UPDATE

For an updated list of bookstores in India, where my book Stories of Love and Beauty is available for sale, visit my blog dated 19 July, 2010, on this blog site.

Those interested to have a look at the outlines of the 64 short stories published in this book may visit my blog dated 30 April, 2010, on this blog site.

WELCOME MR BARACK OBAMA

Welcome Mr. Barack Obama,

As an American, who dared to reach a prestigious position in the USA through hard work, intelligence, honesty and constant struggle to achieve a better tomorrow.

As the first African American President, with many dreams and vision to develop the USA, admiring Mahatma Gandhi as a person, but thinking and acting like a typical American President in devising strategies and policies minding your nation.

As a great person at individual level, who dreams to see a healthy, prosperous and peaceful world always.

As a different and admirable President of the USA from any other President that ruled that land of dreams over the decades.

I see a humanitarian, thinker, dreamer and challenger in you as a person representing the true spirit of the United States of America.

I see a businessman, patriot, strategist and visionary in you in your position as the President of the USA, struggling always to safeguard and sustain the interests and development of your land.

I admire you because you are working for your people as a true American, which the leaders of many other nations in this world failed to do over the decades like you.

There are some drawbacks and demerits associated with you as the President of the USA but which leader in this world could ever think and act like a dreamer and idealist completely, after assuming, and while carrying out his or her responsibilities as the head of a nation.

Ruling others powerfully means killing half of your idealism and stand as a great person. I can understand it.

I admire the people of the USA because they are more honest, frank and reliable than my Indians here in India.

I admire the places of the USA because they possess beauty, quality, reliability, diversity and perfect order everywhere.

Today, the United States of America means a land of opportunities and charm for outsiders but an abode of disappointment and despair for natives. Protect your interests as an American because it is your primary moral responsibility.

Never think or fear that India develops and surpasses other nations in the race of prosperity and peace because essentially Indians are blind loyalists and admirers of fools and criminals, and great escapists and dullards as individuals and professionals.

Be more careful with China and Pakistan than any other nation in this world because they attack you when you are sleeping or playing in some park carelessly. We experienced such nasty tricks from them over the last six decades. So, listen to my words of caution resulting from experience and vision!

Learn to achieve development and peace in your nation, planning and struggling to see the same kind of environment in every other nation also dealing or not dealing with you directly or indirectly today because you are part of a bigger world and Americans cannot live happily when others are suffering somewhere, silently or violently.

India is good at inviting and honoring a few attractive outsiders than caring and working for millions of helpless and hopeless Indians in it. So, you will be treated very well over here because we Indians have been good for centuries in this art only, unfortunately!

I love you as a great person. Try to create and sustain such beings in your nation and other parts of the world as well because we may die one day as persons and professionals but this world continues to exist and thrive for long in the same order of mystery, beauty and diversity as defined and scheduled by God.

We are all creatures of God.

Let’s all love and encourage good people and struggle to build up a happy and prosperous world investing our goodness, honesty, reliability and vision rather than our selfishness, strategy and cruelty!

My best wishes and greetings to everybody living in the USA today under your kind and visionary guidance.

Mr. President, once again, my hearty welcome to all of you guests into our beautiful and generous land of challenges.

LETTER TO HATHWAY

Hello,

I took this 2GB/2 Month connection from your service sometime around February 2010. You must provide me with 1MB/SEC Internet access for this plan. I am paying 670 rupees for it for two-month duration.

After installation, you never provided me with 1MB/SEC speed of Internet access as promised.

There was no Internet access at all for days together in between. I had to call up your executives at Somajiguda and complain to them. They say that it would be resolved but it does not get resolved. I felt very disgusted with your inefficient services.

I am a writer. I daily edit a lot of content on my computer. I need speedy and uninterrupted Internet access to my computer when I am doing it.

I lost much money and time because of your inefficient services to me going against the promises you made to me when I was taking your connection.

I want to file a lawsuit against your service in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh and see that your service is banned in this place because others should not be tortured like me hereafter in this area.

If I call one executive at your customer service center, he or she says something and when I call somebody else there when that issue is not resolved, they say something else. Your service providers have turned me into a dog on street which barks at others just like that.

Thus, you have insulted me as a citizen of India and writer providing me with worst services.

You never kept the promise of providing me with 1MB/SEC Internet access after I took this connection. It means gross negligence and carelessness towards me for all these months. When you are torturing people like this, you deserve legal punishment.

Since I am not a criminal and because I should not blast your offices anywhere, I decided to approach High Court to settle matters with you.

If you think what I wrote to you is not correct and justifiable, one of your senior executives must meet me at the earliest along with proofs showing that whatever I wrote above is wrong and that I just wrote nonsense in this online complaint letter.

I would talk with him or her and see if this issue can be settled through negotiation. Otherwise, I will do everything possible to defame your service and image in this nation.

I need your reply at the earliest because I am not here to wait for your responses for days together as it happened earlier in relation to the kinds of service you provided me.

Read a little content on my blog at http://virahini.blogspot.com to assess me a little before contacting me.

To conclude, Hathway Internet connection means a hell created by a bunch of lunatics to serve another batch of mad creatures like me. Prove that this statement is wrong meeting me with proofs whereby you show what kind of services you provided me for all these months.

I am not an ordinary citizen of India. You will understand it when you deal with me in this regard.

All the best for your services in India!

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The folks of Hathway played with me like anything for about eight months. I bore with them more than necessary. This afternoon I sent this letter to them using the online complaint form on their corporate website. Internet service providers grew up like stray dogs and pigs on every street in India today. Since I am a healthy dog, with muscle and capacity to tackle mischievous and unethical dogs in my familiarity or knowledge, I started barking at these public dogs this way.

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ARUNDHATI ROY-KASHMIR ISSUE

Recently Arundhati Roy made controversial comments about Jammu & Kashmir. She stated that this part does not belong to India at all. It is a vague and unnecessary comment about this issue now.

Central government did not do anything against her. I appreciate it. Arundhati is an intelligent, creative, ideal and visionary creature of India. We need not take any action against such people of India even if they talk in a controversial manner now and then. She has liberty to talk or write that way. In fact, she is allowing us to think about this issue deeply.

Vallabhbhai Patel, the Iron Man of India, unified many fragments and blessed this image to India as an entity of unity in diversity years ago. Kashmir region also became an integral part of India this way soon after independence to India from the British. It means India is a complex of many cultures and races then, now and it continues forever. It is the desire of 90% of Indians to see Kashmir as part of India forever. Every ruler in this nation has to consider this issue from this perspective only because we love and need this diversity in India just like that.

I agree with Arundhati’s viewpoint that the presence of many defense forces in Kashmir region is affecting the lives of those natives very badly. They want to live as freely as other citizens of this nation in Bengaluru, Mumbai or Kolkata.

Government of India can withdraw forces from Kashmir only when Pakistan stops exporting militants into this region, day and night. Any group or person in this nation, who desire/s liberty and happiness to all those natives living in Kashmir region, should address and resolve this issue of militancy first.

If there are no infiltration and terrorism in Kashmir, our defense forces can live happily in other parts of India like we are living in our comfortable houses.

We are spending billions of rupees for defense every year because we cannot trust Pakistan or China. We cannot leave Kashmir to Pakistan because it is similar to the death of our nation as a liberal and secular democracy where all races and faiths can exist harmoniously as per established law. Kashmir is the head of India. We want it and will retain it as long as we live as Indians in this nation.

I am not happy with the narrow-minded views of Arundhati Roy in this particular matter though I admire her other aspects of life and pursuits in this nation.

However, I appreciate her remark that many are talking about this issue sitting in offices and conference halls. We must check the roots and developments of issues here, walking across these places, and spending with them for long.

Kashmir issue would be automatically resolved when we can block every possible and imaginable entry and exit point of terrorists into and from this nation. Then, if some of our people turn into terrorists of this kind, we must shoot them on the spot.

We are spending crores for Kasab. I think it is better to send him back to Pakistan now. We cannot address this issue killing him or interrogating him for months together. It is a big issue. We should attend it that way. In case, those victimized by the bloody acts of these nasty creatures recently, desire to kill him, he must be hanged publicly.

What I observe today in India is that there are two kinds of villains among us; terrorists coming from other parts of world and those of us who are exploiting and disturbing us daily.

If we kill the corrupt and sinful Indians in every field, then virtuous people remain and rule this nation. Then every problem would be resolved quickly.