Wishing you all a very

Happy Baisakhi

and

start of new Indian Year (Vikrami Samvat)

I am celebrating Baisakhi / Vaisakhi by being at my hometown - Hoshiarpur.

This video is hilarious even if you don’t know what kind of language Punjabi is…

The CashEdge cap. It is specifically released for the CashEdge Cricket team members.

Proud to be a CashEdge Cricket Team player. We won the first match while wearing this cap against Simcom.

And on the other side, Prabh/Prabhjot Singh (our dear Sardar ji) has started a poll for the best sport-person of our batch - the batch of B.Tech. 2004, DCSE, Punjabi University (or Punjabi Junibrashty as Pankaj Dev spells it !)

I watched Matrix one more time on this weekend. If not hundreds of times, I have watched this sequel (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions) for at-least tens of times. If you love technology, action, thrill, romance and what not, you believe that Artificial Intelligence can do wonders, this is the The Sequel to watch out. First time, I had watched The Matrix during graduation when in next semester, we were going to learn AI. After that, it became my favorite movie specially when the fiction seems quite possible and realistic to you. If you get bored of watching your favorite movie again and again, watch it in other language you know and you will know many new things especially when it is quite complex movie. This time I watched it in Hindi - all three parts (thanks to bro. Yes I was at my hometown on this weekend) and I discovered lot of new things which I didn’t know before. I would like to watch this movie in all the 4 languages that I know. Every time, I watch this movie, I find few more interesting facts which I couldn’t understand previously, somethings which I never knew before, just like I discover new meanings when I re-read some old issue of Digit (:)) or Gita, Koran or Bible (well that doesn’t mean at all that I am quite religious specially when I don’t go to any religious place. I read these scriptures for self-improvement.) I always wished such movie to be created in Bollywood than just copying it.

Free your mind

Here is a transition that I went through few weeks ago and I swear, it was too difficult to have this experience!

And if you still have some time that you can spend on reading similar interesting stuff, Mandar has made a quite “interesting post” (The Love Shtory) for first time in ages over his blog .

Amit asked me first thing this morning - What is going in Punjab these days and what riots going on these days there. I had no idea and then I realized that I was away from newspaper for last 4 days…I hadn’t gotten chance to even touch it but perhaps Amit was expecting me to answer and he knew that I will. After going through few sources and of course, truly punjabis, Raji and Sumit, I came to know about whole story which is quite eye-opening and tells about the those strong faith-holders in religion but with their eyes closed.

In Punjab, if you dress like a religious lord, chances are that you will be criticized and so called fatwa could also be issued against you. After wearing attire of the worshiped figure of Sikh community, Guru Gobind Singh - tenth Sikh Guru, protests were made by community against the leader who also belongs to same Sikh community but is from different sector.

News goes like -

Clashes between two sects in Bhatinda and Dera chief asks followers to maintain calm

 

 

Members of the Nihang sect clashed with supporters of Dera Sachcha Sauda after their leader wore an attire similar to that of Guru Govind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru in a baptising ceremony two days ago.

 

Nihang Sikhs protested the move and burnt effigies of the Dera Sachcha Sauda leader Sant Ram Rahim.

 

 

Trouble had been brewing between supporters of the Dera Sachcha Sauda and the Nihang Singh sect after an effigy of Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim was burnt by members of the Nihang Singh sect and Sikhs in Bathinda on Monday.

 

Five people were injured in Monday’s clashes and the tension seems to be spreading, with minor clashes reported from Ludhiana.

Sikh demonstrators at the gate of Patna Saheb Gurudwara

There has also been strong protest at political level that India’s home minister had to assure that legal action will be taken as it has hurt the sentiments of Sikhs.

I was also thinking about Hindu religion where they themselves dress others to look like the worshiped figures in order to spread the religious teachings during the public concerts/exhibitions (e.g. the festivals like Deepawali/Dussehra) but then this religion has its own drawbacks. In my belief, a religion should be flexible enough to deal with controversies.

There is also a strong possibility of political connection with this happening rather a mishap which is described as follows in news -

Punjab on the edge, CM calls meet

 

The Dera Sacha Sauda has mass following in the Malwa region of Punjab in places like Bathinda and Patiala, and during the recent assembly elections in Punjab, the Dera had issued a edict to its followers to vote for the Congress.

It was Kanav’s sister’s marriage @ Hoshiarpur and there were lot of new people getting introduced to each other forming ever-lasting relation…called friendship - each one from different firm and even from different domains…some employees and others, businessmen .

It was great time together at the marriage. After long long time, have been to a marriage and we all enjoyed it a lot.

PS: We also got to watch Sunny bhajee’s Big Brother in local theatre (we hadn’t anything else to pass time and what else can be better to kill time in Punjab than to watch Sunny Deol’s movie listening to public’s whistles over bhajee’s super punches). We concluded that still Sunny Deol is doing good job by working in movies raising social issues and the Times Of India’s one star rating for this movie was totally crap. The only thing that hurt me somewhat at marriage was that still we believe and mind what we shouldn’t…still one side is supposed to be lighter than other…youth have lot like that to reform about!