Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Congrats Abhinav Bindra for GOLD after 28 yrs
Voilaaaa!!!!!! India win the Gold medal after 28 yrs, thanks to Abhinav Bindra.
Shooter Abhinav Bindra has a knack of creating history. He has done it again in Beijing.
From being the country's first world champion in shooting to emerging as its maiden individual Olympic gold medallist, the 24-year-old Abhinav has displayed nerves of steel and a dogged determination over the years to attain the highest sporting glory.Growing up in an affluent Chandigarh family, Abhinav had the advantage of a private shooting range at home, but the mild mannered shooter has always been down to earth and kept a low profile despite his success at various international events.It has been a tough journey to Beijing for the 'silent killer', as his father A.S. Bindra calls him.
Abhinav bravely fought a career-threatening back injury, which forced him to opt out of the Doha Asian Games. He booked his Beijing berth by winning the 2006 World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia - a first by an Indian. And on Monday he lived up to the expectations of a million fans back home to give the country its first Olympics gold in 28 years after the men's hockey team's triumph in Moscow, 1980.Right from his childhood, Abhinav showed promise, and became the youngest Indian participant at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he was also India's youngest Olympian at 16.He hit a purple patch in 2001, winning a flurry of medals in Europe and was also conferred the nation's highest sporting award - the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. In the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, Abhinav bagged gold in the pairs event and silver in the individual event. He narrowly missed a medal at the Athens Olympics despite breaking the world record. After double trap shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's silver in Athens, the pressure was on shooters to keep the country's flag flying high. This being his third Olympics, the focus was on Abhinav as well.Abhinav didn't let the pressure choke him as he held his nerves in a crunch situation to bring back smiles on the faces of a billion fans back home. At the final in the Beijing Range, Abhinav was tied with Finnish shooter Henri Hakkinen for the first place, but the Indian secured the gold with his best shot of the final - an outstanding 10.8.In contrast, Hakkinen's last shot was also his worst, a lowly 9.7, which allowed China's Zhu Quinan to beat the Finn and take the silver. Zhu, the defending champion, shot 10.5 in his last shot.
From being the country's first world champion in shooting to emerging as its maiden individual Olympic gold medallist, the 24-year-old Abhinav has displayed nerves of steel and a dogged determination over the years to attain the highest sporting glory.Growing up in an affluent Chandigarh family, Abhinav had the advantage of a private shooting range at home, but the mild mannered shooter has always been down to earth and kept a low profile despite his success at various international events.It has been a tough journey to Beijing for the 'silent killer', as his father A.S. Bindra calls him.
Abhinav bravely fought a career-threatening back injury, which forced him to opt out of the Doha Asian Games. He booked his Beijing berth by winning the 2006 World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia - a first by an Indian. And on Monday he lived up to the expectations of a million fans back home to give the country its first Olympics gold in 28 years after the men's hockey team's triumph in Moscow, 1980.Right from his childhood, Abhinav showed promise, and became the youngest Indian participant at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he was also India's youngest Olympian at 16.He hit a purple patch in 2001, winning a flurry of medals in Europe and was also conferred the nation's highest sporting award - the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. In the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, Abhinav bagged gold in the pairs event and silver in the individual event. He narrowly missed a medal at the Athens Olympics despite breaking the world record. After double trap shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's silver in Athens, the pressure was on shooters to keep the country's flag flying high. This being his third Olympics, the focus was on Abhinav as well.Abhinav didn't let the pressure choke him as he held his nerves in a crunch situation to bring back smiles on the faces of a billion fans back home. At the final in the Beijing Range, Abhinav was tied with Finnish shooter Henri Hakkinen for the first place, but the Indian secured the gold with his best shot of the final - an outstanding 10.8.In contrast, Hakkinen's last shot was also his worst, a lowly 9.7, which allowed China's Zhu Quinan to beat the Finn and take the silver. Zhu, the defending champion, shot 10.5 in his last shot.
This day 11 aug 2008 is now golden history for India. Same day 100 yrs ago Khudiram Bose become martyr for freedom at the tender age.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Akshay --real singh of Bollywood
"Singh is Kingg" is not such a movie which will be remembered for long time but in the time of multiplexes this movie is economic success.
As far as story line is concerned nothing special, just a typical bollywood masala,but Akshay Kumar really rocks with his naughty and witty acts.
It seems like Akshay is in line with Govinda, giving smashing comedy hits.
Picturisation of movie is good, but music is just so-so.
Success of this flick after flop"Tashan" is clearly the saleability of Akki.
Crowd is giving huge response for every bit of Akshay-act. This seems like "Akshaymania" is high on dose.
Anyway a good watch , with closed mind.
Singh is really the king.....
As far as story line is concerned nothing special, just a typical bollywood masala,but Akshay Kumar really rocks with his naughty and witty acts.
It seems like Akshay is in line with Govinda, giving smashing comedy hits.
Picturisation of movie is good, but music is just so-so.
Success of this flick after flop"Tashan" is clearly the saleability of Akki.
Crowd is giving huge response for every bit of Akshay-act. This seems like "Akshaymania" is high on dose.
Anyway a good watch , with closed mind.
Singh is really the king.....
Saturday, August 9, 2008
About Google Fact 17
Five Things You Did Not Know About Google – Strange facts17
1- Google spends $72 million a year on employee mealsweird facts - Seventy-two million dollars a year -- that works out to about $7,530 per Googler (a term Google uses to identify employees). While the exact details vary depending on location (the Google empire spans the globe), employees at Google's California headquarters, aptly entitled the Googleplex, are welcome to at least two free meals a day from 11 different gourmet cafeterias. As if that weren’t enough, another thing you didn’t know about Google is that in addition to the cafeterias, Google offers numerous snack bars that are chock-full of healthy morsels to munch on.And that's certainly not all. Is your car in a bit of a rut? Not to worry; Google offers on-site car washes and oil changes. The list of perks for working at Google is never-ending, making it no surprise that it's considered the No. 1 place to work, offering: on-site haircuts, full athletic facilities, massage therapists, language classes, drop-off dry cleaning, day cares, and on-site doctors, just to name a few. Oh, and if your dog is stuck at home and feeling a little lonely, just bring him to work -- Google doesn't mind.2- Google was originally called BackRubLike many other booming internet companies, Google has an interesting upbringing, one that is marked by a lowly beginning. Google began as a research project in January 1996 by cofounder Larry Page, a 24-year-old Ph.D. student at Standford University. Page was soon joined by 23-year-old Sergey Brin, another Ph.D. student, forming a duo that seemed destined for failure. According to Google's own corporate information, Brin and Page argued about every single topic they discussed. This incessant arguing, however, may have been what spurred the duo to rethink web-searching and develop a novel strategy that ranked websites according to the number of backlinks (i.e., according to the number of web pages that linked back to a web page being searched), and not based on the number of times a specific search term appeared on a given web page, as was the norm.Because of this unique strategy, another thing you didn't know about Google is that Page and Brin nicknamed the search engine BackRub. Thankfully, in 1998, Brin and Page dropped the sexually suggestive nickname, and came up with “Google,” a term originating from a common misspelling of the word "googol," which refers to 10100.The word “google” has become so common, it was entered into numerous dictionaries in 2006, referring to the act of using the Google search engine to retrieve information via the internet.3- Google loses $110 million a year through "I'm Feeling Lucky"There's not much to see on Google's main search page, and perhaps simplicity is one of the keys to Google's success. When searching Google, you are given two options: “Google Search” or “I'm Feeling Lucky.” By clicking the former, you are given that familiar list of search results; by clicking the latter, however, you are automatically redirected to the first search result, bypassing the search engine’s results page.Besides the fun factor, the idea behind the “I'm Feeling Lucky” feature is to provide the user with instant connection to the precise page they are searching for, thus saving them time that would normally be spent perusing endless search results. Sounds harmless enough, right? Not so fast. Because “I'm Feeling Lucky” bypasses all advertising, it is estimated that Google loses about $110 million per year in advertising-generated revenue. So why in the world would any Fortune 500 company not patch such a gaping leak? "It's possible to become too dry, too corporate, too much about making money. I think what's delightful about 'I'm Feeling Lucky' is that it reminds you there are real people here," Google Executive Marissa Mayer told Valleywag, an online tech-blog.4- Google has a sense of humorGoogle also offers full language support for Pig Latin, Klingon and even Elmer Fudd. Anyone else still feeling lucky? Try typing, “French military victories” and clicking “I'm Feeling Lucky.” Behold the result.Some might remember the “miserable failure” fiasco when one typed those words and clicked “I'm Feeling Lucky,” and they were instantly connected to a biography of President George W. Bush on the White House website. Now, before you jump to conclusions, this trick -- which no longer works -- was carried out by members of the online community through the art of “Google bombing.” Google bombing works because of Google's backlink search strategy.5- Google scans your e-mailsNothing in life is perfect -- or without controversy -- and Google is no exception. Google scans your e-mails (at Gmail) through a process called “content extraction.” All incoming and outgoing e-mail is scanned for specific keywords to target advertising to the user. The process has brewed quite a storm of controversy, but Google has yet to back down on its stance.Google has remained similarly headstrong about other criticisms; in an attempt to remain partisan to local governments, Google removes or does not include information from its services in compliance with local laws. Perhaps the most striking example of this is Google's adherence to the internet censorship policies of China (at Google.cn) so as not to bring up search results supporting the independence movement of Tibet and Taiwan, or any other information perceived to be harmful to the People's Republic of China.Google Street has further been cited for breaching personal privacy. The service provides high-resolution street-view photos from around the world and has, on numerous occasions, caught people committing questionable acts. Moving from street to satellite, Google Earth has also come under fire from several Indian state governments about the security risks posed by the details from Google Earth's satellite imaging. When all is said and done, there are a lot of criticisms about Google and these few examples merely scratch the surface.SearchedUm, Google does the searching -- anytime, and every time, you search for something on the internet.InterestIt's hard to think of another search engine ever supplanting our beloved Google, but it's anyone's guess as to how the internet will work in the future. Maybe you'll just have to think of something and it will appear. Who knows? Try Googling it.
1- Google spends $72 million a year on employee mealsweird facts - Seventy-two million dollars a year -- that works out to about $7,530 per Googler (a term Google uses to identify employees). While the exact details vary depending on location (the Google empire spans the globe), employees at Google's California headquarters, aptly entitled the Googleplex, are welcome to at least two free meals a day from 11 different gourmet cafeterias. As if that weren’t enough, another thing you didn’t know about Google is that in addition to the cafeterias, Google offers numerous snack bars that are chock-full of healthy morsels to munch on.And that's certainly not all. Is your car in a bit of a rut? Not to worry; Google offers on-site car washes and oil changes. The list of perks for working at Google is never-ending, making it no surprise that it's considered the No. 1 place to work, offering: on-site haircuts, full athletic facilities, massage therapists, language classes, drop-off dry cleaning, day cares, and on-site doctors, just to name a few. Oh, and if your dog is stuck at home and feeling a little lonely, just bring him to work -- Google doesn't mind.2- Google was originally called BackRubLike many other booming internet companies, Google has an interesting upbringing, one that is marked by a lowly beginning. Google began as a research project in January 1996 by cofounder Larry Page, a 24-year-old Ph.D. student at Standford University. Page was soon joined by 23-year-old Sergey Brin, another Ph.D. student, forming a duo that seemed destined for failure. According to Google's own corporate information, Brin and Page argued about every single topic they discussed. This incessant arguing, however, may have been what spurred the duo to rethink web-searching and develop a novel strategy that ranked websites according to the number of backlinks (i.e., according to the number of web pages that linked back to a web page being searched), and not based on the number of times a specific search term appeared on a given web page, as was the norm.Because of this unique strategy, another thing you didn't know about Google is that Page and Brin nicknamed the search engine BackRub. Thankfully, in 1998, Brin and Page dropped the sexually suggestive nickname, and came up with “Google,” a term originating from a common misspelling of the word "googol," which refers to 10100.The word “google” has become so common, it was entered into numerous dictionaries in 2006, referring to the act of using the Google search engine to retrieve information via the internet.3- Google loses $110 million a year through "I'm Feeling Lucky"There's not much to see on Google's main search page, and perhaps simplicity is one of the keys to Google's success. When searching Google, you are given two options: “Google Search” or “I'm Feeling Lucky.” By clicking the former, you are given that familiar list of search results; by clicking the latter, however, you are automatically redirected to the first search result, bypassing the search engine’s results page.Besides the fun factor, the idea behind the “I'm Feeling Lucky” feature is to provide the user with instant connection to the precise page they are searching for, thus saving them time that would normally be spent perusing endless search results. Sounds harmless enough, right? Not so fast. Because “I'm Feeling Lucky” bypasses all advertising, it is estimated that Google loses about $110 million per year in advertising-generated revenue. So why in the world would any Fortune 500 company not patch such a gaping leak? "It's possible to become too dry, too corporate, too much about making money. I think what's delightful about 'I'm Feeling Lucky' is that it reminds you there are real people here," Google Executive Marissa Mayer told Valleywag, an online tech-blog.4- Google has a sense of humorGoogle also offers full language support for Pig Latin, Klingon and even Elmer Fudd. Anyone else still feeling lucky? Try typing, “French military victories” and clicking “I'm Feeling Lucky.” Behold the result.Some might remember the “miserable failure” fiasco when one typed those words and clicked “I'm Feeling Lucky,” and they were instantly connected to a biography of President George W. Bush on the White House website. Now, before you jump to conclusions, this trick -- which no longer works -- was carried out by members of the online community through the art of “Google bombing.” Google bombing works because of Google's backlink search strategy.5- Google scans your e-mailsNothing in life is perfect -- or without controversy -- and Google is no exception. Google scans your e-mails (at Gmail) through a process called “content extraction.” All incoming and outgoing e-mail is scanned for specific keywords to target advertising to the user. The process has brewed quite a storm of controversy, but Google has yet to back down on its stance.Google has remained similarly headstrong about other criticisms; in an attempt to remain partisan to local governments, Google removes or does not include information from its services in compliance with local laws. Perhaps the most striking example of this is Google's adherence to the internet censorship policies of China (at Google.cn) so as not to bring up search results supporting the independence movement of Tibet and Taiwan, or any other information perceived to be harmful to the People's Republic of China.Google Street has further been cited for breaching personal privacy. The service provides high-resolution street-view photos from around the world and has, on numerous occasions, caught people committing questionable acts. Moving from street to satellite, Google Earth has also come under fire from several Indian state governments about the security risks posed by the details from Google Earth's satellite imaging. When all is said and done, there are a lot of criticisms about Google and these few examples merely scratch the surface.SearchedUm, Google does the searching -- anytime, and every time, you search for something on the internet.InterestIt's hard to think of another search engine ever supplanting our beloved Google, but it's anyone's guess as to how the internet will work in the future. Maybe you'll just have to think of something and it will appear. Who knows? Try Googling it.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
New research Project of Microsoft--- MIDORI
Microsoft has started a new research project called Midori, to develop a software program that will help uncouple Windows from a single PC. The company has revealed that a decision to develop Midori was taken because Windows is unlikely to be able to cope with the pace of change in future technology, and way people use it. “If you think about how an operating system is loaded, it’s loaded onto a hard disk physically located on that machine. The operating system is tied very tightly to that hardware,” Dave Austin, European director of products at Citrix. He said that that created all kinds of dependencies that arose out of the collection of hardware in a particular machine, and raised concerns for Microsoft ‘s business in case Windows ends up being less important over time as applications become more OS agnostic.
Microsoft describes Midori as an ambitious attempt to catch up on the work on virtualization being undertaken in the wider computer industry.
Vitalizing generally signifies creating a software copy of a computer complete with operating system and associated programs. It also allows a reduction in numbers of machines one needs to manage, and easy shifting to another machine in case one physical server fails. A virtual machine on a PC also enables very old applications, which existing operating system would not run, to keep going.
Many virtual machines are tuned for a particular industry, sector or job. “People take their application, the operating system they want to run it against, package it up along with policy and security they want and use that as a virtual client,” said Dan Chu, VP of emerging products.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Monalisa's lips completed in 12 yrs fact 16
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to being the back teeth together for chewing.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, beck before jets existed.
Jimmy Carter is a speed reader (2000 wpm).
Jimmy Carter was the first US president to have been born in a hospital.
John has a long moustache was the coded signal used by the French Resistance in WWII
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
Killer whales have such a good sense of touch that if you dropped a pill into a bucket and feed it to the orca it would eat the fish and spit out the pill.
King Kong in the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933)
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs have been dated back as far as the 3rd century AD.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI
Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks! They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year!
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one had and draw with the other at the same time.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.
Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.
Less than 7% of the population donates blood.
Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
Li is the family name for over 87 million People in China.
Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
Lobsters have blue blood.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, beck before jets existed.
Jimmy Carter is a speed reader (2000 wpm).
Jimmy Carter was the first US president to have been born in a hospital.
John has a long moustache was the coded signal used by the French Resistance in WWII
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
Killer whales have such a good sense of touch that if you dropped a pill into a bucket and feed it to the orca it would eat the fish and spit out the pill.
King Kong in the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933)
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs have been dated back as far as the 3rd century AD.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI
Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks! They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year!
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one had and draw with the other at the same time.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.
Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.
Less than 7% of the population donates blood.
Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
Li is the family name for over 87 million People in China.
Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
Lobsters have blue blood.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Reservation giving though time for IITs
Reservation in IITs and paucity of candidates
It is a shame that in a democratic country where there is much hoopla over justice and equality, candidates for prestigious IIT JEE feeling the burnt of the idiotic reservation policy.
In the recently released report General category student of last rank scored 297 marks but the candidate will not be given admission because ST topper candidate who scored poor 292 marks will be given chance, this is injustice to quality of institution.
Similarly SC topper scored only 322 marks, which mean very few candidates belonging to SC category, will go through. Also OBC candidates are few in numbers in comparison to General candidates.
So due to lack of able candidates in respective categories IITs are lowering the bar to fill the reserved seats, while candidates of unreserved category even after performing better than reserved category students are not getting admission due to reservation.
So there are around 430 seats vacant in the IITs, which is very disastrous waste of resources like that of IIT status institutes.
First they are lowering the cut off marks, thus compromising the quality. Then seats’ remaining vacant is waste of resources.
This problem is not only with IIT but other prestigious institutes and universities are also having though time in filling their seats.
In a country where education sector is already bleeding such happenings are really sad.
In the first place reservation should not be there in any field, but due to vote bank politics if it existed then central institutes of National importance must be kept out of the parlance of reservation, again it is difficult due to the demons known as leaders.
There is argument that reservation is to help the down trodden, but it is next to impossible for “real down trodden” candidate to go for IIT or AIIMS.
To improve the situation the government should work towards improving the secondary and higher secondary education level, so that institutes may get able candidates.
This can be done to improve the situation but it is a long term planning. For the time being if seats in institutes are remaining vacant then such seats should be filled as unreserved so that resources may not go in vain and an able candidate can secure the admission.
It is a shame that in a democratic country where there is much hoopla over justice and equality, candidates for prestigious IIT JEE feeling the burnt of the idiotic reservation policy.
In the recently released report General category student of last rank scored 297 marks but the candidate will not be given admission because ST topper candidate who scored poor 292 marks will be given chance, this is injustice to quality of institution.
Similarly SC topper scored only 322 marks, which mean very few candidates belonging to SC category, will go through. Also OBC candidates are few in numbers in comparison to General candidates.
So due to lack of able candidates in respective categories IITs are lowering the bar to fill the reserved seats, while candidates of unreserved category even after performing better than reserved category students are not getting admission due to reservation.
So there are around 430 seats vacant in the IITs, which is very disastrous waste of resources like that of IIT status institutes.
First they are lowering the cut off marks, thus compromising the quality. Then seats’ remaining vacant is waste of resources.
This problem is not only with IIT but other prestigious institutes and universities are also having though time in filling their seats.
In a country where education sector is already bleeding such happenings are really sad.
In the first place reservation should not be there in any field, but due to vote bank politics if it existed then central institutes of National importance must be kept out of the parlance of reservation, again it is difficult due to the demons known as leaders.
There is argument that reservation is to help the down trodden, but it is next to impossible for “real down trodden” candidate to go for IIT or AIIMS.
To improve the situation the government should work towards improving the secondary and higher secondary education level, so that institutes may get able candidates.
This can be done to improve the situation but it is a long term planning. For the time being if seats in institutes are remaining vacant then such seats should be filled as unreserved so that resources may not go in vain and an able candidate can secure the admission.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
color blind babies. Fact 15
Alaska got its name from the Aluet word “Alyeska” which means “The Great Land.”
Albert Einstein was cremated and his ashes were spread over a river located in New Jersey.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
Alexander the Great made his troops eat onions as he believed it would prove their vitality.
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
All babies are color blind when they are born.
All dogs are the descendant of the wolf. These wolves lived in eastern Asia about 15,000 years ago.
Friday, August 1, 2008
My letter to Chetan Bhagat in context to new novel
Dear Cheatn sir,
I just finished “Three Mistakes of My life”, after finishing the novel my first reaction was “what a shit is this”, although it is not so bad but I expected more quality from a writer like u.
I like ur previous two novels very much, and I am also waiting for ur 4th book but I felt terribly bad for this “Mistake book”.
You tried everything from cricket, sex, religion, and politics to family drama but all such drama was in overdose.
It is perhaps due to- ur previous books are turning into Movies and now u r more associated with Bollywood , so like Bollywood masala u poured too much of masala in the book , particularly the description where 3 guys take on rioters ( in quite Bollywood masala manner ). Also don’t get monotonous with characters, girls are always dumb in ur novels be it Neha, Priyanka or Vidya. (Although I have no such problem with it because most of the girls are like that , perhaps girls may get angry over that, but that’s their issue ).
I also didn’t like the use of term “secular party”( as no party in India is secular ) everybody knows to which part u r indicating, , here u may argue not to be intellectual in a fiction book , but since literature has its own impact and being a creative person u should not be biased in use of ur terms. You are terming a party “Hindu party”, and then it will be justified if u calls another party “Appeasement party” instead of ‘Secular’.
Literature of any country and age becomes images of history as time passes be it fiction or something else.
You used the term “miscreants” for those who burn the coach and later u used the term “Hindu mob”; if mob can be “Hindu” then u should have guts to call “miscreant” as “Muslim miscreants”. Sir it would have been better if u kept in mind “mob” is “mob” it is not Hindu or Muslim, because “Mob” has no intuition.
Sir what do u mean by “angry Hindu chants”? I think it is not a good choice of word.
“Bittoo mama” chanting during that situation also seems not good in flavor.
Chetan, don’t think that I am a Hindu fanatic or a particular community hater; as far as my religious and political views are concerned I am completely neutral; in terms of religion partly atheist and partly agnostic.
I am compelled to write this because everywhere I have seen so called “intellectuals” just getting involved in harassing the major community and labeling a major party as extremist.
Small things matters, be it a media report or a fiction novel.
You may say that why I am creating so much noise about use of some words, I have reasons because ur books are runaway hit with youngsters (me also just completed my engineering this summer) and I think art hits deep inside-at the unconscious level.
Perhaps I am getting to harsh, but it is what came in my thoughts , if I am harsh or rude to you just ignore,,,,,,, hey who knows u read unto this line or just used the easy button “delete”……. Its ur choice completely.
But if u has read it I would like to have ur response, after all u r a writer who wants to be loved…… I will also post it to my blog.
Waiting…..
Ashwani
I just finished “Three Mistakes of My life”, after finishing the novel my first reaction was “what a shit is this”, although it is not so bad but I expected more quality from a writer like u.
I like ur previous two novels very much, and I am also waiting for ur 4th book but I felt terribly bad for this “Mistake book”.
You tried everything from cricket, sex, religion, and politics to family drama but all such drama was in overdose.
It is perhaps due to- ur previous books are turning into Movies and now u r more associated with Bollywood , so like Bollywood masala u poured too much of masala in the book , particularly the description where 3 guys take on rioters ( in quite Bollywood masala manner ). Also don’t get monotonous with characters, girls are always dumb in ur novels be it Neha, Priyanka or Vidya. (Although I have no such problem with it because most of the girls are like that , perhaps girls may get angry over that, but that’s their issue ).
I also didn’t like the use of term “secular party”( as no party in India is secular ) everybody knows to which part u r indicating, , here u may argue not to be intellectual in a fiction book , but since literature has its own impact and being a creative person u should not be biased in use of ur terms. You are terming a party “Hindu party”, and then it will be justified if u calls another party “Appeasement party” instead of ‘Secular’.
Literature of any country and age becomes images of history as time passes be it fiction or something else.
You used the term “miscreants” for those who burn the coach and later u used the term “Hindu mob”; if mob can be “Hindu” then u should have guts to call “miscreant” as “Muslim miscreants”. Sir it would have been better if u kept in mind “mob” is “mob” it is not Hindu or Muslim, because “Mob” has no intuition.
Sir what do u mean by “angry Hindu chants”? I think it is not a good choice of word.
“Bittoo mama” chanting during that situation also seems not good in flavor.
Chetan, don’t think that I am a Hindu fanatic or a particular community hater; as far as my religious and political views are concerned I am completely neutral; in terms of religion partly atheist and partly agnostic.
I am compelled to write this because everywhere I have seen so called “intellectuals” just getting involved in harassing the major community and labeling a major party as extremist.
Small things matters, be it a media report or a fiction novel.
You may say that why I am creating so much noise about use of some words, I have reasons because ur books are runaway hit with youngsters (me also just completed my engineering this summer) and I think art hits deep inside-at the unconscious level.
Perhaps I am getting to harsh, but it is what came in my thoughts , if I am harsh or rude to you just ignore,,,,,,, hey who knows u read unto this line or just used the easy button “delete”……. Its ur choice completely.
But if u has read it I would like to have ur response, after all u r a writer who wants to be loved…… I will also post it to my blog.
Waiting…..
Ashwani
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