One hour photo
Topic: Movies
One hour photo.....nice movie.....very off beat story....Robin William excels....

3 stars!

Wild Things
Topic: Movies
Wild things....interesting movie....twisted plot but things move so fast that you will be glued to the screen.....

3 stars

Kisna
Topic: Movies
Kisna.....much hyped Subhash Ghai film......ok....nothing to impress....

Vivek Oberoi is good. Sushmita Sen is good in one item song.

In fact, a lot of side actors impress much than the main cast....the 'phirang' actress is a total waste....

Tezaab- the acid of love
Topic: Movies
Tezaab - starring former Miss India Shruti Sharma, Pervin Dabas, new comer 'Mighty' Khan.....

Scene to scene copy of English movie 'Unfaithful'.....
Ample skin show by Shurti Sharma.....Mighty Khan OK......


Just a few months back another hindi movie 'Murder' starring Mallika Sherawat was based on the same movie but after second half director Vikram Bhatt changed the plot quite a bit.

Bizzare....weird....inexplicable
Get this off my penis!
By: Vinod Kumar Menon
March 2, 2005

Raju Shetty?s (28) attempt to adopt an inventive method to enhance sexual pleasure landed him on the surgeon?s table yesterday.

Inspired by the fad of body piercing, the Pantnagar (Ghatkopar) resident substituted a ring with a metal nut and pushed it around his penis. Problem was, the metal stayed stubbornly stuck to his organ for over two hours.

After failing to remove the foreign body, an embarrassed Shetty decided to seek medical help and checked into the casualty ward of Rajawadi Hospital in the evening.

?I have never come across such a case in the last 12 years of my experience,? said Dr Bharati Karat, the on duty chief medical officer.

Karat said that Shetty was initially reluctant to reveal his ailment but later spoke of his situation to a male intern who examined him and came away shocked at his find.

?We decided to cut the nut, but the metal was too thick. The case was later referred to the surgeons,? said on duty assistant medical officer Dr Gopal Mahajan.

The surgeon said, ?The nut was so tight that it caused a severe swelling on the organ due to which the blood supply to that part of the anatomy was stopped. It took us almost two hours to get the nut out.

Had the patient delayed admission by few hours, we would have had to amputate the organ, as the affected area may have developed gangrene.?

Shetty told the doctors that he desired to prolong sexual pleasure and hence inserted the nut.

?This is a case of sexual perversion,? said Dr Mahajan. Another doctor said that while body piercing in delicate areas of the human anatomy had become a fad, the consequences could be alarming.

The matter was later handed over to the Pantnagar police, who visited the hospital to record Shetty?s statement.

?We wanted to know if someone else had inserted the metal or he had committed the act himself. We will register the matter in our station dairy,? said the on duty police constable.

Thought for the Day
Topic: Thought for the day
A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
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Thy desire is thy prayer; and if thy desire is without ceasing,
thy prayer will also be without ceasing. . . . The continuance of
your longing is the continuance of your prayer. - Saint Augustine

I once had a physicist friend who would gladly discuss electric power;
but harnessing the power of a passion or a craving - well, that was
not dynamics; that was poetry. "Power," he told me sternly, "is the
capacity to do work. Work is the energy required to move a definite
mass a definite distance. No movement, no work. No work, no power."

Day or night I had never seen my friend far from his desk. Then late
one evening I came out of a movie theater and saw him striding along
like an athlete, several miles from his office. "What got you up from
your desk?" I asked. "You're breaking the habits of a lifetime."

"Coffee," he muttered. "I ran out of coffee."

"Here," I said, "a very definite mass has been propelled at least
three miles, simply by one little desire for a cup of coffee."
He got my point.

Every deep desire is a prayer. Every desire also contains a certain
quantum of energy - energy to grasp the desired goal.

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>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)
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Quotes
Topic: Quotable Quotes
"Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgements"

"Women are like tea bags - how strong they are is known when they get into hot water"
-Elaneor Roosevelt

Thought for the Day
Topic: Thought for the day
A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
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February 28

To display His eternal attributes
In their inexhaustible variety,
The Lord made the green fields of time and space.
- Jami

The Lord has strewn little signs of his presence throughout the
universe. The person who is observant will see these signs and know
where the Lord is to be found. There is a marvelous story about a man
looking for the Buddha the way one follows the tracks of an animal in
the jungle. He went around talking to people everywhere, and whenever
he found a person whose life had been transformed he would exclaim,
"Those are the tracks of a really big elephant!"

The men and women who have realized God leave big, unmistakable
tracks. In a smaller way, when we see someone being extremely
patient, someone who can listen quietly to criticism without
retaliating or losing her temper, we might think, "Aha! That's not
my friend Jane; that is the Lord in Jane." Jane is leaving a trail --
broken twigs of patience, torn leaves of kindness -- all subtle signs
by which we can track the Lord's presence.

Though the Lord is present everywhere, the expression of his presence
varies throughout the infinite variety of his creation. Wherever
perfection is approached, his glory is revealed a little more --
among people, among trees, among mountains, among stars.

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>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)
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Quotable Quotes
Topic: Quotable Quotes
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005)

What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912)

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From www.quotationspage.com

Sorry....no OSCARS
I am sorry that Ashwin Kumar did not win OSCAR for his "little terrorist" in short film category...

Good luck for the future.

OSCARS....?
Will Ashwin Kumar, nominated for OSCARS for his short film "little terrorist" win? I hope he will....

In the company of giants...
Topic: Books....
In the company of giants.....books containing interviews with giants from digital industry such as Steve Jobs and many others....

Illusion
Aldous Huxley -" The world is an illusion; An illusion that has to be taken seriously"

For the inquisitive mind...
Very informative website ....http://www.howstuffworks.com/

A lot of how works .....info...especiall the one on cellphones....the technology that makes our ubiquitos cellphones works is mind bogglingly complex...

Life
"Life is not measured by number of breaths we take;but by the number of moments that take our breath away"

Hmmmmmm....I think this person enjoys life on the roller coasters (literally).

Whatever for its worth....posted....

Annahat
Topic: Movies
Annahat - starring Sonali Bendre, Anant Nag, Deepti Naval directed by Amol Palekar....Marathi movie with Eng sub-titles.

Very nice movie. Off beat movie from Amol Palekar. Palekar who excelled as an actor during 70s and 80s has been very active on the stage and theatre scene. Started directing movies and delivered many nice movies such as 'Kariee' and other great movie on gays etc.

This movie is set around the kingdom of 'Malla' and royal couple. King has been in power for more than 7 years and still issueless in this case heir to royalty. Per the customs of that time and per applicable scriptures, royal assembly made up of influenctial people like key ministers, royal priest etc. pass a resolution where by the queen will have to choose a 'part-time' husband to conceive royal heir.....

With this back ground, rest of the story revolves first around the anguish and confusion suffered by royal couple....King is coaxed to agree to the decision by being told over and over that he has to endorse it because king's first duty is to care for the welfare of the kingdom and all personal stuff come next.....Queen also goes through similar dilemma...

Finally, the royal couple agree and queen chooses a temporay husband and spends a night with the man...this choosing process is not shown.

When the queen returns after spending the night with chosen stranger...she is a totally transformed person..however her admittance of how she felt as a woman for the first time and how she missed all the pleasures her impotent king husband could not deliver...she comes across as a woman of loose character to kings courtiers....

She argues for the realization of her womanhood and engages in an intellectual debate with her confidant who agrees with her that choosing to fulfil requirements of personal pleasures are ok but not to be shared lest she will forgo all the sympathy that people would have showered ......

Queen has seen the zenith of personal pleasure for the first time and want it more and more like any person....so she asks the ministers to arrange 2 more sessions as allowed by the rules...this comes as a rude shock to them as they expected her to indulge in this activity for the sole purpose of progeny and not to satisfy her personal plasure needs.....

Very well directed.....wish it had been dubbed to hindi as one has to really understand the dialogs which seemed quite powerful.

Deepti Naval excels as the common confidant of king and queen patiently listening to their anguishes....she is a great actresses who excelled in both commerical and art cinema.....

Sonali Bendre delivers a solid performance as the queen...especially after her first encounter....

Anant Nag is also quite good in the role of king....

Palekar has taken every care to make sure that historical scenes are really well shot...all in all he creates the royal kingdom as it might have been 400 years ago...hat's off Palekar....

All in all - 4 stars...

Jim Corbett of Karnataka
Kedambadi Jattppa Rai can be very aptly called as Jim Corbett of Karnataka and Kannada literature....as he pioneered literature on the line of Jim Corbett did in English.....

Mr.Rai's memoir 'beteya nenapugalu' is a riveting account of many of his hunting adventures.....

I have read his book long long time ago....Currently it being put in a series format at www.ourkarnataka.com...

Mr.Rai has been felicitated for his literary contributions with numerous awards....I thinks some of his books have been transalted to other languages as well.

Miss World 2005 is
Miss Isreal, Seema Bakhar, wins 2005 Miss World title held at Amby Valley Resort, India.....

Congratulations to Isreali beauty.....news to share with some of coworkers of Isreali origin...Marci....another feather in your cap.

Gazhal
"Maine muh ko kafan se chupa jab liya
Tab une muje milne ki pursat mili
Jab woh mujse milne ghar se chale
Raste mein une meri mayyat mili"

Traslated this reads as
" When I had covered my face with death cloth,
She found time to meet me
When she left her house to meet me
She met my funeral procession on the way"

This whole gazhal has such beautiful lyrics, and singer Chandan Das renders it in his heart wrenching voice....

Cheers!

Thought for the Day
Topic: Thought for the day

A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
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February 27

The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal
and immeasurable. - Bhagavad Gita

When I say that this body is not me, I am not making an intellectual
statement. It is an experiential statement. If you were to ask me,
"Who is this body?" I would make an awful pun: "This is my buddy. I
give him good food and good exercise, and I look after him very well,
but he is not me." My body has always been my faithful buddy, through
many trials, and during many difficult times; and I let him know how
much I appreciate his faithful service. We have an understanding: I
take very good care of him, and he looks up to me as the boss.

As Saint Francis used to say, "This body is Brother Donkey. I feed
him, I wash him, but I am going to ride on him." Whenever we use
drugs, or smoke, or drink, or even overeat, the donkey is riding on
us. The mystics challenge us: "Don't you want to get that donkey off
your back and ride on it?"

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>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)
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