Raigad: The King of Forts

This weekend got a chance to visit the king of all forts The Raigad. This fort is called the capital of the Maratha Kingdom. It was here that Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was made the king of the maratha empire. Not many things are remaining at the fort today, but still it kind of lights the memories of history when these chapters were being written. Most part of the fort is still intact the main entrance, the staff offices, the carnation hall the amunation stores, secret discussion rooms etc. The fort has a nice MTDC resort also at the top, with quality food. For every Indian its a must visit place.

Jai Bhavani Jai Shivaji

A Beautiful Mind

Just finished watching one of the best made movies in my lifetime. Its now after 27 years into existence that I am watching some brilliant made movies. A Beautiful Mind is one such master piece. Every one has done a great job. The story is just too good.

The movie starts of very nicely and then until end of part-1 of the movie you just can't figure out whats actually wrong with John Nash. The struggle and the grand comeback in the end is just too good.

INS Talwar in action

This is five times in a row that Indian Navy war ship that was patrolling the Gulf of Aden has foiled another piracy attempt. The news reported that a vessel called MV Maud sent a distress call. The Indian war ship INS Talwar immediately responded to the call and advised the vessel to increase speed and carry out evasive maneuvers to avoid getting boarded.

Also a helicopter with Marine Commandos was sent to the rescue site. The commandos emptied the skiff of its fuel and set it adrift as INS returned to her patrolling duties while warships from other navies arrived on the scene for follow up action.

Lalita Pawar

Many of us know this great lady, who ruled the Indian film industry for a good 8 decades. She is one lady who has worked in almost all formats of movies ranging from mute movies, black and white movies to color movies. Lalita Pawar has worked in over 700 movies, can you believe that. Yes 700 movies. Now thats a number, you see.
She is no more with us, but her movies and her acting will always ensure that we remember this great lady.

Company Matters..

The company be it our organization or the company we keep around us makes or breaks us. This is so very true for each one of us. But in context of the following story the first thing that comes to our mind is Mogli (The Character of Jungle Book) brought up in company of wolfs.

Russian police have taken into care a five-year-old girl who has been shut up in a flat in the company of cats and dogs for her entire life, police said on Wednesday.

The girl, who lived in the Eastern Siberian city of Chita, could not speak Russian and acted like an dog when police took her into care. "For five years, the girl was 'brought up' by several dogs and cats and had never been outside," a police statement said.

"The unwashed girl was dressed in filthy clothes, had the clear attributes of an animal and jumped at people," it said. The flat had no heat, water or sewage system.

A police spokeswoman said the girl, known as Natasha, is being monitored by psychologists in an orphanage. Her mother was being questioned but her father has not been found yet.

She appears to be about 2-years-old, though her real age is five, refuses to eat with a spoon and has taken on many of the gestures of the animals with which she lived, police said.

"When caretakers leave the room, the girl jumps at the door and barks," the police said.

Feral children, the stuff of folklore all over the world, usually exhibit the behaviour of the animals with whom they have had closest contact, a condition known as the Mowgli Syndrome after the fictional child from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book who was raised by wolves in the jungle.

Such children have usually built strong ties with the animals with whom they lived and find the transition to normal human contact extremely traumatic.

The Source:
http://www.in.com/news/readnews--girl-brought-up-by-cats-dogs-found-in-russian-city-9384447-5b283c7ba02ec73c56453d728a8dea8863ab6ea7-hp.html

Now for something if we say its been around for 14 years, makes us say that’s interesting. Well yes indeed it is for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge or more commonly known as DDLJ. Its almost 14 years since this movie is being shown in Theaters. This is the longest running film in the history of Indian Cinema.

Last month DDLJ completed 700th week at Maratha Mandir at Bombay Central. This film was released on October 20th 1995. Since then its running at Maratha Mandir. Maratha Mandir is one of the last remaining single screen theater.

Senorita, bade bade deshon main, aisi chhoti chhoti baatein, hoti rehti hain.

But i would say “Bade bade deshon main, aisi badi badi baatein, hoti rehti hain.

The Almighty

Be the Miracle,

Its a Beautiful day .....

Reminds you of something, yes its Bruce the Almighty.Now what you're thinking? its you me and all of us who think that there are problems and problems all around us. Whereas the fact otherwise is not this. We all deep down in our hearts think that life is not so good with us. The problems that we face the challenges that come in front actully take us one step closer to our goal. Its just left to us to realize our goal.

Now if this is getting a little to heavy on you then, I think i need to make life simpler for you me and all.

"Bruce Almighty" .... its a beautiful movie. You know what, please watch it. This movie is worth your time. More importantly many of us would want to be like Bruce tilll the mid second half of the movie but yes, I promise you would want to come down and be yourself once again. For all you may know, some one is really missing your company for a long time.

So all you folks just go there live your life to the fullest, enjoy and be very happy for what you are, god has created you like this for a reason and he knows the best whats the reason. So let him do his job and you concentrate on what you are good at.

Even now if this is confusing you then I must say that, the time has come for you to sit glued to the television sets and watch this movie.

Two days for the change

With less than 48 remaining for Mr. Fate to open up its secret box and tell who’s going to be the next PM for the Union of India. For all candidates this is more like the final over's of the T20 match when we just want to get over this and accept the result.

For all reasons it looks like it will again be Congress and we all have to suffer for the next five years. If I could make a choice I would give my vote to BJP.

Anyways by Saturday we all will come to know how’s the weather at New Delhi.

Mumbai Indians are back with a bang

A three match loosing streak was finally broken yesterday by Mumbai Indians when they defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Early loss of Sachin, kind of shocked the Mumbai Indians camp, followed by some hard hitting by Jaysurya. After Jaysurya was gone Mumbai Indian kind of settled their innings and posted a good defendable 156 for the loss of 2 wickets. Bangalore in the second innings could not cope up with the target run rate and scrummed to the Mumbai Indians bowling attack. The end result Mumbai won the match and its smiles all around Mumbai.

:) :) :) :) :)

The bull swing

The Indian Stock market is witnessing some big swings in terms of the sensex which some times climbs up by over 700 pts, some days by just 5 pts. Probably the most unpredictable thing after girls these days. :)

For a budding invertors like me its very hard to decide what to do with the stocks that we have. But yes this volatile market at least makes us understand the investment fundamentals, market behavior etc. So I hope to learn these things as fast as possible and make some good fortune out of this.

A new Lesson

The 4 D theory, which I feel should be shared with all of you. After giving it some deep thought, yes I feel it does make sense. It goes something like this:

As humans we all have ambitions, dreams, thoughts, some wish that we want to get fulfilled. Probably  these 4D’s help us with inching more closer to our goals.

1st D: Direction: We must have a clear direction about which route we need to go in order to achieve our goal.

2nd D: Dedication/ Devotion: No matter what we do there should be no compromise on dedication and devotion.

3rd D: Discipline: Anything we do needs that discipline for carry our the task. This will ensure that we have our hearts are committed for this.

4th D: Deadline: No matter what you want to do in life, but the real fun is to set a deadline and then march towards this goal and finish this before the deadline is over..

Hope these 4D’s do the trick for us.