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Bhojpuri Comfortably Numb

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Photu used with permission. And the protagonist was really numb at that time. I hope he won't mind it. *This is a photo of my friend, not me; From one of the Stanza of English version: When I was a child I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons. Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain you would not understand This is not how I am. I have become comfortably numb. And now, the rough Bhojpuri translation in English script: Jab hum tha ek bachwa, tab humko hua bukhar hamaar haath gaye phool, jaise ki du bailoon. ab humko hua e ehsaas ek baar aur, (par karo gaur) hum samjha nahi sakte, aap nahi na samjhiyega hum waise nahi hain jaise abhi hain. ab ban gaye hain hum, aaramtalbi aur sunn. Poem is on my state at the college days where I have become epitome of lethargy and anti-bathist. Only watching movies , bunking classes and playing AOE. I am trying to get again that feeling in the corporate world but all attempts are vain till now. This transla...

Vichaar Shoonya -3

Nothing personal and original from my side. Weblinks of adapted material will be given in few days. Enjoy this compiled series. 1-Beauty is a mood of your mind that is experienced if you care to notice. Appreciate the difference because beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Are you a beautiful mind? Do you seek beauty? 2-India, democracy has not allowed the rule of the majority. issue after issue, state after state is that powerful minorities landed interests have been able to capture the political system and extract government benefits for themselves. Most people, I suspect, just want to get on with life, raising their families, doing their work, enjoying some good times between the cradle and the grave. 3- Guru, is one of the most important works of Indian cinema to emerge post economic liberalization that gives Indian entrepreneurs their due representation. In a resounding voice it proclaims a paradigm shift in the middle class morality that has made being money-minded and ...

Earlier days of Benaras Engineering College, Banaras Hindu University

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Earlier days of Benaras Engineering College, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. (Photographs-courtesy of Mahamana Malaviya Foundation Newsletter) The Engineering College BHU started in one single shed in January, 1919. Its Power House was built, and a 20 KW Set (200 Volt DC) was installed in1921, which was augmented by a 100 KW Set in 1923. The Boiler House was erected in 1922. Engineering College Drawing Class. The First Principal Prof. C.A. King Instructing a Student (on second table of right hand row) The first Workshop (Carpentry Section) of the Engineering College started with Artisan-Carpentry Course in Feb. 1919 Source : ITBHU Chronicle April 2009 .

Salaam IPL or Salwa Judum

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Two News affected me in this 24 hour.Just want to capture the big news in summary and small news in descriptive way. Feel free to read and choose importance of them. Deccan snatch title in tense finish. My views: The fortunes have reversed. Desi team and videsi captain strategy works for winning this year also. Previous year 2nd last team is runner up and 1st season's last team gets championship of IPL season 2. Akon with Katrina instead of Gilly and jumbo after the match disappoint me. But the most discussed name among all of us was of fake IPL player blog . He has showed the power of blog and anonymity to the media giants in gossip/news coverage. For fun, surely KKR will be hoping to win tournament next year after this turnaround of DC. For more usual stuff, follow the grand story coverage on cricinfo. OR Supreme Court grants bail to Binayak Sen: It took just 30 seconds. And five words: “Bail is granted on personal bond.” But these numbers pale when confronted with another, 24...

The Calvin & Hobbes Super-Stupendous Guide to Design

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Even if the only thing you’ve ever designed is a mashed potato volcano with gravy lava, you’re a designer. We all design in some way or other. The best of us get paychecks for their designs. The worst of us have to appreciate our elegant disasters for free. The best designs reach out and pull us in with their creativity, wit, and ingenuity. From the cardboard box of Calvin & Hobbes’ wisdom, five ways to better your designs: 1. Learn to see things differently: One of Calvin’s most powerful traits is his childlike ability to see things differently than the grown-ups around him. Where they see mundane reality, Calvin sees the fantastic, the monstrous, and occasionally, the downright weird. Like Calvin, designers must also learn to see things differently. Where others see text, designers see a typographical baseline. Where others see a photo, designers see the golden ratio. In everything, we should learn to see the underlying beauty that holds it all together. 2. Take time to educate y...

Random Thoughts of Day/Night-2

-Fractured consciousness knows no medical relief. -Most people have no knowledge of their history. They only live it. -Freedom of expression is the mark of a modern community, not buildings or technologies. -We are from a generation who don't know libraries but know what torrents are. -No man wants to taste lipstick when he kisses a girl. -What you did yesterday stays with you today--- existence precedes essence (Jean Paul Sartre) -To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson -All things were together.Then the mind came and arranged them. —Anaxagoras -Violence is taboo, for not only does it produce answers to please, but it lowers the standard of information. - Col. Robin Stephens -People who give & are involved in a purpose that is greater than themselves are the happiest people & live the richest & most meaningful lives imaginable. - Cynthia Kersey

Moving Images, Blogging People !!!

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Courtesy to given blog for taking images without permission.For those interested in why not to twitter, read this blog entry ...

Chicken a la Carte

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Director:Ferdinand Dimadura Genre:Drama Produced In:2005 Synopsis: This film is about the hunger and poverty brought about by Globalization. There are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition. This short film shows a forgotten portion of the society. The people who live on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left this people. View this video at its original weblink .

Love Story

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I read blogs of thousand bloggers (mostly females) who write so beautifully about love that I envy them. They are so lucky for having love in the life. I never write about love in this blog because I don't have one & have no clue about my love. For a change on this blog, A love story from my favorite movie, Cinema Paradiso . .. A: --- Once upon a time, a king gave a feast. And there came the most beautiful princesses of the realm. Now, a soldier, who was standing guard, saw the king's daughter go by. She was the most beautiful one, and he immediately fell in love with her. But what could a poor soldier do when it came to the daughter of the king? Well, finally, one day, he managed to meet her, and he told her that he could no longer live without her. The princess was so impressed by his strong feelings that she said to the soldier: "If you can wait 100 days and 100 nights under my balcony, then at the end of it, I shall be yours." Damn! The soldier immediately w...

I secretly admire Bong Culture !!!

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Note:I am not Bong. This article is written not to provoke any regionalism feelings. Just an opinion which comes out of respect for a community... I have strong dislike against CPI party rule over Bengal. I feel Bongs as radical and Tamils as conservative that represents extreme ends of the Indian culture. I am fan of Kerala as a well governed state. Kerala is a marginalized state in India who has challenged the false concept of high population as reason of illiteracy. But I admire Bong Culture more. This feeling was ignited when I see a original copy of Tagore's work in German published in 1904 still preserved at small city of Germany. Then, a passion to discover about their culture has reached to this final conclusion. I don't have any strong affection or even interaction with their bong culture. Check our history only, Politics, Games, Religion, Cinema, Economy, Literature and Social Reform etc all the fields was pioneered by few bongs in new direction. I was amused by the a...