Ninnu Choose Okka Kshanam Kosam…!

“Nee Kosame Naa Anveshana..,

Nee Kosame Naa Nirikshana..,

Ninnu Choose Okka Kshanam Kosam..,

Konni Vella Sarlu Maraninchaina Sare…

Okka Sari Janminchadaniki Siddham Ga Vunnanu..!”

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I Just Can’t Stop Loving You …!

I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”  —    My All Time Favourate Song…. !

A tribute to True Love by the greatest ever  Music Legend  Michael Jackson.

“I Just Want To Lay Next To You
For Awhile
You Look So Beautiful Tonight
Your Eyes Are So Lovely
Your Mouth Is So Sweet
A Lot Of People
Misunderstand Me
That’s Because They Don’t
Know Me At All
I Just Want To Touch You
And Hold You
I Need You
God I Need You
I Love You So Much

 

Each Time The Wind Blows
I Hear Your Voice So
I Call Your Name . . .
Whispers At Morning
Our Love Is Dawning
Heaven’s Glad You Came . . .

You Know How I Feel
This Thing Can’t Go Wrong
I’m So Proud To Say
I Love You
Your Love’s Got Me High
I Long To Get By
This Time Is Forever
Love Is The Answer

I Hear Your Voice Now
You Are My Choice Now
The Love You Bring
Heaven’s In My Heart
At Your Call
I Hear Harps,
And Angels Sing

You Know How I Feel
This Thing Can’t Go Wrong
I Can’t Live My Life
Without You

I Just Can’t Hold On

I Feel We Belong

My Life Ain’t Worth Living
If I Can’t Be With You

I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
And If I Stop . . .
Then Tell Me Just What
Will I Do

‘Cause I Just Can’t Stop
Loving You

At Night When The
Stars Shine
I Pray In You I’ll Find
A Love So True . . .

When Morning Awakes Me
Will You Come And Take Me
I’ll Wait For You

You Know How I Feel
I Won’t Stop Until
I Hear Your Voice Saying
“I Do”

“I Do”
This Thing Can’t Go Wrong

This Feeling’s So Strong

Well, My Life Ain’t
Worth Living
If I Can’t Be With You
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
And If I Stop . . .
Then Tell Me, Just What
Will I Do

I Just Can’t Stop Loving You

We Can Change All The World
Tomorrow

We Can Sing Songs Of
Yesterday

I Can Say, Hey . . .Farewell
To Sorrow

This Is My Life And I,
Want To See You For Always
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You

No, Baby
Oh!
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You

If I Can’t Stop!

And If I Stop . . .

No

Oh! Oh! Oh . . .Oh . . .

What Will I Do? Uh . . .Ooh . . .
(Then Tell Me, Just What
Will I Do)

I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
Hee! Hee! Hee! Know I Do
Girl!

I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
You Know I Do
And If I Stop . . .

Then Tell Me, Just What
Will I Do

I Just Can’t Stop Loving You“

‘Jai Ho’ Slum Dogs

‘Jai Ho’ Slum Dogs……….You guys made it possible, You guys achieved, You guys made us happy, You guys inspired us and you guys made us real true millionaires.

Well Done team ‘Slum Dog’.

Srceen play……….I think,  is the real beauty which made the film an awesome piece.  Simon Beaufoy deserves an oscar for making it possible.

Danny Boyle…..Superb direction. He not only took best out of the the best actors and technicians, but he took the best out of those small kids which made the slum look cute at Oscars. Great work Danny, you deserve it.

Andddddddd, yes,  it is AR Rahman and Resul Pookutty who made us feel proud and happy. I am really happy for them. You guys did it. We are proud of you guys.

Jai Ho Rahman. You made it possible at the biggest event of the entertainment world. He could have bagged more oscars if he would have been nominated for all those wonderful songs he composed. You deserve it and you’ll bag more Oscars and more Golden Globe’s in coming years also. You inspired and showed us a way to how to make it big. I think the Indian cinema has good future and will become the leader in world entertainment.

A hearty congratulations to AR Rahman for winning 2 oscars for best song “Jai Ho” in “Best Original Song” category  and another one for “Best Back Ground Score”  and Resul Pookutty for winning an Academy award  in “Best Sound Mixing” category. We are proud of you guys. U made us feel proud. Keep going.

8 Oscars at the 81st Academy award ceremony in the categories ‘Best Film’, ‘Best Director’, ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’, ‘Best Original Song’, ‘Best Background Score’, ‘Best Sound Mixing’, ‘Best Cinematography’ and ‘Best Film Editing’. Great achievement by the entire “Slumdog Millionaire” team.

and special mention to Mr Vikas who was original writer of ‘Q&A’ on basis of which the movie was made.

and I would like to congartulate Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Sourabh Shukla, Dev Patel, the entire team of actors and technicians who was the part of ‘Slumdog Millionaire”.

and..one more time…..

Jai Ho……Rahman and Resul.

A day at Sweekar Upkaar

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I have been celebrating new year’s eve all these years with  friends and family. This time I decided to spend it with some special children.

I had collected few gifts from my friends – like   teddy bears, photo frames, gift articles, a beautiful watch etc. and I wanted to give them to some mentally challenged kids. I spoke to the PRO and the staff of sweekar upkaar about my idea of giving those gifts to the inmates of that institute on the 31st Dec. They readily accepted and they even planned  few fun games for the children. The idea seemed very good and I asked them to plan for atleast 10 programs, so that we could give away all the gifts that I collected.

I shared this idea with my teammates at office and they were more than happy to join me. So, Rhoda Wiliams, Deepthi Gulla, Sridinesh Kolluru and Arvind Shivaramakrishnan and I went to sweekar upkar at around 1:00 PM on 31st Dec. We took goodie-packets which consited of  biscuits, chocolates and wafers made for 200 odd kids as suggested by the staff. My whole team was very excited to see the reaction of the kids there. Mrs Sunitha, the principal of the school took us to a large hall with a stage at one end. Children applauded loudly with joy when they saw us. I realised for the first time that Sweekar upkaar is not only providing education but health care also to all age groups but not only to the kids. It was a group of  100 odd inmates which consists all age groups, the dedicated teachers of this institution and parents of those kids.

Teachers selected 5 kids(boys n girls) in each group to participate in different type of  fun games as per understanding level of the kids. the kids were participated with so much excitement in all the games. They were cheering for each other. We had organized few events like  ‘eating banana’, ‘throwing a ball into a basket’, “memory game’,’ ithreading a needle’, ‘sticking bindis on the faces’ etc.  The program lasted for approx 2 hrs.

A special mention to the one of the inmates Mr Gouri Shankar…he came up with a really surprising package. He has impressed the whole audience with his art of tabla playing. I am really thrilled to say that he was playing varities of  beats on tabla. The way he was playing tabla inspite of having such a health condition is really very good. We all were so thrilled.

When the event was going on in full swing, I realized and noticed one thing which actually made me re-think about myself. I was always thinking about the kids, but I never gave any thought towards the staff of that institute. When the event was going on, the kids were participating with so much enthusiam. May be the events we organised were very easy for the normal kids, but it wasn’t for those kids. I could not communicate with those kids. At this point I realised how great those teachers could be. They were treating those kids with so much care and affection. The way the teachers were encouraging and cheering for the kids was really awesome to look at. I was really moved by their effort. One can imagine how difficult it could be to teach even small things to those kids, where as so many parents think that teaching their own kids as a big task.

If I think I did a great job by doing such thing on “one day” , then how great those teachers and staff can be who are actually educating, taking care of those kids, providing the health care and trying their best to build the confidence in themselves to live their day to day life happily. I salute the great institute and staff for doing such a great job.

At the end we distributed the gifts to the 2 winners for each event. The kids were so happy and thrilled. Program ended by distributing the goodie packets to all the inmates. Deepthi and Rhoda were little disappointed cause they could give only 2 combo packets to each kid.
The event was a big hit… All the children  went home happily wearing a broad smile on their faces. The principal Mrs. Sunita, then took us to the office room and explained us about the whole working of their organization, what they do and how they do it, while we were having tea offered by her.

At the end we all were very happy. All of us went back home with satisfied and a sweet memory to last our lifetime! We can never forget the way they applauded and welcomed us when we entered the hall, and the way they were trying to shake hands with all of us while they were leaving after the event.

Me and my team would like to thank  Mr Murthy, Mrs Sunitha  and all the staff who made this possible. Thanks a lot to the Sweekar Upkaar.

And a special thanks to my dear friends who encouraged me by giving  away such valuable gifts and my teammates Rhoda Williams, Deepthi Gulla(Ratnam), Sridinesh kolluru and Arvaind Shivaramakrishnan who made this possible.

 

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Degrading Morale Values

Recently there had been some acid attacks on two girls and the attackers were killed in a encounter(which was obviously faked). The whole incident was very disturbing.

Did we do the right thing by shooting the attackers??? Is it the right solution?? Did we eliminate the  root cause of the problem!!??? Can we assure that these kind of things won’t happen again?? Where are we living?? Under the TALIBAN rule!!??

No, No way….We just overreacted without even trying to find out the actual root cause of the problem. Whose fault was it?? Who are the
defaulters?? is it the guys, girls, their parents, or police??

India has always been known for it’s great culture, values, human relations, traditions and family system.

Today, the world has indeed become small… we can reach anywhere, any time. There is an exchange of culture is happening among different cultures. It is always appreciable if it is the ‘good’ that we share and adapt out of any culture. Unfortunately it is always that we get attracted to and catch the ‘bad’ very fast.

Infact, no system is ‘bad’. Every system evaluates with good values.It is we, the people, who err and hence defame the system. People very often say that “we are getting attracted to the western culture and are forgetting values and beliefs in our own system”…

I don’t think it’s true.

Instead, the unfortunate truth is that we are getting attracted and emulating the bad part of other cultures, while those people belonging to other cultures are admiring and adapting the ‘good’ part of our culture!!

Today’s generation have so many options to get  information, knowledge, entertainment. We have the TV, books, Movies, Cell phones and Internet. All these things have been invented for a good cause, but these facilities are being misused and manipulated by some people.

Today’s generation is being manipulated and falling a prey to some of these privileged facilities of this century. We should make sure that these systems are being used for the right cause. Who’s responsibility is this? Is it of the individuals, parents’ or the Government’s, Who’ll keep a close watch on this?? Though we make a hundred thousand laws to prevent the misuse of this facilities, people always commit mistakes!

Now coming to the acid attacks that happened recently…

 Boys and girls have been interacting much more than ever before. They have been studying together, working together, which is undoubtedly a right thing. But bad part of it is…. Guys and girls are developing some unacceptable relations out of these opportunities. They do anything and EVERYTHING in the name of friendship!! Unfortunately the term “FRIENDSHIP” is being misused and abused. Parents are also ignoring such things all in the name of being “Broad-minded” and “open”!! Over a period of time these relations are taking a violent mode and things like these acid attacks are happening. So many such incidents are going unnoticed as they are not so fatal. But such things are definitely creating so many problems in their personal lives. There is a huge outcry… we hold debates on popular news channels, stage dharna’s to say the most popular and sympathetic saying “stop violence against woman”. Would this stop such incidents in future.

These incidents occurred not because of any one incident, they have occurred and evaluated out of over a period of time and can’t stopped by killing defauleters like that. As the presinet of Loksatta party Mr Jayaprkash Narayan rightly said we’ll regret later for what we are doing now. We are creating an unacceptable culture rather than providing a solution.

We do not have to point at a ‘boy’ or ‘girl’. Most of the times there will be mistakes from both sides. I have personally seen girls(even
married women) flirting and doing things of all sorts with boys. The most unfortunate thing was that they were doing it with more than one guy at one point of time, which ultimately led to some unexpected and unfortunate incidents. Everyone of those involved have had to suffer because of the resulting incidents. College campuses, hostels and working places are becoming platforms for such things, where the people have full access to do such things. Movies and TV shows are only helping influence their behaviour.

I am not trying to point out girls only here. My point here is that mistakes are happening from both sides. Parents should keep a close
watch on such relations and strictly warn them whenever they feel that their kids are crossing that thin safety line between friendship and such unacceptable relations.

I read a question and answer column in a news paper recently. One guy was asking a question “Is it not the responsibility of parents to ask their children when they spend most of their time on the phone”?.  He asked this question pointing out girls, but I am more surprised at the editor’s answer..He said, “why should we question girls, why should we stop them spending unusual time on cell phones and chatting”. I felt very sad reading that answer, it’s not like that we should not allow them to talk or chat, yes definitely parents should be strict with children(both girls and boys) when they are spending more time on ‘cell phone’ and ‘chatting’. Should not parents ask their kids when they are going out for late night parties!!?? or should return a blind eye to it all in the name of ‘freedom’. These things will surely have adverse consequences on all of us…but it might be too late by then!

I think it is the responsibility of the individuals, parents, police, law and Governments to stop and prevent such incidents to reccur, but that would not mean killing people in fake encounters!

Let’s wake up and try evaluate a utopia, but not a Taliban rule!!

Praja Rajyam

Mega Star of the silver screen  “Padma Bhushan Chiranjeevi” launched his political party “Praja Rajyam” amid never seen before public tsunami at the footstool of Lord Venkateshwara.

The motive and the aim of his entry into the active politics seems very convincing.

Yes, as President of India  ” Bhart Ratna APJ Abdul Kalam” said there is a need of good human beings in the Indian politics who can do something really good for the people of India.

Now politics have gone from bad to Worse! If we see the recent “cash for Vote” or “MP’s on sale” scam happened in the prestigious Indian Parliament when the “no-confidence motion’ was going on against ruling congress government. It clearly shows where Indian politics are heading…!!!

As the need of the hour, the people’s president Dr.APJ Abdul kalam said, Chiranjeevi announced his political entry by launching his own party “Praja Rajyam” and unvelied his political agenda amid huge gathering of approx 7lakh people.

His views about important issues like “Corruption”, “Medical facilities”, “Education”, “Telangana”, “Naxalism”, “Social Justice”, “Equality”, “Inflation”, “Agriculture”, “Irrigation Projects”, Liqour”, “Middle class people and their sorrows”, “Village Empowerment” look impresive for now.

Now the big thing everyone curious about is how will he implement and what he will do  about all these burning issues. Such issues sound easy to talk at meetings, but when we come to reformation things won’t be as easy as they sound!!!

As we all know that things won’t change all of a sudden. The first thing which needs a change is people’s mind set. If we change ourself, things will improve and ultimately society will change.

Chiranjeevi has got the “larger than life” image and a huge fan following across the state. I wish he improves the total system by changing the people’s mindset.

His party agenda looks impressive as of now, as he said it was his view only. He said that his party will discuss and take decisions once it is formed, on all the key issues.

The Do’s of his agenda are largely dependent on Dont’s.

He should not encourage and enter into CASTE and RELIGION based politics for the sake of the votes as most of the political parties are doing now. He should go by issues only.

He should not let corrupt people join his party. He has larger than life image to attact the voters to cast their votes for him. These nuts are not going to help earn any votes for his party. Infact, they will be benefited by his image. So he should be careful while choosing people for his party.

We wouldn’t mind if Chiranjeevi doesn’t become the CM and gets just about 40 or 50 seats in the assembly, but he should never ever fall a prey to these wrong practices. Beacuse we are here to CHANGE…change for the better!!

1000 fools can’t make a change happen, but One powerful person can make a CHANGE and help create a better society!

Choose the right people even if they are just a handful. Numbers dont really matter now… Going forward people will realise and will follow your footsteps towards a better developed India!

 I sincerely welcome Padmabhushan Chiranjeevi into the active politics to do some thing worthwhile for the people and our country.

I wish him well and hope He is the cornerstone for CHANGE. We will be with you as long as you fullfill your promises and strive for the welfare of people

Let’s welcome this CHANGE and his Praja Rajyam.

Transforming India

 

When I take a trip down the memory lane, I feel oh so nostalgic especially when I think of my school days….

I did my schooling from a Govt School which is located in a small village in Andhra Pradesh, South India. My school, like most other schools there, has children who cannot even afford to buy books and stationery! Wearing proper uniforms to school is like a far-fetched dream for them!

So many bright students in our country are not able to continue their further studies owing to the poor economic conditions. Hence so much talent is going unharnessed and not utilized in especially the villages in our country. If they only could afford to get a little more education, am sure we’d have scores of Abdul Kalams and Narayana Murthys!!

Now that I am working, I thought of doing some thing to help and encourage students from my school in the village.

As a small gesture, I gave away a cash prize of Rs.1000/- and a momento each for two top rankers of class 10 for the 2007 batch of students, on the occassion of Independence Day. I know it is not a big thing, but that surely helped encourage the students in more than one way.. Like

~ Creating a sportive spirit among the students to study hard and get the top ranks
~ Help them buy books(at least) for the next academic year
~ Develop self confidence in the students

When I spoke to the teachers of the school, they really liked the idea and asked me to extend this scheme to all classes if I could with a small amount (Rs.100/- or 200/-).I announced the same to all the students and am looking forward to see whether it creates any impact on the students by the next Independence Day, when we would be distribute the prizes in front of all the students and their parents.

Am sure you must all be wondering why I am beginning my blog with such an article..The reason is…when I shared this idea with one of my friends- Chandra Reddy, he was really impressed and want to implement something similar in his village school immediately.

When we both can do this, we thought, if we only shared this idea with others, then all such like-minded people can do this through a kind of forum, thus extending this help on a wider scale!

We all know…”Little drops of water make an ocean”. So, if anyone of you like this idea, please join us, so that we all together can create a bigger impact by extending our helping hand to more number of students.

You could either do such things on your own or through your parents/siblings.
Please do share ur ideas, views and comments.

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