He is just walking across the field. Ambling across as if he were there with no purpose or cause. He looks unconcerned with the rest of the people around him. He looks to be in serenity with the environment. As if he belongs there and no where else on the world. Suddenly a whistle blows and he starts running. He sprints towards the corner of the field, looking up to see if there is any one else around him. There is a huge guy almost 6 feet tall lurking around, making slow but sure steps towards him. Suddenly he shouts “here, here, I am free, Right flank”. Slowly soaring above all the bodies on the field the ball comes towards him, His eyes light up like a little kid opening up his Christmas presents, the big burly defender is now moving quickly towards him. The kid puts out his foot and cradles the ball over his heel. The defender charges, He grace fully lobs the ball in the air, the defender is caught unawares, now too quick to change his direction and his momentum carries him over the line the kid successfully beats his man. The ball now quietly lands between his feet; he looks up with intent towards the goal. He sizes up his opposition looking for a crack in the wall, like a lion keenly observing a pack of gazelles looking for the slowest one. He finds his gazelle; He slowly nudges the ball from one foot to another and starts putting long strides He approaches the diminutive but rotund defender, who looks at him with a sense of determination. The kid flicks the ball to his right the defender sees the ball and shows intention to move towards it but the kid fades to the left and the defender is confused not knowing where to go, he attacks the kid but alas he is too quick, he circumnavigates the defender and collects the ball right behind the defender’s back who tries to turn around and trips. There is a loud murmur across the field, the goal keeper howling “fall back fall back, Right Flank attack”. The kid tells himself “two down, one to go”, as the whole battalion charges towards him he moves gracefully unimpeded towards the goal. Now it’s only the goal keeper and him, he nudges the ball forward and lines up a shot; the goal keeper senses his opportunity and dives towards the ball. The kid smiles, slowly brings down his boot onto the ball and pulls it back, the goalie dives and bites the dust .The kid triumphantly manages to get a smirk on his face and to the horror of eleven people on the field and many more around it, wraps his boot right at the bottom of the ball just above the ground and chips it. The ball slowly elevates rising above the flattened keeper, His eyes now as big as melons and watch the ball gently land between the dreaded caresses of the net .The keeper cups his face with his palms, unable to face the world and his team mates. The rotund defender kicks the goal post in anger, and then screams in agonies of pain, the big burly defender gets down on his knees and rests his face on his elbows. The kid nonchalantly walks towards the net and picks up the ball, as he turns around there is a huge huddle forming around him. Ten men almost twice his age lower their heads in respect and the kid smiles and for the first time in his life he feels elation, and he spends his days now in pursuit of getting the same feeling.
It is not every day that a ten year old kid scores a goal in a school match; it is even rarer that he does it within the first minute of the start of play. It’s astounding that he went past three men with the grace of the wind, ruffling them but staying serene himself. But the greatest virtue is he has the poise of an elder and he has been scoring goals like this for over a year now.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
resurrection
Human emotions ebb in times of sorrow
Troubled by the worrying images of tomorrow
Feeling the fear of the worst
With nothing left to trust
God forsaken men at arms
Ruining Mother Nature’s charms
How can I see beyond this dream
The life of these men makes me scream
Caught in the web of freedom
Not knowing what is meant by treason
I lay buried as a slave
Like I were in my grave
Not knowing the outside but burning within
Free me from this illusion
Let us rise from this seclusion
Fight the war of words and thoughts
Stop this world as it rots
Hold hand in hand
And together we stand
To kill the beast within and among us
To free ourselves from this inevitable curse.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
The Reason for the recession
All of us know that the US recession was caused by the housing bubble . But have you ever wondered why the housing bubble burst. The reason behind the justification given by numerous analysts and pundits was not enough to satiate my curiosity and here is the result of some extensive research I have been able to gather over the past two months.
September 11,2001 was a sad day for the whole world . But is it possible that the terrorist strikes had a far more telling impact than the attacks on Afghanistan. Was the US government beaten at its own game of economics . Did the government cause the down fall of the world economy and not the investment banks?
Source :Freddi Mac website.
As can be seen from the graph the mortgage rates are relatively constant from 1994 to 2000 at 8% and the volumes of houses are also constant at around 800,000 . From 2000 to 2005 the rates fell from 8.06% to 5.81 % with a sharp fall from 2001 to 2003 .The volumes increased from 877,000 to 1,283,000 from 2000 to 2005.
Here is untenable proof as far as I am concerned.
The US mortgage loan rates pretty constant in the 1990 .
Come 2001 the rates start decreasing .
The volumes of houses being sold starts increasing .
But how are these linked to the Sep 11 events ??
This is how. The US was in a state of panic right after 2001 . The government was scared that people might start losing faith in the government unless some positive steps were taken and pretty fast . The mortgage rates were lowered. This enticed customers to go in for houses . Once a person owns a house he has a sense of security and attachment. The US was trying to win back the peoples' faith .The house is the best place for a person to feel security and the amount of self composure gained by a family when it owns a house is immense, hence this ploy was used. The mortgage rates were lowered and more and more loans were doled out . In the same vein even people with poor credit ratings were given loans to get back the sense of security . The government could not foresee that this step could cause any sort of problem which it eventually did.
As the house sales started increasing a snowball effect took control of the market and it was not kept under check . This prompted the prices to sky rocket and the people bought the houses in a frenzy expecting that the property would appreciate as it had done so. But as the market saturated and the demand for the houses decreased the prices started dropping. All the properties which were sold among the 3-27 and 2-28 mortgage schemes started defaulting from 2006-07 onwards and by 2008 the totality of the judgment error by the govt was for all to see.
The US government tried to play on the psychology of its citizens . But it forgot that in a market driven economy the price is all that matters and when prices are controlled but only partially it can lead to disastrous effects . The blame might be on the banks and the rating companies . But probably the reason lies far higher.Market economics should be tinkered with utmost caution lest it would ravage the world as badly as the tsunami did.
September 11,2001 was a sad day for the whole world . But is it possible that the terrorist strikes had a far more telling impact than the attacks on Afghanistan. Was the US government beaten at its own game of economics . Did the government cause the down fall of the world economy and not the investment banks?
Source :Freddi Mac website.As can be seen from the graph the mortgage rates are relatively constant from 1994 to 2000 at 8% and the volumes of houses are also constant at around 800,000 . From 2000 to 2005 the rates fell from 8.06% to 5.81 % with a sharp fall from 2001 to 2003 .The volumes increased from 877,000 to 1,283,000 from 2000 to 2005.
Here is untenable proof as far as I am concerned.
The US mortgage loan rates pretty constant in the 1990 .
Come 2001 the rates start decreasing .
The volumes of houses being sold starts increasing .
But how are these linked to the Sep 11 events ??
This is how. The US was in a state of panic right after 2001 . The government was scared that people might start losing faith in the government unless some positive steps were taken and pretty fast . The mortgage rates were lowered. This enticed customers to go in for houses . Once a person owns a house he has a sense of security and attachment. The US was trying to win back the peoples' faith .The house is the best place for a person to feel security and the amount of self composure gained by a family when it owns a house is immense, hence this ploy was used. The mortgage rates were lowered and more and more loans were doled out . In the same vein even people with poor credit ratings were given loans to get back the sense of security . The government could not foresee that this step could cause any sort of problem which it eventually did.
As the house sales started increasing a snowball effect took control of the market and it was not kept under check . This prompted the prices to sky rocket and the people bought the houses in a frenzy expecting that the property would appreciate as it had done so. But as the market saturated and the demand for the houses decreased the prices started dropping. All the properties which were sold among the 3-27 and 2-28 mortgage schemes started defaulting from 2006-07 onwards and by 2008 the totality of the judgment error by the govt was for all to see.
The US government tried to play on the psychology of its citizens . But it forgot that in a market driven economy the price is all that matters and when prices are controlled but only partially it can lead to disastrous effects . The blame might be on the banks and the rating companies . But probably the reason lies far higher.Market economics should be tinkered with utmost caution lest it would ravage the world as badly as the tsunami did.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Inadvertising 2
Inadvertising 2
Case study 1 : Dev D
Dev D a good film considering its target audience and what made it extremely popular was a song which was not related to the movie. An X rated version of the song Emotional Atyachar which appealed to almost the whole of the target audience , which largely consisted of people for the age group of 18-30 . This age group was able to relate to the song very strongly . The song was posted on the internet and it was passed from one email inbox to another like fire and the movie received so much publicity which was unthinkable with the usage of conventional mechanisms. Some people actually thought that the song was actually a part of the movie. The most important thing being when people actually went to the cinema halls they were not disappointed with the movie hence sustaining the inadvertising created around it.
Case study 1 : Dev D
Dev D a good film considering its target audience and what made it extremely popular was a song which was not related to the movie. An X rated version of the song Emotional Atyachar which appealed to almost the whole of the target audience , which largely consisted of people for the age group of 18-30 . This age group was able to relate to the song very strongly . The song was posted on the internet and it was passed from one email inbox to another like fire and the movie received so much publicity which was unthinkable with the usage of conventional mechanisms. Some people actually thought that the song was actually a part of the movie. The most important thing being when people actually went to the cinema halls they were not disappointed with the movie hence sustaining the inadvertising created around it.
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