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ENGLISH IS TOUGH STUFF!!

ENGLISH IS TOUGH STUFF Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not r
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Aamir Khan's encounter with natural calamities

While I was pondering over the news item showing the 'Cloud Burst in Leh' a sudden comparison drew in my mind automatically. Before moving ahead, let me site the reason why this comparison struck me. Times of India's front page article read - Ranchos' school washed away . It was the same school which was shown in the bollywood's biggest money-grosser till date; 3 Idiots . The producers had opted for a unique shooting location amidst the picturesque and pristine Himalayan peaks in Leh. Everybody associated with the movie made a killing out of the earnings but the super natural powers had some other plans. FLASHBACK:  Circa 2001 Aamir Khan had starred in one of the most successful bollywood movies till that time, Lagaan (which subsequently went on to represent India at the Oscars). This film had the story of a village setup in pre Independence era. The shooting location of this village was in Bhuj District in Gujarat (again a very unusual shooting locale). Barel
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Budget Highlights 2010-11

The FM has presented Annual Budget for the year 2010-11. The snapshots and impact follow: The market moved skywards on the FM's announcement of new tax slabs Income upto Rs. 1.6 lacs exempt from tax 10% tax on income between Rs 1.6 lacs to 5 lacs 20% tax on income between Rs 5 lacs to 8 lacs 30% tax on income above Rs 8 lacs Section 80c investment limit hiked by Rs 20000 (the investment has to be made in long term infrastructure bonds) IT exemption limit enhanced, surcharge withdrawn IT returns forms for individual tax payers to be further simplified (2 page Saral 2 form would be notified by IT deptt) Expenditure in 2010-11 estimated at 11,l8,749 crore Fiscal deficit estimated at 5.5 percent in 2010-11, which shows an improvement of 1 percent over 2009-10 Two more centralised tax processing centres to be set up in addition to the one at Bangalore National Social Security Fund created for workers in unorganised sector with allocation
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Meri ankhon ke samandar mein Meri ankhon ke samandar mein jalan kaisi hai... Aaj phir dil ko tadapne ki lagan kaisi hai... Ab kisi chhat pe charagon ki qatarein bhi nahin... Ab tere shehar ki galiyon mein ghutan kaisi hai... Baraf ke roop mein dhal jaayenge saare rishtey... Mujh se poochho mohabbat ki agan kaisi hai... Mein tere wasl ki khwahish ko na marne doonga... Mausam-e-hijr ke lehje mein thakan kaisi hai... Rezgaron mein jo banti rahi kaanton ki rida... Us ki majboor si aankhon mein kiran kaisi hai... Mujhe masoom si paagal ladki pe taras aata hai... Usey dekho to mohabbat mein magan kaisi hai...
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You and Me The Unforgiving YOU The Undeserving ME The Indifferent YOU The Infatuated ME The Unflappable YOU The Unbriddled ME The Immaculate YOU The Impure ME Differences are too stark and too many, Twain shall never meet...
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this is a poem which is pretty close to my heart and reminisces me of the gud ole childhood days "mera naya bachpan - subhadra kumari chauhan" मेरा नया बचपन बार-बार आती है मुझको मधुर याद बचपन तेरी। गया ले गया तू जीवन की सबसे मस्त खुशी मेरी॥ चिंता-रहित खेलना-खाना वह फिरना निर्भय स्वच्छंद। कैसे भूला जा सकता है बचपन का अतुलित आनंद? ऊँच-नीच का ज्ञान नहीं था छुआछूत किसने जानी? बनी हुई थी वहाँ झोंपड़ी और चीथड़ों में रानी॥ किये दूध के कुल्ले मैंने चूस अँगूठा सुधा पिया। किलकारी किल्लोल मचाकर सूना घर आबाद किया॥ रोना और मचल जाना भी क्या आनंद दिखाते थे। बड़े-बड़े मोती-से आँसू जयमाला पहनाते थे॥ मैं रोई, माँ काम छोड़कर आईं, मुझको उठा लिया। झाड़-पोंछ कर चूम-चूम कर गीले गालों को सुखा दिया॥ दादा ने चंदा दिखलाया नेत्र नीर-युत दमक उठे। धुली हुई मुस्कान देख कर सबके चेहरे चमक उठे॥ वह सुख का साम्राज्य छोड़कर मैं मतवाली बड़ी हुई। लुटी हुई, कुछ ठगी हुई-सी दौड़ द्वार पर खड़ी हुई॥ लाजभरी आँखें थीं मेरी मन में उमँग रँगीली थी। तान रसीली थी कानों में चंचल छैल छबीली थी॥ दिल में एक चुभन-सी भी थी यह दुनिया अलबेली थी
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Welcome to the blog of Anshuman Kashyap. This is my first posting on any kind of blog, so i am using this as a test mode. Will come up with many interesting articles in future.
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