A very hazy morn as I gulped my morning tea and incidentally glanced through the gujarati newspaper Sandesh. Delightfully surprized, I came through this article on Nilam Doctor. Know this guy? Well, he has been the Internet Whizz since years - He launched the first gujarati newspaper online with original sambhaav ttf fonts and the first Internet guy coz of whom gujarati readers were lucky to read sambhaav newspapers on the web. Than came sandesh followed by akila daily, divya bhasker and so goes the history of gujju newspapers and blogs.

He's been my 'Net Guru' - Yeah,the person who gave me the first lessons of training on how to make a web page with FP! Rest is a history as I shuffled along with many websites and mastering skills through cyber patrolling at msn homepages. Well, this guy I knew had a vision somewhere and I always fell at a loss that IT field did not favor people who really knew the tricks of the trade. I experienced different phases of his career as he moved from sambhaav and finally, I was happy that he had become a Software Consultant engaged in Educational CDs.

Today, when I read this article, I feel the educators need to understand the web themselves - It is a sad say, compu teachers still teach the logo and are not aware of online websites like epals.com where they can get into exchange programs on various projects with teachers and students round the world! Neither Principals nor teachers have the net facilities to explore and if they have, there hardly is a progress seen as to the welfare of children. Well, I did teach a student from Hongkong online preparing her for the English & GRE course but teaching a single student sounds like a conversation on a yahoo msgr and emailing lessons. This idea sounds a novel with audio-video facilities these days and yeah, I admit, there are ample opportunities for teachers coz I am a witness with the kidsfreesouls.com worksheets. These kidsfreesouls free worksheets and projects are actually used in foreign classrooms and I get tremendous feedback from teachers, parents and children and even they approach with their counseling questions.

Let's hope, the efforts of Nilam Doctor and his team may provide out-sourcing teaching opportunities but at the same time, it is the need of the hour to remember that teachers do require to sharpen their skills - Teaching is not the job of every Tom, Dick and Harry! We see Tuition classes flourishing in town and oops..the virtual classroom may leave our own students stranded!!!! God bless the young souls.....

- ilaxi

Last week, I been for a 'Brunch' Party. Yeah, Ahmedabad is changing and our Gujarat politicians are aware of the Farm partying manic craze, isn't it? Well, you remember I talked of my fav Purple Flower Band - Whispee and his group? Never has been a live party that I ever enjoyed. If you missed out, here's the link.

Anyways, I was talking of the Brunch Party. Believe me, its a fantastic idea and a great change to walk into a farm with a bouquet for the host early in the morn of a wintry day and she's sure to offer you a C...ugh oh...Mocktail with the mint n lime. The moment I sat gazing the big lawns, what drew my attention was the Music and I glanced to see who the DJ was! For some time, it was a great pleasure listening to all my fav tunes of the western music and he seem to know the mood of the people around.He had some soft amore, the love songs and my special beat of 'Careless whisper' of George Michael in the remix version. The stage was empty and not a single soul stirred to shake a leg as they were enjoying their morning first gulps. Soon, the DJ - he was DJ Shyamal and his group, and he banged on the rocky numbers with the upbeat mood and fast to raise the spirits. Some of them came to the floor and swayed their hips and soon, I found the music shifting towards the hindi remix and the dance numbers - Gosh, I felt it was a real mess the DJ was in! His expressions were blank with no inner feel of his heart beats and I could feel this standing miles away! I might be wrong but certainly, its anyways the people choice the DJ plays. The group enjoyed and we enjoyed the show! This is mod fashioned world and yeah, anywhere you find a DJ rocking the group with the remix. I guess his real talents are lost in playing the remixes coz his own remixes are limited upto the remix! In the western numbers, he's got a cool grasp of his breadth and sure, he's a true DJ who makes you rock on these numbers and even nobody would leave the floor...Here in a remix, you play a number and people pour in for eg. the kajrare...mere kale kale naina...Gosh, the whole bunch of 40s preference and you find the servants dancing in a corner when the yana gupta song is played...my my...This is not music - only an insult to the musician...the DJ!

DJ Shyamal is lately I heard the best pick of a DJ in town and the same day, he played at the Brunch party and evening,he was at a marriage dance party. The very next day, I came across Mayur...heard of him? The Bandish Project and some of the teens told me DJs are specially flown from Bombay with the c-mocktail girls.....!

Want to write to Shyamal? Call him to your town for your Music Brunch Party? Write to him at his email id: s_p_divetia@yahoo.com. Shyamal is a great Pick! Enjoy:-)

- ilaxi

I am wondering 'Is Osama Bin Laden so Intelligent n genious that he refers n quotes 'Rogue State' by William Blum? I think he could start a Book Club and all the Authors would bee line to make him review their Books!!!



(Read the review of Rogue State here)

Gr8 Master mind....Who is Osama Bin Laden? Any Guesses????

-ilaxi

Time is precious and as days fly by, it's hardly a breathe! Well, if you have recently gone through the 19th January Tape Speech of Osama Bin Laden, it's sprawling on the web and he's mentioned the Book 'Rogue State' by William Blum, an Anti Bush - Bush Bashing! Here's the review of the Book that might interest you and if you think, you have a say on this Osama Bin Laden's cool Pick, do lemme know.

- ilaxi

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall!!! Yeah, with the happy ending of the Vibrant Gujarat Uttarayan (Kite)festival in town, it's been real amusing to see the fall of CM in a rose petal water pool! He slips too fast, be it speech or jumping to conclusion - that's his real problem! However, lemme admit, the guy CM Narendra Modi can turn dreams to reality and I mean it coz he can prove to make the Mega city look dazzling as it was lit up glittery during the festival. The bridges - Gandhi Bridge, Nehru Bridge and Sardar Bridge were all lit up, transforming the look and feel of the Town-Hall too.

With the Tourism year 2006, I think Gujarat would definitely turn splendour its Heritage places to welcome the guests and provide the rich culture. CM feels that the first priority is to attract tourists to the State. But the bigger challenge remains making them stay. To ensure this it is important to develop the infrastructure and create more entertainment and relaxation zones around the spot. I hear Gujarat Govt. embarks on Rs.15.99 Crore to develop infrastructure of 12 Tourist places round the state. These centres include Saputara, Udwara, Nal Sarovar, Tarnetar, Sankeswar, Dakor, Nareswar, Kabirwad, Somnath, Palitana etc. I hear, in my home town village 'Vadnagar', CM's village too, the Tana Riri spot is being developed with memories of the great Tansen gonna come alive and a five star hotel is being built with the Taranga Hill Resort turning up in great shape.

No wonder, CM Narendrabhai is declared 'Personality of the year 2005' by readers in an opinion poll in Chitralekha Magazine. According to the magazine, Modi got 49 per cent votes from Gujarat and 17 per cent from Mumbai. Even Amitabh Bacchan lag behind to 3rd position!

Who cares whether the Congress alleges Modi for the breach of protocol by sending a junior Minister to deputise for him at an official function in Porbandar on Thursday in which President Abdul Kalam took part. Congress miss out that Anandiben was there for Kalam's lecture on "21st century's higher education in India" while CM was busy here flying kites. After all, 59 expert kite fliers from 21 countries, including Italy, France, the United Kingdom, China, Japan and Thailand, and about 80 experts from different parts of the country participated in the kite festival.

All a part of the game!

- ilaxi

With the new year bells ringing in great happy hours of surfing on web, here comes the Trojans riding on the web horse! Indians are ever the inquisite 'Hackers' - Yeah, I mean it as I came across a lot of guys who played the tricks and boasted the savvy types. Talk of Ankit Fadia - And you find him as Featured story - Ankit Fadia's Hacking Books and his tricks of the Hacking game. Every journalist (who don't understand Internet roads) interviewed him and placed him on top of the hack charts - ugh oh!!!

Well, right now, here's a link of Tech Briefs where I gonna talk of the Trojan Horse I mentioned. A new deceptive Trojan Horse program has surfaced and if you are tech savvy using the marketing tools to earn, read here.

- ilaxi

Choose Life! Acquire the secrets of the ‘Magic of Thinking Big’ and let this be New Year Resolution 2006. The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven. Thoughts rule the world and amazingly perspective minds echo “There is nothing either good or bad except that thinking makes it so” As quoted in Upanishad ‘You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.’ It’s the every action that generates a force of energy and when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, this creates our destiny. Whatever will be, will be – Acquire the ‘Magic of Thinking Big’ and let the sun shine on you.

Wishing all readers ‘Farewell 2005 & Welcome 2006’
Keep the faith...

Every Year, this message comes from me to you. What is more important is to 'Make Resolutions & Make them Firm' - If you dream, you can achieve : You can grab the stars while striving to reach the moon! Just, we need to go ahead. As Nostradamus predicts a 2006, Time of Troubles, full of war, despair, and evil, but also of hope and promise. Interested to read more on Nostradamus predictions?
Watch out in my coming notes....Till then, Enjoy and celebrate the grand farewell 2005 and embrace 2006 with newer challenges.

Btw, I hear Sandesh is gonna launching its new look of print newspaper tomorrow. I wish them a grand success and look forward to great reading:-) You too, cross your fingers....Enjoy 2006.

- ilaxi

Merry Christmas - Let Peace be with You, Me & Us.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas! Whatever faith, it's Humanity, a big religion that I ever know. How oft, we miss out on the values of joyful living? I did write on the Bhagwad Gita review and now, it's here a faith so strong - Bible scriptures are great to hear especially in the middle of the night, watching the Pastor delivering the sermons on the television. Every time, its a conversation with God whenever you join your hands and pray in temple or kneel down in a church.

Ever surfed for the Bible org? Here's a one year Bible reading if you interested. And than there is the Christmas pages at kidsfreesouls.com.

Christmas is all about Faith : Faith is a light that dispels ignorance and darkness around. Faith is the hope that keeps you surfing on the waves on a sea of storms. Faith is love. Faith is grabbing the magical moments in life. Faith is deciding, daring, challenging and striving to reach the goals. Faith in whom we believe is intimacy & commitment to fulfil service towards mankind. Faith is trusting in tomorrow and dreaming God’s dream of a beautiful world with love, peace and joy to humanity.

And when there is Faith, there is service, when there is service, there is love and when there is love in our hearts, all is peace and calm!

Once again, Merry Christmas to all those who pass by this Blog! Enjoy!

- ilaxi

The recent release of Forbes Top 40 India's Richest show our very own Karsanbhai Patel from Ahmedabad and it's a pride to see my own community person, from my own homeland who stand 38th on the list amongst the Rich Indians from London, Delhi, Bombay, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune.

Last year 2004, I guess we had Mr. Pankaj Patel of Zydus Cadilla but this year marks the celebration for the Ahmedabadis to see India's detergent king Karsanbhai on top with a whooping net worth $640 million!!Forbes reports, Pankaj Patel and Lupin guy dropped off because their stocks underperformed India's red-hot stock market.

The surprise comes in list as Anurag Dikshit and Vikrant Bhargava, executives at Internet casino outfit/PartyGaming who rank among the Rich Indians!

The Forbes Asia's second annual list of the 40 richest Indians is quite a bit more exclusive this year, indeed!

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Well, here me blogging after gap of time and time is such that when it drifts you away socialising and partying, its never a come back to web from real world unless and until you force your brain cells to be back to action. Moreover, I been exploring and designing the set up of my recent War Blog - The Iran Iraq War, President Bush n Saddam Hussein, President Musharraf, India-Pakistan and Kashmir.....whew, that's all about terrorism .....God grant Peace!

Now, the scoop of news is Hondo. Did you know that Honda Civic Sedan won the best in class economy, sports/performance car Award recently in Canada? Well, leave that apart. Here is an interesting debut of Asimo - Yeah, you got it right. The Robot who's gonna now serve you as a Receptionist with a tray of coffee mugs and even pushing a serving cart with drink glasses!




Unbelievable and indeed Interesting. At a recent press conference, Asimo greeted passer by, walked hand in hand and turned around with its quick pace and showed its skills of receiving and deliving a tray.









Much more but amazing is that ASIMO, the world’s most advanced humanoid robot, presented His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Makhtoum, the son of the Crowne Prince of Dubai, with a golden pair of scissors to cut the ribbon and officially announce the 8th International Middle East Motor Show open. Asimo will be entertaining visitors with performance for 5 days.

Hmmm....The robotic features of recognition of moving objects, Posture/gesture recognition,Environment recognition, Sound recognition,Face recognition and what not!!! Artificial Intelligence! That's new waves of technology!

- ilaxi

The most influential Entertainers of the past century - The Beatles. George Harrison - Does this name strike a chord to you? Yeah, if you are a fan of Beatles, the rock n roll music would blast you to Cloud Nine! Though Ringo Starr has always been my fav in the Beatles band, George Harrison was the best with his 'My Guitar Gently weeps' - Today, thousands of people miss him as we remember this great star who died on 29th November due to Cancer! Here Comes the Sun was a number that made me hum all day long.

You know what? George Harrison became a lifelong devotee of Hindu religion, Krishna consciousness and Vedic philosophy! He had song writing talents and a great Guitar player. He did a large scale concert for the war torn Bangla deshi kids. Cloud Nine was Harrison’s most Beatlesque solo record.



George Michael - call him a gay and did you hear that he's gonna marry Kenny Goss, his boy friend? The news out and George is gonna change the gay world in UK!!! Who cares! A very different culture than Indians, indeed. But a role model he is as far as his singing goes and you can quip 'King George Michael'and hum all his songs. I've an Artist page if you're a fan of George Michael and a lot of pop n tops. You can listen to the tune of George's famous 'Careless Whisper' here on the site while you surf the pages.

I feel, we really miss the Sanjay Oza and Manhar Uddhas and the lot except that we grab an opportunity to hear them at a social function. Our taste varies and with the online radio stations, you can listen to my Launch cast and the very best songs in my list. I wonder, are there any gujarati or hindi Launch cast radios? Anyways, music is the speech of angels, whatever you listen.

-ilaxi

Recently, Mr. Vijay Mallya of UB group criticized our CM Narendrabhai Modi for not changing the age old rules on Prohibition in Gujarat and quipped at the IIM Ahmedabad Confluence 2005 that the Gujarat State is losing a huge chunk of revenue. The CM ignores the proposal and calls himself progressive, this being a mistake of the State Government and its failure to keep up with the times. Our CM told him that they have to follow the principles of Mahatma Gandhi and cannot do away with prohibition.

Now, in the land of Gandhi, it’s quite obvious Gujarat Government has to let go the Rs.2,500 crore revenue and promote the alternate ways to preserve the culture and commit to take the great ideas of Bapu to reach to people through the audio version of My Experiments with the Truth. (At least, our Gandhiji took the trouble to speak the truth!) Whereas, Prohibition? well, one wonders - Really, there is Prohibition ? Let christmas come and its gonna be the Mega city culture in town and its sure gonna be tough to check the prohibition. Yeah, maybe like last year, a strict round of traffic police at cross roads, sniffing the stuff and thats it. Whatever, I think, Mr. Vijay Mallya is right in his way coz now, even the private parties has adopted the mega city style of celebrating functions with the hookas and casino n roulette tables. So why allow the under the table tactics for brands of alcohol that is freely available in town? UB Group has already stepped into the market with its brands....Isn't our CM aware of it? Well, god knows!

-ilaxi

Nielsen/NetRatings done for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA)revealed recently that the percentage of Internet users visiting newspaper Web sites hit all-time highs in September. It says, Over 47.3 million people visited online newspapers that month, the largest rise in readership since the NAA began tracking online usage in January 2004. That represents 31.9 percent of all (US?) Internet users, up 15.8 percent from the same period last year.

Now, the best part on the web I feel is 'RSS Syndication' - Many of us do have the Copyright tags and the partial Creative commons Licence but inspite, Newspapers, websites and blogs go for the RSS Syndication and if you don't, you are apt to trail behind with generating Traffic and that means, losing on the traffic Revenue too!

Yahoo News offers dozens of RSS feeds you can read in My Yahoo! or using third-party RSS news reader software. With MY Yahoo, Newsgator, FeedDemon, Pluck and many other RSS Readers, the reach is into a one stop Read with no need to visit individual websites. Yahoo! News RSS feeds are also offering thumbnails of related photos for stories in RSS feeds, giving a richer news experience.

What I can't understand is their strategy in taking RSS feeds in their Yahoo News Category and still in Beta, Yahoo News do generate the RSS.xml code for news websites (sambhaav)/news Blogs for incorporating news but when the Yahoo news search for news and blogs is performed, the results land you to add to "My Yahoo" and yet, the site is not found in search! How very strange!!! I guess, Yahoo and Google are going super speeds with Beta version but its now to see how far their Projects run smooth!

Btw, the Sambhaav.com has faced a Technical snag and the server is undergoing some Upgrades, hence, I am really sorry for those who missed on the news for three days. Yeah, much worse, we missed out the impressions with the Revenues!!! That's the part of the Tech ....way to go.....

- ilaxi

Day before yesterday, Gujarat Chamber of Commerce in Ahmedabad had its Executive Committee and members meet with Narendra Modi, followed by dinner. As a biz person, actively involved with the Ladies wing committee, I happened to meet Narendrabhai who incidently belongs to my own native place 'Vadnagar'. A tech savvy CM and I happened to be told years ago that he surfs all newspapers early in the morning. At least, this had made us alert to update Sambhaav regularly lest we may not bear the fury of the CM.....!

During the speech to the Business persons, Narendrabhai in his usual expert orator skills mentioned about the developments in Gujarat.

One thing that strike the chord is what he said of the Economy rise with potentials towards more people entering into Gujarat, esp. Ahmedabad. The mega city is turning to glamour with Biz centers and Malls spawning visinity and the branded products are great attraction to consumers. Narendrabhai quoted the Narmada project and mentioned where once scooters use to go through the canal, its at least the water seen now. I guess its the Chimanbhai Patel and Keshudada's work left incomplete now covered by Modi Government. Am I right? Well, we the janta look for results and not who's who done it! Narendra bhai mentioned that any place you find, there is some development work in progress in Gujarat. (It's only city roads that give bumpy and ditchy rides! The car suspension is in danger whether you drive a wagor R or a Viva or Brand BMW/Mercedes)

Crowned with another Award glory recently, Narendrabhai mentioned of Travel Year 2006 and he's right when he mentions that Rajasthan has great places but in the whole of India, Gujarat has the most highest heritage spots. He beamed that the chamber should seriously consider its next meet at a place like Lothal - why, even I say, it can be Vadnagar:-) the place of Tansen, Tana Riri folktale. Another important mention was of Agro Processing and he called for all business persons to think over and find great developing areas in this field.

Now, whatever people say, this is a new gen CM who is always on the move with some Projects and winning hearts of people with his flawless Oratory skills and of coz, his management is excellent as his team work excel towards developing Gujarat. By next year and NRI comes to India, sure he sees the results! If not, meet our CM!

- ilaxi

14th November and India celebrated the Universal Children's Day on the day when Jawaharlal Nehru was Born. Somebody in email did ask me when exactly did India start celebrating Children's Day after Nehru's Death but aah, I fail to find this. If any one of you know the exact year when India started celebrating C-day, please do email me.

I feel its the need of the hour to pledge: To liberate every child from the web of Malnutrition, poverty, illiteracy and abuse. The Department of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development has indeed come out with nationwide program for holistic development of children below 6 years and expectant and lactating mothers too.

However, children's day is yet far away for celebrations for the child laborers in India. They work 10 to 12 hours a day under hazardous conditions sometimes, many kids doing small chores for a living too. Even kite making and crackers factories have child workers and at this tender age, they are abused, illiterate and face poverty.

I remember a 10 year old boy who polished my shoes and went to a studio with my hundred rupee note to get his pic so that I can put him in 'freesouls' page in sambhaav but aah, reluctantly he turned up after six months only to tell me that the money was grabbed by his Dad who drunk himself! Gosh....and that chaiwala boy who appeared in Freesouls was abused by his Dad and had to work hard to earn money for living.

It's here to see what actions are taken to pull these kids out from their diversed situation and time to look into their needs. Kids are after all, the future of the nation!

- ilaxi

Are you a Game Freak? Yeah, I am! Occassionally I play games to ease stress when my mind refuse to digest the games people play! Believe me, people play behind your back and during these times, a sane advice from me - Keep cool and listen to music or play video games.

You know what? Jon Jacobs, a director of independent films,spent $100,000 On Virtual Space Station In Online Game! We not gonna do that but its for Real! In one of the largest sales yet of property in an online game, a Miami resident has bought a virtual space station for $100,000 and wants to turn it into a cross between Jurassic Park and a disco. The reports of Information Week say that Jon plans to call the space resort, in the science-fiction themed game Project Entropia, "Club Neverdie." Like other land areas in the game that has been visited by 300,000 players, the resort grounds will spawn dinosaur-like monsters, which visitors can kill. Jon also plans to hire Disc Jockeys to entertain visitors once a week.

Now this is gaming zones but mind you, be careful on the game site coz you can find the pop up touching your Registry files any time and there lies the never ever moving Ads that show when you connect the net. It pops up ads of 888.com and the damn screen saver ads - I hate them! It also eats your bandwidth, slower down your computer - only that its harmless when your tech person will say 'its virus' - Blah ! These tech guys in India cannot even read English, many can't even log to internet and don't even know of the Anti spy softwares and only shoot up telling you to format your computer! Goodness me, Its real tough to make people understand Tech! Anyways,thats the rosy world of Computing....!!!!!

- ilaxi

Management Mantra - yep, this been the column I started in print media Sambhaav but unfortunately, I couldn't continue and neither did I get a good response for translations. This very same article had been a Diwali/new year newsletter of Sambhaav and I been so overwhelmed to receive the reader responses.

Today, I share the same article on the blog : This is the real Secret of Success, Believe it or not! May this new year lead your towering inferno of personal strengths to achieve your goals. Enjoy!

SECRET OF SUCCESS 'TOWERING INFERNO OF PERSONAL STRENGTHS'
- by Ilaxi
(copyright article) (Swagat Group)

Possess Self Confidence - Feel the Difference!
Your strength lies in your own vision and outlook. Build the confidence and be optimistic. Proceed ahead ‘I can do it and I will win’ The game is yours and you are the ‘Winner’ – Quite Naturally!

Mental Drive & Physical Energy
Achieve aims with active mental drive and physical force by ‘Meditation’ and ‘Keep fit - Eat healthy attitude’ Pursue mental and physical drive exercises and aim for completion of tasks undertaken

Check your Potentialities
Turn your talents into engines of success. Believe in your ownself and the things that you can do. Its simply amazing to find your own key factors to develop your potentialities to boost morally to climb the steep steps of success. It needs determination, vision, confidence alongwith competitive spirit.

Self Evaluation
Develop qualities of self assessment. Recognize and learn from mistakes and failures. Measure success levels and check those decisions and actions, weaknesses and drawbacks. Discover within.

Set Goals
Aim high to reach the skies. Goals are essence of planning and should be ambitious but achievable. Add zest with dynamic Leadership and motivated team

Understanding ‘M’ Power
Express plans in words and sure, you will start counting numbers. Manage cash flow. Don’t build castles in air lest it would cripple you down. Use money wise. Money saved is money earned

Competitive Edge
Competition results to effective competitive edge. Brainstorm promoting creativity and stimulating ideas to adopt, adapt and apply the techniques or qualities that make winners a success. Build own standard principles and accept challenges. Grab opportunities, eliminate weaknesses.

Influence
Powers of influencing others and convincing accepting compromises. Sometimes, just a word, a glance, an inspiration, motivation or lack of one can make a big difference.

Planning Ahead
Plan to achieve more than you expect. Your success is measured positive. You will be rewarded with big results or else you may land up with setting up your ownself ‘Independent’

(This is a Copyright article. If you use for online web presentation, please give credits)

- ilaxi

Happy Diwali & Id Mubarak....

Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore has truly said: The night is black. Kindle the lamp of LOVE with thy life and devotion...


I always said "There are magical moments in life that come unexpectedly when the darkness disappears and the sun rises above the horizon. This happens when there is hope, there is faith, when there is faith, there is love and when there is love in our hearts, There is Service, When there is Service, Miracles happen! Blessed are those in whose hearts faith flows freely and whose dreams are shaped by their hopes with the heralding of the New Year, bringing in peace and happiness around us."

How easier it is to Think! Our Mind is a Thought Factory and Emotions stir our souls. How powerful are our emotions! They override circumsances with ease.Action of a person is a good or a bad deed which is stored and determines the events in one’s future lives. One is born time and time again to face the consequences of one’s actions in previous life. Karma of a person influences his lifestyle and all is required of a person is to keep the vigil check of the nine gates which means the nine sense organs so as to perform true karma and the emotional well being of a person can make him perform the actions in the right direction.

Isn't this so true? How can one Keep the Faith! Diwali or Id, whatever festival one celebrates, it's the light we need to spread around and stop to spill the fuelling hate among human beings. It's a pity that Terror spreads its claws in Delhi causing panic and loss of human beings - Are we out to celebrate a bloody Diwali or Id? One only can think........

- ilaxi

It's more Coffee chains setting its pace to India - Barishta, Cafe coffee day, star bucks and now Gloria Jeans, Australian Coffees. Star Bucks and Gloaria Jeans are gonna be the latest craze 'hangouts' in India and no doubt, Ahmedabad would scale up to shoot the charts with highest number of outlets and coffee freaks moving around. The traditional 'half cup tea' or the 'ek rakabi (saucer) cha (tea') is getting out of fashion. You can't imagine business talks over a cup of tea, can you? Nor can u date someone over a cup of tea - thats the feel of many teenagers and men 40 plus who seem to get into new wave trends meeting and dating n having high coffee (tea!).

Well, the point is that I've heard some Tea company is also coming out with its Tea outlets - This means the whole of the town is gonna be packed with coffee bars and Tea stalls!!! Ya know, originally, coffee beans were taken as a food and not as a beverage. The so-called stimulating properties of coffee were thought by many during ancient times to give a sort of religious ecstasy, and the drink earned a very mystical sort of reputation, shrouded in secrecy and associated with priests and doctors. It is said, Muslim pilgrims from across the globe during their pilgrimages to Mecca managed to smuggle coffee plants back to their homelands, and coffee crops soon took root in India.

Well, now get ready to treat yourself with Pumpkin Spice coffee when GJ arrives but yeah, why not give your own try of Pumpkin Spice coffee this Diwali? Do send in your innovative idea.......viola...I'll make a jar to serve and get chill!

Here's my innovative recipe
'Pumpkin Spice Coffee'

Take 50 gms pumpkin juice, add sugar, spices n nuts n coffee (vivita pack), blend in mixie to give a smooth, add a scoop of chocolate ice-cream - Serve! Enjoy.....

- ilaxi

They call him Hitler and the Hitler Wins! Modi's charisma and style of campaining has proved him to be Number one and no wonder, the Mega city Ahmedabad is all gonna lead to road ahead of success to reach Number one in India. As such it is! Well, Afterall, apna narendrabhai che - What he promises to janta, he keeps his word.

Yeah, BJP sweeps Ahmedabad civic Polls and Narendrabhai's 'Jan Sampark Yatra' has waved the magic wand. The congress fails miserably and Keshubhai's men failed cause it's the people power and citizens are too well aware and confident that Narendra Modi and his team can 'Dream big, perform big' and provide rapid development. The 21st century voter with very high aspiration uses only one yardstick to judge a party that this new gen Hitler has the super power to bring about the changes and its time we now wait and watch - what Next? One thing is sure, it's time for Keshudada now to sit and relax and do nothing - Like Osho says!

- ilaxi