A Flint for Detroit in the Waiting!!!

General Motors is out of cash. The so called experts who could not even smell the financial meltdown are claiming liquidation is inevitable for the giant automaker. The domino is waiting to cascade its effects in terms of millions of jobs to be swamped away. While the warehouses will become the haunted places for the ghosts of the subprime, the torching of the blast furnaces will probably end. The green guys will hardly find places to stack up their rebel green flags.

Michael Mooray in 1989 had made a documentary Roger & Me which had depicted the aftershocks of the plant closures by GM in Flint , Michigan. The move to close the several plants out there had 30k jobcuts and that is enough a blow to devastate the city economically. Mooray had a reason to grin as GM was making good profits then. After 2 decades the whole Detroit is waiting for the Flint stunt.

A government bailout is believed to provide wheels to the automaker amidst fears of creating a hue and cry as people bitten or unbitten by subprime will queue up for share of the pie.

While GM will be probably sailed through the turbulence ,I am anxious to find what happens to my chevy after GM’s death.

Oh Old is Bryan !!

It was a long cherished dream to attend a Bryan Adams Live Show. First time I got a chance was in 2004 when Bryan Adams was in Delhi on 7th February. It was in the financial year when we had to ponder over a 10 rupee or a 9 rupee lunch everyday. But courageously we had planned the trip to Delhi to attend the show before it was marred by some Don. Well it was this name so far I remember who had got the CAT out of the bag in November 2003.Interestingly CAT was rescheduled on 15th February and eventually we had to stay satisfied with our mp3 on high volume concert that we had organized on the cancelled CAT day November 23, 2003. Summer of 69 definitely binds us with the nostalgia of summer of 99 when we left our homes and probably never met our friends together after that.

However life gave another chance to get back to the rocks at Trent bridge Nottingham. But alas I could not find a company to the show!!!!!! Asides, To be frank I was scared of going alone as I would be dwarfed by the sixfootiya stoned firangs. And finally I had a justification that Bryan is 49 years old and it was too late to attend his concert and switched for a diwali function at an Indian Center on that day.

Guess what? Diwali was amazing with concerts comprising Ashiqui songs of 90s and later the DJ rocks with the only chun-geh punjubi songs. I was looked down upon as everyone should know how to dance, so I picked up an Eos 350D to take the center-stage profession for the official photographer of the happy wala diwali evening. This had earned me some good snaps of the beautiful ladies jumping around, me me me …. this was Diwali 2008 instead of Adams concert.I had earlier in the day bought this Motorola Bluetooth headset for the 5 or 6 songs I have in my Xpressmuzic but that too could not get me into hopping. 12 am in the morning, I attain Nirvana , DID I DUMP ADAMS SHOW saying he is OLD??? Oh yeah now I realize it was me preemptively jumping into the 30+ age arena.

Nothing can last for ever that’s why I am no more 18 till I die. Having said that, One day like Today I will be there in the next Adams show in India with my friends.

Waitlist Confirmed!

It was a long wait but still missed the moment. I was since then waiting at the platform when even it was not there. The dream came true but I was not there. Now I find I was not alone in the dream.




05 Oct- Agartala gets the first Rail. The above pic is for the arrival of the engine on 29 jun 2008.