Thoughts from Empty Mind.

Tribute to Sachin Tendulkar

2011-01-09T07:37:00.000-08:00

Following is an extract from an email send by my friend Deven Kambli:
"Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar" : List of 100 Records.

Its been 21 years since Sachin Tendulkar stepped in to the International arena of Cricket. Sachin has been breaking cricket records ever since his debut, and will surely break more records in the time to come. Following Sachin Tendulkar records list has been growing ever year, and will grow until he plays.

1.Record number of matches played – 442 matches
2.First player to play a record 400 innings
3.Number of consecutive ODI appearances – 190 matches
4.Cricket grounds played on – 90 grounds
5.Highest individual score by a single player – 200*
6.Most runs in a cricket career – 17,598 runs
7.Record number of ODI centuries – 46 Centuries
8.Record number of centuries in ODIs against an opponent – 9 Centuries
9.Record number of centuries in tournament finals – 6 Centuries
10.Record number of centuries in all formats against an opponent – 19 centuries
11.On Sachin’s Debut, he was the second youngest debutant after Aaqib Javed of Pakistan
12.First player to score 10,000 runs
13.First player to score 11,000 runs
14.First player to score 12,000 runs
15.First player to score 13,000 runs
16.First player to score 14,000 runs
17.First player to score 15,000 runs
18.First player to score 16,000 runs
19.First player to score 17,000 runs
20.Only male player to score a double century in ODIs
21.Tendulkar has scored more than 1,000 runs against every major cricket playing nation
22.Sachin is the only player to score more than 3000 runs against a single opponent – Sri Lanka and Australia
23.Holds the record to score more than 1,000 runs in a single calender year. He has done this 7 times so far.
24.Most number of runs in tournament finals – 1833 runs
25.Most fours in an innings – 25 against South Africa
26.Record number of scores above 150 in an innings – 5
27.Most Half Centuries in ODIs – 93 Half Centuries
28.Highest number of scores over 50 – 139
29.Most Man of the Match awards in ODIs – 61
30.Most Man of the Series awards in ODIs – 19
31.Most half centuries in world cup matches – 13
32.Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most runs in ODIs in a calendar year – 1894 runs in 1998
33.Second Fastest to reach 8000 test runs. Record recently broken by Kumar Sangakarra
34.Fastest to reach 12,000 test runs
35.Fastest to reach 13,000 test runs
36.Record centuries in a calendar year – 9 centuries in 1998
37.Highest partnership for any ODI wicket – 331 runs with Rahul Dravid
38.Highest partnership for 2nd wicket in ODIs – 331 runs with Rahul Dravid
39.Highest partnership for 3rd wicket in ODIs – 237* runs with Rahul Dravid
40.Highest partnership aggregated by a pair – 8227 runs with Sourav Ganguly
41.Record opening partnership pair – 6609 runs with Sourav Ganguly
42.Most century partnerships – 26 partnerships with Sourav Ganguly
43.4 wickets and Century in the same match – Against Australia in 1998
44.Sachin Tendulkar has been dismissed a record 3 times on 99 in ODIs
45.Sachin has been the most dismissed batsman in the 90s in International cricket – 24
46.Most 200 run partnerships in ODIs – 6
47.Most century partnerships by an opening pair – 21 with Sourav Ganguly
48.Record number of runs in a cricket world cup – 673 runs in 2003
49.Most runs in cricket world cups combined – 1796 runs
50.Most centuries in International cricket – 94 centuries
51.Most Test cricket centuries – 51 Centuries
52.First batsman to complete 31,000 International runs
53.Most test runs – 13447 runs
54.Most dismissals in the 90s in ODIs – 17
55.Most number of Test appearances - 169
56.Most fours in test cricket – 1734+
57.Most century partnerships in Tests – 17 with Rahul Dravid
58.Highest score by an Indian captain – 217 against New Zealand
59.More than 1000 test runs in a single calendar year – 5 times
60.Record number of man of the match awards by an Indian in Test matches – 14 times
61.First batsman to score 50 international centuries
62.First batsman to score 60 International centuries
63.Tendulkar holds the record for being the only batsman to score 70 International centuries
64.Tendulkar holds the record for being the only batsman to score 80 International centuries
65.Tendulkar holds the record for being the only batsman to score 90 International centuries
66.Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to have scored century on debut in the Irani trophy, Ranji trophy and Duleep trophy
67.Most Centuriess in World cup Cricket – 4
68.Most Half Centuries in World Cup cricket – 17
69.Most boundaries in International cricket – 3675
70.Most half centuries in International cricket – 149
71.Most runs in a single edition of the IPL – 618 runs
72.Most runs scored in test matches away from home – 7819 runs
73.Highest overall partnership runs, in all formats combined – 12,400 runs with Sourav Ganguly
74.Most matches in a career – 606 matches
75.Sachin Tendulkar has played for a record number of consecutive matches for India – 239 matches
76.Highest partnership for the 3rd wicket in World Cup – 237 runs with Rahul Dravid
77.Fastest to reach 10,000 Test runs
78.Sachin is currently second after Sanath Jayasuriya for the most ODI appearances, soon expected to overtake
79.Sachin Tendulkar scored 5 centuries before he turned 20
80.Most fours in ODI cricket – 1927 boundaries
81.Ranked by Wisden as the Best ODI batsman of all time
82.Ranked by Wisden as the Second Best Test batsman of all time
83.Highest Indian last wicket partnership – 133 runs with Zaheer Khan
84.Most number of Man of the Match awards in World Cup
85.Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli were involved in a 664 run partnership in Harris Shield game in 1988. A record broken this year
86.In 1992, Sachin became the first overseas player to play for Yorkshire at the age of 19
87.Has the least percentage of Man of the Match awards when on the losing side. Out of the 56 times, India has lost 5 times
88.Sachin has won the Padma Shri, Arjuna Award and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards, and he is the only cricketer to receive them all
89.One of the few batsmen to have Centuries against all Test Playing countries
90.The first batsman to be given out by a Third Umpire TV reviewal system
91.Sachin holds the record for being the only player to have 40 wickets and 11000 runs in Test cricket
92.Sachin holds the record for being the only player to have 150 wickets and 15000 runs in ODI cricket
93.Sachin Tendulkar holds the best average amongst the batsman who have crossed 10,000 ODI runs
94.The highest run scorer in the 199 and 2003 cricket world cups
95.Sachin is the only player to have more than 100, fifty plus scores
96.The only batsman to have scored more than 2 centuries against all Test playing nations
97.Sachin has completed his Century by hitting a 6, on four different occasions in test matches, a record shared by Ken Barrington
98.Only cricketer to have done 10,000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 catches in ODIs
99.The only player to be in Top 100 of ICC rankings for 10 years
100.Sachin is the cricketer to have a record number of records.

When Sachin Tendulkar toured Pakistan to face the finest bowling attacks ever in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a Formula 1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was captain of the world champion Argentine team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam title, Roger Federer was a name no one knew of , Lionel Messi was probably in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid back in Jamaica. The Berlin Wall still existed firmly, USSR was one big, big country fighting the Cold War, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to open the Narsimha Rao’s Indian economy.

Power of Viral Social Media.

2011-01-07T23:49:00.000-08:00

A few days ago I browsed on You tube I found a video called "Homeless Man with a Golden Voice". The video today has more than 3 lakh hits and that Homeless Man has got a job at a local Radio Station.

Thats what I called Power of Viral Social Media.

People who shaped my life

2011-01-07T21:41:00.000-08:00

I just woke up today morning and said to myself do I remember all the teachers I had in my life yet. So planned to make a list of them from KG to PG. So here goes.

Sudha Teacher (Mini, Junior, Senior Kg)
Gavli Teacher (1st Std Class Teacher)
Laxmi Teacher (3rd Std Class Teacher)
Kavita Teacher (2nd Std Class Teacher)
Jaya Teacher (4th Std Class Teacher)
Aarchrya Teacher ( 5th Class Teacher)
Julie Barua Teacher ( 6th Class Teacher)
Saathe Teacher ( 8th Class Teacher)
Thakur Teacher (Tuition Teacher)
Baliga Madam and Baliga Sir ( NGK classes)
Bapat Teacher (NGK Classes)
Sheela Teacher (9th Std Class Teacher)
Maisalkar Teacher (10th Std Class Teacher)
Malvankar Teacher (Drawing Teacher)
Shetty Teacher (History, Geography, English Teacher)
Nair Teacher (Maths and Science Teacher)
Shinde Teacher (Marathi Teacher)
Nanda Teacher ( Maths Teacher)
Tillu Teacher (Science Teacher)
Urekar Teacher ( Hindi Teacher)
Chavan Teacher (Sanskrit Teacher)
Ajgaonkar Teacher ( English Teacher)
Gaitonda Teacher (Marathi Teacher)
Dsouza Teacher and Parab Madam (PT Teachers)
Smita Kulkarni Teacher and Mahalaxmi Kulkarni Teacher (Marathi, History Geography Teachers)
Baraskar sir and Bhatkar Sir ( Cricket Coaches)
Kaage Sir (11Std English, Bsc IT Communication Skills)
Patil Sir ( 11th 12th Std Maths Teacher)
Patankar Sir (11th 12th Biology)
Lele Sir (11th 12th Chemistry)
Pawar Sir (NCC chief)
Apurva Madam (FY SY TY Bsci IT, C, Java)
Barve Sir (FY, SY, TY, Bsc IT, Msc Part I, Mobile Communications)
Shruti Madam (SY, TY Bsc IT Internet Security)
Nityanand Sir ( SY, TY Bsc IT SQL and DBMS)
Pimparkar Sir ( SY FY Bsci IT DCN and Networks)
Siddesh Sir ( FY SY C practicals)
Sampada Madam ( MSc Part II Advanced Java and Multimedia Systems)
Neeta Madam (Msc Part II Robotics)
Sangeeta Tiwari Madam ( Msc Part I Speech Recognition and Image Processing, Electronics)
Trupti Madam ( FY SY C practicals)
Purohit Madam (Msc Part II Artificial Interlligence and Lisp)
Raje Sir (MMS , Macro and Micro Economics, International Business)
Bhide Sir (MMS, Operations Management and Operations Research)
Singh Sir (MMS, Business Maths)
Jaya Madam (MMS, Business Maths)
Virani Sir (MMS, Preceptive Management)
Berry Sir (MMS, Marketing and Advanced Marketing Management)
Joshi Sir (MMS, Communication Skills)
Kale Sir (MMS,Leadership and Marketing)
Dhondy Sir (MMS, Ethics and Legal)
Vishwanathan Sir (MMS, HR)
Vishwakarma Sir(MMS, Intro to IT)
Ajmera Sir (MMS, Managerial Accounting)
Agarwal Madam (MMS,Financial Accounting )
Varhan Sir (MMS, Market Research )
Sadique Sir (MMS, Introduction to New Technologies)
Abuzar Sir (MMS , Networking and Communicatio
Rajesh Sir (MMS, Managing Technology Business, )
Gole Sir (MMS,CoBit Framework )
Veera Sir (MMS, Entreprenuership)
Vaze Sir (MMS, Internet Security)
Gupte Sir (MMS, Services Management)
Balasuburamiyam (MMS, Management Control System)
And Last but not Least My Baba ( Cricket, Swimming, Skating , Motorbike .. list is too long)

Woah .. 65 People who shaped my life.

Follow The Leader!

2011-01-02T20:19:00.000-08:00

Indians (including me) have a mentality of following the leader. The term "Herd Mentality" can be aptly applied for all Indians.For eg. Indians in choosing careers. "Mr Sharma`s son is engineer, so our son should be engineer." We always see a queue and we form a queue behind it. I guess no one ever tried to find another way nor did anyone found a way to reduce the queue, let it be a temple queue or a billing counter queue. A funny incident took place a few days ago. There was an empty space in which no car or bike was parked and it was around the curve ( It illegal to park vehicles at end curve of the road). So me and my friends dared to park there. A few minutes later when we came back there were more than 10 bikes parked besides us.

Hence I found out that when a person takes a risk, people do follow him whether he is wrong or right.

Regards
Empty Mind

New year ... New Beginning!

2011-01-01T11:13:00.000-08:00

Year 2010 was the one on this blog with I guess not more than 1 post(That too a Draft Post). So after a long gap of not blogging, I decided this year (Not a resolution) to start blogging again.

My blogging has no theme. As we say that thoughts are somethings which just pops up in our minds we dont try to analyse what are we thinking and why we thought of such a thought. Never mind.

Here goes the thoughts..

Regards

Empty Mind

Enjoying Cricket!!

2009-05-14T11:49:00.001-07:00

For so many days I havent written on my blog and my gf is pressurizing me to write something on my blog. Hence Today I will write something in my blog after so many months of hibernation from blogging.

I feel another thing which I had done after so many months or even maybe years is watching cricket seriously(I have to add 'seriously' at the end bcos i was not watching it that seriously). But today I watched Mumbai Indian losing to Rajasthan Royals. Even though we lost, i enjoyed watching the game after so many years with dad.

Dad is a die hard cricket fan and I was too. But today, it just came to me, it just took me to my roots where I was cricket crazy maniac who did nothing else than playing cricket. I truly enjoyed cricket in school, even though I was a waterboy for school cricket team and catch dropper in my local cricket team and the worse cheating player, I just enjoyed it. Just the feel of the bat and ball, and those shouts and those run outs and quarels for every runs. All those old things just came back to me today while watching the game. I hope I continue this streak of keep the spirit of the game high and enjoy it.

REGIONALISM !!!

2008-02-04T23:41:00.000-08:00

Last seven days have been a stressful days for people of Shivaji Park. I being a resident of Shivaji park has witness autocracies against the "Bhaiyas". Living in the eye of the storm of Marathi Polictics has been a rather interesting times. The last few days only one question was raised by everyone I met. "Whose Mumbai is it anyway?"

Yes! I believe that nobody owns Mumbai. Nobody can run Mumbai in their own ways. Mumbai is a type of clay which can be molded as the people like.Which depends on the people and majority of the people. Mumbai is a land which co owned by many people. Its just who owns a bigger part is the main question.

Who raised the issue of regionalism.? Why is the issue of "sons of soil" always raised?.. The answer is because there is injustice being done to the sons of soil. In a Railway Recruitment procedure, a North Indian officer choses a North Indian Fellow as clerk, not by looking at his qualification but just because he is from his same village or maybe he is from the same state. Now who starts all the regionalism. The "sons of soil" and who are qualified people remain unemployed and frustration increases.The incidents which took place in Dadar, Mumbai are evidences that "how frustrated a Marathi youth has become".

MNS or any party is against these North Indians who encourages regionalism and brings the great divide. Gujrathis and Marwadis too have their own festivals but they dont politiczes them. The Chath Puja is been politized and has been a weapon for "Power Exhibiton".(Yes... The Intention behind the puja were attacked not the Puja).

Another question raised here is this.. "How will Mumbai bear such a influx of people everyday". Mumbai has capacity and it is full now. Even though the constitution provides a right to settle anyhere in India but Why should Mumbai bear the pains and agony of people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. "Immigration shows that the immigrant is having trouble in his own land and seek another land for prosperity"

MODEL T AND TATA NANO

2008-01-12T21:09:00.000-08:00

The world watched when Tata Motors Chairman Ratan Tata unveiled his new product "TheTata Nano".Tata Nano is considered as the cheapest car in the world and having lesser emmissions than a motorbike.It has Euro4 Standard, which apparently is enough to make the environmentalists silent.The car has not yet been out for sale and it will gain an momentum once it is for sale.

The world was watching it unveiling but there was some part of history which we have forgot.In 1908, Henry Ford, of the Ford Motor Company introduced, The Model T. This happened exactly hundred years ago. The Model T was the cheapest car of it time and really became "People`s car".The Model T became the hottest selling of it time.The record remained the same for next 45 years.

Will this be TATA`s greatest move? Will this make Ratan Tata, "Henry Ford" of India.

IGNITED MINDS.....

2007-12-14T01:23:00.000-08:00

Few days ago, i bought a book called "INGNITED MINDS" by Dr A P J Kalam. The book is about 180 pages and it includes all the details of his presidential life and his work life and his 2020 vision for India. It is really amazing in the way he explains science and god. He interacts with the children in way that never a president in the whole world may have interacted. He also takes lessons from the saints who help him in very spiritual way.It is hard to believe that the former National Scientific adviser is so pious about god and not just Muslim gods but also Hindu gods.

The only problem I believe is that, Dr A P J Kalam is the only one who says goody goody and visionary things about India and there are many people including children to listen him and no one to do anything about those visionary things.

TECHNOLOGY

2007-12-11T07:02:00.000-08:00

Technology should be the combination of three things, Arts, Science, Commerce.

ARTS because the technology should be beautiful. It should remain in one`s mind for a long time. Technology should stand the test of time. The Macintosh Monitor, which had a colorful back is still remembered. The look and feel of a laptop`s keyboard is better than a normal PC keyboard.It is Art, which can make a difference between a good looking product-Bad working product and a bad looking product-good working product. The artistic brain behind a technology can make it presentable and also sell able. A consumer will always tend to buy a electronic product if it has a good look and feel and with the same type of technological quality, which is provided buy its rival products.

SCIENCE because it is the most core part of the technology. It is something makes the inside of the technology. Science make things works. The microprocessor which is inside every computer, the chips, the integrated circuits, the semiconductors, to the satellites are made by scientific specifications. Science is the thing which creates thing, but sometimes doesn't care the arts and commercial aspects of its applications. All it cares is about how much will it help mankind even though how ugly or how loss-making it maybe commercially.

COMMERCE. Technology is business. It is after all making money. Sometimes Money and Profit are motives behind a technology and it should remain the same way. Technology is an Intellectual Property and somebody has to pay for it. It is the commercial aspect of technology which makes people like Bill Gates, overnight rich and Microsoft as the world`s largest software company in the world.

I believe that the world`s best selling and most widely used technological product will be the one who would consider the scientific, commercial and the artistic aspect of it. Few companies in the world consider all these aspects.

Nobody cares including me.

2007-12-01T21:37:00.000-08:00

I often ask myself this question. What is the purpose of my life? Why am i here on this earth. If I am here What difference will it make. What difference i am going make on people. If I don't have any purpose Why am i here?

Its is really not a philosophical type or something which we read in self help books. It is an question which should be asked and the answer would be the answer of your life. It really becomes blurry sometimes and even some times we have crazy purposes in life. I have a purpose in life to get fat. Many other people of my age are having diffenrent purposes, like to get a job, to get a girl friend, to get married.

These are small purposes, getting married, getting job and all. There is a big picture behind these purposes, which very few people see. If che guevera would have gone home after traveling the whole south america. The world would not have seen the cuban revolution. What if MK Gandhi would have decided that he practiced law in Bombay instead to going to south africa. We would have missed him surely. He would have been just another lawyer in the Bombay High Court. These people saw the big picture and grabbed it.

Even tough I write so many big things about these people. I am going to end up like any other Indian of my generation. I am going to end up having a job in some MNC and then someday will migrate to some other country in search of good money and better job. Fuck the world and fuck the purpose of life. I got the answer of life. As if i care changing the world. Nobody cares including me.

Shivaji park is going to come under the 25% plan?

2007-11-23T04:41:00.000-08:00

Today I heard the news that BMC is planning to sell of 25% land of open spaces in Mumbai. Is Shivaji park, the ground which will come under this. If it does, How is it going to affect us or is it a good idea to sell of 25% of Shivaji park?. It is a matter of concern to all of us.

OR tomorrows we may get an ad....

SHIVAJI PARK FOR SALE.....

What is your orkutsocial quotient?

2007-11-18T08:05:00.000-08:00

Orkut social quotient of a day- i would define that as how many people you interact,how many photos you add, how many vidoes you upload, how many people you added and got accepted on that day. divided by 100. for a that day

For eg..... i add 2 people, 20 photos upload, 3 vidoes uploaded, 3 people a day... so my orkut-social quotient will be.

20+2+3+3/100 = 0.28 for that day.

for month = add all the days quotient/30

for year = add all the months/12

SO NEXT TIME SOMEBODY ASK YOU WHATS YOURS OSQ? The above is the answer.

IS INTERNET THE ANSWER TO ALL QUESTIONS?

2007-11-11T10:20:00.000-08:00

" FOR a 22 year old guy(like me), internet is something, which is just entertainment. It is just another alternative for TV or music. A guy or a girl of my age chats , surfs internet as if its just another phone call or channel surfing on the television. It is really have become a part and parcel of life and to an greater extend it has replaced the conventional TV and music as entertainment. It is just a new way of socializing with people, no matter the distance, caste,creed,race, color,gender or nationality."

20 years ago nobody would have believed that Internet would be a great tool for socialzing people. It was really something which a was like a secret society type. It was constricted to people who knew computers. Internet was really a nerdy users thing. It was never meant to common people.

Even today, i believe that the internet is not meant or understandable for a common people. What if a farmer wants to know about a some new techniques of farming. He has start from learning the computer and slowly move on to learning the internet. He will reach a stage in which he will be able to understand What is internet is and how does it works. This will take too much time. What is the use of such technology which makes the work harder. Technology is supposed to make things easy, not hard.

Another problem with the internet today is, it is large powerhouse of data. It is certainly not information powerhouse. Data house and information house are two different and somewhat opposite terminologies.Information is processed data. For example, if i am a guy searching for some road maps in Maharashtra. The information will not be available and if does it wont be so much useful.There is a mismatch of information needed and information shown over the Internet. Internet is just a powerhouse which is not meant for common people and with common problems or queries, which they expect the internet would solve.

So i guess, there is a need for an internet model which is different from today`s model. I predict that a day may come a farmer will search the internet for farming. A noted computer scientist Vijay Bhatkar once said, "The real use of technology is when the poorest of poor will be benefited from it."

ORKUT LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER

2007-03-16T08:14:00.000-07:00

Life before January 2006 was really boring. The internet experience was boring if compared to today.People used to chat on yahoo chat rooms trying to find out girls and ended up having friendship with that gal, that also no guarantee weather its gal or gay. People used to surf the internet for other types of stuff like entertainment through online songs or some slow movie download links.People used internet for entertainment. A person would be lying he or she says i didn't use the internet for entertainment. Last but very important aspect was porn. People just cannot ignore that aspect too. Everybody would be lying if say they say that didn't watched porn on the internet.

For people not using the internet and trying to fall in love - had difficult times too. A boy used to see a gal from a distance and dreamed of having an affair or rather friendship with her.(Still we find them in Shivaji park).

Come January 2006. A new buzz words came to internet. "Social Networking".Even Time Magzine declared 2006 as the year of "Social Networking" .For people in the United States application of Social Networking was Myspace.com. For India, it was Orkut.com.
First impressions of Orkut were of some kind of dating site or providing some kind of matrimonal services provided by Google. But it simply changed everything. Everybody just logged on. Created profiles. Created Communities.

People just came and came. Old friends met online. Reunions were arranged through orkut. People who were not interested in computers created profile and added up friends. (Now Thats a great achievement).People from various parts of the country just added up including small towns.It became a fad, a cult, website. People added friends and then went on adding friend`s friend. For those boys who dreamed of having friendship the gal of their dreams was now "Profile-and-Click" away from them. Some guys even went on dates , had affairs, but still havent heard about people getting married thru orkut. Communities were created to discuss political, social and yes..... even educational issues. Something which was not done in the real world was done on virtual field of Orkut. As always the coin has two sides. Orkut is now respsonsible for deflamtion of principals, current rave party at pune, deflamation of shivaji maharaj. The government and authorities cannot stop it. Internet is the only thing till today which has survived the censorship of any government.(except china maybe).

Truly an Idea can really changed the world. Thanks to Orkut, now people have become more social atleast in the virtual world.

PROCESS OF LOVE

2007-01-29T02:00:00.000-08:00

a boy meets a gal.. they become friends. starts sms or chating online or talking personally or hangout. take walks. everything... they start to like each other. "like" not love ... love comes under different domain. then one of them pops the question in drunken manner or a non drunken manner.."I love u" (the three greatest words ever known to mankind and also sometimes the three foolish words).. then gal feel either pity or just feels like doing time pass with the guy or vice versa... doesn't cares about the futures .. happily live the carefree days.. this is where the love begin..

this is where the love affair starts. Now gal`s fools her own parents giving some pity reasons to meet her so called "boy friend"... (this also goes vice versa)now the priority becomes bf then parents.. they just have a good time. chats and chats and hangsout with each other. still doesn't caring about the future... i really cant understand what they talk.. i mean whats the topic between them.. and that soft whispering voice... lol makes me really sleepy.

then after few days or weeks or months or years(not more than 4).. one of them gets bored.. and call the quits. or they both get bore. or tries to be infidel. that how the so called "break up" goes on.(this is general description of the college affair)

but some survive college... and then get marry .. hv kids.. hv a grt stable life forward. those who dont survive ... hmmm those people either get arranged married or may fall in love again. but without break up and much more serious this time..

so people this is general process of love i have observed in india..

thats it folks.

Gandhi, Gen X, and Bhagat SIngh.

2006-12-17T03:31:00.000-08:00

"Gandhi" a word which is known to the west as "India". If anyone asks which country you are from and you say India then their reply would be "ohh Gandhi was from your nation". Thats what the general imprint of India lies to the west. Gandhian thoughts or principles were used by the west in the mid 70s by Martin Luther King Jr for the civil rights struggle. At that time Gandhian thoughts were nearly forgotten by the Indian people. Some believed or still believe that Gandhi divided the nation and so on and so forth. Gandhi did this wrong and that wrong. But still Gandhi is the sole person to lie on our Indian currency. Truly Father of the Nation.

Last year, Why so special about Gandhi. Why there is the Gandhi Buzz around India and rest of the world. The reason - the film- Lage Raho Munnabhai. This film has made Gandhi famous for the generation X. Nobody would have ever thought of this idea. Films really changed people.Gen x got so inspired by the film that they applied the theories of so called "Gandhigiri" in the real life. People demostrating for rights, AIIMS doctors protesting the Gandhian way against the union health minister.

One man who stands opposite of Gandhian thought is BHAGAT SINGH. Bhagat singh and his gang of members are the idols for any Indian youth . They are the ultimate martyrs of our country.Hanged at the age of 23. 23 age where people dont know what to do in life, he gave his life for the country. Very few examples in the world have done this. His patriotism and nationalism is still followed by the youth. He supported violence, this is where the Gandhian thought clashes with him.

From these things, two most important most viewpoints where raised.
1) Gandhi as hero
2) Bhagat singh as hero

Both great leaders of our nations but theirs ideologies mismatch or simple just opposite. This Gen X should decide which sides to take

Indian Press Zindabad!!

2006-12-13T06:22:00.000-08:00

Truly speaking how many stories are there in this world. .. maybe 6 billion or more than that..
every person living on this planet has his own story. Stories are something which are to be told and which are to be listened.

A man at a railway station is a story. huh what story? Is that a story .. na its not ..
if he is killed under a train or murdered in broad day light then is a story. Thats how newspapers works.

They get stories from anywhere and anytime. The Indian Press is very good at that. A boy lying in a 60 foot trench for 50 hours is story. The only problem is about preferences. Indian Nuclear deal should be more important than a superstar`s wedding at Italy.The parliament matters should be more important than a kiss controversy.

People of India are sometimes brainwashed by those channels showing the same clips over and over again. If a bus burnt is shown thirty times then people will feel thirty buses are burnt which would ignite more anger.

Everyday stories are created and stories are told. The only thing is whether we like it or not.
so long live the press.

PS. please follow the BBC Motto "Where news comes first"