Tiger burning bright - Yes, his bottom's on fire!!

Any Headhunters around – am looking or a job at Accenture. Looks like a day in the office for a Tiger can be extremely exciting – and gratifying indeed.
Just as an afterthought – would they still be urging their employee to come (he did that a plenty) on - be a Tiger.

The ugly thing about identity is that of singularity – Naked (as a physicist would have) in some cases! Why can’t we split our opinions of Tiger, the individual from his professional achievements? Infidelity & Sexual dalliance is not a subject matter of professional golf. It never was.

It was indeed great of AP to have recognized Tigers achievements and name him the Athlete of the Decade. In doing that, AP has transcended the very human tendency to be overtly judgmental of the private persona of a very public character. Press had as much business on why Diana was with Dodi as it does today about Tiger & his bevy of women.

Sarstedt & the rest..

Where do you go to my lovely?

Sarstedt was born in Delhi and spent the first 13 years of his there. I didn’t know that till about yesterday. And now I am finding his vocals very much like Cliff Richard. Typecasting? Generalizing? Subconsciously? could be. Obnoxious – isn’t it?

Equally obnoxious is the idea of splitting Andhra in two. The ghosts of Radcliff & Nehru keep visiting a thriving India. Brace for a flight of all businesses – ye IT & ITES folks. Instability is the last thing an Industry needs – more so for the DR-paranoid Financial services. Else how do you explain the relative underdevelopment of Pakistan or Srilanka – with almost similar level of people skills, cultural bent, blah, blah!!

Somewhere far away the jokers are battling their butts red - in the Copenhagen summit. They killed the cause when they made emissions tradable – peddling that as a solution to the apparent issue of warming. Investment Banks made money but little went into the environment. And now the naked divide in the international community is just as evident as the editorial on the impact of melting glaciers. The BBC has put a snazzy little interactive timeline of global warming on its website which says we have been warming up more than ever in the last 100 years or so – apparently more than we did in the last 800000 years. And the net impact of that is just about 2 degrees!! Honestly – there is no evidence that we are warming in the longer run. The human (Keynesian??) definition long run doesn’t look even trvial when compared to the age of, say, Himalayas. This universe (and hence the earth) is way beyond the human mind to comprehend. So let us keep the human “Long run” aside for a moment & talk sense. We are too insignificant to meaningfully alter any natural phenomena. All I know is here you have a plot for a couple of sequels to stuff like “Day after tomorrow” & “2012”. On the sidelines – I just learnt that it takes a massive tectonic movement and a series of mega-earthquakes to push the planet out of the frosty confines of an Ice age – every time that happens. My guess is, that one has to be bigger than the one at Pompeii – so stuff like that has never been recorded in human history.

I got Anjan Dutta singing “100 miles” in the background. This guy has almost every English song worth a label translated in bong and even made money of it. Come to think of it – a Hundred Miles!! Stuff that you and I sang through our years in school – the monotony of an E-A-B sequence being played a thousand times in 2 minutes! Lord !! Sweet submission – I still love it somewhere deep down.

Like I love Denver’s “Sunshine on my shoulders”. Or Simons’ “Hearts & Bones”. We all do.

These have it in them to light up your evening after a bad, bad day in office. Or after having had to experience the onslaughts of a bollywood blockbuster in the nature of “Singh is King”!! Or maybe “Dostana”.. there’s so much choice in bollywood when you want the worst…