Mahadayi River Issue and Mahanadi

Mahadayi River and Mahanadi River

• This Mahadayi river issue shows how the BJP is a party which does not care about the people.
• Now Mahadayi river is a river which is 79 kms long, 27 kms in Karnataka and  52 kms in Goa.
• It is known as Mahadayi in Karnataka and Mandovi in Goa.
• Same river flows into the Arabian Sea.
• Now if we compare the distance of the river in Goa it is 52 kms.
• Now Karnataka wants to divert some water to interior North Karnataka which for centuries is a water deficient part of the country perhaps stretching for hundreds of kms.
• What is population of Goa?
• It would be 2 or 3 million but if we think about North Karnataka it would be in tens of millions.
• Goa is on the windward side of the Western Ghats
• Goa receives maximum rainfall.
• But North Karnataka is on the Leeward side and monsoon clouds get blocked by the Western Ghats and there is very less rainfall.
• Now tell me does BJP not want to solve the problem of the people and farmers.
• Of what use is the river water when it flows to the Arabian Sea.
• While the BJP Govt is in center and Goa, there is Congress in Karnataka.
• Tell me is politics important or solving peoples problem?
• In same case if we look at the in Odisha and Chattisgarh dispute, BJP is diverting Mahanadi water to interiror Chhatisgarh.
• There is again BJP Govt in Chhatisgarh.
• There is a difference between issue in Odisha Chhatisgarh and issue in Karnataka Goa.
• It is documented that in Chhatisgarh BJP is diverting the river to industrial use and private rich industry. 
• Odisha farmers and common people suffer as the river water they always expect to flow now runs dry.
• The length of Mahanadi in Odisha is in hundreds of kms and not 52 kms like Mahadayi in Goa.
• There is more dependence of Mahanadi in Odisha as there is a history of erratic monsoon in Odisha. 
• Goa will always have the water and a 77 kms river will never run dry. 
• But Mahanadi stretches for hundreds of kms and goes through farming areas and towns and villages as well as forest areas and entire ecology will be affected. It also feeds a delta and it will be catastrophe.
• What I want to say that for the greater benefit Mahadayi river water should be diverted.
• But Mahanadi should not be diverted because Chattisgarh will consume all the water and nothing will be left for Odisha.
• Odisha needs the water for its poor people unlike Chhatisgarh which wants to use it for industry. 
• Similarly Karnataka needs it water for the poor and water deficient people in interior North Karnataka unlike Goa which has plenty of water anyways..
• In Odisha millions of people are dependent on Mahanadi river.
• In Goa they have other rivers as well and Goa will not be affected much as Goa is 3700 kms area which is less than hundreds of districts in the country like for example neighbouring Belgaum district is 13,000 sq kms plus.
• And they have abundant rain as the onset of Monsoon happens very fast on the windward side of the Western Ghats.

Baijant Panda expulsion from BJD

Baijant Panda expulsion from BJD.

• What happened Baijant Panda was expelled from BJD by the supremo Naveen Pattnaik.
• It is a welcome move.
• Baijant Panda was taking his position in the party for granted.
• In the same time he was running wild with BJP.
• It is like the saying "Running with the hares and hunting with the hounds"
• In this case the hare is BJD and hounds are BJP.
• I feel Baijant Panda was given a task by Modi/BJP.
• His task was to bring BJD along with BJP.
• Modi must have told Baijant Panda.
• If you come to BJP alone you are of no use to me. But if you bring the entire BJD party with BJP then nothing like it.
• And that was what he was working for.
• His salary in crores as owner of IMFA and he is among one of the top CEO's of the country.
• But money did not give him satisfaction.
• He wanted to screw the party of BJD from the inside and take it along to BJP.
• That move would be like termite work.
• In other words hand over BJD party in a silver platter to Modi and his gang.
• He could never had become CM if BJP would have won.
• Surely Jual Oram or Dharmendra Pradhan would not have allowed it.
• But make the BJD party alliance with BJP and rule (and loot) the people of Odisha as a joint venture.
• He was using Twitter and Facebook to the max and airing his views.
• It was like a holy war he was waging against the BJD and misusing his position.
• Nothing like for the BJP when they have their man in the inside who is treated like a prince and does their dirty work which their own leaders can never accomplish from the outside.
• I feel what Baijant Panda should have done is delete Twitter Account and should not have aired his views and hurt the party, state in the process.
• Showing off too much in Twitter had its consequences and now Baijant Panda will have no option but to come out in the open against the very party which nurtured him.
• Modi project of using Baijant as a "bakra" fails where his task was to bring the entire party along.
• What... is life not possible without Twitter?
• Is Twitter this much important that you will risk all your future for it?
• That is what Baijant Panda has faced.
• I feel he was playing with fire and chances of getting burnt always are there.

Phullu

Watched one movie and that is Phullu.

• This 2017 movie is what Padman is.
• And I believe Padman should pay royalty to Phullu.
• Why? Because it has brought the concept of a village person creating his own sanitary pad and distributing it to village folk. 
• As Kamaal R Khan has said earlier, if Kunal khemu was the star of Tubelight the movie would have made 1 crore but due to Salman Khan it made 150 crores.
• He also said if Aftab Shivdasani was the star of Tiger Zinda hai, the movie would have made 2 crore but again due to Salman Khan it managed 302 crores.
• Thus what KRK says that due to star power the movies run in India.
• What is true in South India is also true in Bombay based movies or Bollywood.
• Here the stars of the movie are in Filmistan movie.
• Overall the movie is good movie.
• The hero loses his heroine due to bad hygeine but his project is a success.
• I feel Padman would be dragging it beyond some cases of failure and it would be success all along.
• This movie Phullu highlights the struggles and only shows the success toward last 2-3 minutes of the movie.
• This can be watched once without any problems.

India Pakistan conflict

• If any Govt. wants to genuinely help the people of India tehy should work for India Pakistan peace.
• If they are not working for India Pakistan peace it would only mean they are for War.
• And War is deadly.
• Like what is happening over the past few days.
• India in the hope of "teaching Pakistan a lesson" is attacking border posts along the Line of Control (LoC)
• Now Pakistan is retaliating, not the same place where India is attacking but it is attacking India along the International border (IB).
• India and the people living along the border never expected that and the result is catastrophe.
• People have to abandon their homes, schools, wells cattle sheds, farms and go inland.
• They are being made refugees in their own country, not due to Pakistan but due to supposed bravado which is not so but actually is foolishness of India and its current Indian leaders.
• India is claiming that they are being well fed and looked after and wants to build bunkers.
• Fools they should realise that people living there want to lead normal lives and not live in bunkers and all.
• More so called bravado will result in more casualties.
• Even if one person this side of the bortder dies, it is the death and murder of an Indian citizen and who is respionsible?
• It is not just Pakistan but also the Indian leadership who is refusing to talk to Pakistan and only wants to demonstrate its military prowess.
• Of what use is military prowess if it cannot result in peace.
• Thus the blood of Indians is due to the so called hype demonstrated by current Indian leaders.
• There is no glory in war.
• War results in casualties. If people don't die they get injured.
• And it leads to amputation of limbs and requirement of blood and deployment of doctors and nurses in those areas.
• Loss of livelihood of civilians.
• If any Indian Govt wants to solve Pakistan issue, I will say the way to go about it is reopen the negotiation and make LoC as International border.
• We have to recognise the current LoC as India-Pakistan border.
• Further inform UN that the problem is resolved and make changes in the official Indian map.
• Open trade routes, not only along Indian Kashmir and Pakistan Kashmir but also link to CPEC i.e. One Belt One Road Initiative.
• Let there be trade and commerce and people will abandon the need to wage war and there will be development.
• Which the current BJP Govt is not doing.
• BJP Govt has made relation with Pakistan difficult.
• BJP wants to keep India Pakistan tension simmering and then be in power by highlighting the differences between Hindus and Muslims. and polarising society.
• I recently read the data that Visas issued to Pakistan have dropped to all time low and now number around 30000 but Visas issued to Bangladeshi have swelled to 1 million.
• What is this?
• Why this difference?
• Surely we as North indians share more in common with Pakistan than Bangladesh.
• That is the game of vote bank politics BJP is playing to be in power.
• But I must say that people living around the International border in Kashmir, the situation is horrible and only peace and talks are the only way forward.

Big Flyovers vs Small Flyovers

• I will dedicate this post to the construction happening around the world which are related to flyovers.
• With great sadness I will like to say that mankind has still not reached the stage where they have perfected a way to build small flyovers.
• I stay in Bangalore and I will give one example.
• That is of St. Johns Hospital Signal.
• They built an underpass near Madivala Ayappa Swamy temple.
• They were planning to build an underpass at Koramangala water tank signal.
• After lying in limbo for more than one year, that underpass was abandoned way back in 2013.
• Now what we have at Koramangala water tank.
• It is the same old signal.
• But now they are going to build an elevated road read long flyover which will rise after the Madiwala Masjid and get down after Ejipura signal on Outer Ring Road.
• Below that long flyover there are seven crossings and/or signals.
• That is precisely my point.
• Why not build seven or perhaps four small flyovers instead of one big one.
• The answer lies here: We as humans have not mastered the technology to build small flyovers.
• Anywhere in the world it is not possible.
• Humans can build big and long like Electronics City 10 kms flyover but when it comes to building just a small flyover which may be 100 or 200 metres in length we do not have the resources or the technology.
• That is a failure of the engineers and the scientific community as a whole.
• In fact we as a human race should collectively hang our heads in shame as it is collective failure.
• My personal opinion is that if you cannot build small flyovers, do not build any flyover at all.
• At least do not build for private vehicles like cars and bikes.
• If you can and should build flyovers build for Metro.
• Much of the new Metro being built in India is elevated type.
• If bridges are to be built, build it for metros where trains will run ferrying hundreds of commuters and certainly not for private cars where often there is only the passenger-driver-owner travelling.
• Bridges should be built where there are obstacles which are non-human in nature like water body, river or valley when linking from one mountain (plateau) to another.
• Just building bridges over dry land and signals is a waste of resources and is the result of bad planning. 
• But metro is a different kind of vehicle (train) and requires a "dedicated corridor" for safe running and so the bridge has its meaning.
• Building long flyovers for private vehicles only makes encouragement for more and more private vehicles and result is catastrophe.
• Big flyovers ruin the scenery of a place and shift the traffic jams down the road.
• Sometimes we find jams on top of the flyovers and that is horrible.
• Tunnels are okay but there can be disasters on tunnels as well like we saw in the Sylvester Stallone movie "Daylight".
• Best is Underpass cum flyover like in Dairy Circle.
• Govt should encourage more underpass cum small flyovers.
• Now white topping of the roads is good because road life is increased and in the abscence of technology to build small small flyovers, it is the next best thing.
• If you do have to get trapped in a jam why not in "white topped" road.
• But, huge flyovers are ugly and mess and can never solve the traffic problems.

Fredrick, Haathi Ka Anda

Watched two more movies.
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Fredrick
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV Miniplex HD Channel after recording in pen drive.
Movie is okay for a one time watch

• The hero looks like Prabhas of Bahubali fame.
• The heroine looks like any other Kannada actress.
• Movie is technically okay but not mentally.
• I could watch and enjoy it but I doubt if any other person can enjoy it even 1%.
• Movie deals with human i.e. girl trafficking.
• Movie does not show what happens to the business in the end because our hero has committed suicide after heroine is killed.

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Haathi Ka Anda
This 2002 movie got downloaded into Tata Sky box when pen drive was attached.
In other words it is part of Tata Sky gift to its customers through Video on Demand service.

• Movie is a gem and great for communal harmony.
• In a perfect country all religions will co exist and people from one religion can easily visit the homes and be friends with people from other communities.
• In this movie, there is a Chacha who looks after a makeshift bookshop.
• And the child actor who is hero is from another community.
• The book which assumes prominence is Alif-Laila or Arabian Nights.
• I remember even we had that book in childhood and it is full of stories.
• 101 stories or perhaps 1001 stories.
• That book guided us through the better part of our childhood in addition to Tinkle, Amar Chitra Katha, target magazine and Encyclopedias.
• This movie is a must watch.
• A bit like the earlier Nederlands movie I was talking about i.e. Fidgety Bram.
• Should be seen to be enjoyed.
• In what way similar in the sense that the story is punctuated with small small stories in animation mode.
• And the title proves that Haathi is not made to give Anda i.e. elephant may be majestic but they are not made to lay eggs.
• However good we may be, there is always something where we may be lacking. That is the essence.

Ponyo, Fidgety Bram, Risen, Tum Bin 2, Heropanti

Watched five movies as mentioned above.
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Ponyo
This movie was watched on Tata Sky Video on Demand Service where we leave pen drive overnight and movie gets downloaded.
I would like to say that and mention Game of Thrones here. And quote Tyrion Lannister that "Lannister always pay their debts" similarly Tata Sky always pay their debts.
We take a package from Tata Sky it could be any package, Mega pack or Dhamaal Mix. In the process Tata Sky gets indebted to us. They don't have to. But it is a matter of principle. We are their customer or client. And they repay their debts royally. My respect for Tata Sky has only increased inspite of the fact the no porn channels are available due to the culture present in Asia and South East Asia and Middle East. But that is a different issue.

• This movie is an animation movie from Japan and a must watch.
• It deals with a sea Goddess and her husband who was once a human.
• They have several children who are fish with human faces.
• One of them is Ponyo.
• Actually her name is different but when she ends up in land the human boy names her so.
• And they fall in love.
• So the Goddess and her husband decide that if her love is true she must give up her magical powers and stay as a girl.
• So it is must for the equilibrium between land and sea.
• One cannot stay at both the places.

Overall a good movie and I must thank Tata Sky for showing it to me.
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Fidgety Bram
This movie was watched on Tata Sky Video on Demand Service where we leave pen drive overnight and movie gets downloaded.

• This is Nederlands movie with English subtitles. 
• More I see Dutch movies I feel Nederlands and England will be having more in common then let us say German and English or French and English.
• Wonderful movie.
• The child is bright a bit like "Taare Zameen par" kid.
• And the school teacher gets injured and a new teacher comes along and everything is just fine towards the end.
• Must watch movie.

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Risen
This movie was watched on Amazon prime Video.

• A Roman general is assigned to bring closure to Yeshua case.
• And what we see in the movie, he reaches the site when Yeshua is in the cross.
• And he personally inserts the sword into the right side chest of Yeshua and looks him in the eye to see that he is dead.
• And then the body is kept in a cave where there are two guards gaurding.
• Then the body disappears.
• The stone is such huge that a dozen men could only move it slowly.
• But later a guard confesses that the stone was thrown away like a small pebble and there was a flash of light unlike he had seen in this life.
• After that our hero finds Yeshua in a gathering and they were told to go to Sea of Gallilee where he would revisit them.
• There he shows himself again and tells them where to find the fish and cures lepers as well.
• Overall a very good movie and one cannot but eyes fill with tears when Yeshua is shown on screen.
• Yeshua makes us believe that Yahweh exists.
• Must watch movie.

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Tum Bin 2
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV by recording on pen drive.
Unlike Tata Sky where the movies get downloaded automatically. In Airtel HD+ box we get to decide what to record.
Tata Sky + box is also available but it is too costly i.e. 10000 INR and to get the full benefit in Tata Sky + box you need to have the costliest package.
But I believe you can record all the content in the world but what is the use if you cannot watch it.

• This movie deals with a heroine who loses her lover in a ski accident.
• Subsequently another person comes along and she falls for him.
• later it is known that the original hero is alive.
• Then it is known that the second hero actually is the cause of the first hero accident.
• And so due to confusion, the movie goes around in circle till the first hero prevails.
• It can be watched if you have a lot of time to spend and relax.
• Movie is shot in Glasgow and that makes it worth while. If it would had been shot in and around Alibag it might have ended up as a B-grade or C-Grade movie

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Heropanti
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV by recording on pen drive.

• I had seen the movie earlier but I had forgotten a bit.
• Movie deals with the honour killing aspect where people who marry without the parents wishes or outside the caste are hunted down and killed.
• In addition to female infanticide where girl children are killed either through abortion or after birth this honour killing is blot on our society and human race.
• In the movie there are two daughters of a "Chaudhary" uncle.
• One of them runs off at her wedding.
• I will say if you have to run off why to choose wedding day. Surely there are a lot of days before that.
• Running off on wedding day is an insult to parents and guests and then grooms party that is what I feel.
• Next is towards the second half when the couple is caught it not shown what happens to them only the uncle tells that the daughter is "dead to him". 
• But it like a split second when the first daughter tells that she is pregnant that the shooting is stopped. 
• Else the person of the Uncle was getting ready to shoot him.
• A little delay and the gun would have gone off and human internal matter would have got decorated on the street.
• What if the gun would have shot the lover of the first daughter?
• In the end then the second daughter who has fallen for our hero gets married to the hero.
• And who decides it? It is a duel between the arranged groom and hero and the hero prevails and so Chaudhary uncle decides for the hero.
• I will say that is crude way to decide the hero.
• It is akin to honour killing and the like.
• A duel will decide who gets the girl.
• Then in the last frame we get to know that the earlier daughter and her lover are alive when the hero asks Chaudhary uncle for forgiveness for them.

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