tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73732488630231833012009-10-28T18:17:57.861+05:30My Writings On My Passions - History, Languages, Some Movies, Life, Blah Blah Blah.Harkabirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07168397049449458753harkabirblogs@gmail.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7373248863023183301.post-59746170740409678322009-10-26T11:45:00.010+05:302009-10-27T17:25:53.257+05:302009-10-27T17:25:53.257+05:30

Inglourious Basterds In some senses Inglourious Basterds is a typical Quentin Tarantino movie with "Chapter" - based narrative, cinematic nods of acknowledgement to past movies from the same genre and comic relief blended into seemingly ultra-violent settings: (Col Hans Landa's sherlock-holmes-on-hormones calabash pipe compared to the Frenchman monsieur La Padite's rustic little

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Brigadier General - Transient ThroneJohn Nicholsonand General Custer as a footnoteI have always been interested in the history of military and it was not entirely unnatural for me to ponder a bit on the sudden promotion of a Captain John Nicholson to the rank of Brigadier in 1857. This jump in ranks ultimately led me to understand a bit more of military ranks and of John Nicholson. Here's what

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A lot has been said about the Mumbai attacks. I agree with somethings and disagree with some other things. Here are some things I feel the need to say to those who wish to know:1. Save the money which would be spent on the candle and / or flowers and / or text messages to each other asking to burn candles. Let's say Rs5 are saved per person.2. Donate these saving to Army Wives Association http://

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Sometimes…I say cheese when I want to say salt,Or ask you to run when I want you to halt,I wave goodbye when I want you to talk,Or push you away when I want you a lot

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To forget I write, The more I write the more images become sharp, The more images become sharp the more they cut through my heart, The more my heart bleeds the more alive I be, The more alive I feel the more I want thee, The more I want thee the more it pains to not have you near me, The more it pains the more I want to forget, To forget I write

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and maybe one dayyou will  just talkand i will just watchyou will tell me of lifeand i will live what you describeyou will use your words to help me rest to massage meand i will roll in them to remove my burden from meyou will speak with happiness gesturing from your eyes sitting on the bedand i will sleep listening to you with your lap under my headyou will touch my cheek and run your fingers

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Umrao Jaan - Yeh Kya Jageh Hai Doston Lyrics Lyrics - Akhlaq Muhammad Khan "Shahryar" Music - Muhammad Zahur Hashmi "Khayyam" Singer - Asha Bhonsle امراو جان ادا - یہ کیا جگہ ہے دوستوں یہ کیا جگہ ہے دوستوں یہ کیا جگہ ہے دوستوں یہ کون سا دیار ہے ، یہ کون سا دیار ہے حدّ نگاہ تک جہاں، حدَّ نگاہ تک جہاں، غبار ہی غبار ہے غبار ہی غبار ہے یہ کیا جگہ ہے دوستوں یہ

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This is not my original material. I found it in an email forwarded it to me. The owner of this material (not me) holds the copyright to it. Thanks Saurabh. To read my review of Google Chrome click here Let me know what you think about these sources of inspiration. The Inspiration Behind The Logo Design of Google Chrome This may be just another coincidence but there are some elements

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A Layman's Review of Google Chrome 0.2Or confessions of a decade old Opera user Or here comes the "IE Killer" Google has just released the beta version of its new browser called "Chrome". Although this release is not related to history per se or historical in nature I thought I'd jot down a few of my observations on Google Chrome because I've take to it like a fish to water, like Stalin to 

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Habib Miya (20th of May 1870 - 19th of Aug 2008) Habib Miya (alias Raheem Khan) passed away today at the grand grand grand grand grand old age of 138 years. Born in 1870, he was India's oldest pensioner and every year around the time of his birthday, 28th May, many news stories would be published about this miracle man. To put things into perspective observe that the great Ranjitshinji (in whose

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KINGDOM OF HEAVENKingdom of Heaven (released 2005) may be historically inaccurate. It may also be a tad racist (Palestinian villagers living in Palestine for the last few millenia are unable to farm their own Palestininan land until this ironsmith from the French alps comes on the scene and teaches them about irrigation and seed planting and lo and behold we have rivers of milk and honey). It may

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Ottoman Sultan Beyazid imprisoned by Amir Timur, painted by  Stanisław Chlebowski.The two were life long rivals and engaged in voluminous epistolary diplomacy before finally going for each other's jugularA rose by any other name ....... still has thorns. :)Timur – 1336 AD to 1405 AD The phenomenally phenomenal Amir Timur (as he is known in Asia) or Tamerlane / Timur Lane / Timurlane (as he is

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my my what a magnificent game you've played,now you are the victor but earlier you were the bait. And here is the rest of it.

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While watching Jodhaa Akbar I realised that it was a movie I would really like to review as I had some pre-conceived negative thoughts on it and these changed into positive thoughts immediately after the first few minutes . So then me thinks perhaps a review will help to dispel some of the bad air which seems to enshroud Jodhaa Akbar.But wonder of wonders I did not have any paper at hand to take

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Review of Jodhaa Akbar Coming of age, Love between a couple after marriage, Religious tolerance There are some notes at the end of this review of Jodhaa Akbar about how to know more on the historical aspects of Jodhaa Akbar and also on how one can still witness some of this history. Caution: I am not a film maker. This review of Jodhaa Akbar is an arm-chair review. Jodhaa Akbar is about

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Here are the CORRECT lyrics to Khawaja Mere Khawaja from Jodhaa Akbar. To read an extensive review of Jodhaa Akbar and also about some of the historical aspects click here Most of the lyrics available online for Khawaja Mere Khawaja are wrong. Atleast that's what I feel. Without talking more about them I present what I think are the correct lyrics in Urdu, transliterated English along with the

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