Big Fight

The pub assault in Mangalore has raised many doubts in my minds. The moral policing done by extremist grps are questionable. Let me start this way…

It was yr 2001 when I joined the college as a hosteller and it was thought of ragging that haunted me and nothing else. Being an alien in the city I had no option but to opt for hostel as that would be the best place I could think of. Ragging was a known concept to me. I heard a lot abt it during my coaching but SGSITS is the safest place for fresher’s as far as ragging was concerned. There was always an explicit condemnation of ragging and implicit support. When you are at receiver end you condemn it and support it to some extent (condition apply) from other side of table. You will always find the extremist supporter of it as they will always revive the wave of ragging and no one can change their dogmatic thinking.

Similar analogy I can draw in these gory acts going on in the name of moral policing. Whether it is Valentine day mayhem or pub assault, such acts are condemned widely across the country but the convicted were never prosecuted and the implicit support never stopped.
Ragging was the noble concept which lost its sheen over a period on time. So question that remain unanswered are, whether ragging is good if done within the purview of students interest? Is there any sanity in this pub assault? Has pub culture affected the vulnerable section of society?

Good bye 2008.....Welcome 2009

So one more year passed and u r marching towards ur graveyards. If someone ask me if I again want to live my life which I lived 5 years back then my answer would be ‘NO’ , because with each passing year I learnt a lot and each grey hair brings lots of experience to me. I can’t afford to waste all my rich value earning and I don’t regret the life I lived.
2008 passed by with lots of memories. This year I would regards as one of the most eventful year in my life. Some of the incident will have everlasting affect on me.
The year was best for Indian sport starting from Cricket (T20,IPL,Clinching Test Series) , Olympics (Abhinav Bindra and Boxing)and then chess (Vishy) all where memorable and unique achievements.
The most horrifying memories are plummeting stock market, Inflation, Global recession and worst of all terror attacks in financial capital of India, Mumbai.
Every New Year brings some hope and most of the sane brains on this mother Earth try to give deep thinking to their acts, introspect and plan for the future. Now it is high time for some serious resolutions and my resolution for Year 2009 goes here.

1.Take social responsibility at par with ur personal responsibility. Next time when I travel in train/bus or visit places I will be more vigilant.
2.Finance the education of one girl child.
3.Continue to save energy as much as possible.
4.Do not waste food.
5.Keep up reading habit.
6.Avoid casual attitude toward money.
7.Do not let these resolutions to turn into humbug resolutions.

[Vote on left panel.]

Tasteless Khichdi ……RNBDJodi….

Aditya Chopra was back with his love triangle featuring Raj , Mr Suri and his wife (I neither remember her reel nor real name). The much awaited movie of the year finally released but it was a lackadaisical attempt. The director was not able to use his magical wand on people as he did in his last two directed movie in terms of business/popularity.
Usually I keep myself safe from watching such mainstream movies and enjoy some off- beat movies but as it was much talked and Shahrukh really influence a common man (I have seen people emulating his reel role in real life and end up in stalemate situation.) that made me to see it.

Back to movie…

The Raj is again in lime light for his cupid act, but it is first time Raj got defeated from common men. The film starts with Shahrukh in his old scooter which reminds me of Swades. His transformation to Raj reminds me pre-intermission Shahrukh for KKHHai. The song with multiple heroines is OSO reminder. Some of the Raj PJs reminds me of Salman of Hello Brother. Some of the stunts which do not go with the mood of the film were useless and unnecessarily copied. The scene of golden temple is so common but first thought came into my mind was RDBasanti. The way of proposal by illuminating Amritsar was earthly version of Kyon Ho Gaya Na (Vivek/Aish). The fight with SUMO was similar to Akshay’s encounter with these Japanese creatures in Mr & Mrs Khiladi which was justifiable but for Mr. Suri it was a fluke. The heroine eventually falling in love with her Husband and does not elope was Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam concept.

The good thing is in this era of aam aadmi where this middle class rules Mr. Suri strengthen them. Shahrukh himself admits that 99.9% of men are like Mr.Suri (though I don’t agree with his % but I could understand his message). Second best thing was ‘Haule Haule ‘which was the main attraction and currently my favorite which again turned out to be plagiarism. Another catching line was “tujhme rab dikhta hai” which I could understand only after watching movie which puzzled me earlier in people’s orkut caption.The last but not the least it boosts the arrange marriage.

Overall good attempt which was njoyed by a section of society and as far as brand Shahrukh goes he is still King Khan. Long live Shahrukh.

***Hum hai rahi pyar ke
****************Phir Milenge
**********************Chalte Chalte

[Disclaimer:The views expressed in this blog are 100% personal which was not meant to offend Shahrukh and his film lovers]

Attitude Vs Aptitude

The over heated debate between this “t” and “p” has never ended. The “t” has always over shadowed “p” and we find missing “t” in each one. If you add each letter of word “Attitude” corresponding to their numeric value (A=1, B=2…….) then it makes perfect 100 score but “Aptitude” fell short by 4 to perfect score of 100. So everyone agrees and mathematically proven that the “t” wins. Now some different views on this: to attain “t” u should hav certain level of “p” because you need to know the importance of “t” in order to have perfect score of 100. Certain degree of aptitude is required to achieve a right attitude (mathematically also 96 < 100 and you need to score first 96 to get a century).

[The articles under label Bizarre are just to read. Do not apply more brain on it.]

Height of Ignorance

When did we re/acted in a way that we regret? I know it’s very difficult to remember because each one of us is so smart that hardly any one of us makes any mistake. I have read in school that children are “kaccha ghada” which can be moulded into any shape, that time I thought what’s wrong with adult, now I understand.

I am so rigid regarding my so called values and behavior that I am not ready to listen to someone. Every time someone opposes me I try to downsize him. I am so obsessed with my smartness that I turn my deaf ears to others. My stubborn nature usually hurts other but I stand still enjoying the helm of egotism.

I tried my best to find a survey which determine how many people think they acted always correct and who actually does? But couldn’t as this is not deterministic to calculate. Every human being act by using his best brain still fell well short of perfection. Here comes the ignorance “the depth of stupidity”. I describe ignorance as the factor behind ur action which act as an opaque curtain and restrict u from appropriate action. The people involved in corruption, terrorism, stealing and any type of unsocial activity have sane brain to think and they act perfectly as per their understanding but we know that they r ignorant. You speak harsh to a person and you may be correct but still it hurts that is ignorance. You restrict urself from interacting with people and carry the burden of ur cynical thinking, that is ignorance. You may have some assumption regarding different person and they end up creating turmoil in relationships, that is ignorance. You work in a project and never involve in it, that is ignorance. You try to outsmart others, that is ignorance and you still codes in C++ when C# is available, that is ignorance :-).

So you might have understood the msg I am trying to convey and there could be innumerable ways to describe our ignorance but still the smartest r not ready to accept this.

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

[Add your experience of ignorance, at least one point which u hav experienced or re/acted.]

Some what logical.

Question 1 : If 1 saree dry in 1 hour how long 2 saree will take to dry?

Answer 1:

Mathemaically : It will take 2 hours.
Logically : If the length of rope is constant and 1st saree is stretched all thru the rope then both saree will take 2 hrs to dry.
If the length of rope can be increased then it will take 1 hr to dry both of them.
If the orientation of saree can't be changed and 1st saree covers >1/2 of length of rope then 2nd saree will have a overlap area and both will take 2 hr to dry completely (due to overlap reqion).
Practically : It would take 1 hr.

Question 2 : If 10 birds are sitting on a tree and you shoot at 1 of them then how many birds are left on the tree.

Annswer 2:

Mathematically : 9 birds will be left.
Logically : If you use pistol with silencer then 10 birds will be left if u miss the shot and 9 if you don't miss it.
If you use pistol without silencer then 0 birds will be left.
Practically : You won't be able to hit.

लक्ष्य

***My first poem published in SGSITS college magazine***

उस दिन college में हमारा पहला दिन था | बदन पर lining shirt* और जूता फिट था ||
हम अपनी किस्मत पर रो रहे थे | लड़की देख-देख दुखी हो रहे थे ||
सोचा था उनसे आँख लड़ायेंगे | कुछ नहीं तो garden में ही घुमाएंगे ||
लेकिन उस कम्बख्त lining shirt ने पिछा न छोडा | उसने तो उन सभी से हमारा नाता तोडा ||
अब हमारी स्वतंत्रता का वक़्त आया | 1 Sem छोड़ 2 Sem की ओर कदम बढाया ||
अब तो jeans और t-shirt की बारी आई | आधुनिकता के इस दौर में हमने भी दौड़ लगाई ||
इस दौड़ में हम न जाने कितना आगे निकल गए | पर वास्तव में हम कितना पीछे रह गए ||
हमे वह माँ के आँसू याद न आये | जो उसने हमारी याद में बहाए ||
हमें वह बाप का चेहरा याद न आया | जिसने अपना घर बेच हमे पढाया ||
इसलिए कहता हूँ की यथार्त को जानो | वास्तविकता को पहचानो ||
आधुनिकता के इस धुंध में अपने लक्ष्य को पहचानो ||
सार्थक करो अपने यहाँ आने का प्रयोजन ||
अपने पैरों पर खड़े हो और करो माँ बाप का वंदन ||

*lining shirt was first year hostel dress
***There could be some spelling mistake due to courtesy of Hindi editor***