Sometimes life comes a full circle!

Kite Runner

Started reading "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini.

Aasoon

inn aakhon ka kya hai
kabhi bhi dhundla jaati hain
jo agar tum kabhi mujhse poocho
to hum tumhe batlayein
ki zamana humne bhi dekha hai
zindagi humne bhi dekhi hai
bas dekhe nahi to tere aakhon ke aasoon hain
isliye nahi ki tum kabhi roye nahi ho
isliye kyonki humse dekha nahi gaya hai.

(What is so special about our eyes
They can be easily swayed
The heart says that if you ask me then probably I will tell you
That there is no point in putting so much trust in our eyes
As I have also seen the world
I have also seen life
The only thing that I haven't seen are the tears in your eyes
Not because you have never cried
But because I didn't had the courage to see it)

Puzzles

A great collection of monthly puzzles at www.logicmastersindia.com. Got to try my hands at various kinds of puzzles from different regions of the world. Puzzles being devised by the top puzzlers in the world, who themselves are champions in World Puzzle Championships and various other competitions. Something worth checking out.

Yeh Pal .....

Feeling like writing some poetry!

yeh jo abhi hai yeh phir kabhi nahi,
yeh jaisa hai, jis tarha ka bhi,
yeh tumhari soch ki tarah tumhara hai,
yeh tumhe bhi pata hai aur mujhe bhi.

pal, jo ki sachcha hai aur nirmal bhi,
jo jitna hi meetha hai utna hi kadwa bhi,
agar apna lo to yeh tumhara hai,
yeh tumhe bhi pata hai aur mujhe bhi.

pal, kabhi jisme poore jeevan ka saraansh hai,
to kabhi aane wale kal ki bhavishyavani,
agar mehsoos karlo to yeh tumhara hai,
yeh pal ko bhi pata bhi.

pal pal se pal banta hai,
nikharta hai, sanvarta hai,
Jise agar tum na samajh pao,
To woh apne hone ka parimaan,
aane wale kal main deta hai.
Iske samajhne main hi tumhari bhalai hai,
Tumhari vijay, tumhari poornta hai,
Kyonki jo abhi hai woh swachch hai, bhagwan hai.

A Minute to win IT!

What if you only have a minute to show who you are? What if you only have a minute to represent the real you? Only 60 seconds to talk about yourself! I tried doing the same, and I think I did a pretty decent job at it. Have a look -

OK! Sorry, only you are dumb!

An anecdote from my previous company office, goes as below -
       
            An office colleague of mine hails from the Indian city of Hyderabad, and another one from the city of Bangalore. A discussion was happening between them, and it took a sudden turn and they started exchanging personal brickbats at each other and then on the respective cities to which they both belong to. At one point, the Bangalorean commented that all you Hyderabadis are dumb, to which the Hyderabadi replied - "Do not generalize". We started laughing out loud. So, that means he has no problem when he is called dumb but only when his city's populations was addressed the same. Amazing people in amazing India!

Aloo Paranthe!

Time for some cooking! I love cooking, and over time have conjured up many delicacies in my kitchen. Not all though, ended up the way I wanted them to be! But this fondness of mine for cooking wasn't planned but something that I was forced out to do. It happened when I traveled abroad for the first time in my life. US of A to be precise. Living in Chicago with no relatives or friends made it very difficult to sustain myself, and being a pure vegetarian did not help matters. How long can one survive on MacDonald's French Fries? Cornered, I subdued myself to take the matters in my hand. (I cannot help but notice the unintentional pun the word hand has here). On a windy and cloudy Chicago morning, I got to to kitchen to make am Omelette. The choice of Omelette was obvious as this would be safest option to start with and I had observed people in my college mess making the same. How wrong can somebody be! The exercise turned out to be the way the weather was outside. From there on, I improved myself during my stay in Chicago,and learned to be a much better cook than I started out with. There after during my subsequent trips abroad, I started enjoying cooking, mastered the art and professed the same while at home in India.

Yesterday, the chef in me thought of trying something that I haven't tried before and I prepared Aloo Paranthe, which means Stuffed Potato Bread. My wife was at the receiving end of this experiment, and she liked it. Below are some snaps of this exercise -

                                                       The stuffing

                                           Add the stuffing to the dough

                                    Aloo Paranthe with chutneys and pickle

Enjoy!

A great read!

Following is the an article I stumbled upon surfing on the net :

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T ENDORSE ANY POLITICAL PARTY.

NOR DO I ENDORSE ANY OF WHAT MAYAWATI IS DOING.

I WAS JUST TAKEN ABACK BY RAHUL GANDHI'S HYPOCRITICAL COMMENT AT THE RECENT FARMER AGITATION IN UTTAR PRADESH.
Rahul Gandhi: "I feel ashamed to call myself an INDIAN after seeing what has happened here in UP".PLEASE DON'T BE ASHAMED OF U.P. YET

Please don't be ashamed of Uttar Pradesh yet. Congress ruled the State for the Majority of the duration Pre Independence to Post Independence.. from 1939 to 1989 ( barring the Periods of Emergency.. Thanks to your Grand Mom Indira G. and a couple of transitional Governments)

8 out of the total 14 Prime Ministers of India have been from UP, 6 out of those 8 have been from Congress...

I think your party had more than half a century and half a Dozen PM's to build a State...

The Reason Mulayam Singh, subsequently came to Power is because your party wasn't exactly Gandhian in their dealings in the State.. So May be If you look at in totality the present chaos in UP is the outcome of the glorious leadership displayed by Congress in UP for about 50 years!

So Please don't feel ashamed as yet Dear Rahul.. For Mayawati is only using the Land Acquisition Bill which your party had itself used to LOOT the Farmers many times in the Past!

WHY DIDN'T YOUR PARTY CHANGE THE BILL WHEN IT WAS IN POWER FOR SO LONG?

Not that I Endorse what Mayawati is doing.. What Mayawati is doing is Unacceptable..

But the past actions of your party and your recent comments, puts a question mark on your INTENT and CONSISTENCY.

YOU REALLY WANT TO FEEL ASHAMED

But don't be disappointed, I would give you ample reasons to feel ashamed...

You really want to feel Ashamed..?

First Ask Pranav Mukherjee, Why isn't he giving the details of the account holders in the Swiss Banks.

Ask your Mother, Who is impeding the Investigation against Hasan Ali?

Ask her, Who got 60% Kickbacks in the 2G Scam ?

Kalamdi is accused of a Few hundred Crores, Who Pocketed the Rest in the Common Wealth Games?

Ask Praful Patel what he did to the Indian Airlines? Why did Air India let go of the Profitable Routes?

Ask Manmohan Singh. Why/What kept him quiet for so long?

Are Kalmadi and A Raja are Scapegoats to save Big Names like Harshad Mehta was in the 1992 Stock Market Scandal ?

Who let the BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY Accused go Scot Free? ( 20,000 People died in that Tragedy)

Who ordered the State Sponsored Massacre of SIKHS in 84?

Please read more about, How Indira Gandhi pushed the Nation Under Emergency in 76-77, after the HC declared her election to Lok Sabha Void!

(I bet she had utmost respect for DEMOCRACY and JUDICIARY and FREE PRESS)

I guess you know the answers already. So my question is, why the Double Standards in Judging Mayawati and members of your Family and Party?

I condemn Mayawati. But is she the only one you feel Ashamed for?

What about the ones close to you? For their contribution to the Nation's Misery is beyond comparison.

You talk about the Land being taken away from the Farmers. How many Suicides have happened under your Parties Rule in Vidarbha ? Does that not ashame you ?



THE 72,000 CRORE LOAN WAIVER

Your Party gave those Farmers a 72,000 Crore Loan Waiver. Which didn't even reach the Farmers by the way.

So, Why don't you focus on implementing the policies which your govt. has undertaken, instead of earning brownie points by trying to manufacture consent by bombarding us with pictures of having food with Poor Villagers....

You want to feel ashamed. You can feel ashamed for your Party taking CREDIT for DEBITING the Public Money (72,000 crores) from the Government Coffers and literally Wasting it...

You want to feel ashamed.. Feel ashamed for that...


WHY ONLY HIGHLIGHT THIS ARREST?

Dear Rahul, to refresh your memory, you were arrested/detained by the FBI the BOSTON Airport in September 2001.

You were carrrying with you $ 1,60,000 in Cash ( Similar to the Arrest of Rahet Fateh Ali Khan recently, because you han't decared that Amount) . US allowed $ 10,000 cash at Immigration.

9 HOURS he was kept at the Airport.

He was later freed on the intervention of the then Prime Minister Mr.Vajpayee.. FBI filed an equivalent of an FIR in US and released him.

When FBI was asked to divulge the information for the reasons Rahul was arrested by Right/Freedom to Information Activists... FBI asked for a NO OBJECTION CERTIFICATE from Rahul Gandhi.

So Subramaniyam Swami wrote a Letter to Rahul Gandhi, " If you have NOTHING to HIDE, Give us the Permission"

HE NEVER REPLIED!

Why did that arrest not make Headlines Rahul? You could have gone to the Media and told, "I am ashamed to call myself an INDIAN?".

Or is it that, you only do like to highlight Symbolic Arrests (like in UP) and not Actual Arrests ( In BOSTON)

Because it so happens RAHET FATEH ALI KHAN'S recent arrest was Splashed in the Media and Your arrest in 2001 hardly got a MENTION..

Kindly Clarify.....

In any case, you want to feel ashamed, Read Along...

YOUR MOTHER'S SO CALLED SACRIFICE OF GIVING UP PRIME MINISTER SHIP in 2004.

According to a Provision in the Citizenship Act.

A Foreign National who becomes a Citizen of India, is bounded by the same restrictions, which an Indian would face, If he/she were to become a Citizen of Italy.

(Condition based on principle of reciprocity)

[READ ANNEXURE- 1&2]

Now Since you can't become a PM in Italy, Unless you are born there.

Likewise an Italian Citizen can't become Indian PM, unless He/She is not born here!

Dr. SUBRAMANIYAM SWAMI (The Man who Exposed the 2G Scam) sent a letter to the PRESIDENT OF INDIA bringing the same to his Notice. [READ LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT IN ANNEXURE -3]

PRESIDENT OF INDIA sent a letter to Sonia Gandhi to this effect, the day she was about to get sworn in 2004.

Manmohan Singh was brought in the Picture at the last moment to Save Face!!

Rest of the SACRIFICE DRAMA which she choreographed was an EYE WASH!!!

So She didn't make any Sacrifice, It so happens that SONIA GANDHI couldn't have become the PM of INDIA that time.

You could be Ashamed about that Dear Rahul!!



THINK ABOUT YOURSELF.

You go to Harvard on Donation Quota. ( Hindujas Gave HARVARD 11 million dollars the same year, when Rajiv Gandhi was in Power)

Then you are expelled in 3 Months/ You Dropped out in 3 Months.... ( Sadly Manmohan Singh wasn't the Dean of Harvard that time, else you might have had a chance... Too Bad, there is only one Manmohan Singh!)

Some Accounts say, You had to Drop out because of Rajiv Ji's Assasination.

May be, But Then Why did you go about lying about being Masters in Economics from Harvard .. before finally taking it off your Resume upon questioning by Dr. SUBRAMANIYAM SWAMI (The Gentlemen who exposed the 2G Scam)

At St. Stephens.. You Fail the Hindi Exam.

Hindi Exam!!!

And you are representing the Biggest Hindi Speaking State of the Country?



SONIA GANDHI's EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Sonia G gave a sworn affidavit as a Candidate that She Studied English at University of Cambridge

[SEE ANNEXURE-6, 7_37a]

According to Cambridge University, there is no such Student EVER! [ SEE ANNEXURE -7_39]

Upon a Case by Dr. Subramaniyam Swami filed against her,

She subsequently dropped the CAMBRIDGE CREDENTIAL from her Affidavit.

Sonia Gandhi didn't even pass High School.

In this sense, She shares a common Educational Background with Karunanidhi

You Fake your Educational Degree, Your Mother Fakes her Educational Degree.

And then you go out saying, " We want Educated Youth into Politics!"

Letters sent by Dr. Swami to EC and then Speaker of Lok Sabha are in ANNEXURE 7_36 &7_35 RESPECTIVELY

Contrast that with Gandhi Ji , who went to South Africa, Became a Barrister, on Merit, Left all that to work for South Africa, then for the Country....

WHY LIE ABOUT EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS?

Not that Education is a Prerequisite for being a great Leader, but then you shouldn't have lied about your qualifications!

You could feel a little ashamed about Lying about your Educational Qualifications. You had your reasons I know, because in India, WE RESPECT EDUCATION!

But who cares about Education, when you are a Youth Icon!!



YOUTH ICON

You traveled in the Local Train for the first time at the Age of 38.

You went to some Villages as a part of Election Campaign.

And you won a Youth Icon!! ... That's why You are my Youth Icon.

For 25 Million People travel by train every day. You are the First Person to win a Youth Icon for boarding a Train.

Thousands of Postmen go to remotest of Villages. None of them have yet gotten a Youth Icon.

You were neither Young Nor Iconic.

Still you became a Youth Icon beating Iconic and Younger Contenders like RAHUL DRAVID.

Shakespeare said, what’s in a Name?

Little did he knew, it’s all in the Name, Especially the Surname!

Speaking of Surname..



DO YOU REALLY RESPECT GANDHI, OR IS IT JUST TO CASH IN ON THE GOODWILL OF MAHATMA?

Because the Name on your Passport is RAUL VINCI.

Not RAHUL GANDHI..

May be if you wrote your Surname as Gandhi, you would have experienced, what Gandhi feels like, LITERALLY ( Pun Intended)

But you don't seem to use Gandhi except when you are fighting Elections. (There it makes complete sense).

Imagine fighting by the Name Raul Vinci...Even Leonardo Da Vinci couldn't win an Election in India with that Name!!

It feels sadly Ironic, Gandhi Ji, who inspired Icons like Nelson Mandela ,Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lennon, across the world, Couldn't inspire members of his party/ Nehru's Family, who only seem to use his Surname for the purposes of FIGHTING ELECTIONS and conveniently use a different name on their PASSPORT.

You could feel ashamed for your Double Standards.



YOUTH INTO POLITICS.

Now you want Youth to Join Politics.

I say First you Join Politics.

Because you haven't joined politics. You have joined a Family Business.

First you join Politics. Win an Election fighting as RAUL VINCI and Not Rahul Gandhi, then come and ask the youth and the Educated Brass for more involvement in Politics.

Also till then, Please don't give me examples of Sachin Pilot and Milind Deora and Naveen Jindal as youth who have joined Politics..

They are not Politicians. They just happen to be Politicians.

Much Like Abhishek Bachchan and other Star Sons are not Actors. They just happen to be Actors (For Obvious Reasons)

So, We would appreciate if you stop requesting the Youth to Join Politics till you establish your credentials...



WHY WE CAN'T JOIN POLITICS!

Rahul Baba, Please understand, Your Father had a lot of money in your Family account (in Swiss Bank) when he died.

Ordinary Youth has to WORK FOR A LIVING.

YOUR FAMILY just needs to NETWORK FOR A LIVING

If our Father had left thousands of Crores with us, We might consider doing the same..

But we have to Work. Not just for ourselves. But also for you. So that we can pay 30% of our Income to the Govt. which can then be channelized to the Swiss Banks and your Personal Accounts under some Pseudo Names.

So Rahul, Please don't mind If the Youth doesn't Join Politics. We are doing our best to fund your Election Campaigns and your Chopper Trips to the Villages.

Somebody has to Earn the Money that Politicians Feed On.


INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

You want to feel ashamed..

Feel Ashamed for what the First Family of Politics has been reduced to...

A Money Laundering Enterprise.

If MONEY is all the Motivation there is, You can Feel Ashamed for Sonia G's 'POVERTY of AMBITION'

You really want to feel Ashamed.

Feel Ashamed for what you ' SO CALLED GANDHI'S' have done to Mahatma's Legacy..

Meanwhile, I would request Sonia Gandhi to change her name to $ONIA GANDHI, and you could replace the 'R' in RAHUL/RAUL by the New Rupee Symbol!!!



RAUL VINCI: I am ashamed to call myself an Indian.

Even we are ashamed to call you so!


P.S: Popular Media is either bought or blackmailed, controlled to Manufacture Consent!

My Guess is Social Media is still a Democratic Platform.

Let's ask these questions, for we deserve some Answers.

For we are all Gandhi's. For he is the Father of the Nation.

To know more, try looking for Dr. SUBRAMANIYAM SWAMI. He is the reason today 2G SCAM is being Investigated!!!


YOURS SINCERELY

NITIN GUPTA (RIVALDO)

Wah Wah!

Kisiko ke hisse main ghar, kisi ko dukaan aayi,
Main ghar main sabse chota tha,
Mere hisse main Maa aayi!

(After the division of family property, somebody got house, somebody the shop,
I was the youngest in the family, so I got my Mother.)

Kids

Kids behave in different ways; ways that are as inspiring as confounding they seem to be.

My four year old niece studies in second standard and her teacher was giving a Hindi language dictation to the class. The teacher dictated the word Engine in Hindi and my niece instead of writing that wrote the word “Railgadi” in her copy. As you would know that Engine is called “Railgadi” in Hindi. My niece applied her brain, thinking that since this is a Hindi class “Railgadi” would be a suitable word as compared to Engine. God know’s how at such a tender age she can think in these lines. Beats me!

Another incident from the same class. The teacher dictated the word “Mandir” in Hindi which means temple, but she wrote the word “Ganesh” instead. "Ganesh" is one of the gods in Hindu Mythology and is revered all over India. I was laughing rolling on the floor when my sister narrated this incident to me. Come on. This being a dictation class, in which she just needs to write what is being dictated, and hats off to her to be so innovative.

Nice One!

Arvind Kejriwal to Karan Thapar on Devil's Adovocate: "Please allow me to speak. In your last interview someone counted the words. You spoke close to 24,000 words and me around 16,000."

 I don't think I need to say anything further on this!

Recipe for Disaster

Today we are going to completely change tracks and learn to "cook" a  recipe. A recipe of a completely different kind. Here it goes :-

Ingredients -

• One auto-rickshaw desired, but if not available then recipe can be prepared with some other motorized vehicle, 
• One extremely gutsy driver,
• One hapless passenger, preferably you, and
• One city which does not even have a semblance of traffic rules.

Directions -

• The passenger (you) need to travel from one point in the city to some other point. 
• The passenger decides to hire an auto-rickshaw (or any other motorized vehicle, as mentioned in the Ingredients section) for his/her commute.
• Bring the rickshaw close to the passenger.
• Mix the passenger and the rickshaw driver. The passenger thinks that he has got a good deal after a lot haggling regarding the auto fare. 
• Put the passenger inside the rickshaw.
• Let the rickshaw with the passenger inside somehow manage through the mind numbing traffic of Hyderabad for a duration of 10 minutes.
• The driver seems to have a strange penchant for green lights and the rickshaw is seamlessly passing through, leaving the other vehicles behind.
• Bake the passenger in the oven.
• The passenger starts to think that he is traveling way too fast than desired, but he/she keeps mum. Let this continue for about a couple of minutes.
• The passenger now realizes that something is wrong. The auto driver is stopping at nothing. He seems to be all set to mow down people crossing the road. A couple of times people somehow manages to save themselves.
• The passenger has started to roast and he/she shouts at the driver, who makes a grunt of a sound and carries on.
• The passenger contemplates to leave the auto and hire a different one, but gives this thought a miss and carries on with skepticism. Let this go on for a minute.
• Take the passenger out of the oven and put it on the grill.
• Bang! The auto has crashed into a truck which was standing at a red light. The passenger's "chariot" like the arrow of Arjun stops at nothing and takes on the might of a truck standing right in front of it.
• Let the passenger be numb for about 10 seconds so as to understand what the hell is going on.
• The passenger yells and shouts at the rickshaw driver ridiculing him by asking - "Are you sleeping?", to which the driver nonchalantly replies in the affirmative.
• Make the passenger again be numb for about 10 seconds trying to figure it out for certain whether it is reality or a dream.
• Now, the special ingredient of our recipe replies - "Sir, I haven't slept for about three days now. My wife hits me at home and she does not let me sleep these days. that is the reason why I slept off while I was driving. But still I know what I am doing"
• What the ****. First, he was sleeping all the while that he was driving. The passenger is amazed that he/she is still alive with just a pain in the right hand and no injuries. Secondly, the driver is sleeping and still he claims that he is control. 
• Now, this is the clincher and is the icing on the cake of our delicacy. The driver asks the passenger to give him Rs. 10/- on top of his meter fare so that he can go and have some tea. Now, how do you reply to that - @#R@##!*&#!%$
•  The dish is ready.

Simply amazing. !ncredible india.

!ncredulous India!

There is a saying - pictures say a thousand words. So, I will leave the snaps to do most of the talking.

This is the directive posted in front of a urinal in Mahabaleshwar's Mapro factory-

This is the hoarding of a store near my house. Note the words "M. T. Bottles" -

Water and Us!

Traveling in a cab currently on my way to the office and it is raining cats and dogs. Could not resist myself from writing this. In India, there are certain salient features which we generally associate with rains. We generally do not get the impression that it has rained until and unless the streets and lanes are waterlogged. Kids are making paper boats (from any piece of paper they can get their hands on) and trying to keep them afloat in the streams formed because of the rains. Men can be pictured with chappals or sandals in their hands and their trousers rolled up, wading through the waters. The whole world turns upside down.


Speaking on the topic of water, their is a more serious issue at hand. We need to conserve water and stop the incessant pollution of the remaining water resources at our disposal. We need to respond and respond strongly. Water pollution is a serious situation concerning each and every one of us. Our rivers and streams are getting contaminated with everyday waste and sewage which is posing a huge problem towards the long term sustainability of our race. In this regard, Greenpeace Foundation is running a mass campaign, across the world, to educate the people on this very sacrilege that is happening at our hands. They have installed mannequin's at various water locations across the world with the mannequin's having the sign - 水 MEN. "水" pronounced as "Shui" is the Chinese symbol for Water. More information about the campaign and how you can play a role can be found here. As a member of the Greenpeace Foundation, I urge each and everyone of you to support us in spreading the word. The world needs us! Or, should I say, that we need the world!

What part are you playing?