Ring The Bell – Stop Violence Against Women

 

Following are some the main reasons I would ring the bell.

• If any man is entering ladies compartment in the local transpirations such as Mumbai ladies special trains or just ladies compartment.
• If any man is harassing any lady at the railway platforms, bus stops, malls or any other places.
• I will call CRPF’s helpline number if someone is harassing ladies and if there are many men who are like mob in the local trains, I would call cops secretly to inform them about it.
• If any lady is treated disrespectfully due to domestic violence then I’ll try and get in touch with NGOs or ‘Bell Bajoa’

This is the list of NGOs in Mumbai whom I would request everyone to get in touch if any woman is getting harassed by anyone.

NGOs in India: http://www.mu.ac.in/LIST%20OF%20NGOs%20wdc.pdf

Voice of Women: http://www.naaritoday.com/womensnetwork/ngos/voice%20of%20women.html

Some of the main NGOs where anyone of us can RING THE BELL are listed on the link given below:

NGOS TO ‘Ring the bell’ Violence Against Women

http://www.spuwac.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22&Itemid=42

Important contact numbers for women helpline in Delhi

http://justiceforwomenindia.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/important-helplines-and-contact-numbers-for-delhi/

Important contact numbers for women helpline by Government of Tamilnadu

Toll FREE Number for Tamil Nadu – Women Help Line: 1091 & Child Line: 1098

http://www.tnpolice.gov.in/womenhelpline.html

http://www.tnpolice.gov.in/awpsno.html

-          In Uttar Pradesh – Just call 1090 to ‘Ring the Bell’ for Violence against the women

While doing my research for the Ring the Bell for violence against women I have also come across some great blogs and I would like to share one of them with you. If you are traveling alone in India then please read the below given link and share with all of your fellow man and women friends, family members, co-workers and everyone else.

We all should be thankful for a woman because that’s one of the crucial roots of our existence.

Note: This blog is written for the wonderful initiative IndiChange: Ring The Bell 

Dear Gods Of Cricket, What Is Stopping Mumbai Indians?

If Sachin Tendulkar is a God of Cricket, IPL is overrated

Or is it that Sachin Tendulkar is overrated and over paid just to bring in more fans, remember one of those zoo attractions that forces many to just watch a certain dinosaur or aged tiger perhaps a good old subject of amazement.

Parents talk about such players to their children and show them that this is the man who has been backbone of the so called one of the religions of India, Cricket.

What sort of inspiration is this?

There is a great joy in winning hearts, sometimes you have got to win the games. Team owners and co-related franchisers are spending massively on so called world –class players but deliverable from these players are as good as none.

I feel sorry for the fans and franchise of Mumbai Indians:

Local Indian players:

Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma ,Munaf Patel, Dinesh Karthik, Pragyan Ojha, Ambati Rayudu

International Players:

Ricky Ponting, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Johnson

Why Mumbai Indians are failing?

Sachin Tendulkar: He maybe a world-class player but he is not helping his team by any means by hanging around as an opener. There’s no doubt he’s a crowd puller and many people still are bedazzled his presence. I was never and I will never. Consider that many matches, oh, don’t get me started.

Ricky Ponting:  Punter joined with Mumbai Indians with great reputation but he failed miserably. As a captain he may have to compromise in certain aspects because of past bitter relationship between the Indians vs. The Australian players. Yes, his one handed blinder will be remembered for years. Ricky still seems super fit but it’s high time that he allows his bat to do a bit of talking.

Rohit Sharma: His skills are appreciated just like Mumbai’s Ajit Agarkar and he has got ample of chance to prove his worth but he is just taking his place in side for granted. He has clearly lost his live wire mojo on the field as well as in his batting.

Kieron Pollard: His personality fits very well in the T20 format. Kieron Pollard’s talent his wasted and the Mumbai Indian selection team must be blamed for it.

Dinesh Karthik: He’s scoring and keeping the wickets like never before.

Harbhajan Singh: He easily gets irked by pretty much anything. Sir, you have been dropped from the Indian cricket team but excuse me, best of players have faced it and they have bounced back like true warriors.

Fighting spirit is wrongly defined by aggression such: Throwing back bowl at the wicket keeper even when batter is safely in the crease, mind games? I don’t think so. Harbhajan Singh has behaved erratically internationally and we all know how he behaves in IPL, well of course here we are talking about on filed behavior.

Remember that run out with Ambati Rayudu on non-strike, I mean what was that? Harbhajan has the ability to hit ball out of the ground but Ambati Rayudu is in the Mumbai Indian team for a reason, to score run faster for his team.

What did Harbhajan Singh do, he hesitantly started running when Ambati Rayudu called him for a quick run, the moment Harbhajan found out that it was a risky single he stopped and foxed his team mate, Ambati Rayudu.  What happened then? Well, my first impression was that Ambati Rayudu is gone. I was annoyed but then the drama started puzzling everyone, including 20+ Mumbai Indian fans that were innocently waiting to his their team winning a damn game.

There was a sigh of relief as big giant screen at the ground showed how smartly Ambati Rayudu had crossed Harbhajan Singh and placed his bat at the other side of CREASE, and then it was an easy decision for the 3^rd umpire to give Harbhajan Singh run out.

What was Harbhajan Singh thinking, oh forget thinking bit, he’s not known for that anyway but you know what I mean? And now clearly it seems as if teamwork doesn’t exist anymore in his world.

Lasith Malinga: Slow balls, Yorkers and bouncers but clearly it is not enough, he needs support from his team mates in the field otherwise he has been a backbone for Mumbai Indians.

Let us see who all we have as coaches – mentors OR Baba(s) – whatever you want to term them as:

Fielding Coach: Jonty Rhodes — No comments

Bowling coach: (I don’t know what he does and why is he in Mumbai Indians’ team?) THE Legendary Anil Kumble, err, are you serious? He is the so called master of short-pitch bowling, no turn, but he is known for his lethal flipper, bouncy deliveries and weak fielding but how much of that contribute to team’s morale or forget morale, team’s performance is all I care, right?

Bowling coach is one of the biggest weaknesses. Bowling coach’s primary quality consist aggression, enthusiasm and perhaps also great past record if at all he has any.

Hypothetically speaking if I was in Mumbai Indians I’d prefer someone with a charisma of Shane Warne, Waqar or Walsh, that thought itself about having someone like Alan Donald in my team as a bowling coach would have been great encouragement mentally.  It’s the assurance that bowling coach provides is all I am concerned about, clearly if you ask me as a player I’d hear everything that he says but I’ll definitely will not have any advantage of having him as bowling coach for my team.

I was happy with Shaun Pollock as a bowling coach but there were are, replacing Pollock with the man who seems like his just dragged out of his sleep to coach world-class bowlers to god alone knows what, for Mumbai Indians.

Robin Singh: Assistant Coach (?) No comments

Head Coach – John Wright

Whatever you are doing Mr. Wright, it’s not right. Seems like in spite of having one of the best teams you are clueless about the combination that should be in a playing eleven. As a Mumbai Indian Coach, you have a massive role, yes, nobody needs to remind you that alright but if fans are paying 2000+ to watch their home team perform well, then they have all the rights to question coach’s and entire team management’s roles and responsibilities.

You guys are getting these big back contracts from IPL franchises more because if your respective wins or plays well then fans feel happy.

What could players and team management get if their teams win— meaning what are the perks?

Advertising contracts, Better future endorsements, Lots of Money, Privilege of a Brand Ambassador, IPL Parties and many more

Few things I would have done if I were a coach or a selector:

Out: Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Rohit Sharma, Ricky Ponting

IN: Aiden Blizzard, Dwayne Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Dhawal Kulkarni, Munaf Patel

PS: I am not a Mumbai Indians fan.

Why did the Australians fail in the 1st test of Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2013?

 

Flashback of Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2012—2013 (Australia tour of India)

1^st Test was held at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk

Key contributions:

Australia’s 1^st innings:

• The Australian Captain—Michael Clarke scoring stylish 130 runs from 246 deliveries
• T20 Specialist David Warner scored 59 runs from 93 deliveries
• The young debutant born in Funchal, Portugal(now plays for the Australian Cricket Team, Moises Constantino Henriques also known as Moey by his team mates scored an impressive 68 runs from 132 deliveries.
• And the Australian fire power Peter Siddle batted like sensible player where he managed comfortable 19 runs from staggering 93 deliveries, clearly he made Indian bowlers feel like bunch of ordinary net bowlers.
• Perhaps the legendary Yorkshireman Geoffrey Boycott would have quoted something like, “Even my mom could have got him (Peter Siddle) out in no time.”

Indian Bowlers’ in 1^st Innings:

• Indian off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin singlehandedly damaged the inexperienced Australian battling line up with 7 wickets and gave 103 runs, undoubtedly on spin friendly wicket but still someone has to do and he did it exceptionally well.
• Young medium swing bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar made his test debut for Team India
• India had picked 3 specialists hence Harbhajan Singh was under bowled. Trio of Ravindra Jadeja, Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh bowled 103 over from the innings total 133.

India’s 1^st innings as a batting side:

• Sachin Tendulkar scored fearless 81
• Virat Kohli seemed nervous but he held on to his nerves and scored 107 runs
• Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hammered the Australian bowling attack with massive 224 runs in as many as 265 deliveries, managing a blazing strike rate of 84.52 with (24 fours and 6 gigantic sixes)
• Debutant Bhuvneshwar Kumar played a little cameo of confident 38 runs in 97 deliveries

 

Australia’s 2^nd innings were bundled out in 241 with M Henriques unbeaten 81 runs and Nathan Lyons determined 11 runs from 77 balls.

-          Ashwin took five wickets in the 2^nd innings

India batted again in their 2^nd innings and scored 50 runs while losing 2 openers and won the game

Result: India won the match with by 8 wickets

Man of the match: Chennai Super king Captain and now almost like a local player: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

My Verdict: The Australians managed to bat reasonably but it could have been better if experienced lads like Shane Watson, Phil Hughes and Mathew Wade had scored at least 100 collectively than 46 that is 35+35+30= 100, instead of 28+6+12=46? Failure in batting against the opponents such as Indian team with batters like Shewag, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Pujara, Murli Vijay and Ashwin, Jadeja and Harbhajan all can bat as well.

On a spinning track Michael Clarke just managed 58 over between spinners compared to India 100. Shane Watson was not given a single over in that innings even when Indian batsmen were building big partnerships, why?

The Australian were banking on pacer on a flat wicket and bowled 97 overs amongst quick and medium pacers.

It was unfair for Michael Clarke who stood like a rock-solid wall and posted respectful score on the board.

Rail Budget 2013— “God save my country!”

What did we all miss at the latest 2013 Railway Budget?
-    Foam massage
-    Show throwing activity
-    Slap gate
-    Porn sharing
-    Verbal volleys of abuses from the legendary members
-    And many other fun activities

I liked the women’s security issues which will make commuting safer for them. My knowledge about the overall budget is like asking Sri Lankan Ex-captain Sangakara or Team India’s captain MS Dhoni or Ravi Shastri about what exactly happened during the toss in 2012 Cricket World Cup Final at Mumbai’s Wankhede stadium. Oddly enough I consider myself a person with 20% of awareness about the Rail Budget so feel free to bite me about my views.

Increasing the number of new trains to 67 and 27 passenger trains was a smart move. I was surprised by stability in the railway fare, expert says more because it was done way before the actual budget bearing this might be the last budget by the current ruling party. (Yes I don’t know who’s what really). More trains have been added for the devotees who face massive challenges during the peak seasons.

Good news for women is in every ladies compartment Women RPF personnel will be deployed. This will certainly ease traveling for women across the country, yes, trains are usually jam packed but at least commuting would be safer compared to current situation.
Youth’s demand was taken into consideration in the latest Railway Budget 2013 by promising FREE Wi-Fi in certain trains. On board staff can be contacted by a simple SMS more details will be shared by media people in the next few days, weeks or later in the coming years whenever its implemented, if at all. Railway budget 2013 includes 60 more Adrash stations adding to existing 980 stations. I don’t even know what does ‘Adarsh’ mean? Due to my past horrifying experiences with my name association with ‘Adarsh’ I think it’s another scam but they are just adding it directly into the budget so that no gets hurt. I think they are sweet then, right?

Railway Helpline 1800-111-321 has been set up and god alone knows that for how many minutes that line will work or who will answer and so on? But I think it’s a great idea. Those who like traveling in Rajdhani or Shatabdi Express will get more facilities and there will be a special coached named as ‘Anubhuti’ will have world-class facilities. I don’t even know how they define world-class facilities when a passenger is traveling between Delhi to any other place, considering current state I can’t even imagine what all they may have imagined and considered, phew. I don’t know, man. “God save my country!” Said one of the Bidi smoking members whom I met in the toilet!

A ticket generating technology with the capacity of producing 7200 tickets per minute, by the way the current capacity of the machine used by Indian railway is about 2000 minute as claimed by one of the member who almost spat a juice of pan on my mouth. Would you believe it? 2000 ticket per minute, where are you bro., heaven? E-booking timing will be from 0030 to 2330 which is great but I think nobody will dare to do that considering current downtime of the IRCTC website. Thank god if new timings and website works together.

All A Grade stations will have 179 escalators and lifts for the physically challenged passengers. And ‘Aadhar’ data will be used for the ticketing.

Cherishing The Change

Lots of unusual activities have taken place in the last few months. I missed writing something for myself. This is happening again and again. Ah, here I am again cribbing about the bygones but relax my lovelies I am doing way better and in what context that I’ll leave you to your imagination.

 Besides now I am working with an advertising agency. It is a one of the best thing that has happened to my career. By all means it’s the ultimate place where I always wanted to be. Especially when you work in smaller set up and suddenly after few years or so when life throws a gigantic pie on your face, it is sensible to latch onto it and just keep learning as you go along.

I have heard ‘put your head down and just be there’ and now I understand why I used to come across or perhaps observe this expression a lot in my life. I was curious why people just want to fit-in and not share what they have in their mind. Now I understand what those words actually meant.

Learning by experiencing is something that I strongly believe. And sometimes when you consider twists and turns of life, you’re as good as learning something new every day provided you have insights to see those little important lessons of life.

Like the other day one of my friend crossed the railway tracks for the first time in his life and he was caught by railway police and was fined 500 bucks for it. He was annoyed with himself but following day he realized the importance of the punishment and motto behind those railway laws.

Life is much costlier than 500 or any amount of money you put it. Learning by hard way gives you bittersweet taste of life. I request you my friend never feel daunted when you come across to challenging movements in your life, because these burning days and depressing movements are in our lives to teach us a significant lesson. Those heart burns and ugly fights lead us to something more important — acceptance.

My book is just 8000 words up and I have found few potential publishers as well. After working in corporate now I can tell you one thing for sure, is that books about advertising comes with heard fought emotions. As I say this I meant it takes a lot to experience and learn because the process may seem easy but its bruised affair that makes the world laugh when they read the books about advertising.

I know there are at least six famous celebs who were copywriters before they became famous as a book-writer. Yes, these pioneers are from top-notch places like Ogilvy etc. You see that way I am not far away besides I want to believe that I am a book-writer first and so on. I have stopped watching Cricket and almost every other thing that comes on television because of tight work life. Six days a week. I know there are people who work 18 hours a day but I am getting there so I’ll get back with another post soon with much clearer take perhaps in my upcoming posts.

For now I’ll get back to my research. By the way I want to buy this book ‘Truth in Advertising by John Kenney. It seems fascinating and insanely hilarious book.  To market this book they have used smart ideas by asking people to make videos about it here is where you can see some funny snippet about the book. 

 

What is a SAR Value?

I wanted to buy a new cell phone. I can buy anything manufactured by SONY. My faith about the SONY products can’t be challenged as I have previously used many of its products and by all means I am pleased with them. As I was surfing on the internet about Mobile market I came across to several brands and models with specification

I tried checking details such as brand, model number, SIM compatibility i.e. GSM or something else, Operating system such as Android v4.0 (Ice cream sandwich), CPU I mean, what again, CPU inside the tiny panel of mobile phone, awesome and the processor speed, where higher the figure better the speed.

Other significant features such as display, primary and secondary camera, resolution, digital zoom, screen support system, video recording, music player’s format, video playback format, GPRS and EDGE Speed, WLAN, 2G, 3G Network, USB, Bluetooth, Internal, external and expandable memory, various kinds of messaging such as MMS, Emails, Push mail and Instant Messaging, Radio, Browser, GPS, Stand by time, Battery Type, Talk Time, dimensions, weight and most importantly price in the market.

Now besides everything one thing that is not clearly communicated to mobile users by the reviewers and mobile companies is that how the technology of a particular mobile device affects health of customers and environment. Unfortunately barely few mobile users are aware about the consequences that technology of mobile causes. You want Android phone with latest applications with all sorts of social networking sites such as Twitter. Facebook, Skype, Blogger, YouTube, Whats-app and many more but if you want to keep up with the world, you better be prepared to tackle the ill-effects of cheap mobile devices.

Have you ever heard about SAR Value? Do you know what does SAR Value mean? SAR is an abbreviation for specific absorption rate. SAR detonates signs about the radiation that a particular mobile user’s head absorbs when they use mobile phones. SAR Detail is a measurement that calculates harmful radiation generated by mobile phones. Therefore, it is essential to understand and know more details about SAR Values because that’s an imperative feature not educated by the mobile manufacturer to mobile users.

SAR Value is calculated in a way where higher rating denotes danger zone for the mobile users. SAR Values are identified as per units of watts per kilogram.  I was not aware about SAR Value so thought of sharing with my dear readers. You may share the details with your friends and spread the awareness.

Information Source: SAR Values

Slap Trance!

Challenges of life opened a whole new world to me. I miss writing but I am working on a grand writing project and quite honestly I have never felt this way about my life. It has been more than a decade that my plan of writing a book is swinging back and forth in my mind. There was an attempt to write the book in the early 2000 but I think it was way too immature, the plot of the book and the command over the language was poor but a start is the most essential thing so I have no regrets. The whole thing somehow didn’t turn out as expected and in fact later it slowly slipped out of my focus, which certainly was tragic.

After a decade of work experience in a wide variety of businesses and markets I finally started writing on game reviews, corporate cultures, sports and about relationships as a freelancer, which allowed me to explore wide array of topics. This was the time where my writing skills were challenged and then research became an imminent part of my life. Following my deep passion I have invested large part of my life in traveling and reading (books & circumstances) and for me those were and still they are the ultimate fascinations of my life.

My interest in writing crept on high during the school, quite clearly in an unusual way as education from school mostly seemed torturous to me. Most of the teachers had given up on me except my Sports and English teacher. Now I understand that there was a bittersweet intention behind those frightening slaps and other punishments that I scored in school. Usually people score good marks and good grade but my life had different plans.

Those two teachers wanted to shape my life for a longer run but as a kid other elements of school such as forced upon knowledge of irrelevant subjects that didn’t interest my passion, it somehow blinded me about my future. I liked sports and English class. I preferred sports because it had a lot to do with running, jumping and besides it kept me away from the boredom of the classroom. English classes because I love stories that my teacher used to read while my back against the class, knelt down maybe because of some stupid childish thing.

I mean from your experience how many kids whom you knew had any ambitions in their school days, not many, right? In my generation kids just went to schools and the rich and unfortunate ones went to all sorts of tuition to achieve better grades, which seemed pointless to me as same thing which was taught in the school were taught by the same teachers privately. Brilliant! Corruption! This ploy of students and teachers didn’t bother me much and in fact it had rather confused me more about the education system and other mean ways practiced by teachers. There’s no generalization here this is what I think so relax, flush out your insights, this is more of my take so please excuse me and enjoy the blog.

I miss those two teachers, who had more often than not ensured that I get back on the track by grasping some meaningful education to lead a respectful life and to have better insights and understanding of life. Now after almost two decades I cherish those thundering slaps, which are now unforgettable and precious memory of my life and perhaps theirs as well. I am still not one of those students who talks great deal about their school memories but then certain phases that seemed awful back then now seem as glorious days of my life. Alice Cooper’s song— School out of summer is what I am listening right now and wondering how time spins our emotions at different circumstances of life…

Thank you!