Celebrating 60 years of Independence.

The National Anthem of India:

Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jaya He
Bharat Bhagya Vidhata
Punjab Sindh Gujarat Maratha
Dravida Utkala Banga
Vindhya Himachal Yamuna Ganga
Ucchala Jaladhi Taranga
Tubh Shubha Name Jage
Tubh Shubha Ashisha Mange
Gahe Tubh Jaya Gata
Jan Gan Mangaldayak Jay He
Bharat Bhagya Vidhata
Jaye He ! Jaye He ! Jaye He !
Jaye,Jaye,Jaye,Jaye He….

The “Jana Gana Mana” was composed by Shri Rabindranath Tagore and first sung at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress on December 27th, 1911. It was adopted as the National Anthem of India on 24th January, 1950 by the Constituent Assembly. The first stanza( out of five stanzas) of the song forms the National Anthem.

Proud to be an Indian. 

I agree big breasts always are distraction, infact they are also called as “Weapons of mass destruction” for some bra company ads. I am not able to remember, which bra company was that. But I remember seeing big hoardings of these ads in London.

This is true:

A German bus driver threatened to throw a 20-year-old sales clerk off his bus in the southern town of Lindau, because he said she was too sexy.

‘Suddenly he stopped the bus,’ the woman named Debora C. told Bild newspaper. ‘He opened the door and shouted at me “Your cleavage is distracting me every time I look into my mirror and I can’t concentrate on the traffic. If you don’t sit somewhere else, I’m going to have to throw you off the bus.”‘

The woman, wearing her snug-fitting summer clothes with the plunging neckline, said she moved to another seat but was humiliated by the bus driver.

A spokesman for the bus company defended the driver.

‘The bus driver is allowed to do that and he did the right thing,’ the spokesman said. ‘A bus driver cannot be distracted because it’s a danger to the safety of all the passengers.’

This is funny, you got to read this….

Two Dutch bloggers who claim they filmed up women’s skirts from a Heerhugowaard underground carpark to “warn the public of the intimate views afforded by see-through stairs” will appear in court in October.

The outrage was facilitated by a glass ceiling atop the carpark’s stairwell, “allowing people to look up at shoppers passing above”. The pair was nabbed after someone complained, and subsequently charged with filming people without their permission.

For their part, the subterranean voyeurs say on Geen Stijl that the female subjects knew they were being recorded, and further claim the exercise was simply to “see whether the local council had done anything about the transparent ceiling after the issue was brought to their attention several months before”.

According to Dutch news agency ANP, the maximum penalty for unauthorised upskirt vigilante blogging is two months prison.

So what do you think, is it fair to take such pictures and post them in your blog. And then justify your action, as a lesson to government or council.

Nose feels grainy: Mix equal quantities of rose water and lemon juice.
Apply it on your face daily, and rinse after 15 minutes.
Multani Mitti (fuller earth) mixed with rose water also checks oily skin.

For blackheads: Mix rose water with rice powder, and apply it on your nose.
Rub gently using circular motions. Leave it on for five minutes, and rinse.
Carry wet wipes and a compact powder in your purse, to wipe away excess oil.

– Shahnaz Husain

What would you call women in flesh trade, A Prostitute or A Devdasi? Do you still believe in Devdasi (sanctified prostitutes) system, where a women is devoted to a god or goddess from her early childhood and later forced into a prostitution business…….all in the name of God. I do agree, in a country like India where majority people live under the poverty line are at some point of life forced to take up prostitution as a living. But what if a girl child at a very young age is made a Devdasi, so that later on very conveniently she could be turned into a prostitute.

When girls dedicated to Yellama reach puberty they are forced to sacrifice their virginity to an older man. What follows is a life of sexual slavery, they become sanctified prostitutes.

The practice of dedicating young girls as devadasis has been outlawed for over 50 years, but still it happens. Anti-slavery campaigners estimate that there are at least 25,000 devadasis in the state of Karnataka alone.

Well, believe it or not, this Devdasi system is still a very strong religion in some villages of southern India or you can call it an employment.

In a village in Saundatti – Karnataka, The women are all devadasis, literally slaves of the goddess. As children their parents gave them to serve Yellama – the goddess of fertility. Her cult is thousands of years old and her followers spread across southern India.

Being devadasis means slaves of the goddess. Devdasis have to visit Yellama temple, wear necklaces of pearls to show they are bound to Yellama. They give blessings and perform rituals. The money devadasis earn goes straight to their parents who often act as pimps for their daughters. Once girls are dedicated the course of their lives is decided. They can never marry, never have a family life.

Shoba, who is just 20 and has been a devadasi prostitute for seven years, showed her brothel, a single room she shares with her parents. She comes from a long line of devadasis. Her grandmother was one, her sister is too. Shoba remembers how, when she was 13 her parents dressed her as if for marriage. They auctioned her virginity to the highest bidder.

“My parents didn’t have any sons, so there was nobody to earn the family a living,” says Imla, another devdasi. “Instead they turned me into a prostitute. I don’t even remember when I started because I was so young. My parents thought at least they’d get some money from me.”

The goddess of fertility is seen as a powerful force. Many believe that giving girls to Yellama will bring good fortune on a family.

The birth of more than 4,000 babies could be delayed in the Satara district of Maharashtra every year, if one in five couples takes up the Rs. 5000 offer.

Yeah you heard it!

Couples in Satara who delay having their first child by two years can get a ‘second honeymoon’ paid for by the state. The cash offer is aimed at controlling birth rates in a province in the west of the country.

‘The money is sufficient for a couple to enjoy a second honeymoon for two or three days at a favourite destination,’ a health official explained.