MAJOR PEEVES

Every one has peeves. I have my own set too. Read on to find out if your peeves match mine. I hate: -

1. The screeching sound of rusted metal on hard surfaces. Like the sound of a mop's rusted rod rubbing against the floor.. Yuck!


2. The shoddy and third - class advertisements on India TV.


3. Too many people calling out my name at the same time.


4. Too many sorry's and thank you's.


5. People talking too loudly, whether or not on their cellphones.


6. Guys leching openly at girls, and thinking it makes them look cool...be discreet man, its embarassing for the people who are with you.


7. Speaking while chewing on paan. Not only is it an eyesore for people speaking to them, but its also not very pleasurable to have red spittle-droplets being showered on you.


8. Dhoni look-alikes...eeks


9. Girls who giggle too much, especially when they're in groups. No, seriously!


10. Navjyot Singh Sidhu on TV. He laughs like a babboon high on laughing gas and rarely lets others speak.


11. Abhijit Sawant's "Mohabbatein Lutaunga" aarghhh. And then his mouth spray ad - double aarghhh.
12. The donkey who tries to bray tunes whenever he gets an opportunity, and makes crappy poems on INDIAN IDOL. Oh, his name's Anu Malik, is it?


13. The "Yeh hai paaya paaya" qawwaali on THE GREAT INDIAN LAUGHTER CHALLENGE. Ought to be used by the police for torturing suspects for third degree interrogations. I guarantee 101% results [:p]


14. Ravi Shastri and Wasim Akram's "Shaz And Waz" show during cricket match lunch breaks. Let us enjoy our breaks dudes.


15. Some over-hyping, irrsponsible and judgmental media and news channels.


16. Bhoot shows on 'NEWS CHANNELS'..sheesh.


17. Saas bahu dramas on TV. No need to explain why.


18. Shows like "LEFT RIGHT LEFT", "Sanjivani", "Saara Aakaash", etc that start off promising different kinds of stories, but eventually turn into sequels and remakes of point 17.


19. TV journalists asking foreign male celebrities, "So what do you think about Indian women?".. What the hell? Are you TV journalists or pimps?


20. Tele Shopping Network ads. Bizarre. Period.


21. RGV's films and music in his movies. the song lyrics sound as if they've been forcibly translated from telugu to Hindi. And the movies he makes nowadays give stiff competition to another idiot "Kaizad Gustad's" movies. Poor fella, he's lost it.
22. Hip-hop videos. Theyre all the same, lotsa gold chains, skimpily dressed gals, and "yeah, yeah" or "yo, yo"

TOO MUCH FREEDOM?

The Media. Newspapers, magazines, Television, the internet. A powerful and potent weapon. A tool to lend a voice to people deprived of justice. A mighty weapon for mute and meek victims who have been subjected to attrocities and chose to bear it in silence, for fear of being hounded by the oppressors. A channel to keep the naive and ignorant informed about what is happening around the world, even behind the curtains. A boon. Thats what it was meant to be. It sure was a potent weapon when used responsibly. However, as time has progressed, the media seems to have forgotten their greatest commandment, "With power comes Great Responsibilty".

The recent case of Delhi's local news channel Live India's 'Sting Operation' showed us all that perhaps we have glorified the media a little too much and have actually created a monster.

A 'Sting Operation' conducted by Live India proclaimed that Ms .Khurana, a teacher at Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, Delhi, was involved in the making of pornographic movies, and forced her students to feature in them. The channel claimed to have tapes on conversations between a porn dealer asking for supply of girls, and another tape in which Ms Khurana was said to have forced a student of hers into it. But turns out that it was all a sham. The ploice found out that there was a dispute between Ms Khurana and one of the reporter's friends, and in order to teach her a lesson they fabricated the entire episode. And so the channel made a huge hue and cry about it, and used the false evidence to put down the hapless lady. And yeah, we viewers believed them, coz a tape is a tape and counts as true evidence, nevermind that we don't know about the alleged criminal's background. And all the channels go on freely viewing their respective stories on the subject, and straightaway show the defendant as evil and a criminal, and not as an alleged criminal. The media has seemed to proclaim themselves as judges. The poor lady was mobbed and hit mercilessly, her clothes torn, abuses showered on her from all sides. And no one really cared to see if the allegations were true. Why should they? The news and the media can never go wrong, right? Very few news channels like NDTV and CNBC show mature content. Most of them only want to grab the viewers' attention and will go to any lenghts to achieve their end.

Whenever the government proposes media censorship, the media raises their voices in unison, proclaiming it as a violation of rights and an attack on truth.

But is it truth always? Who is going to control this self-righteous monster? Who is going to remind them about their duties and responsibilties, in these times of TRP races?

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070907/43/6kgto.html

ग़म महबूबा है

आप गईं तो खुशियों ने भी रास्ता मोड़ लिया,
सिर्फ दस्तक देती है,

छिप जाती है,

हमारी लाचारी पे हँस देती है,

मज़ाक उड़ती है,

और खफ़ा कर जाती है ।

बस आपकी यादों ने बिना इजाज़त के,

हमसे नाता जोड़ लिया,

और ग़म वो महबूबा बन गया है,

जो आँखों में नमी बन जाती है,

नींद को तबाह कर जाती है,
रूह-ओ-ज़हन को फना कर जाती है ।

पर यह ऐसी महबूबा है जो हरदम साथ निभाती है,

रुला तो देती है हमको यह मगर,

आ-आकर हमसे वफ़ा कर जाती है ।

LIVE FOR TODAY

Received this mail from a netpal of mine...its really beautiful...



As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will.


You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken.


You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love.


So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.


"Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin." ~anonymous~



contributed by - Natasha G, Holland

BOLLYWOOD STEREOTYPES

The hindi film industry. aka BOLLYWOOD churns out hundreds of movies every year. Movies are a reflection of our society, rather they're meant to be. But going by the stereotypes we come across in movies year after year, this is far from the truth.

Allow me to show you some examples.

PUNJABIS

• No matter which part of the world you go to, if you ever come across a Punjabi, it will always be a Sardarji.
• All Sardar couples are comical and loud. The whole family are extroverts and can make you feel at home anywhere.
• Punjabis can break into a Bhangra anywhere, anytime.
• Go to any Punjabi household, at any time of the day, even in the wee hours, you'll be served 'Makkey di Roti' and 'Sarson Da Saag'.
• A Sardar has to just say "Jo Boley So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal' in hopeless times, and he suddenly turn into a superhero who can pull off almost anything. Some stunts can even put Rajnikant to shame.

SOUTH INDIANS

• No matter which part of South India you come from, whether you're a Kannadiga or a Telugu or a Malayali, you are a 'Madraasi' in a hindi movie.
• South Indians eat either Idli or Dosa for breakfast, lunch, dinner, brumch, snacks..........
• South Indians absolutely cannot speak Hindi well.
• Southie males are all dark and wear mundus and chandan teekaas, while the females wear kanjeevaram sarees and gajraas 24x7. They all have thick accents.

CATHOLICS

• Catholic males have only 3 names to choose from - Tony, Robert and Johnny.
• Catholics are heavy boozers and spend 30 hours a day out of 24 drinking fenny or rum or gin or scotch or whiskey or beer or a cocktail of all the above [:P]
• They all wear huge crossesround their necks.
• Females always wear frocks or short skirts and sleeveless tops.
• Catholic aunties are all widows whose husbands have died due to booze overdose. Ironically, the widows go on to own a Desi Daaru bar and drunkards all over India insist on going to 'Aunty's Bar' only.
• Their Hindi is terrible. They say 'Karta' for both males and females.
• Catholics address every thing that has ever walked on the surface of the planet as 'Man'. for eg: "Aye Man, kya karta hai?" can be said to a man, woman or a kid.....or even a dog.

MUSLIMS

• Muslim men have only 3 names to choose from - Abdul, Ali or Salim.
• Every village or mohalla has atleast one respected elder called 'Khan Chacha'. He's eternally dressed in white, has a white beard and holds a rosary.
• Saying 'Ya Ali' makes a Muslim Superman and Batman combined.

OTHERS

• All Sindhis speak in the same Sindhi accent. Its as if the same dubbing artiste has lent his voice to the actors over a period of more than 50 years. And they say 'Addey Babba' once in 2 minutes.
• Bengalis say 'Korta Hai', 'Hoodi Baba', 'Babu Moshaai' and 'Roshogolla' million times a day.
• Nepalis will never lose their Nepali accent, no matter how many years they might have spent in India. Also, they're doomed to be the building watchman or Gurkha. All of them are called 'Bahaadoor'.
• All people from UP and Bihar are country guys who can speak only in Bhojpuri. And they all rear cattle.