Dear Friends

They say, India is a Hindu nation. Maybe, maybe not.

Recently when selection for 7 wonders was going on, majority of Indian were proud that Tajmahal was nominated & were voting in huge numbers(I also voted) to make sure that Tajmahal wins the race. Indians ultimately celebrated the victory aswell. Indians didn't thought for a moment that this monument was built by a Moghul emperor or that it was an Islamic architecture or that is was a mouseluem. Had any of Hindu Indian thought that way, Tajmahal surely wouldn't have won the vote.

Or for the record, does anyone realise that the leader of ruling party is a Christian, not an Indian by birth & was married to a Parsi(!!). And the country is governed by a Sikh & that First Citizen, President is a Muslim.

To understand how this 'Hindu' rashtra operates, one needs to be born in this soil & be Indian by heart, one has to be a part of this 'Indian' culture, only then you know what drives this nation. One who is outside can't understand how a Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Parsi, Jain, Buddhist can proudly say "Sare Jahan Se Accha, Hindustan Hamara".

Bye, take care & happy reading.
Premal

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-- Thomas Alva Edison

Why it takes awhile to understand English!!.

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP." It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we wake in the morning, why do we wake UP?!

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?

Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends, we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.

We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP.

To be knowledgeable of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, takes UP almost 1/4th the page and definitions add UP to about thirty.

If you are UP to! it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so I'll shut UP.....

George Bush goes to a primary school to talk about the war. After his talk, he offers question time.

One little boy puts up his hand and George asked, What is your name?

Bob

And what is your question, Bob?

I have 3 questions.

First, why did the USA invade Iraq without the support of the UN?

Second, why are you president when al gore got more votes?

Third, what happened to Osama bin laden?

Just then, the bell rings for recess. George bush informs the kiddies that they will continue after recess.

When they resume George says, Ok where were we? Oh, thats right. Question time. Who has a question?

A different little boy raises his hand.

George points him out and asked him what is your name?

Steve

And what is your question Steve?

I have 5 questions.

First, why did the USA invade Iraq without the support of UN?

Second, why are you president when Al Gore got more votes?

Third, what happened to Osama bin laden?

Fourth, why did the recess bell go 20 minutes early?

Fifth, where is Bob?

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Scientists inspect the carcass of a baby mammoth in the artic city of Salekhard, July 2, 2007. A frozen carcass of a baby mammoth was found in May this year in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district in Russia's north and is considered to be the best preserved specimen of its type, scientists said. (Sergei Cherkashin/Reuters)

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Belarussian sportsmen perform during a celebration marking Independence Day in Minsk, July 3, 2007. President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday Belarus would disregard its economic rows with Russia and work closer with Moscow to counter U.S. plans to erect an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe. Belarus marks Independence Day on July 3, the day Soviet troops freed Minsk from Nazi forces in 1944. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS)

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U.S. brothers Michael, right, and Laurence Lenahan are gored at the same time by a fighting bull during a traditional bull run in Pamplona, Spain, Thursday July 12, 2007. The two brothers were gored Thursday during the longest and bloodiest morning bull run at the San Fermin festival in the northeastern city of Pamplona. Lawrence Lenahan, 26, of Hermosa Beach, Calif. and Michael Lenahan, 23, of Philadelphia, Pa. were gored by a bull who strayed from the pack, turned around and ran the wrong way. (AP Photo/ Larrion Pimoulier)

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Chinese visit a four-story, free-of-charge public restroom in Chongqing, China Saturday July 7, 2007. They're flushing with pride in a southwestern Chinese city where a recently opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 3,000 square meters (32,290 square feet). Officials in Chongqing are preparing to submit an application to Guinness World Records to have the public restroom listed as the world's largest, state-run China Central Television reported Friday.(AP Photo)

If ever in your life U R very sad & lonely
& feel that U have lost every thing,
I will come, hold your hand,
take U 4 Walk on a Bridge
& Show U where 2 jump from

Boy: Jaaneman, is dil mein aaja!
Gal: Sandal utaaroon kya?
Boy: Are pagli, yeh koi mandir thodi hai, aise hi aaja!

Husband & wife are like liver and kidney.
Husband is liver & wife kidney.
If liver fails, kidney fails.
If kidney fails, liver manages with other kidney.

Pathar se na maare mere diwaneko ...
Pathar se na maare mere diwaneko
Bomb ka zamana hai yaaron, Udaa do saale ko.