Everyday I read in papers that Indian capital market don’t have much investors which is needed for both development of the market as well as of the economy. But the question is why the common man is afraid of investing into this market. I gave it a thought, including some of my friends’, and came on a conclusion (not a conclusion actually but a point at which I ended my thoughts which were running rapidly).
I went to few stock brokers for interview and during the free time I asked some of the NEAT and BOLT operators about their work. I was shocked to know that many of them didn’t invest their own money and if they did it was a very little amount. They made the transactions on behalf of their clients which were either on the basis of research done by the broking company’s analysts or on the instincts or so called tips received by the investor or trader. The share broker many a times suggests his/her clients to buy/ sell some shares which were recommended by his/her analyst. But tell me when he/she can suggest someone else to buy a share why can’t he/she do it for him/herself. Why can’t a broker take risk when he has such trustworthy information on which his company is dependent so badly that if the info gets wrong they lose money and the investors as well? I think there is a take here. Firstly, may be the broker is risk averse and don’t want to get involved into trading. But if this is the case then how can we expect people from outside the company to take active part into capital market. If I were to invest money through a broker I would ask if he himself trades in those stocks and if his answer is no then how can I expect to get better suggestions from him. Or secondly, he does not have faith in the analysts of the company and don’t want to risk his money just because some a*****e is telling him to do it. This means the analysts who work 24*7 and get tons of information from thousand sources (exaggeration) have not earned the trust of their own colleagues. They can’t even persuade their fellow employees about the correctness of the information they have derived upon with such difficulties and hardships. This might be true because if the analysts could have done better then the most profitable company would have been his and not others on which he is trading. How many of you have known analysts earning money through share market. In other way do you know any analyst following his own analysis for his own benefit? I know none. May be they are also not so confident about it.
Let me ask you one simple question (which can extend to multiple question-answers). If every broking company comes with same analysis then what’s the use of having all of them? Why cannot we have a single analysis department countrywide which will give the info to all brokers and investors? This suggestion won’t work because brokers won’t do that (because if they do it they will confirm that their analysts are useless). Then, why can’t we go to the broker better information in best possible time from which the investor benefits? This also cannot happen because different news channels have their own exclusive news shown only on that channel for first hour (metaphor). So what should the investor do? He can definitely do one thing if he wants to benefit from the trades he does. He can put some of his time in analysing the stocks he want to invest/trade in rather than depending upon some idiotic reports which may take him anywhere. By adopting this way they will at least be confident of their investments (and if they lose money they know that they are not alone). Everybody follows Warren Buffet but very few tried to be like him but who tried they have or will become successful.
And the other simple way can be of having some better analysts who don’t only shout but also come with good analysis. This depends on the analysts whether they want to become one or not. But if they do it will be benefit for all of us for sure.

What Do I think of Terrorism?

Terrorism as defined in its simplest manner means an act of threatening someone. This creates one more question in front of many, what and who is the terrorist?

I received a message one day saying “Not every Muslim is a terrorist but every terrorist is a Muslim, think about it” and which was answered by many other countries by terrorising the Islamic nations, especially the US.

After I finished watching New York on this Friday, I was thinking about the Muslim people who were detained in the US after 9/11 aftermath and their suffering during detention, and was confused about who is the real terrorist, the Muslim or US.

Haven’t the FBI detained the wrong people without an evidence and put them into detention for no reason. Are they authorised to do such kind of inhuman things without a concrete proof whether the people they caught are really terrorist or just civilians like other Americans.

This is not the case with only the US. In India, many of the non-Muslim country-men think that the Muslims are terrorists but Sadhvi Pragya Thakur proved it wrong. Also people like Naxalites and LTTE’s are not Muslims but they are well-known as terrorists. So, why is it that Muslims are targeted after every accident taking place in parts of our country or anywhere else. Can you give me one single evidence about they all being same and therefore should be categorised as terrorists or just because of few people, who dominate your thinking and you are a follower of theirs, you blame the whole Muslim community. I am not a promoter of any religion except humanity and expect every one to become as human as they can. Don’t try to prove that you are great because you are not and nobody is in front of that almighty god. Don’t try to change the world according to your convenience but change yourself.

Paying Guest

After a long time movies are been shown at the multiplexes and one of the new releases is Mukta Arts’ Paying Guest. Many of us know that this movie has been directed by Paritosh Painter and he has done the job well because copying a script and making another comedy out of it is not an easy task.

Many of us know that this movie is a remake of a Marathi comedy “Ashi hi Banwa Banwi” which did well at that time. In my opinion PG may not do that well but people waiting to see a comedy and that too on a multiplex screen won’t mind spending on this one. People who are familiar with the original may have a look on it as a remembrance and those who have not seen that movie may watch it to see Shreyas and Javed in a woman’s getup.

I won’t say it was a mind boggling comedy as it had same old comic lines (in a bit different way of course) and those double meaning sentences which Indian audience might have experienced before in some of the comedy reality shows. The location of Bangkok was picturised nicely and the music is also ok with Sonu’s Rabbula Rabi and Shaan’s Jack n Jill. Ladies were not at all necessary but Heroes must have their heroines, I guess, so they have been adjusted here and there.

Within a two hours time you will not find the movie a slow pace but it has also not given much exposure to the characters (even the old one ran for two and half hours). Having a multi-star cast is a tough job but they all did their part well enough to keep movie in the shape. Asrani, Gufi Paintel and Inder Kumar played guest appearances I think. Riya Sen and Vatsal Seth (Tarzan, the wonder car fame) had not much to do but Javed, Ashish and Shreyas did their work as expected. Chunky, as a comic villain have tried to put some impression on the audience but his lines were already heard somewhere (in other movie or TV shows).Celina, Sayali and Neha, as I said earlier, were put to make up couples and they had nothing much to do. Rest is the story you have to watch on the screen. Johny and Delnaz in the role of Punjabi husband and Gujju wife have done well enough with same old Khichdi style of wife using wrong words and husband interpreting in the right way.

The disappointing part was the last scene which reminds me of Naseeruddin Shah’s Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’s Mahabharata scene but was not the 10 % comedy of it.

I will rate movie a two star. Please give your opinions after watching the movie.

Shame on Us

Don’t think that I’m getting involved in politics more than necessary as I’m posting second article relating to election, because this time the issue is more social than political. I read the newspaper today (By the way I read it everyday) to find that only 45% of Maharashtra’s population has voted for Lok Sabha elections. I was shocked.

First of all I tell you that I accept my fault of not voting in the election as I had my final semester exams till 24th, the day when my hometown (Ichalkaranji) people were voting here. Today I’m here but can’t vote and I truly regret that I am in those 55% non-voting idiots.

We had a bad start of this year with people being mourning for 26/11 victims but these are the reasons why people should have voted. Despite of this they were enjoying the cool air from fans, Coolers and ACs while having a cold sip of orange (or mango) juice. And these are the arseholes who should be put in jail for not performing their duties responsibly. Voting is not only our right but also our duty to select appropriate candidate to lead our country. If you don’t want to vote you have no right to oppose a government for its deeds or misdeeds. Don’t come tomorrow for help if your house is under attack of any Ajmal Kasab or Mujahideen.

I know my article won’t do any good because the voting is already over here and till next election people will have already forgotten this (we have a short term memory loss, if we can forget 26//11 we can forget anything). By the way intelligent people will not wait for an advice like this to utilize their rights and idiots will not understand it anyway, so no issues.

I know that some of you will argue with my article stating that the candidates are the most irresponsible guys and why should they vote for a person like them. If that’s the problem then only you have the solution. Check who is the best possible candidate ( you can be one of them) for your vicinity (I know it’s a tough job) and force him/her (don’t use weapons, please) to stand as a candidate in the elections. If you give him/her support, he/she will definitely win and it will be beneficial to your community. But the funny part is people didn’t came out for voting because the temperature outside their houses was 47o C. I don’t know how I should react for such a reason. When you can get out for shopping or hanging out in this kind of season (don’t tell me your servants buy all your clothes and nappies for your babies and meet your “friends” and you sit watching IPL at home), why can’t you come out to vote and that too for your own benefit.

I won’t plead in front of any such person, who thinks that voting does no good for anybody, to vote. That’s a waste of time and my energy and I can put it into better use like kicking him/her out of their houses and if possible out of India. The only request to all my readers is to pass on my message so that we get a better leader to pull our economy.

My untold Farewell Speech

I’m not a person with whom you’ll fall in love at 1^st sight, and after talking to me, never. I’ve spent two important years of my life, I’m not saying that I’ve done a favour upon you but I’ve to say that the love you have given me by being my friend, guide, brothers and parents is and will remain in my heart forever. I’ve not remembered my parents as much as I’m going to miss you guys.

I probably would have never thought of speaking on stage but as I thought further (which I rarely do), I realized that if I don’t speak now I’ll never get a chance of speaking in public in front of such a lovely and encouraging crowd (my friends).

So, here I’m taking few precious minutes from your lives and evaluating mine for the time being.

I just want to share my experience of past 2 years in this resort called AICAR which includes humour, anger, love affairs (unfortunately not mine), and a bit of studies. I just don’t know why I came to AICAR and when our seniors and colleagues asked me, I was clueless. Sometimes, I thought that we were fooled by showing the vast campus and canteen food (which was ok initially) and inspired by our X-director Dr. Nilesh.

Anyways, every story has its good and bad moments and so does mine.

To talk about my friends I think I should talk about every 1 except a few to whom I rarely met in the course of time.

The first two persons are my roomies, who were among the few people who started doing activities on behalf of our college. Manish is active and R. K. (aka Vkey) is a bit lazy. Both of them try to wake up as late as possible but occasionally they get up before me.

The next guy is Mr. Amandeep. I guess every batch must have a surd. Without them there isn’t any fun or liveliness. He is an exception to his other community members in a different way. I had only one experience of Daman but my other friends experienced it a couple of times. And Aman’s accent is a bit different. When he speaks in his US accent for a presentation, I doubt where he was born, India or Canada.

Amit, the second person I’m going to talk about, is a member of SPAN or NPAS, whichever way you like to call them. He and Aman were born on the same date but their nature is different in many ways. They both are genius but Amit was a bit shy initially, unlike Aman who was part of almost every extra-curricular activity. Today, Amit is a changed guy, not completely but changed. Another thing about him is the projects and assignments he used to do before the whole class can even start. Other members of SPAN are Sooraj, Pankaj and Nihar. All of them are studious but except studies they are specialised in something different. Sooraj will probably have most of the answers you want from him. He is a fun loving poet, who has written many poems about our batch, AICAR, recession and unemployment. Pankaj is a tech geek and most of the comp problems were solved by him, be it intel inside or mental inside. Nihar is well known for his massage and infamous for his wake-up calls, Naveen might be remembering(feeling) it very well. Another curiosity about Nihar was his Diwali vacations which he spent in college and never thought of meeting his parents in Orissa. This group is also well-known (infamously) about something else which can’t be put here.

There are two special kinds of persons in our batch and I would like to call them sleeping beauties. I don’t know why I counted only two because there are more than only two, but I felt they will take it as an insult and so only two would do. Suveera in spite of being a finance student rarely attended morning lectures where the reason is obviously sleeping till 12 or 1 in the afternoon. Sanchari is a master in day sleeping where she used to go to bed early morning and wake up at the time of evening snacks. I think she chatted with her friends living in western countries and to adjust according to the time zone she adjusted her sleep.

Our batch has an excellent story teller and an excellent story maker, both belonging to U. P. directly or indirectly, by destiny or fault. Don’t try to guess there names it’ll be injurious to your health. Whenever Himanshu starts telling a story, everybody prays that he should complete it as early as possible. But inclusion of every minute detail in the story, which is a part of his past life (god knows), makes the story more lengthy for us and interesting for him. Anuj, by his mere talent can make a story, untold and unwritten by anyone, for every another person around him. I can tell that because I’m the hero (?) in one of his imaginary stories (may be more).I bet he will create a story from my speech as well. He is master in convincing people of his rightness whenever and wherever he is wrong.

Our batch has the irritating Rahul (I don’t know why he acts like an idiot most of the time), wicked Dishang (wickedness can be seen in his eyes), silent Nishith and Kavita, the bad boy good boy group of Sachin, Deepak, Ganesh, Girish. It’s not because some of them are good and some of them are bad but it’s the thinking of my other mates, some of whom think that they are good and others think that they are bad. For me they all are good at heart and I’m sure about it. We also have the visiting students like Mohit, Ronak, Jeetu and the extreme cases of Rakesh Lalwani and Kumar Malani.

Some of the sincere students like Rohit (aka Bichu... sorry Bittu), Kumar Panjwani, Anuja, Neeta (she is also a nice dancer, artist and I call her miss Hitler), Jigna (I call her Jignes, the Hunterwali), Neha (poetess), Pooja (Poojipaji, the CR of our batch), Shilpi (a dog lover), Preeti (another dog lover), Soma, and Darshana (these three and Suveera becomes Gossip queens in night, thats what they are called by us), Parul and Priyanka are also credited for their contribution in my past two years. 

I will also like to talk about the Ghatkopar Bombshells, who, if you say anything wrong about Ghatkopar, will look at you like they are going to kill you at instance, but not. These are Shubhangi and Manisha, don't cross them or they will make you cry by crying themselves. We also have some out of the world cases like Yash (Ghapochu, Bosssss) and Nitin. Some antiques like Sunil (his poses for photographs  ... ummm makes me laugh), some of my mates in every sport I played like Darshit, Naveen (the CC from Chennai), Prakash, Hardik, (of course Manish, Aman, Sachin, Deepak and Anuj are also part of it).

We also have an encyclopaedia called Anupam aka Junior Guru who talks a lot and I sometime doubt his facts he puts during debates. We also have some day-scholars like Vishal(my movie watching partner), Sameer and Bhavin (the Gujju bros) and Vivek (sab ladkiyon ka bhai), who are seen more often than the visitors.

Here I learnt a new concept which I can tell no Business School will teach in their course. It is JAT, Just After Time. We rarely came to classes on time and that’s why the schedule of classes has been changed from 9.30 am to 10 am. We hardly submitted our assignments and projects on time and gave our presentations without preparing well. The profs also knew about it well and couldn’t do anything which will help us (or them). The other thing I’ll remember is our unity and dedication for the work we took as a responsibility, viz., the Culturals, Convocation 07, and of course the Farewell.

At the end I’ll just request you all to forgive me for all the mischief I did with you and also to forget all those miss-happening of the last two years and cherish and remember only the good ones.

 

Din ke baad din dhalte chale gaye, Raat ke baad raat beet gayi,

                In do salon ki baatein mulakaatein yaad banke man mein bas gayi.

Kabhi jhagde, Kabhi takraar, ek baar- baar baar

                Lekin un jhagdon mein dhundte rehte the doston ka pyar

Ve kisse, ve kahaniyan, ve banti bigadti baatein,

                Woh gaana-bajaana, aur convo culturals ki raatein.

Woh bina jaankari ke mails aur messages bhejna

                Baad mein rona, ruthna, samjhana aur hasaana.

Woh students club mein Guru Sir ka interruption

                Aur Exams ke alava sab cheezon ki tension

Yeh do saal mein fir dohrana chahunga

                Agar waqt mile aapko to main yaad aana chahunga....

 

There is no Secret Ingredient for the Recipe

As I’m awarded by the recognition 
of watching the most no. of movies in AICAR it becomes my responsibility 
towards my friends to contribute to atleast a single movie review. I thank all 
my friends to support me by supplying good movies which I watched and 
I’m here. I’m not a kind of person who likes to give reviews for 
movies I see, I just watch because I love watching. And it becomes difficult 
for me to give my opinions about the thing I love. As this is also and 
will be a job for a management student to do in future I think I should 
do it. So this is my pen writing for all my movie lover frienzz.

This review I start with the category 
I love most i.e. Animation. Many of you have already watched this movie 
(I guess) or if not you should see it if you love animated movies. Also 
if you are a fan of Bruce, Jackie, Jet Lee or Tony then you have your 
stuff in it. The movie is Kung-fu Panda. It's the top rated movie in both US and UK and has done a great collection of revenues.

 It’s a story of a panda learning 
Kung-fu and defeating a superior fighter. Sorry, I told you the crux 
of the movie but this is not the only thing to see in the movie. It 
can change your belief if you see it that way.

This panda is turned into a warrior 
by his master who doesn’t believe in him initially but later when 
he believes that the panda can be the warrior he teaches him Kung-fu 
and Paul (the panda) learns it perfectly. So, the first thing to learn 
is to believe and trust in what you do.

This movie is a combination of adventure 
and comedy as I see and you will love both, that’s my guarantee. Paul 
learns Kung-fu but there is a fear within him that he can’t defeat 
the warrior on his own as the warrior is far better than him. To give 
him the strength his master hands a Dragon scroll to him which is supposed 
to be given to a dragon warrior. When Paul opens the scroll it’s blank. 
He thinks that the creator of the scroll (who also selected him as Dragon 
Warrior) was a fool to create a blank scroll. Everybody was confused 
what to do as the devil was to come there any time. They started moving 
the villagers to other safer place. By this time Paul’s father reveals 
the secret of his secret recipe (as he is a cook and runs a hotel). 
This is the most inspiring line in the whole movie which can change 
your mind and behaviour if you believe in it.

“There is no secret ingredient 
for the secret recipe. To make something special you just have to believe 
it special.”

This brought a change in Paul’s mind 
and he defeats the warrior.

And this can bring a change in you 
too. If you believe that you can do it, you can. You are unique in yourself 
and you don’t need anything else to become special. Just believe that 
you are special.  That’s all.

You can put your comments over here 
only after watching the movie.

Friends

Today I thought of sitting alone on the dining table (I’m talking of our college canteen) and to tell you frankly I don’t want to do that again. I didn’t know how can one sit alone during meals and leave after doing so happily. I bet no one likes to sit alone anywhere (except some) but I don’t know why some people do so happily.

Seeing people around you talking to each other and not to you makes you more lonely than ever and this was the worst case with me because I’m a very talkative guy and sitting quite is not my cup of tea. Even when I was sitting alone nobody bothered to accompany me and that’s when I thought that you must have a special friend who accompanies you wherever you need. How can a simple guy or gal can change ones life can be seen in a college life and if not then it’s not life at all. I will always regret that I didn’t have a friend who voluntarily accompanied me for half of my life.

In want of having many I didn’t had any.

If you want to take a lesson from my life (I will be amazed if you do) then please take this one and have someone so near that he/she will never leave you alone and sit to share his/her thoughts with you on a dining table.

Do you have a friend who will not want you to sit alone, then you are one of the luckiest people on the earth. Don’t loose him/her at any cost and especially when they need you.