It Pays To Unbelong

Day before yesterday, yet another in the same series came out...


Apart from the catchy image, the punchline is AMAZING ...

and one more reason to work for an advertising agency...

The City of Joy

The Howrah Bridge in 1940s
2005 December: Calcutta Trip

Was in Calcutta for last few days. Did not visit Horah Bridge but went to all other places. The pic above was sent to me by Animesh.

Main Zinda Hoon

After a long long time, there is a song that can summarize ... me !

Movie: Zinda
Artist: Strings
Track: Main Zinda Hoon

yeh hai meri kahaani
khamosh zindagaani
sannaata keh raha hai
kiyun zulm seh raha hai

aik dastaan puraani
tanhai ki zubani
har zakhm khil raha hai
kuch mujhse keh raha hai

chubtay kaantay yaadon ke
daaman se chunta hoon
girti deewaaron ke
aanchal main zinda hoon

bus yeh meri kahaani
be nishan nishaani
aik dar beh raha hai
kuch mujh se keh raha hai

chubtay kaantay yaadon ke
daaman se chunta hoon
girti deewaron ke
aanchal main zinda hoon

Ab na koi paas hai
phir bhi ehsaas hai
sihaaiyon main uljhi pari
jeenay ki aik aas hai

yaadon ka jangul yeh dil
kaanton se jalthal yeh dil

chubtay kaantay yaadon ke
daaman se chunta hoon
girti deewaron ke
aanchal main zinda hoon

More information about the movie ...
Zinda songs online @ Raaga.com

Third from the Left

If you want to see me, I am Third from the Left
2005 December: Agra Trip

I have been busy lately, this is what was keeping me away.

Pic taken by Vivek Gawri.

A lemon, a spoon and some onion !

"Food" for thought ... ?
2005 December: Rishikesh Trip

Waiting for dinner at a dhaba in Haridwar. I have never seen a Neembu cut like that to remove all the seeds. Interesting !

Going Out To Eat ... ?

Interesting message for all the people going out to eat.
2005 December: Rishikesh Trip

If you go to Haridwar by bus, the roadyways bus would always stop at this place called Cheetal. This was one of the boards outside this fancy restaurant - The Cheetal Grand.

Harivansh Rai Bachchan - Koshish

I talked about Harivansh Rai Bachchan's poem Madhushala here. Yet another poem has caught my fancy. This time is Koshish.

It goes something like this ...



Thanks to ;p:d for the poem ... This really means a lot !

And I also making a dedicated webpage for Harivansh Rai Bachchan. The Alpha version is located here.

Its a Small World !!!!

There is a very famous law called Six Degrees of Separation. It proves that world indeed is a small place now. It says that " ...anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries..."

Apart from being a small world, it is a very well connected world too. For example, this is a part of conversation with a very dear friend after I installed a lan talk software on her insistence...

MB: hello!!!
ME: hi

MB: i am so happy i can now contact u at 2 messengers!!
ME: if you want to be more happy, you can add me on google talk, skpye, msn, trillian, rediff bol and indiatimes messenger ... that would make you 6 times happy and not to forget SMS !

It is indeed a small and a connected world !

Of MDI, Exams and Reading Material

I talked about MDI, Exams and Highlighters in a previous post. There is yet another thing that people are MDI are very passionate about - taking reading material to examination halls.

Examinations at MDI are a cake walk. Most of the exams are open book. One can carry any number of books, presentations, printouts, handouts, notes, reference, newspapers etc. in the examination hall. Before coming to MDI, I was not even aware that this kind of concept even existed. It was like a dream. But as it happens very regularly, dream shattered when I realized the realities of rankers.

Rankers = People who secure good marks, good CGPAs and can boast about their ranks at MDI.

Few Observations

1. Except for the top three rankers and bottom 20 rankers, the amount of reading material carried in the examination hall is directly proportional to the marks you get. This is unsensical (yes... unsensical) to me. If you are fourth from the top, you should not carry a single thing. You should know a lot more and if I am fourth from bottom, I should be the one who should carry stuff to the hall, be tense all the time and rush to the photocopy shop. But strangely it’s opposite.

2. The photocopy shop becomes the favorite hang out of all the rankers. People with high ranks are seen making umpteen numbers of trips to the photocopy shop at odd hours. They would know of every photocopy machine in the vicinity of the hostel and would know the amount of carbon left in it, the schedule of power outage and what not.

3. Not to forget networks and group work. Rankers work in groups. They follow a Hub and Spoke model with one person stationed at the photocopy shop and rest of the group spread at vantage points in campus (computer centre, library, rooms of other toppers etc.) to collect as much reading material as possible and bring it to the photocopy shop to get as many copies as possible.

As always More to come later ...

Ceiling or Highway?

Lecture Hall in IIM Banglore
2005 November: Bangalore Trip