Gaurav Shankhdhar Blog

A discussion which echo my thoughts about Pakistan

Gaurav S — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:10:28 +0000

In two of my older posts, I did discuss some of thought on Pakistan:

http://gshanky.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/why-dr-manmohan-singh/ (Though he turns out to be a big disappointment )

and

http://gshanky.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/stand-up-as-one-as-indian/ (after two and half year we seem to be in the same situation and no immediate solution or preparedness in sight)

Recently, I have had a chance to read few of the articles from both side of the border and it turns out to be quite an experience

1. Aatish Taseer in WSJ (it all started with this article)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304911104576445862242908294.html

2. Ejaz Haider from Pakistan

http://tribune.com.pk/story/212319/aatishs-personal-fire/

3. Our own Shashi Tharoor’s response

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/columnists/shashi-tharoor/delusional-liberals

4. Response to the response from Pakistan

a) Marvi Sirmed

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20117\25\story_25-7-2011_pg3_4

http://marvisirmed.com/?p=1795

b) Ejaz Haider

http://tribune.com.pk/story/217721/its-not-just-mr-tharoor/

c) By Feisal Naqvi

http://tribune.com.pk/story/217051/with-friends-like-these/

4. Shashi Tharoor is back with answers

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/columnists/shashi-tharoor/no-more-delusions

Most of us in India understand that “…have no desire to reintegrate it into “Akhand Bharat” — indeed, the demographic, social and political evolution of Pakistan since 1947 makes it quite unsuitable for any such re-absorption. “

AND

“..there is absolutely nothing Pakistan possesses that India wants.”

I wish people on both side of the border come to terms and feel at peace with the reality of partition.

We are wasting our money on Military expenses when there are thousands of hungry people in the streets.

First SRMS Alumni Meet 2011, Bangalore, The Videos

Gaurav S — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:15:29 +0000

here comes the videos played on the event day:

1) Played Audio Video No. 1 (Opening), First Alumni Meet, Bangalore 2011

2) Played Audio Video No. 2 (Chor Aye Hum…), First Alumni Meet, Bangalore 2011

3) Played Audio Video No. 3 (Dostana), First Alumni Meet, Bangalore 2011

4) Played Audio Video No. 4 (Funny Side), First Alumni Meet, Bangalore 2011

5) Played Audio Video No. 5, First Alumni Meet, Bangalore 2011

6) Remote Alumni Speaking About SRMCET College Life

7) Movie Clip used during First Alumni Meet, Bangalore 2011

Photos

1) Official Photographer

https://picasaweb.google.com/106572889568033528189/First_SRMS_Alumni_Meet_Bangalore_2011_OfficialPhotos

2) From Alumni

https://picasaweb.google.com/106572889568033528189/AlumniMeetOthers#

3) Alumni Meet Preparation

https://picasaweb.google.com/106572889568033528189/AlumniMeetPrep#

First SRMS Alumni Meet 2011, Bangalore, Poem

Gaurav S — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:07:16 +0000

Its been more than a year that i have blogged about anything. Time really flies That post was also about SRMS Alumni and i am blogging again about the same initiative I will update more about the meet in my later posts. Before that i want to share a beautiful poem by my friend and batch mate Gaurav Garg. He has completed this poem during and after the SRMS Alumni Meet in Bangalore. It was a wonderful experience to see the ‘SRMS Parivar’ together, to know their progress and to see them growing leap and forth. Gaurav Garg remember the old days with his poem.

आमोद का हुडदंग और जेस्ट की मस्ती,

तेकव्योम में बहती वो विज्ञानं की कश्ती.

याद आता है मुझको वो बीता जमाना,

हर फंक्शन को पहले से अच्छा बनाना!

मैश से फल और मख्खन का चुराना,

आमलेट के लिए अभयपुर जाना,

याद आता है मुझको वो बीता जमाना,

एक मैगी के लिए भी शर्त लगाना!

लाइब्रेरी के रास्ते में भी रेवती का आना,

नयन सुख के लिए PMC पे जाना,

भुला नहीं जाता वो मस्त जमाना,

स्वाद पे जाके “मौसम बेईमान” गाना,

मेकनिकल लैब में आरी चलाना,

फिर कंप्यूटर पे फर्जी बटन दबाना,

लगता है अब वो समय पुराना,

फाइल जुनिएर से लिखाकर चेक करना!

मूवी के लिए होस्टल में चक्कर लगाना,

लाइट जाने पे वो भुत का चिल्लाना!

याद आता है मुझको वो बीता जमाना,

दोस्तों के बर्थडे पे सारा हिसाब चुकाना!

एक्साम से पहले वो किताब का फटना,

फिर पन्ना पन्ना करके सबमे बटना!

कोई लौटा दे मुझको वो मस्त जमाना,

एक रात में पूरी किताब का रटना!

एक्साम से पहले सब कुछ भूल जाना!

मिड सेम में टीचर का रायता फैलाना!

याद आता है मुझको वो बीता जमाना!

अटेंडेंस पूरी कराने को टीचर के चक्कर लगाना!

क्लास में पीछे से भाग जाना,

दोस्तों के लिए वो प्रोक्सी लगाना,

मुझे तो याद है वो सब कुछ , क्या आपको याद है?

वो दोस्ती की चाशनी में खुद को डुबाना!

वो दोस्ती की चाशनी में खुद को डुबाना!

More to come soon about the meet soon

SRMS Alumni Community Initiative !

Gaurav S — Sat, 22 May 2010 20:12:42 +0000

Hi All,

I am writing you this mail on behalf of all the SRMS Alumni scattered around the globe.

First of all, i want to clarify that this is NOT a mail from SRMS Management.

Purpose

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Today, we all SRMSians have been dispersed around the globe from a tiny town Bareilly. Now, its time to get integrated and join together on a common platform which will help us to bring SRMSians together & help each other to grow & prosper. We need your suggestion, guidance, help for building an Active SRMS Alumni Community.

This is a long way to go and we need contribution from each and everyone of you.

Details:

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We already have a team of 10-12 alumnus (and looking for as many as we can get on board, to form a core SRMS Alumni Committee) . People from multiple batches & streams actively working on possible solutions, ideas & platform to build an active SRMS Alumni Community. From last few weeks we have been brainstorming and bringing up an idea of “ALUMNI Association” for SRMSians with a concept of “Always remain connected”. There were lot of discussions & ideas poured in from everybody.

Please find the following details with the resulting ideas:

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1. SRMS Alumni Committee / Association

Building a core Alumni Committee / Association having members from each batch & stream.
Appoint multiple co-coordinators from these core members to facilitate main functions & initiatives at International, National & Zonal level. For example; alumni level event organizer at city level, Alumni Meets, Interface between college & Alumni etc

2. SRMS Alumni Web Site:

There is already a web page at college web site http://122.252.234.221/srmscet/alumni.aspx but it doesn’t work & lack functionality.
We already have many Orkut/Facebook/Yahoo Groups for interaction but without much active & real time interaction.
Hence, we have come up an idea to built independent Web Site exclusively for SRMS Alumni.
We are already working in this direction and need more People & Resources to be part of this initiative & making it a success.
Till the time site comes up (Beta version should be out in June first week), we can have everybody on board at Yahoo/Orkut/Facebook Groups listed below.

3. Objective of the current initiative:

Alumni chapter’s important contribution is always getting people placed or getting them jobs & help each

other grow. BUT the most important part is to have a sense of camaraderie, frequent Alumni Meets & re-

living the past moments. Once we have enough interested people on board we can plan few alumni meets in

different cities.

We are already planning one in Bangalore & other in Delhi. Interested people please drop us your contact

details. Please devote some of your precious time to drive this effort & be part of it.

We are looking forward to have at least one active representative (passionate about this idea) from

each batch in the core alumni committee.

Meanwhile, we are trying our best to let every SRMS Alumni about this alumni initiative. Hence, this e-mail.

This will help us to get as much ideas, contribution and association as possible from our fellow experienced SRMSians.

We request all of you (as your fellow college mates)

is not to consider this as just a email to be forwarded BUT please join the initiative and propagate it to as much as SRMSians as you can (including MBA, B.Pharma folks).

We need all of you to make it a great success story, so that we can “always remain connected”.

We are looking forward for your positive response . This initiative can only be successful with your active support.

Thanks in advance for joining this initiative !!

Regards,

Gaurav

SRMS alumni esprit de corps !!

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2230629576

Orkut: http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=6011761

Yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/srms-alumni/

time is feeting….time is fleeting….;)

Gaurav S — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:39:17 +0000

realized it few days back. My kiddo cousin Googled ‘Shankhdhar’ , got this blog as top result I was like “Ohh, the next Gen is here” And yeah, delighted to know the Google result She has spent two year in now famous coaching town Kota, ready to join a Engg. college now. I have not seen her for two years now. I used to teach her English rhythms when she is sweet little girlie, used to make sure that “Lakri ki kathi, kathi pe ghoda..” must play in her b’day etc

One among them lived with me for a year during my Engg. final year. Now is in Allahabad and have a very flashy orkut profile

My younger sis & mom r living with me now a days. They ll be here for one month. This is first time after 10 years, i am living with them for continuous 30-40 days. My younger sis (She is the youngest one among three of us) surprise me everyday with her comments/feedback on things.

I am the eldest among all my cousins & have seen them growing up from a new born chid to a 10-12 year. But last 10-11 years gone like a flash. They all are now grown up & ready to take on world. Their bugging & questions really amaze me or i should say shock me.

More to come

Miscellaneous….

Gaurav S — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:07:53 +0000

humm its been long time i have updated something and i think u can count me in those ‘rarely’ blogging blogger
a lot of exciting things has happened since last 7-8 months

I visited my home town twice and its refreshing as always,
I had a lot of memorable get togethers,
also changed my work place and
moved on to one of the biggest technology vendors (Hewlett-Packard) in helping them to provide end to end high performance solutions on Oracle Applications.

The sad part is that i missed my home on both Deepawali & Holi
but my darling wife and Bangalore Gang made all the occasions veryfabulous and we had real fun

Lot of my friends got married and the list is still going on
I was able to manage to attend few but felt very sad & sorry for not attending few at the same time

Guys around had already started giving good news of being proud parents
I’m loving all the cutie pies for spreading their lovely smiles in the family.

Life seems to have moved back to my college days as
I have to wake up with a target to catch the Office bus at 07:30 am for a 1 hour 15 minutes bus journey (believe me it’s really difficult )
Moreover I have to wrap up things by 5 to catch the same bus back home .

I’ m loving the discipline at my work place excluding 3 hour bus ordeal every day
at the same time feeling ardent about the changes, I’m not sure if its same across the globe or only Indian phenomenon
but here within a year in ur job and people start asking”

aur kis company main ho aaj kal?
accha abhi bhi wahin ho !!

and i was like “Why should i be anywhere else?”

I didn’t have a reason

I never thought about life outside Oracle.

I had a sweet manager

helping & always jolly-good team
with greatest of all opportunities in my basket to work on latest of Oracle technologies.
Facing new challenges everyday
with a new & fresh day every morning as an incentive.
It was like family and very difficult to move on
also it was my first company hence there lies an emotional attachment !!

but a time came and i moved on and I got something worth to move out.

Though I had to compromise with few things.
The new role brought a lot of business exposure including latest technology experience.
did anybody say “What about the money you sober man?”
yeh that is just a bonus
somebody once said “Money is not the most important thing in life !!”

on personal front ….
humm its personal so nothing much to write here
hehehehe

FB:Bangalore Roads

Gaurav S — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:29:15 +0000

Gaurav Shankhdhar i wish i have a magic stick to improve traffic administration in Bangalore during peak hours

Wed at 12:57 · Comment · Like

Harshita Kamal Mehta likes this.

Harshita Kamal MehtaWill you lend it to me.. once you get it…

Wed at 13:12 · Delete

Vanitha Rangarajanwhen u get the wand, make sure you wave it around Diary circle and BTM 1st stage !!!!!!!

Wed at 13:29 · Delete

Sundar SelvarajDo u think it will work …..?

Wed at 13:38 · Delete

Vipul KariaI would commute with you in that case

Wed at 13:59 · Delete

Priyank JainI think all the corporate employees in Bangalore should get together and use the RTI act to ask the govt. where the massive funds they collect as taxes from all MNCs go.. I don’t believe that govt. don’t have enough money to plan the infrastructure of Bangalore.

Wed at 16:16 · Delete

Abhinav Agrawalits all u cyber coolies to be blamed

Wed at 22:43 · Delete

Kanupriya GoelU are also one of the cyber coolie@abhinav

Yesterday at 00:04 · Delete

Abhinav Agrawal… not d one from “ur” country. here at my place we dont make 4 out of 2 lanes to traffic jam.

Yesterday at 00:08 · Delete

Anurag Vishnoic’mon …lead from the front dude …don’t keep wishing …build a new one

Yesterday at 02:44 · Delete

Gaurav Shankhdhar@Harshita, sure ma’am

@Vanitha, that will be my first priority

@Sundar, Its magic so i hope it should work

@Vipul, we will have bike pool

@Priyank, yeh, nice idea, ithink Petrol & Road Taxes r highest in Bangalore among all metros… Read more

Yesterday at 07:55 · Delete

Abhinav Agrawalm just not of you… n i was never one of you.

n regarding the more space less people… its because we are educated enough to know its benefits…

now u’ll listen to kanu… u r so dead dude

Yesterday at 11:00 · Delete

Gaurav Shankhdharno surprise! typical desi thing to do! Once u r in Cali, forget the Kalibari

Yesterday at 11:25 · Delete

Abhinav Agrawal..always learn from the best.

Yesterday at 18:50 · Delete

Kanupriya Goel@gaurav sir..let abhi nav say anything he wants..he is n indian..kitna bhi firang ban jayeee,,his chidren will always sing jan gan man,will call dadi dadu to his parents..he can never get away 4m all that…pagal hai vo..lolzzzzzz

9 hours ago · Delete

Gaurav Shankhdhar i wish i have a magic stick to improve traffic administration in Bangalore during peak hours

Wed at 12:57 · Comment · Like

Harshita Kamal Mehta likes this.

Harshita Kamal MehtaWill you lend it to me.. once you get it…

Wed at 13:12 · Delete

Vanitha Rangarajanwhen u get the wand, make sure you wave it around Diary circle and BTM 1st stage !!!!!!!

Wed at 13:29 · Delete

Sundar SelvarajDo u think it will work …..?

Wed at 13:38 · Delete

Vipul KariaI would commute with you in that case

Wed at 13:59 · Delete

Priyank Jain I think all the corporate employees in Bangalore should get together and use the RTI act to ask the govt. where the massive funds they collect as taxes from all MNCs go.. I don’t believe that govt. don’t have enough money to plan the infrastructure of Bangalore.

Wed at 16:16 · Delete

Abhinav Agrawalits all u cyber coolies to be blamed

Wed at 22:43 · Delete

Kanupriya GoelU are also one of the cyber coolie@abhinav

Yesterday at 00:04 · Delete

Abhinav Agrawal… not d one from “ur” country. here at my place we dont make 4 out of 2 lanes to traffic jam.

Yesterday at 00:08 · Delete

Anurag Vishnoic’mon …lead from the front dude …don’t keep wishing …build a new one

Yesterday at 02:44 · Delete

Gaurav Shankhdhar@Harshita, sure ma’am

@Vanitha, that will be my first priority

@Sundar, Its magic so i hope it should work

@Vipul, we will have bike pool

@Priyank, yeh, nice idea, ithink Petrol & Road Taxes r highest in Bangalore among all metros… Read more

Yesterday at 07:55 · Delete

Abhinav Agrawalm just not of you… n i was never one of you.

n regarding the more space less people… its because we are educated enough to know its benefits…

now u’ll listen to kanu… u r so dead dude

Yesterday at 11:00 · Delete

Gaurav Shankhdharno surprise! typical desi thing to do! Once u r in Cali, forget the Kalibari

Yesterday at 11:25 · Delete

Abhinav Agrawal..always learn from the best.

Yesterday at 18:50 · Delete

Kanupriya Goel@gaurav sir..let abhi nav say anything he wants..he is n indian..kitna bhi firang ban jayeee,,his chidren will always sing jan gan man,will call dadi dadu to his parents..he can never get away 4m all that…pagal hai vo..lolzzzzzz

9 hours ago · Delete

King Khan detained!

Gaurav S — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:10:10 +0000

not sure if this is related to Fox buying the rights of ’My Name is Khan’

publicity stunt guys?

but this is too much to digest

After Mr. Kalam, they do it with Shahrukh Khan

Can we have a system in place?

Why Dr. Manmohan Singh…

Gaurav S — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:59:34 +0000

the excitement and enthusiasm has sunken since my last post that post has come from within. Really, this time i don’t want a BJP or 3rd front government. There was a feeling from within that BJP should first learn a lesson or two about India & Indian democracy & its people before claiming Delhi. The people for whom government matters, who go there & vote in sun light, stand in long queues, gave their verdict in support of Dr.Maanmohan Singh & Congress not for Mr. L. K. Advani or BJP. I am not a congress fan and know congress & Mr. Singh aren’t best and ideal but they were better option.

I have received a lot of criticism from friends colleagues relatives about the tone of the post. But it came from a heart who saw

- girls running in open and some rowdy boys beating them, pulling their hair

- rowdy & criminals with no credentials talking about Indian culture & trying to teach people Hinduism

- politician talking about Hinduism and their rights to hide their inability to perform, inability to deliver, inability to come with alternate policies

M J Akbar has written recently that India is secular because Indian Hindus wants it to be a secular country not because Indian Muslims wants it a secular country.

If Hindu wants India to be a Hindu Rastra or they believe in BJP’s future policy for this country then with 80% Hindu population, BJP must have been always a single largest party after Ayodhya

But results are there for everybody to see. I accept that we all have bad memories from past, of brutal conflict, of massacre, of hate. But founder of this nation decided to move on and build a new country. A country where everybody live in peace & harmony.

There can be a long debate on all these issues and every country & culture has a history of wars & conflicts. But to all those who still believe in hatred & separation “Do you want your children & grand children to live in an environment like Pakistan”

As i have said earlier we don’t want to be a Pakistan! Do we?

Other than this, BJP didn’t promise anything new and 3rd front guys himself doesn’t know what they want for the country or even for their state, their region, their language. Most of the 3rd front politicians raised with help of politics based on division by caste, region, language or religion.

Best of luck & all the wishes for the new government. As Motu Mittal rightly said in his comment on previous post “Don’t think India will be changed over night” but we can always hope for better.

No Extremist Please !!

Gaurav S — Sat, 16 May 2009 05:40:09 +0000

Early result of inidan election shows that :

Development will be the first thing people have in mind

How can you expect vote while being against a Nuclear Power?

No Togaria & Muthalik Supporters Please!

A 18 year youth here don’t give an ear to his parents dictates then how can Advani Ji expect his vote while supporting Moral Policing?

No Drama about terrorism or national Security!
You need not be wicked & dishonest to be successful in Indian Politics!

Mr. Manmohan Singh Ji has proved that being simple, honest & intellectual can be your advantage to be at the top post!!

to be continued….