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By now , Every Indian must have got to know about the Oscar-Day of India. Kudos to AR Rahman. For Rahman’s score of Slumdog Millionaire, He won the Critics’ Choice Award, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score,the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and two Academy Awards in 2008 out of his three nominations. Cheers to Rahman and Slumdog Millionaire’s Crew.

Do you know how much were young actor/actresses paid ? Few Thousand Pounds? NO. Few Hundred Pounds. Yes, Don’t be spellbound. They were born and are being brought up in the slums of Dharavi, a suburb of Mumbai, where, Slumdog Millionaire was actually filmed. I dont understand why SM is being considered as a movie. I believe Slumdog Millionaire should be declared as a Documentary. It is no less than a documentary on India’s Poverty. It has showcased Poverty, Corruption, lunacy for Amitabh Bachchan, 1993 Riots and what not. Full Mumbai Darshan in 2Hrs. I have not seen the movie. Infact , I have no urge to watch it . I did try to watch it but could stand only 15 odd minutes of the movie. You can call Coward GJ. I won’t mind.

I am sure all big Indian Directors must have started digging in all the books on Indian poverty by now . You never know , someone can bag an Academy award. They must be regretting. How come they missed aamci mumbai. damn! Anyways, We are taught to see the half-filled glass. Congratulations to all my Indian Fellows. We have got “India” carved in golden words in Academy Award’s History.

To Slumdog Millionaire , Accept my hearty congratulations. For the benefit of all, Indian Poverty will always be there to get exploited and serve even better.

No. Don’t wonder. It’s not about any new version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. It’s about “The Indian Express List of the Most Powerful Indians in 2009″. This Sunday when I got my hands on news paper , I saw an extra 32Pages booklet as suplement. My curious mind made me to read it first. The intention was not to know the Powerful Indians but to be very frank, To see if I have my company’s(Wipro Group) chairperson’s name in the list or not. Certainly, He bagged the 55th position.

I was offended to see the name at 1st position. The position belongs to Mr. Rahul Gandhi. The IE says that “Power in this context is not about achievement, visibility or excellence - although these are factors - but about influence”. I agree people around India are influenced by Mr. Rahul Gandhi but name me those young people like us who are influenced by him and look forward to follow his footsteps. I have an open question to everyone. How many of us would like to go for Politics? Its my point of view . I am not posing my view on you but this is what I have seen around me l. No position among 100 in this list is bagged by any military official.  May be , They are not much on tip of our tongues , can be the reason behind this. My say is where were our young achievers like Abhinav Bindra , Sania Mirza or Aishwarya Rai when the list was made.

Almost 50% positions in that list are given to Politicians. I wonder How Orissa CM or Political Secretary to Sonia Gandhi have influenced us. I know what is roaming in your mind.  Yes we have Shahrukh Khan , Aamir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan in the list . And Yes, Baba Ramdev as well .

PS: IE, We look forward to see some meaningful names in ie 100 ‘10 .

To keep track of my mood-swings which always lead to ‘chahat’ of something new everyday I wake up in the morning, I thought to enlist my desires and write my heart-out . After all, it speaks on my behalf.

So dont laugh on my list if you find anything absurd. I will strike-out each and every entry in my list oneday…!

(Inspiration : Saurav Arya)

So here I go…

1) A pack of SWAD/Pan Parag toffee

2) Overnight Weight Reduction

3) UCB (United Colors of Benetton) Poster fame Model’s Hairstyle

4) Long holiday ( At least a month long) @ any exquisite place

5) I wanna see myself flying so that I can reach my destination within few minutes. You see I am scared of Aeroplanes and Govt. has made tickets out of reach for our little pockets. So flying is not a bad option

6) Get a picture clicked with Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston. Of course , having myself in the main frame.

7) Match my Height and Vital Stats with Rani Mukherjee . ( Rani, Don’t take it personally)

8 ) Like any other gal, A Car

9) Awards , Awards and Awards

10) “Rock On” Fame Farhan Akhtar’s Colorful Hair Band (Guyz , If you find one then please get it for me.)

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12) Grab all available awards at my work place

13) Mac iBook Slim.Sony Vaio

14) To shop without looking at Price Tag

15) Mood-Indigo ‘10/’11

16) Gift a Digicam to myself.

17) Get my boy “The Vaio”

18) Get my boy “The Zune”

19) Go on a month long honeymoon in every 2years

20) Have a job in MS

21) Be a MS certified Professional

22) Gift myself a Fiat Linea – Cherry Red

23) Buy Puma – Ferrari Shoes

24) To get married to my boy

25) Buy the house (40)

26) Get all ‘our’ stuff (from 80)

27) To celebrate my 50^th Birthday with my all friends

28) Buy a Platinum Love bands on my engagement

29) Have a 7 figured bank-balance

30) To have a concert of “Atif Aslam” on my wedding day

31) To be on TV

32) Watching an award ceremony LIVE.

33) Attend a Concert of Strings

34) Visit Takshila,Pakistan.

35) An IIM degree

36) Gift a Car to my parents.

37) A Singapore/Malaysia Trip along with my Parents and my in-laws.

38) Learn Guitar

39) Learn Lawn-Tennis

40) Learn Salsa

41) Make my boy learn Salsa

42) Try to copy street dance (From Stepup-2)

…to be continued.

Welcome to my World…!

This is the third initiative taken by me to setup my blog and by my God’s grace, I am successful this time .

You can expect some interesting things flowing out here. This place will speak about each and everything I like. Do Drop in. I am sure you will never be logging off disappointed.

Keep Rocking…!

- GJ