Young Shivam wants to join the Cartel and as per plan, all the other Cartelians are confusing him about what exactly the entry requirements are. Now of course, a lot of people might want to join it and they will have doubts about how to get in. I can only tell them what I told Aadisht sometime back, when he wanted to join.

Aadisht!
Why are you knocking on door after door trying to join the Cartel? Look within you! The Cartel is right there. There is a little bit of the Cartel in each one of us. You don’t need to do anything to join the Cartel. When the time comes, the Cartel itself will reach out for you. Then you will be of the Cartel and the Cartel of you.

Aadisht has a brutal review of One night @ the call center.

It is Kaizad Gustad all over again. Write a mediocre first novel (or make a mediocre first movie). People go ga ga over it. You get encouraged, and your second work ends up as something so bad that people wonder what went wrong. I’ve said this before and I will say it again. Bad novelists (and film-makers) are not born. It is society that makes them this way. It is your toleration of mediocrity that makes them this way.

Vajpayee’s analogy is neither stupid nor mixed up. Parashurama went around the world 21 times trying to eliminate the race of Kshatriyas from the world. If you think, as Vajpayee probably does, that it was an unpleasant, thankless, but necessary task that was ultimately unsuccessful, then you’ve got perfectly what he thinks of the whole thing. He is tired and is now passing on the mantle to the next generation, but without really achieving anything that he hoped to achieve.
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Have a great 2006 all of you!

Yes, that’s an order from the Cartel. In 2006, we Cartelians will ensure that the Libertarian stranglehold over the Indian Blogosphere is complete. By December, We will ensure that you will be incapable of thinking any thoughts other than the ones We allow you, except on Sundays between 4 and 5 pm.

Incidentally, I don’t know how many of you have read the previous post, but please do. It is an important one.