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Because they sparkle brighter than the Koh-i-noor diamond!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
What makes them the most beautiful flowers on earth?
Because they sparkle brighter than the Koh-i-noor diamond!
Friday, February 8, 2008
Vitamin Ms: Make life 'no game'
The vitamins of life… important ones than those you get in pharmacies! You can’t chew them, you can’t swallow them, you can only live with them.
Vitamin M: Antidote to the killing M-word, marriage:)
The Vitamin-Mystery that keeps life goin’. Who wants all the answers in the world? How did you find out Santa wasn’t real? I only want to believe Santa isn’t a liar!
When Vitamin M improved it became Vitamin M2-Miracle, an antidote to all the other cruel M words… Miracles have a way of happening for those who believe in it, heard of this? I live* one every morning, and then think it’s a ‘WONDER’FUL world, now get going!
Vitamin M3-Maktub: It’s a quick pop-up just before the joy-ride to destiny.
Vitamin M4-Madness: It’s like my age-old chavanpras, makes me stronger against a hurtful environment. The obvious questions regarding life, reality, practicality, future and planning etc won’t trouble you anymore.
Vitamin M5: Mind! It’s all in M5 (the mind) actually.
*live: as you can't chew or shallow these
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Unofficial love-affair: Who's luckiest among Bruni, Taslima and Sonia
When I didn’t know much about novels, I laid my hands on Lazza (Shame), Taslima Nasrin’s only book I ever read. Well, it was a great-read, but I liked the concept of a Muslim writer talking openly of anti-Hindu riot in her own country (Bangladesh).
The book subtly indicates that communal feelings were on the rise, the Hindu minority of Bangladesh was not fairly treated after the demolition of Babri Masjid in India. In 1992, when I was just 9 I guess, I funnily remember the whole name of the riot and still re-collect it that way, “Ram janambhumi Babri Masjid”. (Quite secular way to remember it) But little that I knew of that riot was, Muslims have butchered cows and threw cow fleshes in front of Hindu houses in some parts of India.
Taslima makes news in India once in a while, this time she made it bigger. She was forced to leave Kolkata after a protest by a Muslim organisation against her continued stay in India turned violent. Later, she was taken to AIIMS for being poisoned.
And what didn’t make news was, French President Nicolas Sarkozy not allowed to confer Prix Simone de Beauvoir (France's most prestigious literary award) to her on his visit to India.
Forget Taslima, she isn’t as lucky as Soniaji or Bruni anyway (Nothing fairer than white-skin in India) There’s a fundamental difference between Bruni and Taslima, which is why, both are haunted by the secular country… one to leave the country and other to visit the country. And hours before (Jan 26) French PM's scheduled visit to India, the suspense over his then girlfriend was killing. When Bruni begged off the ‘official’ trip of her PM bf on pretext of them being ‘not married’ disappointed the ultra kewl Indian diplomats. The same diplomats who ‘politely’ declined the conferment of top French award for Taslima during French PM’s visit.
Why: The event would attract opposition of Islamic groups. Indian Government also expressed the view that riots could flare up. As if they care so much about riots! Why wouldn't girlfriend accompanying French PM to India and posing in-front of Taj Mahal lead to unrest? Why Indian police raid hotels and public parks to arrest young couples? Can't they 'unofficially' express love?
What is so luring about white skin? Thank God Bruni didn’t come… or if she comes in the future, Soniaji should personally give a few tips to 'heart-wrecker Bruni' on how to (wo)man-handle Indian men.
Heard of a song? Mandir, Masjid, Girja Ghar ko baat liya Bhagvaan ne, Dharti baati, Sagar bata, mat bato insaan ko…
The book subtly indicates that communal feelings were on the rise, the Hindu minority of Bangladesh was not fairly treated after the demolition of Babri Masjid in India. In 1992, when I was just 9 I guess, I funnily remember the whole name of the riot and still re-collect it that way, “Ram janambhumi Babri Masjid”. (Quite secular way to remember it) But little that I knew of that riot was, Muslims have butchered cows and threw cow fleshes in front of Hindu houses in some parts of India.
Taslima makes news in India once in a while, this time she made it bigger. She was forced to leave Kolkata after a protest by a Muslim organisation against her continued stay in India turned violent. Later, she was taken to AIIMS for being poisoned.
And what didn’t make news was, French President Nicolas Sarkozy not allowed to confer Prix Simone de Beauvoir (France's most prestigious literary award) to her on his visit to India.
Forget Taslima, she isn’t as lucky as Soniaji or Bruni anyway (Nothing fairer than white-skin in India) There’s a fundamental difference between Bruni and Taslima, which is why, both are haunted by the secular country… one to leave the country and other to visit the country. And hours before (Jan 26) French PM's scheduled visit to India, the suspense over his then girlfriend was killing. When Bruni begged off the ‘official’ trip of her PM bf on pretext of them being ‘not married’ disappointed the ultra kewl Indian diplomats. The same diplomats who ‘politely’ declined the conferment of top French award for Taslima during French PM’s visit.
Why: The event would attract opposition of Islamic groups. Indian Government also expressed the view that riots could flare up. As if they care so much about riots! Why wouldn't girlfriend accompanying French PM to India and posing in-front of Taj Mahal lead to unrest? Why Indian police raid hotels and public parks to arrest young couples? Can't they 'unofficially' express love?
What is so luring about white skin? Thank God Bruni didn’t come… or if she comes in the future, Soniaji should personally give a few tips to 'heart-wrecker Bruni' on how to (wo)man-handle Indian men.
Heard of a song? Mandir, Masjid, Girja Ghar ko baat liya Bhagvaan ne, Dharti baati, Sagar bata, mat bato insaan ko…
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Explain: Why red is red?
You haven't lost your smile, it's under your noseAs much I love SRK, for his charming smile… I’m also fond of those oneliners that he throws once a while. The best quoted was by Anupama Chopra in her SRK biography. I may be stubborn and an idiot, but it works for me.
I can either shout or pee
Is silence a pan-Indian habit? I mean keeping quiet when one requires speaking out?
I have faced many, but the most recent was more itching than mosquitoes. It’s like this, you have spent a whole night in a non-AC bus and then in the morning before reaching your destination, you are asked to get down of the bus. Reason: There are only 9 odd passengers to that particular place in Kerala, and others are going somewhere else. So, you all better figure out your own ways… (They didn’t ask us to figure out ways, am only talking from their minds)
I guess it’s not about silence, as in what would you do when neither can you speak/understand the language nor could take the sh** of having to got down before your actual stop. I shouted! After all, it’s pissing (Hell, I needed to pee too after finishing a 10 hour long journey).
I shouted as I realized to express your anger you don’t need to know a language. It’s like language of love and vice versa. My act ashamed my friends, which I give a damn… But can’t give a damn to the popular silence.
I was asked to keep quiet as my friends felt those bus assistant would use abusive language on me. Let them, even I would if need be! A street fight is 100 times better than being silent over stupidity. Silence is as betrayal as a crime. Only in matters of heart, silence may help you. (Amen though)
When provocative Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk stood against injustice and broke the silence saying that “one million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in those lands and nobody but me will talk about it,” he was charged with denigrating the Turkish national identity and insulting Turkishness. What Pamuk showed was that a human being cannot keep quiet and not be concerned about what is happening around.
Well, I am not trying to compare my tiny act with Pamuk’s greatness. But I am inspired of this outspoken writer, for his words that can speak too.
I have faced many, but the most recent was more itching than mosquitoes. It’s like this, you have spent a whole night in a non-AC bus and then in the morning before reaching your destination, you are asked to get down of the bus. Reason: There are only 9 odd passengers to that particular place in Kerala, and others are going somewhere else. So, you all better figure out your own ways… (They didn’t ask us to figure out ways, am only talking from their minds)
I guess it’s not about silence, as in what would you do when neither can you speak/understand the language nor could take the sh** of having to got down before your actual stop. I shouted! After all, it’s pissing (Hell, I needed to pee too after finishing a 10 hour long journey).
I shouted as I realized to express your anger you don’t need to know a language. It’s like language of love and vice versa. My act ashamed my friends, which I give a damn… But can’t give a damn to the popular silence.
I was asked to keep quiet as my friends felt those bus assistant would use abusive language on me. Let them, even I would if need be! A street fight is 100 times better than being silent over stupidity. Silence is as betrayal as a crime. Only in matters of heart, silence may help you. (Amen though)
When provocative Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk stood against injustice and broke the silence saying that “one million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in those lands and nobody but me will talk about it,” he was charged with denigrating the Turkish national identity and insulting Turkishness. What Pamuk showed was that a human being cannot keep quiet and not be concerned about what is happening around.
Well, I am not trying to compare my tiny act with Pamuk’s greatness. But I am inspired of this outspoken writer, for his words that can speak too.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
I've sinned
It's a big dealA new question has cropped up. Is it due to vanity that I do not believe in the existence of an omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient God? I had never imagined that I would ever have to confront such a question, wrote Bhagat Singh (The freedom fighter)
And when read Bhagat Singh’s essay titled: Why I Am An Atheist? I questioned my own faith in God like an ardent believer and often resort to God with the hope that, she (God can be a woman as well) would wash my sins off, if I’ve sinned* at all. And who do God entertain? Like I wondered as a kid how are those marwaris so rich after conning people in the name of Goddess Laxmi. I saw them coming to temple everyday. When I scored less in school, I asked God why even after praying am scoring low, and those people are growing richer:) Aries kids are stupid anyways, I heard Hanuman was an aries too, and wanted to eat the Sun as a kid:)
Then, they kill in the name of God too. Gujarat of 2002 remained the greatest example of it. Why let humanity kneel in fear? Why let the whole universe tremble?
But who decides the wrongs and rights? Let me answer Bhagat Singh that I found an omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient God inside me. Vanity has nothing to do with this, conscience has! That decides everything, and answers us too.
Bhagat Singh later explained: 'Belief' softens the hardships, even can make them pleasant. In God man can find very strong consolation and support. Without Him, the man has to depend upon himself. To stand upon one's own legs amid storms and hurricanes is not a child's play. At such testing moments, vanity, if any, evaporates, and man cannot dare to defy the general beliefs, if he does, then we must conclude that he has got certain other strength than mere vanity.
Can we chain humans in the name of God? Some say God is Love apparently? Why do we hurt them then? Or expect so much because we thought we love them. I only felt let Humanity be the other name of God or Love or whatever.
And when read Bhagat Singh’s essay titled: Why I Am An Atheist? I questioned my own faith in God like an ardent believer and often resort to God with the hope that, she (God can be a woman as well) would wash my sins off, if I’ve sinned* at all. And who do God entertain? Like I wondered as a kid how are those marwaris so rich after conning people in the name of Goddess Laxmi. I saw them coming to temple everyday. When I scored less in school, I asked God why even after praying am scoring low, and those people are growing richer:) Aries kids are stupid anyways, I heard Hanuman was an aries too, and wanted to eat the Sun as a kid:)
Then, they kill in the name of God too. Gujarat of 2002 remained the greatest example of it. Why let humanity kneel in fear? Why let the whole universe tremble?
But who decides the wrongs and rights? Let me answer Bhagat Singh that I found an omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient God inside me. Vanity has nothing to do with this, conscience has! That decides everything, and answers us too.
Bhagat Singh later explained: 'Belief' softens the hardships, even can make them pleasant. In God man can find very strong consolation and support. Without Him, the man has to depend upon himself. To stand upon one's own legs amid storms and hurricanes is not a child's play. At such testing moments, vanity, if any, evaporates, and man cannot dare to defy the general beliefs, if he does, then we must conclude that he has got certain other strength than mere vanity.
Can we chain humans in the name of God? Some say God is Love apparently? Why do we hurt them then? Or expect so much because we thought we love them. I only felt let Humanity be the other name of God or Love or whatever.
Just loved these lines: मस्जिदें हैं नामाजियों के लिए अपने घर में कहीं खुदा रखना... Masjiden hain namaaziyon ke liye apne ghar mein kahin khuda rakhnaa
*Sinned: Sir Charles Napier, upon taking the province of Sindh said “I have sinned.” But he only meant, now I have sindh:)
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Sunsign: Who shines in the morning
This will come handy in case you have broken up, or planning to do so. For example, if you are an aries, and going out with say a Taurus for many years, or you have presumed that you guys have been seeing each other. Read this for some sooting feeling...
Aries: I know, it will be hard for you, you will miss me, you'll suffer, you may possibly even fall to drugs. There's no other way I'm affraid. I'm leaving. Now you can commit suicide.
*I am an aries, come on, who wants the challenge?
Taurus: Should we reconsider it ? I think we should think it over again. Shall we go for a coffee and talk about it ?
Hmmm, My life-time experience says, they rarely consider, forget reconsidering
Gemini: Been scratching my head all day I forgot I had something to say. Ah, yes! We're breaking up. Ok got to go to the gym now.
Jaydeep, you surely did:) Rashmi, did you ever?
Cancer: I have something to say. Been thinking of it for the last 2 years but not sure still. I think I want us to break up. What do you think ?
Must not be untrue
Leo: You're still here ? Have I not broken up with you last week ? Eh? you're not John ? Oops sorry, well we're breaking up.
Donno
Virgo: We're breaking up. Just wash the dishes before you go. And don't forget to take the rubbish out too while you're leaving.
Hahahahaha, ran outta words. Virgos are good at scanning old bills after break ups. But one that I know have asked his ex girl to give back his book. Can you beat that:)
Libra: Basically, I have a relationship with another guy as well for the last 1,5 years. But I don't want to put a pressure on you. Take your time.
Majush, waiting for your expert comments plz
Scorpio: We may have broken up, I may even be seeing other people but YOU will see no one. EVER!!
Aha, yes yes, she went out with (donno how many) and blah blah... I won't name her!
Sagittarius: Come on now, breaking up ? Too much hassle. Leave it. Let's arrange some other time to talk about it.
Kunwar, just say yes to this:)
Capricorn: I've already seen my lawyer and the divorce papers are ready for you to sign. What ? We're not married ?
Sri, forgot the famous Capri:(
Aquarius: Message on the answer machine "My dear, I'm leaving for safari in Africa, I'll be back in 6 moths, so I guess we breaking up ?"
My aqua woman hanged on for several years, went through pain, disaster and what not, finally left a similar looking message
Pisces: Farewell my ultimate passion. Bye bye my biggest love. I have no tears to cry, no words to speak. I'm off for a drink.
Well, my fav Prof. (a piscean) is close-to this
Reference: Majush, my online zodiac guru from Singapore, putting this up without his permission:)
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