Masar Taal – A Trekky problem

Last updated on: January 27, 2008 at 4:48 pm By Jay Sanders

“Aa jao bhai ,aa jao apni apni samasya bata do. baad main mat kehna ki koi poochne waala nahin hai .bahut door se aaye hain,gujrat se.” (Come on tell your problems to them. otherwise don’t complain that nobody asks u people. they have come a very distant place called Gujarat) Are sahab kuch hota jaata to hai hi nahin ,roz koi na koi aata rehta hai (Nothing happens, daily some or the other person comes) Nahin is baar hoga.do sao rupai ke hotel main ruke hain. (This time it will happen as they are staying in hotel worth 200 Rs.) Read more

Ecotourism – Personified

Last updated on: January 27, 2008 at 4:34 pm By Jay Sanders

Tyre Tube Baby It was already past eight at night and I scarcely was able to walk partly because of the dark and partly because of the fatigue both mental and physical. The mental fatigue was a resultant of human emotions and fears brought about by the multiple risk factors that I had overcome just few minutes ago. Ghosts of two years came to haunt me as I walked away from the banks of the huge water body towards the jeep. Two years ago I was walking on the same hill that I had just descended from having covered about 18 km on foot walking round the dam waters from the opposite site of mundawli. Seeing animals grazing and making merry on the medicinal plants that I had just got planted made by blood boil and I started pushing animals out and pelted stones at them like a village brat. Tribals families marooned on this side of the water came out to watch the spectacle. A sophisticated urban lad running after animals on a hill surrounded by water from three sides!!! The villagers who mustered courage came to hear a blast of threats before they proceeded to the plantation site. After all I had walked all this way not to see breakup of community cohesion and unity in the form of intrusion on community managed lands by a few mean and selfish individuals who were more interested in grabbing common lands of the landless !! Read more

Today's Song: Zindagi mein to sabhi pyar kiya karte hain

Last updated on: January 27, 2008 at 6:54 am By Desh Kapoor

Zindagi mein to sabhi pyar kiya karte hain from Pakistani movie "Azmat" (1973) sung by Mehdi Hasan (lyrics by Qateel Shifai) Since we are on the Great Mehdi Hasan, I wanted to bring a song that I really love! Now, there is a history behind it - I was doing my Masters in Gujarat and I had a couple of friends from Punjab. They had gotten besotted to this song in their cassette. Now, I was the only one with cassette player in the group so they would come to my room every night. They would smoke pot and drink all night until 3 am in the morning.. night after night! And here I was - a teetotaller and a non-smoker - who would be in there with them.. listening to world philosophy through "high" minds! They would play this song repeatedly from 10 pm to 3 am every night!! Now there is one stanza that has always been my favorite - specifically the line that is in bold.. just one word makes that entire line come up with life - "bhi"! Also watch it on youtube. अपने जज्बात में नाग्मात रचाने के लिए मैंने धड़कन कि तरह दिल में बसाया है तुझे | मैं तसव्वुर भी जुदाई का भला कैसे करूं; मैंने किस्मत कि लकीरों से चुराया है तुझे | Enjoy the song below if you are reading this after Jan 29, 2007; otherwise play it on the left hand sidebar... Read more

What can a bright kid do with a pressure washer?

Last updated on: January 27, 2008 at 6:23 am By Desh Kapoor

Sometimes its better for kids to skip the school. LIke this one. He has created a "climactic event". Check it out. Read more

Viral Animations: advertising power to the individual and her idea!

Last updated on: January 26, 2008 at 9:00 am By Desh Kapoor

These days viral animations give advertising power into the hands of ordinary individuals with an idea, a pen, a scanner, an open-source free "photoshop" clone on pc.. so that this person can take on the might of larger ad behemoths. The Game for advertising is changing, guys! I wonder if the large ad agencies realize this? Watch More Videos Uploaded by www.bebo.com/abovetheinfluence Source Page Also watch this one: "I feel bad" Read more

The racist Mike Proctor's secret fuzzy logic is now out!

Last updated on: January 25, 2008 at 11:44 pm By Desh Kapoor

By now there have reams and reams written on the Harbhajan-Symonds' monket incident and Bhajji's ban. A lot of hue and cry over the hypocrisy of Indians and the technicality of whether he said "Monkey" or "Maa Ki" or anything else. None, except Sunil Gavaskar the BASIC question - where is the proof he said anything? Harbhajan denied. Ponting did not hear it. Tendulkar did not hear it. Umpires did not hear it. Extra sensitive microphones did not pick it up. Then who the heck heard it??? Well, itseems three guys: Andrew Symonds, Michael Clarke and Mathew Hayden. Two, Symonds and Clarke whose integrity levels would be beat a used car salesman's integrity by a WIDE margin. So, how did the great Mike Proctor decide? Well.. as Gavaskar said: "A White man took a White man's word over a Brown man's!". And no one even debated on this through this ENTIRE incident's analysis. Well, now Proctor's report has been leaked. Guess what.. Gavaskar was DEAD ON! Here is Proctor's fuzzy logic.. read below: "The first issue for me is did Harbhajan Singh say the word "monkey" or "big monkey"? I have heard evidence from Andrew Symonds, Michael Clarke and Mathew Hayden that he did say these words. Harbhajan Singh denies saying these words. Both umpires did not hear nor did Ricky Ponting or Sachin Tendulkar. I am satisfied and sure beyond reasonable doubt that Harbhajan Singh did say these words." Read more

Beauty lies in the total abandonment of the observer and the observed

Last updated on: January 25, 2008 at 8:11 pm By Desh Kapoor

Beauty lies in the total abandonment of the observer and the observed and there can be self-abandonment only when there is total austerity – not the austerity of the priest with its harshness, its sanctions, rules and obedience – not austerity in clothes, ideas, food and behaviour – but the austerity of being totally simple which is complete humility. Then there is no achieving, no ladder to climb; there is only the first step and the first step is the everlasting step. Read more

Universe

Last updated on: January 25, 2008 at 8:10 pm By Desh Kapoor

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Read more

40% marriages in Mumbai end up in divorce!

Last updated on: January 25, 2008 at 1:56 pm By Desh Kapoor

Is there something going wrong with Indian marriages? Well, new data and study shows that ~40% of all marriages in Mumbai and Thane are ending up in courts! Pressures of modern day life? Probably. Read more

How Communists and Congress was bought by the KGB!

Last updated on: January 25, 2008 at 1:45 pm By Desh Kapoor

Here is an interesting list that Suchin has published of the resources which underline how the communists and the Congress was bought - and blatantly so - by the Russians and the KGB. Another interesting article mentioned by him on "How KGB bought India" Any bets that the Chinese have partly - partly - replaced the Russians? 1. ‘KGB paid Congress, CPI, media’2. 'KGB moles infiltrated Indira's PMO'3. Mitrokhin Archive II , India related pages :4. Demystifying Mitrokhin5. Govt must explain KGB disclosures6.‘KGB officer posing as a black-marketeer’ trapped Indian diplomat Read more