Building a Community

Bullding a community is not about connecting people to you its about connecting them to each other.and then still being in touch.

(Coming from an asocial person like me its wierd but it makes sense. Let me know what you think if you a know me personally)

I know a few people who "are" the network. Mostly they have immense power. They are thanked profusely for their work.Mostly in Kind and seldom in money. (Remember :Don Corleone)

There can not be many people who are the network. Stive to bring people of second kind together to build a community.

Whats your experience in building a community
Have you ever tried to build a community
Try to share your experiences.

Who will clean this mess of our home ?? Snehla Masood loved India. Do you ?

Its very common for people who raise their voices against the power to get brutally murdered /burned etc
in the same vein today ... one more person gives her life.

This is 14th RTI activist who is dying like this ... clearly RTI is something corrupt people are afraid of.

the news is  ( here )
" BHOPAL: In a broad day light murder, an RTI activist and a strong supporter of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement, Shehla Masood was shot dead around 11.30 am on Tuesday. 

Unidentified assailant shot her dead from point blank range while she was leaving in her car to attend a demonstration in support of Anna Hazare.

About 35 years old, Shehla was still sitting in the driver's seat when she was attacked, however, no one heard any gun shot. When the car didn't move for a while, the family members came out only to find that she had collapsed on one side with blood oozing out from her chest.

She was shot in her chest. The murder took place just in front of her house in Koh-e-Fiza locality of Bhopal. However, more details are still awaited as a post- mortem is still on.

The seriousness of the crime could be ascertained from the fact that the director general of police SK Rout and Additional director general Intelligence Rishi Kumar Shukla also inspected the crime scene along with the IG and SSP of Bhopal.

Shehla was an RTI and a wild life activist and had annoyed many people while seeking information and raising issues.

The crime scene suggested that the murder was executed by some professional killer with a firm arm fitted with a silencer. However, the SSP Bhopal Adarsh katiyar told the TOI "there are many theories coming up but it is too early to say anything about the murder as the post mortem is still on."

Shehla Masood was very active on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Her last status update on facebook said, "Gandhi: "the purpose of civil resistance is provocation." Anna has succeeded in provoking the government and the opposition. Hope he wins us freedom from corruption. Meet at 2 pm Boat Club Bhopal."

Masood didn't reach the venue."



Is it democracy ???? I doubt that we are free yet. The white Britishers left behind their indian versions to loot the nation. and create misfortune and fear.

the question is

Are you scared to rise for the country you love? 
Do you love your country ? who will clean it for you .(Do you expect someone to come from outside and clean it up for you)


Update : Its 11:36 pm and I can not sleep (esp after watching the movement thats getting momentam) Google around i find something Snehla Masood complained of. (letter dated 2010)

An IPS officer making threatening calls to her. harassing her since 2008. She gave evidence in form of CD which must have contained the recording. letter is dated 2010 and may not be significant for 2011 but an IPS officer being implicated for harassing a social activist. Now thats going too far. 

Same for Anna being picked from his Home and taken directly to Jail. and now not being allowed to go to JP park. Is Govt going nuts. 


Was having a disscussion about the role of Sonia Gandhi. and we all in family agreed that she will play the good cop role once she is back from her medical condition which is being treated abroad. (in case the things backfire that is).




Dying WhistleBlowers : need for a strong act.  (Blog post by Snehla Masood)

Diwan-e-Ghalib The first sher is a Babbar sher.

Please help me understand it (you can use comments )


नक्श फरियादी है , किसकी शोखी-ए-तहरीर का
कागज़ी है  पेरहन, हर पेक़रे तस्वीर का

कावे - कावे सख़्त जानीहान-ए-तन्हाई ना पूछ
सुबहा करना शाम का , लाना है जु-ए-शीर का

जज्बाए- बे - एख़्हत्टयारे-शौक़ देखा चाहिए
सीन-ए-शमशीर से बाहर है,दम शमशीर का

आगही  दामेनशिदन  जिस कदर चाहे बिछाए  

मुद्धा आँकन है, अपने आलमे -तक़रीर का

बस के हूँ ग़ालिब असिरी में भी आतशजेरे पा
मु-ए-आताश, दीदा , है हल्का मिरी ज़ंजीर का

Stories that never gets old.

Saw X men -The first class today.

Some of the VFX work for this movie is done from India. Sometime back had an opportunity to look into the works of Rhythm and Hues. (they also have an office in Pune,India the same city I am blogging from).

Amazing movie. and quality work  Same for works done by Anibrain and of course Animagic

Thanks guys for bringing such a fantastic story and so rich visuals.

An old lady asked me one question.  Why are Indian Animation so poorly made.

I do not have a ready answer yet.
I only hope that it gets better for Indian Movie Animation as well.

The richness of mystery and legend as we have in India is comparable to none. Its only that someone needs to tell the story in the right way.  We need storytellers. and not religious fanatics.

Indian Railway site - the real time interface.

Lately due to winter fog most of the trains are running late. Especially those to-fro Delhi

I noticed something amazing in Indian Rail site

http://indiarailinfo.com

Train Arrival Timings near New Delhi/NDLS on Sat Jan 8, 2011

Now this is an amazing piece of information considering that trains are delayed by even 7 hrs (Bhopal Express in my case)

You also have interface with google maps to give live running information.

Not only this .. you can get most of the views you could only dream of I loved the way I could just login to this site via my facebook or yahoo id. and put real time observation of my own. As of now there are 28758 members which i expect to multiply quite soon considering the fact that you do not need to create new id and just reuse your facebook id/pwd etc

3 cheers for the information age.

A goal for life

A young girl in India had a goal in mind. She met A P K Abul Kalam Azad and mentioned her goal/wish. I feel she wished something that APJ wished too and perhaps every Indian who loves Indian motherland.

She wished - "I want to live in developed INDIA".

Thankfully I feel I can do something about it I will do my part. However small but i will.

Lets see how it goes when life gets a purpose bigger than yourself.

My action list.

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1) I am really sad about the disillusioned youth today. They are as ignorant about the changing world as i was 10 years back. May be I can take some free classes to guide them up

2) Some open source initiatives. and perhaps try for something new in there. Say think about a interface to link Reliance USB internet via a iPOD touch.

3) Donate some money. I do not have millions but I guess something is better than nothing. you only need to have a big heart.

4) TeachforIndia : I got to know about this initiative while in Delhi. (Heard about them in Radio while shuttling to Gurgaon) Lets see how it goes.

5) Clothes .. I think i have plenty of them which i can just give away. Its very cold here in Delhi and definately there are people who can use them.

Well these are things on top of my mind. .. Hope they get better with time and God helps me in creating wealth not just for me but for everyone else.

Do you want to live in developed india Reader ????

... what did you do in last 7 days... for our country..

....last 7 years ??? do you plan to do something now ?

Do let me know in comments.

Hope for Bihar : Nitish/Lalu

Lot of people only know Lalu. (rest everywhere else it was paaani kam)

Lalu has his charisma, and he with his rustic Angrezi has taken classes in IIM too for his good work in Railways, of course it was he who started the tea in a earthenware concept. (use and throw and this was totally green concept - no plastics - i loved it ). It was he who did a lot of what Railways is now. (Remember the railway reservation lines and the waiting .... and quotas that existed beforehand). Railway was loss making but he turned it around. and that too when there was competition from Air Deccan. 500 Rs tickets from Delhi to Mumbai anyone ??

I wanted to read the book that was written about how Lalu turned railways from lossmaking to profit making. and then

I got a chance to talk to a railway officer of some good repute about how Lalu did it ALL.

To my dismay he was totally indifferent to my opinion about Lalu. and instead was singing praises of Nitish Kumar's good work. He gave me examples of how the railway exam was totally cooked. ( Students would not mark a single answer on the answer sheet which would get automagically filled in by the time it reaches evaluation. and guess what FULL MARKS). Of course a lot of palms were greased. He talked about how HUGE ghotala was done about tonnes of iron and steel that is always omnipresent in Railways Godowns. He talked about private railway couches and railway lines loopholes being opened for pvt sector companies own godowns.

In each of these fronts he praised the good work of Nitish for the railways and he wished him best of luck in his works. I would love to know more about Nitish and the good work he is doing. Today's news brings a lot of hope for Bihar and its people who have been denied even basic form of security since a very very long time.