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There is only one issue on which i keep fighting mom. God! I have been thinking for long about what God is and why it is such an issue specially in the kind of society I live in where he is the one who does everything. All issues are to be solved by him!

The first time I read about a person not believing in God was about Swami Dayanand Saraswati questioning God  not able protect food offered to him. It was a single line in my text but it left a great impact on me. I questioned for the first time to myself on God’s existence.

On another extreme I also do remember questioning a teacher at school with something like “how can you say Jesus exists if you dont think Ganesha does” I think it shocked her. Even though I did not realize it much at that stage but I guess it was more than rude to say this to a Christian Nun who was dedicating her life for teaching students of all beliefs!

That was the time when I was very confused or may be did not know the answer. My mom and family are fairly or lets say extremely religious. My grandfather used to donate lot of money to temples without even letting his name known! I have been exploring a lot ever since and was very confused until may be 2-3 years back when I started taking a very strong opinion about God’s existence or his non – existence.

The points against were obvious. I did not find any reason to believe. I never did. My mom was very religious but she faced a lot of her difficulty in her life when i was young for a lot of reasons! My grand father was a very religious person but my uncle expired at a very young age. I guess these two thoughts shook me whenever I wanted to believe in God!’

Recently whenever I have bowed down to him, I have always said one thing. if you exist I hate you. The only reason that I bow to you is because my mother finds joy in me bowing in front of something that does not exist!

More perspective from Hinduism!

It was refreshing to read that even Rig Veda talks about non existence of God and that it questions his existence!

“Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation?
The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe.”

And for those who do not know! Hinduism gives enough space for Atheists! That is why I kept wondering why i keep calling myself a Hindu and still am not a believer.  (I am not well read of the religious text but would love to do that too some day!)

What I always believe in and always want people to believe in is that it is their heart that matters! If their souls are in the right place you need no God. That is why I keep telling my mom to be worried the day I start being “wrong” to people and by deeds! “wrong” again is a word which at a philosophical level is non existent and does not make sense!

Oh yeah I forgot to say, If you believe in god, then please help in charity not in building another grand temple in the name of the lord.

Mom and Dad are here…

It has been good to see them each single time that I have over the last 10 yrs since I started living away from home.

This one is to you for being there all the time, having never complained… always for me whenever i needed. Even when I did not. Making me a spoiled person that i am, for not killing me for the evils that I have done!

Mom keeps reading my blog sometimes… This is to tell u that u are the best and one who has spoiled me so much

This person called lokesh verma seems to have lost my blog in his computer garbage

Waited for too log to blog… so decided that this is the better place to start again…

So here I am….

Nishant Sah: (On a friend’s Facebook profile sometime in the past)

There are no fans of Sachin. . only believers and non-believers

Nishant Sah: (After the 2oo runs inning)

Before Christ: Buddha said that he was not God… Buddhism became the most followed religion Near Christ: Christ said that he was not God… Christianity became really big After Christ: Sachin says he is not God… Cricket already the religion of 1.1 billion people!

The other mortals said this about the God… Ofcourse the list is not complete and no like God is infinite, the things said about him are also infinite…

Nasser Hussain:

I have never liked comparisons between great players, but after Wednesday’s incredible game it must be said — Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest batsman of all time. Better than Brian Lara and Ricky Ponting, the other two great players of my era. Better than Sir Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskar and Allan Border. And I would even say better than Sir Don Bradman himself.

Michael Clarke:

He’s probably the greatest batsman I’ve ever seen play, live.

Merv Hughes to Allan Border

This little prick’s going to get more runs than you, AB.

Shane Warne

I’ll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don’t think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player

Sunil Gavaskar

closest thing to batting perfection

Wasim Akram

Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time.

Viv Richards

He is 99.5 percent perfect. I’d pay to see him

Brian Lara

You know genius when you see it. And let me tell you, Sachin is pure genius.

Barry Richards

Sachin is cricket’s God.

Allan Donald

‘The best batsman I’ve bowled to’

A friend’s Status message

“The old Sachin radiated heat. The new Sachin gives light. But he still remains the sun.”

Hashim Amla, the South African batsman, reassures himself as he boards a flight

Nothing bad can happen to us if we’re on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.”

Shane Warne delights the Indian press with his views on batting greats of this era

“Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt – daylight second, Brian Lara third.”

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova joins the Sachin Tendulkar fan club after watching him bat at Sydney Feb 2, 2004

“Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.”

Daryl Tuffey

“You can never say that he is out of form. He is a volcano waiting to explode and we hope he doesn’t do that against us in the one-dayers.”

There’s Steve Waugh and Brian Lara. And then, a notch above, there’s Sachin Tendulkar

Shahrukh Khan

I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing us to breathe the same air as you do

If he scores less than fifty, he is not in form..
If he scores less than hundred, he doesnt finish mathces
If he scores a hundred, he plays for hundreds
If he scores one fifty and India loses, he did not play well
If he scores in the first innings, He doesnt in the 2nd
If he scores in the second innings, it was an exception
If India wins, it was the team
If India loses, it was bcos he did not play well enuf…
come on.. give him a break!

Its been over one year now… Life has been quite good… Havent blogged a lot these last days but then life hasnt been as inactive

First a few updates… Edudigm(IIT JEE Preparations) .. (A paid service that we have started)

A media house partnership right at the corner. Almost a done deal. A few contracts with schools. 4 of them. The way a few coaching institutes work!

I use the phrase the End of the Beginning for two reasons.. one the start-up that we started! That does not mean that we have become a mid sized company! Far from it. But what has probably happened is that we have a “size” in terms of revenue, and unless things really dont go our way from here on, we are here to stay

The other reason is that it is near the end of the first phase of my life.. if not already, i am afraid there is very little time left. This is true for most of my friends who have studied with me too. As the famous blog says.. “Sachin Tendulkar’s retirement” will mark the end fo the first phase of a lot of youngsters of my generation. I guess he is not too far from it.. (2-3 yrs max?)

I hope there is a lot of good news I put on the blog… and update my blog more often..

Till then.. bye..

I know this is not a long list. And that I am writing this blog partly bcos of the hate that i have against the politicians.  Without writing too much on why and venting my anger against them all, I thought it would be a good time to pick my set of leaders who I think could change the country, who seem honest, upright and hardworking! Not too many that I see.

1) Nitish Kumar :   He might seem a stupid choice but I put him above all others partly because I am from Bihar. The condition of governance is the worst. Add to that the worst flood in a hundread years. This man is faced with the challenge not many poeple can take. To me, he really can do or should I say in some sense is the last hope Bihar has. People mock him but in him I do see real dedication and values that can take Bihar to a better condition if not the best!

2) Sheila Dikshit: Well in one sense of the term she is Miss India? Another person I really like for the work she has done in Delhi. I visited Delhi after 7 odd years for a couple of days and I could see the change in Delhi. To be very very true, I could not recognise half  of the roads. Not because of the bad memory my friends relate me with but because of the flyovers above them. Of course it is not about flyovers and things. But yeah she has done a lot and ppl living in Delhi may not realise it but I was impressed!

3) Manmohan Singh: The best person in Indian politics. The reason why he is not the number 1 on my list is that he is too good. A prime minister needs to be sharp as the queen on the chess board and have the same persona that the queen has. He does enjoy the love of a lot of people but he is not “wicked enough”. I think that is the only difference between him and an Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Read his degrees and posts held, and if you can show me even one of those in your CV, you have the right to critisize him.

4) Rahul Gandhi : I have seen a few debates in the Parliament. I am impressed by the way he talks (if that is the reflection of the way he thinks). Just imagine yourself being the son of Rajiv Gandhi. Tell me ofa single son of an IAS or any other politician(1/10 the stature of Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi) who could be as low profile as him. But that is not the reason he is here. In him I genuinely have started to see a future leader of the country.

5) Chandrababu Naidu : Well Mr Hyderabad? or Mr I.T. He single handedly changed the way Andhra Pradesh used to appear on the India map. I think from whatever I know about him that he is one forward looking politician in India.

6) Omar Abdullah: A brilliant person. I admire the way he thinks about things. Leave a few things that he needs to talk out of political compulsions, but I genuinely believe that he is one of the people who could have a huge influence in bringing the people of Kashmir into the real mainstream of India. The way he talked during the No confidence motion was really great. It showed a person who was concerned about the country and not merely a state party representative.

7) Mani Shankar Aiyar: Wont say too much. He was a wonderful person. Did a lot for the country and I loved the way he used to function as the Petroleum minister of the country. Unfortunately the crude prices souring and him persuing the IIP pipeline meant an end ot his stint. But he did really well to try and make India’s future energy secure.

I know that many of you would like to put a lot more people, but in my list there is no place for communal dividers. (Narendra Modi would be a candidate if only he had no blood in his hands! I dont believe that he was clean.. But then how can I pass that judgement? L K Advani. I hate him more than any other politician. He is a double faced power corrupted and power greedy person.)

Just missed out! Praful Patel, Jairam Ramesh, Arun Shourie, Sitaram Yechury

This m*****f***er hailed by many as Leader of tommorow is already doing his politics just 1 day after the killings. What a shame. I hate him. I hope others too..