Money Lessons from a decade of disappointment can help avoid pitfalls in future

Money Lessons from a decade of disappointment can help avoid pitfalls in future

The best and worst investing trends from the past 10 years, and what they taught us

1. The price something used to be is irrelevant.
2. Have a portfolio that doesnot keep you awake at night.
3. Beware the phrase "relative value".
4. Have the courage of your conviction.
5. There is no substitute to saving.
6. Never confuse a trade with an investment.
7. Daily headlines are less important that long term tred.
8. You cannot time the market perfectly but you can usually value it accurately.
9. Take expert forecasts with a grain of salt.
10. You have to stay in the game.
11. Never confuse the unlikely with the impossible.

From THE WALL STREE JOURNAL Thank you.

Beauty of Maths!

Beauty of Maths!

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn't it?

And look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321

111111111 x 111111111=123456789 87654321

Now, take a look at this...

101%

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:

What Equals 100%?

What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been in situations where someone wants you to

GIVE OVER 100%.

How about ACHIEVING 101%?

What equals 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help answer these questions:

If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

If:

H-A-R-D-W-O- R- K

8+1+18+4+23+ 15+18+11 = 98%

And:

K-N-O-W-L-E- D-G-E

11+14+15+23+ 12+5+4+7+ 5 = 96%

But:

A-T-T-I-T-U- D-E

1+20+20+9+20+ 21+4+5 = 100%

THEN, look how far the love of God will take you:

L-O-V-E-O-F- G-O-D

12+15+22+5+15+ 6+7+15+4 = 101%

Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that:

While Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, It's the Love of God that will put you over the top!

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MGR Movies – Complete List (1936-1978)

Thirties...
1 1936 Sathi Leelavathi /Manorama Films, Ellis R.Dungan
2 1936 Iru Sahothararkal / Parameswari Sound Pictures, Ellis R.Dungan
3 1938 Thadcha Yagnam / Metropolitan Pictures, Raja Chandrasekhar
4 1938 Veera Jegatheesh / V.S.Talkies, TP.Kailasam-R.Prakash
5 1939 Maaya Machendrar / Metropolitan Pictures, Raja Chandrasekha
6 1939 Prahalaatha / Salem Sankar Films, B.N.Rao
Forties..
7 1941 Ashokumar / Murugan Talkies Film Company, Raja Chandrasekhar
8 1941 Vethawathi or Seetha Jananam / Shyamala Pictures, T.R.Ragunath
9 1942 Thamil Ariyum Perumal / Uma Pictures, T.R.Ragunath
10 1943 Thaasi Penn or Jothi Malar/ Puvaneswari Pictures, Ellis R.Dungan
11 1943 Arichandra / Sri Rajarajeswari Film Company, Nagapushanam
12 1945 Meera / Chandraprabha Cinetone, Ellis R.Dungan
13 1945 Saalivaahanan / Bhaskar Pictures, B.N.Rao
14 1946 Sri Murugan / Jupiter, M.Somasundaram-V.S.Narayan
15 1947 Paithiyakaaran / N.S.K.Films, Krishnan-Panju
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDXRkd0uhAo&t=1117s
16 1947 Rajakumari / Jupiter, A.S.A.Sami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6w6Zgwik20
17 1948 Abhimanyu / Jupiter, A.S.A.Sami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Zl_yQYztg
18 1948 Mohini / Jupiter, Lanka Sathyam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1jcvwTvDrU
19 1948 Raja Mukthi / Narendra Pictures, Raja Chandrasekhar
20 1949 Ratnakumar / Murugan Talkies Film Company, Krishnan-Panju
Fifties...
21 1950 Manthiri Kumari / Modern Theatres, T.R.Sundaram- Ellis R.Dungan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MfSPsiL0nE
22 1950 Marutha Naatu Ilavarasi / G.Govindan and Co
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su-2-u4uU1E&t=4373s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqyk70qBBMU
23 1951 Marma Yogi /Jupiter, K.Ramnath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9zSRRtVqMY
24 1951 Ektha Raaja in Hindi/dubbed
25 1951 Sarvaadhikaari / Modern Theatres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVz8jdNwkpo
26 1951 Sarvaadhikaari in Telugu/dubbed
27 1952 Andamaan Kaithi / Radhakrishna Films, V.Krishnan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8LrsWTFux8
28 1952 En Thangai / Asoka Pictures, C.L.Narayanamurthy-M.K.R.Nambiar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83rRTzetlQ4
29 1952 Kumaari / R.Padmanabhan-Rajeswari, R.Padmanabhan
30 1953 Genoa / Chandra Pictures, F.Nagoor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkuMCsd-Rsw
31 1953 Genoa ; in Malayalam/dubbed
32 1953 Naam / Jupiter-Mekala, A.Kasilingam
33 1953 Panakkaari / Uma Pictures, K.S.Gopalakrishnan
34 1954 Koondu Kili (1954)/ R.R.Pictures, T.R.Ramanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcSP1ymVztc
35 1954 Malai Kallan (1954)/ Pakshiraja, S.M.Sriramulu Naidu
36 1955 Guleba Kaavali (1955)/ R.R.Pictures, T.R..Ramanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-TS3N25ESE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLHqcbB4oDo&t=5184s
37 1956 Alibaabavum Naarpathu Thirudarkalum / Modern Theatres, T.R.Sundaram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPTOdCYEVME&t=5064s
38 1956 Madurai Veeran / Krishna Pictures, Yoganand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KCipr9ly0M&t=6s
39 1956 Thaaiku Pin Thaaram / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6gQ3YQiSYg
40 1957 Sakravarthi Thirumagal / Uma Pictures, P.Neelakandan video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y350OGW5r0&t=6076s
41 1957 Maha Devi / Sri Ganesh Movietone, Sundar Rao Nadkarni
42 1957 Puthumai Piththan / Sivakami Pictures, T.R.Ramanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCMHxJMUj9I&t=5729s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOc-ChJ47Wk
43 1957 Raja Rajan / Neela Productions, T.V.Sundaram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKeLSXDkBRE
44 1958 Nadodi Mannan / M.G..R.Pictures, MGR
45 1959 Thaai Magalukku Kattiya Thaali / Kalpana Kala Mandhir, R.R.Chandran
Sixties...
46 1960 Baghdad Thirudan / Southern Movies, T.P.Sundaram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg9WCTxE1t4
47 1960 Mannaathi Mannan / Nadesh Art Pictures, M.Nadesan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRrNRJnrsZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsKHQlNv-p0
48 1960 Raja Desingu / Krishna Pictures, T.R.Ragunath
49 1961 Arasilankumari / Jupiter, A.S.A.Sami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNe-hJjid4w
50 1961 Nallavan Vaalvaan / Arasu Pictures, P.Neelakandan
51 1961 Sabash Maapillai / Ragavan Productions, S.Ragavan
52 1961 Thaai Sollai Thattathey / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
53 1961 Thirudathey / A.L.S.., P.Neelakandan video
54 1962 Kudumba Thalaivan / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZY65rRfP04
55 1962 Maada Pura / P.V.N.Productions, S.A.Subburaman
56 1962 Paasam / R.R.Pictures, T.R.Ramanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02UWdzWv5MI
57 1962 Rani Samyukthaa / Saraswathy Pictures, Yoganand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0bqBsz16zQ
58 1962 Thaayai Kaatha Thanayan / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8jmj7vBHso
59 1962 Vikramaadhithan / Bharat Productions, T.R.Ragunath-N.S.Ramdhas
60 1963 Anantha Jothi / Hariharan Films (P.S..V.), V.N.Reddy
62 1963 Tharmam Thalai Kaakum / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyKcnUIeW_M
63 1963 Kalai Arasi / Sarodi Brothers, A.Kasilingam
64 1963 Kaanchi Thalaivan / Mekala Pictures, A.Kasilingam
65 1963 Koduthu Vaithaval / E.V.R.Pictures, P.Neelakandan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5yPOc5PZAw
66 1963 Neethiku Pin Paasam / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMpquHYFw-8
67 1963 Pana Thottam / Saravana Films, K.Sankar
68 1963 Parisu / Gowri Pictures, Yoganand
69 1963 Periya Idathu Penn / R.R.Pictures, T.R.Ramanna
70 1964 Theiva Thaai / Sathya Movies, P.Madhavan
70 1964 En Kadamai / Nadesh Art Pictures, M.Nadesan
71 1964 Padahotti / Saravana Films, T.Prakash Rao
72 1964 Panakkara Kudumbam / R.R.Pictures, T.R.Ramanna
73 1964 Thaayin Madiyil / Annai Films, Adurthi Subba Rao
74 1964 Tholilaali / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-8vX9CRwak
75 1964 Vettaikkaaran / Devar Films, M.A..Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4UyBiNMed8
76 1964 Aasai Mugam / Mohan Productions, P.Pulliah
77 1965 Aayirathil Oruvan / Padmini Pictures, B.RPanthulu
78 1965 Enga Veetu Pillai / Vijaya Combines Productions, Sanakya
79 1965 Kalankarai Vilakkam / Saravana Films, K.Sankar
80 1965 Kanni Thaai / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Gho9ONCjs
81 1965 Panam Padaithavan / R.R.Pictures, T.R.Ramanna
82 1965 Thaalam Poo / Sri Bala Murugan Films, S.Ramadas
83 1966 Anbe Vaa / AVM, A.C.Tirulokachandar
84 1966 Naan Aanaiyittaal / Sathya Movies, Sanakya
85 1966 Muharaasi / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMIXu6NkK6M
86 1966 Naadodi / Padmini Pictures, B.R.Panthulu video
87 1966 Chandrothayam / Saravana Films, K.Sankar
88 1966 Parakkum Paavai / R.R.Pictures, T.R.Ramanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6K2G_laOtw
89 1966 Petraal Thaan Pillaiyaa? / Sri Muthukumaran Pictures, Krishnan-Panchu
90 1966 Thaali Paakiyam / Varalakshmy Pictures, K.B.Nagabhushanam
91 1966 Thani Piravi / Devar Films, N.S.Varma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpHFycJuPqI
92 1967 Arasa Kattalai / Satyaraja Pictures, M.G.Chakrapani
93 1967 Kaavalkaaran / Sathya Movies, P.Neelakandan
94 1967 Thaaiku Thalaimagan / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnVudk5ytsg
95 1967 Vivasaayi / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9csQxb5N8
96 1967 Rahasiya Police 115 / Padmini Pictures, B.R.Panthulu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6712cdOfj8
97 1968 Ther Thiruvizah / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8x6PoCQE7s
98 1968 Kudiyiruntha Koyil / Saravana Screens, K.Sankar
99 1968 Kannan En Kaathalan / Sathya Movies, P..Neelakandan
100 1968 Oli Vilakku / Gemini, Sanakya
101 1968 Kanavan / Valli Films, P.Neelakandan
102 1968 Puthiya Bhoomi / J.R.Movies, Sanakya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW6v50Vppbo
103 1968 Kaathal Vaahanam / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N-V8JAKSI0
104 1969 Adimai Penn / M.G.R.Pictures, K.Sankar
105 1969 Nam Naadu / Vijaya International, Jambu
Seventies...
106 1970 Maatukaara Velan / Jayanthi Films, P.Neelakandan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKF_XfAOg0w
107 1970 En Annan / Venus Pictures, P.Neelakandan
https://youtu.be/FVd-QBO9jQM
108 1970 Thalaivan / Thomas Pictures, P.A.Thomas
109 1970 Thedi Vanda Maapillai / Padmini Pictures, B.R.Panthulu
110 1970 Engal Thangam / Mekala Pictures, Krishnan-Panchu
111 1971 Kumari Kottam / Kay Cey Films, P.Neelakandan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBCsGFvJ99g
112 1971 Rikshawkaran / Sathya Movies, M.Krishnan Nayar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVYYu5wWDs
113 1971 Neerum Neruppum / New Mani J.Cine Productions, P.Neelakandan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtzVnzvCPZw
114 1971 Oru Thaai Makkal / Nanjil Productions, P.Neelakandan
115 1972 Sange Muzhangu / Valli Films, P.Neelakandan
116 1972 Nalla Neram / Devar Films, M.A.Thirumugam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7BayUD6wyg
117 1972 Raman Thediya Seethai / Jeyanthi Films, P.Neelakandan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_cHkPPHYQ
118 1972 Annamidda Kai / Ramachandra Productions, M.Krishnan
119 1972 Naan Een Piranthaen? / Kamatchi Agencies, M.Krishnan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MujsNrkuL7Y
120 1972 Ithaya Veenai / Uthayam Productions, Krishnan-Panchu
121 1973 Ulagam Suttrum Vaalipan / M.G.R.Pictures, MGR
122 1973 Paddikaatu Ponnaiah / Vasanth Pictures, B.S.Ranga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrZ3v7mMwE0
123 1974 Netru Inru Naalai/ Amalraj Films, P.Neelakandan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmw4ecMMAxc
124 1974 Urimai Kural/ Chitrayuka, C.V.Sridhar
125 1974 Siriththu Vaazhavendum / Uthayam Productions, S.S.Balan
126 1974 Ninaithathai Mudippavan / Oriental Pictures, P.Neelakandan
127 1975 Naalai Namathe / Gajendra Films, K.S.Sedhumadavan
128 1975 Pallaandu Vaazhha / Uthayam Productions, K.Sankar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsZltlbIvYY
129 1975 Ithaya Kani / Sathya Movies, A.Jeganathan
130 1976 Neethikku Thalai Vanangu / Sri Umaiyambikai Productions, P.Neelakandan
131 1976 Uzhaikkum Karangal / Kay Cey Films, K.Sankar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz3GI_vR2Xc
132 1976 Oorukku Uzhaippavan / Venus Pictures, M.Krishnan
133 1977 Inru Pola Enrum Vaazhha / Subbu Productions, K.Sankar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY2Zy3sHKU4
134 1977 Navarathnam / C.N.V.Movies, A.P.Nagarajan
135 1977 Meenava Nanban / Muthu Enterprise, C.V.Sridhar
136 1977 Maduraiyai Meedda Sundara Paandiyan (1978)/ Soleeswar Combines, P.Neelakandan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg0K93-p2h0

Never Give Up

Thaayumaanavar

The Story of "Thaumanavar" - Story of shiva

There was family who were shiva devotees. The girl got married to an orphan and he too was a shiva devotee completely. They were living in a village in kerala

It so happend that, that the girl was due for her delivery. And her mother was to come to help her from the near by village and they had to cross a river to reach her. When teh date came for her mother to travel, she and her assitant left for hte same and heavy rains came. They could not cross teh river as it was flooding and so rhty ended up staynig at the banks of the river as they could not go back also. and rains were very very bad. Mother kept taking hte name of shiva and praying for her daugther. they ended up at htat place for more than 2-3 days.

HEre at the daughter's place she was tensed as her due date was nearing and no one to help her. And that night, she got her pain. Since it was raining and her husband came late, and the min he came he was abt to go call for help. Throughout the girl was telling namashivaya and shouting in pain. The husband was abt to leave, when te door knocked. And since they were expecting her mother, they thgt she has come and opend the door, her mother was standing there. The girl was relived. And hte deliver took place and she had a nice boy baby. And the mother was there to hlpe her.

After 3 days, when the husband was abt to leave for work in the morning, the MIL came in front of him crossed him and went inside the puja room. And teh same time, he was stunend to see his MIL standing at the front door with her assistant. She cmae inside running and worried abt her daughter. And asked her SIL how her daughter was and had she deliverd! Both the girl and the SIL were speechless. The mohter said, since there was heavy rains and floods, they could not cross teh river and ended up in that place for 3 days and could not come on time.

That min the sil went inside searching for the lady who was here all these days as his MIL and who helped with teh delivery. They narrate the same to her mother. she was also schoked. She said she is coming now only and who could have come in her place? that time they hear a voice .. Shiva talking to them.. telling since the girl was a devotee of his nad was taking his nmae at the time of pain, he came in form of her mother and helped her "Thaum ana var" (Split and read .. became the mother is the meaning). So its said, if at the time of delivery we keep saying "Thaumanavar" or namashivaya he will help us.

Antilia - Mukesh Ambani's Residence

Guess how many ppl are going to live in here in Antilia ???

Only 6ppl !!!!!!!



Mukesh Ambani's Residence---Antilia

Mukesh Ambani's new residence - a 27-storey glass-fronted building will have parking for 168 cars, three helipads, a theatre and 600 staffers for its upkeep. Mukesh Ambani's new residence being constructed in Mumbai's Altamount Road is the stuff myths are made of. Named after the mythical island Antilia, the house-in-the-making will be completed by next year. It is being built on a 4,532 sq metre plot that was acquired by Ambani in 2002.
27 FLOORS:
According to the plan, the house will rise to a height of 173.12 meters, equivalent to that of a regular 60-storeyed residential building . However, Antilia will have only 27 storeys in all.
SIX FLOORS FOR PARKING :
The first six floors will be reserved for parking alone, and that too for cars belonging only to Mukesh's family.. Space for a total of 168 imported cars has been earmarked here.
ENTERTAINMENT FLOOR:
The eighth floor will have an entertainment centre comprising a mini-theatre .
BALCONIES WITH GARDENS :
The rooftop of the mini-theatre will serve as a garden, and immediately above that, three more balconies with terrace gardens. THE
HEALTH FLOORS:
While the ninth floor will have a 'refuge' floor - meant to be used for rescue in emergencies - two floors above that will be set aside for health. It will have facilities for athletics and a swimming pool, while the other will have a health club.
FOR GUESTS:
There will be a two-storeyed glass-fronted apartment for the Ambani family's guests above the health floors.
FAMILY:
The four floors at the top, that will provide a view of the Arabian Sea and a superb view of the city's skyline, will be for Mukesh, his wife Neeta, their three kids and Mukesh's mother Kokilaben .
AIR SPACE FLOOR:
Two floors above the family's residence will be set aside as maintenance areas, and on top of that will be an 'air space floor,' which will act as a control room for helicopters landing on the helipad above. There will be three helipads there.
STAFF:
Nearly 600 staffers are expected to work in the building.
COST:
House with a Price Tag of Rs.4000 crore for 6 people and 600 staff

Speech at Harvard by Bill Gates

Speech at Harvard by Bill Gates

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates delivers the Commencement address at Harvard
University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Degree for Harvard's most successful drop out
Bill Gates gets his degree
June 8, 2007 - 12:36PM

Text of the speech given by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates at Harvard University
on June 7, 2007.

President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members
of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty,
parents, and especially, the graduates:

I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd
come back and get my degree."

I want to thank Harvard for this timely honour. I'll be changing my job next
year ... and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your
degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me "Harvard's
most successful dropout." I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special
class ... I did the best of everyone who failed.

But I also want to be recognised as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out
of business school. I'm a bad influence. That's why I was invited to speak at
your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be
here today.

Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating.
I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn't even signed up for. And dorm life
was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House. There were always lots
of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone
knew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning. That's how I came to be
the leader of the anti-social group. We clung to each other as a way of
validating our rejection of all those social people.

Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most
of the guys were science-math types. That combination offered me the best odds,
if you know what I mean. This is where I learned the sad lesson that improving
your odds doesn't guarantee success.

One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call
from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the
world's first personal computers. I offered to sell them software.

I worried that they would realise I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on
me. Instead they said: "We're not quite ready, come see us in a month," which
was a good thing, because we hadn't written the software yet. From that moment,
I worked day and night on this little extra credit project that marked the end
of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with
Microsoft.

What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much
energy and intelligence. It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even
discouraging, but always challenging. It was an amazing privilege - and though
I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships I made,
and the ideas I worked on.

But taking a serious look back ... I do have one big regret.

I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world -
the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn
millions of people to lives of despair.

I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and politics. I
got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.

But humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries - but in how those
discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong
public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity - reducing
inequity is the highest human achievement.

I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of
educational opportunities here in this country. And I knew nothing about the
millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing
countries.

It took me decades to find out.

You graduates came to Harvard at a different time. You know more about the
world's inequities than the classes that came before. In your years here, I
hope you've had a chance to think about how - in this age of accelerating
technology - we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.

Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a
few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time
and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving
lives. Where would you spend it?

For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good
for the greatest number with the resources we have.

During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an article about
the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from
diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country. Measles, malaria,
pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever. One disease I had never even heard of,
rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year - none of them in the
United States.

We were shocked. We had just assumed that if millions of children were dying
and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and
deliver the medicines to save them. But it did not. For under a dollar, there
were interventions that could save lives that just weren't being delivered.

If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that
some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves:
"This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our
giving."

So we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it. We asked: "How
could the world let these children die?"

The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of
these children, and governments did not subsidise it. So the children died
because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice
in the system.

But you and I have both.

We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more
creative capitalism - if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more
people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are
suffering from the worst inequities. We also can press governments around the
world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the
people who pay the taxes.

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate
profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a
sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It
can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will
change the world.

I am optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics who claim there is
no hope. They say: "Inequity has been with us since the beginning, and will be
with us till the end - because people just ... don't ... care." I completely
disagree.

I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.

All of us here in this Yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies
that broke our hearts, and yet we did nothing - not because we didn't care, but
because we didn't know what to do. If we had known how to help, we would have
acted.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see
the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

Even with the advent of the Internet and 24-hour news, it is still a complex
enterprise to get people to truly see the problems. When an airplane crashes,
officials immediately call a press conference. They promise to investigate,
determine the cause, and prevent similar crashes in the future.

But if the officials were brutally honest, they would say: "Of all the people
in the world who died today from preventable causes, one half of one percent of
them were on this plane. We're determined to do everything possible to solve
the problem that took the lives of the one half of one percent."

The bigger problem is not the plane crash, but the millions of preventable
deaths.

We don't read much about these deaths. The media covers what's new - and
millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where
it's easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it's
difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It's hard to look at suffering if
the situation is so complex that we don't know how to help. And so we look
away.

If we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second
step: cutting through the complexity to find a solution.

Finding solutions is essential if we want to make the most of our caring. If we
have clear and proven answers anytime an organization or individual asks "How
can I help?," then we can get action - and we can make sure that none of the
caring in the world is wasted. But complexity makes it hard to mark a path of
action for everyone who cares - and that makes it hard for their caring to
matter.

Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable
stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the
ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest
application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something
sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bed net.

The AIDS epidemic offers an example. The broad goal, of course, is to end the
disease. The highest-leverage approach is prevention. The ideal technology
would be a vaccine that gives lifetime immunity with a single dose. So
governments, drug companies, and foundations fund vaccine research. But their
work is likely to take more than a decade, so in the meantime, we have to work
with what we have in hand - and the best prevention approach we have now is
getting people to avoid risky behaviour.

Pursuing that goal starts the four-step cycle again. This is the pattern. The
crucial thing is to never stop thinking and working - and never do what we did
with malaria and tuberculosis in the 20th century - which is to surrender to
complexity and quit.

The final step - after seeing the problem and finding an approach - is to
measure the impact of your work and share your successes and failures so that
others learn from your efforts.

You have to have the statistics, of course. You have to be able to show that a
program is vaccinating millions more children. You have to be able to show a
decline in the number of children dying from these diseases. This is essential
not just to improve the program, but also to help draw more investment from
business and government.

But if you want to inspire people to participate, you have to show more than
numbers; you have to convey the human impact of the work - so people can feel
what saving a life means to the families affected.

I remember going to Davos some years back and sitting on a global health panel
that was discussing ways to save millions of lives. Millions! Think of the
thrill of saving just one person's life - then multiply that by millions. ...
Yet this was the most boring panel I've ever been on - ever. So boring even I
couldn't bear it.

What made that experience especially striking was that I had just come from an
event where we were introducing version 13 of some piece of software, and we
had people jumping and shouting with excitement. I love getting people excited
about software - but why can't we generate even more excitement for saving
lives?

You can't get people excited unless you can help them see and feel the impact.
And how you do that - is a complex question.

Still, I'm optimistic. Yes, inequity has been with us forever, but the new
tools we have to cut through complexity have not been with us forever. They are
new - they can help us make the most of our caring - and that's why the future
can be different from the past.

The defining and ongoing innovations of this age - biotechnology, the computer,
the Internet - give us a chance we've never had before to end extreme poverty
and end death from preventable disease.

Sixty years ago, George Marshall came to this commencement and announced a plan
to assist the nations of post-war Europe. He said: "I think one difficulty is
that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts
presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for
the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is
virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of
the situation."

Thirty years after Marshall made his address, as my class graduated without me,
technology was emerging that would make the world smaller, more open, more
visible, less distant.

The emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network
that has transformed opportunities for learning and communicating.

The magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and
makes everyone your neighbor. It also dramatically increases the number of
brilliant minds we can have working together on the same problem - and that
scales up the rate of innovation to a staggering degree.

At the same time, for every person in the world who has access to this
technology, five people don't. That means many creative minds are left out of
this discussion -- smart people with practical intelligence and relevant
experience who don't have the technology to hone their talents or contribute
their ideas to the world.

We need as many people as possible to have access to this technology, because
these advances are triggering a revolution in what human beings can do for one
another. They are making it possible not just for national governments, but for
universities, corporations, smaller organisation, and even individuals to see
problems, see approaches, and measure the impact of their efforts to address
the hunger, poverty, and desperation George Marshall spoke of 60 years ago.

Members of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the great collections
of intellectual talent in the world.

What for?

There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and the
benefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people
here and around the world. But can we do more? Can Harvard dedicate its
intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name?

Let me make a request of the deans and the professors - the intellectual
leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review
curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please ask yourselves:

Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?

Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world's worst inequities?
Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty ... the
prevalence of world hunger ... the scarcity of clean water ...the girls kept
out of school ... the children who die from diseases we can cure?

Should the world's most privileged people learn about the lives of the world's
least privileged?

These are not rhetorical questions - you will answer with your policies.

My mother, who was filled with pride the day I was admitted here - never
stopped pressing me to do more for others. A few days before my wedding, she
hosted a bridal event, at which she read aloud a letter about marriage that she
had written to Melinda. My mother was very ill with cancer at the time, but she
saw one more opportunity to deliver her message, and at the close of the letter
she said: "From those to whom much is given, much is expected."

When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given - in
talent, privilege, and opportunity - there is almost no limit to what the world
has a right to expect from us.

In line with the promise of this age, I want to exhort each of the graduates
here to take on an issue - a complex problem, a deep inequity, and become a
specialist on it. If you make it the focus of your career, that would be
phenomenal. But you don't have to do that to make an impact. For a few hours
every week, you can use the growing power of the Internet to get informed, find
others with the same interests, see the barriers, and find ways to cut through
them.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It
will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. As you leave Harvard, you
have technology that members of my class never had. You have awareness of
global inequity, which we did not have. And with that awareness, you likely
also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these
people whose lives you could change with very little effort. You have more than
we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.

Knowing what you know, how could you not?

And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on
what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge
yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well
you have addressed the world's deepest inequities ... on how well you treated
people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.

Good luck.

Balance Sheet of LIFE

BALANCE SHEET OF LIFE



Our Birth is our Opening Balance !
Our Death is our Closing Balance!
Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities
Our Creative Ideas are our Assets
Heart is our Current Asset
Soul is our Fixed Asset
Brain is our Fixed Deposit
Thinking is our Current Account
Achievements are our Capital
Character & Morals, our Stock-in-Trade
Friends are our General Reserves
Values & Behavior are our Goodwill
Patience is our Interest Earned
Love is our Dividend
Children are our Bonus Issues
Education is Brands / Patents
Knowledge is our Investment
Experience is our Premium Account
The Aim is to Tally the Balance Sheet Accurately.
The Goal is to get the Best Presented Accounts Award.


Some very Good and Very bad things ...

The most destructive habit......................Worry
The greatest Joy...............................Giving
The greatest loss................Loss of self-respect
The most satisfying work...............Helping others
The ugliest personality trait.............Selfishness
The most endangered species.........Dedicated leaders
Our greatest natural resource...............Our youth
The greatest "shot in the arm"..........Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome.................Fear
The most effective sleeping pill........Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease............Excuses
The most powerful force in life..................Love
The most dangerous pariah..................A gossiper
The world's most incredible computer........The brain
The worst thing to be without................... Hope
The deadliest weapon.......................The tongue
The two most power-filled words..............."I Can"
The greatest asset..............................Faith
The most worthless emotion..................Self-pity
The most beautiful attire......................SMILE!
The most prized possession................Integrity
The most powerful channel of communication.....Prayer
The most contagious spirit.................Enthusiasm
The most important thing in life..................GOD

ABCDEFG

Think Positive

Think Positive

This is nice - finding something positive out of every negative, which we rarely do.

I am thankful.........

For the taxes that I pay, because it means that I am employed.

For the mess to clean after a party, because it means, that I have been surrounded by friends.

For the clothes that fit a little too tight, because it means I have enough to eat.

For my shadow that watches me work, because it means I am out in the sunshine.

For a floor that needs mopping, and windows that need cleaning, because it means I have a home.

For all the complaining I hear about the government, because it means that we have freedom of speech.

For the parking spot I find at the far end of the parking lot, because it means I have been blessed with transportation.

For the noise I have to bear from my neighbors, because it means that I can hear.

For the pile of laundry and ironing, because it means I have clothes to wear.

For weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day, because it means I have been capable of working hard.

For the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours, because it means that I am alive.

AND FINALLY...
For too much e-mail, because it means I have friends who are thinking of me.

Send this to someone you care about. I just did!

THINK POSITIVE.
Count your blessings, for you have many more than you know.

STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters... S - T - R


My friend sent this to me and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree.
If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. Seriously.. Please read:

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:

During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine. (they offered to call paramedics) She said she just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital- at 6:pm, Ingrid passed away. She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Thank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps,
"S-T-R". Read and Learn! Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:

S *Ask the individual to SMILE.

T *Ask the person to TALK . to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE
(Coherently) (i.e. . . It is sunny out today)

R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

{NOTE: Another "sign" of a stroke is this: Ask the person to "stick out" their tongue..if the tongue is "crooked"; if it goes to one side or the other, that is also an indication of a stroke).

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 9-1-1 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people, you can bet that at least one life will be saved.

Mobile Phones - Useful Tips

Important for member who has Mobile Phones.

THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD ..
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies.
Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it: -

*EMERGENCY*

*I*

*The Emergency Number worldwide for **Mobile** is 112.* If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. **Try it out.**

*II*
*Subject: Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote keys?*
This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone:
If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call
Someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone.

Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor's Note: *It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car
over a cell phone!"*

*III*
Subject: Hidden Battery power
Imagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important call and you don't have a charger. Nokia instrument comes with a reserve battery. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.
AND

*IV*

How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone:

* # 0 6 #

A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. when your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.

You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either.

If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.

Please spread this useful information around

Raj Kapoor Films

When the world celebrated 100 Years of the Cinema, Russia had planned to release a series of picture books on the great personalities of cinema who had influenced Russian viewers. They released books on such film craftsmen as Sergei Eisentsien, Sergei Bondarchuk, Charlie Chaplin… and Raj Kapoor.
Raj Kapoor! What was India’s legendary showman doing on the Russia’s list of great filmmakers? Plenty, actually! For many decades, Raj Kapoor was the one foreign filmmaker (apart from Charlie Chaplin) who had a faithful fan following deep in the heart of Soviet Russia!
In 1951, Raj Kapoor had laid the foundation of his RK Studio in Mumbai. A few years later, the studio rolled out its early films – Awara and Shri 420 – which became hits in India and cult classics in Soviet Russia.
Raj Kapoor Magic
1947. While Prithviraj Kapoor’s Prithvi Theatre Company was touring the country performing traditional and experimental plays across India, his son up-coming actor Raj Kapoor, who had already made hits like Barsaat and Aag, was dreaming of setting up his own film studio in Bombay – the vibrant heart of the growing film industry of India.
1951. Raj Kapoor set up RK Studio in the suburb of Chembur, and even while the studio was semi-complete, he shot the famous dream sequence of Awara there.
1954. With the releases of Awara, followed by Shri 420, Raj Kapoor became one of the top actor-directors of the Bombay Talkies.
His early films were extremely popular in Soviet Russia. These were the first Indian films to be screened in Russian cinemas, as a prelude to Prime Minister Nehru’s first visit to the former Soviet Union. Most of the films being made in the Soviet Union were heavy propaganda films. Raj Kapoor’s films presented almost the same pro-poor, pro-working class “propaganda” – but in such imaginative and splendid settings that the Russians were mesmerized. Raj and Nargis were tremendously popular even with the people on the streets. When they visited Russia, the people recognized them on the streets. They would request Raj to sing Awara hoon for them. And he had a hard time convincing them that it was a playback singer – not him – who had actually sung the song in the film. What was more significant was that Raj Kapoor’s films caused the Russian filmmakers to gradually change their own heavy-handed style of making propaganda films. Raj’s films directly influenced such latter Russian classics like Ballad of a Soldier.
However, the era of light, romantic RK movies concluded when the Raj-Nargis affair ended in the late 50s -- after she married Sunil Dutt whom she had met while shooting Mother India. Raj returned to RK Studio with a determination to show the world (and Nargis) that he could still make great movies on his own! He was fired by the true-life story of a schoolteacher in Gujarat, who reformed a tribe of dacoits by education. This became the setting of Raj’s finest movie Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1961) set in the UP badlands. RK movies were known for their great songs (most of them personally scripted by Raj himself), but this movie has a string of beautiful songs – each of them a gem!
The success of Jis Desh, led him to think really big. Sangam was a four-hour, Technicolor magnum opus, which hopped around the world (Switzerland, Paris, London). That is when he earned himself the title The Great Showman of Indian Cinema. But, Sangam was followed by two critical successes that flopped at the box-office – Teesri Kasam (1966) and Mera Naam Joker (1970). The failure of Joker almost wiped him out (both financially and emotionally) – but Raj re-invented himself with a fresh, love story – Bobby – that took the younger generation by storm. And RK Studio’s fortunes were smiling once more!
The last great movie that the Showman made was Ram Teri Ganga Maili. Perhaps it lacks the frothiness of his earlier romances or the sincerity of Jis Desh Mein, but Ram Teri Ganga shows Raj Kapoor at his matured best.
The story is the age-old melodrama of a tourist visiting a hill station and leaving behind an innocent who he has loved and forgotten. What is different, however, is Raj Kapoor’s symbolic journey that traces the heroine’s evolution from simple village lass to unwed mother as she travels down the Ganges -- from Gangotri in the Himalayas to the evil cities on the plains.
But, like in most Raj Kapoor films, the film has an is a happy ending -- for deep down in his heart, the Great Showman was an optimistic romantic, who believed that individuals could rise from the sorriest situations to plains of bliss – with a little effort, some luck and guidance from the greatest showman of them all – God!
A List of Raj Kapoor’s Great Movies
I can go on and on talking about the filmmaker. But, the best way to really get to know Raj Kapoor is to see his films. Here then, is of what I consider his greatest films with a brief summary of their fascinating plots (and a mention of the great RK hit songs). Of course, readers will have their own favourites among his films – and many may disagree with my choices. After all, he made (and acted in) so many movies, in so many moods – that it is difficult to really name the very best!
Andaz (1949): Raj Kapoor and Nargis -- with Dilip Kumar thrown in for a melodramatic twist in the triangle. Watch Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar match acting talents in a story of love and suspicion. Hear Naushad’s unforgettable Tu kahe agar. Bombay’s Liberty theatre opened with Andaz – it ran there for two years!
Awara (1952): A story much deeper than it appears to be. When judge Prithviraj Kapoor pronounces dacoit Jaggu (K. N. Singh) guilty merely on the grounds that “his father was a thief, so he too automatically must be a thief”, the dacoit swears revenge. Jaggu kidnaps the judge’s son (Raj Kapoor) and trains him to be a criminal. Raj, the awara (loafer) grows up and falls in love with lawyer Nargis. A crime he commits, lands him in the court where his father is the judge. Which will prove stronger – nature or nurture? Sway to Ghar aya mera pardesi and Awaara hoon.
Shri 420 (l954): Tramp Raju whistles through his travails, with his theme song Mera Jotha hai Japani (which became a giant hit in India and Russia – and remains till date, Raj’s signature tune). He falls in love with a simple schoolteacher (Nargis). But, he meets Maya (Nadira) who entices him with the bright lights of the city. Which side will win – high morals or his baser desires? With Ramiyah vastavaya , Pyar hua ikrar hua and Mud mud ke na dekh.
Anari (1959): Simpleton Raj shares a mother-son relationship with his landlady, Mrs. D’Sa (Lalita Pawar). He falls in love with Nutan, who hides from him the fact that she is the daughter of his boss. Her father’s factory is manufacturing spurious medicines. When one of the bogus drugs claims Mrs. D’Sa’s life, Raj sets out to expose his boss – but the cunning boss frames Raj instead!
Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behta Hain (1961): Simpleton Raju stumbles on the hideout of a gang of dacoits and tries to reform then by love and reason. He made this movie after his split with Nargis and it became vital to show the world (and her) that he could still make great movies without her! One of his finest stories with some of his best songs – Mera naam Raju, O basanti, Aa ab laut chal, Hum bhi hai, tum bhi hai and others.
Sangam (1964): The eternal love triangle – but with the RK treatment. Two intervals, scrumptious songs and four hours of movie that fly by – leaving viewers begging for more! (Bol Radha Bol, Dost dost na raha, Yeh mera prem patra and other hit songs)
Mera Naam Joker (1970): This one broke the showman’s heart – this autobiographical musical melodrama (again with two intervals and four hours of running time) that did not click with the public. Though the songs (Ay bhai jara dekh ke chalo and Jeena yahan marna yahan) have become immortal favourites.
Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1986): His last great movie with his most powerful plot entwined with a fascinating, symbolic journey. The travails of a young girl which follows the descent of the River Ganges -- from the Himalayas to the city of Kolkata, before it enters the sea. A Technicolor, kaleidoscopic pilgrimage through the heartland of India and straight to the heart!
So, what are you waiting for? Pick up a RK movie and re-live the best moments of India’s Greatest Showman!

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Peshawar, British India (now in Pakistan)
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2 June 1988
New Delhi, India. (kidney failure, heart failure, asthma)
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Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Director, Editor, Writer, Himself, Archive Footage
Actor - filmography
(1980s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s) (1940s) (1930s)
Kim (1984) (TV) .... Policeman
Vakil Babu (1982)
Gopichand Jasoos (1982) .... Gopichand Jasoos
Abdullah (1980)


Naukri (1978) .... Swaraj Singh 'Captain'
Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Love Sublime (1978) (voice) (uncredited) .... Narrator
... aka Love Sublime
... aka Satyam Shivam Sundaram (India: Hindi title: short title)
Chandi Sona (1977)
Khaan Dost (1976) .... Hawaldar Ramdin
Dharam Karam (1975) .... Ashok Babu
Do Jasoos (1975) .... Dharamchand
Mera Desh Mera Dharam (1973)
Kal Aaj Aur Kal (1971) .... Ram Kapoor
Mera Naam Joker (1970) .... Raju (Joker)
... aka My Name Is Joker (USA)


Sapnon Ka Saudagar (1968) .... Raj Kumar
Around the World (1967) .... Raj Singh
... aka Duniya Ki Sair
Diwana (1967) .... Pyarelal
... aka Deewana (India: Hindi title: alternative transliteration)
... aka Lover
Teesri Kasam (1966) .... Hiraman
... aka The Third Oath
... aka The Third Vow
Dulha Dulhan (1964) .... Raj Kumar
Sangam (1964/I) .... Sunder
... aka Confluence (International: English title) (UK)
Dil Hi To Hai (1963)
Ek Dil Sau Afsane (1963) .... Shekhar
Aashiq (1962)
Nazrana (1961)
Chhalia (1960) .... Chhalia
Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (1960) .... Raju
Shriman Satyawadi (1960) .... Vijay


Anari (1959) .... Raj Kumar
Char Dil Char Raahein (1959) .... Govinda
... aka Four Faces of India (UK)
... aka Four Hearts, Four Roads
Do Ustad (1959) .... Raj Kumar (Rajan)/Himself
Kanhaiya (1959)
Main Nashe Men Hoon (1959) .... Ram Das Khanna
... aka I Am Intoxicated! (literal English title)
... aka Main Nashey Mein Hoon (India: Hindi title: alternative transliteration)
Parvarish (1958) .... Raja Singh
Phil Subha Hogi (1958) .... Ram Babu
... aka Phir Subah Hogi (India: Hindi title: correct transliteration)
Sharada (1957) .... Shekhar
Chori Chori (1956) .... Sagar/Sultana Daku
Jagte Raho (1956) .... Man from the village
... aka A Night in the City
... aka Ek Din Raatre
... aka Stay Awake
... aka Under Cover of Night
Shree 420 (1955) .... Raj Kumar/Shri. Ranbir Raj
... aka Mr. 420
... aka Shri 420 (India: Hindi title: alternative transliteration)
Aah (1953) .... Raj
... aka Avan (India: Tamil title: dubbed version)
... aka Premalekhalu (India: Telugu title: dubbed version)
Dhoon (1953)
Paapi (1953)
Amber (1952) .... Raj
Anhonee (1952)
... aka The Impossible
Ashiana (1952) .... Raju
Bewafa (1952) .... Raj
Awaara (1951) .... Raj Raghunath
... aka The Tramp
... aka The Vagabond
Banwra (1950)
Bawre Nain (1950) .... Chand
Dastan (1950) .... Raj
Jan Pahchan (1950) .... Anil
... aka Jaan Pehchan (India: Hindi title: alternative transliteration)
Pyaar (1950)
Sargam (1950)


Andaz (1949) .... Rajan
... aka A Matter of Style
... aka Beau monde
Barsaat (1949) .... Pran
... aka Rain
... aka The Monsoons
Parivartan (1949)
... aka The Change
Sunehre Din (1949) .... Premendra
Aag (1948) .... Kewal Khanna
... aka Fire
Amar Prem (1948)
... aka Radha Krishna
Gopinath (1948) .... Mohan
Neel Kamal (1947) .... Madhusudan
Chittor Vijay (1947)
Dil-Ki-Rani (Sweet-Heart) (1947) .... Madhav (Madho)
Jail Yatra (1947)
Valmiki (1946/I)
Gauri (1943)
Hamari Baat (1943)


Inquilab (1935)
... aka After the Earthquake


Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Director, Editor, Writer, Himself, Archive Footage
Producer - filmography
(1980s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s) (1940s)
Prem Rog (1982) (producer)
... aka Love Sickness (International: English title)
Biwi-O-Biwi: The Fun-Film (1981) (producer)
... aka Biwi-O-Biwi (India: Hindi title: short title)


Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Love Sublime (1978) (producer)
... aka Love Sublime
... aka Satyam Shivam Sundaram (India: Hindi title: short title)
Dharam Karam (1975) (producer)
Bobby (1973) (producer)
Kal Aaj Aur Kal (1971) (producer)
Mera Naam Joker (1970) (producer)
... aka My Name Is Joker (USA)


Sangam (1964/I) (producer)
... aka Confluence (International: English title) (UK)
Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (1960) (producer)


Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957) (producer)
Jagte Raho (1956) (producer)
... aka A Night in the City
... aka Ek Din Raatre
... aka Stay Awake
... aka Under Cover of Night
Shree 420 (1955) (producer)
... aka Mr. 420
... aka Shri 420 (India: Hindi title: alternative transliteration)
Boot Polish (1954) (producer)
Aah (1953) (producer)
... aka Avan (India: Tamil title: dubbed version)
... aka Premalekhalu (India: Telugu title: dubbed version)
Awaara (1951) (producer)
... aka The Tramp
... aka The Vagabond


Barsaat (1949) (producer)
... aka Rain
... aka The Monsoons
Aag (1948) (producer)
... aka Fire


Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Director, Editor, Writer, Himself, Archive Footage
Miscellaneous Crew - filmography
(1990s) (1980s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s)
Aa Ab Laut Chalen (1999) (tribute)
... aka Lets Go Back (International: English title)
PremGranth (1996) (inspiration)
... aka Prem Granth (India: Hindi title: video box title)
Henna (1991) (inspiration)


Eeshwar (1989) (dedicatee)
Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi (1988) (dedicatee) (as Late Shri Raj Kapoor)
Prem Rog (1982) (presenter)
... aka Love Sickness (International: English title)


Kal Aaj Aur Kal (1971) (presenter)
Anand (1970) (dedicatee)


Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (1960) (presenter)


Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957) (presenter)
Jagte Raho (1956) (presenter)
... aka A Night in the City
... aka Ek Din Raatre
... aka Stay Awake
... aka Under Cover of Night


Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Director, Editor, Writer, Himself, Archive Footage
Director - filmography
(1980s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s) (1940s)
Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985)
Prem Rog (1982)
... aka Love Sickness (International: English title)


Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Love Sublime (1978)
... aka Love Sublime
... aka Satyam Shivam Sundaram (India: Hindi title: short title)
Bobby (1973)
Mera Naam Joker (1970)
... aka My Name Is Joker (USA)


Sangam (1964/I)
... aka Confluence (International: English title) (UK)


Shree 420 (1955)
... aka Mr. 420
... aka Shri 420 (India: Hindi title: alternative transliteration)
Awaara (1951)
... aka The Tramp
... aka The Vagabond


Barsaat (1949)
... aka Rain
... aka The Monsoons
Aag (1948)
... aka Fire


Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Director, Editor, Writer, Himself, Archive Footage
Editor - filmography
(1980s) (1970s) (1960s)
Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985)
Prem Rog (1982)
... aka Love Sickness (International: English title)


Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Love Sublime (1978)
... aka Love Sublime
... aka Satyam Shivam Sundaram (India: Hindi title: short title)
Bobby (1973)
Mera Naam Joker (1970)
... aka My Name Is Joker (USA)


Sangam (1964/I)
... aka Confluence (International: English title) (UK)


Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Director, Editor, Writer, Himself, Archive Footage
Writer - filmography
Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985) (story)


Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Director, Editor, Writer, Himself, Archive Footage
Himself - filmography
(1980s) (1950s)
Raj Kapoor (1987) .... Himself
Naseeb (1981) .... Himself
... aka Destiny


Boot Polish (1954) (uncredited) .... Himself (Man Asleep on Train)


Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Director, Editor, Writer, Himself, Archive Footage
Archive Footage
Eeshwar (1989) (uncredited) .... Himself

EFT

Sannidhanam 1942



Oxymoron

An oxymoron is usually defined as a phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are brought together:

Read till end

1) Clearly misunderstood
2) Exact Estimate
3) Small Crowd
4) Act Naturally
5) Found Missing
6) Fully Empty
7) Pretty ugly
8) Seriously funny
9) Only choice
10) Original copies

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11) Happily Married

M.M. Dhandapani Desikar Collection

M.M. Dhandapani Desikar

You all might have heard the song "Thunbam nergaiyil" by Bharathidhasan rendered by many artists in Desh Raagam. Listen to Dhandapani Desikar explaining how he tuned this song in Desh, and so many tamil songs.


1.http://www.mediafire.com/?vrzamzomyf5 Aadhi thirumarai
2.http://www.mediafire.com/?1mtdmoogzyj Aadugiraan
3.http://www.mediafire.com/?njzmzmjy4my Aanai mugaththone
4.http://www.mediafire.com/?tyhzyittqht Adhi podhu
5.http://www.mediafire.com/?knnm5ihyuzg Adiyenai kaaththu
6.http://www.mediafire.com/?dvuvdemwdzz Agara mudhala
7.http://www.mediafire.com/?yhukyjdyx5x Agaramumaagi
8.http://www.mediafire.com/?dgzzn0ztihz Aiyndhu
9.http://www.mediafire.com/?zzzzjt3mjk2 Alli undidalaam vaareer
10.http://www.mediafire.com/?jymkxidzojz Ammaiye
11.http://www.mediafire.com/?yj1vuonzowy Anbu kodennai
12.http://www.mediafire.com/?iqmmzgzljwm Arahara Jagadeesaa
13.http://www.mediafire.com/?2z1ietyityt Arul jodhi
14.http://www.mediafire.com/?zwmzjvgkyl2 Ayye meththa kadinam
15.http://www.mediafire.com/?2wdumyzmjnv Bhagavaanukku
16.http://www.mediafire.com/?zozzozmatmn Bhakthiyaal
17.http://www.mediafire.com/?hzmy1mwtzu1 Chesina
18.http://www.mediafire.com/?wzyktnmeym5 Enai nee maravaadhe
19.http://www.mediafire.com/?tqzjmzygdzj Ennappanallavaa
20.http://www.mediafire.com/?mymjnt3meii Enna punniyam
21.http://www.mediafire.com/?ihyziftortz Inba kanaa ondru
22.http://www.mediafire.com/?0zzmydtmm1o Indre pirandha
23.http://www.mediafire.com/?yx3vzj0ztny Jagatjanani
24.http://www.mediafire.com/?fkn2b2ymzgn Jaalam seivadheno
25.http://www.mediafire.com/?3yyltiwyj0e Kaadhalaagi
26.http://www.mediafire.com/?dyzuzj0fekn Kaadimodi
27.http://www.mediafire.com/?ynejowlmmrq Kaana vendaamo
28.http://www.mediafire.com/?arjimyoz1yg Kaatrange
29.http://www.mediafire.com/?dxhwmudhxmz Kani kannan
30.http://www.mediafire.com/?4nydikvm02o Kannan naamam
31.http://www.mediafire.com/?zzrn2fkn50n Kutram nee
32.http://www.mediafire.com/?qllmtmmyo3i Kuvalaya dhala
33.http://www.mediafire.com/?lktmjz4my2u Kuzhal oli
34.http://www.mediafire.com/?ddtjjin2qzk Maanickam katti
35.http://www.mediafire.com/?lnnymet2okh Madayil vazhi
36.http://www.mediafire.com/?eynizzmnnml Malaiye
37.http://www.mediafire.com/?kimhiwmnmomManame unakkiththanai
38.http://www.mediafire.com/?grnzj4yr2mi Mangaiyarkkarasi
39.http://www.mediafire.com/?bzntdyy3omm Naal en seiyyum
40.http://www.mediafire.com/?lonymqozzzj Naalum innisaiyil
41.http://www.mediafire.com/?xkjh3myqyry Nalla penamani
42.http://www.mediafire.com/?tzjmyamzzm4 Nalla samayamadaa
43.http://www.mediafire.com/?yzgtgdzmykz Nal vaazhkkaiye
44.http://www.mediafire.com/?zzydh5jdbtu Naaraayanaa
45.http://www.mediafire.com/?jnovkjy1tfh Nere servadhor
46.http://www.mediafire.com/?mrmwnqkewy0 Nilai perum
47.http://www.mediafire.com/?myyzqmymdgq Oh Kaalame
48.http://www.mediafire.com/?gynwdzg2mmz Odiya gnaanamum
49.http://www.mediafire.com/?y4zmyaqdwdd Ozhiyaadha
50.http://www.mediafire.com/?yr3tgmmclwm Oodhugindra kuzhalosai - Viruththam
51.http://www.mediafire.com/?mwdmnztz5dy Oru mada maadhu
52.http://www.mediafire.com/?zwu4jennnun Oru tharam saravanaa
53.http://www.mediafire.com/?hzmtlvjl21z Paada vendume
54.http://www.mediafire.com/?5dyftjutity Paasuram
55.http://www.mediafire.com/?zcmgmhjmnbf Paatukkoru
56.http://www.mediafire.com/?idmzrgzjyzx Paavi paraiyan naan
57.http://www.mediafire.com/?5h3oankoqzy Padaikalam
58.http://www.mediafire.com/?ylzttdzmnmz Padhiyavane
59.http://www.mediafire.com/?zyyjuioqtym Petra thaai
60.http://www.mediafire.com/?zne2egzjj2t Piravaa vara
61.http://www.mediafire.com/?jtkwzt2lezn Piththaa pirai
62.http://www.mediafire.com/?jm1mnnzmmmm Piththam theliya
63.http://www.mediafire.com/?zktmayjooit Ponnum
64.http://www.mediafire.com/?yzjfuyjuvmy Saadhi modhi
65.http://www.mediafire.com/?izzytm1tymo Saantham
66.http://www.mediafire.com/?jqfuhuimmzy Sendhamizh thaayai
67.http://www.mediafire.com/?j5y1qgj0nod Silambosai ketkudhammaa
68.http://www.mediafire.com/?idmtohzh0om Sinam adaiyaadhe
69.http://www.mediafire.com/?nwivwewjuzn Sindhippariyana
70.http://www.mediafire.com/?o1muy415lzz Sivaloga naadhanai
71.http://www.mediafire.com/?whzzmainxwz Sirai aarum
72.http://www.mediafire.com/?xjtmcmn5jfi Sivan enum
73.http://www.mediafire.com/?ztydk1mga0t Thaamarai pooththa
74.http://www.mediafire.com/?igjnjynndit Thandhaiyum
75.http://www.mediafire.com/?n2mtutqylyn Thanmadhi un muga
76.http://www.mediafire.com/?gynjqfmnrnz Thannai arindhu
77.http://www.mediafire.com/?lonmy5mmcft Thevaaram
78.http://www.mediafire.com/?0kxyhtt3hj4 Thirumagale
79.http://www.mediafire.com/?x1w1jkdyydo Thirumani vilangum
80.http://www.mediafire.com/?3numgzozyiz Thiruppugazh
81.http://www.mediafire.com/?5zzdidfxmmy Thodudaiya
82.http://www.mediafire.com/?mr2dnwymwm4 Thodukkum kadavul
83.http://www.mediafire.com/?z1gmllqizjl Thondar
84.http://www.mediafire.com/?z2mntotovny Thunbam Nergaiyil
85.http://www.mediafire.com/?zdi5ghut1r2 Ulagelaam
86.http://www.mediafire.com/?2wkzdgdrjzj Unnai andri utra thunai
87.http://www.mediafire.com/?h4yykd50men Unnai nambinen
88.http://www.mediafire.com/?k5ydt1rzmm4 Unnai vendinen
89.http://www.mediafire.com/?y4mjnyetyin Vaaraamal
90.http://www.mediafire.com/?yilgzyazizg Varugalaamo Iyyaa
91.http://www.mediafire.com/?0ymmmmknzi2 Varuvaai azhaithodi
92.http://www.mediafire.com/?jdkynvmlzto Vattililum thottililum
93.http://www.mediafire.com/?yhctmmtc5ml Vazhi maraiththu
94.http://www.mediafire.com/?logu2zmnmqq Vedalaala
95.http://www.mediafire.com/?kt0jt4zzzeiVedha neri
96.http://www.mediafire.com/?ynzmtuzld3z Vennilaavum Vaanum
97.http://www.mediafire.com/?jjm1imylmw2 Yenai nee maravaadhe
98.http://www.mediafire.com/?zzy1jzcjl4n Yezhaigal

Vishaka Hari Collection

Visakha Hari - Pancharathna krithis
1.http://www.mediafire.com/?yn5zfgjlomw Introduction
2.http://www.mediafire.com/?nx2mbmkkytj Jagadhaananda
3.http://www.mediafire.com/?3n3m2nmig2m Dhudukugala
4.http://www.mediafire.com/?4kmdyyhidjj Saadhinchane
5.http://www.mediafire.com/?zgizfnngnnj Kaanakana ruchiraa
6.http://www.mediafire.com/?dmn1ywhag2m Endharo

Visakha Hari - Venkatesa Mahaathmiyam
1.http://www.mediafire.com/?u0klzw55vjn Part - 1
2.http://www.mediafire.com/?ejwvyuzwgmg Part -2
3.http://www.mediafire.com/?y3jy3mmjdzu Part - 3
4.http://www.mediafire.com/?dnumyyz02j1 Part - 4
5.http://www.mediafire.com/?3jyu3mn2yjn Part - 5
6.http://www.mediafire.com/?yznqn024irw Part - 6
7.http://www.mediafire.com/?nkogwkyya4i Part - 7
8.http://www.mediafire.com/?m2mkzkwwniz Part - 8
9.http://www.mediafire.com/?zzo0zydmzhk Part - 9

Visakha Hari - Subramanya Vaibhavam
1.http://www.mediafire.com/?zgyzlgw2ddd Part 1
2.http://www.mediafire.com/?mfwj2nmmimn Part 2
3.http://www.mediafire.com/?jkataynzyzz Part 3
4.http://www.mediafire.com/?mn2mjg1oiju Part 4

Viskha Hari - Aandaal Kalyaanam
1.http://www.mediafire.com/?zmnn2onvfym Aandaal Kalyaanam - Part 1
2.http://www.mediafire.com/?qiyj02jt3yt Aandaal Kalyaanam - Part 2
3.http://www.mediafire.com/?mqk2wmijgqm Aandaal Kalyaanam - Part 3
4.http://www.mediafire.com/?mdm5nthhozd Aandaal Kalyaanam - Part 4
5.http://www.mediafire.com/?gaxijmvminj Aandaal Kalyaanam - Mangalam

Sabari moksham - Visakha Hari
1.http://www.mediafire.com/?tvjdjwwjy9q Sabari moksham - Part 1
2.http://www.mediafire.com/?3x4xm1xioco Sabari moksham - Part 2

Visakha Hari - Narayanatheerthar
http://www.mediafire.com/?wyxyzxiamlg Sangeetha upanyaasam - Narayana theerthar

Alexander - Worth Reading


Queen of Saudi Arabia - Fathima Kulsum Zohar Godabari

Vow! More stunning than Cleopatra! Surprised that she was allowed to pose for the pics without a veil!








Ratan Tata - A Leader

One of Mr. Ratan Tata's first assignment was the stewardship of the ailing electronics company in the Tata Portfolio - NELCO.

Story goes that a team of senior managers from Nelco wasa driving to Nasik along with Mr. Ratan Tata. Halfway into the journey, the car had a flat tyre, and the driver pulled up, the occupants - including Mr. Tata got off for a comfort break, leaving the driver to replace the tyre.

Irumudi Kattu

Ayyappa Kudumbam had Irumudi Kattu today at Chitalapakkam, Chennai. I spoke with Ramachandra Mama and Gopal Anna. All the kattu would have got over by 1.30 and they are supposed to leave by 2.30 pm and the train is at 5.30 pm. Ayyappan will show us the "VAZHI" to have good pilgrimage and nice darshan. SWAMIYE SARANAM AYYAPPA.

Lakcharchanai 2010

Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa. Finally the day has come which I was waiting for. I reached Kovilambakkam in the midnight of 2nd Jan 2010. Transportation system is good in Madras. Even in mid nights you can move from one place to another place. After reaching there, I could witness the decoration part which was already done by Sri. Gopal and family. I could be there and watch everything. I was enjoying the whole night talking to others and watching the decoration proceedings. After sometime bathed and got ready for Ganapathy Homam followed by Lakcharchanai. I could keep myself available in the place the poojai was happening whole day from 7 am till 2 pm. I am really blessed this year 2010. Ayyappa Kudumbam is always special. After fabulous lunch I reached home along with Prasadams and Blessings for our whole family. Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa.

Visit to Marina Beach

Today we could finally decide that we are going to Marina Beach. We took a taxi to go to Marina Beach since we started late from home. Madras aka Chennai is equally bad with traffic alongside other cities. It took more than 45 minutes to move from War Memorial to Marina Beach parking lot. Finally we could get some space to park our taxi. We could go to the beach with our children Vishaal and Prahlad. It was getting darker and Vishaal was afraid to show his leg to the sea water. Prahlad was not afraid since he hardly knows what is happening there. After the ritual of sea watching we came back to the sand. We had a good bite of Bajji and give Vishaal a good ride on some games there. Prakash took Vishaal to various games and got him couple of toys. I read somewhere that Marina Beach is being beautified. But I could not see any new beauty there. Same old littering other stuffs. People need to be more vigilant in keeping our place and planet more tidy.

Visit to Saravana Stores Bramandamai

Our annual pilgrimage to Saravana Stores Bramandamai could be conducted today. We could collect as much as possible that we carry back home. You find everything there. That is the good thing about this store. We could get whatever we wanted and also at a best possible price.