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Kwerky

@Kwerky

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Posted: 10 years ago

#1011

Originally posted by: Wisian

They usually have these intro-threads... the thread is a sticky, it stays on top of the page for the entire season.
So, I will make an intro post on the first page of that thread, in which I will make an oblique comment about the glory achieved by Gullu superstar in the past one year. 😳 And kabhi mann karaa, toh I will include a link of that post in my signature. [The usual stuff - that I have learnt from the jerks encountered in seasons bygone...]

@bold: 😆 jaley par namak chhidhkogi? 😆

The conviction with which they argued and maintained that he was the greatest thing to come out of BB ever was so irritating and at the same time, amusing. 😆

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Kwerky

@Kwerky

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Posted: 10 years ago

#1012

Originally posted by: Wisian
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IaYhG11ckA[/YOUTUBE]
I didn't know that the sex ratio in China is so much more skewed than in India...

It is an indirect result of their one-child policy. Just like in India, the cultural/traditional preference for a boy over a girl dominates sections of the Chinese society. After the policy was introduced, easy access to abortions and ultrasounds for sex-determination lead to widespread abortion of female foetuses. While the policy isn't strict and couples are allowed to have a second or a third child depending on where they lived in China, it still influenced the way the society is shaping up. Last year, there were 33 million more men than women in China. 😲

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Wisian

@Wisian

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Posted: 10 years ago

#1013

Originally posted by: Kwerky

Happy Janmashtami to you too, Wisu! 🤗

Sorry for the delay in replying. Had a busy weekend with Janmashtami and then household chores.

I love "Krishna nee begane"😊...thanks for posting this!

Don't worry about the delay, Kwerky... I too have long shifts this whole week...

Kya karaa Janmashtami par? It has been ages since I celebrated it... As a child, I'd get together with the other children from the neighbourhood, and put together a very beautiful tableau. Ours would be the best in the entire neighbourhood. 😳

But then in the last years, there was always confusion about the date of Janmashtami - koi ek din manaayegaa, koi agley din... At some point, I just stopped with it...

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Wisian

@Wisian

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Posted: 10 years ago

#1014

Originally posted by: Kwerky

The promos are out. What is this new double wala concept? Seems like 2 contestants would be paired up...

The IF guidelines also govern the signatures...😕...kill-joys, I tell you. Otherwise, your proposed signature is spot on. 😆😆 Kuch bhi ho, Gullu Gulati ka zikr to main zaroor karoongi. 😆

TOI was speculating that it will be a couples-only season. 😕 I'd find the logistics of that rather difficult... Where will they even find THAT many out-of-work-celebrity couples... 😕😕

@Signature: At the peak of some fan wars, signature rules might get invoked; but I can hardly imagine that on the first day itself, we'd get pulled up for a Gullu Gulati signature reference... 🤔

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Wisian

@Wisian

Rocker

Posted: 10 years ago

#1015

Originally posted by: Kwerky

@bold: 😆 jaley par namak chhidhkogi? 😆

The conviction with which they argued and maintained that he was the greatest thing to come out of BB ever was so irritating and at the same time, amusing. 😆

Yeah... uss waqt, the idiots were myopic. Now they will realize their buddhi-heenta, and surrender before the wisdom-spouting anti-Gullu crowd from last year and become our slaves forever. *evil laugh*

I wonder whether this year too, a hero will be made in the first week itself, with phan-gurls making one superhit thread after another every evening. 'coz if that pattern repeats itself, I'll know this year to not take any of that seriously. 😆 😆

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Kwerky

@Kwerky

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Posted: 10 years ago

#1016

Originally posted by: Wisian

Don't worry about the delay, Kwerky... I too have long shifts this whole week...
Kya karaa Janmashtami par? It has been ages since I celebrated it... As a child, I'd get together with the other children from the neighbourhood, and put together a very beautiful tableau. Ours would be the best in the entire neighbourhood. 😳

But then in the last years, there was always confusion about the date of Janmashtami - koi ek din manaayegaa, koi agley din... At some point, I just stopped with it...

Same pinch! 😆 We also used to put up a tableau in our neighborhood or colony with other kids on Janmashtami. I remember we used surf powder to depict the Yamuna river,😆 bring over sand from any house nearby that was undergoing renovation/construction to lay the base...working through the late afternoon and then absolutely exhausted by the evening. 😆

Didn't do much here. Just a fast and pooja.

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Kwerky

@Kwerky

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Posted: 10 years ago

#1017

Originally posted by: Wisian

TOI was speculating that it will be a couples-only season. 😕 I'd find the logistics of that rather difficult... Where will they even find THAT many out-of-work-celebrity couples... 😕😕

@Signature: At the peak of some fan wars, signature rules might get invoked; but I can hardly imagine that on the first day itself, we'd get pulled up for a Gullu Gulati signature reference... 🤔

Right...I don't think there are that many out-of-work celebrity couples around. Let's see.

@Signature: haan...you are right. Usually, everything is happy and gay in the first couple of days of the BB forum...so can't expect to be pulled up for a signature showing genuine interest and concern for the BB8 winner. 😆

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Wisian

@Wisian

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Posted: 10 years ago

#1018

Originally posted by: Kwerky

Same pinch! 😆 We also used to put up a tableau in our neighborhood or colony with other kids on Janmashtami. I remember we used surf powder to depict the Yamuna river,😆 bring over sand from any house nearby that was undergoing renovation/construction to lay the base...working through the late afternoon and then absolutely exhausted by the evening. 😆

Didn't do much here. Just a fast and pooja.

For making the river, we used to use "neel" - you know, this blue indigo powder that was used to whiten (or blue-en, or whatever) white clothes. 😆😆

I'm from a very committed Arya Samaji family. Our parents taught us how to do a vedic hawan when we were children, and that remains the way we worship; but because I only ever do a hawan when I am visiting home, I gradually included some other methods of Hindu worship in my life. In fact. even during my particularly rebellious phase as a young teen, I had started reciting the Ramcharitmanas (which I absolutely love; and this should exemplify how much of a rebel I was... 😛), which is how my family picked up the habit, and my mum now recites it much more regularly than I do...

... but Janmashtami simply never became one of festivals that I looked forward to... This is not because I am not particularly fond of the practices of Sanatan Dharma (I think, my father used to even fast for Janmashtami); it is probably because I can't bring myself to accept some parts in the story of Krishna. Specifically, I can't celebrate the God who is famous for His raas-leela with Radha, but when the time came to get married, He got married to Rukmini instead (leaving Radha to marry a village milkman)...

I once asked an ISKCON swami why Krishna - the eternal lover - was unfaithful to His love, and I got such an incoherent and convoluted answer, that I couldn't even piece together what it really meant, beyond the usual - "it is a sin to even think of this question"... So, I have confined my Krishna-bhakti to just listening to devotional music (of which there are a lot of nice compositions)... 😆 and that is what I did this Janmashtami too.

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Wisian

@Wisian

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Posted: 10 years ago

#1019

The latest news is that Gullu has found some work...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/tv/Gautam-Gulati-to-debut-as-a-host/videoshow/48896062.cms

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Kwerky

@Kwerky

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Posted: 10 years ago

#1020

Originally posted by: Wisian

For making the river, we used to use "neel" - you know, this blue indigo powder that was used to whiten (or blue-en, or whatever) white clothes. 😆😆

I'm from a very committed Arya Samaji family. Our parents taught us how to do a vedic hawan when we were children, and that remains the way we worship; but because I only ever do a hawan when I am visiting home, I gradually included some other methods of Hindu worship in my life. In fact. even during my particularly rebellious phase as a young teen, I had started reciting the Ramcharitmanas (which I absolutely love; and this should exemplify how much of a rebel I was... 😛), which is how my family picked up the habit, and my mum now recites it much more regularly than I do...

... but Janmashtami simply never became one of festivals that I looked forward to... This is not because I am not particularly fond of the practices of Sanatan Dharma (I think, my father used to even fast for Janmashtami); it is probably because I can't bring myself to accept some parts in the story of Krishna. Specifically, I can't celebrate the God who is famous for His raas-leela with Radha, but when the time came to get married, He got married to Rukmini instead (leaving Radha to marry a village milkman)...

I once asked an ISKCON swami why Krishna - the eternal lover - was unfaithful to His love, and I got such an incoherent and convoluted answer, that I couldn't even piece together what it really meant, beyond the usual - "it is a sin to even think of this question"... So, I have confined my Krishna-bhakti to just listening to devotional music (of which there are a lot of nice compositions)... 😆 and that is what I did this Janmashtami too.

@bold: lol...yeah, I think we used that too. Robin Blue powder and some neel powder in a cardboard box is what was available those days. And you are right...it turned the white clothes a sickly blue instead of whitening them. 😆 Later...the market was flooded with - "Aaya naya Ujala, chaar boondon waala...aaa-haaan". 😆

Aah...nostalgia. This reminds me - have you ever come across this comic strip "Garbage Bin"? I chanced upon it on FB a couple of years ago. It will resonate somewhere with anyone who grew up in the 80s/90s in a middle-class household in north India.😆 The protagonist is a very mischievous school-going boy, Guddu and his escapades at school and home. While we may not identify with all the (or the majority of) situations because it is from a boy's POV...but you will definitely smile when you see some typical strips set in his home. I'll see if I can post a couple of strips here later...

Interesting stuff about you including other practices from Hinduism in your life. 😊 And I completely agree with you on how questioning certain actions of various Gods is generally discouraged (specially by the priests etc) or answered with unclear, evasive stories.

Edited by Kwerky - 10 years ago

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