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The force behind InfosysFiled Under: Indians, Infosys, Mr. Narayanmurthy

Before  returning to India and setting up his company Infosys, its Chairman Mr. Narayanmurthy worked in Bulgeria.  He had a very horrific time during his preceding days of staying there. Civil war cropped up there and Mr. Murthy had to proceed to his homeland. The money he possessed was also limited. He somehow caught a train to Paris. In the train journey he got acquainted with a girl and started conversing with her in French.

Thinking that they were talking against communism, the  Communist soldiers on the platform seized and put him into jail. When the soldiers were sure that he is in Indian and thus they allowed to him after 48 hours. Two days of hunger and a long walk on the highway to grab hold of some transport to railways, he learnt his lesson of life.

It was at this time that he decided that not communalism but free enterprise with a flexible bend for ill-fated will resolve the predicament and removal of poverty to an extent.

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Aishwarya On Her MarriageFiled Under: Articles, Bollywood

Seven months suspicion wedlock, Bollywoord Queen and Hindi movies superstar Aishwarya recommends everybody to actualize married.

Its highly tough to articulate, settle it un-befriended in true a few sentences considering its obviously a very, extraordinarily agreeable and chipper predicament and I strongly recommend it, she said when asked about her feelings of being a married woman.

Well, its a foxy chapter in my proposition and its a unhinged standard of the journey. Id develop (it) to every one of you out here and I am blissfully happy. What more can one say, baby doll added.

Aishwarya and Abhishek high the knot in April, and pains analysts are the hottest and incomparable lucrative tag on of Bollywood.

They are compared with Angelina and Brad Pitt of Hollywood.

Every change of this clasp is scrutinized and viewed subservient the microscope. They score the extremely glory every where they go.

Wonder how nuptial is gladness for the girl when her stunt is subservient ergo supremely of scrutiny.

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Happy Lohri, Happy Pongal and Happy Makara SankrantiFiled Under: Festivals, India, Indians, Lohri, Pongal, Sankranti, Videos

Happy Lohri, Happy Pongal and Happy Makara Sankranti to all readers. Wish you good harvest and lots of happiness around!

Rejoice festival season to fullest and enjoy shopping, shopping on and near after Makra Sankranti is promising!!
Significance of Lohri and Pongal

Lohri is a festival connected with the solar year In the night, winter savouries are served around a bonfire. Celebrated devotedly in Haryana, Punjab and parts of Himachal Pradesh, it also signifies the beginning of the end of winter.
Children visit homes in the neighbourhood and sing songs. One of the famous ones is :

Sunder mundriya..ho, Tera kaun vichara..ho
Dulla Bhatti walla..ho, Dulle ne ti viahiyi..ho
Saer Shakar payi..ho, Kudi de boje payee..ho
Shallu kaun samete..ho, Chacha galee dese..ho
Chache choori kutee..ho, Zamindaran lutee..ho
Zamindara sidaye..ho, Gin-gin pole layee..ho
Ik pola reh gaya..ho, Sipahi farh ke lei gaya..ho
Aakho mundao taana.., Mukai da dana..
Aana lei ke jana..

A bonfire is lit and everyone gathers around it. Snacks, collected from each house, go around the party and are also thrown into the fire.
A trendy belief in this region is that if someone seeks a radish roasted in the bonfire lit by a family that has reason to make merry, then blessings are bestowed on the family of the seeker as well.

Geographically speaking, the earth leans towards the sun along the Tropic of Capricorn (Makara rekha) from the day following Lohri, also known as Winter Solstice. The earth, farthest from the sun at this point of time, starts its journey towards the sun along its elliptical orbit, thus heralding in the onset of spring. It is this transition which is celebrated as Lohri in northern India, Makara sankranti in the central part of the country and as Pongal-Sankranti in South India.

The festival is extended over three days in South India and also signifies the commencement of harvesting. A rath yatra is taken out from the Kandaswamy temple in Chennai on Pongal.

The day is celebrated as Ganga-Sagara in West Bengal and according a belief, Hindus purify their sins by taking bath in the Ganges. A big fair is also held on the Sagara Island, 64 km from the Diamond harbour where the Ganga meets the Bay of Bengal.

Call it Lohri, Pongal or Sankranti, the festival conveys the same message — the bond of brotherhood and the strength of oneness should triumph in spite of all probability.

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Amazing Photography - IndiaFiled Under: India, Photography

Amazing Photography by Joakim Eskildsen,

The Roma Journeys - India

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Saif gets his good reason to be back in BollywoodFiled Under: Bollywood

The long journey of Saif Ali Khan-  from the soiled bud of a nawab family to one of Bollywood’s largely multitalented actors and a serious challenger for the No.1 dot, he has truly emerged successful at the turnstiles.
After Saif’s debut in Umesh Mehra’s “Aashiq Awara” a well-known columnist wrote, “Put a dupatta on Saif’s head and he looks like Sharmila Tagore.”
But reacting to comments of that sort  Saif said recently, “My detractors and their harsh comments have been my greatest incentive to prove myself.”
Saif almost always ends every scrutiny cautiously. No wonder it took him so long to appreciate his importance. “But do I really know my worth today?”
Yes, Saif has his mother Sharmila Tagore. But moms, as experience tells us, don’t count in Bollywood. If they did, Nutan’s son Mohnish Behl would’ve been the hugest superstar on the block.
There’re stories about how insecure he would get on the sets of Karan Johar’s “Kal Ho Naa Ho”. But Saif denies them.
saif says, “You know I get paranoid about every movie. I knew from the start that Shah Rukh would be the pivot of the film. But I knew I had great lines and a great role. I was never made to feel Shah Rukh was more important to the project. I went with very clear expectations. It was a civilised unit. Everyone was young and fun. I didn’t feel like an outsider at all. I never did, though I was from outside Mumbai.”
Now, the actor seems to be enjoying his newfound status as a leading man to the hilt.
“Omkara” was definitely a new beginning. When Vishal Bahradwaj zeroed in on him to play the Indian Iago, Saif was, as usual, unsure. He never says an outright yes to any role, not even when it comes to a film like Farhan Akhtar’s “Dil Chahta Hai”. That film clearly was the turning point in his career.
Siddharth Anand, Saif’s good friend, gave Saif’s career as a leading man a extra enhance with “Salaam Namaste”. Siddharth thinks Saif is continuously doing roles that confront him to make his existence felt.
Living in the moment he is more peaceful than ever before and hogging the public interest for his suspected issue with Kareena Kapoor.
“On the sets of ‘Omkara’ people would say there were four National Award winners. My first impulse would be to wonder who was the fourth after Vishal, Ajay Devgan and Konkona Sen. Then I’d realise, ‘Oh shit, the fourth National Award winner is actually me!’”
Saif has the final word. “I may seem like a bundle of contradictions most of the time. But there’s a method to my madness which is apparent only to me a lot of times.”

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Kareena thrilled about jump from gloomy to smirk

Critics are rampant about her new film “Jab We Met”, a full-on comedy, but Kareena Kapoor is looking self-assured to another laughton “Phir Golmaal”.
“I guess I didn’t have the chance to have fun with my roles before ‘Jab We Met’. That’s why I’m looking forward to ‘Phir Golmaal’. It’s my chance to pull out all stops.”
After playing the free-spirited sardarni (Sikh woman) from Bathinda, Punjab, in “Jab We Met”, she’s all set to do a comedy in the “Golmaal - Fun Unlimited” sequel entitled “Phir Golmaal” where she teams up with Ajay Devgan after the very serious Shakespearean tragedy “Omkara”
The reaction to her performance in comedy film “Jab We Met” has been unique.
“The only other film I’ve felt so good about in recent times is ‘Omkara’. The director Imtiaz Ali has brought out the playful, extroverted side of me. While I was quiet, subdued and withdrawn in ‘Omkara’, in ‘Jab We Met’ I’m in my full elements. This character is really close to my heart. I think from my heart and like to speak my mind openly. And what I liked about this role was the amount of fun we had while travelling and shooting.”
“I think that enjoyment during shooting has shown up on screen. Everyone who has seen ‘Jab We Met’ has been appreciative,” says Kareena.
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Preity Zinta: gritty by all means

Preity Zinta is one of the heroine in the Bollywood who has played the unwed mom twice, once at the beginning of her career in “Kya Kehna” and then again in the middle of her career.cheeky “Salaam Namaste” and “Jhoom Barabaar Jhoom” are the midriff of her body of work.
Is Preity seeing Ness Wadia? Of course she is! And she’s certainly not hiding her love under demure pretences. She loves to be in love. And she doesn’t need to hide it. But there’s just that diminutive bit of aloofness and moderation about her personal life.
“It isn’t right for me to let the world know what I’m doing every minute ofthe day. Every human being is entitled to a space where no one comes between me and myself, not even a spouse,” says Preity.
Preity impulsively makes all the right choices in life without compromising with her ideology.
For five years after Mani Ratnam’s “Dil Se” Preity and Shah Rukh didn’t star together because of a difference of opinion.
“My first release ‘Dil Se’ was with him. We didn’t work together thereafter. There was a bit of misapprehension. We weren’t aggressive or anything. We both stood our ground. I think we just let each other be,” Preity told me after she signed “Kal Ho Naa Ho” with Shah Rukh.
Actor, campaigner and newspaper columnist (she was writing a column on the film industry for BBC.com), Preity waltzes through all her roles in life artlessly. Whether playing the martyr in “The Hero” or the vamp in “Armaan”, she seems to enjoy every minute of her character’s survival.
Repressed (”Kal Ho Naa Ho”) or boisterous (”Salaam Namaste”), here’s an actress who knows her mind and workout it constantly to improve herself.
“I love to live for the moment. But I don’t let the moment take over my life. I love a clean city, home and heart, not automatically in that order,” says the bubbly Preity.

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Christmas myths /legendsFiled Under: Uncategorized

Superstition and folklore about the Christmas flavor appears timeless. Here is a illustration:

• ~animals will all kneel down as the Holy Night gets in,
• ~bees buzz the ‘100th psalm’ on Christmas Eve,
• ~a breezy Christmas will bring good fortune,
• ~a person born on Christmas Day can see the Little People,
• ~a cricket on the fireplace brings good luck,
• ~opening all doors of the house at midnight allows evil spirits to take leave,
• ~you will have one auspicious month for each Christmas pudding you taste,
• ~the tree must be removed down by Twelfth night-time or ill luck will accompany,
• ~’if Christmas on a Sunday be, a blowy winter we shall ascertain’,
• ~’hours of sun on Christmas Day, so many icings in the month of May’,
• ~the Twelve Days of Christmas will forecast each month’s weather for the following year,

and so on…..

LEGEND OF THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE

One frosty Christmas Eve, Martin Luther was journeying home by the forest.  It was a clearly, starlit night time, and the stars scintillated through the limbs of the predominating evergreen trees. 

Martin Luther was bewildered by the great thing about the view, and wished well his wife and children could see it.  So he cut knock down a young fir tree and took it into his house.   And then he put wax light on the tree branches to gleam like stars.

And then he called his wife and children to see it and told them;  “This is how the stars gleamed down on Bethlehem long ago, when Jesus was born.”

And that was the very first Christmas tree.

Santa Claus

Santa comes on your roof top and makes sure that his list is set and that all the gifts are in his bagful. As he begins down the lamp chimney with his bag of presents on his shoulder joint, he slips down the chimney and makes sure that he fire is not ablaze as to not hurt him. As he reaches the bottom and ascents out of the open fireplace, Santa makes sure that everyone is asleep and he is rather as a mouse as he put the gift under the tree and fills up the oodles.

If your house does not have a open fireplace don’t worry Santa is jolly cunning, he finds a way in, because Santa is chill.

Santa Stockings

Santa hands over presents to all good youngsters and in conformity to custom. The legend of the traditional hanging of the Christmas stocking began when Saint Nicholas dropped gold coins down a hapless household chimney and the coins landed in stockings hung by the fire to dry.

When Santa is out he also takes care of the animals at Christmas time. As legend has it, the animals are also visited by Santa to make sure that their are being taken care of. Even the Polar bears at the North Pole are waiting for Santa’s arrival.

Just alike the clever cat, who knows that Santa will come as soon as they are asleep, is at rest early. However, this not trick for cats because as everyone knows that cats don’t have a trouble with going to sleep because this is their favored past time.

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Kasautii Zindagi to go off air very soonFiled Under: Desi General, India, Star Plus

• · The long running Star Plus serial Kasautti Zindagii Ki will come to an end in January 2008.

• · The show first ran into trouble when one of it’s lead stars Cezanne Khan quit. Moon, Geetanjali, and Urvashi followed and hence the show started losing viewers. Shewta Tiwari too also seemed to have lost interest in the show. She started taking up other assignments thus ignoring ‘KZK’.
• · Kasautti Zindagii Ki is on air for more than 5 years.
• The chemistry between Anurag and Prerna wooed the audience while the contender Komolika’s style became the talk of the town. Getting caught between Anurag and Mr. Bajaj, Prerna became the house hold name as she struggled to win all the kasautii in her life.
• After taking leap after leap, Kasautii Zindagi Kii, is now coming to an end.
• · January 14th episode will be the last show of the serial.
• The news has been confirmed by the GM and EVP (Star Plus) Keertan Adyanthaya who said “Yes, sometimes good things come to an end, but on Star Plus, they get better, we are going to come up with some great new programs, so keep watching this space”.
• Ronit Roy, who acquired recognition with the massively admired role of Mr. Bajaj said, “A great path breaking, life altering chapter of my life is coming to an end. But i guess all good things must also eventually come to and end. There is a certain amount of sadness that it is coming to an end, a certain amount of pride that I saw it till the very end, a certain amount of ‘Phew, Long Journey’, certain amount of curiosity, and anticipation of “what next”.

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