A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco. "Mom and Dad, I’m coming home, but I’ve a favor to ask. I have a friend I’d like to bring home with me."

"Sure," they replied, "we’d love to meet him."

"There’s something you should know," the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mind and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."

"I’m sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live." "No, mom and dad, I want him to live with us."

"Son," said the father, "you don’t know what you’re asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can’t let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He’ll find a way to live on his own."

At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide.

The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn’t know, their son had only one arm and one leg.

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Greatness and humanness lies in facing the truth, and making the most of it.

Cherish and Enjoy the moments as they occur now, brooding over silly things now will make us repent later of all the moments which we could have enjoyed but wasted.

The most though provoking mail forward I ever received, a rational person would probably be able to make the most sense of it. Think and act on it.

62 years back Indians erupted in joy, on becoming a free nation. Their joy would have no bounds, especially for those who actively participated in the freedom struggle. The struggle to see India and the next generation of Indians free from the British rule, are we actually aware of it and do we realize the importance of freedom? If we really do so then we would not be still this poor, we would not be still fighting for petty things, we would not see so much corruption around us.

Are we doing enough for the country? Are we doing anything at all? Questions to ponder on the Independence day.

          We are often looking for people writing on the content most relevant to us (Indians), and blogs written by Indians are hard to find. But I realized that there are couple of sites where we can find exclusive Indian content with the information we would be interested. Given below are couple of sites with a small review of each.

          India Blogs : A listing of exclusive Indian blogs, the blogs are segregated based on various categories and each category has only a couple of blogs listed. The selection criteria is pretty tough, you can be assured that only interesting blogs are featured here.

          Blogadda : A collection of Indian blogs. Blogs on very topic relevant to Indians can be found here.

          Indibloggies : Check out the award winning Indian blogs here. Every year a competition is held among all the Indian bloggers. The award winning best blogs are featured here.

          Technorati : This is a global accumulation of blogs and everyone and anyone can register their blog here. Search for Indian blogs would pop up any blog which has any sort of reference to India. Not very useful if you are looking for some quality blogs which is already moderated and judged, but is useful when the search is for specific topic.

Found a nice place where we can view the content from other Indian bloggers. This site is moderated, so we can be assured that we will be viewing only the best content.

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There are already many reviews blasting off this movie. Well, before giving the verdict, it is important to understand there are two main reasons why people go to watch thrillers.While some go to experience the fear, thrill and edge of the seat excitement some others go to tickle their brains and guess the killer before the director decides to reveal. This movie will hugely disappoint the latter, because we do not get to know the killer at all. Now that is unique for a murder mystery, but this if viewed as the thriller, it blows your guts out.

 

After watching the movie, you would think twice before venturing into a small park, let alone a jungle.

But the thrills apart there is very little the movie offers, the lead pair being a major drawback.

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Interesting anecdote

A professor began his class by holding up a glass of with some water in it. He held it up for all the see and asked the students -  “How much do you think this glass weighs”.

50 gms – 100 gms – 125 grms – The students answered.

“I really don’t know unless I weigh it.”said the professor. But my question is “What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes”.

Nothing the students said.

O.k. What would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?

Your arm would begin to ache said one of the student.

You are right, now what would happen if I held it for a day.

Your arm could go numb, you a might have severe muscle stress and paralysis and have to go to hospital. for sure – Ventured another students and all the students laughed.

Very good, but during all this did the weight of the glass change? asked the professor.

No was the answer.

Then what cause the arm ache and muscle stress.

The students were puzzled “what should I do now to come out of pain” asked the professor again.

Put the glass down Said one of the students.

“Exactly”    said the professor.

Life’s problems are something like this. Hold it for a few minutes in your head and they seem O.K. Think of them for a long time and they begin to ache. Hold it even longer and they begin to paralyze you… You will not be able to do anything. It is important to think of the challenges or problems in your life. But EVEN MORE IMPORTANT to PUT THEM DOWN at the end of everyday before you go to sleep. That way you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh and strong and can candle any issue any challenge that comes your way.

                So every evening remember friends. PUT THE GLASS DOWN enjoy life, eat healthy, think positively, work passionately and give happiness to others !!

 

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Answer is a YES!! , in fact it is a must watch for people of the new generation and people of the current or previous generation. Does not leave anybody I guess . The reason I make these strong statements is because this film is unlike any other love story seen on the Indian screens in the recent past (except for Dev D).

So what makes ‘Love Aaj Kal’ so unique? Well there are plenty of reasons, but the top one is the freshness of the story itself. While we are there, the story, is alien to the normal middle class India and would largely seem illogical for the present or the older generation. But none of the characters shown are from the middle class, so if one is not able to relate to the story then fine, just view it as a story of a rich London settled guy and gal. The brief interlude every now and then of the previous era love story set in India only add to the magic.

Apart from the story what stands out are the dialogues and visuals. The dialogues are witty and not melodramatic as a normal Bollywood love story.

Go enjoy the ride !!

The director Imtiaz Ali’s Jab We Met was very well appreciated. It was good, no doubt, but the current one is lot lot better.

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Do you think only some people are born special?
Ans: NO. All living beings are born with very individualistic and special attributes. But then the surroundings and surrounding factors stop them from realizing that for themselves or worse makes them realize it wrongly. A deer might have a running power, a lion its roar, an eagle can fly, somebody might have intelligence, someone else beauty or sexuality, someone else nothing but even nothing can be very special. The secret of succeeding with life and not necessarily in life as they both are very different as in the former is from your point of view and the latter from the others point of view is to discover, understand and put your very own individual attributes to a very best and judicious use without guilt but with a very proper understanding.

Also if you look at it the only true assets you ever really have are time and feelings and both of them are perishable. So while they are still there you should not make a mistake of wasting a single second or an iota of them and this purely depends upon your own understanding in discovering what is special in you which obviously will predominantly come from a mindset which is uncorrupted by religion, social programming and more dangerously by your own escapist thoughts of blaming it on destiny and other’s actions.

@ thoughts are from RGV’s blog.

How very true and put in such clear words. Many a time in life we are so much bogged down by petty happenings and their associated worries that we forget the point of life. We have so little time in life and most of that is wasted in un-enjoyable discussions, un-necessary arguments, un-productive work and greedy quest for material things. Change for the better and make the best of what ever is remaining !!

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“The amazing thing for me about Human Beings is that there are Millions and Millions of them and each and every one of them have their own mind and each and every one of those minds is convinced that only it itself knows what is Right and all the other minds are Wrong. That’s from where all the comedy and tragedy and the drama of Life arise from.” – RGV

Three things in life that can destroy a man/woman Alcohol Pride Anger

Three things in life that, once lost, hard to build-up Respect Trust Friends

Three things in life that never fail True Love Determination Belief

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