Inquilab Zindabad

Arvind kejriwal sworn in as Chief Minister of Delhi. The era of good Governanve begins. It's opposition party's responsibilities too, to keep them on challanges and perform their duties selflessly.

Inqulab Zindabad. Parivartan aa chuka hai.

Long Live Rebellion.

Wisdom for Life. You only need to know this.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

 - Buddha 

Creating 1st world experience in 3rd world !

Way of life, 

Way of thinking, 

Way of perceiving things 

Way of giving back to society

Way of narturing individualism

Way of nurturing relations

Way of honoring personal spaces

Way of positive criticism 

Way of healthy competition

Way of lawful duties

Way of moral obligations

Way of daily routine.

Doesn't take latlong change, but mindset. Nothing Else matters.

-ciao

11/12/13

How often we get a date like that ! 

When you wonder, why its December so soon, you have no idea how you wasted those 11 months. 

Klueless !!!

-ciao

BELIEVE TRY LEAVE

First You Need To BELIEVE.

Second You Need To TRY

Third You Need To LEAVE it to Destiny. 

Nikal Pado Re Bandhu .. Nikal Pado re

Nikal Pado Re Rahi .. Nikal Pado Re

 

http://youtu.be/p7LvIUbA4_o

Namumkin Bhi Mumkin Hove Karke Dekho Re

Nikal Pado Re Bandhu .. Nikal Pado re

Nikal Pado Re Rahi .. Nikal Pado Re

ciao

Sachin Sachin - 16 Nov 2013

The God Moment 

It was one of the best moments in life to listen to Sachin's speech. Will never forget the moment when after the victory lap got over, he walked down the ground alone and bowed down to the pitch... touched billions of hearts & made millions cry. We didn't go out of the stadium for almost 1 hour after the match is over, until police started to intervene.. we few gathered around the MCA pavilion and chanted Sachin Sachin... That was the moment he came out again to wish everyone final goodbye... The God moment... Dear SRT we will miss you. 

#ThankYouSachin

Happy Retired Life. 

Sachin Sachin - The Sachin Phenomenon

It's not mere a ticket, it's deliverance of a fan's undying faith and continuos toil to see Master Blaster's last Cricket match. 

The chants of "Sachin Sachin", the eclectic exuberance, overflowing joy and contagious smiles on fan faces when Sachin comes to bat, indispensable... cant be compared to anything else.

Aisa koi zindagi se vada toh nahi tha

To the dreams unfullfilled and the fullfilled ones too.

Jo mila hai, woh kabhi sapno ke barabar tha. Aur jo nahi mila uska sapna aaj bhi aankhon me hai.

Jo mila woh mila, jo nahi mila woh nahi mila.

Ab na maut ka dar, na rab ka vasta.

-ciao

सचिन स्तोत्र - Sachin Stotra Stuti

सचिन स्तोत्र

बॅटधारी महारुद्रा पूर्णरनवान मारुती

रमेशी अंजलीनाथा रनदूता प्रभंजना ||१||

विक्रमानी तुझ्या देवा भरली सर्व दफ्तरे

एकहाती काढिली त्वा अख्तराची लक्तरे ||२||

कसोटी खेळसी जेव्हा, सारे विक्रम तोडिले

लारासी टाकिले मागे , रनासी तुलना नसे ||३||

एकदिवसीय सामन्यात बोलरां धडकी भरे

तयासी तुलना कोठे , पॉटींग कॅलिस धाकुटे ||४||

एक्सप्रेसची होते पॅसेंजर, स्पिनर सरळ होतसे

वॉर्न तो महा बिलंदर तुजला स्वप्नी पाहतसे ||५||

वकारे आपटून ऐसा तुजवर चेंडू सोडीला

नाकावर जाऊन बसता चेहरा रक्ते माखला ||६||

पुढचाच चेंडू झाला लॉंग ऑफला सीमापार

सर्वासी कळले तेव्हा हा जरा वेगळा प्रकार ||७||

वन डे चा तू राजा चॅरीटी करतो बरी

२०-२० व कसोटी धावयंत्र ते चालले ||८||

इतकी वर्षे खेळून तुझी भूक ना भागली

विराट अश्विन रैना मागती तुझी सावली ||९||

कधी पाठ वा कोपर दुखता माकडाहाती कोलीते

सचिन तो सर्वदा शांत त्याची बॅटच बोलते ||१०||

तोडले झोडले फोडले कधी सीमेपार भिरकाविले

सगळ्यांची केलीस शेळी, जे तुझ्यावर गुरकावले ||११||

कधी कठीणसमय येता घेशी हाती बॉल तू

मंदाविशी फटकेबाजा, देशी पटकन ब्रेक-थ्रू ||१२||

स्लीप-गली-कव्हरआदि शॉर्ट-लेग समस्तही

जाती सीमेपाशी आनंदे सचिन दर्शने ||१३||

जिंकविले किती सामने तरी एक इच्छा उरी

विश्वचषक जिंकून देवा तीही तू केली पूरी ||१४|

हे धरा पंधराश्लोकी लाभली शोभली बरी

दृढदेहो निसंदेहो धावसंख्या चंद्रकळागुणे ||१५||

फलंदाजी अग्रगण्यू मुम्बैकरांसि मंडणू

रनरूपी तू महात्मा शत शतकेधारी तू ||१६|

इति श्री ऋग्वेदकृतं संकटनिरसन नाम सचिनस्तोत्रं संपूर्णं |

ज़िन्दगी कैसी है पहेली हाय .... Manna Dey ... RIP.

One of my favourite, Legendary film singer Manna Dey passed away today at the age 94. Rest in peace.

In memory of #MannaDey, the voice of love, of playfulness, of desire, of longing.

Movie/Album: आनंद (1971)
Music By: सलिल चौधरी
Lyrics By: योगेश
Performed By: मन्ना डे
 
ज़िन्दगी कैसी है पहेली हाय
कभी तो हँसाए, कभी ये रुलाये
कभी देखो मन नहीं जागे, पीछे-पीछे सपनों के भागे
एक दिन सपनों का राही, चला जाये सपनो के आगे कहाँ
ज़िन्दगी कैसी है पहेली...
जिन्होंने सजाये यहाँ मेले, सुख-दुःख संग-संग झेले
वही चुनकर खामोशी, यूँ चले जाएँ अकेले कहाँ
ज़िन्दगी कैसी है पहेली...
source: http://hindilyricspratik.blogspot.in/2009/06/zindagi-kaisi-hai-paheli-manna-dey.html

-ciao

Pune Rains

Unapologetically Random ! 

It rains it thunders it showers it drizzles it pours ... all at its will. anytime anywhere.

Love to hate. 

My Facebook Experiences : Using and Deleting !

Disclaimer: Generally people say "It doesn't matter as long as you don't give importance to it or don't make a daily routine... Whole world is using it and what stops you from using it ?"
To those: That thing "whole world". Get over it.

Ok, Get it right ...Click my Facebook profile link on the left ...

Waht ?? Not working ?? "This content is currently unavailable"

YES ! that's precisely the reason why you are reading this blog.

This is interesting and long story short I deleted it. Whoaaa.. 2500+ photos, 400+ friends, admin of 7 pages and thousands of pagelikes. Has he blocked me? Has he gone mad? Is he troubled or facing any tough time? Has he become psycho? (well that's what all your FB friends think "first thing" when they couldn't find you anymore on social networking)

BUT Believe me, everything is all-rite and it's a decision taken in full consciousness.

Facebook is new age "social" experiment. Yes, It is.

We were not born when the society came into existence. We were part of it the moment we came to existence. Now see it through this experiment, When you came on this social platform, how you used to share things freely when there were not many people using it, as time passed, it got more concrete.. all your family members are there, your colleagues, your near/far and dear/non-dear ones ... Don't you now think once before sharing things (social obligations)? Worst it is for the infants & kids... even before they know anything they have profiles on Facebook, they are getting it as legacy... legacy ..that's traditional society thing. So they don't get the freedom to choose there social environment because they already have one... and who are their friends, the friends of their parents and their kids.... a lot of parental control since the beginning. Ohh yeah ..now you know what I'm getting at. Think about it you can draw umpteen parallels.

I created profile when Facebook was not at all popular ... Very first among my friends, back in 2008. It was QUITE. No Buzz.

Since 2010 it picked up, Posting frequent updates, sharing photos & videos, ranting out daily, keeping away for weeks, Showing and hiding stuff, restricting updates and bombarding others daily, posting opinions on owned pages, spamming, promoting pages, creating groups, events and so on ... All this started giving new insights about social networking, personal space, building relationships and understanding how it works and affects the relationships.

It's quite interesting. "Facebook is a real society." Declare it ...may be a showmanship country. But like a real society it feeds itself on your life span. The time you give to it out of your life.

"The expression of experience takes the priority than experiencing the moment itself." A lot can be said about this, but when we hear at tourist places "Hey take my profile pic here.." "Let's take a cover photo ..come everyone .." enough!

Well I like to be social, I'm an ENTJ and I must draw my energy from the external world. To top it, I'm a hobby photographer and like to share my clicks. Yet I'm choosing to stay away from Facebook. There are numerous reasons and I will detail it out...

1. Facebook makes you a public entity. : Yeah... pretty common. Where I spent my weekend, with whom I was, what I ate and what I drank ... everything is out there in open. Earlier the security was controllable, but due to recent timeline changes, many sections are left public. Only a keen observer can make out how to hide your activity feed. Many wont even bother but they are making themselves and their friends more vulnerable to ad agencies and bringing a bigger danger of letting the information go in public domain. It can even hamper somebodies personal life. Oftentimes Facebook over glorifies a person who is high on sharing things. It doesnt necessarily mean the same because you are still seeing the person from the window he/she has opened for you and not in entirety.

2. News Feed that fades away your time. : Constant updates on timeline makes you a spectator than a doer. Sometimes you are on the other side but that doesn’t make you wise either. This itself is the most effective reason to stay away. I tried to control the news feed but it's useless to have a blank news feed. Human mind doesn’t work that way. Once you are there you must get all the updates. No matter how repetitive and irrelevant they are to you. Moreover it's not educating you or letting you form your own opinions. In non FB days people were more inclined to read and focus on what they like, now we keep on reading junk photo messages which may be funny but low in taste(most of them) and non educative. We spend hours reading some "Page Admins" views on status quo and keep on sharing them. This surely degrades our own appetite for learning. Feeding mostly on the comic, satire and sarcasm makes you psychologically unbalanced. You must have noticed, People generally (mostly) use Facebook for celebration of victories, happy stories, achievements, travelogs, purchases, happy life events, meetups or anything that like  (seldom we come across heartbroken lovers who keep on sharing sad poetry n songs). This constant dose of  happiness is what makes you restless. It asks your subconscious to push harder to stay afloat in this Happy wave. With a little introspection it wont be hard to believe in this fact. Haven't it made you miserable when sometimes you see  -your dreams, someone else is achieving?

3. Facebook doesn't care for your privacy. : This is reason enough. Since Facebook's inception, it has changed privacy policies and settings every year, making you more public and thus more vulnerable.The sense of getting spied is getting stronger. Every search of yours every keystroke is monitored, and if I'm guessing it correctly: There's a meta-profile of every individual with Facebook. It probably knows more about you than your closest friends. A online activity cannot be undone, it only propagates leaving more traces. Facebook servers must be full of such traces and they are using it freely to target you. I'm not even touching cookies here. That's a whole different story. Heard of Facebook bug bounty program? Well it doesn't address your genuine concerns over privacy, automated friend requests being sent or allowing any new profile/app to take over your and your friends personal information. The more open your profile is, the more profit they get through advertisements. Why would they pay attention to these loopholes? These are the means of Facebook's earnings.

4. Stops relationship growth. : Yes, it doesn't allow relationships to develop naturally. The moment you add someone... an acquaintance or peer or stranger as friend you get to know all about them... photos, interactions, friends, hangouts, thoughts, past history... that naturally makes you think and start building first impressions, opinions about personality, leaving a very less scope to talk and know the person "in person". Novelty takes a hit, you find nothing new when you meet the person because you have got to know his/her spheres of interest and likes.  Does it excite you to know more of person when you already know so much, or does it make you speculate the next moves of the person or helps you plan your next moves? Manipulations... It's works more than different ways subconsciously than it appears on surface. Most of the times the speed at which you post exceeds the speed at which you meet/casually talk with that new person. This makes the other person more aware about your whereabouts without even talking to you and leaves them wondering. This is a new kind of experience coming to fore using social networking. We build relationships through experiences and togetherness. Those experiences are now scattered in two major categories.. one that includes your new friends (you might have added them after having such experience together) and the one that doesn't include your new friends. It's slightly disturbing. The person you barely know is now all over your news feed, and most of the times you may take things in wrong way because you don’t know the person well or the context in which he/she is posting something. It's a troublesome proposition. In other ways it also entices spying behavior,  jealousy, constant need of receiving updates and likes for stuff you posted. It unsettles you if it stops, because sharing is caring and if others don't care and pass it off without acknowledging it starts building insensitivity in so called (barely) friendly relationships. This insensitivity might just show up when you actually meet the person (reserved behaviors, as if keeping hidden mental accounts, again it's not superficial but subconscious:  you cant pass it off saying it's not true, the environment real or online affects everyone in same way.) This is the case, where the tool takes more importance than the objective itself. By oversimplifying things Facebook actually dumb down everything.  

Ok, there are ways to protect your privacy up-to some extent but that makes you manipulative and untrustworthy. In a open society people talk and share with each other. Hiding things from select people (or sharing with few) wont do any good to you in this scenario.

5. Any surprises. : NO we know about everything the moment it happens, on Facebook.

6. Tag me : Ohh yes and get blocked. Why on earth everyone should know about every person I hang out with. Places, people, likes, dislikes, food, clothing, music, movies, books everything is shared to everyone out there. Why ..because we like to and we don’t give a damn about privacy. And even if we do, Facebook keeps updating their privacy policies and uses all the information we provide in numerous ways to benefit them and corporate eyeing for our personal data. It's simple thumb rule "Nothing comes for free in this world."

7. Unwanted friends & followers. :  This happens with lucky few (and mostly with beautiful girls). Haven’t you seen hundreds of followers in a profile (thank god if your friend request is accepted). Those are the one's hopelessly waiting to get added. Funny but true. Same goes with friend requests from unknown people, spammers, sponsored ads and promotions. Unwanted Likes? yes that’s also new age problem. Do it never or do it always. Go on a "Liking" spree or stay quite, if you choose to be selective ..wait for the payback or silent treatment.

8. Real-time availability. : The moment you post something on Facebook, you give away knowingly or unknowingly your location details (to Facebook always & sometimes to all) and your availability. You might not be in a mood to start conversation but Some people just wait to message at the same moment and might get offended if you don’t promptly respond. Well isn't it annoying? Moreover you cant pretend that you are sleeping because the update says "It's midnight and I'm preparing Maggi noodles..." real gotcha !

The list can go further because there are deep caveats of human mind and sociopsychological influences at work.

It might turn out to be useful tool if used carefully and with balance. But again human mind is not that helpful, it makes you wander haplessly whenever possible and it's carefree & limitless. Striking right balance is always questionable too, everyone has a different threshold. On other side, Facebook is high on exploiting personal details, interactions. The Observer pattern is turning out to be  "Loudspeaker" pattern. Facebook is trying to be everything-  Twitter, Flickr, Yahoo IM, Instagram, Blogger, Skype... they all served different purposes without crossing the lines and letting one express freely in that particular space. Facebook invaded those boundaries, by connecting all the dots they destroyed ecosystem. It looks convenient in first glance, but it's treacherous. One monolith giant trying to track all online activities of a person. They can reveal a lot about a person or just provide information for money. Hope it finds sense of privacy and personal space only then I might reconsider to ponder upon it again.

I have seen most of it or should I say used it to the highest possible extent ... but now I don’t want to see more. Call me psycho...whatever. I don't care. For now I'm not returning back.

Nearing the end of this blog, Thank you for being good reader, now the million dollar question...

So how does it feel after deleting, well... ask yourself, how you ever felt before having one.

Reclaim the calm.








-ciao

I sucked at public speaking today.

I don’t know why ??????????

I got no stage fear, I got no chills, I got no butterflies in stomach...still...

This is where my world opens inside out, so I must say I need to work hard on getting it right.

I was Ok in the beginning, but when I looked at the audience in front a sudden feeling of awkwardness crept in.. Do I really know these people, why suddenly they look so unfamiliar to me? Is this feeling pointing to my reserved work relationships... do I need to open up more at workplace on my floor with everyone casually?

It was a sure sign that I'm not feeling comfortable in present setting.
And I must make conscious efforts to set it right.

#BITSiansDay BITSians Day - 2nd August 2013

If you are a proud BITSian, join the thousands of BITSians to celebrate the first ever 'BITSians Day' - the day when the world will witness the BITSian pride and what it means to be a BITSian!

2009HZ12681 Celebrating the #BITSianday @BITSAA   Proud to be one.

Ship Of Theseus

Seldom one come across something, which challenges his belief system, challenges his worth being a human... Ship Of Theseus, is one such movie which did exactly the same to me. I was excited to watch it the moment news broke that Kiran Rao is going to present it along with UTV. When I booked the ticket online for 10 PM show, I knew I'm going to watch it with just a couple of other people, not more than 6 to 7 ... because that's the number of audience you get for something different than mainstream. To my surprise, the hall was almost full, mostly the crowd from age range 23 to 30 and the 55 onward. There were some cold sighs in the beginning few minutes, but slowly everyone got engrossed in movie. No one left hall in interval, in fact everyone tried to finish their business and came back quick not to miss a moment when it began after interval. The crowd was surely enjoying as there were hearty laughs in the last story. Everyone got connected to what was shown , may be that is the reason that no one got up even as the credits started rolling, there was a unanimous applause in the end.  

This happened exactly at Inox Amanora Pune, two days before. 

The movie left me wondering about everything. The cinematography is pulling me again to theater to watch it one more time. One time is just not enough for that splendid work of cinematography. 

The discussions between Maitreya and Charvaka, between Navin and his grandmother, between Aaliya and her boyfriend... everything is so real. Every word of it.

One dialogue between Maitreya and Charvaka, made a lasting impact on me "Your inaction is also your Karma" , and so does between Sohum and his grandmother "bas itna hi ho pata hai", and so does between Aida and reporter "Why is it so amazing to not have any limits or doubts". I must say the whole movie made a lasting impact.

Lastly what really carved my heart is the pounding heartbeat in the ending scene.The cave exploration, Was it a cave or human body? It gave whole new meaning to intuitive thinking, filmmaking and leaving a lot to think about.

Self exploration is the journey one must take to find himself.

This will surely get extended welcome from the fans of good cinema. My sincere request to movie distributors, please hang on and let this movie play for longer.

The Ideal Day

as imagined years before...

T.I.M.E.

Time as Metal - "Bahot time gal gaya yaar."

Time as Sand - "hath se fisal gaya yaar"

Time as Span - "kharab chal raha hai yaar"

Time as Opportunity - "mera accha time aane de"

Time as Weed - "Burn that time"

Time as Person - "Bahot time pass ho gaya yaar. "

Time as Tears - jane kab beh gaya katra katra ...

Time as Bird - udd gaya ...

Time as Time - ye sab kab hogaya pata hi nahi chala...

My First Car !

yes, finally !!!
It's Hyundai Accent Viva (ABS, 1.6L DOHC ). Brought it from Mahindra First Choice showroom for used cars. I decided to buy a used car after a lot if pondering over this purchase. And when I saw this powerful Black Pearl, I couldn't resist!!

Rest and Relax, stop the search.

I don't know whether all what I'm doing is right or wrong... I'm just trying to go with the flow and that's certainly not me. However I think that's what is the right thing to do! So keine problem. Rest and Relax !!! When you are already there don't start searching again, just Rest and Relax for a while... and don't forget to enjoy !

Happy Bday to Me :)

Half life !!! Turned 30.

Qt, Android, Ubislate : Marrying Frugality with High Tech App Development

I was working on this thing from long time, finally before 2 days got success at it.
My recently purchased  Ubislate 7C+ (Also called Akash Tablet) is now running Qt (C++ based) applications on Android Platform.

Tum Bin

Happy Valentines Day !

Manjil pe pohachne ki khushi tab hoti hai jab hamsafar sath ho...

Long Live Love. Forever and ever...

-Ciao

Temple Run

I was running ... I got very good at it. I ran more than 5k meters in single run without tripping. I loved running. And then I explored the "Store". I was totally unaware of it before. It had many things to buy with coins. I started running to collect the coins to buy those powerups and wings and to live those extra personas alias characters. I lost all the joy of running and I became coin hungry runner completing objectives one by one. Now I run only for objectives not for fun. Temple Run taught a big lesson ... a lesson for life.

H N Y 2 0 1 3

the best year has just began ... It's this year. Either I do it this year or never and I lead a normal life. And I have no plans to lead a normal life.


Happy New Year

Live Long & Prosper !

ciao.