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Sunday with NGO's…..

Today I went for a visit to two NGO’s near to my place along with the organisation Seva Sahayog to see how these NGO’s work….The tour of the NGO’s was organised so that volunteers like me could know what type of work these NGO’s do and how we can contribute towards it… 1. First we went to a village about 17 kms away from the place where I stay. They have constructed a small dispensary where every Sunday doctors conduct medical camps....This was started about 20 years back, when there was no proper approach road also. It was very nice to hear that within 3 years they treated the entire village of scabies…After sometime they started a hostel for 10 children so that they get proper food, coaching and amenities. 2. Secondly we went to a small district called as ‘Pen’ where a Mahila samiti was running an Old age home and a hostel for the tribal girls. I liked this place the best as it was run by simple women who were not that educated , but still were running the place efficiently. They eve

Indian Politics (Part-1)

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View's of a aam adami (thats me) My blog's about the petty politics our politicians indulge in... The other day we witnessed the ruckus created by MNS during the Oath taking ceremony just because someone took his oath in Hindi...This just goes to prove how these politicians value Democracy. See how they have treated the assembly as some common marketplace. What happens to our freedom of expression...Specially when the constitution has provisions for swearing in 8 different languages. They could have atleast protested by wearing black bands..... Whats alarming is that a small section of the society (read politicians)are deciding what the larger part of the society should do...Isn't is dangerous how the will of these handful of people is being imposed on us...Now lets assume that every1 starts speaking in Marathi even the non-Maharastrians...So would we get better roads, would the rising prices come down, in short would all the problems get solved?? What about the marathi spe

Mysteries of Life……

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I am sure every one of you will agree with me that “Life really is a Mystery”…. I always wonder how do we live, I mean what are the laws which govern our lives, who or what decides the things that we face in our life…How the decisions we take today have great repercussions later in on our life… I want to share incident which happened my office. After lunch we usually take a walk in the compound of our office. Two people were sitting nearby and one of them called us (I and my frnd) near him. He asked us what our qualifications were and my friend proudly answered that we had done our graduation in engineering and then a post graduation. He then asked about the procedures of getting into engineering and medical colleges for his children. And then he started speaking in English and that also very nicely, at least better than some of the educated people I know. After hearing him talk like that we were very surprised to know that he was a driver. My friend asked him his qualification and he

My take on the movie Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince...

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I was very excited to watch this movie as after a long time a Hp movie was comging in the theatres and the reviews also said that it was one of the best ones ever. But after watching it I am utterly disappointed..so thought of writing a review so that people who not seen might as give the movie a miss... The story has been changed a lot from the book. I know its difficult to bring the whole of the book inside a movie of 2-2.5 hrs still the story could have been kept similar to the book. Some of the glaring mistakes I found in the movie were as follows: 1.Dumbledore is shown without his trademark half-moon spectacle...Y to change that...it would not have affected the story much. 2. Harry is shown without his invisibility cloak in the two scenes where he uses it. 3. There is no proper explanation given about the Horcruxes, instead what we get to see is more about love and romance....I mean without explaining the significances of the Horcruxes how is one supposed to understand what Harry

Waiting for the Rains….

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It’s almost mid June still there is no sign of the rains. Usually in Mumbai it starts raining from around the 10th of June. The weather people keep on extending the date of the first showers week after week. They say the rains are delayed due to the cyclone Aila. Sometimes I feel weather prediction is quite similar to fortune telling sometimes you hit and sometimes u miss..  Even though I don’t like the rains so much as I am a outdoor type of a person and don’t like to sit at home much, I look forward to the monsoons. It comes as a welcome relief after the hot summers. Also many beautiful things happen during the monsoon period. With the advent of the monsoons the Gulmohar tree starts flowering, it looks so beautiful with the orange flowers in full bloom. Then when the first drops of the rain fall the sweet fragrance which emanates from the earth is simply awesome…I don’t have words to describe that. I am sure many of you will need no description of that feeling. I always love to tak

On a long drive.....

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In of my earlier posts I had mentioned that I had not got my joining date and was worried about it, well I got my joining date last week and its 6th of July. So finally I was relieved that I got some kind of confirmation from them. I think I did not share with you all that I brought a new bike Yamaha FZ-16 red and black colour. I will tell you about the first long ride I had on the bike with my sis.. There is stretch of road in Navi Mumbai called as the Palm Beach Road, it’s a real pleasure driving in those roads as they really very wide, there is greenery one side and buildings on the other side, less traffic. Actually the greenery is the mangroves which cover one side of the road and after the mangroves is the sea. So the breeze is quite nice while u ride on that road especially on a two wheeler. Driving a bike on these kinds of road gives such pleasure, like the feel of the wind ruffling through your hair, the adrenaline rush you get when we increase the throttle the bike just goes

To My friends....

Some days back I got this beautiful SMS which reminded me of all my near and dear ones specially my friends with whom I have shared so much wonderful memories...The Sms goes like this We make so many friends.... Some bcom dearst.. Some bcom special... Fel in lov wit som1.. Some went abroad.... Some changed deir cities... Some left us.... V left some.... Some r in touch... Some r nt in touch... Some dn't contact coz of deir ego... V don't contct some coz of our ego... Wtever dey r... However dey r.... We still remeber,love miss,cherish them cos of the part they played to make our "Precious Memories" Don't you think this sms holds true for everyone of us. Think about the future we might not even be in touch with our friends but the memories will still remain. It will be etched in our minds as long as we

Life during Recession.....

It’s been two months since I have written anything. So I will bring you up to date with whats going in my life. Actually I did not get the required motivation to write, what with the last months of my college life I was busy with the final thesis work then the exams and of course the farewell parties.if I had worked on thesis from the start could have finished without many hiccups but what to do as like before I started just some time earlier than the deadline(Even then I was one of the few persons to start early). Then I had my vacations but went to my native place Kerala and again I did not have the inclination to write. After I came home I thought I would start writing but then the appointment letter from the company was taking too long to come. I had got placed in December it was 3 months since I got placed and still no appointment letter. Three of my friends who got placed in the same company as mine got the letter in the 3rd week of April so I was tensed. This was because of th

What is right???

Its been two months since i posted anything...Well life's been busy of late. I had my campus placements going on.. Then there was the exams and i went to chennai,rameshwaram and madurai then back to college....As its the last sem i and my friends went to Matheran which is a hill station near Mumbai..Had gr8 fun there, clicked many pics(you can chk in orkut)..Only thing missing was the cold weather...It was not cold,maybe due to global warming...So did not get time to devote for writing. The incidents in manglore pub has brought fore once again the term moral policing...I can't understand how some people(most of them illterate) can decide what is right for a particular section of the soceity and what is wrong..Whats wrong if a woman wants to drink in a pub with her own money....its just like what the taliban did in Afghanistan... On arresting them these people are saying that they are like elder brothers and if they hit their sister's what is wrong...I would like to remind t