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Akshta in her 2nd month

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Purani Jeans

This song by Ali Haidar makes me feel being forever in my college and hostel days. This was recorded on May 26th, when akshta was 2 months 10 day old. Purani jeans aur guitar Mohalle ki vo chhat Aur mere yaar Vo raaton ko jaagna Subah ghar jaan Kood ke deewar Vo cigaretee peena Gali mein jaake Wo karna daanton ko Ghadi ghadi saaf Pahunchna college hamesha late Vo kehna sir ka "Get out from the class!" Vo bahar jaake hamsha kehna Yahan ka system Hi hai kharaab Vo jaake canteen mein Table bajaake Vo gaane gaana Yaaron ke saath Bas yaadein Yaadein Yaadein reh jaati hain Kuchh chhoti Chhoti Baatein reh jaati hain Bas yaadein.. Vo papa ka daantna Vo kehna mummy ka Chhodein ji aap Tumhein to bas nazar aata hain Jahan mein beta Mera hi kharaab Vo dil mein sochna Kar ke kuchh dikha dein Vo karna planning Roz nayi yaar Ladakpan ka vo pehla pyaar Vo likhna haathon pe A + R Vo khidki se jhaankna Vo likhna letter Unhein baar baar Vo dena tofe mein Sone ki baaliyan Vo lena doston se Paise

Roz Roz Ankhon Tale

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Being group member of ‘Gulzar Fan Yahoo Group’, helps me understand the essence of poetry of Gulzar that is understood by all his admirers worldwide. I sometimes wonder if RD kept his best musical genius for Gulzar or Gulzar kept his best poetry for RD Burman . But this duo with the help of Asha have created some of the memorable poetic musical embellishments. One such song is Roz Roz Ankhon Tale…. Hardly anyone would remember this movie Jeeva – picturised on Sanjay Dutt and Mandakini. But this is one of my favourite songs on all three counts – lyrics, music and rendition. RD has adroitly covered Amit Kumar’s limitation of clasical base while extracting the very best from Asha. Silbil has translated this song in Engligh. I admire his attempt. I too tried with my novice skills . Its not easy to translate a poetry in a foreign language. Appropriate words often fail to reflect and retain the theme and essence of poetry in original language. Moreoever each language has its own nuances tha

Akshta in Abu Dhabi

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Akshta's 2nd month b'day in Abu Dhabi.

Dad after 40

Having a baby in Mid 40’s is not for faint hearted guys. Perhaps, that’s what my friend Subba Iyer may have meant when he said ‘it’s bold and courageous decision ’. As I look back at my decision that took few years to crystallize and fructify, it now dawns upon me that I am not alone in this ‘so called’ bold move. There seem to be distinct trend toward older dads. For men 40 to 44 years old, the number of live baby births per 1,000 men increased from 17.1 to 23.4. For men 45 to 49, the number of births increased from 6.1 to 7.6. For men 50 to 54 years, the number increased from 2.2 to 2.5. The only category where there wasn't an increase was men 55 and older that have the same: 0.3 births per 1,000 men. Have the figures become skewed after celebrities set up this trend of becoming dad at older age? Tony Blair (at 45), Ken Livingstone (57), Mick Jagger (57), Phil Collins (51), Rupert Murdoch (72), Michael Douglas (58), Gordon Brown (54), Rod Stewart (60), Paul McCartney (61), Eric

Funny but Apt answers by Kids

One of the old issue of Popular Science magazine. have listed some of the interesting test answers from students collected by science and health teachers at various grade levels. • When you breath, you inspire. When you don't breath, you expire. • The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects. • A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is. • When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide. • For head colds, use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops into your throat. • The moon is a planet just like Earth, only deader. • Artificial insemination is what the farmer does to the cow instead of the bull. • Dew is formed on leaves when sun shines down on them and makes them perspire. • To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube. • Equator: A managerie lion running around Earth through Africa. • To remove dust from your eye, pull the eye down over the nose. • Momentum. What you give a person when th

Akshta is 50 day old !!

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To the world you may be one person But to your mom you are the world

Career Killers

Excerpt from article of Career Killers to Avoid By Robin Ryan, Career Coach.This book mentions some notable mistakes company people make in order to sabotage their own careers. Lack of results. Leading the list, and cited by every single executive in the survey, was the fact that not producing measurable results on the job is the sure-fire way of ending your career rise. Not working at a job you're passionate about. "People float through life as if it were boring, drudgery or a nuisance - often complaining, yet never determining what would fulfill them," noted a nonprofit director. Several CEOs commented that you'll never be happy if you aren't excited, interested, and enjoying what you do. The true key to success is discovering your inner passion and then finding a way to work in that arena. Not having big enough goals. "A key career stopper is setting your goals too low or not being willing to put in the time it takes to reach goals," noted CEO Randy S

"Googling" to reach my blog

I am surprised, intrigued by knowing the ways people across the world reached my blog albeit unintentionally and accidently by seeking information on google. Blog Map Statistics lets me the know the terms that people have put in goggle search engine. A glance of these shows that most popular words were : Mangesh Padgaonkar followed by Veer Savarkar and Laghu Rudra. Now ‘goggling’ is official word English word in dictionary!!. The key words that were input : mangesh padgaonkar goggly "Margaret Wilde"+obesity gillette razor and islam funny poems of two lines marathi auschef sister birthday marathi jayostute meaning water vacuum cleaner banned in japan Air India seat width mao tse tung monument at the Badaling Great Wall +bhilai+durg+raipur good poems in marathi aamir khan reasons for divorce aamir khan divorce crows extinction edge level longan ostentious dictionary aaja saajna kidneyvakkam sma

castle kyalami

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My eardrums have a dull ache with humming noise, my clean shaven head’s pores are topped with early morning dew droplets. In a crisp and cool breezy morning, I have just had a walk outside sprawling garden of Hotel Castle Kyalami. By 8am, I was ready and was heading for breakfast. When asked for the direction, guy at the reception seemed a bit shell shocked but did point me towards an empty hall with a polite request ‘we serve breakfast only from 630am’. I immediately realized my folly of not having set the clock behind 2 hours. My instant reaction was not to portray any surprise. ‘No problem, I shall have a walk’ I said. I walked out without any sweater or warm clothes, sky was still grey but horizon was enfolding a tinge of pink and birds were ready to leave their nest. White, Yellow roses were fully bloomed with other flowers in scarlet and orange laid a colourful spread over green top . From the top of Castle Kyalami, I could see suburbs of Midrand, Sandton twinkled lights. Castl