Country Is Proud Of You! Jai Hind!

Today as I write this, the country is celebrating 60 years of freedom from the colonial rule. It was at this day that we called our self the citizen of free India. Sixty years is long time in history of country.

In these sixty years the country has produce hundreds of human being who have made us proud. These are people who have put India into the path of recognition and prosperity. It is because of these individuals that we are looked in admiration by others.

In my own small capacity I will try to put some names that we are proud of. I might miss many names so please forgive me as I cannot include each and everyone due to post limitations.

a) Mahatma Gandhi: – Even after 60 years the man continues to inspire millions of people not only in India but across the globe. Gandhi was the pioneer of Independence fight against British. Mahatma gave us freedom by means of non violence that was so rare. We are proud to belong to land of Gandhi. Salute him!

b) Pandit Nehru: - The first Prime Minister of free India. The man who gave vision and dream to millions of people of this country. The basis of everything that exists today was laid down by Nehru. Till today Nehru-Gandhi family is serving the nation. Their sacrifice for the nation cannot be match in Indian history ever.

c) APJ Kalam: - They call him the missile man. Some prefer to call him as people’s president. If someone has right to say that he has vision of progressive India with a definite plan then it has to be APJ Kalam. The former president of the country has powered the wings of free India to next level.

d) Dhirubhai Ambani: - Will there ever be a man like Dhirubhai? Will there be a business man with the acumen that this man had? The country needs more of such people. He gave a dream to common man of India and then fulfilled them. There are millions of people in this country who made fortune thanks to Dhirubhai and his Reliance group.

e) Kapil Dev: - Without argument he is the first International superstar of modern India. The man from Haryana has managed to accomplish something that is still not match by billions of people of this country. In that summer of 83 Kapil Dev not only gave us World Cup victory but along with it he made other sporting nation to stand up and take note of our immense talent.

There are many others who have made us proud and whose contribution is on par with the names mention above but as you know listing all of them is not possible here.

Some names that need mention here are; Dr. Ambedkar, Indira Gandhi, The Tatas, Amitabh Bachchan, Rakesh Sharma, Rajnikant, MGR, C V Raman, Dhyan Chand, Anna Hazare, Arundhati Roy and many more.

Friends, I would like to know about some more personalities that you think has made difference to free India.

-Stella Roy

Who owns Orkut.com? India or Brazil?

Are you looking for your old school friend with whom you lost touch after your Xth exams? Or is it that you want to talk to a gorgeous lady who stays in your neighborhood but you are afraid to approach her. Are you looking to talk to your cousin who stays at Kanyakumari or Siwan? There is only one place to find them all! Yes you got it right! The place is Orkut.com.

Just login into orkut and search for your lost friend, search your neighbors and possibly you will find every Indian and Brazilian on Orkut. I did join recently and was amaze to see the Indian population on orkut. It seems that whole country is member of orkut.com.

What is Orkut.com?
You may find this question very meaningless, but let me explain you in details. Orkut is a social networking website. It’s a Google production. Orkut provides you a platform to network with other people in the form of scrapping. On orkut you can build your private friends list.

Now, let us come back to the most important question of this debate. Why Orkut is so famous in India?
Well there might be thousands of explanation and article written on it, but the one prime reason for orkut to be famous in India was the privacy that gave to its members in its early period. Earlier the registration was only through invitation. Though now they have made it free!

The people of India always care for their privacy on internet and that’s what orkut gave them along with helping them to build a vivacious community of friends. Indian culture teaches us to be very protective of our community and friends and Orkut was perfect tool for them. That’s why you will lot of people uploading picture of movie star in their profile. They don’t want to publish their pictures on Internet.

The other reason that made orkut an enormous success in India is the User Interface of orkut. Indians like things that is simple and that doesn’t require too much of technical competence. If you have used orkut you will agree with me that using orkut is much easier then other social networking/ dating site like youtube.com, meetup.com, ringo.com etc.

Also the scrapping feature is something that caught the fancy of Indian people. Indians love to write small messages rather then typing a big paragraph.

Some other reason that made Orkut a sensation here is the website speed. Lot of people in India still uses slow connection such dial up or 128 kbps connection. The pages of orkut are highly optimize and it loads very quickly thus saving lot of bandwidth money of Indian user.

Last but not the least, the name orkut.com is very easy to remember and sounds like a Hindi word! Don’t you think so?

Well I have given my reasons why we love orkut, and I would love know why do you love orkut.com? Please leave a comment.

-Stella Roy

Cricket World Cup 2007 and Sachin

The biggest and most important tournament in Cricket has just begun in West Indies. And we all know how cricket and cricketers are treated in India, let’s hope they win the Cricket world cup 2007.


Sachin
Once while walking out of Mumbai International Airport I notice a huge crowd out side it. I thought it might be due to Prime Minister visit to Mumbai and people must have gather to greet him. But soon I was to realize my foolishness and ignorance. Out came a little man with curly hair wearing Sunglasses and the crowd went berserk. Yes you got it correct it was The Great Sachin Tendulkar. The security team had tough time controlling the crowd who wanted to touch him, kiss him, some even wanted to take him to their houses! Such is the charisma of Sachin that he is like GOD to us.

The country adores him and wants him to perform every time ho goes out on cricket field. Soon we will have temple build to his name. The cricket world cup 2007 in West Indies may be his last and we hope he goes out in glory of winning the World Cup 2007. I wish best of luck to him and Rahul Dravid’s team.
Go and get the Cricket World Cup from West Indies. We all support you.
Please see the schedule for World cup matches.

Tue, Mar 13 WI v/s Pak 1st ODI, Group D Kingston, Jamaica
Wed, Mar 14 Aus v/s Scot 2nd ODI, Group A Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis
Wed, Mar 14 Ken v/s Can 3rd ODI, Group C Gros Islet, St. Lucia
Thu, Mar 15 SL v/s Ber 4th ODI, Group B Port of Spain,Trinidad & Tobago
Thu, Mar 15 Zim v/s Ire 5th ODI, Group D Kingston, Jamaica
Fri, Mar 16 SA v/s Net 6th ODI, Group A Warner Park, Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis
Fri, Mar 16 Eng v/s NZ 7th ODI, Group C Beausejour Stadium, St. Lucia
Sat, Mar 17 Ind v/s Ban 8th ODI, Group B Port of Spain,Trinidad & Tobago
Sat, Mar 17 Pak v/s Ire 9th ODI, Group D Kingston, Jamaica
Sun, Mar 18 Aus v/s Net 10th ODI, Group A Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis
Sun, Mar 18 Eng v/s Can 11th ODI, Group C Gros Islet, St. Lucia
Mon, Mar 19 Ind v/s Ber 12th ODI, Group B Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Mon, Mar 19 WI v/s Zim 13th ODI, Group D Kingston, Jamaica
Tue, Mar 20 SA v/s Scot 14th ODI, Group A Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis
Tue, Mar 20 NZ v/s Ken 15th ODI, Group C Gros Islet, St. Lucia
Wed, Mar 21 SL v/s Ban 16th ODI, Group B Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Wed, Mar 21 Zim v/s Pak 17th ODI, Group D Kingston, Jamaica
Thu, Mar 22 Net v/s Scot 18th ODI, Group A Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis
Thu, Mar 22 NZ v/s Can 19th ODI, Group C Gros Islet, St. Lucia
Fri, Mar 23 Ind v/s SL 20th ODI, Group B Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Fri, Mar 23 WI v/s Ire 21st ODI, Group D Kingston, Jamaica
Sat, Mar 24 Aus v/s SA 22nd ODI, Group A Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis
Sat, Mar 24 Eng v/s Ken 23rd ODI, Group C Gros Islet, St. Lucia
Sun, Mar 25 Ber v/s Ban 24th ODI, Group B Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Tue, Mar 27 Runner up Group D v/s Winner Group A Second Stage Super-8 Series 1st ODI Antigua & Barbuda
Wed, Mar 28 Runner up Group A v/s Winner Group B Second Stage Super-8 Series 2nd ODI Guyana
Thu, Mar 29 Runner up Group D v/s Winner Group C Second Stage Super-8 Series 3rd ODI Antigua & Barbuda
Fri, Mar 30 Winner Group D v/s Runner up Group C Second Stage Super-8 Series 4th ODI Guyana
Sat, Mar 31 Winner Group A v/s Runner up Group B Second Stage Super-8 Series 5th ODI Antigua & Barbuda
Sun, Apr 1 Runner up Group D v/s Winner Group B Second Stage Super-8 Series 6th ODI Guyana
Mon, Apr 2 Runner up Group B v/s Winner Group C Second Stage Super-8 Series 7th ODI Antigua & Barbuda
Tue, Apr 3 Winner Group D v/s Runner up Group A Second Stage Super-8 Series 8th ODI Guyana
Wed, Apr 4 Runner up Group C v/s Winner Group B Second Stage Super-8 Series 9th ODI Antigua & Barbuda
Sat, Apr 7 Runner up Group B v/s Runner up Group A Second Stage Super-8 Series 10th ODI Guyana
Sun, Apr 8 Winner Group A v/s Runner up Group C Second Stage Super-8 Series 11th ODI Antigua & Barbuda
Mon, Apr 9 Winner Group D v/s Winner Group C Second Stage Super-8 Series 12th ODI Guyana
Tue, Apr 10 Runner up Group D v/s Runner up Group A Second Stage Super-8 Series 13th ODI Grenada
Wed, Apr 11 Runner up Group C v/s Runner up Group B Second Stage Super-8 Series 14th ODI Bridgetown,Barbados
Thu, Apr 12 Winner Group B v/s Winner Group C Second Stage Super-8 Series 15th ODI St George's, Grenada
Fri, Apr 13 Winner Group A v/s Winner Group D Second Stage Super-8 Series 16th ODI Bridgetown, Barbados
Sat, Apr 14 Runner up Group A v/s Winner Group C Second Stage Super-8 Series 17th ODI St George's, Grenada
Sun, Apr 15 Winner Group D v/s Runner up Group B Second Stage Super-8 Series 18th ODI Bridgetown, Barbados
Mon, Apr 16 Winner Group A v/s Winner Group B Second Stage Super-8 Series 19th ODI St George's, Grenada
Tue, Apr 17 Runner up Group A v/s Runner up Group C Second Stage Super-8 Series 20th ODI Bridgetown, Barbados
Wed, Apr 18 Winner Group D v/s Winner Group B Second Stage Super-8 Series 21st ODI St George's, Grenada
Thu, Apr 19 Runner up Group D v/s Runner up Group B Second Stage Super-8 Series 22nd ODI Bridgetown, Barbados
Fri, Apr 20 Winner Group A v/s Winner Group C Second Stage Super-8 Series 23rd ODI St George's, Grenada
Sat, Apr 21 Runner up Group D v/s Runner up Group C Second Stage Super-8 Series 24th ODI Bridgetown, Barbados
Tue, Apr 24 2 v/s 3 1st SemiFinal ODI Kingston, Jamaica
Wed, Apr 25 1 v/s 4 2nd SemiFinal ODI Gros Islet, St. Lucia
Sat, Apr 28 1 v/s 4 Final ODI Bridgetown, Barbados