Vande Matram - HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

Vande Mataram
The National Song of India

"Vande maataraM Vande maataraM
sujalaaM suphalaaM malayaja shiitalaaM
SasyashyaamalaaM maataram

Vande maataraM Vande maataraM

Shubhrajyotsnaa pulakitayaaminiiM
pullakusumita drumadala shobhiniiM
suhaasiniiM sumadhura bhaashhiNiiM
sukhadaaM varadaaM maataraM

Vande maataraM Vande maataraM

Koti koti kantha kalakalaninaada karaalekoti koti bhujai.
rdhR^itakharakaravaaleabalaa keno maa eto
balebahubaladhaariNiiM namaami taariNiiMripudalavaariNiiM maataraM

Vande maataraM Vande maataraM

Tumi vidyaa tumi dharmatumi
hR^idi tumi marmatvaM hi praaNaaH shariireBaahute
tumi maa shaktihR^idaye tumi maa bhaktitomaara i pratimaa gaDimandire mandire

Vande maataraM Vande maataraM

TvaM hi durgaa dashapraharaNadhaariNiikamalaa kamaladala
vihaariNiivaaNii vidyaadaayinii namaami tvaaM
Namaami kamalaaM amalaaM atulaaM
SujalaaM suphalaaM maataraM

Vande maataraM Vande maataraM

ShyaamalaaM saralaaM susmitaaM bhuushhitaaM
DharaNiiM bharaNiiM maataraM

Vande maataraM Vande maataraM
Vande maataraM Vande maataraM "

Translation by Shree Aurobindo

Mother, I bow to thee!Rich with thy hurrying streams,bright with orchard gleams,Cool with thy winds of delight,Dark fields waving Mother of might,Mother free.

Glory of moonlight dreams,Over thy branches and lordly streams,Clad in thy blossoming trees,Mother, giver of easeLaughing low and sweet!

Mother I kiss thy feet,Speaker sweet and low!Mother, to thee I bow. Who hath said thou art weak in thy landsWhen the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands And seventy million voices roar Thy dreadful name from shore to shore?

With many strengths who art mighty and stored, To thee I call Mother and Lord! Though who savest, arise and save!To her I cry who ever her foeman droveBack from plain and SeaAnd shook herself free.

Thou art wisdom, thou art law,Thou art heart, our soul, our breathThough art love divine, the aweIn our hearts that conquers death. Thine the strength that nervs the arm,Thine the beauty, thine the charm. Every image made divineIn our temples is but thine.

Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,With her hands that strike and herswords of sheen, Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned, And the Muse a hundred-toned, Pure and perfect without peer, Mother lend thine ear, Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with thy orchard gleems, Dark of hue O candid-fairIn thy soul, with jewelled hair And thy glorious smile divine, Lovilest of all earthly lands, Showering wealth from well-stored hands!

Mother, mother mine! Mother sweet, I bow to thee,Mother great and free! BHARATMA...

Vande Mataram Bankin Chandra composed the song Vande Mataram in an inspired moment, Rabindranath sang it by setting a glorious tune to it and it was left to the genius of Shri Aurobindo to interpret the deeper meaning of the song out of which India received the philosophy of new Nationalism.

The English translation of Vande Mataram rendered by Shree Aurobindo, is considered as official and best as per the book, Vande Mataram by Moni Bagchee

Resignation Letter!

A nice resignation letter poem in Hindi. Details out a lot on why people leave IT companies in India ;). My Hindi speaking friends ENJOY!!!

Funny Quotes!

Hi All,

Here are some funny quotes that you can use in your profile or make your girlfriend laugh or whatever.

• Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.-- Demetri Martin
• I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack.-- Demetri Martin
• Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.-- Bill Cosby
• If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.-- Dave Allen.
• The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.— Max Born
• There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.— Fred Hoyle
• Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we're not. In both cases the thought is equally shocking.— Arthur C. Clarke
• There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.— Douglas Adams
• In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.— Douglas Adams
• With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.— Ransom K. Ferm
• My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.— Christopher Morley
• I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.— Edward Chilton
• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.— Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
• One scientist to another: "I'm beginning to agree with the theory that space is curved — either that or my car is pulling to the left."— Hoest and Reiner
• Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosaurs. The tallest ones, anyway.
• Scientists have discovered that time is not real, that we only live in the current moment. But then according to that, they haven't done the research, and don't really have anything to back them up, do they?
• Black holes are where God divided by zero.— Steven Wright
• If aliens are smart enough to travel through space, why do they keep abducting the dumbest people on earth?
• Time is an illusion... lunchtime, doubly so.— Douglas Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe"
• What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.— Dave Barry
• Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.— Aldous Huxley
• Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a trip around the sun.— Clay Center Wisdom
• A dreamcatcher works, if your dream is to be gay.-- Demetri Martin
• Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.-- Eddie Murphy
• He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.-- Bertolt Brecht
• We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.-- Napoleon Bonaparte
• You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.-- Stephen King
• Laughter is higher than all pain.-- Elbert Hubbard

Okay, I didn't search the net and collect it for you guys. It was done by some other noble man or some other noble blog. I just made a copy :)

Turkey and Bullshit

A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to thetop of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy."

"Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with nutrients."

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eatingsome more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night,the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree.

He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.

Moral of the story:
Bull Shit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.