A Blog by Varsh Nagpal on the institution of Marriage and Relationsships

http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=795214715895562973&postID=8391155975907476198&page=1&token=1308476423039

And that is a link to my friends blog which is about the institution of marriage. I placed a comment on it and hope I was not being stupid ha ha

Take care and have a great time

Deepak

neil diamond-if you go away

This is one of my all time favourite songs - and I think that

this version sung by Neil Diamond is the very best of the best.

I am posting this to let my dear wife, Abha, and all my friends

here and those from across the world, that without them life

will have lost its splendour for ever .......

Deepaks Site

Sense and Common sense

I read the Reserve Bank of India Bulletin today and was impressed by a speech given by Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty - and decided to blog a little excerpt from that speech. Perhaps this shows that the people who regulate the entire monetary policy and thence the Economy of our country - have a great depth to their knowledge - in fact it is clear that it is a mix of Talent and Common Sense that makes India a great country.

I am pasting that excerpt below for all of you to read and hope you find a lot of meaning in this little fable ..

Deepak

Talent Acquisition and

Management*

Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty

http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Bulletin/PDFs/03SP080611F.pdf

The Scholars and the Lion…

Four men grew up together in a little village in

India. Three of the men were scholars, but the fourth

man never studied anything. In fact, he had never read

a book in his life. He just got along as best as he could

on his own common sense. But the four men had been

friends as children, and they remained friends despite

their differences.

One day, the four friends were sitting under the

tree talking of this and that when one of the scholars

said,

‘Something has been bothering me. I have spent

all my life studying, and I know many things, but I

know them only from books. I don’t know if my

knowledge works, out in the world.’

‘You know,’ said another of the scholars, ‘the same

thing has been bothering me! But somehow, this little

village doesn’t seem to offer the scope for me to try

out my vast knowledge.’

‘Clearly,’ said the third scholar, ‘we must travel

out into the world and try out our knowledge there.’

The other scholars agreed, but then there was their

friend. They had always done everything together,

share and share alike, but suppose...suppose they

found some lost treasure by using their knowledge?

Suppose they solved a problem for a rajah and he

rewarded them with gold and jewels? They had studied

late into the night to prepare themselves for this work,

and their friend had done nothing. He only had

common sense, and which rajah would be impressed

with that? They argued this back and forth, as they so

enjoyed doing, but finally they decided to do as they

had always done, share and share alike.

And so they started on their journey. They walked

along for many days, and one day they saw some bones

scattered by the path. One of the scholars said, ‘I can

tell from my studies that these bones are the bones of

a lion. Now it so happens that I have learnt how to

arrange the bones as they would be in a living lion.’

‘ R e a l l y ? ’ s a i d t h e s e c o n d s c h o l a r , ‘ t h a t i s

interesting – for it so happens that from my studies I

know how to clothe the bones with flesh and blood

and skin and fur.’

‘Indeed?’ said the third scholar. ‘How curious ! It

so happens that I know the next step. Once the animal

is formed, I know how to breathe life into it. Clearly,

this is the place where we should try out our knowledge

to see if it works in the world.’ The others agreed.

The fourth man, the one who wasn’t a scholar,

was simply struck dumb by this display of learning and

didn’t say anything at all.

So the first scholar stepped forward and arranged

the bones as they would be in a living lion. Then he

stepped back, and the second scholar stepped forward

and clothed the bones with flesh, and blood, and skin,

and fur. Then he stepped back, and the third scholar

stepped forward, about to breathe life into the animal,

when the fourth man said “Wait! That’s a lion! That’s

a lion you are about to bring to life. It could eat us up!

Stop! Think what you’re doing!’

‘We know what we’re doing,’ said the scholars.

‘We have studied this all our lives. Don’t worry. Just

leave everything to us.’

‘Well, all right,’ said their friend, ‘but...could you

wait till I climb a tree?’ ‘Certainly,’ said the scholars,

and they waited till the fourth friend had climbed a

convenient tree. Then the third scholar went back to

the procedure of breathing life into the animal. And

sure enough, the lion started breathing, opened its

eyes, looked at the three scholars, sprang upon them,

and ate them up.

After the lion had gone away, the fourth man, the

one who wasn’t a scholar, climbed down from the tree

and made his way back to the village, taking with him

no great treasure of gold and jewels, but only his own

common sense.

Talent, to me, is indeed like common sense –

you have it, or you do not have it.

Those were the days my friend ... Mary Hopkins

I got this from You Tube - the link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyaTIXdN5fI&feature=related.

 Thie link to the song is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDVhB0jGP7I&NR=1

"You Look Familiar"
A new CD from Mary Hopkin and Morgan Visconti release date 25/10/2010
http://www.maryhopkin.com


The opening black and white film is from 1968 and the remaining film is from around 1982.

This song sung by Mary Hopkin called "those were the days" is not translated from the song "Дорогой длинною" "Dorogo Dlinnoyu".

The song "Dorogoy Dlinnoyu (Along a long road)" was written in the 1920's by "Boris Fomin" (music) and "Konstantin Podrevsky" (lyrics). An American called Gene Raskin in the early 60's wrote the lyrics "Those were the days" and put them to Fomin's music. The words have no similarity whatsoever with Podrevsky's

For more info on Mary and this song visit my website at http://www.maryhopkin.net

Born in Wales Mary began her musical career as a folk singer with a local group called the Selby Set and Mary. She released an EP of Welsh language songs for a local label called Cambrian before signing to the Beatles Apple Label, model Twiggy saw her winning a TV talent show and recommended her to Paul McCartney. She was one of the first artists to record on the Beatles record label Her debut single" Those Were the Days" got to number 1 in the UK and number 2 in the US. Selling over 8 million copies.

A little something more about Mary!
In September 2005 she released an album on her own label, "Mary Hopkin Music", called "Live at the Royal Festival Hal!" It was followed in December 2006 by a brand-new Christmas recording, "Snowed Under", released as an mp3 download via Disaudio.com
To celebrate her birthday in 2007, she released an album called "Valentine", on her new label uk It includes 12 previously unheard tracks dating from 1972 to 1980, three of which were written by Mary. Then in December 2008 the CD 'Recollections' was released again included songs written by Mary, And now May 2009 yet another new CD is released called 'Now and Then' all these wonderful recordings are available via Mary's own Website at MARY HOPKIN MUSIC http://www.maryhopkin.co.

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EL PASO

I heard this song just once when I was a young lad - decades ago

And then I looked for it all these years - could never find it because

I never remembered the singer or the Title of the song. And then

my great singer YouTube friend sang it on his YouTube page!!

It filled me with great wonder that today strangers from across

the world can be friends and touch others hearts - thanks to the

Internet. Hear it on full volume and dance to the song!!

Gandu - an article by Serena for the Hindustan Times "Cafe"

An article where sense and sensibilities of people are disturbed - specially the sensibilities of Indians ha ha