Category: Interesting Links

Kali Prataap’s Ghost at Work ???

I don’t see what the debate is about?

Isn’t this a pure case of Kali Pratap at work in “Orbit” Park. Go search for that ” Ghost Guide”. Don’t waste time on looking for man-eater tigers!!

Our movies are so realistic, what say Mr. Karan johar and Mr. Soham ?
Amazing foresight…no wonder Kaal is a Big Hit (???)
P.S: Don’t get me started on Kaal, I tink my next blog will have the review I sent my friends! How can anyone make such a mindless, illogical film!

Another Earth?

Yet another discovery. Yet another quest might begin; to search if life exists on other planets.

Maybe it exists and they too are trying to search for possibilites of life on other planets, but then again I remember what Calvin said:

‘Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.’

Could that be true? Think about it…

P.S: One more reason I like Bill Watterson’s ‘C&H’, the questions posed, and the thoughts of Calvin are very often the queries that we wished we could’ve asked and half those thoughts did come to most of us…

Memory Loss…

In a country driven by liberalization, MNC proliferation, tech gizmos, televisions, movies, cricket, dirty politics and victims to the money-madness and corruption in every walk of life, we the young generation are slowly losing our sense of history and becoming ingrate as days pass by.

The passion for patriotic songs arises only on two days in a year. Caught on a music channel a program where 80% of the current crop of youngsters did not know when the republic day was celebrated, who the father of nation was! Shameful isn’t it?

So why are we surprised that great sacrifices like this are not even remotely recollected by people living in the town itself where it happened, forget the rest of the country remembering them.

And that’s why the newspapers are the most powerful tool and will always be, bringing in stories and making us aware of a glorious past and news like the one above. It makes me proud, proud to be an Indian, someday hoping I’ll be able to give back something, however small, to my land India.

It also gives me hope that someday a generation will take inspiration from these sacrifices, of freedom fighters and our defense personnel and fight to make this country a better place to live in!!

To end a quote from John F. Kennedy:
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Now only if we understood the power of our education! JFK’s quote puts it in the best perspective.

Braille on Board

The West Central Railways is putting up a good example. Now only if all other public services & facilities take a leaf out of the Railways book and make themselves more friendly towards the handicapped people!

Shortage of Marriage Halls??

A few months back, a Maharashtrian couple, both avid trekkers got married in the skies. Literally!!! They had a ropes drawn from mountain to another, with a valley in between and got married in the middle, with deep valley staring at them from below and skies showering blessings over them.
I’ve been trying hard to get that news link but have been unsuccessful so far!

And ,today I read this. So much for adventure!

Nice ideas though to save the exorbitant costs and the dents a wedding makes in one’s pocket;-) No marriage hall cost , no catering cost, no decoration cost, guest list minimal….neat;-)
Kidding:-)
Honestly, I liked these ideas of the couples:-)
I feel you should have the wedding in the manner that you think is perfect for you, it’s a memory you carry for a lifetime and for most of us it happens only once.
Why not have it our way then?

Mid-day Hits Bullseye

Yesterday’s advertisement in Mid-day proved perfect today. In my usual hurry(The day I land up well before time for anything , I think my hubby dearest will throw a huge party:-), I’m always Just- In- Time, a principle taught in B-school that most MBAs apply in almost all walks of life;-))to catch the office bus outside Borivali station and in that frenzy picking up my daily copy of Mid-Day, I chanced upon the Mumbai Mirror and picked it up for curiosity sakes.

After having a first glimpse of the paper, it seemed to be a prototype of the existing Mid-Day. So what has ToI done different? Nothing. Changed the section names, content the same. The soap opera stars will get some more media coverage and papers will thrive on their gossip. The paper has added international business news, and that’s the only difference.

The puzzles/crosswords lack any standard. One reason that could’ve motivated me to pick up a copy daily, but they are not worth solving. The comics nothing great and Mid-Day will still be a priority as it carries my eternal favouriteCalvin & Hobbes 

Mid-Day hit the nail in the coffin with its advertisement yesterday. I don’t see Mumbai Mirror eroding into Mid-Day’s readership. DNA is yet to hit the stands, will wait and watch what awaits us readers:-)

Chutta Nikalo!

Those living in Mumbai and commuting by B.E.S.T. buses should be familiar with the above two words. We hear them practically everyday when we try to buy the ticket from the B.E.S.T. conductor.
Read this in the ToI and I wonder why we still have the conductors asking for change? Why do they need more, after these B.E.S.T. woes?
Some people never learn do they?:-)

War of Words Begins…

Somebody once said ” The TV can never replace the newspaper, you could never carry a TV on your head when the rain is pouring hard on you”

Jokes apart, the print media, especially our daily newspapers will remain an integral part of our daily lives, this inspite of internet boom, media expansion and technology advancements.
There is a certain charm about the newspaper that no other media has.

Today’s Mid-Day carried an advertisement on its last page. The advertisement carried the heading ‘ This is the great new newspaper idea according to the Times’. It was followed by a print of an article carried in the Times of India which spoke about the success of big dailies going compact to increase readership and targetting the youth. The Times had this printed to set up its new paper the “Mumbai Mirror”.

Below the ‘printed article’ it said ” We had it 25 years ago”

The war of words has already started between Mumbai Mirror & DNA-promoted by the Bhaskar-Zee group. Mid-day has decided to join in as well.

Survival of the Fittest are we seeing this here now?

The Amul Ads.

I used to manage to catch up with the Amul Ads regularly when I was living at Worli. Post marraige no hoarding falls on my daily route and I do miss those witty takes on any and every current situation in India.

Well, they say the internet is a place where you simply cannot not find anything…

If anyone out there is missing the Amul Ads too; catch them right here.

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