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Don't know where I got this thought from, but it just hit me so I wanted to share it with you. Just a quick one. Enjoy. And share your thoughts, please. Lets enjoy. Read more
Don't know where I got this thought from, but it just hit me so I wanted to share it with you. Just a quick one. Enjoy. And share your thoughts, please. Lets enjoy. Read more
The 780 Billion Stimulus plan has been signed into history. In Denver. The person used as an example of what this would do was the CEO of Namaste Inc. - a company that provides Solar panel energy solutions. He is now in the hiring mode. So, hopefully things will change. Let us see how the stock markets take this. But in the longer term, things would probably become improved on the back of a forced government expediture for recovery. Meanwhile, while I am writing, the Wall Street has fallen almost 300 points! Damn! Read more
A bad economy and a greed ridden health care sector is a bad mix for most of the US workers. Some of the people in their 50s, who got laid off and have family members with life threatening situations have shared their thoughts and vented their frustration on this site as well. They have lost their jobs and their health care while they still have to manage their and their family's health. I thought I will look into this area and see if there is any help outside. Well, let us start with one of the alternatives to Health Care Insurance. This alternative is called Discount Cards. Now, as much as they sound great, specially in all the advertising, they are not always with good intention. So, while they are helpful in times when one needs help, one should use them with care and enough information. What are they? For a monthly fee, members of discount plans can get access to wholesale rates. When care is received at a participating provider, the member pays the discounted fee at the time of service. The services offered by the benefits companies will vary. Such programs help both the user and the provider who is able to get payment up front with no paperwork to file. Now, before you jump on any of the plans, please do your research. Read more
Just got an email - that my slideshare show on "Top 20 All Time Beauties of Indian Cinema" got featured on the Frontpage of Slideshare.net. Go check it out! 🙂 Cool.. huh! I have found that slideshare is a great place to learn new stuff and also to use for posting content on your own site. Instead of posting simply pictures, I now prefer to post slide shows that I load onto Slideshare. Keep a lookout for more sharings! Read more
I know many people have different choices and different tastes - after all beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I wanted to bring my list of the "Top 20 All Time Beauties" of Indian Cinema. What do you think? Do you agree? Whom did I miss that you would have brought in.. and who do you think I listed that you dont agree with? Read more
Archimedes once said - "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the earth". Taliban, ingloriously albeit, must be thinking along the same lines. When the US fight in Afghanistan started after 9-11, Taliban only ruled the Afghanistan area. US, had other agendas on their hands and ran away thinking they had won. When all that had happened was that they had helped Pakistan to extricate Taliban out of Kandahar and give them shelter. Within days of the conflict starting the entire rank and file of Taliban had vanished into thin air! No one ever heard of any officers of Taliban being caught by the NATO forces. Al Qaeda.. yes.... like those famous four No. 2's having been caught. But what about Taliban? Well they were allowed to fester. The long disengagement of the US and total denial of Islamicization of Pakistan by its rulers for so long.. including Musharraf.. and indeed doing various deals with them has allowed these elements to become strong again. As Pak President put it in an interview with CBS News:[3] "It's been happening over time and it's happened out of denial. Everyone was in denial," Zardari said. What better way to start their resurgence than from their patronizing country itself? Read more
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This song was a generational song. That entire generation was defined by this song. From the movie Nai Umar ki Nai Fasal, this song was Written by Dr. Gopal Das Neeraj (one of the finest Hindi Poets we have had) and Music is by Roshan - who was otherwise known for Qawwalis (Yeh Ishq Ishq etc). The cast was of newcomers - Tanuja and Rajiv. Latter was probably never heard of much after this. Btw, I was going through the discussion on the Youtube page where this song has been uploaded and one commenter suggested that Dr. Neeraj may have written this song on his wife's death. Ostensibly, the commenter had heard Dr. Neeraj recite the poem in Chandigarh long before it became a song in the movie. I also wanted to document here the complete lyrics so this will remain as a complete package for me as well. The poetry is so amazing that I would completely hate to lose it! Of course, the divine voice of Rafi has made all the more memorable for ever. कारवाँ गुज़र गया ------------ स्वप्न झरे फूल से , मीत चुभे शूल से , लुट गये सिंगार सभी बाग़ के बबूल से , और हम खड़ेखड़े बहार देखते रहे। कारवाँ गुज़र गया , गुबार देखते रहे ! Read more
Most of the people associate Pain with a break in the relationship.. or moving away.. or termination of one... but never IN the relationship itself. The genesis of pain is in the relation itself. I tried to explore this thought in this little piece. Please let me know what you think of it? Read more
Slumdog Millionaire was after all flawed in more ways than one. A question was asked for Rs. 250,000 about the poet of the bhajan "Darshan Do Ghanshyam". Jamal answers "Surdas". I had thought it was Mirabai. But it turns out that it was neither! In fact this song/bhajan first appeared in the movie Narsi Bhagat in 1957. The lyrics were written by well known Hindi poet Gopal Singh Nepali. Music was directed by Ravi and it was sung by Hemant Kumar and Sudha Malhotra composed in Rag Kedar. Some believe that Nepali might have fashioned one of Narsi's own bhajans into this one. Here are the complete lyrics of the bhajan btw. The bhajan that Surdas wrote was "Akhiyaan hari darsan ki pyaasi" - which is what Vikas Swarup's original novel "Q and A" mentions. The script based on the movie on the other hand initially used "Chalo Ri Murali" - another Surdas bhajan. So, somewhere tampered with the original story AND the original script! Read more
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