Pratik Poddar

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13 states and 3 union territories visited this year :) I've been to 72 cities in 9 countries Asia Hong Kong (SAR): Hong Kong Island India: Agra India: Ahmadabad India: Anandpur India: Anandpur Sahib India: Badarinath India: Bhakra India: Chandigarh India: Chennai India: Chidambaram India: Colangute India: Delhi India: Faridkot India: Gangotri India: Goa India: Haridwar India: Hyderabad India: Jaipur India: Joshimath India: Kanchipuram India: Kanniyakumari India: Kedarnath India: Kolkata India: Kot Kapura India: Kota India: Kumbakonam India: Madurai India: Mamallapuram India: Mumbai India: Mussoorie India: Nagercoil India: Nangal Dam India: New Delhi India: Panaji India: Patna India: Patna India: Pondicherry India: Pushkar India: Ranchi India: Renigunta India: Rishikesh India: Rudraprayag India: Srirangam India: Srisailam India: Suchindram India: Thanjavur India: Thiruvananthapuram India: Tirumala India: Tirupati India: Ujjain India: Uttarkashi India: Vishnuprayag India: Yamno...

(I am no professional. This review is just my understanding of theatre embedded into reviews by popular critics :P Not 100% original) Date: 17 Oct 2010 Place: Prithvi Theatre Play: Aaall Izz Well With Shuturmurgh   Direction: Ramesh Talwar Cast: Aasif Shaikh, Bharat Kapoor, Rakesh Bedi, Vignesh Sinkar, Prashant Padale, Akhilendra Mishra, Kuldeep Singh, Rashmi Sharma, Manju Sharma Length: 2 hours Main Theme: When Ostrich is surrounded by enemies, it buried its head and neck in sand and pretends that there is no ememy outside, pretends to be unaware of its bosy outside the sand. In the play, Ostrich or Shuturmurg is referenced many times, representing humans today. The play is an answer to current issues like CWG Corruption, Elephant Statues in UP and Vidarbha Farmers. Story: The story starts with a king of ShuturNagri and his three ministers. Then there is the common man, a naive wife, a hunger stricken maid and a reformer. The king of this land has only one ...

(Update Dec 20, 2010: Some new ones added. Credits to Prashant Soni) Recently China airports were closed due to heavy fog, later it was discovered that Rajnikant was smoking in India! Rajnikant did his KG from seven different places, today those places are known as IITs! Government of India pays tax to Rajnikant for living in India! Definition of Solar Eclipse: When Rajnikant stares at Sun with anger, sun hides behind the moon. This phenomena is called solar eclipse Think about what would have happened if Rajnikant was born 150 years ago? British would have fought for independence Why do Earthquakes occur? Because at that time Rajnikant's mobile is on vibration mode Why did Rajni buy an acre of land with 4 wells on wach corner? To play carrom.. Before Tom Cruise, Rajani was approached for the movie Mission Impossible, but Rajani refused as he found the title insulting. Rajnikanths next project. Titanic in Tamil. Climax revised. Both survive. Rajnikant swims across...

My first post after joining my job!! \m/ \m/ Its not about job.. Its about convocation.. The official links ( Link1 & Link2 ) say: The Convocation Day marks the culmination of a students academic life for which he has striven so hard. :P Before beginning, apologies to all my friends whom I could not meet during convocation as I had fever! :( Nevertheless, went to the stage and got my degree and a convo pic :P \m/ \m/ Now the serious point.. As the Chief Guest speech, we should have got something better. Now, I can't help but compare Steve Jobs' and Oprah's speech to Stanford's graduating students and Bill Gates' speech to Havard graduating batch to the Aerodynamics Lecture we had. We should have got a better speech if not a better chief guest. :( Who chooses chief guests anyway? Thoughts on impeachment?

(From pluggd.in and TOI ) We will have a new symbol for Indian National Rupee today. The Union Cabinet will today decide on the symbol for Indian Rupee, a privilege (unique identity) available only to major currencies like dollar, euro, pound sterling and yen. The proposal, said to be prompted by the growing influence of the Indian economy in the global arena, involves a shortlist of five symbols (finalists above) for the Indian rupee drawn up the finance ministry, reflecting the Indian ethos and culture. 1) The symbol should be applicable to standard keyboard 2) The symbol has to be in the Indian National Language Script or a visual representation 3) The symbol should represent the historical & cultural ethos of the country as widely accepted across the country I think fourth one should be he winner. Both Devnagri and Roman script of Rupya and Rupee are visible in the symbol. The first and the second symbols definitely do not stand a chance. Go India Go!