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We the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. The unbiased sense of country hood being emphasized in the above statement was meant to be the heart and soul of our nation. It saddens me to see the very shield, designed to protect us, being used as a political weapon. The unrest, the nuisance, the violence, the agitation. All this as a result of misinterpretation of one Act, is worrisome. Considering the CAA, a section of people is slated to be benefitted by this. However, nowhere in the document, the government explicitly states that they would not be allowing Muslim immigrants a chance to claim citizenship, which has become the discussion of the hour. There are five different ways of acquiring Indian citizenship, which can be availed by any individual, be it a Muslim or not. It does not take away the opportunity to apply for citizenship under any of those provisions. There are 28 states which have either ad...

Buying a goldfish - piece of cake, keeping her healthy and sound - totally different story. Goldfish jitni dikhti hai utni sidhi nahi. Things to keep in mind before bringing her home: Tank size matters. Minimum of 15 to 20 litres tank is advisable, so that she gets enough space to roam around. Tank should be clean. Free from any chemicals which could harm her like excess salts, detergent residues etc. Should be covered. Tank should have proper lighting system. A small bulb would suffice. Air pump and water heater are equally important. Many varieties of air pump are available but I used the one with water filtering ability. It sucks the tank water from beneath through a filter so that tiny dust particles (even fish poop) get stuck, and expels from top with force and external air mixed. This also helps in circulating water. Heater should be set around 26 to 28 C. Either of the above should not be turned on outside water. Water - tap water:filtered water = 1:1 If tap water is...

First things first. Loneliness isn't a curse. At par times, people across the globe, have experienced loneliness in one or the other way. Be it willingly or not. Being alone is a part of life. The more you run away from it, the more it scares you. So the remedy you ask - accept it with open hands. With a strong presence of social media everywhere, being lonely scares the hell out of people. To avoid loneliness, people thrive on it. Do everything possible to grab the spotlight and be the talk of the town. There's an unnecessary urge to stay connected. Always. People simply can't digest the food, without liking a 9GAG post, or sharing a selfie.   Being alone gives time to explore yourself. It softly applies the much needed brake and slows you down momentarily. Slowing down is equally necessary as speeding is to win the race. And some time alone, gives just that. It connects you with the physical world. It makes you realize a bunch of stuff which you probably woul...

Another Rober Langdon thriller. Not as interesting as A&D and TDVC. Dan Brown tries hard to convience his audience that human race is at the brink of extinction due to overpopulation. For a moment, if you consider it and continue reading, even then it isn't that intriguing. Firstly, it is difficult to grasp that an air borne virus has affected entire human race in just a week. Possible. If you drop, tons of lysate on every country via a B-2. Secondly, why would an organization go to such an extent of faking a gun shot, just to persuade a proffessor to help them aquire a canister which was aquired by Dr. Sinskey, and which was any how to be delivered to the same person eventually after 2 days. (Somehow Indians are bad at long sentences. Pardon me for that. But you gotta appreciate my effort) In my opinion, Digital Fortress & Deception Point were better than this. I'd love to read all his titles again except Inferno. He seemed a bit desperate to engage people in Ro...

One fine day, after knowing my madness for gaming, one of my friend suggested me to try World of Tanks. At first, it was just another game for me. Tried it for couple of days, but I couldn't manage to kill a single tank. And so as normal human tendency goes, I was frustrated with it in just under 2 hours. Next thing: Shift + Delete. Wasn't that hard. Meanwhile I started getting some good reviews of the game from various online sources. It was being praised from all the people who knew about it. After a couple of months, I was attracted to WOT again. But I didn't have a good internet connection back then. Hardly received 125kbps. And at that rate I decided to download the game. It took me 2 weeks to download 6 GB of data at an average rate of 12 hours/GB. The speed reduced drastically as I surfed other web pages. But finally, after a long wait and a lot of hard work in downloading, I managed to play it. Again it was a nightmare getting used to the controls as I ...

Today I attended a personality development session which aimed at improving the GD (Group Discussion) skills by braking down the students into groups and ask them to discuss on topics like "Natural disaster vs Man-made disaster" and "Women Empowerment". I did come across various views on both topics ranging from earthquakes, nuclear attack to Sonia Gandhi and Sheila Dixit. People did have a lot to convey but the only thing which prevented them from putting their point forward was lack of confidence. This I guess was common among majority of the students. The topic doesn't matter more than the level of confidence with which you present the few things you already know. There are many areas which can be improved by attending such discussions like leadership quality, time management, focusing the point, general awareness, etc.  And I got to learn all of that. Indeed a good experience.

Work done by the team of Satyamev Jayate was marvelous. Right from the sheer thought of creating such a fantastic show till the broadcasting of the same has been top of the line. The endurance of the thought of change is the need of the hour. My apology. have been reading british novels lately. And in particular I blame Jeffrey Archer. Good job with "The sins of the father". But 'Change' is what everyone craves for today. Right from the son of an ordinary farmer to a retired army officer. We want change. We don't know how, but we do desire. Just finished with "What young India wants" by Chetan Bhagat. Its the same story retold again and again with different garnishings. But are we really ready to work for a change! We ll, sadly - NO. Let me elaborate with an example. I live in Anand. The milk capital of India. And I'm pursuing Master of Science in Biotechnology at ARIBAS located in Vallabh Vidhyanagar, which is in close vicinity to Anan...

If I recall correctly, Krishna advised Arjun to kill his own family members in the battlefield because they were wrong and Arjun was just taking the side of dharma. So if that is not wrong than we can speak to our elders with a high tone if we find them taking the path of adharma. 

3.5/5 First impressions: Another fight fledged khan movie, full of non sense violence. Forget giving message, after watching some of them, I wonder why they were fighting in the first place! Paradigm shift: for a change, it had a message - "Help other". It reminds me of an age old series 'Hatim'. "naiki kar dariya mein daal" was the statement I still remember. Jai's scheme of helping 3 people & telling them to help 3 more is (I guess) adapted from Brit world wide system of Amway. No doubt, the system is good on paper. But there maybe less number of people who would understand the motto & even less who might think to implement. Probably less than the number of intertwines in my shoe lace. But as it is said that even a drop of HCL can acidify water. So no harm in implementing. Getting to Salman's acting: Desi 'HULK'. Depicted as a wild animal, ready to pounce on the evil. Reckless & brutal dhishum-dhishum. But again that was...

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3/5 I don't know why I watched this movie in the first place. (for fun obviously, but why this in particular: No Idea) Plot in general is the same "ghisa pita" base, but the detailing was apreciable. A guy who is least bothered with the feelings of his loved ones, takes a 180 turn just because of a girl. (Well its kareena kapoor so acceptable) Only thing about hindi movies which annoy me a lot is that 1/3rd of the movie is taken up by songs and a lot of it goes into leading towards the song or the other way round. And I still don't get it, why people enjoy a boy and a girl singing and dancing without a reason that too with full orchestra and sound effects ready by their side all the time. Anyways getting back to the movie. Kareena's role sounded a bit rude, sellfish and lame. Yes, she was determined, goal oriented, confident - accepted, but her path wasn't effective as depicted. Imran tried his best to be the careless bozo but ended up on the other si...

1 I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. 2 I wish I didn’t work so hard. 3 I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. 4 I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. 5 I wish that I had let myself be happier. I I Dont want to say any of that on my death bed. 

Brightside: Pretty good first hand experience with iOS. Does what is asked for, has the power and skills. OS is to the point. Very straight forward. Thats a plus point. Thumbs up for display. Now the downside: Takes eternity to charge & doesn't last that long. Bad camera - very hazy, no options for capture optimization, nt much photo editing options as well. A bit slow. Started coughing with 4 tabs open in safari. Delayed touch response. Touch precision wasn't satisfactory. Disappointing Bluetooth. Overall, a little low than expected. 5.5/10

3/5 Frankly speaking, I went to see the movie only for parineeti chopra. Didnt expect much. But it did turn out to be somewhere between average and good. First the characters: Raghu, Gayatry and Tara. This was a straight forward movie. No waste of time in introducing their family unless they play an imp role. I guess the story line was inspired from Inception. Wasnt a typical LOVE triangle. It gets very confusing, if you try to understand what is going on. But if just for fun, than its good. Raghu was going to marry Tara with a fake baarat. Meets Gayatry en route. Falls in love with her. Runs away from his own marriage. Meets Gayatry after  2 weeks. They fall in love. Try to marry. Gayatry runs away. raghu meets Tara again. They fool around a bit. Comes across Gayatry again. Tara thinks to side step. Raghu and Gayatry again tries to marry. Both of them runs a way from their marriage and meets @ Gayatry's place. Finally they conclude that both are afraid of commitment. So the...

Let me share one of my many yet unattended projects.   About one of my friend - for convenience and secrecy purpose, let’s call him Prof. X. So this Prof. X was in LOVE with a girl (G). Sure this says a lot about him. Firstly he is a boy (not a man) in his twenties, Loves a girl - just like a normal teenager but isn't a playboy to get her easily. It’s more of a fling than LUV (that's writer’s personal opinion). He's just another boy having sense of desire, a want rather than need. Firstly LOVE is off the table. Let’s just say he wanna be friends with her. Unfortunately, the mistress isn't from same class but from same college. So for the sole purpose of igniting their friendship, he seeks help. Help from a guy (Y) to get him in touch with her. As this was the most awaited task for Y to get hands on, he sought out help from a girl (Z) with prior permission and discussion on consequences with Prof. X. Now Y and Z are on the run to fetch G for X. (Literal...

After being mesmerized by BBT, I got my hands on Friends.  Another CBS TV show.  4th most watched TV show in the history of United States of America.  No doubt there were millions of die hard fans of Friends.  It is indeed a show which makes you want to see more and more.  Never have I been so intimidated by anything before.  All the characters are amazing. Monica Geller: Organized, wants things to be done in a perfect manner, cant tolerate indiscipline and untidiness. She looks stunning throughout all the seasons. She did inspire me to organize my stuff nd care for the detailing. She taught me, Its not crazy to tend towards perfection. She deserved the Porsche.  Rachel Greene: Jenifer Aniston is remarkably the star among them. Perfect example of beauty without brains. However she is, she is perfect. Loves fashion. She taught me its not insane to splurge a bit on yourself. After all at he end of the day you will be with yourself i...

A show on CBS watched by millions(including me). Unfortunately a couple of months ago, i was hit by chicken pox. Suffered for 9 days. Wasn't as much of suffering, but the initial 2 days were a nightmare. One of my friend suggested me about Big Bang Theory some time ago. Boy! that was table turner. 7 days with BBT were a boon. Sheldon Cooper: the heart of BBT. Loves Physics, online gaming, a well organized lifestyle, comics, and a lot more which would interest a nerd. Some say, I resemble Sheldon Cooper. I say Sheldon Cooper resembles Spock (from Star Trek) and so I resemble Spock. Leonard Hofstadter (SC's roommate): The only man who can tolerate SC. Also a physicist(Experimental). In an ON and OFF relationship status with penny (their neighbor). Howard Wolowitz: An engineer who has traveled in space for installation of new waste disposal system invented by him. Unfortunately, he doesnt hold a doctorate degree as SC, Leonard & Raj. He is a playboy kinda guy. ...

Today morning naksalvadi people attacked couple of our legislative members. well this should have been a bad news but unfortunately it isnt. turns out that people are happy. “thoda boj kam hua”

There are millions of websites over internet which can teach you almost anything. Almost anything. But tell me 1 single website which can teach how to start a revolution. There is none. Because there is no step-by-step process of bringing about a change. This is not an experiment which requires a set of prerequisites. It is instantaneous. Actually Instantaneous. If you can keep a single thought in your mind for years together, than my friend you are about to bring a change, a revolution. Revolution not just means something which can change the world or your surroundings or even the ongoing processes. Revolution can be within you also. For example, to quit smoking. If you can create a thought of quitting and make sure you stick to it than at one point you will actually quite it. Simple............ People have said that: "To change the world change yourself". Sounds good. But there's a glitch. At present if you think you can change yourself and avoid corruption t...

Every conversation has a point. To make that point, the speakers roams around that point forming a circle. He tries to be within the point and tries to convince the audience about the circle-the things they already know. Circle is just an imaginary area which defines the things already in our perception. Speaker's job is to make the audience recall those fragments or broken bits. After that all he needs to do is make them assemble the broken bits into a perfect picture, in simple words he makes them defragment those fragments. Finally what comes up is a perfect circle. Overall the speakers job is to prove that there exists a point which is the centre of the circle and thus proves his point. This is a typical Lecture.