By admin on March 1, 2009
Image courtesy of the BBC
If you would like to read something about the British manners that does not exactly sound British in taste, then you should visit Mihir Bose’s blog at the BBC. Mihir Bose, the BBC’s sports editor of Indian origin, is facing an arguably very hostile white British audience these days. His fault: he pokes his nose in the British sports affairs, which is what his job is anyway, and hurts one or the other group of sports followers, who then start questioning his journalistic credence. Continue reading “Mihir Bose Being Heckled At The BBC”
Posted in World Affairs | Tagged bbc sports, mihir bose blog, racism |
By admin on February 20, 2009
I’ve been busy resolving my blogging niggles since I posted the last about a month earlier. Firstly, I needed to look into my server side concerns, chiefly security related ones that had kept me on my toes for a while. Then, my blog’s outlook needed to be overhauled urgently. The last one seemed to have become outdated, from a graphical and Wordpress compatibility realms, both. So, I spent a good while learning myself what I could do with the WP themes, before zeroing in on theme hybrid, the one I use now. There is no other way but to learn it yourself, if you desired digging in for a longish period there.
The result: I’ve a completely overhauled front-page apart from the reformed header, footer and sidebar stuffs as of today. My blog layout seems to be settled by this stage, the graphics will require being styled a hell lot in the weeks to come though. The bad news: It doesn’t look anywhere near being adjudged OK for the IE users, a fact discovered only last night. I’ve attempted several remedial ways, without any ray of hope until now. It looks perfectly fine in Firefox, but not in IE.
And this issue won’t be going away easily, so please bear with the arising inconvinience, if any, if you happen to be viewing Proaudience.com in Internet Explorer 6 and above. I’ll try to resolve this issue as soon as possible, in the meanwhile.
Posted in Internet, Wordpress | Tagged blogs, browser compatibility, internet explorer, wordpress themes |
By admin on January 20, 2009
डॉन आज बहुत खुश है, क्यों कि आज वह पूरे चालीस बरस का हो गया. लेकिन उससे बैर मत मोल लेना. उसकी बंदूक का निशाना आज भी बरकरार है…होशियार!
Don Aaj Khush Hai, kyonki aaj vah poore chaalees baras kaa ho gayaa. Lekin usase bair mat mol lenaa. usakee bandook kaa nishaanaa aaj bhee barkaraar hai…hoshiyaar!
I woke up feeling I should be singing Kishoreda’s “Main Hoon Don” aloud on completing my 40th year this morning. Didn’t myself know the rationale behind this desire. Not to forget, rehearsing Kishoreda’s 11000 volt songs is not possible in my neighborhood anymore, which is more congested these days as compared to what it might have been 18 years ago, when we moved in. The next door apartments and windows that were obviously not there to stare at you, and neither were the shops that are lining up next to your balcony now, are there today. Some of these came years later thanks to some under-hand-deals between the builders and the authorities. Apart from housing blocks, the number of kids went skywards as well during the same period – some grownups have left this world as well, but about that later – and those loitering around in those years have started taking up various roles in today’s world now. Continue reading “Main Hoon.. Main Hoon.. Main Hoon Don!”
Posted in General, Hindi Cinema, Kishore Kumar | Tagged 40, amitabh bachchan, big b, birthday, bollywood, don, Hindi Cinema, hindi songs, Kishore Kumar, kishoreda, youtube |
By admin on January 18, 2009
Some live Mohammed Rafi videos caught hold of from Youtube. Not as good as in the case of Kishore Kumar, obviously these were shot prior to 1980. But, any glimpse of that era should make you happy, shouldn’t it? I thank each of these video owners for having made it available online for us, the die-hard Hindi movie buffs.
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Interview
Continue reading “Mohammed Rafi’s Rare Live Videos”
Posted in Hindi Cinema, Mohammed Rafi | Tagged bollywood, Hindi Cinema, hindi songs, live videos, Mohammed Rafi, movies, rafi, stage-show, youtube |
By admin on January 17, 2009
I find blogging about Osho always a difficult affair. His vastness as a notion and the rigorousness of the subjects he so famously spoke of never leave any decent space for indulgence for a mortal speaker/ writer like me. One couldn’t go beyond a few sentences without ever feeling they had been lying in whatever they had just spoken about, the subjects Osho would normally deal with. “Ego”, my tonight’s area of discussion, also falls in the same category as a rocky terrain. Mankind has debated it since time immortal. We all love to be egoists, but never allow the others to get easily away with it. Continue reading “Osho Speaks About Ego-Less Minds”
Posted in Meditation, Osho Rajneesh, Philosophy | Tagged discourse, ego, ego-less, Meditation, Osho Rajneesh, rajnish |
By Outspoken Gujarati on January 16, 2009
I laughed reading this story in the TOI, the home for all secularists. The TOI, as I know, has been a meeting-point for all secularists post 2002 Gujarat riots. I had to leave it as a regular reader, finding its one-sided nonsense unbearable in 2007, five years after Godhra’s infamous train carnage. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, since I’ve always known the TOI as one of the two newspapers reaching my home since the 1970s, my childhood days. The other being either Gujarat Samachar or Sandesh, the Gujarati stuff. But, the English media began losing its integrity in the aftermath of the BJP’s rise, which almost coincided with the Babri Mosque demolition in 1992. The questions raised by the BJP have since then gone almost unanswered by the secularists, resulting into a widening gap between two contrasting opinions about what constituted a secular and law-abiding nation, such as India. Continue reading “Apex Court Does The Balancing Media Failed Since 2002″
Posted in Gujarati Matters, Indian Politics, Indian Society | Tagged 2002 gujarat riots, biased English media, BJP, communalism, godhra train carnage, Hindutva, islamic terror, jehadi, majority-minority, pakistani terror, pseudo-secularist, supreme court, toi |
By admin on January 9, 2009
Rare image courtesy of DownMelodyLane.com.
I had decided not to write anymore about the Kishore vs Rafi feud in 2008 hoping to put an end to the battle between the two warring sides at least on my weblog. This severely handicapped my ability to speak about Hindi movie songs from the 60s, 70s and 80s though, something I love so much. So, I have decided to disown my own resolution in 2009 now. Much better to have Kishore-Rafi duels than not speak anything at all or try putting up diplomacy to please the other side…ha ha…I can see the barrage coming up from both Rafi and Kishore Kumar fans, and also the tough moderation job entitled in this thread for me! Continue reading “Kishore Vs Rafi Debate – What Does It Say About You?”
Posted in Hindi Cinema, Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi | Tagged 60s, 70s, 80s, anti-traditionalist, bollywood, feud, hindi movie songs, hindi songs, kishore vs rafi, kishoreda, traditionalist |
By admin on December 31, 2008
I’ll keep providing links to Kishore Kumar songs as long as they continue trickling in my way. An awesome amount of Kishore-Lata music also needs being looked into at, just like the Kishore-Asha one did. But it seeks long hours, which is why I shall look into it some time later! Continue reading “More Kishore Kumar Songs (1)”
Posted in Hindi Cinema, Kishore Kumar | Tagged bollywood, cinema, film, hindi, Kishore Kumar Songs, kishoreda, movie, music |
By admin on December 27, 2008
Image courtesy of Osho.be.
Spoken words can be made to impart calm. Sound can be made to instil peace in your life. Peace that might have eluded you since you began knowing the world you live in. But to do that, you must try being aware of the unspoken sense of whatever you might listen to; try connecting with the silences within – and not the spoken part itself. You must be able to heed awaiting calm on your way to this journey towards peace forward. Which also means breaking away from one’s own mind barriers and walking down paths never heard of before. Osho Rajneesh was not only a marvelous orator, but also someone who knew what went sinde human minds more than anybody else in this world. And he could do it, since he had mastered the art of portraying silences through words. This is what I’ve been able to decipher from Osho’s discourses and meditation both. The following quote from Osho.com might help you understand it more: Continue reading “The Portrayal Of Silence In Words”
Posted in Meditation, Osho Rajneesh, Philosophy | Tagged Add new tag, calm, discourse, listening, Meditation, osho, Osho Rajneesh, peace, portrayal, quiet, rajnish, silence, speaking, words |
By admin on December 18, 2008
The legendary Asha Bhonsle with her son Anand. Read the son speak about his mum’s heydays here, courtesy of Kavita Chhibber.
Hindi movie songs by Asha Bhonsle from letter L to Z. Continue reading “Hindi Movie Songs By Asha Bhonsle (L-Z)”
Posted in Asha Bhonsle, Hindi Cinema | Tagged 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, Asha Bhonsle, bhosle, bollywood, cinema, film, hindi, movie, solo, Songs |
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