Somethings can never be understood?

Women..I wish to understand the complexity!!!

Kaise Jiyen by ROXEN

Yeh mere dil ka jaana..

ek akhari faisla hai

Abh saath hoga na tera

Yeh dard ki inteha hai

Tha pyar mera tho jhota

Sacha magar ye khuda hai

Tanhaiyon main hoon roya

tab ja ke mujh ko mila hai

Dunia ke rishton main tho..Ye hota he raha hai

Laila aur majnon bhi tho.. ek doosre se juda hai

chor gaya , mujhko adhoora yahan.

kya yeh wafa hai, ya hai koi imtehaan

Kaise jiyen, Kis se kahen, 

Kab se shroo, Yeh silsilay

Jin ke nishaan, Ab mil rahe,

Wo na yahan kiyon mil rahay..

Little master Sachin Tendulkar a work of timeless art

‎"It was always a possibility that there would never be another Tendulkar, but perhaps now there cannot be. He has constructed a career along the lines of one of Europe's great gothic cathedrals, built to last, guaranteed to serve future generations, full of splendour, grandeur, romance. And all cricket can now think of doing is surrounding that cathedral with lookalike apartments and trying to sell them at a huge mark-up."- GIDEON HAIGH (The Australian December 26, 2011 12:00AM)

Why India never won on 24 occasions when Sachin scored Century ???

One Man Army..Hail the God of Cricket!!!!

* 13 times out of 24, the second highest scorer couldn't even reach 50 run mark!!!
* Scores in Bold indicates CENTURY scored while chasing the target!!!
* That 37 runs scored at Rawalpindi  by the 2nd highest scorer was in the form of EXTRAS in the chase of 330 runs!!!
* Only once his partner outscored him- 127 Runs by Sourav Ganguly at Johnesburg!!!
* 17 Tons scored while batting first, which shows it was Team's bowling which cost the match!!!
* 16 out of 24 tons was scored 'Not at Home' !!!
* Only 1 ton was against the minnows (Zimbabwe) !!!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 (Source: http://sachinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/SACH-IS-LIFE.jpg)

SACHINation..you are my INSPIRATION...

CNN-IBN Indian of the year awards 2011

It was a treat to hear the Legends of India share their life experiences.. truly inspirational...three cheers to Mr. Anna Hazaare, Mr. Varghese Kurien and last but not the least Binalakshmi Nepram (Manipur women gun survivor network). You've done India proud..I bow my head in your tribute..

The Secret

One of the best videos to watch if your down..and if you think you wont be able to achieve your dreams..

A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime..

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or

a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you

will know what to do for each person.

When someone is in your life for a REASON . . . It is

usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have

come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you

with guidance and support, to aid you physically,

emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a

godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason

you need them to be.

Then, without any wrong doing on your part, or at an

inconvenient time, this person will say or do something

to bring the relationship to an end.

Sometimes they die.

Sometimes they walk away.

Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.

What we must realise is that our need has been met, our

desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you

sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on.

When people come into your life for a SEASON . . .

Because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn.

They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh.

They may teach you something you have never done.

They usually give you an unbelievable amount

of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things

you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional

foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the

person, and put what you have learned to use in all

other relationships and areas of your life. It is said

that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant. 

Author: Unknown

Lyrics Source:  http://www.yuni.com/library/docs/631.html

How winners are made. Gary Raser LIMU

Life is tough, that’s a given. When you stand up, you’re gonna be shoved back down. When you’re down, you’re gonna be stepped on. My advice to you doesn’t come with a lot of bells and whistles. It’s no secret, you’ll fall down, you stumble, you get pushed, you land square on my face. And every time that happens, you get back on your feet. You get up just as fast as you can, no matter how many times you need to do it. Remember this, success has been and continues to be defined as getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down. If experience has taught me anything, it’s that nothing is free and living ain’t easy. Life is hard, real hard, incredibly hard.

You fail more often than you win, nobody is handing you anything. It’s up to you to puff up your chest, stretch your neck and overcome all that is difficult, the nasty, the mean, the unfair. You want more than what you’ve now, prove it! You want beat the very best out there that is, get out there and earn it! Once you decide that, you’ll know where it is you want to be, then you won’t stop pushing forward until you get there! That’s how winners are made. At the end of the day, success is what we all want. We all wanna win, and the race will be won. There is no question about that. So c’mon, get out on top, run faster, dream bigger, live better than you ever have before. This is in you. You can do this. Do it for yourself. Prove it to yourself.

Courtesy : http://thismomentcalledlife.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-winners-are-made-limu.html

What is the Jan Lokpal Bill, why it's important?

Source: http://indiaagainstcorruption.org/

The Jan Lokpal Bill (Citizen's ombudsman Bill) is a draft anti-corruption bill drawn up by prominent civil society activists seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body that would investigate corruption cases, complete the investigation within a year and envisages trial in the case getting over in the next one year. 

Drafted by Justice Santosh Hegde (former Supreme Court Judge and former Lokayukta of Karnataka), Prashant Bhushan (Supreme Court Lawyer) and Arvind Kejriwal (RTI activist), the draft Bill envisages a system where a corrupt person found guilty would go to jail within two years of the complaint being made and his ill-gotten wealth being confiscated. It also seeks power to the Jan Lokpal to prosecute politicians and bureaucrats without government permission. 

Retired IPS officer Kiran Bedi and other known people like Swami Agnivesh, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Anna Hazare and Mallika Sarabhai are also part of the movement, called India Against Corruption. Its website describes the movement as "an expression of collective anger of people of India against corruption. We have all come together to force/request/persuade/pressurize the Government to enact the Jan Lokpal Bill. We feel that if this Bill were enacted it would create an effective deterrence against corruption."

Anna Hazare, anti-corruption crusader, went on a fast-unto-death in April, demanding that this Bill, drafted by the civil society, be adopted. Four days into his fast, the government agreed to set up a joint committee with an equal number of members from the government and civil society side to draft the Lokpal Bill together. The two sides met several times but could not agree on fundamental elements like including the PM under the purview of the Lokpal. Eventually, both sides drafted their own version of the Bill.

The government has introduced its version in Parliament in this session. Team Anna is up in arms and calls the government version the "Joke Pal Bill." Anna Hazare declared that he would begin another fast in Delhi on August 16. Hours before he was to begin his hunger strike, the Delhi Police detained and later arrested him. There are widespread protests all over the country against his arrest.         

The website of the India Against Corruption movement calls the Lokpal Bill of the government an "eyewash" and has on it a critique of that government Bill. 

A look at the salient features of Jan Lokpal Bill:

1. An institution called LOKPAL at the centre and LOKAYUKTA in each state will be set up 

2. Like Supreme Court and Election Commission, they will be completely independent of the governments. No minister or bureaucrat will be able to influence their investigations.

3. Cases against corrupt people will not linger on for years anymore: Investigations in any case will have to be completed in one year. Trial should be completed in next one year so that the corrupt politician, officer or judge is sent to jail within two years.

4. The loss that a corrupt person caused to the government will be recovered at the time of conviction. 

5. How will it help a common citizen: If any work of any citizen is not done in prescribed time in any government office, Lokpal will impose financial penalty on guilty officers, which will be given as compensation to the complainant.

6. So, you could approach Lokpal if your ration card or passport or voter card is not being made or if police is not registering your case or any other work is not being done in prescribed time. Lokpal will have to get it done in a month's time. You could also report any case of corruption to Lokpal like ration being siphoned off, poor quality roads been constructed or panchayat funds being siphoned off. Lokpal will have to complete its investigations in a year, trial will be over in next one year and the guilty will go to jail within two years.

7. But won't the government appoint corrupt and weak people as Lokpal members? That won't be possible because its members will be selected by judges, citizens and constitutional authorities and not by politicians, through a completely transparent and participatory process. 

8. What if some officer in Lokpal becomes corrupt? The entire functioning of Lokpal/ Lokayukta will be completely transparent. Any complaint against any officer of Lokpal shall be investigated and the officer dismissed within two months.

9. What will happen to existing anti-corruption agencies? CVC, departmental vigilance and anti-corruption branch of CBI will be merged into Lokpal. Lokpal will have complete powers and machinery to independently investigate and prosecute any officer, judge or politician. 

10. It will be the duty of the Lokpal to provide protection to those who are being victimized for raising their voice against corruption.

Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/what-is-the-jan-lokpal-bill-why-its-important-96600?from=NDTV&cp

Democracy to Hypocrisy

We live in the world of DEMOCRACY..
We feel at times its worst than AUTOCRACY..
We hate being stuck in BUREAUCRACY..
We still are the victims of blatant HYPOCRISY..

Happy In'DEPENDENCE' Day

What is so happy about our Independence? do we really ask ourselves what exactly Independence means to us? I see every one wearing WHITE and wishing Happy Independence? every day is a struggle for a common man from the horrible world of corruption, inequality, disguisting politics bla bla..how long are we gona bask in our glorious past? the fact is we are still In'DEPENDENCE' on our s***t political system...

Farhan Akhtar's (Imran) Poetry in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara..IV

Dilon mein tum apni
Betaabiyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum
Nazar mein khwabon ki
Bijliyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum
Hawa ke jhokon ke jaise
Aazad rehno sikho
Tum ek dariya ke jaise
Lehron mein behna sikho
Har ek lamhe se tum milo
Khole apni bhaayein
Har ek pal ek naya samha
Dekhen yeh nigahaein
Jo apni aankhon mein
Hairaniyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum
Dilon mein tum apni
Betaabiyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum...

Farhan Akhtar's (Imran) Poetry in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara..III

Pighle neelam sa behta ye sama,
Neeli neeli si khamoshiyan,
Na kahin hai zameen
Na kahin aasmaan,
Sarsaraati hui tehniyaan pattiyaan,
Keh raheen hai bas ek tum ho yahan,
Bas main hoon,
Meri saansein hain aur meri dhadkanein,
Aisi gehraiyaan, aisi tanhaiyaan,
Aur main...Sirf main.
Apne hone par mujhko yakeen aa gaya...

Farhan Akhtar's (Imran) Poetry in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara..II

Ik baat honton tak hai jo aayi nahin
Bas ankhon say hai jhaankti
Tumse kabhi, mujhse kabhi
Kuch lafz hain woh maangti
Jinko pehanke honton tak aa jaaye woh
Aawaaz ki baahon mein baahein daalke ithlaye woh
Lekin jo yeh ik baat hai
Ahsas hi ahsas hai
Khushboo si hai jaise hawa mein tairti
Khushboo jo be-aawaaz hai
Jiska pata tumko bhi hai
Jiski khabar mujhko bhi hai
Duniya se bhi chupta nahin
Yeh jaane kaisa raaz hai....

Farhan Akhtar's (Imran) Poetry in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara..

Jab jab dard ka baadal chaya
Jab ghum ka saya lehraya
Jab aansoo palkon tak aya
Jab yeh tanha dil ghabraya
Humne dil ko yeh samjhaya
Dil aakhir tu kyun rota hai
Duniya mein yunhi hota hai
Yeh jo gehre sannate hain
Waqt ne sabko hi baante hain
Thoda ghum hai sabka qissa
Thodi dhoop hai sabka hissa
Aankh teri bekaar hi nam hai
Har pal ek naya mausam hai
Kyun tu aise pal khota hai
Dil aakhir tu kyun rota hai..

Budget: Everything you wanted to know about it

My thoughts on Repubic day!!!

Many people in India make me laugh they take so much pride about them being patriotic.. and i seriously dont get them???what is patriotism??? singing vande- mataram and signing off shouting jai hind on the Republic day!!! for me a true patriotic is some one who is a law abiding citizen, who doesn't spit on the roads and litter the surroundings, who has basic traffic sense not being a typical self centered, care-A-damn Indian at public places...every Indian seems to be in a hurry no one f****n wants to wait be it at traffic lights, bust stop, Mc-Donalds or even at cinema they want to get in first and get out first..LIFE is a RACE for us to GROW not to be an inconvenient piece of s***t to the society.Time to GROW-UP and be respectful towards our society...

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Obama's visit to India underlines its economic power and rivalry to China - Telegraph

Obama's visit to India underlines its economic power and rivalry to China - Telegraph

Time Magazine on Sachin Tendulkar`s Journey

"When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam.

When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy.

It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will."

Pathetic Journalism

Well I should have expected this anyways. The games were flagged off to what I can see as an absolute brilliant, fantastic and mind blowing opening ceremony of  the XIX Commonwealth games 2010.

Instead of appreciating the effort and success of the opening ceremony I was put off reading an article in BBC what i call as a British Biased Corporation in which the journalist was 'winging' about lack of attendance in the stadia. Fair enough the turnout was poor and there is no hiding the fact that these sports never had great fan following in India same like the sad state for Test cricket in England where empty seats has been the norm over the last few years apart from ASHES. One also needs to take into consideration that on a working day Monday you are bound to expect less spectators.

The whole point of organising the 'Commonwealth games' in Delhi, India meant to create the sporting infrastructure for the future young generation and more importantly generate the interest among the masses on other sports in a cricket crazy driven nation. This is only the second instance in the history of Commonwealth games where games are being held away from the traditiong hosts (England, Canada, Australia, Scotland). The interest towards games would gradually pick up as the games progress and slowly but steadily the spectators watching live action will also increase in the stadia. Obviously there wont be no sell outs.

Once again time for biased journalism to be more matured critics and try and showcase the event by the so called 'third world' country which received a stick from across the quarters.

Cynical media

I've been reading lot about the ongoing fiasco and much talked, much discussed, much hyped commonwealth games in Delhi from October 3rd- 14th. I mean common its sickening to see the microscopic cynical view of the media especially from the so called "First nations". There is always a sceptic view of whether or can or will India deliver the games successfully.

Understood there has been a real concern on issues such as delay, corruption, security, cleanliness and responsibility which shouldn't have arise in the first place and these are serious issues but as they say past is past and you can't change what went wrong or dwell about it over and over again. The time for retrospection is after the event finishes. The games are due in a weeks time and its so heartening to see certain section of media and individuals already written India off?

There has been a constant stereo-typical views and bad press making things only worse. There is no hiding that India suffers from poverty and its infrastructure is cranky. Its only a decade or two ago a strive towards betterment of socio-economic development was initiated. as they call India as a giant elephant which is strong and solid but can only take small steps at a time and we all need to realise that things would happen slowly but surely.

Healthy criticism is what is expected from a matured media not a mighty myth blown out of proportion. Its for us to decide as individuals whether we remain cynics and feel embarrassed and laugh at the issues or be an optimist taking the positives on board and waiting to move on!!!

Want to fund the next Google? All you need is Rs 1,000! : Rediff.com Business

Want to fund the next Google? All you need is Rs 1,000! : Rediff.com Business

More rich households in India than low income ones : Rediff.com Business

More rich households in India than low income ones : Rediff.com Business

Britain's trade mission to India: the diary of an anonymous delegate - Telegraph

Britain's trade mission to India: the diary of an anonymous delegate - Telegraph

Indian government approves new symbol for rupee

"India is to have a new symbol for its currency, the rupee, after the government approved the winning entry in a national competition.

The symbol is a cross between the Roman letter R and its Hindi equivalent, and was designed by a teacher at the Indian Institute of Technology.

A panel of artists, officials and bankers picked the new design.

The Indian government hopes it will soon be as recognisable as the dollar, the pound or the euro.

Correspondents say choosing the symbol reflects India's ambition to be seen as a global power.

The winning entry was one of five shortlisted in the public competition announced in March 2009. Designers were given a brief to come up with a symbol that captures the ethos and culture of India.

'Distinctive'

Until now the rupee has generally been shortened to the letters Rs or sometimes INR (Indian rupee).

India's government says these are not symbols but mere abbreviations.

The new symbol will be the "identity of the Indian currency", information minister Ambika Soni says.

"It will distinguish the rupee from other currencies."

The winning design is made up of half the letter R with a horizontal line on top and in between to make it also look like its equivalent in the Devanagari script, which used in a number of Indian languages including Hindi and Sanskrit.

It will soon be introduced on computer keyboards and banknotes in India and is expected to take a year or two to be fully implemented.

The winning entry was submitted by D Udaya Kumar, a newly-appointed teacher of design at the Indian Institute of Technology. He will receive prize money amounting to $5,350 (£3,500).

Experts say implementing a new currency symbol can be an expensive exercise.

According to one estimate, when the euro was introduced in 1999 it cost Europe's biggest companies more than $50bn to update their computer systems to deal with the changeover."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south+asia-10644730 (15 July 2010).

Pakistan & China bond, US out in the cold? (RT)

India hails $3 billion showpiece airport terminal

Straight talk with Pakistan: Chidambaram's maiden visit

Entrepreneurs don't need an MBA to make it big: Rediff Getahead

The youth are likely to turn India fortune

When we talk about the growing Indian middle class and the next generation of young India the common notion every one has would be of 'urban India' but that's not the only case. A classic article on Rediff.com throwing focus on 'rural India' and on remarkable initiatives by Civil society institutions to tap the volatile resource pool.

" Seva Mandir is one of the oldest organisations in the country, working in the field of rural development and empowerment of the tribal community; it has been operating in Rajasthan for the last 38 years. Its work is spread over 626 villages and 70,000 households with various interventions -- the latest being a decision to run Youth Resource Centres.


There are 315 million young people aged between 10-24 years in India today, representing 30 percent of the country's population. They are healthier, more urbanised, and better educated than earlier generations, with nearly 70 pecent of them being literate today -- and a large chunk of them are from rural areas. The number of rural literate youth is growing at the rate of 2.11 percent. Here is a transitional generation that is fast growing out of the traditional rural set-up.


India is sitting on a perceived gold mine of young people, considered an enviable asset by the fast-ageing population of the West. "Their hopes and aspirations are likely to turn around the fortunes of India. However, if they are not adequately groomed to take the responsibility that rests on their fragile shoulders, the country will have a different story to tell in a couple of decades," warns Siladitya Ray, behavioural therapist and consultant psychiatrist.

What becomes increasingly clear is that India's growth trajectory may be directly linked to this large pool of young people, who can turn around existing pockets of poverty into prosperity. On the flip side, the vibrancy of the youth as an asset will take no time to turn into a liability, if their unharnessed energy is not monitored and carefully channelised. "Their cumulative unproductive behaviour can become a juggernaut of immense destruction, pulverising all developmental effort and consequently affecting economic growth," reminds Ray.

An immense opportunity does not come without its challenges. This moment is to be used wisely and efficiently, a fact understood by researchers, academicians and civil society institutions that are proactively planning and trying to create a broad framework, which will enable adolescents to become responsible future citizens."
 Jayalakshmi Sengupta, Trans World Features

Understanding India: An Economic Perspective

I happened to read an article written by Mr. Abdullah Verachia for TIMES LIVE prior to the departure of South African President Jacob Zuma official 2-day state visit to India. The article mainly focuses on the much talked about fascination on India's growth story.

Mark Twain accurately summed up the strategic importance of India in the world when he said that “India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!”

But it is India’s growth in the last 18 years that has drawn the most attention from the international community. It’s an economic story like no other emerging market or Bollywood story can accurately portray. Faced with a balance of payments crisis in 1991, sweeping economic reforms led to the subsequent boom that has culminated in annual growth at nearly 10 per cent over the last three years.

India today stands on the brink of becoming a global superpower. With a population of 1.1 billion people and having just surpassed Japan to become the world’s third largest economy, India is filled with a new sense of excitement, dynamism and hope.

The stats

When discussing the economic revitalisation of the world’s largest democracy the statistics are always mind boggling.

• A middle class of 400 million (larger than the entire population of the United States) and growing
• Second largest recipient of Foreign Direct Investment in the world since 2005
• Market value of listed companies now in excess of US$ 1 trillion thus making India a member of the elite trillion dollar club
• Largest road network in the world
• Two of the ten biggest cities in the world, Mumbai and Delhi, are in India
• Over 5000 daily and 16 000 weekly newspapers
• Indian universities and colleges enrol 4 million students a year which produce 200 000 engineers and 60 000 MBA graduates every year

Economic pundits who talk about the growth of India often speak about the large Indian multinationals which fuel this growth. However India’s economic growth is not solely driven by large multinationals who invest even more year on year, but by the spirit and ‘chutzpah’ of people on the ground.

The people

The magic of India rests in its people. And the magic has just started. With half the population under the age of 25, young people in India are working harder, demanding better and spending . Spend more than three days in Mumbai and the pace at which this economy is moving reveals itself. It is then that one realises that no textbook, university lecture or newspaper article can ever encapsulate the incredible growth of this tiger economy. When VS Naipul wrote there is little subtlety to India, it was an understatement. From the street traders in Marine Drive to the boardrooms and offices of the richest men in the world, the sheer pace at which India is growing is incredible. In the words of the ‘self styled’ Richard Branson of India, Vijay Mallya, "You rarely find a country with an acknowledged consumer class of more than 300m people, and an economy growing at 9 per cent a year. It would be quite idiotic to ignore the opportunity."

The attraction

India's commercial attraction lies in its immense domestic market, high growth rate, huge economies of scale in some sectors, the quality of management and labour, low-cost manufacturing capacity, and a large and rapidly growing middle class. R Ravimohan, managing director and chief executive of Crisil, India's premier ratings agency, says "The important thing is to identify where you want to invest: in the class market, or the mass market. Let me give you an example. When mobile telephone companies started here, it was thought of as something to aim at the class market, the elite, so they charged premium rates. Then Reliance went into the same business using a mass-market model and turned it upside down. They had very low charges - but they got 20 million customers." Reliance's model now prevails in the Indian mobile market, which has some of the lowest tariffs in the world - and the third-largest number of subscribers.”

Even the world’s largest chain of fast food restaurants, McDonalds, initially entered India with the wrong strategy. After dismal sales in the first few months the company quickly realised that the traditional menus utilised around the world would not cut it in India and in a matter of weeks menus were transformed to accommodate for McAloo tikka and McVeggie burgers. The company has not looked back.

• Abdullah Verachia is adjunct faculty at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, and Director and Business Division Head at Frontier Advisory

Boom time for radio cabs in India : Rediff.com Business

Boom time for radio cabs in India : Rediff.com Business

FT.com / UK - GM to develop hybrid car for India

FT.com / UK - GM to develop hybrid car for India

New Special Relationship: U.K. and India

The Queens speech in the parliament at Westminster had some significant importance towards the future approach to UK-INDIA partnership.

* “My Government looks forward to an enhanced partnership with India." (Her Majesty the Queen)


Here are some of the interesting evaluation from the authors point of view backing India as the emerging super power.


 " Britain also, like the U.S., will be keen to emphasize that despite all the talk of AfPak (which leaves India feeling overlooked and just one part of a regional calculation), India deserves to be treated as worthy of a distinct bilateral relationship (which in turn, of course, ensures greater Indian support in the cause in AfPak - rinse and repeat.)

It also signifies a recognition in Britain, as well as in all the other countries that are seeking special status with India, that India is an emerging superpower whose significance will only grow in the next two decades.

As a growing counterweight to China, in the region and the world. As a gigantic democracy. As a fast-growing economy. And, as important, as a nation that has yet to fulfill its potential as a diplomatic force and is still, to some degree, finding its way in the world of global geopolitics after its decades of mushy non-alignment and intense focus on internal politics and Pakistan.

That India might be approaching a new place in the world is the biggest X factor that is bringing the major powers to India’s doorstep."

Ref: Wall Street Journal (blog)- Paul Beckett 

OHH Africaaaa...............

Nike Write the Future..

Battling between aspirations and failures

ASPIRATION drives you FORWARD,
FAILURE takes you BACKWARD,
ASPIRATION gives you DIRECTION,
FAILURE makes DIVERSION,
ASPIRATION gives you INSPIRATION,
FAILURE reminds you REJECTION,
ASPIRATION gives you HOPE,
FAILURE wont let you COPE.....

Catching up with a School Friend

It feels so good when you speak to your school friend amazing how the tiny bond of friendship keeps the relationship going. I feel we all growing up too quickly seems like it was yesterday when we struggle to do Homework, hating Maths and having a huge crush on our English teacher. BOY OH BOY good old days!!!.
After the completion of schooling every one set off with their own journey and now many years later in spite of carrying out different journey we found ourselves travelling in the same boat waiting to reach the FINAL DESTINATION.

World sees India as rising global and regional super power

THE STORY OF INDIA

You may call it jingoism or you may call it chauvinistic patriotism for me there is nothing more fascinating then the story of INDIA..I derive inspiration from the modern India, Confident and eager to march ahead. I look back for the humility and strong character of the ancient India. Needless to say I take great pride of both the INDIA..As the story of India takes shape so are the dreams and aspirations of YOUNG India unfolds..I am one of the few heading to the journey of dreams called INDIA.

Back again...

Hello every one i started this blog long time ago..then completely stopped updating it..now i think i will try and update it every now and then to make it more interesting... :) cheerio.

Identity.....

I come from the land of mahatma gandhi...
I come from the land of sadhus, swamis, and spices...
I come from the land of non-voilance and tolerance...
I come from the land of ganges and himalayas...
I come from the land of numorous languages...
I come from the land of dreams...
I come from the land of young and aspiring...
I come from INDIA...

"IDEA"....

A powerful instrument to scale new heights in life..I always wonder how a small 'IDEA' can change an entire life...things which are beyond imagination seems so close...like everyone says it always starts with an idea....in the world of dreams some where, some how, some thing strikes and there comes the big bright 'IDEA'...

IDEA stands between DREAM 'n' REALITY..it can be an absolute imagination or it can be key to success....
For me IDEA is an incovenient guest which lingers in my thoughts and walks away with a big question mark... never able to understand why it comes and where it goes....i was never bothered nor interested...

But the time has come...things have changed...its my turn to chase an 'IDEA'....
Lets see how far it takes me....

मुंबई massacre

watching the rutheless and bloody attack on our very own city of dreams..made my heart bleed.. i am personally frustrated about the absolute failure of our intelligence which led mumbai to be literally hijacked by the terrorists left me in a state of flux. i hope this would be an eye opener for all of us..and its high time we should exploit the technology by revamping the security forces to be well-equipped for future adversities.

Cricket gears up for International Champions League

"A multimillion dollar Champions League will be launched in September after the cricket boards of England, Australia, India and South Africa reached agreement on the new Twenty20 tournament।The England and Wales Cricket Board announced plans for the league on Saturday, saying the inaugural eight-team competition would likely be staged in India or the Middle East over 10 days in September and early October।The winner will get $5 million with "significant sums" of prize money for the second-, third- and fourth-placed teams, the ECB said in a statement."It sounds a pretty good idea to me," New Zealand batsman Brendon McCullum said after the third day's play in the third Test against England in Nottingham, England."It would be great to have a Champions League like football does and have the hype around it. I think it's good for the game to have that kind of following."Cricket's Twenty20 revolution gathered pace this year with two new lucrative leagues in India attracting the world's leading players. National administrators across the world have been eager to cash in on the condensed game's popularity with crowds and broadcasters.Representatives of the Indian and English boards will start talks with prospective commercial partners for the tournament that will feature the finalists from England's domestic Twenty20 Cup final at the Rose Bowl, the Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings from India, the Titans and Kwazulu Natal Dolphins from South Africa and Western Australia and Victoria state teams from australia". Associated PressSunday, June 08, 2008 (London), http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtvcricket/ipl/news_story.aspx?ID=SPOEN20080052364&Keyword=news

Economy: Some concerns, some optimism

The economy to cross the $1 trillion GDP mark during FY08


( http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/feb/28ecosur23.htm)

Inflation: it is expected to be around the 4.4% in FY08

"With the full effects of the economic reforms of the 1990s working through the system, the Indian economy has moved to a higher growth path.

The new challenge is to maintain growth at these levels, not to speak of raising it further to double-digit levels. With domestic experience of such high growth limited, global experience can be useful. Historically, there have been about a dozen medium/large countries that have averaged a GDP growth of 9% or more for a decade. Of these, less than half maintained an average growth of 9% or more for two decades. The challenges of high growth have become more complex because of increased globalisation of the world economy and the growing influence of global developments, economic as well as non-economic.

Even the economic survey has taken note of this fact and has maintained that managing foreign capital inflows (alongwith inflation) is one of the key challenges that Indian policymakers will have to face in sustaining economic growth at high levels in the future. It is a given that high GDP growth attracts foreign capital looking for profitable investment opportunities. We believe that in a positive cycle, this inflow will indeed find profitable investment opportunities that others have missed and lead to even higher growth.

However, if the growth opportunities do not materialise fast enough, there is pressure on the currency to appreciate, resulting in either an accumulation of reserves (followed by monetary expansion and inflation) or actual appreciation or both. In the last two years, particularly in FY08, the Indian economy has gone through such a phase. And there are reasons to believe that the surge in capital inflows, including foreign direct investment (FDI), will continue in the medium term, possibly intensifying the headache for the RBI.

Another factor that could constrain Indian economic growth in the future is the country's poor physical infrastructure. Despite efforts to accelerate the pace of infrastructure development, the demand for infrastructure services has grown even faster than the supply so that the constraints may have become more binding.

Thus, there is a heightened urgency to augment and upgrade infrastructure, both physical as well as social and, in particular, power, roads and ports. This shall require mobilisation of unprecedented amounts of capital with macroeconomic stability, which can only happen if both the public and private sectors have the incentive and the motivation to perform at their best.
All in all, the key issues confronting India today are: the sustainability of high growth with moderate inflation, and the inclusive nature of such high growth. The inclusive nature of the growth itself will be conditioned by the progress that is made in the areas of education, health and physical infrastructure.

For this, the government needs to rise to the challenge of maintaining and managing high growth, bolster growth through fiscal prudence and high investment and improve the effectiveness of its intervention in critical areas such as education, health and support for the needy. Only then will the growth path's trajectory will be maintained in the higher single digits or even double-digits".

(equitymaster: economic survey 08FY)

US ECONOMY: ITS EFFECT ON INDIA

Initially most people came to India to figure out a low cost delivery system. In the last 18 months many of these clients are expanding rapidly in India not because of lower cost delivery capabilities but because of its proximity to China -'the other centre of gravity of global economy'. Indian market is highly co-related to the economy. It is true that the US slowdown is hitting certain sectors. What is more worrisome is the depreciation of the dollar it is a direct hit on margins at 12 to 15 per cent. (Ranjan Sinha, founder, Summit HR Worldwide).