Indian Idol ..season 4

I am quite a vivid fan of Indian Idol and has been following it for last two years(season 1 i missed)...But this time I find a bit of freshness , a bit of constructive imagination .. apart from the usual pocker-faced judges smiling and fighting ....
Today I heard the judge Mr Javed Akhtar saying that real talent lies in small towns of India as they catch hold of their culture more close to their heart than the metros ... He said the same when a bunch of guys/gals were selected for mumbai form Varanasi .. then a girl from a small village with a poor background was also selected ..
Now lets be little cycnic and skeptic that all these are marketing method , so that sponsors can reach to the untapped small towns .. (as sponsors definitely try to gain as they have invested their capital ) Having said that now lets look at the Indian cricket team where Chawla ,Ojha Munaf all come from small towns .. Now ofter olympics small town Viwani has also come in the larger picture ..
This picture says much more than thousand words ...
This says the capability of all of us .. Indians if they can come in full throttle then there is no stopping .. It says the untapped human resource as we ae going to have the largest young generation ...It says the value that lies in holding our culture deep to our heart .. not being procastinating ourselves but using that value for bettrement of the globe ... it says the what a great sangam of western idealogy and indian tradition can create (above all indian idol concept is from American Idol)..and it says the world gets flat to generate idols all around the world not ideals or jobless workers ...

The mystic Dussehara ...

I am writing this on the eve of 6th day of Dussehara .. and I am at Kolkata . where the pujo lies on the heart of the people .. From childhood I have always cherished the Dussehara and as I grow the goddess and the mystics brought by her keep growing on me ...
Now , First of all I wish each and everyone Happy Dussehara .... the festival symbolizes the truth that's quintenssial to India and also appeals to the world . the win of truth over the evil .. the combined strength of gods which gave birth to Shakti symbolizes the power of unity .. power of collective force .. above all this symbolizes the worship of woman power and the empowerment of woman which is the apt solution of most of the problem of the world ..Above all it remind us the greatness ,vastness of Hinduism and the great power that lies with being the best of all ..as it's said with great power comes the great responsibility ..
Let MAA enlightens the world as ever , as always ..
Keep celebrating ...

JADEVI SARBBHUTESHU SHAKTI RUPEN SHANTHITA ..

NAMAHTASEYI NAMAHTASEYI NAMAHTASEYI NAMOH NAMAH ...

Sorry Jesus....

The recent attack on churches of Christians all over India has made my heart heavy . This act is not less inhuman and barbaric than the bombing and killing of my fellow Indians all over India .Though the group responsible for the attack on the churches may site the reason of conversion as the main cause but the group who is responsible for the terror attacks also may site simillar reasons for their insanity .
Now Hinduism has always been the symbol of trust ,patience and sanity that comes from the inner self . Hindu says "NIJA SWARTHA PAIN JATA NUHE HINDU , PARA SWARTHA PAIN BALI DIA HINDU " A Hindu is never born for his self .He is there for the upliftment for his fellow men .Hinduism has been as symbolic as my India .Both have intermixing of cultures ,traditions and thinkings from various corners of the world .Hinduism symbols the Ganges which washes all the filth that comes its way . Hinduism symbols Lord Rama who strived for equality among all corners of society ( be it using banarsena or taking food from the lower caste woman ) . Hinduism symbols Lord Hanuman for perfect devotion . Hinduism ensembles within itself Gautam Budhaa , Mahavir Jain , Guru Nanak ,Khwaja Mainuddin Chisti ..
Then why a bunch of goondas will tarnish the centuries old tradition of Hiduism by raping and burning ladies in the name of anti-conversion .Is the so called devotee of Hanuman have forgotten the devotion of the Lord Hanuman himself for the mother Sita ...
Now comparing this with the islamic terrosrism that is prevalnt everywhere , I find each thing simillar .Because the idealism of both results in genocides .. and spreading of hatred ..
I have been brought up in a society where I have always admired Lord Jesus .And now from the core of my heart I am saying sorry to Jesus for all the sufferings his people have suffered .If we need laws for anti-terrorism then it has to ensemble all the miscreants of society ..be it Myself ..

Sub-prime crisis in my word

The world financial sector is under attack . No, it's not Osama .... it's Sub-prime ... Till now a million authors might have penned the topic in various forms .. still I dare to write something about it .. a potpourri of my learning ... 

The fed rate arrived at 1% , which in central bank parlance is effectively zero .The goal was to expand money supply and encourage borrowing , which would increase the spending , investing and consequently the economic growth .And that's what it happened during that time . The global economy expanded . 

The low borrowing rate attracted all those for whom having assets of their own was a distant dream .At the same time house prices soured, ultimately increasing additional appetite for credit . 

Now home-owners select a money lender who lends them the money after checking their credit-worthiness.After the loan is disbursed the money-lenders resell this investors or Wall Street firms , which are then converted to securities and then after assigning a risk rating upon them they are sold to institutional investors worldwide . 

Borrowers with a higher-than-average risk profile because of their low credit-worthiness are charged a higher interest for their loan .This is called sub-prime .Lenders lent deliberately knowing that there will be a default and they will get the return by selling the mortgage( provided the home price keeps on increasing  ). 

The securities were bought by the investment banks which in turn financed this by borrowing from the banks itself .Thus banks' action in passing risks to others ultimately came to them which led for denial of lending and hence liquidity crunch .At the same time the home rate dropped and the default in loan kept on increasing . 

Thus the spiralling effect continues to touch each and everyone who are engaged to the mortgage either directly or indirectly . And the devil hasn't stopped yet . A lot more to come ............. 

Changemakers ...

Last 3 months I have been in a project where my job involvesd making our clients familliar with the new insurance system we have devloped.It was not for the first time they were exposed to IT .They have had their old system .Hence there was comparision every time .The resistance to change was there and that made our job more difficult .But as the days progressed they settled .But one thing I noticed , and that was the propensity to change was more in the ladies than gentlemen .. I thought for a while why this is like that .. and got an excellent reply .. Is it not that the woman is always designed to be more adapt to change .. when they leave their paternal home and come to their laws .. and is it not that they manage to play each change from daughter to wife to mother to a CEO quite handsomely .. hence the change can be more effective if it's done through the woman .. hence for me if their is a single solution or I would say a single medicine that could take away poverty , illiteracy , corruption , global warming and all problems of the world then that has to be "education for a girl " ....So when Barack Obama says that we need a bottom up change for everything .. then I would say for India the bottom has to be the empowerment and upliftment of woman through education ...

Life as I see It

I have studied many times
The marble tombstone sculpted for me ..
I have inhaled the smoke of burning ghats ....
A boat with a furled sail
at rest in a harbour
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life .....
Love was offered but I shrank from its disillusionments
Sorrow knocked but I was scared
Ambition called but I dreaded the chances
Yet all the while I hungered for the meaning in life
Now I know we must life the sail
And catch the winds of destiny
Whereever they drive the boat ....
To put meaning in one's life
May end in madness
But life without meaning is torture ....
Titanic sank
But some survived
Those who died and those who survived
Are both epics ......................

copied from somewhere ..but it's worth reading

My helplessness in my word

I have never started the blog to make it competly blank for so many days .. but I am helpless and though lots of thoughts tends to hit the sea-beach of my mind . I am unable to hold them into one and express them .. the hope of revival though seems large but still the dark cloud is lingering with no sign of silver lining .. I have never felt like this before .. it seems as the quarter-century is playing its game and the protagonist is just a serene viewer with hands tied to himself so that he cann't also applaud them .....