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Happy Dussehra - One Of The Biggest Festival In The Hindu Calender Year :)
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Oct 16, 2010 12:22 am
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In the months of Ashwin and kartik(hindu calender months) Hindus observe a 10 day ceremony of fast, rituals, celebrations, fiests to honor the mother Goddess and triumph of Lord Rama over Demon Ravana.
Dussehra also symbolizes the triumph of warrior Goddess Durga over the buffalo demon, Mahishasura. It is a celebration of victory of good over evil.
This celebration starts from Navratri and ends with the tenth day festival of “Dussehra”. Navratri and Dussehra is celebrated throughout the country at the same time, with varying rituals, but with great enthusiasm and energy as it marks the end of scorching summer and the start of winter season.
The tenth day after Navratri is called Dussehra, on which number of fairs are organized throughout the northern India, burning effigies of Ravana.
It is also called “Vijayadashmi” as this day marks the victory of Lord Rama over Ravana. VijayaDashami is considered to be an auspicious day for the Indian householder, on which he worships, protects and preserves 'Shakti' (power).
According to Scriptures, by worshipping the 'Shakti' on these nine-days the householders attain the threefold power i.e. physical, mental and spiritual, which helps him to progress in life without any difficulty.
The 'Ramlila' - an enactment of the life of Lord Rama, is held during the nine days preceding Dussehra. On the tenth day (Dussehra or Vijay Dasami), larger than life effigies of Ravana, his son and brother - Meghnadh and Kumbhakarna are set to fire.
The theatrical enactment of this dramatic encounter is held throughout the country in which every section of people participates enthusiastically.
In burning the effigies the people are asked to burn the evil within them, and thus follow the path of truth and goodness, bearing in mind the instance of Ravana, who despite all his might and majesty was destroyed for his evil ways.
Legends
Dussehra is also known as Vijaya Dasami, because of the victory of Ram over Ravana. On this day in Satya Yug, Ram (the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu), killed the great demon and king of Lanka, Ravana.
Puranas also opined that in this day warrior Goddess Durga defeated and killed the buffalo demon Mahishasura.
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Happy Gandi Jayanthi( Birthday Of Mahatma Gandi)
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Oct 1, 2010 11:37 pm
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We All Love You BAPU.
Mahatama Gandhi was not only the originator of the principle of non-violence.
But he was the first to apply it in the political field on a huge scale.
The concept of nonviolence (ahimsa) and nonresistance has a long history in Indian religious thought and has had many revivals in Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Jewish and Christian contexts.
Gandhi explains his philosophy and way of life in his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth. He was quoted as saying:
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won."
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
We All Love You BAPU.(Bapu Means Father).
Your way of life and ideologies are a great message to the world.
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The Confessions Of A Lonely Man - Nice Joke - Have Good Time Folks :)
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Jun 17, 2010 12:51 am
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The Confessions Of A Lonely Man
Once, there was a man who was upset by his past deeds that he decided to visit a church and confess all of his sins. When he arrived at the church, he walked to the confession area and spoke to the pastor.
"Father, I am sinful."
"Yes son, just tell me what have you done, the Lord will forgive you."
"Father, I have a steady relationship with my girlfriend, it's been 3 years and nothing serious ever happened between us. Yesterday, I visited her house, nobody was at home except for her sister. We were alone and I slept with her."
"That's bad my boy, fortunately you realize your mistake."
"Father, last week I went to her office to look for her, but nobody was around except for one of her colleagues, so I slept with her too."
"That's not very good of you."
"Father, last month, I went to her uncle's house to look for her, nobody was around except for her auntie, and I slept with her too."
"Father? ......... Father?" suddenly this guy realized that there was no response from the Father, he walked over and discovered that the Pastor was not there. So he began searching for him. "Father? Where are you?"
He searched high and low, and finally he found him hiding under the table behind the piano. "Father, why are you hiding here?" "Sorry son, suddenly I remembered there is nobody around here except me." 
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The Letter That Won A Competition In UK As Complaint Letter Of The Year - Have A Laugh:)
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Jun 14, 2010 1:29 am
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The Letter That Won A Competition In UK As Complaint Letter Of The Year - A Real Life Customer Complaint
Letter sent to NTL (to their complaints dept....)
Dear Cretins,
I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible
As well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details,so that you can either pursue your professional perogative, and seek to
rectify these difficulties - or more likely (I suspect)
So that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office
My initial installation was cancelled without warning, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive.
I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful website....HOW?
I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few minutes - an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept.
The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later,
although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools - such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived.
After 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks my modem arrived... six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it.
I estimate your internet server's downtime is roughly 35%... hours
between about 6pm -midnight, Mon-Fri, and most of the weekend. I am still waiting for my telephone connection.
I have made 9 calls on my mobile to your no-help line, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers.
I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that no telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off)
That I will be transferred to someone (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that your office is closed); that I will be transferred to someone and then been redirected to the irritating Scottish robot woman...and several other variations on this theme.
Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those crucially important testicle-moments to attend to.
Frankly I don't care, it's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustration's in print than to shout them at your unending hold music.
Forgive me, therefore, if I continue.
I thought BT were shit, that they had attained the holy piss-pot of god awful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers.
That's why I chose NTL, and because, well, there is n't anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless
shower of bastards you truly are.
You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum incompetents of the highest order. British Telecom - wankers though they are - shine like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy.
Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you.
I suggest that you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver - any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused rage.
I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for
both you and your pointless company.
I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture.
Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless employees. Have a nice day - may it be the last in you miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of twats. 
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Joke For The Day - The Body Builder And The Young Lady :)
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Jun 12, 2010 1:41 am
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[The Body Builder And The Young Lady
The body builder takes off his shirt
and the Lady says,
"What a Great chest you have!'
He tells her,
'That's 100 lbs. of dynamite, Baby.'
He takes off his pants and the Lady says,'
"What massive calves you have!'
The body builder tells her,
'That's 100 lbs. of dynamite, Baby.'
He then removes his underwear and
the blonde goes running out of the
apartment screaming in fear.
The body builder puts his clothes
back on and chases after her.
He catches up to her and asks why
she ran out of the apartment like that.
The Lady replies,
'I was afraid to be around all that dynamite
after I saw how short the fuse was!' 
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The Little Old Lady - Just A Joke - Enjoy Reading :)
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Jun 10, 2010 7:58 am
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The Little Old Lady - Enjoy Reading
Defense Attorney:
Will you please state your age?
Little Old Lady:
I am 86 years old.
Defense Attorney:
Will you tell us, in your own words, what happened the night of April 1st?
Little Old Lady:
There I was, sitting there in my swing on my front porch on a warm spring evening, when a young man comes creeping up on the porch and sat down beside me.
Defense Attorney:
Did you know him?
Little Old Lady:
No, but he sure was friendly.
Defense Attorney:
What happened after he sat down?
Little Old Lady:
He started to rub my thigh.
Defense Attorney:
Did you stop him?
Little Old Lady:
No, I didn't stop him.
Defense Attorney:
Why not?
Little Old Lady:
It felt good. Nobody had done that since my Albert died some 30 years ago.
Defense Attorney:
What happened next?
Defense Attorney:
Will you please state your age?
Little Old Lady:
I am 86 years old.
Defense Attorney:
Will you tell us, in your own words, what happened the night of April 1st?
Little Old Lady:
There I was, sitting there in my swing on my front porch on a warm spring evening,
when a young man comes creeping up on the porch and sat down beside me.
Defense Attorney:
Did you know him?
Little Old Lady:
No, but he sure was friendly.
Defense Attorney:
What happened after he sat down?
Little Old Lady:
He started to rub my thigh.
Defense Attorney:
Did you stop him?
Little Old Lady:
No, I didn't stop him.
Defense Attorney:
Why not?
Little Old Lady:
It felt good. Nobody had done that since my Albert died some 30 years ago.
Defense Attorney:
What happened next?
Little Old Lady:
Well, by then, I was feeling so "spicy" that I just laid down and told him "Take me, young man. Take me now!"
Defense Attorney:
Did he take you?
Little Old Lady:
Hell, no! He just yelled, "April Fool!" And that's when I shot him, the little bastard.
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A Joke For The Folks - Join The Queue:)
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Jun 7, 2010 11:00 pm
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Enjoy The Joke - Have Good Time Folks
A man was leaving a cafe when he noticed an unusual funeral. A funeral coffin was followed by a second one. Behind the second coffin was a solitary man walking with a black dog. Behind him was a queue of 200 men walking in single line. The man couldn't stand his curiosity.
He approached the man walking with the dog, "I am so sorry to disturb you, but I've never seen a funeral like this with so many of you walking in single line.
Whose funeral is it?"
The man replied, "That first coffin is for my wife."
What happened to her?"
"My dog attacked and killed her."
"Well, who is in the second coffin?”
"My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my wife when the dog attacked and killed her also."
A thoughtful moment of silence passes between the two men. Then the first one asks in excitement, "Can I borrow the dog?"
The man replied, "Join the queue"
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Happy Ugadi - The Telugu Festival Of New Year :)
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Mar 16, 2010 12:19 am
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Happy Ugadi - The New Year Festival - According To South Indian Lunar Calender
I Wish All My Friends All Around The Globe A Happy Ugadi On This Auspicious Occasion.
This Ugadi festival is celebrated as the new year festival in Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka in india. It is also celebrated as Gudi Padwa in Maharastra on the same day.
Yuga means era and adi means start. So this festival Ugadi(yuga+adi)signifies the new beginnings with the year to unfold.
The festival marks the new year day for people between Vindhyas and Kaveri river who follow the Dakshina(south) Bhartha(india) lunar calendar, pervasively adhered to in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
This auspicious day begins with ritual showers (oil bath) followed by prayers, and then the eating of a specific mixture Called “Ugadi Pachadi” in Andhra Pradesh and “Bevu-Bella” in Karnataka.
This “Ugadi Pachadi”or “Bevu-Bella” is made with
* Neem Buds/Flowers for bitterness
* Raw Mango for tang
* Tamarind Juice for sourness
* Green Chilli/Pepper for heat
* Jaggery for sweetness
* Pinch of Salt for saltiness
The Ugadi Pachadi is mixture of all this six tastes.
This Ugadi Pachadi Signifies all the flavors in the journey of life in the coming new year.
This symbolizes the fact that life is a mixture of different experiences sadness, happiness, anger, fear, disgust, surprise which should be accepted together and with equanimity.
This festival signifies all the new hopes, new dreams, new adventures and the quest for better beginnings all together once again.
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WC In India - The Confusion - Water Closet Or Wayside Chapel - Enjoy The Joke :)
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Dec 30, 2009 8:09 am
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WC In India - The Confusion - Water Closet Or Wayside Chapel - Enjoy The Joke
In the days when you couldn't count on a public toilet facility,
an English woman was planning a trip to India. She was registered
to staying a small guest house owned by the local school master.
She was concerned as to whether the guest house contained a WC. In
England, a bathroom is commonly called a WC which stands for
"Water Closet". She wrote to the schoolmaster inquiring of the
facilities about the WC.
The school master, not fluent in English, asked the local priest
if he knew the meaning of WC. Together they pondered possible
meanings of the Letters and concluded that the lady wanted to
know if there was a "Wayside Chapel" near the house . . . a
bathroom never entered their minds.
So the schoolmaster wrote the following reply:
Dear Madam,
I take great pleasure in informing you that the WC is located 9
Miles from the house. It is located in the middle of a grove of
pine trees, surrounded by lovely grounds. It is capable of
holding 229 people and is open on Sundays and Thursdays. As there
are many people expected in the summer months, I suggest you
arrive early. There is, however, plenty of standing
room.
This is an unfortunate situation especially if you are in the
habit of Going regularly.
It may be of some interest to you that my daughter was married in
the WC As it was there that she met her husband. It was a
wonderful event. There were 10 people in every seat. It was
wonderful to see the expressions on their faces. We can take
photos in different angle. My wife, sadly, has been ill and
unable to go recently. It has been almost! a year since she
went last, which pains her greatly.
You will be pleased to know that many people bring their lunch and
make a day of it. Others prefer to wait till the last minute and
arrive just in time.
I would recommend your ladyship plan to go on a Thursday as there
is an organ accompaniment. The acoustics are excellent and even
the most delicate Sounds can be heard everywhere.
The newest addition is a bell which rings every time a person
enters. We are holding a bazaar to provide plush seats for all
since many feel it is long needed. I look forward to escorting
you there myself and seating you in a place where you can be seen
by all.
With deepest regards,
The Schoolmaster
The Woman fainted reading the reply........ and she never visited India!!!!
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