Bihar fate afteh 2009 loksabha elections

Bihar is underdeveloped, there can be no dispute over that, like no other state and region of India. And there so special and specific about Bihar’s underdevelopment for many reasons ?
On the eve of independence, Bihar produced 8 per cent of India’s food grains; it was 4th among the states in terms of industrial output and the largest producer of coal and steel.
Now, after 60 years of India’s independence, Bihar is the state with the lowest per capita income, barely Rs.10 or so on daily basis, which is less than one-third of Punjab’s, another predominantly agrarian economy. Bihar is the only Indian state where the per capita income has over the years actually declined.
This perpetual backwardness, this prolongation of Bihar’s underdevelopment, or better still non-development, deserves a comprehensive and in-depth study.
Bihar is caught in a trap, a poverty trap, in a vicious circle, and it is not going to be an easy job to break out from that. And this trap has been caused due to Central Government’s partiality and biased attitude and also because of Bihari people’s gullible nature( actually there straight-forwardness , direct , and honesty had been their cause of decline amongst the shrewdness of other western indian states.).
Often, hopes have been generated, say in the ’50s, when the e expanded at quite a satisfactory rate, as also in the latter part of the ’70s to mid-’80s, when total production of foodgrains had risen, and also the income from agriculture’s share had gone up by about 27 per cent.
In the ’90s too, statistics do show a high growth rate in foodgrains production as well as a real increase in area under HYV cultivation. Per hectare fertiliser consumption too has increased from 54.14 kg in 1989-90 to 64.51 kg in 1994-95. Household savings have risen considerably as witnessed in the astounding growth of non-banking financial institutions; take, for instance, JVG whose operational base is in Bihar. In the ’90s, hopes had particularly risen with the ascendancy of a social-justice regime, which in caste-class terms enjoyed the powerful backing of intermediate castes comprising mainly middle peasantry.

True, there are demographic and technological factors too that are responsible for Bihar’s underdevelopment. North Bihar has the highest concentration of mineral resources. With this, Chhota Nagpur’s had a strategic advantage to be developed as an industrial zone
One of the major dimensions of this perpetual backwardness is external, Several economists and social scientists have termed Bihar as an internal colony of India. Bihar has been the supplier of cheap labour and raw materials to agriculturally and industrially advanced states. Uniform pricing policy of coal and steel by the Central government had taken away the locational advantages from the Chhota Nagpur industrial zone.
Then again, plan allocations were heavily tilted against populous states like Bihar and Eastern UP. and per capita plan allocation in the 7th Plan was Rs.622 for Bihar, less than the national average of Rs.920. Per capita investment from all sources — public and private — in Bihar has been lower than other states for over 30 years including the ’80s. Substantial part of the savings go out of the state. Investment of long-term institutional funds through IDBI and other such institutions, and UTI, LIC and GIC etc. is lowest in Bihar. Even in the phase of globalisation and liberalisation, the investment scenario has been rather bleak here: Bihar got the lowest, just 0.14% of foreign capital finvestment from August 91 to May 96, because no SEZs were developed here. In central plan outlays emphasis now has shifted to poverty alleviation and welfare schemes, where the element of capital formation is quite low.
A federal government at the Centre, hardly inspires any confidence in terms of according any any preferential treatment to Bihar. The government is, on the contrary, more susceptible to the pulls and pressures of the powerful lobbies of advanced states.
To add insult to injury, in Bihar even half of the amount allotted to and in plans sanctioned is hardly spent due to callous administration.
Perpetual backwardness or the internal colonial status is, therefore, unlikely to be broken just by more allocation of central outlays or by waiting for the entry of foreign capital. Invoking the regional plank may be good politics for marginalized politicians, but it is bad economics indeed.
The impetus to break the vicious circle must come from within, generating vast internal resources. And here we enter into the other major dimension of the underdevelopment, the internal dynamics of Bihar economy.
Firstly, the arena of land reforms. Radical land redistribution is urgently needed to endow the land to enterprising small farmers. Small landholdings in the possession of small and marginal peasants should be given institutional backing to make them economically viable.
To enforce radical land reforms the political class must be prepared to go the whole hog, up to the nationalisation of all land and its redistribution to enterprising small farmers on lease basis. It is equally necessary to guarantee minimum wages to agrarian labourers both in relation to big as well as small farmers.
Secondly, the large amount of rural and semi-urban savings must be tapped by the state government agencies and redirected to farm-investments as well as building up infrastructure and improving social services.
Thirdly, pressure should be mounted on commercial banks in Bihar to improve their credit-deposit ratio and also for increased investment by term-lending institutions, the IDBI groups, LIC, GIC and UTI etc.
Fourth, the Centre should be pressurised for according preferential treatment to Bihar owing to its historical legacy of backwardness.
Only in the context of the internal vibrancy can the measures to attract capital, including foreign capital, for industrial development be meaningful.
India’s ruling establishment doesn’t bother much about the predicament of the common man in Bihar. With an expanding consumerism they can still sell the largest number of Maruti cars in Bihar. Patna witnesses the highest sale of premium brands of garments like Louis Philippe and Monte Carlo. Large savings from Bihar are channelised to build the fastest growing JVG empire. The best of Bihari brains can always be drained by JNU and Delhi University.
It is for the common people of Bihar and the intelligentsia, who are perturbed by the fact that nearly half of Bihar’s population goes to bed without food, to take the initiative to break the vicious circle. But you cannot expect it to be done by a political class which is deeply enmeshed in corruption, nor can it be achieved through a bureaucracy that is deep in league with the feudal forces.
An incorruptible political leadership with a grand vision for Bihar’s development that stands above the factional caste strifes of elites, coupled with the powerful mass initiatives at the grassroots, can alone break the shackles of poverty in Bihar.
Now one has a ray of hope after the Bihar electoral has united beyond caste and communal lines, making its choice by voting for a leader (read Nitish Kumar) who will unselfishly and considerately work for the economic and social development of Bihar. Also one good thing is that all Bihar leadership, whether Lalu Prasad, Nitish Kumar, Ram Vilas Paswan, and others have united for a common cause that is development of Bihar, even tough they are politically unwilling to shake hands. And with such a conscience we hope they will do something which will be better for the people of Bihar.
Sankat jab vikral ho jata hai, Mahabharat tab anivarya ho uthta hai! (When the crisis becomes colossal then a Mahabharat becomes inevitable!).
Lakin yeh Mahabharat , hum sabhi Bihariyon ko ladna hain , bihar ke pichdepan se , aur center govt se humara poora hissa aur hisaab mangna hai. Taki humphir se ek vishaal aur vikasit Bihar khada kar sakein.

Bhojpuri -lutela lutela

Look at this very old bhojpuri hip hop song by someone in guyana called SonnyMan

india needed a new govt and PM

I feel somehow that change is good for progress and development of a person , company ,a business and a country , a new leader at the center would have brought new ideas and hopes for the people and the country of India.
UPA coming back to power in 2009 for the second term, will be quite mundane ,sameparty and same PM ruling us again ,the country should have given cahnce to a someone else this time i guess.
Lets hope whoever comes to power this time does something good development work in the country especially for economically backward regions like Eastern UP and Bihar ( i hope i am not too much from our govt being an indian citizen)

US reconises bhojpuri when ll Indian govt recognize?

An Appeal
LET’S OBSERVE
International Mother Language Day
For the recognition of BHOJPURI
as International Language
Bhojpuri, the language of 84 million people as mother tongue spread over four / five Continents of the Earth places it at the 10th position after Japanese and German among world languages.
It’s the second largest among Indian languages after Hindi. When Govt. would recognize Bhojpuri?
February 21 is observed as International Mother Language Day globally, commemorating those who had sacrificed their lives on this day in Dhaka in 1952, asserting their right to speak Bangla.
The Sunday Indian in association with Bhojpuri Association of India (BHAI) is observing this day for the recognition of Bhojpuri language.
We urge the governments of India, Nepal, Guyana, Suriname, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago and Mauritius to give constitutional recognition and rights for the proper development of Bhojpuri language in their countries.
We also urge United Nations Secretary General and the head of UNESCO to constitute a high level committee for the survey of Bhojpuri speaking people all over the world. We would also request to make a separate department for the development of this International Language in UNESCO.
I would like to thank the US President Barak H. Obama for the inclusion of Bhojpuri and other Indian languages in the list for the US Govts Job.
Mother tongue or Mother Language, after all, is not necessarily the language spoken by one’s mother but the one in which a person is at home from childhood. it does sometimes lead to confusion and bring forth hybrid languages, like hinglish which is threatening to take over North India.

But Politics, Economics & Media have become inextricably tangled with the growth and spread of languages. A few eventually win out while many others are eliminated in the battle for survival. Tribal languages are naturally the worst sufferers in all continents. In India, tribals have to learn the state language, and their own languages or dialects die slowly.

The languages are also being affected by the process of Economic liberlisation and Globalisation. It is hastening the death of many minor languages which may prove to be increasingly useless for money-making purposes.

New generations would find it wasteful to learn them and shall latch on to the dominant one or two languages in every country.

Today, according to a report, world’s 6,000 languages are under threat. And the worst offenders are America and Australia where hundreds of aboriginal languages have died out. Hundreds are on the decline in Asia and Africa while in Europe, about 50 are in danger. Will Bhojpuri also be included in that list after a span of time? It may be the fate of this language too if not recognized, preserved and promoted seriously now.

The increasing pressure from world’s dominant languages like English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and also the mainstream Chinese are threatening the existence of many small or undeveloped languages.

Two dialects — mita and ksarwar — were found in west Bengal which were then spoken by just one person each during the l961 census. In the fastnesses of Arunachal Pradesh, there was a dialect comprising a total of 25 words, more than which was not found to be necessary by those people, who were living in primitive conditions with very limited demands, and not unhappily at that.

How is a language superior to a dialect? “a language is a dialect that has an army and a navy”, said max weinreich. However, the big fish will eat the small fish, and languages which cannot dominate will lose out in the course of time. Russell Hoban had offered consolation, “after all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language when they speak the same language?”
Bhojpuri is a very significant regional language of India, which is spoken not just in parts of north-central and eastern India, western part of state of Bihar, the northwestern part of Jharkhand, and the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh. But it is also spoken in almost all Metro Cities in India, as well as in adjoining area of southern plains of Nepal.
In fact Bhojpuri is the first Indian language which has got the speakers population and language potential to get the recognition in half a dozen of countries apart from its mother land India.
Apart from India & Nepal, Bhojpuri is also spoken in Guyana, Suriname, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago and Mauritius.
The exact number of Bhojpuri speaking people in the world is not known. The fact is most of the Bhojpuri speaking people write Hindi or Urdu as their mother language. This is evident in the census report of the Govt. of India.
Now the government of India is in the process to grant it statutory status as a national scheduled language under 8th schedule of Indian constitution.
The new Govt. of Nepal has also promised to give constitutional recognition to Bhojpuri, Maithili and Awadhi in Nepal.
The fact is Bhojpuri language is shining day by day. Bhojpuri films are rocking Bollywood after Hindi Cinema. Bhojpuri TV Channels are capturing the minds of crores of viewers. The first Bhojpuri national news magazine THE SUNDAY INDIAN is in great demand. And all without any help from the Govt.
But now this is the time to raise hands with clear and loud slogans….
HINDI HAMRI AAN BA
BHOJPURI PAHICHAN BA…

The Background: ================================
The International Mother Language Day was introduced by the UNESCO in recognition of the sanctity and preservation of all vernacular languages in the world. The event began being observed from 21 February 2000 throughout the world to commemorate the martyrs who sacrificed their lives on this date in dhaka in 1952.
The background to the proclamation of the International Mother Language Day was a proposal from Bangladesh at the UNESCO General Conference in Paris on 17 November 1999 to declare 21 February as an international day on the ground that on this day many had sacrificed their lives for their mother tongue.
It was argued that, since the languages of the world are at the very heart of UNESCO's objectives and since they are the most powerful instruments for preserving and developing the tangible and intangible heritage of nations and nationalities, the recognition of this day would serve not only to encourage linguistic diversity and multilingual education but also to develop a fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire international solidarity based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue. The Paris Conference was convinced that one of the most effective ways to promote and develop mother tongues was the establishment of an International Mother Language Day throughout the world with a view to organising various activities in the member states and a language exhibition at UNESCO Headquarters on the same day.
The day the Conference chose for the purpose was 21 February. This was, indeed, in appreciation and recognition of the unprecedented sacrifice made by the Bangla speaking people of Bangladesh for the cause of their mother tongue (matribhasa) on 21 February 1952. The Paris meet also put on record how solemnly the people of Bangladesh have been observing the day as Martyrs' Day (shaheed dibash) ever since 1952, and how the People's Republic of Bangladesh has been observing the day as a special national day since its emergence as an independent state in 1971.

girija devi

Mrs.Girija Devi represents one of the most oppressed and marginalised caste rather scheduled tribe of India called Mushar.Mushars are very hard working people wandering in remote areas to collect wood to sell to earn liveliwood.Both men and women usually addicted with country made liquor called Daru and Tari.This addiction is the main bane for their backwardness,poverty and exploitation.Mushars are landless and semi bonded very hard working people.In my Bhojpur district,they are regarded as champion 'Chaita' singers as they have been gifted with a pitched tone.Nowadays Mushars are raising their voice against injustice and exploitation as they have been associated with ultra left outfit popularly known as 'Naxalite Movement'.Girija Devi symbolises the aspiration of this Dalit community and her expression in Bhojpuri reveals the pain and misery of this suffering humanity.
Bhojpuri as a 'lingua franca' has been a linakge from ancient time to this post modern period to create a network of hard working and lively people.Bihar like other states is passing through transition period where a lady like Girija Devi marches against all odds to salvage the social values and reinstate the past glory of the land.She is merely a drop in the ocean initiating a social change.The invitation of UNO should be appreciated.At the same time we so called progressive creatures should assess the pain of crores of our people and should take pledge to fight against the prevailing non-social,feudal and evil forces.At last ,I may remember those Mushars carrying wooden bundles on head and their women carrying kids on back and selling'Datun'a type of wooden tooth brush in the villages.Alas ! Girija Devi turns in to a real crusader than a demi god.

ME summer

July/August hits the height of the Middle East summer. It isn’t particularly cold at any time of the year here, but the summer excels itself it bringing discomfort and a change of lifestyle that sees many people leaving for cooler climes or, for those who dare to or have to stay, taking up an indoor-based existence. In June, July and August there is a dramatic increase in humidity that sees us dripping wet within minutes of stepping outside . If we get a shift in the wind which takes the humidity away for the odd day or two, the temperatures then shoot up to around 50C. The excessive humidity (up to 95%) is partly caused by the start of the monsoon season in the south of Oman and also in India which isn’t that far away, so we’re hemmed in on 2 sides by hot, wet air. On days when the humidity is very high and there isn't much breeze, it’s difficult to breathe because the air is saturated with moisture and there is a particular smell that alerts us, as soon as we open the door, that it’s going to be a particularly bad day. Clothing becomes wet and sticks to us even when we’re inactive and, if we’re reckless enough to sit outside on, say, a plastic or wooden chair, that’s where WBS (Wet Bum Syndrome) comes into play. I think most of us have sported a dark, wet patch on our shorts, trousers or skirts at some time, but it’s such a common phenomenon that, luckily, no one takes any notice. On high humidity days, going outside after being in the a/c, our sunglasses steam up immediately which can be quite dangerous if we don’t either quickly wipe or remove them . Several times I’ve come out of a supermarket and fogged up just as I was teetering at the top of some steps,i would have tripped and fallen i had'nt wiped my shades

ME summer

July/August hits the height of the Middle East summer. It isn’t particularly cold at any time of the year here, but the summer excels itself it bringing discomfort and a change of lifestyle that sees many people leaving for cooler climes or, for those who dare to or have to stay, taking up an indoor-based existence. In June, July and August there is a dramatic increase in humidity that sees us dripping wet within minutes of stepping outside . If we get a shift in the wind which takes the humidity away for the odd day or two, the temperatures then shoot up to around 50C. The excessive humidity (up to 95%) is partly caused by the start of the monsoon season in the south of Oman and also in India which isn’t that far away, so we’re hemmed in on 2 sides by hot, wet air. On days when the humidity is very high and there isn't much breeze, it’s difficult to breathe because the air is saturated with moisture and there is a particular smell that alerts us, as soon as we open the door, that it’s going to be a particularly bad day. Clothing becomes wet and sticks to us even when we’re inactive and, if we’re reckless enough to sit outside on, say, a plastic or wooden chair, that’s where WBS (Wet Bum Syndrome) comes into play. I think most of us have sported a dark, wet patch on our shorts, trousers or skirts at some time, but it’s such a common phenomenon that, luckily, no one takes any notice. On high humidity days, going outside after being in the a/c, our sunglasses steam up immediately which can be quite dangerous if we don’t either quickly wipe or remove them . Several times I’ve come out of a supermarket and fogged up just as I was teetering at the top of some steps.

3 kumar at beijing 08

Right now, three of India’s five boxers are advancing to the quarter-finals in Beijing, putting them each just one win away from a medal: Akhil Kumar (bantamweight), his cousin Jitender Kumar (flyweight), and Vijender Kumar (middleweight).

Part time model, police inspector, and possibly India’s first professional boxer.

Given India’s poor showing in track and field, where all the athletes were eliminated in the qualification rounds, and the decision to pull India’s sole weightlifter after (what turned out to be a false) positive on a doping test, there is a lot riding on the performance of the three Kumars.

On the positive side, it’s a historic opportunity for India. Abinav Bindra’s gold medal was India’s first ever individual gold at the Olympics, if any of these three make it to the top, the country will celebrate as if Michael Phelps was their very own.

The fights promise to be exciting as well. Jitender, who is the only novice Olympian of the three, will next face off against three-time European champion Russian Georgy Balakshin in a rematch of their 2007 World Championship fight, where Balakshin prevailed by a single point. (clips from first round, via UB)

All three boxers (plus teamate Dinesh Kumar who got lost in the first round) come from a single boxing club - the Bhiwani Boxing Club in the village city of Bhiwani, Haryana, a place known as India’s “little Cuba”. This is the heartland of Indian boxing:

amitabh bachhan's blog

Periodically, we’ve heard about Bollywood actors starting blogs, usually in conjunction with the promotion of their latest film. I seem to remember Aamir Khan briefly blogging around the time of the release of the Mangal Pandey movie (he’s at it again). Bipasha Basu, too, briefly blogged, to promote Apaharan.

But now it seems like blogging superstar phenomenon is taking off, as Amitabh Bachchan has been blogging with relish for more than a month (via the BBC). There does seem to be some promotional element here, as the image you see when you enter the blog, of Big B, is from Ram Gopal Varma’s upcoming sequel to Sarkar, Sarkar Raj (I reviewed the original Sarkar here). But Amitabh Bachchan isn’t just doing it as a stunt; he seems to really relish the act of communicating directly with his fans, even if it sometimes leads to controversy.

In an early post, Amitabh Bachchan apparently referred to Shah Rukh Khan’s new TV game-show, Kya Aap Paachvi Pass Se Tez Hain? (“Are you smarter/faster than a fifth grader?”), as a “flop.” The comment caused a major uproar, leading to the following rather overwrought apology:

A gentle breeze brings with it the smell of lavender from a nearby bush. A church bell from the village below signals the hour, the sound almost not reaching you.

And then, quietude -

a French word, from the medieval Latin quietudo, or the Latin quietus, ‘quiet’..

Language is so fascinating. Who invented it ? How did it evolve into this mass communication medium ? Why were there and are so many different tongues ? Does the region bring that about ? Does the climate have a part ? The color of our skin our beliefs our demeanor does that have anything to do with it ? Is it because of what we eat or the way we dress ? What ?

[Skipping more stuff in this vein.]

But today I wish to address an issue that has been played out for months and one that perturbs me no end. It is the matter of my relationship with Shah Rukh.

Despite numerous clarifications and denials from both Shah Rukh and myself through the electronic and the print medium there seems to be no letting up. It is hurtful and unwanted and I wish to bring with all sincerity a final end to this much imagined ugliness.

So I shall start with myself first.

If there has been, for any reason whatsoever, a lapse or error on my part I wish to apologize for it right here and now. If any expression or opinion of mine, deemed or otherwise towards Shah Rukh has been the cause for any grievance then I am sorry for it. I have never deliberately or with any false intent ever meant or said anything towards him, or indeed any colleague or member of my fraternity in my 40 years as a professional. It is not my nature and does not fall within the confines of my upbringing. I am filled with remorse if some have felt otherwise. I would wish that this plea of mine coming directly from me be given its due merit of forgiveness.

Shah Rukh has been and is a friend and a wonderful colleague. He has never ever crossed that very delicate line between familiarity and respect. On occasion I may have desired a little more of the former, but the difference in our age has perhaps been a barrier. He has never failed to reciprocate affection that has come from me and hopefully neither have I. (link)

What I like about Amitabh Bachchan’s way of writing is the personal touch — the sense that it really is him writing these words, not some publicist. And if he seems to be overdoing it a bit with the business about “quietude,” one is inclined to forgive him both because Hindi has been his primary medium of expression (which is not to say that he’s not fluent in English; he obviously is), and also because his father was a famous Hindi poet. If he goes on a bit too long (and despite the long quote, I should note that I’ve snipped the Big B. pretty aggressively), that’s only to be expected. The point is, I hope Amitabh-ji continues to blog, if not everyday, then at least periodically, as I have a feeling he has a lot he wants to say to his fans.

That said, it’s intriguing to see such a big controversy erupt out of a comment he’d published on (and perhaps erased from?) his blog. Words have consequences; unconsidered words published, even only on the internet, are liable to come back to haunt you.

As for the show itself (“Paachvi Pass”), that originated the controversy. I don’t know anything about the rating for Indian TV shows — it may well be a flop. I did happen to watch fifteen minutes of this new show of Shah Rukh Khan’s on Star the other night, and I actually liked it, much more than the tacky American show from which it is derived. The key ingredient seemed to be Shah Rukh Khan himself, who always seems to find a way to be incredibly charming in these settings, and self-deprecatingly funny.

nepal abolishes hindu monarchy

Delegates from Nepal’s political parties convened a special assembly yesterday and voted 597 to 4 to abolish the 239-year-old Shah dynasty, a very sad moment for hindu civilisation

The government has told unpopular King Gyanendra to vacate his pink pagoda-roofed palace in the capital Kathmandu within a fortnight, or be forced out… It has been a dramatic decline and fall for a king once waited upon by thousands of retainers. Many Nepalis revered the monarch in majority-Hindu Nepal as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, the god of protection.

Now, his portrait has been wiped off bank notes and his name has disappeared from the national anthem. He has been asked to pay his own electricity bills.

Nepalis say much of the mystique of the royal family was destroyed by the 2001 palace massacre in which popular King Birendra and eight other royals were killed by then Crown Prince Dipendra, who then turned a gun on himself. The royal image was further tarnished after Gyanendra fired the government and assumed absolute powers in 2005, only to be humbled by weeks of anti-king protests a year later.

Political parties and Maoists say a new president will step into the king’s place as a head of state after the end of the monarchy. link

And thus the world welcomes its newest republic. The palace is to become a historical museum after the king departs, but no word yet on where the new president will reside. Especially since the new president has not been selected/elected yet:

Chanakya Quotes

Chanakya's Quotes

1. A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are victimised first.

2. Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

3. The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you.



4. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

5. Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

6. As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.


7. Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

8. The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind.
But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.


9. A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

10. Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend.
Your grown up children are your best friends.

12. Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

13. Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Laal sindoori hanumanji .. bhakti geet

We pray to the Lord hanuman , the red-colored one, whose entire monkey-body is covered in red. We pray to the destroyer of demons, whose powerful red color conquers all evil.
There are different beliefs , that why lord hanuman , coloured himself as red , but it is said in the myths , once lord hanuman heard that Lord rama likes red sindoori colour which his wife deity Sita wears on her forehead , and so he ( Lord hanuman )coloured all his body , in the red sindoor colour to be lord Rama's dearest.
Listen to below melodious bhojpuri song which tells more about this story of Laal sindoori Hanuman

The death of vishnu

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Bhole Baba hamar - Avinesh Chand

Geet ka bol ba Bhole baba hamar sabpe daya kare. The bhojpuri song is by Avinesh Chand in bhojpuri style

"Manoj Tiwari Mridul" on Holland dutch postage stamp

Bhojpuri super star " Manoj Tiwari Mridul" par Holland ke sarkar daak ticket jari kaiele ba Click here for the full news
Manoj tiwari on Holland's postal stamp . Humnike ei dekh ke ki ek chota se gaanv ka laika , "Purab ke B eta", inha pahuche , bahut hi garv mahsoos hola.

He is the first living person from india , whos has been been priveliged to be on a foreign country postal stamp , because of his increasing popularity there.







50 Cent Lyrics
Just A Little Bit Lyrics

Ae Raja Humke Banaras Ghumayda

A fun filled song about banaras by nirhu dinesh lal yadav

me at Tissot Dubai

Its called the resignation song

"Take this job and shove it I ain’t workin’ here no more
My woman done left and took all the reason I was working for
Ya better not try and stand in my way
Cause I’m walkin’ out the door
Take this job and shove it I ain’t workin’ here no more"

– Take This Job and Shove It, performed by Johnny Paycheck

Who hasn’t been tempted to act like the singer of this song? However, resigning from a job does involve a certain decorum, and doing it properly can only help you later.

#1: Write the resignation letter
#2: Be clear about your last day, but be flexible if necessary
#3: Confirm the handling of unused vacation days
#4: Remove important personal effects prior to your announcement
#5: Leave on the best note possible
#6: Let your important contacts know
#7: Document your current work
#8: Adjust your voicemail greeting and (if possible) disable voicemail messaging
#9: Prepare for a letdown

Daddy Yankee Gasolina

Daddy Yankee Lyrics
Gasolina Lyrics

I really like this song it makes my feet tapping . But i dont understand the lyrics except the word gasolina .What does it mean "Dame Mas Gasolina"

Game viewing at naivasha sanctuary

It is a long weeknd for us here because of "Good Friday" and the Easter holidays, and the start of the holiday was awesome by doing a horse riding and "Game-Viewing" at a wildlife sanctuary near Lake Naivasha. And even though i slept like a baby for the whole night after it , i still pain in my bum and my back is aching like anything.
I had gone there with my mates at work corky, kudzai and kudzai's friends
From Nairobi, there are two roads going to Naivasha : one going down alongside the escarpment, and one going up towards Naivasha town. The "truck" road going down the escarpment is shorter in distance but after Maai Mahiu town (first town down the hill), there are huge potholes on the road going towards Naivasha Lake. The other road, the A104 uplands, is longer in distance but in very good state as it is not used by container truck.
We took the shorter one because we were running out of time.

Lake Naivasha is the second largest and the highest lake of the
Central Rift Valley lakes. Remain of a great lake which spread through
the basins and spilling out at its southern end through the Ol Njorowa Gorge
(Hell's Gate National Park), this freshwater lake has kept much of its old colonial charm and is also the centre of a prosperous flower export business.

At only two hours drive from Nairobi, Naivasha is a great place to forget
the Nairobian urban life and do some sport activities such as hiking, walking,
biking and/or game viewing and is a popular weekend retreat for the local communities.

And we were literally at one point on the road to the lake which was 2666 mts above sea level and a stop to have a look at Mt. longonot. which i remembers from friends saying that it was once an active volcano.


The charges for horse riding and game viewing is 1000ksh for non residents. I will soon upload the pics for this trip.

Karibu

Well, it’s been about a week now since I landed here,
and here are a few general observations of Nairobi , kenya which i have in general:

As I said earlier, it’s much cooler here in Nairobi compared India , though it Summer here the temperature here is 25-27 degrees, and the nights are cooler.
I found it pretty darned cold the first couple of days, but I think I’m getting used to the weather now.
It’s cool, and it does warrant the use of warmer clothing occassionally, though.

I reckon it’s getting colder because it’s around this time when it starts to rain, and rain brings the temperatures
down further.

The traffic here seems to be faster in general, but much much more
organized than the traffic in India (obviously ).
The traffic volume and density have gone absurdly high since a couple of years here in nairobi ,
but the trafiic volume is much comparable to a small city in india. I find the traffic here much similar to Varanasi/Pune or Baroda.
There appear to be a very very diverse collection of cars on the road.
I find that quite strange, because being a small country with a small population,
and a smaller vehicle-requiring populace, I would have thought that there’d be very few car manufacturers here…
will find out more about this. One possible explanation is that most cars are imported from other countries
instead of being built here, and since cars are being imported anyway, car owners can go for any car they want.
The greenery and city beauty is still there. You see plenty of trees
and bushes dotting the roads on both sides, and on our drive to the outskirts today, we noticed what would
pass off as a small jungle on the side of the road.
The water here is hard water (compared to India, of course).
Hard water is characterized by being difficult to form a lather with soap,
and consequently leaving a soap-fimly layer on the skin when you wash your hands. The strange thing, though, is that it doesn’t bother you so much when you’re trying to get the soap to lather, but it takes a frustratingly long time to wash it all off!
My initial impression was that the cost of living here is pretty high , but it is just a quite more than that of bangalore.
to have a full lunch with a drink at a restaurant in city center you may spend around 550-600 Ksh.
However, that’s my perception based on prices in Kenyan Shillings (KHS). I will make some conversions to USD (U.S. Dollars) or INR (Indian Rupees) and then let you know some comparisons.
Photos will be delayed for a while, bcos i have'nt brought my caera and have to get the pics from my friend warick's
camera .

Karibu

Well, it’s been about a week now since I landed here,
and here are a few general observations of Nairobi , kenya which i have in general:

As I said earlier, it’s much cooler here in Nairobi compared India , though it Summer here the temperature here is 25-27 degrees, and the nights are cooler.
I found it pretty darned cold the first couple of days, but I think I’m getting used to the weather now.
It’s cool, and it does warrant the use of warmer clothing occassionally, though.

I reckon it’s getting colder because it’s around this time when it starts to rain, and rain brings the temperatures
down further.

The traffic here seems to be faster in general, but much much more
organized than the traffic in India (obviously ).
The traffic volume and density have gone absurdly high since a couple of years here in nairobi ,
but the trafiic volume is much comparable to varanasi in india.

There appear to be a very very diverse collection of cars on the road.
I find that quite strange, because being a small country with a small population,
and a smaller vehicle-requiring populace, I would have thought that there’d be very few car manufacturers here…
will find out more about this. One possible explanation is that most cars are imported from other countries
instead of being built here, and since cars are being imported anyway, car owners can go for any car they want.
The greenery and city beauty is still there. You see plenty of trees
and bushes dotting the roads on both sides, and on our drive to the outskirts today, we noticed what would
pass off as a small jungle on the side of the road.
The water here is hard water (compared to India, of course).
Hard water is characterized by being difficult to form a lather with soap,
and consequently leaving a soap-fimly layer on the skin when you wash your hands. The strange thing, though, is that it doesn’t bother you so much when you’re trying to get the soap to lather, but it takes a frustratingly long time to wash it all off!
My initial impression was that the cost of living here is pretty high , but it is just a quite more than that of bangalore.
to have a full lunch with a drink at a restaurant in city center you may spend around 550-600 Ksh.
However, that’s my perception based on prices in Kenyan Shillings (KHS). I will make some conversions to USD (U.S. Dollars) or INR (Indian Rupees) and then let you know some comparisons.
Photos will be delayed for a while, bcos i have'nt brought my caera and have to get the pics from my friend warick's
camera .

Bubbly :- Colbie Callat

this song by Colbie is awesome , first i heard it on Radio Indigo in bangalore. and then serached for it on You Tube. So simple lyrics and good melody . It really makes me feel like a child now after listening to it. Again want to go back to my Kinder gatren class. and the playschool.

Putaiyaa Maare Boti

Hum Ii Gaana auckland main ego fiji Indian night club main sunal raha , aur ka music CD lihe raha "Auckland Indian Sweets" ke shop se. gaana Gayil hain Jacky and Group , Carribean ke bhojpuriya log. click karein aur enjoy karein.

My Cold Turkeys

Cold turkey" is a slang expression describing the actions of a person who gives up a
habit or addiction all at once. That is, rather than gradually easing the process through reduction or by using replacement medication. Its supposed advantage is that by not actively using supplemental methods, the person avoids thinking about the habit and its temptation, and avoids further feeding the chemical addiction.
I have been in cold turkey situation many times , be it eating various type of foods , drinking , overspending and nail biting, and had success and failures results for my different experiments .May be i can elaborate more on this when i have time to post a blog again.

10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT

If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the “dirty little secrets” listed below may surprise you because we don’t usually talk about them out loud. If you are an IT veteran, you’ve probably encountered most of these issues and have a few of your own to add — and please, by all means, take a moment to add them to the discussion. Most of these secrets are aimed at network administrators, IT managers, and desktop support professionals. This list is not aimed at developers and programmers — they have their own set of additional dirty little secrets — but some of these will apply to them as well.

10.) The pay in IT is good compared to many other professions, but since they pay you well, they often think they own you

Although the pay for IT professionals is not as great as it was before the dot-com flameout and the IT backlash in 2001-2002, IT workers still make very good money compared to many other professions (at least the ones that require only an associate’s or bachelor’s degree). And there is every reason to believe that IT pros will continue to be in demand in the coming decades, as technology continues to play a growing role in business and society. However, because IT professionals can be so expensive, some companies treat IT pros like they own them. If you have to answer a tech call at 9:00 PM because someone is working late, you hear, “That’s just part of the job.” If you need to work six hours on a Saturday to deploy a software update to avoid downtime during business hours, you get, “There’s no comp time for that since you’re on salary. That’s why we pay you the big bucks!”

9.) It will be your fault when users make silly errors

Some users will angrily snap at you when they are frustrated. They will yell, “What’s wrong with this thing?” or “This computer is NOT working!” or (my personal favorite), “What did you do to the computers?” In fact, the problem is that they accidentally deleted the Internet Explorer icon from the desktop, or unplugged the mouse from the back of the computer with their foot, or spilled their coffee on the keyboard.

8.) You will go from goat to hero and back again multiple times within any given day

When you miraculously fix something that had been keeping multiple employees from being able to work for the past 10 minutes — and they don’t realize how simple the fix really was — you will become the hero of the moment and everyone’s favorite employee. But they will conveniently forget about your hero anointment a few hours later when they have trouble printing because of a network slowdown — you will be enemy No. 1 at that moment. But if you show users a handy little Microsoft Outlook trick before the end of the day, you’ll soon return to hero status.

7.) Certifications won’t always help you become a better technologist, but they can help you land a better job or a pay raise

Headhunters and human resources departments love IT certifications. They make it easy to match up job candidates with job openings. They also make it easy for HR to screen candidates. You’ll hear a lot of veteran IT pros whine about techies who were hired based on certifications but who don’t have the experience to effectively do the job. They are often right. That has happened in plenty of places. But the fact is that certifications open up your career options. They show that you are organized and ambitious and have a desire to educate yourself and expand your skills. If you are an experienced IT pro and have certifications to match your experience, you will find yourself to be extremely marketable. Tech certifications are simply a way to prove your baseline knowledge and to market yourself as a professional. However, most of them are not a good indicator of how good you will be at the job.

6.) Your nontechnical co-workers will use you as personal tech support for their home PCs

Your co-workers (in addition to your friends, family, and neighbors) will view you as their personal tech support department for their home PCs and home networks. They will e-mail you, call you, and/or stop by your office to talk about how to deal with the virus that took over their home PC or the wireless router that stopped working after the last power outage and to ask you how to put their photos and videos on the Web so their grandparents in Iowa can view them. Some of them might even ask you if they can bring their home PC to the office for you to fix it. The polite ones will offer to pay you, but some of them will just hope or expect you can help them for free. Helping these folks can be very rewarding, but you have to be careful about where to draw the line and know when to decline. For help, take a look at TechRepublic’s free download “Ten ways to decline a request for free tech support.”

5.) Vendors and consultants will take all the credit when things work well and will blame you when things go wrong

Working with IT consultants is an important part of the job and can be one of the more challenging things to manage. Consultants bring niche expertise to help you deploy specialized systems, and when everything works right, it’s a great partnership. But you have to be careful. When things go wrong, some consultants will try to push the blame off on you by arguing that their solution works great everywhere else so it must be a problem with the local IT infrastructure. Conversely, when a project is wildly successful, there are consultants who will try to take all of the credit and ignore the substantial work you did to customize and implement the solution for your company.

4.) You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones

One of the most attractive things about working in IT is the idea that we’ll get to play with the latest cutting edge technologies. However, that’s not usually the case in most IT jobs. The truth is that IT professionals typically spend far more time maintaining, babysitting, and nursing established technologies than implementing new ones. Even IT consultants, who work with more of the latest and greatest technologies, still tend to work primarily with established, proven solutions rather than the real cutting edge stuff.

3.) Veteran IT professionals are often the biggest roadblock to implementing new technologies

A lot of companies could implement more cutting edge stuff than they do. There are plenty of times when upgrading or replacing software or infrastructure can potentially save money and/or increase productivity and profitability. However, it’s often the case that one of the largest roadblocks to migrating to new technologies is not budget constraints or management objections; it’s the veteran techies in the IT department. Once they have something up and running, they are reluctant to change it. This can be a good thing because their jobs depend on keeping the infrastructure stable, but they also use that as an excuse to not spend the time to learn new things or stretch themselves in new directions. They get lazy, complacent, and self-satisfied.

2.) Some IT professionals deploy technologies that do more to consolidate their own power than to help the business

Another subtle but blameworthy thing that some IT professionals do is select and implement technologies based on how well those technologies make the business dependent on the IT pros to run them, rather than which ones are truly best for the business itself. For example, IT pros might select a solution that requires specialized skills to maintain instead of a more turnkey solution. Or an IT manager might have more of a Linux/UNIX background and so chooses a Linux-based solution over a Windows solution, even though the Windows solution is a better business decision (or, vice versa, a Windows admin might bypass a Linux-based appliance, for example). There are often excuses and justifications given for this type of behavior, but most of them are disingenuous.

1.) IT pros frequently use jargon to confuse nontechnical business managers and hide the fact that they screwed up

All IT pros — even the very best — screw things up once in a while. This is a profession where a lot is at stake and the systems that are being managed are complex and often difficult to integrate. However, not all IT pros are good at admitting when they make a mistake. Many of them take advantage of the fact that business managers (and even some high-level technical managers) don’t have a good understanding of technology, and so the techies will use jargon to confuse them (and cover up the truth) when explaining why a problem or an outage occurred. For example, to tell a business manager why a financial application went down for three hours, the techie might say, “We had a blue screen of death on the SQL Server that runs that app. Damn Microsoft!” What the techie would fail to mention was that the BSOD was caused by a driver update he applied to the server without first testing it on a staging machine.

What more could you ask from a boom town ?

Vapi used to be a little town content sitting in the gentle undulations of the western coastal region in Gujarat state of India, the sky here was clear blue.
The sub burnt bright. The hills were green. And the woods were dark. Out of then flowed a generous river looking for he sea barely a few miles away. A national highway and a railway track ran parallel to the coast : Every is still the same Vapi – It has today become one of the most ambitious town in India. Everbody calls it the new boom town. Vapi has become a nerve centre of industrial and business activity using new technology, new management and new work styles. The new change has brought with it new life styles too. Today Vapi is high on the list upwardly mobile elite for starting an industry, for opening a business, for setting down.
Vapi’s people used to be gentle folk going about their calling quietly. They are still there. But there are new people in the town now – the executives, the businessmen, the technocrats, the bureaucrats.
GIDC can cape town’s the population is more than 50,000. The people are mostly engaged in business though there is a growing presence of doctors, lawyers, accountants, technicians, architects, designer, teachers, consultants, estate agents, transporters, decorators, fabricators, printers, skilled labour and other swallows of the new summer.
Vapi has English and Gujarati schools with over 7500 students. It has industrial and commercial training institutes which supply skilled manpower to factories and offices. A computer education centre has begun offering computer courses too.
Vapi has 9 hospitals including 1 for children. A public hospital is taking shape. Haria Hospital has all major facilities, well equipped ICUs, Brain Scanner, ambulance and other medicare services.
The shops have already begun to sport the gloss of glass and the gleam of chrome. All modern daily requirements – electric and electronic appliances, packaged foods, readywear clothes, house fittings, newspapers and magazines, books, car servicing household repairs and maintenance – are available in ships on main streets and in shopping centre I residential areas. Air-conditioned restaurants offer vegetarian and non-vegetarian food of South Indian, Gujarati, Punjabi, Moghlai, Chinese and Continental variety. Though Gujarat has prohibition in force, liquor permits can be obtained.
Of the three hotels in Vapi, Kamat’s Vapi Hotel is 3 starred. It is getting ready with speciality restaurants. 24-hour coffee shop, wine shop and swimming pool. It will have a health club with steam bath, sauna bath, gymnasium, card room, tennis. Also a playroom for children with crazy mirrors, slot machines, popcorn stations ad video-games – all linked with a power - run mini – train.
Vapi has nine clubs – Lions, Lioness, Leo, Rotary, Roteract, Jayacees, Jayceeratte, Inner Wheel and Interact Plus the Vapi Industrial Association. Some of the clubs offer sports facilities.
Vapi has four cinemas and two video theatre with a total capacity of over 3200. It has a public library, a Lion club library and several lending libraries. A Gujarati newspaper is published locally to serve town interest. Vapi has its share of playgrounds, gardens and places of worship.
Vapi has one of the largest industrial complexes in India. Eight more such complexes are around it within an hour’s drive. Plots and shed are easily obtained. Finances are supplied by banks and industrial development corporations on attractive terms. Research and project consultancies are readily available. Skilled and unskilled labour is plentiful and cheap. Al-time water and power supply is assured Ancillary industry is well grown. Workshops offer maintenance and repairs all over.
Almost all nationalised banks and many banks in the co-operative sector have office sin Vapi. Vapi Industrial associations has a cell offering help to new entrepreneurs.
Vapi has excellent telephone, telex and teleprinter connections with the country and the world. All-Weather national and state highways link it with Bombay, Bhavnagar and Surat. Flights operate from Daman airport, 12 kms away Luxury coaches, Rickshaws taxis and rentals cars are available at any time.
Vapi is surrounded by green forests dotted with pretty hills and criss-crossed by rivers and streams. Tribal village lend a gaiety that is intoxicating. Several gardens, lakes, riverside parks, hills stations, beach stations, old forests, religious places are within a day’s outing. Many of these places have good stay and food facilities.
A three-star riverside Ras Resort wit 5 –star facilities is already started at Silvassa 8 kms away. It has 60 rooms with air conditioning. 3- channel music and video sets. The resorts has restaurants, bar coffeeshop, banquetting and conference facilities, shopping parlour, health club and swimming pool with barbeque. On the side riverfront will be offered fishing, boating, waterscootering and other games. A mini-golf course and jogging trails will be added attractions.
Vapi has three seasons summer from March to June, monsoon from June to September, and winter from October to February. The average daily temperature in summer can be 30 degree celcius and the minimum temperature in winter can be 24 degree celcius. The average annual rainfall in 80 inches.
The air is fresh and invigorating. Pollution is non-existent. Water is abundant. Vegetable and fruits are available round the year. Various religious and cultural occasions are celebrated with enthusiasm. Communal tensions are nil. Labour scene is peaceful. Crime is much below the state average.

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Social networking for all Bhojpuri people over the Globe

Bhojpuri is a popular regional language spoken in parts of north-central
and eastern India. It is spoken in the western part of state of Bihar,
the northwestern part of Jharkhand, and the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh,
as well as an adjoining area of southern plains of Nepal. Bhojpuri is also spoken
in Guyana, Suriname,Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago and Mauritius and is often said to
be the only Indian language to be spoken on all continents.The language of the Surinamese
Hindus, however, is seldom referred to as Bhojpuri but usually as Sarnami Hindi or just
Sarnami.

People's attitudes towards the Bhojpuri language have evolved over time, and there is
a general misconecption that bhojpuri is a dialect oh hindi, but most of the
linguists agree it is not a dialect of Hindi, which is a widespread belief among
speakers. Others, including the government of India while taking census, disagree,
and consider Bhojpuri to be a dialect of Hindi. But now the government of India
is preparing to grant it statutory status of as a national scheduled language.

Bhojpuri shares vocabulary with Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and other Indo-Aryan
languages of northern India. Bhojpuri and several closely related languages,
including Maithili and Magadhi, are together known as the Bihari languages.
They are part of the Eastern Zone group of Indo-Aryan languages which includes
Bengali and Oriya.

I invite all my bhojpuri friends to join at the social network Bhojpuri Sansar!

bagalwali jaan mareli

Ego chumman Lei le Rajaji

This bhojpuri song is by Kalpana a regional singer .The lyrics carry an in depth
meaning but so does the beat, the music, the melody which brings to life the essence . It says the feeling of a a village girl
from bhojpur in Bihar , singing for his beloved who is leeaving his village and going to city in search of a better life. you can download this video and enjoy the song . People who understand the language will surely like it .

Download this video

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Book by Robert Kiyosaki about managing your finances , which i read literally when i was living hand to mouth ,
i mean when i was a student , which i think was too early as it did not make much sense to
me then. so , later i re-read it again , after i had become an employee.

What is the difference in the world view and attitude of people
who become rich compared to other people? What things do they
do differently to have such different results in their lives?

Robert T. Kiyosaki had a unique opportunity to find out. Robert's father
was an educator and public administrator. When Robert was a young boy,
he and his friend, Mike decided they wanted to learn how to become rich.
They started by trying to make (counterfeit) money.

Robert's father explained to the boys this was illegal. He also admitted he
did not know how to become rich, but suggested the boys ask Mike's father how to go
about it. So Mike's father, an independent businessperson, became a mentor to Robert,
his "Rich Dad."

This book is the fascinating story of how the Rich Dad
taught Robert the lessons he needed to learn to make himself financially
independent. Robert has learned that our educational system is pretty good at
producing employees, but not very good at producing people who are good at managing
their finances wisely. He now teaches people how to apply the principles of becoming rich.
In addition to publishing the information in this book, he has developed a game, CASHFLOW(tm) 101 to help people develop their financial intelligence.

Some of the ideas Robert presents reinforce those in other books we have reviewed.
Like The Millionaire Next Door, Robert points out the difference between having a big salary and building wealth. Like The Richest Man In Babylon, Robert emphasizes the importance of paying yourself first. In his opinion, it's more important to systematically invest a portion of your income than to pay your bills or to pay your taxes. (A controversial concept.)

Robert also has a definition of an asset versus a liability that is different from conventional accounting. Investors generally focus on accumulating assets and avoid liabilities. Simply stated, assets generate income or cash. Liabilities consume cash. Rich people accumulate assets. People who aren't rich accumulate liabilities. Some things that look like assets are actually liabilities - for example: a residence, a car, a boat. When we accumulate these things, we are not really accumulating wealth, we are consuming it. If we haven't accumulated sufficient assets and we acquire these "toy" liabilities, we are putting the cart before the horse. Instead, we should emphasize regularly acquiring stocks, bonds, tax lien certificates, rental real estate, and other investments. We also need to learn to build value and get some tax shelter by building our own business.

Robert acknowledges that it is possible to use the principle of compound interest and regular saving to achieve financial independence. The problem with this approach is it's a long, patient one. Most people get started too late for it to work.

The rest of us must develop our financial intelligence, make risk our friend, and accelerate our financial growth. Although diversification is appropriate for preserving accumulated wealth, the investor usually must take the additional risk of focused investments in order to initially accumulate wealth. Bigger returns require accepting more risk.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad is the kind of book that opens your mind to new possibilities

KABHI KISI KO MUKAMMAL JAHAN NAHIN MILTA ...

Its So true that , No One is ever completely satisfied with life whichwe often hear in the saying
"
kabhi kisi ko mukammal jahan nahin milta
kahin zameen to kahin aasman nahin milta
jisay bhi dekhiyay woh apnay aap mein goum hai
zuban mili hai magar hum zuban nahin milta
kabhi kisi ko mukammal jahan nahin milta....
bujha saka hai bhala kaun waqt kay shoulay
yeh aisi aag hai jis mein dhuaan nahin milta
kabhi kisi ko mukammal jahan nahin milta....
teray jahan mein aisa nahin kay pyar na ho
jahan umeed ho iski wahan nahin milta
kabhi kisi ko mukammal jahan nahin milta
kahin zameen to kahin aasman nahin milta..."


it's a ghazal i hope u all like it.. thnx :)

Spouse , a book i am reading myte

Frankly speaking of all other the books which i have read of Shobha De i have;nt really admired her work except
"Speed Post" . All of her works which i have read is mostly about personal lifestyles of rich people of "South Mumbai" , who
try to imitate the lifesyles of the Hippy Westerners , but eventually end up being more dirtier.
and hence , most of the times her books are filled up with dirt and sleaze in my Personal opinion , from whatver i have read in her books.
And May be she too writes that because that is what use to sells among the indian readers.

Now I am reading the book Spouse by Shobhaa De’ which I happen to purchased form a vendor near my company guest house where i am currently staying.
Usually the characters in De's books have less or no substance in their
life with no resemblance to reality but just an ostentatious diplay of thier high profile lifestyle and wealth.
They were just social objects and nothing more to that, "Speed Post" being an exception to that which is a collection of posts
by her to her son and daughters.It depicts her relationship with her children as a parent, and herself as a child to her
own parents also taking into consideration her other relations. Now here she has acted like a true and a wise indian mother
taking care of her kids and guiding them through the rights and wrongs of life, and also giving then enough space to grow and mature , independently wihtin the
indian societal limits. But as far as i have understood the Westerner too do a much mature and better pareting of their
kids , and raise them to become successful individuals when they are grown ups.


Any way the book spouse which i am reading through currently , may be i got interested to read it because of my recent
marriage, but i am not much sure if i picked it up for that one reason as i had nohting in my book shelf to read lately.
This book by De’ deals with the success, failures, setbacks and joys of married life enlisting instances
of her experiences. As the book says it about trust, companionship, affection, sharing ( one's finances, belongings ,car , gas bill, credit card bill and monthly rations to everything that can be bought on earth etc etc )
and claims to enlist how
marriages work and why they fail. Apart from suggestions and practice leaning practices what makes this book most
interesting is that it opens a window to De’s very own married life which is more real with less frills or drama
of high social life. One can easily relate to similar instances in their own life. If not called as a complete guidebook
of married life then at least it can be taken as a reference book dealing with a-to-z issues relating to marriage.
Another thing to look for in this book is its interesting tittles ,( with hindi sub-headings )given to the various chapters.

Both the above books opens up De’ in a more transparent and honest and interesting manner. When it comes to portray
her character, it is herself only emerging as the most down to earth, mature, sensitive,
emotional and strong person capable of enough respect. Well May be someone close to her can comment on it better ,
because as a reader we just come to know about her from what she writes , Whcih i think is not enough to guess about a writer's personality as they are a "pro" in the job of a writer/author myte ;)

This has got something to do with wock myte :)

Just when we all thought Oracle was done shopping (at least for now)after spending
more then $20 billion USD in the last 3 years, we got the news of yet another acquisition,
case in point Hyperion Solutions. Starting January 2005 we saw Larry implementing the then
new growth strategy which puts vertical market product acquisitions squarely in the center.
Oracle believes that for it to reach its 20% growth target for the next 5 years it has to
pursue the new strategy as it can no longer rely on just organic growth. Oracle's chief geek
executed this strategy by targeting industry segments such as retail, government, and financial
services, where key rivals like SAP and Baan have not yet found a huge audience (Baan ERP is
now owned by infor and is known as SSA ERP LN, It is basically Baan ERP project "Gemini" that
runs on Unix servers).

The only thing left to be seen now is how oracle leverages these pure play acquisitions
and makes them work with its core competencies, if Oracle is able to actually deliver on
its promise and pull it off, it will be a success story that will be taught in business schools
and told in corporate boardrooms for years to come.


Since I have long been working on Portal Infranet Billing System implementation extension and deployment,
therefore that acquisition last year was of particular interest to me, one thing that strikes me
immediately is that with Portal Infranet and Siebel, Oracle is now the only enterprise solutions
provider that can provide a truly end to end single vendor CRM solution for Telecoms and ISPs,
and if you tie in to this equation PeopleSoft, it becomes a solution that can give SAP executives
many a sleepless nights.

Just added (Saturday March 31st 2007): I saw another news release regarding Communications Billing
and Revenue Management System (CBRM, previously Portal-Infranet) being now available for the Linux
platform, I think given that linux is the one of the most deployed web hosting platform,
its a very smart move on behalf of Oracle to align themselves with the open source platform,
though I think if given the fact that MySql is maturing very nicely and is catching up with many
of the features readily available with Oracle, MySQL will be the first database choice for all
those willing to host on an open source database.

I guess Oracle's remedy for that is theInnoDB and SleepyCat (Berkeley DB) acquisition. everything
has a sale price and Larry seems to always make an offer no one can refuse.

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Divorces , higher in developed nations.

I often hear people criticize the very high rates of divorce in the west–-particularly,
in the United States–-as being an example of all that’s wrong with the culture; they claim,
it reveals the lack of familial bonds, the superficiality of love and emotions,
the selfish me-centricism, and just the general decadence of the culture.

However, when I see the alarmingly low rates of divorce in other cultures – where divorce is a societal taboo,
such as in Japan, India, and China – I see the rampant disregard for individual human rights
(especially in the case of women), I see individuals choking under societal and familial pressure to
remain in suffocating relationships, I see individuals racked with emotional guilt for having extra-marital
affairs in the dark, for entering and remaining in marriages despite being gay, I see children growing up
with psychological scars from seeing their parents quarrel and fight before their own eyes, I see teenagers
rebelling against their parents and running away with their lovers or friends to escape the nightmare of
their homes occupied with two individuals who hate each other, I see youth engaging in frivolous sex and
self-destructive relationships unconsciously mimicking the failed and forced relationships their parents had,
I see women being raped by their husbands, men being forced into alcoholism and escapist hedonism,
I see a political society that gets increasingly moralistic and paternal because it believes that
morality must be forced upon people and that people are inherently evil, immoral, unruly, or savages.

Japan has the highest rates of suicide in the world. India has the highest number of people with AIDS
than any other country in the world.

Both Japan and India have very low divorce rates; but do not presume that this low rate reflects the
strong cultural values of marriage and love and relationships in these countries. Indeed, I argue,
it is quite the opposite.

In a sense, high divorce rates are good; in fact, it is an almost reliable indicator of a healthy and
prosperous culture that respects individual rights and allows individuals the space and freedom to BREATHE!

Marriage is only valuable, good, and moral to the extent that the individuals involved in it, make it so.
In other words, two individuals could be “live-in” partners and yet have a much stronger relationship than
some average married couple. It is not the nature of a relationship that lends it a certain moral value
but the individuals involved in it. People bring in value to a relationship, not some abstract notion of marriage.
Entering into marriage – being married – by default does not mean you are in some “valuable” and “serious”
relationship and must act accordingly. Within or without marriage, a couple (or group of individuals) can
still have a very meaningful and valuable relationship. Thus, I am not necessarily arguing for the position that
divorce is good or marriage is bad. To me, they are equally meaningless without considering the nature of individuals
involved.

Show me a culture with high divorce rates and I will show you a culture that’s prosperous, healthy, and free.

Marrying is certainly not a duty or an obligation – let alone an ethical one. Marriage is entirely optional,
and should be done with focused deliberation. Whether people enter into marriages solely depends on their
personal preferences in the matter (surely also with regard to the socio-political situation in their society).

A very apt quote by Morton Hunt that I include here:

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages,
but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

someones dad the feminist

I had written a review on My Son The Chauvinist , an year back , and again i cam across this book and Was searching form the same book on google for buying it online .
And somehow i reached through this post titled My Dad The Feminist! on a girls blog , where she has wriiten all praises about her fathers support for her mon and reminiscing her childhood days.
It is a really interesting article to read .
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Know how to laugh when you are sad ...
know there is no shame in tears,
Scoff at cynics and beware of too much sweetness...
Sell ur brawn and brain to the highest bidders
Never to put a price-tag on your heart and soul.

Maximes

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

French author & moralist


Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

[Advice]


Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

[Health]


Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us,

and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

[Memory]


Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

[Gratitude]


We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.


We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.


We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.


The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.


He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.


A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.


When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.


We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Maximes (1678)

[Agreement]


It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Maxims, 1665

[Ability]


The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to

acquire it.

[Fame]


To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.


Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

[Possessions]


We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad,

and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.


It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.


The pleasure of love is in loving.


When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

, quoted in O Magazine, October 2002

[Relaxation]


Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means,

that men fail to succeed.



When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.


What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition,
which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.


No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.


Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for

the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.


We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.


Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.


To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

[Listening]


Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.


Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.



If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.


Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and
listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.


Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.


However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.

, Maxims, 1665





Results from Cole's Quotables:

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.


Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.


The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.


Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:




We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.


Results from Poor Man's College:


Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.


The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.



The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.


To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.


Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.


Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.


We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.


We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.


Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.


Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.


In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.


Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.


We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.


He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.


The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.


We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

B.C. Suttah

BC Sutta song is composed by The Zeest band,
an underground Karachi(Pakistan) based band lead by Skip.

Composed by Skip(lead of Zeest), BC Sutta is his 4-5 year old raw composition which
probably reflects his own life. He says:

“I was in college and used to live hand-to-mouth. It’s a situation almost every boy faces when he wants to
change his life, though it might be a quick, ridiculous, rebellious change. At that time, I used to smoke
with my friends, and when my father came to know that I had been smoking, he often used to say BC sutta peeta
hai in lafango (wastrels) ke saath. BC sutta - a catchy phrase that struck my mind and quickly became a joke
among my friends. So in the end, I got something to write about, which could portray my own life, though in
a satirical manner.”


Lyrics of the song -

COUGHHSSS....OK THIS SONG IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE SMOKERS AND DOPERS BY ZEEST THE BAND...SO LETS HIT IT....BC SUTTA!

Dosto Mai BaiTha Mai Soutta Pee Raha
Abba Nay Mujhay SouTTa Peetay Daikh Liya
Ghar JuBB mai Phoncha Mujhay DunDa HoGaYa
B***C**** Soutaa Soutta Na Milla .......
----CHORUS----
B***C**** Soutaa MujhaY Soutta Na Milla
B***C**** Soutaa Soutta Na Milla
B***C**** Soutaa MujhaY Soutta Na Milla
B***C**** Soutaa Soutta Na Milla

ColleGe Mai GaYa MujhaY piYar Ho GaYa
OsnaY Bhi Mujh seY MeRa Soutta Cheen liya
SaRko PaY GhooMa Mai TanHa ReH GaYa
B***C**** Soutaa Soutta Na Milla .......
----CHORUS----
B***C**** Soutaa MujhaY Soutta Na Milla
B***C**** Soutaa Soutta Na Milla
B***C**** Soutaa MujhaY Soutta Na Milla
B***C**** Soutaa Soutta Na Milla

ShaaDi Howi Mai HusBanD Bunn GaYa
Raat Bhurr Thooka Mai Thukk K GiRR GaYa
KhosHiYo Ki KhaTiR MeRa SouTTa Chinn Gaya
B***C**** Soutaa Soutta Na Milla .......
----CHORUS----
B***C**** Soutaa MujhaY Soutta Na Milla
B***C**** Soutaa Soutta Na Milla
B***C**** Soutaa MujhaY Soutta Na Milla
B***C**** Soutaa Soutta Na Milla

B***C**** M**C**** B***C**** M**C****
B***C**** M**C**** B***C**** M**C****
B***C**** M**C**** B***C**** M**C****
B***C**** M**C**** B***C**** M**C****
B***C**** M**C****...................


About the Band: Its an underground band in Karachi, it is a MISCONCEPTION that it is an Indian
Band situated in one of the IIT's. This misconeption occured because of the IIT Students' post about the song

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smiley

every right handed software engineer uses his right hand more on the keyboard and the mouse .
Now but, my right hand was in a cast since 28th May 06 , i have arranged my work in such a way that i
could work by using my left hand on the keyboard and mouse , i have arranged it in such a way that i have to type less and most of the things i can do by copy+paste ,
yes it is that simple !!! A couple of days were a little arduous when i was making this arrangement , but since then life has become quite easy.

Hmmm... intially for some days working turned out to be practically impossibly for me
because i was psychologically so right handed. Even after i started working with my left hand i had this tendency of lifting with my right hand.

At the beginning , i was confined to bed for three weeks and I was told that for three weeks i would'nt be able to move my right hand and would go throuh hell , and I did. and yes i have typed most of this post with my right hand , and i am too happy about it.

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The moment one opens his mouth I know whether one is educated,
competent and successful--or just the opposite ( ot that is how i think). The words one uses and
how well he uses them tips me off instantly.

Studies show that how far you advance in your career, how much money you earn,
and even how successful you are socially are linked to your vocabulary.


Knowing what what a word means and how it is to be used correctly a lot of power and prestige.
Moreover, when you know the meaning of a word, you never have to feel left out or stupid
if someone else uses it in a conversation.

I remember a day in office when my boss said me that " Hey , when did u sneak in?" .
Well actually then i did not know what sneaking meant, but i answered
him "Yes , i did walk into the office very silently " guessing thats what he meant by
sneaking as per the circumstances then. But bro!! the next thing i did was use
the clause "define: sneak" in google search and to see what he meant and found
that i did not make stupid of myself in front of my boss.

Just so that you know, I do not believe in heroes. During the course of my life, given my well known ambitions,
I have often been asked (or in some cases told):

"Oh, you must really look up to xxxxx, right?"

The answer to this question and to other similar ones is a resounding "NO!"
In fact, I dismiss the entire concept of a "hero."

he-ro n. - In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great
courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods.
The reason I try not to admire anyone is because deep down inside I believe that all human beings
are fundamentally flawed and will never live up to your expectations for them (especially if you are
foolish enough to choose a hero who is a sports star or some other type of celebrity). I have preferred
instead to believe in myself as a sort of anti-hero because I know that I will never let myself down and
if I do then I can curse myself all I want. This doesn't mean that I possess delusions of grandeur but
rather that I believe in living an honest life and trying to set a good example by my actions.


wasn't always this cynical. Years ago someone that I admired greatly let me down and sent me on my path toward anti-herodom.

my nerdiness

Yahoo Mail
After the test i took to measure my nerdiness, this is the message i got:

Overall, you scored as follows:



23% scored higher (more nerdy), and
77% scored lower (less nerdy).

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Mid-Level Nerd. Wow, it takes a lot of hard nerdy practice to reach this level.

A Praise sals

It was my second appraisal which i have faced at my work place , though the second looked better then the first one. but i dont know how is it going to affect my salary hike

Below is the letter which i got from my boss this year (it looks good aye...)

Dear Dharmesh Tripathi,

I recognize your contribution during the performance year 2005 and we look forward for your continued success at IBM.

Based on your self evaluation, customer’s assessment and overall results, I recognize you with rating of 2 (solid contributor).

You have demonstrated strengths in the following areas and I commend you for the same and wish you to capitalize on these for mutual benefit of yourself and IBM:

Quick learner
Good customer focus
Adopting to new changes
Working beyond the call of duty
Good knowledge on Portal billing application

Specific areas for improvement are:

Improve on presentation and communication skills.
Contribution to project and organizational initiatives.

In 2006, I foresee you taking more responsibilities and focusing on your areas for improvement.
Your skills and the experience that you have acquired are of utmost importance to IBM.


I am just waititng for the material benefits , which i shall get from this appraisal.