Vivaaha Aahvana

sainika

The world today is reeling because of the terrorist menace, and India which needs no introduction to this word or their methods was given a new gruesome lesson these past couple of days.

Why do they do such gruesome things? What induces them to kill other people with impunity?
Why attack innocents when the anger is on the posturing apes who call themselves world leaders? And why do it in the name of religion?

No body can form a proper answer and neither am I going to delve into that too much.

I would want to talk about this particular attack on Mumbai.. and its heroes

The impunity with which they descended on the targets, the efficient take over of the Taj Hotel, The Trident Oberoi & The Nariman House and most of all the efficient holding of the positions till late yesterday point at a long planned, well thought out and supremely organized group.I refuse to believe for one instance, in-fact I feel like bursting out laughing every time this Deccan Mujaheddin name is touted. The New York Times has stated that international security experts "drew a blank on" the Deccan Mujahideen group, with one analyst labeling it a "front name".

The crisis has come to an end but what about those 160+ people whose lives have been taken so cruelly.

What about their families and their dreams?
What about their friends and relations who thought the world of them?
Is this lunacy ever going to end?
Who is going to put an end to this lunacy and when?

The chronology and the events that happened have been reported, re-reported ad-nauseaum. I would not want to recount them here, but what I would like to do is dedicate my heartfelt condolences and thanks to the families of those brave warriors who laid down their lives trying to save strangers who would not even care to give them time of the day otherwise. 14 policemen and 3 NSG commandos have been killed in this mess.

Read, sweet, how others strove,
Till we are stouter;
What they renounced,
Till we are less afraid;
How many times they bore
The faithful witness,
Till we are help ed,
As if a kingdom cared!

Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
Passed out of record
Into renown!

Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad Chief Hemant Karkare,Thank you.
Additional Commissioner of Police: Ashok Kamte, Thank you.
Encounter specialist: Vijay Salaskar, Thank you.
Senior inspector Shashank Shinde, Thank you.
NSG Commando, Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Thank you.
NSG Hawaldar Chandar, Thank you.


There was discipline in you,
There was an honor in you,
There was courage in you,
There was a loyalty in you that you never compromised.
Yours wasn't a title that could be given for hire.
It was a soldier's soul buried deep inside you.
A Soldier's job isn't finished after an 8 hour day or a 40 hour week,
A Soldier is always A Soldier even while he sleeps.
A Soldier serves his country first and his life is left behind,
You sacrificed what comes first in our mind.

To all civilians - I am saying this to you.....
next time you see A Soldier remember what they do.
A Soldier is the reason our land is the new land of progress
A Soldier is the one that is brave protecting you and me.

If you are A Soldier - I am saying this to you.....
Thank God for EVERY SOLDIER
Thank God for what YOU do!

Deshabhakti

The Jana Gana Mana - Indian National Anthem was a historic video released January 26, 2000 to mark the 50th year of the Indian Republic. It has the distinction of being released by the then President of India, in the Central Hall of the Indian Parliament. It was produced by Bharat Bala and Kanika Myer and published by Ministry of Culture, Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India.Bharat Bala and A. R. Rahman came together to create a historic album called 'Jana Gana Mana'. This was a project in which over 35 top artistes of the nation came together to sing or play the Indian National Anthem, "Jana Gana Mana". The project had started as "Desh Ka Salaam" which was telecast in Indian TV channels and on the web on August 15, 1999, in which several great Indian musicians, from the classical to the contemporary, came together to give a soulful and modern rendition of the National Anthem. The video was released on January 26, 2000.





Vande Mataram is the national song of India. The song was composed by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Tejasvin

Award winning Indian ad for a cause

abhimaanavat

ARROGANT


those who know me in BIM or follow my posts regularly (what a joke!!) will know why I feel this way when they see the picture below

for those who got it kudos!!! for the 99.95% who wouldn't have this image is a screen shot of a search in google of the key word "Kalaikom". Read the post on my passions and you will understand it has been my no.1 passion since I joined BIM, but what makes that picture special is that

1. The youtube video was uploaded by me, it was created by chotu & me with irreplacable & unforgettable help from Sankalan on the music

2. The two posts are from this very blog!!!!

I know with very little references to that particular keyword there would be very few webpages indeed, but from among them mine being on the top gives me a sense of abhimaanavat.

and oh!!! by the way this was a search done on the 16th so the rankings will def. change

Punarjanma

REBIRTH

That is exactly how i'm feeling today, my last post was on jun 16th and after that I'm posting only now!!!

Surprising that after getting into the habit of blogging i kinda lost that habit all of a sudden, the reasons were pretty lame and simple... to doggone tired to come back from work get to a net parlour wait in queue for someone to finish browsing and then sit and check my mails, once i was through with my mails, I just couldn't find the energy or the enthusiasm to think up something to post, so.. i did the next best thing, get a connection, and lo... here i am back to the same old prattling rambling self that is uniquely me!!!

Well after a long gap i've come up with a post, dunno how many people are going to be reading this, but... I've started blogging, so .... as i always say.... expect the unexpected..

Paraloka

Paraloka - the afterlife

Not that I'm gettin religious or philosophical or gone lunatic after such a long hiatus, but it's just that after such a looong break and the kind of job life I'm having, this felt like the best title I could give to this post.

On the one side I feel I'm wheeling and dealing with some of the biggies of the Bangalore corporate scene, on the other side I sometimes feel like the doormat for the freshers who join the company and open their salary accounts with us.

"Oh!! Man!! What a paradox!!" You might say, but believe me that is exactly what is happening with me day in and day out. Corporate Salary Relationship Manager for a fresher who has never done any marketing forget relationship marketing is too big an ask, especially considering that the guy whose shoe's I have to fill, has made the size to order "VVXXXL". He is a master of glib-smart talk, ace in networking, and a maestro at keeping his clients happy. So even gettin to 30% of what he was, feels like too much ask.. But I'm upto that challenge and I plan to get as close if not better his skillset.

Ok enough of prattling about that, the reason for the name... Nowadays I can't even figure out if I'm in this world or the next, on road for most part of the day, travelling a minimum of 35-40 Km in a day and working from 9-7!! But that is normal at the place I work and almost required for my Job profile, so it is not something like I'm overworking or I'm being driven, but to a guy who is used to, infact demanded, 8 hours of sleep in a day this feels like madness and I mean utter total madness, sometimes I feel like I have serious sleep deprivation yet, I get up on time at 7:30 or 8:00 depending on what I did the previous night ;) and am off to work dreading what this day is gonna bring, and after I come back by the time I wind down and work up some energy to get up and go out for dinner (yes I'm surviving only on outside food) it's almost 10, personal life is something that is almost non-existent.

OK now enough of self pity lets talk abt bengaluru....... In the next post ofcourse, I'm too lazy to go on typing hehehehe;)

parivarta

CHANGE

bheda
pariNatiH
nimaya
pariNaama
parivarta
vikaara
vikRti
vipariNaama
viparyaasa
vizeSa
vyatyaasa
uuhana
{pari- nam}
parivartayati
vikaroti
anyaadRkSa

It's been quite sometime since I've roamed Chennai properly, I got that chance this past week, now that my MBA course is over and I'm back, I was doing jus that...
Man!!! I noticed a lot of change and a lot of things that have thankfully remained the same

vikRta
Certain things that have changed

When I went to meet some of my college friends this scene was something I didn't expect to see... young kids skating happily on a skating ring at the marina beach with parents looking on and an instructor either encouraging them or admonishing them and to top it all a couple of girls coming in to practice their figure skating skills!!!
I was pleasantly surprised to see this scene, the skating ring at besant nagar beach is another issue, to me it was an aberration, it's not maintained properly and neither do i remember seeing it properly lighted or any instructors there or a good number of skaters, this had all three happening for it, it has become a favorite spot for my gang to meet up

Chennai's very own MTC launched the Yellow and blue line services
Blue line - Yellow Board @ deluxe rates
Yellow Line - Express @ deluxe rates

Two more new services were launched a few days later

Orange Line = L.S.S + Deluxe + Low Floor with automatic doors
White Line = Long distance + Deluxe + Low floor with automatic doors

Wat sets them apart is their rates and the seating and the quality of those seats - good, pretty good, however even with automatic doors "the MTC's answer to all the driver's who got sick and tired of driving at a 45 degree angle to the road" they are not a patch on the Volvo's of Bengaluru reason A/c , and they were pretty empty the one time I happened to travel in them - although I didn't quite figure was it due to the price Nungambakkam to T. Nagar @ Rs. 7/- or was it due to the time, around 22:00 on a weekend.

Next comes the traffic scene at the chinnamalai area, wat the hell happened to the CCTP, how did they get so smart suddenly, if feel these new changes are too good to be true I hope this test phase of 1 month is a success and they make this permanent, no traffic snarls, no long wait at signals - just a pretty smooth flow of traffic man was it a dream run or wat, I was absolutely blown over the way the traffic was flowing and jus couldn't find words to express my state of happiness - nee bliss, divine bliss!!!





Pelita Nasi Kandar
Located on the Pondy Bazaar right opposite to the Holy Angels School, claims to provide authentic Malaysian Cuisine, now I wasn't willing to take the risk especially considering that most of the dishes were Non vegetarian but a couple of friends and I went in and we tried it out, Maybe it's us or the food itself, we weren't really taken away with the place, nice ambience though. However the food is something we weren't quite sure how to judge it was neither here nor there so I'm just reserving my judgment on this particular joint.

Rest will follow later....

raaShTrapati

The hottest debate going on in most places these days is whether Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam should continue as the President of India and if not him who??

Scientist, author and now the `Peoples' President.

A P J Abdul Kalam's presidency has been like no other in India's history.

The President has crisscrossed the globe -- spreading the message of India's growing political and economic clout. He has also traveled the length and breath of the country meeting personnel from the armed forces, young professionals and mostly children. Be it the icy heights of Siachen or troubled Jammu and Kashmir or even the cockpit of the state-of-the-art Sukhoi fighter plane, the President has striven to inculcate the message of a young and resurgent India.

THIS is a very interesting piece that I found while researching this great man. It not only points to his greatness but also his fallacies as the President of India, indeed, the post has become mere ceremonial rather than with any kind of clout except of course for THIS one incident he has not done anything too authoritative in his tenure so the debate continues...

Should he continue, if not him, then who??

zvaH mama pariikSaa asti

I have the examination tomorrow

You might think what the hell is this guy doing blogging when he is supposed to be studying but... Goddammit I'm getting bugged with these exams, hopefully these are my last set of exams I will ever have to write in my life!!!
09 more days to go... my college life to end forever... I'm a student no more... But Dammit!! I'm still grumbling about these stupid god damned exams still, can't help it, I'm still a student after all and what does every student (When I mean student, I mean people like me and not people who get a high studying for exams) do best, grumble and curse about exams, tests, assignments and the most irritating thing of them all Attendance, now which guy in his right mind at the age of 24-25 will want to sit inside class, when I couldn't do that when I was 16 don't you think it is a bit too much to expect me to sit in the class 9 years on??!!!!

And now back to the topic of the day.. Exams... Why is it necessary to write and exam, why can't I just submit a project report or a case study and get it done with???
Top it all I'm supposed to be in an Autonomous institute!! Pooh!! Tell you what these guys just want to drain me off all my active brain cells before they send me out of this place... Every time I see my classmates discuss the paper after the exam I feel like throttling the first person whom I can get hold of and invariably it happens to be Maha and dammit!! for the life of me I can't do that, especially to that woman, now take Chotu, MAN!! is he my soul mate or what, it's always been a permanent competition between the two of us.. Who comes out first from the exam hall?

My college has gone to the extent that when a couple of visiting professors didn't want exams and wanted to give assignments and projects, the management expressly forbade that and had them set question papers, reason... University Norms, what the hell is that Autonomous supposed to mean, Hello guys you are supposed to decide and not run back to the bureaucrats every time.

Oh! forget it I can keep going on like this but the books are beckoning to me like sirens!! OK agreed, bad analogy, they never were or will ever be so attractive as the mythological sirens that called out to Ulysses (It's him rite??), but I think you got the point, gotta go bury my nose in there.

Until then Ciao!!

Why Women Fall For Mr. Average

This article is inspired by a comment in my post Why Men Fall In Love - Sara hope this is a start

High-flying men are not as attractive to women looking for love as those with an average job, scientists say.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the University of Central Lancashire research found the 186 female students asked preferred good-looking men.

But within that group, those without top careers were deemed most suitable, the Personality and Individual Differences journal reported.

The team said women seemed to feel high-flyers would not be good fathers.

Lead researcher Simon Chu said the high-earning career men were deemed to be "too good to be true".

"Under particular circumstances, high socio-economic status in males can be subtly counter-productive in terms of attractiveness as a long-term partner.

"We suggest that females see physically attractive, high status males as being more likely to pursue a mating strategy rather than a parenting strategy."

Using photographs of 60 men in their 20s, researchers asked students to rate them on a physical attractiveness scale.

Six from the good looking group, six considered average and six judged unattractive were then selected.

Profession

Alongside each photograph they added information on the man's age, what he was looking for in a partner and their profession.

The professions included high-status jobs such as architects and company directors, medium-status positions such as teachers or travel agents and so-called lower-status roles such as gardeners and postmen.

The researchers found that purely on looks, the best-looking men were assessed as the best partners.

But within this group, when professions were taken into account, those good-looking men with medium status jobs came out top.

Ingrid Collins, a consultant psychologist at the London Medical Centre, agreed potential parenting and providing skills were important.

"I think there will always be a pattern where women will take the lead in caring for the children.

"Because of this they will tend to go for someone who can look after and provide for their family."

This article was found during my search in google in the pages of BBC News

kuTumbaka

Family


The reason why I picked on this word is because I love my family more than anything else in this world, for that matter who doesn't???

I picked on this video to start of this topic is because no matter what function a family or rather a dynasty get's together nothing can beat the get together of a family for a marriage and if that marriage is appreciated by everyone, in the sense agreed to by everyone then nothing like it, the celebration can go on for days together. It is but obvious that in India, till recently, atleast marriage was not just the union of two people, it was, and in most parts, still is merging/union of two dynasties

Now before I start off I will as is my wont give you other words that mean family

paricaara
parivaara
jaati
vyapadeza
vaMza
kuTumba
gotra
kula

Although words like kula, jaati, vamZa and gotra have been used to connote things that I don't personally agree with, I believe people initially used it only to connote the word Family
I was unlucky that I missed 3 such weddings in my family all due to my education, they would definitely have been festivals of joy.

I used the video of Murari to show the happiness of the entire family because of the wedding, in this scene the hero and heroine are related to each other and thus the wedding is in the presensce of the entire extended family of first and second cousins which is just magical especially if you can understand the language.

Each gRahajana (member of the family) enjoys the wedding without any other thoughts hampering their happiness, the joy of all these ppl is a sight to see, only a person who has been in a wedding with his/her parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles will know how it feels.

In today's world we seem to be living niSkula and nirvaMza(i.e, without a family) although we do meet on occasions or holidays the feel of living in the same place is too good. Which is the precise reason why I miss my childhood days when we lived as an extended family and all relatives used to visit us regularly, but then marriages, careers and life in general drove all of us apart, not that I regret them leaving but I do regret them not being there, I would definitely like to meet all of them in one place, there was an opportunity recently on my niece's wedding to do that but alas!!! EXAMS the biggest bane of any student destroyed that chance.

I believe most people of my generation and my senior generations know the pride and joy of being a kaulika(belonging to the family), the pride with which I say I'm a Durbha is something I will never forget or let go.

I believe some day, preferrably my sister's wedding and my wedding I will be
mama parivaareNa saha (with my family) and I will post the pic with pride and joy

Until then
ciraM jiiva - May thy family be blessed with good health
tvaM gaccha - May thy family be blessed with good health and longevity

chiraharita prahasana

evergreen comedy
I seem to be only posting irrelevant things and not as I said my life in the way of sanskrit words but anyways these posts are also about things that I have always loved so... in my warped logic I think I'm justifying them more to myself than anybody else but if you like em enjoy em

priya samgita

Favorite songs

A small selection of my favorite songs

{aa-mantr}

Bidding farewell

apagama, vigama, atisarga, aapracchana - farewell

Now that is the most difficult thing for you to do especially considering that you've practically been living with the same people in the same place for 2 years,
we came here to study,
we came here to find jobs,
We did a bit of both but more importantly
we made good friends,
some of found their soul mates,
some found their life partners,
we go with heavy hearts and reluctant legs
GOD what wouldn't I do for just one more month of the fun I had in these past two years

There are freshers here and there are the experienced guys like me, this farewell I feel is more difficult to us the experienced guys who have snatched some time from life to rewind back, so to say, jumped from the other side of the fence and are here. I for one do not want to go back to that world, the world of dreary jobs, work-pay-expenses handling-reporting-appraising-being appraised and all that crap. I've been on the other side of the fence I've waded through my share of muck sometimes more than my fair share of muck in those 2 years of outsourced night job.

I loved a part of it then, I was proud of being independent, but now.... I'm going to face life with a definitely much better job and salary than what I did before, but I do not want that, I just want to rewind life back to July 4th 2005, an Ali Baba's cave was opened to me, I was intrigued and then reluctant to accept this change but thinking back I've had nothing but a great experience overall, GOD has always been benevolent to me despite the hardships he has given me,

HE took away my Father but he left me in the care of an Angel and a little sweet cherub, My Mom and My sister have always been great source of inspiration, love, pride, joy and faith to me. He has given me good friends, wherever I go I've made friends, whom I've come to love and respect- My neighborhood, My School, My College, My Workplace and once again My college. I have a good job now and great friends here,being her sometimes I almost, almost, do not miss home.

But as they say, This too shall come to pass, and so it has, time to move on time to let go of the bygones and look forward to the new, But it is not an easy task to accomplish, life has thrown some pretty wild characters in here and forgotten them for 2 years, we've come to like, hate and love each other, I spend every waking moment with these people, they are my roommates, my classmates, my friends, my well wishers, my antagonists and my loved ones, I sit and joke around with them, have food with them, go to class with them, play, fight, watch movies, go to class and copy in the exams from them. 24/7 we are in the same place, keep bumping into each other, step on each other's toes and give a helping hand to each other.

I have never stayed in a hostel in my entire life except for now, but I've been pampered here by the hostel security, the warden and especially by the mess staff, sometimes far worse than happens at home. Now how do you expect me to leave this place and go, it is almost impossible and the thought if it is choking me, I generally haven't felt misty eyed at farewells or for leaving school or under grad college but here, now!!! I feel choked and heavy about the thought of leaving this place 20 days from now, it is something i do not wish to do.

Farewell

I have got my leave. Bid me farewell, my brothers!
I bow to you all and take my departure.

Here I give back the keys of my door
---and I give up all claims to my house.
I only ask for last kind words from you.

We were neighbors for long,
but I received more than I could give.
Now the day has dawned
and the lamp that lit my dark corner is out.
A summons has come and I am ready for my journey.


Rabindranath Tagore

10 minutes

Why men fall in love

Yes I know not my usual style of starting with a sanskrit word, but this post was too good to resist, taken from a post in Yahoo! I couldn't resist doing it, too good and definitely a must read for women who need to understand what their men like in them and also an article guys should make their girlfriends read..

When a man falls for a woman, he falls hard. Men love to be in love. While men often get stereotyped as single-minded sex-seekers, the truth is that a man's stomach churns like a slushy machine when he's in those initial stages of the perfect relationship.

When you consider that half of men say that they're currently not with their soul mates, that means a heck of a lot of slushy machines are waiting to be turned on.

What are they waiting for?

What makes a man fall in love?

After you rule out the obvious intangible laws of chemistry, attraction, and being in the right place at the right time that kick-start many a relationship, I think the question really becomes this:

What makes a man fall -- and stay -- in love?

About 60 percent of men deem friendship the most important thing in a relationship (sex comes in at a skimpy 8 percent, according to a national(US) Harris Interactive poll), but let's delve a little deeper. What exactly does that mean, and what kind of woman does a man really want? With full acknowledgment that men's tastes in women are as unpredictable as the plot line of "24," these are some of things that many men value in "the one."

A Woman with a Passion in Something Other Than Him

Yes, it's nice to be doted over. Yes, it's nice to be pampered. Yes, it's nice to be with a woman who showers you with compliments, neck kisses, and all of her attention. But there's a virtual Great Wall of China between a fleeting, flirtatious glance and the kind of attraction that can last a lifetime. Many men say they like a woman who's immersed in something else other than the relationship -- be it her work, or her sport, or whatever her "thing" is. Why? The passion she shows for something else confirms her inherent goodness, her personal drive, her independence. All pluses in the woman we're hoping to spend a few decades with.

A Woman with No Problem with Guy Time

Every relationship has to choreograph the time-together dance. Once a couple elevates from casual to serious, it goes through that period when most waking and sleeping minutes are spent together. But at some point in the dance, one person will call a time out from the music of coupledom, and try to spend more time with his or her friends -- while still being careful not to step on any feet in the process. Even when they're with the most perfect woman, men still crave the occasional space to spend golfing or drinking or doing whatever (64 percent of men are happy to have the time to themselves when their wives or girlfriends have plans). Men love, appreciate, and are thankful for women who respect and endorse (and not complain about) his need to have a few testosterone mixers. Don't worry, March Madness will be over in just a few weeks!

A Woman with a Strut

Her strut in the bar may have been part of his initial attraction. The strut from the bedroom to the bathroom after the first night together may have been pure visual ecstasy. But the strut that happens day in and day out is one of the major attractors for a man. What do I mean by the strut? It's that attitude, that sassiness, that confidence, that charisma, that charm that shows she can be a little bold and little daring. There is a line between a woman being confident and a woman being so aggressive that she turns men away, but the truth is that in certain aspects of relationships, men want women who have the strut. Men want to be with women who challenge them, who push them, and who take the lead some of the times. And that's as true in the bedroom as it is in planning their next weekend getaway.

The danger? While it can be insanely attractive, that strut of confidence can also swing a man 180 degrees -- if she uses it in other places, like to flirt with other guys, to become a relationship dictator, or to pick a fight with his mom in front of the whole family. He'll point that kind of strut right out the door.

A Woman with a Good Taste in Ties

OK!, so we don't really care about the ties per se. But what we care about is a woman's ability to give us a little-and this is a key word-gentle guidance. I know Freudian followers will say that it's a man's need to be mothered, but it's more than that. Every relationship is a give and take, and guys will definitely take women who can warn us when our new soul patch looks stupid, who can guide us to the perfect suit and shirt combo for an upcoming job interview, who can help them make decisions without being harsh or judgmental. Guys like to project that they know what they're doing and that they don't need any help. Women who can help steer us, without aggressively grabbing the wheel, are the most treasured copilots.

All thanx to
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/menlovesex/24834/what-makes-men-fall-in-love

pRaNah mitRa

21 Reasons Why best Friends are Better Than Boyfriend/Girlfriend…

1.You don’t have to call them every day, just to let them know you’re not fighting

2.You don’t have an anniversary-you just sort of “became” best friends.

3.When someone calls your girlfriend/boyfriend your “partner” it makes you think of marriage. When they call your best friend our partner, it’s more like cops.

4.You never have to touch your best friend when it’s hot outside, but you can still huddle close when it’s freezing.

5.Your parents usually like your best friend.

6.Your best friend doesn’t care if you get fat, you’re ugly, or if you get a weird haircut.

7.You don’t have to get jealous of “girls only” night or “guys only” night — You’re part of it!

8.You can laugh at your best friend with no consequences.

9.You can burp/fart in front of your best friend on any occasion.

10.You can plan on still having a relationship with your best friend in 20 years.

11.Never in your life will you need “space” from your best friend.

12.Your best friend won’t be mad if you want some time alone, and will only ask you “what’s wrong?” once.

13.Your best friend is someone you get in trouble with; your boyfriend/girlfriend is someone you get in trouble with if you get in trouble.

14.You don’t have to get dressed up to go anywhere with your best friend.

15.You’re allowed to have multiple best friends.

16.No one ever spreads rumors or talks about you and your best friend’s relationship.

17.Borrowing any amount of money from your best friend is okay, no questions asked.

18.Your best friend will never refer to you as “the ball and chain,” “the old lady/man,” or “the whip.”

19.No one is ever trying to fix you up on blind dates for a new best friend.

20.It doesn’t matter what your “other” friends think about your best friend.

21. Your best friend is the first person you call when you get a new boy friend / girl friend, and when you break up with them.

Aaveg

Let's talk about passion, seems like I'm very passionately writing about my friends so I thought passion would be a good topic to write about, so before I forget I'm just writing it right away, well as is my won't other words that also mean passion are

• agrataa
• anuraag
• roShaNa(passionate)

The word that I would practically identify with would be roShaNataa - passionate temper although it is more commonly used in the feminine tense my temper for the most part is passionate and is fueled more by my extreme emotional attachment for something than by anything else.

I'm passionate in everything I'm interested in there are very few things that I can manage to do without any passion ask my family, friends and relatives and they will attest to that beyond any doubt, as I told somebody once all my relations are like a glass pane, I do not want to break them, but I end up breaking them and all the relations are like broken glass, they have been broken at least once and most of them I've managed to patch up or stick it a bit, the cracks show even though they are joined. I remember an incident during my childhood when I was playing with a ball inside my home and ended breaking up a wall clock which was there in the family from the time since I've known, what did my Dad do.... he promptly took the knife my Mom was using to cut the vegetables and cut the ball into two, but what struck me even more was Dad sitting for the better part of the night and sticking it back piece by tiny piece. The reason why I'm mentioning this here is that most of the relationships I have regular contact with I end up breaking them exactly the way I did that clock, but now it is I who has to sit patiently and piece it together some I successfully do, my friends- I've seen a good enough success rate despite the chinks showing, my family- I keep breaking and joining again and again repeatedly, sometimes with a load of old parts missing and some new parts coming in from unexpected quarters, my relatives - now my relatives I've broken quite a few glasses there and neither do I find the constant contact nor the feedback to know if I'm gaining success or going deeper into failure. Guess.. only time will tell, when the time comes I definitely am going to find out one way or the other.

Now getting back to the subject of passion - As I already mentioned I'm passionate about a whole load of things, but there are times when I take this to the limit for instance the one subject that makes me most passionate nowadays is Kalaikom a.k.a Kkom - this is the committee that I belong to, apart from my friends the only other things that will keep me truly tied down to BIM would be Kkom, I've had relationships go on freeze, walked on thin ice and very recently have been hurt and insulted because of Kkom, but try as I might I'm not able to let go of Kalaikom, I will have to learn to do that, come to think of it I already should have but haven't done so, so far. But now I'm learning to let go, thanks to a person who is not worth my time of the day, but me getting insulted by that person has led me to learn to let go, I'm hurting inside but outside as usual I'm showing a tough side of myself, the obnoxious, straight in your face and short tempered Satish is roaming around as usual.

To talk a little bit more about Kalaikom – The committee that rocks BIM and hopefully will always do so, is the cultural committee of BIM, we are the guys who are the organizers of all the functions that keep the student’s party spirit alive, up and going all the time, we are event managers and we are the entertainers, and by GOD am I proud of that, not only proud but in fact arrogant sometimes about that particular fact.

I’ll NEVER EVER in my life forget the first time I tried to manage a show, damn man it was wapsaw the thanksgiving function that the juniors had organized for the fresher’s party given by our seniors, managing just the songs for the dance floor and the songs for the performances killed me, My comp conked out on me, I went hyper, the other guys had to take over and manage the show as I was in no state to manage it, I had reached the flash point and I couldn’t go beyond that, BUT TODAY the temper is the same, the passion is the same, but I have learned to develop ice in my veins as soon as the show starts, I’m the master of ceremonies for all the shows reason – my voice, as Chotu always wonders “how can a guy so small have a such a loud and deep voice” I too don’t know but I have been gifted with a deep voice, which sounds (much to my disgust) nasal but is deep enough to create a fairly decent impression on people.

I was selected both in the Mess-Com and KC, now I was asked to take a choice between KC and Mess-Com, I (it turned out later, rightly) reasoned that KC would help me in developing abilities to handle the sudden high pressures that are inherent with managing any event and today I am, to a certain extent at least, able to handle the pressures that are inherent to KalaiKom

We held two movie shows which are branded bim talkies, conducted the dance competition foxtrot, even though dandiya was a flop due to rain, I had gained a small talent of planning and organizing shows much to the delight of myself, every show taught us something we learnt from our mistakes and of potential mistakes that could be committed, sangam, the annual alumni party, though not a huge success set us on the path to success and when we culminated the year with finding neverland, the farewell party for our beloved seniors we had achieved success beyond our wildest expectations and those of the senior batch of kalaikomites and then happened the treasure hunt, tsayad immediately followed by marhaba, the fresher’s welcome party we were held in absolute awe by our juniors, KKOM had started the year on the right note, and then we recruited our juniors and handed over the responsibilities to them, somewhere down the line I got depressed about me being a kalaikomites, I’m not willing to let go of the pride and the passion that comes along with it every time I hear the word kkom, this will be revived for one last and final time when we conducted our thanksgiving function to this college, I want it to be on the 27^th of March, lemme see if that can be done and if (which I don’t doubt for one instant) KalaiKom of the 22^nd Batch will prove who we are and why we get the kind of affection and respect from our college mates.

View this video to understand my Aaveg for kkom it is our recruitment video for our juniors

mitRa in BIM

I don't think anybody of Indian origin will need any introduction to this word.... Do you now (I don't flatter myself that anybody else will be reading this other than people who know me, and for the life of me I can't think of any of my friends who are not from India)

I've always been mitrakAma - desirous of friends but I've never been able to make everybody I meet a friend of mine - the reason I'm too direct and too overbearing and short-tempered to make a lot of friends, my college-mate, room-mate and a good friend of mine -
Prasanna Kamalakar Choudhary a.k.a Chotu a.k.a Prassy, a self-styled palm reader once read my palm and said, "you have more enemies or in other words people who don't like you than people who like you." I wouldn't say it came as a big surprise to me

Now chotu is 6'5'' giant of guy, but a kid at heart, the first time I laid my eyes on this guy was in the group discussion panel for BIM and the next time was in BIM itself, he is a pRanaH mitRa now, we've had our fair share of soaring heights not to mention a few lows too, he seems to understand what I exactly want to say pretty well... no surprises there as he himself says, "you are worse than an open book, I know you for hardly a year and a half and I can read you just like that." Damn!! Man.... I hate it when people read me like that, but can't be helped, if you wanna know from the horse's mouth about himself, go through his profile in Orkut and you will get to know a lot about this Big huge small kid.

mitrakaraNa - The making of friends, is not such an easy task but neither is it any difficult, my advice just be yourself and the people who will tend to like you or be like you will get singled out or you will get singled out from the crowd and they will naturally come to you.

Now that i've started on my friends from BIM, I wil go chronologically backwards.

mitrasamprApti - acquisition of friends, was never on my list when I came to BIM my agenda was fairly simple,

• Learn enough to get a job, so that you can be good at it
• Don't let the old Sats come out, he should be kept away from this place
• Talk politely to everybody and keep your distance, be friendly but not open

But damned as I will always be, I never achieved any of the three (yeah, yeah I got a job, but the entire history behind that will come probably in another blog). If you are wondering I made a load of friends here, so here goes,
Mahalaxmi Subramaniam a.k.a Deepa (to her family) a.k.a. Mini a.k.a. Micro and a whole load of other names, if you were to ask me I would call her a Mini-sized H-bomb. All of us most of the time hold a view that she never grew up from being a 10-12 year old. But unlike most others a few of us know the tough hardened steel that exists behind the sweet charming exterior of this gal, naaah.. angel. I don't wanna say too much more about her as that means dedicating an entire post to her, I promise one thing to my readers, somethings I leave unsaid or half said will definitely be explored in future blogs, reason -- when I get bored thats exactly what I do!! :) Next in line would be

Birendra Sameer Purty a.k.a. Sam and the new name I've coined for him The big assembled piece, I dunno why I like this guy but he is one of the few people in my life that I took to like a duck takes to water, there are a lot of things I don't like about him (see what I meant, I should really stop calling a spade a spade, one of my friends says I not only call a spade a spade but also mention its color and the shape of the handle and it's color too) but there is something in him that I like very much and that helps me overlook all the things that I don't like about him, but one thing that should definitely be said about this guy is that his heart is in the right place and that to me is more than enough.

Some friends of mine say that I'm mitrayu - friendly-minded, winning or acquiring friends , attractive ; possessing worldly prudence, that I leave up to them to judge and decide. Not that I work towards it but that is me, I've noticed the first part of it but whether I possess the last part or not I'm not sure.

Talking about my friends at BIM and not talking about this guy is something that I can't imagine, forget BIM I sometimes feel talking about life is an impossibility, this guy has helped me mature in a very different way, not to his satisfaction though!!! I'd rather even say never to his satisfaction but Vijay Balaji Elango a.k.a. viji a.k.a. Ungle (prononunce the word "uncle" like a tamilian you will get what i mean) and of course Maha's coinage 3S
now this guy is sometimes a pain in the bloody ass and at other times he is a teacher of life beyond par, there is no one bloody like him, he has too many experiences in too many things and too many ideas that will either one day make him an Ambani or take him to jail, left up to me I'd bet on the second one, you know why cos I'm gonna be there rite next to him when that happens ( did i ever tell you that my thinking is always praaNahaara - fatal) but I can tell you this he is more on the path towards the first option reason he slightly paraphrases the GODFATHER and say's "Friendship is bigger than everything even family" for he believes Puzo meant family as including friends, there is no denying that fact when you come to think of it.

The less I talk about the other guys in this pic (right to viji) Aravind a.k.a. Nander and Naveen Chelliah a.k.a. Kaatan, the better cos they will end up killing me if I write anything controversial or anything they don't understand. We make a team, a strange team, each very much comfortable with the other and always pulling each other's legs like hell, we can never rest without 3 of us teaming up against one of us and making life a very funny yet difficult place to live in. But one thing you can be sure of they will go to the wire for you like any of the guys I've spoken about so far, the next thing I say may be very controversial but, I intend to say it anyways, All these guys are my men to death, I will go to any lengths for their friendship and I know that they will do the same for me any time.

Now that I've finished talking about all these guys I would be failing in my friendship if i don't talk about

22 guys who practically ruled the roost at BIM and will always be remembered by my entire batch for all the right and of course as with every gang a few wrong reasons too, zZz, my gang of boys that roam around all over Trichy as 1 and as much as other's don't wanna believe or accept, form an identity for our entire batch, not a committee or club without us guys, and you bet that when we pass out and go our own ways whether we stay in touch or not we will always forever look back yearningly to those wonderful days we had here at BIM.

Of course no post about my friends would be complete without mentioning the Maverix

vRddhyupajIvin

Now what does that word mean - One who lives by money lending or usury, a money lender or usurer

Why that particular word is of interest to me is that I'm joining a bank pretty soon, try as I might my search strings did not reveal a single word that means bank in this particular sense of the word all that I found were words that mean river bank, as much as I'm not for that particular word, I will have to make do with that particular word for the simple reason that I simply cannot find another word to exactly mean what I want to say.

I never had any particular idea of becoming a banker per se but the pressures of wanting a job more than anything made me look at other avenues other than the areas I was looking at but even then I was particular that I would not go into marketing of systems. Dunno why, but I never had a great inclination towards that particular service industry, to this day my friend Abdul is after me to get into computer systems marketing, however he has not been able to entice me, thus far.. lets see what the future holds (well that's an entirely different story altogether)

Will I be a good banker, hell I jus dunno only time will tell, but one thing I can attest for is that my recruiters have taken a hell of a big gamble recruiting me, that much I know, why they asked me "What is there in a Balance Sheet" and I said "Profit and Loss",when I said this to my friends after the interview their first question was "Kanna wat does the P&L statement show?" and that is when it struck me "Oh! yeah there is a P&L statement right?" Now you tell me will I make a good banker? I know, I know you guys will be going like not a chance in hell, in a month of Sundays!!!! You know what, on second thoughts I'm thinking the same thing myself.

But as I assured my recruiters, Look everything you learn or acquire is based on your need for it, I didn't feel a great need for finance so far, now if there is a need for me to learn finance and about financial services, I will definitely learn and I have no doubt I can do that, considering the fact that there are some of my college-mates who consider themselves as finance geeks and they feel that their lives were meant only for finance, with people like these and my finance professors I think I can pretty much manage it. And guess what, they gave me a job!!!! Damn man all that tension prior to placements felt, at that particular moment at least, felt totally washed away, I was like By GOD I did it, I finally got a job. How and what I do there is an entirely different story which will be revealed by life later.

Looking forward to it??? You bet I do.

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aalasya

anudyoga
mAndya
tandrA
tabdraa

All of these mean one and the same thing
a. disinclined to activity or exertion: not energetic or vigorous
b. encouraging inactivity or indolence

"Lazy who me??" Used to be my famous refrain once upon a time not anymore, I don't wake up on time, don't do things that I used to do before, GOD knows what's happening. The only thing I can figure out is that I've become complacent and uncaring in all the things I do and that has made me a lot more lazier than I was or want to be
For instance I'm not attending classes for the past few days, reason, simple enough too bloody lazy to get up and go to class, now it's not like I don't wanna go to class but I'm not getting up in time to go to class, can't blame anybody but myself for that. I'm not sleeping on time which directly leads to me not getting up on time to attend classes, I've got a wonderful 30% of attendance in one of my subjects, that definitely will get me down in one way or another, either I will not be allowed to write my exam or I will have a grade point subtracted, now why am I worried about that, damn I want to finish the course with everybody else and get it over with man, now this is something I doubt I can seriously accomplish, Oh man what am I gonna do I just don't understand, ok fine,
There is a site overcominglaziness.com that talks about different ways to overcome laziness at work and about writer's block, but is there something for my particular disease.. gotta put google to the test and see

Hey!!!!!! this article on being an early riser seems good, practicing it is gonna be kinda funny though but it's worth a try don't you say???

snehaH

LOVE - we can talk about love ad nauseaum but I want to talk about something that all of us have either had or are going through or will go through in the near future.

Before i start talking about all that I would like to say why I chose this particular word among almost 20 other words in Sanskrit that mean the same thing

1. I like the South Indian actress who goes by this name
2. This word has been derived in other languages to also mean friendship, for I consider that without a friend you do not have love and your lover happens to be your best friend if it is not that way I don't think that love exists in that relationship.

They made your world spin when you first met them and after years you are still drooling over their memories.

So, do you remember your first love?

Well, who doesn’t? Maybe intensely, passionately or probably just a little sadly. Whether he/she is still by your side or just a memory that causes a sweet heartache, first loves are the treasured parts of our lives.

Years and decades must have passed, but just thinking about our first loves seems to send our hearts aflutter. But have we really analysed what exactly is it that grips our imaginations, even five, ten, twenty years past the fact? No matter what the reasons for our break up, the one we first loved seems to be a part of our consciousness forever. Is it that we can't forget the person or we wish not to? Or rather who would want to?

Whenever we talk about our first love, it's like just yesterday we were dating them. It is not that we haven't made an effort, but we still manage to remember what he/she looked like and how much we loved him/her. Every little detail is remembered very clearly; the age difference, the smile, the eyes, the connection, just about everything.

Another important reason why we do not forget our first love is because whatever was done was done passionately.

When it comes to our first love, we are passionate about loving each other, fighting with each other and also hurting each other. And even if you meet your first love after years, a glance is enough to light up your day. You may be happy in your own household, with your spouse and children, but the chemistry still exists, and the best part is you both are happy for each other. Well, some flames might still be alive somewhere, especially if one of the partners is still single. You may never want to interfere in his/her life again, but you can't keep him/her out of your mind either.

Why can't we forget our first love after all?

Love letters, gifts, tapes, soft toys - you might let go off your first love, but it is not easy to let go of the precious gifts. The instant heat and the undeniable attraction which was there years ago, still exist in these subtle forms. Every once in a while there comes a moment when we are reunited with our first love. Such moments can be bittersweet, but they surely leave you wondering; what actually went wrong? It happens sometimes, you realise that your first love is your true love and you make long term plans of settling down. But owing to certain circumstances you end up with someone else. Years later, when you meet again the fire burns as brightly. The reason being, that probably not love but affection and chemistry still exists somewhere in their hearts. Some of us are lucky enough to get things right the first time. Once we found him/her, we never let them go.

But for all those who weren't that lucky, keep in mind that it was your first love that made you wiser and older and taught you things that you wouldn't have learnt otherwise.

Firstly you have to want to feel better and work for it. If you do not want to help yourself, no one else can help you. Indulge yourself. Do things that make you happy, or used to make you happy. Go shopping with your friends. Focus on the good, and not the bad. Try not to think negatively. Think about how much fun you used to have. Do not think that life is over because someone has left you, it's not!

Find another girl/guy. This may seem impossible, but it will be for the best. There are enough people; you are lying to yourself if you think you cannot find another person to love who will love you back.

Act silly! Laugh! Rent a comedy you enjoy, and sit and just laugh! Laughing makes everyone feel better. Don't sulk at home. Sit in a lighted area, get outside and get some sun! Being in the dark just adds to your feelings of sadness. Take up a hobby. Write, paint, sculpt, scribble, go to the mall and shop, exercise until you are exhausted and take a long walk. Go for a vacation. A little break from the city can do wonders. You could have a great time there.

Get help, you cannot do it all alone! It’s always better when you have someone there to see you through. This could be a friend or family member. Remember you are not alone.

FORGET THE PAST AND THE FUTURE, LIVE FOR THE PRESENT!!

anarthaM

The word itself is self explanatory for most people of indian origin but not many people know that the word has two meanings

anarthaM means

1. Purposeless/in vain
2. Danger productive

Most people would know the second meaning but not the first, I have picked this word because of the first meaning

Purposeless/in vain

My reasons are simple I feel this blog is "anarthaM"

Most things I've done so far in my life and most things I will do are "anarthaM" and I also strongly believe that I'm not alone in thinking like this.

Just a funny feeling I got while typing this the word "anarthaM" also means meaningless, which shows that if you dont do anything without a purpose it is meaningless, (OH!!the meaninglessness of things done purposelessly, [;)] hehehehe that was funny) thus a total waste of energy

So "anarthaM" is what defines my thoughts and my actions for right now! This may change over a period of time or may not,

only time will be the judge of it