All you need is company

I realised that you are so happy with people around.

I just hope that you aren't kept away from work or people. Even if you meet people and spend time with them it'd help you a lot. Your smile and laughter makes my moment, my day, and gives me hope for the life.

I'll miss all that till I see you again. But I'll be more hopeful and praying towards your well being and happiness that you are always solurroubded by people. Even if that means that I am not in those.

I just want you to be healthy, happy, and loving like you always have been. Take this time off to ensure that you are doing all this.

Let people take care of you, let them make you smile, and let them be with you.

My love will forever be around you.

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I had this strong feeling

That you would contact me tonight. Call me and say what I wanna hear. I was wrong...
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What do you do when you fear to face yourself?

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Feel sad?
Feel excited?
Or live life... Like I have always.

Feel life's reached a stalement. Never hated solitude so much, always loved it. Today, I feel lost.

Dinesh says: Karma!

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One of the most memorable days of my life

Yesterday, was one of the most important and will remain etched in my memory forever. I got a chance to spend time with two people who have been very important for my dad, his first boss at his organisation and the person who had recruited him.

All three of them were very happy to see one another and I guess I was the happiest to be amongst them. It was something that I always wanted to experience, I have always heard of dad's boss and have unsaturated memory of him since I was too small then.

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what you gave me...

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Chola maati ke Ram...

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Fix you!

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Gairon ko bhala samjhe,
Aur mujhko bura maana...
Samjhe bhi toh kya samjhe,
Jaana bhi toh kya jaana...

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Knowing the answer...

You thought I would know the answer, but I really don't. You thought I would understand, I will try to. You thought life will go on, yes- it will.
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Ignorance is bliss

It certainly is. Proven... Sphere: Related Content

Kaisi hai yeh udaasi

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Change - My favorite phase of life

Change has always be an important part of my life, be it any kind. Professional, personal. I just love it... That's because it tries me everytime Sphere: Related Content

I am back!

I am so happy, I have returned to the Ashutosh I had known years ago.

I am back to my shell. The place where I belong, the introvert me. I am loving it Sphere: Related Content

When nothing else matters

When the person you expect everything from is not with you, you stop expecting completely - from people, from situations!

And then, nothing else matters... Sphere: Related Content

One of my projects

 I always wanted to spend sometime in the hospital working on a project on the feelings of people who visit hospitals. It is a very very sensitive place and I dont know if I should be doing it either. Today, when I am in the situation, I am sure it would make a better story because I can understand and relate to it. I will try doing it, not sure if I would finish it... Sphere: Related Content

Why am I, I?

To see my father bed ridden, to see my mom unable to walk all by herself... To see my dad open his eyes and unable to understand anything at all... To see my mom trying to snap her fingers to wake my dad up by making the noise, but unable to... To wish that mom had someone apart from me to fall back on, but realise there's no one...

That's my life, that's my reality... Just an extract from ten mins of my life... I dont live with the notion that I have a tough life, I just life with the fact that  I have a life, and I fall in love with it each time... Sphere: Related Content

Koi yeh kaise bataye ke woh tanha kyon hai...

Koi yeh kaise bataaye ke woh tanahaa kyon hai

Woh jo apanaa thaa, wahee aur kisi kaa kyon hai
Yahee duniya hain to fir, aise yeh duniya kyon hai
yahee hota hain to, aakhir yahee hota kyon hai?

Ik zaraa haath badhaa de to, pakad le daaman
us ke seene mein samaa jaaye, humaari dhadakan
itanee kurbat hain to fir faasla itana kyon hai?

Dila-e-barbaad se nikla nahin abatak koi
ik lute ghar pe diyaa karta hain dastak koi
aas jo toot gayi hain fir se bandhaata kyon hai?

Tum masarrat kaa kaho yaa ise gham kaa rishtaa
kahate hain pyaar kaa rishta hain janam kaa rishta
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Solitude

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden Sphere: Related Content

For those who like my photography...

I now have a page on facebook. Happy time. Sphere: Related Content

The world is a just place...

Just-world hypothesis - to the tendency for people to want to believe that the world is just ,so strongly that when they witness an otherwise inexplicable injustice they will rationalize it by searching for things that the victim might have done to deserve it. This deflects their anxiety, and lets them continue to believe the world is a just place, but often at the expense of blaming victims for things that were not, objectively, their fault.

Also known as blaming the victim, the just-world fallacy, and the just-world effect. Sphere: Related Content

'Having a healthy disregard for the impossible'

"Google was started when Sergey and I were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in computer science," Page began, "and we didn't know exactly what we wanted to do. I got this crazy idea that I was going to download the entire Web onto my computer. I told my advisor that it would only take a week. After about a year or so, I had some portion of it." The students laughed.


"So optimism is important," he went on. "You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'Having a healthy disregard for the impossible,'" Page said. "That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not." Sphere: Related Content

Mango wars

I have been watching this commercial often on the TV, and it reminds me of the AFV.



Do you think this really creates the affect of educating customers that Frooti is a pure Mango drink, which Slice and Maaza have been trying to sell for customers know how many years? I dont think so. If funny videos were to sell products, then there are many products which have amazing commercials, and yet fail to sell the products.

I agree, what they achieve is a brand placement, or positioning. But would that be enough to understand why the commercials are failing? Sphere: Related Content

The learning from life...

"In our relations with other people, we mainly discuss and evaluate their character and behavior. That is why I have withdrawn from nearly so-called all relations..." Sphere: Related Content

When truth meets belief...

Indeed, believing in their god because of faith is treated as a virtue, something which we should be willing to do instead of insisting on rational arguments and empirical evidence. Because this faith is contrasted with knowledge, and in particular the sort of knowledge we develop through reason, logic, and evidence, then this sort of theism cannot be said to be based upon knowledge. People believe, but through faith, not knowledge. If they really do mean that they have faith and not knowledge, then their theism must be described as a type of agnostic theism.

A vast majority of people are the ones who fall under this category - the agnostic theists. I think I started my journey into the world of theology as an iconoclast, although I used to 'pray' to the God like my mother would expect me to. I am glad I differed...

People are so parochial, they never search for knowledge. They just follow...

Tamanna, Thank you for sharing your status... It was a learning... Sphere: Related Content

we'll have lemonade instead - tea's so indigestible...

It is a good plan, too, if you are in a great hurry, to talk very loudly to each other about how you don't need any tea, and are not going to have any. You get near the kettle, so that it can overhear you, and then you shout out, "I don't want any tea; do you, George?" to which George shouts back, "Oh, no, I don't like tea; we'll have lemonade instead - tea's so indigestible." Upon which the kettle boils over, and puts the stove out. Sphere: Related Content

Bicycle thieves

One of the best movies in the history of film making, this is a must watch... Just got my hands on this after searching for the same for over a month now... I think I have seen this the twentieth time, and I dont seem to be getting enough of this...

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You are the world...

Saluting every woman who has influenced me, and taught me life... We are incomplete without you.

Thank you for everything... Sphere: Related Content

Bulle nu samjhavan aaya

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but already impossible to say which was which

"‘Gentlemen,’ concluded Napoleon, ‘I will give you the same toast as before,but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm! ’

There was the same hearty cheering as before, and the mugs were emptied to the dregs. But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover’s old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing? Then, the applause having come to an end, the company took up their cards and continued the game that had been interrupted, and the animals crept silently away.

But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings,bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.

Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

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Happy B'day Mr.BMN Rao

Though you are not with us any more, we miss you and will always do - for being one of the best person's I have known, and so has the world...

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Gang rape at it's best

Watched Muthalik being insulted. I feel very happy. Yes, I do. Wish it was not just a rape, but bunkering too.

What's that McD tagline, "I'm loving it"...

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Rahul Mahajan's wedding

I am amazed. The three ladies watching this show. India is crazy over reality shows. I will post my views on why people watch these shows. Sphere: Related Content

Appearance and reality

"Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? This question, which at first sight might not seem difficult, is really one of the most difficult that can be asked. When we have realized the obstacles in the way of a straightforward and confident answer, we shall be well launched on the study of philosophy -- for philosophy is merely the attempt to answer such ultimate questions, not carelessly and dogmatically, as we do in ordinary life and even in the sciences, but critically after exploring all that makes such questions puzzling, and after realizing all the vagueness and confusion that underlie our ordinary ideas.

In daily life, we assume as certain many things which, on a closer scrutiny, are found to be so full of apparent contradictions that only a great amount of thought enables us to know what it is that we really may believe. In the search for certainty, it is natural to begin with our present experiences, and in some sense, no doubt, knowledge is to be derived from them. But any statement as to what it is that our immediate experiences make us know is very likely to be wrong. It seems to me that I am now sitting in a chair, at a table of a certain shape, on which I see sheets of paper with writing or print. By turning my head I see out of the window buildings and clouds and the sun. I believe that the sun is about ninety-three million miles from the earth; that it is a hot globe many times bigger than the earth; that, owing to the earth's rotation, it rises every morning, and will continue to do so for an indefinite time in the future. I believe that, if any other normal person comes into my room, he will see the same chairs and tables and books and papers as I see, and that the table which I see is the same as the table which I feel pressing against my arm. All this seems to be so evident as to be hardly worth stating, except in answer to a man who doubts whether I know anything. Yet all this may be reasonably doubted, and all of it requires much careful discussion before we can be sure that we have stated it in a form that is wholly true.


To make our difficulties plain, let us concentrate attention on the table. To the eye it is oblong, brown and shiny, to the touch it is smooth and cool and hard; when I tap it, it gives out a wooden sound. Any one else who sees and feels and hears the table will agree with this description, so that it might seem as if no difficulty would arise; but as soon as we try to be more precise our troubles begin. Although I believe that the table is 'really' of the same colour all over, the parts that reflect the light look much brighter than the other parts, and some parts look white because of reflected light. I know that, if I move, the parts that reflect the light will be different, so that the apparent distribution of colours on the table will change. It follows that if several people are looking at the table at the same moment, no two of them will see exactly the same distribution of colours, because no two can see it from exactly the same point of view, and any change in the point of view makes some change in the way the light is reflected. "

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Belief

For those that believe no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.

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India welcomes Shelf Placements

"Traditionally, “eye-level shelving” is best, followed by “waist-level” , “knew-level” and ankle-level” . It is near impossible to locate all the items at eye-level and store experience have proved that consumer responses to shelf locations depend upon such other factors as the product package size, whether or not its being advertised, its need for visibility and intended market segment. " Brand Equity, Economic Times



My favorite aspect of retail is shelf placement. I am stuck with awe each time I visit a new mall, retail store, or even a pop and mom store in the vicinity. Planogram, as it is technically called, is the visual representation of how the brands would like their placements to be stacked inside a retail store. Category managment is also another name given to the science of shelfing the products.

I am glad it is now taking a serious shape in Indian Retail. However, Will shelf placement actually matter to a price-sensitive consumer? Is there a science really behind shelf placements in countries like India, where retail is primarily unorganised?

My views:

Shelf placements will not matter to the consumer unless the buy is a high-involvment product. For a customer to be engaged in the buying-decision, stores will have to ensure that they either make the products high-involvement one or place candies and nutrition bars next to the POS to gain through impulse buing. Sphere: Related Content