Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Work for the sake of your passion


Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser

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It is easier to BUILD a boy... then to MEND a man." ~Mahatma Gandhi

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Inspiration is that state in which Mind and Heart are Connected.” ~deepak_chopra


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It is the supreme art of the TEACHER... to awaken joy in creative expression & knowledge." ~Einstein


What you are comes to you” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Work for the sake of your passion, not a paycheck'

Thirty three-year-old Faisal Farooqui packed his bags one day and sneaked out of the USA to return to India and start up a business here. That was nine years ago -- and today he is the CEO of website MouthShut.com. Though originally from Mumbai he moved to the USA to obtain his bachelor's degree in Information Systems and Finance from the State University of New York, after which he worked as a technology consultant at AMS (American Management Systems).

When he was only 24 years old, Faisal decided to start MouthShut.com, a website that allows consumers to interact with other consumers as well as brands, about products and services. "MouthShut provides a platform to write reviews on products and services. And if you're planning to buy a product, I would suggest you go and see what people are saying about it before you spend money. If you have something to share about a product, help out the rest of the world. It's basically about consumers helping consumers. And then there are other extensions -- you can share photos, form communities, interact with people etc. There is a lot of social networking, but the core is a forum for consumers to share opinions and experiences," explains Farooqi.

In a tête-á-tête with Insiyah Vahanvaty, Faisal talks about the unusual journey that is MouthShut, his experiences as a young entrepreneur and what he thinks of the current generation of professionals.

My background: I am one of ten kids; the youngest. My wife is a British-Indian, which means she is of Indian origin but was born and brought up in the UK. And we have three sons, who are seven, five and three-and-a-half years old.

My mom is around 77; my dad passed away when I was five. We had a family business of bakeries which my dad and uncles were handling. Mom has always been a housewife, and earlier she used to travel all over the world, staying with one of her many children. Now she's old and stays with us. I didn't go into the bakery business because I feel that every generation should try a new business that they feel passionate about. not necessarily inherit one.

I'm an Indian by origin and I hail from Mumbai. I moved out of India after finishing school. I have a lot of family settled in the USA -- it's like another home to me. Once I finished college, I knew I wanted to do something on my own, and I would also often think about returning to India. One day, I decided to do it. I packed my bags and asked my bhabhi to drop me to the airport. She thought I was just going on a business trip within the States. She didn't realise until she saw my large suitcase, and was shocked when I told her I was going to India. In fact it was only on the dinner table that night that people started asking about me and she broke the news to them. I never told anyone I was leaving because then I would have had to give them plans and timelines -- and I myself had no idea about any of that! I was in India on vacation and I just stayed back.

In fact, I still have the return ticket to US, which I never used. I keep that as a souvenir to remind myself how the journey began. I came back to India because I wanted to explore the opportunities here. I always thought that it's a great country and you should come back here and pay back to a country that has nurtured you and given you everything.

At the time I arrived, I was excited that the Internet had just reached India. I had an idea in mind since I was in college and I decided to pursue it -- this manifested in a consumer review social network known as MouthShut.com.

About my career: The premise behind the website was that there were a lot of people who weren't happy with what was available in the Indian market, and there was no organised attempt to listen to the voice of the customer. MouthShut filled in this void. The idea was to provide a platform for people to vent and share their happiness -- and recommend products and services, or not recommend them. Also, it helps companies to get feedback on their products. They don't need to go out and do expensive market researches.

When I came here I got engrossed in finding out about the Internet here and how it was shaping people's lives and meeting people who were excited about it (though there weren't many of those in 2000).

Anyway, when the dotcom bubble burst, I thought, this is a good time to start a business -- because the best time to start something is when other people are scared to do it. It was a little bit of a struggle -- finding people to work with and also the money. This is when networks help. My friends and family were pretty convinced, but I think what they were most convinced about was the passion I came with. More than the idea or business, they were supporting the passion and dedication I had.

When thinking of a name, I froze 'mouthshut' for many reasons. It's easy to spell, recall and pronounce -- that makes it a good brand for me. Because when you're sitting on the Internet, there are so many websites clamouring for your attention, and 'mouthshut' is so easy to remember, because chances are you may have used that word, if not today, in this week sometime!

The philosophical reason is that we thought that for the longest time people in this country were asked to keep their mouths shut. But now it's like a rhetorical declaration where consumers are saying, you keep your mouth shut, we'll talk!

Sometimes I joke with people saying that MouthShut is actually my first baby, because it was born before my first son (laughs).

I had to take some monetary help from family and friends, but they've been very generous, and I don't think they've ever asked me to pay them back. So I didn't need to take any bank loans.

We started in 2000 -- when I was 24 years old. Initially we started using word-of-mouth recommendations. I've always been particular about doing something different -- and I make sure all the employees of the company are like that -- they've gotta be different and think different.

When we were thinking of advertising, people would tell us to do ads, billboards etc. But these were very old-fashioned, conventional ideas. And to be honest, we couldn't even afford them. I didn't go out raising money from investors and investment capitalists because I wanted to do this on my own. So one day I said, 'Why not start painting the backs of auto rickshaws with our logo?' So we did that with one or two vehicles and decided to wait for feedback. In just a few days we started hearing from people saying, 'Hey, I saw your website's name on a rickshaw.' And this was coming from people who weren't Internet-savvy at all. So I started thinking, if these people are recalling the name of my website, chances are that it's working. So we did 10 more rickshaws, and then 100. Soon we were getting calls from the press as well as regular people. However, some people criticised us, and told me I was diluting the brand by putting it at the back of rickshaws -- and I would say, 'Arrey, it's not even a brand yet!' (laughs).

Traditionalists didn't like the idea -- they predicted it would flop. But touchwood, this is one advertising innovation that has been recorded in the media that MouthShut invented in this country. Now you have many products being advertised on the backs of rickshaws -- earlier it was just Horn OK Please!

The challenges I've faced along the way: The biggest challenge is to get people to believe in your idea. And that can only happen if you believe in your idea. Another challenge, often, is finding the right people to work with you. So I would advice entrepreneurs to be very careful about their core team -- the first few people they hire. Make sure they are loyal to you and believe in you.

Also, initially there might not be any money coming in, but you need to pay your employees on time, so you have to be sure you're starting out with enough capital.

Then the long 18-20 hour workdays can be quite challenging too, which are quite essential early on.

Though the current recession has not affected business, there are customers who are taking their time to cover their payments. For example if they were paying in two cheques earlier, now they want four or five installments. But we're projecting a growth of 150 percent next year.

My take on success: I don't know if I'm successful. I enjoy what I'm doing; I love technology, the Internet and people -- which is why I do it. People find MouthShut really useful -- I've been told tales of brands calling up customers and offering to replace an item after reading their reviews on the website. Stories like these make me proud.

Everybody should do what they feel they are suited for and passionate about. If you feel you're passionate about fashion design, do that, not journalism. But if you're doing journalism, do it with passion and enjoy it -- not because you get a paycheck at the end of the month. Do it with the zeal to become the best in your field.

Balancing work and your personal life: It's an adjustment that grows on you over time. Nothing happens overnight. For example, when you have a baby, it's a life -hanging event. But nature gives you nine months to accustom yourself -- for a woman its like prep school; its time to prepare for the new status of motherhood. And for a man, it's a very humbling experience. When you take care of your wife during those nine months, it changes you from a boy to a man. Your priorities change and you learn to balance things. Today, I think I'm accustomed to it and manage fairly well. I won't say I devote a lot of time to my family, but I'm proud to say that I do devote time to my family -- they are my priority and I am always struggling to do more for them.

My kids take up a lot of my time and we have a lot of fun and joy together. It's very humbling to be around kids because they make you realise how much you don't know -- and how much you need to learn in order to just answer their million questions a day. My wife is a homemaker. I've realised that if we are to have a complete family, one person has to stay home and devote time to taking care of the house and family.

I feel that a complete social balance doesn't come without the perfect house and business/job, which requires the cooperation of both the spouses. So there are some things that she's good at -- and she's decided to do them. Similarly, there are other things that I'm good at, which I've decided to do.

Advice to youngsters: You know, the lack of mentoring is a big problem in India. Youngsters need to be helped to reach their goal. If there were good mentors around, they would be telling young people not to jump jobs too often -- to stick around for a few years and forge a relationship of trust and emotion with the company.

In the long run, jumping jobs is not going to help you. Loyalty is important, and trust will only come with time.

Even when you're in a relationship, you know that trust comes with time, over a series of good and bad days. The same applies to your career. My advice would be to spend time building trust and helping the company trust you.

One mistake I see young entrepreneurs make is that they spend precious time and resources preventing failures that may happen. Instead, they should be investing time and resources into making their businesses a success. This is the biggest mistake I've seen.

If you've been laid off: I'll tell you a secret. When bad times strike, those who are more entrenched in the company are the last to go -- and the ones who are easily replaceable are the first. That's why I was saying earlier that young people need to make sure they spend enough time to form an emotional bond with the company. Because if you do that, when the list of people being fired is drawn out, your boss is going to have a tough time putting your name on it!

If I had to fire people today, the first ones to go would be those I'm indifferent about. But those who I'm emotionally attached to will be the last to go, because they've been around so long and we understand each other

I think this generation is the best lot ever -- they are bright and have a lot of opportunities ahead. They should hope for the best and forget all about the bitterness of the previous generations. Instead they need to figure out what tier role is going to be in this new India that's growing leaps and bounds.

My future plans: Personally, I'm very happy at the way things are going. Professionally, I want to make MouthShut a part of every Indian's life, and also take it oversees. We plan to expand to different countries very soon, inshallah.

source: rediff

Success is a science


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"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." Ralph Waldo

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell


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Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it because other people, on the whole, aren’t much smarter - Louise Brooks

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

-- Oscar Wilde

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"Life could not continue without throwing the past into the past, liberating the present from its burden. " - Paul Tillich
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. And if you don't like it, too bad. I'm the president." - Abraham Lincoln



"It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. That's what I keep telling myself, anyway. Man, she was hot. I am going to be thinking about that ass for a long, long time." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. But feel free to shoot yourself in the face. That is not a waste." - Kurt Cobain


"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. No, not that one! That was the only thing keeping the commies out." - Ronald Reagan

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The married guys know what I'm talking about. Am I right, fellas?" - Mahatma Gandhi

"There never was a good war or bad peace. Except that one time when we freed ourselves from the British. That was awesome. Overall, I would say that was a good war." - Benjamin Franklin

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Oh God, I think I see a spider crawling up my pant leg. Get it off. GET IT OFF!" - Franklin D.Roosevelt

"Let my people go! No? OK, what if we leave you all the fat chicks?" - Moses

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. But what do I know? I'm only Albert Fucking Einstein." - Albert Einstein





Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain's Notebook

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain


All humor is derrived from pain, ergo nothing in Heaven is funny.
Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain


A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain


The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain


"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation..." Stephen R. Covey

"It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development." ~Jim Rohn

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Britney’s intimate pics up for auction (new Indian Express)
Iranian TV: Pentagon Video, Audio Fake (ap)
Vajpayee deserves Bharat Ratna, says BJP (business standard)
12.8.2008


Sensex recovers 1600 points (ndtv)
Selloff Extends Into Second Day (wsj)
Awaiting Wall Street’s Open, Asia Markets Plunge (nytimes)
Global share rout continues (guardian)Clinton, Obama Engage in Bitter Debate (ap)
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Focus on India, China at WEF (ndtv)
Kumble tips India to level series (bbc)
Bhupathi-Knowles beat Bryans to enter semis (DNA)
India, China can help weather US recession: Kamal Nath (Hindustan Times)

24.1.2008

I was determined: Tendulkar (rediff)
India salvage position with Tendulkar's 39th ton (newindpress)
Bilateral issues top Sarkozy's agenda (NDTV)
Societe Generale Hit By Fraud, Write-Downs (wsj)
Workaholic Sonia Gandhi won't take break, frets son (Reuters)
Attacks Imperil Militiamen in Iraq Allied With U.S. (nytimes)
How super-skinny Eva Longoria made Posh look normal-sized...and demanded to be to taken to Topshop (dailymail)
Carla Bruni snapped wearing 'wedding band' - and nothing else (dailymail)
Prodi to brave senate confidence vote (financial times)
First-time investors get a taste of capitalism (Economic Times)
25.1.2008

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World record thrills Gilchrist (Hindu)
India, France agree to boost military ties beyond trade (Hindustan Times)
Go easy or work will kill you (DNA)





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9. Singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor makes most men wish they were microphones
8. Descendant to Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis, Athina Onassis de Miranda is a competitive showjumper. Lucky horses
7 . At seventh place is the pretty Princess Mary, of Denmark.
6. Actress Jennifer Morrisson is a good reason to stare.
5. Christina Aguilera can be stunning sometimes, sure
4. The golden rule: there shall be no Hot Women lists without Angelina Jolie. Period

3. Interestingly, Spice Girl Mel C did better than her other partners by making the cut.
2. Now, Delta Goodrem is one helluva pretty singer.
1. But is this? Britney 'meltdown' Spears at number one? Do you really think she's the prettiest on the list

27.1.2008
Obama routs Clinton in South Carolina (yahoo)

28.1.2008

Replicate NCC spirit in other spheres: PM (Hindustan Times)






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• Gilchrist times retirement perfectly
• Sino-Indian trade: It's helping only China

• Australia win series 2-1

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. BJP asks Congress to reveal its PM candidate

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. It's better to finish N-deal during Bush term: US

. Close defeat in Sydney still rankles Kumble

. EU urged to pressure Lanka to make peace

. Approach right authority on Setu, SC tells Jaya

• Chiranjeevi apologises for attack on Rajasekhar

UK supermarket to offer women bra price equality (reuters)

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BJP decides to go alone in Karnataka
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McCain, Romney battle in tight Republican race
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29.1.2008

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• Mittal, Ambanis among world's 10 richest CEOs
• We'll overcome anti-incumbency factor: Advani

• 2 BDR men, 1 Indian killed in border firing


• Future of the $100 laptop
RBI: Rates unchanged


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Wild weather in China kills 25, besieges heartland
BSE Sensex falls 1 per cent after RBI holds rates
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RBI leaves key rate steady at 7.75 per cent


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No Test ban for Bhajji, Australia tour on

Sensex ends at 18,081 pts, down 72 pts

Mittal, Ambanis among wealthiest CEOs: Forbes

CBI probe sought into Gurgaon kidney racket

RBI keeps key policy rates unchanged

UGC asks Univs to declare results by July-August

Organ transplant law to be made simpler


Price of natural gas by ONGC to rise by 16 pc

TRAI seeks to lower number of telecom tariff plans

Home, consumer loans to remain high

Singapore opens sky with Scandinavian Europe

SAIL registers rise in Q3 profit



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- Centre to amend organ transplant laws
- Thackeray's take on Modi upsets BJP
- Mittal assures Sarkozy on job cuts
- Firing at Indo-Bangla border, 4 dead
- Bird flu: Report from Bangladesh sought
- Delhi schools shut after cold wave

- Kenya clashes kill 49: Police
- Bhutto probe: Suicide bomber identified
- No chitchat between Clinton, Obama
- Foreign hand in Pak suicide attacks: Govt
- Protests against Musharraf increase
- Man arrested for threatening Bush

- Charges against Bhajji dropped
- BCCI welcomes decision on Harbhajan
- Bhajji's good conduct led to no ban
- Shaun Tait quits cricket indefinitely
- India bags second spot in ICC ranking
- Gilchrist thinks high of Indian team

- RBI keeps rates unchanged
- Mudra Lifestyle's net profit surges 77%
- Markets close flat after volatile trade
- Indian economy robust in Q3: RBI
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- Investors call on RTI Act


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30.1.2008

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Sensex ends at 17,746 pts, down 346 pts

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- SC slams DJB on Yamuna cleaning
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- Markets close weak, Sensex down 333 pts
- DLF posts Rs 2,145 cr profit for Q3
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- Italian president calls for interim govt
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A hunger born of hardships


It was the morning after at Melbourne Park. The players’ lounge was empty of players. Men and machinery made loud noises as Rod Laver Arena began its transformation from the epicenter of tennis into a concert hall that will soon provide a stage for Hilary Duff and Iron Maiden.

But for a few hours more, Novak Djokovic was still at the scene of his greatest tennis triumph. After a night of minimal sleep and maximum satisfaction, Djokovic, the new Australian Open champion, sat at a massive, polished table in the offices of Tennis Australia and explained what he had in common with the other 20-year-old who won a Grand Slam singles title in Melbourne this year: Maria Sharapova.

"I think she’s a very strong female," Djokovic said. "She doesn’t allow anybody to fool with her, and she shows it every time on the court. We are kind of on the same line in life. We’ve been through difficult things in our career, and we appreciate success much more."

It has been possible of late for tennis observers to think less about hunger, one of the traditional engines of success. Roger Federer comes from a comfortable background in Switzerland; Rafael Nadal from an affluent family in Majorca. Justine Henin and the Williams sisters, who emerged from modest beginnings, have been multimillionaires for years.

But this year’s first major tournament was a reminder that the desire born of economic hardship and cultural upheaval is a powerful motor for an athlete. For the first time at a Grand Slam, all four of the women’s semi-finalists represented Eastern European nations with Sharapova from Russia, Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic from Serbia and Daniela Hantuchova from the Slovak Republic. Djokovic’s victory also made him the first Serbian man to win a major singles title.

All four women and Djokovic had to leave their countries at early ages for the sake of their careers. Such sacrifices can clearly backfire. Sharapova’s coach, Michael Joyce, said he sometimes joked with Sharapova’s father Yuri that he had probably given false hope to many a tennis family. Yuri Sharapova left Russia with extremely limited means when his daughter was 7-years-old, and she eventually began training at the Bollettieri Academy. "There’s millions of people like him that don’t have daughters that have that talent," Joyce said.

Djokovic, unable to find acceptable training conditions, left his parents and Serbia when he was 12 to board at the tennis academy run by the former Yugoslav star Niki Pilic in Munich.

"This is a professional sport and some have a more difficult way, some have an easier way," Djokovic said. "It just depends where you grow up. It’s a matter of luck in the end, but that’s life. But probably this hunger for the success which we all have and still have, you can see it in the girls like Sharapova and the girls and guys from Serbia. "You see how much they appreciate to be in that position and how much energy and emotions they put on the court. I know for myself I play with a lot of emotions, both positive and negative."

Djokovic said his parents, who operated a restaurant in the Serbian mountains, had to work long hours to make his career possible. "You can’t imagine what they’ve been through," he said.

What is surprising about Sharapova, already one of the world’s wealthiest and most visible women at 20, still projects that ferocious desire with a racquet in hand. "I think that’s always going to be there," Joyce said. "The day she loses that is the day she should just hang them up."

Sharapova said she was more interested in its effect on herself than her adversaries. "I don’t care if they think it’s intimidating or not," she said. "I try to take care of my business out there, and that’s the most important thing, the belief you have on the court. I believe I’m capable of playing great tennis. I know I can do it. There’s no doubt in my mind."

In the News, October, 2008

The Boss gives Obama a boost (chicago times)
News roundup: McCain, Obama keep 'swinging at each other' (USA today)
India to seek reform of global financial institutions: PM (Hindustan Times)
McCain scores big on Saturday Night Live (Christian Science Monitor)
New US president must lead response to global financial crisis, says Gordon Brown (telegraph)
Don't Cha wish your boyfriend was hot like Lewis: Pussycat Doll Nicole cheers on as her man makes racing history (dailymail)

Obama, McCain battle across campaign's closing day (ap)
Bush team rushes environment policy changes (reuters)
JeM threat to Sachin: Central agencies baffled (rediff)
For McCain, Lighter End After Years on the Trail (nytimes)
UN aid convoy leaves for Congo war zone (guardian)
Bloomberg set to sign term limits repeal (newsday)
Lewis Hamilton becomes world's youngest F1 champion (BBC)
Republicans Scrambling to Save Seats in Congress (nytimes)
Wanna be happy? Have some ice cream (Hindustan Times)
Obama Leads in Home Stretch (wsj)
Obama, McCain battle across campaign's closing day (ap)
Children increasingly medicated: study (reuters)
Priyanka chopra in fashion
'Fashion' is a morale booster: Miguel (NDTV)
US hopefuls swing into key states (bbc)
AP poll shows Obama backers gleeful, McCain's glum(ap)
Specter of Deflation Lurks as Global Demand Drops (nytimes)
Pope sees physicist Hawking at evolution gathering (ap)
Report: Journalists From Three Newspapers Booted From Obama's Plane (foxnews)
7.5 million homeowners 'underwater' (CNN)
Chandrayaan inspires NRI scientists to return home (india)
GDP falls 0.3% in third quarter on dive in spending (marketwatch)
Obesity blamed for doubling rate of diabetes cases (ap)
They hit Ross in the only place it would hurt ... his pocket (sun)
Chiranjeevi's party to support formation of Telangana (Hindu)
With third option failing in AP, CPM aligns with TDP (Economic Times)
Thousands to douse annual Detroit arson tradition (ap)
Economy shrinks as consumers cut back on spending (ap)
Olga Kurylenko's sex film leaked (Times of India)
Jessica Biel bares it all! (TOI)
Democrats Vie to Shape an Obama Legislative Agenda (wsj)
Katie Green is topless again (thesun)
U.S. Economy Contracted Sharply in the Third Quarter (nytimes)
Degraded, confused and very, very tearful: How one contestant felt after Gok Wan's Miss Naked Beauty parade (dailymail)
Serial blasts in Assam, 20 dead, 100 injured (Times of India)
Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand suspended by BBC (guardian)
Weather, breakfast may dictate your shopping (IANS)
Consumers Feel the Next Crisis: Credit Cards (nytimes)
Pakistani quake leaves 150 dead, 15,000 homeless (ap)
AP Poll: Obama leads or tied in 8 crucial states (ap)
The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure (Livescience)
Preity Zinta declared best actress at Chicago film fest (rediff)
World markets slump; Nikkei at 26-year low (ap)
Alaska's largest newspaper endorses Obama (ap)
Acclaimed author Tony Hillerman dies at 83 (ap)
Financial Storm Hits Gulf (wsj)
End of Battle Centers on Turf Bush Carried (nytimes)
Election revelations: 666 reasons not to vote for Barack Obama (guardian)
Asia, Europe reach consensus on financial crisis (ap)
Cristiano Ronaldo: I am sure to win Ballon d'Or and Fifa World Player of the Year(guardian)
McCain Urged Reagan Admin To Meet Terror Groups Without Pre-Conditions (Huffingtonpost)
Recession looms as economy shrinks sharply (guardian)
Market crash pulls 350 stocks to their all-time lows (Hindustan Times)
New York Times endorses Obama for president (Washingtonpost)
Warm hands, warm heart? Study says yes (Chicago Tribune)
Google's mobile phone goes on sale today for $179 - USATODAY
Shares plummet on recession fears (bbc)


Mumbai second to Paris on Net check-ins (Times of India)
'US missiles' hit Pakistan school (bbc)
US foreclosure filings up 71 percent in 3Q (AP)
UN: Millions suffer food crisis in NKorea (ap)
A small dose of sunshine could help men with fertility problems (dailymail)

Booker winner 'The White Tiger' tops bestseller chart (IANS)
India on the rise: Chandrayaan-1 successfully launched (Zeenews)
Global stocks slide anew, dollar sets 2-year high (reuters)
India launches first unmanned moon mission (AP)
Left praises itself for saving India from global crisis (rediff)
India to build new launch-pad, astronaut training centre (Hindu)

Fashion clashing as India puts on the glitz (reuters)
Sarkozy wants top EU economy team (bbc)
India conquer Aussies in style; win by 320 runs (zeenews)
Telugu film industry is professional'-Bhavana
Maoists kill 12 CRPF personnel in Chhattisgarh (Times of India)

Many Holes in Disclosure of Nominees’ Health (nytimes)
Economics: Public finances slump to record deficit (guardian)
PM says Indian banks safe; forewarns temporary slowdown (zeenews)
'Drunk' United Airlines pilot arrested at London airport (AFP)
Japan's young turn to Communist Party as they decide capitalism has let them down (Telegraph)
Obama Takes in a Record $150 Million, But McCain Narrows Gap in Some Polls (wsj)


Chandrayaan countdown to start on Monday (Hindu)
SECOND TEST, Mohali: India 469 v Australia 102-4 (day two, stumps) (bc)
Zimbabwe asks for help to save power-sharing deal (afp)
Wall Street banks in $70bn staff payout (guardian)
Bears shave $2 billion wealth off India Inc's Gen Next (Times of India)
Chicago Trader Kills Himself After Losing Millions (huffington post)
Agriculture unaffected by pollinator declines (nature)

China to help Pakistan out of economic crisis - envoy (reuters)
Pfizer to Settle Claims Over Bextra and Celebrex (nytimes)
Oil's Slide Deepens as Downturn Triggers Sharp Drop in Demand (wsj)
Japan Goes Bananas For New Diet (Time)

Tendulkar becomes highest run scorer in Test cricket (Economic Times)
Disco tune "Stayin' Alive" could save your life (reuters)
Dow ends up 401 in another stunning U-turn (ap)
Link between child porn and Muslim terrorists discovered in police raids (Times)
Sensex closes below 10k; realty, power plunge (Times Of India)

The ‘Pratiksha’ ends, Amitabh Bachchan discharged from Lilavati (zee)
Obama extends his campaign into Republican states (ap)
Federer is the richest tennis player ever (rediff)
Worries over economy spread; global markets sink (ap)
AIG lobbying to relax oversight rules: report (reuters)
Debates over as candidates face final days of race (ap)
AI mulls temporary layoff of 15,000 staff for up to 5 yrs (Times of India)
McCain fails, Obama is not rattled (politico)
Asia Stocks Drop After US Plunge (time)
Welthungerhilfe: Hunger Crisis Worse than Financial Crisis (DW)
'I Am Under 18' Button Clicked For First Time In History Of Internet(onion)


Get that accent right with Bangalore's English teachers (IANS)
Madonna 'to split' with Ritchie (BBC)
Paulson: Economy will improve, challenges remain (ap)
Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research (yahoo)
Bottled water has contaminants too, study finds (ap)
Dozens get gas in Wis. for 35 cents after mistake (ap)
Poll Says McCain Hurts His Bid by Using Attacks (nytimes)
Next President to Inherit New Powers -- and Problems (wsj)

Aravind Adiga wins literature's Man Booker prize(Hindustan Times)

Pubs may be family-friendly, but drinkers would like children to be kept behind bars (Times)
Monument teen appeals over Jesus graduation speech(Denverpost.com)
Ram himself destroyed Sethu: Centre (rediff)
Carriers Say No to Airporn (wired)
McCain plays valiant underdog as once-loyal south looks uncertain (guardian)
Mother was seduced by 14-year-old boy, says judge (telegraph)
A judge allowed a mother who had sex with a 14-year-old boy to walk free, saying that the boy seduced her.
Banking crisis challenges US superpower status (AFP)
Web site lets kids report school bullies incognito (ap)
Adiga wins Booker for The White Tiger
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Paul Krugman Wins Economics Nobel (nytimes)
Paul Krugman wins Nobel Economics prize (Times of India)
Paul Krugman Wins the Nobel Economics Prize (wsj)
Bush critic Krugman wins 2008 Nobel for economics (reuters)
7 crore Indians with mental disorder: Where is the care? (Hindustan Times)
Watermelon is a natural Viagra (ANI)

Europe readies action plan to avert global crisis (reuters)
Paris intellectuals make case for porn (guardian)
Power deal crisis as top jobs seized by Mugabe (guardian)
Google extends AdSense to online games (reuters)
6 burnt alive in riot-hit Andhra area (Times of India)
Kerala nun becomes India's first woman saint (Times of India)
Six burnt alive in Andhra communal violence (Hindustan Times)
EU chiefs confront markets crisis (bbc)
Bush: 100 days to the finish line (Huffingtonpost)
Concern in G.O.P. After Rough Week for McCain (nytimes)
The Sky Falls on Wall Street (business week)
Off a cliff (Economist)
World powers pledge to combat credit crisis (ap)
Lakshmi Mittal loses pound 7 mn per hour (rediff)
Former Finnish president wins Nobel Peace Prize (ap)
NATO: Troops can target Afghan drug operations(ap)

French novelist wins 2008 literature Nobel (expressbuzz)
Somali pirates free 15 Filipino seamen, hold 67 (ap)
Web Surfers Face Dangerous New Threat: 'Clickjacking'(newsfactornetwork)
Car bomber blows up Pak anti-terror squad building, 7 hurt (Times of India)
Esquire crowns Halle Berry 'Sexiest Woman Alive' (Hindustan Times)
Asian stocks plunge on fears of global recession (ap)
300 women die for every 100,000 live births in India: UN (Times of India)
Two Japanese citizens, Makoto Kobayashi, left, and Toshihide Masukawa, center, and a Japanese-born American Yoichiro Nambu, shown in these undated photos, won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. American Nambu, 87, of the University of Chicago, won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Kobayashi and Maskawa of Japan shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
3 win Nobel for subatomic physics research (ap)
Two Japanese, one American win 2008 physics Nobel (reuters)
Ganguly announces retirement from cricket (ibnlive)
Global Fears of a Recession Grow Stronger (nytimes)
Ganguly to retire after Australia Tests (NDTV)
Ganguly calls it a day, will retire after Aus series (Indian Express)
Biofuel boom threatens food security, UN agency warns (afp)
6 die in family murder-suicide in Los Angeles (ap)
India's first moon mission to take off on Oct. 22 (reuters)
Gujarat Cabinet approves land for Nano plant (Times of India)
I will retire after Australia series: Ganguly (rediff)
Greatest Indian captain` Sourav Ganguly announces retirement (Zee)
Laid bare: How we became powerless to stop the huge growth in lap-dancing clubs
(dailymail)
Simpson guilty of armed robbery, kidnapping (ap)
India coach Kirsten stresses team effort against Aussies (Hindustan Times)
Historic Bailout Passes As Economy Slips Further (wsj)
OJ Simpson found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping (guardian)
For Treasury Dept., Now Comes Hard Part of Bailout (nytimes)
Tata Motor to pull out of Singur: Initial report (Hindustan Times)
Govt approves 30 pc interim relief to newspaper employees (PTI)
Biden, Palin Clash on Taxes, Iraq in Sharp-Edged Debate (wsj)
Woman, 90, Apparently Shoots Self During Foreclosure Eviction (newsnet5)
US Senate passes $700 bn bailout package (rediff)

Dreier, Kaptur clash on bill en route to House (ap)
Flirting with Palin earns Pakistani president a fatwa (ap)
October remains the month for political surprises (ap)
Senate Passes Bailout Plan; House May Vote by Friday (nytimes)
Senate Vote Gives Bailout Plan New Life (wsj)

Wildlife group expands reach of anti-Palin wolf ad (ap)
US 'casino' mentality blamed for planet's meltdown (ap)
Bollywood workers strike over pay (AFP)
Suspected US missile strike kills 6 in Pakistan (ap)
Stamps on Mahatma Gandhi in 150 countries (PTI)
India is not the first to ban smoking (rediff)
Forex reserves may decline by $39 b: Goldman Sachs (Businessline)
Congress, White House Weigh Increase in Deposit Insurance (wsj)
Lesson From a Crisis: When Trust Vanishes, Worry (nytimes)
Palin, a journalism major, can't name a single source read (huffingtonpost)

In the news June 2007

Headline News
Rains cripple Mumbai, people sent indoors (ibnlive.com)

Indian-origin Shriti Vadera England’s Parliamentary Under Secy (New Indian Express)

China Launches Public Response To Safety Outcry (wsj)

Deshmukh gets Pune IT Park gift from Microsoft (DNA)

Taliban Spreading, Pakistani President Is Warned (nytimes.com)

29.6.2007

Red Fort on World Heritage List (Hindu)

Telgi gets 13 yrs' RI (New Indian Express)

After Fool N final, Tyson wants to work with Shilpa Shetty (New Indian Express)

Advani appeals to UPA to withdraw Pratibha (DNA)

Delta Is Leading Contender For New Nonstop China Flights (WSJ)

28.6.2007

Hilton opens up on drugs, jail and God (cnn.com)

Start-Ups Make InroadsWith Google's Work Force (wsj)

U.N. Predicts Urban Population Explosion (nytimes.com)

Mukesh Ambani gets 'Global Vision' award (Hindustan Times)

Red Fort is now a World Heritage site (Times of India)

27.6.2007

Judge Won't Address Google's Vista Concerns (wsj)

Maya defends her money, says it's BSP's assets (ibnlive.com)

Rajendra Prasad left behind a bank balance of Rs 1,432 (DNA)

BSP workers gave me money: Mayawati (Hindustan Times)

Brown takes over as British Prime Minister (Times of India)


26.6.2007

File case on ICICI, AP cops told (rediff.com)

Federer begins with stroll past Russian (The New Indian Express)

These success stories can be an inspiration for many (DNA)

For banks, customer is criminal (Times of India)

Google Seeks Extension of Microsoft Oversight (wsj)




25.6.2007

'Sivaji' is The Boss in Delhi too! (Hindu)

Lifer for nine in Haren Pandya murder case (Times of India)

Dow Jones Deal Talks Intensify (wsj)

TCS in 10 most profitable companies list, among top global IT firms (Hindustan Times)

Hussein Cousin Sentenced to Die for Kurd Attacks (nytimes.com)

23.6.2007

Regulator Refuses to Ease Its Ban On Phones With Qualcomm Chip (wsj)

Sunita chosen 'Person of the Week' (Hindustan Times)

Atlantis lands safely, Sunita returns to Earth (Times of India)

Sharapova dreams of going for Wimbledon gold (DNA)

India warns U.S., EU as G-4 talks collapse (Hindu)

22.6.2007

Atlantis caught in a space jam (cnn-ibn)

Senate Adopts an Energy Bill Raising Mileage for Cars (nytimes.com)

Business.com Could HitJackpot on Auction Block (wsj)

Babus opt for better pay, go private (Deccan Chronicle)

SEZs of Ambani brothers among 36 cleared (Hindustan Times)

21.6.2007

Yahoo Makes First DealWith Yang at the Helm (wsj)

U.S. Is Urging Blair to Be Lead Mideast Envoy (nytimes.com)

Child washed away (Deccan Chronicle)

Federer, Henin are top seeds; Paes-Damm pair seeded five (Hindu)

China jams AIR and DD in Arunachal Pradesh (DNA)


20.6.2007

Lawsuit against Dhoni's swimming pool (New Indian Express)

Can 'Chief Yahoo' Rise to Challenges As Yahoo's Chief? (wsj)

Bloomberg Severs G.O.P. Ties, Fueling Talk of ’08 Bid (nytimes.com)

Filmmaker Marc Forster to direct next James Bond flick (Hindustan Times)

Rani Mukherjee is not engaged to Aditya Chopra’ (Times of India)

19.6.2007

Rajini's Sivaji rules BO (cnn-ibn)

Amid Missteps, Yahoo's Semel Resigns as CEO (wsj)

NRI journalist wins award for book on post-war Iraq (DNA)

Indian firms hiring US staff, reversing trend (Hindustan Times)

Delhiites most patient, Mumbaikars least when it comes to queue rage (livemint.com)


18.6.2007

ICICI's great growth & value offer (rediff.com)

My wife, a wonderful co-star: Abhi (cnn-ibn)

Rajni fans in UAE can watch Sivaji for free (New Indian Express)

GE and Pearson Discuss Joint Bid For Dow Jones (wsj)

AP school food kills teacher, 2 students (Deccan Chronicle)


16.6.2007

Mahatma b'day now a global affair (cnn-ibn)

Web Help for Getting a Mortgage the Criminal Way (nytimes.com)

Judge Urges Prosecution Of Scruggs and Law Firm (wsj)

Knighthood for Salman Rushdie (Times of India)

India says UNSC expansion must be part of world body reforms (Hindustan Times)


15.6.2007

People magazine names 'Bachelor of the Year' (cnn.com)

Pratibha Patil expected to break the jinx (Yahoo)

Sivaji hits screens; Rajni fans throng theatres (New Indian Express)

Renault to design $3k car for India (Times of India)

No comparison between me and Big B, says Rajnikant (New Indian Express)




14.6.2007

Sivaji mania grips south India (cnn-ibn)

Sivaji sets record, Rs 1,500 for ticket (Deccan Chronicle)

Huge price for Sivaji rights (NDTV)

Rajnikanth: A true blue 'Superstar' (Business of cinema.com)


'Sivaji' - First Indian Film To Incorporate 4K Resolution (Newspostindia.com)


13.6.2007

Despite govt rap, 'Indian' employees to continue stir (Times of India)

Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi found dead at IIC (Hindustan Times)

Yahoo Holders Send Message (wsj)

Minarets on Shiite Shrine in Iraq Destroyed in Attack (nytimes)

Nath gives Re-struck exporters a soft landing (Economic Times)


12.6.2007

Teenager raped in south Delhi, three arrested (Times of India)

NRI couple denied bail in slavery case (Hinudstan Times)

YouTube to Test Software To Ease Licensing Fights (wsj)

Judges Say U.S. Can’t Hold Man as ‘Combatant’ (nytimes)

No more 'My Lord', 'Your Lordship' in Kerala HC(dna)


11.6.2007

Disney Rewrites Script To Win Fans in India (wsj)

This Ford will fly, but Kent want him (Hindustan Times)

U.S. Arming Sunnis in Iraq to Battle Old Qaeda Allies (nytimes)

Google Earth told to blur images of potential terror targets (Times of India)

Indian women don't bank on dad, cash reality cheque (cnn-ibn)


10.6.2007

CM revives reservations (Deccan Chronicle)

Lankan PM apologises for expulsion of Tamils( Hindustan Times)

Economists See Housing Slump Enduring Longer (wsj)

Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept. (NYT)

Federer in the way of Nadal's treble(cnn-ibn)


9.6.2007

MasterCard May Get Debit-Card Lift (wsj)

For One Visit, Bush Will Feel Pro-U.S. Glow (nytimes)

For One Visit, Bush Will Feel Pro-U.S. Glow (Washington Post)

India to move Argentine SC against Q verdict (Hindustan Times)

A big step forward on climate change (financial times)


8.6.2007

Pepsi Bests Coke in Bidding For Ukraine Juice Maker (wsj)

Digambar Kamat sworn in as Goa Chief Minister (Hindustan Times)

Bush down with stomach ailment at G-8 (DNA)

Immigrant Bill, Short 15 Votes, Stalls in Senate (nytimes)

Delhi court orders extradition of Maninder Singh Kohli (Times of India


7.6.2007

U.S. Seeks Pact on Climate, Hoping to Salvage a Victory (WSJ)

Bush Defends Climate and Missile Plans (nytimes)

China is India's 'greatest neighbour', PM tells Hu (Hindustan Times)

Immigrant Measure Survives Challenges (Washington Post)

Indian doctor performs breakthrough surgery in Australia (New Indian Express)

6.6.2007

Federer overcomes second set blip to reach semis (New Indian Express)

Federer overcomes second set blip to reach semis (WSJ)

Diabetes Drug Still Has Heart Risks, Doctors Warn (New York Times)

An Ancient Indian Craft Left in Tatters (Washington Post)

TCS to add 5,000 workers (Financial Express)



5.6.7

Construction, banking top FII buy list (Economic Times)

Murdoch wants editorial independence (Financial Express)

Broadcasters Win Profanity Ruling (WSJ)

Cheated of Future, Iraqi Graduates Want to Flee (New York Times)

Duryodhana bore 41 cuts (Times of India)




4.6.2007

US has legal contrainst: Pranab (New Indian Express)

SC cuts State tax on films (Deccan Chronicle)

Medical movies to be graded 'S' (Deccan Chronicle)

Woolmer probe filmy: Asif (Deccan Chronicle)

No make up in jail for Paris Hilton (CNN-IBN)


1.6.2007

Kerala reports Chikungunya cases (NDTV.com)

Bachchan is not a farmer, rules local UP court (Times of India)

ESPN Star bags telecast rights of Afro-Asia cup (dna)

China Rebuts CriticismOf Food Exports' Safety (wsj)

Air hostesses told to shed weight (bbc)
An Indian court has ruled against a group of female flight attendants who were grounded from the national airline for being overweight

#quote Mahatma Gandhi- The rich must live more simply

The rich must live more simply so that the Poor may simply live - Mahatma Gandhi

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well - inspirational quotes


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Giant pandas for the 2010 World Expo are seen at the Shanghai Zoo, January 5, 2010. Ten giant pandas selected from Bifengxia panda breeding centre in Sichuan arrived in Shanghai for a year-long display for the upcoming World Expo 2010

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi.

"The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves." - Steven Covey
This image obtained from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals shows a new PETA ad with US country singer Carrie Underwood (L), US First Lady Michelle Obama (2nd-L), with television talk show hosts Oprah Winfrey (2nd-R) and Tyra Banks (R), all who avoid the wearing of fur. The White House says PETA is using the First Lady's image without her permission

"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm." - Earl Nightingale

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the South Haven lighthouse
"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."- Andre Gide

Amur tigers Sasha (front) and Dominica, mother and daughter, play in the snow at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Scotland December 29, 2009

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.- John B. Gough


A pride of lions walk through the snow at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling Scotland, Monday Jan. 4, 2010 as temperatures continued to fall throughout Scotland. Large areas of Britain have been in the grip of cold snap for more than a week.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily.-- Zig Ziglar


"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

A teacher is a person who never says anything once." - Howard Nemerov

"Free men are the strongest men." - Wendell Wilkie

The Moon in Outer Space
If everybody MINDED their O W N BUSINESS... the world would go around a great deal faster than it does" ~L Carroll


“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” - Abraham Lincoln


“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill


“There is nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” - William James



"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." ~ Thomas Edison

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Dennis Waitley


"Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of the past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings." - Ralph Blum

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Rajni's rage


Rajnikanth

Rajnikanth, the style icon and one of the most influential and bankable movie stars in Indian cinema, who is regarded as ‘demigod’ in South India, turns 59. He has acted in some 200 movies in nine languages. His mass popularity and appeal is largely drawn from his mannerisms and stylized delivery of dialogue.

Rajnikanth was born as Shivajirao Gaekwad in a Maratha family in Karnataka in 1950. He did his schooling at the Acharya Pathshala in Bangalore and then at the Vivekananda Balak Sangh, a unit of the Ramakrishna Mission. In his initial days, he struggled to fight poverty.

He began his career doing various jobs in Bangalore. He also attended a theatre for stage plays. Before starting his career in the film industry, he worked as a bus conductor for the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation in Bangalore. It was during this time that he nurtured his acting interests by performing in various stage plays. Powered by a strong desire to become an actor, Rajnikanth went to Madras, the tinsel town of Tamil Cinema.

He was helped by a friend to join the Madras Film institute and completed his acting course in 1974. Popularly referred to and credited in films as superstar and fondly called as "thalaivar" (meaning leader in Tamil), Rajnikanth debuted in Tamil films in 1975. He got his first break in Kannada movie ‘Katha Sangama’, in which he played a small role. Later he played as cancer-patient in the Tamil movie ‘Apoorva Raagangal’ (1975). This film was directed by K Balachandar, whom Rajnikanth considers his mentor, and who named him Rajnikanth.

He was later favoured in portraying antagonistic characters and gradually rose to acting in lead roles. Most of his movies during the nineties were successful, like Mannan, Padayappa, Muthu, Baashha, Annamalaiand Veera. Rajinikanth wrote his first screenplay for the film Valli. Rajnikanth has acted in over 170 films including movies in Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Bengali. He also acted in one Hollywood movie - Bloodstone in 1988.

He has acted with notable actors like Sivaji Ganesan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Hassan, Mammooty and Sridevi. He has worked with famous directors like Mani Ratnam and Bharatiraja. Besides being an actor, Rajnikant had also involved himself in politics.

In 2000, he received India's third highest honour, the Padma Bhushan, for his work in Indian cinema. He was reportedly paid Rs. 26 crores (about $6.25 million USD) for his last blockbuster Sivaji: The Boss, making him the highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan.

Apart from a number of awards, he has also received other honours such as Raj Kapoor Award (2007) from the Government of Maharashtra, Kalaichelvam Award (1995) from the Nadigar Sangam, Oshobismit Award (1995) for Spirituality from Rajinish Ashram, MGR Award (1989) and Kalaimamani Award (1984) from the Government of Tamil Nadu. He also received India's third highest honour, the Padma Bhushan, for his contribution to Indian cinema. In 2007, he won the Best Actor award given by the Government of Tamil Nadu for his role in the film Chandramukhi (2005).

His upcoming projects include an animation film Sultan: The Warrior, which will be directed by his daughter Soundarya Rajinikanth. Rajnikanth has also been signed to work with the Sivaji team of S Shankar and AR Rahman once again for another magnum opus, an alleged science fiction thriller tentatively entitled Endhiran. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will play opposite Rajnikanth as heroine for the first time; the film is touted to be the biggest and costliest film venture yet in India.

source: Hindustan Times

Shriya

Rajni's rage


It’s almost 10 days now since its release in record number of theatres in Tamil Nadu and several other states across the country, and Rajnikanth’s Sivaji: The Boss still continues to hold the people in awe at the sheer grandeur of its production enriched by unprecedented play of the computer graphics. Not just the usual lower and middle class crowds from the thousands of fan clubs of the superstar but even the upper crust of society, including several high-paid professionals, queued up for tickets hours before the plans opened on June 10 for the much-awaited movie, widely rumoured to have cost the producers, AVM Studios, Rs 75 crores and more.
"It’s the biggest production ever released in the entire Indian movie industry," gushed A.V.M. Saravanan, the producer. "Everything about this film is grand." Industry experts were quick to point out that Sivaji carried the most potent mix ever attempted in Kollywood — Superstar Rajnikanth, Midas-touch director Shankar and the most-respected production house, AVM.
Add to that the biggest selling name in the Indian cine music, A.R. Rahman, the highly talented cinematographer K.V. Anand and the "magic-man" Thota Tharani as art director. "Sivaji will collect over Rs 100 crore and that is a very modest figure," said a Kollywood senior. "Already, the movie has led to a debate that Rajni is bigger than Big B, since this film is a hit in Telugu also, besides collecting huge sums in Karnataka and Kerala, not to forget Mumbai and the north. "We are getting requests for more prints from these states but have decided to go slow, considering options for dubbing into those languages," said an AVM official.
"Not just that, the box office statistics in the UK included Sivaji in the top 10 among recent releases and during the first 12 shows, the movie collected an average of £14,050 per show," he said. The studio is planning to dub Sivaji into Japanese — since there are many fans in Japan after his blockbuster Muthu was made some years ago — while there were enquiries for Chinese and Malay versions as well.
"I saw the late-night show of a stupid movie at the Satyam multiplex on June 9, so that I could get into the queue for Sivaji around midnight and be among the first few to get the tickets. And I found there were already 11 people ahead of me when I got to the line at 1 am," recalled Jayapal Gokul, a second-year student of engineering in Chennai.
"When I went to college that day, I was as big a hero as Rajni when I showed the tickets to friends at the canteen," he said. There were several such scenes of jubilant fans flaunting the Sivaji tickets to friends at schools and colleges, offices and IT parks. Managing a ticket became a "prestige issue", to quote a software pro, even as the theatres were flooded with special requests for block-bookings from corporate groups, IT companies and even the welfare associations of the residential colonies.
"We have not witnessed such enthusiasm for any other film. We are unable to process all the special requests for bulk tickets because the demand has been so high," said Supriya of Satyam multiplex.
"I have been in the business for over 30 years and I have not seen such crowds for any other movie. Sivaji is undoubtedly the biggest grosser ever," said Sv. Rm. Ramanathan, proprietor of the Abhirami theatres in Chennai.
Reports from the districts are no different — seats are booked days ahead. The police were flooded with complaints that blackmarketeers were making a killing, with some theatre managements too joining in.
"During the opening week, we got complaints that Rs 90 tickets were being sold at Rs 1,000 each. We have made some arrests," said a senior police official. The media was full of stories of fans performing special prayers, breaking coconuts and lighting camphor inside the theatres, bathing the Rajni banners with milk and even beer in a few cases. In short, the fan frenzy was unprecedented and refused to wane. "Smokers step out five to six times for a quick drag during any movie show, but I was shocked to find nobody in the lobbies while Sivaji was running. They did not want to miss the next scene, the film is so gripping," said Abhirami Ramanathan.
"Romba Brahmandama Irukku (It’s very grand, magnificent), commented chief minister M. Karunanidhi after seeing a special screening arranged by AVM Saravanan at his studio. Interestingly, Sivaji brought the two wives of the octogenarian Dravidian stalwart together as both Dayalu Ammal and Rajathi Ammal arrived with him, though separately, and sat in different rows to enjoy the Rajni flick.
Saravanan arranged for a special show for the AIADMK supremo Ms Jayalalithaa on the same day of the movie’s release. The heroine of yesteryears came out stunned. Rajnikanth was present during both the VIP screenings at the AVM Studios. Much later, a popular Tamil magazine gave a twist to his "hospitality" by accusing the hero of using the two top political leaders for publicity for his film.
However, Kollywood experts say Rajnikanth need not have depended on the testimonials of Karunanidhi or Jayalalithaa to promote his Sivaji. The movie has had an awesome build-up in the media from day-one after the shooting began in December 2005, thanks to strategic marketing by M.S. Guhan, son of Saravanan. "In fact, I was reluctant to produce this film when director Shankar discussed the project because it was too huge even for a production house like AVM, which has made 167 films till then over the last 61 years. But Guhan said he would be able to handle it and he has come out triumphant. Rajni himself told me that I must be proud of my son," said Saravanan. Among the "grand" spectacles that must have overawed even the seasoned AVM producer is a song shot in the now-defunct Binny Cloth Mills, done up to look like an Italian pavilion by Thota Tharani. Besides, the fight sequences — particularly the climax having the superstar bash up the villain amid thousands of flying 1000-rupee notes, not genuine though — must have cost the heavens.
In spite of all those big bills and inevitable production hiccups, if the mega project went through its schedule and hit the screen with such a bang, most of the credit must go to the hero, insisted Saravanan. "He would be on the sets before the others. He would sit and watch even when the shot did not require him. Such was his involvement and he had absolutely no airs about him despite being the superstar," he said. Did he expect Sivaji to create such hype and emerge a commercial hit? Saravanan said he had no doubt of that and the production schedule and the box office reports amply justified his confidence. Insisting that his film was blessed even before the shooting began, the producer recalled an interesting anecdote. When he got the sudden call from director Shankar saying that he was with Rajni and they would like him to come over to discuss the project, he asked his son Guhan to accompany him.
Halfway to the venue of the meeting, he thought it appropriate to pay Shankar and Rajni a token advance for accepting the film. He had two new one-rupee notes and Guhan had two fresh 1000-rupee notes, so they decided to give the director and the superstar an advance of Rs1,001 each. "Both of them did not mind the small amount considering our close association. But when we returned to office, Rajni phoned Guhan and asked how we managed to get those currency notes. The numbers in the two notes given to him added up to his lucky number nine and those given to Shankar made his favourite eight. That was providence and I knew only then that Sivaji would be a hit," recalled Saravanan.
What makes the dark-skinned 54-year-old still click with the audiences, young and old, across language and culture barriers? "Undoubtedly his hard work and commitment, besides the Rajni style of course. The stunt director had made him do what even the 25-year-olds could find tough but Rajni did well though there was some help from the computer graphics team," explained a production executive.
"More than anything else, Rajni is very religious. He has been blessed and that’s why he is the superstar," said Saravanan, recalling that the hero had chosen for his little quarters during the shooting a room with window overlooking a temple.


Rajnispeak

The superstar’s famous punchlines:

* Sivaji pera ketale chumma adhurudhulla(As soon as you hear my name you will feel the tremors).Kanna panninga dhaan kootama varum, singam single-a dhaan varum(Only pigs come in a gang, lion comes alone).Sivaji: The Boss, 2007
* Khatham, gatham. (The past is past). BABA, 2002
* En vazhi – thani vazhi. (My way is a unique way). Padayappa, 1999
* Andavan solran. Arunachalam seiran.(God commands, Arunachalam executes). Arunachalam, 1997
* Naan eppa varuven, eppadi varuvennu yarukkum theriyadhu, aana varavendiya neratthil correct-aga varuven. (When I will arrive, or how I will arrive, nobody will know, but I will arrive when I ought to). Muthu, 1995
Source: Deccan Chronicle

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phoenix

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
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Be civil to all; sociable to many, familiar with few; friend to one' enemy to none.

Benjamin Franklin
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

E. Phillpots
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One person can make a difference, and ever person must try.

John F. Kennedy
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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Thomas Merton
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Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Stanislaus
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Unknown
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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves you too full to embrace the present.

Jan Glidewell
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Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.

Albert Schweitzer
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and

to play and to look at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke
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When you do the best you can, you never know what miracle is wrought in your life, or in the life of another.

Helen Keller
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese
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Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Maya Angelou
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When we seek out the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

William Arthur Ward
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The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow from them.

Anonymous
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.

Albert Schweitzer
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There is sufficiency in the world for man's need, but not for man's greed.

Mohandas K. Gandhi
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One person can make a difference, and every person must try.

John F. Kennedy
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot
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The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey
S Firestone.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt
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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.

Swami Vivekananda
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No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish come true"
- Paulo Coehlo
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

La Rochefoucauld
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese
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It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

Publilius Syrus
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

St. Augustine




* Religion is the intellectual resolution of the unknown.
Buckminster Fuller

* The deepest craving in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James

* He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann W. Von Goethe

* We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
Oscar Wilde

* Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Francois Voltaire


* Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard
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