मेरी वोह कैसी होगी – meree woh kaisee hogee February 28, 2006

मेरी वोह कैसी होगी

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किसी को खबर होगी,

कोइ तो बताओ,

मेरी वोह कैसी होगी,

कैसी है कँहा होगी

 

दिखती वोह होगी कैसी,

बोलती होगी खट्टी-मिठी,

हसती होगी सासे लेके,

चल्ती होगी सर झुका के,

पढ्ती होगी राते लगा के

 

दिखती होगी परी जैसी,

नाक थोडी लम्बी मोटी,

आँखे उसकी होगी काली,

काले घने लम्बे बाल,

दिम्पल बाली चौडे गाल

 

गुलाबी उसके होंट पे होंगे

बर्फ़ ने दि होंगे रंगे,

जल्ती दिया जैसे सौम्य,

घने बादल बरस्ते बाल,

ह्र्दय होगे बडे बिशाल,

धिरज दी होगी धर्ती,

हवाँ से बाते करती होगी,

चाँद ने कि होगी सर्मिन्दगी,

हिम्सिखर जितनी होगी लम्बै,

सागर जितनी मन हो गहरी,

मेरी वोह कैसी होगी,

मेरी वोह कैसी होगी !!!

 

राम मनोहर

25-Feb-2006

Kosmix: Desi Pride February 25, 2006

Another big challenge to Google. More than MicroSoft, kosmix is trying to touch sensitive area of google. Web search business. Yes, kosmix, which claim to have different search engine than google is in fact little different from google. I tried for around 15 min yesterday. As they claim, search was really crisp; all the search result link were very much relevant. kosmix claim to have more understanding of users behaviour. Most of the users do not go beyound first page of result. Even if they donot find result on first page, users prefer to resubmit search with different keyword. Thus google multi page, 1000s of suggested links becomes useless. Also, the search logic is little different. than Google . kosmix search pages on the content basis, beyond links pointing web pages, as done by google.
  But i want to say to kosmix, curbing search results and decreasing number of results, do not make it closer to users. kosmix claim, even if user do not go beyound first page result, I think google is not loosing any thing. But kosmix may loose serious users who like to go beyond first page result. Curbing on the number of results may sometime restrict some of good links from suggested link.
  

About my preference, I like google, and simply a great fan of it. I have explored a number of ways on googling. Atleast buy now, I can claim I know more methods of searching, than claimed on goolge page. Donot be confused, I don’t submit more queries, or I have magic words, and neither do I know how to hack google. It is only practice that had made me more professional in extracting much relevent informtion on relevent times. For example you cannot submit simple search when you want current information about any company, submit search on News category. Here you will get current information , may be just an hour old news about company, which is more relevant and current. Try this before going to some company interview. Like this there are many other ways. Hope in some discussion, we will explore some of the googling techniques…………. And this is the main reason where google will have lead over kosmix. yes, u guessed, kosmix donot have news, or blog or image etc category. If you haven’t tried more option than simple search in google, than I suggest you to try some more also.
 

Yes more important and excitement about http://kosmix.com/. I donot want to miss this. kosmix is the brain child of Indian, mallu. Venky Harinarayan, Founder has exp in amazon.com. Another founder is Anand Rajaraman, again from Amazon. There are 3  Indian out of 4 people in management broad. Great pride for Indian.
 

My best wishes for Kosmix.
http://kosmix.com/

Ram Manohar

Nasa World Wind February 25, 2006

 

Google should by now start thinking about competitors. Microsoftware will take a breath now.  For time being MS will be more than happy with the news that some of the google domain area is being challenged by other players.
In the last two days I have came across two applications which can challenge google dominance. Nasa World Wind and kosmix are the two words in this series. I will talk about NWW here. Kosmix we will discuss in next section.
  Nasa World Wind(NWW) is substitute of Google Earth(GE), a software application to navigate world on finger tips. GE when released almost a year back made a really big impression on users. People were more than happy to see their building’s top on world net. Some people started locating their gali and nukad.
  GE also had to face some wrath from Govt Agencies from White house to Red flag Dragon. Indian Govt too managed to remove some sensitive images from GM satellite map.
  NWW is a step ahead in Earth locating and browsing. They offer a lot type of images from different satellites. You have to select the satellite type before browsing. Picture quality is fantastic. What I liked was the horizontal inclination, means seeing the earth horizontal perspective as if seeing earth from a TV tower rather than a satellite. Truly 3D.  Another wonderful feature was more than earth. Guess what ??? Yes.. beyond earth, you can even browse on moon surface. Certainly more than GE. In the short period(about 10 min) of my browsing , NWW really impressed me.
 But NWW has to improve on certain account. NWW focus more on geography rather than human habitation. So no point of wasting your time on finding your car in the parking plot. Second was, even though their quality of image is good , but only upto certain height. You cannot zoom much closer to your school building or play ground area.
 Hope NWW will make a great improvement and reach a new height of success.
My best wishes for NWW.
 http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

Ram Manohar

हमको आगे चलना होगा ! – hamako aage chalanaa hogaa ! February 21, 2006

हमको आगे चलना होगा

मेरी इस द्वेस को समझो,

दु:ख भरी इस भेष को समझो,

कल तक मैने तुझे माना था,

आज तुझे अब जाना है

 

मेरी ऐसी कोइ अभिलाषा न थी,

पाने की भी कोइ लाल्सा न थी,

पर खोना भी नहीं चाहते थे,

मन मे यही बडी उल्झन थी,

मन मे यही बडी उल्झन थी

 

देखा था बहुत सपना मैने,

खोना नहीं तुझे सोचा मैने,

रोना नही जब हो न तेरा साथ,

डरना नही जब हो न तेरा हाथ

 

पीछे नहीं अब लौटन मुझे,

आगे की अब सोच्ना है मुझे,

कल की वह बात थी सम्झो,

आज की इस हाल को सम्झो,

समय की इस काल को सम्झो,

बदले हुवे इस ताल को सम्झो,

सबके सामने है मजबुरी,

आगे रास्ता मे है मुस्किल पडीं

 

होगी तेरी भी कोइ मजबुरी,

बढाई होगी जो तुम्ने दुरी,

तुम्हारी भी कोइ आशा होगी,

तभी कमजोंड पडीं यह आस्था होगी,

दुर किया होगा तब यह रास्ता,

नहीं मिलने की अब होगी वास्ता

 

तुने भी तो कुछ सोचा होगा,

ईश्वर को कुछ पुछा होगा,

कैसा मेरा जीवन होगा,

जबाब तुझे कुछ मिला होगा,

 

आँखो के ये आंसू पोछो,

दर्द भरे ये बासु सम्झो,

हमको आगे चलना होगा,

हमको आगे चलना होगा

 

राम मनोहर साह 21 Feb 2006    

 

Socimetrol February 19, 2006

Socimetrol =>  soci(eta)l + metro  

Since Delhi metro started is operation in Dec-2002, it has not seen it back. The success story has just multiplied day by day. The acceptance of Delhi Metro as mass commuter has increased many fold. People have started experiencing the so called world call transportation system. With the given pace, we can expect, after some decade, to replace the existing suffocating old railway too. The rolling metro has also started pulling us toward citizen of tomorrow’s “Socimetrol” society. Lets being with some story behind this blog idea.     Yesterday I was on the way to habitat center from hostel. Driver didn’t have clear idea about the road map. So he preferred to take us along the ring road instead of some short known to some one. This was not the fist time I was peeping trhough the window of the bus. Some other friends were also traveling . One of our friend suddenly discovered a white building, very nice, well maintained, looking like maharaja palace. He got to know that it is Delhi Vidhan sabha. Traveling in a reserved bus with your friend is very interesting, that is what I feel. And if you are in the ring road around ITO, ISBT then you get to see a lot of greenery around. Yamuna along the ring road magnifies the excitement. One of the most green and beautiful place is RajGhat, the place where mortal remains of Mahatma Gandhi were cremated. Looking such a magnificent place, one among us the name of the place. And other asked about the importance of the place. After that series of name suggestions started pouring. Rajghat- Mahatma Gandhi?? Vijayghat Mahatma_ghandhi?? Rajghat-Indira Ghandi, Rajeev Ghandhi?? Different ideas came. And then came a billboard stating Rajghat as Mahatma Ghandhi Samadhi.   These are only some of the trailers of future time that next generation is going see. There is no point of blaming the next generation for (literally) what they will not be able to apprehend. It is the current generation digging tunnel for them to pass through it. No freedom to think “where else there can be possibility”. Only making them focus on the destination, no time to peep outside window.

  Not only Vidhan Sabha and Rajghat, but there are a lot many thing which next generation will be able to find it. Indian Train transient market will be one of them. a old man with a aluminium tea kettle saying “Garma garam Chai“; a young boy crying ” Chana, Chana, Timepass, Timepass“; next one with lalus clay pot  “Coffee, Coffee“, and garm chat-pat, nau masala, barah(12) swada wala “Jhal Murhee, Jhal Murhi” will be forgotton voices altogether. Book stores and Magazine wala will find some other route for there survival. One of the most down to earth song of bollywood, Big B’s turning point lyrics “Shaari Duniya aa bojh hum oothatey hai” will have to go through DJ remix to find old place. A new society in metro culture will then discuss “Socimetrol“.
Delhi metro is different from its counter part in India in different ways. (Kolkata metro is almost same as Delhi metro). Metros are generally operating few hundred feet below underground. You will hardly get lights passing through the tunnel. People rushing for accelerator; Billboards and Advertising banners out side to peep; Dark looming most of the time, on plateform and on the way. And a special voice accompanying you “Please mind the gap”; “aagla station chauwri bazar hai”; “aapna saman leyjana na bholey”; “Thank you”. These monotonous voice accompanying you through one directional (I will prefer to say directional less) journey. No ease , no west, no south, no north.
  

New social norms will be evolved, new economic model will be developed, new breed of culture will be accepted. At this junction of time Old people will wonder, where has the directionless tunnel led the next generation to ??
 
Dictionary::
societal->Relating to human society and its members
metro->An electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)  Please send your comments.   Ram Manohar      

 

 

 

 

भैंस छैं केक्कर – Bhais Chhai kekkar February 19, 2006

भैंस छैं केक्कर -मैथली  

 

देश हैइ हमर, भैंस छैं केक्कर,

ई अपन खेत है केक्कर,

खेल्ली कुदली पढली ईहा पर,

गाई चरैली पोखरी मुहार पर,

आई पुछैछैं, हम कँहा के,

कोइ त पुछीऔ, ऊ छैं कहाँ के

 

बान्ध बनैली, खेत जोतैछी,

माँथ पर कपडा, टोकरी चढैली,

शुखल माइट मे, पानी पटैली,

दुन्नु हातसे ख्रुर्पी चलैली,

तब जा के हम धान कटैली,

आई पुछैछैं, हम कँहा के,

कोइ त पुछीऔ, ऊ छैं कहाँ के

 

जाता चला के रोटी पकैली,

भात पशैली, नुन मिलैंली,

तब जा के ई घर बनैली,

आई पुछैछैं, हम कँहा के,

कोइ त पुछीऔ, ऊ छैं कहाँ के

 

आरी बनैलि, बाट बनैली,

बैल लगाके, गरी चलैली,

ईटा पथ्थर खोइजके लैली,

घर बनैली, खपडां चढैंली,

तब जा के ई गाँम बनैली,

आई पुछैछैं, हम कँहा के,

कोइ त पुछीऔ, ऊ छैं कहाँ के

 

 

राम मनोहर साह

19th Feb, 2006

सबाल तो बहुत है February 17, 2006

सबाल तो बहुत है, पर हल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

कहाँ मिलेगी रास्ता, जब मंजिल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

क्यॊ है ऎसी बॆचैनी, जवाब मुझॆ मिला नहीं,

क्या है जो मुझॆ कुछ करना, जो मै नहीं कर रहा,

क्या है जिस से मुझॆ लड्ना है, कोइ मुझॆ दिखा नहीं

सबाल तो बहुत है, पर हल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

कहाँ मिलेगी रास्ता, जब मंजिल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

क्यॊ है ऎसी बॆचैनी, जवाब मुझॆ मिला नहीं,

क्या है जो मै कर रहा हू,

क्या है जो मुझॆ करना है,

क्या है जो मुझॆ करना चाहिये,

कुछ भी मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं

सबाल तो बहुत है, पर हल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

कहाँ मिलेगी रास्ता, जब मंजिल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

क्यॊ है ऎसी बॆचैनी, जवाब मुझॆ मिला नहीं,

क्या है जो वो बोल रहा, और मैने सुना नहीं

क्या है जिन्दगी सोच रखा,

क्या मुझॆ रोक रहा,

क्या मुझॆ थाम रहा,

कुछ मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं

सबाल तो बहुत है, पर हल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

कहाँ मिलेगी रास्ता, जब मंजिल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

क्यॊ है ऎसी बॆचैनी, जवाब मुझॆ मिला नहीं,

कौन मेरे साथ है, बोल रह क्या बात है वोह,

क्या है उसका इशारा, समझन नहीं आ रहा,

क्या है सामने पडा हुआ, जो मुझॆ दिख नहीं रहा

सबाल तो बहुत है, पर हल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

कहाँ मिलेगी रास्ता, जब मंजिल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

क्यॊ है ऎसी बॆचैनी, जवाब मुझॆ मिला नहीं,

क्या है ऐसी जिन्दगी, कि दर भी नहीं, और खुशी भी नहीं,

क्या है यह राज, जो सामने पडा पर खुली नहीं

पकडी हुइ है बाहे, पर खुली नहीं है राहे,

खुली हुइ है आँखॆ, पर काली भरी है आगे

सबाल तो बहुत है, पर हल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

कहाँ मिलेगी रास्ता, जब मंजिल मुझॆ पत्ता नहीं,

क्यॊ है ऎसी बॆचैनी, जवाब मुझॆ मिला नहीं

राम मनोहर साह

17th Feb, 2006

Heritage of ‘Ctrl + C’ & ‘Ctrl + V’ February 15, 2006

 

“Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V” is quite common practice in Indian glamorous intellectual. If the success story of Indian brand in Foreign places is to be considered, “Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V” has played a major roll. Do you know India for the first time had its trade surplus, Why ?? Guess:). Ans is  Due to “Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V”.  Yes, if today’s Indian Software market is to be seen, then “Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V” have helped our software developer immensely. Young, dynamic, brilliant, intelligent developer inside IT industry knows how to use “Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V” efficiently and effectively (another phrase in B-school). Yes, popular Quote goes “Work smart, not hard“. I have always been fan of “Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V”, since the day I touched keyboard.  When did I start using keyboard??? Any guesses!!! 2nd semester. But you will wonder how? Any guess, Copy paste (smart answer??).  When we had assignment for our C programs, only some of the fandu guys can crack the problems. Rest people (like us) use to do smart work. Copy the program on your hard disk, and start changing the Variables & Functions names (and if required change some logic as well). And your smart work is over. This smart work paid off till we passed of our college.

         Do you think, only Computer Guys can do smart work??? Then you are wrong. We inculcated this culture from first semester of college. Only the form was different. We had engineering drawing practical session compulsory for all Engg student (irrespective of the branch). Then we inherited the culture of TOPO (in some colleges it is known as topa or what ever u say). Again a fundu guy does hard work drawing sheet, rest will make sketch of it. I think topo is the short for topology (wordweb definition of topology: The branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions).

   But thinking back to school days (or even in the college, we called it as chothaa in RECD), we find that, topo idea was just a extension of copying notebook.

 Observing carefully, we see that, each one of us, till college life, have tried to do their work smartly, and off course by bringing different methodology in their core competency( drawing for Mech Engg, Coding for Comp Engg, hand written assignment for all of us).

 What do you think, people stops smart working after engineering. Hmmm… no no donot think so, they are so brilliant, how can B-school grads do it ?( Even if they want, How can they?) Their core competency is said to be in PowerPoint presentation. Well I do not want to answer it. Ask some B-grads to give a presentation on this topic, and find it your self.

 But the bottom line, is “Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V” culture only with software people, or Engg grade, or in secondary school. I think it is more to do with Indian mind set. Have anyone thought, why we are not able to develop products in IT sector (in which we pat our self). It is more to do with “Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V” mentality. We understand how to manage their source codes, but we don’t develop or suggest our model to suit their application. We feel easy in copying their model and suggesting on the similar line. That is why I think, we are best in application maintenance rather than product development. Only due to “Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V” mentality, I will say, we are more confident in copy concatenating western culture too (a very controversial topic, will discuss some other day).

We need to change the “Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V” psychology, if we want India to be the leader (as B-schools inspire us to be) country in world, because, follower cannot inculcate leadership quality.

Enjoy

And send ur comment.

Indian Language Word Processor February 15, 2006

 

Baraha is a very good piece of Resource for Indian User.  You can change text to Image ( *.bmp or other) format too.

 Baraha – Free Indian Language Software

 Freee download link http://www.baraha.com/ 

Enjoy.

ओ खाली मुँह देखै छै – O Khhali Muh Dekhai Chhai February 14, 2006

 

 

 

 I was not too late by nepali standard time… Just an hour late. Play was scheduled to start at 6:30 pm and I reached at 7:30 pm. Not to say I was not too late( what I feeled after reaching there). But my intention was not to follow so called nepali standard time. You can leave nepali watch and nepali time in nepal, but you cannot leave behind nepali culture and nepali people. We( me and Prashanna Jii) planned to leave our hostel by 6:00 pm in morning. Half an hour is quite enough time(thanx to delhi metro) to reach mandi house from maal road( Delhi University North campus). Though unintentional, I reached hostel at 6:15 pm. But Prashanna jii had some nepalese guest with him, to take care of.  Ya … i haven’t told you my reason of being late. PPT the term that all B-school grads hate to listen, but cannot go away with. I had (a swap) PPT of a bank from 4pm , which lasted for 2 hour. Now you will wonder swap !!!!! You are exchanging your PPT timing with some other person ( donot ask why ??? ).

Now the main thing, “O Khhali Muh Dekhai Chhai” a maithil (adjective of Mithila) play. There are very few instances when you get to hear about maithili Drama. “O Khhali Muh Dekhai Chhai” (translation not exactly: He is looking blank face) is the story about a girl’s value in “Dowry” driven society.  There is a girl named SITA ( named after mithila’s well known daughter, Lord RAM’s Wife SITA). Sita is MA pass, but greedy society do not care of it. Her father couldn’t manage to find any suitable engagement for her. At one instance, he is demanded more than he can afford, and at another place the boy was not a good match. Her father even didnot manage to get loan from closest people. Suddenly snake bits her one day in her vegetable garden. When she rushs to her father and explain it, her father knowingly deny it by saying, it was frog, not snake. The dialogue goes as

Sita:” Baba babu, dekhho na, paair may kitchoo kait layla ka, humra lagai hai ki saap chalaha”

father: “nai nai beng chalaowa”

S: “Ab paair sunn bhagayl, khoon sayhoo niklala”

F: “Bengo kay katla sa sunn bhajai chai, aa khoon say hoo aabai chai”

S: ” Nai oota saapay chalai ya”

F: “Tohra kiya lagai chau oona? ooh ta beng rahalai ya”

S: “Paair may laptagayl chhaala”

F: ” Bengo laptajae chhai, Jo Jo shuit rah”

Transalation:

Sita: ” Dad dad, look, some thing have bitten in my leg, i think it was snake”

father: ” no no it was frog”

S: ” leg has became senseless, blood also came”

F: ” Even frog biting make it senseless, and blood also comes out”

S: ” No dad, It was snake”

F: “Why do you feel like i was snake”

S: ” it encircled my leg”

F: ” Frog too encircle on leg, go sleep”
But by the time his sense wakes him up, it was late. On seeing her daughter in fire, he looses his mental order. He start thinking that all the bride is SITA. So he unveils whoever comes near him, and utters ” she is my SITA”. But from Where will SITA comes now????

   After program gets over, as usual, every one started to share there part of credit (Not a bad idea any how, as long as it is motivating them). I started to find out peoples on stage. Anyhow, they are from my heart land, Janakpur( once kingdom of Mithila). Shared many views with the people. Some even expressed the desire to scaleup the Mithila Natak activities in the Indian Metros ( where Maithils are highly migrated). I too added(my part of gas) on the discussion, why cannot we think of taking progarms to cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Banglore. Many successful maithils are located in those cities( I donot say that maithils in other cities have not succeed).

The program was a huse success, Sri Ram Kala Kendra Auditorium was full (Some people even managing seat on carpet). A lot of clapping and offcourse some emotional silence among audience. There were equal proportion of women too.

Ya , one point just rememberd and I want to mention it here. Among the artist, one performing girl was non-maithili speaker. Quite amazing, isn’t it? Me too amazed. This fact is very important to the people who understand Nepalease social structure.

 

Do write me, how was it???

Enjoy.