tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79798473565980554932024-03-14T12:25:54.409+05:30A great way to remember....fasting for a cause....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979847356598055493.post-51522215541885860462009-11-27T21:04:00.002+05:302009-11-27T21:09:12.703+05:30The aftermathAnd what a fast it was..<br /><br />Enjoyed it thoroughly.Though it was tough in the beginning, yet once you're ou of your home, food's off your mind.<br /><br />The evening was splendid too.bout 1000 candles at the GIP, were lit, each one remembering the lost souls as they melted away into the night.<br /><br />Hope to have future fasts too, for other events!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979847356598055493.post-56484149191869798472009-11-25T00:48:00.007+05:302009-11-25T01:01:05.015+05:3026/11<h3 style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="GenericStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}">for 26/11 aniversary:</h3><h3 style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="GenericStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}"><br />Us din ki yaad mein, hum ek paigaam laye hain,<br />Ek saal baad, ek naya makaam laye hain,<br />Jo dil mein hain, woh gehre hain ghaav,<br />Par zara kholo aankhen,dekho hum honsle tamaam laye hain.<br /><br />har din har pal, us dard ko jeene ki himmat,<br />aur watan pe marne waalon ki woh kismat,<br />hum to reh gaye, na ja sake na jee sake,<br />Bas sar jhukaye, unke liye, ye kalaam laye hain</h3>Word meaning suggestions:<br />paigaam:message<br />makaam:milestone<br />Tamaam:all<br />Kalaam:poem<br /><br /><br />If you really were/are touched by the incident,<br />please <a href="http://fasting2remember.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-fast.html">Fast</a> on 26/11's first anniversary.<br />Do join us for a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219983347597&index=1">Candle lighting ceremony</a> at GIP,Noida on26/11 from 7pm to 8:30 pm.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979847356598055493.post-25319698388792505232009-06-15T00:11:00.003+05:302009-06-15T00:23:37.272+05:30Eco point?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcDxthpQwzF5z-5Q7XYRm3WWDojR1msCe2Kxl75GKkHa47m-i4cPoNTizUn6x8PLQv1Q7cXn-IimkIXncvcJxhxnWTDaWZNziJMw7zJ0gKSdOfmdmlRPdtUsc9Of0LhqP4zzLK5wDkBwg/s1600-h/ecopoint.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcDxthpQwzF5z-5Q7XYRm3WWDojR1msCe2Kxl75GKkHa47m-i4cPoNTizUn6x8PLQv1Q7cXn-IimkIXncvcJxhxnWTDaWZNziJMw7zJ0gKSdOfmdmlRPdtUsc9Of0LhqP4zzLK5wDkBwg/s320/ecopoint.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347258063724016898" border="0" /></a><br />Okay,lets take a problem.<br /><br />You worried about reservations right?<br />Why do people want reservations to be there?because,there are too many people to compete,and thus too less chance of winning.<br /><br />Why do they want to win?<br />Coz they want that job.<br /><br />Why do they want that job?<br />Because they have to toil to get money to buy bread.<br /><br />do they really buy bread from that?<br />no,not really,but seeing the prices of food items,it seems all their salaries go into buying food.<br /><br />so,you mean that since food is a scarce resource,people fight for it?<br />yes,kind of...<br /><br />So if food becomes an abundant resource,people will stop killing for a job?<br />hmm..yess..<br /><br />So how do you make food abundant?<br />hmm..plant trees,do scientific research for higher yielding varieties,ask government to stop food exchange as a commodity..<br /><br />ah,me too lazy for that..<br />you want it simple,eh?fast!!<br /><br />Everything extra that you don't eat,just for one day,is a resource.Thus you create a resource.More resource,less its price.Lesser price,lesser fight.Lesser fight,more equity.More equity,less protests.Less protests,less fasting.<br /><br />Doesn't this sound better than burning candles or wearing black badges for days?<br /><br />Simple,eh?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979847356598055493.post-25463042536528209752009-06-11T18:35:00.003+05:302009-06-11T19:29:58.838+05:30Balance sheet<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuV7dAEjVrfqfeYItYa3pdtExFOrkpl-IPdHUpOTpn69QQxHy5OkP66sHG4w92uIuco0ezH3fjVEJu5uFx6cOIivgMqrlC_uaIxmdQfaf2C0Ax5YRzXPp7V5LcRWT9FRVMcxotF5aUkFQ/s1600-h/balance+sheet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuV7dAEjVrfqfeYItYa3pdtExFOrkpl-IPdHUpOTpn69QQxHy5OkP66sHG4w92uIuco0ezH3fjVEJu5uFx6cOIivgMqrlC_uaIxmdQfaf2C0Ax5YRzXPp7V5LcRWT9FRVMcxotF5aUkFQ/s320/balance+sheet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346069429168455954" border="0" /></a><br />So,<br /><br />here's the balance sheet of fasting..in terms of rotis..<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Rotis(bread saved) 2per session*3= 6<br />Sabji saved(curry,vegetables) 0.5kg,or about 2 rotis= 2<br />________________________________________<br />Water saved(not drinking since u didn't have food)=1 litre or about 2 rotis.= 2<br />(1 litre of water can grow 2 rotis,worth grain)<br /><br />Water saved(since not shitting) 2 litres=4 rotis= 4<br />Water saved(since not washing hands and utensils) 1litre=2 rotis= 2<br />______________________________________________________<br />Gas saved(no not of the shitting kind,the cooking gas)=0.25 kg=.5 roti= .5<br /><br />Total 16.5 rotis<br /><br />And you say,i'll lose out my energy to do work?ha!<br />forget it...I don't need food for my survival...this thought alone can feed me!<br /><br />and you say that eating on this day could have given me much energy to work for the poor.<br /><br />Dood!I am already working for them,through this..<br />and besides,have you ever worked for the poor?<br /><br /> <br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979847356598055493.post-34944541951139520062009-06-11T11:50:00.003+05:302009-06-11T11:53:15.550+05:30Why a fast?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA1dNfwJ9k5mutxjbP6WSB3qudlx-DMH6jmreudeWJkkB7wrqbEbUks7PxFuT0Bl7UIScOaaLSEL4xHNSDv6fIS-MMTaES_r1ksvxQjtsfTMMF6wnKcN7y1-EUjP6uPssCGS3fvOGav8I/s1600-h/candle+light.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA1dNfwJ9k5mutxjbP6WSB3qudlx-DMH6jmreudeWJkkB7wrqbEbUks7PxFuT0Bl7UIScOaaLSEL4xHNSDv6fIS-MMTaES_r1ksvxQjtsfTMMF6wnKcN7y1-EUjP6uPssCGS3fvOGav8I/s320/candle+light.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345951749310162946" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Heard it many times,many times before that in everything you do,think about creating something new(that rhymes,doesn't it?)?<br /><br />So then,as per this ancient prophecy of doing everything in a new way,lets ask ourselves,what new thing needs to be be done?<br /><br />In view of the recent attacks and protest in Kashmir and Australia,isn't there a need to protest in a new way?<br /><br />By now,the so called standard way of protests include,candle light marches,dharnas,rallies,petitions etc,which stood the test of history and have..a proven track record.<br /><br />Then,I ask,is there a new way to protest?<br /><br />Mmmmmmmyeeeeaaas...We Indians haven't tried the way what the Japanese do.They protest creatively,constructively.All our protests are,to say generally,destructive.<br /><br />We burn candles,at places which already have lights,we stop the roads for a rally,stop our work for higher wages.<br />All of them,if not reduce some resource,also don't increase some other.<br /><br />Accha yaar,round round jaane ke baje,the point is,lets protest constructively.<br />(ok dude,let me talk straight to the point..)<br /><br />For wages,lets over work,so that the company suffers losses not due to our damage of property,but due to extra unsold products.<br /><br />To show solidarity for someone killed,get your heads shaved off.<br /><br />To show your anger for not enough schools,teach some children.<br /><br />To show solidarity for the malnutrition,fast?So that the extra food saved,would finally be given to them.<br /><br />No no no no...I don't say that,other ways are impractical or useless.They're all ways of showing strength,a show that you care.<br /><br />The need is to combine the both.<br /><br />What say a protest march showing that you're angered about lack of schools,ending in a MCD school where you then teach for 1 hour?<br /><br />Or a candle light march which buys candles from a blind school,and then donates any collected donations to the same school?<br /><br />Awareness to inti hai,par kaam kaun kare!!<br />(there's a lot of awareness,yet no one who acts)<br /><br />Bole to bidu,munna bhai aayi..aur gaayi...par apan lesson bhool re hain.<br />(simply,Lage Raho Munna bhai movie came and went away...and we yet again forget the lesson..)<br /><br />kya?<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(Btw,I'll be fasting this 26/11 as a show of solidarity for the Mumbai terror attach victims.Join in?<br /><br /><a href="http://fasting2remember.blogspot.com/">http://fasting2remember.blogspot.com/</a> )</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979847356598055493.post-22344630623953042532009-06-09T15:05:00.004+05:302009-06-09T15:16:07.742+05:30how shall it help?There have been many questions on how a fast will actually help the malnourished and dying people,so here's the answer to it..<br /><br />During the days of Indo-Pak wars of the 1900's,this is what the then prime minister of India,Lal Bahadur Shastri believed.<br /><blockquote>His concern for the hungry led him to appeal to the better nourished to observe fast once a week, in order to ensure that food becomes available to those who need it more.<br /></blockquote>Similarly,here's how the Japanese protest.For higher wages,they don't go off work and get to the streets to create havoc.They simply over work.They produce 10000 units in a day,where 2000 where required.The company suffers losses,and agrees to their demands.<br /><br />Candle light march,placards,black t-shirts....easy..<br />fasting...difficult?<br /><br />You talked about gandhigiri!<br />This is gandhigiri!<br /><br />So are you fasting?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7979847356598055493.post-16446131602402035202009-06-08T16:10:00.003+05:302009-06-08T23:20:29.964+05:30The request...Remember these images?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ZjTwZmbWDGcduuXk_U7RAlPp3JTmtCVkFIG4U7tUTJXzAoDFm0flkxFWEgSt0MhHmZ5O11aOcpZJ9VENfBKBfC8TEMudj8DlO1xbfl_mEtga18yRiBI5ZfOSIpbEc8aL35k14emTt28/s1600-h/terror3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ZjTwZmbWDGcduuXk_U7RAlPp3JTmtCVkFIG4U7tUTJXzAoDFm0flkxFWEgSt0MhHmZ5O11aOcpZJ9VENfBKBfC8TEMudj8DlO1xbfl_mEtga18yRiBI5ZfOSIpbEc8aL35k14emTt28/s320/terror3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344909923277651474" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGi6Yf7eh3Mpy3zXo5sMg5ARd1feuNGPaQPbmSTT8M0VUavyXsFW4KEI4PD06Nww-HlGfo9enET99BC0wutlAtxqmH9wr5Zt164NFgE1feLbL2xZH8pK7todMunTSMF3ywWb8ood6TQI/s1600-h/cafe_leoplold_2_420.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGi6Yf7eh3Mpy3zXo5sMg5ARd1feuNGPaQPbmSTT8M0VUavyXsFW4KEI4PD06Nww-HlGfo9enET99BC0wutlAtxqmH9wr5Zt164NFgE1feLbL2xZH8pK7todMunTSMF3ywWb8ood6TQI/s320/cafe_leoplold_2_420.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344906701702400370" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />(leoplod cafe)</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Isn't it amazing the short term ghajini type memory that we all have?<br /><br />It's been just about an year when we this last happened.And yet we are meek,silent and unworking towards any goal.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeUAJKGY7ndmTgxhTwDwAkLgIPOUoNIfXgkFfr0yd6oWj2jrqXusNEvyHPFqPkvoI6dOTPaazy4MgVc0RwZRBjwajiNCjlgtl98lTo2svkZW4Bn45cryZryAMBZkt7NfUNV9iASH3FJqk/s1600-h/Taj_26_7196_large.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeUAJKGY7ndmTgxhTwDwAkLgIPOUoNIfXgkFfr0yd6oWj2jrqXusNEvyHPFqPkvoI6dOTPaazy4MgVc0RwZRBjwajiNCjlgtl98lTo2svkZW4Bn45cryZryAMBZkt7NfUNV9iASH3FJqk/s320/Taj_26_7196_large.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344909917964984866" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Screw the politicians,change the system,light a candle,protest...everything takes time..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHcxrp1-c_tQ8Vl2ICZ5q7GQg4dzjAoYBPsEPmGWLjLJlR9L855od59qrl56p34qObEKj7_eJJcO5RDMdR28Wc3qKZ_4VPH9K1G34Yb8wT7EFZOkWv4fe2-vQAekCUwFMtw3lFs1Cu0F0/s1600-h/terror4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHcxrp1-c_tQ8Vl2ICZ5q7GQg4dzjAoYBPsEPmGWLjLJlR9L855od59qrl56p34qObEKj7_eJJcO5RDMdR28Wc3qKZ_4VPH9K1G34Yb8wT7EFZOkWv4fe2-vQAekCUwFMtw3lFs1Cu0F0/s320/terror4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344909925549635042" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />What I request you to do is...live the pain!<br /><br />I request you to fast,on 26th November 2009,<br />in the memory of the 26/11 victims,praying that such acts of horror on humanity are never repeated.<br /><br />No food,for one day.What difference shall it make?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtufSXxJAKnPyVD7DH3_ec-RunP8jQd2xCAiI8z214zSs-QV0aVNLIqHinQbFvHwxXsEKGgRYo2_Idi_kRarWQbZd_Y7nKIXER4DqIIZ_2eblI4Twvtlkh_P4mAdgtX2-oMJW5uUO2FiY/s1600-h/NTA2009031268384_PV.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtufSXxJAKnPyVD7DH3_ec-RunP8jQd2xCAiI8z214zSs-QV0aVNLIqHinQbFvHwxXsEKGgRYo2_Idi_kRarWQbZd_Y7nKIXER4DqIIZ_2eblI4Twvtlkh_P4mAdgtX2-oMJW5uUO2FiY/s320/NTA2009031268384_PV.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344906713010574834" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIoH9tRU94M-20rwZN7B1MwmHrRFehUt4ItlkjKotWo4hBV8uWrL_DHqDGQSvIBWkS-9qIbW0uY4hkvrKWd3IvbP2kBuQN3hToRty3QutXtroby-GhUUm0kEzg4nGy1NmRVXtkHiDbvE/s1600-h/Malnutrition-UNICEF-India.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeIoH9tRU94M-20rwZN7B1MwmHrRFehUt4ItlkjKotWo4hBV8uWrL_DHqDGQSvIBWkS-9qIbW0uY4hkvrKWd3IvbP2kBuQN3hToRty3QutXtroby-GhUUm0kEzg4nGy1NmRVXtkHiDbvE/s320/Malnutrition-UNICEF-India.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344906709921866946" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Know that,your kindness will not go in vain.For every Indian who fasts we shall save some grains more for the poor souls who are malnourished and dying.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzhGjMukpu5Sc_Vuz2KRGDzDJ-_CbEYJX37m2x4q-O9s7jXLWtIdOe7TsoTmCrPs-hHsXLKyd7CFfUmV06hqzA_pbnDezD96JwHTMAM6zGbMIJnprRoWDAZZGFsYCq-jLhiE7BSsCVO90/s1600-h/ap_india_baby_051130_ssv.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzhGjMukpu5Sc_Vuz2KRGDzDJ-_CbEYJX37m2x4q-O9s7jXLWtIdOe7TsoTmCrPs-hHsXLKyd7CFfUmV06hqzA_pbnDezD96JwHTMAM6zGbMIJnprRoWDAZZGFsYCq-jLhiE7BSsCVO90/s320/ap_india_baby_051130_ssv.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344906700777275154" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Wives do it for their husbands,you do it for a job,I did it for an expired ancestor,yet can you do it for the cause?<br /><br />Its a challenge,if you really feel it!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Please help in spreading the word in whatever way you can.<br />(The web page has been designed black in color,to save energy(inspired from <a href="http://blackle.com/about/">Blackle</a>))<br />(Fasting implies no intake of food,but water and other liquids.In case of medical emergencies,do not fast)<br /><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br /><div><a name="'data:post.title'" id="'data:post.url'" onmouseover="'return" onmouseout="'addthis_close()'" onclick="'return"></a><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=xa-4a2d4b831c636e57"></script></div><br /><!-- AddThis Button END --><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0