GANDHIji

I had my first opportunity to watch the movie GANDHI few days back. The movie was a starkling example of how a movie should be moulded to touch the hearts. It touched mine for sure. Rather than just going back to history books n depicting on the silver curtain what happened and all, Richard Attenborough has been succesful in portraying a GANDHI. The man who had all the courage and will power in him to motivate India to first think, then ask and then achieve freedom(!He dint have internet n aaj tak i know), his dignity n simplicity, his power of confidence -- I could see in the eyes of the man portraying Gandhiji.This is excellent movie-making.Its given me an impetus to rethink freedom once again. Some lines from there. . .
" Congress milti hai har saal, har jagah. azaadi ke liye. main kehta hun azaadi tab tak nahin milegi jab tak hum hamare kisano tak nahin pahunchenge. jab tak hum unke jaise nahin jiyenge. jab tak hum unki tarah kapda nahin pehnenge, kyunki awam hamari kissan hi jyada hai. "( "The congress meets every year for freedom. but we wont get freedom by suchthings. we have to go further. we wont get freedom until n unless we go n live with the peasants, wear what they wear,eat what they eat,until we tell them the meaning of freedom.")

For me freedom is thinking and doing the right thing. And whatever you achieved is your success.If I persuade my Maa to think that morning walk n yoga is important for her health, then I am exercising freedom coz freedom is also convicting people into what you think.Thats what Gandhiji had done then. We can think about all types of freedom all through our lives, every moment of our lives. People thought the like then. We should also have such broader thoughts. Thoughts which reflect how you feel about your fellow countrymen, how sensitive you are to rather important things.

In the months after i had been to dada's place in mumbai, i have watched a hell lot of good movies.Some movies are master pieces which everyone should feel facilitated or fortunate enough to get an opportunity to watch these.Here I list some of my favourites.
1. The Shawshank Redemption, for learning the importance of hope n belief in your life
2. A Beautiful Mind, to know that nothing can stop u if u have ur ORIGINAL IDEA
3. Bruce Almighty, to learn giving importance to smaller but important things in life
4. Gandhi, by R. Attenborough to find the rationale behind simplicity n non-violence
5. Sweet November, to know and feel love
and u should never forget to watch MADAGASCAR- its the funniest movie i have seen. If u want to know what is creativity and if u ever want to spread knowledge through some medium, go watch it.

Personalities of the day

I have been short of mad bout him...Some hints..Hes a Brazillian...


And this guy was born in Orissa, now chairman of the National Knowledge Comission...

For I am the first and the last.

For I am the first and the last.
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.

I am the wife and the virgin.

I am the mother and the daughter.

I am the arms of my mother.

I am the barren and my children are many.

I am she whose wedding is great,and I have not taken a husband.

I am the midwife and she who does not bear.

I am the solace of my labor pains.

I am the bride and the bridegroom,

I am the mother of my father

and the sister of my husband

and he is my offspring.

I am the slave of him who prepared me.

I am the ruler of my offspring.

I am the silence that is incomprehensible

and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.

I am the voice whose sound is manifold

and the word whose appearance is multiple.

I am the utterance of my name.

For I am knowledge and ignorance.

I am shame and boldness.

I am shameless; I am ashamed.

I am strength and I am fear.

I am war and peace.

Give heed to me.

I am the one who is disgraced and the great one.

But I, I am compassionate and I am cruel.

Always respect me

For I am the shameful and the magnificent one.

WE SLOTHS WILL BE FASTER SOON

It really pleases me to introduce myself as a DAS. Off late, we have realised that one virtue that has never left walking with us is laziness. We are people who will surpass any limits to see that we do not let laziness feel left out.That was perhaps the reason why Dada chose the URL as http://the-sloths.blogspot.com/.
The DAS family has a very short known history(i bet nobody else in the family has any knowledge about my grandparents' parents), still we pledge that we are going to become a grand great family with the help of we, the Internet users and our siblings who are steadfast growing to be the future Internet users. The idea of growing such a blog had crept inside me a few months back when i saw the wikispaces people demonstrate about a family's paris trip blog. And then an important discovery was made. We( RIN2,PINTU,DEV N JULI) found alll of us were really enthusiastic about this feature called COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING n WEB2.0-3.0 etc etc. All of us felt that we had visions to achieve through the internet. We convicted that internet had the ability to empower us.
Ans then to my surprise I found Dada's invitation to family blogging today.

I want to share one of our foremost aims in life--- TO GROW. Like everything else has started to grow, right from India, enterprise, and even our own Bhubaneswar is developing , we also aspire to grow. And to grow, we need to empower. And empowerment starts with enterprising. It starts with making everyone grow besides you. At this stage, besides joining one of India's foremost IT companies in my mind, I am bent upon an idea of starting an Event management firm with the help of a dear old friend of mine called Srikanta Samal. He has been a freelancer doing event management for the past 3-4 years. Even Juli and Pintu are really interested in involving themselves into it.

I and him, want to grow into a bigger event management firm as big as showbiz and wizcraft. Following into this curl, I did a little bit of study.Let me give you a introduction to this crap.Event management is a process of organizing a professional and focused event, for a particular target audience. It involves visualising concepts, planning, budgeting, organizing and executing events such as fashion shows, musical concerts, corporate seminars, exhibitions, wedding celebrations, theme parties, product launching etc. It is a good career option which does not require much investment and offers a lot of independence and flexibility. No formal degree or qualification is required, but the person should have a genuine passion for conducting events, have very good organising ability and be flexible to work for long hours.

This however , is a scene way ahead. We need to be look-ahead carry adders to do this stuff.

The Bloggers

The last time I was there at home, we (PINTU, RINTU, JULI and me) decided to start documenting our lives on a BLOG. Blog empowers. Thats what we all thought. Ours is a big family back home in Orissa. If you count all my cousins,uncles and aunts, there will be plenty of them, almost 50 in numbers. Their ages range from 5 year to 70 years. All these people can be classified to belong to three distinct generations : people who don't use Internet (or rather aren't likely to use Internet unless Internet becomes a commodity), the Internet Users Users (that makes the "we",I mentioned above) and the future Internet Users. The future Internet Users are those who are still at schools and dont have good access to Internet. Why use Internet as a criteria? Because Internet is such an agent of change that it separates you from others. It changes the way you think and work. Like while all pre Internet era people thought of doing small buisnesses and conventional 9 to 5 jobs, the Internet Era people are enterprising and have taken courage of choosing alternate careers.The idea is that it is the present Internet users will write the blog and future generations will join us . The Blog has two clear objectives: to empower ourselves and to bring us closer.
So lemme now introduce you to the people:
These two fellas (younger bros) are contemporaries. Kind of born on the same day, same hospitals but from different parents. Both of them presently live in the same house in Bhubaneswar. Rintu (the guy with the green T shirt) is growing to become a software engineer with Infosys and Pintu thinks of starting his own enterprise back home. The car obviously is not ours. Thats belongs to the owner of the rented house where we live. My sister Juli (not seen the photograph: probably shes taking the photograph) has done her MBA and looking for jobs in Mumbai. I work for a scientific organization in Mumbai.