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2012-08-16T12:27:00.002-07:00

Time to freshen up some not so old historic scenes; No action replay for these best of the best Indo-Pak moments !!

2012-01-24T09:52:00.000-08:00

It is time to cherish the superb memories of 2011 once again. India won the World Cup 2011 beating Sri Lanka in the finals but words are less as every Indian cricket fan remembers the India-Pakistan semi-final clash which was even more than final. But the only thing that we can say about the mother of all clashes is that in the end it was the ultimate victory of the true sportsmen spirit which was displayed by both the teams, despite being the traditional arch rivals and after the too- boasted hype which was given by the media to the much most awaited match, which both the teams took as another game. The cricketing fans all over the world and especially throughout the subcontinent, witnessed some of the unforgettable moments which will never ever fade out from the hearts and minds of true Indians and Pakistani citizens and cricket frenzy people.
To be very honest, whenever we encounter a clash of India and Pakistan, all we expect is the heated atmosphere with the players from both the sides getting in some sledging and much-visible arguments which according to the fans is the real fun and exciting elements which set the true feel of the titan clash. Who can forget the Sachin- Shoaib encounters which crossed the limit of bat and ball fight most of the times extending to words and gestures most of the time or the high tempered Shahid Afridi giving all the possible gestures to take on the Indian players. But in this match, what we witnessed was something which has made the both teams boasts proudly of the great game of cricket they have played; and we all know that out of the two sides, one has to win and the other has no option but to face a defeat, what actually matters is the true sportsmanship which becomes the real virtue and jewel in the crown of any player and his character even when he is off the field. I have tried reviving some of the worth mentioning moments which we the people are going to cherish forever in our lives and feel proud for the years to come whenever we will witness these two nations playing together.

Magical moment 1

Our very own PM Manmohan Singh sitting with the Pak PM Gilani was not able to hide the true Indian inside him and the way he was just clapping hideously, keeping his hands low, hardly getting visible, on the fours hit by Indians was truly magical.

Magical moment 2
Once again our PM was not able to hide the anxious and nervous cricket fan hiding inside him as he stood up from his seat when his view was hidden by the people standing outside his VVIP box, and even the security people beside him were not successful in convincing him to sit down during the crucial match points, as it was not the PM but an Indian cheering.

Magical moment 3
The other scene which made almost everybody feel the nerves was the constant nail biting done by superstar Aamir Khan and his wife Kiran Rao and the way he was giving the depressing gestures on the fall of Indian wickets made the million hearts feel the patriotism hidden in this superstar.

Magical moment 4
Our Little Master completed the half century and it was none other than Pak Captain Shahid Afridi who came up to shake hands with him and congratulate him. A gesture which was never expected from the man known for his on-field aggressiveness Shahid Afridi.

Magical moment 5
Sachin got five lifelines which were indeed miraculous but it was not the sledging we saw between the two teams at that time, despite the too tense atmosphere, but it was the heartily jokes and laughter conversations which were going on between Afridi and Sachin as Afridi smilingly said to Sachin, ‘iss baar aap phir bach gaye’.

Magical moment 6
Seen Preity Zinta, Neeta Ambani and Vijay Mallaya many a times clad in their IPL teams jerseys and cheering? But the true feast to the eyes was seeing three of them together along with Vivek Oberoi with the intense in their eyes to see their nation win, not the state. The tricolor dupatta and bangles of Zinta were rather too scenic.

Magical moment 7
Have a look at all the videos and photos of Sonia Gandhi from the day she entered India as a daughter- in-law of Gandhi clan and bet me you will never see her hands up in excitement, her fists tightly joint giving the clear signal of Indian victory along with son Rahul Gandhi who too displayed something more than his formal clapping with his ecstatic gestures.

Magical moment 8
Now the grand finale, which made us shower all the blessings and prayers on Ashish Nehra, the guy who got the maximum abuses from the cricket fans for the messy last over against South Africa in Nagpur; the way he after taking the catch of dangerous Shahid Afridi immediately told the umpires to confirm as he was doubtful of the clean and perfect catch, made us feel the proud of being an Indian, even more than the happiness of winning a match, keeping in view the situation that how important was the wicket of Afridi was for us! Hats off to Nehra for this awesome display of the true values on which our cricket stands!

In the end all praises to Shahid Afridi, who after the worst expressions in the dressing room after the fall of 10th wicket, came out so supportively on the field, his hands clapping endlessly and congratulating India team and thanking the stadium spectators for the great support. The politicians, superstars, corporate house owners, bureaucrats and the cream of the elite present there were something more than their profession that day that is the INDIANS.
So in the end with India playing the great hosts and accomplishing the true meaning of atithi devo bhava, what we will cherish is the victory of the sportsmanship by both the teams which acted as a cherry on the cake of this biggest and the grandest Indian victory ever.

Attitude or constructive attitude?

2012-01-24T08:12:00.000-08:00

The youth of today is dancing with joy, placing the gun on the shoulders of just one word ‘attitude’. Even a person with no attitude at all literally is trying to display tons of attitude no matter how unsuccessfully and unnaturally. But the fact is that in reality, they are not displaying attitude, they are flaunting their egos. They are highly misinterpreting the word ‘attitude’ with their ‘egos’ which are actually of no use at all. They fail to understand that attitude is not snubbing of the people without any reason or thinking yourself as ‘raaja bhoj’, when actually you are not capable of being even a ‘gangu teli’. But the attitude is actually realizing that what you are and having the courage and determination to be what you want to. In simple words, attitude is not ego but the self-confidence.
Indian youth, no doubt, have learnt this word, its meaning and its application in their lives from the west, watching the Hollywood stuff and the social networking sites and SMS forwarding the messages related to ‘attitude’. We, the Indians love flaunting our costly handsets and cars and branded wardrobe in schools and colleges, of course why not we when the youth in western countries can? Of course if they have attitude they when can’t we have it? Right. But as it is rightly said, ‘Little knowledge is a dangerous thing’. So it is because we never see the other side of the story that a 15 year boy starts doing part time jobs there and buys a ‘branded’ shirt of his own money and then flaunts it. This is attitude, whereas pressurizing your parents for a 25,000 mobile or a watch, not eating food for days, ignoring them and even screaming on them, knowing that they cannot afford it at that point of time, is sheer act of stupidity, shrewdness and selfishness showing that you don’t deserve your parent’s love which they gave you from childhood. Dude! If you have real attitude go out and work and earn and then even your parents will be proud of this attitude of yours.
The need of the hour is ‘constructive attitude’ which means that work hard and bring out the best in you and ultimately the mouths of the people will be shut. No need to answer them with your words, answer them with your work which will definitely surpass their meaningless words and that will be the ultimate display of ‘constructive attitude’, not the so-called attitude which is called ego. If you are wrong accept it and make it a point to improve in future. Never make your ego a replica of your attitude, these are the two different things, with totally different meanings, while the former can lead you to hell, the other can take you out of the same hell with loads of success.

प्रेस कॉर्पोरेट और सरकार का आइना है, सच का नहीं ???. (इस विचार के विपक्ष में)

2011-09-21T13:29:00.000-07:00

महात्मा गाँधी ने बहुत साल पहले ये कहा था कि पत्रकारिता का एकमात्र उद्देश्य है सेवा, लोगों की भलाई है." भले ही आज के इस आधुनिक ज़माने में हम गांधीगिरी के बहुत से उद्देश्यों को अपनी ज़िन्दगी से ओझल करते जा रहे हैं पर आज भी इस दुनिया में कुछ ऐसे लोग मौजूद हैं जो मानवता की भलाई को ही अपने जीवन का उद्देश्य मानते हैं. जिनके लिए एक गरीब और असहाय की दबती आवाज़ को कुर्सी पर बैठे नेता तक लेकर जाना ही सबसे ज़रूरी कार्य है. माना की आज उसी पंक्ति में इन उद्देश्यों से भटकते हुए समीर जैन जैसे औद्योगिक भी हैं जिनके लिए एक अखबार और एक साबुन बेचने में कोई अंतर नहीं है पर कैसे, कैसे भूल सकते हैं हम उन् मीडिया कर्मियों को जिन्होंने जेस्सिका लाल, नितीश कटारा, प्रियदर्शिनी मट्टू, रुचिका गिर्होत्रा जैसे अनेक मासूमों को इन्साफ की राह दिखाई और वो भी तब जब इस देश की न्यायपालिका तक ने अपना पल्ला झाड़ लिया था.
नमस्कार
माननीय अध्यक्ष महोदय एवं यहाँ उपस्थित सभी श्रोता. मैं दिव्या गोयल, अंग्रेजी पत्रकारिता कि छात्रा, आज इस वाद विवाद प्रतियोगिता में आप सबके सामने अपने विचार पेश करुँगी. और मैं इस विचार से बिलकुल भी सहमत नहीं हूँ कि प्रेस कॉर्पोरेट और सरकार का आइना है, सच का नहीं. प्रेस कि ओर ऊँगली उठाने से पहले हमें उन अनगिनत हादसों पर गौर फरमाना होगा जिन्हें प्रेस ने बेदाग़ शीशे कि तरह समाज के सामने रखा है.
मुजामिल जलील, इंडियन एक्सप्रेस के वो पत्रकार, जिन्होंने अभी कुछ ही दिन पहले, कश्मीर में हुई २००० से ज्यादा मासूम मौतों को खोद कर निकाला. वो २००० मृत शरीर जिन्हें पुलिस ने ये कह कर भून दिया कि वो आतंकवादी हैं ? अब कहीं जाकर सरकार ने उन मृत शरीरों कि डीएनए जांच के आदेश दिए और बरसों से बिलख रहे परिवारों को उन्हें लौटाने का फैसला किया. यह सच का आइना नहीं तो और क्या है? कैसे भूल सकते हैं हम जे . डे. जैसे पत्रकार को जिसने अपनी जान कि परवाह किये बिना अन्डरवर्ल्ड के कुछ ऐसे कंपाने वाले सच बाहर निकाले कि छोटा राजन गैंग ने दिन दहाड़े उसकी हत्या कर दी. सिर्फ भारत ही क्यों, पाकिस्तान, वो देश जो सर से लेकर पाँव तक आतंकवाद की बेड़ियों में जकड़ा हुआ है, वहाँ भी सईद सलीम शाहज़ाद जैसे पत्रकार को मार दिया गया क्योंकि उन्होंने अल- कायदा और आई .एस. आई के बीच पनप रहे रिश्तों का खुलासा किया.
मीडिया ने पिछले कुछ सालों में एक नए दौर को जनम दिया है जो है विकास शील पत्रकारिता यानि की डेवेलोपमेंट जर्नालिस्म. जिसमे हमारे समाज के कुछ ऐसे पहलु सामने आये जो अब तक नकारात्मक पत्रकारिता के नीचे दबे थे. इंडियन एक्सप्रेस के संतोष सिंह ने बिहार के दूसरे रूप से हमें अवगत कराया तथा उन्हें उनकी रिपोर्ट 'मोडर्न मुखिया' के लिए 'स्टेट्समैन अवार्ड फॉर रुरल रिपोर्टिंग' से नवाज़ा गया. वहीं हिंदुस्तान टाईम्ज़ की शालिनी सिंह ने धड़ल्ले से हो रही गैर कानूनी माइनिंग गतिविधियों का पर्दाफ़ाश कर मीडिया की गरिमा का उदाहरण दिया.
अगर अभी भी हमें ये मानना गलत लगता है की मीडिया सच का आइना है तो हमें याद करना होगा साल २००१ को जब हिन्दू समाचार पत्र के पी. साईनाथ ने यह साबित किया की किस तरह आंध्र प्रदेश में १८०० से ज्यादा किसानों ने आत्महत्या की और किस तरह एक किसान की बीवी कर्जा उतारने के लिए वैश्या तक बन जाती है. जबकि सरकार तो यह तक मानने को तैयार नहीं थी की किसान आत्महत्या नाम की कोई चीज़ इस देश में होती भी है.
जब कारगिल में अपनी जान न्यौछावर कर देने वाले शहीदों के कफ़न तक को राजनीति ने नहीं बख्शा और जानबूझ कर २ करोड़ के महेंगे कफ़न एक अमेरिकी कंपनी से खरीदे गए तब मीडिया ही था जिसने उस समय के रक्षा मंत्री जोर्जे फर्नांडेस को इस्तीफा देने पर मजबूर कर दिया. कौन भूल सकता है उस समय को जब २००१ में तहलका ने बी. जे. पी. के लक्ष्मण बंगारू को खुलेआम घूस लेते हुए देश के सामने दिखाया. पर उसका क्या परिणाम हुआ ये आप भी जानते हैं और मैं भी. सरकार ने तहलका के सारे दफ्तरों पर हमले कराये तथा धोखाधड़ी के झूठे केसों में फसाकर तहलका को नष्ट कर दिया. पर सच्चाई का तूफ़ान ऐसे नहीं थमता और २००३ में तहलका ने लोगों के सहारे से मज़बूत वापसी की.
और अब भी हम यही कहेंगे की मीडिया सच्चाई का आइना नहीं है?
एन. डी. टी. वी. का बड़े कॉर्पोरेट हाउस विडियोकान से जुड़ना और उन गावों में बिजली पहुँचाना जहां के लोगों ने स्वतंत्रता से लेकर आज तक अन्धकार को ही अपनी किस्मत मान लिया, एक मिसाल है इस बात की, कि अगर कॉर्पोरेट का पैसा और मीडिया कि विचारधारा एक हो जाए तो वह समाज के लिए क्या कुछ नहीं कर सकते.
अंत में मैं मार्गरेट मीड्स कि सोच से सहमति रखते हुए यही कहना चाहूंगी कि कभी मत सोचो कि कुछ चुनिन्दा मेहनती लोग देश को नहीं बदल सकते, बल्कि आज तक वो चुनिन्दा ही हैं जो दुनिया को बदलते आये हैं.
और इसी विश्वास के साथ कि वो चुनिन्दा लोग आज भी मीडिया में मौजूद हैं मैं यही मानती हूँ कि प्रेस सच का आइना है, कॉर्पोरेट या सरकार का आइना नहीं.

Euthanasia- India needs to give it a serious thought now

2011-04-10T11:20:00.000-07:00

All credit and applause to Sanjay Leela Bhansali for making the Indians familiar with the very vital and significant word called ‘euthanasia’ which the Indian law has never got in sunk with. We watched the film ‘Guzaarish’, showered the heartily praises for Hritik as Ethan and the Director who so beautifully portrayed the things on the screen; pondered on the issue for not more than fifteen minutes, clapped and the drama was over. After all, why to get burdened, it was just a film!!!! Right?
Nobody knew that after the country wide appreciation for Guzaarish, a real life ‘Guzaarish’ is on its way to knock the doors of the India’s highest judicial body- The Supreme Court. Aruna Shanbaug, the lady whose plea for euthanasia has been rejected by the SC, 37 years ago was brutally tied with the dog chains and raped which totally damaged her brain nerves and from the past 37 years she cannot hear, speak, walk, communicate or probably do anything which can term her as a ‘human’, the condition being termed as a ‘vegetative state’.
Fifteen minutes are too less for a case like that of Aruna because unlike her, Ethan was at least able to talk and communicate well with his people; then certainly Aruna- the real fighter fighting with God to grant her peace for the past 37 years on bed deserves a better, careful and deep thought of the Indian lawmakers. A country where the millions of patients die without getting any access to treatment and cry for help- the question is that why the people who have no scope to live a life again are forced to live a lifeless life and those who can be saved are plunged into the mouth of death due to the idiotic reasons like shortage of the beds and medical facilities.
Now the next point that arises out of this rarest case is the allowance given to passive euthanasia by the law. Who can argue on the point that the passive euthanasia is better than the active euthanasia? It is the same because in active euthanasia you are intentionally doing an act to kill the person and in the passive euthanasia you are not doing anything to save that person. Rather if we have give it a deep thought, then the passive euthanasia is a bigger violation of humanity because then you are leaving that person to die mercilessly stopping his food, treatment and other life supports. At least in active euthanasia you are instantly putting that person to peace by injecting the drug. So it is a million dollar question as to why the countries like India, US, UK do not consider passive euthanasia as a crime? Or why then they don’t legally approve the active euthanasia? Or why they criminalize the both?
India certainly needs to take one clear stand on euthanasia because it is not the first time that a sensitive case like this has boggled the minds of our lawmakers. In 2008 also Nikita Mehta, demanded the death of her unborn child in the womb who was diagnosed with severe heart blockages and the baby’s birth will be nothing more than a lifelong punishment for the child. The empathetic mother, who demanded a respectful adieu to her baby and faced the dismissal of the petition by the High Court which termed case similar to mercy killing, luckily had a natural miscarriage.
So finally the time has arrived for this nation with 100 crores plus population to take a single and firm stand on euthanasia and go through each and every case minutely keeping in mind its own complexities and the condition of the patient fighting not for life, but for death. Quoting our very own Ethan’s lawyer Devyani Dutta, “If a person has right to live, then he has the equal right to choose not to live.”

COMMONWEALTH GAMES DELHI- 2010 MOMENTS....!!!!!!!

2010-10-06T11:41:00.000-07:00

SAADI DILLI.....COMMONWEALTH 2010 ROCKING !!!! OH YAARO INDIA BULA LIYA!!!!!

2010-09-17T09:30:00.000-07:00

http://in.news.yahoo.com/photos/slideshow/cwg-stadiums-at-a-glance.html

DELHI ALL PREPARED FOR THE GAMES....HAVE A LOOK PEOPLE !!!!

http://www.ndtv.com/news/photos/album-details.php?id=8186&Album=PHOTO_GALLERY&AlbumTitle=Inside+the+Games+Village&from=fb

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2010-08-07T12:03:00.000-07:00

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India.....land of hues.......

2010-07-15T23:49:00.000-07:00

yahaan har kadam kadam pe dharti badle rang....
des rangeela rangeela....des mera rangeela...:):):):)

CANNES 2010 WAS SOMETHING MORE THAN THIS.....FOR INDIA

2010-06-12T11:24:00.001-07:00

Every year media goes berserk just over one thing, what was Aiswarya Rai Bachchan wearing at Cannes. Who was the lucky designer to design her outfit? Who is the another heroine from Bollywood giving competition to Ash this time? And this year she was Deepika Padukone.
But Cannes-2010 was something more than this, this time. Media may don't consider it important to give extensive coverage to five Indian films which were screened and nominated at Cannes this time,but I do.These were much more significant than the saris or the dresses of Ash, Deepika or Mallika Sherawat's snakes.These movies truely represent the young and fresh talent, beginning of a new era in Indian film making where it seems no less than international film market.
Indian movies nominated for Cannes 2010 :-
1. Udaan by Vikramaditya Motwani, debutant director
2. Khandhar- a bengali film
3. I am Kalam- story of a young boy with an urge to go to school
4. Kavi- story of a slave boy
5. Last of the tattoed head hunters- a movie in assamese language, the first ever entry from north-east India.

Apart from this Mallika Sherawat's two international projects namely, 'Hisss' and 'Love Barack' were also screened.
SHEKHAR KAPOOR, THE OSCAR NOMINATED DIRECTOR, MADE US PROUD BY MAKING IT TO THE JURY PANEL OF CANNES-2010 ALONG WITH DEEPIKA PADUKONE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.

There was lot to cheer about for us at Cannes, right???????

ITS TIME FOR SOUTH AFRICA- FIFA 2010

2010-06-12T02:13:00.003-07:00

FIFA- 2010, SOUTH AFRICA WELCOMES THE WORLD WITH WHOLE COLORFUL AND ENTHUSIASTIC ZEAL.... HOPING TO SEE THE SAME SPIRIT IN INDIANS AS WELL IN OCTOBER 2010 FOR COMMONWEALTH GAMES DELHI 2010.........

DELHI IS READY TO SAY 'ATITHI DEVO BHAVA:'

INDO-PAK RELATIONS....A SOFT APPROACH IS NEEDED

2010-05-27T00:13:00.000-07:00

New Delhi, May 26 -- Doctors at New Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital performed India's first unrelated stem cell transplant on a one-year-old Pakistani boy on March 15. Shaheer Imran had familial HLH, a rare disorder where the body's immune system over reacts and starts eating up its own defence cells.

The baby was in immediate need of a bone marrow transplant. But since he did not have any siblings and had no donor in the family who matched his profile, doctors approached the Reliance Cord Bank in Mumbai.

Two cord blood units matching his profile were procured from the bank. Cord blood is obtained from the umbilical cord of a newborn and is used to treat various blood-related and genetic disorders, as it contains stem cells.

First unit, with a 5/6 match, did not have adequate cell dose, which means there were not enough cells capable of reproducing. To remain on the safe side, the doctors transplanted the other unit (with 4/6 match) as well.

"We just wanted to ensure that if one unit doesn't work, the other one did," said Dr Anupam Sachdeva, senior consultant, department of paediatrics, Ganga Ram. It took Rs 2.5 lakh to procure each cord blood unit, and the entire procedure cost the family Rs 17 lakh. In the United States, the same procedure will cost around Rs 2.5 crore.

IPL TURMOIL- CHIRAYU AMIN AS THE NEW IPL COMMISSIONER

2010-05-24T22:41:00.000-07:00

IPL 3 which brought out the face of so called cricketing bonanza to bring out the hidden talent in India.The real story behind this cricketing event of not just cricket but the shackles of money, power and night parties was exposed with the people from the world of politics that is Shashi Tharoor and related to him Sunanda Pushkar, playing the big money games under the shahdow and support of thrilled cricket audience which wanted only entertainment to the fullest.
Lalit Modi is nowhere in the scene now and the responsibility now heads on the shoulders of Chirayu Amin to make this event as transparent and viable without the spots of corruption and hidden but harmful facts for the people of this largest adult franchise so that ipl can live long !!!!

PHOTOGRAPHY WORK

2010-05-16T01:49:00.003-07:00

WAS READING THIS MESMERISING BOOK- NOTICED THAT THE COLOR SCHEME OF MY PEN MATCHES WITH THE BOOK AND TRIED A SHOT.

INDIAN HOCKEY BACK TO PAVILION

2010-04-27T08:31:00.000-07:00

March 12, 2010 was the day when the Indians were being watched upon by the whole world in the two major sporting extravaganzas. One was our national game and the other for which whole nation dies for. One was something more than just a game which gives the magic of money and power and the other was an effort to prove its worth of calling it a ‘national game’ in front of the whole world. Talking to the people and switching the news channels on the very next day brought my mind to one straight fact – Hockey is back to its pavilion. With people and media going berserk on the exciting win of Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan’s IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders over the defending champions Deccan Chargers, we the Indians simply forgot to cheer or just even notice the effort of our hockey team which was fighting for 7th place in the World Cup against Argentina.
The spirit which our countrymen showed in the hockey match against Pakistan was completely dampened with consecutive losses in the following matches. But we cannot sideline the fact that how well 12th ranked team of the world, India performed against the world’s top ranked hockey teams. Rather it needs appreciation because who can forget the past years of controversies related to hockey, be it the black day of Indian hockey when it failed to qualify for the world cup or the sting operation which exposed the hockey officials taking bribe for selection of players or the recent strike of our players on monetary issues, the way Indian team came out of the whole fiasco and performed in the world cup is worth praising. Although the movie ‘Chak de India’ did played a part in reviving the love for our national game in the heart of every Indian but the fact that the World Cup is being hosted by India gave it the that extra cinch of edge and pride for our national game. As expected large number of spectators turned out in the Indo-Pak clash and the stadium was jam packed but as the tournament progressed the sale of tickets dropped down like the remaining balls in an exciting cricket match.
Although India hosting the World Cup was a big boost for the hockey fraternity and hockey lovers but the fact remains that it is still a fade show in front of the money and glamour in cricket which gives cricket a X-factor. It will not be a bad idea if hockey in India to revive Premiere Hockey League (PHL) to redefine its audience and gather the national support. `

2010-04-23T02:59:00.000-07:00

Don't you feel so???? We are making God comparable or equal to humans by limiting them just to one religion......
THINK.....BIG...

BOOND BOOND MEIN VISHWAAS...........WORLD WATER DAY- 22nd March

2010-03-22T08:10:00.000-07:00

KOI RANG NAHI....AAKAAR NAHI ...
teri boond boond..........TERI BOOND BOOND..........
SAVE WATER....SAVE LIFE......

DON'T LET WATER TO MOVE OUT OF OUR WORLD....B'COZ THEN THERE WILL BE NO WORLD......

SIMPLIFYING 'TWITTER' FOR YOU..... MY READERS

2010-03-17T07:06:00.000-07:00

''What is this 'twitting'? Too much 'twitting' will lead to quitting'' was Rajya Sabha MP Venkaiah Naidu's rhyming remark for our 'Twitter Minister' Shashi Tharoor, whose tweets are often picked upon to create a controversy. However, the message told in a serious tone, caused more laughs than to serve the purpose of wanting to probe the minister's tweeting activity.

The MP could have well avoided this awkward situation if only he knew how to make his point using an apt Twitter term. We simplify some oft-used Twitter terminologies for you, with examples:

Tweeple: Twitter people, Twitter
FOR EXAMPLE-Pleasantly surpised seeing IPL and KKR as globally trending topics on twitter. Looks like Indian Tweeple are assuming global proportions

Tweeter/Twitterer: A Twitter user
FOR EXAMPLE: One of my followers is an Indian Recipes Tweeter. I get why I might follow the recipes (sure, why not?) but why would the recipes follow me?

Tweetheart: A special tweeter who makes your heart skip a beat

FOR EXAMPLE: Having sweet chit chat wif my tweetheart! Hooooooh... What a beautiful morning!

Twitterati: Top-tier Twitterers

FOR EXAMPLE: Hia Twitterati - any of you guys own a campervan? Seriously considering one instead of a car. Advice, prices, pros and cons welcome!

Tweetup: A Twitter meet-up in person
FOR EXAMPLE : @ Bangalore airport, en route Delhi. Tight two-day schedule, so no tweetup possibility this time round.

Co-twitterer: A partner who tweets on your Twitter account

FOR EXAMPLE: Stressing for my co-twitterer @at0me... She has to finish her thesis for tomorrow. :-/

Tweet-dropping: Eavesdropping on Twitter

FOR EXAMPLE: @DoctorOHM 10 piercings? Ouch. (Tweet dropping, lol)

Twaiting: Twittering while waiting

FOR EXAMPLE: @sgBEAT:twaiting for NR7 at the bus stop outside TANGS. Lol. It's quite a wait.

Tweeps: Short for Tweeple (Duh.)

FOR EXAMPLE: Help me tweeps! I need 9 more followers! Just 9 more! Thanks & I'll give my new followers a shoutout & I'll follow them back (no random ppl)

Mistweet: A tweet mistake, which one may regret later

FOR EXAMPLE: Of course the problems with a couple of accounts is keeping up with potentially 2 lists of friends. And the chance of a mistweet.

Tweetaholic: A problem of Twitter addiction

FOR EXAMPLE: @cubicile_blues Do you work 24x7 by any chance?? :) you seem like workaholic + tweetaholic :D

Now if only we'd collated this before Naidu made his now infamous comment, he would have probably said - ''Being a tweetaholic and a minister, it's time you avoided the odd mistweet.'' Or is that wishful thinking?

And oh, there are lots more-twittastic (Twitter fantastic), twugs (Twitter hugs), twuddies (Twitter buddies) to mention a few.

KEEP TWEETING...AND SING MY HEART GOES TWEET, TWEET, TWEET

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 8TH MARCH, 2010 – STILL THE FUTURE IS SHADOWED..

2010-03-11T00:47:00.000-08:00

As the sun of Monday, March 08, 2010 rose to brighten the earth, history was written in Los Angeles at 82nd Academy Awards. Kathyren Bigelow, the lady behind the magic of the Hollywood super hit ‘The Hurt Locker’ which swept six Oscars at the Hollywood awards extravaganza, came onto the stage to receive the ‘Best Director’ award, a new leaf was added to not much long history of women empowerment which the world and especially the 3rd world countries have witnessed in the past few decades. The first ever woman to win the Academy Award for the Best Director portrayed the best possible example as a salute to the rising woman power. She won this award facing the toughest competition from her ex-husband James Cameron and the man behind the blockbuster ‘Titanic’ and this year ‘Avatar’.
India too made the presence felt of this internationally vital event and rather the much needed day for a male dominated society like India as Air India gave the command of all its major flights to the woman pilots proving against all the present odds we still have come a long way.
The question which really quests a mind to find a hardcore answer is that why, why when we talk of women empowerment in our country, our prime focus remains just on the shells lying on the seashore and not the deep hidden millions and millions of shells inside the depth of the sea which may have the brightest pearls inside them?
In the aura of few thousand successful women in India, why those 200 million women are forgotten who still are miles and miles away from the ‘e’ of word education. You might have seen your neighbor’s daughter or a friend as a CEO of MNC but have you ever boggled your mind over more than half woman occupants who work as low-paid agricultural laborers. If this is not enough let me give you another bolt from the blue that in our country 41 per cent of the girls drop out from the schools till they reach the age of 19.
Menaces like crime against women, malnutrition, tapering sex-ratio, and pre and post natal deaths and not to forget female infanticide and feticides are the hard core elements in a so-called fast developing society of ours. A society where still, a normal housewife does not consider it necessary to open a page of a newspaper and have a look at a current issue or two or more than half of them does not even have any access to them.
A country which dreams of becoming a mighty superpower in the coming decade, does it need a hard pinch to open its eyes? Yes it does, because its future is hinging on those 200 million women who still are so far from the mighty world of education. Rising to 63 percent of female literacy from a shameful 8 percent in 1948, what we can conclude is that it is yet so near, but yet so far to call itself not a masculine, not a feminine but a humanitarian country where males and females are not the parameters for leading a just, fruitful and satisfying life.
Although we have covered a long journey but nearly not enough…
HOPING FOR A BETTER WOMEN’S DAY THE NEXT YEAR….when we may have 33 percent of our MPs as women….

class unforgettable !!!!!!

2010-03-09T20:43:00.000-08:00

Our PD classes in 3rd semester was a bundle of joy and surprise for us. But in 3rd sem we got something different from our PD TRAINER MRS. SHWETA KOCHHAR. She offered us a class which we really waited for throughout the week...for 2 hours of learning and enjoyment. Till today we remember AGNI, LAKSHYA, ENDEAVOURS AND PILLARS. One thing we really are happy about is that she made us habitual of eating chocolates....:):):) bribe we expect from all our teachers now. Also she made those students act who never thought they can ever act including me. We remember the day when we got a feast for giving out the superb performance in group plays..of course mam gave the treat. We also remember how she inspired the class to paeticipate in FASHION SHOW BY FASION TECH. DEPT and many students in our had a wonderful experience..thanx for giving that opportunity mam.....
NO MATTER WHAT THEY TELL.....gr8 song that mam taught us.....every student who attended your classes till date cherishes them.....wishing for your happiness and infinite success in future....and hoping you will be taking our classes again..
ONCE AGAIN THANKS A LOT FOR SUCH CLASSES....BJMC-4....THEN BJMC-3

DE DIYA DIL HOCKEY KO....INDIA IS PROVING ITS NATIONAL GAME....

2010-02-28T10:01:00.000-08:00

ONE MATCH....INDIA VS PAKISTAN....DATE 28 FEB 2010....SIRF SATTAR MINUTE....AND V BECAME THE PART OF THE HISTORY.....AFTER 28 YEARS...INDIA BEATING PAKISTAN AT NATIONAL DHYAN CHAND STADIUM, DELHI......TAKING REVENGE OF 7-1 DEFEAT OF 1982.......CHAK DE INDIA.....DE DIYA DIL HOCKEY KO...SALUTE TO OUR NATIONAL GAME....!!!!!!!!!

I N D I A - READY TO BE DIVIDED ?

2010-02-05T02:53:00.000-08:00

Put a delicious and sumptuous cake on a table with people sitting around it and in just a few minutes it will be cut with all of them enjoying their piece of share. Compare this same situation with our country INDIA and you will find a much similar story. With INDIA emerging as one of the major booming economies of the world every political leader in power is getting intolerant to cut his area of power from this 'Democratic,Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Republic' which every INDIAN is simply proud to state. Raj Thackrey's statement in the media giving a warning for Maharashtra separation protest has added to the previous agony of Indian government. Be it Telangana issue on which the heat is still on or Gorkhaland and UP separation issue raised on by Mayawati. Although Mayawati is still maintaining a low voice but Chandrababu Naidu doesn't belong to that league. Another issue which India is confronted with since independence is the separation demand by the eastern states like Manipur which consider itself neglected by the central government. Jammu & Kashmir issue also adds to it but here the tiff is being created by Pakistan and not the people of J&K. China, too is not lagging behind in illegally occupying certain land of Arunachal Pradesh claiming that it belongs to it. So from all the directions INDIA is being watched on. LS elections 2009 made all the citizens proud after its successful completion once again proving the tag of the world's largest democracy but its a real disappointment when the people's trusted and elected government is loosing its ability to tackle with these anti-national movements. Every new day a new controversy is created by a person who has nothing to do with the governing power which not only attacks the harmony of the state but also the infringement of our fundamental right and NO action is taken by the authorities??? Whole of the taxi driver chaos happened in Maharashtra and after so many days just a meager inquiry is ordered by the police. Why??

Answer to these questions is strongly required if we want to retain our tag “Unity in Diversity”. Otherwise this economically booming country will soon start getting overpowered with the problematic issues like poverty, ecological degradation, depression which can slowly eat up our country like a termite if our unity is tried to be tampered with because people don't want separation and without the states contributing together financial stability is next to impossible for a developing nation like INDIA.

15TH JANUARY, THE ARMY DAY IN INDIA….IS THIS ONE DAY THE ONLY DAY WE REMEMBER OUR SOLDIERS ???

2010-01-16T06:40:00.000-08:00

IF WE CALL OURSELVES PATRIOTIC ITS NOT WORTH IT B'COZ THESE ARMY PERSONNELS KNOW THE TRUE SPIRIT AND MEANING OF PATRIOTISM

INDIAN ARMY DURING THE VICTORY IN KARGIL.....THE MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT IN INDIAN ARMY HISTORY......PROUD TO BE INDIAN....

15TH JANUARY……THE ARMY DAY..A TRIBUTE TO THE SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS WHO GUARD THE COUNTRY’S BORDERS.
IT WAS ON THIS DAY THAT LT.GEN. K.M.CARIAPPA BECAME THE FIRST INDIAN OFFICER TO TAKE OVER AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE INDIAN ARMY. AND AT PRESENT GEN.DEEPAK KAPOOR IS THE CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF. RIGHT FROM KARGIL VICTORY IN 1999 TO THE REPRESENTATION OF INDIA IN FRANCE ON THEIR LAND BY OUR RIFLE FORCES IN 2009. INDIAN ARMY HAS GIVEN US THE JUBILANT PRIDE TO CALL US INDIANS….
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE SAID THAT IF HE CAN GET RUSSIA’S SCIENCE, AMERICA’S MONEY AND INDIA’S ARMY HE CAN BUILD THE MOST POWERFUL NATION IN THE WORLD..WHAT ELSE I CAN SAY FOR OUR INDIAN ARMY WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST COMBAT-TESTED ARMIES IN THE WORLD AND CURRENTLY IN MIDST OF TREMENDOUS CHANGE DUE TO NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENT AND THE CHALLENGES TO TACKLE THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CHALLENGES.
BUT THE POINTS TO BE PONDERED ABOUT AND WHICH CANNOT LET OUR LEADERS AND THE COMMON MAN REST IN PEACE ARE HERE TOO. DURING THE 26/11 ATTACKS IN MUMBAI WE CAME TO KNOW THE HARSH REALITY THAT OUR NSG COMMANDOS AND POLICE FORCES ARE STILL USING THE OLD AGED AK-47 RIFLES….WHEN WE TALK ABOUT INDIA BECOMING A TECH-SAVY AND THE LARGEST GROWING IT USING COUNTRY…..DOESN’T THIS DEVELPOMENT APPLY TO THE MOST IMPORTANT SECTOR OF A COUNTRY,,,ITS ARMY FORCE,,,ITS PROTECTORS ON THE VERGE OF WHICH SECURITY OF ITS CITIZENS IS HINGING UPON?????????

STRANGE………..
AND NO DOUBT INDIA’S NAVY - THE MARINE ARMY IS TOUCHING THE NEW HEIGHTS WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY BEING IMPORTED FROM RUSSIA THROUGH VARIOUS TREATIES..NO DOUBT ON THAT BUT STILL 26/11 HAPPENED AND TERRORISTS WERE SUCCESSFUL IN ENTERING THE INDIAN BORDERS THROUGHT THE COASTLINE OF INDIA.

BUT THE FACT THAT LIES ABOVE ALL IS INDIAN ARMY IS ONE OF THE BEST ARMIES IN THE WORLD AND DUE TO THEM WE ARE SAFE AND SOUND IN OUR COUNTRY. IN ORDER TO DEFEAT THE FURTHER THREATS IN FUTURE IT IS REFORMING CONSISTENTLY…THE KIND OF PROFESSIONALISM AND COMMITMENT THEY HAVE….THEY TRUELY KNOW THE MEANING OF PATRIOTISM AND NATION-BUILDING…….

WITH DUE RESPECT TO THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES AND THOSE FAMILIES WHO LOST THEIR DEAR ONES

SIGNING OFF FOR TODAY
DIVYA

JAI HIND
JAI HIND
JAI HIND

ABORT THE MINDSET….NOT THE GIRLS

2010-01-16T06:37:00.000-08:00

Listen to the voice of an unborn girl :
“Today my existence in my mother’s womb was disclosed. How happy she and my father are. Maybe my parents are selecting a name for me.
Maybe they are deciding to get my room in pink with toys all around. But still they don’t know that I am a girl. My father is advising my mom to go for sonography in order to know whether I am a boy or a girl. If they will come to know that I am a girl, without giving a single thought they will kill me. But I do want to come into this
beautiful world, so
PLEASE DON’T KILL ME DAD,
PLEASE DON’T KILL ME MOM.
Yes, today my topic is “ABORT THE MINDSET, NOT THE GIRLS.”
The day Homo erectus became the Homo sapiens, yes the males, they should have found that they are physically stronger than the females. That day males must have gloated in triumph and they are still today, gloating! No doubt, man has come a long way, he has become civilized, but his instinct to dominate over the weaker sex has still remained intact. In fact, it has become an obsession, a need with time.
There is an old folk song which is sung in uttar Pradesh when a girl child is born into a family:
‘prabhuji mein tori binti karoon,
Paiyan paroon baar-baar,
Agle janam mohe bitiya na dije,
Narak dijiye chahe daar………..’

Which means

‘Oh god, I beg of you,
I touch your feet time and again
Next birth, please don’t give me a daughter
Give me a hell instead……..’

According to the latest survey reports of 2008 conducted by a private news channel (news x), sex ratio in the area of fategarh sahib has further dropped to just 300 females per thousand males which was earlier around 600+.

Despite the government’s attempts to ban the practice of female foeticide,the number of abortions done have increased. Still there are large numbers of women who go for abortions whether willingly or under the pressure of her family. Still there are large number of private clinics running recklessly making people shell out large amount of money for getting the abortions done. The main reason for female feticide is just the mindset of the people who think girls are not important, girls are burden. Boys are more important as they carry the so called family name, fame and business forward. No doubt technology has also played into the hands of devils and the widespread availability of ultrasound has made the doctors and the people more powerful.
People while thinking that boys are more important forget that they are the boys only who turn their old parents out of the house just for the sake of their wives. They forget that if this practice is not stopped now the day is not far when the whole human race will vanish from the face of the earth as it is ultimately the women who give birth to a boy or a girl.
As the world celebrates 11th July as the ‘WORLD POPULATION DAY’, we will helplessly observe girls ‘missing’ from the world’s second most populated country, INDIA. Ironically the theme that has been declared by the United Nations on this day is ‘EQUALITY EMPOWERS’. Well, now you should decide how far we are from this
goal? Is equality empowering in India also?
SORRY TO SAY BUT IT IS NOT SO.
Women are being sold by their own poor parents to land owners in Bihar, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and poorer areas of west Bengal and Bangladesh which shows ‘demand’ for women in these states due to the already existing shortage.
In the end I would like to write a few lines of the beautiful and mesmerizing poem ‘THE MISSING GIRLS’ written by ZOYA ZAIDI :

‘Where have all the ‘missing girls’ gone?
Gone! ‘gone, to the graveyard’.
For the ages the devils wondered
What to do? How to get rid off
This unwanted girl,
They used pillow on her face
To stifle the scream, the very first scream,
She could not even get to cry,
Suppressed was the very first cry.
Then the technology came, just a scan,
And then,forceps,suction pumps, a bit of crunch,
And the job is done.
In a minute or two, no evidence left behind
All is thrown into a dustbin
Who can say?
There was ever a ‘girl missing’……….
‘Where have all the ‘missing girls’gone?……
‘Where have all the ‘missing girls’gone?…..’

As it is said that a ‘pen is mightier than the sword’, I hope people will consider this effort of mine and they will welcome the birth of a baby girl as happily as the birth of a baby boy.

Climate change can kill ‘a quarter of million kids’ next year

2010-01-16T06:28:00.000-08:00

A quarter of a million kids might lose their lives next year due to adverse effects of climate change, warns a charity.

Save the Children insists that figure could rise to more than 400,000 by 2030.

Its report ‘Feeling the Heat’ claims that climate change is the biggest global health threat to children in the 21st century.

Experts believe that almost 175 million children per year are likely to suffer the consequences of natural disasters like cyclones, droughts and floods by 2030.

They further say that more than 900 million children in the next generation will be affected by water shortages and 160 million more children will be at risk of catching malaria - one of the biggest killers of children under five - as it spreads to new parts of the world.

Ultravox star Midge Ure, a Save the Children ambassador, recently returned to Ethiopia 25 years after the 1984 famine, and created Band Aid with Bob Geldof.

“Climate change is no longer a distant, futuristic scenario, but an immediate threat,” the Daily Express quoted him as saying.

“We’ve all heard about the East African food crisis but I’ve been in Ethiopia seeing first hand the impact it’s having on children’s lives.

“I’ve seen how vulnerable children are to the effects of climate change,” he added