THREE WISE MEN Story..........

THREE WISE MEN

A woman came out of her house and saw three wise men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She said, “I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.” “Is your husband at home?” they asked. No, she said. “He's out. Then we cannot come in.” they replied. In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened.

“Go tell them I am home, and invite them in!” the woman went out and invited them in. “We do not go into a house together,” they replied. “Why is that?” she asked. One of the wise men explained: “His name is Wealth,” he said pointing to one of his friend. And pointing to the other he said: “He is Success, and I am Love.” Then he added, “Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home.”

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed, “How nice,” he said. “Then let us invite Wealth. Let him come in and fill our home with Money!” His wife disagreed. “My dear, why don't we invite Success?” Their daughter-in law jointed in with her own suggestion: would it not be better to invite Love? The woman said: “Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest. Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: “I only invited Love; where you coming?” The wise men replied together: “If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever Love goes, we also go with him.

Wherever there is Love, there is Wealth and Success also!


Hence Love your family; Love your office; Love your work---and success and wealth shall fellow you

Journey of Maqbool Fida Husain - MF HUSAIN

On June 9, 2011, at the age of 95, Maqbool Fida Husain breathes his last in a London hospital following a heart attack.

 

He moved to Mumbai in 1935 and joined Sir JJ School of Arts for a year. In 1937, he began his career painting cinema hoardings for a living. (TOI Photo)

In 1946, Francis Newton Souza, another famous artist, invites him to join the Bombay Progressive Artists Group. The following year, he debuts in art world, with his painting “Sunhera Sansaar” winning an award at annual exhibition of Bombay Art Society. (TOI Photo)

MF Husain's first solo exhibition was held in Mumbai in 1952, and first international solo exhibition at Zurich in the same year.

He makes his first film, "Through the Eyes of a Painter" in 1967 and won the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival.

In 1971, he was a special invitee, along with Pablo Picasso (inset), at Sao Paulo Biennial

He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1973 and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1986. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1991.

In 1996, Husain's works became controversial because of their portrayal of Hindu deities in the nude and eight criminal complaints were filed against him. In 1998, his home in Mumbai was attacked by Hindu groups and his art works vandalized.

In 2004, Delhi HC dismisses complaints of “promoting enmity between different groups” by painting goddesses Durga and Sarswati in the nude. However, charged with hurting religious sentiments, MF husain leaves India in 2006 never come back.

He accepts Qatari citizenship in 2010 but remains vocal about his desire to return to India.

On June 9, 2011, at the age of 95, Maqbool Fida Husain breathes his last in a London hospital following a heart attack.

Tennis Grand slam 2011 results

FRENCH OPEN 2011 RESULTS:

 

FRENCH OPEN	winner	country	loser	country
single male	Rafal Nadal	spain	Roger federer	switzerland
single female	LI Na	China	Francesca Schiavone,	Italy
mixed doubles	Casey Dellacqua and Scott Lipsky	Australia/ US	Katarina Srebotnik and Nenad Zimonjic	Slovenia/ Serbia
male doubles	Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor	Belarus / canada	Juan Sabastian and Eduardo Schwank	Columbia/ argentina
female doubles	Andrea Hlavakova and Lucie Hradecka	Czech republic	Sania mirza/ Elena Vesnina	India / Russia

AUSTRALIA OPEN 2011 RESULTS:

 

AUSTRALIA OPEN	winner	country	loser	country
single male	Novak Djokovic	serbia	Andy Murray	UK
single female	KIM CLIJSTER	belgium	LI NA	china
mixed doubles	Katarina Srebotnik Daniel Nestor	slovenia/ canada	Yung-Jan Chan Paul Hanley	chinese tapai/ australia
male doubles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	United States	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	India
female doubles	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	Argentina /Italy	Victoria Azarenka Maria Kirilenko	Belarus \ Russia

Biggest, Highest and Largest in India

 

Highest Award	Bharat Ratna
Highest Gallantry Award	Param Vir Chakra
Longest River in India	The Ganges
Longest Tributary river of India	Yamuna
Largest Lake	Wular Lake, Kashmir
Largest Lake (Saline Water)	Chilka Lake, Orrisa
Largest Man-Made Lake	Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)
Largest Fresh Water Lake	Kolleru Lake (Andhra Pradesh)
Highest Lake	Devtal Lake, Gadhwal (Uttarakhand)
Highest Lake	Devatal (Gharhwal)
Highest Peak	Karkoram-2 of K-2(8,611 meters) Highest Peak in the world is Mount Everest which is in Nepal
Largest Populated City	Mumbai
Largest State	Rajasthan
Highest rainfall	Cherrapunhi (426 inches per annum)
Highest Watefall	Gersoppar Waterfall (292 meters high) in Mysore
State wise largest area under forest	Madhya Pradesh
Largest Delta	Sunderbans Delta
Largest River without Delta	Narmada and Tapti
Longest Cantilever Span bridge	Howrah Bridge
Longest River Bridge	Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna
Biggest Cave temple	Ellora
Longest Road	Grand Trunk Road
Highest Road	Road at Khardungla,(in Leh-Manali Sector)
Biggest Mosque	Jama Masjid at Delhi
Highest Gateway	Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri (53.6 meters high)
Tallest Statue	Statue of Gomateshwar (17 meters high In Karnataka
Largest Public Sector Bank	State Bank of India
Longest Canal	Indira Gandhi Canal or Rajasthan Canal (Rajasthan)
Largest Dome	Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Largest Zoo	Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata)
Largest Museum	India Museum at Kolkata
Longest Dam	Hirakud Dam (Orrisa)
Highest Dam	Bhakra Dam ( 225.5 meters high)
Highest Tower	Kutab Minar at Delhi (88.4 meters high)
Largest Desert	Thar (Rajasthan)
Largest District	Ladakh
Fastest Train	Shatabadi Express running between New Delhi and Bhopal
State with longest coastline	Gujarat
State with longest coastline of South India	Andhra Pradesh
Longest Electric Railway Line	From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna
Longest Railway Route	From Jammu to Kanyakumari
Longest Railway Platform	Kharagpur (W. Bengal)
Longest Platform	Kharagpur (West Bengal) 833 meters in Length. It is also the longest railway station in world
Longest Tunnel	Jawahar tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir)
Longest Highway	NH-7 which turns from Varanasi to Kanyakumari
Smallest State (Population)	Sikkim
Smallest State (Area)	Goa
Largest State (Area)	Rajasthan
Largest State (Population)	Uttar Pradesh
Densest Populated State	West Bengal
Largest Cave	Amarnath (J&K)
Largest Cave Temple	Kailash Tmeple, Ellora (Maharastra)
Largest Animal Fair	Sonepur (Bihar)
Largest Auditorium	Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Biggest Hotel	Oberai-Sheraton (Mumbai)
Largest Port	Mumbai
Largest Gurudwara	Golden Temple, Amritsar
Deepest River Valley	Bhagirathi & Alaknanda
Largest Church	Saint Cathedral (Goa)
Oldest Church	St. Thomas Church at Palayar, Trichur (Kerala)
Longest River	Ganga (2640 km long)
Longest Beach	Marina Beach, Chennai
Highest Battle Field	Siachin Glacier
Highest Airport	Leh (Laddakh)
Biggest Stadium	Yuva Bharti (Salt Lake) Stadium, Kolkata
Largest River Island	Majuli (Brahmaputra River, Asom)
Largest Planetarium	Birla Planetarium (Kolkata)

First in India

1.	British Governor General of Bengal	Warren Hastings
2.	Governor General of Independent India	Lord Mountbatten
3.	Commander-in-chief of Free India	General Roy Bucher
4.	Cosmonaut	Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
5.	Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India	Babar
6.	Field Marshal	S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
7.	Indian Governor General of Indian Union	C. Rajagopalachari
8.	Indian I.C.S. Officer	Satyendra Nath Tagore
9.	Indian Member of Viceroy's Executive Council	Sri S.P. Sinha
10.	Indian to swim across English Channel	Mihir Sen
11.	Indian woman to swim across-English Channel	Miss Arati Saha
12.	Man to climb Mount Everest	Tenzing Norgay
13.	Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen	Phu Dorjee
14.	Man to climb Mount Everest twice	Nwang Gombu
15.	Nobel Prize winner	Rabindra Nath Tagore
16.	President of Indian National Congress	W. C. Banerjee
17.	President of Indian Republic	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
18.	Talkie Film	Alam Ara (1931)
19.	Test Tube Baby (Documented)	Indira
20.	Viceroy of India	Lord Canning
21.	Woman Minister of Indian Union	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
22.	Woman Chief Minister of State	Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani
23.	Woman Governor	Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
24.	Woman President of Indian National Congress	Dr. Annie Besant
25.	Woman Prime Minister	Mrs. Indira Gandhi
26.	Woman Speaker of a State Assembly	Mrs. Shanno Devi
27.	Prime Minister of India	Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
28.	Muslim President of Indian Union	Dr. Zakir Hussain
29.	Speaker of Lok Sabha	G. V. Mavlankar
30.	Woman to climb mount Everest	Bachhendri Pal
31.	Woman Judge in Supreme Court	Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi
32.	Woman Chief Justice of a High Court	Smt. Leela Seth
33.	Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen)	Kalpana Chawla
34.	The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics	Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000)
35.	The First Indian World Chess Champion	Vishwanathan Anand
36.	India's first paperless Newspaper	The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001)
37.	India's First woman Merchant Navy Officer	Sonali Banerjee
38.	The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha	G. M. C. Balyogi
39.	The first Vice-President of India to die in harness	Krishna Kant
40.	The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century	Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing  against England)
41.	The first woman Air Vice-Marshal	P. Bandopadhyaya
42.	The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor	Ms. Kiran Bedi
43.	The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident	Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003)
44.	The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India	K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003)
45.	The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament	Sania Mirza (2003)
46.	The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship	Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003)
47.	The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD	Mrs. Ranjana Kumar
48.	The highest individual test scorer of India	Virendra Sehwag ( 309 runs in the  first test in Multan against Pakistan)
49.	The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times	Rahul Drgvid (playing test against Pakistan in Pakistan in. April 2004)
50.	The first Orissa woman to top I.A.S.	Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003)
51.	The first Sikh Prime Minister of India	Dr. Manmohan Singh
52.	The first woman Director General of Police of a State	Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal)
53.	The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief	MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police)
54.	The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army	Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune)
55.	The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming	Bula Chaudhury
56.	The first woman to become Indian Air Force's first woman Air Marshal	Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay
57.	The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years	Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP)
58.	India's first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title	Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad)
59.	The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon	Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.)
60.	The first wonder child of Orissa only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km.	Budhia (May 2006)
61.	The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro (Chennai Metro Police)	Letika Saran
62.	The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole	Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006)
63.	The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship	Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006)
64.	The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title	Preeti Desai (2006)
65.	The first woman President of the Republic of India	Pratibha Patil

Bachelor's adventure to Rishikesh-Mussorie in their own Strange way

It was thursday morning dated 26-05-2011, I was as usual sleeping in my bed, suddenly ashish and aman rushed into flat after completing their night shift of office and started shouting “pick the bag, insert the towel and other things”, I woke up and saw the clock hitting 6'o clock. Ashish came into my room and asked “ Vikas Rishikesh chalega?” “No” I said. First I thought he is joking but seeing their packing activities I soon realize he is serious. They started discussing what they will do on trip like rafting and other adventurous activities to make trip full of enjoyment and horror. Soon the packing was done and the flat was silent. As they started the car to go, suddenly I felt excited about the trip and called Ashish on phone “Wait Im also coming”. In this way our trip was planned within 15 minutes.

We started our trip with few clicks in front of our car and gate. By saying the name of god”Bol sanche darwar ki jai” Aman started the car and we five guys Aman my roommate from last 4 years, Ashish my best and childhood friend, and two of our x flatmates Robin and Jatin, four engineers and a Manager were on the way to most exciting adventure.

We planned to head towards Haridwar first . After fueling our car we were on our way to Haridwar via ghaziabad -meerut-saharanpur. While driving I was thinking of excuse for office break and it suddenly hit by saying my boss that I will be on leave as I have to visit chandigarh urgently because of my friend is under arrest for doing some illegal activities. He granted my leave saying take care and I was tensionless from my office. On the way touchwood our vehicle didn't created any problem anywhere except at starting point that too was minor. We headed to Haridwar with rotating shifts of driving and after 10 hours of driving we were in haridwar. Don't be shocked if we completed journey of 5 hours in 10 hours because we were on tour not on race. On the way we enjoyed a lot chanting, planning what we will do, joking on” YAMUNA NAGAR KE KISSE” as Jatin is from yamuna nagar always praising his place. After reaching Hardwar we directly headed to the holy river Ganga and took bath there. Soon after completing our bath and lunch, we start planning for our next destination. Every one was having their different place in mind, so voting was done and the final place selected was Rishikesh. The place was hardly 35 Km away from Haridwar and we were back in our seats soon after decision. It was almost dark and we chose the jungle way to head towards Rishikesh. That 35 KM way was awesome as it was pure jungle with empy road and Ganga flowing at one side. We started shouting in jungle and hooted a lot as there was no one to hear us, soon we reached Rishikesh booked a hotel to stay, had dinner and were on the beds to throw away our tiredness.

Day 2: Travellers do adventure by waking up early but we were still in bed till 11:00 am which we normally do on sunday, we woke up when a room boy told us that we have to vacant the room by 12:00. With the fresh day we were on with old jeans and new T-shirts spraying deo like water to look fresh and handsome. We clicked our room picks and decided to do river rafting . River rafting was one of the thing which attracted me to join this trip. After having a breakfast at Chotiwala restaurant we with fresh legs were on the way to Royal Travellers- a booking office of River rafting. We booked the rafting boat for four because Ashish was not ready for rafting due to his water fobia, we jacked him to join us but still he was not convienced. After our boat was booked rafting boy told us “ If you don't mind five others girls are also there can they join you?”; at that time all of our mouth were wide open and said in one single tone “YES NO PROBLEM” and started discussing what we will do on the way; that discussion I can't share sorry but I think that can be guessed, but soon our smile were shrinked because they were opting less dangerous way for rafting. So, we decided we will not compromise our fun in exchange of girls. We asked booking office guy we will stick to our booking only and will do 18 KM of rafting with nine major rapid zones., Soon the boat was loaded on their van and we were to the way of raft the river.

During our way to rafting we had a view of beautiful scenaries. On reaching at rafting point we were instructed by rafting guide about the do's and don'ts of rafting which we listened carefully. Soon we were packed by the rafting dress feeling like aliens and asked Ashish to click our snaps. We started rafting from a place called shivpuri where mountains were all around with camp tents and flowing ganga. Our guide ordered us “ Push Forward command” soon we started our journey with hooting. During rafting I was very much surprised and excited by the natural views which were never seen by us. On the way we faced some major and minor Ganga rapids which hindered our boat and excited us. In the middle of route there was place made for the rafters where they can do cliff jumping, our guide stopped our boat to provide us that opportunity.

The cliff was about 8-10 mtrs hight from where we have to jump. All of us jumped with high hooting except Jatin who was having height fobia. After cliff jumping we started our rafting again, after few kilometers our guide asked us “would you like to jump our of the boat' all of us in one tone loudly said “YES”; and jumped out of boat keeping ropes in hand for safety as river was about 100 fts deep. That swimming moments I enjoyed a lot we done board surfing for 4-5kms and ended our rafting at Rishikesh Ram jhula ghat where Ashish was waiting for us. We explained our journey to him with excitement which make his face smiling but having a little bit of down of missing that journey.

It was quite dark and again on the basis of voting we decided to head towards mussorie to enjoy the drive at night.

On the way to mussorie we were very much excited; as you know boys are boys we stopped the car in the baraat of unknown guy and started dancing. And believe we were dancing more than whose baraat it was even the groom was confused from whose side these guys are?, soon after dancing ended and were back in the seats to the beautiful snake roads of mussorie with high mountains at one side and valley on the other. We played antakshri in car and singed songs in one tone on the way and soon reached the place that is known as the “princess of mountains”. After reaching mussorie we were on mall road had dinner at one of the famous place and booked the hotel for night. The weather was chilled and all of us were on bed inside the blankets hugging each other because of cold in the month of june.

Day 3: Again same story we woke up at 11:00 am dressed with old jeans but new T-shirts to have a view of scennaries of mussorie and a place of natural beauty called kempty fall. We had a little walk of famous place mall road where we clicked few poses of our own with childish activities to make people giving attention towards us. Soon we were back on the snake roads making us enjoy natural beauty and do some poses in front of natural beauty. As soon as we reached kempy fall we were challaned by policemen as we were not carrying insurace documents. It hardly mattered as we tricked making the challan of Rs 2500 into Rs 200 only. After that we enjoyed at kempty fall for about 4 hours by swimming in natural water, standing in falling water making poses to click pics, even water fobia and height fobia Ashish and jatin were in water enjoying that moments. After good time spent in water we decided to end our journey and move back to delhi. It was dark and we start moving back. On our way Jatin demanded to see Poanta sahib gurudwara – a holy place of sikhs. Ab dost ne bola hai toh manana hi padega; soon after seeing the diversion mark of Poanta sahib 50 km our car was turned to the place demanded by Jatin and I think that was the decision which added a cheery on the cake for our trip which was unknown.

After a two hour journey we were at gurudwara where we prayed for some moments and had our dinner at langar. At gurudwara we also had a visit to museum which showed how sikh relegion was found and what were the various sacrifices which the sikh gurus done for their relegion.

After having a cup of tea at 1:00 am in gurudwara we leaved to delhi.

Most horrorful and intresting part of journey: This part was typically most horrorfull and it was what we call the real adventure. Aman chose to drive the car, the local residents told us the way of delhi via yamuna nagar. As soon as we started our journey we were in the dark jungle road, after few kilometers we were on the road with no house, no light, no vehicle. It was totally blank and dark road with only trees and sound of night species of jungle. Aman and me was excited as we were luking for this kind of journey Robin and Ashish was neutral and Jatin by god fully horrified. As we entered jungle I and aman started hooting like jungle foxes. Jatin stopped us but we continued, after few time we started scary stories to create more horror. And in the middle of jungle Aman stopped the car fully with no lights and asked me to come out of the car. Me and aman took the torch and headed towards the jungle with Ashish, jatin and robin decided to stay in the car. We again roared like foxes and ghosts in the jungle to have the experience of fear in our minds and body and believe me we had that experience litterally. Our hearts were beating fast but still we were out of car in that dark jungle standing near the place where people are burnt after death. It was something different which I had never done before. I will personally recommend don't do as it may be dangerous for the weak hearted people when we were back after doing this foolish activity Ashish scolded us and jatin was fully hiding holding Robin, pronouncing Hanuman chalisa. Again Aman started the car and we moved out of jungle with some horror experience discussing various black magic stories which I think are meaningless and created by human only to make fear in human minds. After reaching Hometown of Jatin Yamuna nagar we were on national highway which guided us to Delhi.

Whatever happened but our trip was full of what we can call adventure and each of us enjoyed it a lot. We reached delhi at 6:00 am and sleeped for whole day to give rest to our body!

Please give suggestions where we should visit next as I think that will be last trip of my bachelor life?

Thanks