Sometimes it rains....and sometimes it does.
I was home all evening admiring the overwhelming sing song of the thunder, the command of the grey and black cloud over the soft and serene blue sky. I watched the tree in front of my balcony..standing there all alone, gaurdless.


It has been there as a silent spectator of all the balcony of our seven floored apartments for many many decades.It has been there ever since.And today when the sky turned dark and the small plants around its feet were happy waiting for the rain like every school going child, it is protesting to some unknown dark deep protest.

Here I am standing up at the water’s edge of my dream. I should also take my step like this tree.....

Google Chrome..... Unique Features !!

The unique features that are only available in Google Web Browser are you’re seriously going to miss them in other popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Fire fox, Apple Safari or Opera.

Task Manager for Websites:
Shift+Escape and it will open up a ‘task manager’ with a list of all websites currently open inside Chrome.


Visual Browser History
This is a feature Chrome borrowed from Google Desktop / Google Web History.
Type Ctrl+H to open your browser history and search for a term


Super Clean Contextual Menus:
You right click an hyperlink on a web page and you get only five relevant options to deal with that link.
The number comes down to four when you right click any image in Chrome. There’s way too much clutter in Firefox menus.

Search Your Favorite Websites from the Address Bar:
This is brilliant. If you visit a website that includes site search (for instance: search.labnol.org) - Chrome will automatically recognize and add that search engine for you so the next time you can perform a search on that site via the Chrome address bar itself
See Memory Used by Different Browsers:
Open a new tab inside Chrome browser and type "about: memory" (without quotes) - somewhere at the top, you’ll see a list of browser processes that are currently running on your system and the amount of memory they are using.
Reopen Website tabs that you closed by mistake:
Firefox 3 has this "Undo Closed Tab" option in the menu while you can open closed tabs in Opera via the Ctrl+Z shortcut.
To re-open a closed tab in Google Chrome, just hit Ctrl+T and you’ll see an option that says "Recently closed tabs" - click the one you closed by accident.

Launch Websites from the Start Menu / Quick Launch Bar:
Desktop shortcuts for web pages are possible with other browsers as well but Google Chrome makes the whole flow very easy. Open any site and choose "Create application shortcut" from the File menu.

Google Chrome - Facts

The unique features that are only available in Google Web Browser are you’re seriously going to miss them in other popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Fire fox, Apple Safari or Opera.

Task Manager for Websites:
Shift+Escape and it will open up a ‘task manager’ with a list of all websites currently open inside Chrome.


Visual Browser History
This is a feature Chrome borrowed from Google Desktop / Google Web History.
Type Ctrl+H to open your browser history and search for a term


Super Clean Contextual Menus:
You right click an hyperlink on a web page and you get only five relevant options to deal with that link.
The number comes down to four when you right click any image in Chrome. There’s way too much clutter in Firefox menus.

Search Your Favorite Websites from the Address Bar:
This is brilliant. If you visit a website that includes site search (for instance: search.labnol.org) - Chrome will automatically recognize and add that search engine for you so the next time you can perform a search on that site via the Chrome address bar itself
See Memory Used by Different Browsers:
Open a new tab inside Chrome browser and type "about: memory" (without quotes) - somewhere at the top, you’ll see a list of browser processes that are currently running on your system and the amount of memory they are using.
Reopen Website tabs that you closed by mistake:
Firefox 3 has this "Undo Closed Tab" option in the menu while you can open closed tabs in Opera via the Ctrl+Z shortcut.
To re-open a closed tab in Google Chrome, just hit Ctrl+T and you’ll see an option that says "Recently closed tabs" - click the one you closed by accident.

Launch Websites from the Start Menu / Quick Launch Bar:
Desktop shortcuts for web pages are possible with other browsers as well but Google Chrome makes the whole flow very easy. Open any site and choose "Create application shortcut" from the File menu.

Man - Mind or Muscle !!

Breaking the eternal myth that the male species loves being perceived as attractive, sexually active or ‘lady-killers’; findings based on an international study recently revealed that most men want respect, a harmonious family life and good relationships with their partner. Interestingly, the “macho man” tag is no longer macho.
“A woman gets to know who you are in 10 minutes,” claims model and actor Milind Soman. For someone like Milind, who rules over the hearts of many around the globe, a macho image is something that cannot be projected. He says, “Men today know that they’ve got to be original. I feel that the best thing to be is ‘real’. If you’re macho, it will show. If you’re sensitive, it will show as well. Trying to look honourable and caring won’t work for long if you’re not that kind.” According to the study, a majority of the men ranked a healthy lifestyle and compatibility with their partners over mere self fulfilling or sexual concerns. “I’ve always been a shy guy and I feel that once a man grows up, a sense of responsibility and the need to be respected and be in a meaningful relationship arises on its own. Macho is something that is too frivolous a term for me. While I do agree that there must be many women who are attracted towards macho men, personally it has always been a frail way of projecting oneself,” says model-turned-actor Muzzamil Ibrahim.
However, experts believe that the drive for projecting themselves as honourable and selfreliant depends on many factors such as one’s temperament, profession and social environment. Dr Sameer Malhotra Head of Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Fortis Hospital reveals, “There is always an urge in people to be accepted and be known in their social groups. More importantly, what we see happening around us becomes a social norm. I don’t think one can generalise if men want to be perceived as family oriented, or as studs chasing women. It totally depends on the kind of social set-up that you are a part of and the profession that you are into. Also, the temperament of a person plays a very important role in what they want to project themselves as.” Well, it’s not just the perception of men that rules the entire study. What is more engaging is the outlook of women, which also seems to be changing. “Women today are smart and well educated. They want to be in a stable relationship rather than being with men who are merely lady killers. Independent and strong-headed women are ruling today, and they need substance in a relationship. This makes the ‘macho image’ take a back seat,” says Dr Samir Parikh consultant psychiatrist Max Healthcare.
“In today’s time macho men get the young girls, the ones that want to have their fun in life. Sensitive men get the more responsible women, the ones that want to stay with you for life,” says Gaurav Balani, musician, indicating that the priorities of both men and women have changed with time.
“Gender stereotypes have changed over the years,” says Dr Megha Hazuria Gore, clinical psychologist, Max Health Care. She adds, “Stereotypes are no longer applicable in today’s world. Times have changed. Initially, there was a notion that men should be strong to physically protect women. But that ideology doesn’t apply to the women of today, who don’t need protective men as physical comforts.Both the sexes are looking for deeper aspects of a long-term relationship.”

Kasab - Kapital Punishment Awaiting

Indian Constituency has an amazing set of dirty dealing with the citizens here. They acquire tax to cause all sorts of painful day to day amendment to the tax payers.The spend uncountable amount of currency to protect a criminal who finally has to sentenced.They follow up commandable amount of trial and error to protest terrorism and do nothing to the real convicts.What the Indian government needs to decide primarily is what are we looking for?
Are we fighting Pakistan as a country or are we fighting terrorism.If we are fighting Pakistan, then why are we spending so much for a criminal like Kasab. Majority population is this country go to sleep with hungry stomach. Kasab needs no trial,no discussion,no decisions.
If we are fighting terrorism, then who is Kasab,Fahim Ansari and Shahabuddin. They are the terrorist accomplices from one country or the other.Why is the discrimanation of judgement for one from Pakistan and the two other from India?
The muslim votebank is ever lucrative to the Indian ruling ministry.Fahim was the one who provided the maps of Mumbai to lashkar a Toiba. Where is his trial?where is the Indian Law heading to when it comes to him.

It is high time that Indian judicial system start dealing with the Islamic terrorists, rather than showing concern to the human rights of their victims.The cannot always think in terms of keeping their ministry running.If Fahim Ansari and Shahabuddin would have been Pakistani Terrorist and Kasab would have been an Indian muslim, would the story being portrayed still be the same?The government in India would have done their best to prove that Kasab needs to safeguarded and the two others needs to be demonstrated as terrorists.
This is where we stand....!!

The Tale Of Two Societies !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYW_-xAKD5s&feature=player_embedded#

The urban India is the India we see and would love to see. the big cities are developing into metropolitans. The zooming car drivers are assisted with an extra help of Metros. At the grass root level, the real face of India remains as what we see in Slumdog Millionaire. The poor, the unfed, the hungry Indian....
The distinction at one point of time used to be in between cast and creed and sex. Now.. it is only society wise. The urban India and the rural India. Similar is the situation with the social animals like us and the Dantewada tribes whom we call the Maoists.
Where is the reality of this situation? Is anyone doing a root cause analysis and coming to a conclusion to find out the why of this entire act.
This entire show is an offering to the tribal by the Urban India. I would rightly quote from Arundhati Roy after she had spent quality time with the Maoists. It is the Rich putting forward the poor to fight the poorest. This is the reality we fail to face.
A Group of tribal living in a forest has no aspirations other than protecting themselves from the wild animals and living. When they are surrounded by the police force to evacuate the place for industry purpose how are they to fight? They are so hungry that they cannot go into hunger strike like most of our politicians. They have no money so they cannot protest against taxpaying system. All they can do is be the animal...Snatch the guns and kill the attackers. That is their survival strategy.

The police force of this country is a pawn in the hand of the cycle of violence for decades now. This is not the first time that the police are being killed. In small numbers they are killed every day. Only when they die in a huge number, it becomes an issue. They are kept in such unimaginable poor set up. Their life never looks beyond the barracks. Their family are put up in shanty barracks with dirty and unhealthy unhygienic wash and clean areas. Their children go to a barrack like set up that they call school. When the barrack like schools of children gets destroyed, we read in the news paper that the school of army children has been blown up by terrorists. How would a terrorist discriminate between a barrack and a school??
Poverty drives the border police force to all mean deeds. When these people guarding our border take in hand their survival strategy, that is when commoners say that the BSF are not safe people.
On similar lines, when a tribal women is battered, tortured and raped, we don't come to know about it. They do not have media coverage. However, when the tribal woman snatches the AK47 and promises to stand by and protect herself, we are in an awe.

We never think who we are fighting, why are we fighting ? They are a part of us. They are just like us. We get to see the more diverse, more aggressive and more brutal human practises in them because that is how we have kept them. Fighting and surviving is all they learnt in their life. They fight poverty, facilities, hunger, animals, diseases and life on the whole. Who is responsible for this?

Doesn't the government play a crucial role in what they are today? They have got no aid for decades, no one has offered them assistance with food, diseases and education. No government went inside these areas to find out how they are doing.
The government has stretched the elastic of their patience too much. Now is the time...to face the consequences.
Let us not be the advocate of this government. Let us react to this genocidal issue. Let us be human being.

Love is not only blind but deaf and dumb as well....

Quoted from Lopamudra Ghatak on 06:13 PM, Apr 07, 2010 http://ibnlive.in.com/conversations/thread/148981.html


This triangle love story was indeed a very scripted way of getting lime-light and the press focus.Finally, Sania Mirza, the poster girl of India and the scandalous Shoaib Malik fixes their own matches and proves that bird of same feathers flock together.They have once again done exactly what is not meant to be done.
Cheap popularity is what both of them have attained from both the nation. So much of hew and cry for escaping an alimony amount..thats strange for a person like Shoaib.They could have handled things in house and made peace long back.With that we could have escaped two great speeches for the duo....
First Sania telling the press that she is least bothered abt Indo-Pak issues and all she cares abt is about her hair-do on the wedding day. And Shoaib telling the press what a woman should do when she has a stomach ache(quoting for Ayesha Siddiqui).However, Jab Mia Biwi razee to kya karega Papparazzi(as quoted by a frnd of mine).Only thing is that, they could have mentained a low key affair to take care of the whole issue.

Shoaib could have finished with Ayesha and moved on with Sania. While for Sania..it would have been an easy transit from one Shoaib to another....

Man-Woman: The gruble and Rumble.....

Long lives the Man-Woman fight..and they do so happily ever after. They fight at home, they fight on the road, they fight in Parliaments...I will not be surprised if they fight in their favourite dreams as well.
Who is the best..who does the best..no stones go unturned.

While a man considers everything as their birth right, women have started asking permission for their birth right. While man wants to show a woman that they dominate the society and all is run by them..women wants to show them that they are the one who abide with all the constitutional rules and regulations....But they live happily ever after.

In the same way..Man always shows a woman that the road is his, he is the best driver and he has the control on the woman(parked in the side seat) and the machine(the car)..woman leaves no hues and cries to show that though he is driving she is the one giving directions.Women never give up on correcting men about road sense, traffic rules and cleaniless(though she might be an absolute bizzard on the road)

Time and again we are reminded about which one is a man's job and which one is woman's.Man and women happily point their finger at each other to make things more accurate or worse.We look forward to appritiate the good deed that one does.That moment,we do not discriminate if it was done by a man or a woman.What is accountable is the pride of the deed.Inspite...the addiction to discriminate remains.

To join the parliament women require a reservation..rather quota within the quota, to have women in the army,men has drawn a line Of Control(LOC) within the LOC at the borders.Women were first allowed into the Army in 1992. In 2005, the Army explained its policy of limiting the service for women to 14 years. In an affidavit filed in the High Court, the Army said: "The background of our troops who hail from rural areas with fixed concepts of women had to be considered at the time of induction of women as officers into the Army. Grant of Permanent Commission would result in placing women officers as Commanding Officers of units, which was considered inappropriate."

To take any step forward....the Man-Woman Pang springs up on our head. What is the solution for this?Can a woman be less successful than a man? can she be less performing than a man or can a man not handle and share equal rights with a woman? What is this discrimination all about?
Why does the woman have a ask for right?Why does a man already has a right?
which ammendment which constitution says that as an individual a woman does not have a right that a man has.Why does anyone have to Heired with what is yours.
This nation required much more attention in things that are more critical, more important,quickly parishing,slowly becoming extinct.

So why not give up the black hole tragedy of the ongoing Man-Woman thing. They can live happily ever after.

When Man and Woman sign a deal.....

The famous outrageous Generation-X is finally coming to an end.Whats next is the question...for everyone. It is definitely Generation-Z. So where is the human civilization going after Z ?

Everything is going paperless...from newspper to school copies.So goes relationship.Man and woman also have set their own boundaries and don not hesitate to get in paperless virtually documented deals.Be it a relationship or friendship...what is been looked upon is convenience.Stay together as long as convenient, love each other till its convenient, help one another as log as it stands convenient.

Pity !! Where the thoughts are leading Man to....is it truely convenient to search for convenience in everybit one does?Think about it !!

A Vision Of Me !!!!

I have my Goals and they determine what I am going to be next.

What I do for others, I expect others also to the ame for me.

I take good care of my attitude, Bad attitude is the only disability in life

I see to it that I do not get my head get too big, at one time it will break your neck.

Watch your character, they become your destiny.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

There are 2 primary choices in life: To accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibilty to change them.

I always look at what I have left with,not what I have lost out of you.

THe Mayawati - Verdict !!

Mayawati is a phenomenon to Modern India.

She is the creator of history in whatever sense it may be...good or bad.

Her Dalit uplift reform is a good work however, the complete plan needs channelization.Today is the D-Day for our lady. The Supreme court verdict needs to be justifyable in a practical order.

If she wishes to be the Goddess for the Dalits, she has to play the savior-built schools,make sure that every Dalit child is educated, build industry and make them work efficient, Give them protection from the terrors of daily life, food,shelter etc.That is what a man would pray for when he joins his hand in front of the Almighty.

Building monument is a complete waste of money. When one is socially tampered, economically killed everyday...he/she does not go and see monuments. They stand on the main gate to the monument and beg for food.
The stretch of the Noida-Gurgaon connector ails my heart every time I pass the huge beautiful monument. We have lost the greenery there to the concrete beauty. Should Mayawati not restore that ??? What does justice say??

Mile Sur Meraa Tumhaara...Makes a Bollywoodised come back!!

Like every remix version, it is new. However, I will still give it a thousand thought before replacing it with the old one. The austerity in the original track touches the heart of every listener.
22 superstars, 18 musicians, 13 artistes and singers and 15 other known personalities....but it did not do the magic of the original one. Like every other remake...it will remain a 2nd copy.
The music is modern not classically Indian, not at all. The album is too Bollywoodised and not acceptable.
What surprises me is the casting, Deepika Padukone's loud limb demonstration or the inauguration by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan. The cast of Bollywood Kids....Ranbir, Shahid, Karan Johar and others. Till this album was made, I never knew they were as appreciated a contributor in India's face to the world that we could miss on people like APJ Abdul Kalam, Sachin Tendulkar or the people who have managed our national borders from the army and the navy. What has Amitabh Bachchan done to India other than acting in every possible movie and commercial that comes his way and put the money to save his own house.
If the director wished to make an album with filmdom only...he could have looked across India for talents who have taken Indian movies to far off land other than Bollywood. Every state could have contributed better than the ones portrayed here.
This music album will fade away like most other remakes...and I am sure we will have that one “Mile Sur Meraa Tumhaara…Ki Sur Baney Humhara! Humhara!”...the original

Global warming for real or is it all hype ??

Is global warming for real or is it all hype ??

Bahar Dutt: http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/author/258/bahardutt.html

We all simply do talk about it every now and then. Is it not just to show that we are also a part of the contributing and concerned class. Are we really doing enough to take a stand on this situation. Simple activities just to tell oneself that "Yes, I have done my part" is the most we can do in a day to day life. Discussions and debates will never come to end. Environmentalists will do their part, news channel will do their part, politicians will do their part,filmdom will do their endorsements and common men will watch them. Peep into all their homes.....and find them contributing more and more to worsen the situation.

Lets not discuss,debate and indulge. Lets just switch of the electronics power plug rather than leaving them in standby once done. Lets go paperless.lets bring home a sapling, lets Go Green !!

Searching.....

I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.I am still searching..... for that one thing that I have been waiting for ever since. I don't know what it is however, I am sure I will know when my search is over..when I am destined.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Liberty, for me, has changed nothing..that might be one reason why I am still searching.

Today I want to break all protocols and walk towards where I am destined and touch the silver line of the bordered, undefined search. That is where peace is ..that is where faith is..that is where love is...And that is where life is.

Man - Mind or Muscle !!

Breaking the eternal myth that the male species loves being perceived as attractive, sexually active or ‘lady-killers’; findings based on an international study recently revealed that most men want respect, a harmonious family life and good relationships with their partner. Interestingly, the “macho man” tag is no longer macho.
“A woman gets to know who you are in 10 minutes,” claims model and actor Milind Soman. For someone like Milind, who rules over the hearts of many around the globe, a macho image is something that cannot be projected. He says, “Men today know that they’ve got to be original. I feel that the best thing to be is ‘real’. If you’re macho, it will show. If you’re sensitive, it will show as well. Trying to look honourable and caring won’t work for long if you’re not that kind.” According to the study, a majority of the men ranked a healthy lifestyle and compatibility with their partners over mere self fulfilling or sexual concerns. “I’ve always been a shy guy and I feel that once a man grows up, a sense of responsibility and the need to be respected and be in a meaningful relationship arises on its own. Macho is something that is too frivolous a term for me. While I do agree that there must be many women who are attracted towards macho men, personally it has always been a frail way of projecting oneself,” says model-turned-actor Muzzamil Ibrahim.
However, experts believe that the drive for projecting themselves as honourable and selfreliant depends on many factors such as one’s temperament, profession and social environment. Dr Sameer Malhotra Head of Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Fortis Hospital reveals, “There is always an urge in people to be accepted and be known in their social groups. More importantly, what we see happening around us becomes a social norm. I don’t think one can generalise if men want to be perceived as family oriented, or as studs chasing women. It totally depends on the kind of social set-up that you are a part of and the profession that you are into. Also, the temperament of a person plays a very important role in what they want to project themselves as.” Well, it’s not just the perception of men that rules the entire study. What is more engaging is the outlook of women, which also seems to be changing. “Women today are smart and well educated. They want to be in a stable relationship rather than being with men who are merely lady killers. Independent and strong-headed women are ruling today, and they need substance in a relationship. This makes the ‘macho image’ take a back seat,” says Dr Samir Parikh consultant psychiatrist Max Healthcare.
“In today’s time macho men get the young girls, the ones that want to have their fun in life. Sensitive men get the more responsible women, the ones that want to stay with you for life,” says Gaurav Balani, musician, indicating that the priorities of both men and women have changed with time.
“Gender stereotypes have changed over the years,” says Dr Megha Hazuria Gore, clinical psychologist, Max Health Care. She adds, “Stereotypes are no longer applicable in today’s world. Times have changed. Initially, there was a notion that men should be strong to physically protect women. But that ideology doesn’t apply to the women of today, who don’t need protective men as physical comforts.Both the sexes are looking for deeper aspects of a long-term relationship.”

3-Idiots !!

http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/sagarikaghose/223/54036/from-three-idiots-to-a-nation-of-idiots.html

Sagarika Ghosh: On 3-idiots

I was astonished by the intense observation that you have done while watching the movie. I am sure you are among the few people like me who have practically noticed the mocks for the Laplace Transform in the film. I would say there were a lot of loop holes in the script - from trading an imperial degree to being outstandingly out of the way brillient student. Moreover, the most striking part was being the world reknowned scientist after everything that had happened and that too without an identity or a stamp of an institution. This is definitely not only difficult but impossible in any education system. The professor Virus who had 3 students committing suicide for his demand to excellence, as you will notice, goes unattended by the law and enforcement throughout. In a country like ours ...all these are impossible.Emergency landing of a flight when a person faints would never end up saying "gentleman ..I am fine. You can carry on". that would have been doomsday for aviation industry.
The film was fun, the script was well versed and everyone did their job well. Aamir, Sharman,Madhavan and Boman Irani are all wonderful actors and Chetan Bhagat's adaptation did a magic to the film.I would say we can simply enjoy and come back without a lesson from this movie. All the characters are simply hypothetical and one among those 1000 special people out there.
Professor Virus is a representative of that one professors among all of them across the globe.Racho is one among all the brilliant students across and so is the entire cast.
So.... This movie is a good watch- Go, have fun,have a laugh and come back......No Take-Homes and No Doggy Bag(That could turn dangerous!!!)