On Bangalore

Life revolves in this city of joy. Making rounds of the same corners, same humor, same routines and same feelings. Bangalore has always been predictable, utterly disgusting at times and nagging, yet it manages to seduce you with its charm, may be that why Bangalore is like your wife. The trees and the warm sunny mornings makes you its slave. Enchanting sights of the cosmopolitan modernized women appeal you as much as the empty roads on a early Sunday morning. With day's break the rush of back pack clad people hurl onto the roads to rig it off its innocent emptiness. The red signals stop them to feed the numerous stranded beggars rounding up in torn cloths. The rush ends behind the glass walls of the air conditioned buildings of tech parks. These buildings and the computer staring masses in it make Bengaluru, Bangalore. The charm of the city is like the neighbor's charming  wife, you always look at it with lust and relentlessly try to engulf it. The bizarre nomenclature of localities to the monotonously same menu at each 'Tiffin' join spells the fusion of Bengaluru and Bangalore.
                              Beauty has always been its attraction, may it be its green parks or faired skinned, beautiful legged women rushing down Brigade road. Malls make landmarks of the city. They are all over it, claiming their own share of belongingness. Its a city where money flows, even in the small pani puri thela stalled at the road side. The crowd that rave the roads are pretentiously intellectual. Two wheelers with a round assed girl on the back clinging to the rider is as common a sight as jammed traffic. Variety of man make this place what it is, every form of art has a respectable place here, including crime. Bangalore is like a modern girl friend, you love being with, feel warm and cozy, but scared of getting married to. The city is just like the young dweller of it, restless.
Welcome to the city of love, spirit, engineers and malls. Welcome to Bangalore, my girl friend Bangalore.

Truly
Abinash

Of life, Of love, Of sex

Life always fascinates me, it fascinated me as a joyful child and as a mournful loner. I was creative as far back as I could remember and I can sense it diminishing thoroughly as my memory retreats from that far back time to reach present. It has been kinda smooth for me, the life. I almost never worried much as to what I would do when I grow up, I never spared my thought to find out what are my natural instinct and dreams. I have always been lazy, sensitive to emotions, marginally insecure and broadly nonsensical. My natural instinct would be to reject any idea that I fear is superior to that of mine, instantly. But then I have come in terms with that behavior and have made it perish lately. I have learnt to accept things for the way they are, people for the way they are. And its a pleasing sense. Much better than the sadist egoistic satisfaction I used to get by rejecting them earlier. I feel more secure now, my thought remain more indifferent to the outer world that way. Life has brought me many surprises. Most of them are good and for good. I feel lucky. And thankful most of the times. Dubious incidents now make sense to me and I rejoice. I feel change is good and thrive for it. My inner most desire to cling to the things I love, things I want to preserve has faded away. This desire of holding makes you unhappy. As my heart is now relieved of any such desire, I find my thoughts falling into place, mostly filled with satisfaction and not obsession. Life as I have learnt is a set of memory, good or bad, but its just a set of memory. Imaginations take shape and I see my life, now more beautiful  and free. Free of restricted dreams, sublime fame, sense of  obvious pretense for being in a society of materialistically gone mad fellow living beings.  I now feel no sad for my fame to die or name to go bad. For my face not being recognized by college juniors, smiles not being given back by beautiful colleagues. Euphoria and ecstasy drive me away not being drifted by the magnetic fatal attraction of  wealth, fame and "sense of achievements". Life is to live, and living is synonymous to happiness. Happiness is a fairly uncomplicated term and never momentary. I feel lucky and I feel more happy as I feel I am mortal. I feel my life has just begun.

Love is a good thing to experience. It makes you smile when you are alone. Sitting on a deserted hillock or on your porch, you feel you belong to some one. Your heart race and blood pressure builds, eyes closed you delve into dreams. Pure euphoria. Love for me has never been a boon. I tried to make love my mistress may be and it cursed me. I was always longing to be in love. And I fell in it indeed. For that part of my life I would name it lovely. Yes, thats how you feel. Lovely. Concentration rich the peak it can ever get to. Always focused on the loved one. Smiles never stop, and joy seems just to be beginning every passing day. In the shadows of unknown crowd and strange land the sens of your hand being held by the one you love, the sense of you love being with you makes you sail. You embark unafraid of the storms that may await you. Just you. You defy the misfortune that may lust you. But love is too mortal like man. Its born as a cute innocent thing, grows to become a complex, confused and entangled not-so-good thing and die naturally or mutilated in an undesired way. But it dies with or before you. An unnaturally dead love, leaves scars that hurt and haunt for the rest of life. Still "peeda main anand jise ho, aye wo meri madhushala". Love is the only of its kind where even paint is ecstatic. You restlessly chase this pain, just to get possessed by it once. And this pursuit is worth it.

                 He who feels the pain of his own soul, and clings to it

                and yet thrives to spend his whole life, in that one moment of pain

               he is the man in true love, he is the man of true form

Love is the drink of gods disguise, this moment is your last chance, go get drunk.

Sex as a word makes ripples of current run through your spine as it does as an act. Its one of the best gifts nature has given to human. To love and to lust out of love. Every human act is closely associated with one thing, ego. Ego is the driving force of life. And sex is a man's alter ego. Its spells how you are. A philosopher knows everything in the world are fallacies. But lust of the beloved is a purest form of emotion like true prayer. Its unfiltered, unrestricted, soulfully desired and magnificently ecstatic. I have always been fascinated by it. Desiring to enact myself as the best lover the world has ever seen. Every one does. Often I get obsessed with it too. Not anymore. sex is life in compact. You start excited, you want it to never end, but only the end makes it worth it. And you forget how much you enjoy when you do it. Sex like life is a set of memory. A hundred small things make a complete act of passion. And you try to cling to each of them but you can not as a rule cause you have to rush for the end. That is the goal. And to enjoy it fully you must spend just enough amount of time doing it that your body naturally drives itself to. Otherwise soon its monotonous and you lose the whole purpose of it. Same, analogous to life. Let the mind drive itself. Don't drag it. Don't push it hard. Just remember you have to enjoy each moment of if but its enjoyable cause it has an end, a climax and that keeps you driving. In life you die and in sex you orgasm. Enjoy it, making love to your beloved is not a shameful act live living your life is never one too. The man who says so is the man who never lives. Sex is sin just in dead man's dictionary.

       My beloved's embrace is the heaven for me, I find solace only there

      From ruins I rise too, with the sense of my beloved's desire

     my enemies, the world how would they know, I am a man in love, my soul has caught fire.

Truly

Abinash

The plan is : there is no plan.

What we are taught at the B-schools and what we learn behind the big glass building sitting across the table with fluent, apt and distinguished personalities is art of planning . But do we really need it? And whats a plan after all? considerable amount of literature and philosophy has been developed on the law of nature, how luck works, how the nature has a plan for you. And in modern day we try and overlook completely that and tend to over depend on the planning ability of a human brain. But if we try and take a closer look, we find there is no single instance where a plan has succeeded 100%. And even when we claim it was planned, it was serendipity in disguise.
Planning does one thing for sure, blocks our wide vision and streamlines it in one direction. Planners call it 'focused approach'. I call it closed approach. My vision is blind to other possibilities. I don't see any other road. And the worst part is probability of better ways being there is more and I choose to blind myself. A man has 6 senses. And the 6th sense is the gut instinct driven by trust and grown by experience. Like dog we can sense danger, we can sense euphoria, we can sense when some one in interested. The same sense can come handy in picking up what the best we can choose among the ones we have in disposal. Nature drives you to realize the potential in you and you must be driven. We must give serendipity the deserving share of it existence in our life. Let not plan block its way and we grow complacent with a mediocre result.
A planned way can always be traversed, but an unplanned way can not be traversed by planning. so what if it fails? It leads to dead end? We can come back to the same junction and walk the planed path.
In my experience in the software industry as a developer in a team, I understand planning fails. We must have a certain directives like which direction to look at, and the goal must set. But the path must not be defined. The planning fails with the tendency to define even the path. All we need to do is believe and vision. Rest let the nature lead us to that, we must be ready to work for it.

Truly
Abinash

Dekhi ye duniya

Bewafayee dekhi, rushwayee dekhi
dekhi ye duniya iski tamashahi dekhi

manzar dekhe, najare dekhe
dekhi hai zindagi, iski farmayish dekhi

lazawab wo hushn dekha, bemishal uske paentare
mohabbat main shikasht dekha, gamseen wo sarphire

sazi hui dewarein dekhi, aur dekhe hare bhare khet
naqab posh wo insaan dekhe, zindagi ko jakadein jaise mutthi main ret

mehfeelein dekhin, matam dekhi
dekhi ye duniya, iski sachhai dekhi.

Truly
Abinash

Love and betrayal

Under a full moon, on a rose bed she surrenders her glowing body
embraces with a pure heart and submits the bare soul
holding the gaze in eyes, she vows to renounce the world and merge in his heart
clinging to the body he desired, holding to the soul he loves
he succumbs to the faith she bestowed and believes it for life
Such is the innocence of a man in love and such is the deception of the woman with him!
Only the time  discerns the man's trust and the woman's betrayal!


- Abinash


Truly
Abinash

HBO Documentary film - Terror in Mumbai

Terror in Mumbai - 26/11

HBO's documentary film on Mumbai terror attack.
The conversations(between the terrorists and their handlers)  intercepted by Indian intelligence clear and detailed. Its very sad to see how India lacked in handling this. very sad. Nariman house could have been flushed out much before than it was and perhaps a few lives could have been saved.

Hum khandani hain.... IITian gharane se

Lately today I read a small note written by an IITian. I admire them, all IITians. They have done well and worked hard to get the well deserved glory. I tried and failed to be in the same league then. But does that necessarily makes me a moron or a man who should keep looking down upon self for not having that tag on my facebook and linkedin page? Its like being "hum khandani log hain". There khandan is decided by caste and wealth inherited by birth and here the khandan is decided by the exam cleared and certificate earned. Kudos. The fact is people are not "IITians" just because they went to iit, rather IIT is "IIT" because of the people went there. Its the people, their quality, attitude, brain and courage that matters and makes a difference. Be it IIT or be it non IIT.
I pity those who went to IIT still have to cross a mile to catch up with some one who did not by choice or could not by merit earned this IIT tag. Life is long and 2 years are just too short to decide a winner. "Aap ek khandan ka hissa bane, hum khandan bana rahe hain". We are happy and respect the fact that you enjoyed, Halliday-Resnick, Irodov and krotov. Just that we did not enjoy it as much then, does not necessarily makes us pitiable.
You being proud on self is great. But greatness never makes anyone fact blind. Fact is you and we the non-IITians are on the same boat, you are jealous of us when we are more successful as much as we are of you for not having IIT tag. Had it not been that, an explanatory response would not have been required anyway!

When it comes to play big and you have a non-IITian as competitor, the world has to choose.. "aapko wo chahiye jisne engineering se pehle do shaal padhai ki for sure, ya wo chahiye jisne engineering main padhai ki 4 saal for sure?" Kuch to baat hogi tabhi wo with out belonghing to the league still stands posing a threat!

Respect all. Defend your institute culture but don't offend others. Sibal anyway is not doing right. IITs are high standard institutes and that must be maintained for it to glorify in worl level.

Truly
Abinash

Jashn saraabor hai

Kuch dabi hui si khwahisein
kuch sazi hui si mehfilein
kuch rosham sa wo aasmaan
kuch muskurahatein yun khilen

kuch milgaya hai aaj wo
kuch aur hai ab ayine main
kuch jashn saraabor hai
kuch armaano ki wo silvatein

nain unmain tangg rahe
aur rooh jo madhosh ho
ek lamha aisa jahan
dard na mehsoosh ho

Kuch shakl wo roshan hua
kuch nigahein wo sarmayinsin
kuch lafz wo dheeme dheeme
bas kuch jashn wo saraabor hua

Truly
Abinash

Why can't we build a Hospital at the dispute site - Ayodhya?

Lately more than needed attention is being given to the Ayodhya episode and it has created quite a fuss. But my question is what is the fuss is all about? Why all the state government is on back foot? Why we have to always turn defensive just because a land is named Ayodhya or a river called Cauvery happened to flow since last 1000 years. I dont want a riot, you don't and the third person too. Then who are we afraid of? Who are those handful who can mobilize the mass? They are none but just few part leaders who actually wait for such episodes to gain wide media coverage. Its the media which enables a flame to become a tragic fire. This blown out of size media attention makes it a target for such filthy politician to pay the goons and get riots started. The administration is well aware of them but they become silent onlookers.
We know India is not a secular country except for in constitution, we know india is not a facilitator of free speech and right of equality except for in constitution. Its time we must stop pretending and come to accept that fact. If something is attached to mass emotion or religion it will be breached by politicians for selfish gains for the next thousand of years.
Why the supreme court has to give a verdict which can dismantle the stability at all? why can;t it just say at the dispute site they will construct an "Anathashram" for all religion. why can't they build a charitable hospital at the disputed site? Why we have to build a temple or masjeed?
Ask the local public what the need the most a hospital or a shrine. The government must now change its motto. It must like nature, provide the mass what they need and not what they want. Need will let them survive, want can only spill havoc in the time to come. Cause human fantasy has no bound and there deep with in every one lurks a beast waiting to come out. Want is evil, need is not.
Its high time we need to change the perception we carry. Initiatives like the "Aman ka tamasha"  "Aman ki asha" of Time of India can increase the sell of their circular but never achieve what they claim they want to.
Not using a weapon is not the existence or peace, feeling no need of it can. "peace is not the absence of crime, its the presence of justice" - Harrison Ford. I beg to differ. when there exist ideal peace, the term justice, injustice, war, crime fade away. Justice is not a measure of peace. The absence of the need to justify is the presence of peace. ayodhya and godhra will continue to come and live a threat to our lives as long as we as a whole feel affected by such things. At the end we are mortals, so are the lands, issues and the memories. History is a dead body, present is lively and future is blur. Lets not fight over a dead body making the present blur and future dark. Lets do the reverse way. forget the history into the dark, keep the present bright and future... let the people of the coming age decide how they want it.

Truly
Abinash

Just an idea for recommendation engines - web intelligence

I was browsing through some online book stores in India and I was not really happy with the recommendations they made. The recommendations were naive, obvious and not interesting. Reason?
When I use Google, I think in terms of "context" not "Object". For example I Type 'books + different algorithms  on web intelligence" this is a context that I am thinking and I might not have a certain object in mind as in a book title or a publication journal. I just have a context I am interested in and I do the search, get the result and proceed with what ever. Now coming back to these search portals of e-commerce sites, local listings, classifieds etc. They are a repository of 'objects'. And they enable search on these objects while I have a context. Now this does not really fit well, I mean I look for a context in such an repository. And then they making recommendations depending on the kind of search I frequently make, or the items I click. here whats missing is a set of few other informations.
Fact 1: I would not have searched just their portal or listing, I certainly would have searched else where (similar portals) parallely.

Fact 2: Probably I would have searched in google  too and it would have returned me results for my context.
Fact 3: What else I might have in mind when I types those key words?

Lately what i have observed is Google has spoiled the way we search by providing the luxury of intelligence in it. People tend to type in direct english (or other language) sentences as if they are conversing and expect exact result.
Then how to leverage on that piece of information?
Why can't our recommendation engine browse through the recent history of my browser, collect my search results and habit on the similar context and objects? We can actually use that data and the listing by the other portals, google before making a recommendation and precisely zero in on what I need.

That way the e-commerce portal can map more correctly from the context I am searching to the object they have and are selling. And I will come back to them as I find more suitable and exact results with them.
Just a random idea.

Truly
Abinash

Local Service reviews - Now on.

Lately I thought of listing a review of local services we get from the thousands of start ups. Like movies I felt they need a review too, of course they are free of cost mostly but then time is money. We spend time pondering through them. And there are plenty similar portals extending similar services but what makes a difference is the relevance of my need and usability and intelligence of the portals itself. So I will review them on these parameters as an end user.

Truly
Abinash

Lets Start-up!

Ok. I  have been in Bangalore for last 4 years and enjoyed and explored the city in and out. Loved it. 

After a good stint as a developer, working with few good minds I got thoughtful one fine day and decided to call it quit. And now I am on the exit mode from my job and like Bollywood movie's climax scene, its too happening in slow motion. And like inception's cascaded dreams the slow motion in my job has given me ample time to get faster else where. So m on the leap to get into a start up mode. Its a very energetic word "start up". Its keeps you going, gets you thinking and makes you working. So starting up with a start up ain't any easy job but again parenting an infant has its own charm! So its time to pull the sleeves up and get muddy and wrestle with the challenges not so far. So now I have to act like (I mean I am supposed to :P)  I am very careful, result oriented and perfectionist. But again I believe in the power of free will, be it work, be it life! 

Now lets get up and get going!

Truly

Abinash

Dabangg Review

I can see this movie back to back 5 times "darrrrrlinggg tere liye".

Rating : 4.5/5
Director : Abhinav Kashyap
Starring : Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha

Typical bollywood movie with all spices in it. A smashing beginning with the muscular hero beating up some gun clad goons to ashes, immediately followed by a song. An item number just in place, a variety of bad guys,  emotional "maa" and a "bedardi" baap and all said a happy ending. Awesome.
The hero is actually a almost-superman jo marta hai na bullet se, na talwar se bas jeet jata hai apni prahaar se. waah waah. Well directed and the music does full justice to the script. The dance steps ensures a great time watching the songs and keeps you restless for the next one. Sallu did a awesome job. Actually every one was perfect in their respective roles. The action sequences were very nicely directed and delivered with perfect machismo. Dialogues amongst the fightings were enough to create a wave of giggles in the theater.

  The script has a group of goons (dakait) just for the sake chulbul (sallu) can beat them up time to time. And each time sallu does so you will love it. With full bollywood drama ( "pandey jee aaj se main aapko sirf papa kahunga" "bhaiyaa maa ko isne tadpa tadpa ke maara") this movie is a delight for any bollywood movie buff. in one word "Awesome". Now don't waste time, go and watch it. Mann balwan, laage chattan, rahe maidan main age...... hudd hudd dabangg  dabangg  dabangg  dabangg......

Truly
Abinash

Ek Sabera roshan fir ayaa

Ek sabera roshan fir ayaa
suraj samundar main dubki leke bahar nikal aya
wo phool patte aur chanchal tittliyaan
wo baagon main khelti hui gilhariyaan

Ek sabera roshan fir ayaa
jharno ki behti dhun saath layaa
wo udte parinde nikalpade asmaan ki aur
wo dharti sajj uthi jaise jashn ka sor

Ek sabera roshan fir ayaa
sunehre kirno ke saath roshni layaa
wo school jate mashoom bachhe
wo khwahishon se bhari din ki suruwat, thode bure thode achhe.

Ek sabera roshan fir ayaa
zindako ko ek naya din dikhlaya.

Truly
Abinash

N.B. Script is in English as any readers can understand yet can not read Hindi.

A morning

A morning, when it starts brings many things with it,
A day, may be sunny,  times its rainy
Bright at times and overcast sometimes.
May brings a hectic overworked target
or it may just becomes a lazy passing day.
It brings good news with it and some bad too.
It brigs friends together and the parting pain as well.
A day brings birth day cakes like it brings empty plates.
Happiness may flow with it, sorrow we must bear too.
Flowers we get many, we must endure a thorn few.
It makes us weak but gives strength for tomorrow
teaches us to smile in deep sorrow.
hearts break with the storm it brings, but true love bond and cling.
A hot day then brings a chilly night, and sweet dreams with it,
it also brings a brighter ray, and we live another day.
A day it may seem, but life is what it makes and reflects
With faith in heart,  lets feel blue
Together with love, lets make us from I and you.

Truly
Abinash

Inception movie review

Movie: Inception
Director & Writer : Christopher Nolan(Of the dark knight fame); Music : Hans Zimmer
Starring : Leonardo Di Caprio, Marrion Cottillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy
Rating: 4/5

Well, how should a movie about dreams or rather cascade of dream should be like? Interesting? Yes it is. One has to be alert in mind to understand and hence appreciate it though. Its about a series of dreams, dreams inside dreams and plantation of ideas in the subconscious of others and the adventures involved in doing so. The first half is almost spent in building up the plot and explaining the idea. So the first half is little slow paces and ain't as interesting. The totem as explained in the first half summaries the movie later at the climax in a surprisingly interesting way, keeping you anticipate.subtle use of physics here and there is well presented.
But a few not so interesting and explanation lacking parts just merely added to the spiderweb. The ability of Decaprio's dead wife to intervene in some one else's dream, the inability to come back if dead when sedated etc. But they had to made it look as plausible as possible and yet to make it intrigue so I guess that will not create much trouble unless some one invests too much of thoughts into it. The parallel movement of many plots is handled very nicely and crafted very exquisitely into one smart point. Characters are not built up pretty nicely to leave a memory for post movie discussions. Dialogues could have been improved. But to summarize, its a nice movie, awesome concept and well thought plots. Worths a watch and worths a hearty appreciation.

If I were the director: I would have fast tracked the first half too. Instead of explaining the concept theoretically, a small adventurous drill could have been planted in the first half. Dialogues should have been well written in relevance of the complex concept. There ain't really any dialogue that I remember.

Truly
Abiansh

The Dhol which was never noticed

Being deaf to outside world sometimes makes you feel joyful. While appreciating the amazing beats of punjabi dhol, with enhanced calrity by the sophisticated HP ear phones, I leaped into the past where I heard it first. The beats, that thousand others are appreciating like me, are actually not a new creation. They have always existed. Now they are staged, converted into video with pretty girls and made compatible to work with face book or the iPOD. This make me brood over the past where I heard it first.
We called it "Daang Chadha" back in my place. Its a form of Indian art, a gymnastic actually. with rope tied onto two bamboob pillars and perfectly balanced with all laws of mechanics satisfied, a tiny girl would walk over it, on a cycle rim, balancing herself with just a stick. With the beats of the Dhol, she would bounce at times. The same beats, I now enjoy with the luxuary of a computer and air conditioner and choose to call it "awesome". The street gymnast would make a living out of it, degree of earning depends on the generosity of the crowd. And then they move to a different locality. No one in the crowd back then appreciated this dhol though. Its the less adventurous and more riskful journey that girl fetched the fractional india currencies, now obsolete. And now when we have a "sense-of-appreciation" the art form is almost on the verge of extinction. The calibre went uncapitalized, the music went un-marketed. The street gymnasts melted away with the obsolescence of those tiny currencies which made them their living.

Now when I go home, I don't hear that dhol anymore to feel excited about and compete to be a part of the front row crowd, but I do see banners of highly paid rather mediocre artists performing. Strange country India is. And we just made ourselves a little more stranger to it.

P.S. Today India is excited about having given a symbol to the currency, but never realizing that its time to give India a symbol, thats beyond the nation emblem. The strength of India lies in the fact that its strange and every bit is different than the other. Just that we need to appreciate them, stage them, market them and give them a symbol.

Truly
Abinash

Coast to coast (Coast II Coast) - A review

What makes a good meal? A tasteful treat for the taste buds right. But what makes a great eat out experience is far more than a good meal. Thats exactly where coast to coast restaurant fails miserably!

Review:

Food: Excellent
Service: Pathetic, poor, hopeless, piteous
Courteousness of staff: Rude, misbehaving, impatient and they will make you regret your decision of choosing this restaurant.
Ambiance: Good
Over all experience: Poor

This is about the Coast to coast restaurant in Koramangala, Bangalore.
They have a bigger branch at MG Road and that is surprisingly much better than this.

Detail review:
The variety of sea food and chicken is a sure delight for any seafood lover. This certainly is going to make you feel wow!
Specially the Pomfret masala, Angel Tawa fry, Silver fish rava fry with Chicken Ghee roast and appam or neer dosa.

So far so good, but once they guy come in to take orders the experience turns out to be horrible. They make you feel as if the meal they serve is free. And if you are in big number say 4-5 than that may get you a seat immediately otherwise they make you wait for 30 minutes though 3, 6 seater tables lay free.

If its the MG road branch its a two thumbs up, if its koramangala, 4 thumbs down.

Truly
Abinash

Random Idea again

Ever thought why the real estate business gives exponential returns? And what is the essence of real estate business?
Its the futuristic value of the rather constant and invariable property. The property does not grow as such, it continues to stay where it is. What grows is the business, civilization and demand around it. Hence it becomes a shout after place at a high rate.

Now coming to the idea. Whats the real estate in the web world?? In web all we have is a browser to surf the infinite space of data cloud. We build website and web applications for that and like real estate we have got an address for them too! Wow. That means the address is the value identifier.

Why can't we buy domain names that may be of interest in future for the bigger players to suit their business essence or self explanatory domain names to make a particular business idea identified? We can. and we can buy them now and keep them and later can put them up for auction as and when the business of similar essence starts catching up!

All about becoming a web realtor!

Truly
Abinash

Just a Random Idea - Laptop cell phone

I was watching a movie on my laptop and I had set my cell phone on charge in the other room. When I saw the phone, it had 5 missed calls! May be the movie was just too addictive but why at all this has to happen? Why can't we have a cell phone in my laptop? probably when I am not using my laptop even then? Like we can put the laptop in to sleep or hibernate, we can have a simple software to take care of it when the laptop is on and there might be a small mode called phone more where the battery will cater to the phone processor may be? And a small display to use the laptop as phone when its not on and may be a software display panel as cell phone display when its on. Why not? Well we can refine the usability and extensibility further. But to take it further as a business idea can you see some unrealizable challenges? I don't.

Truly
Abinash

Autopsy of a meeting

Ah, recently I attended a meeting where concerns were (supposed to be) addressed.
But I will make a generic analysis of such meeting before moving to make it specific.

What actually the statistics like employee survey or company policies reveal?
Ok, we will take an instance of any employee satisfaction survey and how the management plans to handle the good and no so good results.
1.
An employees perspective of the survey:
Its anonymous, so if I have any frustration, complex or complain I would rather express myself generously.

Managements response:
But we do conduct personal meeting with employees and we encourage freedom of expression so ideally the employee should do that upfront as and when need be.

Reality's take on it:
Its a human attitude to be timid, pretentious and introvert. Most of the people will rather keep quite then to stand up and speaks (Specially in India other wise some mediocre politician could never out speak us to be voted).

2.
An employees perspective of the survey:
If something is bad I must make it look worse, may be then they will consider it seriously.

Managements response:
All the employee response are facts so lets address them in a meeting and get first hand account whats wrong.

Reality's take on it:
The employee made the bad look worse anonymously, will he not make the bad look good when its public? I lier remains a lier. No meeting can fetch you clear data.

Now what happens in the meeting:
The employees never take these meetings seriously. Cause they manage to hide themselves behind a mass and hence feeling secure. For them its another meeting where issues will be just discussed. Cause they never revealed the root cause. So they know the management just knows anything but the real reason.

(Reality is the survey needs to be changed. Satisfaction is not objective. It cant be answered in binary. Satisfaction is subjective, there is always a degree or extent involved in it. They fundamental flaw is when they ask if you are satisfied under different norms, they actually are not interested in knowing the real reason. The attempt is to bias the answer in an indirect way to suit to the picture we want them to be projected in. Hence the real concern remains under the hood.)

The management equipped with wrong (mostly exaggerated) data start a rather wrong analysis in a failed attempt to zero in on the real cause. Hence the disinterested employees look blank through out the meeting and when they come out they have not reduced but added to the woes.

Specific scenario:

Compensation related: The management declares we are competitive as per the last survey. and there is no problem.

Employees psychology: A person unlike prefers to work against the law of gravity. They don't intend to leap from high ground to lower. They intend to or aspire to leap from high to higher ground. The salary of a same category company can never satisfy one after a while for the simple reason they don't aspire to go there. But they aspire to go to the ones considered higher to the one they are in. So may be marginally but being a little ahead in terms of salary from the peer or competitor just to be above the current bracket and create a category of own will never hurt but add to the company reputation, satisfaction and other parameters involved for the delivery.

Sense of accomplishment: This is something really specific to one instance. The management always is driven by statistics cause statistic is supposed to be fact and figure. Not always. (You can't apply statistic to gauge the average depth of a river to decide whether you can cross it. Mostly you will drown your self. And may be thats why we have so many (in)famous jokes about statisticians.)
There are ground reality that statistician not project. A human mind is complex thing, pie chat and histograms can't represent it.

When taking a fierce decision of changing the technology facts beyond assumptions were never taken into consideration. The training need, the creation and substantiation of new job profile. the migration of product was planed but migration of employee psychology was not. Migration and road map for deliveries were planned but new road maps of opportunities were never discussed.
Change of technology is like changing a home. The fact "Its takes time to prepare the same delicate Biriyani flavor in a new kitchen" was neglected. NO training formal or otherwise were planned. The domain people had mastered over years was altered and represented in a different manner which looked like a generation gap. The involuntary first reaction to change that any man can give is "reluctance" and avoidance.
The people who had a reputation who had a knowledge base built over quite a period of time were not able to accept the change like nothing happened. In the battle to protect their self and public image and now the reality of being unable to cope to new changes they floundered and they floundered hard. This frustration creep in to every where. Cause it becomes a preoccupation to defend "what I was" and accepting or building "what I am". You had been a performer but you don't see yourself anymore to be. Cause what now you are in is completely new. And you dont have any time for making yourself feel home, feel comfortable.

Comparison to other lines: Not comparable. Juxtaposing facts to make something look prettier is stupidity. To show a straight line bigger you can just draw line smaller to it. All you can achieve by it is illusion.

Some is worse, thank god I am just bad. Its a sense of complacency. Which this industry discard of. Isn't it? So you cant infest that sense of being better just by arguing some one else if worse.

After all the presenter was heard mistakenly saying: "Actually this is the only thing where do really do not discriminate" (among lines). :D

The solution is:
1. get the survey conducted to capture real reasons.
2. make it clear to the people where they are heading for.
3. Everyone loves to see himself as a champion, do tell them that the did a good job and they are capable of doing even better.
4. If some once can run 10km, that never means every one can or have to. There are people who can't run yet swim for 20 km. We need to understand every one is different.
5. Give the employee space and time to settle down to freeze to his/her comfort level before saying come on get of the mark.
6. Sense of insecurity is good, even in relations to keep things healthy but sense of obscurity is never. Have things transparent.

Truly
Abinash

So you watch English movies?

I never used to watch English movies. Two reasons: Its in English and second reason I would never remember the lead in male and female, leave director or production house name.
For me English movies were either science fictions or high end action. Its not an English movie if I dont get to see a weird creature hunting the human race or flying saucer vanishing in to the eternal space or man clad with laser guns fighting. Cause dialogues I would anyway not understand. And I would never deliberate to do so either.  The protocol is keep your eyes fix on to movie, never look at any one they might ask you to explain what the hero just said (I never knew there exist some thing called sub titles). Take a cue from others to know where to laugh. If others are laughing, laugh. Just see those creatures and try to by heart few scenes to have post movie discussions and you dont feel like a moron jerk.

Now its been some 3 years I have been watching English movies (Well I mean watching in real sense not in the protocol I mentioned above). So this is a tribute to myself :D

A list of movie I liked genre wise, so that if there is any body who is starting his/her "watching movies in real sense" may not end up watching crap or watch just anything they stumble up on.

War Movie:
1. Saving private ryan
2. We were soldier
3. The bridge on the river kwai
4. Inglorious bastard
5. Hurt locker
6. 300
7. Schindler's List
8. Brave heart
9. The Pianist
10 The last of the Mohicans
11. The last samurai
12. Jar head

History:

1. Gladiator
2. Lord of the rings: the return of the king 3. Troy

This will be updated soon (m little too lazy :()

A pictorial depiction - it rained in my street

The drops poured and the earth cooled. Like the father in heaven rained love on mother earth to sooth her anguish and let her rejoice.

The drops flowed with freedom making the music to please the restless souls and they set on their embark to finally merge into the sea.

The cold drops soaked on to the skin and made many run back to their fate - dry. Like unaware of our own desire we crave to get away from being dry just to run back to it.

Protected they feel with pride
they take the firm and forward stride.

Haste moved few
no rest ever, phew!

Even I want to be drenched,
 with love a little care, relieved of my pain.

Hold my hand, cling to me, I will stay by
to protect and longing for thy.

In rain Shelter I found
Stranded by all flying unbound.

The rain made me beautiful, like crystal not rusty.

And the rain stopped the heaven and the earth relieved and rejoiced. Clean and pure like it should be.


Truly
Abinash

Hypocrisy?

Heard some one rebuking about caste based census saying its discrimination. But did we ever take a look how a million time we discriminate every day? I choose to call the critics hypocrites and I call this identification what they choose to call discrimination. Going by their definition every individual system in India is a discriminating system. Lets take the under graduate entrance exams they discriminate on the basis of percentage in PUC, The job advertisement says strictly students from premier institutes. Tell me how they are different from the temple priest who says strictly Hindus? Just that criteria for discrimination is different?
The same "intellectual" opinionative guy would not let his children go to the municipality school or team up with the kids from him backyard slum. Why? "Gali ke ladkon ke saath nahin khelna". Now ain't that a discrimination too? Discrimination on any ground may it be economy, social, educational, race, geography or history, it remains discrimination. So whats wrong to go for a caste based census when we have caste based education and employment? Its just the hypocrite inside us taking over isn't it?

Truly
Abinash

Yet another random Tag - Selfnaire as I call it. A questionnaire about self

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
The beard is looking good.

2. How much cash do you have in your wallet right now?
444


4. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone?
PP


11. What does your watch look like?
Macho.

12. What were you doing at midnight last night?
Reading Infinite cosmos.

13. What did your last text message you received on your cell say?
Your voda fone mobile bill payment of rupees 2836/- is due.

14. What’s a word that you say a lot?
Hello, Theek, Nikal denge, hojaega yaar.

15. Who told you he/she loved you last? (please exclude spouse , family, children)
Pari

16. Last furry thing you touched?
Teddy bear around my seat.

17. Favorite age you have been so far?
My primary school days. I was a star of my school.

18. What was the last thing you said to someone?
Nikal denge yaar ye log.

19. The last song you listened to?
UP wala thumka lagaun main hero jaise naach ke dikhaun....

20. Where did you live in 1987?
Balangir

21. Are you jealous of anyone?
Yes

22. Is anyone jealous of you?
No idea.

23. Name three things that you have on you at all times?
my mobile, my hologram of being brahmin - Janev

24. What’s your favorite city?
Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar

25. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper and mailed it?
1 year back to Captn sambit Das

26. Can you change the oil on a car?
No

27. Your first love/big crush: what is the last thing you heard about him/her?
She is not having a good married life.

28. Does anything hurt on your body right now?
Back pain. :(

29. What is your current desktop picture?
A dog.

Surviving with "Chhiyalis rupaye" - Survival techniques

Ever wondered how to survive in Bangalore (with a bike to maintain and a 2BHK flat to maintain and a foodie inside you to maintain) for One whole week with just 46 rupees? I did. and frankly I am proud to share my survival techniques which range from Social engineering to brazening out of situations.

Day 1:
You wake up at 8 its Saturday and need to brush and have breakfast.
So don't wake up at 8, ensure that the previous night you played video games, watched downloaded movies, read some boring books and managed to sleep only after 4 A.M.
Now with the previous day schedule you must wake up post noon the following day. Being a Saturday follow the same for today. You at least can bypass the breakfast.
check the fuel level in the bike (I had 2 liters left approximately, and roughly that can take me around for 80km). Do not brush when you wake up (It makes you hungry). Check the amount of rice and daal you have. No vegetables makes no difference as having daal and rice itself makes you a lucky chap. Prepare rice and daal with precision as in only as much as you eat. Get yourself some achaar and put a nice hard tadka on the daal.
Have a good meal around 4 P.M. Walk down to nearest mall call up a few friends. Fortunately I have a postpaid connection :)
Buy an egg for Rs 3/- and then mix up the egg in the daal to make it (delicious) egg tadka and have it in dinner. Repeat step one.

Day 2: Money left 43/-

Repeat the activity of day one till dinner. and the dinner can be made as egg noodle. It will cost you 10/- + 3 /- = 13 rupees. Sleep early.

Day 3: Money left 30/-
Wake up early have a good bath and press your cloth yourself to save those precious 5 rupees.
Get to office dont take and idly or dosa in brekfast. Take two large bananas. (3 rupees each) have cofee at office and gear up your sense of humor. Plan a prank and convince other to force some one in the office for a lunch treat (mayb be just a south Indian thali still a paid meal). Have a stomach full one. On the way back to home grab a pack of good day for yourself from office. Prepare rice daal and have with achaar.

Day 4: Money left 24/-
Repeat the day 3 activity except for having a paid meal. Go to a regular restaurant whre you eat mostly
eat a good meal and say Ohh I ahve forgot the wallet. Will pay to tomorrow. Being old valued customer the restaurant guy wont mind it. For dinner have egg noodles (13/-)

Day 5: Money left 11/-
Repeat the day 3 activity and get a paid lunch from a friend. have biscuit and tea for dinner.

Day 6: Money left 11/-
See if some Bday or anniversary is on in office. Grab yourself a few good chunk of cake and chocolates. Have it for dinner. Lunch anyway they will treat.

Day 7: Consume all the 11 rupees and try a trick from step 1 to 6.

And thats how you survive a week (last week of the month) till you get the salary. :)

Invisible hope

Why have you been so kind
held my hand and let me shine

standing by my side ever
letting me fall just never

Bigot I was, an ignorant loner
you made me live, a smiler from groaner

Stay by me, hold me tight
I am doomed, let your love make it bright.

Death no stop, life no end
not a moment leave me at this treacherous bend.

Truly
Abinash

N.B. - Somewhere I don't remember the line (Why have you been so kind) I read and then went on to write this poem. I have kept that line thats why cause that line became the igniter.
Thanks to that unknown source which I remember no more for helping me with the first line.

Are we Random? or an established pattern?

Just a random thought occurred to me like always and I spent some time brooding over it. Here is the perception or the delusion I have come out with.

It started with one question: What do you feel, how random life is? Or its predefined and patterned?

Well after reading few spiritual literature and some ancient scriptures, I leaned the world is not a random creation, its a definite work of God where nothing can actually be random. Ever event is predefined. And the God manifests himself in every being. So The manifestation of God exists as widely in the whole universe as a single entity as in a human being. So I can conclude human being is a reflection of the universe in itself. It reminds me of the Fractal
programs I wrote in college. The smallest building element is nothing but an exact manifestation of the whole body. So the birth of the universe with big bang can be compared to the birth of a child. As soon as the child is born the whole system turns more chaotic.
The man since birth will tend to be in equilibrium by nature but it will only lead to increase in entropy. Being an isolated system in itself there is no way the randomness in it will can decrease following the second law of thermodynamics.

Now can we take a look at what they call as Maya and to find out the answer to the question we started with?

Maya is supposed to be the illusion we live in, including the sense that we have a life and we have senses and we live till death. Where we assume death is the end and birth as beginning. I would say Maya is nothing but yeah a set of illusion or predictions. We live at the present. But we expect and build the future thats the next immediate moment of the present and hence on. I believe there a proportion of certainty and uncertainty associated with prediction or expectation we make. Like we see what we want to see, we believe what we want to believe with the limit of our knowledge and power to perceive. So when we take a step forward we assume or expect or predict it to be placed at a particular position in the next immediate moment. But Future is unpredictable. And hence the expectation we set has a degree of uncertainty associated with it. There is no 100% guarantee that the out come of the event will be exactly same as predicted. Hence all we do at any present moment is with respect to the current event predict a future moment which actually is as uncertain as certain. Thats probability of occurance would be 0.5. So we are doing nothing but in reality live in illusion. When the expectation fails we call it misfortune. And when mate its fortune. But in reality the unbiased probability of fortune or misfortune is exactly the same. Hence may be thats how the Saints live as they know this mathematical truth and choose to be rather indifferent. But a slightly closer thinking at it will tell us that its not as simple a process as I have described it till now. There is a degree of bias on the future by the present event. Say like if I know I am going to appear for an exam, and I have put in effort so the probability of being fortunate will increase. And hence the probability of misfortune will decrease. Hang on... with it can we say that we can actually have control over the future by means of the choice we make at the present? Well may be yes. Thats what they may call the law of karma. Your Karma decides the future. Its the choice we make for the present event thats leads us to a more chaotic state or increase in entropy. That decision precisely decides or controls the outcome we may have in the immediate next moment. Either increasing or decreasing the number of choices or state we may leap to from there. That means the degree to which we can be fortunate or mis-fortunate can be predicted or decided at present. It implies, with a closely calculated decision we can actually make ourselves luckier over time, as I told above luck is nothing but meeting the expectation we set for a future time. So one can work out to live long enough to see himself getting luckier close to absolute one as to it happens exactly what he predicts or expects. May be thats what is the miracles we see.

So to sum it up: Life is a random event with many possible out come of any event occurring now and leading to the occurance of another like a chain reaction. And yes we do live in Maya as we just keep predicting the expected outcome for the immediate next moment which actually is equally improbable as probable. But as said the future is in our hand.

...... To be continued.

Truly
Abinash

Some random TAG

The blog I picked this tag from claims exactly this: "the questions are so framed to make you feel good about yourself :) Try it if you don't believe me!". So let me try and find out I can believe her or not: (## means I am skipping the question)

1. What is your current obsession?
Computer games, books, the new T-shirt I bought today.

2. What are you wearing today?
A customized(self designed) Pathani kurta a pair of denim jeans and a pair slippers.
3. What’s for dinner?
Nothing.

4. What’s the last thing you bought?
Movie tickets.

5. What are you listening to right now?
The patterned noise created by my ceiling fan.

6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
No one tagged me but I took it myself. But the one I took it from I don,t know anything else except her name and her online addresses. And yeah that she is from my state Orissa.

7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
New york city, then sell it off and build a farmhouse at my native place and keep the remaining money to spend my rest of life wasting at least to earn money for survival.

8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?
##

9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Himalayas.

10. Which language do you want to learn?
Urdu.

11. What’s your favourite quote?
"Even this will pass"

12. Who do you want to meet right now?
##

13. What is your favourite colour?
Orange.

14. Give us 3 styling tips that work for you.
##

15. What is your dream job?
adventurer

16. What’s your favorite magazine?
##

17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Buy books, eat out and pay my mobile bill.

18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
##

19. Who according to you is the most over-rated style icon?
## I hate all.

20. What kind of haircut do you prefer?
##

21. What are you going to do after this?
Complete my article on chaos and randomization.

22. What are your favourite movies?
Many

23. What inspires you?
The fact that nothing remains and we are mortals.

24. What do your friends call you most commonly?
Abinash

25. Would you prefer coffee or tea?
Tea.

26. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
Write or take a fast drive on bike.

27. What makes you go wild?
I am born wild.

28. Which other blogs do you love visiting?
Many. ##)

29. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?
Rabdi.

30. How many tabs are turned on in ur browser right now?
12

31. Favorite Season?
Winter.

32. If I come to your house now, what would u cook for me?
Maggi.

33. What is the right way to avoid people who purposefully hurt you?
Just laugh them out and try to help them.

34. What are you afraid of the most?
Snake, and the paranoia that my friend or family might get hurt.

35. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
Ah, I am looking good. :)

36. What brings a smile on your face instantly?
##


Thats it

Truly
Abinash

Akela

Dard ko aansu na mili
Manzeel ko raah na mila,
Disha heen parinde ki tarah
bhatakta raha zindagi ka kafeela

Jishm ko rooh na mili
Honthon ko lafz na mila
Behisaab bas badhta gaya
manzeel se mushafir ka faslaa

Aankhon ko khwaab na mile
Khwaabon ko pankh na mila
bas chal pada saath liye
dard, dawa, bechaeni, sukoon akela.

P.S. English script is chosen cause many can understand yet can not read Hindi.

Truly
Abinash

main....

ek sunehra khwab hoon main
kisi khoobsurat baag ka
mehekta gulaab hoon main

kisike dard ki dawa, kisika sabaab,
to kisika saraab hoon main
har lamha har pal behisab hoon main

ek diya, jo khud jal roshan kare har aangan
kisika cheerag hoon main
kisi samma ki aag, kisika noore betaab hoon main

Kisi bechaen dil ka sukoon, kisi tanha ka
saath, kisi ka armaan hoon main.

Waise to bahut naam hain..
kisiki dua, kisiki awaz, kisika wojood hoon main.

Ek hasin lomhon ki daastan, kisiki zindagi hoon main.
ishq, mohabbat, mehfeel, bas nayab hoon main.


P.S. Its in English script as many readers might not be able to read hindi yet understand it.

Rawa-Curd Pakoda - A good evening snack

Well to start with make sure its a good evening and you are hungry.
Then follow the following procedures and taste the difference :)



The ingradients:
1. 250 gm Suji
2. 300 gm Dahee
3. 1 inch long ginger
4. 2 medium size onions
5. oil 200 ml
6. green chilly
7. salt as per taste
8. Coriander leaf

Mix the Suji with curd and leave for 5 minutes
Then put the chopped onions, green chilly, chopped ginger, coriander leaves and salt and mix it well, heat oil in a pan and deep fry the mix in small portions.
Fry in medium-low flame till it gets brown.
Be sure you don't fry is too deep that it tastes bitter.

That it garnish it with few fried chillies and you are done.

Chicken chilly - Chef Abinash

Well to start with, the prerequisite is to be hungry and patient.



Now the not so delicate way of preparing the delicacy:

Ingredients:
1. 1/2 Kg chicken boneless
2. 3 tsp cornflour
3. 2 tsp maida
4. 200 m.l. refined oil
5. 1 egg
6. 2 tsp Soya saus
7. 2 tsp tomato saus
8. 2 big onions
9. 6-7 cloves of garlic
10. 1 inch long ginger
11. spring onion 2
12. chilly powder and green chilly
13. salt to taste
14. Lemon half piece

Phase 1:
Marinate the cleaned chicken in a mix of salt, Haldi, chilly powder and 1 spoon of lemon juice for 1 hour.
Prepare a mix of the courflour, maida, 1 tsp oil, salt, egg and chilly powder.

Phase 2:
Put the marinated chicken in the mix and leave for 15 mins.
Heat oil in a pan to deep fry the chicken.
Put a separate open flat pan and fry the onion, ginger, garlic in it.
First put the garlic, then ginger, then onion and then the green chilly to it.
Stir them till they are well fried.
put some tomato saus and soya saus adn pepper in it.
Put the fried chicken in it add salt and then the spring onions. Thats it.
server hot to yourself. :)

Bon south - A review

Well I had a chance to taste the Bon south's cuisine and here comes the review direct from my heart and tongue.

If you Don't have patience to read whats below here is the summary:

--> Food variety minimal, preparation is average, price is high, ambiance is really good, some abstruse beverages they have which are pathetic. Over all it does not make up a great lunch.

Detailed review:

Once you are in there you have two options: to choose the buffet priced at Rs 295/- + Taxes or à la carte which is really over priced.

We opted buffet with anticipation. The table was well arranged, just that the food to follow was not par with it. It started with Soups (Chicken sorba and/or tomato rasam). Well chicken thing was bad and rasam was good.

They brought some masala vada of size too small to be called vada so they named it otherwise. And chicken pepper dry. Which was little to dry and left all the scope of garnishing unutilized. Anyway the service was really poor, cause at any point of time you take a look on the table you find the water glasses empty, starter places vacant and no chutney or sauce to go with the starter.



Well hopeful about the main course we leaped to grab the bigger plate but terribly disappointed not to find anything worth filling it. Biriyani was too naively prepared, mutton was not fresh, chicken curry was floating on a curry which apparently had nothing but artificial color in it. The raita was good. So we had plane rice, raita and some daal fry. They had some veg curry which had no vegetables in it anyway.

Feeling taken in by the showed off arts, well arranged tables and a warm welcome we food the food rather cold. Heading for the dessert section which seemed really deserted actually we found nothing but vanila ice cream and a south indian preparation of moong daal, the daal was a good different taste and vanila ice cream tasted as usual.

So over all the service was slow and you feel unattended.
Food gave no further addition to different culinary experience and rather a turn off.
And final verdict would be a no.

Truly
Abinash

Mutton Rogan Josh - (Chef Abinash)

Well, To start with This is a quick guide for the first timers like me, to confidently prepare a mutton delicacy of their own way and proudly name it the famous mutton Rogan josh, :) But certainly it taste good. I cooked for the first time. :)
Here goes the brilliant recipe:




Ingredients:

1. Fresh mutton 1/2 Kg
2. Onions 4 (the big ones)
3. Garlic 3 (some 30 cloves)
4. Ginger 3-4 (one inch length each)
5. Black pepper (one ts)
6. Dhania powder (1 ts)
7. Jeera powder (1 ts)
8. Yogurt (dahee) 1 cup
9. Hari mirch (2)
10. Red dry mirch (3)
11. Mustard oil (170ml)
12. Salt add to taste
13. Sugar 1 ts

Get started:
First be ready to have patience for next 1 hour.
Put the yogurt, garlic, ginger and green chilly paste on the meat and mix well.
Leave it to marinate for 1 hour.
Prepare the paste of Onions, Garlic, Ginger, red chilly, Dhania powder, jeera powder and a one inch long Cinnamon. Grind it well with some water.
Now put the pressure cooker on the stove at medium flame and put the oil in it.
When the oil is hot put 1ts sugar and wait til its brown, put 1 ts turmeric (haldi).
Now its time to put some real effort. Put the whole masala (mix prepared after grinding) to the oil and keep stiring till it becomes brown and sticky.
put the marinated meat to it and stir for a while with open pan. Let the water be out of the meat in the pan. Cover the pressure cooker and leave for 5-6 whistles.
Open the cooker and add meat masala to taste and stir. Add cardamom powder and stir it.
Serve hot....



Mansa Jhola:
Now to prepare Balangiria mansa Jhola, follow the instructions as above
then add 2 cups of hot water to it and stir well. put a boiled potato and some dhania powder. Stir well and heat till the curry starts boiling. Its done. And it tastes better than anything.

How to eat:
Don't go for flavoured rice, just plane white rice, green vegetable salad or raita, and the mansa jhola, NO DAAL at all. This will make you a great meal. :) Enjoy your meal.

Adhure se hum adhure se tum

kabhi fursat jo mile to chali ana mere paas tum
hain hazaron khwahisain baki, adhure se hum, adhure se tum

Kabhi ho izazat to khwabon main ajana akele
saath chalenge falak tak, jahan dharti aur asmaan mile

nazraano ka asiyana hoga, aur chahnewalon ka mela
ek sisak si uthti hai, main khona jaon, rehna jaon akela

ek chah, ek gujarish, ek peymaana liye khade hain
ke beinteehah karte hain mohabbat tumhise har lamha jude hain

bhool na jana ek pal bhi is shaksh ko ek shaksh samajh kar
mehfil ki ronak main na bhulana hume bemehfil samajhkar

jashn to humbhi manate, khoob surat mehfil hum bhi sajate
kher khuch lamhe intezaar ke aur sahee, kaas humbhi chahiton main shamil ho pate!

Truly
Abinash

And..

And with this the desperate seek of comfort is erased. The ennui remains and the despair or desire to migrate to a different land, a different mass. To have a different origin becomes too hard to bear. The hope in one dimension dies out giving birth to an all new hope in different dimension. It becomes hard to discern, what’s right and what’s wrong. All that remains is the quite desperation to run, fly and escape. To be in a different landscape, to be in a different world. It hurts in here. Its like the never ending winter at times, with hope of spring in mind. Its like the summer that overcasts the rain.

P.S. Some time I wonder why do I start a sentence, more a paragraph, more an article itself with the phrase “AND”. Don’t know something compels. May be it manages to hide the origin of the feeling which drives you to write such kind of abstruse stuffs.
A Smile :)

Truly
Abinash