Dedications

I am an IT marketer, and by the grace of God a modestly successful one, and did hope to have the stamp of Infosys one day on my CV. The desire to have Infosys as a part of my credentials was not because of the Billion Dollar Empire you have made but the quality of human being I mistook you to be. The lofty ideals of values, social responsibility, grooming of the next level of leaders, etc, is something that every other successful business man preaches.

The problem in India is anyone who is successful, everything about the person gets glorified, and magnified. To the extent their past which could be as boring or exciting as any other ordinary human being gets to be made to feel as if it is great material for a Hollywood script. The point is yes they have made money, built a great business, but that does not qualify for every aspect of their life being made some great shake. Your wife will pompously glorify how in the courting years she used to spend on you, and you were always broke, so? What’s the big deal, there are still loads of women who spent on their men, and just that their men could not make it later life to be billionaires, does not make their past less colorful. Maybe many may have ended with someone good looking if not rich.

You land in a jail in some foreign country and that is made out like you were some freedom fighter for India caught in some foreign land. Why this entire glorification? A recent article have commenting of how Indians should not look at IT as a profession to migrate to the US. How freaking double standard could you get? Makes your millions from the US and you have a problem with Indians who go to US and pursue their dreams. Quote Unquote "Somehow our youngsters have all assumed the idea of joining this industry is to go to US, get there, get an H1B, convert it into green card and settle down there. I think it is a wrong solution, a wrong strategy," If US decides to stop outsourcing it is protectionist business practice, if they decide to hike up visa fees it is bad, and if an Indian wants to go to US to make his fortune is also wrong. It is wrong because it affects your business.

Mr. Murthy if your kids have been sent to US for their education, it is good, but how is it bad when an Indian goes there to work. Does India not have quality institutes of education? Had it not been your millions do you really feel your son would have been even considered by the millionaire’s daughter he is engaged too? If your son spends hours in a forging factory in some island in the Americas to make a ring for his engagement, that is great news. Don’t we have good jewellery forging here in India? Mr. Murthy many have a desire to have their daughters when they reache a marriageable age, to get her married into a good and financially well off family, and for that they may have to go to US or Timbaktoo to make their fortune, and that is definitely not possible with an employment in Infoshit………….sorry typo error I mean Infosys.

One of your remarks goes “There was no need to increase their salaries by 50 times to ensure this. But their lives could be made easier by providing schools, making sure that power condition and commuting is reasonably all right, this is being done by many countries in the world. This is nothing new. This is not rocket science," How freaking selfish Mr. Murthy? Do you reduce your billing on business? No way? The aim is to get the maximum dollar, but if an Indian wants to earn more dollars he is preached on how to stay back in India as it offers larger growth than anywhere in the world. How come Mr. Murthy then all mega bucks is from the US and not from India. I guess that is pocket science, pocket the maximum. If you were so keen to help in building India’s infrastructure how come you walked away from the Bangalore Airport Development Planning. It is because it involved the dirty, murky, and the filth of corrupt politicians. Why did you not stay back and fight and help in Infrastructure building? Same too applies to the millions who go to America to realise their dreams, that they cannot fight or improve the system in India.

When asked how it would be if you were proposed for the President’s post, your response was "In a parliamentary democracy like India, President is a ceremonial post. That is the reality." So too Mr. Murthy all your ideals preached to youngsters are ceremonial paraphernalia of verbosity and in reality they find it to be a whole load of bull.

Regards,
Sunny Fernandes

I hate him; his idiotic crappy gimmickry on screen on how to light a cigarette or wear glasses, etc, etc, and the etc. could stretch never ending, as anything he did was cheap and stupid to me. Then coming to his looks, he looked what he was best at, a conductor where he started his career. To make it worse a pet name called Rajni which sounded feminine to me. With all this and his success in the recent past has only confirmed one thing to me, that I was the jackass whose exposure to movies was a frog in the well called Bollywood and could only differentiate between chocolate faced frogs of the Hindi film Industry like the Khans or the Kapoors or someone really frog faced like Sanjay Dutt or ass faced idiots like the Bacchans, this does not include Ash, as she looks hot, but then she is more a mannequin and least an actress.

I had the good fortune to visit Chennai on a couple of occasions and have made some very good friends down there. It was through them I had my eyes opened to experience the phenomena called Rajni. Ecstasy and wild bouts of hysteria from the audience when he comes on the screen, which I passed off as cheap mannerism of the low class, was completely universal and sometimes I felt the opposite, where my friends the educated with great jobs, whistling away when he did something whacky or delivered a trade mark dialogue associated with the film. The euphoria was so contagious that someone like me could sense my senses automatically revved up and clapping when he would beat the goons, or burst into a dance for a song. Any amount of intellect to dissect this phenomenon would result in a further mystery to be solved. How on earth would one even wildly explain that the awe for Rajni, was as farfetched in Japan? I can understand a country with Indian Diaspora, but this was with the Japanese. So even if the whole of Tamil Nadu could be labeled as insane, does that hold good for Japan?

It was when I got to know of his raw and rough beginnings from a bus conductor to the Super Star Rajni, my respect for the man grew in leaps, and leapt higher than the leaps and bounds he does on screen. A man with a meandering and philandering lifestyle which is not closeted like the Bollywood loonies. A man bald and haggard, but can beat any cine star in charisma on screen and off screen. He does not camouflage his looks with hair weaving, surgery, make up, etc. A man whose movies need no cheap publicity for promotions. A man whose personal life could have its shades of grey but did not be a nuisance to society like killing endangered species, killing innocents with rash driving or linked with the underworld, etc.

A man whose movies I used to shrug off with dismay, now watch it with awe. A man’s simplicity which dwarfs fake humility attempted by anyone in the film fraternity of India, a man who does not endorse a product, to be recognized or for fame, a man who does needs designer clothing to prove he has arrived, because when he comes with his simple and traditional clothing he can have many depart, a man who does not lick up to politicians and government, but on the contrary a two minute speech of his on TV could bring a politician and her government on their knees. When the rest have nothing left in their acting careers, shift to politics, and lie to improve society, here is a man who only improvises with every movie and does not need politics or politicians for his survival.

When the rest can be so robotic in their acting skills, he can make a Robot act.

We search space with the hope of finding life, when we cannot respect life on earth.

We search for water source in space with a hope to sustain life, and here we pollute water sources and kill marine life.

We think of journeys of light years into space and we cannot light up homes of many in the world

We believe in doing our best and God doing the rest, in reality we rest and want God to do the best for us

We are concerned of global warming and not realizing we are addressing it with cold hearts, and selfish interests above it

We host major events in the sporting arena, when there is no more sportsmanship, and on the motto of sports of faster, higher, stronger we added to it cheater.

We have leaders who have vision for 2020 and in reality are involved with organizing or involved with 2020 cricket

We claim to be the oldest civilization in the world, and in reality least civilized

We use the terminology mankind, but when was man kind

We use the terminology with friends, acquaintances ‘we are like family’ to show or convince trust and bonding and in real families there is none of it.

If smoking kills why not stop manufacturing cigarettes

We have records for the largest cake, burger, and other food preparation, but no records to feed the largest number of hungry people

We compete for the highest structure of buildings, and still have high amount of homeless people

We have cloned animals and can even clone human beings but we still cannot be human

Innumerable stories of animals surrogating babies of other species and childless couples will do anything to get a baby, when millions of babies are orphaned.