harshaantaranga...

25!!!

2011-11-25T09:27:00.000-08:00

Well, looking at the time i realized that one more hour and I'll turn 25!!
Wow.... 25 years of absolute awesome life!! What more can I expect from this! I have got everything I wanted. Happiness, sorrow, parties, experiences, travel and what not!
Life kept surprising me and I still feel like exploring it more, experimenting more and extracting more off it.

Life gave me 10+ years of childhood, 15+ years of student life and now.....I have a life it's my money, my way of living and my freedom completely!
Every phase needs a transition and i kept respecting it and changing myself.
And with each transition, i miss the previous ones! All these phases were beyond my expectations.

Well, I also realise, these 25 years I have spent enjoying every moment of it! And, now it's time. Time to build my future... build myself as a man i should be proud of. I want this phase of my life also to be as awesome as the previous ones. This phase should also be missed just like i miss the previous ones.
Hmmm....

I'm 25!

Whoaa...

In the right path!

2011-07-15T11:22:00.000-07:00

After a long long loooooooooooong time..m feeling good...
Feeling good that m doing something which is actually making me use my brain cycles to solve the problems.. Well.... that's what an engineer is supposed to do right.. Use his engineering skills *ahem Ahem* to solve *Ahem Ahem* the problems...

I'm thinking!!!finally.... The skill(thinking) which i thought I would never use again!! at least in the near future!! I'm occupied all the day.. all the time..but the next day i get up fresh and look forward for more! more challenges.. more work.. and more learning...
I somehow liked learning....from the time i became sensible(read it as above 16) *Ahem ahem* i've craved to do something that'll challenge me.. But from past 3 years that was missing.... i thought this is what IT is all about.. But i was wrong.. :-)
From the day i fell into this big world of IT i've been struggling to find my goal. With many IT-ish questions before me and millions of thoughts running in my mind i was confused...Technical or management path... This technology or the other one.. This company or the other one... Money or knowledge.. Now feels like i know what i want.. And i'm getting what i want...
feeling like i'm out of the rat race and i'm doing what i wanted to do...
Something interesting!!
Solving problems... Fixing issues... designing algorithm...the best way to solve the problem...
Making mistakes.. and not being afraid of committing one and taking a bold step ahead to do something!!
Correcting my mistakes... and not being hesitant to accept it...
And most importantly.. finding contention in my work...
but but but...
i never trust my mind.. i never know when it'll change..
I never know when it'll crave for more... But this time i'm feeling like not changing at all...wanna be like this for long time to come.
Fingers crossed :-)
-harsha

ಮೇಲಾ?? ಫೀಮೇಲಾ????

2011-05-16T08:22:00.000-07:00

ಅತ್ತಿಗೆ ಗರ್ಭಿಣಿ!! ಮನೆಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಫುಲ್ಲ್ ಖುಷಿ.....ಬರೋ ಪಾಪುವಿನ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಸಾವಿರಾರು ಅಸಂಪ್ಶನ್ಸ್, ನೂರಾರು ಹೆಸರುಗಳು, ಪಾಪುವಿನ ಕಲರ್ರು , ಮುಖ, ಕೂದ್ಲು, ಅದರ ಸೈಜ಼ು ಎಟ್ಸೆಟರ ಎಟ್ಸೆಟರ ಎಟ್ಸೆಟರ......
ಆದ್ರೆ...ನಮ್ಮ ಚಿಂತೆನೇ ಬೇರೆ... ಮಗುವಿನ ಲಿಂಗ!!
ಗಂಡಾದ್ರೆ ನಮ್ಮನೆಯ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಗಂಡು ಪಡೆಗೆ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಸೇರ್ಪಡೆ!! ಆದ್ರೆ ಹೆಣ್ಣಾದ್ರೆ ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರ ಅರ್ಧ ಕಿಲೋ ಎಕ್ಸ್‌ಟ್ರಾ ಪ್ರೀತಿ + ನಮ್ಮ ಮುದ್ದು + ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರ ಗಿಫ್ಟ್ಸ್ ... ಒಟ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಆವ್ಳು ಉಧ್ಧಾರ ಆಗೋ ಯಾವ ಚಾನ್ಸ್ ಕೂಡ ಇಲ್ಲ!!
ಓಹ್..... ಬೈ ದ ವೇ....ಈ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಬರೆಯೋ ರೀಸನ್ ಏನೂ ಅಂದ್ರೆ..... ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನಾನು , ಶಶಿ, ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ, ದರ್ಶನ, ಅತ್ತಿಗೆ, ಸ್ಮಿತಾ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಕೂತ್ಕೊಂಡು ಮಗು ಗಂಡೋ ಹೆಣ್ಣೋ ಅಂತ ಮಾತಾಡ್ತಾ ಇದ್ವಿ.....
ಸೋ ನಮ್ಮ ನಮ್ಮ ಗೆಸ್-ಗಳು ಇಲ್ಲಿವೆ.....
ಯಾರು ಗೆಲ್ತಾರೊ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಸೋತವರು ತಲಾ ಒಂದು ಸಾವಿರ ರೂಪಾಯಿ ಕೊಡಬೇಕು ಅಂತ ಡಿಸೈಡ್ ಮಾಡಿದೀವಿ!!
ಇಗೋ ಇಲ್ಲಿವೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಗೆಸ್ಸುಗಳು...
೧) ಶಶಿ :- ಹೆಣ್ಣು!!
೨) ಹರ್ಷ:- ಗಂಡು!!
೩) ದರ್ಶನ:- ಹೆಣ್ಣು!!
೪) ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ:- ಹೆಣ್ಣು!!
೫) ಸ್ಮಿತಾ :- ಹೆಣ್ಣು!!

ಸೋ!! ೫ ಜನರಲ್ಲಿ ೪ ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಆಗತ್ತೆ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ನಾನು ಗಂಡು ಆಗತ್ತೆ ಅಂತ ಹೇಳಿದೀನಿ!!
ಮರ್ಯಾದೆ ಕಾಪಾಡು ಅತ್ತಿಗೆ!

ಟು ಬಿ ಕಂಟಿನ್ಯೂಡ್ ಆಫ್ಟರ್ ೩ ಮಂತ್ಸ್!!

-ಹರ್ಷ!!

ತನ್ನಂತೆ ಬೆರೆತು ಬಾಳೆಂದಿತು ಮನುಜಂಗೆ ಬಾನಾಡಿ.!

2011-02-28T22:39:00.001-08:00

ಧಾರವಾಡ ಆಗಷ್ಟೇ ಮಳೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಿಂದು ತನ್ನ ಆರದ ಮೈಯನ್ನು ಬಿಸಿಲಿಗೊಡ್ಡಿ ನಿಂತಿತ್ತು. ಹೊಂಬಿಸಿಲಿಗೆ ಹುಲ್ಲಿನ ಮೇಲೆ ಮುತ್ತಿಟ್ಟು ನಿಂತ ಹನಿಗಳು ಮುತ್ತಿನಂತೆ ಹೊಳೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದವು. ಪ್ರಕೃತಿಯ ಆ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯ ಕಂಡು ಹೊದ್ದ ಚಾದರವ ಒದ್ದು ಕ್ಯಾಮರ ಬಗಲಿಗೇರಿಸಿ ಹೊರಟೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟೆ. ಕ್ಯಾಮರ ಕಣ್ಣಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲವನ್ನೂ ಸೆರೆಹಿಡಿಯುವ ಧಾವಂತದಲ್ಲಿ....

ಫೊಟೋ ಹೊಡೆಯಲೆಂದೇ ಹೊರಟಿದ್ದರಿಂದ ಸುತ್ತ ಮುತ್ತಲಿನ ಹುಲ್ಲು, ಕಸ, ಕಡ್ಡಿ, ಹುಳು, ಹುಪ್ಪಡಿ, ಕಲ್ಲು ಮುಳ್ಳು ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಆಹಾರವಾದವು ನನ್ನ ಕ್ಯಾಮರಕ್ಕೆ; ಆದರೂ, ತೃಪ್ತಿ ಇಲ್ಲದ ಮನಸ್ಸು ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಹಿಮ್ಮೇಳದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಲ್ಲದ ಬಯಕೆಯ ಕೋರಸ್ಸು ಹಾಡುತ್ತಿತ್ತು.. ಕ್ಯಾಮರಾ ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ದೊರಕದ್ದನ್ನು ದಕ್ಕಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಸಾಗಿತ್ತು ನನ್ನ ಅಲೆದಾಟ..

ಆಗಲೇ ಕಂಡಿದ್ದು ತುಂಬಾ ಪರಿಚಯವಿರುವ ಹಕ್ಕಿ.. ಮೈ ತುಂಬ ಹತ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಮೆತ್ತಿದಂತಹ ಶುಭ್ರ ಬಿಳಿ ತುಪ್ಪಳ, ೧೯ ರಿಂದ ೨೧ ಇಂಚು ಉದ್ದದ ದೇಹ, ಅತಿ ಚಿಕ್ಕದಲ್ಲದ ಬಲಿಷ್ಟ ಗುಲಾಬಿ ಕೊಕ್ಕು, ತಲೆಯನ್ನು ದೇಹದಿಂದ ತುಸು ದೂರಕ್ಕೆ ಬೇರ್ಪಡಿಸಿರುವ ಕತ್ತು ಮತ್ತು ನೀಳ ಕಾಲುಗಳ ಒಪ್ಪವಾದ ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನದ ಸುಂದರ ಹಕ್ಕಿ ಬೆಳ್ಳಗಿನ "ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿ".. Cattle Eagret.

ವಾಹ್ ! ಹುಡುಕುತ್ತಿದ್ದುದು ಇದೇ ಎಂದೆನಿಸಿ ಕ್ಯಾಮರ ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೊತ್ತಿ ಹಿಡಿದಾಗ ಕೊಕ್ಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಡಿದಿದ್ದ ಕಪ್ಪೆ ಕಂಡಿತ್ತು. ಚಿಲ್ಲರೆ ಕೇಳಿದ್ರೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದ್ದು ನೋಟು ಅನ್ನುವಷ್ಟು ಖುಷಿಯಾಗಿ ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆ ದಿಕ್ಕುಗಳಿಂದ ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆ ಕೋನದಲ್ಲಿ ಫೊಟೋ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ಕಿಸಿದ್ದೇ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ಕಿಸಿದ್ದು.. ತನ್ನ ಬೇಟೆಯನ್ನು ಕೊಕ್ಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಡಿದು ಗಂಬೀರವಾಗಿ ಕತ್ತೆತ್ತಿ ನಿಂತಿದ್ದ ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿಯು ನನಗೇ ಪೋಸು ಕೊಡುವಂತಿತ್ತು. ಅದನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ದೂರದಿಂದಲೇ ಗಮನಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ಹಕ್ಕಿಯು ತಾನೂ ಫ್ರೇಮಿನಲ್ಲಿ ತೂರಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲ್ಲೆ೦ಬಂತೆ ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಬರುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಆದರೆ ಅದರ ಗಮನವೆಲ್ಲಾ ಇದ್ದದ್ದು ಕಪ್ಪೆಯ ಕಡೆಗೆ. ಪೋಸು ಕೊಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಹಕ್ಕಿಯು ತನ್ನ ಬೇಟೆಗೆ ಒದಗಿದ ಅಪಾಯವನ್ನು ಗ್ರಹಿಸಿ ಪ್ರತಿಸ್ಪರ್ಧಿಯನ್ನೆದುರಿಸಲು ತಯಾರಾಗಿ ನಿಂತಿತು. ಆಮೇಲೆ ನಡೆದದ್ದೆಲ್ಲಾ ಬಾಡೂಟಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಹೋರಾಟಾ ಕಾದಾಟ, ಕಪ್ಪೆಗೋ ಪ್ರಾಣ ಸಂಕಟ...

ಹತ್ತಿರದಿಂದ ಗೊತ್ತಿರುವ ಹಕ್ಕಿಯಾದರೂ ಗೊತ್ತಿರದ ಹಲವು ಸಂಗತಿಗಳಿವೆ ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ. ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಕೆರೆ, ಹಳ್ಳ-ಕೊಳ್ಳ, ನದಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಗದ್ದೆಗಳಂಚಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣಸಿಗುವ ಇವು ಹಳ್ಳಿಗಳಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಾ "ಗೋವಕ್ಕಿ" ಎಂದೆ ಪರಿಚಿತ, ವೈಜ್ಞಾನಿಕವಾಗಿ Ardidae ಕುಟುಂಬದ Egret (ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿ) ಗುಂಪಿಗೆ ಸೇರುವುದರಿಂದ ರೂಢಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇದನ್ನು ಗೋವಕ್ಕಿ ಎನ್ನದೇ ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿ ಎನ್ನುವುದುಂಟು.

ಚಳಿಗಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ವಲಸೆ ಹೋಗುವ ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿಗಳು ಬಹಳ ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆ ಏಶಿಯಾ, ಯುರೋಪ್ ಮತ್ತು ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಕಾಣಸಿಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದವು. ಕಾಲ ಕ್ರಮೇಣ ಇವು ತಮ್ಮ ಸಂತಾನ ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಖಂಡಗಳಿಗೂ ವಿಸ್ತರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡವು. ಅವು ಹೊಂದಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಸ್ವಭಾವದ ಸಮಾಜ ಜೀವಿಗಳು. ಗುಂಪುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುವ ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿಗಳು, ನೂರಾರು ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದೇ ಮರದಲ್ಲಿ ಗೂಡು ಕಟ್ಟಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತವೆ. ಕೆಲವೊಮ್ಮೆ ಗೂಡುಗಳನ್ನು ಬೇರೆ ಪಕ್ಷಿಗಳ ಜೊತೆ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದೂ ಉಂಟು.

ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿಯದು ದನಗಳ ಜೊತೆಯೂ ಒಂಥರಾ ಅವಲಂಬಿತ ಗೆಳೆತನ. ಚಿಕ್ಕವರಿದ್ದಾಗ ನಾವು ಕೈಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೋಲಿದ್ದರೂ ದನ ಎಮ್ಮೆಗಳ ಹತ್ತಿರ ಹೋಗಲು ಹೆದರುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ತಾನು ಮಾತ್ರ ಯಾವುದೇ ಅಳುಕು ಅಂಜಿಕೆಯಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಅವುಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಸವಾರಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಾ ವಿಶೇಷವಾಗಿ ಆಕರ್ಷಿಸಿತ್ತು ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿ. ಅವು ದಿನದ ಕೂಳನ್ನರಸಿ ಒಂಟಿಯಾಗಿ ಇಲ್ಲವೇ ಗುಂಪಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಹೋಗುತ್ತವೆ. ಕಪ್ಪೆ, ಮೀನು, ಉಣುಗು, ಕೀಟ, ಎಲೆ ಮುಂತಾದವುಗಳನ್ನು ಆಹಾರವಾಗಿ ಸೇವಿಸುವ ಇವು, ಶಕ್ತಿ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸದೆ ಬೇಟೆ ಹಿಡಿಯುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಸ್ಸೀಮರು. ಕಚ್ಚಿ ರಕ್ತ ಹೀರುವ ಕೀಟ ಉಣುಗುಗಳಿಂದ ರಕ್ಷಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ದನಗಳು ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿಗಳನ್ನು ನಂಬಿದ್ದರೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಆಹಾರವನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚೇನೂ ಶ್ರಮವಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಪಡೆಯಲು ಇವು ದನಗಳನ್ನು ಅವಲಂಬಿಸಿವೆ.

ತನ್ನ ಬೆಳ್ಳನೆಯ ಬಣ್ಣದಿಂದಾಗೆ ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿ ಎಂದು ಹೆಸರು ಪಡೆದು ಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರೂ ಕೆಲವೊಮ್ಮೆ ಅವುಗಳ ಗರಿಯ ಬಣ್ಣ ಬದಲಾಗುವುದುಂಟು. ಸಂತಾನೋತ್ಪತ್ತಿಯ ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ತಲೆ, ಎದೆ ಮತ್ತು ಬೆನ್ನಿನ ಭಾಗದ ಗರಿಗಳು ತೆಳು ಕಂದು (buff feather) ಬಣ್ಣದ್ದಾಗಿರುತ್ತವೆ. ಆಗ ಅವು ತಮ್ಮ ಗೂಡು ಕಟ್ಟಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಕಾರ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ತೊಡಗಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತವೆ. ಗಂಡು ಹಕ್ಕಿಯದು ಸಾಮಾನು ಸರಂಜಾಮು (ಕಡ್ಡಿ , ಎಲೆ) ಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂಗ್ರಹಿಸುವ ಕೆಲಸವಾದರೆ, ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಹಕ್ಕಿಯದು ಮೇಸ್ತ್ರಿ (ಕಟ್ಟುವ) ಕೆಲಸ. ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಒಟ್ಟಿಗೆ 2 ರಿಂದ 6 ಮೊಟ್ಟೆಗಳನ್ನಿಡುವ ಬೆಳ್ಳಕ್ಕಿ 18-30 ದಿನಗಳವರೆಗೆ ಕಾವು ಕೊಡುತ್ತದೆ. ನಂತರವಷ್ಟೇ ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಮರಿಗಳು ಈ ಪ್ರಪಂಚಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾಲಿರಿಸುವವು ...

ಟಪ್..! ತಲೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಬಿತ್ತು ಒಂದು ಹನಿ..
ಬೀಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ತಂಪನೆ ಗಾಳಿ, ಹದವಾಗಿದ್ದ ಬಿಸಿಲು, ಎರಡು ಹಕ್ಕಿಗಳ ಕಾದಾಟದ ದೃಶ್ಯ ಇವುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮೈ ಮರೆತಿದ್ದ ನನಗೆ ಮರದಿಂದ ಒಂದು ಹನಿ ನೀರು ತಲೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಬಿದ್ದಾಗಲೇ ಎಚ್ಚರವಾಗಿದ್ದು. ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಹಕ್ಕಿಗಳ ಆಟ ನಂತರ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಂಡು ತಿಂದ ಊಟದ ನೋಟವನ್ನು ಹತ್ತಿರದಿಂದಲೆ ನೋಡುತ್ತಾ ಏನೋ ಖುಷಿ. ಸಂಭ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಳುಗಿ ಹೋಗಿದ್ದೆ. ಆಗಲೇ ಹೊಳೆದಿತ್ತು "ಅಯ್ಯೋ.!! ಇವುಗಳ ಫೋಟೋ ಹೊಡೆಯುವುದೇ ಮರೆತೆನಲ್ಲಾ..".

ಹಾಳಾದ ಮರೆವನ್ನು ದೂಷಿಸುತ್ತ, ಮತ್ತೊಮ್ಮೆ ಹೀಗಾಗದಿರಲೆಂದು ಆಶಿಸುತ್ತಾ ಅಷ್ಟೇನೂ ಬೇಸರಗೊಳ್ಳದೆ ಹೊರಟೆ ನಾನು ಗಮ್ಯದ ಕಡೆಗೆ....
ಅದ್ಭುತ ಅನುಭವದ ಖುಷಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮನಸ್ಸು ತನ್ನಷ್ಟಕ್ಕೆ ಗುನುಗುತ್ತಿತ್ತು...

ಬಾಟಮ್ ಸಿಪ್: ತಲೆ ಇದ್ದೂ ನೆಲೆ ಇದ್ದೂ ಕೂಡಿ ಬಾಳಲೊಲ್ಲದ ಮನುಜನ್ಗೆ; ತನ್ನಂತೆ ಬೆರೆತು ಬಾಳೆಂತೆ ಬಾನಾಡಿ..!??

- ಶಶಿ ಭಟ್ ಮತ್ತು ಹರ್ಷ ಭಟ್

FW: TRYING PHOTOGRAPHY

2010-08-30T04:47:00.001-07:00

Hi All,

M back with a new blog in by bag!

M getting bored here, doing the same old job of coding n more coding..

So bought a new DSLR camera and m planning to try something with lens n cams.

So have started a new blog ..

IT’s purely a photoblog…Dedicated to photography. Where pictures speak and words listen.

Words are just a means of comments or compliment..

Request all of u to visit once..

Here’s the ID

http://excelens.blogspot.com/

Best Regards,

Harsha Bhat

The Complicated encounters

2010-08-05T21:54:00.000-07:00

With the Sohrabuddin encounter case flashing 24X7 on almost all the news channels, This is the one I found which is a little hatke from others. Worth a thought..

Read it from Mr.Ajit Doval

Ajit Kumar Doval

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/desperate-congresss-votebank-politicssame-way-its-trying-to-protect-afzal-guru/655825/

Beware of half truths — because you may be holding the wrong half. After having seen and read so much about the Sohrabuddin episode in the last five years, one might believe one knows it all. Sohrabuddin is now cast as an innocent victim of police excess.

However, it would be worthwhile to explore the real facts about Sohrabuddin, the nature of police encounters, and the real issues at stake. Sohrabuddin was an underworld gangster who was involved in nearly two dozen serious criminal offences in states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. He maintained transnational links with anti-India forces from the early ‘90s onwards, until his death in 2005. Working with mafia dons like Dawood Ibrahim and Abdul Latif, he procured weapons and explosives from Pakistan and supplied them to various terrorist and anti-national groups (had it not been for his activity, at least some terrorist acts could have been averted). Sohrabuddin was solidly entrenched in the criminal world for a decade-and-a-half. Around the time he was killed, the Rajasthan government had announced a reward on his head. In 1999, he had been detained under the National Security Act by the Madhya Pradesh government.

In a 1994 case investigated by the Ahmedabad crime branch, he was co-accused along with Dawood Ibrahim and convicted for five years, for waging war against the Government of India, planning an attack on the Jagannath rath yatra in Orissa, and other offences under the IPC, Arms Act, etc. During the investigation, 24 AK-56 rifles, 27 hand grenades, 5250 cartridges, 81 magazines and more were seized from his family home in Madhya Pradesh. In 2004, a fourth crime was registered against him by Chandgad police station of Kolhapur district in Maharashtra under sections 302, 120 (b), and 25 (1) (3) of the Arms Act, for the killing of Gopal Tukaram Badivadekar. As fear of him often silenced people from reporting his whereabouts, let alone deposing against him, the Rajasthan government had to announce a reward on his head after he killed Hamid Lata in broad daylight in the heart of Udaipur, on December 31, 2004. So much for Sohrabuddin's innocence.

However, irrespective of who Sohrabuddin was and what he did, the use of unaccountable force against him is indefensible is the public view of many (often at variance with their private view). There are many who feel that there is a higher rationale for such actions in compelling circumstances, as the law of the land has repeatedly found itself helpless in dealing with individuals bent on bleeding the country. Their argument, that the rule of law is a means to an end and not an end in itself, often finds support in the jurisprudential principles of salus populi est suprema lex (the people's welfare is the supreme law) and salus res publica est suprema lex (the safety of the nation is supreme law). Even the Supreme Court of India, in the case of D.K. Basu vs. State of West Bengal [1997 (1) SCC 416] accepted the validity of these two principles and characterised them as "not only important and relevant, but lying at the heart of the doctrine that welfare of an individual must yield to that of the community." The validity of the principles of salus populi est suprema lex and salus res publica est suprema lex could have been part of an enlightened national discourse, and what could be the governing instrumentalities, empowerments, legal checks and stringent processes if these principles were to be invoked. It is better to accept reality as it is and then strive to change it for the better, rather than what we wish it to be. Feigned ignorance is the worst type of hypocrisy.

But there is another vital question that needs to be addressed. While pursuing the Sohrabuddin case, was the government really serious about stopping the menace of fake encounters, or was it pursuing a different agenda? Encounters have been taking place all over the country under all regimes, at times degenerating into what are called fake encounters. Between 2000 and 2007 there have been 712 cases of police encounters in the country with UP topping the list at 324, and Gujarat figuring almost at the bottom with 17.

In some of the cases there was not much on record, even to establish the criminal past of those killed. Settling political scores through security and investigative agencies like the CBI is not only bad politics, but also destructive for the nation's security. To convey the impression (explicitly or implicitly) that Sohrabuddin was targeted for belonging to a particular community, thereby creating a sense of insecurity in a section of society, is detrimental to national interests. It is little known that a large number of Sohrabuddin's victims were Muslims while a good number of his closest associates (including Tulsiram Prajapati, who was also killed in a similar encounter), were Hindu. William Blake could not have been more right when he said that "a truth that is pursued with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent".

The other negative impact of the Sohrabuddin case is the impression it is creating that all encounters in which police and security forces are involved, are fake. Society needs to be reassured that the majority of encounters are genuine and mostly in response to murderous attacks on security personnel. The fact that, on average, over 1,200 policemen get killed every year grappling with terrorists, insurgents, underworld mafia and other anti-social elements, bears ample testimony to this fact. Playing up a few aberrations and blowing them out of proportion and presenting them as the only truth is not in the national interest.

The other downside of the publicity around such cases is that it erodes the people's trust in governance. Administrations begin to be seen as instruments of repression and self-aggrandisement and politicians as perceived as manipulating their power for political and personal gains. This erosion can lead to a dangerous delegitimisation of the polity. Democratic politics is an exercise in regime-legitimisation, and to lose the confidence of the governed would set the government on a self-destructive path.

The writer is former director of the Intelligence Bureau

Regards,
Harsha Bhat

Tell me where did u sleep last night

2010-08-03T21:45:00.000-07:00

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go
I'm going where the cold wind blows

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

Her husband, was a hard working man
Just about a mile from here
His head was found in a driving wheel
But his body never was found

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go
I'm going where the cold wind blows

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go
I'm going where the cold wind blows

In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

Killing My Own Child :-(

2010-07-16T03:47:00.000-07:00

Ravi ji: Harsha, ninna magoonna neene kondyallo….(Harsha, u killed ur own child…)

Those words of pain still ring in my ears as if it were yesterday. I often remember that man, lean, with a clumsy beard, khadi kurta seldom pressed and nothing but loads n loads of knowledge to share.

Let me introduce Mr.Ravi, A full time member of Samskara Bharathi, an NGO which is doing everything it can to safeguard Indian “Samskara”, the traditional values of India, be it art, literature, music,dance, or be it anything artistic and Indian, Samskara Bharathi is there for it.

This, Mr.Ravi worked for Texas Instruments for almost 11 years (Now, a techie like me understands what it is to get into Texas instruments and to work there for 11 years!!)and resigned the firm to join samskara Bharathi. Samskara Bharathi pays nothing for it’s volunteers, in turn takes something from them, their time, money, mind and their effort.But Mr.Ravi was determined to do something about the fast diminishing art culture of India. That’s about him, now…why am I writing this, all of a sudden?

There is a reason….

I was in 10^th standard (so, it was 8-9 years ago, this incident happened), and I told Mr.Ravi that I have learnt table for 4 years and I know to play it! And he asked me, where are u learning it now? In Dharwad ?

I said no, I’ve given up learning table and then he said “Harsha, ninna magoonna neene kondyallo”….

It was a sunken feeling for me..i know how attached I was to that instrument called Tabla.. But this man, he doesn’t even know that..But just for the sake of art, he said that…And all of a sudden I felt…Alas…I’ve killed my child!!

Now after 8 years I realize what a stressbuster my table would have been in case I had learnt it, or at least continued playing it.

When nobody is there to share things, when there is nothing to do, when we are “idle” and when we are stressed, I feel there should be something to relax your mind.

There should be something which makes u forget all that and enter into a new world where there is nothing but happiness.

I’m madly looking for such a new world…I had it in college, I had it in school, I had it when I was working in Coimbatore!!

Now, I’m in a place where I wanted to be all my life, but I’m lonely…

Looking for something which accompanies me ….badly…

Trying books…trying to learn a new technology, trying to learn photography J,

But m sure will come out with a solution in a month.

Till then, I’m with me!!

Love

-Harsha

Open Letter To Mr. Shah Rukh Khan: By Col.Ajay Ahlawat

2010-03-03T22:00:00.000-08:00

Hello All,

After “Sharukh Khan” controversy….i read this wonderful article from a person who has known how good a neighbour Pakistan is…

I wont say anything.Read it from Col.Ahlawat….

Here is the link to article

http://pratapsimha.com/2010/02/23/open-letter-to-mr-shah-rukh-khan/

By: COLONEL AJAY AHLAWAT

Dear Mr. Khan, Your name is a household phenomenon in Indian and even beyond her borders. Your fame has put you in the Newsweek “most powerful people list” recently. However,

as you may recall from your recent experience in New Jersey Airport, real life is a little different – it does not always follow the path predicted by a scriptwriter or director. Of late, we have been reading about your opinions and statements on matters beyond the celluloid world. Nothing is wrong in it. You live in a free, democratic country and are entirely entitled to your opinion. But as a
common man and an army officer and a polo player, also from the same soil, I
think I have the right too to raise a few points that may not conform to
your views of the real world.
I hope you will read it out.
When recently, the Pakistani players were not selected for the IPL, it was
almost predictable that NDTV, the award-winning, mouthpiece of our Indian
liberal media select you for your views and you certified that “It
(Pakistan) is a great neighbour to have. We (India and Pakistan) are great
neighbours. They are good neighbours.”
I Col ajay ahlawat, have a few words to say about those statements.
One may recall your effort to clarify the Pakistani team captain, Shoaib
Malik’s apology to the Muslims, living all over the world, for failing to
win the final T20 match against India, likely much to the embarrassment of a
lot of Indian Muslims, as expressed by Shamin Bano, mother of the man of the
match, Irfan Pathan. What was more embarrassing was your effort to try to
defend Shoaib in a subsequent interview, “I don”t think he meant to
segregate Muslims and Christians and Hindus and say this was a match between
Islam and Hinduism. I don”t think that…”

I doubt whether Shoaib talked to you personally about his thought process at
that time. You did not really have to respond for somebody else but perhaps
you could not resist the temptation to show your brotherhood and solidarity.

This reminds us again of Dr Ambedkar’s observation that, *”The brotherhood
of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man. It is brotherhood of
Muslims for Muslims only.”*
Partition of India was what Pakistan wanted and got. It was painful to
millions but many more millions in present India have been spared. Since
then Pakistan has offered us only hatred. It has imposed on us three major
wars, the *Kargil insurgency*, the *Kashmir conflict*, the series of *serial
blasts*, the routine *violation of border ceasefires*, attacks on the
*Parliament
House* and the recent *Mumbai 26/11 attack*.

Did you have these in mind when you talked about them being good neighbours?

In another interview you had tried to explain the concept of Islamic Jihad.
*”I think one needs to understand the meaning of jihad .. I’ve understood
the essence that jihad is not about killing other people (correct me if I am
wrong); jihad is about killing the badness in you**.” *
I have personally met you on a number of occassions on the polo field and at
common friends houses,May be you understand jihad better and deeper than the
superficial meaning of what we, the rest of the mortal mankind, overburdened
and terrorized by the inter-religious, intra-religious and sectarian
violence that is plaguing the world in the name of Islam today, do. For we,
the less educated, cannot really make a difference between Jihad and Qatl,
between Jihad by heart / soul, Jihad by pen and Jihad by sword or between
lesser and greater jihad.
I wonder, whatever its meaning may be, does it minimize the significance of
the mindless killings that we see today in the name of Islam, across
borders, all over the world? Does it change the nature of the killers
whether you call them *holy warriors, mujahidins, fedayeens or plane suicide
bombers?*
I agree with you that terrorism has no religion. But hopefully you will also
agree with the people who perceive that most terrorist in the world today
happen to believe in the scriptures of Islam. They actually believe that
they themselves are the true Islamists.
The so called “moderate” Islamist, perhaps does not want to contradict them
or may be does not dare to speak out against them. You have probably not
forgotten the FIR against you for listing Prophet Mohammed as one of the
most unimpressive personalities in history, the threats from which you had
to skillfully wriggle out. Others who are not so fortunate, famous or
flexible are suffering lifetime, as *Tasleema Nasreen* or *Salman
Rushdie*would testify. For blasphemy in Islam is punishable with
death, even for a
believer.
Do I have to spell out the fate if it is a non-believer?
It is due to the inherent intolerance and exclusivity of Islam itself
despite your effort to convince us that there is an Islam from Allah and
very unfortunately, there is an Islam from the Mullahs.
Here is an historical insight from writer Irfan Hussain, *”The Muslim heroes
who figure larger than life in our history books committed some dreadful
crimes..all have blood-stained hands that the passage of years has not
cleansed. Indeed, the presence of Muslim historians on their various
campaigns has ensured that the memory of their deeds will live long after
they were buried…Seen through Hindu eyes, the Muslim invasion of their
homeland was an unmitigated disaster.” *

So why should the “non-believers” care to accept them? Why should the
majority of Indians like to welcome back such disasters again?
Since partition, India has come a long way in progress and development to
her current status and is projected as an economic superpower in coming
decades while Pakistan is perceived as a failed state on the verge of
disintegration.
What does India have to gain by offering neighbourly friendship to such a
hostile and failed state? *
India* has *never been an invader* and is not in conflict of any other
Muslim country. None of the wars and conflicts with Pakistan was instigated
by India. In the current geopolitical situation, one can argue for the
Muslim worlds grudge and anger against Israel or the west and USA but one
fail to fathom why India should also be at the receiving end and why Indians
should be the second largest group of people to die from terrorists attacks.
Indian majorities do not have anything to do with the Danish cartoon or the
death of Saddam Hussain; so why should they suffer from Islamic havoc on
those occasions.
In almost all occasions of terrorism, questions are raised about possible
role of Pakistan, its terror bases and its terrorist organizations, as
either directly or indirectly involved. Be it state sponsored (as recently
admitted by President Zardari) or by non-state actors, Pakistan or Pakistani
born are prime suspect in terrorist activities all over the world. The ISI
has been accused of playing a role in *major terrorist attacks including
9/11 in the USA, terrorism in Kashmir, Mumbai Train Bombings, London
Bombings, Indian Parliament Attack, Varanasi bombings, Hyderabad bombings,
Mumbai terror attacks or the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul. *
Do you believe these are marks of a good neighbour? Then what is the reason
for your preaching of love towards Pakistan?
Perhaps, as you said, because it is your ancestor’s homeland, you have a
soft feeling for Pakistan and cannot see the difference. On the eve of
accepting an honorary doctorate from a British university, we heard you say,
*”I really believe we are the same ..when you come away from India or
Pakistan you realize there is no Indian or Pakistani were all together. We
are – culturally, as human beings, as friends” *
Which Pakistanis are you referring to?
The Pakistanis belonging to the land, admonished as the epicenter of global
terrorism, not just by India or USA but even by its friendly allies like
Iran or China.
Or is it the self-created, Talibanic Pakistan, who still imposes Jijya on
the non believers or finds pleasure in blowing up girl’s schools..?
Are you talking about it’s President class like the current Mr. Zardari,
vowed to wage a 1,000-year war with India or the late Mrs. Bhutto who
started Jihad in Kashmiri that lead to the exodus of Hindu minorities from
the Muslim majority state of India, as refugees in their own country?
Are you referring to Pakistanis loyal to the ISI and the military who train
their soldiers with only one objective, i.e. to fight Hindu India?
If your mind is concerned about the faceless mass of Pakistanis, does it
also include the dwindling minorities? Or are you just concerned about the
celebrities and the social elites?
It is true Mr. Khan, that we belong to the same human species but it is hard
to stretch the similarities much further between “us” and “them”.
We from the same original land of *Bharat* but we want to keep her intact,
and they want to break it into thousand pieces.
Our ancestors happen to be the same. We acknowledge and adore the heritage
but they abhor and decimate whoever is available in an attempt to wipe out
the link.
We are culturally the same. We have created the culture over centuries what
they dream to destroy in moments.
Our’s is a *10,000 year old civilization*, theirs is a *62 years old country
* undoing whole human civilization.
We extend our hands repeatedly to promote friendship and amity; they give us
ISI, Lashkar, Harkat, Kashmir, Kargil and 26/11 in exchange.
Do you think that the Indians nationals or my coursemates who died in all
the above wars, the Indian soldiers who lost their lives in cross-border
ceasefire violations or the Indian civilians who are killed by the ISI
trained Islamic terrorists and their affiliates, in all those serial blasts,
all over the country, willfully sacrificed their lives as a friendly
neighbourhood gesture?
Can you face the families of the victims of *Chhatrapati Shivaji
Terminus*or the martyrs of the
*Kargil war* and try to explain to them that *”They are good neighbours. Let
us love each other.” *
Can you explain why the two gunmen at Cama hospital, during the Mumbai
carnage, asked the man who gave them water, what his religion was, and shot
him dead when he said he was a Hindu?
If you cannot, then perhaps you understand why the majority of India does
not consider Pakistan as a good neighbour to have.
Perhaps you believe that the peaceful religious co-existence that you
created in your home (and we appreciate that) can be extended to the large
world outside. As you rightly said, we Indians trust and do accept everybody
but what you did fail to mention was that it is the Indic tradition,
essentially coming out of its pre-Islamic Hindu ethos.
If you think otherwise, show us a single Islamic country where the
non-believers enjoy the same equality as the believers. Since partition, the
Hindus left over in Pakistan and Bangladesh has suffered terribly. Strictly
Islamic countries, like Saudi Arabia, do not allow any other religions to
exist. Hindus working in the Gulf countries are not allowed to practice
their religion in public. Saudi Arabia insists that India sends only a
Muslim ambassador. Hindu Muslim unity by and large has generally been a
matter of Hindus trying to please or accommodate Muslims. One cannot forget
when Vajpayee was extending his hand for peace, Musharraf was planning the
Kargil insurgency.
Let me remind you, your own statement *”I am a Muslim in a country called
India .We’ve never been made to feel this is a Hindu country.” *
Can you find me a Hindu in Pakistan who can reciprocate that sentiment?
Some years ago, another Mr. Khan, first name Feroze, from your fraternity
was banned from entering Pakistan for saying, *”India is secular unlike
Pakistan”. *
That is the basic difference of the land of “Hindu” India from the Islamic
“pure land” of Pakistan. So please do not ask us to love Pakistan.
Please do not lump the people of India and Pakistan together. We Indians are
proud to preserve our separate identity..
And please do not insult the land that gave you your life, name and fame, by
claiming that her worst enemy, who wants to break her into 1000 pieces, is a
great neighbour.
Otherwise it would be sad if somebody accuses you of putting your religion
ahead of your country.
Please give it a thought.
Regards,
Colonel Ajay Ahlawat.

Barrier broken....Hats off to u little master....

2010-02-25T22:05:00.000-08:00

Those 22000 spectators hadn’t even dreamt before coming to the stadium that they are going to witness a historic moment in cricket…

That was the day when the long standing barrier was shattered by a long standing cricketing legends…The god of cricket…

Every one…not just Indians but everyone who loved cricket and even people like me, who have no extra love for cricket had glued to the tv just waiting for that moment. And it took long…real long…at times I felt Dhoni will not let him bat..!!!

But in the 50^th over that moment came. The crowd was elated and so were other Indians…and with that single came the 200!!! 20 years of absolute carnage…more than 400 ODIs , dedication, devotion and fitness…..all combined together….A record was created..the barrier was shattered…There may come some other players who can break his record of 200..but walking past a broken barrier is easy..and the one who breaks it is remembered forever…

This is a mail I received which explains him…in a few words…

When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam.

When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy.

It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.

HATS OFF…. MASTER BLASTER…

When in doubt...ask Calvin's Dad

2010-02-11T03:59:00.000-08:00

Competitor...where are you???

2010-02-09T01:06:00.000-08:00

The below post is a small article my friend sent me today…I liked this coz all the facts are so bloody true…

Competitors can stay hidden anywhere. Most of the times we are bothered about the current competitor. A ‘lil out of the box thinking and analysis makes u realize that the real and more dangerous competitor stays hidden right beside us but we fail to recognize.

And we ignore the competitor and by the time we realize, it’s too late!!!

Coke was the market leader in soft drinks business in the USA. In pepsico GB meeting a question was raised…”Who is our competitor??” and the obvious answer was “COKE”..

But one person (I don’t know his name) stopped and gave the facts.

Only 2% of the liquid consumption in USA is coke and water holds a majority stake at more than 90%. So the real competitor is water and not coke!!!

And u know the rest. Pepsico leads the chart now!!!

There are some more examples to quote…

What Microsoft did to ibm, google did the same to Microsoft.

Linux has almost breached Windows’ secure fort.

Ipod has flushed sony’s walkman from my mind.

Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?

Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.

Reason being cameras bundled with cell phones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cell phone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sony’s and Canons are taking note.

Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).

Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.

Nokia confessed that they all but missed the Smartphone bus. They admit that Apple's I phone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future. But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails?

The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question - "who is my competitor?"

Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says "What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."

In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.

In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India?

Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!

Who is the competitor to Multiplexes?

India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 over’s. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.

Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.

What killed the Alarm Clock?

One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cell phone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!

Best Regards,
Harsha Bhat

Let's join the voice....Mile sur mera tumhara

2010-01-27T06:18:00.000-08:00

Hi all....
It was 1988..i was 2 yrs old...Now it's 2010...i'm 23...
Then ...after the PM's speech on 15th august, the song mile sur mera tumhara was first telecasted and that's it...
It ruled the indian hearts from that very day...
It withstood all the anti national forces and united india ...with the same quote repeated in different indian languages....
They said Mile sur mera tumhara...toh sur bane hamara...
The same song was re telecasted with a lil change in lyrics and the cast ofcourse...
But the captivating power of the 1988 hit could not be repeated..the older mile sur is still my favourite...And will be my favourite for years to come...
It runs for over 15 minutes but the magic of the 1988 5 min tune still lingers...
But..Let's appreciate the attempt to unite india...
Lets stay united and withstand all the forces that stop us from reaching the top...Let's unite and let's capture the world...
Let's sing aloud and clear and let the world hear..
Mile sur mera tumhara...toh sur bane hamara...

Here is the link for both the songs..
Yenjaay
Mile sur (1988)

Phir mile sur part 1:

Phir mile sur part 2:

-Regards,
Harsha Bhat

The year that was 2009....

2009-12-31T10:06:00.000-08:00

Hmmm.....
Last year began with a shock....
It was Jan 5th when i boarded the bus to Coimbatore..Away from my friends...my family...my state...my people..my language...like a migrating bird..
I was happy...i was sad..a lil tensed...a lil depressed...feeling free...feeling independent....
It's been one year and life has taken so many turns...ups n downs..
The whole face of life has changed..The talks were so random before...and now every word we speak rotates around the work...
I was so independent before...But now feeling like a slave..Cant bunk the office...Cant sleep if i'm bored...Cant go home early coz i have deadlines to meet...
Cant be late to office...canr be early to house...
Uhhh....I sit here and cherish those days when i wanted to go home late...enjoyed every bit of life...I wanna enter that phase once again...
Alas.i can just make a wish....

A flashback of one year gave me some list of notable things in my life...
Some of them listed below:
Goodys in 2k9..
1) My money...my life...my way!!
2) My dad n mom became better than the best friends of mine...
3) i learnt cooking..Now i can even think of opening a restaurant if Bosch fires me!!
4) I'm more independent...more matured and more capable...
5) I know Tamil!!!

Well..There were some bad things too!!!
1) I've lost freedom!!!
2) No fun in life...office-home-office-weekends-office....and the cycle continues!!
3) I hate couple of my room mates....Wanna kick them outta my house asap..
4) Health is upset!!!
5) Hotte barta ide! :-O

Ok....Learning from the baddys and making the gooddies even better is my resolution for the new year...
Life and people wil start expecting more n more as years pass.....
2012 is one step nearer...So the world is about to end...

And i've a new mantra in life now...
"Aaaalll eezzz Wellll"

-Regards,
Harsha Bhat

This amazing thingy called WAVE from google...

2009-12-05T19:04:00.000-08:00

OMFG..... All that i could say was these people at google are crazy... how could they even implement this? So so damn real time...So much fun..So open..Everything is open for u. There are robots, there are blips, there are fellow wavers and all that u have to do is just start waving.
I cant say everything about it. Just go through this video. i know it's a looooong video as claimed by them but worth a check.
Just have a look and i swear u cant resist using wave.

Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ

I'm not sure if this works,this is an embedded thing of the same:

Happy waving:
Harsha

WTF!!!

2009-11-02T22:41:00.000-08:00

Look at the news!!! I was shocked!! What the hell do they think of themselves?? If you are staying in India love India and WORSHIP India ….

And we never objected to your worshipping Allah or whoever!!!

Vande Mataram is our national song. This is the song which unites us all.. Vande Mataram is not just a pair of words..It’s the very inspiration for hundreds of freedom fighters to lay down their lives for the sake of motherland.

It’s the zeal, enthusiasm and the very reason for them having given their blood or taken the blood!!!

It’s the one for India..If you are a muslim first and then an India then get the hell outta my nation. There are many other nations who’ll offer u a red carpet welcome… Go ..get ur asses there…

If you don’t fg mind issuing a fatwa against Vande Mataram I don fG mind swearing at you and your god…

Enough is enough people…wake up!!! And these politicians address them!!! They want talks with them..Let our soldiers speak to them..let our ak47s answer them…Let them flee..to their land…to the land where they can stay without singing Vande Mataram…

Fatwa issued against 'Vande Mataram'

Times Now 3 November 2009, 11:41am IST

Jamait-e-Ulema Hind or the JEU on Tuesday issued a fatwa against singing national song 'Vande Matram'.

According to a resolution, Muslims should not sing 'Vande Matram' as its reciting is against the Islam.

The resolution, which was passed at the Deoband national convention meet, says that Muslims should not sing 'Vande Matram' as some verses of the patriotic song are against the tenets of Islam. The JEU leader said that the some of the line in the song is against Islam.

Meanwhile, home minister P Chidambaram will address a Jamait-e-Ulema Hind conference in Deoband today. The home minister will also discuss the Sachar Committee Report and POTA issue with Deoband leaders.

Meanwhile, the Muslim Law Board justified the decision saying that (Muslims) can’t offer prayers to anyone but Allah. Kamal Farooqui, a prominent leader of the Board said, "We love the nation but can't worship it."

-With loads of Anger

-Harsha Bhat

What happens if Rajyotsava falls on a sunday??

2009-11-02T05:18:00.000-08:00

hmmm...
This saturday (31.10.2009)i was out for department outing and it turned out to be wonderful...I never expected the DHs, GRMs etc are so good at having fun!!! We had enough fun and had foood at a punjabi dhaba....This is the best eatout in coimbatore for sure..None of us could believe we ate 4 rotis each and 2 "aloo de parathe" served by a pagadi-clad sardar...
It was awesome too..So as i was cherishing the good day a shitty idea flashed!!! I discussed with my always-game-for-all-shitty-ideas friends...And the idea was...I would cook chocolates tomorrow!!!all said in unison...GAME!!! and Suhas added a lil sweet to it!! he said i'll prepare Gulab jamun!! In unison we said again..GAME!!!! and then why cant we try pani puri @ home!! we had however planned it last week itself..said chidanand..The senior most.....In unison we said GAME!!! and then we scrapped the plan and thought of watching "LONDON DREAMS" (yup..a hindi movie in coimbatore)...And all shouted in unison ...GAME!!!
So it was LD and not choco jamun pani puri!!! But on a sunday after gettin up @ 11 and gettin ready...all the tickets were sold out...And then came out the same old idea!!! The idea of PP, chocloate and jamun!!! So we started.....
Jamun is easy to prepare (or atleast we thought that way) and we started with dough...jamun balls and heating oil!!! As Vivekanand fried the Jamun balls we made the sugar syrup ready..With more than half a kilo sugar in it..the syrup was all sweet and yummy...Pouring jamun was all it needed from our side.. and wwe dint delay in doing that. So jamun was over..
Then started the chocolate fantasy!!!
I mixed the cocoa powder and milk powder and started preparing sugar syrup. The actual recipe says to add cocoa,butter,milk and sugar in 1:1:2:1 quantity...And i asked mom to confirm!!
And i prepared it all, Poured the butter into it and as the chocolate was just about to get ready for a delicious pour into the plate i found floating butter on the broth!!! The butter is not supposed to float..i cursed AMUL for having manufactured defective butter chunk and poured the extra floating butter and just had a look at the cover of the butter packet..It read 500G!!! I was supposed to add 200G...More than double!! butter was bound to float!! And over that i just felt like tasting the chocolate and i did that...just to spit it back to the washbasin!! It was SALTY!! The f*****g butter was salted and not a single mention about that on the packet!! So i ended up cooking Salty-overbuttered-chocolate!! :-(
Then it was pani puri's turn!!
It went off rather smoothly and was the best of the day...Pani was awesome and so was the bhaji!!!
After that one thing flashed to our mind..Can we just eat jamun, PP and chocolate as our dinner?? Nope was the answer so it was time for dal khichdi!!!
And it was ready in a short span!!
so then...it was time for us to eat everything!!!
All of it...
And then we realised it was Rajyotsava!! Jai kannadambe..we shouted and pounced upon the pani poori and then the khichdi!!! ..the chocolate is still in the refrigerator and the jamun was awesome...we finished it all...
So thus came to an end a great rajyotsava..Or let me call it the best rajyotsava!!!
I returned back home... Got my bed ready and as soon as i fell on my bed!!! my stomach started giving signals!!! And need i say more about this?? ;-)

Well, we are even planning to start our own restaurant......

-Harsha

The feel that I seldom feel...

2009-09-07T09:07:00.000-07:00

something's seriously wrong with me. My health has always been that "something"..but this time it's not my health....my mind doesnt seem to be in greatest of its form. What is it? why is my mind not in its senses...what is that one thing which is hollowing my mind like a termite....can i name it? can i tame it? can i blame it??? i speak aloud and ask myself..but the mind reaches the same disturbed state and the answer i get is NULL...well...if that sounds a bit too technical...my mind doesn stop at a point...still the quest is on...for the termite...someday i might find u...i might fight u...i might kill u and emerge victorious...leading my life...without hesitation...without begging...without crying....and with smile all over...come out u termite...the day i find u....i'll slay u...slaughter u...will trash u from my mind forever...But what if the day doesnt come at all? What if i die in the quest of the termite..What if i find it someday and it's too late...and i have no other choice than to live with u!!! Oh holy shit.....i cant take this anymore...cannot really take this anymore....The day i emerge victorious....i shall cry...i shall shout...shall woooooooooooo and yipppppie around....
Waiting for the day...Counting each day.....waiting for the day...
-Harsha

Madan Lal Dhingra...Hero unknown...

2009-08-17T10:59:00.000-07:00

The centenary of Madan Lal Dhingra's martyrdom falls on 17 August 2009.

India won freedom due to the blood and tears shed by hundreds of nameless revolutionaries and their families who braved British barbarity and faced death. The struggle for freedom was carried out not only in India, but also abroad, by people such as Shyamji Krishnavarma, Veer Savarkar, Madam Bhikaji Cama, Barrister Sardar Singh Rana, Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Sardar Ajit Singh, Lala Hardayal, Rasbehari Bose, Raja Mahendra Pratap and Champakraman Pillay. In this illustrious list of fiery patriots, Madan Lal Dhingra stands out for his sheer courage and supreme sacrifice. Madan Lal Dhingra went to the gallows on 17 August 1909. The centenary of his martyrdom is an occasion for us to remember his immortal saga.

Madan Lal Dhingra was born on 18 September 1883 in Amritsar. His father was an eye specialist and Civil Surgeon of Amritsar. Madan Lal was the sixth of his seven sons. Two of Madan Lal's brothers were doctors, two other brothers were barristers. Madan Lal was married and had a son. If he had desired, he could have lived a life of luxury. But he chose to be a martyr for India's freedom struggle.

Madan Lal Dhingra studied for Diploma in Civil Engineering at University College, London from 1906-09. He was very closely associated with Savarkar while in London. Together, they hatched the plan to assassinate Sir Curzon Wyllie who was Dhingra's personal acquaintance.

On 01 July 1909, Dhingra went as planned to a meeting at Imperial Institute. After the meeting was over, Curzone Wyllie seemed ready to leave. Dhingra now approached Curzon Wylie under the pretext of talking to him. The two opened the glass door and left the hall. As they reached the landing, Dhingra lowered his voice as if he wanted to discuss something confidential. Curzon Wylie brought his ear close to Dhingra. Sensing the opportunity, Dhingra removed the Colt revolver from his right coat pocket and pumped two bullets at point-blank range. The time was 11.20 pm. As Curzon Wyllie reeled, dhingra fired two more bullets. A Parsee doctor Cawas Lalkaka tried to come in between but Dhingra fired at him as well. However, Dhingra's attempt to shoot himself failed and he was overpowered.

After his arrest, the Police Officer asked Dhingra, "Do you want us to inform any of your friends of your arrest?" Dhingra cleverly replied, "There is no need. They will know about my arrest in tomorrow's newspapers." The Police were trying to find out if they could implicate any of Dhingra's friends. He proved a match for them. Dhingra was taken to Walton Street Police station.

When produced before Mr Hoarce Smith the Magistrate of Westminster Police Court, Dhingra said, "I do not plead for mercy; nor do I recognise your authority over me." Dhingra was committed to the Sessions Court. Dhingra bluntly asked the Court, "...If the Germans have no right to rule over England what right have the English got to rule over India ?" During the trial Indians were not allowed inside the Court.

Martyrdom!

It was 17 August 1909. Several Indian youth had mournfully gathered outside the gates of the prison. They were however denied entry inside. Entry was also denied to the waiting journalists. At the stroke of nine, Madanlal Dhingra began his last journey to the gallows. A Christian preacher named Hudson walked up to him to say the final Christian prayer for him. But Dhingra turned him away saying that he was a Hindu. The Deputy Under-Sheriff of London Metcalf read out the death warrant to Dhingra in the presence of Deputy Governor Hales of Pentonville prison and asked him the usual questions. But Dhingra ignored their questions and walked calmly to the noose. His bravery left the accompanying offcers dumb-founded. Officer Pierpoint stood at the hangman's noose waiting for Dhingra. Dhingra smiled at him and ascended the steps to the platform. He himself placed the noose round his neck. Soon thereafter, the wooden platform underneath was withdrawn.

The Times, London of 18 August 1909 reported on page 7 column 2, " Shortly after 9, death was announced. Pierpoint was the executioner. An application for leave to have the body cremated was refused and it will be buried in accordance with the usual custom, within the walls of prison."

After Dhingra went to the gallows, the Times, London wrote an editorial (24 July 1909) titled 'Conviction of Dhingra'. The editorial said, "The nonchalance displayed by the assassin was of a character, which is happily unusual in such trials in this country. He asked no questions. He maintained a defiance of studied indifference. He walked smiling from the Dock."

Last statement:

As desired by Gyan Chand Varma, Sardar Singh Rana , who was then in Paris, published Dhingra's last testament on a postcard along with his photograph. Savarkar in turn sent a large number of these copies to India. Madanlal Dhingra's final statement was as inspiring as his actions. Titled "Challenge" it read as follows:

Challenge

"I admit the other day; I attempted to shed English blood as an humble revenge for the inhuman hangings and deportations of patriotic Indian youths. In this attempt, I have consulted none but my own conscience; I have conspired with none, but my own duty.
"I believe that a nation held down in bondage with the help of foreign bayonets is in a perpetual state of war. Since open battle is rendered impossible to a disarmed race, I attacked by surprise; since guns were denied to me, I drew forth my pistol and fired.
"As a Hindu I felt that a wrong done to my country is an insult to God. Her cause is the cause of Sri Ram! Her services are the services of Sri Krishna! Poor in health and intellect, a son like myself has nothing else to offer to the Mother but his own blood and so I have sacrificed the same on her altar.
"The only lesson required in India at present is to learn how to die and the only way to teach it, is by dying ourselves. Therefore I die and glory in my martyrdom! This war of Independence will continue between India and England, so long as the Hindu and the English races last (if the present unnatural relation does not cease!)
"My only prayer to God is: May I be reborn of the same Mother and may I redie in the same sacred cause, till the cause is successful and she stands free for the good of humanity and the glory of God!"

-Vande Mataram-

Madan Lal Dhingra's coffin was exhumed on 12 December 1976 in the presence of Natwar Singh, then Acting High Commisioner for India. This coffin too was flown back to India.

You can read more about Madan Lal Dhingra by clicking here.

Madan Lal Dhingra lives on in the hearts of his country men. Humble salutations to his memory!

The "PISSED OFF" Post

2009-07-10T04:55:00.001-07:00

THE LEGEND OF BHAGAT SINGH....
Saw this movie after a long time. And was ashamed too....Not coz i saw the movie, but for a reason. A reason for which i was blaming others for being like.and what's the reason for me being ashamed? well, here i speak out...
The legend of Bhagat Singh was the movie i saw yesterday (Thanks to UTV movies). I have watched this movie about ..hmm...well....i donno..that many times!!!But now after a long hiatus of about 1.5 yrs i was seeing that movie again.
There is a specific reason for me wathing that movie so many times. I have read biographies of almost all the characters in that movie. So whatever happens there i know the relation and co-relation between each of them.
I have read the biographical sketches about Chandrashekar Azad (Book named AJEYA in Kannada),Bagha Jatin (Rudhirabhisheka in Kannada),Bhagat Singh (Many books in english and Kannada), Batukeshwar datt (Small 32 page book but very informative),Netaji Subhash chandra bose (KOLMINCHU in Kannada),etc etc etc.
So everytime I watch the movie it's like re-reading the whole book. Living a krantikaari life myself and talking to all of them.But yesterday i forgot so many things. I forgot the name of the college through which Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Azad ran after killing Sanders.I forgot the name of the person who ditched Azad at the Alfred park, I forgot the name of Azad's gun adn so many such things!!! And I used to blame so many for not remembering the national heroes...forgetting their martyrdom...trashing their dream...and for what not....
Now this might be a simple "Oh-my-god-it-is-crap" thing for u all but not for me.
I'm very emotional about my nation. whenever i see someone swearing about the dirty roads in india and blaming India for that i really get pissed off.Come on guys it's not India who is spitting on roads and it's not India who breaks the traffic and bribes the police officer to escape away.It's we the Indians...
Whenever i see someone speaking shit about the family system of indians i shoot back at them saying we dont have 13 yr old gals carrying babies with them.Whenever i see someone calling indians as people with traditional and out-dated thoughts i say i'd prefer being traditional than being modern if modernization is loving machines and gadgets more than humans.
Whenever some shit headed US returned moron yells in a fake accent about the traffic jargon and the biting mosquitoes i dont speak anything , I show him the finger he deserves to be shown.
when some BOSCHLERS(Employees of BOSCH) speak of German discipline and the autobahns there i remind them of Adolf Hitler who created autobahn and I also remind them that the same Adolf Hitler created the toxic chamber.
I donno what u r thinking but a nation is never perfect.We have to make it perfect. We never think twice before ejecting a red spit from our mouth when we are in India, But when in Germany we are the best.What the hell happens to us when we return back??
I'm speaking it out coz i saw some people speaking speaking all sorta crap about India and Indian vehicles in our induction program. They spoke about population problem in india, The road problem in india and what not.
But none of them even thought for a minute that they were all so capable that with a single call they could have changed it all.
But speaking is really easy...right guys.
Well, i decide to stop at this point. I'm really pissed off and the forthcoming lines might turn abusive for some of them.
So cya guys...will write some other day when my mind is calm.
Cya all....

-regards
Harsha Bhat

Throne Drifting towards east???

2009-06-19T00:58:00.001-07:00

Stolen directly from Times of india. Read the article below. And not just this one.. I've seen many such articles coming up in leading news papers...so the indication is quite clear..Is india going back to it's "Queen of the world" status as it had few centuries ago??
Indians!!! buckle up....It's ur time to rule..

India Inc buys 143 US cos in 2 yrs
NEW DELHI: The greater engagement of US with India seems to have benefited the former during the economic downturn as thousands of Americans managed
to save their jobs when Indian corporates went on a major acquisition drive in the US. During the last two years, Indian companies acquired 143 US firms across various sectors. While 94 deals were concluded in 2007-08, in the following year when the economy was on the downturn, Indians bought as many as 50 US entities that were on the verge of closure, saving thousands of jobs. A study, jointly conducted by Indian industry association FICCI and Ernst & Young, said Tata Chemicals, Wipro, Reliance Communications and Firstsource Solutions were some of the top Indian entities that were involved in bailing out US companies in the red. The report released on Thursday said IT&ITeS, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals were the prime sectors in which most of the deals were formalised. Indian companies from the IT sector have over the years been aggressively expanding in the US market. The deals were predominantly debt financed with cash being a popular mode of payment. "This trend probably extends from India Inc's traditional preference for cash transactions in the domestic merger and acquisition space," the report observed. The Ernst & Young report says the boom in the Indian economy in the last three to four years made the domestic companies cash-rich which provided them with access to more capital than in the past. Interestingly, one of the key factors, as the report cites, behind more acquisitions has been the liberal policies introduced by the government and RBI for overseas investments. According to RBI data, in 2007-08 the total outbound investments of Indian companies amounted to $18 billion. In the first half of 2008-09, at least 2,000 proposals valued at $9 billion were cleared for overseas investments in joint ventures and wholly owned subsidiaries.

-Harsha

Soderling beats So-Darling!!!

2009-06-01T21:53:00.000-07:00

OOH my god....i cant excuse myself for having missed that match. The very news of Rafa being defeated at the clay court hit me as a lightning strike..

I'm a fan of rafa and i like every aspect of his game (except his frequent act of scratching (or whatever) his a** while on the court!!) . It was sunday night and i was busy watching a movie (!!!), while the world experienced one of the greatest shocks of tennis history. Rafa , the undisputed king of the clay court and the world number one right now, is knocked out by not so famous , 25th seeded Robin Soderling. This man Soderling is the same person Rafa had beaten in straight sets a few days ago!!! And now he hits back...and in what style!!! He beats the king in his own land!!!

The crowd was surprised, so was the commentator and all the tennis fans worldwide..!!! And more shocked was Soderling!! and in news i see him throwing his racquet into the crowd...!! And no offence in doing that...he must have felt like he had stopped and dammed a fast flowing flooded river, checking his winning streak of 31 matches on clay...

I still cant excuse myself for missing that match.

and after the match what a talk (i wont call it a speech!!!) by Rafa...He admits his defeat and says "This day was bound to come one day...that day was today. I have to accept it " and further he clears a big hurdle for fedex who must have been the happiest man after Soderling !!!

Rafa is out. The man who has been beating fedex since 4 years is out of french open!! It cant get any better for him and i wish Federer wins a Roland Garros...finally one into his pocket!! If he does so he will be having all the four crowns with him!! but Fedex, this is a golden chance and once in a lifetime opportunity for u. coz i'm sure rafa will hit back harder and stronger next year. so win it now or forget it forever.

Finally Congrats soderling!!! and all the best.... and better luck next time Rafa !!! We still love u

-Harsha Bhat

Book Review: The Company of Women by Khushwant Singh

2009-05-29T02:44:00.001-07:00

WARNING: Contains Adult Content. Read the next post if u r a minor...

Before i say something i'd like to quote one of the first lines of the book. Khushwant Singh says "As a man gets older, his sex instincts travel from his middle to his head!!!". And now i disclose the reason why he said so....

He was 83 when he started writing this novel and finished when he was 85!!!

And you read this novel!!! you'll go crazy. The slightest details of the night spent (Read it as SEX) are detailed with such a clarity that you start breathing heavy and it certainly feels as if you are peeping through the key hole of the door they are having IT in..!!! (or feels like watching a tickly porn movie)

it'a all about a man named Mohan who hails from a middleclass brahmin family. Is extremely intelligent (tops the Princeton!!!) and for his higher studies flies ti the US.

Until then he was the same old Indian guy who was CONTENTED WITH HIMSELF (If u know what i mean!!!) and in the US he gets used to the US culture, discipline and their way of living.

There he loses his virginity to a gal named Jessica Brown , a black sexy gal who takes him to her room and their they have it. And as a poor indian guy Mohan is very committed to Jessica. But as the time passed (less than one year) they break up but.....but....mohan has tasted it.. and craves for more...And coz of his SIZE (as explained by the author) he gets more!!!

So finally just before leaving the US he has it with a Pakistani (the very idea of f*****g a Pakistani enthrills me!!! be it literally or in any other terms) named Ms. Yasmeen, much older than him and not so "HAVABLE" (Have+able) lady. but our horny bull Mohan doesn spare her....(pardon me....it was Ms Yasmeen who started it!!)..

Then after returning to India Mohan gets married and no prizes for guessing who his next prey is!!! And with this attack he gets a kid...And then the usual fight starts and they get divorced!!!

And then , again Mohan is again a free man continuing to watch the BIRDS and waiting to hunt them!!! And the next bird is his housemaid. she is dark, short and perfevctly chiseled at proper places and that was enough to quench a term's thirst!!!

Then mohan made a bold move to put up an ad in the MATRIMONY section of a newspaper for a KEEP!!!!! bold fellow (Atleast a bold imagination by Mr.singh). If ur jaw dropped reading the above line then ur jaw will rip apart from the head reading this.........he got several mails back to him from many gals. Wide variety of them. Widows, masseurs, la unsatisfied, etc etc etc....And it's his turn to have one by one...

And he keeps having many..And the same thing continues... to list a few ..an english professor from UP who has a son, a sri lankan ambassador to india, a masseur from goa, a nurse from south. and finally to end alll this he has a final one in a hotel in Mumbai. and unfortunately she is a whore and after six months mohan is diagnosed with the deadly AIDS. And after a couple of years he commits suicide consuming sleeping pills, 30 at once!!!

This ends the story but trust me after reading this ur view towards gals will change!!! and you start expecting a little (ahem....) more from the girl clan!!!

all together khushwant singh explains it so well that you cant stop thinking of trying out something like Mohan......

I finished it in straight 7.5 hours.....Need i say more!!!

You can order it online at http://www.landmarkonthenet.com/.

costs about 250 bucks!!!

Book facts: (From Wiki)

Author :Khushwant Singh
Country: India
Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Viking Press
Publication Year :1999
Media type: print (hardback & paperback)
Pages: 294 pp (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN: ISBN 0-670-88991-1 (first edition, hardcover)

Best Regards,
Harsha Bhat

Just checking!!!

2009-05-29T01:28:00.001-07:00

Hi,

Just checking if i can blog via email directly.

without opening blogger at all!!!!!

This post is being typed from my office mail id and if u all can see this in the blog then i can do it often!!!

Even when my Project Manager is right besides me!!!

Sounds great...

Let me check if it works too!!

-Harsha

The Dirty Dozen of IPL2

2009-05-27T04:06:00.000-07:00

Hi all,

The hip-hop IPL2 is over with a disappointing(For a RCB fan like me) finish and DC bagging the most expensive trophy!!! And the worst team in IPL1 has emerged victorious and the last 2 in IPL1 finishing as the top2!!

Now before we list the hits of IPL2 i thought of sharing the disappointing duds of IPL2..

Let's look at the flops of IPL 2, who have signally failed to live up to the hype surrounding them. Of course, the beauty of T20 is that a couple of games are all it takes to leap from dud to dude -- or vice versa! And so, as we wish them all the best, let's list the disappointing dozen:
Brendon McCullum: His blazing 158 was the talking point of IPL 1. This year, he will be lucky if he manages to score 158 from all 14 league matches put together. Looks like a man living through his worst nightmare. Certainly, nothing in New Zealand could ever have prepared him for the job of captaining a volatile, controversial side like Knight Riders.
Virender Sehwag: T20 is supposed to be tailormade for his bang-bang style, but he hasn't really fired in this edition. The finger injury hasn't helped.
Jesse Ryder: Is no more a Rider...He was supposed to add heft to Royal Challengers' T20 credentials. But so far, has only managed to weigh down their challenge. The number of ducks he's lined up would please only a bird-lover.
Kevin Pietersen: Wasn't bad with the ball. Unfortunately, he was hired primarily for his batting, where he was distinctly underwhelming. With Bangalore actually doing better after he left, he seems to be carrying some kind of jinx when it comes to leadership.
Andrew Flintoff: Everyone acknowledges that he has a huge heart. He'll need it, if he's to emerge from the hammering he copped in IPL 2 without severe psychological damage.
Tyron Henderson: His superb performances for Middlesex convinced many that he could be the Shane Watson of IPL 2. Rajasthan Royals certainly thought so, shelling out $650,000 for him. But a series of disappointing performances have left them pining for the original Watson.
Paul Collingwood: hehehehe...Cant stop laughing thinking of him..poor chap...England's T20 captain wasn't considered good enough to even get a spot in Delhi's playing XI and had to return to England without playing a single match. At least he had plenty of interesting company on the bench, in the form of Glenn McGrath and Owais Shah.
Mashrafe Mortaza: The big joke of IPL2!!!!Yes, it's probably cruel to put him in this list, since it's not his fault that his team management refuses to play him. But his plight does beg the question: what was the point of getting into a bidding war for him -- and jacking up his price from $50,000 to $600,000 -- just to make him serve drinks? Poor Mortaza has picked up the unfortunate tag of being the world's most expensive waiter. But the real jokers are the Knight Riders think-tank.
Dale Steyn: Allegedly the world's best fast bowler. He was supposed to be the ace up Royal Challengers' sleeve, especially on his home tracks. But he has spent most of the time injured, and when he has played, hasn't done much.
S Sreesanth: His comeback was eagerly awaited by fans who still remember his previous exploits in South Africa. But his first 8 overs disappeared for 81 runs. He did unleash some verbals at Hayden after getting his wicket -- having first being taken for three sixers in the over. Uh-oh, looks like he's forgotten Harbhajan's love pat already.
Harbhajan Singh: And speaking of Bhajji, four wickets from eight matches don't really do credit to Team India's premier spinner. Forget the likes of Pragyan Ojha, Shadab Jakati, Piyush Chawla, Anil Kumble, Daniel Vettori and Amit Mishra, even Rohit Sharma and Suresh Raina have better figures than the Turbanator.
Finally, the coach: For taking a team that fought gallantly while managing an honourable sixth place last year, and turning them into a bunch of complete no-hopers this time, let's hear it for John Buchanan (variously dubbed Bhooka-naan, or Boka-known by furious KKR fans). Still, at least one good thing has come out of his disastrous stint with KKR: you realize just how good Steve Waugh's Aussies must have been to stay on top of the cricketing world even with this weapon of mass destruction in their midst.

Well, these were the duds...The goods will follow shortly after i finish my project task...and the release...

Thats it.. And in a couple of weeks let's get ready to enjoy the T20 World Cup...And let's cheer "Dhoni's Deadly Devils".....

Cya soon...

-Harsha

The word "Politics" now has an insulting touch!!!

2009-05-08T04:59:00.000-07:00

Tragedy!!!!

According to me Politics should have been the most respectable job on earth.

Because it is for the soceity and ONLY for the soceity...You get to know ur people, know the problems and serve them with all the powers in hand....but unfortunately in my country POLITICS, rather, refers to a dirty game.... Cheat, 420, budmaash, kalla, halka,and many more.....we had so many similes to address an small anti-social element. But now everyword is trashed with the introduction of the brand new word "POLITICIAN"... Being called a POLITICIAN is treated as an insult....Thanks to our Able (??? !!!) leaders viz. HDD family, Lalu, Pappu (Infact pappu cant rule saala!!!), Amar singh (He offered the SIMI a whopping 10 lakhs...for the innocent and poor minority community!!!)..And the lady lord of UP...Dalit ki beti (!!!) Mamta..., About to die but still greedy to rule TN ..Mr.Karunanidhi.... Our former home minister who changed the dress thrice in a day when the TAJ was burning and our soldiers were dying!!! The CM of 100% literate state A-Chute-Anand who insulted a martyrs family, Antulay...!!! The greatest of all...he says mumbai attack was a local plot by BJP!!! and Pakistan was not involved!! Son of a bit**...

I personally feel all these pig headed pretty poloticians should be killed and then let's execute Ajmal Kasab and his lawyer ofcourse... I feel disturbed when during lok sabha elections they fight with each other like kids!!! they abandon the parliament like we bunk our classes...they speak bull shit all the bloody time...

I remember the US elections.....there were so many issues they discussed..so many problems they faced...there was enimity but was so sweet...they fought ,they were red and blue...but they knew..before that they were Americans...

But look at us!!! the world's largest democracy..with a million political parties...a million poloticians and a billion citizens....i feel ashamed...

I'm not ashamed of being an indian...but ashamed of being ruled by them... And ashamed of the 48-50 % of the people who did not vote... Ashamed of the shitty dirt splashing speeches.... the no-issue-speeches...And everything...

Oh god...please give me enough power to sustain this..Or give me strength to stand for the elections next time...and many people of my nation to contest in the polls and win....

holding my fingers crossed....

May 16th come soon...!!!!

Moonlight Trek to Skandagiri

2009-04-16T04:43:00.000-07:00

See the pics here
A long lived dream came true a week ago!! Yes...finally i reached the top of skandagiri!!!
I had seen enough mails and googled enough about this hill and heard a lot about this from my bro..And i had a burning desire to capture this peak one night..
And had planned for this many a times but it got cancelled all the times!!!
But finally it was deepak (my colleague) who called me one afternoon and fixed a team outing on 12th april midnight and my immediate answer was YES!!!
I'm coming...to-hell with others...if nobody comes we both shall reach the top.
This was actually not the right time to visit skandagiri(Kalavara betta, as it is called after the village located at the foothills of skandagiri) and the best time is during winter . The sunrise is awesome and the clouds are below you if it is winter (Oct-Feb). And now it was just a visit..just an attempt to know how to reach the top...
allright...
All of us (Me ,Deepak, Arun Shankar, Narayan,Yathish Deepak's friend and Narayan's friend ) planned to meet at Ashram circle McDonald's at 10PM and have a burger or two and leave for Skandagiri. It is about 75Km from mainland Bangalore towards Devanahalli Airport. Go towards the famous Nandi Hills and take a right. There u find muddenahalli and from muddenahalli to kalavara halli and there u find an ashram and that is the foothill of Kalavara betta...
And coming to our story, We left Ashram at 10:45 pm and started our journey. Reached Airport after a 10 minute ride @ 60kmph u'll find a small tea stall where u can ask the way to kalavara betta (as we did) and trust me he'll show u the better way of reaching that place...And then take a left after devanahalli. It is a four lane expressway so be careful....u wont find the tiny 40 ft road towards your left and might end up reaching Hyderabad!!!
Then after a few minutes' ride we reached the nandi hills where ,at 12:15am, we could see shops and many bikes and bikers!! So it is a hit spot for night trek!!That was a good decision by us ,i thought..
Then came the real hurdle...thereafter it's all sunshaan galli and bhoukte kutte and few huts!!! But fortunately we could find a drunk security officer whom we asked and he directed us inspite of his high spirits!!!
But at 12:30 am we ended up nowhere..a dead end and 2 dogs behind us and a person sleeping in a hut..We had no other option than to wake him up and he made us realise that we had actually come 7Km ahead....And then we took a U-turn to ride back to muddenahalli!!!
And as per his instructions we had to take a right turn at a circle..So we looked for a circle in muddenahalli and hoila!!! We reached the place which we had never thought of visiting..Actually sir.M.Visweshwaraiah's Samadhi is in that small village of muddenahalli And once u reach that place u cannot even say u r in a small village..
The garden so well maintained and there lies the best of brains in india..The legend behind KRS, Dandeli paper mills and Bhakra and nangal project..
There lies the man who made India proud by his engineering expertise....We clicked some snaps there and left for finding the actual destiny...And after a minute's ride there came another circle..This time a lil bigger corcle!! and i was really jumping with joy as i saw the handwritten board which read "KALAVARA BETTA" in kannada and the very next moment our speedometers read 80!!!
Another 5 minute ride we reached a place where there was nothing..A small field and smaller road (kaaludaari as said in Kannada)..We were so pissed of that we took our bikes into the field and then reached a small village (i donno the name) and parked our bikes there. An elderly person greeted us and it took a minute for us to discover that the hill right in front of us was KALAVARA BETTA... And the time was 1:15...
So we started it..finally!!!
And it was in the morning we realised that the route taken by us was the toughest one..The hill was full of steep rocks and we had to climb it. It took 2 hours to reach the top and to find about a 100 people already having omletts and singing aloud around a campfire!!! Then we realised there is an easier way which takes less than 45 minutes to climb and we were like WTF!!! But later consoled ourselves saying we took the toughest way and we have reached the top!! So we are far better than the remaining 100....It was time to have omlet and a bottle of water costs there 30 bucks!!! Cost for man labour to carry everything till top...And then we slept for an hour..The temperature is about 3 degrees and no blanket can save u...The only saviour is Lord Ganesha!!! There is a temple and the garbhagudi is the best place to sleep!! And my team had to actually come and kick me to wake me up!! Then it was time to watch the sunrise which never happened!!! I mean to say in the usual expected way!! Later on we started climbing down and this time using the normal and easier way.. It took us 45 minutes to reach the bottom and another hour and a half to reach inox.. Where after all the exhaustion and sleeplessness, Vin Diesel was waiting with his vrooming car with four of my friends!!! and one final note
Fast and the furious is bull shit....So i thought i could have slept at home and would have enjoyed a sound sleep after so much of exhaustion!!!
And Skandagiri is a moderate trek and even gals can try it!! i'm telling this coz i could see about a dozen chicks there on the top!!!
so guys and gals Skandagiri is waiting for u!!!

Basic Info:
Wiki is always helpful so go through this before u try her!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandagiri
Altitude: about 1350m above sea level
Distance: 70 km from Bangalore
Nearest Town/Medical Help: Chikkaballapura, 5 km
Nearest Airport/ Railway station: Devanahalli(Bangalore International Airport)
Co-ordinates: 13°25′3″N 77°40′58″E

Re-lived the good old Gokak days!!!

2009-03-29T22:58:00.000-07:00

Hi all,
My ugadi leave is over and i'm here again in office!!!
But this was the most hectic vacation of mine. Stayed in house for the least amount of time and travelled more.
I had been to SDMCET and saw the jaw-dropping changes there. The old road was tarred and nicely laid now. I could find footpath and the only thing missing was a traffic light!!
The faastfood is now called "AHLAAD" food court and gives a typical PUNJABI DHABA look to us..Met Akshays, Ammu,My sis et al and had real fun there.Fantasia is on Apr1 and i cant attend it!! Man!!! work sux...Yes ,it seriously does..
And the best part of my vacation was our school get-together in GOKAK. Well to tel more about this town ..it is a taluka place in Belgaum District. Boasts of having 2 beautiful falls..Gokak falls and Godachinamalki falls..Both are eye catching. yogikol is another place which attracts people.But what attracted me was the get-together. It was arranged on 28th of April and thanks to all who rubbed their asses to make it a huge success..
Can u ppl imagine...we were more than 60 in number and meeting after 8 long years!! 60 is not a bad number at all...
As soon as i entered Gokak i was stunned at it's changed looks...wide roads,traffic signals, sign boards and the people havnt changed at all..
Was too too too excited to meet all of them and went to Gokak resort where the party was arranged.As soon as i parked the vehicle i saw Tejesh and group comin at the same time.Tejech was famous as "Bandal Naagya" (one who bluffs for every possible thiong) and could see patel,vaichav,Arun,Mahesh,sreedhar,sunil,rohit,swami and all those gals ...ashwini,Geeta,Sharada,snehal,sabiha,bhagya,rashmi et al..
The most beautifukl (For ME) was Bhagya...Or may be i dint expect her to look as gorgeous as she was!!! Now i've a crush on her ;-) (Hope bhagya reads this!!).
Then we had a drive to mahatma gandhi stone..had nice talk there and then back to resort..
Then slowly entered Mahindrakar madam...The head mistress of our school!!!! As beautiful as she was..8 years has not changed her at all.. and the best part is she still remembers me!! Though i dint complete my 10th in that school.!!!Thanks for that ma'am...
Then PY PATIL sir ..he remembers me too....Then vannur and Nayak sir entered. Nayak was the best...He taught us Kannada but we had every sort of fun in his class....Chidanand Latti,The most notorious of all the students was present there too...
he shouted and made every possible sounds in Nayak sir's class and the ultimate sufferers were Tejesh and I!! Latti never kept laughing after the pranks but we couldnt control our laughter...So we were beaten every time!!!
And met kaladgi and he is probably the one who has not changed at all...not physically...in his behaviour too!!!
nayak sir sang a song..By D.R.Bendre and we relived his class again by shouting!!!
By then even Shishir and Shivya had come from chikodi and had fun with them as well!!!
So ultimately it was a day to be remembered!!!
Will miss them for a long time!!
Then evening i had to drive back to dwd...And all the time i was thinking of the day i spent...every moment was so refreshing...So good...amit's murgod's acting, their confessions, Latti's pranks, Akshay Shetty's LATAN MAHARAJ reaction!! oh god..i sang the song , a bit aloud, "BAAR BAAR AATI HAI MUJHKO, MADHUR YAAD BACHPAN TERI, GAYA LE GAYA TU JEEVAN KI SABSE MADHUR KHUSHI MERI"...
Thanks once again to all the organizers who made it a great success and keep doing such things atleast once in a year...!!!
Thanks again,
Bye

ನಂದಗೋಕುಲ ನಮ್ಮ ಮನೆ.....

2009-03-17T05:35:00.000-07:00

"ಲೇ ಎಲ್ಲಾರ ಟೂರ್ ಹೋಗುನಲೇ ....ಏನ್ ಸೂಟಿ ಬಿದ್ರ ಮನಿ ಮನಿ ಅಂತ ಸಾಯ್ತೀ .....ಲೇ ನಿನ್ನೌ*****...."
ಹೀಗೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಧಾರವಾಡ ಭಾಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಗೆಳೆಯರನ್ನು ಹೆಳೆಯುವಾಗ ಯಾವತ್ತೂ ಯೋಚಿಸಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ .....ಅವರೆಲ್ಲಾ ಹಾಸ್ಟೆಲ್ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಇರೋರು ಅಂತ....ಮನೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ದೂರದ ಊರಿಗೆ ಬಂದು ಓದು ಬರಹ ಅಂತ ಮಾಡಿ ,ಹಾಸ್ಟೆಲ್ಲಿನ ಭಯಂಕರವಾದ ಊಟ ಮಾಡಿ ..ದಿನಾಲೂ ಮನೆಯ ಊಟವನ್ನು ಮಿಸ್ ಮಾಡ್ತಾ ...ಅದರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಹತ್ರ ಹೇಳ್ತಾ ನಮಗೆ ಕೋಪ ಬರಿಸೋರು
ಯಾವಾಗಲು ಅನಿಸೋದು....ಏನ್ ಈ ನನ್ನ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಮನೆ ,ಮನೆ ಅಂತ ಸಾಯ್ತಾರೆ...ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಟೂರ್ ಟ್ರಿಪ್ ಅಂತ ಹೋಗ್ತಾ ಮಜಾ ಮಾಡಬೇಕು ಅನ್ನೋದು ನನ್ನ ಥಿಯರಿ....ಅದು ಈಗಲೂ ನನ್ನ ಥಿಯರಿ ಹೌದು ಆದ್ರೆ ಈಗ ನಾನು ಕೂಡ ಅವರ ಗುಂಪಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿದ ಪುಣ್ಯಾತ್ಮ.... ಧಾರವಾಡದ ನನ್ನ ಮನೆ....ಅಪ್ಪ ಅಮ್ಮ..ಬಾಳಾ (ನನ್ನ ನಾಯಿ), ನನ್ನ ರೂಮು, ನನ್ನ ಕೆಂಪು ಚಾದರ, ನನ್ನ ರೂಮಿನ ಕಿಟಕಿಯಿಂದ ಕಾಣುವ ಬೆಳಗಿನ ಸೂರ್ಯ...ಅವನನ್ನು ಕೋಪದಿಂದ ಬೈಕೊಳ್ತಾ ಎದ್ದು ನನ್ನ ಬಾಥ್ರೂಮಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಂದಿನ ೧ ಘಂಟೆ ...ಆಹಾ ...ಏನು ಆನಂದ..ಅದೆಲ್ಲಾ ಎಷ್ಟು ಬೇಕು ಅನಿಸ್ತಾ ಇದೆ ಈಗ...ಆದ್ರೆ ಇಳಿ ಇರೋದು ಏನು ಇಲ್ಲ....ಅಮ್ಮನ ಕೈ ಅಡಿಗೆ ಇಲ್ಲ....ಬಾಳನ ಜೊತೆ ಆಟ ಇಲ್ಲ...ದಿನಾಲೂ ರಾತ್ರಿ ತಡ ಮಾಡಿ ಬಂದರೆ ಬಯ್ಯೋಕೆ ಅಮ್ಮ ಇಲ್ಲ... :-( ಅವಳ ಕೈ ಅಡಿಗೆ ಇಲ್ಲ.... ಇನ್ನೂ ಬೇಜಾರು ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನದೇ ಅಡುಗೆ!!! ಯಾಕೆ ಇದೆಲ್ಲ ಈಗ ಹೇಳ್ತಾ ಇದೀನಿ ..... ಕಳೆದ ಒಂದು ವಾರದಿಂದ ಯುಗಾದಿ ಹಬ್ಬ ಯಾವಾಗ ಬರತ್ತೆ ಅಂತ ೧೦ ಸಾರಿ ನೋಡೀದಿನಿ...ದಿನಗಳು ಮುಂದೆ ಹೋಗೋದೇ ಇಲ್ಲ...ಮನೆ ಯಾವಾಗ ಮುಟ್ಟುತೀನೋ ಅಂತ ಆಗಿಬಿಟ್ಟಿದೆ...ಈಗ ಗೊತ್ತಾಯ್ತ ಅಮ್ಮನ ಅಡುಗೆ..ಮನೆ ಊಟ...ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೋ ಮಜಾ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಏನು ಅಂತ!!! ಯುಗಾದಿ ದಿನ ನಮ್ಮ ಮನೆಯ ಕಹಿ ತಿಂದರೂ ಓಕೆ...ಆದ್ರೆ ಅಮ್ಮನ ನೋಡ್ಬೇಕು...ಅಪ್ಪನ ಕೈಲಿ ಮಾತಾಡಬೇಕು ...
ಇನ್ನೂ ೨ ವಾರ ಕಾಯಬೇಕು :-(
ಕಾಯ್ತೀನಿ.....
ಬೇರೆ ಗತಿ ಇಲ್ಲ....
ಸಿಗೋಣ ಮತ್ತೆ....

The Alchemist!!! What made it a Best Seller???

2009-02-27T03:45:00.000-08:00

Situation1: 10pm, Coimbatore, too hot, fan @ speed 5, harsha lying on his bed with a tiny book in his hand. the top right of the book reads 12 and that's the page number.

And the book is "THE ALCHEMIST"...

Situation2: 10:30pm, Coimbatore, too hot, fan @ speed 5, harsha lying on his bed with a tiny book in his hand. the top right of the book reads 12 again!!!!!!And the book is

"THE ALCHEMIST"...!!!!!

Then, i felt this is too much....i've about 400 friends in orkut and have peeped into several thousand profiles and atleast 50% of them have ALCHEMIST as their favo book...

So i thought let me contribute to increase that percentage and bought the, 150 odd page book, in coimbatore!!! and then it started!!!

The first few pages of the book boasts of it's readers...Bill Clinton, Julia Roberts......and many more!!! i thought of adding my name in the end...So started...

And then the clock showed 10:00pm and u know the rest..till 10:30!!!

DISCLAIMER: If u have read the book and have liked it then please dont read further.....

Goddamn it!!!! Paulo Coelho has gone crazy....!!!! he says life is dependant on OMENS!!!

oh my A** was my immediate answer!! And does the life depend so much on omens?? YES if u've read and liked ALCHEMIST!!!

the book says life keeps showing omens at each and every point of time...lol...

harsha wakes up and it is an omen!!! i go out for a leak..and tadaaan!!! it's an omen...i talk to my friend it's an omen.... my PL screws me and it's an omen too.... my code has a milion bugs and paulo says...Harsha beta..it's an omen..dont worry..... and i shout F*** You Paulo!!! because life doesn show omens all the time.... and the best omen was that i stopped reading at 10:30pm....else i'd die...

Now my analysis of what made THE ALCHEMIST an International BESTSELLER!!!

1) The book is small (150 few pages) .

2) People like me go by orkut profiles and buy books...

3) people buy books to see and analyse why people like clinton, julia roberts etc read it..!!!

4) it comes for about 50 bucks!!! cheapest bestseller!!!

5) There are some people who find crap tasty, movie like jodhaa-akbar interesting and book like The Alchemist mindblowing...

If you havnt read it yet then please dont do that mistake....

If u have read it then y the hell dint u inform me!!!

and if u still believe in thrill and tough tasks then The Alchemist is waiting for u....

PS:Please tel me the story (if u can finish in 10 mins) if u finish reading it..

-Regards

Harsha

ಮತ್ತೇರಿಸುವ ಕೊಯಿಮ್ಮತ್ತೂರು !!!!

2009-02-26T05:32:00.000-08:00

ಹಾಗೆ ತುಂಬಾ ದಿನ ಆಯ್ತು ನನ್ನ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ನೋಡೇ ಇಲ್ಲಾ...ಇಷ್ಟು ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡೋದು ಸರಿ ಅಲ್ಲ...ಸೊ ಇವತ್ತು ಸಲ್ಪ ಕಷ್ಟಾ ಅದರೂ ಪರವಾಗಿಲ್ಲ ಏನಾದರೂ ಗೀಚೋಣ ಅಂತ ಮನಸ್ಸು ಮಾಡಿ ಕುಳಿತಿದೀನಿ ನನ್ನ ಕ್ಯುಬಿಕಲ್ಲಲ್ಲಿ..
ನನ್ನವರು, ನನ್ನ ಪರಿವಾರ , ಗೆಳೆಯರು, ಬಂಧು-ಬಳಗ, ಹರಟೆ ಮಿತ್ರರು, ಬೆಕಾಗಿರೋರು ಬೇಡದೆ ಇರೋರು ಎಲ್ಲರನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವುದೊ ಊರಿನ ಯಾವುದೊ ಭಾಷೆಯ ಯಾವುದೊ ಸೀಮೆಯ ಜನರ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ನನ್ನ ಜೀವನ ಸಾಗಿಸುತ್ತಾ... ಹೊಟ್ಟೆಗಾಗಿ -ಗೇಣು ಬಟ್ಟೆಗಾಗಿ ಎಂದು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕೊಯಮ್ಬತ್ತೂರಿನ ಸೆಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಮೈ ಕಾಂತಿಯ ಮಾರಣಹೋಮ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾ ನನ್ನನು ನಾನೇ ಹವಿಸ್ಸಾಗಿ ಸೂರ್ಯದೇವನ ಬೇಗೆಗೆ ಅರ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾ ಜೀವನ ಸಾಗಿಸುತ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದೇನೆ...
ಇರೋದಕ್ಕೆ ಮನೆ ಇದೆ.. ಹರಟೆಗೆ ಮಿತ್ರರು ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಇದ್ದಾರೆ ..ಅಡುಗೆ ಮಾಡ್ತಾ ಇದೀನಿ..ಕಲಿತಾ ಇದ್ದೀನಿ..ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಮಜಾ ಬರ್ತಾ ಇದೆ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ..
ವೀಕೆಂಡ್ಸ್ ಬಂತು ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಸಾಕು ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಸೇರಿ ಟ್ರಿಪ್ಪು ಅಂತ ಹೊರಡೋದು ....ಹೀಗೆ ಮಾಡ್ತಾ ಮಾಡ್ತಾ, ತಿರುಗ್ತಾ ತಿರುಗ್ತಾ ಸುಮಾರು ಜಾಗ ಮುಗಿಸಿ ಬಿಟ್ಟಿದೀವಿ .... ಊಟಿ , ಮುನ್ನಾರ್, ಯೇರ್ಕಾಡು, ತಿರುವನಂತಪುರಂ, ಕನ್ಯಾಕುಮಾರಿ, ವೇಳಿ, ಶಂಘಮುಗಂ, ವಾಳಪರೈ, ವೆಲ್ಲನಗಿರಿ ಹೀಗೆ ಎಲ್ಲ ಮುಗಿಸಿ ಬಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದೇವೆ .... ಇನ್ನು ಸಲ್ಪ ಇದೆ.. ಏನ್ ಮಾಡೋದು ವೀಕೆಂಡ್ಸ್ ??? ಹೊರಡೋದು ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂತ ..ಅಲೆಮಾರಿ ಜೀವನ...
ಟ್ರಿಪ್ಪಿಗೆ ಹೋದಾಗ ಬರೋ ಮಜಾನೆ ಬೇರೆ... ಕಾಲು ಎಳೆಯೋದು ...ಜಗಳ ಮಾಡೋದು ....ಚಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡುಗೋದು... ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಘಟ್ಟಗಳ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯ ಸವೀತಾ ಸವೀತಾ ಮನಸ್ಸು ಎಲ್ಲಿಗೋ ಹೋಗತ್ತೆ .... ಬಂಕಿಮ ಚಂದ್ರರು ಬರೆದ ವಂದೇ ಮಾತರಂ ಎಷ್ಟು ನಿಜ ಅಂತ ಅನಿಸದೆ ಇರದು.. ದೃಷ್ಟಿ ಹೋಗುವಷ್ಟು ದೂರ ಬೆಟ್ಟಗಳು.. ಚಹಾ ಗಿಡಗಳು ...ಓಕ್ ಮತ್ತು ಪೈನ್ ಮತ್ತು ನೀಲಗಿರಿ ಮರಗಳ ಎತ್ತರ ..ಕಣಿವೆಗಳ ಆಳ ....ನದಿಗಳ ಝುಳು ಝುಳು ....ಜಲಪಾತಗಳ ಭೋರ್ಗರೆತ ....ಮತ್ತು ನಮ್ಮ ಮಜಾ ಮಾಡೋ ಗ್ರೂಪ್... ಇನ್ನೇನು ಬೇಕು ಸಾರ್ ಸ್ವರ್ಗಕ್ಕೆ???
ಇದೆಲ್ಲಾ ಮಾಡಿ ಮುಗಿಸಿದ ಮೇಲೆ ಮರುದಿನ ಮತ್ತೆ ಆಫೀಸಿನ ಮೌನ, ಎ.ಸಿ ತಂಪು, ತಿರುಗುವ ಕುರ್ಚಿ , ಅದೇ ಕೋಡಿಂಗ್ , ಅದೇ ಬಗ್ಗು.... ಅಬ್ಬಾ... ಯಾಕೆ ನಾವೆಲ್ಲಾ ಇಷ್ಟು ಕಷ್ಟಾ ಪಡಬೇಕು ಅನಿಸ್ಸತ್ತೆ...
ಸುಮ್ನೆ ರಿಟೈರ್ ಆಗಿ ಯಾವುದೊ ಒಂದು ಹಿಲ್ ಸ್ಟೇಷನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಮನೆ ಮಾಡಿ ಹಾಯಾಗಿ ಇರೋಣ ಅಂತಾ... ಹೇಗಿದೆ ಐಡಿಯಾ ??
ವಾಟ್ ಏನ್ ಐಡಿಯಾ ಸರ್ ಜೀ ......
ಬನ್ನಿ ಕೊಯಮ್ಬತ್ತೂರಿಗೆ... ತೋರಿಸ್ತೀನಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಇರೋ ಜಾಗಗಳನ್ನ ....
ಮತ್ತೆ ಸಿಗೋಣ...
ನಿಮ್ಮವ
-ಹರ್ಷ ...

ಇಂಥಾ ಗಂಡಸು ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾಕೆ ಇಲ್ಲಾ ಹರಿಯೇ ????

2008-11-19T22:21:00.000-08:00

ಹಾಗೆ ಒ0ದ ಸೈಟು ನೋಡ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದೆ....ಆಗ ಕ0ಡ ಪೋಸ್ಟು ಇದು..ನಾವೆಲ್ಲಾ ಓದಲೇಬೇಕಾದದ್ದು ಅನಿಸಿತು......ಅದಿಕ್ಕೆ ನಿಮಗಾಗಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿ...

INDIA NEEDS A LEADER LIKE THIS - FOR SURE
The views of Patriotic Australian Prime Minister
India Needs A Leader Like This!

Prime Minister John Howard - Australia

Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote: 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.'

'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom'

'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!'

'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.'

'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.'

'This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.'

'If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.'

Maybe if we circulate this amongst ourselves, Indian citizens will find the backbone to start speaking and voicing the same truths.

Finally.......INTO BOSCH!!!!!!!

2008-11-12T20:16:00.000-08:00

Finally into BOSCH!!!!!!!!!

How did I make through rb?? I sometimes ask this quest to myself. And that is when I go to that day. That day when more than 500 students from all over north karnataka had assembled at sdmcet and I was there too. But not to write the exam or attend the interview but to help as a volunteer. Poor students will have a tough time in finding places at sdmcet.(It took 2 yrs for me to find the right spot in the right way…I applied shortest path algorithm!!!)…Ther was a ppt held at ccf seminar hall and it was jam-packed with the aspirants. But poor harsha was not interested at all. He stood there near the stone bench chattin and making fun of hula(Sandeep doddaballapur is his 'father-kept-name'!!!) he had got the koining date on 7th of july…the earliest of all. And he was the ;ast to get placed in our group. And suddenly all started shouting "yeee,,,bare written anta le Ppa…" so I thought y not give it a shot…and mind said yes.

So now the next important job was to find a pen!!! And for all such things there is one person who has been supporting me…yes…Keerti bai…my best frnd and the strongest…(lol..my left hand is numb already)…so I managed to get a pen very easily…and finally I was in the ccd seminar hall to write the exam…

I had almost forgotten that there is a language called c and aptitude was at the lowest level.but who cares??? Who is gonna join bosch??? "hanga mushkiri le ppaaaa…." is wat I said to keerti and she was pretty serious about it. She sat besides me. So finally the exam started.

50% c :-( and 50% aptitude :-/ ….i was not worried at all, coz one thing kept swiping through my mind.."bosch yara hogtar le ppaaaa"…

So I started marking and I seriously donno wat I was doin…and after an hour I was outta my chair…

And forgot bosch..

So started worrying again for the recession and no openings….and thought of writing elitmus..wrote it too (btw this was after a month I wrote RB exam) But the paper went horrible. And was narrating this to kodihalli and pai (yes the head F***** pai) at majestic and slowly we went to garuda mall.. Were lunching there and I got a call from banglore number…I sasid "HELLO" and that was a call from bosch….and then I faced the interview and then right now I'm here. In my cubicle…in a german company bosch.. In it's eos2 department. And I remember the day when I said "bosch yaar hogtaar le ppaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "….

-Harsha Bhat

Akhil Babu's letter to INDIAN RAILWAYS!!!!

2008-11-12T20:08:00.000-08:00

Friends,
Communiction has no barriers.I realised it when i went to TamilNadu.I knew nothing of TAMIL and they dint know a bit of either english,hindi or kannada...So i was using all my dumb charades skills to communicate.I was really frustrated with them...Trust me u'll go crazy....And one day while i was checking my mail..This is what i saw....Go ahead and read it.. And u'll ROTFL....
Akhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. It was also reproduced under the caption Travelers' Tales" in the Far Eastern Economic Review.

"I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with lotah in one hand and dhoti in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on platform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station.

This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honor to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers."

Any guesses why this letter was of historic value?...............................It apparently led to introduction of toilets in trains.

(I repeat again..Language is no barrier when it comes to expressing thoughts....)
Love
-Harsha Bhat

Am I ADDICTED??? I asked myself

2008-10-21T03:28:00.000-07:00

How addicted…
Ganja held, cocaine held, suspects arrested,
Fagging in public banned….but who gives a damn..i Still enjoy being an exhaust pipe…
Statutory warning: Cigarette smoking is injurious to health….
Blah Blah Blah……
I used to blame many people for smoking in public, about their addictions and the most important thing..Not being able to control their minds from addictions…
BUT…
What is addiction????…yesterday night I gave it a thought…. To be frank, from a few days I’m feeling the need of browsing the net freely…Exploring my old, struck-0-philic computer at dharwad...opening my folder…checking my inbox for a pretty long 30 minutes….downloading movies….ahhh….when will I get those days back??
I was feeling so damn restless and wanted it badly…. But alas....i’m here..alone…800Km away from all my beloved ones….and rubbing my A** for my daily bread….
And suddenly I thought... is this how a smoker feels after staying away from cig for a long time…or is this how a druggy feels at rehab centres??? And if that is addiction and we blame it…What is this?? What was the feeling I just felt???
So after a lot of "tumbling-of-thoughts" in my mind, I defined addiction as a mental desire…
And then onwards I felt either I should stop my addiction or stop feeling irritated about the druggists and the faggers…Afterall it’s the mind which matters and not the cause…
But ofcourse…the latter 2 are injurious but mine is mentally stressful….so I’ve not yet decided which one is to be stopped…But will stop one of the two…blaming them or missing home…..That’s for sure….

P.S: I really don’t know why I’m writing this.

-Harsha Bhat

Treksperiencing the VELLINGIRI HILLS.....

2008-10-20T04:13:00.000-07:00

Check out the snaps after reading...

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It’s been about a week my life in Coimbatore has started and I’m already getting bugged of it’s heat and stink….but trust me..If u look around once u’ve got ample number of places to visit and all are very much affordable (let aside much hyped ooty,kodaikanal and munnar). This Vijaydasahmi we planned a trek to vellingiri malai( vellingiri hills) and this was my first trip after getting coimbatored…and I was really in need of one to relax myself. So as per the plan we left Coimbatore at 8:30 am and reached the foothills of vellingiri hills at about 9:30am. And everybody in the office started laughing when we said vellingiri malai.. cos it is supposed to be a very difficult trek and an exhaustive one too…Even the taxi driver started laughing when we said we’ll climb vellingiri…
That made us more broken and we thought of climbing it half (But to be frank we dint know how much of the hill is half!!!!)
So some basic facts about Vellingiri. There are 7 hills we gotta climb and on top of the 7th hill lies the shiva temple. All that we knew was that and we went to climb it…
At the foothills we stood and clicked some photographs to mark the starting of the trek. And every check point we had to click one. We started as a team of 12. And as and when we started climbing slowly but steadily we felt it’s gonna be a tough task as it was just too rocky and dry without much greenery and full of scorching sun and no blowing wind.Vrashabh gave up very early at about a few hundred steps and we bade him goodbye. So we were 11 now!!! And the whole team was broken and divided based upon their speeds and capacity. The first hill was done after 1hr 15mins of rigorous climbing and we rested for a while. And seven more to go!!!! Was scary…And then slowly Yathish and Horatti gave up…and thus went on our trek..willing to see the top but no fluid left in our body. Nor in our water bottles!!!!
And after a rigorous climb of about 3.5 hours we had managed to see the peak of the 7th hill from a long distance. Or to be precise from the peak of 4th hill….thereby the other 6 people gave up and it was me,Narayan and Aslam still to have some fluid and guts left in us to climb the 7th hill. We dint want to go back when we have invested so much of our energy and time. And above all, we were so close to our destination. It was visible!!!
We decided to climb and started towards 7th peak at 1:00pm. With literally nothing in our body and few bottles of water in our bags.
And now started the real trek. Now I started to realize how impossible it is to conquer the nature. And how impossible it was to reach the top. Trust me…every ten steps I had to rest for 3 minutes. And this went on till we reached the top.Every step was like climbing a hill in itself.and every step was sucking lots of energy from my body and every step was filling my mind with more determination….And finally at one point I heard Aslam shouting hhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…….And I rejoiced as I was only a few steps away from him…HE HAD REACHED THE TOP!!!!!!
And the sight was awesome and all the exhaustion and weakness was gone once I saw mother nature in such a form. It was chilling out there. We were literally into the clouds and I Could see a bird’s eye view of Coimbatore, a part of Kerala and many smaller hills!!!
That was like……oooooohhhhhh my god……and my camera was never off….it was something I had never experienced…..Only the one who has reached can experience it… And I felt so soooo pity for the people who gave up at the end of 4th hill. They missed it.
And then while coming back it was just exhaustion and curiosity to tell all others how it was.
In the meanwhile we had forgotten we had office the very next day and our legs are gonna be in the worst of their forms….but then….all others who did not reach the peak were also gonna have that….So finally I reached my room at 8:30 and fell asleep at 8:45 and woke up at 7:30 the next morning….to find my leg in a painful condition..!!!!
But it was all worth it….
Do visit it once if u have the balls...
-Harsha Bhat

A JOURNEY TO THE MANCHESTER OF SOUTH INDIA!!!!!

2008-09-29T23:10:00.000-07:00

Hi all......
joined bosch on august 18th. i was given Coimbatore as my joining location from 29th sept.I wanted the time to run as slowly as possible. But realised it's all in vain.
i slowly started preparing myself physically and mentally for coimbatore(COB-that's how it is called in bosch)
But my mind always hated to go to tamil nadu. can't speak tamil, can't vango-pongo-ukarongo with these fanatics. That's impossible for me.
Wherever i have been till now i was able to manage. i mean language was not a problem for me.
But trust me tamilians do not know a shit in english and hindi is not for them.
Me and Vrashabh were mentally preparing ourselves for the lungi-clad dark,moustached men and saree (or chudi) clad,dark,long-curly-oily haired ,typical tamilian bindi-ed gals.
We started looking and staring at every 'lil bit of beauty found in every gal in bangalore, coz we knew our fate in coming months!!!

and finally that day came, The 28th of september 2008, and it was time for me to bade good bye to namma bengaluru and come to tamil-nadu. And was a bit tensed and scared coz i dint know where to go in coimbatore and i dint know the language and i dint know anything about the new place i'm going.
I had wxpected all-tamil-people in karnataka itself but a bit closer to tamil border. But i got the first tamil-thunderbolt when i saw the bus board reading -COIMBATORE and i asked the driver to confirm "Saar!!! Coimbatore hogatta??"
The driver answered "aama saar...Vaango"!!!!!!! i was like...this bus is a tamil nadu in bangalore!!
and it was true.
everybody in the bus started speaking in tamil when they saw the only alien wearing a jeans...(or should i say not wearing a lungi!!)
after final messaging and talking with my friends a short-dark tamil conductor met me and asked me something in tamil (i seriously dont know wat that was)
and i said "COIMBATORE...eshtu saar" (the kannadiga in me was in ful form!!!lol)..he said two-thirty-five and the triumphant harsha started rejoicing!!!

i called my friend who had been to cob before. and asked her how was the road trip?? can i find some good things??
She replied "AWESOME!!!! the hills,mountains,greenery will catch ur eyes" and i was ready with my cam and all my concentration on the roads and outside the bus.
But minutes passed, hours passed nothing came. all that i saw was dry barren lands, dusty fields, wide express highway, pebbles,stones,boulders,rocks and stony mountains. I was half exhausted coz i wasnt mentally prepared for that.
and then some friend of mine had told me coimbatore is a good city. not as big as bangalore but is big enough to fill ur fun-appetite...and as i entered the city of coimbatore all that i saw was dusty roads, stinky slums,
smwlly drainage, and people everywhere :-(
i stood there in the gandhipuram bus-stand waiting for my friend and it took ten minutes for him to come.
Those tem mins were like ten yrs for me..auto ppl somin to me and speaking something, bus ppl comin too!!!
then lookin at my luggage my friend asked an auto-rickshaw fellow...lakshmipuram (with his hands acting fully) how much???
autowala: vango saar....aravandh rupa..(meanin 60 bucks)
raghu(my friend): too much...jaasti...
autowala: blah blah blah
raghu:50...50.....50 correct
autowala: 60 saar....correct
i said: ok...let's go...
and then i reached my home..an exhaustive journey to coimbatore came to an end. and my new life begins from tomorrow!!!!
but met few friends who were all kannadigas..about ten of them...so i can c a ray of hope...
The office of cob in the next post...
cya soon...hopefully :-(

-Harsha Bhat

A WEDNESDAY---A MUST WATCH FOR "A COMMON MAN AND "AN UNCOMMON MAN"

2008-09-22T21:15:00.000-07:00

indian movies cant be imagined without songs,item numbers,long intervals(if u r in a theatre),
handsome strong hero, a hot sexy heroine,duets,fights and a few pot-breaking fight scenes...but
one movie stands out and has earns accolades from critics as well!!!
a completely different movie, properly shot, and finished in 2 hours before the movie viewer get's bugged.
yes, i'm talkin about the low budget,no khan-cast(read as khan-starcasted) movie "A WEDNESDAY"....

when many of my friends called me up and asked me to watch the movie i thought there is something in this. so one saturday i thought of
going to a wednesday with my family.
i wasnt sure of the quality of the movie but i trusted my friends.
and the movie began.
It effectively shows the stuff which was not shown till now in any of the movies.every terrorism-condemning movie either showed a hero who saves the people
or the anti-terrorist cell which works day-in and day-out to find the terrorists... but every director forgets to show the fury of a "STUPID-COMMON-MAN" (to know y i used this word u should watch the movie)
.....how do they feel when trains were blasted in mumbai, when bangalore was attacked,gujarath,delhi,jaipur,hyderabad....
hardly any indian metro-cit left un-attacked...how do we-the-people of india feel...we cant go out of home freely, i'm not assured of returning back safely once i go out...i dont know what my mistake is but i am killed....my children are killed...
my friends their families are shattered....and everything in a minute...
the words used by naseruddin shah are "koi ma**r c**d kyo tai karega ki mein kab aur kaise maroonga..." apt words i felt...
and no where u feel the movie is being dragged unnecessarily and nowhere u feel relaxed...
every minute is exciting...
now comin to the acting and direction...acting is superb..naseruddin shah,anupam kher(the police commissioner),
jimmy shergill(the furious ats cop) and another unknown fellow....acting is mindblowing...
and director has effectively proved that a movie can be made watchable without nude sultry babes, without sex,
without item numbers or without khans or kapoors....
ultimately what makes the movie worth a watch is it's super strong storyline...
this movie will remain in my mind for a long time to come...coz it reflects my mind.my feelings...the feelings of A STUPID COMMON MAN!!!!
book the tickets now...time's runnin out..
comments welcome after u have watched the movie!!!
-harsha

4 YEARS..8 SEMS...COUNTLESS MEMORIES....ENDLESS EMOTIONS.....

2008-06-03T13:14:00.000-07:00

COLLEGE BAKERY Thanks a ton ujji for the sketch

Hi all….

This blog is purely dedicated to sdmcet, my alma-mater, my college, my second home…..
Aahhh… I still remember the first day… the very span of 4 yrs was irritating…I was like “WTF….four years here???? Impossible….i’ll look forth for my destination….
My destination outta this college…my engineering degree…my temporary destination……”
When I listened to the song “hum joh chalne lage” song from jab we met I always thought and laughed at the poet’s stupidity when he said “manzil se behetar lagne lage ye raaste”….my question was, how can the happiness we get when we are moving towards our manzil be better than the happiness when we reach the destination????
Aaahhhhh….now I feel the feel of the poet….i feel that he’s right.
I feel the same feeling when I’m leavin my college..i still remember the day I said “4 YRS!!!! F***”…..I waited all these 7 semesters for 8th semester to come and get my a** outta this college. But ….but when I’m in 8th semester now…8th sem is about to get over… I’m about to reach my destination…the destination I’ve been waiting for these 3 long yrs….I feel sad…I miss each and every moment I lived in this college…
From the very first day when I had nothing but a few unknown naughty faces with me to the soulmates I got at the end of 4th yr I cherish every minute of it…ah…this journey is amazing….i will miss my college days.
I miss each and everybody who made it so special to me….The scoldings we got from Basti sir in maths class…he asked me, abhishek.M(mand abbya) and cecil to stand up…and yelled at us with full fury “BOTH OF U 3 GET OUT OF MY CLASS”…and we started rolling on the floor and was disgusting for the prof.!!!.....Basic electrical class was engaged by B.S.Shreesailan sir…his typical tamilian accent itself was funny..and above that the gems of our class …KARNA.HEGDE, ABHIJIT.UNKAL, GURU.KAMAT and JAFER.TADKOD troubled him to the core…and trust me they troubled him in every possible way..we even shouted revolutionary slogans (inquilab zindabad and vande mataram) in his class!!!!
Then came the branch entry….we were welcomed with a warm fresher’s party by our lovely seniors…tx to them….
In branch started our happy time…the real happy time…
I don’t think nagasundara sir’s classes have to be explained here….and how can I forget sridar sir!!! We had penultimate fun in his classes….hahaha….Navin shet was the man behind it…I miss him a lot…The time we spent in bakery after bunking the classes…the time we engaged in labs and projects…the time we spent in cultural stuff…and the sports room craze in 7th sem…SAMPA’s GAPline….ujji’s sketches….kodi’s 6 pack, chote’s PEPUSI…keerti’s heavy hand…sanjeev’s bidar accent…burchandi’s doubts…and the list goes on….i miss everything….
Aaahhhh…not one but many such soothing experiences which is bliss of solitude from now….which will stay with us forever…
Now I’m sitting on my study table with CNS book open….but not in a mood to study…and thinking of all the smile and tears we shared in 4 yrs….and I find my eyes wet….and I sing the song “……..haa manzil se behetar lagne lage ye raaste”

-Harsha.Bhat

JODHA-AK(SUCK)BAR

2008-02-24T05:17:00.000-08:00

Pls don’t mind if I swear out loud in this blog….i’m seriously pissed off….how can a man who treated us with lagaan bang us with a 4 hour hot shot?????
Yup………JODHAAAA-AKBAR!!!!!!!
One word to describe it ….SICK…btw did I tel u that I bunked the college to watch this movie?? Coz the classes were too boring to stop me from dozing off…but l8r I realized, classes were better…not just better…..a million times better than J-A….
In the first half I stared at my watch about a hundred times to c my watch rock steady….trust me…it wasn’t moving at aaallllll…..finally at the interval I almost spent all my money on potato wafers and cold drinks…I had enough food reserves to kill 2 more hours watching (errrr!!!) this movie…
One innocent question…wats there in this movie other than loads and loads of tanishq sponsored gold????
The director has bombarded the historical facts….the language is equally non-digestible and the formalities before baadshah….they drag the movie….and drag and drag!!!!!
Was it really necessary to adress Akbar as badshah-e-hindustan jalaluddin mohammed Akbar every single time??? And call jodhaa as mallika-e-hindustan rajput rajkumari jodhaa bai???Just imagine the time taken to cal the name…and every single time this is done!!!! I was like F***….were the people so sick in those days or the director is sick!!!!
Selected picks of the language used….Tashreef rakhiye (sit down), gustaki maaf huzoor(sorry sir), sazaa-e-maut(death sentence), azeem-o-shaan shehenshah (Donno d meanin), padhareeye(come)…..i cant remember the rest of the things!!!!thank god
Ahhh……altogether the movie is a package of boredom and frustration….even after reading this, if u wanna feel the kick of the movie then…all d best….be mentally prepared to take the torture..and all d folks who wanna watch in multiplexes!!!! U’ll find it more boring coz ther’s nobody to shout and entertain u!!!!!!

comments welcome
-HARSHA BHAT

NATURE UNEXPLORED.........

2008-02-02T08:02:00.001-08:00

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about a week ago my bro manjanna had planned a one day trip to a falls nearby...that is near yana (uttara kannada dist, karnataka state)
...we planned to visit the falls on 28/01/08.....ten of us were ready and were as usually excited....uttara kannada is a land of forests..blessed by the mountains of western ghats and the dense forests, it is a land of many waterfalls.
the major rivers are sharavati, aghanashini et al.
we planned to go to VIBHOOTI FALLS. a falls situated amidst dense forests 8km away from the famous yana....
the road to falls is too narrow and over that, the tourism dept is planning to improve the road. so few JCBs and a few hitachis are busy moving the earth which made our vehicle more and more shaky. our vehicle was wxperiencing a tough time in the dusty roads and our noise was disturbing it as well!!!!
finally after a journey of about 90 minutes from sirsi we reached VIBHOOTI FALLS.
to reach the water we had to walk for about half a kilometer....but the gushing water was alarming us about it's force from about 200 meters.....
well......after the 500 metre walk e reached the falls!!!!!!!!
i yelled out "oh my god...man is so tiny in front of nature"
it was a waterfall in between to rocks...and one rock was made up of limestone (and hence the name vibhooti falls)...
it was like a white strip amidst 2 black giants....
the falls doesnt fall from great height (like jog and unchalli falls) but has made many steps in her course....
nobody can die here cos of water...or due to inability to fight the force of water....cos every few metres u can find boulders which are there to help u out.....but hey....if u attempt a dive then these boulders turn fatal....
we thought of reaching the source of the falls (infact a tough decision)...it was seriously a tough task to do coz we had to literally climb the cliff and the only aid was few roots of some old trees...
and if u think ur woodland or any trekking shoe will help u out then pls rethink....
but our barefoot really helped!!!!!!!we reached almost on the top....about 200 feet above the ground level and trust me....it was scary...
i tried to go and challenge the stream of the falls....but the water was too cold (about 5 degree celcius) cos the sun hardly reaches the water....and the force of the water was something beyond my strength..
But i tried to do that and started shivering..ohohohohohohoh ghghghgooodddhhhh was what i shouted ...but i was tryin to shout oh god..!!!!hehehe....yes the water was that cold...

now it was the time to swim!!!! cold water swimming is really good but is makes u shiver from the bottom of ur ass....trust me it does....
but after a while we could heaten up our body cos swimming is a gr8 exercise....it's a bit deep but not dangerous at all...so swimming is an easier chore as compared to mountain climbing....

after an hour of swimming it was time to eat....we had a nice scene when manjanna was about to drown!!!! but as i've already said it's not the place to die(by drowning ofcourse!!!!)
pradeep and his fiance slipped and fell in water,which was too too tooooooo funny to watch...i was rotfl!!!!
we had lunch and left for sirsi...
thus our nice trip came to an end...

i seriously dont want the tourism dept to develop it cos this is the one of the very few places left unexplored!!!
no plastics..no guest houses..no guides narrating false stories...no hotels and no concretization....
but what upset me was even this place had some plastics lying and some shattered beer bottles....when will the man realise that nature is his mother..
and it's his responsibility to protect her....
but i realised......"MAN IS SO TINY IN FRONT OF NATURE".....

wanna visit vibhooti falls???????
go ahead...
it's about 8 kms from yana....
u have to reach yana via mattighatta......go ahead for 8 kms.....u find hegdekatta....and from there u ask any manly being ...
he'll show u the way...
but please be safe and dont use plastics there....

comments welcome...
-HARSHA BHAT

GUJARAT MODIFIED !!!

2008-01-08T10:06:00.000-08:00

hi all,
i'm back after a long long gap...just a few hours ago last step of 7th semester was successfully climbed......nw with 2008 we are in 8th sem....final year...well leave it aside...
this blog is simply to tell all d people about the developments in gujrat....the state which is mostly abused for it's communal riots...
y r v so pessimistic..is pessimism in our blood??? certainly no.......coz i'm too optimistic...
well a single incident made gujarath a "COMMUNAL STATE" forever???
but our pig headed pretty politicians never think of the developmental activities in gujrat...
what all narendrabhai modi has done...and wat u sow is wat u get (WUSIWUG!!!)
so narendra modi is the CM again.....rather CM forever!!!!(for him CM=COMMON MAN)...

i was the happiest man when i saw the guj poll results on tv...everybody was against him...the media, congress, bjp rebels........but..the results are out and the results were shocking!!!!!NARENDRA BHAI AGAIN!!!!
i jumped with joy...i called up all my friends(though they were least interested) and shared the happy news.....
and i was sad coz no narendra bhai in my state.....
well, a glimpse of developments in gujrat under narendra bhai modi......

Economic and Industrial Achievements

Cargo handled by ports in Gujarat in last 6 years: 5917 lakh mts (2945 in prev 20 years)

Rs 50967 crores sales tax in last 6 years, (Rs 49611 cr in prev 41 years). No hike in taxes!

Octroi Abolished.

Revenue deficit decreased from 7200 cr in 2003 to 343 cr in 2006.

Employment through industries saw a jump of more than 400% compared to 2002 Oct!

Road development worth Rs 4783 Cr in last 6 years ( Rs 3484 Cr in previous 41 years!)

302 investment proposals to the tune of Rs 1,72,000 crores - 84% of these proposals implemented or are under active implementation process.
Ahmedabad is now a mega city and several world-class projects have been put on the fast track including the Sabarmati Riverfront Development and Bus Rapid Transit System.
Percentage of man-days lost in Gujarat due to labour strife is just 0.52% - the lowest in the country.
Modi's relentless efforts helped setting up two LNG terminals – one by LNG Petronet at Dahej and another by Shell at Hazira, operations commenced!
The Planning Commission had set a target growth rate of 10.2% for Gujarat compared to average of 8.2% for the country; Gujarat achieved a growth rate of 15% in the 1st yr
Since last 3 years, development expenditure is more than the non-development expenditure in Gujarat, which is an unusual phenomenon
Gujarat ranks No. 1 in The Economic Freedom Index as per the research conducted by The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. Modi No.1 Chief Minister, thrice consecutively in five years in India

Educational Achievements

Number of seats in technical institutions have more than doubled in last 6 years.
Modi deposits each and every gift/souvenir received by him in the government treasury for the cause of girl child education Within a span of 41 years, his 13 predecessors had deposited a meagre amount of Rs.4.55 lacs, whereas the present Chief Minister has deposited Rs.287.37 lacs in a period of 5 years.
In 2006-07, the dropout rate of girl child has dwindled to 3.68 from 20.81 in 2000-01. Vidyalaxmi bond of Rs. 1000/- given to girl students who take admission to the 1st std and 8th std. The girl receives the amount of bond with interest on completion of std 7th and 10th respectively. This ensures higher retention rate.
11 new universities, 400 new colleges, 1.25 lakh new teachers, 38,000 new schoolrooms.
Campaign for imparting English education.
Fortification of food with folic acid. Due to these and other reforms, the number of children suffering from anemia and night blindness have decreased

Agricultural achievements

The state is now also known for roses, strawberries, organic products and above all bio-diesel.
108% hike in horticulture production in last 5 years

Annual growth average of Agricultural GSDP in last 6 years has been 12.87%,(3.74% in previous 10 years)
Yet another initiative unique to Gujarat is the Krishi Mahotsav. The Agricultural Festival is a knowledge sharing rendezvous of the farming community, a month-long event that brings together the farming community, the government officials, the scientists and many more connected with agriculture.
A snapshot of Krishi Mahotsav 2006
Guidance by agricultural scientists to 14,50,655 farmers
Personal counselling to 6,74,416 farmers and Guidance by APMC to 1,66,615 farmers.
Distribution of 1,42,711 Agriculture Kits and 1,36,773 Horticulture Kits
Distribution of 1,00,000 Animal Husbandry Kits and 98,827 Kisan Credit Cards
Implementation of All-Village Employment Scheme in 10,172 villages.
Vaccination of 48.8 Lac cattle and Agricultural sowing organized in 18,719 villages
Energy Achievements
Increase in the plant load factor, decrease in T&D losses.

Biggest CNG and LNG infrastructure in the country.

Gujarat emerging as petro-capital of the country
Gujarat now provides 24 hours electricity to all its 18000+ villages. 1st of its kind in India.
State electricity board which had a loss of 1932 cr in 2003 , now had a profit of 180 cr !

Wind power installed capacity which was 119.49MW till 2003 is now 568.49MW!
Water Achievements
Number of villages depending on tankers for water came down from 4054 in 2001 to 185.

• Linking the villages with a State Wide Water Grid.

• Interlinking of 21 rivers of the states.

• Near completion of Sardar Sarovar Project with benefits of water and electricity reaching 500km away from the dam.

• Creation of 2.25 lakh new water bodies by constructing check-dams and farm ponds.
Other Achievements
Almost 1000 Gynecologists provide free services to antenatal mothers on 9th day of each month.

67 Evening Courts started since November 2006. 1, 16,000 cases have been disposed off!
Gujarat has made e-Governance functional in all its 141 municipalities. All 14,000 gram panchayats have been made e-grams. Lesser corruption
Gujarat is the first state to implement the unique concept of river interlinking
Constitution of Chetak Commando to contain terrorism.
Freeing illegally held fishermen languishing in Pakistan jails
Implementing the Gujcoc law to make the police force more effective,
Enacting law to check forceful conversion.
Setting up all-women police station in every district.

this is gujrat for u.......
-comments plsssssssss

-HARSHA.BHAT

VEDAS....-ocean of knowledge.....

2007-09-22T22:32:00.000-07:00

Vedas, Anatomy and Medical Sciences
Our present knowledge of the nervous system fits in so accurately with the internal description of the human body given in the Vedas (10,000 years ago). Then the question arises whether the Vedas are really religious books or books on anatomy of the nervous system and medicine.
The word for human body in Sanskrit is Deha and Shareera. Deha comes from Dahyati which means consumed by fire and Shareera is derived from Shara which means that which will decay. Hindus Buddhists and most modern Europeans and Americans cremate the body after death and most Semitics bury the body which decays after some time. Thus in lighter vein we can say that the Hindus, Buddhists… have deha and the Semitics have sharira.
The word for heart in Vedic Sanskrit is “Hridaya”. It is made of three parts - Hri, Da, Ya. Hri comes from Harati which means to receive, Da is short form of Dadati which means to give and Ya stands for Ayati which means to go, to move or to circulate. It is amazing to know how the Vedic seers coined this word since heart has only these three functions. Millenniums later William Harvey in 1628 A.D. was the first European to discover the circulation of blood.
Plastic surgery performed today in the most modern hospitals is similar to the one performed by Sushruta 3,000 years ago. Early Hindu doctors knew bone setting, arresting of blood flow, cataract operations, cure for most ailments and so on… Yogasan and meditation which are very ancient, are sought by over 10% populations in America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

well...this is what the power and knowledge on india is....any comments pls go ahead..
-harsha

Indians Abroad......

2007-09-01T00:30:00.000-07:00

Laxmi Niwas Mittal has climbed the ladder to become the richest Indian in UK and the third richest in the world. Shrichand Hinduja and Swaraj Paul are some of the other richest ten men in UK. Indian community in Hong Kong, Thailand, USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and most European countries are among the richest on the basis of per capita income. Google Inc founder-director Kavitark Ram Shriram and Bose Corporation chairman Amar Gopal Bose have moved up the rankings in the Forbes list of 400 richest Americans. Mr. Bose and Mr. Shriram, who are now US citizens and worth $ 1.5 billion each, have beaten Robert William Galvin of Motorola, Robert Drayton McLane Jr of Wal-Mart and Roy Edward Disney of Walt Disney. Similarly Murli Kewalram Chanrai, Sudhir Gupta and Kartar Singh Thakral have made it to the Singapore’s richest 40 list compiled again by Forbes list. (Ref. Agencies [Saturday, September 23, 2006], published in Sandesh Bharati, Hong Kong, Vol. IX No.4, Oct / Nov / Dec 2006).

So from a small village view, we have progressed to a worldview. Malaysia, Singapore and Sri Lanka celebrate Deepawali festival with declared government holidays and illuminating main streets. Parliament Houses in Canberra (Australian capital), Sydney, London, Ottawa and the senates House in Washington are lit up and Indian cultural shows are staged on the occasion of Deepawali festival. So much for the clout overseas Indians enjoy in these countries.

---comments welcome

-harsha bhat

for the so called secularists.........

2007-05-30T07:08:00.000-07:00

What Islam Wants: Let's Hear From Pakistan Jamat-e-Islami Leader, Maulana Nabiullah Khan
04 May, 2007

"Jamhooria Islamia", a monthly Baluchi magazine published from Panj-gar, published an interview with Maulana Nawabzadaa Nabiullah Khan, a confidant of and adviser to the Amir of leading Pakistani Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, Maulana Qazi Ahmed, which was conducted by Jalil Amir. The following constitutes are excerpts from that conversation which reveals the fundamentalist ideology and designs of the organisation and its leader .
EQUALITY OF MEN AND WOMEN IS STUPIDITY

Q: The women issue is very controversial nowadays. Taliban and some fundamentalist organizations restrict the freedom of women while some progressive Muslim intellectuals are insisting that the women are equal to men in all spheres. What are Qazi's views on women?

A: As I said earlier, the Prophet Mohammad's (PBUH) views on women are the exact views of Qazi Ahmed and the Jamat. Equality of men and women is stupidity. What men can do, women cannot do. Women are weak physically and mentally compared to men. Men have to take care of women all the time.

WOMEN MUST STAY HOME

Women should not have a life outside the family. Education can be provided to them, but not to compete with men in public.

NO VOTING RIGHTS FOR WOMEN UNDER SHARIA

Qazi had said once that when JI comes to power in Pakistan, he will abolish the voting rights of women and minorities. Only the Muslim men can participate in voting or standing for elections. When I asked the proof from Hadiths, he had quoted many Hadiths in support of that. I asked him why is it that it is never talked about openly in the public by the Jamaat? Qazi had said that the hints are all over the place. But JI did not make it a big issue since the women who currently have the voting rights may vote against JI in the elections if such a thing is said openly.

NON MUSLIMS IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES MUST PAY JIZYA

Q: That brings us to the question of minorities. Will they have to pay Jizya tax?

A: Yes. They have to pay the tax. As explained by Qazi Ahmed , the idea of Jizya is not protection money. But it is a monetary force on the non-Muslim to convert to Islam. Once the Jamaat comes to power, the minorities will be induced (forced) to become Muslims either by monetary or psychological factors.

ALL INDIAN HINDUS WILL BE CONVERTED INTO ISLAM

JI is already equating India with Hindus so that the Hindus of Pakistan will be forced to become Muslims. This was a very successful strategy during the Babri Masjid riots. JI was actively involved in destroying the Hindu temples in Punjab and Sindh. We ordered the destruction of the Hindu family property too. But our main aim was to destroy the Hindu temples. We wrote in the JI pamphlets that destroying each pagan temple makes a Muslim move closer to the heaven of Allah. We used the Hadiths in all the pamphlets. Babar destroyed the Ram temple in Ayodhya because he was a true believer. The same way, every Muslim should take it upon himself to destroy the Hindu temples in Pakistan. O! ur idea was to encourage the Muslims of India also to destroy the Hindu temples in India. But this was not met with much success since the Hindu police in India started attacking the Muslims who were doing Allah's duty.

Q: What kind of government does JI envisage for Pakistan?

A: It will be the Sharia government. Sharia will be made our constitution so that the eminent Muslim scholars who had completed the schooling in Madrasas will be appointed as the Judges in every court. Qazi wanted to make the presidium on the same model as the Khalifa. Presently our idea is that the entire top leadership of JI as well as all three military Generals will be part of the presidium for which the Qazi will be the Khalifa.

OUR MOTTO IS CONSTANT JIHAD

Our motto is "Constant Jihad". The idea is to keep Pakistan in a constant state of Jihad all the time. Qazi's vision is that Pakistan will be! the centre of the new Islamic Empire that stretches from Burma to Afghanistan and from Srilanka to Tajikistan including Kashmir

Towards that end, the Jamaat will use all tactics from terrorism in the kafir-controlled areas to negotiations in the Muslim controlled areas. Already the Jamaat leaders of Bangladesh and Jamaat leaders of India have accepted the primacy of Pakistani leadership in this regard.

SRI LANKA AND BURMA WILL BE PRESSURIZED TO CONVERT TO ISLAM

Q: What about Srilanka and Burma?

A: Both are Buddhist nations. For that matter even Baluchistan and Afghanistan were Buddhist once while Sindh and Punjab were Hindu earlier. Buddhists are generally weaker in matters of faith. Hence we hope they will become Muslim with a little pressure. But that will happen only after Jamaat conquers first Pakistan and then India.

Q: What are the plans for India? It looks like the entire India policy of the Jamaat revolves around Kashmir.

A: Yes that is true. But that is for a very good reason. See Kashmir is like a keystone that sits on top of the arch. It is true that the arch holds the entire weight of the keystone. But if you remove the keystone, then the whole arch falls down. That is why it is called the keystone. Kashmir is the keystone for India. Once you remove that, then India can no longer be secular and it will not be a united country either. Once Kashmir is taken out, these militancy movements will break India by asking the similar freedom for Nagaland, Kerala, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Assam, Jharkand, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Khalistan.

INDIA WILL BE MADE A 100% MUSLIM NATION

Q: Coming back to the same point, if India was to become many countries, how do you deal with the individual Hindu States? They may even become big enemies of Pakistan. Or they may again re-group to challenge Pakistan.

A: Given the differences between the nationalities in India, the options for Pakistan are endless. Qazi's vision is to make the entire India a 100% Muslim Nation. A United India, where Hindus are majority is an impediment to that. Like Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) made Muslims out of pagans of Arabia, Qazi also wants to make Muslims out of the pagans of India.

Q: This is a great vision since this was not even possible for the Muslim dynasties and Moguls who ruled India for the last 700 years.

A: True. That is because they had never really established the Muslim Empire. Though the Kings were Muslims, they had entertained the Hindus in positions of power. When you make an unequivocal statement that only Muslims are voters and declare that India is an Islamic Republic, then automatically the people will become Muslims. Little bit of terror had to be applied to the heart of Hindus and Christians. I will give you a best example. The portions which now constitute Pakistan had 25% Hindu population before Independence.

TERRORIZATION IS THE BEST CONVERSION TOOL

After Independence, a lot of Hindus migrated to India. Yet after the migration, the Pakistani Hindu population was 15%. Do you know what is the percentage now? It is less than 1%. How was this made possible? How did the Hindus convert to Islam in a short span of 20 years whereas for 700 years they had never converted to Islam? That is purely because of the terror of the Partition.

That terror forced the Hindus who remained in Pakistan to become Muslims. Pure and simple. JI used similar techniques in Punjab and Sindh. Each time a riot breaks out in India, we had used that pretext to strike terror among the Hindus, Christians and Ahmaddiahs. The similar terror will be at the heart of every non-Muslim, both Hindu as well as Christian, in the coming years in the entire of India. PRPOHET SUCCEEDED WITH TERROR SO CAN WE Qazi is an analytical genius who knows every strategy that was used by Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and which will be and should be used in India to achieve the total submission to Allah.

Q: Do you envision a possibility that when Kashmir becomes part of Pakistan, there could be large-scale riots in India against Indian Muslims? Hence unwittingly Kashmir could lead to more deaths of Indian Muslims and damage Islamic Ummah.

ANY MUSLIM ASSOCIATING WITH A POLYTHEIST BECOMES A POLYTHEIST

A: Yes that is a possibility. But our ideology is based on Quran and Hadiths. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in numerous Hadiths and Allah in Quran had said that any Muslim who associates with a polytheist is a polytheist. Muslims cannot be friendly with a non-Muslim. This includes the Christians, Jews and Hindus. Also Mohammad (PBUH) says that even if the Muslim ruler is not good, the Muslims stay with the ruler rather than go out to a non-Muslim country. Hadiths and Quran are very explicit regarding this. All the Muslims who did not migrate to Pakistan during Partition are in essence Hindus. They may think that they are Muslims. But not before Allah.

They are as self-deluded as the Ahmaddiahs who think they are Muslims when everyone knows that they are not Muslims. Hence the Muslims of India who had decided to stay in India during Partition are not Muslims and their progeny are not Muslim (since they did not migrate to Muslim lands).

Another thing that I noticed in my journeys in India is that the Hindu farmers generally offer their entire harvest to their gods at the end of their harvesting season. This makes the entire crop as haram for Muslims. Yet these so-called Muslims of India are forced to eat this food which was already offered to some other God other than Allah. This is explicitly forbidden in Quran.

MUSLIMS GOING TO NON MUSLIM COUNTRIES TO SETTLE DOWN ARE KAFIRS

And this is one of the serious problems of living in non-Muslim countries. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) knew such things; that is why he ordered Muslims not to live in non-Muslim areas. Yet knowingly these so-called Muslims live in India. AGAIN ALL THE MUSLIMS WHO MIGRATE TO OTHER NON MUSLIM COUNTRIES AND US ARE NON MUSLIMS . Only the Muslims who intend to come back are Muslims not the ones who decide to stay in such countries. Hence we do not care if such Indian Muslims die in the riots.

But due to strategy reasons we do have excellent relations with these Muslims. All the Muslims who work for Pakistan and for the glory of Ummah are real Muslims. They are our front line troops in non-Muslim countries. Hence we have to distribute the arms and ammunitions to these real Muslims in case riots come to their door.

The Kashmiri Muslims are pure Muslims who are toiling under the yoke of Hindu rule. They are victimized by the international conspiracy to keep them under the Hindu rule. That issue is part of the incomplete Partition, whereas the Indian Muslims have accepted Partition and stayed on in India knowingly.

JAMAT WILL BRING SLAVERY BACK TO PAKISTAN Arabians own slaves. Though Allah says that the slaves should be treated in a nice manner, he did not advocate the abolition of slavery. If slavery is bad as considered in today's world, Allah certainly would have said that slavery is wrong. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) also said that the slaves should be treated in a good manner and the slaves should be released often. But if there is no slavery, how can anyone release slaves? Hence the re-introduction of slavery in Pakistan is one of the future plans of the Jamaat.

ALL CAPTURED HINDUS WILL BE MADE SLAVES

All the captured Hindu Indians and Srilankans will be made slaves to work for Pakistani Muslims. Every God-abiding Pakistani Muslim will get slaves once we conquer India. All the slaves who embrace Islam will be set free. Slavery is Islamic. Jamaat is the only political party, which does not voice any opposition to the slavery in Pakistan. We went around all over Arabia. We were surprised to know that there are some Hindus in Yemen. These ancient Yemeni Hindus are not Indians. In my opinion, these Hindus are traders from India in the ancient times. I was also surprised to know that they have a Shiva temple in Yemen. Qazi was very unhappy over this. When he talked to the Yemen leaders, he broached this subject. But the Yemeni leaders refused Qazi's suggestion of forced conversion of these people to Islam. I don't know why they refused. I think it may be due to the large population of Hindus from India who work in Yemen and Arabia. He disliked the current leadership of Arabia for this reason.

In his opinion, Arabia should not allow any non-Muslim into the holy lands of Arabia. Arabia should be 100% pure. A large number of Hindus in Arabia is corrupting the Arabians. Though they live as contractors, they have the potential to corrupt the minds of the Arabians.

HINDU TEMPLES POLLUTE MUSLIM LANDS

One such thing is the presence of Arabians in the Qatar Hindu temple. First the king allowed the Hindus to build a temple and church in the holy lands, thereby polluting the Holy Land. Second is that even a member of the Royal family visited that temple to inaugurate that temple. To the horror of Qazi, he had learnt that one of the powerful members of the Qatar Royal family is a devotee of a god called Aayappan. This news resolved Qazi to fight the force of the devil thousand fold.

Q: Such things happen in Pakistan today. I mean a friend of mine goes to a Hindu temple. Another friend goes to church meetings.

A: Yes. One of Qazi's relatives wanted to become a Hindu. He did not have a child for many years and it seems he had prayed to a Hindu God and got the child. Hence he felt thankful to that god and wanted to become a Hindu. Qazi got to know of this and called him and threatened him with dire consequences. That relative did not become a Hindu. But that incident made Qazi read more about apostasy.

PUNISHMENT FOR APOSTASY IS DEATH

Quran and Hadith clearly say the punishment for abandonment of Islam is death. Since Sharia is not the law in Pakistan, and the current Pakistani Constitution grants the right to change religion, it is legally correct to declare oneself as Hindu or Christian. But once the JI takes over the government, it will make Sharia as the Constitution. Then Pakistan will also legally execute any person who leaves Islam and joins Ahmaddiah, Christianity or Hinduism the same way Iran and Taliban treats its apostates. He also opined that the presence of the Hindu temples in Pakistan is the root cause of the problem and hence we want to destroy all the Hindu temples and Churches in Pakistan.

Q: This brings us into another area. Right now the Internet is becoming widespread. Even Saudi Arabia is connected with the outside world. Destroying the temples may be good, but how can we insulate the Pakistani and Muslim people against the corrupting knowledge totally?

A: JI had taken a principled stand on the matter of science and religion. Religion is far superior to science.

ALL THE WORLD�S KNOWLEDGE IS IN QURAN AND HADITHS

Whatever man needs to know is in the Quran and Hadiths. Knowing more will create problems like the Atom bomb and Television.

MUSIC TV AND PHOTOGRAPHY ARE SATANIC AND HARAM Quran and Hadiths are explicit in denouncing pictures. Yet the lure of Satan in the form of photography and television is eating our lives.

Music previously was confined only to the vocal singing. Now science and technology made the music widespread at a cheaper price. These are the lures of Satan. We have to be on guard against these harami things.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARE BAD FOR CIVILIZATION

Hence, more science and technology is bad for the civilization. I had completed civil engineering. Hence I am privy to scientific knowledge. I can tell you how corrupting that is. It even makes you question the glorious Quran.

EARTH IS FLAT There are many Hadiths, which say that the earth is flat. But any science will tell you the earth is a sphere. But you can use the same science like the relativity theory to prove that the earth is flat. It is the same case with evolution. But the point being that doubt is sown in the minds of the people on the validity of the Quran as the word of God. More and more we work hard to prove the Quran's scientific correctness, more and more people will get apprehensive of the truth of the Quran. This is an abomination.

WHEN ISLAM TALKS OF GET EDUCATED IT MEANS QURANIC EDUCATION

This is why when we talk of education, we talk of religious education and not scientific education.

It is true that science grew after the Prophet's revolution in Arabia. That was the start of science. Now each and every science is filled with anti-god stuff. If you want to become a doctor, you have to read evolution. If you have to read any engineering, you have to believe in the billions of years old universe theory which effectively says that human beings came to the world only just one or two million years back.

Q: But we still need the arms and knowledge of the Western world, which believes in science. And again you had referred to television as evil. If we abolish photography how can we have passports or identification cards?

A: Yes. That is strategic. With the help of Allah, we will be given oil for them to run their cars and we will have arms in that place. We will use their arms to destroy them in the course of time.

PHOTOGRAPHY WILL BE BANNED UNDER JI

As far as photos are concerned, they will be banned as it was done in Afghanistan under Taliban. If there is no need for people to go out of Pakistan, where is the need for the passports? For those who have to travel to other countries like the leaders of the revolution, they only will be given the passport with photos. For that, we will allow limited photography licensed only to the government. And the biggest corruption in today's Pakistan is Indian satellite TV and Indian cinemas and Indian songs. We have to abolish these too.

ARABIC WILL BE MADE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF PAKISTAN

Q: Currently we have a lot of opposition from Mohajirs regarding reservations. What kind of reservation policy will the JI will have in Pakistan?

A: We approach that problem as the problem of language. Urdu-speaking Muslims and Sindhi-speaking Muslims are fighting now. We plan to abolish all the regional languages like Pashto, Sindhi, Baluchi, Urdu, Punjabi and Brahvi. We want all the people of Pakistan to speak Arabic which is our divine language. This will make everyone equal before everyone else and there would not be any need for language or region based reservations. We also hope that this will make the Quran and Hadiths easier to understand and will make the people follow the Quran and Hadiths to the letter.

Q: There could be language riots. One such language riot resulted in Bangladesh.

A: Bangladesh was not a result of language riot. The very idea that they are Muslims will bring the Bangladeshis to Arabic. We already fund heavily the Arabic language courses all over India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. From Morocco to Iraq speaks in Arabic, I don't see any reason why from Morocco to Burma we will not bring Arabic to the people. Even Bangladesh will start speaking in Arabic. That time there won't be any Bangladesh where the country name itself has the name of the language. Yes. Right now our aim is just for reunification without touching on the language issue of Bengali. JI of Bangladesh is working towards this aim.

Q: The secular journalists of Pakistan oppose the JI. For example the Dawn and News are very critical of the JI. How do you see their role in the future?

A: Ardheshir Cowasjee is able to work only because of the present Constitution of Pakistan. When Sharia becomes the Constitution, he cannot even approach the court, as he is a kafir. We see secular journalists as our main enemy in the current struggle to reach power. These secular journalists are digging our statements we made during the pre-Independence days and trying to beat us. Of course we opposed the creation of Pakistan during the British times. But that was a different Jamaat. Our history starts with Independence.

SECULARS ARE KAFIRS

Secular journalists are not Muslims even though some of them are carrying Muslim names. Let them come to us and let us ask questions on the Quran and Hadiths. We will prove each and every thing we say is from Quran and Hadiths. Let them prove what we say as wrong from the Quranic angle. Then we will accept them. But they cannot. They cannot match us in any debate concerning the Quran and Hadiths. We can comprehensively prove that they are indeed non-Muslims.! They are like Quadianis who say that the Muslim need not take up Jihad as an obligation. That is pure nonsense.

Q: Thanks for your time.

A: May Allah's blessings be with you.

---well nothing left to say......think...think
---courtesy:-islam watch website...

"and the World Cup goes to........."-- not a thrill anymore

2007-05-03T06:57:00.000-07:00

Ahhhhhhhhh…..bored of OZ monopoly in cricket….oh come on….nothin is impossible in this world… if this is true why are the aussies unbeatable in cricket????
It’s not good for the game…..monopoly of a single team for over 12 years!!!!!! 3 world cups in succession is terrible….!!!! And four consecutive WC final matches is terrible again……
I’m getting bored of cricket(as if I was interested before….lolzzzzz)…
I got an interesting sms and ofcourse very near to reality…..
ICC is simply wasting its money on cricket…next WCs will have a grand opening ceremony and the next stage is the presentation ceremony of WC to OZs….!!!!!
A thing to be thought of.!!!!! Somebody pls mail icc officials to implement this…..
A big fuss on icc WC will be gone……..

And many more advantages v can see……..as u know WC always comes during exams..
So that simply means v r screwing up our exams for an international event (and v have a solid reason for that….exams come every year….where as WC is a once in four year guest…so more preference obviously!!!)

One thing…aren’t the OZs bored of handling the same WC everytime????ah…come on ponting….enough…..
But if one ponting goes there r 100 more pontings pointing to his position…..
Wats wrong with other teams????
Come on….
Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

-a frustrated soul…..

ONE YEAR OF BLOGGING EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!

2007-05-02T11:06:00.000-07:00

Ok…here I’m growing up in the world of blogging………how it all started????
Hmmmm…actually I donno….thought of blogging and so I started….
Last year saree day was the day I started it…this yr saree day is over and I’m 1 year young in the world of blog…

Ok…many things happened,…many things I shared with u guys…got some comments…some went uncommented….some shared my happiness with the world and some expressed my fury n anger…..

But thanx to all my readers and I celebrated 1st yr of my blogging by eatin my favourite chocolate cake!!!!me n my blog and nobody was ther to celebrate……!!!!! But I enjoyed it…
Hope my blogging will go on nd on nd on……hopefully……
I’m waiting for new topics…..i’m waiting for my mind to think nd feel something….
Or may be I’m waiting for my life and my time to run faster so that I travel more in my life and can blog more…..
But…
I don’t clogging while blogging…
So I blog only when I feel like sharing something with the world….not any other time…

Ok that’s it…
Cheers ………a champagne popped in the name of my blogs………cheers…..

INDIA WINS THE GAME....BUT INDIANS LOSE IT......:

2007-02-17T23:32:00.000-08:00

ah...what a match!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
india v/s srilanka...17/2/2007.....
india wins the toss and elects to fiels.....indeed,a gr8 decision by dravid....

the bugle blows and the blue brigade battles......it battles and battles...the lankan lions appear lean
and lazy before the lavishing indians....
as the captain of lankan team said after losing to india...."we were bad @ everything except silva's batting"
that was the indian efficiency...that was the indian confidence...and that...that was the zeal and enthusiasm of the indians...

each one of them tried to give their 100% every single time...and..they succeeded....

in batting india shined.....uthappa..sehwag(he was taught a lesson for being lazy!!! it costed him his wicket when he was in full form and appeared more responsible cricketer..)
i was literally wonderstuck....is this the same indian team?????

finally after a astonishing knock by yuvraj.....and a superb partnership by dada and yuvi..india emerges victorious!!!!
till now i was really happy.......
but.....

later lookin @ the crowd..i concluded that v have lost the game.....
excited crowd expressed their joy and happiness at the cost of our international image!!!!
what will the international delegates and the players and the ICC think of the crowd??
the heights of insanity v showed really made me feel.......that it was better if v lost the game....
or.....who knows.....in a dull and enraged mood the crowd might have spoiled the ground and instead of
bottles chairs might have hit the ground.........
oh god......when wil this bloody indian mentality change?
an indian who is in USA or UK is most dignified...he never spits...he never parks the
car wherever he wants...he never feels lke offerin bribe to the officer who catches and penalises him...
but the moment he reaches india...his mouth itches and he spits on the streets.....
he parks in no parking and bribes the police who penalises him......y indians..y?

the same mentality was of the crowd who were in the match.........oh come on......if v won....rejoice....celebrate....
sing aloud...dance till the earth shakes......make ur music systems sing till the speakers burst out...
or even go n worship ur players........who cares....
but throwin the waste bottles is certainly not the way....
come on india......
its high time to change ur mentality...
the spot light is on india now....whole world is lookin towards us.....v r leading the way....
v r leaders in almost everything....
then y cant v be leaders in real sportsmanship and real discipline?????
think...think......

-harsha

GOA.........a nice place to live............

2007-02-01T10:33:00.000-08:00

11th jan to 13th jan.........my diary saw my happiest face...and....a 70 mm binaca smile...

"amidst the sea.......blessed by sun....we r at the mercy of waves"

"we stayed at my uncle's farm house........ah.....awesome place to live!!!!"

"if they r the companions....who wants to come back???....goa...an awesome place to live...."

"bliss of solitude.........thats y i se....goa..an aewsome place to live"

"me n shishir...about to fly high....about to reach the sky......ah awesome place to live.....!!!!!"

"i know i'm sexy.....!!if guys r so sexy...hey gals.....it's an awesome place to live!!!"

"2 similies meet.......ocean and me!!!!!!ahhhh....goa..an awesome place to live..."

"i can wait here till my last breath.....!!!goa...an awesome place to live!!!"

...........................
oh...cant 4gt those days..............3 days......worth a life!!!!!!!!!!!

GOA........AN AWESOME PLACE TO LIVE............

DHOOM FUMED MY MIND!!!!!!!!!!

2006-11-28T00:57:00.000-08:00

hi all,,......

I’m back wid a confused mind.........after watchin dhoom-2….

Ok…ok…..now let me tel u how v planned it and how excited we were and how we bought tickets……….and lastly how everything went in vain!!!!!!!!!

I’d rather call it “THE TRAGIC STORY OF D:2”

The whole cult team met @ the bakery for 4 days and decided to DHOOM after the exams!!! (Yes…our exams r going on now…) a meetin @ our usual spot and then 8 of us vrooooooomed rather dhooooomed to the theatre @ 11am!!!!!!!!!and that was to book the tickets for 3pm show!!!!!!! We were in need of 23 tickets and looking @ the queue v had almost dropped our plans and decided to droop back……..

But…….

We somehow managed to get 13 tickets and the counter closed…….and remaining tickets in black…..(we were like….anything for DHOOM………!!!!)

We were back home and sharp @ 2:15 we al were there in the theatre premises…….

(never in the 3 yrs of engg life I came early to the class…..but dhoom was something more than the borin lectures….as I thot it b4 the movie!!!!!)

v entered the theatre and …………..

it began…………abhishek bachchan jumps outta water while he’s on the “patpati”(as uday chopra calls it….)…me nd megha started rolling on the floor…..i mean…..wtf?

it dint stop there……..whole of the movie u get to find many such things….

While stealing the diamond the image of the diamond is created….it was like watchin some rajanikanth movie….(I think everybody knows the Newton-rajnikanth mail !!!)

Hrithik escapes into the manhole and jumps outta another manhole….along with him the gutter water splashes out….my mouth fell open…WHAT A FART!!!!!! He blew himself up!!!!! And the chase scene……..on his skates hrithik is faster than hayabusa that too without accelerator his skates vroom out….Suzuki people would have sued him for that……and the magnetic field in his hands makes him move even more faster!!!!it also helps him climb bus and buildings…..if I get one of such things my HOD will be the happiest man on earth…I’ll never be late to classes…..!!!!!! 8am…..the siren goes and I take my skates and activate magnetic field and aaaaaaahhhhhhh…….m standin before the class door!!!!!!

And when security catches hrithik after they steal the sword……….. from where did hrithik come flying to save aishwarya??????!!!!!!!!what were the police doing?

Aish’s acting????????yuck….puke puke puke…..blend of over acting served hot with least dressing!!!!!!!

Many more questions u find in dhoom 2…….and solutions!!!!!!!!ah…exams r nearing…so m talking all about quest and answers!!!!

After the movie I remembered one saying…..”if u cant convince them confuse them…..if u cant beat them join them!!!!”

The director has followed the first line effectively……..

So that was dhoom 2………

-harsha.bhat

a speech which makes every hindu proud of himself......

2006-11-06T22:07:00.000-08:00

hi all....this is the speech given by swami vivekananda at the world summit of religions in 1893, sept 11.......in CHICAGO..........
really inspiring....

Sisters and Brothers of America,

It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name of the most ancient order of monks in the world; I thank you in the name of the mother of religions, and I thank you in the name of millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects.

My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may well claim the honor of bearing to different lands the idea of toleration. I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny. I am proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is still fostering the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian nation. I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have repeated from my earliest boyhood, which is every day repeated by millions of human beings: "As the different streams having their sources in different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee."

The present convention, which is one of the most august assemblies ever held, is in itself a vindication, a declaration to the world of the wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita: "Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me." Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now. But their time is come; and I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.

so from now onwards "garv se kaho hum hindu hai"

-harsha.bhat

DHAMAKEDAAR DIWALI........

2006-10-30T01:44:00.000-08:00

HI ALL.............THIS IS HOW MY DIWALI WAS........

This diwali was decided to be celebrated at my native…and so from dharwad me n my bro left for dodnalli(dodnalli is the name of my place….@ sirsi….a small village with lots of loving hearts…..and it doesn’t mean its name…..it’s not at all doddda(= big)…..donno who named it so!!!!)

On the morning of diwali (Sunday the 22nd) we 3…aha don’t worry…. no witch or geists there…its me, my bro and my wife!!!!!aaaaaaahhhhhhhh my wife is my pulsar….cool….sexy….though she’s jet black in colour…….oh….where was i….? Ok…. we 3 left for dodnalli at 6am!!!! A time which I hardly happen to see…. sun was still in a slumber party and the cool breeze was refrigerating me…and without sweaters or wind cheaters, the wind will cheat u…!!!! for about 10 kms the road was ok, the atmosphere was chill and clear. But later on the Indian roads started cursing me…my wife literally started to screw me up….she threw me up every 2nd minute and me and my bro adjusted ourselves on her!!!! But finally a ray of hope……..i saw NH63 nearing and my wife gained power and vrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom

………….60kmph……..80kmph…….100kmph and finally 110 kmph…oh….i felt like valentine rossi for a while!!!…..we were too fast too furious………..but then there was another interrupt………as we entered the “malenaadu” area….dense dew reduced our speed.. I could hardly see anything even with the headlights!!!!3 mtrs was the range of my sight…..it was a DEWali for us!!!!! But finally after a journey of 4 hours(it’s only 130 kms from dharwad) we reached dodnalli……

Oh…my home….all decorated with colourful rangolis and doors with mango leaves…..we felt a feel of festival……there in sirsi and nearby places diwali is all about worshipping cows(“gopooja”) and of course the weapons and machines. So my wife was cleaned and she was all ready for her day!!!

After a long gap I saw crackers and enjoyed rockets and sur-sur bathis…..and also some blasters…….all lights……all bright…….all pooja and sweets…..new dresses….decoration…..fun……enjoyment……!!!!!!!!!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh why is everyday not diwali?????

The whole family of ours was there….all of them singing dancing and shouting…..
No vehicles….no pollution…no cell phones……no calls…..no books….100% pure enjoyment…..
But….but…but…wait…….

Another 48 hours and i would be a rocket!!!!!!!! Guess why…? ?????? my ass would be on fire…….’coz Thursday college starts and internals!!!!!!!! Omg……but who cares…..
Diwali is diwali…….no exam…no war can steal the fun of diwali from me…….
But sure to flunk(less than 9) in internals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And finally on the last day of diwali there in sirsi we send BALI maharaja (one who was buried by vaamana..) and shout “DUPPADA DUPPADA DIWAALYO….NAALE BARUVADU HAALABBA”(only BALI knows what it means!!!!..............

So Mr.BALI I’m waiting for your next year visit……………oh my gosh……..my internals!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I gotta study…….
Bye all
-Harsha.Bhat

FIESTA-spring fest is back with a new name and naya andaaz....!!!

2006-10-09T07:45:00.000-07:00

hi aaaaaaaaallllllllllll

i'm back with a rejoicing mood......or else in a "fiesta" mood....
ok...come with me....lets go n fiestaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!......................

ok..ok lemme tell u what FIESTA is.......
spring fest, the cultural fest of sdmcet is back again.... not in spring but now!!!!!

so the thinkers started to think.....and we acted upon it.....and came out the new name....with a naya andaaz.........and we clled it..............(drum roll).............."FIESTA"........

it justifies its name......the temperature rises....everybody is enthrilled.....blood gushing with xtra speed......tensed participants.........enjoying crowd........superb hosts........and finally the winner is................S.D.M.C.E.T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

categorised under 5 major categories......music, literature, fine arts, dance and dramatics..................the 30+ events being held gives a gr8 chance to show what u r.....what all u can do......whats that "xtra" thing in u other than a heavy technical brain...........
FIESTA answers it..........
so come on guys.........what r u waiting for?
enter the FIESTA.............
WARNING: an extremely enjoyable event......not for grim faces......and faint hearts...

so....bye bye books.....bye bye labs.........its the time to FIESTAAAAAAAAAAAA.....

waiting for u........
-Harsha.Bhat

will the real book worm pls read this????

2006-10-03T00:35:00.000-07:00

hey all the species holding massive books in ur hand.....this is specially for u.......
come outta technical world...
now a days all that u need is this....
come on..read it...

Not only our technical knowledge helps, but also the presence of mind
and the right answer at right time.

Even if u don't know the answer for a question just confuse the
questioner
Question and the Answer given by Candidates oh sorry they are IAS
Officers now.

> Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking
it?
> A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)

> Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it
take four men to build it?
> A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)

> Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four
apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
> A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)

> Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
> A. It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with
one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)

> Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
> A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)

> Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
> A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)

> Q. What looks like half apple ?
> A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )

> Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
> A : Dinner.

> Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
> A : It caused a revolution.

> Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
> A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank ) Interviewer said "I shall either ask you
ten easy questions or one really difficult question.
Think well before you make up your mind!" The boy thought for a while
and said, "my choice is one really difficult question."

"Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me
this.
"What comes first, Day or Night?"

> The boy was jolted into reality as his admission
depends on the correctness of his answer, but he thought for a while
andsaid, "It's the DAY sir!" "How" the interviewer asked,
"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult
question!" He was selected for IIM!

*"Technical Skill is the mastery of complexity, while Creativity is
themaster of presence of mind"

--
"START BY DOING WHAT'S NECESSARY, THEN WHAT'S POSSIBLE, & SUDDENDLY YOU ARE DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE"

I WAS BORN INTELLIGENT...BUT....EDUCATION RUINED ME....

2006-09-25T02:42:00.000-07:00

hey.....v all r proud to be educated(so called literates) right??????
just take ur time to read this........

Lord McCaulay - A British writer, historian and Parliamentarian, responsible for making the choice of Modern English Education for Indians stated in his speech of 1835 at British Parliament.

"I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen
one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this
country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we
would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this
nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose
that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if
the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than
their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and
they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation".

-Lord McCaulay in his speech of Feb 2, 1835, British Parliament ..........

dear frnds....

a cultured illeterate is better than a McCaulay's literate....
so lets be real literates as said by swamy vivekananda....

v r all indians by colour and british by thoughts and actions.....
no...we wont let it happen...
mother india cant be a slave again....

lets sing in unison...sar kata sakte hain lekin sar jhuka sakte nahin
VANDE MATARAM

-harsha

open for comments.....

VANDE MATARAM-the song which shook the british empire....

2006-09-11T23:00:00.000-07:00

HI ALL...............'M BACK AGAIN WITH A SERIOUS TOPIC....

Friends,
At a time when there is a doubt about singing Our National Song, let us remember the different spirit with which our Bretherns at the time of National Independence Movement, had used our traditions and Cultural events. Remember, the festival of Rakhi was used as a sign of Hindu Muslim Unity when the British wanted to divide the United Bengal – and they had to withdraw the decision.
Similarly the song – Vande Mataram is just not a tribute to the Nation in the form of Mother but also a tribute to the people who felt like the way they felt, got motivated to sacrifice everything for the cause of Independence – SO THAT You and ME CAN HAVE A COMFORTABLE LIFE.
DO WE HAVE NO REGARDS FOR THEIR SENTIMENTS?
IF WE AS INDIANS HAVE REGARDS THEN WHY CAN'T WE SING THE ENTIRE SONG?

I LOVE MY NATION AND WORSHIP THOSE GREAT FREEDOMFIGHTERS AS NONE LESS THEN SAINTS FOR THEY CARED FOR OTHERS AND NOT FOR THEMSELVES. – A LANGUAGE THAT WE DON'T UNDERSTAND.
VANDE MATARAM IS THE POWERFUL CHANT WHICH ENLIGHTENED LACS OF FREEDOM FIGHTERS....
IT INSPIRED ALL OF THEM TO GIVE THEIR LIVES AND TAKE LIVES OF ENEMIES FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR MOTHER...
IT WORSHIPS BHARAT MATA AS THE ALL POWERFUL MOTHER....
IT IS THE SONG WHICH EACH AND EVERY PATRIOT WANTS TO LISTEN...ALL DAY ALL NIGHT..
IT IS THE SONG WHICH LITS EVERY HEART WITH A FIRE OF PATRIOTISM......
THIS IS THE BEST WAY OF INTRODUCING OUR MOTHERLAND TO ANYBODY..........
AND THATS WHY TILL TODAY ANY PATRIOT WILL GET MESMERISED WHEN HE LISTENS TO VANDE MATARAM........

BUT...

*WHY IS IT THAT SOME INSTITUTIONS ARE NOT READY TO SING THE SONGS?????
LET ME BE CLEAR........
*WHY SOME MADARASAS AND SOME CHRISTIAN LED INSTITUTIONS REFUSED TO SING VANDE MATARAM???

*WHY THERE WERE RIOTS OPPOSING THE SONG?

are they not the sons of this soil? if yes then y cant they sing this song?
why do you say it hurts the RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS? in what way does your religion objects u people being patriots?????

if, for you your religion comes first and then the motherland then u dont deserve to be in any nation mapped on the globe........
shame on your part...
u insulted lacs and lacs of patriots....
their holy blood....
my dear opposers let me make it clear to u that today u r in free india.....
breathing the clear air of freedom just because of their sacrifice....
and it's ur prime duty to respect them......
shame on ur part...
shame on u.....

Here is the Full song written by Shri Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and the English Translation of the Same by
Rishi Aurobindo. –

"Vande maataraM
sujalaaM suphalaaM malayaja shiitalaaM
SasyashyaamalaaM maataram ||

Shubhrajyotsnaa pulakitayaaminiiM
pullakusumita drumadala shobhiniiM
suhaasiniiM sumadhura bhaashhiNiiM
sukhadaaM varadaaM maataraM ||

Koti koti kantha kalakalaninaada karaale
koti koti bhujai.rdhR^itakharakaravaale
abalaa keno maa eto bale
bahubaladhaariNiiM namaami taariNiiM
ripudalavaariNiiM maataraM ||

Tumi vidyaa tumi dharma
tumi hR^idi tumi marma
tvaM hi praaNaaH shariire

Baahute tumi maa shakti
hR^idaye tumi maa bhakti
tomaara i pratimaa gaDi
mandire mandire ||

TvaM hi durgaa dashapraharaNadhaariNii
kamalaa kamaladala vihaariNii
vaaNii vidyaadaayinii namaami tvaaM
Namaami kamalaaM amalaaM atulaaM
SujalaaM suphalaaM maataraM ||

ShyaamalaaM saralaaM susmitaaM bhuushhitaaM
DharaNiiM bharaNiiM maataraM |"

Translation by Shree Aurobindo

Mother, I bow to thee!
Rich with thy hurrying streams,
bright with orchard gleams,
Cool with thy winds of delight,
Dark fields waving Mother of might,
Mother free.
Glory of moonlight dreams,
Over thy branches and lordly streams,
Clad in thy blossoming trees,
Mother, giver of ease
Laughing low and sweet!
Mother I kiss thy feet,
Speaker sweet and low!
Mother, to thee I bow.

Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands
When the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands
And seventy million voices roar
Thy dreadful name from shore to shore?
With many strengths who art mighty and stored,
To thee I call Mother and Lord!
Though who savest, arise and save!
To her I cry who ever her foeman drove
Back from plain and Sea
And shook herself free.

Thou art wisdom, thou art law,
Thou art heart, our soul, our breath
Though art love divine, the awe
In our hearts that conquers death.
Thine the strength that nervs the arm,
Thine the beauty, thine the charm.
Every image made divine
In our temples is but thine.

Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,
With her hands that strike and her
swords of sheen,
Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,
And the Muse a hundred-toned,
Pure and perfect without peer,
Mother lend thine ear,
Rich with thy hurrying streams,
Bright with thy orchard gleems,
Dark of hue O candid-fair
In thy soul, with jewelled hair
And thy glorious smile divine,
Lovilest of all earthly lands,
Showering wealth from well-stored hands!
Mother, mother mine!
Mother sweet, I bow to thee,
Mother great and free!

VANDE MATARAM

-harsha.bhat

SRI GURUJI

2006-08-28T23:00:00.000-07:00

M.S.Golwalkar

Introduction

He was well known as 'Guru' throughout Bharat, and was the second Sarsangh- chalak of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh. His life was wholly dedicated to the service of Motherland. Pure like fire, tender like a flower, his was a personality lofty like the Himalayas. He was a great leader with indomitable courage and a sharp intellect.

Author - Rasika Puttige

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M.S. Golwalkar

'Guru' is a name familiar to all. Guru was the second Sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh. His full name was Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar.

His was an impressive personality: dignified gait; a long flowing beard reaching down to his chest; curly locks of hair touching the shoulders; a face luminous with innate intellect and learning. His was an inspiring presence. It aroused instant reverence. Whoever saw him spontaneously folded their hands and bowed their heads. Such was Guru.

He instilled patriotism in the hearts of millions of youths of the country. He explained to them the Hindu way of life and philosophy in simple words. Like a true friend, he shared in the joys and sorrows of his countrymen. He molded them into Effective instruments for the worship of Bharat Mata as her worthy children.

He demonstrated that strength derives from organization. He traveled untiringly through the length and breadth of the country almost a hundred times during the 33 years of his glorious tenure as Sarsanghchalak, kindling in the society the immortal flame of enduring love for the Motherland.

He had scaled the highest levels of spirituality through his intense austerity and perseverance. By constant study and reflection he had become a veritable treasure of knowledge. He was a voracious reader even as a boy. He avidly read whatever books he could lay his hands on, from childhood through youth. Several are the disciplines in which he had acquired commendable mastery - History, Art, Religion, Culture, Sciences, Sociology and Economics, to name a few; and he dedicated all his stupendous intellectual faculties to the service of the country. He vastly expanded the network of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh in multiple directions, and inspired and guided thousands of efficient dedicated workers spread throughout the country.
...............................................................................................

-HARSHA.BHAT

S.D.M.C.E.T.............beauty of the beauties.......

2006-08-26T01:26:00.000-07:00

OK...HERE SHE IS ........STANDING QUIETLY IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF DHARWAD..........
BIG...BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS..........AND JOYOUS STUDENTS.......MERRY PROFS...........AND THIS IS, NO DOUBT,AN ARCHITECTURAL WONDER................
YES...........THIS IS SDMCET....MY ALMAMATER............................
I LOVE IT......

BANGLA CRESCENT........."SAVE ME" CRIES MOTHER INDIA...........:

2006-08-17T04:08:00.000-07:00

BANGLADESH INFILTRATION:

First of all let me request you all to take enough time to read this mail and analyze the present situation of our nation. If you care for our nation then you will definitely be shocked after reading this mail.

"Bangladesh is a venomous snake.. Never feed it with milk" said M.S.Golwalkar, famous as Sri Guruji. Then we ignored him but today we can see the 'rudra taandava' of the Bangla infiltrators. According to reports there are about 3 crore bangla infiltrators in this country. They are spread all over the country. This is supported by the govt of Bangladesh. In Bangla there are several govt run institutions where they teach Assamese, Manipuri, Hindi and other Indian languages to the infiltrators and send them into our nation.

You will be surprised to see that there is no fencing at the I.B(International Border). Anyone can easily walk without any fear into our nation and nobody can ask. The infiltrators are provided with ration cards and voters id for 1500 rupees(it's obvious that our pig headed pretty politicians do it for their votes...). So all that you have to spend is 1500 rupees to become a voting citizen of India. Surprisingly our so-called netas provide them with their identity proofs. Clearly for the fact that the infiltrators are the big vote bank for them. In the purvanchal(assam,meghalaya,sikkim,etc.....also called the 9 sisters..) states its their votes which decides the ruler. So days are not far when we'll find one infiltrators in our parliament. In Delhi alone there are 13 lakh Bangladeshis!!!!!!(believe it or not.....call axn people...).

All the Bangladeshis are sent inside for the cause of jihad (Muslim holy war). On an average each Bangla infiltrator saves and sends 30 rupees per day to Bangladesh for the cause of jihad. We can find masjids and madrasaas exactly on the I.B..(again axn....i mean what i say...u can check it out in the cd i have!!!) When asked about caphirs and jihad, a 6 year old child says "jihad is a holy war against caphirs (non-muslims or the people who don't follow allah and prophet muhammed)…caphirs are to be killed mercilessly so that the one who kills will get jannat(heaven) for his deed." At such a tender age they are taught about how to kill and who is to be killed. When they grow up they attack the parliament, they kill innocent people in Kashmir valley, they attack raghunath mandir, they attack akshardham mandir, they attack ayodhya mandir, they attack Indian Institute of Science, they attack Mumbai, they blast the streets of Delhi,they attack RSS head quarters,they attack me, they attack you,and they attack our society and our economy....so mother india cries......

Is there an end for this?????? I say YES……ask a question to yourself…who changed this nation????? No doubt the answer is youth.to quote a few names.... Bhagat.singh, Azad, Swami Vivekananda, Madan lal dhingra, Ram prasad Bismill. Not only in one field but wherever you go the changes are brought about by the youth. So now the responsibility of saving the nation is on our shoulders. Let us do it. Let us take the nation to the height of prosperity.

If you feel this is forwarding please do it. Let us pass this message to all the youth community. Let there be awareness among the youth. Else we are heading towards the DEAD END…

waiting for ur comments..............

harsha bhat

P.S: I HAVE THE CD REVEALING THE BANGLA PLOT TO CONQUER INDIA.........FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME FOR THE CD....:

BOOK REVIEW: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS........

2006-08-16T01:01:00.000-07:00

Around the World in 80 days
Author: Jules Verne

THINK FRNDS THINK...........AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
M LOVIN IT..........

Can you travel around the world in eighty days?
Ofcourse why not!
But if you were challenged to travel, all the distance only on steamers and trains, would you go in for such a bet?
Well, what about the delay due to various reasons, including those due to bad weather and accidents?
Difficult isn’t it, to put your money. But the main character of Jules Verne’s “Around the world in 80 days”, Phileas Fogg, is said to have done that, way back in 1872.
"Around the world in 80 days” is all about the journey of Phileas Fogg, across the world. Through this "journey", the author tries to capture the landscapes, the people and the culture, across vast parts of the world, through the eyes of an English traveler. This notional journey around the world also depicts the challenges and rewards of the greater journey of life.
The book reflects the attitudes of the Englishman, mostly of the nineteenth century, towards the world. The remarks made about India and the Indians in this book are a mixture of racist bias and superiority complex, which has been often called as the "White mas's burden". This review attempts to point out these baises, without making injustice to the literary part of this work.

The main character, as you know, is Phileas Fogg, an Englishman and a Londoner. He is a thorough “gentlemen” and his manners are “English” enough for every Englishman to be proud of. He was a member of the "Reform club", where he used to spend most of his time. It was during an evening at the Reform, where in a casual colloquy about a bank robbery, that Mr Fogg got into a bet of traveling across the world in just 80 days. His friends at the Reform believed that his estimation was just mathematical, and that eighty days were just not enough. An amount of twenty thousand pounds was put at stake from both sides.

Phileas Fogg got off to a start that very night, with his French servant named Passepartout and with a huge amount of cash with him. Two more people were to join him later in his journey, serendipitously at different places. The first of them was a detective named Fix. He follows Mr Fogg, throughout his journey, in an attempt to arrest him, mistaking him for the person who had swindled off the money from the Bank of England. Fix is behind Phileas Fogg, from the time the steamer, in which the two were traveling, reaches Suez. The detective tries in vain to stop or delay them there, so that he can get the warrant issued from London. But he is determined to arrest Fogg who he believes is escaping to a safe haven. Later, on reaching Bombay too, he tries to put hurdles to delay their journey, but does’nt quite succeed in that.

The journey across the landscapes of India, where Mr Fogg and his servant travel from Bombay to Calcutta by a train is described truly in an English perspective. Although, greenery of the plains has found considerable admiration from the author, the culture and the customs have been seen from the glasses of a Westerner. The India that they knew and that they saw is all about "Elephant riders"," snake charmers", "the cold blooded thugees"," the fanatic fakirs" and the "wretched people". The author seems to be carrying that 'White man's burden' on his shoulder, of 'uplifting' the 'uncivilized' and 'wretched' people of this land.

The train journey from Bombay to Calcutta has a break of a few hundred miles near Allahabad, where the train line is yet under construction. This is the most significant part of their journey, which they travel on an elephant. During this, they courageously rescue a Parsi woman named Aouda, who is being readied for Sutte. She is beautiful and although Indian, she is “civilized” with English manners because of her English education. They take her along with them, so that she could go to a relative of hers at Hong Kong. But at Hong Kong, they don’t find the relative, and hence she proceeds with Mr Fogg on the journey.

Meanwhile, Fix tries to put all kinds of obstacles both legally and by trickery, to their journey. He does not want them to cross the English territory, for after that, arresting the 'culprit' would be a more complicated process, involving extradition. But all these challenges and others caused by nature too, are handled by Fogg, with a great amount of shrewdness. In the face of the greatest challenges too, he does not loose his composure. He puts in, enough money to deal with each of these problems. And to the frustration of the detective, the trio, led by Fogg, cross over to the American continent. Fix, changes his approach and now tries to help Fogg in his journey, so that he could be arrested back on the English soil.

Americans too, are seen with an air of English superiority, as reckless and violent. Then there are the “Indians and the beasts” that mercilessly attack innocent travelers on the trains. There is also the tyrannical fanatic cult, the Mormonists.

The end though of this journey is more thrilling than the last ball of Lagan. Fogg tries hard, but reaches five minutes late, only to realize that he gained a day by traveling to the east, across the world. After the journey though, he has almost spent, as much as he wins in the bet. So he has gained nothing at all from the journey across the world, but for Aouda, who later marries him. The author asks “ Truly, would you not for less than that, make the tour around the world?”.

COURTESY : NIHAR ANNA..............

MY FIRST SHARE TRADE......!!!!!!!

2006-08-03T03:32:00.000-07:00

HI ALL...........
King is back after a loooooooong break.......

But this time with a real interesting and funny story of my great loss in SHARE TRADING...!!!!

Ok…ok…..
Now let me start with this interesting story………I entered the share market today!!!!!!!
It’s really a gr8 experience so thought of sharing it with u all…….

Okey……….what’s this share market???? Is the BIG Q……….well, infact, I don’t know….!! But I’m trying and struggling hard to learn it in detail….. I was told its something magical but today I realized it……..oh……..so much of tension……I was staring at zee business and saw that ranbaxy labs’ shares are jumping and trying to kiss the sky……so I purchased some shares of it (I wont disclose how many ‘coz the number of shares is too low!!!)……..then began the real excitement…..blood pressure went as high as the share value and I was connected to the net the whole day.….and I felt as if the lady in zee business was talking to me continuously…..giving me the updates of ranbaxy…….
I purchased them for 392.70 per share and the graph started to rise……393……..395………and within half an hour it was almost close to 399………I was jumping with joy and my reverie started………
Earning lakhs and lakhs and my bank acc full of market money……..a zee ad fuelled my reverie telling that they are the most trustworthy channel and how a 16 yr boy was earning millions a day….!!!!!!! Believe me they showed it in such a manner that I trusted them and I thought I would be the next person whom they would shoot (camera shooting not the gun shooting….)………

By then my share value had reached 400 and then I don’t know who laid a weight on the arrow pointer…….the share started to fall……..it fell…..fell……….fell……..and was inversely proportional to my blood pressure!!!!!
I called my brother twice and messaged him many a times and asked him whether to keep the shares or sell them off???????
But he asked me to retain them………..
Then came down the share value and never glanced up!!!!!!
By the end of the day it stopped at 389…….!!!!!! I’m hitting myself for not having sold my shares when it reached 400…..:-(
But its ok………day started with a value of 380 and closed at 389…………so not bad.
So in a couple of days I can expect a profit!!!!!!
So this was my first share trade…..
But was really thrilling……I’m lovin it(oh ya…even McDonalds is in share market and was a day loser.!!!!!)
Ok………now another scape goat enters the DALAL STREET!!!!! Lets c whether I’ll win or lose…..
Wish me all the best…….
and will visit soon

take care....
HARSHA BHAT (the share trader!!!!!!!!)
pls dont laugh........

SIDHUISMS!!!!!!!

2006-06-12T01:55:00.000-07:00

ever heard Navjot Singh Sidhu commentating? if not then u've missed something big!!! the similising technique he uses while commentating has become so famous in the world that they are now called SIDHUISMS!!!
Full of similes, power packed voice and a strong punching usage of English will blow u away....
Thats why sidhuisms are "as famous as a dharwad pedha"(haha...that was a harsha-ism!!!)...and they come out "as quick as a bullet from an ak-56"(ahem!!! another harsha-ism!!!).....
so i dedicate this blog to NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU.........
HAIL SIDHU-HAIL SIDHUISMS!!!!!!

(please forgive me if there are repititions.....i've typed some and the rest are from the net)

here are the few of my favourites ............

I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar!!!

It's like one legged person participating in a bum-kicking competition!!!

Runs are flowing like the fare in Indian taxi.

Bamboozles and mesmerizes.

Its very difficult to kill a man who is hell bent upon committing suicide!

As innocent as freshly laid egg.

Sri Lankan score is running like an Indian taxi meter.

Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.

There, there, that's a dead duck!

Wickets are like wives - you never know which way they will turn!

All that comes from a cow is not milk.

If ifs and buts were pots and pans, there would be no tinkers!

When Ganguly took a catch that had gone very high in the air:
That ball went so high it could have got an air hostess down with it!

The ball whizzes past like a bumble bee and the Indians are in the sea.

The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car
through it... !

******Some more sidhuisms(courtesy: internet)*******

Bengal without Tigers!

He's in a soup!

Commenting on Sri Lankans as demons on the slow and sluggish pitches:
When you are dining with the demon you've got to have a long spoon!

Don't open your old umbrella and run it over your shoulder.

Beauty even when silent is eloquent.

The
Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.

Yuvraj Singh - The pied piper of Punjab!

Harbhajan - The sardar from Jalandhar !

On S.Ramesh's diving catch in 1st innings of 2nd test vs. Sri Lanka:
He flew like a bird and plucked it out of thin air.

He pierced it through an eye of a needle.

As crisp as a cracker.

New Zealanders have their limits, The kiwis are the birds that cannot fly!

About Chris Harris he said:
He is a dibbly dobbly bowler.

My idea of a bird is 36-24-36.

When he fielded well as a substitute for Sachin Tendulkar in the 1 dayers:
Ajit Agarkar is as fresh as a daisy.

When a loud appeal was rejected:
Big outcry, no outcome!

The Indians are jelling together as a cohesive unit.

The pitch is as dead as a dodo.

Dravid has hit this shot as straight as a candle.

FAVOURITE SIDHUISMS :
In the midst of a verbal duel with Martin Crowe:

Commenting on Ganguly after he was out for a low score in the 2nd
Test against Zimbabwe:
...Looks like a brooding hen over a china egg

In the midst of a verbal duel with Tony Greig:

In India's last match against New Zealand:
New Zealanders are like bicycles in a cycle stand - one falls down and
the complete row will be down!

THE ALSO - RANS SIDHUISMS
Taking the cake with a red cherry on top.
For Sri Lankan batsman Kaluwitharna, when he was wasting many balls:
He is like Indian three-wheeler which will suck a lot of diesel but cannot
go beyond 30!

To Martin Crowe:
The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let me tell you, my friend,
that the Kiwi is the only bird in the whole world which does not have wings!

As cool as a cucumber!

Muralitharan bowling to the last Indian pair:
The wily fox is back. Its an ill omen when a fox licks its lambs.

Applauding Reetinder Singh Sodhi's fighting spirit:
Young Ricky will fight a rattlesnake and give him the first two bites!

. When you fall on your back side the only place you can look is up.
. That one was meant for the Air-Hostesses(on the sky-high shot by Yuvraj).

. The trouble with Father Time is that it did not even wait for a woman

. If you sow the wind you reap the whirlwind.
. If,If was a man my Aunt would have been my Uncle.

. Rusty brains dont squeak.

. Indian team without Sachin is like a Kiss without a Squeeze.

. You cannot make Omelets without breaking the eggs.

. One, who doesn't throw the dice, can never expect to score a six.

. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

. You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

. The cat with gloves catches no mice.

. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.

. Fattest pigs go to the butcher first.

. 'In the orchard of opportunity, you can't wait for the fruit to drop

. We are all Adam's children -- it's just the silk that makes all the difference!

. Right now he's looking like a Cheshire cat that's had loads of cream!

. Spit on your hands! Take the black flag! And start slitting throats!

. He has a backlift like an octopus falling out of a tree, all over the place!

. A hair on the head is worth two in the comb!

. There is always free cheese in a mousetrap

. A dog kennel is no place to hide a sausage

. Good intentions die unless utilized

. The Only Thing You Get In Life Without Trying is dandruff.

. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

. You dont judge the Horse-power of a vehicle by the size of its exhaust.

. Kenya in South Africa was like a mountain having labour pains.

. India look like a crippled cobra whose fangs are clipped.

. . I lean on statistics like a drunken man leans on a lamppost, only for support, not illumination

. They are so timid, they wouldn't say boo to a goose!

. When you fall on your back side the only place you can look is up.

. That one was meant for the Air-Hostesses(on the sky-high shot by Yuvraj).

. I dont trust the Indian batting,they can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

. The trouble with Father Time is that it did not even wait for a woman
.
One Day Cricket is like a pyjama;every one fits into it.

. If you sow the wind you reap the whirlwind.

. If,If was a man my Aunt would have been my Uncle.

. Rusty brains dont squeak.

. "If there is no difference of opinion, there will be no horse race"

. "You cannot pee like a puppy when you are running with big dogs"

. "When you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid!!!!"

. "Just because a rose smells sweet, you do not use it in the soup!"

. The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter. "it ain't over until the fat lady sings"

. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

. Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

. You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

. The cat with gloves catches no mice.

. Age has been perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.

. The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

. "Money is like manure. Its no good unless you spread it!" (Talking about the distribution of money in the Indian cricket team)

. "They are so timid, they wouldn't say boo to a goose!" (Talking about the tail of the Indian batting order)

. "Statistics are like bikinis... what they reveal is suggestive, what they hide is essential!"

. I lean on statistics like a drunken man leans on a lamppost, only for support, not illumination

. Every body has the thinking cap on, I have a 6 mts thinking turban on my head so i am bound to be the best.

. He's butchering them faster than you can say 'Chicken Tikka'!

. He is using his bat to make the fielders run all over the place just like my wife uses her broom to make me run all over Punjab!

. He chased the ball,as if a young guy chased a beautiful girl, but who never knew she was daughter of army officer and paid the price, with his wicket.

. Men die of their remedies, not illness

. If you stumble yourself on the same stone, do not repent for your chin

Only a brave mouse can build a nest in cat’s whiskers

-Hope u enjoyed a lot.....and the moral is: never miss Sidhu when he's in commentary box....

-harsha

FOR TECHHIES OUT THERE............

2006-06-10T01:29:00.000-07:00

Hi all.....This blog is dedicated to all the s/w engineers and the brave soldiers who shed their lives to keep us safe and happy....hats off to them..
Take your time to read this....comments will measure your intensity of patriotism........
(note:this is a forwarded mail to me and not my own creation...........)

Software Engineers think they create everything in the world...Read till
end....too good...

Vivek Pradhan wasn't a happy man. Even the plush comfort of the First
Class air-conditioned compartment of the Shatabdi express couldn't cool
his frayed nerves. He was the Project Manager and still not entitled to
air
travel. It was not the prestige he sought, he had tried to reason with
the admin guy, it was the savings in time. A PM had so many things to do!

He opened his case and took out the laptop, determined to put the time
to some good use.

"Are you from the software industry sir," the man beside him was staring
appreciatively at the laptop.

Vivek glanced briefly and mumbled in affirmation, handling the laptop
now with exaggerated care and importance as if it were an expensive car.

"You people have brought so much advancement to the country sir. Today
everything is getting computerized."

"Thanks," smiled Vivek, turning around to give the man a look.

He always found it difficult to resist appreciation. The man was young
and stocky like a sportsman. He looked simple and Strangely out of place
in
that little lap of luxury like a small town boy in a prep school. He
probably
was a Railway sportsman making the most of his free traveling pass.

"You people always amaze me," the man continued, "You sit in an office
and write something on a computer and it does so many big things outside."

Vivek smiled deprecatingly. Naivety demanded reasoning not anger. "It is
not as simple as that my friend. It is not just A question of writing a
few
lines. There is a lot of process that goes behind it."

For a moment he was tempted to explain the entire Software Development
Lifecycle but restrained himself to a single statement. "It is complex,
very complex."

"It has to be. No wonder you people are so highly paid," came the reply.
This was not turning out as Vivek had thought. A hint of belligerence
came into his so far affable, persuasive tone.

"Everyone just sees the money. No one sees the amount of hard work we
Have to put in." "Hard work!" "Indians have such a narrow concept of hard
work.
Just because we sit in an air-conditioned office doesn't mean our brows
don't sweat. You exercise the muscle; we exercise the mind and believe
me that is no less taxing."

He had the man where he wanted him and it was time to drive home the
point.
"Let me give you an example. Take this train. The entire railway
reservation system is computerized. You can book a train ticket between
any two
stations from any of the hundreds of computerized booking centers across
the
country.

Thousands of transactions accessing a single database at a given time;
concurrency, data integrity, locking, data security.
Do you understand the complexity in designing and coding such a system?"

The man was stuck with amazement, like a child at a planetarium. This
Was something big and beyond his imagination. "You design and code such
things."

"I used to," Vivek paused for effect, "But now I am the Project
manager,"
"Oh!" sighed the man, as if the storm had passed over, "so your life is
easy now."
It was like being told the fire was better than the frying pan. The man
had to be given a feel of the heat.

"Oh come on, does life ever get easy as you go up the ladder.
Responsibility only brings more work. Design and coding! That is the
easier part. Now I
don't do it, but I am responsible for it and believe me, that is far
more stressful. My job is to get the work done in time and with the
highest
quality. And to tell you about the pressures! There is the customer at
one end always changing his requirements, the user wanting something else
and your boss always expecting you to have finished it yesterday."

Vivek paused in his diatribe, his belligerence fading With
self-realisation.
What he had said was not merely the outburst of a wronged man, it was
the truth. And one need not get angry while defending the truth.
"My friend," he concluded triumphantly, "you don't know what it is to be
in the line of fire."

The man sat back in his chair, his eyes closed as if in realization.When
He spoke after sometime, it was with a calm certainty that surprised
Vivek.

"I know sir, I know what it is to be in the line of fire," He was
Staring blankly as if no passenger, no train existed, just a vast expanse
of
time.

"There were 30 of us when we were ordered to capture Point 4875 in the
cover of the night. The enemy was firing from the top. There was no
knowing
where the next bullet was going to come from and for whom.
In the morning when we finally hoisted the tricolor at the top only 4 of
us were alive."

"You are a..."
"I am Subedar Sushant from the 13 J&K Rifles on duty at Peak 4875 in
Kargil.
They tell me I have completed my term and can opt for
a land assignment. But tell me sir, can one give up duty just because it
makes life easier. On the dawn of that capture one of my colleagues lay
injured in the snow, open to enemy fire while we were hiding behind a
bunker. It
was my job to go and fetch that soldier to safety. But my captain
refused me permission and went ahead himself. He said that the first
pledge he
had taken as a Gentleman Cadet was to put the safety and welfare of the
nation foremost followed by the safety and welfare of the men he
commanded. His
own personal safety came last, always and every time. He was killed as
he shielded that soldier into the bunker. Every morning now as I stand
guard I can see him taking all those bullets, which were actually meant
for me. I
know sir, I know what it is to be in the line of fire."

Vivek looked at him in disbelief not sure of his reply. Abruptly he
Switched off the laptop. It seemed trivial, even insulting to edit a word
document in the presence of a man for whom valor and duty was a daily part
of life;
a valor and sense of duty which he had so far attributed only to epical
heroes. The train slowed down as it pulled into the station and Subedar
Sushant picked up his bags to alight.

"It was nice meeting you sir."

Vivek fumbled with the handshake. This was the hand that had climbed
mountains, pressed the trigger and hoisted the tricolor. Suddenly as if
by impulse he stood at attention, and his right hand went up in an
impromptu salute.It was the least he felt he could do for the country.

PS: The incident he narrates during the capture of Peak 4875 is a true
life incident during the Kargil war. Major Batra Sacrificed his life while
trying to save one of the men he commanded, as victory was within sight.
For
this and his various other acts of bravery he was awarded the Param Vir
Chakra -the nation's highest military award.

Live humbly, there are great people around us, let us learn!

-thanx for ur time......and hope this was an eye opener for u......and for me it certainly was.....

waiting for comments
urs
-harsha bhat

WHY TO ORKUT???????????????

2006-05-26T05:58:00.000-07:00

Frnds..........hi.......
It's era of orkut.........u'll be able to hear many pros and cons about orkut........but what i feel is orkut is an addictive stuff!!!!!!!!
new sms:"u can stop boozing and smoking but not orkutting!!!!!"
cool one as i found it.....but there r some things which i really appreciate about orkut...
meet old friends....(i found one of my frnds who had played with me all the day wen we were kids.....he's in motorola now....)
i can get so many info about the current facts and figures and the newly explored things...
u find anything and everything in orkut....literally everything!!!!
discussing any chapter or any tech thing is an easy task in orkut......anybody from anywhere can involve in ur chat.....seems great right?
u can find testimonials.....it's writing all that u feel about ur frnd and even ur frnds can write about u............
Best thing is.....all my seniors(cult team) r going......i miss them a lot......but how to be in contact?........aaaahhhhaaaaaa orkut is always there.....and thank god all of them are orkutteers......and some of them hav a community in their name!!!!!!!
and it was through orkut that i came to know about blogging.....and so it's my way to serve orkut.........!!!!!!!hope orkut is hapy with this....
SO MY HUMBLE REQUEST TO ALL THE VIEWERS OF THIS BLOG IS THAT PLS JOIN ORKUT.......IT'LL BE REAL FUN.....JOIN AND ENJOY.....
BYE FOR NOW...
HARSHA.BHAT

RESERVED FOR RESERVATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-05-22T00:09:00.000-07:00

HI ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M BACK AGAIN......

This time it's time to discuss about the hottest topic in the country......
the one which has set the whole nation on fire......
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!i'm talking about reservations......when the whole nation is set affire(or "awwater"coz cops r using water cannons!!!!!)how can my blog be spared??????ok this is my opinion about the reservations....................

For more than 1000 years a group of people in india are supressed, tortured, harrassed, treated as untouchables, treated as animals(infact....animals were treated in a better manner....i've seen it myself now a days.....not long back...!!!!)dont u think friends that 1000 yrs of sin cant be confessed in 58 yrs............well i think so.......
you say killing the merit is the issue.......but how many merits have been killed and buried deep under the soil in these 1000(>1000 yrs) yrs? to name Dr.Ambedkar......what did we do? Dont u think it is killing of merit? did we care for them? But finally we still follow his rules.....he is the rule maker of the nation....................but............................

what did Ambedkar say? what did he do? and what did he write in the "Constitution of India"?he said reservations should be given to one member per family and then onwards his family will be out of reservation list.....and this reservation is to be given only for a span of 10 yrs..........but.......what are we doing? generations together 'they' getreservations......generations together 'they' eat,drink and study for free....and finally we pay for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..................
According to me the same thing should be brought into rule now.........that improves the condition of a backward class person and allows us to be alive...........
and reservations must be given to a person coming from a rural background and a person from economially unsound family..............that helps the society.........

The best thing in the present situation is..........
1) No student organisations are formally involved in this protest...(it's not done under their banner........)

2) i think it's Rang De Basanti personified!!!!!!!

3) mebbe it helps us to destroy the present Political system.......and make them understand that they cant take us for granted...

4)i think it's a new rennaissance in india...........

5)all of us are realising the importance of "vote"..........(i saw it in news paper yesterday...)

6) Finally i'd like to add one thing......
"Let us involve in active politics so that our opinions are considered....."

...............think about it...........

waiting for comments..............
thanx for ur time.....

urs Harsha.Bhat

KILLING THE CREATIVITY???????

2006-05-20T06:23:00.000-07:00

This blog is dedicated to the engineers being shaped under VTU(i dont know the fate of other universities....)

4 years....8 semesters....tight schedule....no time for extra curricular activities....no time to sleep.....no time to eat n enjoy........that's usually the fate of an engineering student under VTU.....the extra classes is what he eats....the most boring lectures is wat he drinks....the least internal marks is what he digests.......and finally a few number of backlogs..........and above all an overflow of tension in his 'beautiful mind'......and in the last year he gets a job in an IT industry and forgets the frustration...the tears...the tension...the night outs.....all that he has faced in 4 years(at least!!!!)........but doesnt realise that again in the industry he's going to work under someone who never cares of you.......who u r......where u r from and what u did as long as u r in the industry......all that he needs is a bull(effort) and a horse(speed)combined together(i'd call him a "borse")....u r given different diseases and a handful of salary at the end.......and we really enjoy it.....we love slavery!!!!

all that i wanna ask is why cant we start our own industry when we are trained here for 4 yrs to be leaders.....(that's what we r told..)....where has our innovation gone? where has our creativity gone? GOOGLE, Hewlwtt-Packard,sun systems and many more to name.....are the products of stanford university....why only stanford? why not VTU? why only a stanfordite can afford thinking this? why cant a person coming out from VTU?
well i've come out with some reasons.......1000 years of slavery has changed our ability to think new....has killed our ability to raise questions.....has killed the ability to oppose and win....has killed our ability to fight for rights...
as the british people said "we are introducing a system of education where we create clerks and nothing more.........a person who can work all his life for a salary and never speak and raise a question"......that system continues till today....

we are afraid of challenging the professor b'coz he has our internal marks with him....we cant question our HOD 'coz he can dismiss us from the college....
we cant question our university 'coz our degree is with VTU.....we are afraid of the things.....

what is the 4 yrs of study given us? according to me education is one which builds creativity and the ability to think in a person......is our engineering education doing this? if yes then y r we failing to lead? why do we work under someone? (read 5 pt someone.....the best thing i've learnt from that is the thing i'm discussing here!!!!)we feel proud to be engineers...but what are we really proud of? spending 50000 every year? or sitting in the a.c for the rest of the life serving someone?or the way we have spent the 4 yrs of our life struggling to score a single mark? or anything else???????

they say that China,Japan,Singapore and some other nations, the core commitee in their govt cabinet is a group of engineers....its they who plan the infrastructure,it's they who build the nation.......but what has happened to the nation who has produced and is producing the best engineers? why are we strugling for a job which fetches us nothing but a heavy bank account?

finally i'd like to say that it's high time for us to join hands together and start something new where we are the masters and we are the leaders....only the leaders can lead the nation and help it reach new heights......only then it's possible to make APJ Abdul Kalam's dream, to make India a developed nation by 2020, come true.

Let us say whole heartedly and in unison "param vaibhavam ne tume tat swarashtram" ........

think about it.......think about IT....

thats all for today....

-thanx for the time....
comments are welcome...

-Harsha Bhat

saree day n tie day on 11/5/06

2006-05-15T03:00:00.000-07:00

oh........awesome.......
it was fun week in college and every year most awaited and exciting day is saree day-tie day(sarees for gals n tie for guys.....i've got a friend who mistook it as gals wearing ties on sarees!!!!!!). all the cams of college were in the campus.click n click was the only scene.And the college never looked so colourful....!!!
Gals in sarees struggling their best to walk normally was a casual sight!!!and the best thing was everybody enjoyed it....all of us in our class(except a few....every law has an exception!!!)were in tie/saree......and some of them look really cool......and some others hot to the fullest extent(boiling point!!!).
And.....i was in tie for the first time in my life(ah!!!i used to wear tie in my school days, failing which, made me face some nice kicks n slaps!!!!)

i saw all my cult team in the "dress of the day"(dod henceforth...).....bomb retained his name as usual!!! mallik was lookin better......mamta snatched roses from all of us(it was rose day also..)and gathered quite many number of roses...
kaka was seen with a rose (may be he was searching for kaku!!!)and he was caught on cam......pic came out so well that it inspired us to create a community in his name in orkut!!!!(community name:- "majnu kaka" can visit to check out the pic!!!)....
harry,savanur,MANJI(cant 4gt him !!!(visit community"we love sharath manjithaya" in orkut)),subbu,pooja,shree,ro, all were lookin too good......megha was special attraction(first time i saw her rolled in a saree...that too in green which i hate the most..)

now in my class....................oh...the best was vijaya patil....the nose ringed gal...always busy with her cell(i bet....she'll die if u snatch her cell...!!!)and priya.k was next best....
all others were good.....guys...i wanted karan bhat and pravin.gokarn to be in ties but they were in their usual hangouts.....
pavan koti turned out to be the usual "shri krishna...."u can find his snaps wid all the gals of our class.....wait,.......not only our class but almost al the gals of all the classes!!!!
that's it......we enjoyed a lot and the most astonishing thing was nagasundar sir engaged his class for only 30 mins!!!!, which was a mission impossible till now....we made it possible( many toms in my class....). and that's all about saree-tie day....i'll upload some more pics in a few days..
bye..
harsha bhat

CLASS DAY CELEBRATIONS........

2006-05-03T07:20:00.000-07:00

HI ALL........NEW FELLOW IN BLOGSPOT......SO LET ME TRY OUT WITH THIS.......

TODAY WE HAD CLASS DAY....IN OUR DEPT...
I FOUND SOME OF THE BEST THINGS I CAN FIND.....
LEMME TELL U ONE BY ONE...
THIS IS HOW CLASS DAY OCCURED........"TIME"CONSTRAINT WAS KICKING OUR ASSES AS USUAL....

2:30 PM.....SCHEDULED TIME FOR CLASS DAY TO BEGIN....BUT AS WE R IN INDIA WE HAVE TO FOLLOW INDIA STANDARD TIMINGS....SO WAS A BIT LATE(BIT LATE=15 MINUTES LATE)......SO NO PROBLEMS....
STARTED OFF FOLLOWING THE TRADITIONAL FORMALITY OF SDM(WE CALL IT SDM-CULTURE!!!)....AN INVOCATION SONG...WHICH WAS NOT AS BAD AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE....!!!

NEXT EVENT WAS "FISH POND"--WE HAD REALLY BIG FISHES THIS TIME......SO LEMME CALL IT "WHALE POND!!"
IT WAS REAL FUN FOR US...BUT ANYWAYS WE DID'NT GET THE TRUE ANSWERS FROM PROFS!!!(I'M TELLING THIS BECAUSE SHRIDHAR SIR WHEN ASKED "R U A MASTER OF MICRO PROCESSORS....SAID YES....." TO TEST HIS SKILLS AND TO CONFIRM THAT I'M RIGHT....GO AND ASK HIM THE DEFINITION OF MICRO PROCESSOR-I'M DAMN SURE HE'LL NOT ANSWER FOR THAT...)BUT ANYWAYS WE ENJOYED IT A LOT...

NEXT ONE WAS ONE MINUTE GAMES....MOST BORING STUFF.....THE ONE WHICH DOES'NT MATCH AN ENGINEER'S DIGNITY...!!!TO NAME A FEW...WE HAD ...BURSTING THE BALLOON....LIGHTING THE CANDLES WITH ONE STICK....DRINKING WATER...OH...I DONT WANNA SAY MORE ABOUT THIS....I WANT THEM TO GROW UP!!!!

NEXT WAS THE ONE WHICH SURPRISED ME....SKIT BY OUR CLASS STUDENTS....WONDERFUL ACTORS THEY ALL R....I WAS STUNNED LUKING @ THEM....MANISH,KEDAR,MALLIKARJUN,GANGADHAR & MANDRYA PROVED THEMSELVES TO BE GR8 ACTORS....ESPECIALLY MANISH STUNNED ME....

NEXT WAS MY WVWNT...I WAS THE ONE TO CONDUCT "MASTER MIND -CSE"- A QUIZ.......SINDURA SUPPORTED ME....IT WAS REALLY GOOD......(OTHERS SAID)BUT I'M DISSAPPOINTED TO SAY THAT NOBODY IN OUR DEPT( I MEAN PROFS)R INTELS.....SAME WITH THE 4TH SEM GUYS...THEY ARE NOT UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS....THE FIFA FEWER IS NOT ON IN THEM YET!!!!!THEY COULDNT ANSWER FOOTBALL ANSWERS.....REALLY POOR.......GOD SAVE THEM...AND ME(I'LL HAVE TO BEAR THEM FOR ANOTHER 2 YRS!!!!)

LASTLY WE WERE WAITING FOR DUMB CHARADES WHICH NEVER CAME COZ OF "TIME" FACTOR AGAIN........SENIORS WERE TO CONDUCT THEIR CLASS DAY AFTER OURS...BUT LATER THEY CANCELLED BUT WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO CONTINUE WITH DC....WE HAD PRACTISED A LOT FOR THAT......ALL IN VAIN....BUT WE PLAYED IT WITH GALS AND OTHER GUYS OF 4TH SEM LATER IN FRONT OF BAKERY......

NOW LEMME TELL U THE SPECIAL APPEARENCES OF TODAY..(BY THAT..I MEAN THE GUYS N GALS WHO WERE LOOKIN THE HOTTEST/COOLEST TODAY... )

1)MANISH. KOOLKARNI........FIRST TIME I SAW HIM WEARING SOME THING ELSE THAN A RADISH BOTTOM TROUSER AND A FORMAL LONG SHIRT.....HE WAS IN A KURTA....SO OBVIOUSLY IT SURPRISED ME...AND HE WAS LOOKIN GOOD.....

2) GANGADHAR DIXIT- WEARIN A SHERWANI HE WS LOOKIN SEXY.....

3) AMIT.KAPPATHNAVAR- MY BENCHMATE BUDDY.....WE CALL HIM 'GANAPATI BAPPA' COZ OF HIS GIGANTIC BELLY.......DONNO HOW HE MANAGES TO CARRY IT TILL COLLEGE!!!!BUT HE WAS LOOKIN GOOD IN HIS RED KURTA....

4) SINDURA- SHE WS IN A LEHENGA-DAWNI(HOPE THEY CALL IT SO---I DONNO IT'S EXACT NAME!!)SHE WAS MY COUNTER PART IN MASTER MIND.......SO WAS WITH HER FOR A LONG TIME....SHE WAS LOOKIN GUD....

5) SUSHMA.NADAGOUDA- WOOOOOW!!! SHE WAS GORGEOUS......SHE WAS IN PINK...I DONNO WAT THE DRESS IS CALLED...BUT WAS DIFFERENT...NOT THE USUAL ONE......I LIKED HER SMILE A LOT......A FULL FLEDGED COOL CAPTURING SMILE......(I'M NOT EXXXXXXAGGGGGGERATING).....

OK THAT'S ALL ABOUT THE CLASS DAY...
ONE THING I LIKED THE MOST WAS I GOT SOME NEW FRIENDS FROM 'B' DIVISION...(SOME GALS TOO!!!!!)AND ALL LIKED THE SHOW(INCLUDING SENIORS AND OTHER BRANCH STUDENTS)......SO FINALLY AFTER ALL THE EFFORTS "CLASS DAY WAS A GREAT SUCCESS".......YAHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

OK...THIS WAS THE FIRST ATTEMPT OF MINE TO BLOG........I'LL BE A PROFESSIONAL BLOGGER SOON.......

BYE FOR NOW...
HARSHA BHAT

harshaantaranga...

25!!!

In the right path!

ಮೇಲಾ?? ಫೀಮೇಲಾ????

ತನ್ನಂತೆ ಬೆರೆತು ಬಾಳೆಂದಿತು ಮನುಜಂಗೆ ಬಾನಾಡಿ.!

FW: TRYING PHOTOGRAPHY

The Complicated encounters

Tell me where did u sleep last night

Killing My Own Child :-(

Open Letter To Mr. Shah Rukh Khan: By Col.Ajay Ahlawat

Barrier broken....Hats off to u little master....

When in doubt...ask Calvin's Dad

Competitor...where are you???

Let's join the voice....Mile sur mera tumhara

The year that was 2009....

This amazing thingy called WAVE from google...

WTF!!!

If you don’t f*****g mind issuing a fatwa against Vande Mataram I don f*****G mind swearing at you and your god…

Enough is enough people…wake up!!! And these politicians address them!!! They want talks with them..Let our soldiers speak to them..let our ak47s answer them…Let them flee..to their land…to the land where they can stay without singing Vande Mataram…

Fatwa issued against 'Vande Mataram'

What happens if Rajyotsava falls on a sunday??

The feel that I seldom feel...

Madan Lal Dhingra...Hero unknown...

The "PISSED OFF" Post

Throne Drifting towards east???

Soderling beats So-Darling!!!

Book Review: The Company of Women by Khushwant Singh

Just checking!!!

The Dirty Dozen of IPL2

The word "Politics" now has an insulting touch!!!

Moonlight Trek to Skandagiri

Re-lived the good old Gokak days!!!

ನಂದಗೋಕುಲ ನಮ್ಮ ಮನೆ.....

The Alchemist!!! What made it a Best Seller???

ಮತ್ತೇರಿಸುವ ಕೊಯಿಮ್ಮತ್ತೂರು !!!!

ಇಂಥಾ ಗಂಡಸು ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾಕೆ ಇಲ್ಲಾ ಹರಿಯೇ ????

Finally.......INTO BOSCH!!!!!!!

Akhil Babu's letter to INDIAN RAILWAYS!!!!

Am I ADDICTED??? I asked myself

Treksperiencing the VELLINGIRI HILLS.....

A JOURNEY TO THE MANCHESTER OF SOUTH INDIA!!!!!

A WEDNESDAY---A MUST WATCH FOR "A COMMON MAN AND "AN UNCOMMON MAN"

4 YEARS..8 SEMS...COUNTLESS MEMORIES....ENDLESS EMOTIONS.....

JODHA-AK(SUCK)BAR

NATURE UNEXPLORED.........

GUJARAT MODIFIED !!!

VEDAS....-ocean of knowledge.....

Indians Abroad......

for the so called secularists.........

"and the World Cup goes to........."-- not a thrill anymore

ONE YEAR OF BLOGGING EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!

INDIA WINS THE GAME....BUT INDIANS LOSE IT......:

GOA.........a nice place to live............

DHOOM FUMED MY MIND!!!!!!!!!!

a speech which makes every hindu proud of himself......

DHAMAKEDAAR DIWALI........

FIESTA-spring fest is back with a new name and naya andaaz....!!!

will the real book worm pls read this????

I WAS BORN INTELLIGENT...BUT....EDUCATION RUINED ME....

VANDE MATARAM-the song which shook the british empire....

SRI GURUJI

S.D.M.C.E.T.............beauty of the beauties.......

BANGLA CRESCENT........."SAVE ME" CRIES MOTHER INDIA...........:

BOOK REVIEW: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS........

MY FIRST SHARE TRADE......!!!!!!!

SIDHUISMS!!!!!!!

FOR TECHHIES OUT THERE............

WHY TO ORKUT???????????????

RESERVED FOR RESERVATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KILLING THE CREATIVITY???????

saree day n tie day on 11/5/06

CLASS DAY CELEBRATIONS........

If you don’t fg mind issuing a fatwa against Vande Mataram I don fG mind swearing at you and your god…