Art of Living @ Bangalore



There was a huge rush in Bangalore for last week for the Art of Living event. Even Bryan Adams was not welcomed this way than for Sri Sri Ravishankar. There were 10 presidents of various countries(including ours) and nearly 1000 musicians constituting 25 lakhs heads.

I agree that Art of Living foundation is devoid of religion and promotes spirituality through yoga and meditation. It has followers world wide and they promote spiritualism in the modern way by associating it with societal problems. But my question is that why such a publicity? And another disgrace is that our politicians(not even our president was spared) were in the crowd.

What if Sri Sri Ravishankar gets into some scandal/corruption which is ought to happen if Indians are involved. Wont our president who is respected much more than this guru be also pointed for supporting demarring his reputation. May be personally Mr. Kalam might have some inclination towards Art of Living but never should have shown this in public.

updating myself...

So many trainings, so many exams..it was really pretty hectic last week. I dont know for doing nothing why i'm supposed to do all these. Instead they could arrange a certification for Pool/Table Tennis I would have really shown good zeal. I was sent to Bangalore to attend a training and get myself loaded(I only gained some extra pounds of the food provided). I was sweating like a Danish cartoonist in Saudi when i took the questions on the prometric centre, since it had nearly been 1 year i had visited a Testing centre. Somehow got through the same. Even for HIV b testing i had never felt the same before.

Fortunately Indian cricket team has been quite an inspiration. I never watched any match as i thought they will lose anyway(instead seems they had fixed it well with hefty sum). I compared myself with our team..if such an fit for nothing team(coterie) can start winning matches someway why can't i be succeed in my Exams. Still there are many pending trainings and certs queued up...solely dependent on the Indian cricket team now(against England).

Five Point Someone - Author Chetan Bhagat

I had been to Bangalore for a training for entire last week. It was very refreshing as i had time catch with all my old roomies of Delhi. Mr. Binarywaves was one among them. As we were roaming on the so called roads of B'lore, this ex-roomie pointed out to a book on the platform in the name of this post title. He told that that this book is story about 3 IITians who were average students inside IIT(couldnt digest their all India ranks though). I bought out this book as he had recommended it to be very interesting.

The book was so interesting and humourous that i completed the book by the next day(3 hours inside the flight) and 3 hours in the morning after i woke up. Though there was no nostalgia of events for me as was the case for those who read(as i had never been to college during college days). You need not be an IITian to enjoy this book.

Hari, Alok , and Ryan are the main characters of this book. Hari is the actual person who tells all the happenings inside the hostel of IIT Delhi. Though they are of different backgrounds. They share somethign in common - all the three are average students(get a grade of 5/10 that is why Five point someone) and just manage to sneak out of IIT. How they do that is what the book is all about told in a very interesting way(of course you could smell some GRE words...author is also an IITian).

Excellent book to read for non-bookworms and those who want to try something innovative out in their college. The five point graders are refferred to as Commerce students in IIT may be it will hurt the sentiments of a commerce students.