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What do I say and where do I start? Rajkumar’s death has sparked huge riots all over the city of Bangalore . 3 buses till now have been reduced to ashes, one theatre has been stoned, a hotel torched, one of the TATA showrooms have been torched as well. 6 policeman injured, one person has lost is life (reportedly due to stone pelting in the Kanteveera Stadium). Two days state mourning had been declared and an un-declared bandh as well. No schools, colleges, public/private companies will open. My office declared a holiday with compensation on the next Saturday. So, the sun rose at 11am for us. And as usual we hit the TV sets to find the latest news about the procession. To our dismay none of the channels other than Udaya and some NEWS channels were telecasted! A compulsory mourning had been enforced on all people without their consent. So, confined to these channels we saw what and how the proceedings of the funeral are going on. It was mob everywhere, angry fans beating the police a...

Compared with John Wayne , Dr. Rajkumar has acted in over 200 films (Stats might be wrong, tolerance!) is now dead. He was 77. Rajkumar who was born in a village in Erode became one of Karnataka’s gems! I never had a see his movie, but today I came across some of his best clips (telecasted in the TV quoting it that way; showed almost all the movies in 2 days), one of which was a scene that was a total rip from a Thamizh movie Thiruvilayadal , acted by one of the greatest legend and GOD of acting – Shivaji Ganesan ! Shivaji, perfected the art of acting. The song Paatum Nane bavamum nane is the best (well, there’s Thillana Moganambal as well) where he plays the instruments Flute, Veena and Mrudangam. The way it was played, it was as though he played them for real. That’s acting, where you do not know how to tell fake from real! Beautifully done. Rajkumar did the same thing (as quoted above) and I do not have words for them! Another instance was when Rajkumar played the Shenai an...

If Ganguly’s treatment was to be taste of what bad form and poor performance will lead to then two other Indian players need to be treated with the same style. Virendra Sehwag and Mohammad Kaif. Two batsman of amazing caliber! Past performance can never be taken as testimonials for them to hang on, then Ganguly should be the Indian captain as long as India plays cricket! If the quote for Sachin “He can take the game away from the opponents!” is valid then the same can be quoted for these two STARS “They can take game away from India !” Well played Gentlemen! If anyone is to be blamed it is the selectors… Such poor stuffs! Pathetic! And today we lost the game to England . With 8 games won on the trot, we couldn’t continue to break the record set by the Aussies! Yeah, accepted the fact that we had won 15 games chasing and set a record but why couldn’t we break the other one? Was it the Rotation policy? Partly, but not fully, two players are still continuing play without a bre...

A few days back, a friend of mine called from UK to inform us that one of our friends has become DAD, i.e. his wife got conceived! Hearing it we were in splits! “Nothing amusing about it”, is what you all will say, well the fact is that they got married two and a half months back! And the title of this post has nothing to do with the information I’d provided… One more information: It was a love marriage. Won’t their Mom and Dad feel bad? Or rather won’t THE FRIEND feel a little embarrassed? Though, I seem to be proud that (sarcasm) our friend has become dad at the age of 23, I cannot announce this, with the same pride, to my parents! Can I? I would feel embarrassed; my wicked smile will surely let it out. IO! What is it about Love and Marriages? Is it all about S3X or for something that ‘seems’ to be eternal? I and my friends had a discussion on a topic that is debatable at anytime – What are marriages? And why do you marry? The final agreement came...

After a long wait (almost 23yrs), we decided that it is time to learn the art of mastering ‘Walk on Water’. For me it was so, but for my friend (let’s call him Shortso…) it was more than that, he had to show that while on treats-given-by-others at a resort, he too can swim (even though two feet is deep for him!), or to do a soft song such as ‘ Pen onru kandaen, pen angu illai… ’! The Kick-off for the same occurred yesterday (By this time next week we would have a Mile Stone Party for successfully completing one week!!!). There were almost 30 of us (all freshers). Induction was given to all people on what it is all about and how we should approach as a team by obligeing our Team Lead (instructor). It was a huge team and thus was divided to three parts, each having their TLs. The whole stretch of the project (pool) varied, depth wise, from 4feet to 16feet. All the worried were advised not to as none will ever lose their life (Important of the whole training). ...