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Happy Republic Day to All.

सीखे नित नूतन ज्ञान,नई परिभाषाएं,
जब आग लगे,गहरी समाधि में रम जाओ;
या सिर के बल हो खडे परिक्रमा में घूमो।
ढब और कौन हैं चतुर बुद्धि-बाजीगर के?

गांधी को उल्‍टा घिसो और जो धूल झरे,
उसके प्रलेप से अपनी कुण्‍ठा के मुख पर,
ऐसी नक्‍काशी गढो कि जो देखे, बोले,
आखिर , बापू भी और बात क्‍या कहते थे?

डगमगा रहे हों पांव लोग जब हंसते हों,
मत चिढो,ध्‍यान मत दो इन छोटी बातों पर
कल्‍पना जगदगुरु की हो जिसके सिर पर,
वह भला कहां तक ठोस कदम धर सकता है?

औ; गिर भी जो तुम गये किसी गहराई में,
तब भी तो इतनी बात शेष रह जाएगी
यह पतन नहीं, है एक देश पाताल गया,
प्‍यासी धरती के लिए अमृतघट लाने को।

- रामधारी सिंह “दिनकर”

Looks like this Hindi Poem “Bharat”, written by well known poet Ramdhari Singh “Dinkar”, suits well today.

Kanchan Gupta a former PMO official has written a story for The Pioneer and it is bleeding the truth about Dec 25, 1999 when world’s Biggest Democracy became a frenzy of headless chickens.

Could the Kandahar episode have ended any other way? Were an Indian aircraft to be hijacked again, would we respond any differently? Not really. As a nation we do not have the guts to stand up to terrorism. We cannot take hits and suffer casualties. We start counting our dead even before a battle has been won or lost. We make a great show of honouring those who die on the battlefield and lionise brave hearts of history, but we do not want our children to follow in their footsteps.

Rishi has jotted down all the references and steps needed to get a Voter ID in Bangalore, act now an get it painlessly. The last date for getting your name on the Electoral Rolls is 22 Feb, 2008. Use your rights and use it for Good.

Brindavan Garden, originally uploaded by abgpt.

Brindavan Garden (near Mysore in Karnataka, India) is amazingly awe-inspiring specially in the night. This photo is of the colourful fountains which are an integral part of the beautiful garden, taken at aperture f/5.6, 10 sec shutter speed and 6 mm focal length by my Canon S3 IS.

That’s me in YEP 2006, thanks to Sujoy for this photograph. Everything in the tag list of this post was there . Really an Awesome Party.

In a country like India, Mera Bharat Mahan, who is almighty? Law or God. I remember when Sanjay Dutt had to go to jail in 1993 for 16 months, his father used to read Sundar kand of The Holy Ramayana almost daily just for his well being. Today, what happened, we all know. Sometimes I think that our Desh is run by the Courts only, is that true? The Judges found him guilty of possessing an AK 47 that time, judge Kode declared that he is not a terrorist but he had done a crime of doing a sin of keeping a banned weapon in his suitcase. Sunill Dutt is not alive to read The Sundar Kand any more for the well being of his son but not-a-terrorist Sanjay Dutt has been escaped from being ominous for his family. The Law (Indian so-called-by-me God) is working !!!

FOSS.IN is here again, going to be organized from Nov 24 to 26 at IISC, Bangalore. Register Now before you have to pay double the registration fee.

I always thought, only AIR and a few private music broadcasting companies own the public radio channels in India but after reading this…

http://www.asiawaves.net/india-fm-radio.htm

There are 11 FM Radio Stations in Bangalore and 12 in Delhi, can anybody believe that?

If you ask me what do I want in the middle of my daily office work? What do you think would be my answer?

1) Singing “These are a few of my favorite things”?

2) Watching the whole “The Sound of Music”?

3) Pronouncing “rrrrrrruuummmmpunch”?

4) Listening to “Just you wait, ‘enry ‘iggins, just you wait!”?

5) Having a pizza on a WFH evening?

6) Finding an excuse to buy a new cell phone?

7) Watching video songs on VH1 all the saturday night?

Missing Dehradun a lot?

9) Catch a flight back to home?

Hurrrrrraaaay… Going to home…:)

HAPPY DIWALI… It’s really supercalifragilisticexpialidocious…