July 2010
34 posts
Day 832
London July 30 , 2010 Fri 11 : 05 PM
मेरे परिवार के सभी सदस्य , मेरे प्रिय , मेरे मित्र , मेरे प्रशंसक , मेर आलोचक , मुझसे कुछ बड़े , कुछ छोटे -
मुझे इस बात पे बहुत गर्व है की , मैंने जो हिंदी में लिखा उससे आप सबों में से कुछ भाइयों और बेहेनों को अच्छा लगा .
लिखने का प्रयत्न करता हूँ , सही ढंग से लिखना आता नहीं है , पर प्रयत्न अवश्य जारी है...
Day 831
London, UK July 29 , 2010 Thu 7 : 40 PM
मेरे प्रिय व बहुत ही निकट परिवार के सम्बन्धी ,
कभी कभी मन करता है की आप सब से अपनी राष्ट्र भाषा में बात किया करूं, सो आज लिख रहा हूँ , और क्षमा चाहता हूँ उन सभी एक्स्टेंदेद फॅमिली के सदस्यों से की वह हमे मौका दें की हम अपने कुछ हिंदी प्रेमी भाई बेहेनों से इस प्रकार संपर्क कर सकें .
इटली का दौरा समाप्त हुआ ....
Day 830
Rome , Italy July 28 , 2010 Thu 3 : 14 AM
For the past few days I notice that comments on our blog deliberate, on how we have been responsible in creating this wonderful family, where first we began by being apart of it and soon have made it into a remarkable platform that has through the 830 DAYS developed itself into a most potent and...
Day 829
Rome , Italy July 27 , 2010 Tue 8 : 00 PM
Arun Bajapyee , 16 yr old … youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest !! Congratulations and goodness that is some feat .. pun unintended !!
Is it just me or is it with everyone. Whenever you are about to leave a city, a destination after a long holiday or stay, that is when you...
Day 828 (i)
Rome , Italy July 27 , 2010 Tue 9 : 00 AM
APOLOGIES DOROTHY !! ITS MADIGAN … SPL ERROR IS DEEPLY REGRETTED.
Dorothy Madigan !!
love
Amitabh
Day 828
Rome , Italy July 26 , 2010 Mon 11 : 27 PM
Before all else, I am most distressed to read Dorothy Magen’s comment on the blog and am saddened that she should be in such condition. She has been a constant in our midst, the eldest and the most wise. I am unable to express what courage and strength it must have taken her to put down what she did on the...
DaY 827
Rome , Italy July 25 , 2010 Sun 11 : 58 PM
Some views from my balcony, some shots of the moon, some random thoughts, Abhishek and Aishwarya, Jaya at the Tivoli restaurant and the great color on the buildings – kathaeee …
And before this, a glorious visit to Tivoli and the villa Adriana, now in absolute ruins, but neatly be covered and restored for posterity, even though...
Day 826
Rome, Italy July 24 , 2010 Sat 11 : 57 PM
Discloser ! At last !!
Keeping it a secret sounded far too like an espionage interlude, offending many and causing concern to others, who I might add gave some very valid and pertinent reasons for the need to disclose. If we are family we need to know where the head of the family is and...
Day 825
Boot 7 Hills , Hemisphere Ridden July 23/24 , 2010 Fri/Sat 1 : 40 AM
There is no deliberate mystery in life anymore. Would it really matter at all if my location were to be known in detail. Is this that I convey not good enough. What would the difference be if my true location were to be known. Would your responses change, would their meaning change,...
Day 824
The Boot 7 hills , In progressive land regions , World July 22 , 2010 Thu 11 : 47 PM
No effort made with genuine sincerity ever wastes. It takes time to show up – the result. But it appears always. Never make effort with the intent of some deliberate good, but by belief only. The belief that whenever the cause is genuine, its recognition shall be genuine as...
Day 823
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 21 , 2010 Wed 10 : 47 PM
Lena(Elena) from Perm, Russia
you have floored all of us in the making of this wonderful gift not just for me, but indeed for the entire extended family. May I on behalf of everyone that visits this space thank you from the bottom of our hearts for this labor of love and affection....
Day 822
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 20 , 2010 Tue 10 : 39 PM
” Four hostile newspapers need to be feared more than a thousand bayonets “
This from a respected member of our extended family, and nothing could be truer. Hostility once established with the press would be time to say a final adieu to public relations. Look for a decent burial...
Day 821
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 19/20 , 2010 Mon/Tue 1 : 53 AM
When you confer non stop throughout the day, when words and thoughts flow freely and wild, when ear drums refuse to register the cacophony of endless speech ~ then dear ones is time to pull away irrespective of the results that follow.
I will not say that meetings cannot and will not be...
Day 820
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 18 , 2010 Sun 11 : 37 PM
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 18 , 2010 Sun 11 : 38 PM
Its Sunday and time for the people that come down to meet and greet and wave and take autographs and just bring smiling faces to our doorstep ..
Abhishek coming in from...
Day 819
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 17 , 2010 Sat 11 : 06 PM
I fail to recollect a day when I could have spoken as much as I did today ! Spoken not because I need to speak or have desired so, but spoken out of compulsion. The promotional shoots for KBC today were a challenge to me as an artist. They were a non stop activity for almost 8 hrs. 8...
Day 818
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 16 , 2010 Fri 10 : 52 PM
What is it that clouds a mind when you seek solution … it ought to be an element that we ourselves construct. Yet when there is much to be answered and discovered it is then too the mind that should ideally be giving them to us. Where then the mode, when it desists. It constructs, its...
Day 817
Jalsa , Mumbai July 15 , 2010 Thu 9 : 21 PM
As I drift through the responses each evening I am amazed at the regularity of the FmXt and the consistency with which they compete with me day after day. It is now a family that I know by name and almost by face, even though there are many that I have not seen. It is a family that makes it a...
Day 816
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 14, 2010 Wed 11 : 45 PM
It is the time of night when the FmXt beckons . It is the time of night I look forward to. It is the time of night ..
Twitter may be instant and rapid and immediate and greatly universal and internal. But this space has the serene gentleness of a rain drenched flower, the peace and harmony of...
Day 815
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 13, 2010 Tue 9 : 56 PM
Anat Magen’s distress still haunts all of us and her pain is something that all of us share as she goes through her life bravely. I am so moved by the courage and hope and prayer extended by all in the FmXt and like to express my gratitude to them for being in spirit and heart with a member of our...
Day 814 (i)
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 12 , 2010 Tue 1 : 09 AM
Dear All,
I was just turning in for the day when I went to check my account on Twitter and came across a few twits made by Barkha Dutt, senior journalist and anchor of great repute with NDTV 24/7.
I also discovered a remark by Rajeev Masand, a journalist and prominent anchor for CNN/IBN and one who...
Day 814
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 12 , 2010 Mon 11 : 30 PM
Anat Magen .. I am most distressed to learn of the report from your doctor and the possibility of your trauma. I want you to know that you are constantly in our thoughts and prayers and we wish that all goes well with you and the baby .. Have faith and be strong .. we are never able to know of...
Day 813
Jalsa , Mumbai July 11, 2010 Sun 9 : 57 PM
The dearest FmXt had asked for a photograph of the book presented to me by the BigB Facebook Group and members of our extended family, done so elegantly by Kishore. Here it is above. I am afraid there is more of me in the photograph than the book, when it should have been the other way round....
Day 812
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 10, 2010 Sat 4 : 46 PM
The frustration of making a mistake on the computer and erasing all that was written for the extended family has overflowed onto .. well .. I better not say it else it shall increase my condition .. but it has been such a loss .. and it never is the same again .. even though I write this, I know...
Day 811
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 9 , 2010 Fri 11 : 52 PM
Before I set out to say anything I must mention how deeply touched I am by the gift of a personalized book brought out by Kishore from our FmXt, on the occasion of my birthday. I have been acknowledging he wrong book and the wrong episode till now. It is only now that I have had the great pleasure...
Day 810
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 8, 2010 Thu 11 : 45 PM
Germany lostlate in to the night/ early morning our time, and the surprise of the predictions of the Octopus Paul have brought superstition right onto the front pages. The octopus had predicted a Spanish victory and so it was. This is quite amazing and ridiculous at the same time. I...
Day 809
Jalsa , Mumbai July 7, 2010 Wed 10 : 36 PM
KBC is back !! And it was announced tonight at a special press conference, which has just concluded. And yes it can be said now that I shall be hosting it !!
It must be said this press conference was one the best that I attended and I wish to compliment the entire media for...
Day 808
Jalsa , Mumbai July 6, 2010 Tue 10 : 45 PM
There is always a peculiar joy in accountability. Accountability in our own actions and deeds. Accountability in the work that you do. Accountability in your profession.
And when it is completed, even if the results are not to your expectation or desire, there is a satisfaction of at least knowing what is...
Day 807
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 5 , 2010 Mon 11 : 06 PM
There is an old and very prominent saying in Hindi -
मुरख को सम्झावाते , ज्ञान गाँठ हो जाये ,
कोयला होय न ऊजला, सौ मन साबुन खाए
murakh ko samjhavate, gyan gaanth ho jaye,
koyala hoye na ujala, sau man saabun khaye
Just as rubbing a 100 tons of soap over coal is not going to change its color to...
Day 806
Prateeksha , Mumbai July 4, 2010 Sun 11 : 31 PM
There was an alarm in the morning as I opened our site, which said that we were all prone to a virus attack from Malware or something like that. Later I got some information from several FmXt that they had experienced similar interruptions. I have informed the concerned people in the bigadda server and...
Day 805
Prateeksha, Mumbai July 3, 2010 Sat 11 : 44 PM
Setting out from Udhagamandalam, Ooty in the early hours after completion of the shooting of ‘Kandahar’, the Malayalam film with great Mohan Lal, there is a request from the Producer to stop en route at Wellington to meet the Officers at the Armed Services Staff Collage. Major Ravi, the Director of the film...
Day 804
Udhagamandalam , TN July 2, 2010 Fri 11 : 10 PM
How does one handle disappointment ? Get back up on the horse again and ride it ! Tried doing that did not work. Brazil down. Could never have believed it, but they are gone from the World Cup. Not again till 2014 I guess … ah well, strange happenings. Life is full of them.
The morning...
Day 803
Udhagamandalam , TN July 1 , 2010 Thu 8 : 11 PM
Music in the ears, loud and deafening, stirs up so many emotions, feelings, desires. At times it almost urges you to get up and start creating something never tried before, never done before. You imagine a real life situation at times, place yourself within it, create your own circumstances and then...
June 2010
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Day 802
Udhagamandalam , Tamilnadu June 30 , 2010 Wed 11 : 16 PM
Many among the Fm Xt had expressed a desire to see pictures of Ooty and the shoot with MohanLal, so I compiled a few random shots and have put them up. More shall follow tomorrow and if required more for another tomorrow.
A delightful day. The weather was cool and calm and...
