Thursday, July 21, 2005

Sixth Harry Potter

Currently I m reading Harry Pottter & Half Blood Prince…Have reached till 9th chapter…
It is going at its usual pace with Harry reaching Hogwartz for his 6th year…and all sorts of fight against He –Who- Should-Not-Be-Named.:)
But what surprised me most is the fear factor (of He –Who- Should-Not-Be-Named aka Lord Voldmort & Associates) that Rowling has generated in wizard community
It just seems very similar to the fear of terrorism that is prevailing in today’s world.
Though Rowling is British and Britain felt the REAL heat only after 7/7 and I assume that the chapters were written well ahead of that…I believe Americans felt quite like this after 9/11 or we Indians are feeling since last 10-15 years and are now get used to it.
Especially the incidents like Wizards being to conscious about their security, or empty markets and shops depicted in the book.
Will try to write more on it as I proceed.

Sunday, July 17, 2005

Wo Beete Din....

Got this article in my mailbox a few days ago...its really heart touching and u will really feel so after reading it.here it goes...
Do you remember those days....
When gulli-danda and kanche (marbles) were more popular than cricket ...
When we always had friends to play aais-paais (I Spy), chhepan-chhepai and pitthoo anytime ...
When we desperately waited for 'yeh jo hai jindagi' ...
When chitrahaar, vikram-baitaal, dada daadi ki kahaniyaan were so fulfilling ...
When there was just one tv in every five houses
When bisleris were not sold in the trains and we were worrying if papas will get back into the train in time or not when they were getting down at stations to fill up the water bottle ...
When we were going to bed by 9.00pm sharp except for the 'yeh jo hai jindagi' day ...
When Holis & Diwalis meant mostly hand-made pakwaans and sweets and moms seeking our help while preparing them ...
When Maths teachers were not worried of our mummys and papas while slapping/beating us ...
When we were exchanging comics and stamps and chacha-chaudaris and billus were our heroes ...
When we were in nanihaals every summer and loved flying kites and plucking and eating unripe mangoes and leechis ...
When one movie every Sunday evening on television was more than asked for and 'ek do teen chaar' and 'Rajni' inspired us ...
When 50 paisa meant at least 10 toffees ...
When left over pages of the last years notebooks were used for rough work or even fair work ...
When 'chelpark' and 'natraaj' were encouraged against 'reynolds and family' ...
When the first rain meant getting drenched and playing in water and mud and making 'kaagaj ki kishtis' ...
When there were no phones to tell friends that we will be at their homes at six in the evening ...
When our parents always had 15 paise blue colored 'antardesis' and 5 paise machli wale stamps at home ...
When we remembered tens of jokes and were not finding 'ice-cream and papa' type jokes foolish enough to stop us from laughing ...
When we were not seeing patakhes on Diwalis and gulaals on Holis as air and noise polluting or allergic agents ...
the list can be endless ... on the serious note I would like to summarise with ...
When we were using our hearts more than our brains, even for scientifically brainy activities like 'thinking' and 'deciding' ...
When we were crying and laughing more often, more openly and more sincerily ...
When we were enjoying our present more than worrying about our future ...
When being emotional was not synonymous to being weak ...
When sharing worries and happinesses didnt mean getting vulnerable to the listener ...
When blacks and whites were the favourite colors instead of greys ...
When journeys also were important and not just the destinations ...
When life was a passenger's sleeper giving enough time and opportunity to enjoy the sceneries from its open and transparent glass windows instead of some superfast's second ac with its curtained, closed and dark windows ...
I really miss .. do u?, i knew u wud do.

Friday, July 08, 2005

OT Photographs

Posted below are some pics fom my organisational training which i completed recently.Most of the pics are frm Orissa(MP & Delhi pics r yet to be developed)....More pics are posted here. :)

Koraput, Orissa Posted by Picasa

Malkangiri, Orissa Posted by Picasa

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Acknowledgement

This post is to acknowledge all those people who helped me in one way or other during two months of Organisational Visit.I m writing them here because it was not possible to incorporate all the names in the report which i will be submitting.

At IIFM, Bhopal

Prof P K Biswas(OT Coordinator) and all other faculty members

At SPWD, Delhi
Mr Vijay Sardana
Mr Pramod Tyagi
Ms Vanita Suneja
Mr Ajay Bhan Singh
Mr R P Agrawal
Ms Pooja
Mr Kanishk

At Vasundhara, Bhubaneshwar
Dr Neera Singh
Ms Rekha Panigrahi
Ms Pushpanjali Sathpathy

At RCDC, Bhubaneshwar
Mr Sanjay Pattnaik

At Vasundhara, Kuchinda & Barkote
Mr Rana Ray
Mr Nihar Ranjan Mishra
Ram Chandra
Basil
Malay

At RCDC, Koraput
Mr Rupen Pattanik
Basant

At Pragati, Koraput
Mr Prabhakar Adhikari

At Parivartan, Malkangiri
Mr Nityanand Pradhan
Mr Nakul Khila

At Gram Vikas, Berhampur
Mr Joe Madhiach
Mr M K Mahapatra

At Sahjeevan, Shahdol
Mr Yogesh Shastri
Ms Suvarna Yogesh
Mr Giridhar Mathenkar
Ms Manisha Mathenkar
Mr Prem Mishra

Government & Bank Officials
DFO, Shahdol
RM, Central Bank Of India, Shahdol
LDM, Central Bank Of India, Shahdol
DDM, NABARD, Shahdol
Officials of OPM, Amlai
Mr Shreyas Goyal, TARAhaat, Delhi
People of different villages, cooperatives,SHGs, Federations of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, without whose responses,support, feedbacks, this work could not have been completed.
Friends, @ IIFM and everywhere else for being in touch continuously.
& Above all, GOD, Mummy, Papa and Rohit for everything.

Back To IIFM :)

So, back to IIFM after more then 2 months.The old schedule and classes have started as usual.Right now have to choose electives for the term.also, starting of hindi blog is also pending.
The good thing is,net connectivity after 2 months and the bad thing is Yahoo Messenger is not working :( because of newlly installed firewall in the Network....So bad , cant talk with any of trhe friends :(..
Anyway, after starting of fourth term, its time to get serious abt studies and placement and carrier...