After a hectic trip to Surat ABG shipyard, which was good in the sense that it gave us a slightly comforting feeling about ’slow shipbuilding industry’. The efficiency, optimization and the pace which we observed impressed all of us.

‘These guys mean business’- quoted soft-spoken Vyom Sharma who is my senior from IIT Madras and has been in the Industry for last 5 years and so.

Anyways my lethal affinity towards catching cough and cold in slighlty changing altitude and climate din’t let me enjoy my first trip in much fancied Shatabdi Express of my childhood.

So I was talking about our trip to Haji Ali. It will be quite safe to say that it wasn’t any secular drive or religious sentiments which led us to visit the holy shrine, rather was an inner urge to  give some momentum to our otherwise dull life so far in the office and in the lodge. I wasn’t much convinced about going out in sunlight in my terrible state of cough and cold, nor was Vineet , but still I decided otherwise. So first we had to go through the plain trauma of Mumbai Local which we are not used to yet. When the Mahalaxmi station neared and the train was still in motion at the station, one rough looking guy in his mid 40’s, pushed me. I looked back at him annoyed and complained about pushing. It wasn’t a normally crowded train and there was enough time for everyone to get down easily. But when I complained, he denied of pushing me and one sharp voice came from other side -” Ab local me dhakka nahi khayega to kaha khayega?” ” If you don’t experience in Mumbai local, where would you?”

My Haryanvi blood seemed to hotten-up but my Rajasthani wisdom decided in favour of peaceful solution of avoiding the comment.

We arranged a taxi which stopped just in front of the holy shrine which against my expectations, was a rather smaller place. Before it slips out of my mind, my praise for Mumbai Taxiwalas. 17 rupees in taxi, In chennai anything below 100 bucks in taxi was out of equation no matter what!

Shrine was a cliff extending in the sea to a fancy distance and led to a  mosque in the middle of the sea. What always amazed me at these religious place was their natural beauty and tranquility of the place. May be the ‘wise of religions’ were really wise enough to sense that religious sentiments and faith won’t be sufficient enough to bind people, natural tranquility and beauty will, where they can really realize peace and divinity which is natural to such places, be an added and necessary requirements. Haji Ali Shrine was no exception, with beautiful sea and soothing breeze always making it a nice experience for followers no matter what community they belong to?

The number of Hindu visitors in the shrine again reminded me of the ages old secular mindset of Hindus which is being tarnished by some extremist group who considers themselves the contractor of Hindu religion. I really doubt if they know Hinduism at all which they clain to patronize. For ages hindus have accepted the inflow of dozens of different clans, communities, faith and nationality with unprtecedented harmony. The much complanied ‘lack of aggression or lack of patriotism can be attributed to this secular Hinduism which could never agitate itself in history on the question of racial divide or communal differences. Whoever is willing to mingle in this great culture was bossomed. If only we could revisit our history, Hindu ideologies, we can find a convincing record of great Hindu religious tolerance since ever. Do we need one more Vivekanand in the times of VHP and Shiv Senas to remind so called Hindu patrons about our great heritage which has prospered like no other culture did, purely attributed to our varied culture and faiths and our willingness to accept anyone who wants to live with harmony. While my mind was dwelling on the lines of Hinduistic tolerance, it also supplied me thoughts about Muslim religious tolerance as well and no matter how secular I might be, it still makes me sad that I dont find such culture and heritage of religious tolerance in our Muslim fraternity. I am not accusing of them anything but only if I could find one example (what surprises me even more, even politics dont seem to give me a single example of this) of a Muslim visiting Hindu shrines ever. I never depended on my much biasssed father’s thoughts about socio-politics but this one arguement of him make me think a lot. Not a single example I ever witnessed. Is someone listening and site me an example. I will be lot relaxed to hear one incident. The other day when we were sitting in our favourite restaurent which is run by a Muslim family, we encountered similar weird experience of intolerance. Avik put down his tumbler on the plate and one stern voice from behind( which definitely lacked any trace of moisture and humbility which you would ,otherwise , so commonly experience in hospitality industry) strongly advised him otherwise. Sissy Avik immediately complied with a meek apology.

I can never justify any communal violence or racial abuse based on any logic whatsoever being a ‘Gandhivadi’ myself but only if we could educate our people more about religious tolerance, we can go distances in curbing the poisoning of communities by their leaders which subsequently lead to violence which our history is so rich to site examples of. This country needs another Gandhi.

Vaishnav Jan to tene kahiye je peer parayi jane re.

So guys and girls!! How good are you at maths of fifth grader? huh! lets see-

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2 =  25

3 =  125 

4 =  625

5 =  ?

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REMEMBER THE FIRST LINE.

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Asso-CET Admission AMUPMDC (Association of Managements of Unaided Private Medical and Dental Colleges) of Maharashtra to declare ASSO-CET results 2008 at their website The image “http://www.amupmdc.org/NEW1A.GIF” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.www.amupmdc.org on June 15 2008 evening.

A Common Entrance Test (AssoCET-2008) is conducted by the Association for admissions to health science courses in private unaided medical, dental, ayurvedic,
homeopathic, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and nursing colleges. The test scores will
be for MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BHMS, BPTh, BOTh, BSc-Nursing courses.

In a shocking revelation, disgraced royal butler Paul Burrell has claimed that he secretly bedded Princess Diana, a leading British tabloid said.

According to the News of the World, the ‘slimy flunky bragged to his wife’s brother Ron Cosgrove that he was on call for sex 24×7. Ron told us: “Burrell said Diana was so demanding. And he told me he’d caught the Queen naked.”

Ron said: “The man has shamed us and made a fool out of my sister Maria. The final straw came when he was caught on video admitting how he lied to Diana’s inquest. I hope I never see him again.”

For 25 years furniture dealer 61-year-old Ron has had a ringside seat at Burrell’s extraordinary rise from humble palace footman to millionaire celebrity.

And he revealed how Diana’s trusted servant dropped his bombshell story of sex with the boss over a drink at the local pub.

“It was 1993 while Paul was working for the princess at Kensington Palace,” he said. “He and Maria came home to Cheshire one weekend and on the Sunday lunchtime Paul specifically asked if he could talk to me in private.

“He clearly had something on his mind so we went to the Peal of Bells in Holt for a few pints. Then during the conversation he suddenly tells me he’s been having a sexual relationship with Princess Diana.

“He said they did it in the bedroom, the bath, everywhere. He claimed Diana liked to be domineering.”

According to the report, Diana’s demands on Burrell eased off when she met and fell for heart surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan.

RPET 2008 exam results have been declared today by Rajasthan Technical board. Results on net are awaited. When they will declare, this post will update you about results

www.dte.org.in has declared results for mh-cet-2008/mht-cet-2008/asso-cet-2008 maharashtramah-mba/mms-cet-2008 result with gdpi marks. Results can be seen at www.dte.org.in .

found link to this great article. The synopsis for later reference

18 mistakes that kill start-ups

1. Single Founder
2. Bad Location
3. Marginal Niche
4. Derivative Idea
5. Obstinacy
6. Hiring Bad workers
7. Choosing the Wrong Platform
8. Slowness in Launching
9. Launching Too Early
10. Having No Specific User in Mind
11. Raising Too Little Money
12. Spending Too Much
13. Raising Too Much Money
14. Poor Investor Management
15. Sacrificing Users to (Supposed) Profit
16. Not Wanting to Get Your Hands Dirty
17. Fights Between Founders
18. A Half-Hearted Effort

The details at http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

CBSE declares pre-medical, pre-dental entrance result
Saturday, 07 June , 2008, 21:51

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education on Saturday declared the result of the All India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Examination.

The examination was held in two stages — preliminary and final. Out of the 1,61,230 candidates registered for the preliminary examination 22,014 candidates qualified for the final examination, a release said.

The first round of counselling will begin from June 13, 2008.

Results are available at http://www.cbseresults.nic.in/

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (U)
English Sathyam 1.15PM

Sarkar Raj (U/A) Hindi Sathyam 4.15, 7.15 & 10.15 PM

The Chronicles Of Narnia Prince Caspian (U/A)
English Santham 11.30AM

Santhosh Subramaniam (U)
Tamil Santham 2.45 & 6.30 PM

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (U)
English Santham 10.15 PM

The Forbidden Kingdom (U)
English Seasons 1.00PM

The Chronicles Of Narnia Prince Caspian (U/A)
English Seasons 3.45 & 10.15 PM

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (U)
English Seasons 7.00PM

Sarkar Raj Hindi Serene 11.45AM

Kuruvi (U/A)
Tamil Serene 2.45 PM , 6.30 & 10.15 PM

Speed Racer (U)
English Studio 5 1.00PM

Aamir (A)
Hindi Studio 5 4.00PM

Sex and the City (A)
English Studio 5 7.15 PM

Jannat (U/A)
Hindi Studio 5 10.30 PM

Bhoothnath (U)
Hindi Six Degrees 1.15 PM

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (U)
English Six Degrees 4.15 PM

The Forbidden Kingdom (U)
English Six Degrees 7.15 & 10.00 PM