2014 Loksabha Election Result Winners

Entire nation celebrates the victory of Shri Narendra Modi led BJP in National Election of India 2014. There are 543 winners and it is hard to know each and every selected candidate. Following is a list of some of those candidates whom I can take the credit of knowing (50+).

Pappu Yadav
Gaurav Gogoi
Rajiv Pratap Rudy
Ramvilas Paswan
Kirti Azad
Shatrughan Sinha
Kirron Kher
Harsh Vardhan
Manoj Tiwari
Meenakshi Lekhi
Patel Jayshreeben
L K Advani
Paresh Rawal
Dr Kirit P Solanki
Narendra Modi
Anurag Singh Thakur
Mehbooba Mufti
Shibu Soren
B S Yeddyurappa
H D Devegowda
Ananth Kumar
Veerappa Moily
Shashi Tharoor
Jyotiraditya Scindia
Kamal Nath
Sushma Swaraj
Nitin Gadkari
Ashok Chavan
Gopal Chinayya Shetty
Kirit Somaiya
Poonam Mahajan
Supriya Sule
Gopinath Munde
P A Sangma
Vinod Khanna
Amarinder Singh
Bhagwant Mann
K Chandrasekhar Rao
Asaduddin Owaisi
V K Singh
Hema Malini
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Maneka Gandhi
Rajnath Singh
Sonia Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi
Varun Gandhi
Murali Manohar Joshi
Uma Bharti
Moon Moon Sen
Babul Supriyo

If you browsed through all of the name above, pretty sure, you may be able to identify some of the names. Do you know any more of those winners? If so share it in the comments section.

What I dislike about Tamilians

As they say, first impression is the last impression. My encounter of knowing tamilian started when I was 13 year old, traveling to TamilNadu with parents on a road trip, involving Madras, Rameshwar, Kanyakumari, Madurai and Kodaikanal. Prior to that I have visited many other Indian states apart from home state Maharashtra such as Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhyapradesh, Jammu&Kashmir, Punjab, Karanataka, Orissa, West Bengal etc.

Even at early age, I was very fond of News, particularly political news and doordarshan. Doordarshan was the only available channel to see in television in late 80's for common people. I was a regular viewer of Hindi News which had a timing of 8.30 in the evening. All other states showed regional news at 7.30. I got a shock of a life, when we landed in Tamil Nadu in the evening and I was looking for Hindi News at 8.30 but instead they were showing Tamil News during that time in Tamil Nadu.

My second encounter happened early in the morning when I went downstairs in hotel to collect the newspaper and there were only English and Tamil newspaper available. I happen to ask someone, where can I find other newspaper and he suggested around the corner. Curiosity made me go down the corner and I accidentally asked someone in Hindi, "Bhai Sahab, newspaper kidhar milega?". Me, speaking in Hindi created a bit of anger in his face and he walked away. Later on, I was explained that, Hindi is not a language to be used in Tamil Nadu, and you can either speak English or Tamil if you need a better assistance.

Well, That is about it. Inception of hatred towards tamilian started from that point onwards. How can you hate Hindi? and If you do hate Hindi that means you are probably not going to like Bollywood Movies as well, which was another passion of mine growing up in Bombay-Mumbai.

Over the years, I made a friend who happened to be a Tamilian who grew up in Mumbai. Gem of a person and the best friend you can ever have. I made another friend who was a Telugu but someone who grew up in Mumbai and he hated a regular telugu people grew up in Andhra. This taught me that it is not the mother language but it depends where you grow up and with whom you grow up.

When you grow up as a kid with various other ethnicity, it allows you to develop certain level of understanding and respect for other people. I kept observing that there are differences in people and their behavior, depending upon how they are growing up. A tamilian growing up in tamilnadu will be craving for another tamilian but that may not be the exact case of a tamilian growing up in Mumbai or Delhi, because he or she will be comfortable communicating in different language, taste, hobbies, life in general.

Hindi has been disliked by many of the Southern states in India, because that is not a natural language of communication used by them. However, over the time, Hindi has found acceptance in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala etc but Tamil Nadu still remains a place where it is still considered as an alien language. In fact, people who grew up in 80's and 90's in Tamil Nadu, developed a sort of hatred towards Hindi and Hindi speaking crowd. I hate that "hatred". I hate the fact that Tamilians grew up in Tamilnadu are not able to communicate with fellow indians in Hindi.

If you are not accepting "Hindi", you are not accepting other "Indians" as well. No wonder few tamilians went out of their way to kill Prime Minister of India just to support other tamilians from other country.
For most people living in India, their region comes first when they are communicating with people from other regions. A Punjabi will show more affection towards another punjabi and so is Bengali and so on. However general perception is India First, Region second. Tamilians grew up in Tamil Nadu, for them, Tamil comes first and India comes second.

Third Front lead by Jaya - Viable option

BJP and Narendra Modi are the leading candidates to get maximum share of votes and seats in the upcoming Loksabha election. Anything less than 200 seats will be considered as failure for NDA, which is composing of only 3 major parties: BJP, Shivsena and Shiromani Akali Dal. However 200 seats is not equal to 272 and they would need helping hand.

Congress are surely going to loose in the upcoming election, question is how much? Most likely, considering congress is spanned across India, they will be getting close to 100 seats. (Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, UP, Kerala, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, many eastern states etc)

AAP is continue to disappoint their fans and followers with their constant tantrums on television. They may be able to get few seats up in North but they will highly unlikely to be a major force to fear about.

In this scenario, a possible collaboration of Third Front could be a big blow. Nitish Kumar, Lefties, Jayalalitha, Sharad Pawar, Naydu from AP, Biju Janta Dal, Samajwadi Party, Mamta Banerjee perhaps and Dev Gauda's Janta Dal from Karnataka; all can unite together with the outside support from congress could be a possibility for the next govt. However it all depends upon which party is going to get how many seats. For third front to form the govt, they need minimum of 150+ seats together.

TDP can get 15-20 seats from Andhra Pradesh.
JD(U) from Bihar can get 15-20 seats.
JD(S) from Karnataka can get 5-10 seats.
NCP from Maharashtra can get 10-15 seats.
BJD from Orissa can get 15 seats.
AAIDMK (Jayalalitha) can get 25 seats from Tamilnadu.
Samajwadi Party or BSP can get 25-30 seats from UP.
Left can get 30+ seats from Kerala and West Bengal.
AAP might be ready to get 15+ seats from Haryana, Punjab and Delhi and may support them outside, just to keep BJP out. (Also read BJP's Road to 200)

Basically, if everything pans out correctly, they may be able to get 172+ seats  and if congress can support them from outside, they are in with a chance to form the govt. Jayalalitha with maximum seats may demand to be the prime minister and it can become a possibility. Jayalalitha will also be the key because if she is denied PM position, she might as well support BJP and get the required portfolio's. Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati, Mamta might support the decision and Rahul Gandhi's keyword "Women Empowerment" might actually become reality.

There are too many if's and but's but Third front could be a viable option.

Sizes of Sports and Time Management

Football (Soccer), American football, Basketball, Rugby and many other well known sports get played in a rectangular area of field. Baseball gets played in a diamond shaped field. Cricket is the only other well known sport which gets played in a circular shape and perhaps that is why it is a "Complete" sport.

Invention of many American games and idea behind some of them apart from fun and entertainment is to induce some sort of discipline into the younger generation. Be it basketball or American football, it is govern by the clock management. Apart from that it is highly organized game which depends upon coach's order (more like army high command orders). Soccer is more of a game which defines free spirit. No matter how much you coach 'em, in the end player needs to get inventive, let his judgement take over to take the call whether to call the shot or not.

Baseball, though is a spectator's game. It probably got invented for some good friends and family outing to enjoy summer/good weather. It does not get played when it snow or rain. Also diamond shape of field is more invented to give maximum exposure to the audience. It is a game of spectator and that is why there are no strict rules or time governing the game.

Cricket on the other hand is a game of gentleman. It gets played in a round shaped and every area of cricket field is part of the game, unlike baseball where you have to hit the ball in front of you. Game of cricket is more the reflection of life in general, where you are allowed to use opportunity of everything surrounding you. Shape of cricket ball and ground is also the shape of earth, giving its completeness. Real cricket (and not 20-20 version of ODI version) is also gets played for 5 days, where it is a test of talent plus temperament and not just time alone.

In Football (soccer), winning team scores 1 goal more than a loosing team, but that is inside the time limit. In American football or basketball, winning team scores more points than loosing team, but that is also within the time limit. Basically it in other sports, we won because we scored more than losers for a give timeline. Test Cricket removes this "Time" factor. Yes, there is a general time factor of 5 days where the game gets played, but within that 5 days both team gets equal opportunity to win the game, and winner comes out with result not bounded by the time factor. In other sports, loosing team feels that had they got that extra minute we would have scored and won, but in cricket you can not say that, because you are beaten outright without considering the time limit.

BJP's Road to 200

200 Possible Seats break down as follows for 2014 Lok Sabha Election for BJP: 

Assam: 5
Bihar: 15
Chattisgarh: 7
Goa: 2
Gujarat: 20
Haryana: 4
Himachal Pradesh: 3
Jhammu & Kashmir: 1
Jharkhand: 10
Karnataka: 16
Madhya Pradesh: 23
Maharashtra: 25
Punjab: 7
Rajasthan: 20
UP: 30
Uttarakhand: 3
West Bengal: 1
Territory: 7 (Delhi and others)




If BJP manages to get 200 seats, then they need 4 big parties to support them to form the govt. One of the easiest partner will be from Tamil Nadu, AIADMK. Jaya's party would like to be part of central govt and if they can manage to get 20+ seats, that would be an easy support.

Second support might be from Andhra Pradesh. Either TDP or Jagan's party will get close to 20 seats because of non-performance from Congress and that would be another 20 seats.

It is the third-fourth support which will be interesting to get for BJP. Some of the big candidates are: Nitish Kumar from Bihar, Mamta from West Bengal, Biju Janta Dal from Orissa, Sharad Pawar's NCP, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Wadi Party from UP. Since Narendra Modi belongs to backward class, Mayawati might support BJP from outside and may get 20 odd seats support and rest 12 seats could be arranged from smaller parties.

Road is still tough for BJP and introduction of AAP might change few equations in coming months. 

Divisional Round Picks

If you have to rank top 8 teams ignoring the division, ranking would be some what as follows:

Seahawks
Broncos
49ers
Patriots
Panthers
Saints
Chargers
Colts

According to this, we should see Seahawks vs Broncos in the Super Bowl, but then funny things have happened in the past and favorites have not always won or make it to the super bowl. Irrespective of that, Patriots and Broncos are comparatively safer picks to go through their matches this weekend. If there is a remote chance of a upset that would be Colts, considering the momentum that they are carrying from last game. Chargers are lucky to be in playoff and Broncos should be an easy pick out of all 4 games.

NFC is tough to pick. Although, they say Seahawks is the best team in the league and they are playing at home, which is the best place for them to play Football, Saints are perfectly capable of causing an upset. Saints have very good offense, which means, they will always be in the game going into the fourth quarter, now, how much lead is enough? As long as Saints keep the game close enough with 2 possession to win, they got a chance, a very remote chance but still a chance.

Game of the Week is going to be 49ers vs Panthers. 49ers have amazing defense and Panthers got very good offense. It will be decided in the fourth quarter with few up and downs. Considering 49ers had experience of reaching to the super bowl last year with same team strength, they might be just able to pull this off on the road.

So, Final Four will be: Seahawks, Broncos, 49ers and Patriots as predicted by the betting websites.

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