Monday, December 27, 2010
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Please download the midis
I. African Noel (Click here to download the noteworthy file)
1. African Noel - Sporano (Midi format)
2. African Noel - Alto (Midi format)
3. African Noel - Tenor (Midi format)
4. African Noel - Bass (Midi format)
5. African Noel - All (Midi format)
III. Amen Sing praises to the Lord (Click here to download the noteworthy file)
1. Amen Sing - Soprano (Midi format)
2. Amen Sing - Alto (Midi format)
3. Amen Sing - Tenor (Midi format)
4. Amen Sing - Bass (Midi format)
5. Amen Sing - Accompaniment (Midi format)
6. Amen Sing - All (Midi format)
IV. Mozart 12thMass Glorious (Click here to download the noteworthy file)
1. Mozart 12thMass Glorious - Soprano (Midi format)
2. Mozart 12thMass Glorious - Alto (Midi format)
3. Mozart 12thMass Glorious - Tenor (Midi format)
4. Mozart 12thMass Glorious - Bass (Midi format)
V. Peace has come down tonight (Click here to download the noteworthy file)
1. Peace has come down - Soprano (Midi format)
2. Peace has come down - Soprano with Accompaniment (Midi format)
3. Peace has come down - Alto (Midi format)
4. Peace has come down - Alto with Accompaniment (Midi format)
5. Peace has come down - Tenor (Midi format)
6. Peace has come down - Tenor with Accompaniment (Midi format)
7. Peace has come down - Bass (Midi format)
8. Peace has come down - Bass with Accompaniment (Midi format)
9. Peace has come down - All (Midi format)
10. Peace has come down - accompaniment (Midi format)
Thursday, November 25, 2010
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Islamophobia - How and Whither to
I have very few Muslim friends and thus my argument below is based on my own interpretation of the subject, and unfortunately not based on a discussion , dialogue or debate upon the points that I have raised below. I would certainly be most happy if someone could either support or oppose these arguments.
As long Islam continues with the concept of "the infidel cannot be kept alive and seen as an equal", it will accept the converse as the truth. And if that is so, for so it appears wherever the Muslims are in majority, the minority gets decimated fast, either through coercive proselytization or bloody murder, then there is no other way than Islamophobia. And it will either be them or us. The whole problem is Muslims do not know what their religion is. Is it a peaceful religion? How do they explain the "execute-the-kafir-part?" Is it a violent religion? How do you justify your continuance in such a barbaric sect?
The people who follow Islam are simple people who are moulded into fundamentalist beasts because of the inherent contradictions that plague the religion. Nobody can explain the contradictions. So the best to way to avoid it being asked in public is to show a fascist streak that supposedly scares anybody from asking it.
I dont know how people can be converted to Islam and nobody has a problem with that, but the minute the same person converts to any other religion he is hounded, threatened and if possible eliminated.
Islam acts like petulant youngsters, who when they cannot get what they want, bent themselves to carnage and violence to display their frustrations. That obviously is against democratic norms. Which explains the muslims' antipathy toward democratic principles.
Nowhere is this more glaringly visible than in a Muslim's attitude towards another human being of the female gender. Though the semitic religion in totality are guilty of treating the female gender in the most abhorrent fashion, the Muslims take it to a phenomenally new level with their interpretation of what constitutes best for the woman. Since education emancipates not only the society, but also the family, the Muslim argument against female education gets only shriller. More and more the confused Muslim realises that the more the girl gets educated, the more she is going to question, and the more questions are raised, the more against-the-wall is he going to get. Scientific temper gets diluted because it is totally against the ethos of the religion.
Such and many other contradictions are at the heart of Islamophobia. For that matter, any religion that does not give the right to an individual to enter and exit at his/her will, is anti-humanity and it is only logical that phobia against it will only increase.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Toll Free Numbers in India
Indian Airlines - 1800 180 1407
Mahindra Scorpio - 1800 22 6006
Maruti - 1800 111 515
Tata Motors - 1800 22 5552
Windshield Experts - 1800 11 3636
General
Indian Railway General Enquiry 131
Indian Railway Central Enquiry 131
Indian Railway Reservation 131
Indian Railway Railway Reservation Enquiry 1345,1335,1330
Indian Railway Centralised Railway Enquiry 1330/1/2/3/4/ 5/6/7/8/9
Couriers/Packers & Movers
Club Mahindra Holidays - 1800 33 4539
Bird CellPhones - 1800 11 7700
Motorola MotoAssist - 1800 11 1211
Nokia - 3030 3838
Sony Ericsson - 3901 1111
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Striking at the ISI
ISI is the government inside the government in Pakistan. What ISI dictates is what translates into action on the ground. All that hullabulloo about democracy in Pakistan is pure baloney. ISI has for its Godparents, the army, whom nobody, repeat NOBODY can touch and remain relevant (read alive) in Pakistan. The all powerful army wants a piece of the Afghan pie without seeming overtly greedy about it. On the other hand, it wants India out of the Aghan scene. The only way it can proceed forward is to take the help of the Taliban.
The taliban keeps India occupied by its constant forays into Kashmir, Kerala and other parts of the country, fomenting trouble and mayhem. That gives Pakistan enough time and resources to concentrate on its north-western border. Hazardous as they are, they can be relied to safely transmit messages, people, resources and strategy across the border without unduly being worried about either surveillance or complicity.
Strike at the ISI and Taliban would automatically fall. But the US, which has the Pak government by its balls wont do it, simply because a frail Pak is of much nuisance value vis-a-vis India's rise as a world power. 26/11 has, by all counts, made US into a paranoid state which is pumping untold millions into Homeland Security. Where are these millions coming from? From arms sale for one. Selling it to India (one of the richest emerging markets for arms) is possible only if India sees the purchases as necessary for its security against Pak. And therefore US will continue the dalliance with ISI till another (God forbid) another 26/11 happens.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Wither Indian state?
Nearly 18 months after the Mumbai carnage, what lessons/status does India offer its citizens?
An update. (30/5/2010)
There has been one more terrorist activity in Pune.
Four hubs of NSG have started operations. NIA has started operations.
However, Maoists have stuck terror in Chattisgarh, Dantewada, Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar, killing almost a thousand people altogether in their gory, mindless fashion.
The UPA has completed one more year of its second innings.
HIV population is slooowwwly stabilizing.
The rape situation has not undergone any significant change.
Child abuse is as rampant as then.
Though fundamentally nothing has changed, the seeds of change, and revolutionary change have been sown in the country. Tough questions have been asked and answers sought for. Politicians are a far more answerable lot than yesteryears. And that has thrown better men to the arena of politics.
Are the lot of poor any better? That is something that still requires a cogent answer. In a country, where $15billion is raked in the by the government for 3G licenses, thus cutting the fiscal deficit of the government by nearly 10% (!!), the same government finds it tough to ensure that its citizens can get foodgrains at a nominal cost.
Is there any meaning in apportioning blame to anybody? Who do we blame? In a country where T20 champions are feted in grander-than-grand style at phenomenal costs, and where NSG commandoes have to be transported in dinghy BEST buses, who are we complaining against and for what?
Let us look inside. The day when we are able to stand up to the corruption and not bend to suit our two-bit needs, the greater cause of our country may be won.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
How to beat the transport blues
City travel, with reference to Delhi and NCR, is certainly not something that anyone, who has encountered it on a daily basis, can appreciate. And this has particularly to do with the fact that public transport of the city is deplorable. Delhi Metro continues to wage a grim battle to balance the travel load of the city. They are successful to a large extent since they have a dedicated corridor manned by an extremely efficient set of people that man its routes on a second-by-second basis. The other mass transport means like buses, (low floor or otherwise) use the carriageway, which troublingly, is shared with personal modes of transport. Cabs, taxis, rickshaws, autorickshaws cannot realistically be called public modes of transport in the sense that buses can, simply because they occupy the same road space that personal modes of transport do without offering any compensating advantage, except that of paid comfort and the knowledge that they can reach right up to the doorstep of their destination.
There are many classes of people who travel the Delhi roads. Early in the morning, newspaper vendors, bread and milk vans and school students make the travel. Those who need to take the early trains and early flighters also make the journey. Shift duty personnel are another groups of people who travel. Cabs, DTC buses, taxis, personal vehicles like cars, motor cycles, mopeds, scooters, rickshaws and cycles get on the road.
Mid morning sees the college and office goers join the jam. More private cars, public transport vehicles, chartered buses, rickshaws, cabs, motor bikes, scooters and cycles clog the system. Late mornings are the times for the foot soldiers of the economy to tramp the streets. Labourers, Salespersons, Insurance agents, courier 'boys', FMCG carriers, and the lakhs of assorted tradespeople are on the roads. This is the "max brunt" period for the roads. Government offices that have public dealings, utility offices etc. get visited the most in this period of the day.
By mid afternoon, school children are on their way back. Public dealings in government offices are almost over. There are comparatively fewer public mass transport vehicles on the road. This lull is broken by around early to mid evening, when the rush to get back home begins in earnest. Metro, DTC, STC, chartered buses autorickshaws, motorbikes, private cars, scooters, cycles and other modes of transport are all again on the road.
The late evenings offer no respite when after-office commitments are strictly adhered to, nay eagerly awaited.
Long serpentine queues are generally the norm. The metro construction coupled with the Commonwealth games might prove to be the proverbial last straw on the overburdened capital's camel back. Even now, the strain is showing with cases of road rage becoming common enough to NOT warrant a mention in the newspaper column unless they have gruesome consequences or horrific endings.
Which brings me to the idea of a unified transport model for the city. Certain caveats are in order, though. There has to be mechanism whereby the number of passengers using a particular mode of transport can be counted. There has to be a graded "pass" system. This system will allow multiple types of passes to be generated. A higher value pass will allow the bearer to use the vehicles that are specified for that band, while also allowing it to be used for vehicles of the band that are lower in the hierarchy. Public bicycles, metro, buses, chartered buses, autorickshaws, taxis and cabs can be coordinated to join this "band pass" system. The passengers can subscribe to any band that s/he chooses by paying a pre-arranged sum to the transport authority. This will allow him/her to use the public transport vehicles according to availability, comfort and ease.
More to follow...
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Looking beyond Pakistan
The irony of being Pakistan is that without India, it is nothing. It was carved out of India. Its history is the history of India. Its very existence is a sectarian response to India's plurality. Its culture, art and everything else that edifies it comes out of the idea of India. Beginning from Prithvi Raj Chouhan, (and even much much earlier), and through the times to Bhagat Singh, to Gandhi, and Lord Mountbatten, they all belong to both Pakistan and India. So what separates them? Their religious identity. But most unfortunately, (and it is particularly galling in the context) here too, Pakistan does not score. India has more muslims than Pakistan :-)
What can a nearly failed state do to prop up its pathetic birth and existence? Keep hitting India. Is it really worth Pakistan? This is something that every Pakistani must ask himself over and over and over again.
Monday, May 03, 2010
No capital punishment for Kasab
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Tightening noose
How far will you run, my countrymen?
From one twist to another, from falsehoods to its very mire.
Stumbling, tottering, living in fear.
Today, tomorrow, probably the next,
Under the garb of the mercurial mob,
Propped up, like the wooden scarecrow,
Today to uphold, tomorrow to burn.
Truth is a funny animal, it shows not in total to all.
Today you might profit, tomorrow to bemoan,
the fastidious truth can easily slip, and your beds can turn to thorn.
For years and years, your can silence the truth,
hedge it, mask it and subvert it too,
but the day it appears, naked it will unmask the injustice within.
How far will you run, my countrymen?
Saturday, April 24, 2010
One Line Humor!
Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving.
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.
I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash.
A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school uniforms.
You can't buy love, but you pay heavily for it.
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway..
Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.
You're getting old when you enjoy remembering things more than doing them.
Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak!
Man to Doctor: Is there any way for long life?
Dr: Get married. Man: Will it help? Dr: No, but then the thought of long life will never come.
Why do couples hold hands during their wedding? It's a formality just like two boxers shaking hands before the fight begins!
Wife: Darling today is our anniversary, what should we do?
Husband: Let us stand in silence for 2 minutes.
There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has it.
There is only one perfect wife in the world and every neighbor has it!
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.
I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash.
A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school uniforms.
You can't buy love, but you pay heavily for it.
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway..
Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.
You're getting old when you enjoy remembering things more than doing them.
Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak!
Man to Doctor: Is there any way for long life?
Dr: Get married. Man: Will it help? Dr: No, but then the thought of long life will never come.
Why do couples hold hands during their wedding? It's a formality just like two boxers shaking hands before the fight begins!
Wife: Darling today is our anniversary, what should we do?
Husband: Let us stand in silence for 2 minutes.
There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has it.
There is only one perfect wife in the world and every neighbor has it!
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