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Posted Nov 09, 2015 | General | 450 Views

MIND!! Unlocking the Secrets

MIND, well this particular thing is actually full of so many secrets that even you cannot unlock them, its that collection or treasure of thoughts that what can come when OR what will appear out of blue, even you don't know. So, lets pick up one... MIND, well this particular thing is actually full of so many secrets that even you cannot unlock them, its that collection or treasure of thoughts that what can come when OR what will appear out of blue, even you don't know. So, lets pick up one simple topic from this mystery of MIND and lets discuss it here. DEPRESSION & NEGATIVE THOUGHTS WHAT IS IT? Well did anyone of you know what is depression or what are negative thoughts, well of course you all know what are they, but before explaining further, let me ask you just 1 question that at any point of time did you feel depressed, even for a moment, or if not, did your mind get clogged with negative thoughts, even for a while. Well, personally I think that all of you who all are reading my post passed through any of these states at any point of time of your life, and these particular state of mind certainly hindered your thought process. Lets take an example, you wanted to do something, but suddenly some negative thought appears in your mind, out of blue, just like that. You certainly don't know why it appears in the first place, but something clicked in your mind in absence of you and which started the flow of this negative energy in your mind. And once it will start, all hell breaks loose, and its become difficult for you to stop this overflow of thoughts. And that's when come depression, a collection of negative & uncontrollable thoughts. WHY IS IT? Lets take an example, you are driving a car, and the surroundings are good, nice weather, a you're driving in the mountains when there is a little cold out there with a little, you're enjoying actually, you're appreciating your environment, but then suddenly you hit someones car or someone hit at your car. And then started an argument. Even if you come out of it, and resume your journey, that argument still lingers in your mind, you become careful, and however pleasant the weather will be, you stop enjoying it as you were doing earlier. Similarly, a positive thought is what easy-going and easy-happening event on your mind, it is there but you don't feel its pressure, since you are enjoying it. But negative thoughts are full of negative energy, and mind it, when the negative thoughts arrives it stays there, and for a very long time, it will sap your energy out of your body, and you started thinking WHAT IF? types of questions. REASONS? It could be anything, you may have taken a loan, you're not able to arrange for EMIs, or you're about to become a father / mother, but you don't know how you'll raise your child, having just about enough money. So these could be some of the reasons. But if you ask me, the most dangerous reason is NOTHING. See, whatever will happen, is going to happen, but when you start thinking WHAT IF?, that makes it more dangerous or difficult thing. One guy who is rich or not, if his mind is positive, he will not get perished in the storm of IFs, but if you start thinking negative, even you're able to cope up your situation, you may fail. So the most basic reason or the base of negative thinking is NOTHING, just an illusion of WHAT IF? SO WHAT YOU SHOULD DO? Well the answer to this simple yet complicated question is DO NOTHING! Yes, your negative thoughts are came out of NOTHING so you should actually do NOTHING to get rid of them, its as simple as that! What I meant to say is this, if you fight with your brain, you are actually thinking that you can fight your brain, and you are trying to defeat it by your alter-mind's positive scenarios, whereas your mind is already thinking negative, So there's a wrestling match going on between the negative and curing positive thing. But where this wrestle is happening - IN YOUR MIND. So lets say there is a test match which will be played over 5 days in a stadium, what happens to the pitch on the 5th day or in the 4th innings, obviously it will get deteriorate due to constant playing. Similarly you're actually deteriorating your mind by wrestling with your negative thoughts. And you know what, your negative thoughts are originating from you yourself, so ideally it is you who are fueling them, its like you'r the culprit putting petrol in fire. What will happen if you don't put any combustible substance in the fire, or if you stop oxygen, the fire will automatically stop. Similarly, to fight negative thoughts and to remove them from your mind is actually not to fight with them, but just acknowledge, that yes there is a negative thought in my mind, and it is simply happening. You surrender yourself to your mind, and say, OKAY DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO, I DON'T CARE, it will for sometime sap up all your energy, your head will feel heavy, but after some point of time, it will stop, since the fuel to light up the fire(i.e.You) is no more there, it got exhausted, since you're simple listening to negative thoughts, acknowledging them and saying it, "Chal bhaad mein ja", you keep saying that, acknowledge them and pass them, answer them if they want, and then just pass it. It will come back for sure to hit you again, but this time with less intensity, and by regular ignorance it stopped coming altogether, and automatically you will start feeling fresh, your headache will disappear, and you feel light, and at that moment either sit relax or start thinking some good incidents of your life to show THENGA to the negative thoughts, see, you're nothing without me. YOU HAVE WON. GRuchirG Jai Raam ji ki:) Read More

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Posted Jan 12, 2013 | Kathayein | 690 Views (Updated Jan 12, 2013 09:21 AM)

Did I do my bit?

New Delhi: 12PM. Only those two were remaining and the bus was turning its last turn heading for the depot. Depot was its last stop where they want to alight. But driver has other plans, just when the bus enters the lonely patch, 4 guys board... New Delhi: 12PM. Only those two were remaining and the bus was turning its last turn heading for the depot. Depot was its last stop where they want to alight. But driver has other plans, just when the bus enters the lonely patch, 4 guys board the moving bus, and they started fighting with the guy. They beat him with all sorts of means, and throw him out of the moving bus. All over India: 2PM. FB walls lit up, statuses started pouring in. “A girl raped!”, media started reporting the horrible rape incident, showing the footage of this and that. Sharing gets started on FB wall, with demands of arrest of culprits who went underground right after the incident. Even a video came up showing the moving bus from far behind, and then another video got posted, where the victimized girl is showed unconscious lying on the road totally soaked in the blood, and many human figures just watching her in shock. New Delhi: 3 AM next day. Ashish was gone from his bed, he was admitted in injured condition, but now, he was not there, on his bed. Doctors and nurses started looking for him, but didn’t found any trace of him anywhere. Every news channel was reporting only this news, there are protests going on everywhere, candle-light marches and many more. Delhi police got hold of 4 of the culprits while the girl was struggling with her life. Old Delhi: 3PM next day. Ashish was standing in front of a house, and he knocked the door. A lady came outside, and asked “Kya hai, kisko milna hai.” He simply replied, “Namastey aunty, main Kedar ka friend hoon, kuch kaam tha usse.” “Vo ghar pe nahi hai”, the lady replied bluntly. But he didn’t listen and stepped inside the house calling Kedar’s name. Kedar was at the home, and he came down. Just then Ashish caught hold of his shirt’s collar and dragged him outside the house. He dragged him to the main road and took out a knife from his pocket and rammed it into his stomach, and not only 1 time, he rammed it 10 times. A camera crew was in the vicinity, and the camera-man shoot up the incident. When Ashish finished his work, he just stare into camera and just said these words, “I have done my bit, Have you?” My Home: Today. That was the 5th culprit, and I just checked the news on tv, shared some hate messages on my FB wall, and penned this story, while the girl died a silent death. Am I a human, and did I do my bit? GRuchirG. Read More

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Posted Jan 08, 2013 | The Cricket Diary | 619 Views

3. The Bowling Order

Okay, so, now we have won the 3rd one-day international against Pakistan, though lost the series by 2-1 but atleast able to get a boost-up ahead of upcoming India-England ODI series. Despite scoring mediocre 167, India able to stop Pakistan on 15... Okay, so, now we have won the 3rd one-day international against Pakistan, though lost the series by 2-1 but atleast able to get a boost-up ahead of upcoming India-England ODI series. Despite scoring mediocre 167, India able to stop Pakistan on 157, winning the match by 10 runs, beings-in the doubt of match-fixing, but well, we cannot prove that, but if its not true, then I must appreciate the weakest bowling department to fire at last, and which help them gain their places in the upcoming series. The fast bowlers and the spinners and Ravindra Jadeja were able to save their places. We got 2 good fast bowlers in Bhuvaneshwar Kumar and Shami Ahmed, who bowled in perfect line-and-length. Lets see how far they can go with this performance. Ashwin also retained his position alongwith good-performing Jadeja. Though why did Rohit Sharma get another chance, I don’t know! Pujara comes in place for misfiring Sehwag, and that’s a good move. Lets wait for Rajkot on 11th January match. I want to see the matches which are been playing at Dhoni’s place Ranchi and in Dharamsala, probably the highest (altitude) cricket ground of world. But lets continue with some bowling records (ODI) to see. Source: www.espncricinfo.com 1.Most Wickets in Career – We all know that who topped this place – the spin master Muralitharan, who has taken 534 wickets overall. The nearest contendor to him who is still active is No.8 Shahid Afridi, who has taken 348 wickets till now, and it doent seem that with is current form, he by any chance could reach that milestone. There are 4 Indian bowlers in the Top 20 list – 9th Anil Kumble (337), 11th Javagal Srinath (315), 14th Ajit Agarkar (288), and 15th Zaheer Khan (282) in which only Zaheer is currently active, as I don’t see Agarkar getting any chance to play international matches now. 2.Best Bowling Figures in an Innings – only 1 Indian bowler in the Top 20 list, guess who, the great Anil Kumble with his career best 6.1-2-12-6 vs. West Indies at Kolkata. No other Indian bowlers in the list, sad! Again a Srilankan (Chaminda Vaas) topping the chart. 3.Most Wickets in a series – there is no Indian bowler in the Top 20 list, sad affairs. In the list there are as many as 12 positions hold by the mighty Australians (3 by Glenn McGrath, also topping the chart), and there are 3 West Indian, 2 Srilankan, 2 Pakistani and 1 New Zealand bowler in the list. 4.Most Wickets in a Calender Year – Here, we got 2 Indian bowlers in top 20, both inactive – 4rth Anil Kumble (32 wickets in 1996), and 8th Ajit Agarkar (30 wickets in 1998). Saqlain Mushtaq from Pakistan tops the chart. 5.Best Career Bowling Average – No Indian bowler again in Top 20 list, the list topped by West Indian pacer Joel Garner, with an average of 18.84, and there are 5 active bowlers in the list. 6.Best Career Economy Rate – This top 20 list there is no bowler from either India or Sri Lanka, but every other country has atleast 1 entry. WI bowlers has 6 places, followed by Aus and Eng (5 each). Again Joel Garner tops the list with econ rate of 3.09. 7.Worst Career Bowling Average – Obviously on this list many part-timer names are bound to come, and you know what India has 3 entries – 5th Ajay Sharma, who has the 3rd best batting average in Indian domestic cricket scoring more than 10000 runs, played only 1 Test and banned for lifetime after finding guilty for match-fixing. 12th Ajay Jadeja and 15th Suresh Raina are the other two Indian bowlers in the list. 8.Worst Career Economy Rate – Now, this is again the negative list, and guess what an India topped it this time. No surprises there! Sridharan Shreesanth is at no.1 position with econ rate of 6.07, followed by 2 more Indian bowlers, at 15th Ishant Sharma (5.58) and at 17th Lakshmipathy Balaji (5.57). and all these bowlers are frontline pacers for India. I don’t know what would be the future of Indian bowling, but I can only hope we get something out of the dust to call it our own. Read More

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Posted Jan 04, 2013 | The Cricket Diary | 554 Views (Updated Jan 04, 2013 01:09 PM)

2. The Cricket Dilemma!

Hi all of you, I am back with the 2nd diary of me. Well, earlier I was thinking to cover some more records here (may be bowling-related), but now after the disastrous performance of Indian team in the 2nd one-dayer against Pakistan, I thought to... Hi all of you, I am back with the 2nd diary of me. Well, earlier I was thinking to cover some more records here (may be bowling-related), but now after the disastrous performance of Indian team in the 2nd one-dayer against Pakistan, I thought to pen my views on it. Once upon a time we have legends playing for Indian team, with a great coach to support, and hence the team looks like lions on field, and they won the 10th edition of Cricket World Cup in 2011, which was also their 2nd World Cup. After that, the coach resigns, and slowly all legends left the team and the team which looks solid atleast on paper become solid only on paper, they were called lions of home, but after 2 series now I doubt whether they are able to hold that record too. Source: www.en.wikipedia.org Indian team toured West Indies right after the CWC11, won Test series by 1-0, one-day series by 3-2 and won the 1 T20 match too, but then the downfall started. They went to England, and lost all their matches, Test series by 0-4, one-day series by 0-3 and also lost 1 T20 match, though India beat England on Indian soil by winning ODI series by 5-0. They were again able to beat WI on Indian soil by winning Test series by 2-0 and ODI by 4-1. Then they went to Australia, and lost test series by 0-4, also not able to qualify to finals in the tri-series against Aus, and Sri Lanka. They were not able to qualify for Asia Cup also, that was played in Bangladesh. Then they beat SL in SL and NZ in India (ODI series). India played T20 World Cup, but was not able to qualify in Semi finals. After then we saw an ad campaign depicting various Indian characters making fun of England team, and the upcoming series was termed as the ‘Revenge Series’, since England was visiting India for 3 Test-match and 2 T20 match series. The main line of ad goes like, “'DASH' ne to baja di angrejo ki pungi, kya bhartiya team baja payegi angrejo ki pungi”,and what happens? England wins the Test-series by 2-1, and leveled the T20 by 1-1. And then came the arch rivals Pakistan for 2 T20 and 3 ODI series matches. Ad campaign shows Indian players challenging the Pakistan team by saying “aane do” (let them come). Now they’ve come and come strongly, they leveled T20 series by 1-1 and won the ODI series 2-0 with still 1 match to spare. My friend joked, “Pakistan jeet gaya”, “Jeetne Do” (attitude of Indian team). Well, what goes wrong with the Indian team? They’re not able to play. Their Bowling department is the weakest of all-time, and probably the weakest of all teams. We use to play 4 strike bowlers, mainly combination of 3 fast and 1 spinner, or 2 fast and 2 spinners, even we played with only 3 strike bowlers, so as to strengthen batting department, but. Strike bowlers are unable to take wickets, unable to stop runs, and then what option as a captain do you have. Our captain is the coolest captain, but sometimes he becomes so cool that he forgets that he is playing a competition, and aggressiveness is also required. But in last 2 matches against Pakistan, we have seen that it was the batsman who struggled. They’re unable to play even in India. We lost a test match because we are unable to play spinners on a spinning track! Amazing eh!, we are known as best players of spin, then we lost too many wickets in 1st one-day, and again we collapsed in 2nd one day as well. The team has the likes of Sehwag, Gambhir, Kohli, Yuvraj, Raina, but it seems nobody wanted to win or even play international matches. It seems whole team is out of form. I know Pakistan bowling is world-class but even our batting team is also termed as the best batting team. I remember when I used to watch Hockey, I saw that Indian Hockey team players biggest weakness was to convert penalty corner into Goal. Here too we are seeing that every player is having a weakness, like Gambhir and Yuvraj playing balls which are outside off, and either played them onto the stumps or giving catch at back. Sehwag can’t play short-balls (infact almost all Indian players can’t), and still they are not concentrating on their weaknesses, until and unless you don’t try to learn it and overcome it, you can’t become a good player; none of Indian players are good at playing away conditions. If the opponent bowlers are getting swing and bounce, we are susceptible to fall, and get out. And I don’t even want to talk about the all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja or the strike spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, I think they’re in the team only because either they’re relative of MSD or MSD or his family owes some money (loan) to them. And now the biggest destructor which comes to Indian cricket, which was introduced to gave Indian players more chances to learn and perform, to find out the new talents and to let them gain experience by allowing them to play with foreign players, but instead it saps everything back from them. Yes, it’s IPL. It’s a 20-over format club game kind of stuff, where you have 8-10 different clubs playing and winning. ..continued in comments.. Read More

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Posted Jan 02, 2013 | The Cricket Diary | 583 Views (Updated Jan 02, 2013 05:30 PM)

The Cricket Diary: 1. Record Making Indians!

2012 went, and now we have a new year to start and most importantly, it’s the Indian Cricket Team who have to start it good, reasons, because they fared very very badly last year. After winning Cricket World Cup in 2011, they have lost Test serie... 2012 went, and now we have a new year to start and most importantly, it’s the Indian Cricket Team who have to start it good, reasons, because they fared very very badly last year. After winning Cricket World Cup in 2011, they have lost Test series in England, Australia, One day series in Bangladesh, and Test Series in India against England to name some, and that too very badly. So they have to start afresh to get back on track. As of now it can be said that the whole Indian team is not in form, and it is facing the big crisis of bowlers. Probably its the weakest side in terms of bowling. We also saw great players like Rahul Dravid, VVs Lakshman and Sachin Tendulkar, the legends taking retirement, and hence we face the dilemma of finding replacements for them, especially in test cricket, but let us see some records with the reference of India. Source: www.espncricinfo.com Some one day batting records to look at-: 1.Sachin Tendulkar stood at the top of the list of ‘Most Runs in Career’ Record – 18426 Runs which he scored through 49 100s and 96 50s, at an average of 44.83, with S/R of 86.23. the nearest contender to him is Ricky Ponting, who is also retired, and he scores a total of 13704 runs, almost 4500 runs behind him. Nobody looks like touching his record. The currently active player who is nearest to him is Jacques Kallis from South Africa, who has scored 11498 runs till now (approx 7000 runs behind) and he is already 37 years old, don’t know how long can he continue. Right now there are total 4 Indians in the Top 20 list including Sachin, all retired. The active player is at No.21 – Virendra Sehwag with 8242 runs, but with his current form, can he become the record breaker, well he can but he has to show his skills again otherwise no chance. 2.Under the record ‘Most Runs in an innings’ there are 2 Indians holding the top 2 places – Virendra Sehwag (219), and Sachin Tendulkar (200) Other than these 2 positions, Indians hold 7 more positions in Top 20 – 8th Sachin Tendulkar (186), 10th MS Dhoni (183), 11th Saurav Ganguly and Virat Kohli (183), 17th Kapil Dev (175), 19th Sachin and Sehwag (175). Yes, anybody can break this record at any moment, but still what does this depict, 9 places in top 20 to Indians, this depict 2 things – 1. Does Indian cricketers play only for their own records or they play for their team, and 2. If we are so good, then why still we are facing so much problems in playing spin, fast and especially on foreign grounds. We have to learn to play on foreign grounds, because then only we could become the world-class players. Do you know, out of these 9 innings only 2 came on foreign lands (excluding 2 in Dhaka, since its quite similar to Indian condition) 3.Sachin Tendulkar holds 2nd position for ‘Most Runs in a Series’ record too, scoring 673 runs in 11 matches in ICC World Cup 2002-03, with 1 100 and 6 50s, and scored at an average of 61.18. he also holds 13th position, and there is no other Indian in the top 20 list. Do we have a replacement of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar? 4.Sachin Tendulkar also tops ‘Most runs in a calendar year’ list. In the year 1998, he scored 1894 runs with an average of 65.31 scoring 9 100s and 7 50s. And you know what 2nd, 3rd and 4th positions are also hold by Indians – Ganguly, Dravid and Tendulkar again. Other positions Indian cricketers hold are 7th Ganguly, 11th Tendulkar, 13th Virat Kohli, 16th Ganguly, 18th Tendulkar and 19th Ganguly. Except Kolhi, no currently active player starred in top 20 lists. Well, Indian cricket certainly required performers heavily. 5.Last Record for the day – ‘Most Runs in a series by a captain’ and here you’ll find only 1 Indian captain name in the top 20 list, who holds 2 places – 6th and 18th position. Ca you guess that name? it’s easy – the best captain India have – Saurav Ganguly. What does it means? Is there extra pressure put on Indian captain? Yes, obviously, we have seen many cases like this. We have always seen this case that whenever an in-form and good player made the captain, he falters and his career graph goes down. I would say that MS Dhoni is the coolest captain I have ever seen, he doesn’t take pressure or doesn’t shown it, but it also saps the aggressiveness from him, which is very much required now-a-days to remain competitive. Question of the day? Whom do you want to see as next captain of Indian Team after MS Dhoni? My pick – Virat Kohli for T20 and One-day team. Still I don’t have any names for Test Captain post other than MS Dhoni.. Whats your say? GRuchirG. Jai Raam ji ki :) Read More

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Posted Nov 01, 2012 | Kathayein | 734 Views

The Sky is Falling!!

“Hey, I tried, but the number was coming as unavailable, what could be the reason”, Mayank asked Rehan. He was looking very concerned, but his this one question made the faces of the girls grim, and suddenly Neha started crying. “Hey, what happen... “Hey, I tried, but the number was coming as unavailable, what could be the reason”, Mayank asked Rehan. He was looking very concerned, but his this one question made the faces of the girls grim, and suddenly Neha started crying. “Hey, what happen? Why are you crying Neha”, Mayank asked her. Rehan just put his hand on Mayank’s shoulders. He felt confused, and finally asked, “What? What exactly is going on, tell me, I want to know it NOW!” John just replied, “They’re dead Mayank.” And suddenly the sky turned grey, and rain started falling heavily. It was looking like even sky wanted to shed its tears. “We hide it from you Mayank”, Rehan told him. “But.. But.. how could you be so sure”, he was still not understanding it. “Everybody is dead Mayank”, Preeti spoke, “and that’s whay Neha is crying.” Mayank just sat on the road, he started feeling feverish. Those 5 are there, on their bi-cycles, standing in the middle of the road, and alone. They were the only survivors. It all started 5 months back, in the town of Surat, which was situated on the banks of Tapti river, and was the business hub of Gujarat, which is now totally ruined. Few guys sensed it before anybody else, and they have decided to save some of their offspring’s, and then it started the separation of the loved ones. Parents just sent their children away from them, just to save them from the coming tide which was destined to end every person on the earth. The plague started first or after the strikes nobody was confirmed, but it was confirm that those 5 are safe against any such epidemic, and hence started the idea of India tour on the bicycle. Those 5 started their unknown journey to study the different cultures, to sort out the differences among many, to spread the message of peace and love, since their parents knew that world was going to end. Today after 5 months these 5 survivors were standing in the middle of the road in Shimla with their heads down giving the silent tribute to the mankind they know. Yes they’re alone but together they can create a new world from the ashes of the old one, and they were chosen perfectly to represent the Indian breed, they have something special inside them, and now they have the task to start afresh, right from scratch. They looked at the earth below their feet from the top of a mountain; nothing remains of it except ashes of the mankind, and torn lands. This has to end this way since nobody listened to the message of peace and then they started the 3rd World War, where every possible striking devices, every possible bombs were used and when they finished killing each other, nature too played its role and wiped the whole mankind off its face. Mayank, Rehan, John, Neha and Preeti brought their hands together and took an oath “WE WILL RE-CREATE THE WORLD WHERE ONLY LOVE AND PEACE WILL BE SERVED.” GRuchirG. Read More

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Posted Aug 31, 2012 | Kathayein | 627 Views (Updated Aug 31, 2012 11:28 PM)

I am no more!

I am falling rapidly, very fast, but I am feeling unusual, different, I am feeling like I am flying in the sky, the clouds are coming near to me, I can touch then, I can feel them, only to know that I love them, I love them all. This is it, this... I am falling rapidly, very fast, but I am feeling unusual, different, I am feeling like I am flying in the sky, the clouds are coming near to me, I can touch then, I can feel them, only to know that I love them, I love them all. This is it, this is the end I knew, of me, of the adventure, of everything I have ever wished for, I am seeing my mom, my dad and my beautiful wife, they are with me, asking me to come back to me, but then suddenly they vanished in the thin air, and off the world went black, totally black. I am no more! 2 days back, Vasco, Goa: “Hey wow yaar! The view is incredible, for the first time I have seen the ships. Wow!” I said to him, my brother. We were watching the ships which are standing at the port and the cargo is getting unloaded by huge machines and cranes. We watched them for few minutes. I saw the end of the road. It was going 45 degrees up, and ending into a gate which leads to the naval offices. I asked him, “Let’s try that road till the gates.” “No bhaiya, it is too dangerous, see the incline, we cannot turn our bikes”, mainly he was the daring type but he rejected, but I want to try the road. I insisted, “Hey come on yaar, what’s with the 50m, we have travelled far dangerous roads over our 140 km drive from Belgaum to here, what’s this, nothing in front of them.” But yes that road was dangerous, since it’s not only 45 degree inclined, but a steep one, and one side it was served by the rocks and coming waves of the sea, which is striking the base, which is about 2 storey’s depth. If you missed, you’ll directly fall onto the rocks from that height and I was sure that it can cause immediate death. But on my persisting, he drove till the top point. Then he turned the bike, and finally asked me, “READY, for adventure!” I felt scared, but I said YES! And off he started the bike back on the descent, but just the half way he loses control and the bike skidded towards the depth. I jump off the seat which unbalanced the bike, and he fell into the depth with such a speed that instantly I saw his body lumped down on the rocks below and which soon covered with red blood. I just stand there, no words coming out of my mouth, I was struck with guilt, and then I just remember seeing someone carrying the body on the stretcher inside what everybody call a hospital, and then I didn’t felt anything else except guilt. Today, Verem, Goa: I know I have to go back, I can’t wait here for my brother’s body, no, I can’t, I have to go back to my college. I left my mourning parents at the home, and started off with my bike, and I didn’t listen their shouting. I was just feeling so guilt that it overcomes every emotion. I covered around 70 km off the curly ghat roads, and was just driving my bike and I was not feeling anything. The road was covered from one side by mountains and from the other by forested valleys, but I was not enjoying the scenery. The roads are wet due to a recent rain, and I crossed Amboli waterfall and came on the plain road. I stopped at the crossroads at Amboli village to eat something. But after eating, suddenly I felt a sudden urge to meet my brother, who was died 2 days ago. I talked to him, “Brother, I am coming, to you”, I reversed my bike and started off very fast, I was driving at the speed of more than 70km per hour, just few more minutes, I know that after few meters the road take a sharp turn to left and in front only deep down valleys were visible, and I was in no intention to take any turns, and I hit the railing at the full speed, and I went down with my bike in the valley, which was so deep that while falling I was sure that nobody going to find my dead body. “STOP STOP STOP! What is this, disgusting”, Prakash, the famous director told me, “Is this a story, for a movie, disgusting.” “But sir this is the best story I have written”, I implied. “I know Varun, many big shots of Bollywood call you a crazy guy, but I believed in your talent always, but this, we can’t do this story, you know, and, and where’s the heroine, no Heroine!, viewers will not love it”, and he discarded my story. “But sir, this story will make you famous”, but he was in no mood to listen. I was furious and tired, so I planned to take a break from my schedule and I went to my brother’s place. “Varun Bhaiya, chale”, he said to me, and we started from Belgaum for our home, Verem on bike. And I knew in my heart that this journey is going to be the greatest journey of my life, and full of adventure. I am the greatest writer, and I will prove it. GRuchirG. Read More

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Posted Jul 27, 2012 | Kathayein | 441 Views

The Greatest Movie.

Haider was a guy who loved to be on facebook, all day, all night. And whatever he does, he just updated it on facebook. He also aspired to become a director, a director, who will be applauded by world’s audience. He recently got a video cam as a... Haider was a guy who loved to be on facebook, all day, all night. And whatever he does, he just updated it on facebook. He also aspired to become a director, a director, who will be applauded by world’s audience. He recently got a video cam as a birthday gift from his father, and here starts his story of capturing each and everything from out of unknown world, the common neighborhood. He wanted to try something extraordinary, a feat which no one has touched till today, and already had a plot in his mind. He wanted to make the greatest movie of his life, which only he dares to shoot, and nobody else. He wanted to tell a story of an internet-crazy guy, who can go to any limits for internet, facebook and youtube. He started filming it. Day 1 Wednesday 18th July 2012: I started filming my greatest movie. I am wandering in the suburb, and asked my friend to drive the bike, while I am sitting facing the back, I am hearing my favorite beat songs which I wanted to use as the background music. And I am filming just the moving scenes, the common happening of my city, what the cobbler is doing, what the other motorist is thinking looking at me, how is the ambulance passing, and how did a man expressed when traffic signal barred his movement. Wow! A perfect starting to my movie, but what could be the name, hmm let me think, oh yes! I could put it as ‘The Life’. Day 2 Friday 20th July 2012: I did the initial part, adding the credits, and mixing the shoots with score, and yes it is coming up, I like the process, wow! I just love directing and film-making, now what should I shot today. I am now here at the railway station, what a hustling and bustling environment. Look that man! How he’s begging for money, since he is not able to walk properly, mercy is upon them. See that woman, holding a child and pleading passengers for some money, and saying that her child is hungry from last 5 days. How could one guess who the legitimate beggers are and who were the frauds, oh God! What a life! Wow! I just got another title, “What a Life!” Day 3 Sunday 22nd July 2012: so, I edited and put the thing together, this time I got a sad song to match with the movie, what emotions I catched, really I am a great director. Today I am going to the red light area of our city, never been to that place, and I even don’t know whether they’ll allow me to shoot or not. So I am here, I am happy today. I hope that today I will not get sad shots like day before yesterday. One girl is crying as she’s been dragged to one house, what is this, don’t they have any feelings, and look that man is just come out of a room, looking happy and satisfied, but what about that lady’s children, it seems that they’re not liking this job of their mother, oh my god what is this, disgusting, I trhink I will change title of my film as ‘Disgusting Life’. Day 4 Tuesday 24th July 2012: today I am going to the basti which is settled by the migrants, I am not feeling well from past 2 days, I don’t know what’s happening to me, Is my decision is correct to made such a film, but what happens to my central plot of shooting the life of internet-crazy guy, but I am now in the basti, where only poor people lives. I met a family; they offered me a bread to eat, since they’ve nothing else to offer. The father works daily for 12 hours in the factory, then also not able to save enough money and he and his wife has to survive on water some days, since they have to feed their two children, two cute little children, he told me that someday he found his wife weeping in alone, because of their poor condition, and he too feel very depressed, and want to end his life whenever he thinks this his two children faces comes in the mind. What is this, I do not have any words, now what, I don’t know, title renamed as ‘Silent life’. Day 5 Thursday 26th July 2012: I don’t want to go anywhere but I have to since I have one last appointment pending, this time it’s the ‘Old Age Home’ where troubled aged person lived. Everybody is having some or other disease, someone lost his memory, someone lose his power of hearing or seeing, some are getting deterioted day by day in some or other manner, and that’s why they’ve been left by their families to live alone here, can man be so cruel that when needed most they left their own parents. I am going god, I can’t take anymore, I shot my film, that’s it. Title should be ‘is this life’. Day 6 Saturday 28th July 2012: I finished my film but my film’s central theme was a film about an internet-crazy guy and here I am shooting and mixing my final part, I have done filming and you will see my film in few minutes, just few more minutes and it will be uploaded to youtube, and here it is, 5.4.3.2.1. TADA! The greatest film of my life!!! continued in comments... Read More

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Posted May 26, 2012 | inter-CONNECTED! | 293 Views (Updated May 26, 2012 10:41 AM)

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..continued... DAY1: "NO!NO!NO!", suddenly he woke up, clock is showing 5 AM. Geoff was awake, totally soaked in perspiration. His mother came running to his bedroom, "Geoffrey, what happened? you're sweating." "Don't know... ..continued... DAY1: "NO!NO!NO!", suddenly he woke up, clock is showing 5 AM. Geoff was awake, totally soaked in perspiration. His mother came running to his bedroom, "Geoffrey, what happened? you're sweating." "Don't know mom, but today again I got the same nightmare. It's 3rd night, and same dream mom!", Geoff can't understand. He want to find the answer to his dreams, where he is seeing a girl's death, but he was unable to see her face, and he was still confused as to why he is getting these dreams. He got up from his bed, and went to freshen up. Emily was preparing breakfast for her lovely daughter Sara, and Sara was simply watching TV, "Mom, I have to go somewhere", Sara asked her mom. "No, you're not going anywhere, you are taking a day off, OKAY", Emily replied. "NO MOM!, I have to find something, I just want to go", Sara replied. After a few moments, she took the keys of the car, and ran outside, while her mom just stood there watching her go. The paper on the center table was showing a news, "A worker died after falling from 60th floor of uncompleted North Lasalle building in downtown Chicago." Geoff was sitting in his college's canteen with his friend Brad, telling him about his dream, his nightmare, which he's getting daily. Brad was simply putting off all the reasoning Geoff was trying to give, "Hey man! It's simply a dream, forget it, sometimes bad dream come, or did you dream something else about that girl, tell me!!", Brad started teasing Geoff, but he was in no mood to make things funny, "Brad, you're not understanding, You know! I've read in a science book that dreams are not just simply our imagination, but somehow somewhere they're connected with our lives, in reality or in fantasy, but they're connected with us, not simply just like any rubbish." Brad replied, "Ohh! now I got it, you're reading too much man, it's not good for your mind, see me, did anytime you find me reading anything, I am not even reading course books, and you're checking out-of-course books!" Sara stopped the car right outside the police limits off the uncompleted building where someone died a day before. Sara proceeded towards the building, no work was going on, everything seems silent. She went up to the mark which was made by the police on road, where the worker fall and died. It seems he simply lose his footing and came crashing upside down. She walked towards the entrance and started climbing the stairs, she want to find from where did the man fall, and to check out whether he was the man which she saw in her life-saving dream. She haven't seen the face. Geoff was holding 'Interpretation of Dreams' by Sigmund Freud in his hand, and showing it to Brad, reading a phrase and dictating to him, "See, What he proposes, he said that there is some phenomenon of condensation, it means, some image or symbol we saw in our dreams can have different meanings, means, it's somehow related with our unconscious mind, and unconscious mind can do anything which we can't even think of. You know a man in his whole lifetime never able to use more than 8-10% of our mind power, if someone able to harness even a single extra percentage, he can become Einstein", Geoff was giving useless explanation to his friend, useless, because he was not listening, "I will find out the truth behind my nightmares", and Geoff walk out of the library. GRuchirG. ..continued.. Read More

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Posted May 26, 2012 | inter-CONNECTED! | 352 Views (Updated May 26, 2012 01:04 AM)

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He was there, on the top, and he was smiling, and he was shouting, "HEY!! LISTEN YOU ALL. I WILL WIN TODAY", and he broke into a terrifying laughter, "SEE. THE MAGIC." and suddenly he started running, he ran hard, and hard, and then suddenly he j... He was there, on the top, and he was smiling, and he was shouting, "HEY!! LISTEN YOU ALL. I WILL WIN TODAY", and he broke into a terrifying laughter, "SEE. THE MAGIC." and suddenly he started running, he ran hard, and hard, and then suddenly he jumps, he jumped from the top of the 60-storeyed North LaSalle building of town, he was still shouting, "YAY, I WON. F YOU ALL. SEE. THE MAGIC." And he spread his hands like wings, trying to imitate flying of a bird, and suddenly a THUD!! "WHAT HAPPENED DOCTOR?", Doctors and helpers rushed out of the Operation Theater, Emily was still waiting in the lobby, her eyes were swollen, and she cried a lot, but something seems disturbed there, and then she saw her daughter Sara through the glass window, Sara was breathing, Emily was unable to control her excitement, " OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD!, MIRACLE! SHE IS BACK!", but Sara was shouting something, "PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP HIM, PLEASE SOMEBODY STOP HIM, HE IS GOING TO DIE! PLEASE!" After an hour Emily met her miraculous child Sara, and she hugged her tight, she got her back from dead. Few hours back, she was unconscious with no hope of surviving, losing pulses, but now she seems well and healthy, just one thing was bothering her, Sara was crying. She was unable to deduct what happened to her, and about whom did she shouted, who was going to die! Nobody have any answers, but it's no problem for Emily, she got her daughter back, and after few more hours, Sara got discharged. They're now heading for home. The sunshine was going, and sun was setting down slowly, as Sara looks towards the sky-scraping city of Chicago through the glasses of her mom's car. But there was a diversion at 321 North Lasalle Street, everybody is rushing there, all the workers, something happened there, all the traffic was diverted. Sara wanted to know what happened, but Emily just pushed her back and drive towards the diversion, she wanted to relax after such a tough journey of life she's gone through in last 3 days. "Hey dude, what's you're reading, don't want to go home", Geoff gets disturbed. He was reading a book on History of invention of airplanes. "Don't you want to go home", Brad was constantly repeating to him, "Yes Yes I am going, okay", Geoff replied. And with a heavy heart he got up from his seat, and started towards his home. The public library at Oak Park was about to get closed for the day. GRuchirG. ..continued... Read More

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