My Civil Society - A new structure

This is continuing to my earlier post 
http://chmonalisa.blogspot.com/2011/02/to-do-list-for-my-nation.html


-- Education team; Sponsor Research across the country, setup research scholarships and grantships for the bright students. Also help poor people in primary school/secondary school and college level education.


-- Form an NGO team exclusively dedicated to make government organizations work using the power of "RTI", right to information; the idea is to arrange people whose only job is to study how the local authorities are working and submit RTI applications on a daily basis. 
Gather the data, analyze it and distribute it to Universities ofcourse with the authorities' permissions. 
If there are any negligencies or wrong information then file it in local courts.


-- Arrange a Special Task Force for each city/town; this is like a "may I help you" team whose only thing to do is help the citizens to reach the respective authorities, guide them and assist them in every step, all free of cost. So there would be a dedicated 24/7 team whose job is help people. This team will have permission from the local corporator/mayor/collector so they do things all according to law.


-- Civil Innovation team, this team works with the people to find innovative ways and new methods in civil service, this team works closely with the authorities as well.


-- Afforestation team; this team's job is plant trees wherever necessary and educate people on the need to afforest


-- Pension Team; this team will make sure every eligible person in the society gets pension on time and correctly


-- Public Transport team; studies the existing public transport system, analyzes the profit/loss, expenses, submit reports weekly/monthly to the authorities, suggest ways to improve things.


-- Feed back team; these people collect feedback on various issues and items, all the other teams come to the Feedback team for anykind of public feedback they need


-- Grievance team; collect public grievances in that locality and forward them to the authorities, acts like a middle tier system between government bodies and citizens


-- security team; does regular patrolling helping police and citizens in maintaing security in the society


-- Finance team; This is the core body of the entire structure; Every team's expenses are bore by this team.


-- Governing body team; this team is to receive complaints against other team's in the structure.


'll add some more later but for now there are too many thoughts and great ideas, god knows how am I getting so many brilliant ideas :)

Aashirwad Movie - by Hrishikesh Mukherjee released in 1968 - A Review

After a long time that I cried, felt so happy and light inside my heart; that's what tears make you feel.


This amazing movie, "Aashirwaad" was written,produced, screenplay and directed by the great Hrishikesh Mukherjee, dailogues by Gulzar saab.
Amazing music by Vasant Desai with most of the songs as folk and tragic.
Also anil ghosh was accredit as associate writer and screenplay for this movie.


One of the very few movies which made me cry so I definitely would remember this in my life.
The agony of a father, the immense love for his child, his loads of goodness despite being a Thakur is what this movie is all about.
Ashok Kumar as "Jogi Thakur", people in the village call him so as he being a Zamindar roams among the poor people and help them; His wife is an arrogant zamindarin thought good at heart; they have a little child called "Nina" and our Thakur fondly calls her "Bittu".
One day Thakur's wife gets the village on fire using Munshiji who has an eye on Baiju's young daughter. Baiju is an old fellow who fails to pay the debt which leads to this extreme step by Thakur's wife. 
Thakur is fed up with his wife and leaves the village to city where he accompanies another poor fellow who earns money by showing pictures to children. Thakur helps him with this and in the process meets a little child whose name is also Nina; This little Nina dies due to high fever which makes Thakur realizes how badly he misses his child.
so Thakur returns to his village and finds that Baiju's daughter is kidnapped by Munshi and has been with him in a godown since the village was lit up with fire. In an angry state he enters the godown and kills the Munshi.
Though thakur's wife and brother-in law tries to save him in the court, the thakur accepts his crime and is sentenced to 14 yrs imprisonment. Thakur spends his life in Jail by writing poems about his little kid, he doesn't want his Nina to know about him and Nina's mamaji (thakur's brother-in law) tells her that her father became sanyasi and left everybody.
After 14 years, Nina's love who is a doctor gets the job in the same Jail where Thakur stays.
The doctor likes Thakur as well as Nina who comes to see her love; Thakur doesn't reveal his real name though he gets to know that she is his Nina.
The final day comes when thakur gets early release and on the same day Nina's marriage with the doctor is fixed; Thakur though sick gets on to reach the venue to see his daughter's marriage; the Thonga valla drops Thakur from the station and sings one of the Jogi Thakur's old songs; Baiju still lives in the village, Chandanpur as a begger and he recognizes the Jogi Thakur;
they all go to Nina's wedding as the Zamindars organizes a feast for all the beggars.
Once the thakur gives his "Aashirwaad" to his daughter he comes out and fells down.
Baiju calls everybody and tells them that he is the Jogi Thakur. People throng the place and Nina and doctor gets to know about him and they come there as well; Nina cries at seeing his father and finally Jogi Thakur dies blessing the newly weds.
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The movie amazingly depicts the agony, pain of a father towards his daughter. I just couldn't control my tears for the last half an hour of the movie, it was just brilliant.
Gulzar's dailogues and lyrics are so dramatic and moving.
This is a must watch for every indian; This movie actually gave me so many ideas about what to do in my future and for the society; How to love others and forgive people and start loving them.


I only wish I watch some more movies like this before my last breath :)

Books' Counter

Here goes another Counter on the Air.
The books I read and a short review about each will be updated here. The idea actually came from Mr. Paul S Randall who is a SQL Server Specialist and runs his own company.
He updates the number of pages read/day every year/month which is good.


Hence here I am started my own way of reviewing and counting what I am reading.
I've read so many books since my self realization in my Engg. days


Some of them which I remember are here:
Oscar wilde - short stories
Kushwant singh - Burial @ Sea
Kushwant Singh - A Train to Pakistan
Kushwant Singh - Delhi
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Jane Austen - Emma
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Anthony Trollope - the Warden
Oscar wilde - the picture of dorian gray
Chetan bhagat - 3 mistakes of my life
Chetan bhagat - one night @ call center
Chetan bhagat - 2 states
Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
Mimi Spencer - 101 things to do before you diet
Wilkie Collins - Basil


There are lot and 'll update as and when I recollect.


Currently I am reading "William Makepiece Thackerey"'s Vanity Fair.
Also I am reading this "101 things to do before you diet" by Mimi Spencer;
Completed reading the above book on diet, its so damn good and cheeky; I've skipped a lot of pages which pertains to women's clothing and style.
This book is so good, i just love it; full of wit and humour, i didn't understand some of the phrases as they seem to be part of modern british lingo.


Basil is unlike a regular classic, this has suspense and this seems like a thriller. I finished reading this quite soon, very few times I have completed books like this.
I enjoyed the suspense, there are some pages where Collins describes the feelings and the nature of the events etc which I felt was like filling up pages. Other than that it was an amazing piece of work.
I'll have to complete Vanity Fair before I jump onto another one.


Completed this book (i think on 11th july '11), "Daphnis and Chloe by Longus " - translated by Ronald McCail.
This is a Greek classi written somewhere in 3rd BC.
This book is supposedly written to teach young lovers what love is. This is mostly similar to the theme of "blue lagoon" movie.
Now started reading Kiran Desai's first book, "hullabaloo in the guava orchard".

Greatest myth of my life revealed

Yes its true and its official now.
Alcohol has the highest calorie content next to Fat.
Oh my god, this is the greatest mistake I've been doing all in my life for the past 7 years.
Can I believe this as true?
Yes ofcourse, I just realized how great pig I am.
I read now in lot of articles now that have 7 calories per gram which is way too high.
approx each peg/shot amounts to 55 cals.


I've been dwelling on why I couldn't reduce my stomach size despite following staunch fitness routine and a good diet high in fibre and proteins.
I used to do rigorous swimming, like 1 to 1.5 Km 5 years ago, after that I used to jog for 2 Kms, used to go to Gym and burn 300 cals. Then started cycling for 10-12 Kms atleast 3-4 days each week.
Despite doing all these high octane exercise I couldn't reduce my Belly fat, the only reason I just discovered is because of Alcohol consumption.


I even had a discussion a couple of hours ago with my Gym instructor; I just vent out my frustration about my abdomen fat, she gave lot of tips and advised me to consult dietician on the ground floor.


I should remember this day for sometime to come, I found the true fact that Alcohol is a high calorie food.


To all those who drink alcohol, please bear in mind that it increases weight as it has calories, beer/wine have carbs as well.
So the best thing is if you drink, drink less and don't eat snacks while drinking.


Jaago grahak Jaago

My own personal attack on me

I wanted to write what's not right with me physically and mentally.
So here it is my own personal attack on me.


I am of average height, 5' 8.5'', fair to very fair if I have to say among indians but among europeans/aussies I am brown.
My nose is little broad not pointed; my hairline is decreasing day by day, means losing thousands of my hair, I am not officially bald now but can join the community if this continues for a year.
I wear goggles or lens; the power of the lens fluctuating between 3 and 4, after a long 16 years it's managed to touch 4.
I am arrogant with tons of ego; anger is my first emotion; not a great communicator when it comes to opp sex; frankly I should say I am shy when speaking to girls.
I have no big memory and understanding skills, I have to read 10 times each topic to remember it properly; that's why I always used to read during my college/school days.
People call me very hard working! Uh! they don't know its because I couldn't remember/understand easily.
I am weak towards girls, can't make friendship with them, can't talk to them properly. Can't have a valid discussion without looking into their eyes sharply and thinking if she is beautiful.
I admire people who are beautiful, so here I am a racist.
I don't listen to others' suggestions or advice, I do what I want to do.
I think I am a good dancer but people find it funny.
I am no good singer;
I always see people's negatives, tend to criticize quite often at everything and everyone.
criticism is my born right!!
I have few friends, I always think I am the greatest of all.
Though I boast of being a dietitian, being health conscious , I ignore my own principles every weekend and eat/drink like a pig.
I can't swim fast, can't run fast,  can't cycle fast; 
I don't know how to play songs on Guitar properly.  
I always tell others how great I was and I am. Always discusses others' -ves infront of others. I can't bear sunlight.


Vow, it seems there are too many -V'es that I can tell about myself, i'll keep adding to the list as and when I get a new one.
Since I know all the above are my weakeness, I tend to overcome them.
I use a lot of techniques to change my behavior and consciously introspect.
That's why my life is in balance; 
If I read this post again I would defintely feel bad about myself but I am going to write another post about how great I am to counter this post!!!!

Eat like a pig counter

Yeah I know, one more counter in my life.
This is for me and to have a check on how much I eat.
Yes I am on a strict diet, eating only necessary for my living and for weight lifting.
But this discipline is only on weekdays when I don't drink, but on weekends? I will become a pig, eat like a pig, my stomach won't stay "stop", my hunger cells stop working, there is only one word "go".
So on weekends when I sit with friends/roommates and drink, I just lose count on how much calories/protein/carbs/fat/fibre I take. They just don't matter.
All my efforts on weekdays just go waste because of me becoming a pig on weekends.


Too bad my fellow and hence is the necessity of starting this counter.


Counter value 1:
date, venue: may 6th 2011, unilodge, melbourne, australia
had salted peanuts, potato chips along with 3-4 pegs scotch and then on top it, rice with curry.


Counter value 2:
June 3rd, 2011, melbourne, australia
venue: Jaisalmer palace
though we ordered limited items I was overanxious to eat Akbar biryani, hence odered so.
The biryani was too high with lots of chicken pieces and all too tasty, before that I had a couple of beers in the office, then I had one more drink in the hotel. As starters I ate pakoda then jumped to Biryani. 
It was too heavy but since I don't want to get my name added in my "food wastage counter" I had to clear the plate, I did so with difficulty and finally won. That was kind of "man vs food" program in Travel&living channel.

Bazaar movie review.

Just saw this movie, Bazaar released in 1982 starring naseeruddin shah, smita patel,  farooq shaikh and supriya pathak.
This is written and directed by Sagar Sarhadi who wrote dialogues for kabhi kabhi, silsila etc.


This movie is all about how poor muslim women get married in Hyderabad.
It shows how old people buy these muslim girls in the name of marriage.
Khayyam's beautiful music adds to the pain, tragedy. There are a couple of romantic tracks as well in this movie.


Overall watching such a movie for 2 hrs needs patience, since I am a smita patil's fan, I have completed watching this movie full.
There is n't much to smita's performance in this movie other than the usual rona dhona.
But she is looking splendid, with kajal, black hair and the traditional hyderabadi chudidars.
Vow she is a beauty.
The movie has some gazals from Mir, though I don't understand much urdu but I like these.


I also like the romantic part between farooq shaikh and supriya pathak. it is very beautifully portrayed, how farooq tries to talk to supriya, how he rides the rickshaw, how he acts as a bangle seller. vow I like it, and later when he gets to know about her marriage he says he would die for her.
One dialogue is so heart touching.
he says, "there wasn't anything in my life before you came", "you made my life"
listen to this line in urdu when Farooq says, "kya tha zindagi mein tere pehle",
The agony a lover feels for his love is shown here; the tragic part is supriya dies immediately after the marriage, we don't know what happens to Farooq though.


Overall you can give 6/10 for this, its a must watch to all Smita Fans but not for naseeruddin's fans.