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Beginning of the Cycle

In many ways 1 st January was true representative of the activities I was involved in through out this year. I wake up perhaps by 7A.M. in morning, gave a glimpse to my laptop (I promised on 31 st December to my mother that I will not do any computer stuff on 1 st January), and looked the fog outside … I will not say that I have been lazy while waking up, but perhaps the situation in home was not of much celebration as I have to leave home on 2 nd January, and thus I was a bit passive in response. “Why don’t you talk once with Manish?” – My mother started querying about my friend Manish (we are friends from class 2) who has to return back to Bangalore , also. “Well, Ma! He has already told that he will go one week later on … there is almost no point to talk with him on this issue”… Ma, like all mothers think their sons/daughters as children … and takes no cognizance of the fact that me, my friends are no longer class eighth folks … It is another matter that

...Compilation...

2006 have been a very important year for me. I will like to compile, illustrate the experiences I have gained this year. I will like to talk about my friends, my family, my life, of course my technical works and above all where I am heading towards (as it appears now). This may often seem boring, inconsequential to the reader of my blog, but then there may be some one to catch the points. Yeah, this time I will like to write with full freedom from myself, :).

Different Times

Industry teaches discipline, which I think is a trick to get its work done :). I have been doing job for almost 11 months and the bottomline is that I have lost my freedom, the fun that I used to have when I was completely free !!! I am not kinda person who flock with lot of friends; my fun, my freedom means walking, travelling from one place to another, talking with unkown faces and spending time for almost no purpose. In fact I am more creative in those situations ... but alas where is vacation, where is leave ... Whether I will ever get those days, whether I will get out of the Industrial black hole, keeps me worried ... I always played hard with those equations ... where I used to get solution for a system under different constraints ... I am finding that I have become one of those systems ... completely trapped in something I never wanted for myself ...

Aasha Ji Ka Pyara Interview ...

As told by Mr Bhagwant of BBC on a different public discussion group Asha was on a UK concert tour and had scheduled in 2 dates for Wembley Conference Centre and Birmingham. The promoter had apparently booked a "last minute" additional concert in London the following weekend. I was a little sceptical about this last minute thing as Wembley is not an easy venue to hire and you really have to book it well in advance. I suspect it was called "'last minute" so as perhaps not to disappoint Asha too much if few people turned up. As it was, the last of the shows did not have as many people in the audience as her first 2 shows, but it WAS the best show. I say this because having seen her first show, which I reported on RMIM, in comparison, she was far more relaxed, at ease, had more stamina, was less irritable and frankly wanted to carry on singing. I think she found her second breath and actually enjoyed the experience; whereas, initially in her first show she was tir

Moving Again

Life is like a river flow. Some times some leaf gets stuck somewhere and could not flow for a long time. Even strong flow of river could not change the destiny of small leaf. Often stories end without any statement … I am not interested in the end, or in the story, or in the leaf, I am more interested in the metaphor of transition that led change of course. I am not interested in the sufferings or sufferer; rather I am interested in the noun “suffer”. The world is mechanical. Many people say that we can’t buy everything with money, I also assert the same, but then a dichotomy lies within my mind. To get something which is outside domain of money, is it necessary to believe in destiny or you should play your cards tacitly (even you keep yourself ignorant about the fact that you are not playing your cards). Is it necessary to kill many germinating corpuscles for achievements or is it necessary to work honestly and hope for your chance? The words, destiny or hope are so illusionary that t

Cindrella's Post

Cindrella is a blogger like me ... but she writes much better ... and with every passing day her expertise gets richer. I am hereby posting her last post. And claim Thy bed. Far away deep in the woods Thy light above the mountain burns. It flickers and dances,yet stands tall as the blue and yellow glow in turns. The road's too long,the light's too far and my brazen soul is getting weary. The sun gives way and Thy sillouette falls, as Thou behest the night so eery. On the wings of history and the sands of time, Thy purple haze my eyes have seen. Emanating from Thy pristine soul, engulfing me they've always been. Be tired I may,but lost I havent. My feet move forward and start the hike. My eyes may droop but not forever, for they'll stay open to behold Thine like. I'll trace the smell,I'll track Thy shed. So tread I must and tread ahead. I'll take the walk and face the dread, I'll reach Thy gates and claim Thy bed.

ईदगाह

रमजान के पूरे तीस रोजों के बाद ईद आयी है। कितना मनोहर, कितना सुहावना प्रभाव है। वृक्षों पर अजीब हरियाली है, खेतों में कुछ अजीब रौनक है, आसमान पर कुछ अजीब लालिमा है। आज का सूर्य देखो, कितना प्यारा, कितना शीतल है, यानी संसार को ईद की बधाई दे रहा है। गॉंव में कितनी हलचल है। ईदगाह जाने की तैयारियॉँ हो रही हैं। किसी के कुरते में बटन नहीं है, पड़ोस के घर में सुई-धागा लेने दौड़ा जा रहा है। किसी के जूते कड़े हो गए हैं, उनमें तेल डालने के लिए तेली के घर पर भागा जाता है। जल्दी-जल्दी बैलों को सानी-पानी दे दें। ईदगाह से लौटते-लौटते दोपहर हो जाएगी। तीन कोस का पेदल रास्ता, फिर सैकड़ों आदमियों से मिलना-भेंटना, दोपहर के पहले लोटना असम्भव है। लड़के सबसे ज्यादा प्रसन्न हैं। किसी ने एक रोजा रखा है, वह भी दोपहर तक, किसी ने वह भी नहीं, लेकिन ईदगाह जाने की खुशी उनके हिस्से की चीज है। रोजे बड़े-बूढ़ो के लिए होंगे। इनके लिए तो ईद है। रोज ईद का नाम रटते थे, आज वह आ गई। अब जल्दी पड़ी है कि लोग ईदगाह क्यों नहीं चलते। इन्हें गृहस्थी चिंताओं से क्या प्रयोजन! सेवैयों के लिए दूध ओर शक्कर घर में है या नहीं, इनकी बला

मोटेराम जी शास्त्री

पण्डित मोटेराम जी शास्त्री को कौन नही जानता! आप अधिकारियों का रूख देखकर काम करते है। स्वदेशी आन्दोलने के दिनों मे अपने उस आन्दोलन का खूब विरोध किया था। स्वराज्य आन्दोलन के दिनों मे भी अपने अधिकारियों से राजभक्ति की सनद हासिल की थी। मगर जब इतनी उछल-कूद पर उनकी तकदीर की मीठी नींद न टूटी, और अध्यापन कार्य से पिण्ड न छूटा, तो अन्त मे अपनी एक नई तदबीर सोची। घर जाकर धर्मपत्नी जी से बोले—इन बूढ़े तोतों को रटाते-रटातें मेरी खोपड़ी पच्ची हुई जाती है। इतने दिनों विद्या-दान देने का क्याफल मिला जो और आगे कुछ मिलने की आशा करूं। धर्मपत्न ने चिन्तित होकर कहा—भोजनों का भी तो कोई सहारा चाहिए। मोटेराम—तुम्हें जब देखो, पेट ही की फ्रिक पड़ी रहती है। कोई ऐसा विरला ही दिन जाता होगा कि निमन्त्रण न मिलते हो, और चाहे कोई निन्दा करें, पर मै परोसा लिये बिना नहीं आता हूं। आज ही सब यजमान मरे जाते है? मगर जन्म-भर पेट ही जिलया तो क्या किया। संसार का कुछ सुख भी तो भोगन चाहिए। मैने वैद्य बनने का निश्चय किया है। स्त्री ने आश्चर्य से कहा—वैद्य बनोगे, कुछ वैद्यकी पढ़ी भी है? मोटे—वैद्यक पढने से कुछ नही होता, संसार मे विद

Story of a Lazy Dog

... Master to his Dog -- " You will have to bark whenever you see some stranger " ... The Dog nodded first vertically (means yes normally) and then in a shrewd way, horizontally (means no normally) ... Dog is always prompt at food hours ... Whenever we guys used to plan for somewhere or initiate some event, my friend, Pervez Iqbal used to say -- " Is kam ko kar liya jaye (Lets go on doing this work) ". The intent was clear. Suppose we had to watch some film, he used to say -- " Is film ko dekha jaye (Lets go on watching this movie) ". Usually watching movie means bringing some VCD to feed in Compu (which was supposed to be a tool which can do magic for our career). The intent of this guy was simple, let some person(other than him) bring the CD and he will have his cool position where he will sit and watch movie. ... And he usually succeeded ... Many people think me as a very active person, who does not take rest for hours ... and ... well its enough Reete

Arundhati Roy: Back In the U.S.A.

Arundhati Roy symbolises to me a thinking person, thinking woman, a socialist. Here is an interview with her. Arundhati Roy: Back In the U.S.A. By , Democracy Now! Posted on May 25, 2006, Printed on July 13, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/36643/ Editor's Note: This is an edited transcript of an interview with Arundhati Roy, from Amy Goodman's syndicated radio show, Democracy Now! Amy Goodman: Today, we spend the hour with acclaimed author and activist Arundhati Roy. Her first novel, The God of Small Things , was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997. Since then, Roy has devoted herself to political writing and activism. In India , she is involved in the movement opposing hydroelectric dam projects that have displaced thousands of people. In 2002, she was convicted of contempt of court in New Delhi for accusing the court of attempting to silence protest against the Narmada Dam project. She received a symbolic one-day prison sentence. She has also been a vocal opponent