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Has Spirituality become a tool for Perverts??

2010-03-05T16:37:00Z

The hot news at least for the past two days was the exhibition of perversion from a man who masqueraded himself as one of the spiritual leaders in India. He has centers virtually at all places and he has many serious disciples all over the world which is even more shocking. The name of the man is "Nithyananda". For some of the people who don't know about this news, this man Nithyananda was alleged to have wrong relationship with an actress and his pervert feelings towards her was shown in a famous News Channel all over the world. This is not the first time this is happening and this will not be the last.

This incident certainly raises some serious doubts in my mind and one of those is given as the title of this article. Yes. Has Spirituality become a tool for Perverts?? It is one of the easiest ways of performing crime because once they become well established as a spiritual person, people stay behind them as their strength which hides all the illegal activities they perform. Only few exploit the spirituality as the way I mentioned above. But what happens as a result is it affects the whole community.

Who is the root cause for it?? Certainly us. We believe everything without questioning it. If someone says he has got enormous powers and he can rectify all our problems, we believe that. We don't reason why and how and the problem starts there. As they say, common sense is the most uncommon thing in the world. We encourage these least rated fellows and at the end of the day we are blaming him for cheating us.

Think about it. Who cheated us?? Is it he? or we ourselves?

Stand up and Salute the Batting Genius!!

2010-02-26T05:12:00Z

February 24th might not have been celebrated for any special occasion till now, but from now on it would not be an exaggeration to celebrate that day as an "Exhibition of Batting Skills". I have written couple of posts about the artistry involved in the beautiful game of Cricket or for any game for that matter. Cover drive is considered to be the most gorgeous stroke in Cricket. We all can play cover drive but how many of us can play this gorgeous stroke even when all 9 fielders are there inside the circle on the off side. Such is the artistry involved in this game.

I have been privileged to witness some great batting from Brian Lara when he scored 400, Mathew Hayden when he scored 380 and Hashim Amla when he displayed the power of concentration against India not so long ago. If we miss to concentrate even for a single ball, we can only find our stumps going for a toss and that is the beauty of this beautiful game. Why I say all these?? Because, the Master Blaster Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar batted throughout the innings and remained not out at 200 on the wonderful evening of February 24th. I have not seen him giving any chances what so ever during his innings. Concentrating continuously for three and half hours and score runs even after completing 20 years of International Cricket, he has to be the man whom we can look upon and say "Oh, this is how Passionate I should be in whatever I do and it is certain that I will break the record at some point of time"

I was taken by surprise when he crossed 200, not because he has made yet another record, but how can he be so greedy even after breaking so many records. But then I realized, even Greediness is good when it is mixed with Hard work and Passion!!

AIDS remains a mystery as the new vaccine effects wear off!!

2010-02-21T05:53:00Z

Out of the hundreds of mysteries surrounding and surmounting us, AIDS is certainly one among the top 5 if not the first.AIDS was identified in the 1980s and since then it has killed roughly around 25 million people. The amount of people who are getting infected by this deadly virus is increasing day by day. Last September, Dr. Nelson Michael, a colonel at the Walter Reed Army Research institute in Maryland, surprised the world with an experimental vaccine, which can cut the infection of the disease by 31 percent over 3 years.

This gave a new hope to researchers who can build on it and find out a permanent cure for this killer virus. But the effects of this new vaccine have started to ebb and this has struck another nail in researcher's coffin. When speaking about this in conference, Dr. Nelson Michael has said that the 16,000 Thailand volunteers who tested the vaccine were not at the high risk of infection. But the researchers have kept their hopes alive as this has resulted in yet another dimension in this field of research.

As they say, every problem born with a solution. Some solutions can be arrived quicker, but some will take longer than usual. But certainly, the solution is there!! That has evaded from us for the past 3 decades, but not anymore. We are on our way to attain that. Hats off to researchers for giving out everything to achieve that coveted secret!!

When Nobody is watching!!

2010-02-12T04:20:00Z

The topic is very ambiguous and it was intentionally kept so. Not the traditional meaning of ambiguous, which is unclear, will suit here. But it is unclear because the topic makes one to think in multiple directions. The subject which I am going to deal in this tiny little article is "What we do when nobody is watching"?? According to me, the character one displays when no body is watching is his personification. Let me quote an example here. What would be better example than the traffic signal? We all rush through the traffic and at the time we near the stop line we would encounter the red signal, which signifies that we should wait. We will have to wait for another 60 seconds to get green signal. How many of us will wait for those 60 seconds when traffic police is not there?? Answer it to yourself, because nobody knows about you better than yourself.

The reason why I quoted this example is does not that signify the integrity of the individual. This may be very simple but believe me some of the complex things are not clear to us just because we are not aware of simple fundamentals. We present ourselves in motley number of ways at various times which in turn make us lose our individuality in the process.

Be the same to everyone. Let it be arrogance or kindness. Be kind even to the most arrogant person at all time or be arrogant even to the humblest person. We are already acting in the stage of world as Shakespeare said; please don't act once again just because we should appear pleasing to other fellow men!!

2009- The hottest year in Indian History!!

2010-02-03T04:50:00Z

Every Indian would have felt the peak of heat in 2009 and here is the evidence which says that 2009 is the hottest year in Indian history. The average temperature of the year was around 25.55 degree Celsius, which was 0.913 degrees higher than the long term average 24.64 degree Celsius(Courtesy Times of India). Discussions are going on around the world about the climatic change and the effect of it. This is yet another evidence which clearly suggests that some serious thought have to be put on before it gets out of our clutches.

As the technology grows more quickly than ever, it posts yet another challenge even before we start reacting to already posted challenges. By the time we realize that we have to act we would have already lost most of the gifts of nature. Globe is not warming nowadays, it is boiling!! If at all we need to preserve ourselves from extinction, we need to react to this climate change faster than ever.

Human Extinction is on the cards if we react late!! It is already late but we let's hope it is not too late.

Is Partitioning a Solution??

2010-01-28T05:15:00Z

Most fancied word of the year 2009 and may be 2010 will be "Partition". It all started in 1969 when this huge crisis started to lift its heads up. Telengana is one of the three primary regions into which the state AndraPradesh was divided after independence. After 60 years of independence, this region is alleged to be underdeveloped even now. Sources say that the main reason behind this is the government is not taking much care about this region and it has not taken any steps for its development compared to the other parts of Andra. This agitated the people of telengana to demand for a new state and thereby hoping to get their region developed.

Although the reason behind the furiousness of the people of telengana is acceptable, the solution that they want for their struggle is worth pondering about. It is not the partition that matters for them, but the development. I can only see politics mixed up in this whole agitation. Some politicians make use of people's strength and unity to achieve power. Even if the people of telengana get their own state, if the politicians are not good, they are going to end up getting a horrible government again. What this partition (if happens), will do is to induce people all over India to demand a separate state for their own region and it will not be good for the country as well.

The ideal solution for this is to give preference to the people of telengana in various fields to improve their standard of living. Fix an agenda of the action items which are to be carried out by the government in the coming year and the expected development in this region. After all they need actions from government not excuses!!

Waiting list – A virtual confusion!!

2010-01-25T04:48:00Z

Even if we have reserved a ticket two or three weeks back, we would get only a ticket under waiting list. Daily we would check the status of the ticket noticing only a no change. After a great frustration, we would try other ways out to make the ticket confirmed. A list of our railway friends and relations would come to our mind and a dilemma occurs as to whom to approach.

Somehow, we would decide a person and start contacting them. By the time the waiting list would automatically decrease but you would start moving the tickets through the same person (as we always aim for a peaceful journey). Periodic checking of the ticket status only increases the network congestion unnecessarily as the status remains the same (or with some minor changes).

Is not waiting list a virtual confusion??

Social Networking

2010-01-20T14:34:00Z

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True Love - Is it a Paradox in the modern world??

2010-01-17T06:50:00Z

The epitome of this particular article is obvious from the title. This article is about the two contradictory words (or made to look contradictory rather) TRUE and LOVE which are used together in the modern era. Love is one of the very few feelings which is common among all creatures in the world. If someone asks me to list the top five words in any language, I will certainly keep Love at the top. We have seen some fabulous love stories in the past and through the writings of Shakespeare. I have always admired those, not because it was written by Shakespeare, but because it delivers one of the most beautiful feelings within us whenever we read it.

Yes Love was the greatest in the past. But is it the situation in the modern world?? As centuries went by, we kept changing the definition of love according to our convenience and now we are in a situation where we really do not know what exactly Love means and how great is it to be loved by someone. To be frank, the modern day love has become like a T20 cricket. While T20 may last for 6 hours or so, this may last for a day as far as I know. I have not seen anything quicker than this yet!! We do not discipline our mind and that is the reason it always searches for the better even though we already got the best. I have also seen some people love for money. Believe me, which is the worst respect you can give to this FOUR LETTER MAGIC.

I do not attempt to correct this world through this article. If one person who reads this article can make a life long commitment towards his/her love, I have done my part pretty well.

That is why it is an attempt to mold things not people!!

Memories are indeed precious!!

2010-01-15T03:37:00Z

I have heard many people saying that it is nice to have a collection of good memories of our life which will make us feel good later on. I was not a great supporter of this idea at that point of time. I have seen some photo albums of my friends but it did not impress me to make one for me either. But the latest incident which has happened in a cafe, made me to rethink about the idea of having one.

I went to cafe with my next door uncle and his wife and their cute new born baby. While surfing, he wanted to show their family Digital Photo Albums to me. Although I was not a great supporter of maintaining albums, the word DIGITAL kindled my interest. He logged on to his account in a site and opened his Family Biography only to surprise me. I was astonished by the growth of technology which made people to maintain their memories online with at most clarity and can be accessible anywhere in the world.

He continued to show me the various photos which he had uploaded and also some of the precious moments of his life. I saw a divine enthusiasm in his face when he explained each and every photo to me. Certainly those are precious moments because which bring back the much covert smile in his face. This continued for two hours and it appeared like two minutes to me. Immediately I registered in the site to start capturing my Biography.

Memories are indeed beautiful!! I realized it for the first time.

After 45 years, Ring of Fire can be watched from India On Jan15!!

2010-01-11T04:30:00Z

The solar eclipse famously known as Ring of Fire can be seen from southern part of India on Jan 15. On November 23, 1965 the eclipse was viewed from India. After 45 years, this eclipse on Jan 15th can be seen from southern part of India in cities like Rameshwaram, Kanyakumari , Madurai, Tanjavur and also in some parts of Kerela.

The annular solar eclipse happens when the moon covers the nuclear part of the sun leaving the outer part exposed. This happens mainly because the earth will be comparatively closer to sun and hence the moon will not be covering the whole sun. As a result of this the central part of sun will be darkened and the edges will be shining like a ring of fire and hence the name. The eclipse which is about to happen on Jan 15th is comparatively the longest one which stays for about 10 minutes and 7 seconds. The time duration is between 1:17 pm and 1:25 pm says Birla planetarium director Debi Prosad Duari.

So, let's watch this beautiful event with care!!

Never outshine your master!!

2010-01-05T16:50:00Z

This is the first law from the book “48 laws of power” by Robert Greene. Why did this one occupy the first place among the other 47 laws? Everyone will have this question in mind and I had the same question in my mind too. But on a deep analysis this law seems to be the most important in a person’s life. A general thought – Acting smart and intelligent than the master can yield higher levels. Things are the other way around instead! It will create hatred in your master towards you and a possibility to search another person in substitute for you (who is not much wiser than your master).

The reason is simple. Will you like a person who is wiser than you to work for you. You will obviously get a second thought that he can easily take your place. When most of the husbands don’t like to have a wiser wife, how can a master have a wiser servant or a worker? But for this reason it is foolish to act foolish which again can create a thought that you are unfit for the job. Justify your work, do the thing which is only needed, praise your master at times – only these qualities can yield you the next level in your job or so.

Master your skills to become a master but don’t execute them when you are working under another master!!

A Resolute Resolution to start this New Year!!

2010-01-01T06:19:00Z

We stay awake to have a blast when both hands of the clock hug together!! We go to bed fully tired and wake up in the morning only to receive phone calls. We get messages from numerous people wishing us Happy New Year. We receive messages from a lot of unknown numbers and we ask who this is. When the reply comes, we realize those are the people whom we missed a lot for quite a while. Suddenly, an exchange of love through the wonderful invention called Mobile Phone. A meet, a date, a get together and a party. Wav!! That is what New Year is all about. That is why Jan 1st of every year is expected with at most curiosity.

Apart from partying, we do take resolutions during every New Year. No matter whether we follow it or not, everyone will take some resolutions or other. We get the first step right by taking a resolution, but we don't take the second step to follow it in spite of any tribulations. Have we ever thought why?? We know answer for a 100 billion dollar question when we watch the program on TV. But had we been in the same hot seat facing the same question, we would not have answered correctly. Have we ever though why?? FAITH is the answer. We don't believe ourselves hundred percent. We are ready to accept Albert Einstein as a genius and we are not at all ready to encourage the genius within us. Why because we don't believe ourselves.

We can start finding the root cause of any problem but I am sure the root is always same!! So, why can't we take a resolution to believe ourselves irrespective of any situation? Suggestion is mine and decision is all yours!!

Remember this famous quote from a poet "But soon or late the one who wins

Is the one WHO THINKS HE CAN"

Wish you a very happy and prosperous New Year ahead!!

Some interesting tidbits to feed your appetite!!

2009-12-30T18:09:00Z

Angelina Jolie, the evergreen beauty is named the Beauty icon of the Decade. The poll was conducted by Superdrug which is Britain's second largest health and beauty retailer. It was alleged that the survey included answers from 3000 people and Angelina Jolie's strong character, pout and thick hair were the primary reason for her winning the contest. Nevertheless, it is a great credit to be complimented as the Beauty icon of the Decade, isn't it??

The second tidbit in our agenda is rather funny and weird one. This tidbit is about an Israeli man who divorced his 11th wife recently. When asked whether he was unsatisfied with all those previous marriage relationships, he astounded everyone with his answer. He alleged to have said that his custom is to divorce his wives every two years and look for a new bride immediately thereafter. He was reported to have said "I throw out a hook and the fish come on its own".

I forgot to mention one more thing about this Israeli. He is 50-years old and he has already started his hunt for a new bride!!

World's Fastest Train started its journey from Saturday!!

2009-12-27T16:15:00Z

Japan has been more successful in manufacturing high speed trains over the past few years. These trains can travel at an average speed of 243 kilometer per hour. France has got its own high speed train which can travel at an average speed of 277 kilometer per hour. Amazing speeds for a train isn't it?? But keep yourself ready to amaze again. This time it's China who joined this club by manufacturing a train which can travel at an average speed of 350 kilometer per hour. This is the average speed of that train which means that the train can travel at a maximum speed of 394 kilometer per hour.

On Saturday, this newest child in the history of high speed trains was introduced and on its inaugural run, the train covered 1068 km between Wuhan in Central China and Guangzhou in the South China in 2 hours and 45 minutes!! This train is expected to reduce the travel time by at least 6 hours. The technology behind this high speed line was developed in cooperation with Siemens, Bombardier and Alstom.

What next to amaze us?? Let us keep our fingers crossed

Christmas - Serenity Personified!!

2009-12-23T16:27:00Z

Every festival has its own importance and specialty. Christmas is well known for its specialty and it is celebrated all over the world. Reasons behind festivals may be different but the purpose is to keep us energetic, enthusiastic, buoyant and let all the positive adjectives follow. Another important purpose of such festivals is to bind all of us together (which is becoming very difficult in this busy world). I was sitting in the cubicle adjacent to the cubicle of a person in a training program which lasted for a month. At the last day of the training, he accidentally saw me and asked me the below question only to shock me.

"Why have you joined the training now?? It is going to get over today"

Believe me, such is the trend of today's world. We always forget to notice what is happening around the world. We keep ourselves busy even though we are not. To relax and experience the sweetness of serenity at least for few days we celebrate festivals. Ask anybody whether they enjoy working or enjoy celebrating festivals. Most will prefer later because they enjoy doing it. What I like about Christmas, is the fun and the songs which will be sung in church. Those songs will be pleasant to hear and we can experience relaxed mind there. We are clearing all the unwanted thoughts from our mind there and listening to wonderful music. That is the meaning of calmness.

If we can experience this calmness daily in our life, we will never make our life complex. As the famous saying goes "It is not that we don't play because we grow old, we grow old because we don't play"

Let us start experiencing the serenity from this Christmas!! Merry Christmas

Tomato soups on streets during La Tomatina!!

2009-12-21T16:37:00Z

One of the interesting ways of using tomato can be found during La Tomatina. La Tomatina, a famous festival, is celebrated in Valencia(Spain) during last Wednesday of August. The specialty of this festival is it involves lot of tomatoes not for eating but for fighting!! Yes you read it right. Tomatoes for fighting. This is portrayed as one of the bizarre yet interesting festivals celebrated around the world.

The history of this La Tomatina is ambiguous and there was not single conclusive evidence which explains the reason of this festival, Nevertheless this festival is celebrated with tremendous enthusiasm in Spain. There will be a rocket firing on Wednesday to indicate the start of La Tomatina and the action starts from there. It goes on for another hour and again a rocket firing will mark the end of the festival. We can't spot a color other than red during this festival in Spain.

Had Spain been the only country in earth, Earth would have got the name RED PLANET ahead of Mars!!

Tete-a-Tete about Economics!!

2009-12-19T09:55:00Z

Economics is one of those terms which are widely used but least known. Knowingly or unknowingly we come across economics lot of times in our day to day life. We buy a product and its cost is based on economics and our salary hike which is also based on economics. This article is to throw some light on one of the key indicators of Economics.

GDP is one of the key indicators of economics which stands for Gross Domestic Product. GDP represents the market value of all goods and services provided by the country during the measured period. GDP calculation includes personal consumption, private inventories, government purchases, foreign trade. The amount of exports the country does will be added and the imports will be subtracted. The final value arrived after calculating this will be presented as a percentage growth compared to the previous year (mostly annualized basis).

The main advantage of GDP is if the GDP growth percentage is high, it means the country is doing well and there are lots of opportunities available for business. So the market will improve and the country will attract more investors. This will further increase the economy. But that is also dangerous as well.

If GDP goes too high, then the prices of all the products will be increasing and we will end up facing Inflation!! What about low GDP then?? If GDP goes negative for two quarters or if it stays still without improvement we will end up facing Recession!!

Striking the balance. This is the challenge every country faces every time!!

The Godfather – A perfect celluloid!!

2009-12-16T17:32:00Z

Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” movie drags all other gangster and mafia movies aside and remains close to our hearts. This movie gives an illusion of reading a novel when watching on screen (in fact the movie is based on the novel “The Godfather”). Subtle emotions, powerful dialogues, and vibrant music make Godfather a real man!

Some dialogues from this movie delivered by the Godfather:

Only don’t tell me you are innocent because it insults my intelligence. Makes me very angry (This is the dialogue spoken by the Godfather when he knows that his brother in law betrayed but still acts to be innocent).
Keep your friends close but enemies closer.
Try to think as people around you think!
The soldiers are paid to fight but the rebels aren’t.
Never let anyone know what you are thinking.

What do you now think of this Godfather???

What a look??

2009-12-13T17:41:00Z

City bus, a place where one can witness many scenes not capsuled in cinemas. That too crowded bus adds to the flavor. This is one such scene visualized by me in such a crowded city bus. The crowd made me restless and the travel was too long. I was grumping for boarding that bus until she looked at me. It was the moment that re-energized and poised me.

She was very pretty and looked like an angel. A mole on her cheek is the aspect that attracted me a lot. I smiled, she sighed. I was staring at her for a long time when I noticed her feeling uneasy. Yes, she was afraid of her mother. So I started looking her at irregular intervals. Our eyes met four times and we had a great time. I had a meaningful travel! I tried to approach her many times but in vain. Alas! I had to leave the bus and her too. She was staying in my eyes the whole day even after the journey.

But one thing, she is the most wonderful 2-year old baby I have ever met!!