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NEW DELHI,INDIA


The rumour mill is catching up with the news of search engine Google launching its own mobile phone. We all know Google products are now available in some selected models of the mobile phone manufacturers. Google has so far maintained silence over the whole issue. But still seeing the amount of buzz., it cannot be denied forthrightly of the possibilities of a Google phone launch.

When search giant Google roar, the e-world reverberates. But this time the virtual world is responding feverishly with the buzz that Google is launching its own mobile phone, the G-Phone. So far, Google has denied that they are planning out any such things in the near future.

But the reports pouring out in the public domain are carrying all indications that Google has its own plan to play in this segment of mobile phone manufacturing. It was reported that Google is currently in talks with India's first and third largest telecos, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar, concerning the Google Phone. Nevertheless, it is not confirmed it is one another favorite mobile rumor or one having vital information.

Again, if one goes by the report of Rediff's India Abroad, Google has plans to invest $7-8 billion in its telephony plot. On this Google executives are mum all saying that the company is committed to providing users with access to the world's information, and mobile becomes more important to those efforts every day.

And as per the reports from both the BBC and The Wall Street Journal, it was noted that Google has outrightly refused to deny the handset rumors; rather, it simply reiterated that its users and partners are saying that they want Google search and Google applications on mobile, and it is working hard every day to deliver that.

And in this venture - providing Google search and Google applications on mobile - LG Electronics (LG), a leading worldwide provider of advanced wireless handsets and accessories, announced a global collaboration to pre-install Google’s services on millions of LG mobile phones. The features of LG-Google handsets include: Google Maps, Gmail, and Blogger Mobile.

Adding fuel to the rumour fire came from another report stating that HTC is being tapped to build a Linux-based Gphone to be launched on T-Mobile in the US in early 2008, with Orange getting the exclusive in France and other countries.

In an attempt to quell rumors of a Google phone. Richard Kimber, Google's South-East Asia managing director of sales and operations, says that Google is obviously investing in the software side of things, but that it has no interest in entertaining the crowded handset market.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has even waxed rhapsodic about the possibilities of free handsets subsidized by Google ads. As always, rumorus are just rumours, till than we have to wait and see, but it's hard to ignore the amount of buzz that the Gphone's/ Googlephone is been getting. Even if the rumour wheel rotates in right direction and it becomes the truth, releasing a Googlephone would be a huge step for them, since ultimately Google's goal shouldn't be to have its own phone, but rather to be on every phone.

Steps to be taken on the subscribers and the telecomm operators part

NEW DELHI,INDIA

So far I have lost three mobile phones; one good thing about this is that I didn’t find any of them coming in my hand again. Well, one more thing that I have discovered - all have been stolen from my custody.

No doubt I have lost many things from sweetheart to honey money, to old-and-gold friends. But I have found them someway or the other way in one corner or the other in my life. The sorry part of the story is that I did not encounter these gadgets which had been occupying once one part of my life.

Every time I lost my mobile phone I keep on thinking a call would come saying – is this your mobile phone? Please collect it from me. It has never happened, and perhaps would ever occur.

I have seen stolen money being recovered, the product of one’s life educational marksheets being given to the owner. But I have never seen or heard a mobile phone being recovered. Why one lost mobile phone doesn’t surface back? Where it goes after parting from the owner?

It is not that all my mobile phones were high-end gadgets from Nokia 9**** series smartphones or Nseries multimedia computer series. They were simple gadgets with simple functionalities. The Finnish mobile giant describes those sets in the ultrabasic series. I have lost two sets of Nokia 1110 and one set of 1600 model.

These twos models are not more than Rs 2000. It is very surprising whoever has got fell in love with it and did not care to call me up. He didn’t even care this may be the gadget of a poor man soul, one’s last breathe.

This time when I lost my Nokia 1600 on that un-fateful day I was about to get a call for an interview. The organization was fantabulous and was eagerly waiting for the call. But God has his own plan. I lost my mobile and the interview call, so my dream job. Is he (the proud owners of my lost mobiles) listening?

A Serious Issue

The problem of mobile phone theft is not going to just go away. Mobile phones have been identified by the police as CRAVED (Concealable, Removable, Available, Valuable, Enjoyable, Disposable) items that are highly attractive to thieves and this will be exacerbated as phones become more sophisticated and start to offer users advanced functionality, such as the ability to pay for goods and services directly through the handset.

So, how one could tackle the ever increasing mobile-theft menace?

The best, the most successful trick that can be applied is by remaining vigilant. Nazar hati aur durgantna gati. Someone is constantly prying on your mobile to get hold of it. If possible avoid overcrowded bus or mass commuting vehicles. Your constant companion that is the mobile set may go to other hand. Chances are more.

Keep your mobile phone in the front buttoned pocket of your shirt or in the deep inner pocket of your trouser.

After you buy a mobile set record the unique 15 or 17 digit code IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) and keep it in a place where you place your all e-passwords of banks etc. This digit can be seen in the box your mobile comes. Or it can be retrieved by dialing the following sequence of numbers into the handset: *#06#. If you have a Sony Ericsson mobile phone, you can retrieve the IMEI by pressing the following key sequence: right,*, left, left,*, left, *, left.

This digit code is used to identify an individual mobile station to a GSM or UMTS network. The IMEI number facilitates an important function; it easily identifies a mobile phone being used on a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) network.

The IMEI is a useful tool to stop a phone that is stolen from accessing a network and being used. Mobile phone owners that have their phones stolen can contact their mobile network provider and ask them to ban or shut off a phone using its IMEI number. With an IMEI number, the phone can be banned from the network quickly and easily. It is important to note that swapping a SIM card will not stop a phone from being banned.

Note: An IMEI device is only used to identify the device and does not usually relate to a specific individual or organization.

Note: However, it is possible to change an IMEI with special tools and there are certain mobile networks that do not automatically blacklist handsets. Current statistics state that about 10 % of current IMEI's in use today are not unique or have been reprogrammed (hacked).

Other safety tips are

Avoid using your phone in the street
Keep your phone out of sight
Use PIN codes to lock your phone
Turn off the ringer
Don't walk and txt

What can be done?

There is no magic wand either on the part of mobile phone owners or telecom operators to root out the problem.

With the IMEI, the crux thing is that it can be reprogrammed, it does not disable the handset from being usable. All it does is stop calls being made on the network that barred it. The handset itself is completely usable and does not lose its functionality.

Text bombing methods can be used as it has been done in Amsterdam.

Making phone theft unattractive by encouraging the use of cheap phones e.g Botswana.

Offer mobile phone security solution, which monitors phone proximity to owner and alarms on any phone security breach.

Curtailing the ready market of stolen phones.

NEW DELHI,INDIA

Year 2002: I appeared for my Mathematics (Honours) final exam; while slogging continually on the subject I “discovered” a mathematical relationship that supports the earlier established formulae (Tn and Un solution of Chebyshev Polynomial). In my opinion the formulae was simpler and satisfying the properties of the established one.

So to check whether the mathematics involved in the process was correct and is in connivance with the mathematical logic, I dropped at the precincts of the Gauhati University’ Mathematics Department (came very early before I officially graduated); and after reference and cross reference I met Mr R Deka, a specialist in Special Functions and showed my manuscripts.

After getting hold of my work the first thing he did, he sat in front of the computer and typed “Google”. The first thought that came across my mind was – what is Google? Since it was NOT in the conformity with the other mathematical lingo but look very similar to Gaussian surface, Gaussian polynomial etc..

You might be thinking what I am trying to say in this post. Well it was my first one-to-one interaction with the world of internet and computers. I did not know MSword at that time, but before I lay my hands on it I had burnt my fingers in Linux. Wheww!!!! Thanks in my attempt to publish the Mathematical formulae in the mathematical journals of mathematics – Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (ZAMM) and Mathematische Nachrichten.

The year was 2002 – the year Google launched Adwords, Google News, Google Labs and Froogle. Since then I have been floating, continually sailing in the sea of websites, know and unknown websites, brand websites, rag websites, astonishing websites, depressing websites and what not, all in the name of internet.

I always thought what would be the names of the websites that showed their presence in the early days of internet. How do they look? And what they were providing? But SORRY I always came blank with answers.

Who were the people who were using the net at that prehistoric time? Guess who was browsing the net at that time, I found Al Gore. You know Al Gore? After reading this I would suggest – Don’t feel you are getting old and please don’t get scared.

Here the long list of 100 domains goes…


1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
11. 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM
26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM
27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM
28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM
29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM
30. 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM
31. 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
32. 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
33. 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
34. 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
35. 7-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
36. 7-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
37. 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
38. 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
39. 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
40. 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
41. 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
42. 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
43. 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
44. 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
45. 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
46. 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
47. 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
48. 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
49. 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
50. 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
51. 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
52. 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
53. 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
54. 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
55. 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
56. 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
57. 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
58. 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
59. 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
60. 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
61. 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
62. 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
63. 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
65. 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
66. 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
68. 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
69. 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
70. 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM
71. 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM
72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM
73. 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM
74. 14-May-1987 RDL.COM
75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM
76. 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM
77. 27-May-1987 UTC.COM
78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM
79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM
80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM
81. 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM
82. 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM
83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM
84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM
85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM
86. 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM
87. 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM
88. 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
89. 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM
90. 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM
91. 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM
92. 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM
93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM
94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM
95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM
96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM
97. 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM
97. 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM
99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM
100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM

Whewww!!! 22 years back.

In which period does your website/s falls?

NEW DELHI,INDIA

The Death of a teeneger has again pumped oxygen to the Orkut fire

THE GENIE OF the Orkut is back. This time with the untimely murder of a teeneger by his own "Orkut" friends. It is not the first time the social networking site has been dragged into the limelight. Few months back, thanks to Shiv Sena’s call to ban the Google’s social networking site it was in the news. At that time the Shiv Sena alleged that certain ‘communities’ have been using this common platform (Orkut) for insulting the party Supremo Bal Thackeray and Maratha idol, Shivaji.

The present hullaballoo has redirected us to think the way present day netizens behave themselves in the virtual world where every thing is virtual but seems real.Though this time the attack is not calling for banning it but it has, perhaps, stirred the hornet’s nest of many present day technological innovation that have their own inherent ‘curse’ and ‘bane’ shades.

Orkut, which has million of users in Brazil, accounting 55.50 per cent of the total users, followed by the USA and the India, its association with controversies and myths is not new. And that is quite contrast to its intend of becoming an embodiment of the freedom, many of us cherish, and a leading platform for public debates among communities worldwide on important social and developmental topics.

What is Orkut: The bane?

To be an Orkuttian means you are in constant touch with your friends or with a community through visible scraps or through personalized messages. They post their profile– personal, professional and educational—with hobbies and with an array of other elements on Orkut. Moreover, it is a place where one can search for past friends or make new friends of one’s liking. In simple terms, Orkut works as an interface between you and the world around you in a more personalized and safe way.

Stories are abundant how with the help of Orkut a friend has found his long forgotten school friend. For the Brazilian readers, this information is probably old news, how with the help of Google’s forum Orkut, a family reunited after 72 years of separation.

This story of 72 years of separation of a family exemplifies how when social networks like Orkut reach a critical mass in any region of the world, they can often be used to reunite lost friends and relatives.

Well, Orkut is not all about lost and found saga. Now, when online petitions and networking sites have been mobilizing public opinion on various issues like Jessica Lall case to reservations in educational institutions, finding a community or a poll supporting the President A.P.J Abdul Kalam for his second inning may not come as a surprise for many.

What is Orkut: The curse?

The worst is Orkut’s success has made it a popular vehicle for child pornographers, pedophiles, racists and anti-Semitic groups. In Brazil it was found that around 5,000 people were using the Internet, principally Orkut, to distribute the images of explicit sex with children.

Militants, anti-social elements and their sympathizers, too, are thriving on Orkut. Many communities on Orkut can be seen praising bin Laden, al-Qaeda or Jihad (holy war). Do not get astonished by the fan following of the under-world don Dawood Ibrahim, as there are 1502 members in the fan following list.

The banned United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), the largest insurgent outfit in the north eastern region, is reportedly using the networking site for targeting the tech-savvy new generation and the people living outside the state, including NRIs to draw their attention and extend its reach. Not to mention about other northeastern terrorist organisation demanding sovereignty, one would find communities or their sympathizers on the site.

What is Orkut: The rumour?

So, that was all about Orkut’s dark and bright side of the site. But, there are many things that are between dark and bright. And it is all about rumours related to Orkut. One of the rumours is about Orkut Buyukkokten, the architect of the Orkut. The rumor comes from the assumption that Orkut gets $12 every time someone registers on Orkut, $10 every time you add a friend, $200 every time you upload a photo and a crisp $1 every time you logout of Orkut.

Secondly, if you do not send out a scrap, Orkut will delete your account. Another myth is that Google is going to charge people for using Orkut.

These are few of the rumours that besides giving bad name to the site, present a poor picture of the site to its users.

Conclusion

With all the weaknesses and strengths, Orkut carries and the fact that this discussion is not going to be the last, we can expect that the said technology would allow better from the good people than bad from the bad people. The real issue is how we counter these messages of hate and radicalism and the way present day netizens cunduct themselves in the world of instant connectivity.

NEW DELHI,INDIA

Chak De India Defined: You laugh. You love. You ponder. You feel Indian.

Chak De India is Chak De India!! After the movie it is damn sure you will come out rejuvenated with tons and tons of energy. You feel nice, you feel light, and you feel an instant urge to share each and every emotion that has stricken you, of course if you could come out remembering everything.

Above all, I feel that you will appreciate the movie to make you feel that the real beauty of India lies in its unity in diversity. It is just like the way petals are attached to a flower that makes what India is. A frank admission if you are really a person who cannot stop or hide emotions and put everything in words, then it is better you take a friend who can patiently listen your bakwash, and doesn’t interrupt you.

You can understand and might have gauged till now how I am feeling after coming out watching the movie. The movie is fantastic, out of the bollywood style of masterpiece.

There is no part, character in the movie about which you can say it was not necessary and irrelevant. From the first scene to the last scene, you sway with the movie. In the direction part, I can understand it would have been a tough job to delete and keep the tempo of the movie. Great work from every department of the movie, I would like to add if you are expecting something like bollywood work of cinema with songs, actions and end-knowing stories, than I am sorry there is nothing in the movie minus India wins in the whole affair of game.

Take my word. The movie will keep you on your toes. You will become the part of the movie. You will laugh, cry and bite your nails.

In the movie Shimit Amin’s direction is flawless. There is nothing to mention about the editing work done; it is absolutely marvelous, what you see is what you hear. Actors included Shah Rukh Khan, Vidya Malvade, Sagarika Ghatge, Shilpa Shukla, Chitrashi Rawat, Anaitha Nair, Shubhi Mehta, Sandia Furtado, Arya Menon, and Masochon V. Zimik have done a stupendous job. Though most them were facing the camera. Music by Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant is something to talk about.

The film starts with the Hockey match. Don’t miss if you have a habit of entering cinema hall late. Captain Kabir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) misses a goal at the end of the match, which causes the team to lose the game. A little scuffle between him and journalistic-twist ruins his career making him responsible of the loss against Pakistan in the final. Seven years later, Kabir returns with a proposal to coach the Indian Women's Hockey team for which he was desperate to coach. He is selected to coach the women’s team.

From the first day of his countenance to the 16-hockey players; his struggle to see them play united goes, and it goes till the end of the movie. That is the recipe of the movie around which the whole story revolves. The camera-work of the game showed would make you feel you are watching a real match. Finally the women’s hockey teams wins.

In the movie, the effort and the honesty with which Shahrukh Khan (as Kabir Khan),
Sagarika Ghatge as Preeti Sabarwal,
Chitrashi Rawat as Komal Chautala
Shilpa Shukla as Bindia Naik
Tanya Abrol as Balbir Kaur
Anaitha Nair as Aliya Bose
Shubhi Mehta as Gunjan Lakhani
Seema Azmi as Rani Dispotta
Nisha Nair as Soimoi Kerketa
Sandia Furtado as Nethra Reddy
Arya Menon as Gul Iqbal
Masochon V. Zimik as Molly Zimik
Kimi Laldawla as Mary Ralte
Kimberly Miranda as Rachna Prasad
Nichola Sequeira as Nichola Sequeira
Raynia Mascarenhas as Raynia Fernandes

played is such it could be given a 21-gun salute.

Jose Maurinho

Let me add about the Shah Rukh Khan acting, the way he dressed up, and his overall looks carrying a light beard has been influenced by Chelsea manager Jose Morinho.

Go and Watch the Movie – Chak De India. It is a very saaf-suthhri movie..you can take your sister, as I took; well earlier I was apprehensive about the film.

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How the gift that I presented her came to the “market” where only the price tag counts? Has she forgotten the promises that we both made to each other?

A love-gift of mine would be visible in the murky, visually overcrowded, dusty lanes of Daryaganz, I never ever in my wild dreams I thought. But the love-gift that I gave to my first love was visible to my eyes, its true. It was in front of my eyes. Yes, the love-gift resurrected coincidently likes a bolt from the blue, from nowhere, absolutely from nowhere. The gift tumbled out every thing deep inside me.

The gift oozed out everything, absolutely everything from the deep core of my memory that had been covered by the layer of the time. The memory that had almost forgotten from the period that we spent together, to the promises that we made, to the lively chitchat we used to make,… and what not. I would say I virtually went to my early days; from the first day I befriended her to the last meeting we parted from each other.

I was in the buying spree at the Daryaganz’s world-renowned second hand book market to buy some books for my sister. All around the market mountain of books were visible, some books diligently placed while there were others heaped one over another.

In my attempt to buy some good books from renowned publishers and looking out for the latest edition book, I had made recce of the area and the interlinked shops many times. I was befriending as possible books, touching it, flipping the pages, sometimes of my choice and sometimes books of my sister. So, in this process of flipping the pages one book after another; I don’t know how many times I have fallen in love, fortunately without carrying an emotional scar.

I found out there were books that I had revered, and some books that were in my bookshelves, few years back. The Sunday book market was busy in the selling and buying of the books. People were thronging the market like a fish market. Some buying books in bulk, and there were many like me who were there to buy handful of books.

I landed at the market very early, so I had the opportunity to see and witness things happenings. And in no time I also don’t know when the market got overcrowded with the sellers and the buyers. Sellers were shouting with the prices and the buyers were whispering, murmuring, and negotiating on the prices.

I found in the midst of cacophony and confusion, all seemed happy and joyful; buyers finding books of their choice and the sellers of finding good customers who are willing to burn their fingers with the price.

I was so much absorbed looking at the covers of the books, and in the flipping of the dog-eared pages of the books; I didn’t know when did I took a book in my hand. I looked at the cover; it was a book that once I had. I said to myself, “OK, one more book that I had”.

My fingers flipped the cover and as soon as I was about to turn the first page I saw my name encrypted in the blotting ink, it was written “from Your Love” followed by my name; and presented to “My Love” followed by her name at the top of the page. And within a splits of second I come to know this is my book I once bought to present her on her birthday.

Not to mention, her always-ebullient face and the golden moments we used to share together appeared and resurrected in front of my eyes. Her deep eyes, her flowing hair appeared in front of me. For a moment I felt her presence, trying to peep into the book that I was holding. Looking at my name and her name. Ooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! I can’t express the pain that was stirring up in my heart and in my whole body.

It paralyzed me for a moment; it seems for me that the whole market has been brought into a grinding halt. The always-ticking time has stopped ticking. An array of questions aroused in my brain, the questioning brain, the critical brain.

How the gift that I presented her came to the “market” where only the price tag counts? Has she forgotten the promises that we both made to each other? What led her to sell the book that I gave it to her? Is she carrying the same beauty in her eyes or still carrying the same eyes to tell a different story for the next time we meet? Has she got married? Oh!!I suppose she might be having lovely children and a caring husband.

My brain instructed me not to buy the book since it is unwise to carry the weight of past, the dead past which was near to my heart. Past is past it will never come- the brain instructed. I kept the book where it was hiding my surging emotions.

Soon I was in the Delhi bus coming home. I get down from the bus listening my heart, which instructed me to buy the book – the book that carried my golden moments of my love. But as soon as I came to the same shop and demanded the book. The shopkeepers said – it has been sold. I miss the bus; the second time I miss the bus.
Yes, I miss the bus.

LOVE STORIES

NEW DELHI,INDIA

It was expected. Yes it was quite sure that the Nokia N95 multimedia computer will be voted 'the European Media Phone of the Year 2007-2008' by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), Europe's leading association for consumer electronics.

And why not? The Nokia N95 is endowed containing practically every feature one could imagine in a mobile device. It's no mere mobile phone and no mere status symbol. Pick up a Nokia N95 and you hold in your hands a state-of-the-art communication tool - the ideal way to remain permanently in touch and on track with the world that surrounds you. Read more.

Sorry!!!!!! I didn't find for Rediffmail.com

NEW DELHI,INDIA

NEW DELHI

He is tough cute. Adorable. Delectable. Prashant Tamang is a contestant of the Indian Idol III. He is unique not of his looks and singing but of his cuteness and something that we all don’t know. Really can you explain what magnetize you towards him? I suppose you will not be able to come out with any explanation. He is magical in nature; at least for me.

I find him sometimes odd-man-out like person. He doesn’t fit anywhere in the competition of the Indian Idol III. But the very moment I find him as competent as others are. I don’t know how he takes the competition. He came in this musical extravaganza not to win, but I suppose to express himself, his obsessive singing capability. And in this attempt he won brilliantly. And has been giving a tough fight to other contestants, making them run out for their money.

The very first moment I saw him, a voice echoed in my heart, “Hey!! He must be selected forthright.” He is the person who is passionate about his singing. He has not taken any training in the music; he is an uncut diamond that has to be polished. And if Indian Idol is the programme that gives a platform to singers than he must be selected.

The trailer shown on Prashant I found it was very funny, a policeman wearing a full dress competing for the show. It was hilarious in nature, and very much amusing in its tone. Do you agree with me? Just comment!

Yes, he has been singing since childhood. He sings in the police orchestra. He wants to become the Indian Idol to prove himself and make the Kolkata police proud. He was in the Special Armed Force and has been working with the Kolkata police since 2002.

That’s might be the reason I am so fond of him. He is from police background; one hardly finds policeman singing, dancing in any musical show. His background make me feel, conditions are never drastic just one has to be prepared to give a fight in an honest manner, in right attitude. And he exemplifies this.

Nevertheless, he thinks of himself as a simple person with simple thoughts and simple living. No doubt of it, people of hills are simple, not corrupted by the vanity of the world, they have their own way to see the world, which we people might not be able to share and understand. Of this fact, he has proved, they (hilly people) are talented.

One remembers Dainy Denzongpa, the Hindi film villain. Of his unusual looks, he had to fought bitter to establish in the Punjabi dominated bollywood. Same thing could be said about Prashant Tamang.

I remember the comments judges gave it to him in his journey from oblivion to star like status. Uday once said, “You sing well, but you need to be more original”. Alisha Chinai said, “I like your 'rough' voice. You are an uncut diamond”.

How did you find his songs: Main hoon na from Main Hoon Na; Yeh dosti from Sholay; Yeh hausla kaise juke from Dor; Aao twist kare (Bhoot Bangla); Aaj kal tere mere pyar ke (Film: Brahmachari); Do you want a partner (Film: Partner); Chain kuli ki main kuli (Film: Masti); Salaam e ishq (Film: Salaam e Ishq); Woh sikander hai (Film: Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar); Ya Ali (Film: Gangster/ SINGER ZUBEEN GARG); Aye kash mein hum (Film: Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na); Yaar ko maine (Film: Sheesha); Kehna hai kehnai hai (Film: Padosan); Kasto mazza hai (Film: Parineeta); Aye ajnabi (Film: Dil se); Kaho na kaho (Film: Murder); Rind posh maal (Film: Mission Kashmir).

All these are classic and are very catchy. But he failed to create the magic like Nasha..ye Pyaaar …ka Nashaaa...He and Pehla Nasha …Pehla Nasha ….Pehla Pyar sung by Amit Paul. One could say about him is that the Indian Idol journey has been his one more journey for this hilly terrain boy; which is unfortunately is not going to be very easy. Not to forget the eye of the audience Mayang Chang is still in the fray who belongs the same state. Hehehehehheeheheh!!!!!

At last, what and where his fate takes turn in near future; one thing is sure he will be remembered, revered. Best of luck for him I wish him success in his life.

How will you express your LOVE? In Assamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Malyalam, Manipuri OR in Hindi..?

NEW DELHI,INDIA

Can't help falling in love? The strings of your heart strum every time you see her. You pay as possible attention to her as it could be possible from your part. Her every subtle movements – the way she talks, the way she smiles and the way she walks on the pavements fascinates you, literally makes you go mad, go berserk, go crazy.

Your imagination is as fast as the speed of the light; as imaginative as of a child. You think of her, you feel of her. Parting of one day from her make you feel centuries has flied down silently without letting you know. You constantly miss her. A feeling of voidness, incompleteness, strikes you.

Her companionship is enough to make you feel on the top of the world. You forget everything thorny in this world. If there is something that fascinates you, that enchants you, is her camaraderie. You love walking with her on a wet ground in a greeny lonely garden. In her eyes you see your dream. Yes, in her eyes your's world lives.

When she comes near to you; you get tongue-tied, speechless. You find the words are not sufficient to express the whirlwind of emotions tiding high in your heart. Everytime you wanted to say someting special to her, there was something that stopped you. You get entangled with words, the opportune time and with unforeseen, unexplained reasons.

Once you tried to tell her the surging emotions of your heart, that you love her; but you got perplexed when it came to express your love to her. It was an attempt you rehearsed many times, innumerable times; but you never thought this attempt would go to vain, an fruitless attempt.

At last, bridging many gaps within inside and churning whole of your body at one point; you uttered the words that expresses your love. Once it was uttered from your mouth and it went to your dreamgirl's ears; you don't feel the reverberation, and the echoing sound of your expression. It was stale like anything, as insipid as two or three days kept food. It was lacking the soul of your unfettered love for her.

You said the golden phrase of the English “I love you”. It came out of your mouth like a parrot chirps. It lacks the very soul since you are not the English, and not carrying an English heart and brain. You uttered since it has been bombarded in your consciousness, thanks for the book you fetched on, the media you watched, and the movies you vociferously watched for the steamy scenes.

Finding it unsuccessful, you tried saying in French. You said, “je t'aime”. Oh!! She doesn't understand French. So your word felled flat without creating the bubbles of love.

Next you tried with the German language. You said “ich liebe dich”. Oh!! She can only speaks German with broken accent. She is not German, but she is an Italian.

My feelings of love has worn many languages from Portugese (eu te amo), to Spanish (te quiero), to known and umknown, official and unofficial, dialects.

So, friends! Thanks for reading this lengthy post. The objective of writing this long article like beating the bush was to – How will your put LOVE in words? Will you go by the international language English to express your love while you heart is NOT English? Or in Bengali - aami tumanke balo bashi/ aami tumake prem kori; Manipuri - eina nungbu nungshi/ eina nungbu pami; Assamese - moi tumak bhal pau; Malyalam - njan ninne premikkunnu and in Punjabi - honu pyar kar diya.

NEW DELHI,INDIA

Doordarshan's loveliest Lullabies

Let us not forget? is the one of the post where I went down the old Doordarshan days; exploring and churning out the names of the programmes and serials laden deep into my consciousness. Decades have passed by we had seen all these programmes; on my part it was very tough to recall everything related to that period.

But when I started writing the post taking help from my friend and brothers. The work that seems unsurmountable became easy. I never thought the response from my friends known and unknown would be so heart wrenching and soul stirring.

The post which was expected to be short has now been stretched adding the advertisment to that period.

If you remember advertisment to that period. Do comment. Let us not forget.

(1)powder Hippolene ..Jagmag jagmag iska jhaag .Kar jaye kapdon ko saaf.
Mail bhagaye ,safedi laae,kapdon ko rangeen banaae.
Hippolene... Hippolene...Hippolene...

A lady washing clothes and her daughter playing with the foam.Her mom puts some foam on her nose.

(2)Bahu, tumne aate hi naye bartan nikal diye?
Nahi maaji ye toh roj ke hai, bartan ki chamak hai
Bartan ki chamak?


(3)Aaya re baba aaya.
Chenu wali Jhenu wali jhunnu ka baba
Kisson ka kahaniyon ka geeton ka Jhaba

Chenu wali Jhenu wali jhunnu ka baba
Kisson ka kahaniyon ka geeton ka Jhaba

Hey aya aya jhenu wali jhunnu ka baba.
Hey aya aya jhenu wali jhunnu ka baba.

potli me hari bhari pariyon ke parr ,Mandiron ki ghantiyan ,kalisaaon ka bagh.

Hey aya aya jhenu wali jhunnu ka baba.
Hey aya aya jhenu wali jhunnu ka baba.

Aaya re baba aaya.

(4)"kaun chun chun ke ise
pyaar sa sajaata hai
kaun is makaan mein
apna ghar basaata hai"

bade pahiyon ki hain badi baat
in raston pe barso ka saath
bade bade pahiye hain iske badi hain iski baat
kaise bhi mushkil ho raste nahi koi dar ki baat...
(then they show panther pulling a tractor... just imagine)
dekha iske bade pahiyon ka kamaal
yahan tak bhi le aaye....

(5)wahi to main tumhe deti thi jab tum chhoti thi.. woodwards gripe water

(6)Charon aur, mach gaya shor
Give me more, give me more!
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme wonderful doodh
Piyo glassful doodh doodh doodh doodh
---mother dairy

(7)uff sardard....
sardard?.... yeh lijiye
main bhi yehi leta hoon.
------PENJOHN

(8)yeh tera ghar, yeh mera ghar...
hamara ghar, yeh pyaara ghar...
deewarein aisi khil uthi...
lagey kisiki na nazar...
-----ASIAN PAINTS

(9)ye hai badhta bachcha dekho kaisi kud lagaye....yeh hai badhta bahcha lapda chhota hota jaye...----Complan

(10)Put it on the wall...
take it to the ceiling..
makes a world of difference..
gives every room a meaning.. ---------coir matress

(11)purab se surya uga... dhala andhiyaara,
jaagi har disha disha...
jaaga jan saara...
yakeen nahin aata, yeh wohi kishan hai..-----rashtriya saksharta mission

(12)yeh hai naya extra free flow iodized namak...(na jaane kahan se chale aate hain?...)
aur yeh hai aapka manpasand namak!!!
aapka manpasand namak dekho kaise girta hai... zara ruk ke zara tham ke... bhai chal mein koi baat honi chahiye...!!!
aur ko dekhiye kaise zarrrrrr se gira ja raha hai.... how boring..!! -- captain Cook namak

(13)humko pata hain jee
aapko pata hain jee
barso se chahat apni ..yeahi hain jee
swad bhare shakti bhare _____ _ parle G

HAMARA BAJAJ




JUNGLE BOOK-JUNGLE JUNGLE PATA CHALA ..

NEW DELHI,INDIA

In the 1980's the Indian Television means Doordarshan

This post will be nostalgic for those people who used to watch Doordarshan in their childhood days and still remember the old Mile Sur Mera Tumhara and all those Doordarshan programmes.

Once in a lifetime one gets an opportunity to jot down his/ her early memories. And this post would be the one amongst them. I am in the state of elysium to go down into my sweet memory lane.

I remember my first black and white image that I saw in “our” television set, it was the umbrella cloud that aroused after the Nagasaki and Hiroshima nuclear bomb explosion. If I remember correctly, the year was 1984 – 1985. I used the word “our” inside apostrophe because in those times your television isn’t yours but is of neighbours.

The television was brought after constant nagging on my part of my mother after she failed to stop me going to neighbour’s drawing room. We kids at that time had some favorite serials that included Vikram Aur Betal (vikram.. vikram.. vikram..betal… betal… betal…- you remember), Chitrahaar, Appu Aur Pappu (Appu aur pappu ki dekho yaari…- you remember), Aa Bail Mujhe Maar, Ek Do Teen Char (Title song: Ek do teen char, chaaro mil ke saath chale to karde chamatkar). Around these programmes our world used to revolve. All these programmes used to come at Sunday, if my memory is correct.

With all these programmes stacked on Sunday; the day had a different meaning altogether, the zest and gusto had a similar touch to that of festivals and have had the part of the ritual - taking bathe and breakfast early and completing household chores before the signature tune of Doodarshan starts.

In those days, the advertisement were that of Nirma (Washing powder powder Nirma..NIRMA), Kayam Churen, Rooh Afza, Rasna (I Love You Rasana!!), Cinkara (hamdard ka tonic CINKARAAA…), Fevicol (elephant tug of war), Liril (the girl under water fall), and Surf (lalita ji!!!).

Something you remember…

1. Ohho Dipika ji... aaiye aaiye... dipikaji takes a washing soap... lekin aap to hamesha woh mehngi wali tikiya... dipikaji says jab wohi safedi kam daam mein mile to koi woh kyu le, yeh na le... maan gaye... dipikaji says kisey?... aapki parkhi nazar aur nirma super dono ko...

2. Yu to hamesha taiyaar rehte ho... aaj kaha hai tumhara dibba... yeh lijiye... ek hi pouch se kya sab ko khilaoge... to aap do lijiye... aur mere liye?...

3. Raam laxman bulb dena... aisa koi bulb nahi aata... aata hai main kal hi leke gaya... ohho aapko laxman silveniya bulb chahiye... ha magar ek nahi chhey... chhey?... poore ghar ke badal dalunga...

4.Khaitan ke pankhe - Rajendranath as customer(flies when fan speed is on high) and Parikshit sahni as salesman.

5.Pan parag - Shammi kapoor and Ashok kumar. Hum bas itna chahte hai ke baratiyo ka swagat... pan parag se ho... ohho ho ho paan paraag... humein kya maloom aap bhi pan parag ke shaukeen hai... yeh lijiye pan parag.

If you remember any other advertisement to that period, do comment!!


I don’t know about others, I remember and it is in my consciousness I used to pay Rs 2 to watch Doordarshan’s Sunday movie. And that was after proper hygiene checking after that I was allowed to take the seat, very often on the floor. If I am coming directly from the playground, it was absolutely NO…NO…The auntijee used to say “Tumhare pao gande he, pura mitthi laga hua he..ghar se pao do ke aao…fir film dekhna..” Friends you could imagine …in no time the auntijee turned out to be villain. The movie I last saw was Monoj Kumar’s Upkaar in my favourite auntie’s house.

Friends, I have the privilege, you remember the programmes – Night Rider and Street Hawk, to watch before the Indian viewers could enjoy. I watched these entertaining programmes of magical car and of the bike in the Bangladesh television, and that in the English and not in the hindi.

How one could forget Wednesday 8 o’clock Chitrahaar? Ho nahi sakta ….kadapi nahin ho sakta ..ki koi bhul jaye…Not possible to forget since it come as the only window to the world of filmi songs. It was the only dose for entertainment in the weekdays.

At that time there was misconception prevailing that a television in home was a nuisance, disturbing the studies of children. No prize for guessing, the television we had had a wooden window with lock facility. Friends!! That Weston television set is still in the running condition without any glitch in my relative’s home. If you want to buy it, please do contact. It will be sold to the highest bidder. Just kidding.!!!

Then came the Ramayana fever of the great epic. Its popularity reached such a zenith point that the entire nation and that of our locality used to come to a virtual stop. Our drawing room used to draw football of near-neighbours, nearest-neighbours and the farthest-neighbours. It is not that I know each and every one; there were many whom I don’t know they were passerby who dropped after listening the signature tune of the Ramayana or I suppose by its timings. Anyway they dropped, our door was always kept open for them, and irrespective of what their religious inclination they had. I remember my Muslims friends vociferously watching Ramayana and enjoying them to the last arrow fired.

You remember, TA NA NA NA NA NA …!! Yes, Malgudi Days. How was it? Krishi Darshan - Agriculture based show. Shanti - Mandira bedi. Vyomkesh Bakshi. Sigma. Indradhanush. Fauji, Humlog, Buniyaad, Chunauthi, Circus, He-man, Mungerilal, Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, Udaan, Yogi. Surabhi (Sidharth Kak or Renuka Sahani), Samtahiki, Bharat Kee Khoj, and The Sword Of Tipu Sultan.

How was the “Gumshuda Talaash Kendra” short programme? Hehehehheehhee…National integration programme like "Ek Anak Aur Ekta" cartoon, Mile Sur Mera tumhara. The news for the hearing impaired. I distinctly recollect her expression on .. somebody is killed or has passed away...

And how was School Chale Hum.. Param Vir Chakra, Ducktales, Mickey And Mouse, Gul Gulshan Gulfaam, Hello Zindagi, Khali Haath, The World This Week, Alice in Wonderland.And at last the Mahabharata.

In addition to all these, how was the news? Frankly it was for me the most disrespected programme put on air. I hated like anything.

Well, the newsreaders were - Neethi Ravindran, Minu, Rini Khanna, Sukanya balakrishnan, Sangeetha Bedi, Komal GB Singh, Salma Sultana, Manjari Jothi, Raman, Ved Prakash, Tejeshwar Singh, Uday Bir Saran Das, Nirmal Andrews, Bhaskar Bhattacharjee, CM Mathews, Pankaj Mohan, Preet KS Bedi.

Lot of old stuff coming back for some strange reason. Isn’t? Let us not forget all these enchanting programmes in today’s world of television cacophony. Those were really our golden days.

I feel like crying.

DO COMMENT IF I HAVE FORGETTEN SOMETHING….

Listen and Download mp3 (sign up for eSnips.com)- Malgudi Days

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HERE IS the old Mile Sur Mera Tumhara SONG.


Ek Anek Hindi Commercial - Doordarshan -DD


BHARAT EK KHOJ

MALGUDI DAYS VIDEO

Malgudi Days MPEG Song

Doordarshan Advertisemnt

THE HERO OF 80'S - MITHUN CHAKROBORTY

NEW DELHI,INDIA

Good news for style-conscious users, Nokia has launched its latest range of mobile phones called the Prism collection keeping in mind their taste and expression. The Prism collection consists of the 7900 Prism and 7500 Prism set of mobile phones.

These two models from the Finnish giant Nokia not only combine individual style and state-of-the-art technology, but it highlights cutting-edge colors, materials and graphics of the two models. It has been taken into utmost consideration that its signature diamond-cut design, featuring sharp angled lines, geometric patterns and graphic light-refracting colors, stand out in the over-crowded mobile phone market.

Nokia 7900 Prism

The Nokia 7900 Prism has a sleek, liquorice-black front and an anodized aluminium backcover. It has an organic LED main display that supports up to 16 million colors which subtly changes throughout the day depending on the time, battery and signal strength, so that each screen is unique and personal.

Users of the phone have the choice of 49 illumination colors to select. After the selection of the colour, it radiates from under the graphic key-mat and from the LED display. These selected colour are also emitted from the phone to signal missed calls and messages.

Talking about the technical specification, the Nokia 7900 Prism supports dual band 3G technology enabling fast and easy downloads and browsing. And of its quad band GSM- capability technology, users of the phone can enjoy worldwide connectivity without loosing contact with peers and friends. In addition to a 2 Mpx camera, the Nokia 7900 Prism comes with 1GB of internal memory for lots of pictures, video, contacts and more.

Nokia 7500 Prism

The slick black colour 7500 Prism model of the Nokia has 2 Megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom and a built-in flash, which lets users to freeze any momentous moments. Besides it, the Nokia 7500 Prism can record high quality movies, play music for nine hours and hold up to 1500 songs on an optional 2 GB microSD card. It supports GSM Triband EGSM 900 MHz GSM 1800 / 1900 Mhz connectively, with this feature users of this phone can enjoy world connectivity without loosing contact from any part of the world. It has a dimension of length 109 mm, width 43.9 mm, thickness 14.4 mm; and its weight of 82 grams makes the mobile phone very comfortable to carry and hold.

For music enthusiasts the phone 7900 Prism has array of multimedia tools from integrated music player that supports MP3/AAC/eAAC+/WMA formats, to integrated FM radio. With these in built features in the phone users can enjoy while he is not calling or receiving calls.

Of its 30 MB internal storage space and an options to expand memory up to 2GB with microSD card, the phone also includes SMS, MMS, support for attachments, and audio messaging features. It supports Blutooth, USB 2.0 Local / remote SyncML Data Synchronization connectivity, thus making it compatible to other gadgets. Moreover, the comes with data transmission technology like EDGE, GPRS and HSCSD (High-Speed Circuit - Switched Data, high-speed circuit-switched data) / CSD (Circuit - Switched Data, circuit-switched data). These data transmission technology embedded in the phone helps users to download information faster and in more efficient way.

NEW DELHI,INDIA

Coach Shah Rukh Khan in Chak De India



Shah Rukh Khan playing the role of a coach in the film Chak De India which hits theatres this Friday, is in publicity spree of the movie. At first, it was the book on him hitting the store, followed by giving flurry of interviews. BY doing so, he makes it sure the producers make money from his project. Here is what the King says about his new upcoming movie.

Question: What was your real reason for doing this film? Was it the fact that it was a great opportunity to shed light on a sport or was it a great story to tell, or was it a little of both?


Shah Rukh Khan: Neither of the two. Actually I am not so socially conscious neither do I understand stories. Very simply put is that I wanted to play some hockey after 20 years.

I keep telling my producer and director that I hope after the film is released there are five-six people who say 'oh, I haven't played hockey for a long time man!' Or a father or a mother picks up a hockey stick and tells their children go play the game. So, if people in India start doing that then it is good enough for me.

Question: On one level Chak De India is a patriotic film isn't it? And you play a Muslim coach of the national women's hockey team. Is that symbolic and done to destroy stereotypes?

Shah Rukh Khan: Actually, you can say it in one line that it is a destruction of stereotype – it 's a film about India, headed by a Muslim, playing a game called hockey with a team of women. So, it completely breaks all stereotypes.

I believe in the educated Islamic sect, I belong to it and educated Muslim people are the nicest people in the world. That is my religion and I would like to propagate that through my film without shoving it down your throat. I am not shoving my religion down your throat. I am trying to say that the ideology of an educated Muslim is what my ideology is – that you believe in humanity. courtesy: cnnibnlive

CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE 16 GIRLS?

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NEW DELHI,INDIA

I remember Anu Malik saying Abhishek in the “run of the Indian idol III”. But the irony is that he is out of the competition forever. His performance will not be visible to his fan. He was one who was different in the bunch of contestants.

I think his previous performance had cost him dearly. One would say bad luck had stroke him hard. If one watches the contestant’s previous performance, then he was not the only one who did not sang well as compared to other contestants. Imagine Amit Paul forgotten the song assigned to him. How funny, it seems!!!!

In his one song Rup…Tera…Mastana…, I remember Javed Akhtar commented that this song is like bomb ……He got bored listening this song innumerable times, but the way Abhishek sang didn’t made him feel bore; moreover the song brought him the same craziness the song carry. Of this fact, he has been thrown out from the Indian idol III.

The news of Abhishek removal did not come as a surprise since in the danger group of the four contestansts: Emon, Ankita, Puja, and Abhishek; he was the one who had the maximum probability to leave the competition.

Emon had a good fan following so is the case with other contestants. So if someone was left he was Abhishek. His previous bad performance in the folk round is one more reason that added fuel to his elimination.

Since I am not able to fill up the pain that I felt after seeing his elimination, I sat to write about him and catch the thoughts crossing my mind. I will miss him.

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The gala just went without any masti, music..

NEW DELHI,INDIA



Friends!! How was Amit Paul's performance in the folk music based programme of the Indian Idol III? Definitely, I am not happy and you will agree with me. He was not only irresponsible and didn't paid effort, but his voice was flat and not suitable to sing folk songs. Isn't?

In my previous posts I have praised him, but this time I am not going to praise him but dumb him. Read previous posts. It is understandable his voice doesn't go for folk songs, but one thing which really disturbed me was he forgot a part of the Omkara song.

He must know that people have the habit to forget things very fast. He was fabulous with Pehla…Nasha….from the movie Jo Jeeta Wahi Sikander and Nasha…Ye… Pyar… Ka Nasha …from the movie Mann.

Barring few, no doubt the judges praised him. But don't you think they have built up an emotional bondage for that reason they did not notice all those mistakes he was doing. And, we the audience had to languish with his insipid singing capability.

Prashant Tamang sang well, Emon was fanstastic, and almost every singer were in their best form.Not to mention girls performance in this gala. They showed their mettle.

Emon's As Usual

Emon's was flawless. Yes he was perfect..and showed that technically speaking no one can beat him in his home ground. He has the power to recuperate and give a tough fight. He is an accomplished singer. Not one time "wonder boy" who spell magic once and later vanish in oblivion. He is one of the pillars on which the Indian Idol III is standing upon.

Prashant Tamang is back

Yes, the most shy contestant, Prashant Tamang is back with Boomro...Booomro, a song from the movie Mission Kashmir. Though I don't like his song, but it is who gives me the inspiration that one must be truthful to himself, and of his interest. He is so cute, simple, with no vanity lingering around him. He seems the same person from Darjeeling, donning a police dress. I don't think there is anyone in the Indian Idol who has worked or has been in the job before. He is a natural, uncarved singer. In persosal front I didn't like his song, and the way he sang. I found he was correct in the pronunciation. There were many words which had a Nepali impression.

Lets wait for another round of a gala and see who rocks..and who were stale...

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