The Last Runner - a Cricket Story

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 2/14/2013 5:21:00 PM

'It was night and the crescent lit it very dimly, but enough to engulf it with its warmth.  He did not know how long he had been running, he did not know what was the reason behind it nor did he know why his legs did not hurt even after running for so long but he had been running and running; running the perimeter of the ‘Mecca of Cricket.’ How much ever he tried to get to the pitch, he could not; all his efforts were be pushed against the pitch. A sweat of fear and disappointme(...)'

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(Kshitij) क्षितिज

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 1/26/2013 12:20:00 PM

'Poem in English also provided.समन्दर किनारे था मैं खड़ा,देख रहा था नीला आसमां|समन्दर ने तब मुझसे कहा,"हे मनू, किस लिए तुम यहाँ?""मैं उसे देखने आया यहाँ,जो हैं हर जगह,वह, जिस में हैं सूरज समाया,जिस से मिला तुम्हे यह रंग अपना|"विचलित होकर उसने मुझे रोका,"अगर हैं महान तुम्हारा आसमां,तो क्यों नहीं मिलने आता तुम से,क्यूँ हैं वह पराया तुम से?""हे समन्दर, मैं आया हूँ देखने उस क्षितिज को,जो मिल नहीं सक्ता मनुष्य को|जहाँ वह आसमां तुम से हैं मिलता,जहाँ वह महान आसमां तुम में हैं समाता|"Samanda(...)'

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A detailed book review of The Bankster by Ravi Subramanian

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 11/11/2012 3:42:00 PM

'The Bankster by Ravi SubramanianSyncopy, er Synopsis :PThe book begins with three parallel stories and then in the mid-way is left with two stories. The parallel stories are that of Joseph Braganza in Angola, Greater Boston Global Bank (GB2) in Mumbai, and Krishna Memon in Devikulam, Kerala. Braganza, a CIA agent, is trading Blood Diamonds in Angola. Corporate Politics are in action in GB2. Menon is against a Nuclear Power Plant in his region because of a promise he promised to his (...)'

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Who is our Gandhi?

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 8/19/2012 6:18:00 AM

'I was researching something and ‘page jumping’ I landed to the Wikipedia entry of Gandhiji’s Assassination. I was shocked by some of the mentioned facts, do read the Wiki Entry. On that page I read that a certain incident was modified a bit in the Gandhi – the movie. So out of curiosity I opened the movie and started fast forwarding the movie and I landed on the Dharasana Satyagraha. I saw the entire incident and it literally brought tears to my eyes. How can you take a blow that ca(...)'

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The Greatest Indian ever

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 8/16/2012 5:30:00 PM

'N. B. This is an emotional post that you may not find emotional. You have been warned! Okay now proceed.History Channel came up with the results of the, "Greatest Indian after Gandhi" survey (its Gandhi and not Ghandi.) But why was Gandhi excluded from the survey? Gandhi always travelled third class then why was he given a special treatment here? In fact, he is given a special treatment everywhere. All of that started, tragically, after his tragical death. And is he truly the Greate(...)'

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Women should adhere to our culture and wear sarees

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 8/9/2012 7:17:00 AM

'We came up with notices asking women to shed jeans. Read on.I believe a woman should wear a saree.It does not matter,Wheater you agree or disagree.And I do not want you yo take this as a chatter.But before it is made a decree,We men need to solve our matter.Before making woman a kaidi,We should wear a dhoti and khadi.We need to follow our tradition,Only then should women be made subject to our sedition.We need to stop insulting our women,Everytime we say MC or BC to our men.We (...)'

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Tears that are not tears

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 8/6/2012 8:21:00 AM

'"O! Lord, King of the Kings..." began the poet......."O learned poet," the king said after he finished. "What is your name?""Ravidas, My Lord.""Ravidas be given fifty gold coins."The King was so much pepped up, had Ravidas recited his poem again, he would have attacked the nearest King."Next."Two men and a woman stood before him."Please begin," requested the King."My Annadata, (अन्नदाता and not Anna-data,) I am Righu and this is Suhasini, we both love each other and want to get marr(...)'

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You are destined to dream [Fiction]

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 7/19/2012 10:00:00 AM

'SupernovaMohan was sitting on the roof-top of his friend's house, reading The Alchemist. It was his first vacation in years. The sky was cloudy, the clouds as dark as they could be at that time of the year; the cool Atlantic breeze brought with it the smell of the salt contained in the sweat of the fishermen. He read, "... the most important is that you have succeeded in discovering your destiny..." Paused. "What is destiny? What are dreams?" he quizzed and stopped.As a ki(...)'

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My first love letter

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 6/25/2012 3:31:00 PM

'Raj was sitting in his cubicle, his office was under chaos. It was a month-end and targets were to be met. Raj was not in panic but he was nervous. He had his own reasons for that. He pulled out a letter that was lying in his drawer, for over a week now. As he read it, droplets of sweat surfaced on his forehead. He had some unfinished work to do.Dear Menaka,I can not forget that day,I saw you first.You made me go astray,My heart got filled with lust...The wind brought with it, a sce(...)'

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FB, Twitter, Plus Me

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 6/2/2012 12:08:00 PM

'Today i am starting a new series of posts. FB, Twitter Plus Me. Where I would compile some of my favorite posts and tweets. As the about mentioned services don't offer proper archiving of posts. There you go. More will follow. Your feedback is awaited."Microsoft's search engine Bing gets better with 'instant search' feature."What? Is it? Wait, lemme check it on Google, first.2 June, 2012On of the advantages of being unemployed is that you are not affected by the Bandhs or recessions(...)'

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Aamir Khan to make an episode on SRK fiasco on Satyameva Jayate

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 5/20/2012 7:17:00 AM

'Mumbai: On Sunday, the Khan of ‘truth’ came out with a statement that has shocked the entire Bollywood. Aamir Khan in a press conference said, “I would like to make an episode on the Shahrukh incident that happened in Wankhede that night.” When a reporter asked if it wasn’t a bit bizarre to make an episode on Security Men getting abused by a star as stars are known for slapping, drinking, slapping, driving recklessly, slapping, exposing their valuable assets, slapping and organizing(...)'

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Finally MCA says sorry to SRK

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 5/19/2012 11:55:00 AM

'Mumbai: MCA in a press statement on Saturday said that it is sorry for what happened with SRK. “We apologize to SRK for the events that have developed over the last couple of days. The treatment wasn’t meant for him and we lift the ban that we imposed on SRK with immediate effect. He can come with anyone, even Aamir Khan and Salman Khan, and watch a match in Wankhede.” It further said, “All of the treatment that SRK received was in reality intended for KRK. KRK has been the culprit (...)'

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Mortal Kombat–Submission

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 4/28/2012 1:07:00 PM

'Mortal Kombat was a ‘lovely’ game wasn’t it? I don’t know as I never played it. Whether you played it or not should not concern you as this post is about anything but that game. Well, this post is about the dreaded ritual (ah! I love this word 'ritual', say it loudly R-I-T-U-A-L) that every engineering student has to go through. Yes I am talking about the Term End Submissions. Yes most of you who are reading this would have cringed at a mere thought of it. That is the charisma of su(...)'

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iQuit Facebook

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 4/3/2012 7:33:00 AM

'12 March, 2012 10:07 PMI have deactivated my Facebook account. Nothing personal against it. Here is the note that I wrote as my 'goodbye note'. I might return but not as what I am now or my account is was. The criteria for me to return (yes! there are criteria too) will be in the next post.Dear Friends and acquaintances,It was fun using Facebook. But these days the news feed shows activities of friends that don't concern me (automatic updates by apps of songs they listen to,) and 9g(...)'

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Finding someone online aka stalking :P

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 4/3/2012 7:29:00 AM

'11 March, 2012 03:00 AMI would not call that stalking. It was just to grab your attention :P. It just came to me to test my searching skills with Google and my challenge was to search ‘him’. And that him is an assistant prof of our college. I ‘didn’t’ know much (well, now I now much about him ;)) about him, in fact I didn’t knew anything about him. And Voila! I found everything about him, his every social networking account in the very first keyword/attempt. <pats his own back.&g(...)'

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Times have changed

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 4/2/2012 2:14:00 PM

'Remember about the fan pages on facebook “I grew up in the 90s” and “80s?” Yeah this is 2010s and time is one of the many things that keep ‘constantly changing’ – whether for good or for good of bad, no body knows. What is certain is that it keeps changing. Enough of philosophy now to point. I just returned from one of my childhood friends’ house. We watched “Step Up 3” and then I returned as he had pack as he had to go to Gandhinagar where he works. All well, isn’t it? Well, it was(...)'

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I will resume blogging soon

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 3/28/2012 2:20:00 PM

'Yes. © 2010 - 2011 My PSW Musings. The content on My PSW Musings and any of its pages is copyrighted to Rahul Pandey and may not be reproduced on other website or any where in any format.'

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Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 3/10/2012 12:18:00 AM

'uuuuuuuu © 2010 - 2011 My PSW Musings. The content on My PSW Musings and any of its pages is copyrighted to Rahul Pandey and may not be reproduced on other website or any where in any format.'

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The Most Corrupt Man of India Commits Suicide

Author : Rahul Pandey      Blog : My PSW Musings - The Humour and Personal Blog      Date : 2/9/2012 4:30:00 AM

'New Delhi: In not so strange circumstances, LOLu Kaput, 64, a resident of Karol Baug was found dead in his own villa. The post mortem report confirms that it was a suicide and Kaput died of drug overdose. Its not the suicide that has caught everyone’s attention in the Maximum Crime Capital but its the letter that was found with Kaput. It said, as reported by Bikhra Butt, that Kaput claimed himself to be the most corrupted man ever on the planet.The exact copy of the letter is quoted(...)'

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