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Forth seat in local trains:boon or curse?

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Once there were three happy people traveling in Mumbai local train . They were happy as they were sitting comfortably not knowing that a person is going to change their mood soon. A  person  at mumbra with heavy luggage approaches  trying to make space with all of them and soon throws them into discomfort and fury. “Bhaiya ji jara shift honge?” I stared at him with angry features. ‘Why the hell does he not want to seat us comfortably?’ .  We were three on the bench. The middle one being a fat guy I was struggling to seat even on the corner seat. “Why can’t he just stand there?” I furiously exclaimed . I pushed the middle guy who was sleeping with his head drooping from side to side. He didn't awake. After a bit of struggle I managed to give him a piece of seat smaller than the width of my forearm. He rested his half butt as we three resisted moving out of our comfort zone. We thought he might soon give up from the forth seat as we opposed with team work. But , he was

९९' साल च्या आठवणी आणि श्रीखंडाच्या गोळ्या.

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मी पहिल्या मजल्यावर राहतो बरं का ? ९९’ सालाच्या गोष्टी करतोय . माझीच नव्हे तर तुमचीही खात्रीने हीच गोष्ट असणार. घरातून  निघताना काहीतरी विसरणे नेहमीचेच असत. मग त्यामध्ये घड्याळ , रुमाल आणि टोपी इत्यादी. कोण एवढे परत चालत वर जाणार . मग ‘आई’ म्हणून बिल्डिंग खालून जोरात हाक मारायची . मग आई ते खिडकीतून फेकायची. चक्क आई ला नावाने हाक न मारता फक्त आई म्हणून बोलवत असे तेही घसा फोडून. एवढ्या बिल्डिंग चिटकून चिटकून होत्या तरी माझ्या आवाजाची सिग्नेचर आई बरोबर टिपत असे आणि ती येऊन आपल्याला उत्तर देत असे. हि कथा शाळेत जाणाऱ्या चील्लारांपासून  ते ऑफिस चे धोंडे . सकाळ पासून ते संध्याकाळी लहान मुलं खेळेपर्यंत  असे आवाज ऐकू येत. प्रेम युगाची हि काही वेगळीच रौनक होती. आपल्या प्रियकाराची अचानक ऐकू आलेली हाक आणि मग आईला हलचल मनाने विचारणे  “ समीर आलाय , मी पटकन खाली जाऊन येऊ का ?” आई काय म्हणेल याची उत्सुकता . आणि मग आई ‘हो’ म्हणाली कि बाल्कनीत आपले हसणं आवरून तो परत हाक देणारच तितक्यात  योगायोगानं आपले हसरं मुख दाखवणं आणि मग एकमेकांकडे बघून ..... ( मी त्यावेळी खूप लहान होतो . माझावर शंका घे

Education system a scam?

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Once upon a time there was a foreigner who was touring Mumbai. At the signal, a slum boy approached him selling his product. As usual, already irritated by so many, he was going to ignore him. But, he was totally stunned, when the slum boy spoke in many languages including English and German. He couldn't help but lower his windscreen and observe his marketing skills with awe, far better than even the cooperate marketers he had seen. He was captivated by his professional body language which even the personality development seminars hardly teach. I insist you to watch this short video if you don’t believe it. Click here That brings me to the question whether education system is just a scam? Do they destroy the very basic form of learning? It’s easy to raise doubts, a bit difficult to answer and very very hard to act on the solution. For now let’s try the second option. I don’t need to expand on this I feel. There are many eminent personalities who have ma

How to find perfect subtitle for movie in less than 45 secs

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If you are like me who hates spending hours in finding a perfect subtitle for movie than this is the fastest way I have found out to search a perfect subtitle for your movie. Step 1: Suppose you download a movie with help of torrent/rapid library you will always have the uploader’s/ ripper’s name most of the times. Here’s a screenshot of the movie ‘The prestige’ without srt. Step 2: Right click > rename ( Don’t change the original name )> Copy the name Step3 :   After you copy the original name unedited from the file go to your browser address bar and paste the name as it is, but now with ‘subtitles’ written in front of it and google. Step 4:   You will get a lot of download links with the same name. Make sure you download those srt files with same name. I have clicked the second link that looks similar and downloaded it. VOILA ! You have man