An Evening from flight

I missed afternoon flight and I had to take evening flight. May be the God wanted me to see this scene. And see my generosity! I’ve take a low quality snap for you too… absolutely free :)

Why?

I don’t know if  it’s my English or something else, but by seeing this ad I feel it says We don’t need buy Visual Studio 2010 as we can always download Trails or simply it suggests me that I don’t need Visual Studio 2010.

क्यूँ तो रास्तों पे फिर सहम सहम संभल संभल के चलता है

“Kyun Khoye Khoye Chand Ki” song from movie Khoya Khoya Chand (2007) has amazing music and lyrics. Here are my favorite lines from the song.

यह मंजिलें भी खुद ही तय करें
यह फसलें भी खुद ही तय करें
क्यूँ तो रास्तों पे फिर सहम सहम संभल संभल के चलता है यह दिल

हिंदी में ट्विस्ट

क्योंकिं परिवर्तन संसार का नियम है, मुझे कोई प्रॉब्लम नहीं है :) पर मेरा मानना है की 'भय' थोडा आसन रहता. (निचे वाला कट नवभारत टाइम्स से है)

You Know Whom They Are Addressing

Gujarati Masala Rice (Kharibhat)

This is wonder recipe which can be prepared very fast and it can be made in lot of variety based on what vegetable you are adding. I’ve put here the most common method (common for me) of preparing the Gujarati Style Masala Rice. In Gujarat we call it kharibhat or Kharabhat (ખારીભાત/ખારાભાત) (a variant of which is called Rice bath in South India).
Ready To eat in < 30 min
Preparation Difficulty: Easy
For 2 person
Ingredients:
● 2 small tea cup rice (preferably long grain and soaked for atleast 10 minutes) 
● 1 medium potato chopped in 1” size
● 1 medium onion chopped
● 1 small to medium sized tomato chopped
● 1 green chili chopped
● 4-5 curry leaves
● 6-8 garlic cloves (outer skin removed) OR equivalent amount of garlic paste
● a small piece of ginger OR equivalent amount of ginger paste
● 1/2 small tea cup fresh peas (optional)
● 1 small tea cup cauliflower (optional)
● 1/4 small tea cup peanuts (optional)
● 2-3 table spoon oil/ghee

Masala Required (spoon size in small masala spoon):
● 1/2 spoon cumin seeds,
● pinch of asafetida (hing) (optional, used in most Gujarati cuisine)
● 1/2 spoon turmeric
● 1/2 spoon red chili powder (optional)
● 1 spoon coriander powder
● 1 spoon cumin powder
● 1/2 spoon garam masala powder OR use whole garam masala like cloves, pepper, cinnamon, star anise, coriander seeds, black cardamom 

Method:
● Get a pressure cooker and heat oil/ghee. 
● Add peanuts and fry for around 10 seconds. 
● Add cumin seeds (and whole garam masala if you are not using garam masala power).
● After 3-4 seconds add hing powder followed by chipped onions and salt (to taste) and fry till onions are light brown.
● Add curry leaves, green chili, garlic and ginger (or paste) and fry for 1 more minutes (half minute if used paste)
● Add turmeric, red chili powder, coriander powder, cumin powder and steer for 5 seconds
● Add chopped tomato and fry till tomato becomes soft and start melting.
● If you are using garam masala powder than add it now.
● Add potato and other vegetables and cook for 2 minutes, give occasional steer.
● Add 5 small tea cups water and soaked rice.
● Close the pressure cooker and cook it on high flame for first 2 minutes and reduce to medium flame after that.
● Close the flame after around half minute of 2nd whistle (but before 3rd whistle)
● Open the pressure cooker after 5-10 minutes of closing the flame and give a general mix so rice doesn’t  get mashed.

Garnishing options (use one or more of these):
Tomato, coriander leaves, lemon, roasted cashew, kismis or seedless green grapes.
Can be accompanied with:
Raita or butter milk, papad or potato chips

खुद को आजमाना चाहता हूँ

आज फिर मैं खुद को आजमाना चाहता हूँ
इन हवाओं से नजर मिलाना चाहता हूँ |

आज भी टीस बाकी है मेरे दिल में इनसे हार जाने की
इसलिए खुद को भी मिटाकर जीत जाना चाहता हूँ|

आज डर नहीं मुझको यहाँ अब डूब जाने का
इस समंदर से कोई मोती चुराना चाहता हूँ |

जरा सा इल्म तो है मुझको तूफानों की ताकत का
मगर फिर भी मैं इनमें एक रास्ता बनाना चाहता हूँ |

लोग कहते हैं बहुत दूर है चाँद इस जमीं से
मगर मैं चाँद को हथेली पर सजाना चाहता हूँ |

इन अँधेरी रातों ने मुझे सिखलाया है बहुत कुछ
उजाला एक अब सूरज को देना चाहता हूँ |

दोस्तों अभी तक तो मेरे कदम जमीं पर हैं मगर
आसमानों पर एक आशियाँ बनाना चाहता हूँ |

(Written by my friend ‘Sagar’)

National Anthem at Fame Cinemas

I really hate when they play National Anthem at Fame Cinemas before movie starts... Are we going to war or is it some flag hosting ceremony? NO! I went just to watch a movie and experience relaxed moments and entertain myself, but there come the National Anthem (even at night shows) and everyone stands like a we are going to do something great about our country by watching the movie to be played afterward.

Bangalore becomes Dirty

Bangalore’s image smeared black

Food at Desk

All are taken from my mobile camera.

Websites of Creatives

Those who strives to see creative and/or amazing things everyday should see the web sites bellow were something new is always there keeping your mind think how the heck they though like that?

http://creativecriminals.com/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
http://www.aheartaday.com/ Shows a familiar design in heart shape everyday. (Suggested by Karthink Udupa)
http://core77.com/blog/ Structural designs mostly. (Suggested by Karthink Udupa)

Bhabhi is back, back with the bang

It was before six months (read my 'protest') when some oldies politicians in government lost all their senses (as usual) and blocked Savitabhabhi.com in India.
But now when she is back again, From Ad-man Prahlad Kakkar to Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt lined up to give a grand welcome to Savitabhabhi.com.

So all those proxies that we installed on our system may take a rest now for some more time. Amen!

Truly Indian

I am not the only one who makes spelling/grammar mistakes. It also reminds me a funny dialog from Hindi movie 'One Two Three': "पापा का S है, कहीं भी लगाये!".

Bribe for Peace

Some of the lamest reasons to give someone the peace prize:

• For Extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples (this so call ‘extraordinary efforts’ didn’t bring results)
• For Capturing the world's attention
• For Offering hope for a better future (nothing achieved)
• For Having vision for world without nuclear weapons (nothing achieved)
• To support what he is trying to achieve

But the person was humble enough to accept that he doesn’t deserve the prize and that the prize was a ‘call to action’… bribe for peace in a way

Digital Cloud

A cloud reflection on an ITPB building (Bangalore). Looks like lot of clouds are computed here :)

Mahatma Rocks

I took this picture on the street I live where usually Karnataka State flag is hoisted. The day of 15th August is different and Mahatma Gandhi takes center stage on that day, not matter where you are in India. (oh ya! froward link of this blog to that Chinese)

Indian Unity, a surprise for Chinese

A Chinese web site recently published an article detailing a road-map to divide India into parts. They wants to easily divide India based on regions as they cannot believe that vastly different regions, in culture and language and even food, came together to make the great Indian federation. Well, it's not their fault. Actually they haven't grew up in a society with mentality to come together based on few similarity ignoring all other differences. I am not angry at the think-tanks behind their article as sight beyond the wall is not a very common Chinese feature anyway :)

My other view about Dr Singh

‘Supporting’ someone or his views is a totally different thing and it may be ‘personal’ or it may have some attachment/faith in the person, or it may be matching of intensity of loyalty to common philosophy. But act of ‘opposing’ someone’s political view is always tricky. You are not being ‘political’ about your views unless you recognize the strength of the person whose view you are opposing.
For me, example is ready with Dr Manmohan Singh and his action against Pakistan. According to me Pakistan is not being treated as deserves to be treated. It’s not just 26/11, it’s a series of event and how comfortably they can consider us fools.
Recent joint statement with his Pakistani counterpart is just another showcasing event proving how ‘weak’ we act against someone whose intension is to harm us. Nobody but Dr Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister India is responsible for the shameful thing that happened. But thinking on the other side, he is very consistence with his attitude. He can very well carry his ‘weakness’ and face the angry nation strongly. I may consider him a ‘weak leader’ but as a person he is man of strong willpower, self respect and one of the great politicians. Jawaharlal Nehru is the nearest person with whom I like to compare him and may be that is the biggest (and only) complement for a person setting on the PM chair.

I tried to…

You never forget some lines for your life. May be from movies, your drunken friend, during some training or anything else… you know what I am talking about.
In 2002, when I was pursuing my B Tech, we got a new prof named Sanjay Goel. He is very enthusiastic fellow and you can see him literally dancing on the stage while giving lecture. A bald guy with thick specs was behaving like a rock star; he wanted audience participation in everything. But this day was different when he someone with ‘professor’ attached with his name was asking us about the lab assignments. We had a separate tutor for labs, usually young and good looking ladies. I always liked them. Profs during that time didn’t ‘degrade’ them self to labs (which changed soon after his arrival in the collage). Anyways, it was one randomly picked poor fellow to give lab assignment’s status. He started giving status like “I am trying to…” and there he was abruptly stopped by the prof. Prof called him on the stage and shown a shiny pen that he used to carry. Prof said “Try to get this pen”. The boy came near to him and when he was about to pick the pen, prof spoke again, “I said just ‘try’ to get it... don’t get it” and boy stood still, knowing nothing about what to do. Prof took ‘teaching’ look at the whole class and told that poor fellow to sit. The lecture progress as it has to and prof finished what he targeted finished on that day.
I may not have learnt much from that incident, but whenever I speak or hear something like ‘I tried to…’ words, above incident flashes in front of me like it just happened now.

!! protest !!

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