Here comes the day when we celebrate the birth of the largest democracy and the Indian constitution. Today we celebrate 61st republic day. Happy republic day to my Indian brothers and sisters.
One request that I have for my Indian brothers – lets forget whatever problem we had in past until now and live in peace without posing any problems to anyone. JAI HIND!
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With 7.0 reading on the Richter scale the earthquake on Haiti is one of the most devastating earthquake seen in human history. Words can not describe how devastating it was so have a look at these pics
If you feel like helping these people here are the organisations which you can contact…
Organizations Helping With Haiti Relief
- American Red Cross
- Doctors Without Borders
- AmeriCares Disaster Relief
- International Medical Corps
- Mercy Corps
- Catholic Relief Services
- World Vision International
- UNICEF
- Oxfam
- Save the Children
- Yele Haiti
- Partners in Health
- The International Rescue Committee
- Samaritan’s Purse
- Friends of WFP
- Feed My Starving Children
(Information of these organizations has been gathered from here)
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4 suicides were reported in Mumbai. It seems like there is no end to suicide boom in the city. Out of the 4 suicides, 2 were of students. I felt like posting about this as yesterday was the day when I posted about stopping student suicide to help my blog visitor Alok Parande.
The first incident was of the class 10th student Suraj Nair who committed suicide by hanging himself in his Virar home while his parents were at their work. The reason of his suicide is not still known as he did not leave any suicide note and his parents are in a state of shock. He committed suicide after returning home from his prelim exam. The police hasn’t ruled out exam stress as the reason behind his suicide.
The second incident took place in Matunga where an 18 year old girl, Shivani Ashish Seth committed suicide from the fifth floor of her bulding. She was a student of FYBCom, SIES college. The reason of her suicide is also not known.
It is high time we should wander why these kids with whole of their lives ahead of them are committing suicides in such a high number. Most of the cases are due to exam stress. Counselling them at the right time is the need of the hour.
The other incident involved Reena Chaudhary, 24 year old woman who committed suicide as she was unhappy with her match. She got engaged on January 2 with a prospect of her parents choice with whom she wasn’t comfortable.
In another incident, an alcoholic daily wage labourer, Kishore Solanki hanged himself at his residence in Lower Parel using his wife’s saree. His wife was staying with her parents for his alcholic ways. The Police said that he was frustrated with life.
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Recently, Alok Parande a visitor of my blog wrote this comment on the review of 3 Idiots
‘Hello, We have started a new initiative on facebook, to stop student suicides.. It will be great if you can join in and support us in this.. Spread the word, Save a life..
http://www.facebook.com/stop.student.suicides‘
As has been the case with me I have always been spreading the word of such causes on my blog if someone asks me too and here am I doing it again. I, personally feel we don’t need money but more people to spread the awareness. So I hope that spreading the word like this through my blog would help our friend Alok in getting some more support in the cause that he is championing……
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Cast – Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor, Omi Vaidya, Parikshit Sahni and Boman Irani.
Direction – Rajkumar Hirani
This film released on 25th of December and for me this one was most awaited film of 2009 but due to my exams I couldn’t watch it as my exams were going on. I still couldn’t go to watch this movie even after my exams concluded as one of my friend hadn’t still finished with his exams. Guess a film on engineering and engineers themselves couldn’t watch this movie due to their exams. Nevermind! In the end I got the opportunity to watch it yesterday.
Moving on to the movie, well I think , though Chetan Bhagat had problem with the credits I am sure he wouldn’t have any problem with the way the story has been executed. Now I am not going to comment on the controversy that brewed between him and the producer.
The movie starts with Farhan (Madhavan) getting a phone call from his once classmate Chatur Ramalingam (Omi Vaidya) in the pretext of meeting his long lost friend Rancho, Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad (Aamir Khan). So Farhan Qureshi forces an emergency landing of the plane he was travelling at that time, calls his another good friend Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi) and the film commences the journey of two friends to find the long lost friend. While travelling Farhan walks down the memory lane and let us peep into their college life, their days at the Imperial College of Engineering (ofcourse its fictitious) one of the top colleges of the country.
The story tells about free-spirited Rancho who denounces the education system as it puts pressure on the students and sometimes even forces them to take the dreaded step of suicide. He doesn’t want the rote learning mentallity to be adopted. Instead he proposes that student should understand what they are learning so that learning becomes fun and the students will enjoy it. he also proposes that you should follow your dreams rather than following others (in most cases parent’s) dream to be successful. But these thoughts of his were unacceptable to two people Chatur and his Viru Sahastrabuddhe or ViruS (Boman Irani), the principal of the college who interprets Rancho’s thoughts as criticism of his professors.
Well this has been the message of the story but while delivering the message the film never compromises the entertainment factor. And this makes the film more loving and adoring. And what can I say about the performances! Man everyone has chipped in here. Aamir Khan is brilliant as usual, Sharman Joshi and Madhavan does not remain behind in term of quality of performances. Kareena’s performance is as lovely as she is(Well I got to admit it this is the second film after Jab We Met where I like her performance). Boman Irani Repeats his dean performance of Munnabhai M.B.B.S. but you still won’t complain about it. Omi Vaidya is funny as well as best as Chatur Ramalingam. I bet he will leave you in splits with his Hindi and speech at an award function (which is already a rage among youngster) when Rancho changes some of the word with obscenities. Camerawork is great suiting the mood of the film and direction is remarkable. Rajkumar Hirani delivers another Munnabhai like film with a difference. Moreover it is the first film based on a novel which I liked as much as I liked the novel. The film incorporates some changes but never did it loses on the message that the novel had to convey.
Conclusion: Well this is a must watch movie for everyone for its message as well as the entertainment that it provides. If you missed this you should just watch it as soon as its possible……
My Rating: 
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Well most of the people make some new year resolution at the start of the new year but break those within some months if not in some days. Well now don’t tell me that I’ve picked these lines from somewhere because I know I did! I don’t remember where I read it as is the case with me most of the times but the most important thing is that I remembered this line and the thing that is more important than that is that it is indeed true as i myself will vouch for it. During my initial years of my teenage I would always make my new year resolution of getting fatter and eating more but my intake all over these years didn’t increase. (well that’s what my friends and relatives will say but I think that it increased but not in sync with my body.) So for last few years I had stopped making any new year resolutions.
Well since I forayed into facebook, I’ve been to some applications of it and this new year I tried this one about your new year resolution. So I have finally made a new year resolution albeit a different one. This time I have decided to not to loose the desire to learn. I think this isn’t that hard as I think have that desire and the only thing I have to do is to preserve this deserve. And since this was generated by the application of facebook I’ve decided to tweak it a little and make it more interesting. So my tweaked New Year’s Resolution is
Not to lose my desire to learn and increase that desire to atleast to double it
So hoping that this time I realize my ‘achievable’ new year’s resolution
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For all the readers HAPPY and PROSPEROUS New Year 2010. May this year be a blessed for all of us and secure as well.
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This is a very nice video about the sixth sense or wear ur world technology developed by Pranav Mistry, a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. Just watch this one to believe it.
The videos are from Pranv Mistry’s explanation of this technology at TED.
For more info about this technology visit Pranav Mistry’s site or the sixth sense site
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A year has passed by that dreadfull night when 10 terrorists came from across the border and terrorised the whole nation with their fidayeen attack. For 60 hours the bravehearts of our country fought with them, some getting laid down while doing their job and some getting injured. And after 60 hours of turmoil of these bravehearts and the mumbaikars alongwith attention of whole world 9 terrorist were killed and 1 caught.
But even after a whole year there remains that 1 terrorist still not punished for his heinous crime, a neighboring country whose citizens carried out these attacks not taking any action and a controversy around the death of one of Mumbai’s finest police official – Mr. Hemant Karkare. There had been many revelations in the wole year and many accusations but one thing that seems to be missing is to learn from the past mistakes. Everyone seems to be busy accusing each other but there had been no reports about the improvement in the attitude of the some people(which is needed) and improvement in the security of the city. As a result when you ask any average Mumbaikar about this he will probably tell you ‘I feel safe but not secure’
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Today I found this beautiful poem by Saint Kabir translated by Rabindranath Tagore which I deeply felt I should share with all
GARDEN OF FLOWERS
Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals
of the lotus, and there gaze
on the infinite beauty.
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