First of all I would like to congratulate myself for coming up with such a catchy line for the blog; this could easily have been title of a bestseller (Yes, Shashi Tharoor types). Anyways, in this blog I’m gonna talk about my views on terrorism, armed forces and our mundane lives. You may not agree with my views, but then balls to you…this is my blog!
May be couple of centuries ago some asshole up there (probably British) thought that it would be a neat idea to add some more land to his empire and fuck around with some more people. Then we the people of this “sovereign” empire, followed it up with our brainless rants of ‘Kashmir hamara hai!’ et al. The shit was repeated for all the other under developed Border States. Obviously after years of neglect and (forced?)military occupation, local people started getting pissed off; sprinkled with some spicey ideologies/religious bigotry/foreign help they got pissed off enough to start killing. And we landed ourselves in (un)holy mess called terrorism. Now, while we continue with our brainless rants and government continues to ignore these regions, the only ‘quick fix’ solutions to stop pissed people from slitting our throats is – to slit theirs. So basically Indian armed force’s job is to clean up, the mess WE have created. It's unfair and extremely sad affair, the deaths of our soldiers. To me that doesn’t sound like very glorious and magnificent job to do. If you are still patriotic types and think that dying for your country is the ultimate glory etc. etc. then balls to you again!
Irrespective of my notions of what Indian army does, I find the stories narrated by my army friends quite amusing. Recently, I was told a story about mobile phone of an army officer that rang at wrong time during ambush, killing at least few army men including the officer. That set me thinking about the time when someone’s phone rings in middle of important office meeting and he feels like the whole life is being sucked out of him. That obviously isn’t gonna get anyone killed (at most it would mean couple of more guilty asses would put their phone on silent anyways,) the point is the amount of importance that we dedicate to worrying about useless things is ridiculous and is in sharp contrast with the life that army men live. Same goes with decision making. My army friend who regularly leads the raids in insurgency area has to take decisions about his and his colleagues’ life and death in split seconds, against half hour meeting that we do to ‘brainstorm’ about kind of color combination to be used for presentation template. May be we’r as far removed from taking any important decisions as India is away from getting a place in football world cup finals and yet we call ourselves decision makers. If I can remember correctly, some of important decisions that I have taken in past 2 months were about which shirt goes with which pant, which is the best urinal to piss in, what is the best way to put info in neat boxes and what to feed my dog (this can be another blog topic); wow, I’m a manager!!
Well the whole point is, are we ever gonna stop living our pretentious lives and get into a less self-delusional one? I don’t think so..not so soon… (Conclusions are supposed to be corny)
P.S. I know that the blog does not add up to the conclusion and I’m not making any sense, but then who does, in the corporate world?
P.S. 2 Balls to you..once more!
May be couple of centuries ago some asshole up there (probably British) thought that it would be a neat idea to add some more land to his empire and fuck around with some more people. Then we the people of this “sovereign” empire, followed it up with our brainless rants of ‘Kashmir hamara hai!’ et al. The shit was repeated for all the other under developed Border States. Obviously after years of neglect and (forced?)military occupation, local people started getting pissed off; sprinkled with some spicey ideologies/religious bigotry/foreign help they got pissed off enough to start killing. And we landed ourselves in (un)holy mess called terrorism. Now, while we continue with our brainless rants and government continues to ignore these regions, the only ‘quick fix’ solutions to stop pissed people from slitting our throats is – to slit theirs. So basically Indian armed force’s job is to clean up, the mess WE have created. It's unfair and extremely sad affair, the deaths of our soldiers. To me that doesn’t sound like very glorious and magnificent job to do. If you are still patriotic types and think that dying for your country is the ultimate glory etc. etc. then balls to you again!
Irrespective of my notions of what Indian army does, I find the stories narrated by my army friends quite amusing. Recently, I was told a story about mobile phone of an army officer that rang at wrong time during ambush, killing at least few army men including the officer. That set me thinking about the time when someone’s phone rings in middle of important office meeting and he feels like the whole life is being sucked out of him. That obviously isn’t gonna get anyone killed (at most it would mean couple of more guilty asses would put their phone on silent anyways,) the point is the amount of importance that we dedicate to worrying about useless things is ridiculous and is in sharp contrast with the life that army men live. Same goes with decision making. My army friend who regularly leads the raids in insurgency area has to take decisions about his and his colleagues’ life and death in split seconds, against half hour meeting that we do to ‘brainstorm’ about kind of color combination to be used for presentation template. May be we’r as far removed from taking any important decisions as India is away from getting a place in football world cup finals and yet we call ourselves decision makers. If I can remember correctly, some of important decisions that I have taken in past 2 months were about which shirt goes with which pant, which is the best urinal to piss in, what is the best way to put info in neat boxes and what to feed my dog (this can be another blog topic); wow, I’m a manager!!
Well the whole point is, are we ever gonna stop living our pretentious lives and get into a less self-delusional one? I don’t think so..not so soon… (Conclusions are supposed to be corny)
P.S. I know that the blog does not add up to the conclusion and I’m not making any sense, but then who does, in the corporate world?
P.S. 2 Balls to you..once more!
Balls to you !
ReplyDelete:balls man
ReplyDelete:no hard feelings man
The article appeared in economics times...one day after I posted this :P
ReplyDeletehttp://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6117640.cms
:cool man
ReplyDeleteThat's like winning the sweepstakes man