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Well, I am just another guy giving voice to the blogger in me to talk about Indians and their ways. He's [me blogger] moody guy the blogger in me. Sometimes he's funny and witty and at other times, he just wants to rant and I just sit by and let him

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Do try this at home
2007-09-30 23:23:00
I have not been too much of a tube addict in my life but for some reason I am really enjoying sitting in front of the tele munching on whatever I can find in the kitchen. The recent T20 World Championship series started it all. But all this sitting around and doing nothing has taken it's toll, I looked 6-7 months pregnant when I got a look at myself in the mirror today in the morning, I don't feel too well as well. They say that when you suddenly quit exercising and/or watching what you eat after loosing some weight, you put on more weight than you previously had. This is what is happening to me I guess. I got myself twisted in some awful yoga poses immediately in the morning and which now has given me quite sever cramps which means that I'll skip exercise tomorrow as well, damn!!Anyway, I am determined to start exercising scientifically as soon as the cramps go away and no excuses are going to get in my way! I like the yoga variation of exercise better than aerobics & weight...
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Jhalak Dikhla Jaa!!
2007-09-29 18:08:00
Just caught the first episode of the new season of Jhalak Dikla Jaa on Televison today and I was surprised to see Negi Sahab participating as well (not following gleam news lately so just found out today. Mr. Mir Ranjan Negi was an ex - Indian Hockey player for those who don't know) and from there on I saw the complete episode and to my eyes all the contesting teams were fabulous! and Negi Sahab with his partner was spectacular. I am not a fan of these TV reality shows except Great Indian Laughter challenge and this is the first time I saw an entire episode and it was because I wanted to see Negi Sahab. I am a great fan of Jitendar as well who was judging today, in my view he was one of the most smart looking bollywood protagonists ever! unfortunately, the same can not be said about his son ;)Anyway, when I googled the subject, I found out a page which had quoted Negi Sahab as saying " I am 50 now and it's tough to compete in dancing with all these young guys. But I will continue...
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Mumbai gets lucky this time
2007-09-26 19:37:00
Six live bombs were found by the Police in the Andheri suburb of Mumbai while the crowds were celebrating India 's World Cup win. According to the police, these were live country made bombs of limited intensity, obviously made by country bumpkins with little 'experience of jihad' [being sarcastic here!] But luckily, no lives were lost. Anyway, to anyone with a good memory, this implies something very serious. Normally, there should be a fear of consequences of any unlawful actions taken by a person or group of persons especially any actions which leads to loss of Human Lives. This may also require that the law & order machinery set an example which serves as a deterrent to anyone planning to commit any such acts.But India on the other hand has set examples which make it (India) look like a very very soft target on the other hand. It took the state 14 years to sentence the perpetrators of the 1993 Mumbai blasts case in which more than 250 people were killed and more than 700 pe...
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Meanhile, it's come to hunger strikes for Hockey Players now!
2007-09-26 13:30:00
While everyone is busy celebrating the India 's championship win in the T20 cup, the Hockey team members have decided to go on a ?hunger strike?. They are rightly in my opinion irked by the step-motherly treatment meted out to them by the central and the state governments. It's sad to see such a difference in the state of players of one sport Cricket and of the other Hockey. I hope the all powerful media of this day & age gives this news the coverage it deserves and helps out the Hockey players. Also, I can only imagine how much it hurts when the Hockey players are treated the way they do and when the see how Mumbai has practically halted for the Cricketing champs. Read more from Nazariya.com.Related :-The sexy Hockey girls from chak DeThe Global Ambissions for CricketSport s is Chuvinistic
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The Champions receive a larger than life welcome from the fans!
2007-09-26 12:26:00
From the moment, the young team got down at the Airport and got on the bus which was to take them to the Wankhadey stadium in Churchgate for a special post-world cup ceremony, the fans flocked in thousands to see these young lions who have done us all proud! I myself went to Mahim to intercept their 'caravan' and was lucky to see these players and cheer for them! To be honest I have never f*****g seen anything quite like this in Mumbai before and the spirit of Chak De was adamant in the air and everyone present seemed to have just one identity - India n! it's one of those things for which words sometimes fall short, Mumbai almost came to a halt and not too many were complaining, that's the way we unite in such times! May God Bless India and it's people forever!!!Anyway, as is the case always, the politicos did end up being the talking point after the special ceremony in the Wankhadey stadium. Apart from Dhoni (Captain), all the other players were made to sit behind the politicia...
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Mumbai Sensex gets another shot in the arm...
2007-09-26 00:24:00
and luckily, I am one those who'll cash in because finally I have a few shares in my portfolio. A friend who had the sense to do an MBA and that too in Finance initiated me into the stock market a couple of months ago and I am glad I started. Anyway, I read this story this morning in the Times of India . According to the article, the investments by Foreign funds - the most influential group of Investors in India in 2007 crossed the 11 billion mark surpassing the 10.8 billion mark in 2007. September alone has seen investments of 2.7 billion in the Indian markets, which is the second highest investment month by FII after the month of July which saw investments of 5.8 billion coming in to the Indian markets. Experts are saying that almost all of these players are coming with a long term view so, the average small investor doesn't have to worry too much. I am not a Economics or Stock-Market expert but when I see those numbers I understand that the market indices which are already doing...
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Viceland - AMERICAN AGHORI - An Introduction to Kapal Nath
2007-09-25 21:40:00
Aghori's are the most sensible people on earth!!!read more | digg story
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Ganesha - The Indian Idol !!!
2007-09-25 20:40:00
I am not too religious but I have much faith in Lord of Destruction - Shiva. He is Bholenath, Dinanath, Neelkanth, Bhairavnath, etc and even the Lord of Aghoris. ( The term actually means non-terrifying in Sanskrit but the name is a bit of pun intended on people because people are always afraid of something they do not understand LOL... I learnt about Aghoris and their sects through a friends father whom I met in the eleventh standard but I Chose to not discuss it with too many because many don't really understand the real significances of what the Aghora is all about and before I get too carried away anout Aghoris, let's continue) I also worship his beloved son Ganesha. Before starting anything I pray to the Shiva, Ganesha and ask for their blessings and they have helped me thus far in life! I would suggest that you do this as well!Anyway, coming to the topic of this post, I am a funclave member and while surfing I came across this interesting post by someone who calls himself ...
More About: Indian , Mumbai , Spiritual , Indian Idol , Idol

Global Ambissions for Cricket & Dhoni
2007-09-25 09:16:00
Everyone enjoyed T20 WC including Shahrukh Khan. T20 cricket has changed the game for ever, everyone wants it to be the primary format instead of 50 over ODI's including Legendre Ex-Cricket players. I think, it will be very hard for anyone including the players to enjoy the 50 over standard ODI game now that they have tasted the T20 format (they have to be on the field for a maximum of 3.5 or 4 hours instead of 8-9 hours previously!). With T20, Cricket finally has a chance to shed its image as a dull, unattractive and lengthy sport.Incidentally, these are the adjectives people use when trying to explain why Cricket is not truly a global game. If the ICC wants to break into new markets, particularly lucrative markets like USA, it has to get rid of the 50 over format and introduce T20 as the standard because ODI's & Test Matches don't really appeal to the American, Chinese & other Non-English European markets. Infact, if handled well, I am sure this format will bring new l...
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Gods take to the roads
2007-09-24 20:15:00
Time flies they say and now that I realize that tomorrow is the 10th day of Ganesh Chaturthy, (a Maharashtrian only festival here in India) I realize how true the adage is. As many may know the idols are installed for 1.5 , 3, 7, 10 or 15 days in the Mandals and then immersed in the sea. The Mandal in our society is a 10 day mandal. The ten days since the festival began, I have been regularly attending the Aarti's (prayers) organized at our Society's Ganesh Mandal and have visited so many Ganpati Mandals. The creative ideas that people come up with for some of these mandals is simply fantastic! But anyway, tomorrow the Ganesha Idol will be taken in a musical procession to the nearest beach and there the idol will be immersed in the water amidst chants of "????? ?????? ?????, ???? ??? ?? ????? ?" (Lord Ganesha, you are great! please come back quickly next year) by men who have been dancing to the music throughout the way and then everyone will head back home. This is a huge huge e...
More About: Travel , Mumbai , Spiritual , Roads , Gods

India & Pakistan really slug it out in the final...
2007-09-24 15:36:00
UPDATE:- But in the end, India beat Pakistan to become the first T20 World Champions Misbah almost got Pakistan home and 6 runs were required in the last 4 balls and he tried to play a paddle shot over the keeper but scooping the ball to Shreeshanth for an easy catch. Tough luck to him!! But God Bless Dhoni and the rest of the boys for bringing the cup to India! Initially, India wasn't the hot team that beat Pakistan, England, SA and Australia in the T20 world cup at least as far as their batting is concerned. At the end of the twentieth over, India were 157/5 which means that Pakistan will have to score 158 to win from the 20 overs bowled by India, an easy target for a team like Pakistan with fantastic players like Afridi, Hafeez Malik, Khan etc. If Afridi gets going today, It could all be over in a flash;) The problem in the Indian innings was that the Pakistani bowling was excellent. A lot of the balls bowled by Gul, Arafat, Afridi were in the block hole and the Indian batsman...
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It's a India Pakistan Final now...!!
2007-09-22 21:31:00
Well, India beat Australia by 15 runs in the twenty20 semi and Pakistan beat New Zealand today convincingly which means that it is an India-Pakistan final for this world cup just what the sponsors, organizers, the television networks and cricket fans would have been hoping for. My friend is into betting on cricket matches a lot and he tells me that the bookies are favouring India because of the stunning performance they have given against Pakistan, England, South Africa and then the Current world champions, Australia. Whatever happens it's going to be a cracker of a match on Monday. Indians are smoking red hot currently under Dhoni's captaincy, so much so, that someone like Shreeshanth was mixing in with Matthew Hayden who stands at least 2 feet taller than Shreeshanth and Yuvraj Singh is in the best form of his life, hitting sixes in to the distance at will almost. At one point during the match Ian Bothom made an interesting observation which is that the Indians are kind of playi...
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Will Twenty20 replace One Day matches eventually?
2007-09-22 03:56:00
The answer at least as far as Wasim Akram - former captain of the Pakistan cricket team is yes and the reasons he gives make a helluva lot of sense:-?Twenty20 cricket already has the potential to replace the ODIs as the most populist version of the sport,? Akram told Reuters on Friday. ?The Twenty20 World Cup has been a big success in terms of the interest it has evoked and people coming in to the grounds. You didn?t get such big crowds and excitement even in the World Cup in West Indies.??For a cricket lover it is the ideal format. The match finishes in around three and half hours and there is plenty of excitement and tension for the spectators and viewers,?This is no wannabe expert of cricket or marketing but the great Wasim Akram himself. The man has played cricket for many many years with one of the most successful cricketing careers and if anyone understands the game, he definitely does.Sure, purists are going to say that this will only hurt cricket but then such purists were t...
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Don't take her to that isolated place
2007-09-17 18:15:00
The woes of couples in love in Mumbai have always been great because of the lack of open isolated spots where the lovebirds can enjoy each other's company in solitude. They are either harassed by the cops, eunuchs, beggars or by desperate onlookers who just won't leave them alone. Because even kissing each other in public is considered vulgar in India, the act can attract anything from lewd comments to a fine of at least Rs 100 to the lucky cop who gets hold of them. To combat this couples often go to isolated spots such as the rocks on the bandstand seashore, Reclamation, empty car parks or Sanjay Gandhi National park. But now goons have found a way to prey on the lovebirds. There have been increasing reports of couples being robbed at knife point or gun point in isolated spots.The latest case of a young college couple who were out to enjoy some intimate sex in an isolated spot in the Borivili National Park, the robbers robbed the couple of a mobile phone, gold chain and Rs 800 i...
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Technology and India
2007-09-16 03:30:00
They say that it is never too late to learn something new & my grandfather is a case in point, he just called me up using the flashy new w810i cellphone he has bought and then said that he has sent me an e-mail from his new computer using the new broadband connection that he has... ;) it was a foreword about the Lord Ganesha but anyway, now everyone in our family including grandparents & kids have cell phones & many relatives of mine don't have a land line installed even the ones who live in far flung areas. Many experts have already predicted that mobile connections will overtake land line connections eventually and then there might not be a need for a land line at all.High-speed Internet connections aren't far behind as well. With companies such as Tata Indicom & Airtel aggressively targeting the wireless broadband service market, we can all look forward to mass and cheap availability of wireless fast Internet connections in our metros soon as well. This is excit...
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What I have lost...!
2007-09-14 07:57:00
As I said, upon returning to Mumbai, day before yesterday, the first thing I did was to set up this blog on it's own domain. Although it feels good that now I have my own Domain name :- http://mumbaiya.net , I can't help but mourn on the losses I have incurred in the process of transferring this blog to it's own domain. First & foremost, I have lost all the Authority points I had slowly but surely built on Technorati.I had about 25 links coming in to my blog http://mumbaibuzz.blogspot.com resulting in a authority score of 18 on Technorati. But now the Authority has dropped to 1 for mumbaiya.net and the rank has dropped as well!! I will now have to build it all slowly again, DAMN! There is also the issue of large resolution pictures that I had on my blog disappearing, apparently, this is a known issue with blogger and they haven't fixed it.Though the good news is that visitors to the old feed or URL are now pointed to the new url, so the few readers that I have will still find m...
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Ganesha - Hindu Lord of Obstacles; spirtual & material returns...
2007-09-13 22:34:00
I am glad that I have been able to make it back to Mumbai in time for the Ganesh Utsava this year which falls on 15th September. It's that time of the year when beautifully decorated Mandals (temporary temples typically made using bamboo, cloth, wood, plastic etc etc) spring up on every nook & corner of Mumbai. Although they are currently occupied by men who smoke, drink & gamble away the night in there right now! For those who do not know, on 15th, Lord Ganesha's statues will be installed inside them and for 9,7,5 or 3 days and then there will be regular prayers & ceremonies inside the Mandal. Even the statues are different for different mandals, they may chose to install any of the eight incarnations of Lord Ganesha.The worship of Lord Ganesha is necessary for any practising Hindu before they begin prayers, important undertakings, and religious ceremonies. Most scriptures describe Lord Ganesha as vignakarta (Obstacle-creator) & vignaharta (Obstacle-destroyer) at the same tim...
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Mumbaiya.net is
2007-09-12 12:10:00
I am sorry for not posting in a long while! I had been out of town attending a cousin's wedding. Anyway, now that I am back, the first thing that I have done is that I have switched this blog to it's own unique web address. So, now the address for this blog is www.mumbaiya.net. I won't be posting here from now. You can now update your bookmarks to http://mumbaiya.net (Google says that even if you type the old address http://mumbaibuzz.blogspot.com you will be taken to www.mumbaiya.net ) Let's see how it turns out.
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Help in getting up early
2007-09-03 00:41:00
"Earl y to bed, early to rise" that is the perfect way to live we have been thought right since early in our lives. The benefits of getting up early are far too many but living in Mumbai (or any big city I suppose), one of the biggest benefits of waking up early is that you get up when there is that relative peace & quite in the city-great time for that meditative walk in a nearby garden or a reflective cup of coffee out in the balcony. All the buzz which starts in Mumbai right from 7-8 in the morning right up until midnight maybe the reason we love Mumbai but it can get too much every once in a while and we all crave that solitude. I know I did but every time I got myself into routine, I messed it all up in a day or two and then I'd curse myself or feel guilty or whatever. Then I came upon this post on Liferemix.com on the 27th of August titled 24 tips to become an early riser. After applying those simple but easy to miss tips I am glad I have been able to get up early every single...
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6 reasons why we lie
2007-09-02 11:42:00
They say :- "He who cannot lie does not know what the truth is?Everybody lies at one point or another in their lives. The reasons for doing it may be different at different times and yet,The fundamental reason why people lie is because it mostly works.We all lie, but why do we lie? Sure, lying is both useful and sometimes even fun, yet there are fundamental reasons why we lie.These main reasons are:Fear of harm: The easiest reason to understand why we lie is for self protection, including self deception, to prevent harm to ourselves. This harm can be either physical or mental.Fear of conflict: To some degree, we all fear having an argument.Fear of punishment: When growing up, how often did we lie about how well we did in school, or who started a fight? How often do we cover up our mistakes and transgressions?Fear of rejection: Sometimes, our insecurities are the foundation of why we lie to each other, because we want to be remain popular in our relationships. Typically, it is harmle...
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Google is shooting for the stars!
2007-08-28 18:40:00
Awesome news indeed! now anyone with a computer can space travel (virtually), using 6 different celestial sources so very cool. Google will make it extra special. Need anything be said?!! Also, hope you like the new template design I created! I think it looks cool, agree? Anyway, I love Google, you guys keep not being evil!Source :- hazel8500 (Do check out this blog, it's 'not another blog')Related :-Gmail possed!Beat Spammers!Making New Connections!Watch high quality movies!
More About: News , Stars , Internet , Education

Socialising with Sanjay Dutt gets one constable suspended and 6 others get
2007-08-27 04:23:00
I can't believe the news today: R.R. Patil and the rest of the government machinery are upset at the police constables who hugged and shook hands with Sanjay Dutt upon his release. The constable who was seen hugging Sanju has been suspended and a show cause notice has been served to 8 others who shook hands with Sanju. A parallel inquiry is being carried out by inspector general of jails Satish Mathur against some Yerwada officials who allegedly tried to ensure special treatment for Sanjay. ?The Maharashtra Civil Service Conduct rules as well as the police manual forbids policemen and government servants from extending friendly gestures towards convicts. It is seen as a violation of conduct expected of a government servant,? said information officer Vasant Titke.?Why is it that lowly police constables are penalised for such actions while a state cabinet minister like Baba Siddiqui openly flaunts his friendship with Sanjay, accompanies him to courts, receives him when he is out on ...
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For Salman Khan, it's always 'guilty unless proven innocent?'
2007-08-25 21:14:00
An interesting thought :-Actor Salman Khan is one person who's always guilty unless proven innocent? agree? I completely do what about you?The man has to many strikes against him as some one said in a response the above post. It's another reminder that your past can catch up with you! so, try to think before you act!!Related :-Sanjay Dutt; to hell & backWhere to sight Bollywood stars in Mumbai
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Now Salman Khan has to face the music!
2007-08-24 13:06:00
UPDATE :- So, Sallu bhai surrendered today by himself to the police! He took a flight to Jodhpur and there the police arrested him as soon as he set foot on Jodhpur's soil. The media has been going crazy since morning and reporting every bleeding moment of the whole saga. They even got in to the Jet Airways flight which Salman took to Jodhpur. Although Salman got them to turn off their camera's after a while. He did give a couple of statements to a reporter on the flight which were :-I regret all the hassle that the Media has to go through because of me, rest assured that this is the last time you are going through this or words to that effect. (Implying that he plans to mend his ways forever, Chalo, some sense at least after 44 years)Mine and Sanju's life seem to be linked inexorably. He came out and I am going in to Jail or words to that effect. He is now in the Jodhpur central jail along with 1200 other prisoners. Think he will stay there for a week or so. Maybe we will see a ...
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