The last time I did something for the first time

I've always felt inspired by Emirates' punch-line :"When was the last time you did something for the first time ?".
The last Sunday (10th Dec), I went to a see a live game for the first time in my life.
Me and a friend went to see India play Pakistan in a champions trophy match.
India won by 3-2 .The atmosphere was electrifying, the Indian crowd just went mad (both of us too).
Because of all the shouting and cheering I actually had a pain in my throat afterwards!!!

I was just wondering how exciting life would be if I try to do something for first time everyday? Or if that's too much perhaps every week? That's more manageable I guess.

Awaaz uthao neend se jagega india

Mr Narayan Murthy decison to resign from the chairmanship of BIAL (bang international airport ltd)
is understandable, it comes in the wake of shocking remarks made by the Ex PM Mr Deva Gowda.

Even though to most educated people Mr Murthy command far more credibility and respect than My Gowda, the pity is than nothing much seems to be happening because of that.

Bangalore's crumpled infrastructure is going to remain just that until our politicians really wake up.

Coming to specifics Mr Gowda claims that Mr Murthy didn't do much as chairman of BIAL. The fact is Mr Gowda and his party have done everything possible to stall the very same project as well as other prestigious projects in Karnataka.

What these people don't realise is that quality infrastructure will open gates of development in their state and benefit everybody. They are only concerned about their
short term benefits. Such myopic vision from a former PM of India is a matter of great shame for the whole country.

In another part of the country Ms Mamta ( of Samta-Mamta fame) have opposed the allocation of 65 acres of land for a upcoming motorcycle plant in WB. She says that she is all for protecting farmer interest. Does she means is that there should be no industries in WB??

When will India wake up?

I like those NDTV India's promos:

Awaaz uthao neend se jagega india ....Awaaz uthao .....

Sawaal poocho ....

Kadam bhadao....

pretty inspiring.

Book Review of "Five Point someone" by Chetan Bhagat

Here is the review of the book "Five point someone",  I wrote sometime back:

Written in a simple , non-fussy, informal language the writer relives his IIT Delhi days and After reading it I too was lost in the memories of my college days! . I bought the novel on my weekend trip to bangalore, I was staying in IIM Bangalore's hostel with Tarun, so got the opportunity to read this book in a "college like" setting. Finished it off on the night of 21st-22nd may . Even though this may not come out on the list of bestsellers or one of the classics, but I think its a must read for anybody who's been to college. The story revolves around 3 undergraduates, Hari , Alok and Ryan studying in IIT Delhi. Hari falls in love with one Prof Cherian's daughter Neha. As they indulge in more and more "extra curricular" activities their grades fall and always remain on the fringes of 5 something , hence the title. Even though the title also says "what not to do at IIT", it doesn't seems like writer's advice! The background of the writer interests me (may be coz I don't have it :-) , an IITD - IIMA passsout Chetan is working for a MNC bank in hongkong.

Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance

I am reading this classic for the past one month or so. It has so deep
underlying meanings that its taking a lot of time to sink in. I am not able
to read more than a couple of pages at a time. Yeah it gets dry at times but
still has some 'hard to describe' feel to it which doesn't let me putting it off.

A must read for everybody. I have not finished it yet and I am already planning to reread it.

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Bought "The Story of my experiments with truth" yesterday (Gandhi Jayanti).

One more book added in my pile of unread books lying at home...

I am writing here after a long long time ....in the hindsight if I observe the reason why I started blogging, I can't identify with them anymore.

I guess I started blogging because I was fascinated by the popularity of some of the blogs I saw on the net and there was a deep underlying wish to have a blog of my own like them.

More than a year later and having seen a lot of friends' blogs, that thinking has gone. now I am starting to blog for myself :-) !

Testing

Just trying to try blogging via email. if this works
its cool!