Backstreet Boys – The ultimate Boy Band

People of my age (that must be around 21) must have grown up hearing the beautiful songs by the Backstreet Boys.  Backstreet Boys have 13 of the Top 40 hits in the Billboard 100 and have sold close to 200 million records including over 100 million albums worldwide. . The four-member group consists of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell and A. J. McLean. Original member Kevin Richardson left the group, but the four member gang refused to rule out a possible return of the singer. So lets keep our finger crossed and hope that Kevin is into the gang again.

Their last album “Unbreakable” released in 2007 was an ultimate hit with “Inconsolable” being the most heard song in the album. The group went on a 45 date World tour to promote Unbreakable in Tokyo, Japan. Further they proceeded with the tour to Australia, Japan, Mexico, UK, Europe, Asia, Canada and The United States. Richardson joined the rest of the band in the last leg of the tour which took place in North America. 

According to Billboard, the team is confirmed to be working on a new album due to be released in 2009. They are working with “One Republic” singer Ryan Tedder.

Further more, many songs sung by this boys have a inside meaning to it. I will publish that further in my forthcoming posts.

Now, a few pictures from the Unbreakable photoshoot dedicated to the BSB fans all over the world.

 

 

 

 

Championship League Cricket postponed

The inaugural edition of the prestigious Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament was postponed due to terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Lalit Modi, Chairman of the Champions League, said that they took this after consulting with various cricket boards but he had not given any new dates for Champions League 2008. According to the schedule, this lucrative event (Rs 30 crore prize money) was due to be held from December 3-10 in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore.

Middlesex, Victoria and Western Australia had already cancelled their travel plans even before organisers made this statement. Players like Shane Warne, Shane Watson and Hussey expressed concern about the situation in India.

It is very difficult to conduct this tournament in the next 6 months as International calendar is crowded with tests and one day matches. IPL 2009 will take place in April-May, 2009. There is no room left for Champions League 2008 in the international cricket calendar. 

The organisers have not come up with a specific date for the Championship League matches. Let us hope that the matches take place because they are a treat to the eyes for the spectators and a ‘definite’ treat (money) for the players.

As per latest news on NDTV, the organisers and various officials from India, Australia and South Africa have decided to hold a telephonic conference to sort out a date for the Twenty20 tournament.

Arun Sarin for Yahoo???

The board of the Internet major Yahoo! is moving closer to naming a replacement for the outgoing CEO Jerry Yang – with Vodafone’s Arun Sarin as one of the possible names in the frame.

Mr.Arun Sarin stood down as the Vodafone chief in July, 2008.  The search for the CEO post began when Jerry Yang stepped down as CEO of Yahoo! and returned to his previous position in charge of strategy and development. Mr.Sarin is among the few potential candidates to be considered to this position with others believed to include former AOL boss Jonathan Miller. The other person considered for this position includes Mr.John Chapple, a Seattle venture capitalist and a Yahoo board member.

Mr.Sarin has a lot of experience and is one of the right man to be considered for this top-notch job. Mr.Sarin is an alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where he did his B.Tech. He further gained an MS in engineering after which he pursued a MBA degree from the University of California.  Mr.Sarin had many occasions in which he efficiently managed companies. He was the director of AirTouch and then he became the chief executive of InfoSpace. Then he earned the reputation of becoming the CEO of Vodafone.

Sarin was appointed at a time when the investment community wanted Vodafone to concentrate on managing its businesses efficiently and returning cash to shareholders, after its dramatic takeover driven expansion between 1999 and 2002. In 2004 he entered an auction for AT&T Wireless in the face of considerable hostility from analysts and shareholders, but withdrew when Cingular made an offer he did not think was in Vodafone’s interests to match.

All the best to Mr. Arun Sarin!!!

Need an archive of newspapers? – Google has it!!

Are you one of the guy who wanted to read the newspaper coverage about Neil Armstrong & his comrades when they landed on the moon? Or do you want to take a look or read some inside information of the Gulf war in the newspapers of the 90’s? Maybe you never would have got the chance because you would have a born a long after Armstrong had put his foot on the moon or you never had access to US newspapers because you are in some other part of the world!

Now dont worry, people because Google (our saviour of all needs) has acquired PaperOfRecord.com which has an whole archive of well known newspapers.

PaperofRecord is based in Canada and was the first to digitize the entire history of the Toronto Star. In addition to digitizing newspapers in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe, PaperofRecord has digitized historical documents including he Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest serving Prime Minister.

SearchEngine blog’s announced this deal on Tuesday.

The deal will reportedly see Google work with the company for around two years, after it was agreed by PaperOfRecord’s parent company Cold North Wind Inc. RJ Huggins, Founder and CEO of PaperofRecord.com, was reluctant to source help from a company outside of Canada, but understands that Google’s resources are key to the projects development:

It is a bittersweet day for PaperofRecord.com. We are very pleased to have our legacy and vision of a 500 year, global, multiple language newspaper historical archive being placed in the stewardship of Google. As a Canadian entrepreneur, it is disappointing to not be able to muster the resources in our country to bring such a digital resource to its fruition at home. However, without the help and vision of a company such as Google, this immense, global, educational resource would not be possible on the scale that is being contemplated.

So Google lovers need not go anywhere to access huge chunks of valuable information. It’s in their hands now. Also its good for the PaperofRecord guys because they will get a huge amount of attention due to this acquisition.

The ad war – AXE vs. Set Wet

Howdy people..

Yo, Indians out there! Anybody checked out the latest Set Wet commercial out on Indian televisions! If not check out the one below!

Do you remember something or strike a chord about something you have seen earlier? 

Ya! Actually AXE has come up with an advertisement which was on Indian TV’s about a few months back! In that ad, a thin man would be spraying the AXE deodorant all over his body in the same manner the thin man in this commercial is brandishing his knives! The gals would go for the thin man in the AXE commercial mesmerized by the smell – I suppose it is the AXE effect. But the funny factor in this Set Wet ad is that the gals would not go for the thin man brandishing his knives but would go for another guy smartly dressed behind him, thus leaving the thin guy depressed (poor AXE guy)!

Efficient throwback to the AXE branding guys by the use of this SET WET commercial! I love such kinda ads – a kick on the ass kinda ads!  

Hope we see more kinda ads like this one on Indian televisions! I am searching for this AXE commercial on You Tube! Will post it here as soon as I get that one!

A Muslim’s view on Terrorism

The following article is written by one,  Aijaz Zaka Syed of Dubai on an article in Khaleej Times.

An extremely good article! So kindly read it!!

” Watching the terror nightmare unfold in Mumbai over the past three days with me on television, my kids have repeatedly asked me: “Who are these terrorists and why are they doing this?” And every time I wished I could offer them a convincing answer.

What could I tell them? For one, I was equally clueless why these guys had taken over India ’s financial and cultural capital and were targeting people who had nothing to do with them and had done nothing to harm them. 

For two, I was too ashamed to tell them these guys were ostensibly Muslims and came from a country that was created in the name of Islam. 

At work, while my colleagues went about covering the madness in Mumbai and laying out special pages with the images of the incredibly beautiful hotel, Taj, with its Islamic arches and domes, go up in smoke, I find it hard to look my colleagues in the eye.

And this happens all the time. Every time innocents are targeted in the name of Islam around the world, one can’t face one’s non-Muslim friends and colleagues.  I feel like burying myself in the ground.  Growing up in a religious family, one never thought one would see the day when being a Muslim could be a source of shame.

A distraught friend who has devoted her life to speaking and fighting on behalf of Arabs and Muslims wrote in yesterday saying “I’ve had it with the Arabs and Muslims and Islamic militancy. Forgive me but I am throwing in the towel.”

I couldn’t write back to her but understood her pain.  She grew up in Mumbai and is understandably upset.

My friend went on to say: “The Muslims and Islam have a problem and only they can solve it.  If they do not, the whole world will turn against them.”

If this is how our most loyal friends feel, imagine the sentiments and reactions of the rest of the world.  Can you blame the world if it’s turning against Muslims? What do you expect when not a single day passes without the name of our faith being dragged through the mud by fellow believers around the world?

How many innocents have to die in the name of Islam before Muslim leaders and countries take effective action to deal with the nuts, who are out to destroy us all with their nihilistic cult?

I know that the Muslim leaders including those in the highest echelons of power have lately started speaking out against the extremists.

Darul Uloom Deoband in India , one of the oldest and most respected centres of learning in the Muslim world, issued a fatwa against terrorism at a large gathering of Islamic scholars and leaders in June.  Last month, nearly 5,000 scholars backed the edict at a huge congregation in Hyderabad .

The OIC, the organisation of Muslim states, and Saudi Arabia , the leader of the Arab-Islamic world, have of late been equally vehement in condemning these repulsive acts of violence targeting innocents.

Eminent Muslim intellectuals and journalists like Tariq Ramadan, a grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan Al Banna, and India ’s MJ Akbar and numerous others too have repeatedly protested this distortion of Islamic teachings and spirit. 

These calls of conscience on behalf of mainstream Islam have however proved voices in the wilderness.  Clearly, we need to do more to be heard by the world and to stop this shameful victimisation of innocent people in the name of religion.

The great irony of the Mumbai attacks is the killing of Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare and his colleagues.  Karkare, a brave and decorated officer investigating the Malegaon blasts and other recent terror attacks that he established to be the handiwork of Hindu extremists, not Muslim groups like SIMI, was killed by the terrorists outside Cama hospital Wednesday night.   Obviously, Muslims do not know who their real friends and enemies are. And, pray, why is India increasingly being singled out for this savagery?  What do they think this country is? A Hindu country or an anti-Muslim nation?

Do the ignorant dummies repeatedly being sent out on the so-called jihad know that this great country is home to the world’s largest Muslim population? Almost twice the size of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan!  India ’s greatest superstar is a Muslim, not to mention the countless achievers in other fields.

Why are our friends across the border bent on destroying the whole world with themselves? Is this what Islam and the noble Prophet teach and stand for?

It’s all very well for us to say Islam has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism.  We can go on deluding ourselves these psychopaths do not represent us.

However, the world finds it hard to accept this line of argument because it sees the extremists increasingly assert themselves and take the centre-stage while the mainstream Islam remains silent.  

The great religion that preaches and celebrates universal brotherhood, equality of men and peace and justice for all has been hijacked by a demented, miniscule minority. And, as my friend says, only Muslims can solve this problem.  Only Muslims can confront these anarchists in their midst.

Only they can get their faith freed from the clutches of extremism. This is no time to hide. It’s time to stand up and speak out. For the terrorists will continue to speak on our behalf, until we do not speak up.  This is no time for silence.  Enough is enough! “

Mumbai – After the smoke has cleared

On Monday, the 1st of December most of Mumbai, India attempted a return to normal activity, in the wake of the 60-hour-long siege last week. Some facts about the attacks are a bit clearer now, others still hazy. Based in part on the confessions of the only terrorist captured alive – Azam Amir Kasav (also identified elsewhere as ‘Ajmal Qasab’), Indian officials now say that there were only 10 gunmen involved, all members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir – though Pakistan officially denies any involvement. According to recent reports, the ten attackers were responsible for the deaths of 172 people, including 19 foreigners, and 239 wounded. While mourners of the victims attended to their loved ones, and people all over the world held vigils, a Muslim graveyard in Mumbai refused to bury the nine dead gunmen – an official saying that they were not true followers of the Islamic faith.

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An Indian soldier stands guard outside the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel following an armed siege on November 29, 2008 in Mumbai, India.

 

 

Photographers and members of the media cover a gunfire at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai November 28, 2008. At the front of the Taj, bleary-eyed journalists who had earlier mobbed National Security Guards chief J.K. Dutt when he announced the end of the siege were pushed back roughly behind a rope that had marked an unofficial boundary for them. Hundreds of media workers dived for cover as stray bullets whistled above them during the final stages of a firefight.

 

 

Indian commandos stand on a balcony of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel after they gained control of it, on November 29, 2008 in Mumbai, India.

 

 

The lobby area of the Taj Mahal Hotel is seen in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008, shortly after Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at the luxury Mumbai hotel Saturday.

 

 

MSecurity officials survey a destroyed room inside the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel after the armed siege on November 29, 2008 in Mumbai, India.

 

 

A policeman, shot at five times, holds up his metal belt buckle which saved his life on November 29, 2008 in Mumbai, India

 

 

The interiors of Nariman House, Mumbai headquarters of the ultra-Orthodox Chabad Lubavitch movement, are seen after the commando operation in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008.

 

 

A member of a Hindu congregation holds his hands in prayer to mourn those killed in the Mumbai, India terrorist attacks, while at the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of the Rockies November 29, 2008 in Littleton, Colorado. The congregation listened to a prayer and then paused for two minutes of silence in solidarity with those killed in the attacks.

 

 

Muslims release pigeons symbolising peace during a rally in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad against the Mumbai attacks November 29, 2008.

 

 

An Indian Catholic woman prays following a Sunday Mass, at the Cathedral of the Holy Name, in Mumbai, India, Sunday Nov. 30, 2008.

 

 

Policemen and their families attend a meeting to pay tributes to Mumbai’s policemen, in photographs in background, who lost their lives in terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008.

 

 

Dhole Deepk, a policeman who was wounded at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel during the armed siege with militants that ended yesterday, is seen at the Mumbai hospital, on November 30, 2008.

 

 

Mumbai Residents walk with candles in the street near The Oberoi Hotel during a demonstration against the recent terror attacks in the city on November 30, 2008 in Mumbai, India.

 

 

People standing on the roadside shower flower petals as the body of Hemant Karkare, the chief of Mumbai’s Anti-Terrorist Squad is taken for cremation in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008.

 

 

Sunil Yadav, A National Security Guard (NSG) commando who was injured during an operation in the Taj Mahal hotel, shares his experience with media in a hospital in Mumbai November 30, 2008.

 

 

People make offerings and take the aura from the light of the Artee, at the end of an inter-faith service at the Hindu Sabha Temple in support of Mumbai attack victims, in Brampton, Canada. on Sunday Nov. 30, 2008.

 

 

Forensic experts sit outside the Nariman House Jewish centre, which is guarded by police, at Colaba Market on November 30, 2008 in Mumbai, India.

 

 

The body of a suspected terrorist lies in the wreckage inside the Nariman House building in Mumbai November 28, 2008.

 

 

 

This is an undated image released by Mumbai State police department on Monday Dec. 1, 2008, of Azam Amir Kasav who the police said was the sole terrorist captured alive in the recent attacks in Mumbai. Kasav is purported to be the same terrorist photographed in the act here.

 

 

 

Waiters organize for reopening the site of the first target of terrorist attacks this week, the Leopold Cafe on November 30, 2008 in Mumbai, India.

 

 

Raflles Eeaus Codes, a tourist from Spain who was wounded at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel, lays in a bed at the Mumbai hospital on November 30, 2008 in Mumbai, India.

 

 

Moshe Holtzberg, the 2-year-old orphan of the rabbi and his wife slain in the Mumbai Jewish center, cries during a memorial service at a synagogue in Mumbai, India, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Holtzberg will fly to Israel Monday on an Israeli Air Force jet with his parents’ remains and the Indian woman who rescued him, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

 

 

Muslims pay homage to the victims of the Mumbai attacks during a special prayer meeting at a mosque in the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri November 29, 2008.

 

 

A boy attends a candle lighting ceremony in Mumbai, India on Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008.

 

 

Relatives and neighbors mourn as they attend the funeral of Haresh Gohil, 25, who was killed by gunmen near Chabad-Lubavitch center,also known as Nariman House in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008.

 

 

Several burning funeral pyres of victims who died in the attacks in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008.

 

 

Family members of Maibam Bimolchandra Singh react as his body is brought to his hometown Imphal November 29, 2008. Singh, an employee in the Trident-Oberoi hotel in Mumbai, died in the Mumbai attacks.

 

 

An Indian commando signs autographs for a crowd of grateful people in Mumbai November 29, 2008.

 

 

Manoj Kanojia, 27, cries as he speaks to his mother on the phone at a hospital in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Manoj suffered two bullet wounds in Wednesday’s shooting at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Train Station in Mumbai.

 

 

Afroz Abbas, age 10, winces as he is helped to lie down on his bed at a hospital in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Afroz was injured in the back and said he lost his parents and three other relatives in Wednesday’s shooting at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Train Station in Mumbai.

 

 

Workers sweep the ground in front of the Taj hotel in Mumbai November 29, 2008.

A rubber dinghy lies in a police station in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Indian security officers believe the gunmen who went on a terror rampage in Mumbai may have reached the city using a black and yellow rubber dinghy found near the site of the attacks.

People wait on the platforms of the landmark Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus train station, one of the several places where the attackers shot at people, in Mumbai, India, Monday Dec. 1, 2008. Mumbai returned to normal Monday to some degree, with many shopkeepers opening their doors for the first time since the attacks began. As authorities finished removing bodies Monday from the bullet and grenade-scarred Taj Mahal hotel, a Muslim graveyard refused to bury the nine gunmen who terrorized this city over three days last week, leaving at least 172 people dead and wreaking havoc at some of its most famous landmarks.

People eat at Cafe Leopold, one of the several places where terrorists shot at people, after it reopened in Mumbai, India, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008.

A woman cries, during a candlelight march for the victims of the Mumbai terrorist attack in which more than 195 people were killed, in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008.

This post is a collection of various images taken from all over the web. The above pictures have affected me a lot. Hence I have posted it out here.

I think you may also be interested in these posts!

https://sathisraj88.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/terror-in-mumbai/

https://sathisraj88.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/a-muslims-view-on-terrorism/

Jai Hind!!! 

God of Soccer, Maradona in India

AN INTERESTING FACT ON MARADONA – 

The Hand of God goal was scored as the result of an illegal (but unpenalised) handball by Diego Maradona in the quarter-final match of the 1986 FIFA World Cup between England and Argentina, played on 22 June 1986 in Mexico City‘s Estadio Azteca. Argentina won 2–1.

 The goal was supposed to be hit by Maradona partially by his hand and partially by  his head. The English goalkeeper was Shilton. Maradona later said, “I was waiting  for my teammates to embrace me, and no one came… I told them, ‘Come hug me,  or the referee isn’t going to allow it.'”  Video and photographic evidence  demonstrated that he had struck the ball with his hand, which was shown on  television networks and in newspapers all over the world. For the next few days,  the English press referred to the incident as “The Hand of the Devil.” Maradona  remained unpopular with the English press, and when he was later banned from  football for cocaine use, the tabloid newspaper The Sun stated in a headline “Dirty  Diego Gone For Good!”

Such was the history of the controversial goal, but the goal remains one of the history’s best ever goals uptodate!

MARADONA IN INDIA

Maradona arrived in Kolkata, the football capital of India to a frenzied welcome by fans who defied tight security to catch a glimpse of the greatest footballing legend. Maradona sported a black jacket and trousers. There were doubts regarding whether Maradona would come to India after the recent Mumbai terror attacks but Maradona decided to keep up his date with India.

Later Maradona was seen dribbling the ball with his leg in the game between two local teams of Kolkata which took place under his presence. 

An excellent footballer in a beautiful country supporting ‘The game of all times’!

Terror in Mumbai

  

  ON WORK 

 A reporter talks on her phone as smoke  is seen coming from Taj Hotel in  Mumbai November 27, 2008. Large  plumes of smoke were seen rising from  the top of the landmark Taj Hotel in  Mumbai on Thursday and heavy firing  could be heard, a Reuters witness said.

 

 

                    

 DEVIL’S ADVOCATES

 Armed gunmen are seen in the  Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway  station in Mumbai, India, Wednesday,  Nov. 26, 2008. Teams of gunmen  stormed luxury hotels, a popular  restaurant, hospitals and a crowded  train station in coordinated attacks    across India’s financial capital, killing  people, taking Westerners hostage and  leaving parts of the city under siege  Thursday, police said.

 

 

                   

THE MUMBAI SPIRIT

 A man carries a victim of a gun attack  away from the scene of an earlier attack  at the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus in  Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Nov. 26,  2008.

 

 

                      

THE LONE FACE OF TERROR

 A gunman walks through the  Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway  station in Mumbai, India, Wednesday,  Nov. 26, 2008.

 

 

                     

EVIDENCE OF TERROR

 Onlookers stand at the site of a bomb blast in Mumbai November 26, 2008.

 

 

                    

VICTIM OF TERROR

 Fire engulfs the top floor of the Taj  Mahal hotel, site of one of the shootouts  with terrorists in Mumbai on late  November 26, 2008.

 

 

                    

 HEARTBREAKING

 An unidentified guest of the Taj Hotel  watches other guests being rescued  from a window of the hotel in Mumbai,  India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008.

 

 

                    

 

BRAVEHEARTS IN WORK

 Employees and guests of the Taj Mahal  hotel, site of one of the shootouts with  terrorists, are recued by firefighters as  fire engulfs the top floor on late  November 26, 2008

 

 

                      

  PALACE IN FLAMES

 Firefighters try to douse a fire at the Taj  Mahal Hotel in Mumbai November 27,  2008. Indian commandos freed  hostages from Mumbai’s Taj Mahal hotel  on Thursday but battled on with gun-  toting Islamist militants.

 

 

                     

 PROUD OF YOU

 An Indian commando runs into Taj  Hotel prior to a gun battle in Mumbai  November 28, 2008. A chief of an  Indian commando unit flushing out  militants at the hotel said on Friday that  he saw 12 to 15 bodies in one room.

 

 

                       

 NOOO WORDS : (

 Italian chef Emanuele Lattanzi carrying  his daughter walks out after being  rescued from Oberoi Trident Hotel  where suspected militants are holed up  in Mumbai, India, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008

 

 

                    

 HERO IN ACTION

 An Indian paramilitary soldier lies on  ground as he looks toward the Taj Mahal  Hotel where suspected militants are  holed up during an assault in Mumbai,  India, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008

 

 

                    

  FEAR

 People read a newspaper carrying  reports of the shootings in Mumbai, in  the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri  November 28, 2008. Indian  commandos took control of Mumbai’s  Trident-Oberoi hotel on Friday, but  battles raged on with militants who  were still holed up in another luxury  hotel and a Jewish centre with about  half a dozen foreign hostages

 

 

                    

LULL IN ACTION

 A soldier taking rest in the midst of the action alongside Nariman House.

 

 

                    

 AIM!!!

 A National Security Guard commando  fires at suspected militants believed to  be hiding in Nariman House, in Mumbai  November 28, 2008.

 

 

                    

 HERO IN ACTION

 A National Security Guard commando is  seen after securing a floor during an  operation against terrorists holed up at  Nariman House, the headquarters of the  ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group  Chabad Lubavitch, in Colaba in  Mumbai, India, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008

                   

 

                        

PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN

 Indian commandos are airdropped in Nariman House, where the armed    militants are believed to be holed up in  Mumbai November 28, 2008.

 

 

                    

  OUR HEROES

 A National Security Guard (NSG)  commando aims towards a window after  an explosion on the fourth floor of the  Nariman House where suspected  militants are hiding, in Mumbai  November 28, 2008

 

 

                     

MEDIA COVERAGE

 The media focus their attention on the  beseiged Taj Mahal Palace Hotel on  November 27, 2008 in Mumbai, India.

 

 

                    

 THE ORIGINAL HEROESSSSS…!

 Armed personnel hold handguns as  they secure the area outside the Taj  Palace hotel in Mumbai, India,  Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008.

 

 

                   

 PEACE FOR YOU!

 A stray dog stands on a deserted street  outside the Taj Mahal hotel where  suspected gunmen are holed up in  Mumbai, India, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008

 

 

                          

WE NEED PEACE

 Schoolchildren hold candles during a  vigil held in memory of the victims of  Wednesday’s shootings in Mumbai. Elite Indian  commandos fought room to room  battles with Islamist militants inside  two luxury hotels to save scores of    people trapped or taken hostage, as the  country’s prime minister blamed  neighbouring countries

 

 

                    

TAKING POSITIONS

 The military take up positions outside  the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel on  November 27, 2008 in Mumbai, India.

 

 

                       

 TERRIBLE!!

 The windows on the first floor of the Taj  Mahal hotel shatter after the use of a  grenade launcher in Mumbai,  Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. Explosions and  gunfire continued at the  Taj Mahal hotel Friday afternoon, two  days after a chain of militant attacks  across India’s financial center left  people dead and the city in panic

 

 

                      

SAVIOURS

 Policemen take position outside  “Nariman Bhavan”, where armed  militants are believed to be holed up in  Mumbai November 27, 2008.

 

 

                      

IN SAFE HANDS

 A woman (right), recently evacuated  from Mumbai following the attacks,  hugs her mother upon her arrival on  November 28, 2008 at the military  airport of Torrejon, near Madrid. Sixty  Spanish citizens who were in Mumbai  when the attacks erupted in the Indian  city were expected back in Madrid  Friday on a Spanish air force plane 

 

 

                      

  I’VE NO WORDS

 Sharda Janardhan Chitikar, left, is  consoled by a relative as she grieves the  death of her two children in a terrorist  attack while she waits for their bodies  outside St. Georges Hospital in Mumbai,  India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008

Movie with expectations – Burn After Reading

Who would not want to watch a movie where the duo of George Clooney and Brad Pitt act together? We have always loved Oceans Eleven, Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen! 

Now the duo is in for another surprise. George Clooney and Brad Pitt are acting in a farce and black comedy film directed by the Coen brothers. Anybody remember Coen brothers?? If not whack up your mind and go for a flashback!! :o) The Coen brothers are the people who delivered us with the amazing movie “No Country for Old Men”. Burn After Reading is supposed to be the next movie after their academy award winning venture.

This movie has already been released in USA and the UK. The movie is supposed to get released in India on December 5. Brad Pitt and George Clooney are my icons. Now my icons coupled with the Coen brothers are going to deliver a movie. So lets how much effort they have put in for the movie. Normally I watch movies with such a kind of hype in the theatre even though they are available in the torrents. So, lets wait and see, my Indian buddies. In fact, I did not even visit the movie’s wikipedia page because once I go there I will get to know the plot of the story. So, “Always late than never”. 🙂