Did you salute today?

Wow…felt great today! After ages, I had a good hectic day (this time not because of office work)

It was 26th of January 2009, my cell phone suddenly started buzzing at 5 am and I was quick to realize that it was the alarm and the message read ‘Wake up, you lazy ass!!!’ I quickly got ready and loaded myself with all the motor biking gear.

On the eve of this day, I and my very good friend had planned to visit his native place the next day; the sole reason, witness the flag hoisting ceremony at his school.

Ashtapur is about 25-30 kms from Pune towards Ahmednagar. Sachin Kotwal alias Sachin Bhosale of my closest friends claims that, he is among the descendants of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. I believe you my friend but, not until you make your second name completely official.

So we set out for a cool ride. Man, mercury kept on dipping and we were literally shivering. Finally, we made it to the ‘New English School’.

All the students were neatly dressed in their uniform and the teachers made sure that they were obeying the orders of the leader on stage. It was 8 am and the school got into some serious business. Time to hoist the flag!!! A respectable elderly person came forward and did the rituals. Every one on the ground was meditating and the point of concentration being the tricolor. The leader on stage then commanded to sing the national anthem and we all got completely engrossed in chanting the hymn; all minds sharing a common thought ‘devotion to our motherland’. While the chanting was in progress, this busy area came to a ‘standstill’. The pedestrians too showed respect and stood as if they were frozen because of the chilling weather.

This was followed by dance performances by few enthusiastic school students and every one cheered with as much enthusiasm and the program came to an end. There was not a single moment where the focus was deviated from the core subject of patriotism.

I would love to hear your experiences, on this day.

Jai Hind!!!
Sagar

A completely IDIOTic movie

This is addressed to Aamir Khan!!!

Hello Sir,

First, congratulations on the success of 3 Idiots. Needless to mention, the movie is really doing good and entertaining all the people around the world.
Well, I have something to say about this movie. Although I am a die hard fan of you, I still feel like bringing this up.
We (me and my 2 friends, in all 3 idiots) teamed up to watch the movie. The beginning was really catchy but, as the movie progressed there was no content in it. When we hit the intermission it was very nice of Rajkumar to bring in the suspense, so that people like us don’t leave the theatre in the midst of the movie. But that wasn’t enough to keep us folks engaged in the movie.
None of the scenes in the movie was funny or rather we entered the theatre with too much of expectations and the movie didn’t live up to the hype that was created.
Of all the pathetic scenes in the movie the baby delivery scene was real bad. Can somebody in the world explain to me how this scene is ‘watchable’ with family? This is something which is worthy of respect.
Although this movie is doing commercially good compared to all your previous movies, this was of mediocre standards in all aspects (except for songs).
You are God in your field and I am nobody to comment on your acting but your stint in ‘Andaz Apna Apna’ (comedy department) rocked, and Rancho is no where closer to that.
Aamir Khan is the king of Indian Cinema, and nothing can stop us watching his movies!!!
Please excuse me I have hurt you in any ways.

Cheers!!!
Sagar