Did you get it: Sex increases Performance

After winning the match against Pakistan, the sports expert asks, ‘So tell us Yuvraj, you had an amazing day, what is the secret behind scoring double century in a limited overs’ cricket game’. Yuvraj replies, ‘well our Coach gave us an advice couple of months back and now I got a chance to capitalize on it. The expert asks another one, ‘can you share that piece with cricket lovers’ and your fans’. Yuvraj replies, ‘I would like to thank my fans for their love and support’.

If it happens after few months, don’t be surprised as Indian Cricket Team Coach has urged Indian Cricket Stars to have SEX in order to improve their performance on field.

Our tabloids will report in future, Yuvraj had a threesome with African ad Russian chick for three hours prior to the match. He did not pump any iron on/off the field. All the hard work went into fielding on the bed side. All cricket rookies and experts will be seen carrying Kama Sutra, term it their Bible for success on and off the field.

BCCI’s office will be turned into a Playboy Mansion with the caption, “Indulgence for performance”. Don’t be surprised if you read this, entire Indian Cricket Team Coach has advised our team to have more sex to indulge (oh-sorry it’s not indulge but improve) on-field performance.

I don’t wish to comment on the fact of improvement of performance. But I do believe sex is very important element of our life and happiness, which is a social taboo in India. India is clearly a sex starved nation. But still Gary Kirsten has come out with interesting observations and also tried to justify the same. Cristiano Ronaldo, the man who produces dollars and that too lots of them with his shoes (yeah it’s millions and millions), has sex before he enters the football field. You can imagine, but in India, it is perceived over-indulgence makes a man weak. Don’t question in front of whom, whether it a woman or his body or may be both.

"From a physiological perspective, having sex increases testosterone levels, which cause an increase in strength, energy, aggression and competitiveness," the document said.

"Conversely, not having sex for a period of a few months causes a significant drop in testosterone levels in both males and females, with the corresponding passiveness and decrease in aggression."

"If you want sex but do not have someone to share it with, one option is to go solo whilst imagining you have a partner, or a few partners, who are as beautiful as you wish to imagine," the document said.

"No pillow talk and no hugging required. Just roll over and go to sleep."

Enforced celibacy may also affect performance, the advice said.

"You may experience that your mind spends more time focusing on the fire in your groin than on good sport practice, preparation and sleep," the document said.

One of my professors in college said Indians are the biggest frustrated lechers in the world. Firangi people seem happier than Indians and have contentment and commitment to whatever they undertake. Because when they set off from home, they either drink beer/whisky or indulge in a quickie sex-bite. A man cannot ask anything more than that, if he gets one of them, he does not ask anything beyond that.

I guess this may be the theme/theory for advising an un-religious (as some may say), ostracized activity by society (esp. to talk if not in performance). I was expecting Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, RSS or some political outfit to come out remind us of our Indian-ness.

Nevertheless, whether Indian cricket players indulge or not, their fans just want to see them hitting sixes, breaking the stumps and diving to drop catches. Last but not the least, they must win matches.

Calling hubby names not cruel, says HC

Calling the husband ‘bhondu’, ‘pagal’, ‘bewakoof’ and making fun of his low educational qualifications does not amount to cruelty and is not a ground for divorce, the Bombay high court has ruled.

Imagine Bombay HC saying this thing, it has hit the last nail in the coffin. The dividing gap amongst the power in the household in the hands of a female has been evident since ages. The female was always an in-charge of the household and the man posed as the head of the family. Now in these modern times of Fundamental Rights, I believe men need to assert for their rights to equality. We are losing ground fast, really fast.

Couple of months back, SC said, ‘biwi jo kehti hai woh sunoh’ (listen to your wife and do as she says). Now Bombay HC gives the woman more rights to even rebuke and insult a man. I don’t know if it allows in front of other people.

A division bench of Justice P B Majumdar and Justice R V More dismissed an application filed by a 33-year-old Pune resident seeking to end his 2003 marriage with his wife, with whom he has lived for barely 20 months.

“The husband should not have been so sensitive even if a few words were uttered by the wife,” the judges said. “In family life, between a husband and wife, occasionally there may be some exchange of wit, anger, jokes or satire; that itself may not be treated as an act of cruelty,” the judges remarked, saying this could not be grounds for dissolution of the marriage.

I know women have better understanding of society, people and managing household and in turn lives. God has blessed women with their dynamic nature. But still that does not mean, that men should be frowned upon. They need their share of respect from the society.

Please My Lord (an appeal to our Hon’ble Judges), Kindly look at the plight of men than pity. Rather they should advise and say, KISS and make up.

Private vs Public Interest

This piece is written by Sucheta Dalal on the fued amongst Ambani brothers.

Anil Ambani talking about public interest is funny. But it seems only family feuds can throw light on a lot of murky deals. Few people in India understand the complex business of oil & gas pricing. So long as everything was a sarkari monopoly, there wasn’t any need to, especially because most utilities were subsidised for the ordinary person. Privatisation has meant deal-making, allegations of corruption and a sharp increase in prices. How does an ordinary person cut through the allegations, untruths and rhetoric between the Ambani brothers to figure out whether our utilities are priced right and the country’s natural resources are exploited for private benefit?

Unfortunately, most people do not care and see the battle between the Ambani brothers as a modern-day Mahabharat with all its trappings of wealth, power and glamour. But can we afford to ignore the core issues? If we do, we will have another Enron-like situation, where an unscrupulous US company worked a dubious deal with our netas and babus and silenced most of the media through pressure or incentives. A decade later, Enron’s plant (at three times the original capacity) remains shut and unviable in a power-starved country.

In its previous term, the UPA government remained a mute spectator to the brazen partisanship of the then telecom minister, D Raja, on issues of spectrum allocation and pricing. Even the Prime Minister’s Office pleaded helplessness over reining in the minister. Anil Ambani was then the happy beneficiary of the system. Much earlier, when Mukesh Ambani controlled Reliance Telecom, it was Anil Ambani who exposed the allocation of a whopping one crore shares to the late Pramod Mahajan’s kin to facilitate Reliance’s backdoor entry into the mobile telecom space by flouting all existing rules.

What is the connection between Enron, telecom and the war for gas between the Ambani brothers? In the 1990s, Enron’s arrogant muscle-flexing and inducements caused long-term damage to India’s power sector liberalisation. It is we, the people, who have paid the price.

The telecom industry spends huge money on advertising which gives it significant clout. That is why the media, barring occasional exceptions, is at pains to remain neutral while reporting the wrangling and twisting of policy that ensured huge profits to the industry. Both the Ambani brothers have benefited from this fact when they controlled Reliance Telecom at different times.

Now again, editors don’t want to be in the awkward position of having to take a stand on the gas issue. It would mean choosing between the warring brothers, who are both extremely powerful. So one celebrity editor, briefed and fed on an exclusive basis by PR persons on both sides, is none the wiser and wants the Supreme Court to decide the issue. That will, indeed, be the ultimate solution, but shouldn’t the media do its job of discussing issues, gathering expert views and presenting facts? The media will be aggressively intrusive on something like the Aarushi murder case and even destroy lives. But when two industry giants, with huge media budgets, fight a bloody war, we would rather take the issues out of the public domain, advice everybody to do the same and allow the Supreme Court to decide.

Interestingly, nobody knows this better than Anil Ambani himself. And, luckily, he has the power to buy himself a voice by spending crores of rupees to plant one blistering question a day on the front pages of every national newspaper. At the time of going to the press, four questions had been asked and six more are apparently in the pipeline. The questions he has posed are certainly of interest to the public and irrespective of issues that the brothers may have over sharing their stupendous wealth, we the ordinary people, need some answers.

Let’s paraphrase the questions so far. Anil Ambani is suggesting through his questions and other statements that Mukesh Ambani is using the support of petroleum minister Murli Deora to tweak policy and give Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) ‘super normal profit’ at the cost of public sector entities. In all this, the government would earn only Rs 500 crore. He says:

# The Petroleum Ministry wants NTPC to pay 80% more for gas, than what RIL had voluntarily offered it earlier, causing a Rs 30,000 crore loss to NTPC.
# The Petroleum Ministry has approved “a shockingly disproportionate 400% hike in the project cost” of RIL’s KG D6 gas field, from Rs 12,000 crore to Rs 45,000 crore. This will cause a loss of Rs 30,000 crore to the government and increase retail power tariffs by 50% or more.
# While global gas prices have dropped 80%, the Petroleum Ministry wants power and fertiliser companies to pay 20% more for gas from RIL.
# RIL’s KG D6 gas field is operating at only 40% capacity and can treble its production, creating an artificial scarcity and demanding a higher price.

These and other such questions that Anil Ambani has posed need to be answered. They are not about a property battle. So far, RIL has issued a single statement saying, “We emphatically refute and outrightly reject the baseless, tendentious and motivated allegations and insinuations…” It also calls itself a mere contractor for the government excavating gas from the KG basin. This is hard to swallow.

RIL must put facts on the table. And if it has its own stories about how Anil Ambani twists policy for his benefit, let’s hear those, too. For instance, we would all like to know why ADAG’s tariffs in Mumbai are soaring while the Tatas are able to supply power at more reasonable rates.

When it comes to mega-infrastructure projects, utilities (including telecom) and natural resources (land, water, mines), the lack of information has allowed a tiny elite to manipulate policy by agreeing to share the loot with our venal politicians. A few more family feuds and corporate wars are just the cleanser that we need.

Understanding aam aadmi

Must have seen the images of Jaya Prada on Monday on television and in Tuesday’s newspapers. She did a heroic act by ploughing herself on the flooded reins of Rampur and that too on a bullock cart when most of the ministers, Parliamentarains survey the area via helicopter. She may not have imagined the hardships that people in village have to undergo for meeting the everyday commitment of living. To further exacerbate the misery, the floods puts them on the edge of extinction. It’s a pity for India, that our MPs claim to know their people and regions well enough and yet are not aware whether there are roads in the constituency or not. Jaya Prada is indeed one of the hard working MPs in Uttar Pradesh. She had really worked for her constituency. At least the same was said in Union Elections, 2009. You can imagine the areas in UP (Uttar Pradesh)where there has been no development.

She started crying and wailing when the bullock cart got stuck in waist deep waters. Yes….. like a true Indian Parliamentarian, she was moved by the plight of the people due to flooding of the region. She was moved and retracted from her emotional state and promised that a proper pucca road will be built connecting the village to the city. The best she could offer to the people struggling to keep themselves afloat against the flood.

She can perhaps learn something from people of her constituency. Not to lose confidence and try to stay afloat as long as possible.

The photograph beneath shows a barly clothes man making his way through the floods carrying his livelihood on his shoulders.

Flying on the dusk or Landing into the dawn

Last few month newspapers were flooded with the news of poorly managed Air India and questioned everything for the existence of airports, airplanes, Air India, Indian Airline, the merger, the airline industry globally and in India, the low cost model, full service carrier, babudom, Naresh Goyal, Vijay Mallya, pilots, stewards, airhostesses, the tax structure, regulatory structure, fare structure, running of airline.

Why the airline industry is in such a bad shape? We cannot blame the Indian carriers for this, globally it has been the case of airline industry. Except for Virgin Airlines, which has been profitable since its inception barring post 9/11 period. But can anybody figure out the elimination of airplanes from our lives. The world is trying to assimilate across geographies because of information, communication and logistics. Logistics is featuring because of the airline industry. Why Government’s globally are not trying to focus their attention on airline industry is a question unto itself?

Pilots, one of the elitist lots of the industry have formed an association and guild to protect their interests because of the wavering health of the giant airline companies. They have grounded their demands and doomed the airline company on 8th September 2009. This is seriously a terrorism as Mr. Naresh Goyal puts it. Although he is one of the most cunning and shrewd businessman in India, who pocketed (in his personal accounts) all the proceeds of the IPO and that too legally. Two colleagues are fired and we go on strike. Oops, its not strike but it’s a mass leave. Although if we dig into the story and then the tide may turn on the other side. I don’t why, but Mr, Naresh Goyal lands himself up in such precarious and teething issues. Earlier one fine day he gets up and fires 800 employees and then in 48 hours, he realizes he was wrong. Why because mother advised in dreams not to do so? Whose mother came to dreams to cover up on the bomb you have fired, only Allah can tell. Again the manner in which employees were fired was a recipe of disaster.

(Should he turn his back and then performing the gesture)

I don’t know, if you call that a good and smart business-man. Certain business decisions are required and are harsh and not everybody likes them. But then there’s a way to approach things. I am afraid, no mother or father came to Mr. Goyal’s dream to tell how to do things in a business. He can definitely author a book, “Seven Habits of Highly Successful Foolish People”.

Other airlines are also treading the same path. Our own sarkari airlines company needs to do few of such foolish things so as to not suck people’s money from Govt’s coffers. But then they say God exists, that is why India is healthy and growing.

Govt. is struggling to juggle and break the coterie of the Union of Indian Airlines. The Union has held hostage the company’s operations and coffers. Some of the employees have the highest level of salaries and perquisites paid by Govt. of India to any officer in any rank in its departments, ministries and even the chief executives of its Navratna.

(Govt. is representing the mascot of Air India by bowing to employees dacoity skills)

Reading the above piece, one feels that employees are the biggest concern of the airline companies in India. But that is not the case except for Indian Airlines, who employee per airplane is more than 500 compared to global standards of 200. But the industry’s concern is the tax structure applicable to the industry.

On August 18, the entire industry wanted to ground the airplanes for a day and the loss of the same to the economy and business would have been in few hundred crores. But luckily IndiGo pulled out of it and hence the attempt failed.

Should Govt wait for such act to be implemented to take further actions? Why is it that when we push ourselves and others to extreme we can expect some result?

A typical Delhi – Mumbai flight ticket structure is:
Fare breakup
Base fare Rs. 599 (18%)
Fuel surcharge Rs. 2,400 (71%)
Psgr. Svc. Fee Rs. 229 (7%)
Airport Dev. Fee Rs. 100 (3%)
Service tax Rs. 7
Service fee Rs. 30
Discount Rs. 4
Total Rs. 3,361

Base Fare is the money earned by the airline company.
Fuel Surcharge ideally should go to the petroleum company.
Airport Development Fee goes to the Airport Authorities of India (the owner of Airport).
Passenger Service Fee (for providing security) and few taxes left at the end land with the Govt. of India.

However indirectly a major chunk of the Fuel Surcharge goes to the Govt. via the petroleum companies.

The Govt. is trying different measures to keep Indian Airlines afloat. They are planning to inject Rs. 5,000 Crore of debt securities, equity securities to keep the airline afloat. Does it make sense to run an airline company by way of subsidies in the name of financial restructuring when we are not able to provide on-ground solutions for Indian junta? The urban class will say we pay taxes, Rs. 5,000 Crore is not a big deal against Rs. 60,000 Crore farm loan waiver, Rs. 30,000 Crore for NREGA and Rs. 10,000 for JNNURM.

A better idea that Govt. can look at – is not to expect any revenue from Aviation sector in India. It’s a huge subsidy burden that the Govt. is carrying on its shoulders. The cost of running and upkeep of airport infrastructure is huge and I am sure, the Govt. wouldn’t be recovering the operational costs for the same.

Add to the fact, the debtors that state oil companies (HP, BP, IOC) are carrying for ferrying passengers in the sky. Airline companies are supposed to pay the Fuel Surcharge to the Oil companies but the payments have been delayed in the past by over six months and oil companies carrying debtors to the tune of thousands of crores and had threatened Kingfisher in the past to pay or else the fuel supplies will be suspended. One can imagine the loot the airline companies are running on the exchequer. On the other side, the high taxes that Govt. has collected from aviation space will be shot as Oil bonds to petroleum companies and as restructuring for our very won Maharaja.

Does it make sense for Govt. to nip private airlines to keep Indian Airlines employees in happy spirit? The mess in the airline industry is in a way wrests on the high-headed Indian Airlines employees. The Govt. and the ministry needs to take the responsibility of the mess that they have created in the airline industry and Indian Airlines. The top management shake up, bottom management twirl up, top-down or down-top business model, no approach will work unless the attitude of the Indian Airlines employees goes through a massive shake-up. A stimulus package may be worked out for the industry in the interim phase till complete reform of the industry in terms of regulation and the working is defined. We should not be smoking bidis when we are talking about Cigars.

377: Is it about Legality or Societal issue?

The abolition of Article 377 in IPC was seen as the next step towards India’s modernisation in terms of culture and economic. Though we are a little late in adopting the latest sexual communities/taboos of the world but finally yes we are ready for it. I have a doubt, if the tradition of sati was still practiced in India then who will run to fire for whom. Do we really feel that a change in legal constraint has meant that they are liberated? Personally I don’t have anything against homosexuals/heterosexuals/bisexual/bestiality. It is a personal choice of every person. Besides they say Love knows no boundaries, no expressions. Its just a feeling. At times, I really wish to feel such kind of feeling from a guy. But sorry, females are very lovely creatures, I don’t wish to ditch them.

Our Constitution says all men and women are equal, irrespective of their name, sex, caste, colour, creed, etc. The reason for introduction of this Fundamental Right was to eliminate the differences prevalent in Indian society against women. But this is probably the first time, men were asking for their right in India. Lesbian was/is less vulnerable than gay. The expressions of feelings and love in gayhood were/are illegal.

At times, I feel Indian society is more open than westerners. If two men are going arm in arm in streets, nobody in India would look at them with suspicion. But in western world, it is symbolic for the liberation of lovers from the same sex. One of my friends, who visited Australia around 2000 had put an arm around his friends’ shoulder. His friend shouted and instructed him to walk five feet from him. They were not gays’. My friend was not able to interpret him at that time. As the saying goes, Ignorance is Bliss.

Nobody in India has really big concerns about being homosexual. There are many who don’t understand it. One of my colleagues was extremely flustered at the abolition of Article 377 and said, they should not be allowed to be in open. They should remain in their closet. But he forget that you cannot hide your identity in your closet. Similarly they also wish to be recognized as normal people but have tendency and likeness to love the person of same sex.

We have August Kranti Parade on 16th August for gay pride and acceptability of their culture. The only issue in India is that men are very frustrated. I know a lot of my friends aged 20 to 25, who have never touched a female or felt a female. They wish too, but they are not able too and there are too many if’s and but’s for no reason. They are not ready to play with prostitutes. Given their mindset and conditions, they have more tendencies to become gay (if provoked) out of frustration.

I would like to know the reasons for people opposing against the rules of the game. The Jagao and Sulayo Organizations are always motivated by the some regional, state and central political parties/organizations.

We need not change the mindset of the people opposing to homosexuals. We need a complete overhaul of the system. In 1947, Hindustan revolted against British. So many stories and theories exist of liberation, separation and freedom for a country, be it America even. But the societal boundaries that are creeping up in our system, I really wonder who is going to rescue us from the same.

Still there is light at the end of the tunnel, there are people like this woman who are trying to do something different for the society than revolting to change legal guidelines on how to love and make love.


A website for transwomen.

After numerous matrimonial websites, here comes a marriage portal for transwomen (transgenders who have successfully undergone sex reassignment surgery - SRS). The website http://www.thirunangai.net was recently launched by Sahodari Foundation of Chennai.

Sahodari Foundation is founded and headed by Kalki Subramanian, who recently underwent SRS. The idea came about when many transwomen friends of Kalki tried to put up their profiles in popular matrimonial websites. The portals promptly threw out the profiles. The portals were not comfortable with the gender orientation of the applicant that clearly stated that the applicant had "successfully become a woman through surgery".

This prompted Kalki to launch an exclusive site for transwoman.
The website has been launched to find a perfect, trustworthy husband who will treat the transwoman with love, affection care and above all treat the transwoman with dignity, equality as well as respect. The site also encourages couples to have a family through adoption with the total support of the husband.