Finally a company

Dedicated to my mother

India is really great

Be happy with what you have

What more can I say, when pictures speaks in million pixels and I have just a few words to put!!!!

Jai Shree Lakshmi

One tribute to my favorite god

Well, over the years I have never let my feelings about god out in the open and people around me question me whether I believe in god or not

Yes there is a certain some one whom I believe strongly
and she is Lakshmi

the daughter of Bhrigu ( that is why she is also called Bhargavi ) and Khyati.

Alakshmi is her elder sister (chandra being her brother).
Both the sisters like me and that explains some and most of the things in my life. Through this post, after writing about 480 posts, I pay my tribute to her

Only if Laila could talk

Laila and Majnu ,
well, only if this guys could talk

whether theirs would have been a successful marriage is never debated,
with so little time that they did have, even courtship might had been an herculean task,
let alone give Laila the chance to whine

:"Why":
:"Where":
:"What":

But this picture could have got them both furious for sometime, not at the fact that they died, but they were killed years later day in day out.

Fetish for the west

WE have come a long way since the old 1950s and 1970s and so has the world,
we are now looking inwards, going deeep

or is it,

Diya Mirza a bollywood actress comes from a German father and Bengali mother,
Lisa Ray , Bengali father, Canadian mother
John Abraham , Iranian blood,

And Akshaya dancing with Hollywood babes is not new anymore, neither is Salman doing the same with some British actress, Aishwarya with Matin Henderson.

And the list is continuing, in the serials that we watch from Riddhima in Dill Mill Gaye to talent hunt shows, everywhere we have this fetish sort of a thing

Remember the homely girl, Sanjana from Merey Yaar Ki Shaadi

Tulip Joshi,
Gujju Dad and Armenian mother,

I was waiting for a bold pic like this from her and finally got hold of one,

Emanuelle Chrique is one other lady whom I would pay to see her bare and dare it all.
Audrey Tatou has done it ( thank you Audrey )

There is a certain someone

There is a certain someone, who did write some posts on me, this humble me

thanks to her !!!


Well, this me, which never gets mentioned anywhere, which never gets to be in the limelight was the main protagonist in her two blogs,

And I liked it, this picture is a compliment to her. I took here for a bike ride, and then after some days I got hold of this certain picture .

And a frightened pillion rider could be treat to watch for the spectators :)

Can you imagine

Sachin was turned away from fast bowlers camp, well, we all know that we still need a world class fast bowler ( I mean Zak is there, but most of his credit is mainly due to the dominating batting side that we have made in the last few yeras, that the bowlers have little to do with their ball at times )


Well,
here here is ,standing tall, Can you imagine, Sachin the taller of the others,
well, he is the tallest by all standards, but here he is in person, as god made him

good post

Ideagutter

 

 

This sounds like a good name. Anyways, since I don’t have much time now to write some posts, I will still paste some good links as and when I come across

 

http://comic.ideagutter.com/search?updated-max=2010-02-26T19%3A21%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=1

 

 

Check this one out, here the Sachin who plays one days is betting against the Sachin that plays in  tests

 

 

Both are phenomenal , but the One day thing is really great, with 29 centuries being the second number, Ricky Ponting enjoys his position as the second most prolific century maker rather well.

What is the most beautiful thing in the world

The more you have free time, the more you spend thinking about stuff that you never thought existed

 

For me, right now I am reading some of the old stories in Bengali.  One I got from the Agartala Book Fair, Golpo Guccha by Rabindranath,

All these stories, once atleast, found, read, heard , seen , either through movies, theatre, school life, magazines, books but still hold a lot

Of questions in my mind about the sharp genius of the man who did not go to school himself,

 

In one of his stories,”Konkal” , I wonder, at how strong the author was in dealing with the emotions of a ghost narration of the life left behind,

 

The bones rattle but the sound inside still is that of a young woman who lived a life of her own. For us it is difficult to imagine that about 100 years back

there were  people who dared to think that life exists not for society but it is the other way around,

 

 

There will be people , in bone and blood ,just like us, there will be mortals who though look like us, somehow are not able to think the right or wrong,

constant nagging, whining, back stabbing, pulling each others legs for mere fun, and at the price of hurting a plant which will never grow into the tree

that was destined to

 

 

Rabindrnath Tagores writing has been, carefully, dissected, researched upon and taken to the heart by many of the Bengali aristocracy and slum dwellers over the years, I am a mere spectator to the wonder of a brain that was like clock work, producing footprints in time that will glow in the sublime surrounding of what we can look back as the renaissance of Bengal

 

How could one man, with so little education ? produce such gems, year  after year , throughout his life. Did he eat the same rice that we all eat, what sits inside that brain that we all wonder.

 

I had written about Sachin a few days back , no such comparison is possible ,but yes, the genius in humans is what keeps this rest of the world, other rest the of the billions alive,

 

we run the wheels of the world, go to office, come back , sleep , wake up eat breakfast ( skip it like me ) and then run back to work. But behind the scenes there are geniuses at work, who will create the next wonder, who will create the next beauty, these are the brains, that can create  what is good to the eyes, ears and the brain

 

these are the people who are making what is life to us, a gift , a thing of joy

 

the most beautiful thing in the world is nothing but the genius inside the brain of all these immortal human beings

 

 

I will keep writing about Rabindranath Tagore in the coming days, this new found interest ofmine is good for me, and will take me further in my understanding of what I thought was the Bengals upliftment. What was it about the times then that makes me think that the rest of the world was just robots and here in Bengal, there walked a few human beings who produced battery for these robots,

 

 

Blogging in March

Today is March 12

2010

 

The year 2010, started some time back( a few hours may be ) .In the meantime, I went to so many places all around India. All in all , it was a good start. I could visit  Agartala, ( an added bonus of travelling )

 

I think , that mole thinngy does work out. This year I saw two new moles on my feet. So I must be travelling left, right and center.

 

Today the IPL3 starts. Hope some good blogs will come out. All the players are no fit and fine. No back ache, shoulder ache, groin injury , all are hale and hearty. All are focused and strong. I will be blogging about it in and out.

 

 It has been 22 months since I started blogging this one. I have quite a big archive now and am proud about it. I was reading one of the good blogs that I had written a long time back.

http://concentratedlemonjuice.blogspot.com/2008/07/travails-of-indian-software-engineer.html

 

I could not stop laughing after reading it. Right now I am in a meeting, where I am on mute.

 

Sachin the God

I really was missing a collection like this

 

Read it , here if you want to know how the world reacts to Sachin

The ones especially from Sharjah and Yassir Hamid a Pakistani reporter

 

http://vsvishwanand.blogspot.com/2010/02/sachin-name-speaks.html

 

By the way , the author is a great friend of mine and a Sachin fan

Guess which movie?

Kabhi muskarakar ,

Kabhi dabey paaoo aakar

 

Dukh mujhey choo le

 

Naa kar mujhsey gham merey

 

Dillagi yeh Dillagi

 

Badi sooni sooni hai

 

Zindagi yeh Zindagi….

One last thought for the day Feb 24 2010

It is the end of the day for me

I wanted to write about the way smartly Mamta Bannerjee presented the rail budget today

 

She says “Whoever is shouting, I will cut the project in his constituency?”

She was a able teacher in side a village school and the ruckus around , and the rubes from all side were enough to unnerve any other political figure, the very fact that she can fight it out like that standing there in the Parliament is the very sign of the days of administration to come,.

 

She does not leave the session, she does not walk  out, she does not throw the pen down, she does not visit the train wreckage any more and threaten incessantly to resign, She is now a changed Mamata

 

But her budget and whatever honest form it had ( no heavy words, no extra ornamental statements, a budget as it should be )

 

The only problem that the nation will have to hear from two severely accented Bengalis giving the rail budget and the national  budget J

 

 

Anyways, the rail budgets fundas were derailed by another express, the Sachin Express,

 

Sachin is not for cricket,

Cricket is for Sachin!!!

If there is a god on earth

If there is god on earth . He is sitting in a Gwalior hotel now

 

He is Sachin, he is the greatest of them all ,

 

Today I saw a Sachin , that knows that he can now play like it is the year 1995, there is a Azharudding, Sidhu , and Jadeja

 

 

No, I think , he knows that India is now undoubtedly well on to its way to the no 1 spot in World cricket in all forms of the game. Wait till, the next T20 encounter.

 

Just think of the bowling teams plight, Rahul Dravid, Laxman and Tendulkar can nowadays be rested for a match or two, they play their own games and don’t have to bother much, the youngsters are all well set

 

Today when I ask my cousin who studies in class X , and is sitting for the exams, he says to me that there are parents who make their kids  skip the exams, if there is a game sessions , or if the coach asks so  … I ask him how difficult is it to make it to the Bengal team itself, With franchises and IPL and ICL , there is a ongoing cut throat competition for even the  middle order of most of the state teams. Today  just to make it to the 2^nd division is a difficult and uphill task, and let alone play good, and play at the top levels consistently,

And that is exactly the reason , that we have a kitty full of newcomers who are all able, in the form of Suresh Raina, who once was said to be the next god of the left hand players off side, there is Dinesh Mongia, who though now lost is a very strong middle order batsman, we have Rohit Sharma who can do all the departments of cricket as good as any other great player.

Gambhir is an established , world no 1 ( not now may be )  , then there is a Robin Uthappa, and the funny part is Dinesh Karthik comes back as a batsman and not a wicketkeeper. And the prince of cricket . Virat Kohli , all of the above players have single handedly rescued India on more than once occasion. Irfan Pathan needs space to head in , whereas Yusuf is in sublime form. All of them above can enter the circuits and just perform as if the environment has not changed, they find the international level to be just very close notch to the first class in India today.

 

They all are best in the domestic circuits, and they are soon to be the next legends, but with a team which looks like the Real Madrid of cricket, Sachin knows that other than the new comers, there are the bullies of world cricket, If Pakistan boasts of a certain Shahid Afridi , and England still dreams that Kevin Pietersen will some day come back to his first shown form,  What I can definitely say is there lies in the Indian team three such bullies, three Shahid Afridis with far better track record and control of the game and the shots, which makes Shahid Afridis, Centurions centuries look smaller in the context

 

We have a Sehwag , the impeccable form that he is in  , and the way he feels that defensive game for him is the riskiest game, and the way he made a 290 knock in a single day of test cricket.

We have a Yuvraj, six sixers apart, he is a class of his own. I am sure that on  one favorable day , when Yusuf and Yuvraj as partners to each other for 15 overs at a stretch , the opposition will have to look like  kids in the training camp.

We have a Dhoni , who is consistently, playing not out innings and if he continues to do this for another year or so , I am sure that he will end up with more than a 100  half centuries behind him and the highest possible one day average. Today he played a different  innings, that kind of innings that we had seen in his earlier days. He played that cushion to the Sachins 200 and as usual such a great land mark came fitfully in the 50 over itself which started with a Dhoni sixer

 

We in India, have a phenomenal batting order. Sachin can play his own game today , never was he more relaxed then he is now. Ponting almost caught him up on the centuries tally in the test arena with 39 centuries and Sachin 43,  but then there were 4 consecutive centuries and Sachin is all well set for 50 international test centuries,

 

But the way he batted today , I don’t think, Gambhir should come top of the order. Gambhir should come to consolidate in case of a quick first wicket. Today Sachin from the word go just resounded his pledge, that the century that he missed in the first one dayer in Jaipur, due to a very  unfortunate runout ( running is a department where is a master in his own zone , I am sure that we will soon see a 300 run partnership , between him and Dhoni  with the minimum number of boundaries, , and it could be  in any form of the game )

 

The batsmen of the Indian team are in such sublime form that the first test defeat in Nagpur where the Indian team went all out twice in score below three hundred is like having the probability as that of the chance of getting 20 tails consecutively . That was a rare , lapse, I am sure, since you have to read in to the teams colors, as it is now. It is a team where any great would want to play ,

 

And all this is an answer to that question “Cant a country of a billion people produce 11 gems who could dominate world cricket today “

 

Today , schools and parents and teachers are changing. Taare Zameen Par and Three Idiots are becoming block busters,

 

 

The not so important Physical Education dept in many schools in India, nowadays is a full fledged department with a head of the dept and many staff with multiple coaches,

 

Yes we may not yet be bringing the golds in Olympics, since in strength we are naturally not gifted like the Caucasian and the Nordic breed  and in a country where we are cramping for space and food, we have some how never got it in terms of physical stamina and that is why you will find very occasional wrestlers or soccer players or sprinters who make it to the top circuits.   Yes , we know that we are not yet there but in Cricket, when once we were asked “Cant a nation of 1 billion people produce 11 gems ?” we have finally answered the call,

We have those 11 gems, we  have a team to beat which , you will need a team to make atleast 350 runs in every innings,

 

 

Eden Gardens

well,
amongst all the things that I never thought I will be able to do , one was getting a chance to watch Tendulkar on the field while he played for 20 years and I witnessed it all .

I started my cricket watching days with his first test 100. He becoming what we called a master blaster in that new zealand series where Stephen Fleming had his debut

Sachin was at that point of time still searching for his first 100. And now all I know is , he is sitting on more than 90 international 100s.

Adding two pics from the 6th Gate Tier 2 stand

Egg shells for plants

Egg plants come from here, if you may ask me

Hooters, where art thee

will gleeful eyes, when I mentioned that a hooter is standing out side, all in my group went to see.

All men, ( I mean all boys basically )

Anyways, this was all the hooter they could get

Random Pics here and there

Balle balle,
well, could you find an appropriate place for this one. Yes, there are , but on the top of a competitive journal .

One random flight I took

After I got my job, I was touring all across the country , young at heart, with money in pocket and a will to spend,
I did cover a lot of the sectors.

Some times there are some sights that strike a chord , some where, but due to the lack of a camera in hand, I was never able to catch much,

I remember, the family that was sorting all its porblems in the Delhi airport,
I remember the Jammu couple, who were calling their neighbors to still come to the airport, buy the tickets and board the flight, and all this, when were just starting, ( I mean that the plane would started taxing within a few minutes or so

I remember the Himalayas, the peaks, on a sunny day in a flight to Delhi again.

I can still remember the beautiful Gujju Bong, who sat next to me and then we talked the whole journey.

One of the most beautiful woman that I have come across
Anyways, here are two familiar sights, that Indians, ( new age Indians ) always see, and take it for granted,

Well, I choose to live for the moment!!