Cricket: Sreesanth Swinging His Bat!!!

Cricket: This is Sreesanth, of India, responding to Andre (the Giant) Nel of South Africa by scoring a six and..... (more) For me India won the match then and there only ;)... But I would love if they win it completely... Great going Team India

Where can I find happiness?

Once the immortal part of me in my unconcious state met the divine power that rules the universe. It felt to me as if all the desires are fullfilled and that I don't need anything else in this world. I've already had more than sufficient and have already achieved more than I ever desired. The God then asked if I had some wish to make. I couldn't think of anything as I didn't want anything then. But suddenly my eyes stopped at one place and stared it for a minute. Puzzled in my own self I asked this innocent question from God,

"My Lord! I don't want anything from you but an answer that I couldn't figure out myself. That placed is my home (pointing at Earth) and I am unable to find even a single person who is happy out there. All of them are tensed, confused, puzzled about themselves and about their future. All of them are in a hurry. Poor are finding a way to earn some money for their living and rich ones are trying hard to catch some sleep at night spending many a times than a poor person can ever earn. Why is it so, God? Why can't I find even a single happy soul in that poor little planet?"

God gave a smile and as he started telling me as to why is it so, my unconciousness broke and I went back to this mortal world, to this Maaya. I wish I could hear the voice of the God.

Do you have any answer to this?

Chief Got Well: Thanks to Gandhigiri

Arun Tangri
MS Correspondent
(Nov 12th, 2006 Sunday IST)

Hyderabad: "Get Well Soon, Chief!!!" was the word chief used to hear from a team of 7 drivers who used to come with a warm smile and a rose in their hands on regular intervals to chief's room. Prepared for gandhigiri completely this team decided to make a 'Nicotine Free Environment'. For those who don't know chief well, chief is a very intriguing personality working as a test lead of the author and his team at Microsoft IDC. He is a multi-talented personality with just one bad habit of smoking and thanks to the Gandhigiri, it no more bother him.

"I was pretty clean even after my college days got over. I remember those days back in America where I first started smoking. It used to be really cold out there and I was left with no other option other than smoking. I know that its not a good habit to inculcate but it just happened. I really wanted to quit it but couldn't. Thanx to the team and Gandhigiri that I am all right now." said Chief.

Here is what let the driver team drive this effort of Nicotine Free Tomorrow.

	Notice the cigarette butts lying on the ground in the enlarged image
(click on the image to enlarge it)

After watching such a condition of their lead the team decided to do something seriously about it and also in a non-violence mode (fearing for their jobs otherwise in any other mode :D) and so came in picture the Gandhigiri. Here is what the team did for their chief to quit smoking.

	The first ever poster made by the team for chief to quit smoking. It was his b'day on that day and that was the gift from the team.
Poster on his first day of non-smoking. Cigarette lost its one of the patron on that day.
	First non-smoking day poster.
First non-smoking day poster.

Not only this but the team gave him poster, rose and 'Get Well Soon' wishes in between the period while he was getting cured.

And after so much effort, today the driver team proudly boast of having 100% non-smokers in their team. Once again, thanks to Gandhigiri.

PS: Dear Readers, if you find Chief puffing up a cigarette butt again in the future then please feel free to give the bumps to him because doggy's tail never gets straighten :P.

Who Rule This Planet: A Human Or A Dog ???

Ashish Saxena, my batchmate in IT-BHU had this affinity towards 'Dogs' and used to have a profound altercation with Anoop Pandey on "who is better, a cow or a dog?". I am fed up with the concept of cow and tried to dig out something about this specie, Dog.

It is said that God created the Earth and felt the need of sending someone with wisdom to rule this poor little planet. Hence he made humans who used their thinking ability to create some tools to rule this planet. But as I see it today a big debating question lies on the floor which is:

WHO ACTUALLY RULES THIS PLANET ?

A Human ->

Or A Dog ?? ->

What ? Didn't you get it ? Okay lemme explain how...

The explanation can be manyfolds and the point of a dog ruling this planet can be backed in literally any angle. What is all that is needed to declare someone a ruler of any place? Hmm... let's jot down some points:

1) You gotta be strong and have a good self-defence / offense that could be used against your enemy at the right time.

Don't you think that Dogs have one ;)?

Well... sometime you need to fight too for what you deserve :)

2) You should be free enough to do whatever you wanna do and no body should dare interrupt you in between.

Now... Do you have that much courage in you to do THAT in public ;) ?

3) Okay okay... somewhat you gotta be handsome and a 'person in ques' among opposite sex too ;).

Dogs DO HAVE some real gud looking creatures amongst themself too. Look at this fellow.. he has just asked his bitch GF "YO BABY!!! How are you doooiiiiing ;)"

4) You gotta have some fear of yourself in the eyes of enemies.

Dogs aren't behind in making their repo in this area too.

Now based on above explanations I am confused whether who is ruling this planet... is it really a human or a DOG doing this?

Comments are welcome :).

Enjoy
ArUn TaNgRi

An Engineer's Life: Dilbert Way

Steve Job's Speech in Stanford Ceremony

This is an amazing speech by Steve Jobs in Stanford University's graduation ceremony!

Updates

Hi All,

FYI its already a month for me in this corporate world :P and i am kinda settled in here... the initial days in hyderabad and microsoft has gone well, the description of which you can see here.

All of us from ITBHU are enjoying the days here and soon our appartment will be so-called fully furnished after we take washing machine and fridge :). Apart from that I have joined the editing team of the chronicle, a monthly online mag of ITBHU... click here to see the magzine.

Chalo then keep enjoying your life
Bbye
ArUn TaNgRi

New Template

Hi All,

I have just switched to this new template today itself.... This template is a tribute to those gud old ITBHU's days (4 years) that I spent thr... it was a wonderful experience there. The picture you see at the background of the blog is on my last theory exam of B.Tech life :).

Bbye
ArUn TaNgRi

I'll stay firm and will change things

Hi All,

First of All.. My latest poem : "Reservations". To read this click here.

There are many things in your life which will frustrate you and will continuously push you to loose your temper and do the things that you really don't want and won't do had the conditions been a bit normal in your life. The main thing what I believe is keep your mind cool and look for the possibilities where you can get the maximum out of even the worst condition in front of you.

People will supress you, conditions will supress you and the whole world might stand against you and even in this situation the most important thing you ought to do is to do your karma and just move ahead with cool mind and a firm belief on hum honge kaamyaab and the success will be yours only.

Today 100 hours of hunger strike against increased reservation quota are over and we students are still going on firmly and WE WON'T MOVE BACK.... this reservation bug has to go back and people should understand that with the increase in these kind of CRAP from the government they are only increasing the trouble for every other citizen of the country. THEY HAVE TO STOP THIS.

GO FRIENDS GO... MOVE AHEAD !!!

Bbye
Arun

PS: PLZ FRNDS COME TO THE RALLIES AND ATTEND MORE AND MORE OF RALLIES AS MUCH AS YOU CAN... ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT EVERY HEAD COUNTS. JAI HIND.

My First Journey Outside Home

'You can take me out of IT-BHU but you can't take IT-BHU out of me' - status message of Abhay, one of my batchmate at CSE, IT-BHU. True in its very sense of what we feel about our college, our home away from home.

The first journey outside home has a very deep impact on anyone's mind. My first journey, including the maximum of my batch mates, was of IT-BHU, the place where we had been for the last four years. IT not only has given us the good stand in lives but more importantly a batch of friends with whom I'll be in contact for the rest of my life, a batch of friends with whom I spent the most crucial years of my life, a batch with whom I share sweet and saur and all other kinds of emotions at times.

Ask any college student who is about to leave his college that how does he feel about the place, the only answer you'll get is 'I just LOVE this place and would definitely like to come here again to meet old friends... to meet the faculty and people of my department... to meet rest of the people of the insti... to enjoy every bit and piece of insti... and to live insti life again may it be of just one day'. True it is that there have been some of the bitter incident there, true it is too that at times we have had differece in opinions but its the part of the life and life goes on. Ultimately what matters is one's attitude for the life and I am sure that all of my batchmates are very positive in that sense. Wishing you all ppl... the batch of IT-BHU 2006, a very good luck for your endeavors in your life. This was my first journey outside home which has cherished those sweet memories in my heart which will be there for good.

Day before yesterday when I arrived at home from my insti I thought its all over and only God knows when are we all going to meet again but see, I got a call from Jindal, my other batchmate at CSE, IT-BHU to meet him and RHS at CP metro station and here went my SECOND visit outside home dedicated again to only IT :-). I wish this goes on forever and ever.

EnJoY
ArUn TaNgRi

Looks Like We Have Made It

Hi All,

Today was the big day for all of us coz we attended probably the last class of our B.Tech. life :). The life @ IT-BHU till today was full of joy, sorrow, kicks, memorable events, building up the personality, exposure and not to be left the part of being in the holy city, Varanasi, for four years. All in one it can be said that the trip to this great institution has a great impact of all of ours lives and will definitely affect our future endeavors in a way or another. IT-BHU has provided us with a huge parivaar with whom can we share our thoughts & feelings and take guidance at any point of time in our life.

At this point (being a regular audience of Smallville Series), I remember one of the song of the series, Denial of Destiny, having lyrics...

"Looks like we have made it, look how far we have come up baby. No matter took the long way.. we knew we'll get there some day. They say all day, we'll never make it but just look at how strong we've come. We'll stay together.. still always strong."

...as if it was scripted for us only :).

Its around three weeks more left for us to stay in the campus and I would like to tell all my batchmates a very best of luck for their lives ahead and would also ask them to remember their alma-mater for good for this being the place like a staircase to lead our way to success.

EnJoY

ArUn TaNgRi

Divide & Rule

Hi All,

Sorry for the long delay in publishing any new post. Thanx to insti's network which wasn't allowing me to publish any post in the last month :P... wrote many posts but couldn't publish it and its now late to publish them :)... anyways first of all a news flash : IMG (Information Management Group) of my institute which maintains the official site of the insti http://www.itbhu.ac.in/ is on its final stage of its work to launch the new version of the site. We are expecting to up the site in 3-4 days. Now coming to the main topic of today's post...

Divide & Rule. Long Long Ago, Britishers came to India and saw its wealthy civilization. They saw how innocent the people were here in India. With Atithi Devo Bhava as the slogan they used to welcome each and every person that came on the doorsteps irrespective of the fact who he was. Britishers came here and were welcomed too. Having seen such a wealthy civilization in front of them they couldn't resist their instinct to use its resources for their own evil purpose. They also knew that with the society as large as India its not possible for them to conquer it with straight fight. So they waited till they deviced a strong method of rule India. Soon after sometime of their stay here they found one of the most important loop-hole of Indian Society. They found that people weren't united in the sense that the king of the state A is willing to fight the king of state B to destroy him if he could... because they didn't share the same thinking ??? Anyways, Britishers provided the weapons to the weak king so that he could win the other state. With the strong side out of the game the weak side is automatically captured... also due to the reason of being helped by British empire and also due to the reason that they are weak enough of being captured. Slowly and Slowly they took over the whole of India, the consequences of which is a history which we all know.

Now what's my purpose of telling this story to all of you ? Simple !!! Just take a simple analogy of this very fact with the current India by replacing the Britishers with the current leaders of India and Indian kings with the current Indian public. History repeats itself. With this new law of increasing the quota percentage to the higher education the leaders are doing exactly the same thing in dividing India into many castes and then ruling this great nation. With this new law enforced, undoubtedly the vote bank will be affected greatly and the direct result is the benifit of our great leaders and politicians only. If they really want to help the needy ones then it should be based on the poverty and not on caste. Cast system always had a bad effect on the society and its like the bug that slowly but surely hampers the success of the nation. I am not against any individual caste but I am against this whole discrimination of the Indian society based on caste. We are all one, we are Indians. Aren't there many lower caste people in India which are rich and doesn't require reservation ? Isn't it the case that many many higher caste people are below the poverty line and really require some help from the government side but aren't getting any ? Isn't it the duty of the leaders to help THE REAL NEEDY ONES and not just one caste or another ? Why is it so that once the help is granted to any person to raise his standard of living using this quota system the help is granted again and again to his later generations too ? Do they really need that then ? Why is it so that the reservations are not there in the primary education which is the basic and the most important thing and are directly included in the higher education ? How can a person possibly compete at the higher level if he isn't having the basic and primary education with him ? Why is it so that the things are on their way to give the reservation even in the jobs sector ? Once the help is provided in getting firstly the education and the higher education(graduation even in India's topmost colleges in EVERY field) then even in much higher education (post graduation) and the highest level too (PhD etc) it is ensured that the person is now SO MUCH EDUCATED that atleast he can earn himself. Then why are they given preferences in the jobs too ? Isn't it the more-than-sufficient share that is provided to them ? Again I am not against any individual caste but this really hurts watching such an unjustice being done to other people. If the thing continues like this then its for sure that the brain-drain will again happen and this time on a much more massive scale because this is the failure of the Indian government to satisfy the need of the time, to build more institutions of higher education and provide more seats to study to the students. But what are they doing otherwise ? They are just increasing the tension in the society where increase in the number of seats is a dream and in reality people are ready to kill others for the current number of seats as they are decreasing because of the hippocracy of this government.

Bbye
ArUn TaNgRi

Go Cow: Slogans, Pledges and Cow Geet

Hi All,

This post is dedicated to one of my pal here at ITBHU in my branch, Mr. Cow Pandey. Cow Pandey as his name suggests has completely dedicated his life to Cows, Cows and only Cows and that too Indian Cows and is working for cow's upliftment 24x7. Mind you he doesn't like American Cows :P. He is such a big cow lover that he eats 'goras' ice creams, praises 'gomutra' :P and cow dung's utility as the driving force for the bio-gas plant, loves soap made of cow dung :D (and I guess he actually use that too haha), plays with Cow babies (whatever they call it in english but he calls them bachiyaa (bachchda)) and says that he himself is a Cow in human skin and god knows what else. Here in this post are some slogans, pledges, Cow Adds, a Cow Geet etc etc whatever came to my mind writing this post made by me (With due respect to all religions and ppl ':)' ), inspired by Cow Pandey and helped by some of my friends and dedicated purely to this non-greedy Cow lover, Mr Cow Pandey. So here it goes:

Pledges

1. Mein Cow Pandey, apne poore hosho hawaas mein ye shapath leta hoon ki mein is desh ki tan, man aur than se seva karoonga.
2. Kutte, Kamine, Cow mein tera doodh pi jaoonga.
3. New pledge (after Ma Kasam): Cow kasam !

Slogans

1. Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare than mein hai, dekhna hai doodh kitna ab hamare than mein hai.
2. Go Cow Go !!!

Movie Dialogues & Adds

1.

Cow Pandey (CP): Kitne gwale the ?
Fellow Cow (FC): 2, sardar cow.
CP: Aur cows 3, fir bhi poora duha ke aa gayi ? Ka soch ke itna kam doodh diya, CP khus hoga, sabasi dega ? AAAAA THU.
FC: Sardar Cow, meine aapka doodh piya hai.
CP: To ab dibbe aur theli (plastic bag) ka doodh pi... dhichkiyaooon.

2.

Tandarusti ki raksha karta hai cow ka milk, cow pandey hai jahan tandarusti hai wahan. COW PANDEY tada !!!

Cow Geet (Read with original songs music ':)' )

Zara zara behekta hai, mehekta hai aaj to tera than badan,
Mein Pyasa hoon, mujhe pila de thoda saaaaaaa milk shilk !!

Zara zara behekta hai, mehekta hai aaj to tera than badan,
Mein Pyasa hoon, mujhe pila de thoda saaaaaaa milk shilk !!

Hai meri kasam tujhko cow sanam, door kahi naaa ja,
ye doori kehti hai milk to pila ja reeee !!

la la laaa lala la laaaaa......

Enjoy
ArUn TaNgRi

East or West, Saddi Dilli Is The Best

oye hoye,

According to the recent polls Delhi has satisfied its recident the most in comparison to the other 4 metros namely Mumbai, Kolkota, Bangalore and Chennai. According to the survey 89 % of delhiites believe that city has been good or excellent compared to other cities in the last five years. Mumbai isn't far behind with 87 % of its recident believing that and kolkota being the lowest with 60 %. More importantly 97 % of Delhiites believe that the city would see 'excellent' or 'good' progress over the next five year which is way to higher than even Mumbaikars (72 %) aur ho bhi kyon na, afterall on the advent of commonwealth game which are gonna be hosted by Delhi, the city will definitely witness awesome changes in its facility and infrastructure.

In just one line.. proud to be a Delhiite... hip hip hurray !!!

Enjoy
Arun

Should IIMs go global ?

Hi All,

With the latest talk on the issue about the globalization of the IIMs, HRD Minister Mr. Arjun Singh said (in the news in todays, 18th Jan, The Times of India News Paper, Delhi Edition) that they can't go global as of now because they are not independent companies and are made bye state government. They do enjoy the freedom of autonomy but doesn't enjoy enough rights to go global and set up one such IIM in Singapore. Follow this link for the news.

Just a passing thought, why can't IIMs go global ? Globalization will not only increase the level of the existing IIMs by giving them the international competition but may also aid financially and even in some other aspects. Globalization is certainly a good option for the development and hence I feel that even if some new rules etc have to be written in the law for this thing the government shouldn't hesitate for the same. What do you all think about the issue ?

Bbye
Arun

LinuxAsia Conference & Expo 2006

Hi,

There is an international conference 'LinuxAsia Conference & Expo 2006' to be held on 8-10 Feb, 06 in New Delhi. For more details about the conference click here.

Enjoy
Arun

New Year, New Story !!!

Hi Guys,

First of all lemme wish you all a very very happy and prosperous new year.

Now, on the advent of any big event such as a new year, all of us have big plans to rock the event and enjoy it to its fullest. One of my friend also planned to celebrate his new year in his own way. He, together with two of his friends planned to have a night out on the streets of Delhi. Where is the fuss then ? Simple, they thought to rock the event and hence how come there not be any GIRL part in the story :) ? Trust me, they are absolutely idiot when it comes to dealing with galz. Fir bhi, somehow they managed to ARRANGE :D 2 gals (whoops... am I not missing anything :-?, weren't there 3 guys ? The answer is no, they managed to arrange 2 gals just because of little misunderstanding ;) ). Somehow, somewhere the plot was ready for a screwed up new year instead of a big extravaganza... and to know how the rest of the things went with them, keep visiting my blogspot for a story named: "Celebrating New Year, the nicest way ;)".

Enjoy ;)
Arun