ठहरो, कि दास्ताँ आगे और भी है

I used to be a voracious reader. Not that I don't read anymore, but the frequency of books has dipped to a all time low, barely managing a book each month.  Especially I miss reading good Hindi literature. Good books are not available in nearby bookshops. Pity, the city Mumbai is. But just few weeks back, I found one website called Kavita Kosh, which is a great collection of Hindi prose and poems, hence this post. I read few of my favorite books such as Rashmirathi etc on the website. I'll recommend this if you are really into Hindi literature.

One more thing. Despite spending a whole lot of good part of the day on internet, I still feel that reading a book in hard-copy is a completely different experience. I don't get the same feeling while reading books online. No upgrade of the e-book reader will be ever come close

A few * SENTI * dialogues... and A google trap

GTalk... Everybody knows about it. I mean everybody who is using internet. Its very hard for anyone to use internet and not fall in the google trap. It happened with me too.

Back in college when GMail account was available only on invitation, it used to be a good thing to have one. Quite reasonable given that it was offering 1GB mail-space compared to meagre 15MB hotmail that time.  I don't remember which came next Orkut or Gtalk or this blogger. But somehow it happened that I used the same id to open orkut account, then to talk on Gtalk and then to write blogs too.

Sometimes it comes to my mind how vulnerable we are becoming on internet giving so much data to one particular company. (Food for thoughts ??) Anyways thats not why I am writing this blog.

Yesterday I was chatting with one of my old schoolmate on GTalk and got surprised by seeing his status message on the same. It was..

When They Asked Me What I Love Most About My Life, I Smiled And Said YOU!

Knowing that he cant write this kind of heavy stuff by his own and also after ending my curiosity about his being Mr. Lovelace, I did some  google and in process read some of the most amazing one liners, which I thought to share with you on this blog space. I call them SENTI stuff and am pretty sure even you feel the same whenever you witness something similar in any movie or any romantic novel.

Some of them are....

One day u will ask me: Wat is more important to u, me or ur life? I will say: My life… u will walk away from me without knowing that U R MY LIFE!

Padma Shri n Manoj N Shyamlan

What a weird system?? Padma Shri was given to a man for his contributions to the film industry who has supposedly seen only 3 Indian movies and was not even aware of what the award is all about. They say that this award stands fourth in the hierarchy of civilian awards after Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. 

And the man this time was M N Shyamlan. Seems like its becoming more like a craze to give these honors to Indian born foreign nationals and somehow we are taking pride in that. I am pretty sure that Indian government can find more deserving Indian nationals if they search honestly for them. Just wondering about all the civics and political science books I have read till now, which had given me a wrong (:P) info about the award.

Anyways, the Padma Shri goes to Mr. Shyamlan. Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!

The question asked was like "can a handful of us change the scenario?".

My answer to a question...

"Atleast you can try and initiate the things. It seems like a funda but remember, "A journey of thousand miles begin with a single step". Somebody has to take that first step. Also remember if you change, if you do your little bit, if you think little about it, if you try to initiate the reforms at only your level; the whole society is going to change, even if the results will not be visible very shortly.

Also regarding the few good men present in the modern india; I think there are some ordinary people

Marriage interpretation

Yesterday I saw Da Vinci Code. Its a blurred depiction of the original novel, which I understand is very difficult to portray on a two hour reel. Nonetheless I liked Audre Tautou [So paise wasool]. After that I returned home and chatted with a friend for sometime. Then I watched "Shall we dance" in night. Now this was a good movie, better than the Da Vinci atleast. Its not like, its the best of this genre, but atleast one can enjoy during the one and half hour movie. There was a dialogue, which I thought was the best in the film. Just go through it and please let me know if it matches with the correct definition of marriage. Here it goes...

"We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad

Rendezvous

You are invited to a special evening! An intimate evening of warm smiles and shared confidences... of rekindled memories and recounted experiences... of unashamed tears and infectious laughter. You are invited to a rendezvous. A Rendezvous with Simi Garewal.

Last night while watching King Arthur on star movies, probably fourth time; I got to see some parts of this spectacular program on Star world. Simi was doing the ‘rondi^voo with Mr. L N Mittal at his residence in UK. I was always uncomfortable with this word, but now I can pronounce it correctly (thanks Simi). 

Now coming to Mr. Mittal, he lives in a house which is estimated to be valued at 500 Crores. Glimpse of that house coupled with the name of his was a very good reason for me to postpone my night voyage for one hour. Mr. Mittal seemed to be a very confident man, whose thoughts are very clear and who always keeps an eye on his ultimate goal. I was very impressed with the way he answered most of the questions. And Simi was fantastic as always.

A tale of two cities

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

This is not the blog of Charles Dicken, so don't expect the summary of his book here. I have just borrowed the name of his book and opening lines as well (Though I must tell you these are among the very best, you will ever read). The name of this book just clicked, as I thought to write about my workplaces. After joining the present company, it so happened that I am continuously moving between two places Baroda and Surat. Now often or then I found myself comparing the two cities. Whenever anybody asks me about my place then the answer comes without a second thought, I am living in Baroda. But to be honest, I have spent more time in Surat.

But the reason behind my proclaimed affiliation with Baroda seems to be the apartment, which I have been

Swami Ramdev

These types of things make me laugh. I am referring to the current Swami Ramdev episode. Let me tell you that I am not an ardent fan of him, but yes respect comes naturally for the people who are serving the people selflessly. Now the CPI leader has alleged him of selling drugs, which contains animal residue. I don’t know weather there is any truth in the allegations made by Ms Brinda Karat, but I do know that there are many more important works, which should take precedence over this whole issue.

Most of the followers of Swami are attached with him due to his wonderful knowledge of Yoga, which cured many of them, and not because of any religious reason. He is giving the Hindutva some weightage, but only after the full course of Pranayam coupled with many more yogas. So he is developing himself as a secular practitioner of Yoga and Ayurved, who is trying to restore the lost pride to this age old form of medicines.

Significant drop has been observed in the soft drink consumption, majority of which is being seen as the

Concept of NON - MALE

Hey, you shouldn't worry, as I am not going to write anything about the 50:50 public or stuff anywhere related to that world. In this article I'll write about the empowerment of woman in highly technical fields especially in engineering side.

When I search my database for the name of the women who established themselves as the leaders in this field, I found that there are very few entries. You can blame it to the traditionally male dominated society or to my poor general knowledge. I have left this decision to you only. The very first name which strike my mind is Kalpana Chawala. Some others are ......... no, there is no other name in my database. Even if I will try to do this recalling exercise for rest of the world, Marie Curie is the only name. Even she is a chemist by profession, whereas we will limit ourselves to the core engineering only.

Nevertheless, hats off to these ladies. Also I don't think, if the similar question will be asked to any normal citizen of this world (a.k.a. normal IQ, normal EQ and normal SQ), he will be able to tell about more ladies.

We, the people of India

Before saying anything, I just want to say that I do not consider myself to be an acute critic of whatever is happening in society. But the sole reason of writing here is to express my view in front of others.

You people must have seen the major news covered on the news channels during last few days. Previous year ended with a rape involving a South African model in Mumbai and new year started with the flurry of sexual harassment cases against the women in New Delhi. It is shameful for our society. Rather I should say that it is shame on we, PEOPLE OF INDIA, being the part of this society.

If you are a regular listener of prime time news on any of the national news channel, you must have heard about the series of murders of elderly couples in New Delhi. Two days back, a family was burnt alive in Raghopur, just because they were suspect in a case of missing buffalo. Two person were shot dead in a

I believe I can fly

Writing down my new year's resolutions on a paper has never been there in my scheme of doing things. I tried to write it here, but again it seems that this will not be possible to pen down so many things. So again I will take the help of a beautiful song written by Mr. xyz, to define what and how I want to do in 2006..

I believe I can fly

I believe I can touch the sky

I think about it every night and day

Spread my wings and fly away

I believe I can soar

I see me running through that open door

I believe I can fly

There are miracles in life I must achieve

But first I know it starts inside of me, oh

If I can see it, then I can do it

If I just believe it, there's nothing to it

Hey, cuz I believe in me, oh

Hey, if I just spread my wings

I can fly

I can fly

I can fly,

Fly-I-I

After reading all this, don't say that I cannot fly. I can do whatever I want to do. Rather anybody can do whatever he wants.

The butterfly effect

Few days back, I was having a little gab with one of my elderly colleague. We have discussed something regarding the power of imagination. Everybody is having different levels of imagination. But in order to feel happy, to feel meaningful, you have to imagine, you have to give colors to every dimension of you thoughts. And you should also try to materialize those imaginations, whenever possible. 

Coming to the point, try to imagine, a white piece of paper that has a sketch of a butterfly. Five different people were given ten different color crayons each and were asked to color the butterfly. 

It’s almost certain that you get five entirely different butterflies at the end. Some individuals may have imagined the colorful butterfly, even before starting the painting assignment. Some others may start by using their favorite color and follow it up with the best match afterwards. Some others may color their last memory of a butterfly while some of them have not even started. So you can see how different people are from each other.

Let's get started.

Why do people do certain things and not other things, why they like one particular person and not other, have you ever tried to find an answer to this question? Why people are happy sometime and not so happy on other times. Have you ever tried?

Why do people live? There has to be some reason. Everybody has his own reasons, which are entirely different from each others. That’s precisely what makes the people so different after being constituted by the similar type of bones, nose, ear, mouth and other stuff. Okay, I agree that there are some differences in the color, height or texture of the people, but it’s the reason or aim of the life which makes all the other differences. So everybody should try to explore the very reason, why he is living in this beautiful world or this ugly world.

When you say nothing at all.

Have you ever wonder, what the significance of the language in our life is. The actual meaning of language is perceived differently by various people. But the dictionary meaning of the word is “A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols” or “The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication”.

It’s the very language which separates the human kind from the other species. That’s why first the language was developed and then came the civilizations followed by the culture. Language has been the starting tool which has been used for the development of the history of the mankind. I wonder what was the first language spoken on the earth was.

People say that the very first tool used for the communication was the human emotions. Human emotions somehow are related with the different lines on the human face. Just by looking on the face, anybody can guess what is the state of mind of that particular person at that particular instant. Weather it is joy, happiness, ecstasy, wonder or it is sadness, tension, whatever it is, the very face of that person speaks of his feelings.

Sometimes you will be surrounded by lots of people, lots of loud voices, but you may not be getting a single word what the public wants to convey. But at many instances you understand whole world of feelings or emotion, without hearing a single word from a person in front of him. Yes it happens, when a child smiles in front of a mother and similar type of selfless relationships. So here it goes, what a song !!!!.

It's amazing
How you can speak right to my heart
Without saying a word, you can light up the dark
Try as I may, I could never explain
What I hear when you don't say a thing

And after that, one of my favorite lyrics

The smile on your face
Lets me know that you need me
There's a truth in your eyes, saying you'll never leave me
The touch of your hand says, you'll catch me whenever I fall

You say it best
When you say Nothing at all.