Time Machine took me to Delhi

A time machine that runs when power cuts, took me back to Delhi...............

Last Friday I was having dinner at a lunch home near my PG at shivaji park …..no need to mention that when ever I sit for dinner ….. I miss Ghar ka Khaana……but that day as i started with dinner, lights went off i thought i was in Mumbai and its must be a fuse fault but when service boy there presented me with candle…..i felt at home….i remembered worse power condition at delhi that used to be present acute challenges in obtuse summer time….i recalled all the events in sequence…
- me returning home – mom in kitchen with candle light – no light, she said – I refused to sit on table – went out with friends and returned with light , but when light appeared I realized its not home……there are times when intricate occurrence connects you to outright delight……

Bridging the GAP

Remember cricket playing & samosa making scene……NRI subject is high @ NewAgeCinema circuit. But gone are the days when ABCD and cross cultural relationships like Mississippi Masal or Bride & Prejudice provided the shock value.

Now latest flicks illustrate the fear factor of the likes of Kanta bahen (of kal ho na ho) coming true…….

Goodness Gracious Me team is back with zohra sehgal, saeed jaffrey, Jimi Mistry, om puri & roshan seth again pouring their talents in two Desi Diaspora films……….Chicken Tikka Masala and Touch of Pink. Movies are on the issue of gays and traditional Indian family. Signs of this subject started from movies like East is East (when elder son runs away to become hair dresser) & Bend it like Beckham (when jess friend fancy David Beckham)…………

Now what remain remains to be seen that for how successful this relationship on communal acceptance…..and can bridge the thinking GAP so that at the end producers can say Gay And Proud.

A Bit Busy....

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Kids with Cameras

Born into Brothels is one of the latest addition to my New Age Cinema Films warehouse-- it won the Oscar for best documentary this year. Filmed in the red light district of Calcutta, it follows several children born into the brothels, whose mothers work as prostitutes. In a city where there is much poverty, they are even more shunned than most, because of where they live and who their families are. Zana Briski, a New York-based photographer, gives each of the children a camera and teaches them to look at the world with new eyes. Given cameras, they photograph their families, the streets where they live, and generate new hope for their lives. In the wake of the film, an organization, Kids with Cameras, has emerged to continue the project. Now that’s whats I called a Motion Picture – as noble motion has emerged from pictures.
Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world. We use photography to capture the imaginations of children, to empower them, building confidence, self-esteem and hope. Creative Social work stuff to bring poor section to decent stature……. Flashing Foundation

Are You A Math Geek??

If you think IIM(A) is most tricky to enter, Google devised the most technical way to apply for a job, I guess Donald trump should look out for changes in apprentice.

A 50-foot-wide beige banners hanging from the ceiling of the Harvard Square subway station. But you may need a Massachusetts Institute of Technology degree to have the foggiest idea what they mean.

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''[First 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e].com," is all the banners say.

It took a few seconds for commuters to realize there's a math question being asked here, there company differentiated classes from masses

First you have to know that E -- the base of the natural logarithm -- begins 2.718281828 and goes on forever. Now identify the first string of 10 digits after the decimal that is a number evenly divisible only by itself and 1. If you don't have a supercomputer handy, the answer is 7427466391.

However, anyone who solves the puzzle (by combining the first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e with ''.com" and entering it into a Web browser) discovers that the website named for the solution, http://www.7427466391.com/, only gives you directions that leads to another web site with a string of solutions to four variables and a blank after the fifth (another vexing math problem). Solve that, and you get to an internal Google page that praises ''your big, magnificent brain" and invites you to apply for a job.

PS: ''Advertising is all about targeting who you want to get. If they're trying to get very intelligent mathematicians, that's the way to go."

Back to Boulevard > >

Like all good things come to an end, this trip was no exception. As I was coming close to Mumbai, I started missing the life that I experienced in these 10-12 days, meeting everyone after a long time was a great feeling, despite the hot climate conditions I managed to party at night time, I tried living every moment in such a limited time, walking down road to karan’s house, roaming at PVR, my bike and visit to college, all these events triggered memory of those good old college days.

Despite the train being rajdhani, I already started missing the luxuries of home, but I have chosen this path so no regrets, I suppose this time comes in everyone’s life who is successful….

Delhi was much more eventful this time with rape cases, heavy power shedding, scare of brain fever and bomb blasts (jo bole so nihal), but things were smooth at my end despite heavy police patrolling at night time I did manage enjoy with my friends at Basant Lok PVR, with a life like this I didn’t wanted to return but…………and like a picture perfect ending, I stepped at Mumbai Central station “and it rained” may this is good omen for the things to come…………

RUPTURE from REGULAR

Me & My Blog will be Right Back …….!!! Just wait for It…..

I am going back to New Delhi, India
This map is for people who have not studied geography at school level

From May 10th till May 23rd 2005
So will not spend any time thinking or writing
Only relaxing (so next post will be relaxing in Delhi)

N.Korea may hit a Six

It seems like to whole world is on pins and needles because North Korea could be on the verge of testing a nuke. Hmmmm, maybe W shoud have worried more about Kim Jong - who we all new HAD a weapons program - instead of Tin-pot dictator Saddam Hussein - whom Hans Blix said DID NOT have a weapons program. I suppose we can thank Bush and his ally Pakistan for the fact that North Korea likely has half a dozen nuclear weapons. Nice work George...the world certainly is a safer place with you at the helm. NOT!!

This Labour could Pain !!!

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has won with a significantly reduced majority for his Labour Party. After his victory, Blair went to Buckingham Palace to be confirmed as prime minister for the third time. But analysts say the slip in Labour's lead could prompt calls for Blair to step down before he serves a full five-year term.



Labour needed at least 324 seats to form a majority in the 646-seat House of Commons. Labour's majority of 161 in the last parliament had been slashed by almost 100 seats.
With 620 seats reporting, Labour had 353 seats, the main opposition Conservatives 196, Liberal Democrats 60.Turnout figures showed that only about 61 percent of people eligible to vote went to the polls -- a 2 percent rise on the last general election. The Labour majority falls to 64, as some are predicting, Oakley said that was "a danger area" for Blair, who has around 50 left-wing rebels in his party who may vote against his reformist program in parliament.George Galloway, who was expelled from Blair's Labour Party, used his victory speech to launch a withering attack on the prime minister.

Bush Govt's Economic Indicator

The Consumer Price Index is rising. The Federal Reserve Board has increased short-term interest rates by 25bsp. But perhaps the most troubling economic indicator these days is the alarmingly static Bush Twins Unemployment Index. If you're a poor kid and you can't get a job, well, it's probably because you're lazy and you don't have the right clothes. But if your dad is the most powerful man in the world and you still can't get a job, even though you graduated from prestigious universities eleven months ago, well, something is definitely wrong with the economy.

Towering Trump

''The Donald'' --as his first wife Ivana called him -- has come back from adversity so often that last August, the tireless tycoon, never short of ideas for self-promotion.

About the Man
A New Yorker by birth, Trump comes from a real estate family. His grandfather and father were builders who developed middle income properties in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. But after a privileged upbringing including a finance degree from Wharton, the young Trump muscled into Manhattan.

Major Property
£ His third wife, which he acquired last week
£ Pennsylvania Central Railroad's Commodore Hotel & rail yard near the Hudson River
£ Grand Hyatt in New York
£ Trump Towers, a 58-story building (that we see in The Apprentice)
£ The Trump Plaza and Trump Castle
£ Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City

Famous books on Trump
£ Trump: The Saga of America's Master Builder (1986)
£ Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987)
£ Trump: The Art of Survival (1990)
£ Trumped: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump--His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall (1991).

Gyan on Trump
£ A presidential bid in 1999
£ The Apprentice became an unexpected hit
£ Launched a board game called Trump, based on his life and business dealings

“Trump is at the top of his game, with expectations that there will be another downfall”
Donald Trump will remain one of America’s best capitalist -- the rich guy who became richer.

Ghar Ka Khaana !!!

Whether a long journey or a short one, make it more appealing by munching on easy to make and easier to carry home made food. So whether it's an two-hour long bus ride or a 24-hour train journey, entire tiffin boxes, dabbas are filled with delicious ghar ka khaana in which you a bit of home is carried along, no matter how long the journey or how far the distance; when you open the box filled with food you feel at home with nice breeze flowing in from railway owned window.
But this time when I will be traveling alone from Mumbai to Delhi, I will miss that ghar ka khana with the turtle shakes of Indian trains that help in digestion process. Two things I missed at Mumbai is Mother and Ghar ka khanna ………… earlier at every possible opportunity I used to eat outside…but at Mumbai I realized that best thing on earth is home cooked food…

Retro might be waiting in form of parties and meets but I will try to stuff myself with GHAR KA KHANNA as much as I can…I cant wait to sit on dinning table and eat food with my family……….

Horny India ???

Why must Indians are so horny all the time?

And too when that there is fine for doing that on red lights?

AMAZED

And it's not just the men who are to blame; the women are, if anything, even worse.
They do it all the time, in full public view. And what is much worse, in full public hearing. PAAAAAP! goes the BEST bus behind me. PAAAEEH, PAAAEEH! go in the two Marutis . EEEEE! goes the scooterist. POOOPAA! PAAPOO!! India that is Bharat at its horny best.

People who drive in India - whether they drive buses, trucks, cars, tempos, two-wheelers, whatever - have collectively disinvested the internal combustion engine as the cause of motorised propulsion. To a man, or woman, they are unshakable in their conviction that what imparts forward motion to their vehicle is not its engine, but its horn. And the louder more eardrum piercing, the better. I'm not sure on what scientific principle this belief is based.

If you blow your own horn while others are blowing theirs the chances are that the audio Armageddon will drive you stone-deaf. And as such you'll reach that noiseless nirvana, that peace that passed all horniness: Shanti, shanti, shanti...

PS: now what worse, next best accessory for bikes is break music horn…

BAS EISI KI HI KAMI THI

It's a DOG's life

Life for 99% people on earth has only one meaning Money, Marriage and Kids.
Why every thing is so routine? What worse people spend most of their life to plan that routine, which is there by default. the day people land on earth they are made to walk the same road on which everyone is walking.

Pre war scenario
[Life is a constant war]

Why man is social animal? Why we take birth in families? I guess even god has a fixed routine……..as we step on earth people around us start their regular regime in preparing us to earn, to marry……
As we grow up in families, we develop emotional bonding, which makes a person puny at heart………parameters like responsibility, discipline and expectations can really harass and torture you.
There are benchmarks created by society and family which you have to meet from time to time and junta around you play “HR” and a constant performance appraisal is going … at the end of the day most of the people turn “LOOSERS” – as they are the one who fail to make as per routine…..then you are forced to carry that burden that ur…”FAILURE”

Post war scenario
[You are a prisoner of war]

If you are among those few winners you had a narrow escape….but it is only a matter of time that those people will turn hostile and push to a newly defined level of “FAILURE”.



Suddenly one-day people around you realize that now you are a decently furnished commodity and shouldn’t be left loose……….and then final knock out punch follows you in form of Marriage.
If you retaliate or try to break routine, then initially talked weapons like emotional torture and number at failure board are used to make you feel that you don’t really have an option..do you?



And when decide to jump….mate you are gone….now routine slowly but surely turns into vicious circle, and you will find yourself a money generating machine or programmed robot who follows the strict office schedule from morning to evening on weekdays and act like a buffoon on weekends for others to relax….and when you think of LIFE….living LIFE…..drear your at weekend of life and almost DEAD!!!!!!

PS: I am not blaming families for the matter above, but then it’s a routine

A Good God..in ...POPE !!!!

New pope is from Germany,


as expected again there will be new agendas to make the world a better place….but I guess, racial discrimination is still alive, and what worse, even on the issues of HIV/AIDS…pope visited California …. When 11 people died of AIDS.

Apparently 2 million people have died in Africa because of this disease and still any sort of help or even nuggets of wisdom is not seemingly visible to educate the people in this part of world.

Now, I guess new pope, will also be able to devote some time to people in third world, and take time out of few esteem class people, and look on the serious issues that are changing or rather reducing the world.

List of expectations
£ I look forward to seeing a pope whose mission is to preach love, peace and unity among the peoples of the world.
£ He should tyr to reduce the growing level of corruption and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa by the elites and government officials. The devastation that AIDS is having on Africa, a decision should be reached on condom use.

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Creativity at its best as one has to present idea on a single platter..

what kind ru!!!!

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reins through your finger tips. you express
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your pain just when it needs to be let out. you
have been burned in the past and now your soul
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once they are, you quickly move them out.
you're soul is very strong and you're not about
to break now. your stubborness always directs
you through life. you tend to follow your head,
not your heart. remember, everything happens
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Movies, I have watched @ Bombay

Night before leaving for Bombay I watched BLACK @ PVR Naraina with anish and karan. Movie was simply tremendous, this blog is not about movie review, but movies that I have seen at Bombay

£ PAGE 3
£ FUN
£ GROWN UPS
£ MILLION DOLLAR BABY
£ RAY
£ ZEHER
£ MISS CONGENIALITY 2
£ HITCH
£ My Brother...Nikhil
£ The PacifieR

Next in the wings

£ ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
£ WHITE NOISE

Monster's Inc.....

This is Monster's Inc at Shivaji Park..............

Music Monster
General Tendancy - Scare u with his Guitar Music



Sleep Monster
General Tendancy - Scares u with his snoring sound



Night Monster
General Tendancy - Scares u with his Night Appearance




Note: Beware of these Monsters - they get active at night, and if there is encounter somewhere pls be scared, else they will mind, they are very Temperamental !!!!

Today is Baisakhi, Sada New Year

Baisakhi, also spelled Vaisakhi, is the festival which celebrates Punjabi New Year.



The story of the foundation of the Khalsa started with the martyrdom of Guru Teg Bahadur, the 9th Guru, who was publicly beheaded by Mughul rulers for protecting freedom of worship for both Sikhs and Hindus.
The son of Guru Teg Bahadur, who was called Guru Gobind Singh, became the next Guru. He stated that Sikhs should always be prepared to stand up for their beliefs, whatever the cost.
In 1699, Sikhs from all over the Punjab gathered together to celebrate the Hindu harvest festival of Baisakhi. Guru Gobind Singh came out of a tent carrying a sword and requested that anyone prepared to give his life come forward.
A young Sikh came forward and disappeared into the tent with the Guru. Then the Guru reappeared alone with his sword covered in blood and asked for another volunteer. This was repeated another four times until a total of five Sikhs had gone into the tent with him. Everyone present was very worried until eventually all five emerged from the tent alive, with Guru Gobind Singh, and wearing turbans.
The five became known as the Panj Piare, or 'Beloved Five'. Guru Gobind Singh's wife mixed some amrit. The Guru said some prayers over the five and they were sprinkled with the amrit. This is how the Amrit ceremony came into being and these five Sikhs became the first members of the Khalsa.

It is popularly celebrated across north and mark harvesting session……….
And Today i am feeling happy to show this picture that
Punjabi Community has dominated the world and now u can even find a nagar kirtan @ London Streets

Even A Pawn Can Kill The King!!!!

This blog is not about winning strategies of CHESS, but it’s about chess strategies applicable (to achieve victory) in corporate life..

Difference between an armature and professional player in chess is that former only give importance to ROOK, KNIGHT, BISHOP and QUEEN and builds all the strategies around them, but later knows the importance of every element on the table and knows when it comes to blocking all elements can occupy one grid at a time……

Similarly, in corporate jargons they are two type of people one who think only top management, is a place where real game is played, produces results and thus are given more importance in corporate strategy, but professional players who knows the organizational grid board give importance from operative – top management while even considering a strategy.

Pawns not only provide backup or life-support to other elements with higher power but can sometimes produce killing moves when work in unity.

Why I am writing this, I cant mention in straight words, I cater to the needs of top level managers…my Job needs time to get used to conditions…..and one take time before start producing results……..so wrong info or united move …. Can really kill the king….

But as if now me along with 7 team members are working on probation and waiting for some HOPE ….. it seems as if now king has killed all the 8 pawns in one move.

FROM LOCAL TRAIN TO CITY FAME….

It’s been two months now since I have shifted to Bombay and most amazing thing which stiff gets me thinking are it’s LOCAL TRAINS.


TRAINS represent speed and ability of man to cover distance in QUICK time.
Yes “QUICK” is of prime importance as far as trains criteria is concerned.

I witnessed noticeable difference between LOCAL trains in Delhi and Bombay. Trains here are more important commuting tool than in delhi (despite having so called EMUs they are not properly connected)..busses still dominate there…that’s why I guess Bombay is commercial capital of India.

As same term “QUICK” goes common for BUSINESS and TRAINS.

Trains in Bombay are fast, easy accessible, waiting time for train 5min so overall good service.

All the cosmopolitan commercial cities of the world has sophisticated TUBE (Electric Trains) system….London, New York, Munich, Sydney, Maglev of Japan …….are contributing to the cities name, fame and economy wise….just like Bombay.

Basic advantage features include proportionate division of traffic on roads and trains thus both medium moves fast thus less traveling time more work more salary more spendings thus WEALTH EFFECT at its max…

Grey side “they are overcrowded at most times as more people travel from suburbs and not properly maintained despite having positive earnings every quarter, but then how many public things are called as perfect in India…not even its parliaments which was under terrorist attack couple of years ago”


Delhi is fast catching up by working on the similar model (more on Sydney style), Delhi Metro Rail Project is mounting and is seemingly visible now in some of the parts like CP – DU ….Coaches are air-conditioned (because of extreme temperature in Delhi), scratch proof (thanks to German engineering) ..easily connected stops at every km and stations are in the middle like bus-stops…..so moving towards similar features like less traveling time and easy connectivity.

Now what remains to be seen is that how fast Delhi junta adopt themselves to this train system (like people in other commercial cosmopolitan of the world) and do not feel humiliation or embarrassment, commuting in Metro Trains while having 2-3 cars at home…

NOTE# Investment Bankers in New York & London travel in TUBES despite of wearing HUGO BOSS SUIT and earning much over $100,000……………just think over it!!!!!!

Man of Many Moods

Richard Branson: Man of Many Moods

You never know with Richard Branson, type of personality he has, that what he is upto.
A true celebrity business person and having most creative campaign ideas , this MBA drop-out has certainly catapulted VIRGIN ATLANTIC to new levels….

His media presence is very volatile…he can simply present himself any way he wants that will become news...He is well know for his appearance with the models and air-hostesses of his Airline..


On Friday, April 1, 2005
His media appearance with world-renowned Mumbai dabbawallahs added a spice to the promotion of his airlines and once again proved skill and level of his creative thinking…
in future u can expect dabbas as meal on Virgin Flights or you might be eating Virgin Atlantic Dabba at your office delivered by a Marathi dabbawallah...

As part of experiencing the flavour of Mumbai city and its local trains, Virgin Atlantic Airways founder chairman, Richard Branson on Friday travelled in a local train along with the famous dabbawallahs of the city. Showman Branson boarded the second-class compartment of a local train at Andheri along with over 25 dabbawallahs (tiffin-box carriers) and interacted with them till the Churchgate railway station.

Chairman of Britain's Virgin Atlantic Airline Sir Richard Branson (2R) poses with Dabbahwallahs (tiffin carriers) while sitting with a Virgin Atlantic 'tiffin box' after alighting from a train at Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai on April 1, 2005. Branson who is on a two-day visit to the city has launched Virgin Atlantic's thrice-a-week London-Bombay flight. Virgin Atlantic Airways first flight to India's financial and entertainment capital Bombay, marks the launch of a second Indian route, the airline already operates daily services to India's capital city Delhi. Bombay's Dabbahwallahs are renowned for their delivery system of lunchboxes or tiffin's to office workers from the city's suburbs.

Here you can witness Richard Branson in many moods .. on the Inauguration flight of his airline in India.

British business tycoon Sir Richard Branson (C) of Virgin Atlantic Airways steps out of the aircraft along with Indian models Shubangi Sawant (R) after the airline's inaugural flight touched down at the International Airport in Mumbai on March 31, 2005

EXTREMELY ECSTATIC

EXTREMELY ECSTATIC @ batting display – April 5, 2005

Before writing this blog I was thinking that my might sound a cricket journalist and my blog look like a tabloid sports page….but then two things came to my mind
1) I am an Indian
2) IND v PAK series is going on..

today I numerically witnessed (why I am saying this cos I was at office) one of the all time best knock by an Indian wicket keeper MS DHONI….he was promoted in the batting order after GOD (Sachin) got out…..he played tremendously that I decided to dedicate a complete ….. now he is confirmed as keeper for at least one year…I hope he countinues to play well and do less of advertising……also Mumbai dominance is diminishing as more and more player from north are showing their worth in the BIG LEAGUE
on this topic I also like to write something on SEHWAG as he is in form of his life scoring loads of runs in every match… I don’t know how long it will continue … I hope it last long….and we get entertained
one thing I want to say


“EVERY THING SEEMS EASY WHEN IN ZONE”

Punch (IT) Line

1. NIIT : Not Interested in IT
2. WIPRO : Weak Input, Poor & Rubbish Output
3. HCL : Hidden Costs & Losses
4. TCS : Totally Confusing Solutions
5. INFOSYS :Inferior Offline Systems
6. HUGHES : Highly Useless Graduates Hired for Eating and Sleeping
7. BAAN : Beggars Association and Nerds
8. IBM : Implicitly Boring Machines
9. SATYAM : Sad And Tired Yelling Away Madly
10. PARAM : Puzzled And Ridiculous Array of Microprocessors
11. C-DOT : Coffee During Office Timings
12. AT&T : All Troubles & Terrible
13. CMC : Coffee, Meals and Comfort
14. DEC : Drifting & Exhausted Computers
15. BFL : Brainwash First and Let them go
16. DELL : Deplorable Equipment & lackluster
17. TISL : Totally Inconsistent Systems Ltd.
18. PSI : Peculiar Symptoms of India.
19. ORACLE : On-line Romance And Chatting with Lady Employees.
20. PATNI: Pathetic Appraisal Techniques, No Increments.
21. MASTEK: Mad And Stupid Technitians Enroute to Kabaarkhana