This is poem on love by yet another great Hindi poet Ms. Mahadevi Verma. She was one of the greatest poetess of the Chayavaad Tradition and was awarded the Sahitya Kala Akademi and Jnanpeeth Awards - the highest honors in Indian literature. Read more
What does meditation mean? It mainly means the ability to be able to find our personal spiritual path. This special path will lead us to the top of the Divine Illumination Mountain. It is right after finding our personal spiritual path that we discover that there are many similar, but at the same time different paths taking us to the same summit. It would be a wonderful idea not to turn to see how others are climbing up, neither how attractive their paths seem to us. Let’s focus on our path. Our discoveries, our lessons learned our efforts and achievements. Read more
Vishy Anand, the World Chess Champion talks of where the story in the book on which Slumdog Millionaire was based on may have been inspired. It was a real experiment done in a slum by the Indian IT company NIIT, where a computer was left in a village and the experimenters just observed how the kids used it. Within an hour they were able to switch it on and use the mouse and start point-and-click.. and by the evening, the kids had learnt to browse. More on that at the bottom of this post (along with Vishy's interview on video). Boot Polish was one of the first movies to explore the theme of organized begging in India in detail. It was directed by Prakash Arora and Produced by Raj Kapoor. Mercedes-Benz asked that its logos be removed in scenes taking place in the slums. The company, according to Danny Boyle, did not want to be associated with the poverty-stricken area, fearing that that might taint its image. The actor whose autograph young Jamal gets is Amitabh Bachchan. Amitabh Bachchan is a very real, and very famous Indian actor, the original host of the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", and also the father-in-law of Aishwarya Rai (or Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan as she is known after marriage). The cricket match being shown on television in Javed's house is the 1st one day international of the Future Cup between India and South Africa played at Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast on June 26 2007. As shown in the movie, Sachin Tendulkar, the Indian batsman, was run out on 99. India went on to score 242 and South Africa won the match by 4 wickets with 3 balls remaining. The film used a prototype Digital Cinema Camera from Silicon Imaging. When used in Mumbai, there were SI technicians on set constantly to deal with any problems the prototype had, of which there were many. Director Danny Boyle placed the money to be paid to the 3 lead child actors in a trust that is to be released to them upon their completion of grade school at 16 years of age. The production company has set up for an auto-rikshaw driver to take the kids to school everyday until they are 16 years old. Read more
The complete lyrics with translation can be found here.. and my review of the movie from the Indian standpoint. Read more
nThe important role played by trees In our past lives Once more, I’ll put a very strong emphasis on trees. Trees; Beautiful trees. Trees; Useful trees. Trees; Trees that have become our inseparable friends. Trees, inspirational trees. AN EXPERIMENT ON TREE AND HUMAN COMMUNICATION. What has worked for me is the following: By downloading tree images from internet and making a tree file, first I pick out a dozen pictures depicting old trees, and then I start talking to each of those trees as beloved old friends. After a while I do my best to listen to them by closing my eyes and imagining that they are talking to me like an old friends remembering some beautiful and magical moments had together. How the many times that we fell deeply in love with someone, our friend. The tree listened and at the same time enjoyed our radiant and contagious happiness. Other times, how being married, and being absent for a long time from our beloved family we stared talking to a very similar tree near home, in a far land. The many times we climbed up a tree and stayed in it for a long time feeling vitalized and very optimistic, feeling a divine bliss. How we even without realizing it, made amazing time traveling, to other lands and epochs. Read more
IMPORTANCE TO WRITE DOWN OUR SPIRITUAL SENSATIONS FELT PHYSICALLY MOSTLY IN OUR HEAD AND CHEST. It has been very useful throughout the years, to count with reliable information when I’m reached mentally by somebody. Currently I’m able to distinguish the messages from my true self from those from my friends or people whom I’ve never met in the flesh, but who posses a mental-spiritual affinity with myself. Another important discovery recently obtained is that dealing with very sacred spiritual matters, including praying and meditating for world peace, when our moon is in Pisces is an excellent times(two whole days)for these altruistic actions. Please help me gather important data from your personal experiences. The moon will be in PISCIS on Tuesday 24 after 7A.M, all day Wednesday 25 and on Thursday 26 until 3PM, central time. Before this date the moon and planet Saturn will be in conjunction, another excellent day, starting at 7A.M, also central time until 7A.M THE NEXT DAY. Read more
This is the week of Valentine's Day. I wanted to bring some poems on love by the best of the Indian poets to you. I am starting off with Suryakant Tripathi Nirala - my favorite. Here he is reminiscing his beloved - long lost yet so real that he cannot see another in her place. He uses rural symbols to bring the message home. Short but beautiful nevertheless! Read more
British Pakistani community is being seen as the greatest threat to the US post 26/11 by the CIA. The President has been informed by the CIA that it has started a vast spying operation in the UK to keep a tab on the LeT linked people in that country. US has a visa waiver for the British citizens and if the rhetoric in the mosques (watch this dispatch) - even the biggest ones - is any indication, then they are breeding grounds for terrorists who would, if given the right situation, go against their target - Jews, Americans, and Indians. British society has been very liberal in the way it has allowed such elements to perpetuate in their society and they have taken full advantage of it Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer says: "The British Pakistani community is recognised as probably al-Qaida's best mechanism for launching an attack against North America." Read more
Piles into Files? Huh! Saw this in a book shop... Read more
BLESSINGS OF OUR PAST LIVES MISFORTUNES I’m in a highly positive emotional state due to several factors. I wish to write about something about the important lessons given by God regarding some of our misfortunes experiences as human beings in some of our past lives. What wonderful divine insights obtained by feeling handicapped in diverse ways. Imagine, having many shortcomings, defects and obstacles in many different lives, in order to really understand human suffering. By being in someone shoes, we indeed understand these people’s points of views. Read more
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