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© 2009 Ranjan Kumar

Should Laloo be included in the UPA government again?

The big question everybody asking now is should Laloo be once again given railway ministry. There are two fundas working for and against him. The funda why he should be given railway ministry again is of course his turnaround of Indian Railways which is a fact and no one can deny that even his strongest foes cannot say it with any authority that he did not change the fate of Indian Railways.

The funda that goes against him is a clear people mandate against him who have outrightly rejected RJD with only 4 seats, and there is no way he should be made a minister again because Junta have voted against him. The other funda is his arrogance in which he denied any pre-poll alliance with Congress underestimating the Congress party's poll outcome. Now, after an exception display of might after election results by Congress, Laloo is in a way apologizing with Congress that it was a mistake from his part of not doing a pre-poll alliance and please forgive me for my mistake. Very usual Laloo like.

The entire political system in India has become so opportunistic that you have started believing where are we going. Should be rewrite our constitution and make only 2-party system like US or UK or keep going with this adjustment politics where any adjustments can be made to be in the power. It is up to people to decide.

My question to every netizens across the world is should Laloo be made railway minister again. You can take the poll and give your verdict against him.

© 2009 Ranjan Kumar

My take on the Fake IPL Player

Just went through the Get Shorty post from this now famous Fake IPL Player about his version of match-fixing rumors. One genuine point that he makes on the match-fixing thing is that why would somebody pay KKR to lose a match when they are already losing the matches on trot. That is very interesting to hear and sounds very convincing. You see, nobody remembers when was the last time KKR actually won a match. The only match they won this season was also due to Duckworth/Lewis (D/L) method, so that sounds very convincing as to why one should pay take even a single penny to lose a match.

I think now if and that is a big if KKR ever wins a match in IPL, Lalit Modi and IPL bosses must look into this if the match was fixed. Because I think if KKR wins a single match this IPL season, whoever would have bet on KKR will become an instant millionaire. The match-fixing rumor will once again come into limelight if KKR wins a match or Ganguli scores 50 runs of 20 balls or Ishant Sharma picks up 5 wickets in a match or Agarkar concedes only 10 runs in his 4 overs. If ever these things happen we should have enough reason to believe that the match was fixed.

The two names that I like the most from this Fake IPL Player post are Bhookha Naan and Appam Chutiya. I mean, just look at the word selection chosen, this is really awesome. Particularly, Appam Chutiya is like the word we all used for decades while completing our school and college years and still never knew that this word Chutiya can be such a successful marketing term that can soar one's Alexa ranking to 18,000. I think Philip Kotler must rewrite his Marketing Management book and add all these terms like Chutiya, dildo, slimeball, etc. and give use a new-age marketing funda.

© 2009 Ranjan Kumar

UPA back into power

Finally, the election results are out. After months and months of coalition drama from the likes of left, Mulayam SinghYadav, Laloo Prasad Yadav, what a relief now... at least now we can hope for a better political scenario as Congress has bagged enough seats that now it can work on its own and will not have to rely on pressure politics. Lets hope that Manmohan Singh delivers this time by reviving the economy as well as terrorism policy. He is not under pressure from left at this time to implement his economic reforms and he should not be under pressure from Amar Singh (hopefully!!!) to fight against terrorism and he should not be under pressure from Laloo Yadav to give him Railway ministry. Well, lets hope we will be able to see a better tomorrow in a few days from now.

The biggest loser in this election according to me is Laloo Prasad Yadav whose party only managed to bag 4 seats, but his condition is now like "dhobi ka doggy na ghar ka na ghaat ka." Why I am saying this is because before election he snapped electoral ties with Congress in hopes of getting a large chunk of seats and be in even better position to bargain, but now with Nitish Kumar delivering a knock-out performance, Laloo Yadav might find his days numbered in the political circuit because he is no one in Bihar and now will become no one in Center too.

This might also be the end of the road for the Iron Man L K Advani also and we might see more youthful leaders taking centerstage which might come as a bleesing in disguise for them just like the Indian team who has been doing just too good with his youth brigade after the likes of Ganguli, Dravid, Kumble, Laxman, and Tendulkar (playing very little now) either retired or were kept out on purpose.

So lets all hope for a new shining India...

© 2009 Ranjan Kumar

Now the match-fixing rumor for KKR

KKR is the controversy's illegal child, at least it seems so. Since the announcement of IPL season 2, there is not a single day where you think that KKR has not hit the headlines with a new controversy. The captain issue, Buchanan versus Ganguli issue, Shahrukh Khan going back to India, players being sent home in the middle of the tour, the Fake IPL Player, and now the match-fixing accusations. The way lost KKR to RCB from a winning position raised many eyebrows particularly dropping of Ross Taylor catch and the last over fulltoss that was bound to be hit prompted even Lalit Modi to announce an enquiry into this. Well, we all hope that KKR gets cleanchit, otherwise it will bring a huge embarrassment to IPL, Shahrukh Khan, Lalit Modi, BCCI, and the entire Indian cricketing world. Even there are charges made against Shahrukh Khan of entering player's dressing room without permission and offering cash bonuses. So, all these things are keeping KKR on top of media charts despite losing matches on trot. They surely know how to be in limelight.

I think the age-old saying goes well with Shahrukh's KKR "Badname hue to kya hua, naam to phir bhi hoga."

© 2009 Ranjan Kumar

Submission of website to directories and SEO tools

Well, you have created a website or blog site but wondering why it is not showing on the search results of Google or Yahoo or even it is showing, it is not in the top 100 search results and anything beyond top 100 search results are good for nothing. The most important SEO tool for success with search engine results is to get your website listed in the human-edited directories. Open directory (http://dmoz.org) and Yahoo directory (http://dir.yahoo.com) are two of the biggest human-edited directories that were considered a must to have website listed in early part of 90s, though now it is not absolutely essential to have your website listed in these two directories, but if your site is listed there, it will do a whole lot good to your website search engine ranking. Acceptance or rejection of your website in these two directories are solely on the judgment of their editors and their judgments are based on how optimized your website in terms of using SEO tools. You should also manually submit your website to as many directories as you can in the appropriate categories, so that your website features more on the search results and thus increasing the probability of getting listed in the top 100 search results. One should filter his directory search depending on the category, topic, and geographical location so that you get a better optimization and that is what search engine optimization or SEO is all about. The second important SEO tool is link building. Here also you should be careful in building your links by choosing to exchange links with websites that are of similar category, topic, and geographical locations to your website and thus you will be availble to build quality links. You should take care while doing link exchange that the website you are building link with is an active website which is getting updated periodically and not some dormant sites which have been there for ages but not updating its content.

So, use these SEO tools and you will soon be able to see a better pagerank and Alexa ranking.

© 2009 Ranjan Kumar

Fake IPL player

A lot is being read about the Fake IPL Player making rounds on the blog circuit. In fact, the entire Indian media is following this Fake IPL Player so closely that it has become the most trafficked blog in just a week. Yesterday, I was just seeing a news clip on NDTV India about the poll buzz about revealing this Fake IPL player identity and some 30,000 internet bloggers and readers have polled in just 1 day.

Everyone is curious to find out the real identity of this Fake IPL Player who has been reporting all the inside and outside news of Kolkata Knight Riders. If the player reveals his identity at the end of the IPL, then I think he becomes genunine from a fake IPL player, but if the player does not reveal his identity, then this might lead us to believe that this once again is a very smart marketing strategy employed by the very marketing savvy KKR owned by King Khan.

Do you think Fake IPL Player is a genuine KKR player or a marketing strategy?
	Genuine, if he reveals his identity at the end of IPL
	He is just some blogger but not KKR player
	He is member of KKR marketing team.
	A very smart blogger who has put a mole in the KKR team.
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© 2009 Ranjan Kumar

Bangalore beats Kolkota again

Well, one must feel sorry for the KKR to lose this game. Till the 36th over of the game they were so comfortably placed to win this game at least and then came a once in a life inning from Ross Taylor and KKR is shattered once again. Shahrukh's team dominated the proceeding from the first over to the 36th over aided by brilliant batting display by Brendon McCullum (finally!!! but too late to come) and David Hussey and then their bowler doing fairly decent job to bring themselves into a comfortable position where the asking rate went up to as high as 15 runs per over. Only a miracle would have saved Bangalore but then miracles do happen some time, and this time it happened from Ross Taylor's bat who hit 5 towering sixes to finish the match in style with 4 balls remaining. Dr. Vijay Mallya was one happy man with his team moving to 5th place leaving Zinta, Ambani, and Shahrukh behind and looking menacingly to outdo Shilpa soon to make a place in the semi-finals.

Anyhow, this match was a 100% entertainer where batsmen ruled the roost and bowlers just looked too rusty that is what T20 cricket is all about.

Good luck Royal Challengers, keep winning and bring back DLP IPL trophy to Namma Bangaluru this time and bring cheers to all the fellow Bangaloreans...

© 2009 Ranjan Kumar

Exam results

Hey dudes... finished your exam and really curious to know about the results. Well I give you a solution.

Here I give you the links to check your exam results:

Indian states SSC, HSC, and University exam results.

Karnataka examination results.

Bangalore University results.

GATE scores and results.

Comprehensive exam results.

Kerala Examination results.

CBSE results.

© 2009 Ranjan Kumar

Knight Riders maintain their losing spree

One must give credit to Kolkota Knight Riders for being consistent in at least one department that is in losing. It is hard to remember when was the last time Shahrukh Khan's flag bearers ever won a match including both IPL season 1 and 2. Seems like Shahrukh Khan's cohesion ability is so badly dented that his team is neither performing as a cohesive unit nor as an individual unit.

Right from the day 1 of IPL team announcement last year, KKR has been most successful in brand management, designing and dressing of team, media management, creating a hype about the team, so they became the most favorite team in IPL. Such is the media liking for KKR that every time they lose they top the media charts across the globe. I think that is the reason why they prefer to lose every time and maintain their losing spree.

Seems like continued failure of Brendon McCullum, sacking of John Buchannan, juggling Sourabh Ganguli from opener to number 3 to number 5 on a regular basis, each time Arun Lal and Akash Chopra making their wishes of KKR winning at least one match are all the marketing strategies made by their very talented marketing gurus to keep their brand image intact and maintain their numero uno status as the best brand of IPL.

Good luck, KKR...keep losing matches and keep topping the media charts...

© 2009 Ranjan Kumar