Pee for Petrol… simplified!

This is the simplified and Easy-Read version of Pee for Petrol. To read the descriptive original post click here. This has come from the views and suggestions expressed by most of you. So here’s the simplified version of PFP^TM.

This idea and innovation is copyright and trademark protected and is the exclusive property of Mr. Mario D'Cunha and Mr. Pramod Kamath. Any violations will be strictly taken into task.
© 2010 Pee for Petrol. All Rights reserved.

Bought a new bike? New car? Don’t have enough pocket money for fuel? Don’t you just hate shelling out money at petrol bunks? You can avoid that... but can you avoid going to the toilet? Haha... never rite! Hmmm... now what if every time you went to take a leak, you actually get fuel???!!! Confused?? Watch our promotional video:

 

 

At the rate we’re going today, all our petroleum deposits will last only for 42 years!! So is it really possible to preserve petrol for all our future generations?? No!!! Pee for Petrol is here to save the day! My friend and I tried to simulate this process in the laboratory for over five years, and after all that hardcore research we finally found THE MAGICAL REACTION... A reaction that uses the by-product of human metabolism, urine... colloquially called as “Pee” and converts it to Petrol. Hence, the technology Pee for Petrol (PFP™) was born!!! The petrol thus generated is a high octane, eco friendly, green petrol which works perfectly with all the existing petrol engines. The speed of conversion and creation of a resource which is exhaustible from an arguably inexhaustible resource is a revolutionary modern concept!

Watch the entire MUTHRA-PETRO Conversion process in the following video. Here’s how it works:

If you turn the Piss-ton to the right PFP™ is activated, else the toilet is for your crap. The Analyzer analyses the source liquid (your Pee). PFP™ loves diabetic users. More the sugar, more carbon thus more the petrol generated. The source liquid moves into the Pee-Buffer, where a minimum level is required for the PFP™ to work best. Upon reaching the level, the liquid is pumped into the reaction unit.

The first part of the reaction unit is the Fractional Distillation chamber where the source liquid is separated into fractions of urea, dissolved salts and water. The distilled proportions are mixed with a catalyst, Creatinine (a top-secret compound created by our research team during those 5 years of hard work) in the Mixture-Fixture. This mixture is then compressed to 400k Pascal in the Come-Press-Soon unit and sent to the next chamber.

This chamber is the revolutionary MUTHRA-PETRO CONVERSION CHAMBER where the actual magic happens. Lets see how these elements of your Pee give us Petrol:

• Some salts pass through the Semi-Permeable Double-Layered Osmotic membrane and some don’t.
• Urea has Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon and Hydrogen. Carbon and Hydrogen pass through the membrane.
• Oxygen in urea forms oxides with the non-permitted dissolved salts and the Creatinine catalyst. This is eliminated.
• A powerful beam of electricity is made to hit the nitrogen atoms, which decomposes it into Carbon and Hydrogen atoms. Atomic No. of Nitrogen (7) = Atomic No. of Carbon (6) + Atomic No. of Hydrogen (1)
  The Carbon and Hydrogen atoms thus formed are again permitted into the cooling unit through the membrane.

The cooled mixture is then filtered to remove any unwanted substances and then we obtain the readily usable, high octane and NATURAL Petrol. Hence, you have Pee’ed for Petrol! :-)

Advantages:

• People will drink more water to produce petrol, save money and drinking lots of water is very good for health.
• Heavy import burden of petroleum will stop and India will be a “self reliant”, powerful nation which will progress to be a developed country soon!
• Production of refined quality and natural fuel will bring down the pollution levels drastically.

Disadvantages:

• Requires power for heating and electricity (but that’s a household utility)
• Converts only a part of the source liquid to petrol and requires a minimum amount; Not a problem in joint families!!!

So go on people, leak out and save your money, save your health and save the earth! Remember… from now on... when Nature calls, Petrol falls!

This technology is the joint venture of my friend Pramod Kamath and myself. Pee for Petrol has won the first place for a at IIT Techfest, Bombay, Jan 2010  for the most innovative idea and also at Impulse 2010 (a State Level Technical Symposium, Karnataka). In both cases here, I’m not joking… trust me!!!

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“Saffron Terror” Hmmm…

The term “Hindu Terror” has been around for quite sometime now on news channels, media reports, newspapers etc. I’m writing this post following yesterday when the Indian Home Minister, Mr. P. Chidambaram publicly used the term “Saffron Terror”. It was sort of making the term “official” coming from a professional like him on a public platform. Being in a Hindu-dominated country this has already raised many eyebrows… or has it? Well here are some of my reflections on this issue:

• Why did the Home Minister use this term: Isn’t he scared that this may cause disturbance among the Hindu citizens of the country and the UPA may lose the Hindu vote? Now the BJP says that the UPA is politicizing this issue only for targeting the BJP and the RSS and thus unnecessarily insulting the holy “saffron” colour. Let’s assume that UPA is actually politicizing this! Do you think the HM, as eminent and experienced as he is, will be so dumb to do such a thing? Isn’t the Hindu voter more valuable to the UPA than pointing fingers at BJP and the RSS?
• How good or bad is the HM’s bold move: I admire and appreciate the boldness of the Home Minister for coming out in public and finally terming this ‘menace’ as it ‘can’ be called. All the public has anyways seen this issue with the tern “Hindu Terror” for quite sometime now, and NO-ONE had an objection to that! But when someone from the Government says it, should that be a big problem?
• National Awareness: I also admire the UPA government for the courage of going ahead and bringing this issue out in the public because it is a menace! This actually requires attention! The UPA government in its past 5 years had risked its chair twice centering around the Nuclear Deal and even recently during the potential Adjournment Motion in Parliament. I give it to the HM for stating the truth than just bothering about how the Hindu voter would respond.
• Are Hindus actually offended: I don’t think so! Even since the term “Hindu Terror” had been used, there were no media reports anywhere about the people’s hatred against the term and not even so for yesterday’s HM remarks. However, from interacting with my Hindu neighbours and friends, the average Hindu is sad that these certain elements are bringing a bad name to the beauty of Hinduism that glorifies a remarkable tradition since ages! I’m so proud of all my Hindu brothers that they don’t give a shit to these “in-house” terrorists and strongly consider them irreligious. Same goes to all the Muslims all over the world for completely disregarding filthy groups like the LeT, JuD, Taliban etc. as elements that can never be part of Islam, even though those groups have used the term “Jehad” by themselves.
• So then what is the problem: The Government is ok to use the term. The people are ok to use the term. Then who has the problem then? As of now, it’s the BJP. They are accusing the UPA for politicizing this issue and bringing a bad name to the Hindus of this country. But I’ve given an insight on this in my first point above. Is the BJP guilty that they are forced to making these comments? I think so… very much! Take the members of the RSS for example, or Bajrang Dal or Pramod Muthalik and his goons, working under the title of “Sri Ram” Sena. If the BJP is REALLY concerned of Hindu emotions, then they should go against people like these and the misuse of Lord Ram’s name in such petty groups! The BJP being in the Hindutva soup that they always are engrossed in, I think it’s the BJP that needs to worry about the Hindu voter, and that’s why THEY are politicizing this issue against the UPA than facing the reality of the situation.
• BJP the real terror: In a BJP dominated state like Karnataka, my city of Mangalore, for the first time in its history saw communal violence consecutively for the past three years. All these times it was either the “saffron people” against the Christians or the “saffron people” against the Muslims causing violence in the name of Lord Ram and Indian Culture! What was and what IS the BJP doing then and NOW???

Experts say that post Independence Indian Governments have ignored or have “taken it lightly” when it came to these rising terror groups for which we’re paying the price today! We have to compliment the Home Minister that he has taken this bold step to have taken a start to put an end to the emerging “Saffron Terror”. I appeal to all Indians of any religion to look at terror as “Terror” whether its Saffron, White or Green.

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Earth’s Gateway to Hell

In the middle of the Karakoum desert in Turkmenistan, close to a village called Darvaza (with no inhabitants) there is a crater of about 100 meters in diameter and more than 20 meters deep, known as the Darvaza Well… also called as The Hell’s Door!

Inside this well, fire has been burning for decades of years and seems never to die out! This is not a work of nature, but a result of Soviet mining prospection that started in the 50’s. In 1971, a drilling provoked the collapse of an underground cavity that revealed a hole or a gap and let out enormous quantities of poisonous gases.
The Soviets underestimated the dimensions of the cavity lit it on fire to burn the gases out! The fire which was expected to fade off within weeks has been burning uninterrupted since 1971!

Until now, no one knows when the fire will die off. Even though the Darvaza Well is in a far off place inaccessible to many, people still come there to witness this man-made-natural wonder! Sources say that you can stand a little away from the crater only for a few minutes because of the unbearable heat!

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Pakistan and Russia: Weird Behaviour!

Russia and Pakistan go along way in history with my country India… but on opposite ways. Russia is one of India’s Best Friends even though India has good ties with the US as well. Whereas Pakistan is the typical next door neighbor who is still fighting with us for a better share in the garden… Kashmir.

But these countries are pretty weird in their current existence. Pakistan was a democracy… it still is… but doesn’t seem so! Then Musharraf regime began, then the Emergency, and finally after everything cooled down somewhat, a government was going to come in place. But then again, its potential leader Benazir Bhutto was killed and they still haven’t progressed ANYWHERE in the case!!! Finally we saw an elected Pakistan Government which again many say is being rules by the Army, President Zardari got into many controversies, the Foreign Minister speaks in different tones every time!

Recently Pakistan snubbed India twice when India offered a small aid for the Pakistan flood victims. If you have read the news reports the JuD and LeT are also offering help to the flood victims and gaining their confidence. Now when all the countries, the UN and your next door neighbor is offering help (in whatever way!) why can’t you just ignore those non-reputed groups, if you can ignore India when they are trying to strike a chord?! Fine… at least after all the fuss from both sides, Pakistan finally accepted the meager $5mn. This makes me curl my forehead at Pakistan’s behaviour. They snub India, instigate violence in Kashmir, ban open and democratic web spaces like Facebook and YouTube, but they just can’t take ANY action against these terrorist groups. With 1/5^th of Pakistan getting washed away, have they learnt any lessons?

When it comes to Russia… yes, I’m glad that the people of Russia overturned communism almost two decades ago, but then again recently we saw even Russia banning YouTube for some “extremist” material shown. If there are some weeds growing in the garden, you can’t just chop off the entire garden?!! Both materials posted on YouTube in Pakistan and Russia are more against the establishment then to the people. The people are hurt of course, but it is the same people who don’t just go ahead and ban it completely! Reputed Islamic Scholars came on live TV across India and Pakistan saying that the ban wasn’t necessary and just a bold censorship would have sufficed.

After banning YouTube, Russia too joins a long list of governments that have blocked access to YouTubeat some point or another, including China, Brazil, Indonesia, Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand and the UAE. YouTube material has been censored in the U.S. and U.K. which I think the other countries could have followed too! If you are in a “true democracy” you have to let the people decide than decide for the people. If you continue banning things like this, you are encouraging extremism with the common man itself, especially in disturbed countries like Pakistan.

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Children’s Day Google Doodles

I wanted to post this on our 64th Independence Day but I somehow missed the thought! Last year for Children’s Day, Google India had a competition open to all children to submit special Google Doodles and the winning doodle will be displayed on Google.co.in on November 14th, 2009 i.e. Children’s Day. These are my favourite 5, with the first one which was the winning entry:

Surprisingly, there as no entry with Jawaharlal Nehru in any of the Doodles! It was only Mahatma Gandhi everywhere. Hmmm… Nehru must be tough to draw for the kids… hehe… I wonder what Doodles will we get this year in November. Which one’s your favourite among these?

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Top 10 Women ever on Indian TV!

1. Anita Kanwar as Laajo in 'Buniyaad'

Buniyaad narrated the story of Master Haveliram, a patriotic and principled man, who chose teaching as his way of building the so-called ideal society. Anita Kanwar - who played Laajoji, the simple wife of Master Haveliram, was his student. This character is remembered because she was one woman who stood up for what she believed. It portrayed more of woman's emancipation in a man's world.

2. Priya Tendulkar in and as 'Rajani'

In 1985, with the huge success of TV series 'Rajani', Priya Tendulkar who played the protagonist, rose to national fame. She portrayed the role of a housewife who shuns injustice, fights against the corrupt social system and solves social issues. This role made her a household name. Simple and unlayered, the acting was convincing. It caught the imagination of a heterogeneous public and became a blockbuster overnight. Now that she has passed away, Priya is still remembered also for her minor (but striking) role in the crazy-comedy Hum Paanch where she was locked up in her death portrait. 

3. Navneet Nishan in and as 'Tara'

It was in the 90s that viewers saw a path breaking serial called 'Tara'. Navneet Nishan sketched the lead role and with growing popularity, she became a household name. Both the actor and the serial dominated the television industry for a very long time. With characteristics like being mean, bitchy, she shattered the "good girl" image. In the year 1994, with 'Tara', India got its first taste of a long-running unconventional soap.

4. Mandira Bedi in and as 'Shanti'

Came the 90s and Doordarshan witnessed an array of hit tele-serials targeting women. One amongst them was a daily series - 'Shanti'. With 804 ongoing episodes, it was an incredible success story in the history of Indian television. The character of Shanti was played by Mandira Bedi. The serial depicted the story of a strong, inspirational, career oriented woman in the world of showbiz. This headstrong woman also happened to be an illegitimate child who returns to take revenge and fight for both herself and her mother's rights. The show only came to an end when it seemed that the story was dragging on and TRPs had dipped. But Mandira today, with her hot, model, party figure image is still remembered for her fine acting in that landmark serial.

5. Neena Gupta as Priya in ‘Saans’

Directed and enacted by Neena Gupta, this emotional serial portrayed the real life problems faced by most of us in society. It portrayed the declining phase of a husband-wife relationship. It demonstrated the problems faced by Gupta after her husband, Kanwaljeet Singh gets infatuated with a lady, who is a maniac and then starts the worst phase in the life of Gupta. It showed, how despite of all the problems, she managed to handle her family and children. The serial set a standard for the woman of today's era and sends a message: "Yes, we can stand, even without you."

6. Shefali Shah as Savi in ‘Hasratein’

A story which revolved around extra marital affairs, Shefali played the lead called Savi. Considering our male dominated society, 'Hasratein' had a woman who got away with a lot of things that traditionally only a man could do. The serial helped society to look at the world from a woman's point of view. Shefali's histrionics were applauded and the serial owed a lot of its success to her inputs.

7. Nikki Aneja as Simran in 'Astitva: Ek Prem Kahani'

Astitva - Ek Prem Kahani is all about Dr.Simran Mathur, a successful gynecologist. Having devoted her entire life towards achieving this success, she finds herself lonely, as she edges closer to her mid-thirties. At this point Abhimanyu steps in. This 24-year-old Abhi brings out the feminine side of Simran and brings her in contact with her desires and needs. Initially Simran resists him but gradually she is unable to resist and is left with no alternatives when Abhi proposes her for marriage.
After their marriage, Abhi gets attracted to a model who is younger to him and betrays Simran. But, this powerful lady is not dependent on her husband for every need and knows how to handle her family and career even without him. This was the first serial to break the trend that a man has to be elder than the woman to marry her. Nikki won many a heart and many an award for this portrayal.

8. Smriti Irani as Tulsi Virani in 'Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'

Born to a poor pujari and married into a rich household, Tulsi is a clever, intelligent and sensitive bahu stuck with the scheming mother-in-law. Tulsi's cause is championing the underdog. She was a dutiful daughter, an ideal bahu, a perfect mother and an emphatic saas- the complete homemaker who binds the family into a single cord of harmony. Though Smriti made an exit from the show people still remember her as Tulsi. She;s probably the most watched, most famous character on Indian TV till date.

9. Nausheen Ali in and as “Kkusum”

Just like the tag line of the serial this was a “special story of a simple girl”. From a below muddle class family, Kkusum got married to a rich household, where her husband Abhay had an extra-marital affair with his secreatary Isha. When things aggravated Kkusum held her ground and move forward strongly. But it didn't stop there. Abhay falsely repented for what he did and went on to have affairs with not two, not three but four “other women” each time while he was married to Kkusum. Kkusum too had another marriage with Siddharth, but he later died in an accident and then Kkusum was all on her own. At the end, Abhay’s karma hit him back hard and he became mentally retarded!
In fact, so did the Indian audience! They could not stand seeing so many marriages and divorces one after another. Yet, the serial was a resounding hit, and Kkusum will be character to remember, although her character was played by two other actresses in the final seasons of the serial!!

10. Mona Singh as Jassi in 'Jassi Jaise Koi Nahi'

Jassi Jaise Koi Nahi lifted from the English series Ugly Betty was the story of a simple girl named Jassi - an ugly but brilliant duckling who later turned into a beautiful swan. This courageous and liberal girl secretly falls in love with her boss but gets betrayed and later gets back her love. With faith in love and life put to test many a times, the serial showcased the journey of an ugly looking girl and her encounter with the real world. Mona Singh did complete justice to her debut role. This serial gave a break to the shaadi-divorce pattern which was shown in almost all Indian serial at that time… but eventually even Jassi ended up in the same soup!

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Barkha Dutt graces Femina Cover!

India’s most respected reporter and journalist Barkha Dutt graces the cover page of the latest issue of Femina. This issue is a “Career Special”. As you can see, Ms. Dutt looks great and far better than her hectic news channel avatar.
Her interview was taken by  Chinmay Shah, from Mumbai. You can find him on Twitter and on LinkedIn. This interview is on journalism and the life of Barkha Dutt.
The pic is as posted by Barkha Dutt herself on her Twitter account @BDUTT. You can find more about the interview as and when Femina posts it online on their official website.

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Inspirers: Nelson Mandela - Invictus

It’s like an understatement to say that Nelson Mandela is an inspirer. Of course he is! And so are many others like Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, etc. So why exactly am I writing this post then? I was born in the year 1988. I did not know how great Mandela was or of his contributions to history. Even when I studied history in school, I wasn’t that inspired by Mandela at all. But it is when I watched this film Invictus  I got to feel and experience this amazing, positive and humble creation called Nelson Mandela. Here’s the critique of this film that I had published on Absolutely Filmy.

Gist: Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Mandela with his humility, wisdom and forgiving nature turns South Africa into a land of love from a land of bitter racism!

Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, nominated for Best Actor in a Leading and Supporting Role respectively, is truly deserved! Check this out… Morgan Freeman nominated for a “Leading” Role… Yep! He played one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen… Nelson Mandela. This movie is all about how Mandela along with the Captain of the South African Rugby team François, shocked the world by winning the 1995 Rugby World Cup amidst Apartheid, hardships and other discrimination! South Africa was known now, finally for all the good reasons.

If you have been a Class Representative, School/College Leader, or any leader, or even if you haven’t and want to be a leader in the future, watching this movie is the first thing you MUST MUST do. I say, this movie MUST be shown to all leaders in the schools and colleges and even in the Parliament! I got goose-bumps more 6-7 times during the movie; this movie has got great moments, and a very realistic touch. Please watch it.

I give this movie 4^1/2 Stars

Here’s the poem which is the essence of the movie:

Invictus – by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

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After Octopus Paul, its Dirty Harry the Croc!

I don’t have to give any introduction to Paul, the Octopus who stole the limelight during the Fifa World Cup more than any other player, incident, team or even Spain, which won as predicted by Paul. But Paul wasn’t the only creature to predict. In fact, he’s not the only water-animal to predict! Here’s… Harry the Crocodile… called as “Dirty Harry”.

Dirty Harry is now all over the news for his predictions, this time overshadowing his German Counterpart, Paul. Paul used to eat a clam or some sea food from any one of the boxes dropped in his aquarium, and thus state his prediction. Whereas Dirty Harry here, is a huge salt water crocodile… above him is a string on which two chicken carcasses are suspended with a photo of the two entities to be chosen from.

Dirty Harry snatched the chicken placed below Julia Gillard’s photo thus predicting that Julia will be winning the Australian Elections! News reports say that the Australian election is on a 50-50 chance that the election may go either way or for a hung parliament. But Harry the croc says that Julia will be re-elected as Prime Minister of Australia and the Opposition headed by Tony Abbott, will remain in the Opposition. Julia Gillard is the 27th and current Prime Minister of Australia since she recently took the post on 24 June 2010, after Kevin Rudd lost the support of his party and had to step down.

She is the first female Prime Minister of Australia and so is the Indian President and Indian Lok Sabha Speaker! Hmmm… women on the rise. Hehe. Anyway, coming back to Dirty Harry and the elections, do you think our Indian politicians will have… say… Tinku to Dog predicting elections results after 4 years?? Hope Paul and Harry remain until then to give us pre-election results. But you can never trust our politicians… they may bribe these creatures onto their side (!!!) or worse… kill them!

P.S.: Dirty Harry is not just this Psychic Croc. It’s also a 1971 film starring Clint Eastwood… click here. Hold on, Dirty Harry is also the bullet round which the British troops use against the Taliban! Strange! Check it out here. To know more about the Australian Elections click here. What’s also strange is that in the country where Steve Irwin, also called “The Crocodile Hunter” lived, is a croc now taking so much importance.

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The Greedy Dog: The Indian MP!

Do you remember the story of The Greedy Dog? He was very hungry and he found a bone. But when he reached the river to have some water he saw his reflection in the water with the bone in his mouth, and mistook his reflection for another dog with a bone, and tried to grab it. Consequently, he lost the bone he had! Will the same thing happen to our MP’s warming the benches in Parliament??

Today we saw the Cabinet, which gave a ‘NO’ just few days back, has now taken a U-turn and has approved the salary hike of MPs from `16,000 to `50,000. Mind you… this is ONLY the basic salary. They also have Constituent funds, that they are SUPPOSED TO spend towards their constituency, daily allowances and also perks, travel, telephone and electricity bills, free medicines etc. Does that disgust you…? hold on… the MP’s aren’t satisfied with THAT! They want a hike to about `80,000!!! Kiss my a**!!

First of all, there was a debate on how the MP’s can hike the salary for themselves!!! Tomorrow they may pass a bill that builds a two-floored mansion for each MP! If you are working in any company, won’t it be nice if your boss comes and tell you “It’s time for your salary hike. How much should I increase it to?!!!” The MP’s are not in the corporate world and definitely don’t behave anywhere even close to that!!! My conclusion is that the current Government, whether they hike it to `50,000 or `1 lac, has NO RIGHT to hike it for themselves. Former US President, Bill Clinton had hiked the US President’s salary, but it was enjoyed by the nut-head George Bush! The same thing MUST apply here and all over the world!

I am fine with the MP’s passing the bill for themselves, but not if it applies immediately to them. “The MPs can make rules for MP’s… not for themselves!” Heck! Fine! If they want a hike, they need to be accountable too! Here are some points which I think need to passed inside the bill as well:

• We cannot hike the salary, just because they are an “MP”! Money needs to be accounted for EVERYTHING in the world.
• MP attendance for each and every Parliament session MUST be noted down. You can’t have a Mamata Banerjee, who NEVER attends Parliament sessions, and one day she turns up out of the blues (yesterday), with a big speech ready and boldly says, “I have completed all my work. Look here it is!!” What if all the ministers and MP’s do the same!!!
• If MP causes any disturbance in the house like throwing of shoes, papers, shouting, interrupting, or most importantly being the cause for an adjournment, his salary for that entire month MUST STAND CANCELLED!
• One most important rule which I want get passed in the house (if I was as an MP) is that, “No one… NO ONE, speaks when the Speaker speaks!” After all she’s The Speaker! If just anyone can speak or overrun when the Speaker is saying something, why the hell is the Honourable Speaker there??!!! In all the sessions I’ve seen throughout my life, the Speaker ONLY sits there to say just one thing… “Please Keep quiet! Let him speak!”

I also want to bring to your memory, how much of a furore and fuss the Opposition has made over price rise saying that the Government doesn’t care for the common man. Then why are they so greedy for a 500% salary hike all at once????!!!!

I hope the MPs can agree to these points and I also hope that these points are taken into consideration with the hike bill. If they can agree to this, then I don’t mind the hike even to `80,000, because tomorrow if I want to become an MP, I don’t want someone to tell me that my salary is less than a fresher-engineer’s salary!

What do you think of this…? Please tell me your views? Do you agree with the points I’ve mentioned? The MP’s may bark as much as they can, but I hope and I believe that the Cabinet won’t agree to hike it more than 300%!

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