God I Refuse to Die…

Here is a wonderful video from a young Indian artist ‘StringSick’. Just brilliant work! A must see. The lyrics are really beautiful. And the photo compilation is … Well I have no words to describing them. It’s sometimes unbelievable to see the realities of the world. The song touches your heart while the video rips it apart!

Mile Sur Mera Thumhara, To Sur Bane Hamara….

Do you remember the song, ‘Mile Sur Mera Thumhara, To Sur Bane Hamara….’? Almost everybody who has grown up in the 80’s has fond memories of all those songs Durdarshan used to show back then.

Of late at my work my colleagues and I have been discussing those songs quite are lot. These songs made us feel one as India. Everybody says it’s sad that Durdershan doesn’t show similar songs these days. Here are two of my favorite ones:

Mile Sur Mera Tumhara




Ek Chidiya, Anek Chidiya

Essence of Being Indian

This is a cool advertisement of trucommunication.co.uk, a Tata Venture. Have a look at it.

Value of Rs. 500.00

Take a look at this video, I found it on one of my friend’s Orkut profile. It shows what 500 rupees mean to different people from different financial classes of the society. Most of the well-to-do-people seem to answer the question with: movies or booz.

Did you notice the kid who talks about buying ‘tamater and aloo’ to market them? Isn’t it astonishing to know that what you think of as cost of one evening’s fun can be a seed capital for somebody’s dreams.

Unfortunately my answer would have been movies too. It is hard to know what to feel in such incidents. I almost felt guilty about squandering money. A question repeatedly comes to my mind:

What if I had been born to poor parents from some slum instead of being born to my parents?

A lot of time we complain that our lives suck. I certainly do it a lot. But then after watching videos like this I feel have, I really even experienced a day of what is called as hard life. What it must feel like being hungry and not able to buy food? How must it feel when your loved ones are down with fever and you can’t even buy some medicine?

Free Hugs Campaign

Tushar (my colleague and buddy) showed me this cool video. I thought I should share it on my blog.

From: Wikipedia

The Free Hugs Campaign is a social movement involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places. The campaign in its present form was started in 2004 by an Australian man known only by the pseudonym "Juan Mann". The campaign became famous internationally in 2006 as the result of a music video on YouTube by the Australian band Sick Puppies.

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