Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Dear Amit Varma

Dear Amit Varma

You should know that writing open letters is mostly lame. Anyway, 

1. In a recent blog post, you make a below-the-belt comment (quite literally) about how Sanjay Gandhi should have practised what he preached about forceful sterilization. You suggest it would have spared us Varun Gandhi's crap about forceful sterilization. Oh man! Aren't we funny! You seem to think it was a mighty witty comment. Except that Varun Gandhi said no such crap. Are you man enough to withdraw that post, now that the editor of the Daily Telegraph has clarified that Varun Gandhi made no comment on forceful sterilization? Will you issue an apology for that cheap comment? Going by your track record, I'm guessing you'll keep that post on your blog to elicit cheap laughs.

2. You wrote an open letter to our Sports Minister MS Gill where you start off equating gambling and betting with investing in the stock market, and then you go off on your favourite tangent of unnecessary and unjustified government involvement. At the risk of lowering my blog's intellectual rating, I reproduce below what you have written:

Dear MS Gill

Cricinfo states that you have objected to an SMS competition being run during the IPL on the grounds that it is “akin to betting and gambling.” I have two questions for you:

One, do you not gamble? If you have ever invested in the stock market, or in property, you have gambled. Indeed, every career choice you have made is effectively a gamble. We face choices at every stage in our lives, weigh up the risks involved, and make decisions. All of that is no less gambling than, say, betting that Matthew Hayden will score 10 runs in the next over.


Really? How ridiculous and nonsensical can your liberal rhetoric get? The stock market, in the medium to long term creates value while bringing in returns to investors. The gambling aspect of stock investing is only confined to day trading. It requires blinkered vision of the highest order to equate investing in the stock markets with betting and gambling. I can't say I expected better economics from you. Even then, your pontification to MS Gill was cringe-inducing. 

We face choices at every stage in our lives, weigh up the risks involved, and make decisions. All of that is no less gambling than, say, betting that Matthew Hayden will score 10 runs in the next over.

OUCH!


Anyway, regards and all that.

(I can't decide what to sign off as. Now this is a choice. Must weigh risks, must gamble.... OMG Matthew hayden just hit a SIX!)

10 comments:

natural gas said...

How to enter into Stock Market with small investment?

Wanderer said...

Maybe you could bet on Kolkata Knight Riders finishing last. Apparently, it's all the same anyway.

Heathcliffs Girl said...

:)
did u vote

Wanderer said...

nopes. I can't. I'm half a world away.

Heathcliffs Girl said...

It doesnt matter much i guess. the one you do vote fr will probably end up teamin up with the one u dint want at all!

Wanderer said...

Oh yeah. Now that's a better excuse than "all parties are the same".

If you really want to give an excuse i.e

Wanderer said...

Check this out.

Some good Varma-bashing. I love it.

http://themaanga.com/?s=amit+varma

Heathcliffs Girl said...

i did vote!
but yes on d excuses list i hav heard this along with "oh who cares"
a simple " ts nt cool to not care" works well fr them.

Abhinav said...

Hi. Have you done a disappearing act or what? Hope you are doing great and all that.

There is so much chaff on the internet that I don't think one person's views are that big a deal. After all, internet is the closest thing we have to a global democracy, isn't it?

Common Hindu said...

http://hinduonline.blogspot.com/


Before the grand lanch function of "Bharat Swabhiman Mission"
Baba Ramdev seems to be genueinly interested
in the betterment of desh, dharam, rajniti
and i used to watch him on Aastha channel regularly

But right from the lanch function of "Bharat Swabhiman Mission"
where Babaji had invited a Shia Muslim maulaavi
and introduced him as his darling brother
speeches of Babaji has lost its sharpness
for the protection of desh, dharam, rajniti

Maybe its the price one has to pay
to garner support of all residing in india
and whether they are muslim
it does not matter

As a common hindu
what more could i have done but
only stopped actively watching Babaji
from that lanch function
though i still regard Babaji
as a great yoga master
and for his oratory skills

But, now in the present controvercy
of Devband fatva against Vande Mataram
attended by Babaji and home minister
hindus should protest and show their displeasure
to both Babaji and home minister
for agreeing to be a part of function
working against the spirit of Bharat
and consolidating/ fanning the Jihadi movement

As politicians support Jihadis
for capturing muslim vote bank
is Babaji trying to capture
muslim and sickular followers
by agreeing to attend Jihadi function
and not speacking out against
the fatva then and there
not even 2 days after that

all this when Babaji is
the most outspoken hindu guru
who is more than ready to
give sound bytes on each and every
topic including yoga
and never take any nonsense
laying down from any celebrited reporters/ editors

is it that like all other leaders
whether they are politicians or not
they are always supporting Jihadis
at the cost of hindus
and like them Babaji too
wants to capture muslim and sickular followers
and / or
even Babaji fears from Jihadis

O Hindus come out of your hibrenation
how long you want to wait
for things to get worse
before trying for their recovery

its easy to get charged up against Jihadis
but path to recovery goes first
by winning over the sickular hindus

O Hindus, this is the time
to lanch campainge against
all sickular hindus
in the form of Babaji
and dont wait for RSS/ BJP/ VHP
dont look forward for their orders
listen to your heart/ mind

Babaji has a reputation
of coming out sucessfully
from every controvery in the past
which where lanched by sickulars
but this time
if common hindus campainge
against his sickular tendencies
at least he has to say sorry
for his moments of weakness

i appeal all PRO-HINDU bloggers
to write-up on this topic from their heart
so that greater clearity and publicity to
hindu's view emerage in media

also remember that
blogging alone cannot provide
answers to worldly problems.


http://hinduonline.blogspot.com/2009/11/original-post-no-4-o-hindus-come-out-of.html



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