Social Networking at the bottom of the pyramid..

                

Are you the sort of person who feels an instant sense of fatigue while reading the newspapers? Are you disturbed by the rising number of scams even as you read about them day after day? No, the number of scams haven’t gone up drastically. What’s happening, dear reader, is that you are getting faster and greater information flow. And promoting the “flow” are the multiple media platforms; so, from reading the news in print, you have access to the same news on the Net and also on television news channels. 

Just how can media promote innovation in government sectors that demand immediate attention? This was a question raised at the session, ‘How media can promote design and governance Innovation’, part of Design!Public, a day-long conclave to study ways of promoting governance innovation. 

For starters, the government needs to design and create websites in the digital media space that enables citizens to react and respond. Think about it. The often staid and rarely updated government websites can undergo a drastic change if only they are created as interactive platforms encouraging people to come aboard, interact directly and put forth their point of view.  Design, after all, is not about structure alone. It’s about information. 

Simply put, what we can start through media is digital activism. A case in point: Tata Tea’s Jaago Re campaign, an example of not just a commercially sustainable advertising campaign but also one with a public message to curb corruption. The brand was promoted through an interactive website even as the television commercials made us sit up and take note of the brand and what it did through innovation.  

An example of technology “convergence” discussed at the session was an NGO in Maharashtra dealing with nutrition and education issues for the underprivileged. From creating dedicated telephone lines for “anganwadi” workers to emphasizing the NGO work through television programmes to even starting a dedicated website to allow a process of interaction, the NGO was doing its bit in not just promoting its work but also getting feedback for what it was doing..

Now If cybercafés brought to those who did not have home PCs the power of the Net, a new class of handphones, called "smart feature phones" are marrying low-end hardware and software in a way under which the cheaper feature phones - which do not allow third-party applications -can be enabled for selected features of the Net, such as news, content or applications such as social media sites Facebook and Twitter. And that is what is powering what I call the "Networking at the bottom of the pyramid" (This is also aided by SMS-based communities linked to the Web).

 

 Facebook is making this happen through the integration of technology from Snaptu, a company it acquired. Media giant Yahoo is working with telecom service operators on the one hand and chip designers on the other, to make this work.

Yahoo plans to offer its services, such as its Yahoo Messenger, news, finance, weather, mail and Flickr embedded in MediaTek chips.

This is not really a browser interface that helps you take on the big big world of the Net, but what I call "Internet in a sachet" - to borrow an expression consumer goods companies used to proliferate the shampoo. "We are able to provide optimised Yahoo experience on very low-end devices," said Maheshwari. "It is going to give us reach."

The bottomline: we are heading for a future in which a Rs 1,000 handphone can access and interact with limited Internet features.

Last week, MediaTek announced an investment of $20 million in Spice Digital, a mobile value added service (VAS) company of the Modi group. MediaTek powers the chipsets for many feature phones in the market - companies like MicroMax, Lemon, Karbonn, Olive, Videocon, Intex etc.

By marrying content services with low-end handsets, design firms like MediaTek are doing to the Internet what microfinance is doing to banking

There is a lot to written on this.. and a gallons more to be shared..
I would love reading your views - guruism@aol.in

The Treasure cries.. :(

 You know about the $22 billion treasure in Trivandrum. So I am not going to recap the story about how the erstwhile—Indian royal families are always ‘erstwhile’ no?—royal family of Travancore and the Shri Padmanabhaswamy temple accumulated pots of gold over centuries in the form of taxes, gifts and bribes.
While the sheer volume of riches unearthed continue boggle minds and pop eyes, there is now a debate swirling up about what should be done with this astonishing wealth. Should the temple keep and treat it as personal wealth? Or should the government take it over and use it in some manner beneficial to the public? Trivandrum MP Shashi Tharoor wants to retain the treasure within the temple premises.
The pro-temple—or is it anti-state?—faction seem to be rallying around the idea that no one has the right to spend someone else’s money. That this is private property and should stay that way.
My views are irrelevant here.
(But since you ask: I am deeply saddened when religious institutions in one of the flagship “poor” countries of the world hoard so much wealth. $22 billion is an astonishing, game-changing amount of money that can be used to build sustainable institutions from scratch. Sure, the government is no white knight of fiscal transparency and prudence. But religious institutions are no safe havens either.
Maybe institutions should commit to spending a certain percentage of their wealth each year on social projects.
Wait. I know what some of you are thinking. Let me save you the speculation. I am a Hindu born , studied at a Roman Catholic school since by birth and graduated at sikh college,  But my only god is Mark Knopfler. Yes, churches/mosques/temples hoard wealth too. Yes, I think they should give it away too. No, I can’t make them do it first before your temples or mosques have to. Relax. I am not the enemy.!
There is the history of the hoard. Which will take much telling. I vividly remember watching Gharwali films of the 1980's- 1990's that dealt with such hordes of treasure being found under temples, inside wells and in cemeteries. I loved those movies, even if some of them did often end up being slapstick, dash-for-the-cash comedies. Let us all sincerely hope this latest find does not.
Also this comes at a time when a number of period Gharwali movies seem to have revived interest in local history.
But what is depressing is how the debate from the very beginning is skewed heavily in favourite of status quo. And status quo, as we all know, is India’s favourite solution to problems. Now I don’t mean to say that doing nothing is always the sub-optimal solution. Sometimes, for instance if Ghulam Nabi Azad says something, it is best to act as if nothing happened and carry on.
Yet somehow I get the feeling that all sides of a debate prepare for it by practising the word ‘No’ many times in front of a mirror. The sum total of what I have read on blogs, tweet and in columns so far:
1. Should the government take over the treasure? No. The government is full of thieves. There was something about spectrum…
2. Should the treasure be used for the public? No. Why do you want to spend other people’s money? This is private property.
3. Should be allow the temple to do something with it? No. What if they steal it? Maybe they already are?
4. Surely we can put it in a museum? No. Remember Gandhi’s glasses? Definitely thieving will happen.
5. Maybe the government and temple can somehow use it to help the poor? No need. First you tell all the churches and mosques to give up their wealth.
So what do you do? Count it, videotape it, photograph it and put it back in a hole in the ground. And put policemen all around it all the time. But by no means do anything with it.
All of those arguments have merits of course. Our government steals with aplomb, it probably is private property, temples are not above the occasional pilferage, our museums suck, and yes everybody else has treasure in their chambers as well. Perhaps all this negativity is symbolic of the general moral malaise that the nation has been plunged into ever since, what, the Commonwealth Games. People have written about the paucity of genuine good news from India.
I fear that all this bad news has plunged us into a permanent “worst-case scenario” frame of my mind. We go into a debate or a problem assuming that everyone will behave in the worst possible way. I already assume that all horrible news about female feticide is true, all government data is false, everything BCCI does is bad for cricket, and any positive news coming from India has a heinous evil side which will reveal itself soon enough and embarrass us all. Like a negative dope test.
Maybe I am just over-thinking this, reading the wrong columns and swiping through the most cynical tweets. But now I find myself in a bitter, cynical place. And I dislike it very much.
Do you think there is room in that secure, quiet vault under the Shri Padmanabhaswamy temple for a perturbed blogger? It seems happier down there than up on the ground above.

Poetry from Zindagi Naa Milegi Dobaara

17JUL

Some things never fail to inspire. Good poetry & good movies are some of them. Awesome poetry by Javed Akhtar from the Movie ‘Zindagi Naa Milegi Dobara’

Jab jab dard ka baadal chaya
Jab ghum ka saya lehraya
Jab aansoo palkon tak aya
Jab yeh tanha dil ghabraya
Humne dil ko yeh samjhaya
Dil aakhir tu kyun rota hai
Duniya mein yunhi hota hai
Yeh jo gehre sannate hain
Waqt ne sabko hi baante hain
Thoda ghum hai sabka qissa
Thodi dhoop hai sabka hissa
Aankh teri bekaar hi nam hai
Har pal ek naya mausam hai
Kyun tu aise pal khota hai
Dil aakhir tu kyun rota hai…

Ik baat honton tak hai jo aayi nahin
Bas ankhon say hai jhaankti
Tumse kabhi, mujhse kabhi
Kuch lafz hain woh maangti
Jinko pehanke honton tak aa jaaye woh
Aawaaz ki baahon mein baahein daalke ithlaye woh
Lekin jo yeh ik baat hai
Ahsas hi ahsas hai
Khushboo si hai jaise hawa mein tairti
Khushboo jo be-aawaaz hai
Jiska pata tumko bhi hai
Jiski khabar mujhko bhi hai
Duniya se bhi chupta nahin
Yeh jaane kaisa raaz hai…

Pighle neelam sa behta ye sama,
Neeli neeli si khamoshiyan,
Na kahin hai zameen
Na kahin aasmaan,
Sarsaraati hui tehniyaan pattiyaan,
Keh raheen hai bas ek tum ho yahan,
Bas main hoon,
Meri saansein hain aur meri dhadkanein,
Aisi gehraiyaan, aisi tanhaiyaan,
Aur main…Sirf main.
Apne hone par mujhko yakeen aa gaya.

Dilon mein tum apni
Betaabiyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum
Nazar mein khwabon ki
Bijliyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum
Hawa ke jhokon ke jaise
Aazad rehno sikho
Tum ek dariya ke jaise
Lehron mein behna sikho
Har ek lamhe se tum milo
Khole apni bhaayein
Har ek pal ek naya samha
Dekhen yeh nigahaein
Jo apni aankhon mein
Hairaniyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum
Dilon mein tum apni
Betaabiyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum

What can I say… Just awesome !

The Discovery of Nehru..

Chacha Nehru, makes him so much like a family man and voting for Congress in India a "Ghar Waali Baat" (a domestic issue)..

He is painted differently over the last 64 years by people. For most people he was the ultimate leader and they take his name with more respect than they would of Lord Ram or Lord Krishna or Lord Shiva or Lord Vishnu or any other god. Structure after structure and scheme after scheme has been dedicated to him or his clan members, but a structure to be dedicated to Lord Ram is facing a difficult struggle for the last 18yrs.

So I wanted to know little bit about him. Whatever little I got to know about him killed my curiosity to know more about him. Reading about him or watching his speeches on the youtube.com was the only way to know more because I was born more than 30yrs after his demise. I never saw him, met him or stood in his company so what I am presenting is a distant view of Jawahar Lal's personality.

Person:

Intelligent, well-spoken, well-travelled, social, ambitious. In addition, selfish, conniving, foolish, lofty, careless, bad foreign policy strategist, egotist.

Sexual:

I hear all sorts of things about it. With men as well as women. High and mighty as well as unknown figures ranging from sweet sixteen upwards. I don't know what to believe. May be none, but its spicy enough for me to still keep reading.

Politics:

1. I haven't seen any of the other well-known Congress Freedom Fighters come up in life. All got finished during his own rule. How? Why? Intriguing.

To me it looks like his doing all the way. Systematically disallowing other competitors from growing up to be a challenge to his fiefdom.

2. Strange that Independent India couldn't take INA into IA. They fought for the Nation and were only dedicated to nation and no other political ideology, but Nehru brilliantly described Nationalism as a political ideology and firmly denied them any right to join Indian Army. Till he was alive even the voice to get the INA veterans their due couldn't be raised. Eerie...

3. Like an idiot he created an international leadership vision in his mind and sacrificed India's national interest at its alter. The worst defeat in a war was to his Hindi-Cheeni Bhai Bhai partners. He ignored the advice of some of the most brilliant minds on this country including that of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel. When Army Generals told him that a war was expected with China he ridiculed them and called his own soldiers War-Mongers. He allowed defense preparations much too late causing one of the most embarrassing defeats in Indian Military history. The scar remains.

4. Nehru was friend of Chinese Nationalist Chiang-Kai-Shek and the moment Chiang lost to the communist, Nehru became a friend of Mao Tse Dung. Not just that, when UN refused to let Communist China be the part of Permanent Five, and asked Nehru for his view as the geo-politics affected India most, he foolishly supported Communist China. Took personal guarantees and did what even Communist China itself was unable to do. Then he got our soldiers butchered and our territory in Aksai Chin lost forever.

5. He refused to let Sardar Patel deal on Accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India. When Hari Singh - The Clown, asked for help, as he couldn't defend his territory against Pakistani Army, he was asked to sign Instrument of Accession. He signed. Indian Army fought a bloody battle and stopped the advancing hordes. Then the great mastermind that Nehru was went ahead and called for Ceasefire under UN which called for Plebiscite. It created Pakistan Occupied Kashmir forever. That created unrest in Kashmir forever, that 64yrs of unrest has caused the current Kashmiri generation to feel let down and participate in the cause of Separatists.

Oh! he didn't stop at just that. After this, as if he hadn't caused enough damage, to show how magnanimous he personally was, he gave up his professional responsibility and created Article 370. Now the Kashmiri constituent assembly that gets elected through elections held by Election Commission of India doesn't pass the necessary act and we have a perfect case of Half Pregnancy. It has started paining so sorely now that people are screaming and pelting stones.

6. Economic policy of Nehru was totally confused and sometimes directed at embarrassing certain industrialists. His god-father Gandhi was surrounded by India's top industrialists like G D Birla, Jamnalal Bajaj, Ardeshir Godrej and many others. Gandhi always stayed at Birla House, which were in many cities including Delhi and Calcutta. Obviously, they didn't treat Nehru and Gandhi equally. Nehru wasn't even a PM candidate then. There were many other senior leaders in existence. Nehru, the egotist was jealous. He wanted to bend them on his feet. When he got power, he made a License Raj policy. All industrialists including Birlas and Bajajs had to bend in front of him to get their business running and propagating. To satisfy his ego, this confused socialist got the India's economic growth engine slowed down and between 1947-1991, India grew by only 3.2-3.3%.

7. What happened when Nehru got power?

Uh Oh....he went mad. Nehru had just pipped every single princely family. If they were ruling few hundred miles of territory, he was the undisputed King of 32lakh square kms of Indian Territory. Never achieved like this in the last 5000yrs of history. Not even Asoka, not even Akbar had ruled over the entire territory together, some piece of the puzzle was always missing.

He thought he was the greatest king of all. It screwed with his mind. Now he wanted the world to recognize his talent. Promoted Non-Aligned Movement and when Chinese attacked India in 1962, he wrote a desperate letter for help from US President John F Kennedy, who refused as India weren't his allies. I mean we were completely Non-Aligned and tasted a bitter defeat.

I can go on and on about this man. But, I guess, at least I have no reason to worship this forced relative of the nation. I don't think he was the greatest that ever was. He was just an average man who suffered his imaginations like many others do. He only made it bad because he was sitting in that most important chair of Independent India's First Prime Minister.

India gives..

The recent India-Africa summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at which India’s government pledged $5
 billion in aid to African countries, drew attention to a largely overlooked phenomenon – India’s emergence as a source, rather than a recipient, of foreign aid.
For decades after independence – when Britain left the subcontinent one of the poorest and most ravaged regions on earth, with an effective growth rate of 0% over the preceding two centuries – India was seen as an impoverished land of destitute people, desperately in need of international handouts. Many developed countries showcased their aid to India; Norway, for example, established in 1959 its first-ever aid program there.
But, with the liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991, the country embarked upon a period of dizzying growth, averaging nearly 8% per year since then. During this time, India weaned itself from dependence on aid, preferring to borrow from multilateral lenders and, increasingly, from commercial banks. Most foreign-aid programs – with the sole exception of Britain’s – have dwindled or been eliminated altogether.
Today, the proverbial shoe is on the other foot. Long known for its rhetorical faith in South-South cooperation, India has begun putting its money where its mouth used to be. It has now emerged as a significant donor to developing countries in Africa and Asia, second only to China in the range and quantity of development assistance given by countries of the global South.
The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Program (ITEC) was established in 1964, but now has real money to offer, in addition to training facilities and technological know-how. Nationals from 156 countries have benefited from ITEC grants, which have brought developing-country students to Indian universities for courses in everything from software development to animal husbandry.
In addition, India has built factories, hospitals, and parliaments in various countries, and sent doctors, teachers, and IT professionals to treat and train the nationals of recipient countries. Concessional loans at trifling interest rates (between 0.25% and 0.75%, well below the cost of servicing the loans) are also extended as lines of credit, tied mainly to the purchase of Indian goods and services, and countries in Africa have been clamoring for them.
In Asia, India remains by far the largest single donor to its neighbor Bhutan, as well as a generous aid donor to Nepal, the Maldives, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka as it recovers from civil war. Given Afghanistan’s vital importance for the security of the subcontinent, India’s assistance program there already amounts to more than $1.2 billion – modest from the standpoint of Afghan needs, but large for a non-traditional donor – and is set to rise further.
India’s efforts in Afghanistan have focused on humanitarian infrastructure, social projects, and development of skills and capacity. Five Indian medical missions provide treatment and free medicines to more than 1,000 patients a day, most of them poor women and children. The Indian-built Indira Gandhi Centre for Child Health in Kabul is connected through a telemedicine link with two super-specialty medical centers in India.
A million tons of Indian food assistance provides 100 grams of high-protein biscuits to two million of Afghanistan’s six million schoolchildren, a third of whom are girls. Indian engineers, braving attacks that claimed several lives, built a 130-mile (218-kilometer) highway from Zaranj to Delaram in southwest Afghanistan, opening up a trade route to the Iranian border. Indians braved the 3,000-meter heights to run a power-transmission line from Pul-e-Khumri to Kabul – giving round-the-clock electricity to the capital for the first time since 1982. India is currently engaged in building the Afghan Parliament building, a visible and evocative symbol of democracy.
India has also commissioned 100 small development projects (mainly quick-gestation, small-scale social-sector projects), and pledged further funds for education, health, power, and telecommunications. Of course, some in Pakistan see nefarious designs behind this assistance, but the ultimate objective is straightforward: to build indigenous Afghan capabilities for effective governance, reflecting India’s commitment to regional stability in the face of terror and violence.
In Africa, India’s strength as an aid provider is that it is not an over-developed power, but rather one whose own experience of development challenges is both recent and familiar. African countries, for example, look at China and the United States with a certain awe, but do not, for a moment, believe that they can become like either of them. India, by contrast, comes across as a land that has faced, and is still surmounting, problems rather like those confronting its beneficiaries. If India can do it, many Africans reason, perhaps we can learn from them.
Moreover, unlike China, India does not descend on other countries with a heavy governmental footprint. India’s private sector is a far more important player, and the government often confines itself to opening doors and letting African countries work with the most efficient Indian provider that they can find.
Similarly, unlike the Chinese, Indian employers do not come into a foreign country with an overwhelming labor force that lives in ghettoes, or impose their ways of doing things on aid recipients. Instead, they recruit, hire, and train local workers and foremen, and leave behind enhanced capacities. Whereas China’s omnipresence has provoked hostility in several African countries – a presidential candidate in Zambia even campaigned on an explicitly anti-Chinese platform – Indian businesses have faced no such reaction in the last two decades. Indeed, Uganda, where Idi Amin expelled Indian settlers in 1972, has been actively wooing them back under President Yoweri Museveni.

Finally, India accommodates itself to aid recipients’ desires, advancing funds to African regional banks or the New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Its focus on capacity development, its accessibility, and its long record of support for developing countries have made India an increasingly welcome donor. This could not have been imagined even 20 years ago, and it is one of the best consequences of India’s emergence as a global economic power.

"winnie the pooh "

Marriage is the institution where the woman loses her the name and the man his liquidity -Himanshu Gaur

Indian weddings are very bright events, filled with ritual and celebration that continue for several days. They are generally not small affairs, with anywhere between 100 to 10,000 people attending.. Recently I got a chance to witness one !  pooh! that’s the name given by me to her actually the name poonam reminds me of my old class mate Poonam Thapa, with two chutiyas hanging around in the junior school, we both together used to share the food at break time all I remember that she used to stole the jam from my tiffen box in such a brilliant way as Ramamalinga Raju manipulating satyam ‘bubble always bursts ‘ ! but pooh was different -bit better! J and that lead me crazy to attend the phenomena itself !

 

A journey of thousands of miles begins with a single step , but mine begun with a threatening SMS. How dare I disobey? So we were kicked off on 20^th morning 5 am for dilli via Northern railways a maiden trip  with Mr. sharma having xtra normal senses ! while the falling of the mists..

Indian Railways ! aha!  the only place where you can beautifully adjust with 2 bags and 18 relatives ! soon indian railway tracks would be also recorded in some limca books for being the the longest toilet of the world- “Kashmir to kanyakumari” ! but I will always remember the muslim girl with burqa sitting next to us, for I wanted to see her face ‘ab hataeyi ,ab hataeygi ..”  while Sharma ji was busy in his Buggati and Tata motors !

His Holiness “The Lord Guru dev-dev ali sahab” steps out in Delhi! thou all spectators bow down thee heads for the King !!

So after some chicken shit liability, we enter the Delhi metro, the experience of garguantum awesomeness was in our minds, standing in Delhi metro after sitting in Indian railways was like seeking the difference between Manisha koirala and Priyanka chopra ! “handles were latke but in absence of jhatke” !

Our nation has 4 names but Mr  Sharma has 6 names !! shocked?? Have a look - “BALLOOO, BALLI, SHARMEY, BABLU, RATAN TATA  and officially VIVEK!”
Finally i stepped along with my counterpart Mr Sharma, an enthusiastically -inert automotive engineer! He says the word “IDIOSYNCRATIC “  suits him, I say the “BULL” J. Speaks rare but whenever he speaks the confidence is parallel to VVS Laxman’s against kangaroos!Strengths – Technically very -very strong, hard working (one not which is mentioned in his CV :P)Things you can learn from him – how to measure an-x -arousal that a women generates from Mercedes,  how to throw a professional smile on a giggling joke and  how to write a  sms  “can u write something on….” !

Finally the evening at the white apartments! oh this pooh what could not she do for a picture? Wasting onions!!!OMG she is the richest Delhite !!

Sandeep the unknown “X” arrives the same evening filled his mobile NOkia5200 with character assigned jokes!  “ek baar bablu ne………” a typical standup comedian, can turn the environment on his might to laughter blast on a trivial cause !
Range – 250 miles, surface to surface !
Intensity – very -very Effective 

E- Rinku…. Gajar –ak juice piyali??? Ya halwa khaeli?
Name – Rinkaj Kandwal,
Nick names- Tidda, rinku, chintu,
Things you can learn from him – how to lock the msg folder with a password, how   to walk like a sheep without listening back ,chatting on the cell phone, and how to make clean salad with gobbling up half of it ! his face matches with the chest of Salman khan! always clean shaved!

So we 7 boys at the uncle’s flat having inbuilt suvidhajanak toilet ! people do work from home but those of you  who work from Toilet just throw a smile..  aha..i noted all.. thanks!! 

Had to deliver the afternoon at CP new Delhi ! Rajiv chowk metro stn ! My heart at Delhi !

How dare you look at me????? Don’t you see I have 7 brothers ????? gurrrrrr …!!

Now this is something the center of my research studies! One of my Irish friend Nelly have always been crazy for this, lost a big opportunity to send her some fresh stock. She always wanted to know ‘is this something supernatural”? Or is there something stronger than RUM!!!

I always appreciate these bagpipers for their stamina ! pooooooo..poooooooo !!But they wait and are only hard if bailout packages are given out!
 

22jan2011 6.32pm out side New GH6/160 “yaha kya ho rha hai ?aaj yaha shadi hai kya?” – street passers 

                  “Tu mera bhai hai” whats next? Tu meri behen????lolzz

                                      Sharmaji and sandeep !

Yaayyyyy!!! Himanshu is back ! warm welcome!

so this is the time I finally enter the market after experimenting Jijaji’s Gulmarg and lowers from Gole market! Unforgettable experience !

  

So here i started the bang !

We are the disco dancers oho ho ho! But this looks more like a Catholic Church ceremony ‘praise the lord, praise the lord ‘

Same day 22^nd jan, mehndi night Neha on the left, a sincere and sober girl, who is always worried about if her cellular number is shown in the profile information at the Facebook. “hello himanshu just wanna say u look like….oppps opps I was supposed to write this in Espanola (spanish) else she will thrash me up “el neha es la muchacha más decente e inocente de la clase….” :-p

                               you need to work more harder dude !

So after we had a small park trip here was a guy to support me !

Hemant! often called Deepak..whose name I always misconstrue with his Chinese brother.

His Weakness – ‘DIL’

Range – to be tested.

USP(unique selling point)-Compatible/adaptable to any group -chicks to philosophers!

 

The great suh! I dare u to touch the bottle neck to ur tongue ! hai itna dumm?

                     “my mehndi is better than yours“ !!! Racist women!!

 

HU-JINTAU the ‘shona babu’

He is the most powerful person from pashcim vihar to entire south east Asia.

Frequency – 50,000 MHz

Voltage-4000000 KV

Pressure- 500000 pascal

Intensity –very very high

Rage -2500 miles, surface to surface, surface to water !

Unlike pooh and suh the name Hu-Jintau was given to him by GURU SAHAB’s holiness for his unmeasurable affection for Chinese mobiles.

This was the last of 22^ndjan I clicked with a right-angled triangle, via my shoes! Goodnight folks! “abe salo light toh band kardo “..!

So with the 23^rd morning we were back again to the 6/160 with the firm determination of performing last night act again! For the single colored holi started around 11am

                     Good morning Deepak! my teeth are more white than yours!!!

So after the ‘udghaatan’ here comes the suh’s turn. Alas ..!Pooh & suh in tears!

Hey hello where’s Poonam Negi? she loves to giggle at these moments ! :-p

Will be always thankful to maamiji she gave a new word “chuchuwane” instead of ringing! “e-bhai yu phone chuchuwane ch”! so guys I will try at my highest level to get recognized this word from the oxford university press for their 2012 dictionary edition !

Ladies always have an ambition to put their kids faces on the camera’s lenses! I further feel this could provide a boost for the digital camera industry that was kicked by camera –mobile phones.

“Try and try then you will reach to your goal” Rashmi still trying for her baby picture to be clicked! So she squeezes poor shivansh between a haldi hath ritual..  I just wanna say her “tu hogi kamyab ek din..oho mann me hai vishwas pura hai vishawas….”

She have done it !!!!! my goodness! Aksar mehnat he manzil tak pohchati hai!!

This is called an effort guys..an inspiring role model for you all readers.

 “Dear shivansh I have taken your perfect picture as ur mum wanted! say her congrats, chal ab paa kar mama ko “ :-P

Name : pankaj shiamak kandwal

Born : 6^th Feb 1984

Aim- Richest human by 2014(if 2012 phenomena proved false J)

Strengths : chalo bulawa aya hai…, 9 mangalvar vrat, 40shaniwar vrat,

Best dialogues : I tho love u papa-shiamak davar, jai jammu g, jai mata di, jai maa kali.Guys this is one of the most fantastic creatures I have ever come cross, doesn’t even washes his face properly(proof- the picture itself J) and carries 3 cellulars! And number of 3 MDs in his pocket! he is perfect allrounder ctizen of this country ! an aspiring IAS,Dancer,actor,MD,singer,Lyricst,philosopher and a billionare! a unique collection! But I love the way how beautifully he is tilting towards papa (shiamak Davar) from Mata!

A combo pack!

what a family! Poor Pooh..would have been overwhelmed with a ton of immediate –abrupt love that originated all of sudden !

This was the end of the haldi hath ritual, dramatic but with a twist! which I refer to the emotions of a rational human in this open economy, for example, just scroll 5 pictures above suh is in deep weep, now she is dancing ‘sara rara puua-puan..chali re chali motor..”. the irony I just wanna convey with this picture is that how does a human changes the emotions, or the milieu he/she is dwelling is responsible for this? So here is a questions for all Socrates kind people “how can the law of inertia, probably the second law of Newton can be applied in sensible way to overcome the conflict of emotions of feelings?”

Here comes the much awaited champ ! Babbu bhai MD,CEO,Chairman- GMPC a philanthropic organization with a motive of social service and revenue generation. As a wise man have said a “a group of people with diversified thoughts can change the world “ the lines suits best on the leader itself. GMPC is a joint venture of Babbu bheji and Pankaj Nautiyal bhulla(who would be currently in the role of pooh was a month ago; busy in the aadan- pradaan of text mgs “hello ji kaise ho??kya kar rahe ho?? With a night calling pack of airtel :-P) Saying Babbu bhai as “bheji” (in gharwali) always reminds me of my childhood days at selakui where my parents & satish mama named me “bheji” and asked all kids to pay the respect for being eldest in the group and among the siblings. So then became a tradition: “oye bheji teri batting hai” ,“oye bheji dekhle bhai ni hai??”, even in school few of neighbor boys would shout out “bheji extra pen hai”? blah blah blah..! coming out of the sarcastic memories I just realized that this was the time to be dressed.

Clothing in different brands, but from the soul everyone has a burglar inside!

So here comes the entry!

Jijja ji shows his face like a partially topless model at the launch of a new sports bike!  But folks I have an idea the old gentleman standing on  right beside chintu can be the perfect candidate to replace the old narcissistic man of the MDH massala ad ! ‘ASLI MASALE SACH SACH , MDH –MDH !‘

So were the Ashwariyas ready in advance!

Tina on the left she have turned down the Nobel Peace Prize an incredible 78 times simply because she don’t want the unnecessary attention for being such an exemplary example of a fantastic, kind, generous and being ever ready to help her fellow human!

And the Geetika on the right
Synonyms – Geetu ,Geet rani, Geet sona 
since I can remember Geetika have been The World’s most softest Person, apart from pankaj k. being the richest!(m totally blessed that they both are in my  network:).Her heart is filled with so much goodness, grace and benevolence that appreciation for all life simply pours forth from her decent good looking dressing! Only thing you can learn from her how to ask the same person 3 times a day “aur ajkal kya chal raha hai?”(imagine!)

                               “How much ??…. Oh! no no ….Se jada ni dene “

When everyone was showing his/her talent out, there was a hidden ‘basketball’ Rahul-who was still in the experiments! When I asked him what’s the mean of his T-shirt’s quotation?

He replies “ye humein padhya nahi abhi” lolzz is it the syllabus of his next class?, but I regret I didn’t insisted him ‘apni English wali maam se puch k aana’!

Anyway that was going some sort of roadies interview before I asked him a scholarly question “what’s the difference between: will and shall?”

And surprisingly no reply except few “teri bas ki nahi hai attempts” in a copied US accent!

No doubt all charming faces! but these girls holding their ‘lungis’ look like Ramesh Powar running a marathon!

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies..Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one..wish you both a very happy married life !

This picture simply reminds me of the ‘seher ki ladki’ video of Ravina Tandon, the actress is simply surrounded by number of decent dressed girl, giving her a stiff competition!

While everyone was on the deck there was an exception too!

3500…tent k, 4500..khane k .. hhmmhmm 

Jija ji who slightly differs the Bollywood actor Govinda but lacks his dancing talent! An astute political analyst and a staunch supporter of Indian National Congress!

How does the government deny the human rights violation in Kashmir when I found one on the spot itself! And that’s the reason of the India’s poor ranking in HDI index! I could have called KG Balakrishnan Ex-CJI- the Chairman of Human Rights Commission of the country, but alas he himself being all set to be the first casualty of 2011, 10000crore land scam!

‘The most dangerous food is wedding cake’.. Hang on its ‘daal-bhaat ‘ ..So finally pooh tastes the food for the first time in her life, what a joy and excitement! arey Jija ji aap bhi kha lo kab tak chammach pakad k rakhoge??

So by this time it was already 24^th jan, 12:05 am, and we was off to 6/355 for a change!(not the obama’s change J) finally we returned after 1.5 hrs and that’s all I noticed on coming back !

Jan 24^th 1:35am at GH6/355, For the change! Back again to the desi dress! A brainstorming session between two auto labours- pankaj bhai and our aspiring Ratan Tata, while I change channel to Telebrands at TV, “pehle mere hath aise nahi thay par jabse maine, telebrands ka bamboo facepack use kiya meri skin chamak uthi!” lolzzz

This was totally awefull wastage of food at any cost wasn’t acceptable! Its no better than a food scam of 50 billion dollars when the annual Indian agricultural output stands at 150 billion dollars!

Dancing is hidden language of soul I agree, but it shouldn’t be on the cost of others! May his soul rest in peace!

A side view of a hostel, at Indian School of Family, I think I have to complain the dean, boys aren’t allowed here!

So everyone remained unslept, but were slept :

                           

 “Upar diye gaye dono chitro me 10 antar khojiye, prtayek bacche ko ek- ek laddu milega“ :-p

                          Sleeping is an exercise! a nostril exercise :-p 

              I didn’t knew who was this guy until Deepak told me “band wala" 

                         Why should girls have all the fun??Sleeping is a fun too !

                              Ab koi nahi hansega! else dekh lena fir ..!

                               No worries, mera time bhi aayega !

                                   Finally I wake up, to cover the circles !

So is this increasing order or decreasing order? Glass half full or empty?? Takes open
 

Sandeep, babbu bhai and pankaj bhaiya. Here are some of the intellectuals with the keen observation on the rites !

                          Sandeep: “ek baar sardar ne apni biwi ko…”

                  The media team: much better than Indian TV and AAJ TAK

Band wala, I forgot to ask his good name all I can guess he would be some, ‘ram baran singh’ or ‘chander dev kumar’ this is all my experience can call!

When I asked this guy “hey whats inside the bag u r carrying?” he replies “arey isme baja ,hai baja !!“

This was the coffee machine that supported well everyone throughout the night!    KUDOS!!!!

Nanaji - only man I found in delhi with a pleasing personality as soon he entered D606 began “aaeeee mera daadi wala bacha, tu mera daadi wala bacha…” pretty fortunate he didn’t slipped off his tongue on the word ‘daadi’ :-p

                                  He has a unique traditional sutta style too!

                               Tu hi toh jannat meri, Tu hi mera junoon..

                               Tu hi to mannat meri, Tu hi rooh ka sukoon..

                               Tu hi aakhion ki thandak, tu hi dil ki hai dastak..

             What’s the combination of the DL and BF? any takers out there?

So here comes pankaj’s update at facebook “in dubai right now ,I v.v sad, missing poonam sis very much..”

Who says Indians are pretty behind in Innovation? Namaste! Pankaj and Praveen! P for P, sounds much like PC for PC!

P.chidambram for Priyanka chopra!

Rashmi, the female version of Jullian Assange ! now I want to write 3 pages on this human being but for now m sparing u all!  Even if I take a picture of a dog out side in the street she’ll chase the dog and convey him “ye na teri photo apne blog me dalega aur likhega….” From the picture her face looks if she have been bribed over! Even no doubt if she would have been trained from ISI agents, as she is addicted to read one’s personal msgs!

My suggestion to her – join some cyber hacking agency !

3 things she have taught her son, little chinchpokli :

1. Beta bolo ‘tota’

2. bolo chidya

3. eyes maro eyes !!!

Dear Rashmi ‘apkhua ni huwandan ‘ thoda Jija ji k liye bhi chhod do..sara khud he khayegi kya??Greedy lady !

His holiness having chai a durlabh drishya! ; Chai – I refer to the uncountable noun, is an integral part of our system, from the local kutchery of Dehradun to the Ministry of external affairs for the application of passport I found chai with pani a must !

Deepa the forgotten road to the white apartments 6/160, was washing clothes since morning; a perfect contender for a ‘washing clothes reality show’!

Vinita : She have been the most humble person  in history.  And the most hardworking! I was privileged to have a picture with her! A strong candidate for next season of Big Boss to play the role of Shewta Tiwari, only if I can arrange for some Dolly Bindra!

Mr &and Mrs - So finally the naughty pooh turns to be a behenji in just one day! Our economy always lagged for such growth rate!

                                         It looks some food scam!

I salute this guy from the bottom of my heart! Same eve chintu was lecturing on physics, I woke up  and I and asked him “is it possible to to measure pressure in the space? In the zero gravity situation?” he shyingly replies “tu apna kaam kar”! but insult is an insult! dear rinkaj I will be taking out the answer from u one day! And Gaur mean it !

Metro station of rajiv chowk , slightly better than a mumbai central railway station! But a thing what metro have given delhites apart from infra & jobs ‘tameez and tehzeb’ passengers forming straight line much better and expected than the cattle class!

             When in doubt don't double cross the road.@ Barakhamba!

The best part of being tall is you get to smell the shampoo and fresh air, when stucked in a metro...Others smell the armpits.     

WAW..! what a family !!!! for the 4 days the little boy kept insisting me ‘maeri photu khinch ..” and I obeyed him all 4 times!

Jija ji always have a unique sitting style! As the congress gentleman have! While sandeep good at monkey scratching !

                                

 Poonam Negi !  a brilliant dancer and a giggler, could have known her better! By the way she resembles with Uma Bharti the most :) with her actions esp by the red tilak on her forehead :-P!

                                             

                                           

Alka genius : “we should respect our country and should be proud of its rich heritage…” oh alka m going to Hills at Asaram Bapu camp ! 

                                 

   Rohini wale panditji 3yrs and he still remembers my name ! “aao gaur sahab ..”

               Kuch jada pyaar mat karo..rashmi pehle se hi bigadi hui hai !

Mukesh and Tina, so u guys have done a deal on Krishna – godavari D3 Basin oil exploration? Last time I heard RIL was to sue ADAG? Hello mr Mukesh keep an eye on ur wife as well Mumbai Indians Harbhjan singh is lifting her up!

           Rinkaj, I like this boy!  Frankly A living inspiration for all !

                                                       

      Waw..! what a duo !!! :-P reminds me of Farah khan and Saroj khan!

           

                                       

   25 jan- “abe ni kal he chalna hai…aaj kaise jayenge?? all routes sealed !

 

The future of Indian Economy! Even if we are growing with 9.8% annually, that means 98 % of indian population grows with 0.98%. physically mentally and publically! I would be glad if this boy turns out to be next lalit modi and creates a ‘IGDL’ – Indian Gilli Danda League !

                                           

If you havent clicked a picture with Geet sona, that means your stomach won’t be digesting your dinner! But I would much rather appreciate if the duo would have clicked this at some nainital or kullu-manali with a better background! ))))

                                  

                       

                                    “magic moments”

                                 

26 jan, missed a close wedding of Sarah in Dehradun, I was patriotic enough to sniff the loss but today when it comes to politics then Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel! But I am still proud -mera Bharat mahan !

                                 

“e- bheji kab aan tein “ this was the statement my badi bua used to speak to my daddy after her wedding, even pooh would have said something similair!

                                  

 Finally pooh leaves, everyone in tears except Poonam Negi , and I saw her giggling ,hey look what I saw this man looks like Nitin Gadkari !

                                 

  Its not a Eden Gardens, but still… this women would too have got emotional kuch yaad aaya hoga ise bhi.. may be apni jawani..!

  

       

So here leaves pooh..! Everyone left emotional, but Rashmi always a step ahead of everyone, dunia se 2 kadam aage ! all set for another probe, truly she should have been in some CAG or JPC head.

                                   4 strong men at work !

One of my sincerest disciple Judas aka Deepak!  Just received his sms few mins ago!

                          

This was the last eve when, we all 7 boys once gain were together, cherishing the moments we spend together..



                             
                                                        few of the globally talented people !

                                    
                        

                  ROMANCE !!! if humans can do then why can’t birds ?

                           




                        

         So it’s the final click at 6/160 while we leave, Deepak gazes on..

                         

Near the Aggarwal sweet shop , Meera bagh ..was much moved with the smile of this beggar boy, the irony of this country.

                                     

So here goes Rashmi back to 606! A heartbreaking moment for all to miss the little kid, meeting and parting is the way of life..the word itself is a phenomena..sometimes too short and sometimes so long..huh .,.its all the way how we live.

                                 

                        

Poonam ji and sharma ji, its time to leave back ghar ko.. poonam still giggling :-)  its my last moment at 6/355, I just cried for being another day in Delhi, but my daddy used to say me in childhood “don’t cry because its over but smile its happened “ And while I couldn’t see to sympathize the emotional heart , certainly yes I do have much to smile about..

                            

So here Dehradun ki jaan in the metro, these 7 days have been one of the best time of my life , I felt so fulfilled , so ALIVE and satisfied. What a blessing to be a part of being with everyone !

I am going back to doon now, I don’t know exactly why other than I feel, like its right thing to do , it’s the time . time for what ? Again I don’t know. This chapter may be over but I am trying to believe that the story is certainly NOT. That god is still god and His way is best . I cling to psalm 116.7 “ be at rest once more, o my soul for the lord has been good to you “

My heart may be breaking, my future is uncertain ..but the lord is good.

27jan2011 -Stepped Dehradun at 4.30am and finally we reach vivek’s place by 5 am, a journey full of sweet memories, walking almost a mile from Ballupur in the dark morning in a lonely road with the ear phones on, carrying our luggage in the absence of auto rickshaws..missing the moments at of the uncle’s flat, wedding day park walk, or CP drive everything…

At last on my terrace, looking back the moments.and measuring the power of time..

                           

So with the click of a recent picture I have decided to closing of my Blogpost in Delhi, it began as a mean of sharing my experiences here with friends, you all..And connecting the dots in between, now I feel I have written in ample, so although life certainly goes on and there will always be much to share.. Thank you friend for joining me in this journey for laughing and crying, for jumping on any opportunity to give (happiness, giggles, the laughter, raps or jokes :)) and holding me up in your faithful prayers. I hope you were somehow blessed challenged, or encouraged along the way! The evening mist is about to rise up ..

May he receive the praise !

In his name

Amen

Much love

GURU

(guruism@aol.in)