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Fun in mAnaLi....... 

tHis is onE of the very few things that i really really like......

aN aRtiClE written by a fRiEnd of mine.... aNd truly speaking stands out as

one of thE 'moSt bEauTiful tHinG' i have come across for a lOng tImE..........

What My Eyes Do Not See Usually?….do yours??

A beautiful girl, a lovely sedan, a beach side mansion, a luxurious yatch, a private jet-liner, a diamond studded Rado, a Vertu platinum phone, Callaway, Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren products. These were the things that my eyes never missed to see whenever they were open …..infact even when they were closed in sleep. “Symptoms of another materialist, just another hedonist”, this is what I can hear you calling me. You are absolutely correct and there is nothing wrong with the grey matter of your brain that assisted you in your efforts to form that opinion about me.

I always believe that life is a journey of reaching your maximum potential, a quest to reach the pinnacle, a continuous endeavor of self-realization through asking questions to oneself. Its all about attaining one’s goals which can be material or spiritual. So if life is all about progressive realization of one’s worthy objective, what is so bad about my desire for these earthly things? Yes, indeed there is nothing venal or corrupt about my ambition as long as I pursue and achieve it with hard work and determination. Therefore I should keep my concentration and focus on my goals and need not lose sight of my destination.

The above paragraph is just an extract from my book of limitless rationale and excuses which I often consulted for finding reasons behind my inexplicable behavior and to keep myself focused on my goals. And this is where I lost sight of things I should’nt have overlooked because by following such an ideology I was ensconcing myself in the cocoon of my own making. I was becoming the prisoner of my future, the same future I wanted to architect. Although I still appreciate the importance of the focused mind, I also pay attention to the notion of devoting some of our time to the society. The same society that gives us a chance to become whatever we dream of becoming. “ We must give back, what we take or otherwise the well runs dry!”

Strange it might sound, but the people who are responsible for restoring my vision are themselves visually challenged. Confused ??? Don’t be, just continue reading this article and you will be convinced, like I am now. Well what actually happened was that one day I was having my usual after-dinner stroll, engrossed in my brown study, worried about my life, career, dreams, looks and everything that I can be concerned about, when I heard someone utter out the following words in the tone of a question , “ Yeh, Patparganj, Bus depot hai”. Although the query wasn’t directed at me, the politeness and the calmness of that voice compelled me to turn in the direction of the voice and nod my head in affirmation. It was ten’ o’clock and the place was scarcely crowded. As I was about to continue my evening walk, or more appropriately sardonic monologue to myself, after this momentary distraction, I realized that this person did not respond to my gestural confirmation to his question. Infact, he repeated the question loudly this time, standing still at the same place and with the same politeness in his voice. This time I answered in spoken words and also in turn got the answer to my doubt pertaining to his not paying attention to my earlier confirmation. The guy standing there in a grey trousers, white shirt and perhaps with his most important appendage, a walking cane, was actually a blind man.

He thanked me with his calm voice, of which I had already become a fan, and started moving in the direction he wanted to go. I did not know how he managed to find the pavement on the side of the road and resumed his journey, slowly and steadily, using his cane as his guide. On any other day, I would have felt pangs of deep yet evanescent sympathy for that guy and continued with my job, but something within myself coerced me to accost this differently abled person. I introduced myself and requested for his company (rather than offering him mine) to the place he was going. He introduced himself as a member of National Blind Youth Association and said that he was going back to his hostel located behind the vicinity of Patparganj Bus Depot and a few hundred meters away from there. Talking to this friendly gentleman whose name is Manoj kumar Jha, for a few minutes was a very good experience of my life, something of the kind which I never had earlier. Although a major portion of our conversation consisted of introducing ourselves to each other , I found something very charming and sincere about his personality, something that you feel while talking to an old pal, something not subjugating and yet having the power to captivate you for a while. After we reached the hostel entrance, he invited me inside, but since it was already late night I declined the kind invitation and promised to come some other day.

Now if you people are thinking that my adventitious encounter with that person is a progeny of my mental faculty which is perhaps endowed with good story making ability, then I should dare to commit the offence of disagreeing with you. If you feel that this story serves only as a spice to give that poignant taste to my article and thus cater to your appetite for emotional stuff, then I think that I should flagrantly tell you that although there is a modicum of truth in what you are saying, unfortunately, I have another explanation. The way in which we human beings perceive a particular event in our life varies according to way we choose to respond to that happening. My response to a particular event which is responsible for the experience I have associated to that event, may be astonishingly different from another person’s response to the same event. Without sounding didactic or like an authority on the subject of human psychology, I would like say your skepticism stems from the fact that you think your way of viewing situations as the only way they can be seen. Infact there are many big things which even the eyes habitual to see the infinitesimal, actually overlook. Therefore my description of the meeting with Manoj Kumar Jha would be substantially different from your description of it , had you been in my place. I now hope that I have succeeded in making you at least suspend your skepticism for a while, if not completely eliminating it.

I would be honest in telling you that for the fifteen minutes I spent talking to Manoj, not even once and not even for a second, did I worry about my problems. Not because they were solved, but seemed insignificant to me at that point of time. I could not sleep that night and made up my mind to visit that Hostel for the blind, where Manoj and his many other like friends live, facing the challenges which life throws at them, without actually seeing those challenges. It was Friday evening and my watch displayed 6pm, when I reached that hostel after a ten-minute walk from my place. I marched into the first room of the building that I saw, with an air of uncertainty about what I would see in a place, whose inhabitants themselves haven’t seen it. The person I saw sitting on the chair was Sunil Kumar Lal, General Secretary of the institute. I introduced myself and he greeted me with a big sincere and honest-to-God smile on his face and he extended his hand forward for a hand- shake. I don’t care if you people again accuse me of emotionalizing matters, but have you ever noticed the difference between the way a person who can see and one who can’t, extend there hand forward for shaking it with yours? A person who can see extends his hand forward in your direction with a certainty evincing in his eyes that his gesture will be reciprocated, while one who can’t see is not even certain about the direction in which he should forward his hand. He just keeps his hand close to his body waiting for you to reciprocate his gesture. I make this point here, not to arouse your sympathy for this less blessed person, but just to reassert my belief that there are many little yet important things that we fail to see in the normal course of our life by getting entangled in the urgent yet unimportant things of our life.

I introduced myself to Mr. Sunil and said that, it was just out of my curiosity, I had come there and I wanted to know about the institute, its students, the problems that they face and if there is anyway in which I can help them. He gave me detailed information about the institute cum hostel where twenty-five visually impaired people live and are given job-oriented projects and training in order to rehabilitate and to make them independent. He then took me to the rooms of these people who also greeted me with a smile on their faces. Then they introduced themselves and you will not believe me that most of them have finished or are doing their graduation from the reputed Colleges of Delhi University like Hansraj College etc. I also met Manoj there who is currently pursuing his M.A from D.U. Two of the students were actually playing chess, I don’t know how they managed to distinguish between the pawns of different color? I was too overwhelmed to ask anything from these differently abled people who refuse to accept defeat from the hands of life which inflicted them with so much suffering and still not complain about it.

So I came back to my place questioning my beliefs, adjusting my focus. I came to the same conclusion that there is nothing wrong with my desire for worldly objects but there are other more important things and feelings that shouldn’t be sacrificed for attaining one’s goals in life. The feelings of love, gratitude, care, knowledge, happiness are actually much more important than these earthly goods. If what you infer through this written communication is that I am advising you to become an ascetic, then I will be guilty of faulty communication and you of selective understanding. All I am trying to convey is that reach your maximum potential in life and also help others in realizing their dreams in whatever way you can.

The things that I mentioned as my dream in the beginning of this article were earlier a necessity and something indispensable for me but now they are desirable and dispensable for me.

And as far as the beautiful girls are concerned, my definition of beauty has changed amazingly after meeting Manoj. He is married, never seen his wife, but still thinks her to be beautiful…

Regards,
SIDDHARTHA SHARMA
B.F.I.A- 3RD YEAR
Contact-9891405549

gooD wOrK Sid............ :-)

mE n mY pAlS hAvINg a bLast iN mAnaLi i caLL tHis onE 'sCrEaM uR hEaD ouT'..... :-P 

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The New Music Video - Main Deewana

Album Name : G
Video Name : Main Deewana
Featuring : Ganesh Hegde
Choreogropher : Ganesh Hegde
Director : Ganesh Hegde

Ratings : * * * * and a half

Tired of watching the same irritating music videos on the idiot-box that look more like a sequel out of an adult movie than a remix video ?

Agar aapka jawab hai haan, then you have to watch the new music video 'Main Deewana' from the Album 'G' by Ganesh Hegde. Being aired quite frequently by most major Music Channels its difficult to miss provided somebody is not too much engrossed in catting, matting, etc etc.

The video is quite artistically designed, giving a you hint that the guy knows what he is up to. The entire video revolves around the central character (Ganesh) who is trying to impress this gal and so an apt title 'Main Deewana'. The music and the song both are equally pulsating, but the 'attraction principale' is the dance performance. Provided the video is taken out by India s ace bollywood choreographer, this was expected but for someone not cognizant with the BollyJungle (like me), there is just one word to describe his break-dance... 'Fantabulous'. You just keep sitting dumbfounded in front of the tv screen as he shows you dance moves that you never thought existed. And my taking pains to write this review is evidence of the elan in which the entire performance is executed. The Video has got Style, Funk, great models :-P, and some amazing dance steps very difficult to copy (dont take the pains, i have already tried).

A point worth mentioning here is one that i have repeatedly had to face whenever i tried telling someone about the video. Ganesh Hegde is not the same guy as the fat choreographer seen in many other videos of bollywood songs. You get to know that as soon as the video starts because if he scores an 11 out of 10 for his dance, he gets a 9 out of 10 for his looks. The guys got style, knows how to dance (teaches choreography to the likes of hrithik roshan), and has got killer looks.... Beware of the next Rock Star.

And ya in case i forgot to mention, do tell me something about his singing the next time you watch his video because my ears mysteriously stop working as soon as he starts his dance. :-D

...Light up your hearts like these Mesmerising Diyas...

Because today India Shines brighter than the Britest Diya

***Happy Deepavali***

!!! Happy Diwali !!!

Hi everyone.. eNjoY this great day coz it comes once in a year... It is great coz it reminds us of the great heritage of our country.... And i think that s one heLLuvA reason to celebrate..

But as word of caution.. Please everyone do remember to have some concern for the environment tonight.. Lets us all celebrate crackers free festival and make this a festival of lights and not one of sound and pollution.. :-)
And for those of you, who cant live without that extra tang of patakaa, you can always go in for community fireworks.. I think, we all must assume this responsibility for a better place to live and celebrate..

So...... Lets us all celebrate this amazing festival by spreading purity, faith and happiness all around.....

*******HAPPY DIPAWALI********

tHatS mOi......