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Embrace Life To all me near and dear ones and all you out there. Wanted to sharesomething with you all. This is something that impressed me to the core. This is the new "wear your seatbelt" ad the UK is doing - started by a man not hired to do it, but because the cause is important to him, he came up with this idea, and now it's being hailed across the world as a ‘beautiful' commercial. And now the video has become so popular with the general public that people are forwarding it to friends/family on their own so quickly that it has spread all over the world in a very short time. GO TO: http://embracethis.co.uk/

A BLINDFOLDED NATION • A quarter of a century of sufferings! • More than quarter of a lakh dead, and counting! • A nation yet to come out of shock! • The verdict: 2 years of imprisonment for 8 accused and a paltry fine as accompaniment. • Warren Anderson, the prime offender, continues to be an absconder! • Eight accused finally pronounced guilty, but no mention of Anderson! • Financial papers are more worried about the fate of Keshub Mahindra, the then Union Carbide India chief and now a Mahindra top boss! • The dead continue to haunt; the living dead weep - out of pain and treachery handed out to them by a system! AND, YET, WE CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IN THIS SYSTEM CALLED JUDICIARY! SAY SOMETHING AGAINST THE PROCESS AND YOU ARE IN THE PURVIEW OF CONTEMPT OF COURT! WE, AS A NATION, CONTINUE TO BE A CASTRATED LOT. JAI HO!

Epic in a Jha bottle FIRST THINGS FIRST - Prakash Jha’s Raajneeti isn’t based on the Gandhi family. Shrimati Indu Pratap, of course, has the looks, the gait, the wave and all the sarees of Shrimati Sonia Gandhi. But then, the similarities end there. All talk of Katrina’s Sonia avatar is just bullshit. Prakash Jha is no fool to accept such comparisons wholeheartedly. He does know for himself that the whole world is drawing comparisons between Indu and Sonia, but prefers putting them on iggy mode. He knows his version of the story better. He has reiterated in interviews and media statements that Raajneeti is no Sonia sad story. I stand by him. Raajneeti is no Gandhi-Sonia sob episode. What is Raajneeti then? Instead of mimicking the Rajiv-Rahul-Sonias on screen with his immensely talented star cast, Jha has pulled out those heroes and anti-heroes straight out of the pages of the Mahabharata and clad them in designer Khadi. Further still, he has even blended one of Veda Vyasa’s heroes wi