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Your history makes your Google experience better?? Really?

Google is tracking you and using this data against you. Google keeps records of:

1. Web         : what I Search (google.com)
2. Images     : which image I am looking (google image)
3. News       : which news I am reading 
4. Shopping : what you are shopping
5. Ads          : which ad I clicked 
6. Videos     : which videos I watched (youtube)
7. Maps        : where am I going with address (from google map)
8. Blogs       : which blog I am read
9. Books      : which book you I am reading
10. Finance   : which stocks you I am following

I found that google Web history still have my search history of a word "condom", I searched when I was in school. I was a 12 year old kid. Do you think it should haunt me for my whole life?

I will not allow Google to Abuse me, Embrace me or Blackmail me.
Today, I Turned off this tracking. Now you can think for your future.


Steps to wipe-out history:

1. Logon to Gmail or any Google service
2. Click on your image icon on Right-Top and Click "Account"
3. Scroll down and Click "Account history" (yes it is a hyperlink)
4. Login once again (if asked)
5. Click on "Manage history" at the bottom of First Box you see.
6. Default is "All History"
7. Click on Circular setting icon (dropdown) on Right-Top and Click "Remove Items"
8. Select "the beginning of the time" in the dropdown and click "Remove".
9. Confirm the remove (if asked).

Turn off tracking for future:

1. Click on Circular setting icon (dropdown) again on Right-Top and Click "Settings"
2. Turn off the web History
3. Confirm the selection (if asked).

OH, East is East, and West is West,

OH, East is East,
and West is West,
and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West,
Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!

-Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) 

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FOIA to get copy I-140 Approval Notice

FOIA to get copy I-140 Approval Notice. My experience:

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Autobiography of a Gun (non-military)

Ever since I came off the assembly line, I've dreamed of being used. But what I made to do?

Should I obviously pray that my master had a history of mental illness. And:

• I kill dozens of people in a deadly rampage;
• I mow down an entire schoolyard of shrieking children;
• I might actually get the chance to let loose a torrent of bullets on a roomful of rubberneck.

But, I have to say, the idea of that happening is massively disappointing for me and for my life.


I remember a poem 'Pushp Ki Abhilasha' (by Makhanlal Chaturvedi)
Hindi (original):
    Chah Nahi Main SurBala Ke Gehano Mein Goontha Jaaun
    Chaah Nahi Premi Mala Mein Bindh Pyaari Ko Lalchaaun
    Chaah Nahi Samraato Ke Shav Par He Hari Dala Jaaun
    Chaah Nahi Dewon Ke Sar Par Chadhoon Bhagya Par Itraun
    Mujhe Tod Lena Banmali, Us Path Par Tum Dena Phaink
    Matra Bhoomi Per Sheesh Chadhane,Jis Path Jaayen Veer Anek

English Translation:
    I don't desire to be a part of garland for a beautiful girl,
    I don't desire to woo the lady love,
    I don't desire to rest on the mortals Of Emperors,
    I don't desire to be on the head of Gods to take pride in mere fortune
    Just pluck me O Gardner! Strew me on the path
    On which the Brave tread to sacrifice for Motherland! Let me, in obeisance, bow my head!

Well after reading this poem, not exactly what you’d call a bright future for a precision-engineered killing machine like me. But now I think, it would be fantastic desire, ‘obviously’, that:

• my master had no history of mental illness, and I rest in his wardrobe safe,
• At best, probably end up in some responsible gun owner’s basement and rust,
• Spending the rest of my life plugging paper targets at a shooting range.

It’s awful. I mean, what else am I supposed to do with my life?

Abashed,
The Gun

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God already left INDIA

One of my best memories was going to the movies with my friends. This is year 2003. I had crush on Monica Bellucci and Bruce Willis was one from my favorite actors list too. The movie was “Tears of the Sun”, Showing Africa (Nigeria to be precise) during a highly tumultuous time of past.

I still remember a dialogue from the movie:
when Father Gianni (Pierrino Mascarino) said: "Go with God!"
and Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) replied: "God already left Africa"

I don't particularly believe in God but this phrase seemed to hit me hard because is there just no more hope for the country? It makes me sick. (Although I don't have a right to say anything living here in the cushy bubble of the U.S.)

From where I am looking at India today, "God already left INDIA" too.
The uproar of rebellions, uncontrolled government, goons ruling states ...... what else?

I don't want to take name of any rebellion group or political party, because I am not a Law, nor I am authorized to put sticker of "Rebel" on any one's name. But you have to agree with me that, some of them should be categorized as Threat-to-Nation. I can categorized them because It is a dying shame to see some of them behave so unpatriotically – to unleash the full might of fighting machines on defenseless citizens.

Soldiers are duty-bound, trained, and sworn-in, (upon their blood), to protect their citizens from all harm, currently known or unknown!!
But the merciless killing and maiming of unarmed and harmless citizens leaves one immersed in a state of utter dismay!

You know, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke.

And this is what our political parties are doing; doing nothing. They want to keep running there politics on the issue of caste system, reservation, Naxalites in Tamilnadu, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa. But don't want to get rid of it. They are busy gathering money and sending in their bank accounts in foriegn countries. What else? you know all.

The movie made an impression – I may or may not be impressionable.

We are in an age of 140 characters

Story 1:Today I am x years-old (where 3 < X < 9), and there’s one thing I like about this age, its bedtime stories. My grandparents like kids, but books are certainly right up there. And they used to combine them together every night, and make us a-flutter.

Story 2:Scripture is God’s word, it is also a witness. We know God through the stories. We understand Ram from Ramayana.

Story 3:I am an Engineer. I suppose, as I always strive for the bigger picture and for things & information to be put in a context of data, things like blogging would be a natural venue for me. With no squelching of Pages, Words or characters here often I write science, data, suppositions, views etc.

Story 4:People keeps a diary… personal diary and obsessed with writing there own stories in it.

Now Today:
Suddenly today someone came in my life called 'Social media'. She shortchanges me and diverting my attention so I can tell my story in text messages.

She said, we are in an age where 140 characters, offer an easy substitute for everything.
She said, She is funny or startling or exciting or telling me something or some combination of all of those.

But, this "very different new angle" of mysteriously 140 characters has no supporting background or detail information. It looks they are moving me into their meta-maze with two openings; Death or Appeasement.

No, I cannot be just a people of 'Social media'. We must also be bards, biographers and poets and our content are too grand, too deep and far too wide.

For me 140 Characters Is Not Enough. I can't tell bedtime stories in 140 characters. I can't understand God in 140 characters. I can't understand history in 140 characters. I can't write science in 140 characters. I can't write my personal diary with 140 characters. I can't write poem with 140 characters. And finally.... I can't say how much I love to wife in 140 characters.

Do you want to hear this in 140 characters, here is “MY 140 Characters”:

A Bad Dream or Say Good Nightmare

I guess I want to talk about something I’m going through right now…

All the pain and suffering, all the hardness market put me through in last 1 year is for my own good. Without this I would again let the stupid and weak decide the development of the world and trend of market.

Like, without war it is impossible to unveil the cowards, and because of that the cowards get as much to say as the brave, same as.... Without the hardness, Man becomes coward, mixes with animals and forgets the gods and the creed of the gods. With this market tumbling, Let the Stupid and Weak die!

Well, I have a reoccurring nightmare. The place changes but the theme is always the same. In dream I always read news from a yellow page newspaper:

"Nirnay Bansal, the fourth-largest share trader, has filed for bankruptcy protection, dealing a blow to the fragile global financial system. Bansal had incurred losses of billions of dollars in the Indian share market.

Early Monday morning, Bansal said it will file Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delhi for its holding company in what would be the largest failure of a share trader since the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert 18 years ago, the Associated friend reported."

What does this means?
I became Billionaire
Or I became billionaire and then screwed up.

So yeah. That’s me. Every night before I go to bed, I pray that I don’t have any bad dreams! I hope it works tonight. So, what should I call it A Bad Dream or a Good Nightmare. I don’t know if anyone has any input about it.

- Nirnay

I'm too busy living

Oooooooooh well I never thought for a minute it would be THIS long till I posted again! I had every intention of writing about my day to day stuff, but the truth is … I have been way too busy enjoying my life to post about it! A few of my regular readers have contacted me to say they were gagging for an update … so here goes!!

If you are not busy living, then you must be busy dying. Most of us do this subconsciously and are unaware of which side of this equation we reside on. Sometime I think, Is Lots of Money = Lots of Freedom?
Answer is NO, May be or I don't know. But I never found answer, Yes.

In the evening I asked, hey Nirnay! What's the "best" thing that's happened to you today?
I said, Nothing.

How terribly busy we are, just living our daily life ! Each day just slips by – without our even noticing it. We eat, drink, sleep, work, play, shop, fight, watch TV, and procreate. Surely, we can do something for the Less Fortunate(s), even if it’s just once in a year?

You don’t need to join an NGO or become a social service activist. And you don’t have to commit yourself to any long-term project.

Let’s MAKE A START today, by DE-CLUTTERING our homes and cupboards:
* Take out all the old clothes, bed sheets, sweaters & footwear that you haven’t used in the last two years
* Gather old Toys & Games that your children have outgrown

Pack all these and give it away.

- Nirnay

...And On The Eighth Day, God Created Developers

...And On The Eighth Day, God Created Developers

I am taking a bit of a break from my usual writings and instead am focusing on writing about The Developers.

In the beginning there existed only one Word, and the Word was 'God'.
All else was darkness and void, and without form. So God created the Heavens and the Earth.
He created the Sun, and the Moon, and Stars, so that light might pierce the darkness.
The Earth,,,, God divided between the Land, Air and the Sea.

On the 6th day, God created Men & Women.
On the 7th day, he rested.
...And On The Eighth Day, God Created 'Developers'.

What God said to us is as follows. (This list is by no means exhaustive and I will add to It as I remember more):

God Said: Genesis 2:[18] And the God said, It is not good that the man should be alone;
Developers, you will have NO women!, No or minimum contact with people, LONG hours in the office, Lots of stress and No social life.

God Said: Genesis 2:[21] And the God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept:
Developers, you will be not much of an early riser and prefer to sleep a bit late in the morning. You will be more of a late to bed and late to rise kind of person.

God Said: Genesis 2:[??] God said, Let us make man in our image; who always love.
Developers, your first love will be a computers.

God Said: Genesis 2:[31] God saw everything that he had made, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning a sixth day.
Developers, You can enjoy, spend, drink and dance, but you will have to wait for the weekend.

God Said: Genesis 3:[25] And God made the beast of the earth after his kind;
Developers, you will always see two persons always next to you:
1 – The PM (Project Manager), giving a pleasant smile every time we see him/her.
2 – The TL (Team Leader), busy in scheduling work for us and busy in his/her own world

God Said: Genesis 3:[28] God said, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it;
Developers, You will get frustrated, bored, overburden as a Software developer then you will sacrifice, work hard and become an Entrepreneur. But you will always open a Software Start-up and hire bunch of other Software Developers to work for you. This way your race will Multiply in same industry.

God Said: 7 Genesis 4:[7] If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is couching at the door;
Develops, You will never understand performance appraisal process.
If you deliver project with quality and on time, then you will lack in Business communication and leadership;
And if you prove your leadership and communication skills, then you will lack in new technology and you need self-learning classes.

God Said: Developers, you will manage and managed by good, bad and ugly managers.

God Said: .....
 
 
a Software Developer,
Nirnay

Now to the reception

WOW! It's going to be easy to describe how amazing the Indian receptions are.

Rules:
1. What happens is... the bride and grooms have to stand on stage all night.

2. Everyone wants bridge to be the Indian version of Barbie doll. With 10-15 Kg of Ghagra and on the top of it, lots of gold jewellery.

3. Everyone wants groom to be the Indian version of King Akbar, in a funny Sarafi with lots of Embroidery using Silver and Gold threads, and you never want to see that suite in your wardrobe again.

4. Expect atleast 500-700 guests there if not more I would say. And you hardly know 10% of them, including your first relatives.

5. There was a long line up on the left side of the hall, or right side of bridge and grooms, coming towards them, with 4 folded envelop in there hand. They give you this envelops while shaking hands.... It's was hard for me to understand that I am shaking hands, or taking bribe.

6. On stage, as each guest properly speaks little more than his name and conventional greetings ("badhai ho") or just word "Congratulations", the line progresses steadily without unnecessary delays.

7. If they said Congratulation and don't go forward, apparently that was a sign from guests that it is time to take photos with us. Well, later you can count all guests that attended our wedding ceremony from that photo, because they NEVER claim there photo from you.

8. From the stage, You will see some OLD aged ladies, seating in front of your stage, commenting on the other women’s saris, the size of the gold lockets, and their mangal sutras (wedding necklaces), AND the quality of the food! (which in there terms are always bad).

9. You can expect atleast one couple in the line-up holding 3 feet/3 feet large box. I prayed to god, please I don't want to hold this, hope this is her gift.... well she was praying the same thing that this should be my gift.
She Won! :(

10. We saw that all were mingling and enjoying the buffet, EXCEPT us.

11. Food everywhere...there were people walking around with every type of food imaginable with fast pace, and they genuinely seemed sad if they not able to taste all the stalls. Once again, EXCEPT us.

12. Last.... If someone unknown comes on stage, greet you and give you some gift... and if you think this is not my relative, probably her... well 8 out of 10 time she is also thinking same thing ;)

And that is Indian reception in a nutshell!

Did my life change after marriage?

I got married on Jan 26th, 2011. It is purely a arrange marriage. After that, I asked 1 million times; Did my life and/or my attitude towards life has changed?

Well...I can't touch Beer anymore. That's because my boss and supreme commander (you know who?) has certain philosophical and health-related disagreements with it. After several threats and arguments Pepsi, Coke etc has been almost knocked out of the system. Now the long drive habit is under attack and unfortunately that will fade out of my life as well.

Above answers are probably some superficial things. But the truth is way more then this;

Few days back, I decided to seriously search for the answer. I was drawn to the foggy window which induced a stroll in the open terrace. I was feeling a long grey ghost trailing behind me. My silence was usually presumed as thoughts about my earlier lifestyle.

1.
I always complained about bad-taste food to my mom. Yesterday when I was doing lunch at office, the vegetable was tasted salty and sour. Few hours later I got call from her (my wife), asking me in soothing voice about lunch. I said “mmm….. O.K.”, meant “not bad taste... I could bear it" I said so just because the truth may hurt her. But that statement hurted her more, because she already knew during her lunch that vegetable tasted bad. For the first time I felt guilty about complaining about cooking skills.

2.
My heart stopped for a moment when she told me that her ring is missing. I relaxed after bothering Anurag (my friend) over phone that it was safe at his house, because we were there on weekend.

Was I so much heedful before?
No, never had I. I still remember how I was reluctant when my sister misplaced her ear ring and was pleading me to search for it.

3.
Arguments are always an essential part of my life. I always peep in to the common issues to disagree with my peers/friends to prove that they are wrong.

But did I do that at home now?
My head nods “no". I do not need to prove my smartness at home. Harmony of opinion is just an expression of brand loyalty, the product of best husband.

4.
Irresponsibility at mom’s home can be excused as a privilege, but after marriage every women requires emotional and physical investment to identify and accept the “major transition” in her life. I unknowingly intimate to conquer my life’s love but at the same time want to exile more in my professional life. I want to be responsible and caring like a naturalized person.

This doesn't mean that I was a rough kind of a person. What all I've felt is that it has made me more responsible and caring towards her. Earlier it was like "I'm happy"; now it is "We are happy".

I have many instances to quote the “difference” in myself, from yearning for a call to organized room. I know my priorities, life style, preferences, likes, dislikes, longings, “food habits”…….etc have undergone a major shift.

I doubt whether I lost my originality after marriage. I am convincing myself that this is a “normal change”.


- Nirnay

I need to Confess

The practice of Confession is conducted between a confessor and a priest, sometimes within a confessional box or booth. But I am using my blog.

Yes, its time I should come clean about my guilty pleasures. Some are cool, some are not. Some are masculine, some are not. Some are something I am proud to admit, some are not. These are the first 101 Confessions of my sin, or at least of sinfulness.

Confession #9
When I was a child, my dad would walk me to school. I would hop over the cracks. He told me “If I hop the crack I could break my knees”. I loved you so much. I made sure never to step on a crack.

Now I make sure I step on every crack.
But I know it won’t do anything.
I do it just to love you.

Confession #14
In my childhood, I punctured many vehicles in and around my apartment. Apology to all those neighbours who; didn't returned my cricket ball, said no for loud singing, showed me attitude, asked there kid not to play with me and said I am spoiled and a poor student too.

Confession #21
I loved many girls during my short life, but never said to anyone. I always guessed they didn't love me. It’s the worst feeling in the world to love someone and know they do not love you back. My heart still hurts.

Confession #29
In the childhood I poured two gallons of old gasoline into my backyard. I’ve done it after too... and after too. I know its bad for the environment but I did it. Actually, that gasoline was from our neighbour Thakur uncle's car. Because he told me not to touch his car.

Confession #36
I got lots-&-lots of friend in my life. Thank you to all friends, for being the best friends I could ask for, and for being random and funny and caring in your ways. You were such a best friend who single-handedly raises my family's suspicions about my sexual orientation. Please keep distance from me now.

Confession #41
I miss one summer, when she came to my neighbourhood for summer break, she used to stop-by with ice-cream or coffee or nothing at all, just for 5 or 10 minutes, just to say hello to me. Then she left after summer break. I don’t need ice-cream or coffee or 10 minutes or even 5. I just need Hello again.

Confession #50
In last few years, many times I wanted to kill myself & the reason I haven’t tried is because I know there exist some people in this world, who would kill themself if I did.

Confession #66
When I got admission in engg, it was like; once in my life im happy. I have started a whole new academy, new friends, and new area to explore. I have got more opportunities then I had before and do you know what? I am not really that bothered I have left my childhood friends behind. Yes this may seem self-centred but these new college people are so mature and with them I had chance to grow up and become an adult.

Confession #78
 To the last girl I liked; I wish I could tell her how perfect she is, and I wish it could be me who ends up being with her... I wish I could feel the warmth of her hugs. I think I love her.

Confession #98
I am lazy. I want a magic carpet or a genie in a bottle. So I wouldn't have to come downstairs to grab a coke or pizza from refrigerator.

Confession #101
Sorry to all my Project Managers for coming late everyday.

- Nirnay

Bollywood version of Movie Inception

Name: Name issue is still open and following are some suggestions:
Shola aur Inception
Inception : Some dreams lie
Om Inception Om
Inception is King
De Dana Dan Inception
Mey, mera Inception aur vo
Shootout in Inception
Ram Gopal Verma ka Inception
Ajab Inception Ki Ghazab Kahani
Inception-e-Ishq
Hum Inception dekh chuke sanam
Inception kiya to darna kya
Chak-de Inception

Movie starts with Song:
Neend mey kya hey, dream
Dream mey kya hey, idea
idea kya hey, inception heyyyyy


Background
A dark-skinned Dubai-based criminal Don Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar), has a fair-skinned sister Sanjana Shetty (Deepika Padukone). They are extremely rich and influential family. Don wants Sanjana to get married into a well-to-do family.

Dev Cobb (Sunil Shetty) is very poor and often cannot afford to cloth himself properly. He lives with his old blind mom in a village. He sees Sanjana during a football match between Mumbai and Mohan Bugan. He falls in love at first sight. With and after several denials from Sanjana, she is also in love with Dev. They decide to get married.

When Sanjana puts forward the proposal of marrying Dev Cobb, her don brother threatens to kill Dev if sanjana keeps seeing him. He wants Sanjana to marry Ram (Akashya Kumar) in Delhi, the only son of a famous neurosurgeon Dr. Ghungroo (Paresh Rawal).

When Sanjana explains the situation to Dev Cobb, he discloses the greatest secret of his life. Dev's father who was a professor of Psychology had invented a mind stealing and idea implanting technique known as "Inception". He had also taught the technique to Dev. Dev then takes Sanjana to the basement of his house, where Dev's father went in the dream world and trapped in limbo, a world of unconstructed dreams.

He thinks that he can incept the idea that Dev is the best guy for Sanjana in Don's mind.


Plot:
Hero carries a spinning top to determine whether he is awake or dreaming: in dreams, the top spins unceasingly, whereas in the real world it will eventually topple.

Hero reveals to his friends, that he is auditioning the team to perform the far more difficult act of inception: using dreams to implant an idea in Don's mind.

The objective of the inception is to convince don for marry heroin with Dev Cobb. Hero took "B'ful item dancer" (MalikaArora), a forger who can change appearance and design inside dreams and a sedative chemist friend Jay (Amitabh Bacchan).

Hero and the team share the flight with don back to Delhi (where he is going to talk to reach guy for his sister's marriage) and drug him.

They enter in hero's dream, a rainy downtown area, and kidnap don. However, they come under attack by don's trained subconscious projections, and hero is badly injured.

They immediately took a van and are sedated to enter the second dream (item dancer's), a dream within a dream, which takes place inside a hotel, where item dancer attracts don. A member stays behind at each level with synchronized kicks: Chemist friend driving the van off a bridge, Item Dance sending an elevator containing the team's sleeping bodies upwards in a zero gravity sequence.

Deep in the third-level dream, after flipping coin with same head both side Chemist friend Jay is killed by Don's army and goes into limbo.

Hero and item dancer return to the Hotel where he comes to the conclusion that Don loves her and wanted to marry item dancer and he should allow his sister to marry hero and let them live happily.

The next scene takes place back on the plane to Delhi with everyone awake and well. Don honors sister's love; and ask Dev Cobb spins his top to test reality and marry her sister.


Cast
Nana Patekar as Don (Uday Shetty)
Sunil Shetty as Hero (Dev Cobb)
Priyanka Paduka as Heroien (sanjana)
Malaika Arora as The Dancer (Special appearance in item song)
Amitabh Bacchan as Chemist (Jay-Veeru)
Nirnay Bansal as Movie Director
Sujat Dahal as Movie Producer


Soundtrack
Song Singer(s) Music Director
Hoth Shreya Ghosal Anand Raj Anand and Aadesh Shrivastava
Insha Shaan, Akruti Kakkar Himesh Reshammiya
Kola Laka Vellari Himesh Reshammiya Himesh Reshammiya


Box office
According to boxofficeindia.com, this movie will open to a massive response, it will gross more then Rs. 500 million in its first week, which exceeded Dhoom 2's opening. Within two weeks, movie will gross around Rs. 76 crores, despite facing competition from the highly successful, Aamir Khan's Taare Zameen Par and will declared a blockbuster.

My First Kiss - The Osculate

It is said that one never forgets his first kiss.

Here I am, fifteen years later I can still remember that summer night. I was in the 10th grade. Komal was in the 8th grade. She lived next to my apartment. She had a pretty face and an outstanding charm. She was an ordinary girl. I liked her. I really liked her.

The only time&place I could see her was at between the stairs of the 2nd and 3rd floor of her apartment returning from temple at 7:00 PM. Standing in a corner of stairs, I watch this angel come towards me every evening. I liked her innocence and fragility. The day she didn't appear, I felt something missing. I can't explain the feeling except it's a kind of uneasiness.

I never smiled, never tried to talk, never whistled or did anything unusual. I was quiet. May be because I was too busy watching her. She never said anything also. She was a good actor, and me a demanding director. I did it for "8 long months" without exception.

One day I got the news that she was moving out of her apartment and this might be her last visit to temple. I ran to the stairs again. The weather was perfect, moon was full. She came, I moved one step towards her and ironically, without thinking anything I blurted out, "I like you. I think you can't leave without me kissing you". I didn't know what to say more. It was totally impulsive, somewhat wreckless, and completely unlike me...

She looked up at me. I looked down at her. She looked up at me. I looked down at her. She didn't said any word. The longest second of my life passed between us before she smiled. She had a smile that could win millions.

I grabed her by the waist and pulled towards me.

She was shivering as if ants were climbing over her leg.

Suddenly her right duppata goes off of her shoulder; I moved my right hand from her waist and put her dupatta back on the shoulder.

I looked at her eyes. The Wind was gently blowing her hair. Her heart was racing. She was passive and shy holly.

I hugged her, I dropped down my head close to her, and then her lips touched my lips.

One curve Osculated over the other. It was a slow touch of her lip curve with mine, making a perfect Tangent.

After a while, she put her arm around me. I liked it! I liked Komal. Maybe, I loved her. I was a giddy school-boy happy for the first time in a long while.

Next day, she left Forever!

-Nirnay

What is Freedom?

Freedom means freedom to be stupid. We never need freedom to do the smart thing. We don't need freedom to eat, sleep or dance. Because Freedom means freedom to be stupid. I love my freedom of stupid.

I got my Florida driver's license few days after I came here, and I could safely drive little Nisan Altima 1996 model, which cost me just $1800. The Car is enggineered for 6'2" max, so I have only three extra inch to squeeze in. My little Altima doesn't go faster than 55 miles per hour ;). I can pull into my compact designated parking space and in my garage at any sloppy angle.

Then I bought Hummer, a four-wheel "heavy metal thunder". It is "Born in the U.S.A.". You have that feeling of being strong and safe, high on your pleather throne, above the fray, above the danger, not having to listen to anyone or anything. You have the power to run over anyone else on the road.

I also bought new line t-shirt... "Kill one of ours, I'll kill 100 of yours" :)

Now it looks like the Hummer will be no more. President Obama has taken over GM and he wants fuel economy of 35 miles per gallon. The Hummer gets like 8-12 miles per gallon. The new standards would barely allow a Hummer to run. American auto manufacturers are thinking in terms of electric vehicles so the disgusting smoke will come out of coal smokestacks many-many miles away, and not right out of the tailpipe where you can see it, smell it and enjoy it.

I'm not just sad, I'm also angry on this news. We're all making bad choices all the time, and most of mine are way stupider than yours.

There's a feeling of stupidity one gets when one sits behind the wheel of a really big stupid vehicle. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid looking. Ya, you don't need an Attack-vehicle for the Starbucks drive through. Hummers are stupid and wasteful and if the company go away to china because no one wants it from GM, that'll be sad. It's always a little sad to lose some stupid. I love people doing stupid things that I'd never do.

It reminds me that although all over the world we humans have so much in common, so much love, and need, and desire, and compassion and loneliness, some of us still want to do things that the rest of us think are bug-nutty. Some of us want to eat sheep's heart, liver and lungs, some of us want to play poker, some of us want a Broadway music and some of us want to drive a Hummer. Yes having a Hummer is stupid, because freedom is required to drive it.

- Nirnay

I am not the Author of this article, I read it somewhere. You can claim your authorship at: nirnaybansal at gmail.com

India Without Last Name

India Without Last Name

: A Foresight in Preventing Fragmentation on Religious & Caste Lines

"A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a full name. Many dictionaries define 'surname' as a synonym of 'family name' and 'last name'. In concentrated population, only first name for individuals is insufficient to identify an individual, therefore the first name with the last name intimates to address an individual."

To validate above theory, I tried combinations of name on Google to find one individual, but found multiple records for each name. Also typed my own name Nirnay Bansal on Google and found 2 records (including me). And that's true, there is no-way you can identify a human by the combination of few meaningful words.

I went to the history and found that, before 14th century only name, title, or epithet concluded the person's name. The Etymology Dictionary written by Douglas Harper suggest that, family name first appeared in the early 14th century. It was called “over” name. The new noun “over” or “sur" meaning “above” became “sur-Noun” and finally “surname”. Ever since many countries have adopted and enforced the use of family names including France, Netherlands (1811), Japan (1870s), Thailand (1920), and Turkey (1934).

India is a country of utmost cultural, religious and linguistic diversity. Since there was no common ground, people started adopting last names based on patronymics (Agrawala- descendants of King Agrasen), occupations (Chamar, Patwari, Purohit), caste (Pillai, Sindhi, Vaish), name of places (Marwari, Mangeskar, Kapoor) and bestowed titles (Nawabs, Rao, Thakaran).

After India gained independence, the Constitution of India listed some erstwhile groups as Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The framers of the Constitution believed that they might deny equal opportunity in Indian society and though need reservation. It was started in India in 1902 with 50% reservation in ONLY "services" for backward classes/communities in the State of Kolhapur. The system was later extended to private and public educational institutions. At present, in day to day practice, with creamy layer theory the reservation works out to near 69%.

The quota system was fundamental in mitigating backwardness of the socially and educationally backward communities who did not have adequate representation in these services and institutions. Currently, categorization on caste or religious bases is nothing but "vote-bank politics". Recently, students in the primary and secondary schools of Muzzafarpur were even asked to mention their caste in the annual exam answersheet to avoid any discrimination between students. ouchhh.....

I tried finding out the cause of being "denied equal opportunity in Indian society" and "racial discrimination".

Answer is simple and straight... Caste/Religion.

Then I tried finding root cause of this cause.

And the answer I found is, "Last name". Yes, actually last name discriminate caste and religions.

You never being discriminated, never being denied respect, never loose opportunity in Indian society... iff you get rid of last name. Can we get rid of this great cause of all the problems?

Why not. We can, infact we did similar things in the past. Whenever last names became a liability to threaten human existence or to impose restrictions and deny equal opportunities to the people, they have been either removed or modified. Few well known examples are:

1. Jews, Chinese Indonesians and Thais replaced there surnames to avoid prosecution during World War II.

2. Many people from Tamil Nadu and Kerala use initials in front of their names to avoid cast discrimination. For ex "Prashantha A", where "A" might stands for Anjuri (OBC), Arji (OBC), Adusumilli (General), Adapa (ST) or etc.

3. Dravidian movement. Since many companies in the industry managed to filter candidates just by looking at their names, the Dravidian movement in the beginning of 20th century was instrumental in knocking off the concept of surnames from TamilNadu.

If we did it in the past, then why can't we do it now? After removing last name, you might face initial problems, either in filling application for passport or within the society. But let's join Indonesia, where some Indonesians still don't have last name. Going forward in life they just use Dr. Er. Jr. or Ir. (BSc in Arts) as last name in there passport and other Govt Documents. Some Javanese also use there parents first name as part their full name. On the birth certificate, the child's name would be written as:

Rita child of Jon and Angela

On a diploma and certificate, the child's name would be written as:

Rita child of Jon

They never want you to be united. Do you remember "Divide and Rule" policy? Instead of solving country's problem of denied respect and discrimination, politicians are increasing problems by categorising us. Let's gather and remove last name. Let's deny mentioning your caste in UID (Aadhaar) program of India. Let's stop writing last name of your kids during admissions in school and give your child a discrimination free India.

Politicians have their five year plan, Do you have yours?

- Nirnay

- Sujat (MD)

(without last name)

Special Thanks to: Kalavathi, Anurag

Marriage Economics

I actually want to say that India is probably one of the most materialistic civilizations where prestige and status is defined by wealth and all other good stuffs. Materialism and superficiality are not new in my subcontinent. The levels are just being magnified now. Let me tell you the hidden truth, the idea that Indians are really spiritual people, is just marketing.

I am talking about Marriage Economics "A dissertation".

The costs of marriage are adding up day-by-day and becoming a multi-million Rupee (INR) celebration (does anyone really want to call this "insanity" a celebration). There are so many customs and traditions that the Indian's (yes, Hindu, Muslim, Punjabi's etc) take into account. Sagai (book a hall, buy gifts and sweets for other family), Mehandhi (hire mehendhiwalas, they don't come cheap), Ladies Night (book a hall, hire a DJ), Marriage (clothes for bride or groom, jewellery often 22 carat gold, hire of a venue or hall, hire of a DJ) and many more items such as the reception and gifting to guests.

I think there added pressure when a NRI get marry. They make wedding ultra expensive to show there relatives that, they are doing well financially. Waoooooo one more example of frivolity of Indians.

So why these idiots do it?

Absolutely correct "ego". Ego has a huge factor on the wish for big weddings

a) To show off one's alleged wealth and thinks horror of horrors, people will think that we "can't afford it".

b) So that people/community/"samaaj" don't think that one is too miserly to splash out on an expensive wedding for one's children.

My brother said, There's a lot of stuff people spend money at wedding that isn't about the core of a wedding, which is getting family and friends together and celebrating.

Ohh so you spent 10 lkh Rupee on a get-together party.... haha ha hahaa. Give me the gun, I wanna shoot myself.

My roome argued one day; Nirnay, it's the most special day a couple can have and so why shouldn't it be over the top and expensive. Sometimes it's the simple things in life that make you truly happy. Down the line in life, when you look back, you will be chrish to remember your wedding day.

ohhh ohhh now don't play game of emotional "atyachar", which you learned from "rotlu" Sharukh Khan. Let's talk in figures. Average couple is 26 years old, so the money would have roughly 40-50 years to grow. Couples who lay out the median cost of a wedding nearly INR 10,00,000 in 2009, actually missing:

Actually missing 37.5 Crore to 167.7 Crore in wealth accumulation over a lifetime by One Time Investment Plan from ICICI Prudential.

OR

Lets don't talk about private players... they assure you something, then suddenly ditch you. Let's take Post Office Saving, which doubles money every 7-8 years.

So 10,00,000 becomes 3.2 Crore in 40 yrs or 6.4 Crore in 50 yrs.

OR

Actually missing 4.5 Crore to 11.7 Crore in wealth accumulation over a lifetime by Jeevan Aastha policy from LIC. (LIC is Govt organization, it is fully owned by the Government of India)

(http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/retirement/roi-calculator.aspx)

My friend Anurag told me; laa-l-la-laa... Nirnay is an idiot, Nirnay is an idiot. Who will gonna calculate the Rate of Inflation.... laa-l-la-laa...

So my dear friend, Nirnay is not an idiot. Let's calculate money after Rate of Inflation. (I found data for last 30 years only from 1980 to 2009). Average inflation rate of last 30 years was 8.004% per annum with minimum 3.77% in 2001 and maximum 13.23 in 1998.

So, couples who lay out the median cost of a wedding nearly INR 10,00,000 in 2009:

After average inflation of 8%, actually missing, 16 Crore to 34 Crore via ICICI Prudential or 4 Crore to 5 Crore via Jeevan Aastha policy from LIC.

(http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calculator.htm)

Can you believe, Total number of marriages performed in India in 2007 are 1 crore and Total number of reported marriages through shaadi.com in 2007 is 7.2 lakh.

Now you know, your crazyness cost you and India between 5-150 Crores per marriage. And then multiply this to 7.2 lkh marriages from shaadi.com and count the zeros. (Just leave 1 crore marriage as of now ;) )

Indians you have to realise that you have to stop pretending and spending your life savings on proving you are just as good as others!

Well, to be honest with you, I still want to spend this much money on my marriage, but then instead of this holocaust and show-off, I just want to give a engagement ring cost more then 5 Lkh to my bridge, by diamond producer De Beers. From me..... A BIG no-no for foolhardiness and thoughtless 2-3 day wedding.

On my last serious note, along the commitment to "honour and cherish" we should add a new vow: "Before spending seven figures -- on a lavish party or anything else -- I promise to ponder whether the expense aligns with our deepest values and enhances or compromises our and countries financial well-being."

An Indian,

Nirnay Bansal