As a member and regular visitor of the rendezvous blog, I used to enjoy reading and leaving a comment on the articles written by my friends however today after going through the article written on Andrew Bacevich by Sarat, and after watching Bill Moyers’s interview with Andrew Bacevich it inspired me to write few lines, it was really a happy feeling to see someone talking about so called “Open Secrets” – everybody knows it however none dares to speak to the core. 

It was really thought provoking, the way he discussed about the imperial policies, the actual meaning of war, what war means to the general public and the present financial crisis. I am really impressed and my respect for Jimmy Carter had increased after knowing about his speech on July 15^th 1979 which I came to know through their talk.

 A world would be a great place to live if we have leaders with vision comings from the group who belives that "there is no alternative for hardwork" and who choose to go in the way which brings light in people’s lives. 

We are lucky to have People like Bill Moyers who bring out quality journalism, and I would like to appreciate and thank Sarat for bringing out and sharing these good articles which would have been a tough job searching myself. 

Finally I would like to thank Andrew for sharing his experiences, views and point blank approach on current situations. I am proud to see that there are many wonderful people in this world who still thinks about co-human beings and their problems genuinely. May god bring peace in life of Andrew and his family.


http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/watch.html

I had a choice... to be this way, or the other, most of the people choose to be the other way, however I tried to be this way and I hope one day l'll see the big differnce for the way I went.

 

They come and simply pass on, leaving few memories and marks.
Stay unchanged and simply understand that "this too will pass" :)

Recent days I had seen many ad’s on Movie Vanaja esp. on Google sites like Gmail, orkut etc… with built in curiosity I had clicked one of those links and was directed to Vanajathefilm.com I had gone through various areas in the sites and came to know little bit about the story line of the film and also about the crew and the site also provided photographs and little where abouts of the film maker Rajnesh.

After going through Rajnesh’s profile, photos and some of his works, its seems to be good reading about a techno entering into films which it happened to see very usual these days comparing the growth rate of these types of personalities in the societies. I guess may be only the starters and amateurs of any fields enjoy that attention and which will be faded off with increase in the people in that area.

Coming back to the site, I felt really interesting reading the following posts in his blog http://www.vanajathefilm.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=87

There are various types of views expressed about his film, one feels that showing the poverty of India will bring disrespect to the country and some say that we need to throw light on the dark corners of the society which need to be highlighted so that we can expect some change in lives of poor and under privileged. However looking at the blog I had mixed feelings and somehow I did not like to add any of my thoughts to the thread of that blog. After undergoing various cultural, regional and national experiences I am feeling comfortable more as a listener rather than adding up my comments or views on these topics.

 

I just finished by breakfast and got back to work, then my cell started making  that funny noise again which these days I don’t feel like paying any interest to, However it is Mavayya and without any delay I answered the call and we started discussing about Abhinav Bindra and felt really happy about his achievement, then it was Bindu mama calling and I told mavayya about it and switched to her call, as usual we started our funny conversation which always starts with “Emi Aieepooyav”, pointing fingers on each other and finally compromised J , Then she told me that I want to tag you and I forgot to mention that at the end of my blog, so as per her words I came to know that it’s a formal invitation for me to pen down few answers for couple of questions. I really did not know what is meant by tagging until one of my friend asked me to write down answers for few questions and at the end she told me that I tagged you… oh then I got the concept!!!

 

Here we go….

 

1. What is your first name?

Srinivas  ---- Sri+Nivas, Sri means Goddess Lakshmi and Nivas means resides. So as a whole, it means where Goddess Lakshmi resides and she resides in heart of lord Venkateshwara .So he got the other name Srinivas. So Srinivas is Lord Venkateshwara a form of Vishnu in Kalyuga.

                

2. What is your favorite food right now?

Any time it is Curd rice, I do not even need salt in it and I can survive whole 365 days with it and I mean it! Other one would be Idly with chutney

 

3. What High School did you go to?

I got into Maria’s English Medium School in LKG and came out in 10^th Std, So it was my Kindergarten, middle school and High School.

 

4. What is your favorite color?

I like white

 

5. Who is your celebrity crush?

A question on my crush? Huh that’s a tough one, it is dynamic and  keeps changing from time to time. As of now I like Genelia D’Souza and Kamalani Mukherjee

 

6. What is your favorite drink?

I like water and coconut water

 

7. What is your dream vacation?

Oh… this is the toughest question to answer… I had a huge list of places and for time being I usually travel to those places via youtube. As of now let me cut short it to Dona Paula

 

8. What is your favorite Dessert?

I do not have anything specific, I enjoy everything thing other than one with pecan in it

 

9. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Down the line I want to start a Clean India Moment and also a good school

 

10. What do you love most in life?

Simplicity

 

11. What is the one word that describes you?

AdulteratedBudda

 

12. What is your user name?

Sri_sekha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080722.html

What are these humans doing? Dancing. Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend political boundaries and occur in practically every human society. Above, Matt Harding traveled through many nations on Earth, started dancing, and filmed the result. The video is perhaps a dramatic example that humans from all over planet Earth feel a common bond as part of a single species. Happiness is frequently contagious -- few people are able to watch the above video without smiling.

There are numerous ways of expressing love to a co-living being and hugging is one among it.  It gives me a great feeling when I hug someone with love, a genuine hug imprints deep in the memory and I’ll be so much refreshed when I recollect them and it makes me feel that this world is filled up with many wonderful people.

I had observed that we hug mostly when we meet someone or when it’s time to depart and also at times filled up with emotional touch where you sense that the other person really loves you and care about you. I still remember those moments of my childhood where my uncles and grandparents used to give me a big hug when they visit my home and also I remember those moments when I used to feel so sad when someone leaving after their visit , I used to hug them and used to request them to stay back. Even as a grown up I still remember my last days in School, Inter and Engineering which are filled up with hugging friends and some stayed as last hugs as I did not get an opportunity to meet them again. Even after started working I am fortunate to meet many wonderful people and made huge list of friends.

Few months back when I moved to states, I remember those moments filled up with huge hugs from my family member’s esp.… from my parents, I can still see my mother with heavy eyes filled with tears and very soon those moments are once again carried out when I reached Los Angeles airport, my Uncle’s family welcomed me with hefty hugs and loud cheers.

I find happiness and pleasure in making others happy and I believe this world would be a better place when we are able to sense a hidden small thing called humanity and able to live and let live. Just feeling concern, No big secret… No big rocket science…

 

Here is my heartfelt hug for you……