2004- A Look Back
2005 came 15 days back and the year end frenzy of 2004 due to Tsunami took some gloss off the year 2004. So how was 2004?
At the beginning of the year, Steve Waugh said good bye to cricket and the red hand kerchief would never be seen again. Janet Jackson said goodbye to well functioning wardrobes and decided to open the gates to her nipples.
Around the same time, India Shining said BJP. India wat? Shining is a shameless truthless self promotion. The IT sector of India was shining for sure. But that contributes 2% of the economy. Agriculture which constituted 70% of the economy was indeed waning. Farmers were dying in every single state. After all for the capitalism driven Central Government, farmers were really not a part of India, were they???
Bush, in the meanwhile, captured Saddam Hussian but did not capture any WMD's. At the first place, someone please remind the premise of the war? After 2 years, this premise has been spun and counterspun that I have lost an account of the real cause.
Sometime in May, an Italian born Sonia Gandhi won the elections in India for India's oldest political party, the Indian National Congress. So the BJP lost. I was elated in a small measure because I did not want the BJP to win. The major problem I had with the BJP in this election was their apparent inaction during the communal carnage of Gujarat. I have had many arguments with my friends regarding this since 2002 and I have always maintained that the State was to be blamed for not stopping the riots. I take the same stand on Indira Gandhi Govt as well when her Govt. did nothing but sit and watch when the Sikhs were ruthlessly carnaged in 1984. So whichever Govt. supports sectarian politics needs to be punished regardless of the party....
In the midst of all this, a Swiss gentleman named Roger Fedrer was steamrolling opponents in Tennis and how about an Indian born kicking taming the Tiger in the woods of Golf. United States continued to lose its soldiers in a war they could have avoided.
Michael Moore, a fat man with a big tummy and a bigger heart made the most sensational movie of my times. He called it Fahrenheit-9/11. The movie kicked some heat and the President Bush was suddenly in the hot seat.
Sonia Gandhi shocked the world by deciding to relinquish the PM chair and decided to anoint the learned Manmohan Singh at the helm. Manmohan Singh was the real architect of the India's globalization designs in the 1991-1996 narsimha Roa ministry. So, I guess capitalist style economy would continue, but they said they would globalization with a human face? Who knows what that means?
Narasimha Rao kicked butt and M.S.Subbulakshmi, the lonely nightingale of Carnatic music kissed the lotus feet. I heard more M.S in the last 4 years than I did in the first 21years as my girlfriend had the MS Bhaja Govindam and Vishnu Sahasarnamam tape that she plays quite often in the morning hours. I think that is what makes my girlfriend so special to me because she is really an unique amalgam of style and substance. She loves loud hard rock music and at the same time she can lend a ear to some melodious carnatic stuff...
Boston Red Sox captured the World Series exorcising the ghosts of 86 years. Foulke tossed the ball to Doug Mientkiewicz and hell broke loose. Hell Broke loose but Doug kept his ball and doesn't want to return it to the Red Sox museum and he calls it his retirement fund....
Around the same time, a Vietnam war veteran named John Kerry was going hammer and tongs against the Preisdent of America, George W Bush...John Kerry came out relatively unscathed in the Democratic primaries with only John Edwards showing some semblance of a fight. Kerry swallowed some big names like Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt, Wes Clark and Howard Dean....
Come November 2... Bush and the Republicans schmoozed and seduced the American public by hitting the G spots - God, Guns and Gays... Bush won again and got 4 more years. Roger Fedrer was still winning and beating up his opponents big time...
Tennis had a new poster girl. Maria Sharapova was her name. She is a sex bomb and she can play tennis as well which means we get watch her voluptuous breasts and her mutlicolored undergarments even in the later stages of a tournament, a luxury we never had with Anna Kournikova...
Shaq and Kobe ended their love hate relationship. Shaq did not want to be anywhere near Kobe and decided to move to the opposite cost... Detroit beat them up badly and that set the tone for the major reshuffle of the Lakers organization..
The year ended with a pretty bad Tsunami which consumed close to 150,000 lives. It did end with a positive hope as the huge tsunami wave was followed by a huge wave of compassion.
I wish everyone a happy and hopeful 2005....
2005 came 15 days back and the year end frenzy of 2004 due to Tsunami took some gloss off the year 2004. So how was 2004?
At the beginning of the year, Steve Waugh said good bye to cricket and the red hand kerchief would never be seen again. Janet Jackson said goodbye to well functioning wardrobes and decided to open the gates to her nipples.
Around the same time, India Shining said BJP. India wat? Shining is a shameless truthless self promotion. The IT sector of India was shining for sure. But that contributes 2% of the economy. Agriculture which constituted 70% of the economy was indeed waning. Farmers were dying in every single state. After all for the capitalism driven Central Government, farmers were really not a part of India, were they???
Bush, in the meanwhile, captured Saddam Hussian but did not capture any WMD's. At the first place, someone please remind the premise of the war? After 2 years, this premise has been spun and counterspun that I have lost an account of the real cause.
Sometime in May, an Italian born Sonia Gandhi won the elections in India for India's oldest political party, the Indian National Congress. So the BJP lost. I was elated in a small measure because I did not want the BJP to win. The major problem I had with the BJP in this election was their apparent inaction during the communal carnage of Gujarat. I have had many arguments with my friends regarding this since 2002 and I have always maintained that the State was to be blamed for not stopping the riots. I take the same stand on Indira Gandhi Govt as well when her Govt. did nothing but sit and watch when the Sikhs were ruthlessly carnaged in 1984. So whichever Govt. supports sectarian politics needs to be punished regardless of the party....
In the midst of all this, a Swiss gentleman named Roger Fedrer was steamrolling opponents in Tennis and how about an Indian born kicking taming the Tiger in the woods of Golf. United States continued to lose its soldiers in a war they could have avoided.
Michael Moore, a fat man with a big tummy and a bigger heart made the most sensational movie of my times. He called it Fahrenheit-9/11. The movie kicked some heat and the President Bush was suddenly in the hot seat.
Sonia Gandhi shocked the world by deciding to relinquish the PM chair and decided to anoint the learned Manmohan Singh at the helm. Manmohan Singh was the real architect of the India's globalization designs in the 1991-1996 narsimha Roa ministry. So, I guess capitalist style economy would continue, but they said they would globalization with a human face? Who knows what that means?
Narasimha Rao kicked butt and M.S.Subbulakshmi, the lonely nightingale of Carnatic music kissed the lotus feet. I heard more M.S in the last 4 years than I did in the first 21years as my girlfriend had the MS Bhaja Govindam and Vishnu Sahasarnamam tape that she plays quite often in the morning hours. I think that is what makes my girlfriend so special to me because she is really an unique amalgam of style and substance. She loves loud hard rock music and at the same time she can lend a ear to some melodious carnatic stuff...
Boston Red Sox captured the World Series exorcising the ghosts of 86 years. Foulke tossed the ball to Doug Mientkiewicz and hell broke loose. Hell Broke loose but Doug kept his ball and doesn't want to return it to the Red Sox museum and he calls it his retirement fund....
Around the same time, a Vietnam war veteran named John Kerry was going hammer and tongs against the Preisdent of America, George W Bush...John Kerry came out relatively unscathed in the Democratic primaries with only John Edwards showing some semblance of a fight. Kerry swallowed some big names like Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt, Wes Clark and Howard Dean....
Come November 2... Bush and the Republicans schmoozed and seduced the American public by hitting the G spots - God, Guns and Gays... Bush won again and got 4 more years. Roger Fedrer was still winning and beating up his opponents big time...
Tennis had a new poster girl. Maria Sharapova was her name. She is a sex bomb and she can play tennis as well which means we get watch her voluptuous breasts and her mutlicolored undergarments even in the later stages of a tournament, a luxury we never had with Anna Kournikova...
Shaq and Kobe ended their love hate relationship. Shaq did not want to be anywhere near Kobe and decided to move to the opposite cost... Detroit beat them up badly and that set the tone for the major reshuffle of the Lakers organization..
The year ended with a pretty bad Tsunami which consumed close to 150,000 lives. It did end with a positive hope as the huge tsunami wave was followed by a huge wave of compassion.
I wish everyone a happy and hopeful 2005....
Dude
You gotta either split up your posts into smaller portions or write lotsa stuff about one topic. Too many things in one blog means its hard to comment cohesively :)
But good summary of 2004.
Posted by
The Last Blogger |
7:36 PM
Dude
Thank you very much for the note. I will try to split up the contenets from now onwards...
Posted by
Sudarshan |
7:59 PM
you missed out a zero..
150,000
kd
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:03 AM
Okie Jagan, point taken and KD, the correction will be done..thanks for pointing it out...
Posted by
Sudarshan |
8:10 PM
good summary man.
Posted by
saranyan r |
10:06 AM
Dudes, thank you. I thought someone will say something about the G-spots... I guess you guys did not read the whole thing
Posted by
Sudarshan |
10:22 AM
I actually did read the full article but missed out on the G-thing. I did note the Sharapova writeup though :)
Posted by
The Last Blogger |
12:35 PM