I was kinda thinking this is the best way to bring the year to an end.. at least officially.
This year has seen a lot. And I mean it.
Mittal taking over Arcelor, the entire reservation racket, Jessica Lal, Sanjay Dutt... its been a year of a lot of news. The sensex scaling the 13000 mark just a few months after a trading session was prematurely closed due to a massive crash. The RTI Act cuming in... and ppl nt knowing hw or wen or whr to use it. Shanghai plans for Bombay... still on the talk mode even after the serial blasts rocked the city, making ppl wonder if the place is even safe to live in.
And yes, personally, its been a year I wudnt want to fget. Its been better for me than a lot of other years..but thn I say tht every yr dont I??
Raj and Mannya.. this year goes out to u. This yr also goes out to my extended gang frm college.. which extended massively over the year. This yr goes out to my frnds frm skool... who r still trying hard for tht re-union (Arvind.. work on it buddy!!) This yr goes out to Jeetu..whom I might never see again since he might never return to India. It goes out to Rahul... whom I hvnt seen in 2 years.. and may nt see for another 2 thanx to his demanding workload.
And finally... it goes out to ME!!!
Since I really deserve it..!!!
ciao in the New Year Fellas!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Jessica Lal Case
For the first time, I am blogging, in the literary sense. Here I am to comment on news
,which is what blogging is typically about.
The Jessica Lal Murder Case has been doing the rounds for a long time now. Jessica was allegedly shot by a man at a bar, when she refused to sell him drinks. Eye-witnesses gave a statement immediately as the trial began, but due to lack of any further evidence the case lost ground years ago. After great agitation by the family, the media took on this noble cause and Justice for Jessica Campaign began, where readers and the public at large could express their views on the case, the sentence etc. And it was on account of this large-scale public outcry that the case was revisited, with a new light and a new outlook. This time around, some key witnesses turned hostile,model-turned-actor Shayan Munshi being one of the more famous of those. But the family and friends kept the case going and built enough pressure on the judiciary and the accused to see that this case was reopened and solved.
Yesterday,at last, Jessica got Justice.The Chief accused Manu Sharma was pronounced guilty and the co-accused Vikas Yadav was one among those also pronounced guilty. Among others, Shayan Munshi may be punished for manipulating and fabricating statements to cover the crime and many others will be punished for attempting to tamper with evidence at the scene of crime.
Jessica's sister recounts how her father made numerous rounds to the court to try and reopen the case, and to fight for his daughter's cause. And today, finally, he will rest in peace.
This is not a very landmark judgement, considering the evidence pointed clearly towards Manu Yadav. But the fact that this case was reconsidered primarily on account of public outcry proves that the judiciary listens. And this raises the hopes of the people fighting for Nitish Katara, another victim to the high-society crime that Jessica faced.
And in another sense, this is one of the first high profile cases that Ram Jethmalani has lost, and quite splendidly lost. His arguments to defend Manu Sharma were so high handed, and according to many so absurd, that they were quite laughable, and many experts feel quite surprised that Jethmalani had the audacity to take such silly arguments to court.
Lesson learnt - It doesnt matter if ur Dad is an MP (and a tainted one at tht). It doesnt matter of u hv India's best lawyer to defend ur case. It doesnt matter if u have enough money to pay the witnesses off. What matters is which side of the law u hv ended up on. If u r on the wrong side, all the materialistic possessions on this planet can still land u in jail. And if u r on the right side, even death cannot stop u frm getting the justive u deserve.
P.S. Any comments on this article are welcum. All views expressed here are mine,and facts stated are as true as I could gather thm to be.
,which is what blogging is typically about.
The Jessica Lal Murder Case has been doing the rounds for a long time now. Jessica was allegedly shot by a man at a bar, when she refused to sell him drinks. Eye-witnesses gave a statement immediately as the trial began, but due to lack of any further evidence the case lost ground years ago. After great agitation by the family, the media took on this noble cause and Justice for Jessica Campaign began, where readers and the public at large could express their views on the case, the sentence etc. And it was on account of this large-scale public outcry that the case was revisited, with a new light and a new outlook. This time around, some key witnesses turned hostile,model-turned-actor Shayan Munshi being one of the more famous of those. But the family and friends kept the case going and built enough pressure on the judiciary and the accused to see that this case was reopened and solved.
Yesterday,at last, Jessica got Justice.The Chief accused Manu Sharma was pronounced guilty and the co-accused Vikas Yadav was one among those also pronounced guilty. Among others, Shayan Munshi may be punished for manipulating and fabricating statements to cover the crime and many others will be punished for attempting to tamper with evidence at the scene of crime.
Jessica's sister recounts how her father made numerous rounds to the court to try and reopen the case, and to fight for his daughter's cause. And today, finally, he will rest in peace.
This is not a very landmark judgement, considering the evidence pointed clearly towards Manu Yadav. But the fact that this case was reconsidered primarily on account of public outcry proves that the judiciary listens. And this raises the hopes of the people fighting for Nitish Katara, another victim to the high-society crime that Jessica faced.
And in another sense, this is one of the first high profile cases that Ram Jethmalani has lost, and quite splendidly lost. His arguments to defend Manu Sharma were so high handed, and according to many so absurd, that they were quite laughable, and many experts feel quite surprised that Jethmalani had the audacity to take such silly arguments to court.
Lesson learnt - It doesnt matter if ur Dad is an MP (and a tainted one at tht). It doesnt matter of u hv India's best lawyer to defend ur case. It doesnt matter if u have enough money to pay the witnesses off. What matters is which side of the law u hv ended up on. If u r on the wrong side, all the materialistic possessions on this planet can still land u in jail. And if u r on the right side, even death cannot stop u frm getting the justive u deserve.
P.S. Any comments on this article are welcum. All views expressed here are mine,and facts stated are as true as I could gather thm to be.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Orkut blocked???
U knw this is the latest controversy surrounding orkut again!!!!
After the entire "I hate India" community and the recent D-gang community... we now face a ban on orkut!!!
I just hate this world for being sooo cruel with me and orkut!!! I mean so many of us thrive on orkut to communicate wid each other.. n we cant do these kinda things onli because of sum rogue members on the web...
Do sumthing fellow orkutters!!! Save ur rights against such vandalism....
After the entire "I hate India" community and the recent D-gang community... we now face a ban on orkut!!!
I just hate this world for being sooo cruel with me and orkut!!! I mean so many of us thrive on orkut to communicate wid each other.. n we cant do these kinda things onli because of sum rogue members on the web...
Do sumthing fellow orkutters!!! Save ur rights against such vandalism....
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Post Exam Post Mortem
Yea thts wat I like to call it... Post Mortem...!!!
I did this last year as well on my MSN blog... tho this time I will delve into more details than I did last year. For those who dint get arnd to seeing it, I plan to analyse every exam and subject and professor and reach a verdict on the Sem.
Starting wid HRM. At the start of the sem I thot this was the onli subject where we could expect some clarity wid Nitin actually starting off well. But then we ended up wid a lot of time wasted on unwanted stuff, lot of lec time spent in the corridors luking for a class. And the project we worked on... no comments on how tht was executed and the debacle wid tht altogether. And the paper..!!! OMG!!! I expected length, but definitely I dint expect the university to test us on stamina more than skill. Skill in selecting the questions was more thn required, with vague questions like short notes on whole chapters, but the stamina to write even a portion of wat we knw totally put me off track midway. My verdict : Average. And I must mention tht Nitin dint even bother wid helping us out wid imp questions (tho the pattern was more a non-important question pattern)
Next is SSM. An outright disaster frm the start to the end. Wid no guidance frm the beg to the end... Kripa was our lifeline at the end of the sem. Venky onli helped wid our presentations, which were again no clue on how the theory was. And an abysmally set paper with no set questions... I was irritated at the end of the day. And I was up all nite studing for tht dumb paper and ppl who had spent onli a few hrs on it fared just as well as I did..!!! My verdict : ABYSMAL!!! not even worth more space here
Next is Logistics. Personally, I found the teaching style of both our teachers very amateurish... as tho we were 5th grade kids giving exams for the first time. Nonetheless, I will have to say our syllabus was over hyped, with ppl getting tensd jsut for the heck of it. But I luvd the part of the sem wen ppl were scrambling for classes for the numericals..n onli one very dumb numerical appeared in the paper. But the non predictable questions were not much of a shock after the 1st 2 papers... so yea my verdict will be : Above Average.
FM. Mebe its just my paranoia wid a/c and all related subjects, but I started the year wid an apprehension abt this sub. True, it wasnt as hard as I had expected it to get, since I had my own little tricks to help me out of situations. But, honestly, we spend 4 months in the sem doin practice problems, and onli one month wid the theory. And we get onli 20 marks options worth of problems!!! True, even the theory and concepts were superbly atrangi... but Sapna's style of teaching has made me ready to cope wid all atrangi situations.. ;). Nandu... I seriously feel cannot handle BMS, since we are to energetic and non rule bound for his taste. But a nice experience overall... esp wen u see the empty train at 5 48.. :D. My verdict : Average but could hv been muccch better.
Co operatives. The icing on the cake this sem. It startd off as a big flop, wid him nt getting students to attend and tht unintentional mass bunk. And then the lecs getting canned and the piling tension.. we decided to let him take a break and left for own planet. But I hv to admit if ne paper can be described as AWESOME it was this one. Every concept familiar, every question familiar... it was truly the most amazzzing paper in this exam. My verdict : SUPERB!! even after a slow start.
RM. Another cakewalk. And every1 will admit Ramki was quite an entertainer himself. I enjoyd his lecs... and also his paper. Quite straightforward, and manageable. Tho the case study... neva mind. My verdict : GREAT.
For now theres not much more to life than the 100 mark project, which is due on the 11th, NMAT on 10th and XAT in Jan. So, in my nx blog I will def be writing abt sum of tht as well. For now... tk care n write ur exams well ppl.
Last noters - Sumeet dnt drown in Goa, Raj dont die wid tht skydive u plan during Christmas and Tammy... whr r u????
And I luv the music from Salaam-E-Ishq.. frm the title track to every other track!!!Great work Shankar Ehsaan Loy!!!
Ciao till after my exams.
I did this last year as well on my MSN blog... tho this time I will delve into more details than I did last year. For those who dint get arnd to seeing it, I plan to analyse every exam and subject and professor and reach a verdict on the Sem.
Starting wid HRM. At the start of the sem I thot this was the onli subject where we could expect some clarity wid Nitin actually starting off well. But then we ended up wid a lot of time wasted on unwanted stuff, lot of lec time spent in the corridors luking for a class. And the project we worked on... no comments on how tht was executed and the debacle wid tht altogether. And the paper..!!! OMG!!! I expected length, but definitely I dint expect the university to test us on stamina more than skill. Skill in selecting the questions was more thn required, with vague questions like short notes on whole chapters, but the stamina to write even a portion of wat we knw totally put me off track midway. My verdict : Average. And I must mention tht Nitin dint even bother wid helping us out wid imp questions (tho the pattern was more a non-important question pattern)
Next is SSM. An outright disaster frm the start to the end. Wid no guidance frm the beg to the end... Kripa was our lifeline at the end of the sem. Venky onli helped wid our presentations, which were again no clue on how the theory was. And an abysmally set paper with no set questions... I was irritated at the end of the day. And I was up all nite studing for tht dumb paper and ppl who had spent onli a few hrs on it fared just as well as I did..!!! My verdict : ABYSMAL!!! not even worth more space here
Next is Logistics. Personally, I found the teaching style of both our teachers very amateurish... as tho we were 5th grade kids giving exams for the first time. Nonetheless, I will have to say our syllabus was over hyped, with ppl getting tensd jsut for the heck of it. But I luvd the part of the sem wen ppl were scrambling for classes for the numericals..n onli one very dumb numerical appeared in the paper. But the non predictable questions were not much of a shock after the 1st 2 papers... so yea my verdict will be : Above Average.
FM. Mebe its just my paranoia wid a/c and all related subjects, but I started the year wid an apprehension abt this sub. True, it wasnt as hard as I had expected it to get, since I had my own little tricks to help me out of situations. But, honestly, we spend 4 months in the sem doin practice problems, and onli one month wid the theory. And we get onli 20 marks options worth of problems!!! True, even the theory and concepts were superbly atrangi... but Sapna's style of teaching has made me ready to cope wid all atrangi situations.. ;). Nandu... I seriously feel cannot handle BMS, since we are to energetic and non rule bound for his taste. But a nice experience overall... esp wen u see the empty train at 5 48.. :D. My verdict : Average but could hv been muccch better.
Co operatives. The icing on the cake this sem. It startd off as a big flop, wid him nt getting students to attend and tht unintentional mass bunk. And then the lecs getting canned and the piling tension.. we decided to let him take a break and left for own planet. But I hv to admit if ne paper can be described as AWESOME it was this one. Every concept familiar, every question familiar... it was truly the most amazzzing paper in this exam. My verdict : SUPERB!! even after a slow start.
RM. Another cakewalk. And every1 will admit Ramki was quite an entertainer himself. I enjoyd his lecs... and also his paper. Quite straightforward, and manageable. Tho the case study... neva mind. My verdict : GREAT.
For now theres not much more to life than the 100 mark project, which is due on the 11th, NMAT on 10th and XAT in Jan. So, in my nx blog I will def be writing abt sum of tht as well. For now... tk care n write ur exams well ppl.
Last noters - Sumeet dnt drown in Goa, Raj dont die wid tht skydive u plan during Christmas and Tammy... whr r u????
And I luv the music from Salaam-E-Ishq.. frm the title track to every other track!!!Great work Shankar Ehsaan Loy!!!
Ciao till after my exams.
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