Sparsh

For the sake of blogging, three abstract thoughts that influenced me in 3 days. And a quite old joke which makes me laugh even today. 1 -There is an interesting anecdote from a Godard film. In one of his film a daughter asked her father, “Papa, tell me how do we know a person is trustworthy”, her papa replied, ask him whether he loves reading? And if he replies Balzac, Shakespeare, Homer…move on, but if he asks you.” What do you mean by reading?” there is hope. [ Origin ] 2 -As per Rabindranath Tagore's famous poem, when God told Valmiki to write the Ramayana, the life-story of a king yet to be born, Valmiki reportedly asked God: " But how can I write an accurate account of what has not even happened?" God then told Valmiki: "It does not matter what Rama will be or what he will do. What the ages will remember is simply what you shall write. That will be the only truth." Origin ] 3 -A sage who had retired to the hills since many decades was once cajoled by his d...

Before IPL : I noticed a news article and my heart was glad from inside.It stated:" Shane Warne is all set to unleash a fiery Indian teenage pacer Kamran Khan in the second edition of the Indian Premier League. The charismatic Rajasthan Royals skipper calls him 'Wild Thing' or 'Tornado', and says the fast left-arm slinger is capable of hurling the ball at more than 140 kmph ."A player from nowhere was coming on the cricketing stage of India. Azamgarh was in the eye of the nation for all wrong reasons. And to be Muslim from such district is more sinister than anything in these days. In such troubled times for the town, which has forgotten the likes of Kaifi Azami, the advent of a new star in form of cricketer Kamran Khan is a welcome change. He hails from Nadva Sarai, Azamgarh .To even know name of that exact place in Azamgarh, It was great surprise for NRA ( non residential azamgarhi) like me. My mother has studied there in her childhood days hence heard of th...

Let me bring to you most hilarious analysis of B Tech project ever read by me on Internet. This is a piece of adaption from a post of a great blogger who is also alumnus of my college. I am huge admirer of her writings. A tale of B.T.P. analysis in the season of end semester is mandatory for me.Here we go ------------------- Let me first of all clarify to the readers that the above title is read as "BTP A-null-(th)esis". For the advantage of all non engineering readers BTP as understood or made understood by any technological institute is expanded as "B.Tech Project". As you all know, B.Tech is the degree for which we toil and survive the 4 years assigned to the course. BTP, however, expanded by technological students would conform to any of the following terms but the one given before : Badly Timed Project Breath Taking Project Brain Twisting Project Bulk Torture Project Boring Technology Project Big Tragedy Project Bravely Tackled Project Bas Topic Project Or so...

If the rating of movie ' Black ' is 6/10 and ' Sparsh ' is 8/10, then The Color of Paradise (Rang-e khoda) stands alone with 10/10. I have never seen a simply perfect film on blindnesss. No great star cast or cliched story. A movie with few dialouges and beautiful camera movement. Above all, the emotional bonding of the film with viewers is amazing, Just give it a try.. One dialouge makes me cry, the emotion outburst from inside....All intellectualism sublime and tear drops naturally... Mohammad (Blind Boy): [crying] Our teache r says that God loves the blind more because they can't see. But I told him if it was so, He would not make us blind so that we can't see Him. He answered "God is not visible. He is everywhere. You can feel Him. You see Him through your fingertips." / Now I reach out everywhere for God till the day my hands touch Him and tell Him everything, even all the secrets in my heart. His words wrap the emotions in timeless moments and w...

Summary of My Life: I feel like a rat in a trap of his own. Inside My Mind: As I think more and more, the conventional thinking about life, religion, love and country changes drastically. I am now hating the borders and atrocities done by army in the name of patriotism. Life appears to be more nihilistic with time. The world appears to be unchanged and caught eternally between cycle of violence, poverty and war. I don't hate religion but the idea of god seems to be quite funny now. The absoluteness is dissolving in the thin air on viewing the discrimination for physical labor. The society was, is and will be governed by few elite and powerful persons. The moral ambiguity of society norms just pisses me off. Either I want revolution or want to become numb of the surroundings. When I seat inside mall and grab a yummy burger, I feel vindicated by the sight of poor children begging for food. That moment, I hate my existence on the earth. And my lifestyle seems to be hypocrite enough to...

Memories of coaching days at Kanpur are inseparable from me. I have done a separate post on Kanpur coaching mandi only. The most remembered image of my coaching days was the advertisement of Ankush Bhatia by Pran classes, and it was pasted on each wall of Kanpur. His photo was spread at distant corners of the city, showing All India Rank 51. Never seen any local marketing campaign like this. Sometimes, I recall the rush of students from one coaching center to another for seat capture, xerox copying of assignments, and 'out-of-course' study material. The JEE course was never completed on time in the Kanpur coaching mandi. At the end of March, the mad rush to complete the course began with various test series taking place simultaneously. I could not forget that pressure till now. I will never forgive Anish, Pankaj, and Vishnoi sir for combining their individual treats into 1 party for JEE-qualified students. For information on the pre-2000 AD days of coaching mandi, check this l...

Within a radius of one kilometer, Kakadeo is the hub of the coaching mandi for JEE, MBA, Medical, etc having at least 20-30 coaching institutes. The classes are run by individuals teaching a single subject with a completely one-man show. Few people object to the name ' mandi ' but it's like a fish market only. Coaching Mandi is the perfect name for it because the teachers are earning the butter, not bread for them. When you go for admissions, people try to admit you to their institute with false advertisements and lucrative trial offers. It's altogether a mandi in which every teacher just wants students' admission, not in JEE, but in their institute. It was an urban legend that girls were used to seduce boys for admission in a few coaching centers. I and my friends tried in vain to find such lethal hunting beauties. My encounter with coaching mandi begins with JEE preparation. Nalanda Hotel, Pamela Restaurant, Agra sweet house were my favorite places there. For othe...

I had taken a decision long ago to give 10% of my income to charitable cause. Yesterday, I fulfilled my oath and donated 10% of my first month salary to Ramakrishna Math . In this moment, I wanted to thanks my parents who do not burden me with any financial liability. I do not have very huge salary but I am much content with great friends, family and moderate income. I believe that there is something called as social responsibility. If I couldn't remain happy with 90% of my income, then spending full income on my pleasures is a lost cause. I have made only monetary contribution to the institution. The grass root involvement of mine with the underprivileged is far away dream. I hope that someday I can help in making a deprived child into good & responsible person. I propose all dear youth readers to at least get involved in some good social activity.

"Life is a bitch."-An Underdog

श्वानों को मिलता दूध वस्त्र, भूखे बालक अकुलाते हैं माँ की हड्डी से चिपक ठिठुर जाडों में रात बिताते हैं युवती के लज्जा वसन बेच, जब व्याज चुकाये जाते हैं मालिक जब तेल-फुलेलो पर, पानी सा द्रव्य बहाते हैं पापी महलों का अहंकार, देता तुझको तब आमंत्रण.. Writer- Dinkar Similar Reading...

" लपक चाटते झूठे पत्ते जिस दिन देखा मैने नर को, सोचा क्यों न आग लगा दूँ इस दुनिया भर को, फिर सोचा क्यों न टेंटुआ घोंट दूं उस जगपति का, जिसने यह घृणित स्वरुप दिया अपनी ही कृति को । writer: 'Bal Krishan Sharma 'Naveen ' .

"No one is born with the brain of Truffaut, we grow as cinephiles in this world only." -Himanshu Rai (1985-) Cinema is an art or a form of expression, including creative expression and timelessness. The understanding of film and filmmaking through critical, theoretical analysis (objective criticism) must be pursued. They are a bunch of heavy words, but 'how' is the main question. Self-indoctrination in learning to 'read' a film involved watching films regularly, in various languages, from various corners of the world, ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime!. The versatile diversity of the cinema can be felt by watching movies in all languages (of course, with subtitles embedded). You can feel the adrenaline rush of the action movie, but sometimes pathos and ecstasy become memorable (ex-, Life is Beautiful and The Truman Show ). Movie watching is for open and broad-minded people. It has never been created for pseudo-intellectual or cult followers. ...

[Click Image for enlarge view.] I was born atheist ,but religion ruined me...

You can consider me illiterate in my knowledge of English songs and western music.Previous musical English movies viewed by me were mainly biographic or romantic with music taking back seat,except Amadeus . The list goes like this: The Pianist , Ray , Walk the Line , Music and Lyrics & Leggenda del pianista sull'oceano, La long time ago. I recently watched 4 movies of music genre depicting life of those attached to them. All of them were different but really very good attempt in honest film making. First 3 ones were purely musical in sense.In last one,the main character was closely associated to me.So these recommendation are for evolving ' Rock On!! ' fans if they love music. Almost Famous -Fantasy.An Excellent Original Insight Into The 70's Rock Scene.But I like cool and fantastic dialogues of this movie. Once -Reality. A nice, small & honest movie in a Low Budget Charmer.It is just making of song if looked through glasses of mind. The Commitments ...

The search about city of Kanpur has taken me to unexplored portion of Internet. It is really hard to find these web pages in google search. Yet somehow, I managed to bring brilliant post written in Hindi about this city. You only require knowledge of Hindi and Hindi [Devnagari] font for reading it. If you do not have fonts, download it from above website . 1 - कानपुर तेरे कितने नाम… 2- झाड़े रहो कलट्टरगंज, मण्डी खुली बजाजा बंद 3- १८५७ के पन्ने: मदाम एन्जेलो की डायरी Enjoy the Kanpur series on this blog and if you do not know Hindi,then read loosely translated version of articles 1 , 2 & 3 .

I was searching for an article about Kanpur and found this gem. I am presenting here a paragraph taken from  "A Tale of Many Cities - A Tale of Just One City" . It is a point of view from the girl's side, a rare feat in blogland. You know you are in Kanpur when 1. You go to a mall, the city’s best and biggest, itching to spend some money, and the only stuff you find to spend it on is some really oily dosa and half-boiled corn 2. A walk on the main road at 2 in the afternoon is punctuated by vulgar comments and some really vulgar comments 3.no transport looks palatable, except if you want to make your journey with some suspicious-looking characters in ten-seater tempo vans. I dare you, especially after having had a sufficient dosage of the afore-mentioned vulgar comments. 4. Every T, D, and H (and by that I do not mean Tall, Dark, and Handsome) dons a leather jacket 5. On the subject of leather, you see carts and trucks piled with leather shavings. You see towering tanneri...

Statutory warning: This post is not for cinephiles. Read on your own behalf and brain storming in comments is not needed. After dedicating many years of life in watching cinema from bhojpuri to french lingua, I have made futile attempt for penning about typical films in punch lines. Genrealization of commercial film texture from the World Cinema: a Korean film: Mostly romantic, where humiliation and love always seem to share a symbiotic relationship. a French film: Mostly Thriller, where very tight bound script with dynamic camera involves you till end with sensitive sex scenes. an American (Hollywood) film: Mostly sci fic/action ,where hyper specialized persons working in a team to fight alien problem to save humanity with loads of ammunition.Horror films need special mention as Blood flows like water with scattered body pieces and sex part is quite wild & erotic in them. an Italian film: Mostly memoirs which revolve around a character with nostalgic music filling the enviro...

I don't know How to say goodbye to mother, Each time eyes become wet and tear rolls on the cheek. I don't know, How to express love to father, Just lips are sealed each time in front of him, Wishing to give him a hug one day. I don't know, how to tell your feeling of loneliness to sister, when she will be gone to her new home after marriage...