Are we Afraid to accept the Reality

I was in Israel when the terrorist attacks on Mumbai happened. I was dumb struck when I learnt that a bunch of them rushed into our land through sea and sieged two of the finest hotels in India and a Jewish Center. What later followed is a hostage crisis which lasted for 72 hrs, first commando rescue operation in independent India and a great feast for Media.

When it is all over, the bitterness of reality started to show up. Is India in a position to fend these sort of outrage? Is India prepared ??. After thinking about this for for quite a while - the answer i got is not at all. (Please let me know if you think otherwise). Millions of forwards flooded the internet about the terrorist acts and heroism of our people. Status popped up on almost all kinds of messangers about the incident.

After the incident mumbai is listed on the top 10 dreaded places on earth for tourists. Israel being first on the list. I had a chance to stay in Israel for 3 months and the internal security there is wonderful. Infact I felt it is much safer there than in our cities. Israel is surrounded by 7 hostile nations. Still they are keeping them at bay and leading a peacful and prosperous life.

Whats with the internal security in India? Who cares as long as the politicians keep their votebanks safe. Who want if some 10 people die in a bomb explosion by an islamic terrorist. What difference does 10 make to 1billion people. Even after continous attacks by the terrorists, why the prime minister repeats the same speech in his address to the nation ? Probably he is asking for more. Unless we show the world of terrorism that we are hard on it, it keeps coming to us and take thousands of innocent lives. Right from the start of Jihad by islamic groups in 792 AD , their main motto is to eliminate people who dont believe in allah. Should we let this continue until they eliminate us all.

India has the third largest standing army( after PRC and United States). We spend around $1.1 bn alone on buying russian weapons every year. But are our soldiers properly trained to handle the modern arsenal? Negative. How secure are our waters?. Is spending $2bn a year difficult for a country of 1billion on upgrading and training its security personnel. Why the govt is not using the high tech surveillance satellites to trace and track the terrorist outfits. All we need is a political will to do the things right.

TMDB Best of the Best

Telugu Movie Database vari modati hit fattu cinemala list. Ikkada janalu nachinavi mechinave kakundaa, 10 zandu balm lu konna vadilipone talanoppi teppinchi yugalu marina prajala manassulo chirasthayi ga nilichipoyi cinemalu perlu prachuristunnam

TMDB Top 5 Fantasy Movies:
1. Mayabazar
2. Paatalabhairavi
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TMDB Top 5 Family Movies:
1. Missamma
2. Gundamma Kadha
3.

TMDB Top 5 Romantic Movies:
1. Geethanjali
2. Devdas
3. Mooga Manasulu
4. Tholi Prema
5.

TMDB Top 5 Western Movies:
1. Mosagallaku Mosagadu
2. //vere movies
3.// enta vetikina
4.// dorakaledu
5. // NA

TMDB Top 5 Comedy Movies:
1. Aha naa pellanta
2. Jayammu Nischayammuraa
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TMDB Bottom 5 (Genere no bar)
1. Okka Magadu
2. Palnati Brahmanaidu
3. Vijayendravarma

Trivia

1. India lo prati city lo oka 'M.G.Road' unnate ikkada oka 'Ben Gureyan Road' untundi. Ben Gureyan veela totta tholi pradhana mantri.

2. Alage bharata desa pacha noti meeda 'gandhi' bomma unnatu veelaku kuda 'ben gureyan' gandhi laga navvutho kadu anukondi koncham serious ga untadu.

3. Chala vichitramaina vishayam enti ante veelu kuda manalage chandramanane paatistaru. Kani veela lekkalu veru, mana laga ghadiyalu vighadiyalaku calculate cheyyaleru veellu andukani nakshatram vachina daggarnunchi malli next sayantram nakshatram vache daka ani telika pati rule follow avutaru.

4. Ika pote ikkada Friday - Saturday weekend, Saturday- Sunday kadu ... nenu kuda ade correct ani bhavistanu endukante ... adi varam thotta tholi roju ane principle prakaram.. manam weekend ani selavu teesukovadam tappu ani naa abhiprayam...

5. Ikkada kuda manalage family oriented samajam.. anni pandagalu pabbalu kutumbam chuttu tirugutayi.. aite manalaga janalanta kalisi jarupukune pandagalu emi naku kanipinchaledu....

Lessons Learnt

Ikkada undi veelatho konta sepu muchatinchatam tho naku konni vishayalu mana desaniki paniki vastayi anipistayi annavi raastunna...

1. Veellu intlo lighting ki mariyu itara static loads ki prabhutvam iche power vadaru... Prati inti payanaa oka solar panel untundi.. adi soura sakthi ni grahinchi oka pedda capacitor lo daastundi.. Konni chotla 50-70F ratings unna capacitors chusi avvakayya..
2.Hebrew oka vanda samvatsarala kritam oka mruta bhasha.. assalu vaaduka lo ledu...kondaru pattu vadalani vikramarkula vale kasta padi kotta padalu puttinchi hebrew ni malli batikincharu.. ikkada prativallu hebrew lo ne matladataru.. inka cheppali ante bodhana madhyamam kuda hebrew ne.. ante ikkada anni hebrew medium school le kanipistayi.. bharatha desam lo kuda idi avalambiste 'hindi'/ 'aa pranta maatru basha' lo pillalu paatulu nerchukunte pillalaki 5samvatsarala amulyamaina kalam kalisi vastundi...

Festival Environment: Striking differences between India and Israel

If the day is Friday and the clock shows 5,all the shops in Israel (excluding few owned by Arabs) are closed till Sunday Morning. In fact you don't see many people on roads. If it is a Jewish festival, then the situation is even worse. I happened to see two festivals, 'The Jewish New Year' and 'Yom Kippur', the fasting festival and I am stunned to see the striking contrast between Indian and Jewish way of celebrations.

You would find more people on an Indian road and more shops open in India even when 144 section is in vogue than the day of Yom Kippur(is festival of torture where people torture themselves by fasting : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur). It is like a self declared curfew.

Peeping more into the people's culture by talking to more people here I found that it is not that these guys are socially together but most of the festivals here are related to family and they try and be with their family on those days. Different cultures have different ways of seeing things.

Quiz time

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Tokkalodi okkadu answer cheyyalaaaaaa.. tupel fellows.. anta vetti ani cheptaru.. okkadu kuda banda kuda veyyala...

Answer: Ghadar Party Started by sikhs in Canada, US against the discrimination shown by canada and us govts to sikhs. Later the movement also spread to india.

Israel Travel

Junta,

I ll pen down my IL experiences here.

I reached Chatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai at around 19:50 hrs IST, 26 SEP 2008, about 15 mins delayed landing due to rain on the stipulated way from Benguluru International Airport by Jet Airways, Boeing 737-800.On board they served a hot bread with corn dressing and coffee. Here I should say something about CSIA. It is so big that you cannot compare BIA with it. Folks back in Bangalore felt BIA is quite a big and good airport. But it is no match even for the CSIA's local terminal for local flights.

We( Passengers having an international connect) are taken to the International terminal by a Volvo Bus (Courtesy : Airports Authority of India). One thing I observed was most of the junta are flying to US( Jersey, newark, boston etc etc..) . Probably I am the only one flying to Israel from mumbai. I went to the Austrian airways terminal and waited for the staff to turnup. The counter started at 21:00hrs IST. I took my boarding pass to wien(vienna in german) and then from wien to Tel Aviv Yafo. I asked for a through check in ( I learnt a few days ago that with through checkin I can collect my luggage at the final destination. This relieves me of managing my luggage for connecting flights). I went through the immigration process in mumbai and then waited near gate 7 and had 2 veg sandwiches ( now for people who know my food habits, this is a surprise. It even surprised me). Sankardada style "If horse hungry, eats dry grass".

I waited till 00:30 hrs,27 Sep 2008 for the boarding. One problem with indians is that people back here don't believe there own people. I don't remember how many times i have shown my passport and visa stamping ( but in austria and IL i was not asked for them except at security check). Whites are still respected with highest honor in india even after 60 yrs of independence.

I got onto my flight (Austrian Airways,Boeing 737-900 I guess). The flight is quite good and I fortunately I got the first seat in middle row( So , I have more leg space). There is dedicated LCD monitor for each passenger. They served a late night dinner and break fast in the morning. I should also appreciate efforts of our office travel desk for ordering Asian Veg meal for me, if not I can't imagine wat my situation would be. The best part of austrian airways is that u have sexy (sex bomb:P) hostesses and they served all varieties of drinks on the plane. Being a sane person, I humbly took coke.

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In all 5 movies were telecasted, Jannat (Bollywood), 2 English and 2 German. One movie stars George clooney as a American foot ball star. Another movie is starring Steve martin and lot of kids.. I dint get the names as titles were shown in german :(

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Statistics::::

1. Distance between Mumbai and Wien(AirDistance) : 5981 Kms
2. Altimeter reading (Excluding Take off and Landing) : 10.2Km
3. Max speed i have seen: 1100kmph
4. Time taken : little more than 8 hrs.
5. Temperature in Mumbai when took off: 22C
6. Temperature in Wien when landed: 9C
7. Landing time: 5:10 hrs Wien time.
8. Waiting time : 5hrs in Wien.
9. Time of landing in Tel Aviv: 3:40 Tel-Aviv time.