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Opening Bell: Song from Movie: Three Idiots:Honth ghuma, Seeti bajaa,Seeti bajaa ke bol, Bhaiyaa aal izz well!All is Well and Wish you all a happy new year!I have always been fascinated by rhyme and I couldn't but help writing a note with this title.Muse One: Pancho the Honcho!I studied at IIM Bangalore and actually had a batchmate called Pancho. This guy once spent three hours trying to fix a

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Opening Bell: Theme Music: Hindi Movie: Wake up Sid!sunlo zara humko yeh keh rahawaqt hai kya tumko pata hai naab so gayi raat jaake din hai abb jaag uthaaankhein masalata hai saara yeh samaaawaazein bhi leti hai angadaayiyawake up sid saare pal kahein,wake up sid chal kahin chaleinwake up sid sab dishaao se aa rahi hai sada sun sako agar sunowake up!My translation:Listen. The breeze murmurs to

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Opening Bell: Theme Music: Hindi Movie: Anand[Choti baaten, Choti choti baaton ki hai yaadein baniBhoole nahin bithi hui ek choti ghadi,Janam janam se, aankhen bichaaye, tere liye in rahon mein,]my translation (and a pinch of Johnny Cash)for memorieslife's trifle pleasures & such little treasuresI keep my eyes wide open for each lifetime,Awaiting you to stand up by my sideBecause you are mine,

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Opening Bell: Hindi Film: Anari: Kisiki muskuraahaton pe ho nisaarKisika dard mil sake to le udhaarMy Translation being:For them, whose smile that bringeth you joy,Own each of one of their woes yourself. Try!I muse this time,with a sonnet for a rhyme.Eight in the night, I recount the clock telling the time,As I remember that simple day sunk in daily chores,When we gathered just around the corner

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Opening Bell: Pink Floyd: Signs of Lifewhen the child like view of the world went, Nothing replaced it...nothing replaced it...nothing replaced it...I do not like being asked to.....i do not like being asked to...I do not like being asked to....Other people replaced it…Someone who knowsThe Opening Bell is a Pink Floyd song that “literally” reflects the theme for this post.Was having a very

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and genuinely at loss of words

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Opening Bell: Strings : Album : Dhaanidhaani re dhaani chunariya dhaani, re dhaani...chunariyakude baadal ke saiye may lehraye gimujhe tarpaye gi, chali jaye gijaisay bijuriya mastaani...The track for the day, the last song on Worldspace before I turned it off,My translation goes:your vibrant sash wavingin the breeze; in shadows of these monsoon clouds; momentarily teasing sensesand then

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Opening Bell: Movie Amadeus: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Music of the Opera Don Giovanni It was nice of Google to remind us that today is Mozart's birthday.so what do you do when you have a late night in office, and do not feel like going home in spite of the fatigue from the hours. Well, you go home anyway and then play "Maestro" (western classical channel in Worldspace) in low volume until you

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Opening Bell : Poem : Atal Behari Vajpayee:Haar nahin manoonga,Rahr nahin TtaloongaKaal ke kapaal pe likhta chala jaa tha hoon,Geet naya gaata hoon.My translation:Defy each defeat I shall,make no softer my cries,for I etch each moment,as we walk past our time,and each time I fall, failshall rise my new songLights. Lights in the sky. Lights on the Land. Lights in the water. Lights in the night.

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No opening Bell. No Music. Just the eerie Silence.My most sober post ever.I need to rethink the future of this blog. Understand what it really means and isolate it from my journal/diary. I feel intuitively that this blog will evolve into an outlet for my poetic urges. I will breathe some fresh air into this effort and resume after a break.But before that, I need to pause, to bow to the Boa

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Opening Bell: Telugu song: Movie: SrikrishnapandaveeyamchaangurE .. chaanagu chaangurE ..... chaangurE bangaaru raajaa.. chaangu chaangurE bangaaru raajaa.. majjaarE magarEDaa mattainaa vagakaaDaa ayyaarE ..... ayyaarE neekE manasiyyaalani unnadiraa chaangurE ..chaangurE bangaaru raajaa chaangu chaangurE bangaaru raajaa I cannot translate this. I do not understand this fully either.All I can tell

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Opening Bell: AR Rehman: Title Song: Rang De Basantiaur mohe tuu rang de basanti yaaramohe tuu rang de basantimohe mohe tuu rang de basantioh mohe rang de basanti basanti rang de basantiding ding ding ding ding ding dingding ding ding ding dingI crossed the finish line with this song in my mind and a small Bhangra step!21 laps lapsemy mind clapsthe milestoneits mein own.It is my dayall the wayit

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Opening Bell: Theme Music: Pink Floyd: [Album: The Piper at the Gates Of Dawn. Song: Bike]I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings And things to make it look good.It's not about the Bike.Having thoughtful friends is useful. Yesterday a friend left a copy of the book by Lance Armstrong, "It's not About the Bike" on my table. I was tired at 11:00 in the

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Opening Bell: Hindi Movie Song : Maine Pyaar Kiya : SP BaluMere Sawaalon Ka Jawab Do, Do NaDono Taraf Benaam Si UljhanJaise Mile Ho Dulha-DulhanDono Ki Aisi Halat Kyu Hai..?Aakhir Itni Mohabbat Kyu Hai..?Mere Sawaalon Ka Jawab Do, Do NaTranslated asPray silence this, my anxious curiosity,Unnamed frisson of tension betwixt the twoLike a 'to-be-couple' at a prenuptial settingQuestion their state?

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Opening Bell: Theme Music: Doris Day:The future's not ours to seeQue sera, seraWhat will be, will beQue Sera, SeraI spent a lot of time in the last few weeks thinking,"what do I want to be? Will I be happy, Will I be sad?"and this is how it happenned to be...And I have also seen many friends go through the same set of questions,So am I better or am I worse, than what I hoped to be,Will I be

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Opening Bell: Theme Music: EuropeWill things ever be the same again It's the final countdown...2006! Its New! Its promising!A man-made milestone to celebrate just another merely regular rotation of the globe on its axis, an artificially created data point that seem to spring new and promising times - A cynically scientific view of the New Year. Symbols are everything. Festivals are symbols. It’s

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Opening Bell: Poem – Funeral Blues: WH AudenMy noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrongMy talk, my life, only me,Dominates this verse to beHealth behaves well today, A day that betters yesterdayFrom a 26 week low, And not so long agoAhoy, Mood on upswing, I can hum, I will singFeel my tensions ease,May this tribe increase,Egocentrics’ world AhemIt's

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Opening Bell: Theme Music: Star Wars SoundtrackHide and Seek, my soul, does playGame, hence trifle. Soul, so strifeRe-discover it, in time, I shallRegain health, a priority, will beBy Yoda of star-wars, inspired I am!Slow but wise, crippled yet intenseClosing Bell: Theme Music: Catch me if you can soundtrack

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[Opening Bell: Theme music: I am singin' in the rain] It was quite natural you knowPoetry was in his vein, his bloodProfessor never let go, the word flowEven the smartest one felt like a dud We soaked thru quizzes in sweat Silently fought through the pain When we saw limericks that bet That we would score a zero againThe subject was not even poeticT’was Integrated electronic

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[Opening Bell: Theme music: Tata Safari Advertisement background music]The ad is a fantastic one with a high emotional appeal to the target segment. Especially the “I always wanted to quit on a Monday Morning”Also, separately, I wish technology evolves to allow me to play the theme music each time someone visits my post on this blog and to customize it with every post or play it with a click? It

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Opening bell: Theme music: Fiddler-on-the-Roof : Soundtrack[If I were a rich man,Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.All day long I'd biddy biddy bum. If I were a wealthy man.I wouldn't have to work hard.Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.If I were a biddy biddy rich, Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man]If only Reb Tevye was richer man, we would have been deprived of a

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Opening bell: Theme music: Pink Floyd : Let there be more light[Now, now, now is the time - time Time to be - be - be aware] Today I have made a beginning by creating a new blog on my industry. Calvin (Hobbes' friend) says : "One way to enjoy your job is to have a Hobby that is worse!" That is the most profound piece of wisdom that I have heard from a six year old!I have decided that it is time

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Opening bell: Theme music: Pink Floyd : Mother[Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?Mother, do you think they'll like this song?]Irrespective of the connotation of the lyrics in the above Floyd song, I find the pattern of words irresistible to my context. Mother is the first person to answer most of your first questions as a child. And if answers to these questions formed your first

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Yesterday, Dharmendra tagged me onto writing these; very short fifty-five word stories. I thought I might as well give it a shot. Here are five short tales singing to the tune of one of my favorite Hindi masterpieces:oh re taal mile, nadee ke jal mein, nadee mile saagar meinsaagar mile kaun se jal mein, koee jaane naaTitle: The young man and the seaHe wanted to see to believe that the ocean

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Opening Bell: [Background music of the “Bajaj Avenger Advertisement”] Feel like God!This post is in the true spirit of Feathers-and-Stones. This is really about this and that. I have had a fabulous weekend and hence the title of the post. The Govinda “dahi handi” event at Worli Naka was one highpoint. The English Scripting the Ashes was another. However, the biggest event this weekend was my 8km

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Opening Bell: Theme Music:Chariots of Fire soundtrackOf course. There is no other sound track more appropriate.I read Dharmendra’s blog on “Why I Run”. I have known him for a few years, and therefore, will not hesitate to take a few digs at him. In general, much of what Dhammo speaks ranges from pure gibberish to unadulterated pearls of wisdom. This oscillation, between these two extremes,

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Where the deer Trotting came near,Knowing no fear, Their noses held high, To the smell of LaddoosFrom my roomThe IIT campus, That graded preciselyEach person’s wisdomIt rankled me then,that smartness was rankedto a dismal second decimalbound by the tetherof a planned syllabus thatstupid stern frameworkWhere I lost my wayThanks to a dreary mindThat deserted habitAnd thus stumbled, ontoEsoteric

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Opening Bell: Pink Floyd[...A fatal attraction, holding me fast, howCan I escape this irresistible grasp...] I can’t explain this fatal attraction to physics and science years after I have stopped studying or practicing the subject. Let us just say that I got lured into the world of commerce and cash!I remember that during the undergraduation days at IIT, there were these “child geniuses”

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Opening bell: Theme music: Jagjit Singh […magar mujko lautaa do woh bachpan ka sawan…Yeh Kaagaz ki kashti, Woh baarish ka paani ] ..but take me back in time, to enjoy childhood monsoon rainsthe playful wake of a paperboat sailing in trickling water drainsI was eager to turn sixteen‘twas my childish keennessone two three four: as years agedI already had a conscienceat twenty years and five

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Opening Bell: Theme Music: John Denver [You fill up my senses, like a sleepy blue ocean]The last couple of weeks I’ve been going down to the seaside on most evenings for a walk and a talk with a couple of buddies. Not evenings exactly, but after dinner, till about midnight. Let’s just say that we newly discovered the charm of the Worli sea face at low tide. I will have to mention that moonlit

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Opening bell [Yankee Doodle went to the town, riding on a pony, he stuck a feather in his cap and called it Macaroni]Boredom, especially at work, can make terrible things happen. Corporate life often propels one into those inevitable troughs of lacking content. This random number, this essay, is a result of one such twist in my day at work. Speaking of boredom, I remember, writing to a friend

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Opening Bell: Theme Music - Jagjit Singh [do aur do ka jod hamesha char kahaan ho tha hain, soch samaj waalon ko thodi nadaani dey maula!] Two and two do not always make four, in a sense, O Lord give these intellectuals that much innocence. Black! A new connotation to that word in my mind was born yesterday. There are few events that can change the meaning of a word forever. Till yesterday,

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Opening Bell: Pink Floyd: [All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall] I thought of whatthe biggest force in my industry (Telecom) is, there can be only one answer to this question “Convergence”. Here convergence means different forms of telecommunication gradually merging into one seamless all enveloping channel of communication. All in one. For a person from a orthodox Hindu family, I

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Opening Bell: [yaari hain imaan mera, yaar meri zindagi] Haven't you ever sat on top of a overhead water tank to converse with a pal. This happenned often during my graduation days. The top of the water tank on the terrace, was my Camp David. It was the perfect place for a perspective building conversation with a confidant! I mentioned this to some friend whose opinion resonated : he said "the

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Opening bell: Theme Music: Fiddler-on-the-Roof [The fiddler on the roof movie theme music] Opening Theme Video: Air Emirates Ad! [When is the last time you did something for the first time] Yes. This is a first for me too. Finally, here is my weblog. This is, for all practical purposes, my first blog. You may ask ... [Topol Style in Fiddler on the Roof]...Why feathers and stones? Whats in a

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