Scams and Dailies

Typically news follows the LIFO concept,the last to get into your head is the first to get out. Scams and unscrupulous men make it to the front pages of our country's national newspapers while applauds and achievements make it to the last pages. If you don't believe me..then open our national daily "Hindu" and check out the last page for all the "good news". So it becomes natural for a person to open the last page, rather than the first at times.

Our nation's print and electronic media giants need to be introspect the kind of news they feed us with .The most respected journos are caught on tapes lobbying with scamsters! How could a journalist, write an article based on what a business lobbyist expects him to ? "Pen is mightier than sword" but here that proverb has been exploited.Is this a case of corruption? Newspapers and magazines in India were the means of spreading the truth that "Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it" ,finally releasing us from the strings of British rule 63 years ago.Smart industrialists influence the minds of the common man through pens of these "elite" journos! For a month I have been making it a point to read who has written the article rather than what the article is about. Funny but that's how things are happening in our country. Very few individuals write what they think should reach the masses.
Twitter may be a micro blogging site but it has also been instrumental in showing the doors to the glib tongued of our nation from the most coveted posts. Wiki leaks seems to be more powerful in revealing the Truth!

Personally as a blogger I have written one about the UID project deeply impressed by the whole concept after watching a television program,but I realised that the concept has its dose of errors , after surfing to gather more details.Now my opinion is that its better to enclose the photocopies of the PAN card, Ration Card , Driving license as a proof of our identity, till we are tagged with the unique identity number.

So, here's a young Indian wishing that next Christmas she gets to open the newspaper, reading first to last, happily picking up the main paper first rather than the supplement to refresh her morning with more interesting news!

Merry Christmas !

Lakshya hai tera

These are the lyrics of the song from the hindi movie LAKSHYA sung my shankar mahadevan.


Haan yehi rasta hai tera, tune ab jaana hai
Haan yehi rasta hai tera, tune ab jaana hai
Haan yehi sapna hai tera, tune pehchaana hai

Haan yehi rasta hai tera, tune ab jaana hai
Haan yehi sapna hai tera, tune pehchaana hai
Tujhe ab ye dikhaana hai
Roke tujhko aandhiyaan, ya zameen aur aasmaan
Paayega jo lakshya hai tera
Lakshya toh har haal mein paana hai

Mushkil koyi, aajaaye toh, parbat koyi, takraaye toh
Taaqat koyi, dikhlaaye toh, toofaan koyi, mandlaaye toh
Mushkil koyi aajaaye toh, parbat koyi takraaye toh
Barse chaahe ambar se aag, lipte chaahe pairon se laakh -2
Paayega jo lakshya hai tera
Lakshya toh har haal mein paana hai

Himmat se jo koyi chale, dharti hille qadmon tale
Kya dooriyaan kya faasle, manzil lage aake gale
Himmat se jo koyi chale, dharti hille qadmon tale
Tu chal yunhi ab sub-o-shaam, rukna, jhukna nahin tera kaam -2
Paayega jo lakshya hai tera
Lakshya toh har haal mein paana hai

Haan yehi rasta hai tera, tune ab jaana hai
Haan yehi sapna hai tera, tune pehchaana hai
Tujhe ab ye dikhaana hai

Motherjane's Lead guitarist Baiju Performing "Vande Mataram" solo at JRO...

Sattar Minute Hai Tumhare Paas

Shah Rukh Khan is acclaimed for those dialogues are pervasive to set right all the nuts and bolts of your body, especially when its from the movie Chak De India.

Here are the lyrics of the famous Sattar Minute( before the game of hockey is played Kabir Khan gives his final boost of confidence to his girls to prove it to the world...) AMAZINGG!! :):)

"sattar minute hai tumhaare paas...

shaayad tumhaare zindagi ke sabse khaas saattar minute..

Aaj tum achchha khelo ya bura

yeh sattar minute tumhe zindagi bhar yaad rahenge

toh kaise khelna hai, aaj main tumhe nahi bataaunga

bas itana kahunga, ki jaao aur yeh sattar minute jee bhar ke khel lo

kyun ki iske baad aanewaali zindagi mein,

chaahe kuchh sahi ho ya na ho..

chaahe kuchh rahe ya na rahe, tum haaro ya jeeto

lekin yeh sattar minute, tumse koi nahi chheen sakta, koi nahin!!

Toh maine socha ki iss match mein kaise khelna hai

aaj main tumhein nahi bataaunga, balki tum mujhe bataaoge, khel kar

kyun ki main jaanta hoon ki agar yeh sattar minute

iss team ka har player apni zindagi ki sabsi badiya hockey khel gaya

toh yeh sattar minute khuda bhi tumse waapas nahin maang sakata

toh jaao, jaao aur apne aap se, iss zindagi se, apne khuda se

aur har uss insaan se jisne tum par bharosa nahi kiya

apne sattar minute chheen lo" [actual dialogue]

70 minutes. you have 70 minutes

Probably the most important 70 minutes of your life

Today, whether you play well or not

You will remember these 70 minutes for the rest of your life

So I will not tell you how to play today,

All I will say is go out there and play these 70 minutes to their fullest

Because after this moment, whatever happens in life

Whether its good or not,

Whatever the end result is, whether you win or lose

No one can take these 70 minutes away from you, no one!

So, I have decided,

I will no tell you how to play today, YOU will tell me, by playing.

Because I know that in these 70 minutes, if every player in this team plays the best hockey game of her life

Then even God cannot take these 70 minutes away from you

So go! Go and from yourselves, from this life, from your God, and from every person who didn’t have faith in you

Go snatch your 70 minutes. [english translation.]


Remembered this two days before my first aptitude test for a job! 

Source: Wikiquote !

My Take on Jargon

It is a really strenuous task being a biotechnology graduate looking up an IT company website, where certain terms like 'domains', 'verticals' , 'markets' , 'upturn' , 'venture capitals', etc pop up in most of the pages.When I am doing this I feel  learning basic communication English is insufficient for an individual to enter the REAL Business world. There is this arena which a college student never comes in contact to- the industry requirements, which is actually true. We are too busy with 'olarifying', 'bulb kudthufying' , 'Smalichifying'  half the time that we are looked archaic in the beginning in the biz world .But after all, what is college life without all these 'typical' jargon, the next 20 years your are destined to be thrusted  the responsibility of using it either at office or at least to understand what your husband or brother comes home ranting about from his office.

Secondly, there is a gadget language being spoken today , where you have terms like  speed,  microprocessor, RAM, Battery life time, support features, Android-Smart phone,Touch,Tab, Pad( I have picked up the simple ones, because I am very bad at equipping these terms myself, thanks to God for blessing me with the ability to understand things, but I find it difficult to use such jargon ,if truth be said) Being a person who is really not keen on learning this kind of jargon at school, I entered college, but never did I think that after handling my pal's mob would I turn out watching a 'Gadget Guru' or a' TechnoHolik', which was a show i used to skip, it was like Greek and Latin then.Following technical blogs for past few months, may be a transformation to suit a new field I am heading towards. Or have I have turned out to be a victim of the technology revolution , it should be an "Artificial Evolution'' ?

 Artificial Evolution!

Everything at home seems to be 'S.M.A.R.T.' - something which can do a job on its own with few instructions. Washing Machines, Televisions, Automobile, Mobile phones , Microwave ovens, Refrigerators, Air Conditioners, the list seems to go on. Just imagine how a idiot box working with an antenna had to be kept steady with a piece of steel rod, after a gentle wind made it wobble, is now DTH connection based! Amazing is the HD television, giving you a real time picture clarity. Of course all this happens at the cost of investment and not all Indian homes can afford it, but its happening everywhere, India is heading towards the great technology make over, which is sure to bring India to the top very soon. When the west comes hunting for recruiters to our nation , the super power dream is not far behind folks! 

So ultimately coming to the point, an individual cannot remain oblivious to the jargon anymore, its better to know the basics of it. Happy Jargon!

Aish Replayyy

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan turned 37 this week, the diva seems to rule the box office even at this age, with eyes popping out irrespective of age and gender captivated by the beauty and charm, she may well continue to rule the film world in her forties as well.This year the Mistress of Spices has four films in her kitty, Raavan, Endiran/Robot, Guzaarish and Action Replayy , every movie is special either for its magnificent star cast or director's cult status. The lady who began her career under the direction of Mani Ratnam in Iruvar along side one of the most talented actors of the country, Mohanlal and then went on to mesmerize us as the Madhumitha in  Shankar's Jeans, seems to have either a Midas touch which turns most of her movies into landmarks in Indian Cinema. Aishwarya may be the most beautiful face of the Indian cinema but that doesn't put her acting skills under question. I personally feel that her acting talent is hidden by the kind of charm her face bears, many films stand a testimony to the same: whether its the role of the love lost woman in Kandukondain Kandukondein,the abused wife in Provoked, the reverent Jodha, the married woman who searches for her boyfriend along with her husband on the streets of London in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, a
hot babe in Dhoom2, the cop in Khaki , the Manasi of  Taal or the rustic gangster's sister in Josh.

The role she essayed should be envied by every actress, having  played dramatic roles such as Paro of Devdas to the item girl in Shakti with Shahrukh Khan, she seems to have checked most of the list of characters an actress would love to play in her life. She has acted with every top actor in Bollywood starting with the Khans, Govinda, Akshay Kumar ,Ajay Devgan, SanjayDutt, Akshay Khanna, Bobby Deol, Abhishek Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan to the South Indian 'superstars' like Rajnikanth, Mohanlal, Mamooty Nagarjuna, Vikram, Ajith and Prithviraj.

If the roles are not sufficient to seriously be impressed by this lady's luck, she has danced to some of the best tunes churned by the top notch music directors, songs which exploit her dancing prowess and create magic on screen. She creates a kind of illusion on screen which makes us watch the video of the song with rapt attention.The elegance and limber in her dance makes us stop wondering on why she is always the beauty queen despite having won the Miss World title nearly 18 years back. It take a lot of attitude and persistent hard work both on the physical and mental front to be still treated as a Diva, when young and vivacious actresses are entering the market.

Having essayed many of these roles,a billion people are  waiting to watch her play the most special role any woman on this planet is blessed by Him to play! Good Luck ASH!

The Lapse of a Capricorn

OCT 23 rd: On 18/10/2010 I was roaming in the corridors to stealthily escape from my college to prepare for my exams. It was then that i was informed of a placement by a US based Biotech company the subsequent day. For a person like me who is waitng for every opportunity to escape to the US without an inch of financial trouble to her parents...my dreams vroomed to a lab in the neuroscience department in a university where i was testing the possibility of simulating a human brain with circuits! Awesome it sounds na! Thud! Everything fell down like a cloud burst....washed off the way even Brahmaputra would be kind enough not to if it had met me....! 

All dreams transcended the speed of light with a false promise or rather an offer for an interview by a company to make my professor's students their " workforce" !  I piled up my documents for the INTERVIEW with the 'coveted' company. I browsed through their website may be 'n' times , where n is greater than 24 hrs! I  looked up Naukri.com , Jobsahead, and all job search engines to identify the job profile.Then got a profile of a HR staff of that 'expertise' demanding company on FB through my friend and looked through every comment and post for the slightest hint of the company's expectations. My hopes started turning into multistorey buildings ( the way our CWG complexes were constructed).

 On 23/10/2010 , ready to attend the interview and post the ' PLACED' term that evening on my Fb wall...to announce to the world of my financial security o n the cyber space. And their after 15 min of my arrival at the hotel for an interview....my friend bombed me with the news of the interview unlikely to happen.It was then that I was slowly laughing at myself like a nut , unable to see all the castles and advanced wishes of a job fall one by one...!!!Hmm...may be lesson learnt is don't Dream too BIG! :)

The Capricornian Nature seems to be too much in me - The ambitious nature! Need to change a bit! :)

Better luck next time to me and my friends!:)