My secret page !

When I was offered the joining letter by Schlumberger, people raised their eye-brows as if I would mine Copper from their Gold mines. I was placed in some sub Saharan African oasis. Life Expectancy was too low. Demographics said, only 1.5 % of the total population were immigrants. Of which only 30 % could return back safely. My decision to join the firm came as the biggest surprise to their lives. But I didn't have any other option to choose.

The days and years passed by, neither did I mine Copper nor had I faked their Gold with the fool's gold. Life was going at a very smooth pace. Parents agreed to marry me to my love. As none other they could find who agreed to stay with me in the Sub Saharan Burkina Faso. I felt like arranged marriage was invented for me, but it was falsified then. No tops ! No turns ! Life was moving on in a way expected for a mining engineer. She too adopted herself with the Burkina Culture. In the subsequent years, We had a baby daughter. My wife got another "human" to play with. She was admitted in a French school there when she grew little older.

One sunny morning, I got a call from one of my best school friends who was working with some news channel in Latur, Maharashtra, India. He invited me to India for his wedding. I flew alone to India to attend it. It was the first time that i flew alone since I stayed in Burkina Faso. I was feared if my wife would stay safe.

This India visit came as a even bigger surprise to my wife. I resigned Schlumberger and chose an independent profession in India after my return to Burkina.

I started liking the new job. It fetched me a handsome salary but lesser than that in Burkina. But, me and my wife both were happier. My daughter started learning Hindi.

One October morning, I woke up with a call from a person saying, "Is this Mr. AR ? you are saying to the Chief Minister of Karnataka. See, I am impressed by the ways you reveal scams and publicize it on the television. Owing to your virtue, I wish to see you once in my office. It will be very kind if you please visit me this friday."

I was perplexed. The best I could expect was an excellence award. That Friday, I went to see him in his office. As soon as I reached, he ordered his men to shut the doors and put before me a cup of coffee. You won't believe, he said,

"See, Mr. AR I'm gonna give away the government land to two of my sons and a daughter-in-law for a price which will be much below the market price. So, it will be your day, if you reveal this scam in the news channel you work for. And yes, don't forget to say that, the land is worth many crores. This will fetch you big leap in your career as it will then be a multi-crore scam."

I disclosed his scam. My popularity grew. My wife was skeptical about this. She doubted why would one ask to reveal his/her own scam.

In a couple of weeks, I got a call from A.Raja. He was very much enthusiastic about his project. He came up with a scam which worthed more than 5 times our yearly national budget. But he was desperate as no body was taking up his case. He was being cursed by his secretary for not being able to get even one media person at his door. He was like bubbling out with his scam. he had done all his job . He was just waiting for a platform upon which he could shout about his scam to the entire nation. I took up his job and publicized his scam of whopping amount.

I grew much more with this project. People having done scams of merely 100 crores too started approaching me. I felt very disappointed when I could not help them. I didn't have spare time to publicize the scams of less than 1000 crores.

When at home, my cellphone rang every minute. My wife and daughter did not like my busy schedule. They wished me to spare time for them. In the mean while, I got another call from Mr. Suresh Kalmadi. And when I was talking to him. My cellphone beeped many a times. It was Mr. Ashok Chavan's call in waiting. I dealt with both of them and helped them gaining popularity.

Now, I had grown a national figure. People were queued up in front of my house with their individual scams of various capacities, when I left home in the morning for the office. Things turned their way. I had a wikipedia page for me now. I was a very popular figure among the lobbyists and the people who did scams did honor me a lot.

One day, when I was in a cocktail party organised in my honor by one of the clients whose scam I had successfully busted , Rahul Gandhi called me. And while I was talking to him, I got a call-in-waiting by Manmohan Singh. I immediately swapped the call and answered Mr. Singh, "Sir, Rahul Ji is on call, I'm calling you back in a while !"

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BJP minus Hindutva.

I time and again use to confess, I hate mythology and the spiritual talks kill me. But does that mean, I am anyway shallower ? Do you conclude with my negligence towards these, that I can't be of any solid notion towards an aspect ? Is it so ? You morons have already built a strong point some where deep inside your cerebrum ,that understanding India means to understand the Hindu mythology and neither can anybody understand the later skipping former.

Another day, when in a comment on Facebook, I wrote: "wreck this congress government and substitute it with 'BJP minus radical Hinduism' ", I got three texts back on my cellphone. One of them asked, "Do you think, After Subtracting, Hinduism from BJP, BJP does exist even? " I couldn't send an instant reply to her. But, I had to think over it and I was able to answer her after a detailed analysis of the BJP and its agenda.

It is indeed obvious, that BJP has its image as a Hindu political party. But let me put up a question, suppose,

I'm leading a political party and will put before you the agenda of just making Hindu community stronger and will also assure a temple at Ayodhya. Another day, other person comes leading another political party, and assures you, economic development, better roads, technological development, uninterrupted power supply and education for all.

At the polling booth, for which party, will you press the EVM ? Atleast not for the former.

But in the recent past, India has seen the Prime minister from that party. Do you think people of India are so feeble that they lack even the simple sense of judgement. Certainly not. And what does that mean, BJP is not only about Hinduism and the Ayodhya temple. And if it would have been, do you think Kishanganj would have voted for BJP in the Bihar assembly elections which has 70% muslim population ?

Infact, in the Bihar elections, BJP won 91 of the 102 seats it contested. Do you think people have just voted it to ensure one ram temple in each of its constituency. No, people believe that, if BJP subtracts Hinduism from its agenda, it becomes their favorite. For the election campaigning, Narendra Modi was not called because he is regarded as a Hindu icon, neither BJP discussed the Ayodhya temple issue during it's entire campaigning in Bihar. And this bore the fruits. People sweeped the way for BJP because then BJP proved to be the best option.

In the past also, whenever BJP insisted on its, orthodox Hinduism views, it was wrecked. A couple of years ago, after the Kandhamal riots, BJP has to loose it's share from Satta in Orissa ! Kalyan Singh lost in UP.

People take Narendra Modi as an orthodox Hindu leader. I wondered then how is he the Chief minister of a state for so long. I surfed his official website, and i found the answers. He has done fantabulous work in the female literacy, Special Economic Zone and agriculture. Which means it is impossible for a party to win the hearts of the people on this orthodox folio.

And yes, when BJP deletes this Hinduism agenda it becomes the strongest contender to rule the nation. The present government lacks the unshaken hands to initiate. India has so far conducted 6 nuclear tests out of which 5 have been conducted in 5 years tenure of the BJP government. Don't you think US hadn't tried to forbid India from doing so. Even The then prime minister turned down the US request to sign the CTBT. Isn't this a sign of strong governance.

Today, in USA, one or other Indian citizen is stripped at the airport every hour for the sake of their security. Even top officials like Meera Shankar and Hardeep Puri were asked for security check.

Isn't this an act of sheer coward that, we at India welcome Hillary Clinton without passing her through any security check who is at a post at par as George Fernandes was then, when he was security checked by the TSA.

A simple solution, every day the Ambassador of USA to India visits the south block in Delhi. Just one day, check him thoroughly in an typical Indian style at the South Block entrance i.e shake him from top to bottom. USA will learn the lessons. But no. Present UPA government can't dare do so. What will be the fate of nuclear deal then ?

And so I put my step forward and support "BJP minus radical Hinduism".

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