Do svidanja (Dasvidaniya) - a poem I wrote
Wrote this one on the day I left Infosys to join Indian Institute of Management Bangalore to do Fellowship program in Management. My specialization is Corporate Strategy & Policy.
Sorry the formatting was not coming properly. Hence I had to put list formatting as I wanted to show every three lines in a group except the last line.
- For you,
- The one selected from few of the few
- I am writing theses few lines below.
- This is a haiku
- I know it is not as good as I used to write
- But bear it for one last time
- For the last one time
- When I am in Infy
- Below are the lines for you
- Seasons come in cycles
- This too will pass & we’ll meet again
- Friend, till then I will miss you
Cheerio,
Shailen
Movie Pick: Parakh (1960) - Bimal Roy
I thought of writing about some of my favorite movies from now on:
The best I feel among the ones I have watched by far is ‘Parakh’.
Parakh is a 1960 movie made by Bimal roy. You know that person, don’t you?
It is a satire on democracy and money minded higher ups of the society.
You won’t believe this to be a movie by the same person who made Devdas. Now this won’t sound as exciting as the person who made DevD made Return of Hanuman too.
That’s not just the only strange and exciting thing about this movie. Yester years’ glam doll Sadhana is here in a deglamorized role; that too not wearing the hairstyle named after her. That is Sadhana Cut if you are still guessing.
You can even find a sober Keshto Mukherjee here!
Story “Spoiler Alert”:
The movie is setup in a typical Indian village. The higher ups of the village are a Zamindar (landlord) , a Priest, a Doctor and a lecherous rich man. There is a talented school techer who is in love with the daughter (Sadhana) of the postmaster (Nazir Hussain).
One day the village Postmaster gets a cheque of Rs500,000 from the millionaire Sir JC Roy. This comes in a mail asking him to give this cheque to the most eligible person in the village, who shall use the money for the good of the village. The simple Postmaster informs about this to the higher-ups in the village. As can be expected, each of them starts to praise themselves to prove they are the best and they deserve that cheque to be awarded to them. Immediately the obvious resolution comes up i.e. to go for an election in the village and let the villagers decide who the best one for them is.
At once strange things happen in the village. The doctor who won’t see a patient without fees, treats all patients for free (makes the clinic a ‘खौराती दवाखाना’). The Zamindar waves all taxes and the Priest allows the lower caste people to enter the temple. The Richman starts constructing a well for the villagers and announces a road to be constructed. Rings a bell, huh?
Anyhow villagers tend to prefer the school teacher more than the higher ups. Hence they try to murder the school teacher. Alliances and all such election time political gimmicks are very well portrayed.
Finally a post man of the same village who is amused to see these changes is found to be the millionaire Sir JC Roy, who sent the cheque. Then he awards the real leader.
The famous song ‘O Sajna… Barkha Baahaar Aayi’ is from this movie.
Adjectives: I count this as one of my favorite movies. Say the ‘Bestestest<infinite loop est>’ movie I watched.
I like this movie for many reasons. It shows all types of characters here. Let it be the mean and greedy guys or the simple Postmaster who is truthful and sincere. Even there is the portrayal of the idealistic school teacher. The hardship of common man, the social problems, ‘the Indian mentality’ all are portrayed well and you feel, you see all this today too. Still you laugh at it!! Seems like life!
The satire on democracy is very convincing and makes you feel that the situation hasn’t changed at all. This makes it an evergreen movie.
Engagement
damn ff crashed.
I was about to write a very sad romantic love story. ~correct the adjectives as u wish~
For the first time I saw her, I just wanted to ignore her.
Her beauty never appealed to me.
But within those few days of training we had together, it made me feel something for her.
I was attracted by her down to earth attitude, straight on your face talk and blah blah.
She believed in simple living, yet it was so rich and energetic.
Being with her one can never be sad. Her company was pleasing and ….
I am loosing words to describe all those feelings.
But there were her friends, with whom I could never gel this easily.
Normally I take some time to get close and start enjoying moments with
a friend, to which I did an exception for her.
Why some people are this easy to get along with, why is their company
so infectious like a disease. Why is it so difficult to even think
about living without them?
I was in doubt if I was in love. People have proposed me before, but I
was never sure when I should propose. This could have been easily
the first time for me, if I did it then.
Let it be the talk about the Sutta song or about buying a particular
mobile phone, all trivial things we discussed used to seem very special
then reflecting the very impressive attitude of her towards life and
everything/everyone around her.
The problem was with the friend circle we were in, I never could easily
gel with them and always felt being outcast. We got lesser personal
time now.
One day she moved to a DC closer to her home town, for which she made
even me pray for and I prayed for that though I din’t want to. A
half-hearted err… three quarter-hearted prayer. The last quarter
wanted her to stay with me forever.
By now two of friends were close to me and knew about my love for her, but I made them promise not to tell this to her.
On one hand I wanted to marry her, on the other hand I had this usual bachelor life syndrome. Scared of commitment!!!
I was not ready to get married that soon. I just got a job then. There
were dreams more important to fulfill than this romantic one. Slowly
all this confusing feelings made me avoid her.
Sometimes I couldn’t stop myself and had some chat with her with each
word of her engraved in my heart. ~~hopelessly romantic!!~~
I really laugh at myself for the way I was those days.
Time is the greatest medicine they say and I experienced this medicine working really well. Life moved on..
But the sky fell apart for me today.
She invited me to her engagement.
I am laughing at myself for so stupid feelings I had back then. I am
also smiling at all those wonderful moments we had together. But that
one quarter heart is crying. Just the tears don’t come out of my eyes,
for I fear of the world that will laugh at me…. for what made a man
cry.
What I wanted from Opera with regard to Mini
I always wanted to use the technology behind Opera Mini.
To develop apps or widgets and access a website of my interest with ability to make changes to them and get it in my own required form. Say I wanted to sort of create mobile mash-ups, but based on Opera Mini technology. By Opera mini technology I mean to be able to have Opera Mini as the base such that my app/widget will also be able to serve at blazing speed and with less data to be downloaded. Just the way Mini compresses the page before fetching it, my app also should be able to use such feature and compress the data before serving it on the mobile device.
My wait is finally answered someway.
Opera has come up today with Opera Widgets SDK Beta. Kewl isn’t it. Wait for my next blog on it’s review.
As of now check it here.
An ad based business model proposal for Opera Mini
Yesterday while using Opera Mini 4.1 rather say while getting smitten by it, I thought of a possible ad based business model for Opera Mini.
Opera Mini has a hoard of impressive features. Check
http://www.operamini.com/features/They already have a huge user base and one can guarantee sure (huge) increase in their customer base. Now how are they going to make money out of it.
As of now they are attracting the operators and handset providers to give away there products. They may be making some money out of it.
Coolest thing about opera mini is, it compresses your web page greatly (they claim it to be around 90%). That not only makes the loading of page faster on your Mini, but also reduces the data download cost user will have to pay to the operator. Moreover it’s signature is very small on the memory and it works on most of the handsets available around, even on the low-end ones.
Soon it will get the users addicted to web and their tool for sure. probably it has already got enough number people addicted to it.
Now my proposed idea for business is this: Opera uses it’s own remote servers to compress the web pages you demand before serving it to you. Yes, it is like a browser based on internal settings for proxy servers. Hence they can always fiddle with that information about pages we surf and even change the contents of page served to us. Like proxy servers we use to bypass restricted websites put some ads on the page served, Mini can also put some small ads in the page while serving it to us. If Opera were Google they may also plan to put contextual ads. Now they can go further on this and can plan out how best to include it, without scaring the user.
I am proposing this plan and will like to propose them some more things like this, because I want to use the technology they use. They need not make Mini open source, but let people make use of it. Wait for my next Blog on what I want to say about access to the technology behind Mini.
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Technorati
Finally I am on Technorati. Now I am being concerned about a blog’s popularity. :P
So here goes my
Technorati ProfileLet’s see how fruitful it will be.
..Fingers crossed..
Technorati Tags:
technorati,
blog,
popularity
Bubbles
Warning: Hey! It’s a tech related blog ;)
Bubbles from
3D3R is something similar to Prism from Mozilla labs.
It brings the web app to you as a desktop app. Interesting eh, isn’t it?
The ease of usage is very impressive. Just install it open the application.
Add the URL you want to get as desktop app. Then ‘GO’.
That is it… :)
You can check the programs menu and there under Bubbles you have “My Bubbles”.
There you have your newly created Bubble along with other example Bubbles.
Create a shortcut of it on your desktop and there you have easy access to you new Desktop-web app.
Another interesting stuff about Bubbles is
the ease of modifications you can do to it and make it smarter.Yep, a little bit of JavaScript and it will feel like GreaseMonkey on Firefox and
you get your favorite webapp customized to your requirements.
Best things in life come free and yes it is free.
Note:
Desktopize is enterprise version of Bubbles.
Twitter News Service ;)
Hope u r aware about the quake in China.
The news now is who got the news first.
Yes.
http://scobleizer.com/2008/05/12/quake-in-china/The above link and various other sources like BBC etc. also confirm the fact.
yes, twitter delivered that news fastest. And this is not the first time. Community driven news or call it citizen journalism or by any other name this is one easy way to stay informed.
This is not the first time.
I have experienced it before and I believe fellow twitterites/twitterians/tweople/twittys/twitterers also must have.
Let it be blast in Hyderabad or rain in Chennai we get to know it before even switching on the TV or refreshing the Google news link. Thanks to twitter.
Now what’s twitter, I need not tell you. It is one of the milestones on the way communication over internet has grown (from IRC, ICQ, Yahoo to Orkut, Facebook and now it is Twitter). Twitter is really redefining the way of communication and social networking by keeping things simple.
:D
Finally on Tumblr. I wanted to join this for a long time. Not just because it’s catty, but also because I can access it easily from office.
Do hell with all of you who believe it’s not a blog. I love to blog this way only.
Wish I will blog here more and better than I do on blogger.
That was so1shail.blogspot.com…it’s still there, not sure if I will update it.
I loved blogging before this, when I was on yahoo 360. There my handle is shailen1babool. (Yep babool is my nick name, my parents gave).
BTW is there any better way to show an ear to ear grin than the one on title?
