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It’s time to start a new chapter in life
So after all these years
Lets go to India, i said to the wife.

In America there’s many a whistle and bell
But something’s missing
I cant even curse in the language i know so well.

India is nice. India is great
To get to India, i can hardly wait.

You may have never seen such a player
But the wait’s over India
Amreekandesi 2.0 is here!

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Here’s a short recap of what went on in the world this past week.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar raised demands for a maharashtrian Prime Minister following the upcoming elections. Soon, Shiv Sena joined in.

So is this how it is going to be? Maybe we will see a rotating policy for PM in the future. Last time it was Punjab. This time Tamil Nadu. Next time West Bengal.

BJP candidate Varun Gandhi was alleged to have made some defamatory comments in an election speech. Now he is in deep shit trouble. The BJP hasn’t expelled him, but has distanced itself from him.

Meanwhile, former BJP leader and Bhartiya Janashakti Party President Uma Bharti declared her support for BJP and Advani. Her own party is not contesting the elections due to a lack of funds.

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Google as we all know, is God. Google knows everything. Google Baba will answer all your queries and solve all your problems.

If you go to Google.com and start typing a question, it will start suggesting some questions that people have been looking for, and a number of the results matching that query.

Great way to find the popular searches and results.

Got this idea from Chirag’s post on a search for India. Presented below, are Google’s thoughts on some of the bigger questions bothering humanity.

About the world…

Apparently the world is going to end in 2012.

A quick search later, google told me that thanks to some alignment of the stars on 21 Dec 2012, the earth might just come to an end. For this reason, the Mayan (who, did you say?) calender ends on that date! Whoa.

About Earth…

This one’s interesting. Looks like there is still some debate on whether the earth is flat or not. And to think that Aristotle answered that question for us a few hundred years before Jesus Christ was born.

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Are you an Indian? If yes, take a minute and cheer for yourself. You may not realize it, but Life is pretty G.O.O.D. India is blossoming. Indian industry is growing. India is prospering. As they liked saying, India is Shining.

Need more reasons? Here, you cynical Indian, are some reasons to be proud of your country. Cheer up now. Yes, you too.

Democracy

India is the world’s largest democracy, and loves it. Even though we are supposed to have elections every few years, we try our best to make that happen more often. So much so, that we even had them twice over the course of a few months, just a few years back. We love our democracy. It keeps the blood running through our body.

Ekktaa KKappurr

Yes, the same Ekta Kapoor who gave us the blood curdlers such as Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, and Kyonki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. You see, it was her clever little plan to unite the people by giving them something common to hate. Give her a hand guys; She took one for the team.

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Ever since 9/11 happened seven years ago, we have seen several hate crimes committed against Sikhs, ostensibly due to the much portrayed image of the Taliban supremo.

People have historically committed mistakes in identifying/recognizing people, but what do you do when Sikhs start being called Arabs? Of course, why all Arabs should be discriminated against is a whole different issue altogether, but let’s leave that for another post.

Latest case, this airline pilot who forced three Sikh men off his plane, refusing to fly till they got off. How cruel and uneducated and inhumane is that? These men had gone through security and were found fit to be traveling.

This pilot glorified driver may get punished, if at all, but at a higher level, how do we eliminate these oft-repeating incidents? Racial screening is a fact of life, but at least someone should learn to correctly recognise various races.

Going to America. The song was set on an infinite loop in Rajiv’s mind, and had played out about ten thousand times in the last two days.

He was after all, going to America.

That though couldn’t happen till he finished packing. Which would be once his mom was done stuffing fifteen packs of dals, and spices, and snacks, and soaps, and toothpaste, and shoe polish, and god knows what else, into his two suit cases which as per US regulations couldn’t weigh more than 64 pounds.
Not the pound that is the British dollar, but the pound that is the American kilo. (What sort of silly people weigh in Pounds. A woman weighing a nice 40 kilos would probably have a heart failure if someone admiringly told her that she looked about 90, and forgot to add the unit.)

Anyway, who cared. Rajiv had already converted to the pound system. He even went to the Agarwal sweet store and asked for 2 pounds of kaju barfi. He called them ignorant and they shooed him off. Their loss. He was going to America, kaju barfi or not.

Rajiv had grown from strength to strength the past 6 months. He was a wreck during the initial application stage. Only he knew how he managed to get his 95 percentile GRE score. In March he got notification of his acceptance to the University of Southern California (no funding, but his dad was rich enough to pay the thirty thousand dollars. Thank god for rich parents). He was the envy of his classmates, and the latest find for the babes girls. He was a lion. Soon it was time to get the visa. He had heard of so many stories where the visa officer rejected the visas of even deserving people. He was mediocre, on his best day. He was going crazy. He couldn’t afford turning back from here.

There was going to be no need for turning back. The visa officer liked his face, and wished him luck.

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