn't want to take her back because she wasn't there when he needed her. She didn't come to be with his mother and didn't even visit her once in the last one and a half years. Moreover, they will still be staying in the second flat. So, now what about the 'they threw me out of the house so, I won't go back'? What about the humiliation he had to go through in front of Meena's family every time he went to persuade her to return? If Meena says for their daughters need a father, well, she didn't think about it all this while... and probably wouldn't have, had her brother not died. If it's only for the financial security, Keshav can provide that without living together.   I know he doesn't want to take her back but he will... for their daughters. He kept saying, 'I don't want to. But I don't know what else to do.' Now it's a moral thing! He is a very good human being, who is always striving to make others comfortable and happy even if it means bending over backwards. So, what do you think he should do?]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Chalta phirta kachre ka dibba!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/39888</link>
						<description><![CDATA[&gt;&gt; Click here to view original post  This is what my mum used to say about a vacuum cleaner jokingly, 'chalta phirta jhadu aur kachre ka dibba'. The latter part of it seems to be coming true with the interactive dustbin. Quite a 'neat' idea, nay? And some uncouth and uncivilized Indians really need this. Because we are a bunch that wouldn't say, 'matt thuko' but say 'dekh ke thuko'. It's all good as long as the spit doesn't come on our person.  Whether the dustbins will really be implemented remains to be seen. Only I guess it should not be installed anywhere near Mantralay. I'm sure there would be only so much garbage that the&nbsp; bin could handle!  &nbsp;]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Shiv Sena has gone cuckoo!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/39840</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Gosh! The Sena is trying ever soooo hard to be back in the picture with their fanatacism and funda'mental'ism...&nbsp;They are on the edge of their seats because of MNS and want to hog the opportunity of disruption before MNS can jump on to it.&nbsp;  As if falling flat on his face wasn't enough for Bal Thackeray after the Sachin Tendulkar fiasco (read here), the party is on to Kurbaan now. Firstly,&nbsp;Thackeray senior is giving himself too much importance if he thinks he is the proprietor of the&nbsp;Marathi psyche. Did he ask anyone if other Maharashtrians really had a problem with what Tendulkar said? But, I&nbsp;guess it happens at his age.&nbsp;People get too senti'mental', irritable, and object to everything left, right and centre.&nbsp;  And, really, sending a sari to Kareena Kapoor (read here)? Would an actress really care two hoots about them when she gets paid in crores for doing a film?&nbsp;She can get enough security to keep the Sainiks at bay. The Sainiks will go around burning posters, disrupting screenings, breaking things around, etc. But, it won't take&nbsp;long for the victims to recuperate from the losses. They mint money every second. This gimmickry will still not get the Sena more votes than&nbsp;what they already are. Wonder why they are wasting their time! Oh, of course, because everyone needs something to be&nbsp;occupied with&nbsp;when they are jobless.  Guess Kareena should take the offer of getting more saris from them and distribute them amongst her maids and other poor women who will appreciate. ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Sex sells</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/39670</link>
						<description><![CDATA[There is absolutely nothing new in the above title-cum-statement. Let's not get into examples. I don't want my blog post to look like a porn literature!   Anyway, when it comes to Bollywood, sex sells more than hot cakes.&nbsp; I was a little surprised, shocked, confused when I heard Nandita Puri talking to Barkha Dutt on&nbsp; a news channel about the former's husband Om Puri's sexual escapades as a teenager and young adult.&nbsp; Firstly, a wife was so openly discussing her husband's deep dark secrets. This is a part of a biography on Om Puri and all that they talked about what the sexcapades, as if there have been no other achievements in Om Puri's life. Then I thought, ok, if Om Puri is fine with it, so be it. To each his own. Barkha Dutt was like all the other sensationalizing journalists talking about Om Puri's sexual experiences.  Then the next morning there were reports about Om Puri being livid and Nandita Puri saying that she thought the journalist would ask her more about all the other aspects of the biography but didn't and she was horrified about how they edited the&nbsp; interview! Nandita&nbsp; Puri&nbsp; can be so naive is something I don't buy. She has been a journalist for decades and must be more aware about how things work in the media than anyone else! And, all said and done, the argument is not about how the interview was but what all she has revealed about her husband.   Om Puri, on his part, says she didn't let him only see one page of her manuscript. I'm sure he trusted his wife, which is why he let her write the biography and let it be without reading it. Umm, is it incidental that his film Kurbaan is up for release?  Oh, and also Madhur Bhandarkar and Preeti Jain controversy is back in the limelight. His film 'Jail' has just released! Another coincidence? ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>If you believe they put a price tag on the Moon!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/39336</link>
						<description><![CDATA[&gt;&gt; Click here to view original post  Yeh kya hai! I can't even think about buying property on Earth and people are buying and gifting land on Moon! It costs a mere Rs 1758 for an acre. In Bombay you wouldn't get even one square foot in a slum area for that much. And all this money is going so that man can start inhabiting the Moon by 2015. That's just about 6 years from now. But, after that the prices would be earth low. (It's sky high from Earth, toh Moon se Earth low hone chahiye na?)   Wonder if the songs made on Moon would have lyrics like, 'main tere liye dharti tod ke laa doon', or 'tera chehra dharti jaisa hai' etc. Chaand ki chandni hoti hai toh dharti ka kya hoga? Dhartni? Anyway, hope SRK goes to the moon to stake his claim, and stays put there. I think Chandrayaan already saw SRK's address there, lost interest and decided to get back.  If anyone is interested, they can go to&nbsp; http://www.lunarregistry.com/  Don't forget to invite me to chai or whatever it is that the Moonlings will drink! ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Tue,  3 Nov 2009 12:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Why did Barack Obama win the Nobel? :P funny funny!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/39119</link>
						<description><![CDATA[I'm sure a lot of us are still wondering why did Barack Obama win the Nobel&nbsp;Prize&nbsp;for peace.... Maybe these pics can tell us :P&nbsp;King, I'm sure you will agree the most. LOL.&nbsp;Got this&nbsp;as a forward. *pics being screened i think*  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Shiney to shine on!!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/39046</link>
						<description><![CDATA[&gt;&gt; Click here to view original post 
 
Yawwwwn! I'm not surprised this happened. If Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt can return from crimewood and be such huge stars, why not Shiney? And, in his case the rape has not even been proved yet. He has been granted bail, is back in Bollywood, and getting films as usual. Just a week to his return and he is doing Sudhir Mishra's 'Hitman'.&nbsp; Like with every celeb cases, even this one will be under rug swept.  
 
Wonder how his wife and child would cope up with this. But what does he care about that? He will have his moolah and fame. If he really cared about his family and all, he wouldn't have had consensual sex (if not rape) with the maid. He will be giving interviews and when asked about the case, he will mouth a convenient 'the matter is sub-judice'. All will be forgotten and forgiven. The wife will let go, she is a woman, an Indian woman at that, a mother, and a celeb's wife. The combination is just right to carry on with life. Never mind the hurt and betrayal. Who cares when there is a facade to be kept!  
 
Like a friend says, 'everything is right with enough vodka'. In B town, everything is right with enough money! ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Tiger's roar or a cat's purr?</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/39008</link>
						<description><![CDATA[The Assembly elections have been such a jhatka. To me it's because of how well MNS has done. It's quite dreadful actually that there are so many people who believe in their goondagiri policies. And, of course, it's a bigger jhatka for the Shiv Sena. But, I think it's so ignoble of Bal Thackeray to say things like Maharashtrian have dead minds. So, now that the Marathi manoos has not voted them to power and preferred MNS, they are dumb. Doesn't he understand that it's not the Sena but Uddhav Thackeray that they have dismissed?   But, both the parties are doing all they can to win non Marathi votes also. I was quite surprised when Sena suddenly said Chhatrapati Shivaji statue in the middle of the sea was a bad idea. I really thought as far as Shivaji Maharaj is concerned they wouldn't mind drying up the whole of Arabian sea to build the statue. And, Rat Thackeray speaks only in Marathi but before elections it was Hindi (predominantly the language of the North Indians, mind you), English (the vulgar western sanskriti anyone?) and Urdu (so far Pakistani) that they campaigned in. Rat Thackeray once in Sena was dead against Valentine's Day celebrations, but MNS wants to safeguard the youth culture of the same V Day.   All bloody shaane kauve! But whether the Sena or the MNS, it will be bad news for Bombay anyway. It's like the devil and the deep sea. More than those who voted for MNS I'd blame non-MNS supporters who didn't vote at all. &nbsp; ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Jaswant Singh and L K Advani lone rangers!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/38385</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Awww! Poor dear ol' Jaswant Singh and L K Advani. They have been the lone voices in the BJP who no one in the party took seriously&nbsp;. In two separate reports... 
 
L K Advani was against the expulsion of Jaswant Singh, who was called all the way to Simla to meet the top BJP brass and expelled over the telephone (that's like breaking up with an ex-lover's answering machine!). But, so strong was the emotion of expelling Singh that Advani's 'lone' voice could not withstand it. Sure. This is a man whose lone voice can launch a thousand Rathyatras, demolish Babri Masjid and let tens of thousands of people die in riots. But, it is meek when it comes to a few party members.  
 
Jaswant Singh sought Narendra Modi's ouster after the Godhra riots and was against Advani's Ram Rathyatra. He voted against it at the national executive meet but his lone voice could not have achieved the goal. And, since his once close aide Advani didn't stand by him during all the fiasco, Singh has spilled the beans about Advani being party to the decision of releasing the jihadis during the Kandahar hijack. And now the fact he was against the Rathyatra. If Singh felt so strongly about all the three issues, why did he not quit the party? And I really wonder if he is so naive or trustful that he thought the party wouldn't object if he glorified a Muslim, a Pakistani at that, leader.&nbsp; ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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