Transliteration

हवलदार काली मिर्ची का सूने दिल का जलसा

गुलाबी फलूदा - चाँद का अँधेरा पक्ष

कठोर दिन की रात

Transliteration

Tell lies crow bites
Fear the black crow
I’ll go to Mom and you'll just keep gaping

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Hearty people will steal bride
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Fish without water electricity without dance
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I'm the basil of your courtyard
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Wall
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Embers
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A blossom with two gardeners
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Stony lover
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Paper flowers
 

Thanks to Income Tax Department

A bouquet of flowers for the Central Board of Direct Taxes

I filed my tax returns on 24 July 2015 and received my tax refund credited directly to my bank on 19 August 2015. Did not have to take a print out of the returns, sign it and post to Tax Dept in Bangalore.

Wow!

This kind of efficiency has never been seen before. The Modi Effect??

It's important that your bank account and PAN are linked to the AADHAR number for this ease of filing and refund.

आयकर विभाग, धन्यवाद।

Rose

Kya Hai?

Rose

The rose is the flower of the heart across many cultures. Humans may instinctively respond to its potent fragrance and lushness, and implied promise of abundance.

In aromatherapy it is the most powerful flower to heal from a broken heart, encourages forgiveness and helps us get back on track.

It is used as infusions, as tea, as garnishing and also macerated, on the skin or mouth, to cure ulcers.

In beauty therapies, it is used in powdered form to heal and cool the skin.

It is also used in a sweet chutney गुल्कन्द  for mouth fresheners or with betel leaf as a post-dinner digestive.

Other benefits include managing irregular periods, reducing heat in the body, cure ulcers and other inflammatory conditions of the digestive tract.

It is also used to reduce throat pain, cool the eyes and to control dizziness.

Calf

Daisy

Independence Day 2015

मेरा भारत महान

Grant us freedom from...
Venal politicians
Corrupt bureaucrats
Chicanery of businessmen
Filth
Pot-holed roads
Power-cuts
Disease
Scams
Pain
Crime
Suffering

Dry Dry Dry

Quadrophonia

Tribute to The Who

Pregnant clouds

But no rain .....

857 – ‘1984’ Redux

बड़ा भाई देख रहा है।

I marvel at the perverse tenacity of the self-appointed भारतीय संस्कार का थानेदार for compiling a list of 857 porn sites that he wanted banned.

This insecure and embittered fellow with a broadband connection, unsatiated libido and pots of time to spare must have logged onto countless porn sites, and, using his yardstick (pun intended), determined whether or not each one could cause moral decay in hapless innocent Indians. He must have assayed each site for its porniness quotient using a scale from zero to ten:

1. Chaste
2. Sedate
3. Erotic
4. Racy
5. Smutty
6. Lurid
7. Scandalous
8. Obscene
9. Revolting
10. XXX

The marathon collating session must have left a taint on his saint – compelling him to partake of a गंगा स्नान  or a ४ धाम pilgrimage to do penance.

After amassing this prurient material, beside eye-strain, did he acquire any bad habits or any form of moral corruption? Pederasty? Did he start dressing in a leather suit and whip or chain up his wife? Did these porn sites provoke him to indulge in bukake, bestiality, rape or bathe in the golden shower?

So what’s next? A Bamiya style demolition of Khajurao and Konark Sun Temple?

I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think? -Andrew Sullivan

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. ~ Sydney J. Harris

The Nation as a Suicide Bomber

Dissent has always been a part of society; indeed, universal conformity would not lead to any progress. Witness the degeneration of the once mighty Soviet Union, as an example – initiative was discouraged; allegiance and submission to the Communist ideology was encouraged. Dissent in any form led to exile in the icy Siberian wastelands.

Fictional accounts like Huxley’s Brave New World, 1984 by Orwell and Anthem by Ayn Rand corroborate the fact that nonconformity and rebellion, rather than blind obedience and orthodoxy, lead to evolution of human society, instead of decrepitude.

Dissent in views from another person or group of persons can be expressed in many ways – through debate, books and other forms of the written word, films, art, civil disobedience, demonstrations, rioting and, as a last resort, murder, genocide or war.

Added to this list of different forms of dissension is the muslim suicide bomber. Brainwashed by rabid clerics, who promise celestial glory on being ‘martyred’, these sado-masochists range from lone-wolf militants and explosive laden trucks to commandeered aircraft forcibly crashing into iconic buildings.

Alas, this form of indoctrination has led innocent preteens being inveigled into strapping explosives onto their bodies and blowing themselves up amongst unsuspecting crowds.

One can consider the Japanese Kamikazi pilots as the earliest forms of suicide bombers.

Now we have a country that has donned the garb of a suicide bomber – Pakistan.

The goal of the suicide bomber is to cause death and destruction of his/her object of hate. His/her own death is immaterial since he awaits sensual delights in his afterlife (what does the female suicide bomber look forward to – an eternity in a burqa or 72 gigolos?)

Pakistan is travelling this path – just damage India with no thought of the consequences to its people or the integrity of its nationhood. That the world may be plunged into a nuclear holocaust has no place in the strategic thinking of the leaders of this misbegotten country.

Proverb for the 21st Century

A watched update never downloads

Dus Khirkiyaan

Couple

Orange Blossom

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

- Lao Tzu

Flower bunches

Quintuplets

Septulet/Septet

Triumvirate

Trio