Vichaar Shoonya - 0

1- The Taliban have taken advantage of the vacuum of governance by carrying out spectacular suicide bombings in major cities across the country. They are generating fear, rumor, and also support from countless unemployed youth, some of whom are willing to kill themselves to advance the Taliban cause. The mean age for a suicide bomber is now just sixteen. It is a brilliant strategy of evacuation of opposition by suicide bombing and then fill the place with Talibs as a voice of people. They also utilize high illiteracy rate in Pakistan. All the crux of the above blabbering was to introduce you to these two articles describing mindset of our neighbouring nation elite society: Why is Pakistan Half Illiterate? and Causality of war.

2- Faith of Einstein.

3- Econ Sense: Equality vs. Efficiency, the Case of Universal Health Care..

4- Bloggers, Media and Science Reporting & Indian Scientists and Science Blogging

5- On black literature in America

Quote of the day:
Logic and reason are the naphthalene balls we use to pack our hopes, dreams and desires away into a SANDOOK called "Someday". But when that day comes we are too old, too poor , too tired or too lazy to do anything.--- Rashmi Bansal.

Talking about Cinema

Cinema:
Experience is the art, expression is the craft. All good writing is intuitive writing . . . (And) principles (rules) begin to guide your intuition.”Learning scriptwriting has to be powered by your desire to write.” Structure will help you tell your story the way you want to."[pfc]

Don’t talk of motion pictures, talk of emotion pictures.
A film is not merely meant for amusement. A good film stays with you as a rich experience. It creates a certain impact: emotional, political or intelligent. Dibakar Banarjee mingles Hrishikesh da’s realistic “common man and his plight story” with a pinch of surrealistic humor and creates a unique style of his own. There is always a desire to achieve something and an obstacle in the way of it.

Quotes on Directing, Scriptwriting and Creativity.

Just for quote:
In the movie, The Killing(1956) the Russian wrestler Maurice, who delivers an interesting monologue about gangsters and artists being the same in the eyes of the masses. "They are admired and hero-worshipped, but there is always present an underlying wish to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.”

A must read for those who concern that cinema must be seen with brain intact to body.
Festivals, Awards, Celebrities, Recognition – But where is Indian Cinema?

Vichaar Shoonya-1

1. To start a culture change all we need to do is two simple things:

- Do dramatic story-worthy things that represent the culture we want to create. Then let other people tell stories about it.
- other people who do story-worthy things that represent the culture we want to create. Then tell stories about them.

Example: A story of sheer passion by Santosh Ojha.--- Jo Chaho Ujiyaar.

2. Best Compliment ever received by Banaras Hindu University. Remark is given by Bhupen Hazarika.

"In Guwahati, I was an Assamese. In Kolkata, I became a Bengali but I became an Indian after coming to Uttar Pradesh, particularly BHU." [Source]

#For More BHU nostalgia, Download this ppt.

3. Matt Tabbi 's reveal us about some hidden facts and his hypothessi about Goldman Sachs:
The Great American Bubble Machine. [Quite Long Article]

Moral for us: "Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy."

Thought of the day:
A man far greater than you, far greater than any we have known, once said, “To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.” This man was called Jawahar Lal Nehru.

ITBHU Bloggers

[CSE03 - Animesh Pathak] Animesh Pathak's Online Journal
[CSE06 - Rahul Hari] Hari's Paradise
[CSE06 - Monalisa Gupta] Wandering Reflections....
[CSE11 - Saket Saurabh] Account of all time that I waste at college
[CSE10 - Kinshuk Chandra] just for a change
[CSE08 - Charitha Reddy] charitha
[CSE05 - Manu Awasthi] Random Rants from a Grad Student
[CSE02 - Anup Mayank] Little Bit of Nonsense
[CSE07 - Shashank Tyagi] Anti Boredom
[CSE09 - Kumar Abhinav] Reinventing Myself
[CSE06 - Arun Tangri] Rendezvous with Arun
[CSE05 - Neeraj Jadaun] He said Seeketh Findeth
[CSE00 - Tarun Matta] Livemint Journal
[CSE08- Ashish Kumar Jain] Ashish Kumar Jain's Blog
[CSE - Ajay Kr Saxena] Yaatri

[EcE 05 - Ravish Sunny] Blog Profile
[EcE07 - Anurag Singh] Blog Profile
[EcE08 - Rahul Singh] Scratchpad.
[EcE77 - Vikram Karve] Profile on Sulekha
[EcE07 - Shilpi Prasad] Its me..
[EcE08 - Ashim Dutta] The Mirror 99
[EcE09 - Shantanu Singh] slapdash
[EcE05 - Anirudh Dhurka] Anirudh Dhurka's Website
[ECE10 - Praharsh Sharma] Either Eulogy, Else Euphemism...
[EcE07 - Richa Dixit] Some thoughts to think.
[EcE08 - Vijay Singh] Knowledge Hunter
[EcE09 - Alok Singh] Blog Profile
[EcE08 - Vaibhav] My Private Hell

[EEE06 - Kapil Malik] Thoughts and Words..
[EEE06 - Rajat Kashyap] Happenings
[EEE06 - Siva kumar Sudani] musings
[EEE07 - Nitin Jain] World in My View
[EEE06 - Ritu Bajpai] Contemplations
[EEE04 - Ravish Mishra] Learning to Fly
[EEE05 - Shailendra Gupta] I Me & Myself
[EEE98 - Anuraag Dubey] Awadhi Bhasha Prem
[EEE03 - Nitin Pulyani] Progress in Life
[EEE08 - Sulab Jain] Entrance to some Remarkable Rooms
[EEE09 - Amit Singh] My voice through my words
[EEE08 - Ankit Sisodia] T
[EEE10 - Umesh Ram] Umesh
[EEE - Abhijit Shukla] Reflections

[MEC93 - Manu Goyal] Random Thoughts
[MEC07 - Saurab Mangal] Don't Drink & Write
[MEC08 - Rajneesh Tiwari] Madman
[MEC93 - Atul Rai] Thoughts on KM, Business,Life in general, Society, of course... food
[MEC05 - Abhinav Pancholi] Heartships
[MEC04 - Prasoon Agarwal] Pages of my Diary
[MEC07 - Abhishek khanna] The Furobiker
[MEC08 - Himanshu Rai] Sparsh
[MEC07 - Anand Kashyap] The bicycle diaries
[MEC06 - Vibhav Agrawal] Vibhav Agrawal
[MEC07 - Ish Awasthi] Side Kick-Ish
[MEC08 - Varun Murali] prodigal musings of a spoilt brat
[MEC08 - Kapil Bhushan Srivastava] Following My Heart...
[MEC07 - Vivek Srivastava] Vivek Srivastava
[MEC08 - Abhishek Shukla] Carnival of Rust
[MEC08 - Neerav Kumar] experiences of life
[MEC08 - Vikramraj Naidu] Chronicles of the Dark Knight
[MEC09 - S J Mayank] Sound Of Music by S J Mayank Srivastav
[MEC08 - Rahul Priyedarshi] so said the bed potato
[MEC08 - Abhishek Kumar] Blue-Eyed Boy
[MEC08 - Kunal Sharma] evenescene- blog in a minor!
[MEC08 - Vijay Pratap Singh] Thinking... is not a big deal..
[MEC08 - Puneet Jain] Rehgujar
[MEC08 - Vivek Tripathi] Vivek Tripathi
[MEC08 - Abhishek Arora] Its Not Rocket Science !!!
[MEC09 - Sridhar] Certainly Doubtful

[CIV05 - Sharad Oberoi] Lair of the Loquacious Loon!
[CIV11 - Maghesh Kumar Singh] Adwait Khandwal speaks
[CIV06- Shailja Agrawal] unveil
[CIV08 - Ravi Bansal] Treasures and Travails on an earthly life
[CIV07 - Nilesh Kumar] Shell
[CIV09 - Chandra] apni baat
[CIV03 - Varun Grover] The Daily Tamasha
[CIV08 - Vikalp Agarwal] Passing Thoughts
[CIV07 - Abhijit Raja] My world
[CIV07 - Kirti Mishra] dreams and a dreamer

[CHE08 - Aditya Goyal] The Lost Soul
[CHE05 - Himanshu Gupta] Half Rebel
[CHE08 - Prabhakar Kumar] Kuch Thande Baste Se
[CHE00 - Kaustubh Raghuvansh Shukla] My Ishtory

[CER96 - Mohit] Unjustly
[CER06 - Ankita Mukherjee] Silence
[CER08 - Gaurav Jain] oh-musings
[CER07 - Divya Bhadani] soup rocks

[MIN05 - Amit Srivastava] Trying to make sense!- iLog
[MIN02 - Puneet Bindlish] View Point
[MIN06 - Sumit Saxena] Half-Hearted Funny

[MET85 - T. A. Abinandanan] Nanopolitan
[MET85 - Santosh Ojha] Santosh Ojha's weblog
[MET08 - Rahul Raj] Doper's Diary
[MET03 - Anshul Sushil] Being Insouciant...
[MET01 - Vibhash Awasthi] Fultoo Bakar
[MET07 - Akshay Rajagopalan] Alter Ego
[MET08 - Nitin Agarwal] Scribbler's Den
[MET - Praveen] from PKG

[PHM06 - Priti Arora] Priti Arora : Sweet n Sour Memories

[BioChe(PHD) - Sourish Karmakar] The lake of my dreams

[Unknown - Abhilasha Purwar] Abhilasha
[Unknown - Sudipta Mukherjee] in pursuit of happyness
[Unknown - Rakesh] Maverick's haven
[Unknown - M S Ramkrishnan] Lord Grindelwad
[Unknown - Anshuman Singh] Blog Profile
[Unknown - Unknown] Blog Profile
I am gathering the data of ITBHU bloggers. If you know more blogs , then please forward their weblink to me.

Vichaar Shoonya-2

1- Media evades real issues by Balbir Punj.

2-All the facts and prraise of Atal Bihari Vajpayee on this weblog. [Stand on Gujrat riot is missing here].

3- Cops Caught on Camera ; An news article on Bollywood and real life cop inspiration.

4- Anurag Kashyap brutal and honest take on 'Black' and Bollywood. Read the full article.

5- BJP apes Congress, fails by Koenraad Elst.

6-Economic Freedom of the World 2008 Annual Report. [PDF Version]