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How to become an Indian beggar in five easy steps.

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I am so happy you clicked on the link . You are awesome.Now continue. Step 1: Foul smell attack!! Scientists have discovered that a man can live without food for 3 weeks and without water for two days. But he can survive without bathing forever, until your nose hair burns off and your body scent incapacitates your brain. You will save nearly 30 hours of your month and your income will increase exponentially. Don’t forget to throw your shampoo bottle down the drainage. Step 2: Time for your daddy’s t-shirt and that fat aunty’s kurta. Everyone has one. Borrow them and tear them down to the least of pieces. Girls should dirty their kurta and probably soak their hair in mud. Boys! Make sure you don’t overdo the tearing else the pieces of rag may fall down and your income might rise suddenly. Phate kapde nikla bhikari. Step 3: Start singing but not like celine dion. You have to be a ‘ garibonka pankaj udhas ’ or ‘ garibonki phalguni pathak ’ . If you sing melodious...

GIRLS ! please dont do this when it happens!

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I am not writing this post for the sake of entertainment but, with some turbulence in my heart. All of this because I witnessed something really terrible. It was the first morning of Navratri. I happened to normally stand on  platform no.4 as a part of work routine. Daily routines really bore you because you find nothing new .You just keep on doing it mechanically day after day. I was in the same mood. But, mind it ! this time it was very different. My heart started pumping faster and mind became more alert. I had   mixed emotions and a bit of disappointment. All of time seemed so fast. A short girl in a normal tshirt and blue jeans happened to be my mood changer. She was on the same platform as me. Like me she was too waiting but, for the train before me.As the trains arrived one by one, it threw along a huge crowd of service going people. The platform went crowded again. As train arrived she realized that it was the wrong compartment, so she rushed tow...

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 wit...

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 लह...

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 ha...

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...

Independent India Independent?

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Sushrut Bhalerao is the guest writer today . He loves hypnosis and travels in his free time. He can be reached at sushrut.sb1104@gmail.com Today, 15 th August we are celebrating 67 th year of our Independence .On the fateful night of 14 th August 1947 we got Independence from the British rule. We became independent and all ready to leap into Global scenario as a new and Evolving nation. Our freedom fighters did a great work to make our country independent, Subhashchandra Bose, Swatantryavir Vinayak Damodar Sawarkar, Mahatma Gandhi,Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel , Bhagat Singh many more to name such that. We all must be pay gratitude to them, thankful to them. But where are we going now? ? The biggest question. We are facing so much of problems .When we started we were very hopeful about our future. And still we are. But what happened in last 67 years? There is not much change in conditions of normal human being here, the ‘AAM AADMI’ . Petrol and v...