Comments to Amitabh Blog

Friends few weeks back I came to know that our Gr8 Amitabh Bachchan has started blogging..as a gr8 fan of him ..I started browsing every day ...and believe ..he has very good command on Pen...the way he pen down the things is amazing....Giving comments to his blog is like directly talking to me..like dreams come true.

I have given few comments to some of his blog, but the current comment was given for "Day 26" ..and I feel this comment is very near to me...read it in your spare time...or visit http://bigb.bigadda.com and read all the comments given by his fan..



Dear Sir,

How r you ? read your “Day 26″ blog..believe me …I can only say ” AAPKI KALAM MEIN DUM HAIN”..no I am not joking..its true. THanks for sharing with us your thoughts.

We saw your new movie “BHOOTNATH” My daughter Shagun who is 7 years old started crying when you became “Star Angel” and she was asking …..whether you will not come again as “BhootNath” ..Somehow we convience her that this is a movie and it is just a climax.

I was seeing some of the comments which has given against BHOOTNATH..some folks are critisizing you for acting in BHOOTNATH..Being a citizen of this country everyone has right to speak and since you are a great actor …so you have huge fan following so people can give you a suggestion ( good or bad) . But I am not happy with those comments..I feel this movie is very good movie..not only for kids but for elders…I don’t know what people expects …in the name of Mature subject and bla ..bla bla…. I think they don’t have knowledge that what movie is all about …Anyway I don’t want to waste your time on discussing on this topic …THe movie is simple superb ..apart from entertainment ..it has message as well …..that in current scenario where going US or abroad is passion and fashion both …young generation should think about their old parents as well.. Today we can see Old age home in India and their numbers are increasing day by day…this is really sad. Thanks for making such a nice movie…keep coming in movie like this and entertain us.

ALso one request I am not sure whether you will notice or not but still I am requesting ..in your blog please share some of the memorable moments of your life ( more related to your filmy career) with us as well….we would like to know more about you through this medium.

If possible please visit my blog at http://shalabhg23.blogspot.com
and let me know your comments…I know it is next to impossible for you due to your busy schedule..but still I am hopeful

One last thing …when do yo go to Bed…I can see you spend time on blog in odd hours..Hats off to you …one thing which we can learn ..success is not coming easily ..you have to sacrifice a lot ..and one of them is ….sleeping time!!. Even I feel if you can have sound sleep for few hours ..it would be more than enough …I am also trying to improve myself ..have got little bit success ….and able to reducing my sleeping time ….this has given me lots of things to do during that time..and this is possible by determination, Yoga and little bit of meditation. how about you …pls do share with us..if possible.

Best Regards
Shalabh





Let me tell you I personally feel Bhoothnath is a superb movie ...and you must go with your family and enjoy...

Bye & Best Regards
Shalabh

A trip to a wonderland - North of Wales

Last week was a easter weekend and we decided to visit Stonehenge and North wales. We had four days of holidays and with four of my friends we plan our Bank holidays like this. The First day - the Friday we plan to visit Radha Krishna Temple in Coventry as 21st March 2008 was the Gaur poornima- The Birth day of Chatanya maha Prabhu. We celebrated the Birth day with the devotees and at the end we had "Holika Dahan" Function as well. It was a very good experience. For me it was like I am in India and participating in Holi festival. Although the climate was very cold but we had a great time.

Next day morning, we planned to start for Stonehenge around 9:30 a.m. GMT but because of cold weather, we somehow started around 12:30 p.m. GMT. We were five, Bharani - a Geo Scientist in UK firm, Madhu, Bala and Setu all are S/w engineer by profession and myself, and we planned to hire a car and visit the place by car only. So as I was saying we started our journey at 12:30 p.m. GMT on Saturday morning and we reached Stonehenge around 2:30 p.m. GMT. The day was very cold...we have seen snow falls while our way to StoneHenge. Sgtonehenge was awesome, this has been built 7000 years ago ...after this it has been rebuilt two more times. It is very difficult to tell why this has been built but this structure is good misture of Science and mystery. There is some link to this structure and movement of Heavenly bodies like Sun, Moon etc. but till now it is a big mystery for whole world. This site has been declared by World Heritage site by UNO...and it deserves !!...After seeing the structure lots of things were coming to mind...I was thinking about the people of ancient time...they were really intelligent...it was really tough to bring those heavy stones from 245 miles from the Mountains of Wales and build the structure. I will try get more details about this!!!

Next day we started for North of Wales,,,,our first destination was Barmouth which is basically coastal belt of North of Wales. While going to this place on the way we have seen natures wonder...a high mountains half covered with snows and half with greenary ....the cattles ..specially sheeps were on the green landscapes.....there was narrow guage railway line ...where you can see steam engine of 19th century with beautiful boggies.....actually this narrow line connect most of the part of wales....
We spent most of the time in capturing the moments in our camera...while on the way to Barmouth. We reached Bar mouth in the afternoon..the weather was very cold there...the city was small but very beautiful...we had fun on the beach ....the City was protected by mountain from one side where was at the other side there was an atlantic ocean. Overall the city was very small and very beautiful. We had lunch there in an Indian resturant "Alisha"...After that we started for the small city near Snowdonia mountain which is the highest peak of UK. Again on the way enjoyed the beauty of nature to full extent. We reached there in the evening around 5 p.m. GMT....After seeing the small city in the valley of Snowdonia mountain I was shunn....for a while...nature can be so beautiful I never imagined.....very beautiful house...Very old style of lamp post ( 19th century lamp post ) at road side, a beautiful river which is going through the middle of the small village. full of greenary ....and mountains are partly covered with snow ..partly with greenary...I think I don't have enough words to explain the beauty of mother nature...It was Heaven ..that's all I can say ....I wanted to stay there for some more time..unfortunately this was not possible ....I promised to myself that I will come here again ....We stayed there in the night and last day we started for a trip by mountain railway to see the peaks of sonwdonia mountains....This railway 112 years old....which again a honour for any one to travel by this railway to the peak of muntain...the journey through this train was really memorable...and adventurous....Thanks to British engineers who built this railway line 112 years ago...We went to the peaks of mountains ....and saw the white sheet which has been filled every where....it was really beautiful.

While coming back to Nottingham ..I was thinking....there are still some places on this planet which are very closed to mother nature and has not been destroyed by so called great Human beings.

Whenever I am remembering those moments ...I become speechless......and want to go back to same place.

A trip to London

This weekend I went to London with some of my friends. What a lovely city it is. I was just thinking that whether I am in London or in some Indian City. I must say I have seen positive energy flowing all around. People over there are fun loving. We visited London Eye- for first timer it is a good experience. Then Visited London bridge on London Eye cruise- the weather was cold and there was small amount of rain during afternoon, but we enjoyed a lot on the cruise. Golden Ben and westminister were other attractions of London.
To roam around in London tube was fun filled, I was thinking whether I am In Kolkata :) ...no no ...this is London Tube...I didn't differentiate between metro in Kolkata and London tube except the only one the london tube is having large network than metro of Kolkata.

Our last destination was Madame Tussauds....what a lovely place it is...we have met Angelina Jolie and other Hollywood stars, Stars from Bollywood and stars from politics and sports. Over all it was a wonderful experience. And at the last there was an spirit of London show which was also very good. There everyone is behaving as though they are meeting their favourite stars in some function....really a very nice place to visit. I would love to go again.

In the night we returned to Nottingham by National express Bus service. Overll trip to London was nice and memorable. Good bye London.

Nottingham - A lovely city of UK

These days I am in Nottingham, lovely city. I love the culture, professionalism of people here. I have seen the transparency in my cutomer's culture. They respect each and every one ( whoever he or she may be), there is no unnecessary clash as far as work is concern. Everyone is approachable and they will listen to you sincerely. All the information and approval process is quite mature. one can enjoy working here. The same thing is missing in our Indian IT sector. unnecessary politics, high expectation and most of the people are not able to handle these extreme condition and they suffer in their personal life. We need to learn from them and we should try to implement the "Best practice" of their culture in our work place as well.

Coming back to city ..its cold here ..but its lovely and beautiful spring out here...I am enjoying ....I am going to see London this weekend ..and will update you about my trip for sure..:) ...till then good bye.

Kiriburu: An unforgettable place in my life

This month I went to Kiriburu to see my parent, this was after 2 years. This journey was very emotional for me because of lots of reason - one of them was my father has retired from Kiriburu. He was working as School Teacher. I know after this I will never visit Kiriburu in my life because all the employees have to leave this place because you can't buy private property there. I spent my childhood at this place and lots of sweets memories I have abt this place. This place is very special to me and to all those who has spent time there. This place is very small, basically it is a Iron ore mines of RMD SAIL; two small towns are there Kiriburu and Meghahatuburu. In "Ho" Langauge "Kiri" means Elephant and "buru" means Forest - the Forest of Elelphants. This place is in Saranda range of forest.

The social life there is very amicable, we have never find conflict on the basis of religion, cast etc etc.. We celebrate all the festivals with harmony, love and affection. You can find small india over there. You can find people from all of India around your neighbourhood. Even though there is a diversity in the society but social harmony is very well there.

Till early 90s the climate was cold there as it is situated on the hills. There was heavy rain falls for 9 months in a year. But in last 15 years the weather has changed due to heavy deforestation and now it is little bit hot.

In our child hood we used to celebrate Durga pooja, Holi, chatt in a big way. Whole Kiriburu used to celebrate these festival in a big way. Still these festivals are one of the major festivals of Kiriburu - Meghahatuburu.

Apart from this, there were a popular trend for picnic during year end, the popular places were Thalkobaad, Padinaala, Bokna nala, Pundul, Chota Nagra, Prospecting Jharna, where we used to go for picnic with our parents or class mates.

I studied from Project Central school Kiriburu, which used to be one of the good school during our time. This school has produced lots of good student who are into different fields currently and most of them are leaders in their field. Similarly there are other good school like KV Meghahatuburu, Bihar School and Orissa state school which has also produced very good student and they are leading in their field. The basic thing is all of us have come from a very small & a very beautiful place and we are competing with others and we are successful this is because the basics which we have learnt in our child hood.

I want to write a lot about Kiriburu ...may be some time later..
One thing is for sure this place will remain very close to my heart.

Leadership in India

60 years back we got independence from British rule. Unfortulately Independence has come up with scar of partition. British India has divided into India & Pakistan. And this division leads to genocide at western and eastern sector of British India. Every one has lots of expectations from the Indian leadership..in reality we have not achieved so much with respect to other countries who are at same level as India during 1947 - 48. I am not negative here..but overall picture of India is really not good - we are divided on the basis of religion, casts, language and the national politics are revolving around these things. Basically our leadership is nothing but a bunch of opportunist who don't want us to unite, they want to "divide us and rule". Curruption is deeply rooted into the government machinery. Sometimes it is really scary for "AAM AADMI", the situation around us forced us to think that are we really secured. Security is the basic need of human kind and if this is not available to "AAM AADMI" then we have to rethink about our national policies, vision etc.

How we can get rid of this ? THere is no straight forward answer to this but at the same time we can say that there is a solution which required contribution from large masses to eliminate some of the "national devils" like castism, cast based reservation, division on language, religion based division etc.

FOr example : To remove cast based reservation we can implement the following, the economic and social support should be given to those who are very poor ( irrespective of casts, religion ) and help them in their education and day to day life so that they can be at par with others in all aspects and yes their would be some amount of reservation in job as well. THis way we can create examples for whole world. Today if we see our reservation policies it is not reaching to everyone and this policy has no future except to create more division in society.

We must not forget that this country is belongs to multi ethenic and multi religious society. No matter what is our language, what is our religion, what is our cast ....this country belogns to all of us. And if we understand that and try formulate the policies which would be beneficial to "all" than "majority" then we will able to create right kind of environment in this country. Then we will able to resolve lots of issues which are just in "As-IS" form and our great politician are trying to take advantage of them.

In one sentence if we want to see our country is going in a right direction then each one of us has to own the problems and we have to contribute towards resolving those problem on national level. We just can't igonre these problem because we are "Aam aadmi" - this is not our job ..this is politician's job. This kind of attitude has to be changed in our mindset. Ofcourse "Lead India" initiative is a "nice" initiative taken by Times group but we have to take such initiative on large scale. then only we can make difference.

In my opinion we require a new society which should be without any caste, religion, language and other so called Social dividers. This society should work only for the benefits of country and each Indian citizen should activiely participate in such initiative and make sure that all the issues should be resolved in a proper way.
Is this possible?

Relationships: An Unpredictable...

Two days back I got a call ..it was my friend's call. We are talking to each other after couple of months. She has spoken to me with great difficulty because she was depressed, shocked and very sad. The talk was continued for 10-12 minutes. she is dear friend of mine. After talking to her I was very sad. I was just thinking about love, life and relationships..have these golden words lost their "real" meaning. Now a days each and every relationship is starting from selfishness, greed and ending at same note. We are always in hurry, we don't have time to understand anyone not even ourselves. We don't know what we want from life, where we are going. We are just keep on going and loosing everyone one by one.
Now a days "I" has become predominant and this is the reason for all kind of sufferings. to be very frank we are living in most unethical society, where "trust", "respect", "friendship" and "life" has no value. They are meaningless, valueless. I feel mankind is going into self destructing mode. People are thinking that each and every act of theirs are for their benefit but actually it is for none.
You can be son/daughter, sister/brother, father/mother, friend, husband/wife for someone in this world. One day you will find that in reality you are alone....and this is because you have lost all the atributes of humanity..you are dead ....you "died" before your death. This is one of the ugly face of life..which no one understands But.....they are keep going in the same direction - A directionless journey.