Great Indian Dead, Long live Indian Field Marshall Sam Bahadur

May your soul rests in peace Field Marshall Manekshaw. We will never be more secure than we were during your days. Thanks for securing the frontiers and making our country a more secure country. May peace be bestowed on you. Amen.

Golden Movies

I am still seeing movies, still inhaling O2, still writing blogs and still living albeit slowly slowly. In last 30 days i have watched around 20 movies and these movies are forcing me to write about them, so the list continues:

1. Waterloo (1970)
It depicts the famous battle of Waterloo,1815 fought between the Legendary Napoleon Bonaparte's France on one side and Duke of Wellington led Britons and Prussians on the other side. Napoleon and Arthur Wellesley have been my childhood heroes so i really admire this movie the most.

2. The night of the Generals (1967)
Its a very very good 2nd World war movie but its theme is not the War but a decadent character of a great German general, murderer of prostitutes. Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole acted brilliantly in this movie. A great movie in every respect of cinema.

3. The Bridge on the river Kwai (1957)
They call it a cult movie and they are very true. Worth watching.

4. All quiet on the western front (1979)
Its a anti war movie and it talks about the story of a young class of college grads who volunteers to fight for their Kaser and their Fatherland in 1st World War.

5. Kingdom of heaven (2005)
A typical Orlando Bloom's movie. It talks about the bloody wars fought in the name of God between Christian Europe and Islamic west Asia. The screenplay is tremendous and the siege of Jerusalem is a worth watching jolly good show.

6. The Troy (2004)
I have watched this movie 'n' number of times and i really admire Hector. His immortal lines "All my life i lived by one code and the code is simple. Honour your Gods, Love your wives and defend your country" are really awestrucking and can inspire even the most coward person to fight.

Till i write again, adieu my friends.

A second trip to former Colonial Master Part 1

Friends May has always been a busy month for me and so the last May was not an exception. I got a chance rather mischance to travel to UK for a business meeting as they say, so say we all. This time my trip was split across South East England and Northern Ireland.

I really love British Airways flight as they are very very comfortable and their terminal is very close to Terminal 2, from Heathrow airport terminal 2, one can easily get a Bus to Winchester (ancient capital of England, city of King Alfred and around 100 kms from London) in mere 14 British Pound. The campus of IBM in Hursley is a master piece surrounded by greenery and grass lands, it looks like an university and as told by one IBM friend there, only thinkers live there :). Winchester also holds the famous round table of legendary King Arthur and his Knights, i was really amazed to be a part of history and i took a picture of that too. Winchester also basks in glory for having one of the oldest Cathedral in Europe and this very Cathedral contains the Grave of famous Briton Jane Austen. I stayed in a beautiful hotel there, they call it Norton Park's hotel. I really enjoyed my stay in Winchester even more than London.

Adieu till i write again.