Problem is with you, not others: Blaming yourself is better than blaming others!

Problem is with you, not others: Blaming yourself is better than blaming others!

A close friend of mine met me on April 5^th, 2018 which is equivalent to 20^th of Rajjab-ul-Asab, 1439.

Maybe he was tensed for some reason and because of the connection I have with him, I figured. Out of curiosity coupled with concern, I asked him, “What the matter was? What had taken over his charming face?” (not so charming actually)

He asked me in a mild tone “Do you know what it is?”

I replied being puzzled, “Thursday!!”

With a heavy voice, he said angrily, “not the day you fool, what is special about today?”

Now, I was completely out of the game, I didn’t know anything above the day though my memory was quite good but hardly anything came to my mind and I was sure he was not asking for some historical event or something alike. It had to be something related to him which made him so numb.

Out of curiosity, I asked him, “Is it your birthday?”

In a reliving tone, he said, “At last you got it.”

I was not happy still I wished him first and then just to check the credibility of my memory I asked him in fear “Isn’t your Birthday on **^th of November?”

He replied, “Yes” and added “Today is my birthday according to the Hijri Calendar and I am angry because no one remembers it.”

I was happy now (my memory is good and kicking as always!!)

Further, I got anxious and asked him, “How would anyone know about it? You have never told us about the other date!”

He replied, in an angry tone, “So what? You all should have known, at least my family should have!”

And now I got what had actually taken him down. Still, I asked to confirm “haven’t 

your family members wished you yet?”

In a rude tone, he replied, “No! They don’t care about me” and added curtly, “No one does.”

Unfortunately, I couldn’t stop laughing.

And fortunately, he didn’t punch me in the face and asked the reason for my laughter.

I tried explaining him about us first that “We aren’t almighty to know your birthday unless you tell us yourself and if it was to check whether someone cares about you or not, try telling them in advance and I am sure they will remember if they care!” I further added, “I knew your Birthday according to the Gregorian calendar, didn’t I?”

He nodded his head and said, “Yeah but my mom dad?”

I was speech bound for a moment but I knew his family very well. I was astonished how come they do not remember his birthday.

After thinking about it a little I told him upfront, “Buddy the problem is not with them I can assure you, look for yourself I am sure you are missing on something, you are being ignorant about something.” Curiously I told him, “You might not be giving them appropriate time, maybe they didn’t expect you at home so they might not have prepared anything special as per your expectation”

After he heard what I had to say, he seemed into the blue.

I was waiting for him to say something and finally, after a minute or two, he opened his mouth.

He said, “Bro! Even I hadn’t expected me to be at home.”

I was bamboozled and I asked, “What??” 

He explained to me that he had other plans for today but as they got cancelled in the first place, it made him think about his family not caring about him. Had it all gone according to the plan he would not have thought about his family not preparing anything for him”

Honestly, those words of him got over my nerve and I couldn’t control addressing him as an A**hole!

I asked him, “Stop blaming other for not caring about you and start thinking why should they care about you in the first place? Do you care about them? Are you doing it the right way? Are you giving them time? Are you giving them required space in your life?”

The event made me introspect and I had to note it somewhere which made me write that note in the picture which I believe is a great message to those who can understand it.

Author - Mohammed Vohra 

Editor - Ibrahim Vaid

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Launched: Toyota Yaris!!

Toyota Yaris

Toyota in Auto-Expo 2018 held at New Delhi showcased it's all New Yaris, which Toyota is planning to launch in May this year. Toyota Yaris is a compact sedan car which is likely to give a cutthroat competition to the other sedans already present in the market like Honda City, Hyundai Verna, Maruti-Suzuki Ciaz and Volkswagen Vento.

Features of Yaris

The car in this segment is fully loaded with the bunch of first features including

• -         7 airbags
• -         Tyre pressure monitoring system
• -         Gesture control for the audio
• -         Faux leather seats with power adjustable driver-side seat
• -         Roof-mounted air recirculation vent with LED highlight for rear passengers
• -         Parking sensors up front
• -         Cruise control
• -         Disc brakes on all wheels.
• -         ABS with EBD
• -         Stability control
• -         Auto projector headlamps
• -         Shark fin antenna
• -         Rear camera
• -         Touch screen with inbuilt navigation
• -         Paddle shift on the CVT
• -         Steering mounted controls
• -         Rear power outlets
• -         Start/Stop button.

Among the other features, there is daylight running lights set in the bumper and sharp line design LED parking lights on the inner side of the headlamp cluster and the rear lights use LED and look sharp and up market.  

Toyota Yaris is going to sport 15-inch alloy wheels.

Engine Particulars

The all-new Toyota Yaris will be powered by a 1.5-litre dual VVT-i petrol engine mated to a 6-speed or 7-speed CVT automatic transmission and will deliver good fuel efficiency. There’s no diesel variant available till date.

Pricing

The all-new Toyota Yaris is likely to be priced between 7 - 11 lakh Rs.

Such low price and comprehensive features introduced by Toyota in Yaris, the market is surely going to crumble for the competitors.

Note: Some of the Toyota dealers have already started to take advance booking for the same at a token money of 50,000 INR which is also refundable.

Author - Dhron Kayastha

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Crooked House: If you like mysteries, this one's for you!

Crooked House

The granddaughter of late business magnate Aristide Leonides, Sophia Leonides, visits confidential investigator Charles Hayward in his office. Sophia hires Charles to investigate Aristide's death, for she believes he was murdered by a member of his rambling and peculiar family. Sophia notes that Leonides' regular insulin injection had been tie up with serine from his eye drops, the resulting chemicals in them causing him to die. Sophia believes this to have been a purposeful switch rather than unintentional. Charles begrudgingly concurs to take on the case as a result of his feelings for Sophia as the two had enjoyed a brief love affair when they had met sometime former in Cairo. Charles seeks the consent of Chief Inspector Taverner of Scotland Yard to look into the case, utilizing his personal connection with Taverner, who had served with Charles's father, a decorated former Assistant Commissioner who was assassinated.

Charles visits the Leonides domain and proceeds to interview the various members of the family, finding various aims of each. Charles begins with Lady Edith De Haviland, the sister of Leonides's first wife, who abhorrent her brother-in-law and his insensitive attitude towards her grandchildren. Leonides's eldest son, Philip, despised his father for passing him over to run the family business and for declining to take interest in a new play he'd written for his wife, Magda, a departured theater actress. Philip and Magda provided Leonides with three grandchildren, namely Sophia and the talented younger children Eustace and Josephine. Eustace takes a dislike to Charles and seeks to obstruct him wherever possible whilst Josephine makes clear to Charles that she snoops on everyone around the house, makes annotations about their private lives and dislikes most of her family except for Edith and Sophia.

Charles subsequently finds that Leonides' younger son, Roger, the emotionally immature managing director of the family's flagship business, was reliant upon his father bailing out the business numerous times due to his poor management. The fact that Leonides was so willing to bail Roger out did not sit well with either Roger, due to his pride, or his domineering wife Clemency. Charles further finds that Leonides' second wife, Brenda, a much younger former Las Vegas casino dancer, is suspected by the rest of the family as having committed the murder. Evidence seems to back this up due to the facts that Brenda had been having an affair with Laurence Brown, the private tutor for the Leonides children, as well as that she administered the fatal dose of drugs to Leonides and that she stood to inherit the entirety of the Leonides estate due to him not having signed a will, meaning he died intestate and thus his estate passed to her.
Charles's investigations and questions are met with unfriendliness by most of the family whilst Josephine cryptically mentions at clues along the way, to Charles's irritation, as he finds her treating the investigation as a game to be dull. Events take a new, horrific turn when the ladder to Josephine's tree-house is sabotaged and she falls from the tree, being hospitalized. Charles suspects that this was due to Josephine's tendency of spying on the other family members and the killer thus wanting to silence her. In the aftermath, Charles's doubts are heightened and even extend to Sophia after a new will is discovered in which Leonides had left his estate to her, with some quarrelling that Sophia hired Charles to investigate the murder due to their personal history, knowing he would never blame her due to their romantic past.

After those developments, Taverner arrives to take charge of the case as he feels Charles' romantic history with Sophia hindrances him to solve it. The discovery of love letters between Brenda and Laurence gives Taverner enough facts to capture them for Leonides' murder and the attempt on Josephine, to the gladness of most of his family members who had always loathed both. Charles, however, remains unconvinced that Brenda and Laurence are blameworthy, noting Brenda's childlike cleverness and Laurence's antiwar, left-wing views as making them unlikely candidates for being a murderer. Sophia and Edith seem to agree, with Sophia noting how the letters could have been faked and Edith paying for a lawyer to represent Brenda and Laurence in court. In the meantime, Charles returns to London and only returns to the estate when Josephine's nanny dies after being poisoned by drinking a mug of hot chocolate that she had made for Josephine.

Charles beseeches Josephine to tell her who the killer is as he has worked out she knows their identity. Again, Josephine declines to tell. After it is figured out that the nanny died of cyanide poisoning, Charles begins to suspect Edith as he knew she had been using cyanide to remove moles in the garden. His search of Edith's garden shack finds a bottle of cyanide as well as Josephine's missing notebook, complete with her observations on each member of the family. Edith drives out of the family estate with Josephine, having also left a letter for Charles to find. Charles and Sophia take off in search of Edith in a car chase to try and stop them. In the car, Sophia reads the note that Edith had left in which she admits to the murder but Charles disagrees that he believes Edith is not the killer.

Sophia reads extracts from Josephine's notebook in which the child admits to murdering Leonides simply because he had denies to pay for her ballet lessons. The notebook further discloses that Josephine had also faked the attack on herself and had poisoned her nanny when the latter began to suspect Josephine. Lady Edith had figured out that Josephine was the killer and planted proofs and wrote the confession letter to spare Josephine a life in psychiatric association and absolve Brenda and Laurence. Edith had earlier been informed by her doctor that she was dying of cancer and so decided to forfeit herself to protect Josephine and the rest of the family. Edith realizes that Charles and Sophia are chasing her and so she drives her car over the cliff top of a quarry, killing herself and Josephine. The film ends as Charles soothes a traumatized Sophia at the edge of the cliff.

Reviews: Imbd~ 6.3/10 stars
                Rotten Tomatoes~ 3.5/5 stars

 Cosmic Info: 5.5/7 Bands
" A fine and suspicious story by Agatha Christie. The one where you can't predict the killer. Quite a dramatic turn in the end"

               

Padmavati: All you need to know!

Padmavati

History:- Padmini ,also known as padmavati, was a princess of the Singhal Kingdom (srilanka). Malik Muhammed Jayasi in 1540 CE portrayed her to be the epitome of beauty. Ratan Sen, the ruler of Chittor, heard about her from a talking parrot Hiraman. After an adventurous quest he won her and married her. The news of her beauty travelled far to the lands. It reached to the Sultan of Delhi, Alauddi Khilji. He attacked Chittor and lay siege upon it.  Several events occurred and khilji finally captured the impregnable fortress. Meanwhile king of Chittor was killed in a duel with Devpal, the king of Kumbhalner, who was also enchanted by the Queen’s beauty. Before anyone could reach her, in to protect her honour as a woman, Padmavati and her companions committed Jauhar (the ritual where they cast a big fire and burn themselves together)

Movie Plot:- Set in 1303 AD medieval India, Padmaavat is the story of honour, valour and obsession. Queen Padmavati is known for her exceptional beauty. She is the wife of Maharawal Ratan Singh and pride of the Kingdom of Chittor, situated in north-west region of India.

The legend of her beauty reaches the reigning sultan of Hindustan-Allaudin Khilji in Delhi. The sultan who is a tyrant, considers that there is no God’s justice but only human strength. He lays siege on the impregnable fortress of Chittorgarh for 6 months.

After a grueling 6 months, he returns empty handed. He becomes obsessed and now wants to capture Chittor and its Queen by hook or by crook. He returns with a bigger army and new weaponries. He attacks Chittor with all his power and in a bloody and fearsome duel he kills Maharawal Ratan Singh. Khilji manages to breach the fortress but it goes in vain as the Queen chooses to make the ultimate sacrifice of “Jauhar”.

Main Cast:-  Deepika Padukone as ‘Padmavati’

                       Ranveer Singh as ‘Alauddin Khilji’

                       Shahid Kapoor as ‘Maharawal Ratan Singh’

                       Aditi Rao Hydari as ‘Mehrunissa’

Our Review:- 6/7 bands.

 The movie was carried on by Ranveer Singh.Shahid Kapoor;s character was sidelined in the movie. It might have been decent if they would have stick to the actual history. But overall it is a virtuous movie to watch.

Websites reviews:- IMdb:- 7.5/10 stars

                                TheIndianEXPRESS:- 2.5/5 stars

                                TOI:- 4/5 stars

                                Financial Express:- 4.5/5 stars

                                Mirchi9:- 3/5 mirchi

                                   

Gmail users finally gets ability to ‘Undo Send’ an e-mail.

Have you ever wished that there should be an ‘Undo’ button in an e-mail? Surely, you would have coz. of various mistakes like Failing to attach files in hurry, spelling mistakes or missing important detail, etc. Which people usually come to know after they have Clicked the ‘Send’ button. And thus the desire of ‘Undo’ button comes in the play.

Gmail launches one of its best feature i.e. the ‘Undo Send’ button which allows the user to cancel or edit the sent mail within a time period 5-30 seconds as per the settings.

The ‘Undo Send’ feature existed in the Google Labs from 2009 and took 6 years to become a regular feature after the long experimental period for which Google is famous for as the Gmail itself was in beta for 5 long years.

How to Enable the ‘Undo Send’ Feature:-

1. Go to ‘settings’ on the top right corner.
2. You will find ‘undo send’ under General tab.
3. Click Enable and select time period (30 seconds preferrable).
4. Click on save settings.

Now when you send a mail you would get an undo option same as you use to get when you delete an email. But just for the time period you have selected.

However, ‘Undo Send’ feature is not currently available on mobile application, so you're out of luck if you want to retract an email you sent from your phone. But Google will be soon launching the feature for mobile too.

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Was buying Jaguar by Ratan Tata actually an act to take revenge from Ford?

On 26th of March, 2008 TATA group took over Jaguar which is considered as a revenge taken by TATA from Ford.

TATA group is a leading business house in India known for values observed in their business practises along with there large scale business operations.

Mr. Ratan Tata a man, who continued the legacy of India’s most trusted business (TATA group).

Tata group launched its passenger car Tata Indica in year 1998. The group was led by Ratan Tata and it was his decision to enter in the passenger car business.

It proved to be a failure in its first year and the experiment seemed to be failing as well. Many people started advising Ratan Tata that he should sell the passenger car business. Ratan Tata also agreed to this and a proposal was given to Ford, they showed interest too. Ratan Tata, along with his close team members reached Detroit to discuss the same. Detroit hosts Ford headquarter and considered and the automobile hub of United States.

In the 3 hours meeting, it seemed that the behaviour of Ford people was insulting toward Tata group representatives. In the meeting, chairman of Ford (Bill Ford) said to Ratan Tata, “why did you enter in the passenger car business when you were not knowing of it. It will be favor if we buy this business from you”.

To these Mr. Ratan Tata decided to move back home. While travelling, he was very tense as the feeling of being insulted was on his mind.

When someone is insulted, anger is the only outcome. However, great people can use this anger to plan business policies and goals.

After earlier failures, Tata Motors did well with its business of passenger cars but in the same period, Ford did very bad. In 2008, when Ford was on its way of bankruptcy, Tata Group offered Ford to buy their luxury car brand Jaguar-Land Rover. Bill Ford, along with his team, reached “Bombay House”. “Bombay House” is the headquarter of Tata Group. The deal was finalized for 2.3 billion US $, which amounted to 9300 crore Indian Rupees at that time. Ford was incurring heavy losses from Jaguar – Land Rover division.

In the meeting, Bill Ford said to Ratan Tata, ” You are doing a big favor for us by buying Jaguar- Land Rover”.

Jaguar- Land Rover is now owned by Tata Group and is making huge profits.

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Was the act (lynching the rape accused) of Mob in Dimapur, Nagaland Justifiable?

On 5^th March, 2015 a mob consisting of around 10000 people broke into the Dimapur Central Jail by overpowering the police security and dragged out the accused of a rape case which happened on 23^rd February and lynched him by dragging him 7km to the clock tower from the central jail in Dimapur, Nagaland.

 According to the FIR filed by the victim ( a 20years old college student of Nagaland) she was raped in a hotel on 23^rd February by the accused (35 years old Syed Farid Khan) and his appliance Nikavi. Both of were arrested on 25^th February for rape and assault under sections 476, 344 & 363 of Indian Penal Code. But according to the accused it was “consensual sex” for which he paid Rs 5000.

Before the completion of the inquiry over the case the mob broke into the Dimapur central jail by overpowering the police security and dragged out the accused and than he was paraded naked, beaten inhumanly and dragged 7 km by a motor-cycle to the clock tower where he was to be hanged in public but he succumbed to his injuries before reaching the clock tower. The mob further in anger burnt 10 police vehicles and houses of Bangladesh immigrants.

This outrageous act of the mob was unlawful as well as unjustifiable as no one should take law in hands because it eventually results in worst situations. No matter how high people are but law is above all. And Indian constitution does not allow these kinds of acts and even morally the act is not justifiable as it is a barbaric and inhuman act done by the people as “Mob has many people but no brains.”

According to Indian Jurisprudence “A person is innocent unless proved guilty”

The suspect was killed before his crime was proved i.e the free & fair justification and investigation was disturbed. The rights of accused were violated. And due to this kind of act by people there is an adverse effect on the society and India will suffer a lot on sociological and legal point of view as it is the 1^st time in Indian history when a jail has been broken in order to kill a prisoner.

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