The great Indian Cocktail

VIJAY MALLYA ,the King of GOOD TIMES is in SOUP for reasons best known to him The beautiful flying KINGFISHER of KINGFISHER AIRLINES has been bottled and the bottleneck may not give way for the airline to fly freely in the skies in the near future. He is really  a flamboyant person and a glob trotter. One cannot doubt his ability or vision .I fact he has both but what went wrong ?  But , beautiful and very colourful KINGFISHER on the millions of BEER bottles fly around the world giving joy and happiness to millions of people. Our small state KERALA also contributes much to the energy of the Kingfisher that fly all over the state..Mallya has a faithful following for his KINGFISHER BEER  all over the country and globally. KINGFISHER is dead ,long live KINGFISHER(remember the ENGLISH SAYING “THE KING IS DEAD ,LONG LIVE THE KING”). All big banks are after the ELUSIVE KINGFISHER to reclaim their money ( nearly 7500 crores) which they had given as loan to the airlines .Finally the money may end up in the balance sheet of BANKS as NPA(non-performing ..assets). But can one blame Mallya alone for this debacle, one is not sure ? No one can predict anything . There are a few more metallic BIRDS which fly in our skies but all of them are sick with a  terrible disease called CASHCRUNCH for which treatment is very costly even for a billionaire like Vijay. He may bounce back again because he has a knack of making comebacks from dire situations. Captain Gopinath( who has vision but lacks ,perhaps business sense! ) ,who was the pioneer in low cost airlines in INDIA sold it to Mallya and started a air CARGO company but , according to the latest reports his company is in trouble .what really ails these airline companies is still a million dollar question.

The latest entry of AIR ASIA the Malaysian and Indian collaborative venture headed by the great Sri. Ratan Tata ,who is really passionate about airline industry and his entry into this suffering sector might make a positive impact in this industry .In fact he was denied an opportunity to start one airline due to complete lack of cooperation from the Government at that time .he refused to succumb to pressures because he and the TATA group has excellent values to be preserved at any cost.

 Indian CORPORATE world has many billionaires and the world press , the Indian press and electronic media  are never tired of giving out their names in their regular bulletins as if the news about the billionaires in THIRD WORLD countries will bring CHEER to the faces of crores of HAVE-NOT’S wallowing in poverty and suffering. The list gets longer every quarter and the INDIAN NEWSPAPERS and magazines spend reams of paper writing on them as if their WEALTH BULLETTIN will bring happiness health to the hapless millions .The media counts the money these people make as they count the RUNS in  an important CRICKET match in which INDIA plays PAKISTAN .

But our media , fortunately ,had an occasion in the last few days to write about a real legend ,SACHIN TENDULKAR and they made a real count of the RUNS SACHIN had made to create a never –to –be –broken record of 100 for 100 .This figure is means something great to all INDIANS and all of us feel proud to be here see the great man achieving a feat for which we have been anxiously waiting for. He is a role model for all youngsters to excel in what they do and the impact that his record has made is million times more than the WEALTH BULLETTIN of AMBANIS’ ,MITTALS’ JINDALS’ or any corporate honchos ,for that matter. Sachin has an impeccable personal and professional life and is an embodiment of  confidence and integrity and he could be called a real KING who is never intoxicated by his great records and success. The whole nation celebrates his success and the people of INDIA can be really inspired by people like him. He has been through the  THICK AND THIN of CRICKET but remain level headed in GOOD TIMES AND BAD TIMES.

Greed is everywhere :in politics( huge money, sports( especially cricket),films, and very frequently stock market ( where none knows who gained and who lost ).Gambling and betting on anything and everything is the order of the day. Now there is  every possibility of betting on examinations, birth of a child, marriage and divorce ,and almost activities between birth and death ..including the both of the latter. But INDIA has an inherent strength and tolerance with which it she will be back to the future.

 The new young leader has taken over a state which is potentially rich but in reality poor and GOD alone knows what is in store for him. He was forced to break his promise of a clean government by appointing a person as Minister who has serious criminal background. His family is also well connected to the AMBANI group and politics and industry always has an unholy alliance in INDIAN democratic system the consequences of which is never known to the public .It is mostly very subtle and get exposed and explodes with huge mushroom of fire and smoke only to disappear in the near future in the very next more or less powerful explosion and  fire. We have a tremendous action packed drama everyday in all parts of the country and the actors hold their SCRIPT close to their chest and we , the spectators, are condemned to sit or stand and watch it helplessly. but our NATION has tremendous inherent strength to bear all these assaults and move forward .But it is very interesting to look at this drama where one can see HEROES, HEROINES ,VILLAINS,EUNECHS IN ALL FIELDS and it is quite intoxicating to see all good and bad ELEMENTS mixing together seamlessly like a COCKTAIL ( have your own meaning ,please).All scenes enacted in all the fields contribute towards the making of our country ‘s future WHICH IS NOT AT ALL THAT DARK . The present GENERATION has more awareness and they are quite capable of appreciating the COCKTAIL while remaining sensible.( the word COCKTAIL HAS NO LITERAL MEANING HERE , ONLY FIGURATIVE OR SYMBOLIC).According to the first non-white editor of INDEPENDENT the national newspaper of BRITAIN Mr. AMOL RAJAN ( who is an avid cricket fan ) who took charge recently “INDIA WILL RULE THE WORLKD IN THE NEXT 100 YEARS. A very encouraging observation, indeed. Another very successful INDIAN about whom we can be proud of his tremendous achievement in journalism in a foreign country..Britain..