Excerpts from Mahabharata

"Main Samay Hoon ,Main sab jaanta hoon ,blah blah blah " , Yes ! I m talking about the great epic Mahabharat .Few weeks bak we had a discussion on the stories of all the grt characters in the war epic and we realized that it's not a bad idea to revise this serial as we were all kids when we watched it for the 1st time on Doordarshan,when I used to have more fun in orienting the antenna on the terrace rather than watching the serial with all tough hindi words which were like bouncers to me then.

Well the story started with Maharaj Bharat who was succeeded by "Shantanu".Shantanu was already cursed by Brahma ( in Heaven for eyeing on Ganga in Indra's palace) to take birth on Earth.But on earth as well he could not control his vaasna and fell for her yet another time. Without any second thoughts he promised her that he wouldnt question her for anything.And she killed 7 sons who were born.But the 8th time,Shantanu gave up and asked off as to whats her problem and she expained everything abt their past life.This 8th son, is named Devrata.

Now, when Devrata is man enough to think abt his marriage,Shantanu spots Satyavati and falls for her !! But Satyavati's dad demands that her sons should be rulers after Shantanu and he would have to say "Balls ! " to Devrata.After Devrat finds this out ,he himself tells Satyati's Dad tat he doesnt give a damn to the kingdom and takes off the oath to be Brahmacharya throughout .Shantanu gets so excited that to add salt to injury he gives a vardhaan of "IcchaMrityu" to Devrata ( who became Bhishma after his oath ) And there after Shantanu leads his life with Satyavati with guilt .

Well, in Mahabharat ,I guess the king's biggest tension was to have kids and may be that's y they followed polygamy.So after Satyavati's kid ,Vichitravirya died after marrying Ambika and Ambalika,Satyavati was forced to call Rishi Vyaas to impregnate Ambika and Ambalika.Trust me this is the most hillarious episode in Mahabharat.Satyavati sent Ambika and Ambalika one by one to Vyaas .Ambika got so scared after seeing Vyaas ,that she closed her eyes and her son is born blind .Yes , this kid is going to be Dhritrasthtra who in the following episodes is the most irritating character in Mahabharat .Ambalika, though was instructed by Satyavati ,not to close her eyes ,could not take fear and turned pale .Her kid is going to be Pandu who was going to have health issues.After this Satyavati instructed them to go to Vyaas again but they were so scared that they sent a maid, who was pretty sport and took things coolly .Her kid is going to be Hastinapur's PM ,Vidur .

Pandu became a grt ruler and after some great wins he decided to go on a honeymoon with Kunti and Madri .Their honeymoon rocked except for an accident when He shot arrows at a Saint while the saint was enjoying with his wife under a tree .The Saint got so pissedd that he cursed Pandu that he'll die the moment he hugs any woman !! Now the question remained as to how to get kids ( the same old problem ) ?? Pandu one day finally couldnt control himself after seeing Madri coming from bath and finally he dies .

Kunti then used her vardhaan she got from Parashuram ( I guess )and got 3 kids from three Gods -->Yudhisthir (Dharma God) ,Arjuna (Indra) and Bhim ( Vaayu ) .Kunti in her desire to check whether the vardhaan works or not had already used it once to get a kid from Agni Dev called Karna .Meanwhile, the villains are also born from Gandhari ( Dhritrashta's wife) .We all know them as Dooryodhan and Dushashan ,who later participated in the root cause of the war -->Draupadi's Vastraharan.

Nowadays there is fashion of unbraided hair but this was not the case in those days . After the infamous incident ,She left her hair unbraided and demanded that she will decorate her hair only after Duryodhan and Dushashan are dead .So in my opinion this was the major reason for Mahabharat .Krishna though made it a point to make it look like the war was between Truth and Evil ..

There was a nice incident which occurred in Heaven when Arjun went to collect Divine Weapons from Indra.Urvashi , the ace apsara got so attracted to Arjun that she asked him to embrace her.Arjun denied saying she is like his mom and this pissed Urvashi so much that she cursed him to stay Impotent throughout ( this was later relaxed to 1 year under Indra's influence)

Well Mahabharat is full of great stories and there can be no way it can be accommodated in a post over here .But for any doubts let me know :-)

The family tree is something like this :

GoodBye Lalitha !!

Well ,let me introduce you ppl to Lalitha .Trust me,Lalitha gives a very gud 1st impression .I remember the day when Onkar comes to me with a video on his cell phone and says "Dude ! Check it out .Awesome Stuff" and after seeing the video I too fell for it and I replied saying "Baba ! I am in ".The video created the same impression for others as well and finally we came to live in this house called "Lalitha" .

We have stayed for more than a year now in this house and finally we have decided to move on to some better place . But associated with this house are some nice memories.Let me give u an idea abt the guys who stay in this house apart from me. If you see some really black guy on the roadside eating some junk and talking crap non stop then probably u have caught Sandeep and if you see some guy with a handkerchief in hand and clearing the nose ( with Hero Honda Street parked nearby) you surely have seen Onkar .

Oh wait a minute we also have a weekend flatmate ,Sridhar :) . If you see some guy staring at something and saying "Dude , 8 o'clock hot chick .Do you think she is a Tamilian ?? ", then he is the one .

As soon as you enter our house you will be welcomed with the sight of a dirty stretch of shoes and slippers on the floor.Further you would see 2 mattresses ( without a bed sheet ) lying on the floor .Oh ,in case you want to sit you'll have to remove the pile of old newspapers ( some of them might be having fud stains) .But then dont u dare to pick the dirty pillow .You may catch some disease if you are a hygiene freak.

We guys have had really nice time over here .Something really fruitfull which we have done here is to start learning guitar which we guys had been postponing since ages. Now finally this house echoes with the guitar chords and Sandeeps ,"nana naneeee naeeee nanaa" way of singing songs .I m sure Mayank is missing that and having sound sleep, after he left the house some time bak :-)

Also we would miss the neighbours for sure .Hey wait ,I am not talking abt Muni M@dar%^* .We have a couple neighbour and quite a no. of times we got a glimpse of something which was a nice timepass initially.The scene used to be something like this.One of us would enter the house and announce "Guys,Action time !" and then within seconds all the lights would be off and 4 pair of eyes would be peeping through the window and after sometime we would move off saying "Wat crap ! This guy is a loser ".

We have had some great weekends over here where Sridhar ( after having few shots of orange flavoured vodka ) discussing only abt his crush and sharing his frustration of not being able to even talk to her .Every booze session ,we end up talking abt her and Sandeep would be trying to justify that this is not the right time to marry and thereby trying to convince us that may be we should have bought one more quarter of Vodka.

We guys have been following somethings almost like a routine now .For eg. in the morning it has always been Onkar to open the door for the maid.Then we have been following the round-robin rule to wash the vessels,getting groceries from the store etc etc etc.And on no. of occasions there have been confusion and in all these instances we have made Sandeep the culprit :-) There were also rules like "no smoking within the house" .We relax this rule when Onkar is out of station. :)

We have celebrated 4 birthdays in the house and have faced our irritating neighbour the next morning .Well in our last birthday celebration this bastard dint even wait for morning which became a big motivation to chuck this house .Looking forward for all this bakchodi and lots more in our next shelter .Amen

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Vivek

Those were the best days of my Life

Hi guys,

This post is dedicated to my school days .I would like to share of some of my memories I have from my school days .Some of which are really lame and some of which make me laugh and miss those days of my life .

When I was in UKG , there was a gal who used to pinch me a lot .She was my benchmate as well.I recall that her name was Shefalikha something .It had become so embarrasing for me that I reported this to my mom and then one cousin of mine came with me to the school and instructed her not to repeat the same. We became gud frens after that till class 1 and then she left the school :-(

There was an incident in Class 3 when I was the monitor of the class and we used to have Drawing Class.So our teacher (Anil Sir) drew a nice garland and I appreciated it saying "Waah ! Kya Mala hai " .He heard it as "Kya Maal hai " and My God, I was thrashed badly after this .He finally shouted asking for the monitor of the class.When I told I am the monitor of the class he got more pissed and took my monitor badge.It was like a court martial !! That day I cried like a baby but the next day itself my class teacher made me the monitor again and I got back to happy days :-)
But in those days when i used to be the monitor I used to have sleepless nights sometimes with the fear of losing a duster or not having put enough chalks in the box .

When we entered class 4th or 5th ( dont remember exactly ) , in one of our PT classes , guys and gals were taken to separate rooms and we (the guys lot ) were instructed to start wearing underwear) . So as a routine from next PT classes our PT sir used to check whether we were having our underwears on by feeling our ass .. Can you beat that !! The funny part is this check was done in 2 phases . In phase 1 guys were asked to wait outside the class when the gals were examined and then in Phase 2 we used to enter the class with gals waiting outside.But mind it our PT Sir used to examine only the guys .Dont remember who did it for gals.

Again in class 5th I guess there was an incident where our Bio teacher was conducting a quiz .At the end of the class only me and Ankit ( our class topper) were left who had answered all the questions .So this teacher ( Mrs Dogra ) asks me/Ankit to take the stick and hit the remaining classmates.We both kept declining the offer but finally I took it and beat everyone officially .Ofcourse i was liberal with my frens in doing the same . :-)

I think when we came to 8th standard we had reproductive system as a chapter which most of us read the 1st day we got the book.I still remember the green color Selena Publishers Concise Biology book .There were sections like "Not in Syllabus ,But good to know especially for girls " ...We made sure that we havent missed any of those topics.Those days Google,Youtube etc were not there so he had to be content with the limited knowledge from the text. I dont want to discuss the weird doubts I had back then in this chapter.

In my 8th Std my scores in Maths were 49/50 , 94/100 . 50/50 , and 96/100 .Well, dont think I was a champ in Maths .The funda was that our maths teacher (Ghulam Sir ) just used to see whether the guy has mentioned "Hence Proved " in the solution .Anything before that was not of interest for him.

In my 9th std ,English was taken by our strict principal Father Varghese .He once was taking the prepositions test.He came to me and asked the preposition for "engaged". I answered confidently saying"to" . Well the answer he had in his mind was "in" and without any delay I got 2 stick shots on my palm .Then he realized that "to" also is the right answer and said "Sorry Vivek" and continued the process coolly !!

I was mainly focused to academics in my school days but I remember I played the role of a side waiter in the Cinderella play and practised as Lepidus for Julius Caesar ( which turned out to be a major hit ).But I guess I sucked so bad that all the scenes where Lepidus had any part were scrapped .

I had some crushes in my school but I was terrible in conversing with any gal ( especially beautiful ones) . I used to get goosebumps if some gal used to come to me for any doubt .Once a gal comes and gives me a toffee on her birthday and I, with sweat all over the forehead, asked her "For Wat ? " although I could see that she is not in school uniform. Yes this gal was really beautiful which was also a cause for the disaster .I finally realized that I dint even wish her !I had been so terrible that I couldnt even ask the gals of my class to fill my scrapbook .

Well those were really great days of life where I used to be happy with silly things like playing cheap sharpener cricket on the bench ,making fun of the teachers , being scared of the Principal, slogging throughout the year to get a gud rank in the class , taking notes properly in the class , carrying a heavy bag with all the books well covered ( with labels as well ) ,struggling to convince my mom to take my cycle to school ,carrying an extra rupee to buy the pepsi ice cream outside the college gate etc etc etc .

Will always cherish those days and will miss those frens with whom I had such a nice time .

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Vivek

hello everyone

hi ,
This week I have got so badly bored in office that I thought may be I should see how blogging may help me get over this boredom .To some extent it is also inspired by Barney .After all as we all know he is awesome .

Let me sum up what I hace been doing this week .So it all started with the last weekend when I got the first 2 seasons of How I Met your Mother .So my weekend was thereby taken care of .

Oh Crap .Chuck it . I think blogging is equally boring .Let me find out some other means of making the day bit interesting .

30 mins Later --->

i m bak ,couldnt find anything really interesting .So what I did is started chatting with Abhiram to get some idea abt blogging and help me remove my one year old post titled "Lanja Kodaka ! " . So I get some nice ideas from him and now I am finding this place pretty cool .May be I'll post something interesting very soon !