Miracle Or coincidence

Despite not being a good writer,the urge to write in me is compulsive.
Over last few months it has become obsessive.So just to counter those
obsession I keep scribbling something.
Yesterday while having my routine post dinner walk(while roughly
con insides with midnight:)) I was thinking about an occult story published
in a local newspaper and suddenly name of one of my colleague sprung into my mind and
story he told about his encounter with one mysterious monk.
He was traveling from nasik to trimbakeshwar by bus,
after buying ticket he was sitting idly on his sit and suddenly
he heard conductor shouting on one of the fellow passenger.
The person is trouble was an old monk who had no money to pay for ticket.
He said he had no money for ticket so he could not pay to this
conductor threatened him to throw out of the bus,seeing this thing
this colleague of mine intervened and offer to pay for his ticket.
All matter was settled after that while getting down he was cursorily
gazing at the monk when there eyes met and the monk prophesied"Son
go and buy a lottery ticket and you will get your money back."
Even though he did not take it seriously the impetus was enough
to allure him buy a ticket of lottery and to his surprise the
ticket of lottery did win him 50 Rs. which was much more than the
amount he paid for the monk's ticket,he was happy enough but
his mind was still dwadleing on the same question "was it
a miracle or a mere coincidence?"

I wish to have encounter with some monk like this some day
just to cross check it if was a miracle indeed or a mere
coincidence.

'Marathi Manus' discovers a permanent cure to baldness:-

In an edifying discovery that could very well lead to a path breaking drug which
could permanently cure the baldness problem.
As per our correspondent in hyderabad an ATGB(About to Go bald)
software professional who was disparately trying to save each of his
countable hairs discovered a treatment which he claims would permanently
cure his baldness,he even went to an extent of quoting that soon this world
would be a place without bald men.
When interviewed he elaborately described his story with excruciating pain
which made one and all cry after vicariously experiencing the suffering
a bald man has to go through everyday.Often abased for his baldness by
his fellow colleges the courageous ATGB decide to give a fight against destiny
(The ATGB has a family history of baldness since
last 1200 years as he quotes,he said he would share the proofs as well).

Initailly when he started massaging his hair with mysterious hair conditioner
and not washing them after its application (against all standard procedures) he
became the laughing stalk of his room-mates who would always pass
sarcastic comments not without flaunting their long grown hair.But the ATGB continued to fight
against all odds and he today almost ran naked shouting 'Eureka Eureka'when he discovered
that the treatment he was working on clandestinely actually worked successfully. He claimed
that the treatment is capable enough to revitalize the hair growth even on a dead skull
remains.He became too emotional to hold back his tears while announcing this news to
press.He said his room-mates sarcasm about his baldness inspired him greatly but
he said he would not spare anyone of them especially a professional report
writer working with a well known company but he did not reveal his name.We
came to know from our inside sources that his name is Jatin Bisht.He has
gone missing since he came to know about this discovery.There have been
violent agitaions in the city by the members of ATGB demanding Jatin's
arrest.Citing the graet risk posed to him and his family, his family has
been provided with the police protection and has been escorted to a safe place
but one of the ATGB activist said that they will seek revenge and will track Jatin from any
corner of the world and will bring him to justice,the activist also said that they have employed MOSSAD for
tracking Jatin.
The young ATGB has already got his treatment patented today by paying a fees of 101Rs.
Manmohan singh personally handed over the patent certificate to him.
He has been approached by many hair care product companies in the world
offering him a multi millionaire deal for his treatment the highest bidder
being Garnier offering him 750Million in cash and 20% of the profit.
There is no confirmation on this yet.
Even bollywood has welcomed the new treatment wholeheartedly,a famous
director Ram gopal verma said he would produce a film depicting this story.
The famous Soap Opera producre Ekta Kappor said she would dedicate an episode
in 'Kyuki Saa Bhi........',she said the theme of the dedicated episode would be
Tulsi loosing her interest in Mihir after he suffers baldness but Mihir goes
for "this" treatment and their relationship starts blossoming again
with the reappearence of the hairs on Mihirs's Head.
Sachin tendulkar said he would freely endorse this treatment in the national interest.
Prathibha Patil has approved this patent after personally testing it and she said she
would no longer have to travel with her head covered under her saree as she herself
suffered from baldness(No one knew of this before).
After coming to know that the ATGB who discovered this treatment is there on twitter,
the twitter server almost crashed as almost 1 billion people logged in to twitter
and orkut to see his profile.
Google said there have been 1.2 Billion hits on google.com searching for this treatment info.
Google CEO Larry page said he would invest 1 Billion doller in R & D of this new treatment.
A new center for this treatment would be opened in the ATGB's hometown of Nasik.
Shoba De has already started working on his Biography titling 'making of a bald parvenu'.
National Geography has already approached the ATGB for a documentary.
Asif ali Zardari said they would give away Kashmir Happily to India if this new treatment
could treat his Baldness (so that he could again propose Sarah Palin,last time when two
met in new york Sarah Plain rejected Zardari's proposal on the grounds of his baldness).
the last but not the least president Barack Obama has conveyed his personal contact number
to him saying that he can reach him on his personal phone in case he needs anything from USA.
(This should not be mistaken with a scene in the movide My name is Khan).

Reporting from Hyderabad for NDTV India Barkha Dutt.
(This is an imaginary story triggered by a real incident of me applying
hair conditioner and then keeping it for whole day when noticed by my room-mate
Ankit and then went on to become the Joke Of the month)

Negotiations..............

Negotiations................
I would like to share my experience because it might be of great help in case you
are planning to buy a mobile.
When I decided to buy a mobile I went to Mobile store to enquire about it and they
said the price would be 14990 and I asked them if it was negotiable the answer as
everyone would have expected 'A flat NOOOOOOO' and went on to claim that it was indeed
a best deal I could get.But my thrifty mind did not allow me to buy it right away
without enquiring in another shops.From there I went to planet M after seeing an
holder outside the shop(BTW I never knew that even Planet M is in to this business,
may be no one bothers to buy a original DVD's and music these days,thanks to
torrents).
I checked with them and even they quoted the same price and seeing my reluctance
the salsman immediately said that some discount scheme was there and I could get
it for 14000,phew!!!I did barly walk 25 steps and I was saving 990(Not a bad
amount in this era of recession where my comapny did not give me a hike of even
a rupee in past three years).Since I was not enough of cash I told him that I
would come later and before stepping out I again tried to negotiate the price
down further but this time was answer 'A flat NO' again.
I enquired about this price in my native place it was around 15990/-
(PS IN Maharastra the mobiles will be costlier because of more VAT
as comapred to one in AP).
Next day I discussed the same with my friends and they told me to wait since
'Valentines Day' was around and on that day I could get even more exciting deal.
So I eagerly waited for the day to come for the first time in my life.
It happended to be sunday and I woke up early in the morning to checkout
sunday Times and I saw another mobile reatiler Sangeetha Mobile were selling
it for 13790 so I decided go sraight away go to their shop and buy it but
thanks to our pro-Telangana protestors it was anotehr sunday and another
Hyderabad Band,I bubbled out all the bad words I could recollect to pay
RESPECT to our great politicians.
Next day I called up helpline and told them to connect me to PLANET M
(fortunatly I also told them that I was loking for a Balckberry Mobile)
so she said she would messgae me contact details of the few dealser.
Hardly I had hung up on her I got call from a dealer who said he
could offer the best price but it was more than what I was getting
from Planet M.Finally I called up PLANET M and told them that I was
getting it for 13790 and asked them if they could bring down
price further and she quoted final price as 13670,then I thought
enough of negotiations let go and buy it right away but what a luck
I got another call from one of the dealer and he offered me 13500,
quite bemused I again called up Planet M and told about this offer,
they said they can offer the same with TWO years of warrenty(
98RS per year are the normal charges)so at the end of the day just by making
5-6 calls I could save 500 more so next time anyone of is planning
to buy phone just talk to few dealers try to negotiate and then call
planet M or ezone or saneetha and tell them the best deal you have been
offer, one of them will give you the better if not the same deal and
at the end you are buying a phone from a reputed outlet rather than
buying it from some local deal whose credibility will always be in
doubt as compared with these outlets so be in the driver seat and
get the best deal out.Hope this will help someone of you.

Inspite of not being a good recantour,I remember few anecdotes about Sachin below
is one of them.
In was back in Mar 2008,India was touring australia,after defeating Australia and Srilanka
in the league matches(We did lose one against Australia)india cruised into the finals of
virtual world cup.Before departing for the first match an avid australian cricket fan
confronted Sachin,"Do you see yourself playing in the third final"(It was best of three
final series),and then came reply from Sachin who is famous for his witty repartee,
"Well please ask the same question to ricky because we might finish off the series in
first two matches it self".

He did stick to his promise playing match winning knocks in both the finals and defeating
Aussies in their Own den who tried every other way to stop Sachin from scoring his first
ODI century in Aus relentlessly but relented at the end.

There is a very famous quote by Adam 'Walker' Gilchrist which he quoted in his
biography after Sachin Tendulkar single handedly knocked out Aussies in Champion trophy match
between india And Aus in 2000,
Here goes the quote,
"It was another morning when Sachin would have thought,oh it's aussies again,let's
go out and have another century".
(Sachin scored match winning 143 and then took three wickets to tame Aussies single
handedly)

Paradoxes!!!!!!!!!!!!

More you travel across India more you will be amused with paradoxes you will come across.
Albeit the second most populous nation(1.13B) it is home to second largest work force in the world,40% of it's population is less than 25 years old so it is evident that there won't be any scarcity of workforce in India for the next 40 years on the other hand the work force In china
is aging out.GDP of India just cross the apogee of 1 Trillion making it 12'th walthiest nation in the world but 10% of Indian population Hold around 33% of total India wealth and quarter of Indian population still earns less than16 Rupees(0.4$) a day.2 out of 3 Indian still earn their bread and butter from Agriculture still agriculture sector constitutes around 28% of GDP.
Ironically India holds the record for most number of suisides of farmers in a year.
All the world class food outlets see India as a prosprous house to their business,but still 40% of
children in India who are under three years old are malnutritioned.
Halth insurance business is growing anually by around 50% but still only 1 percent of indians are
health insured.But an average rural population makes a journey of more than 10 km to acess
medical facilities.
A quarter of Indian population is still starving for water and proper sanitaion.
We boast overselves as best IT destination,a destination to 1 million prolific
silver tonged elglish speaking software engineers but what about 10 million work force
which is accumulating every year?do we have job for each of them.The issue of unemployment
is still serene.Especially for the people coming from rural areas.
We are leading producer and consumer of electricity but still 600 million of Indian population has no access to it.Many major cities including capital of India are susceptible to regular power cuts which aggrandize in the summer season.
We are proud of Kalpana chawala as first indian woman to travel in the space but still in many parts of India widow travel with the beer of their dead husband as 'Sati'.
We have equally dynamic female population and in most of the state female population dominates the merit lists,has its palpable presence in the services sector.But at the same time
they are victim of dowry,a banned tradition which is still openly followed in many parts of country especially in the southers part of India.India registers around 7000 dowery deaths every year.Still in many parts female has given secondary status.Many families prefer to abort the child before it actually comes into existance just becasue they prefer son to daughter.
Probably India is the only country in the world where people prefer to be called as backwards just to avail the previllages given to backwards.The poputaion which is in actual need of it is still
denied with it.We often enquire about one's caste when we make new friends.
The IITs,IIMs and other presitigious oraganizations produce world class Engineers,MBAs but in the goverment schools 72% of the students drop out before they reach standard eight.
Bollywood produce around 800 movies a year but 2 million poulation of India cannot see it because it is blind .The figures augment 40000 new blind population every year.
Cricket players in india earns crores of rupees but at the same time hocky team finds it very
hard to find a sponsorer.In cricket and hockey we have won many accolades but we are still
searching for a one in a billion who can win us olympic gold.
The third lagest military in the world in terms of active troops after china and united states
is still haunted by corroptions where barefaced politicians embezzle money while procuring
coffins for the martyrs.
India is larget growing market for telecom and real estate sector, the record number of 8 million
moblies sold out this year,but it is also home to largest HIV infected population.
In all the second fastest growing economy is still not doing enough so that it can feed,educate
and provide proper mediaction to it's population.
It this the economy we are proud of just because we are sitting in the Ac cabins and doing white
coller jobs?


(Reference Where paradoxes reign supreme:Shashi tharoor,Times of India 25 Nov 2007)

Apotheosis Of Bravary

Lying under myraids of stars in aghasted night 120 soldiers were going to wintness the most stormy and terryfying night of their life.Upon receiving the orders for higher rank officers to withdraw,these brevados decided to continue scene of carnege.Earlier in the day after noticing heavy armour movemet by Major.Gen.(then) accosted the battalion headquarters requesting urgent reinforcements and armour and artillery support. But since it had to provide
support eastern war front it backed of leaving only two options behind with Maj.Kuldip singh
one to back off and capitulate longewala to enemy or to fight last war probably for the last time
in their life in probably the last night of their life.
Major approached his batallion and asked for their opinion.Suddenly a spark of patriotism
ingnited in the hearts of ardent soldiers and they decided to fight all odds.So it was 120 Indian
soldiers fighting against 2000 Pakistani soldiers with abndent ammunition.Haughty pakis
attacked the indian territory to win the euphemeral combat.But to their surprise Indians
relatiated with an equal Intensity.So after centuries world was witnessing the war of
David and Goliath.Surpassing all the odds Indian army hold their enemys at bay for the whole
night till IAF came to assist them and wipe out all the enemy sodiers out of Indian Territory.
By noon the next day, the assault had cost Pakistan dearly as more than 40 tanks and a total of 100 vehicles lay shattered on the desert .
This proved to be one of the most crucial moment of whole war which later pakistan went on to lose and they offered Unconditional surrender to MitroBahini and Indian Army.
Major Kuldip singh was awarded with the 2'nd Highest gallentry award for his dynamic leadership and motivational skills which made Indian battalion defeat an amry which had
both qualitative and quantitative advantage in terms of soldiers and ammunition.
Salute to Your Bravery.Jai Hind