May Love Fall from all side

May Love Fall from all side
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana

"MAnavanAgi huTTid mEle EnEn kanDi … SayOk munche omme nOdu jOgad gunDi…" as said in one of Rajkumar's movie.. Jog Falls is one of the must see Spot in Karnataka.... It's the pride of India..... It was a great feeling seeing four majestic waterfalls falling from the height of 253 mts.. nad when we walked down to the bottom of JogFalls It was like heaven we were at the middle of those four waterfalls... water is falling from all side.... and if it adds to excitement there was a rainbow at middle of it....

Well having said that Nature has given it's best in the form of JogFalls.., I must say that our Govt.. is not doing anythng at all for this place.....You can see trash everywhere ... first of all we dont have habbit of searching a dustbin to throw plastic trash but even u r one of those sensible one who really look arnd for the dustbin , You wll not find one that easily. With more than lakh people visiting Jog Falls in season and weekEnds.... It's great mass of plastic and paper getting collected there.....

If they just put 2 rs per person maintainance charges for the place.. they'll collect eough money to create enogh dustbin and to hire people who can keep them clean.
moreover they are allowing small shops to sale Lemon Soda and different soft drinks .. these shop keepers are not bothered abt trash and they are definately not collecting the Garbage they are spreading..

I hope we'll be able to solve the problem soon..... !!

My New Neighbours

Two months back.... I saw light at the window next to my room's windows... I hadn't seen that window open in last 2 years so it was bit surprising.... OK, someone has taken that room on rent ... suddenly I hear some voices... a.. aa guess what ? those were female voice... my young bachelor heart Jumped... what a kismat... after more than 2 dry years someone joined us in neighbour and that too GIRLS... Trust me I was not thinking anything wrong but it's that internal happiness which Should be there in any Young,Human bachelor's Heart... ;-)....... neways Days spent .. I could never see anyone of them..( Yeah they have Big thick curtain on there window )... But Believe me we dont have to OVERHEAR them to hear them.... infact You cant avoid them ( I Dont know why they speak so loudly when they are talking with the person in the same room.. )... neways I should not complain after all their voices are not so disturbing as our street Dogs... But I think sometimes they talks THINGS ( I'll not go into details here) ... which are not supposed to be heard by us but what can we do... I tried closing all my windows but their sweet thin voice dont need much space to come in... and we can still hear them CLEARLY....I hope they will understand that we are not supposed to hear those girlish talks.... Only thing we can do is to increase our TV volume or play loud Music but we cant do it all the time... sometimes You galz have to take care... I wish that Heavy curtain could filter your voice too as it Filters our View... ;-)

wait wait... I think I forgot to welcome you pretty gals....

FROM COFFEE HOUSE TO CAFE COFFEE DAY

Coffee House....
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana

We are celebrating our 60th Independence day today..... Happy Independence to all fellow Indians..... !! I was at famous Coffee House today morning and was noticing the change an the journey we covered in these 60 years.... well I have seen just last 25 years of these Independent years and I dont think It's wise of me to talk abt changes and struggle in initial days.... seeing today's India I think we can have lot of hopes ... We are developing fast , we are changing fast... Our population which used to be the biggest problem... we have learn to use that as our strength.... Our Coffee taste is changing and with that lot of other things.... Hopefully for the Better India... Vande Matram...

Gandhi My Father

Gandhi My Father
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana

I saw this movie yesterday and I must say that after a long time I came out of cinema hall so much satisfied.... I can't point out a single wrong thing abtthe movie... sound,effect, picturisation, direction and acting .. everything was excellent ... It is one of the story which was never told and I relly liked the way it is presented in the movie without any hypes of Gandhi and patriotism .. it's a Simple movie of Father and Son relationship.... Father's expectations from Son and Son's dream to be a succefull person ( as his Father ) but with his own rules.
I advice everyone to see the movie....You cant dislike this movie.

Roses for you !!

Roses for you !!
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana

Some Facts abt rose :

.The oldest living rose today is thought to be approximately 1,000 years old. It climbs the wall of the Hildesham Cathedral in Germany.

· The reason why white roses are so special is not a mystery, it’s a myth. Ancient Romans believed that a white rose grew in the spot where Venus’ tears fell as she mourned Adonis.

· Roses are timeless. Archaeologists have uncovered fossilized remains of roses that grew in the wild 40 million years ago.

· Roses do not bear fruit, but they do produce rose hips, which is the best source of Vitamin C known to man.

It's Raining

It's Raining
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana

It's raining in Bangalore almost daily... and it's creating lot of problems for lot of us..... But I think Bangalore is still one of the most beautiful Capital City in India and when it rains It doubles the beauty..... I am walking thru one of those silent roads at Koramangala with trees both side... while all other parellel roads are having heavy traffic chaos... I am enjoying walking on this road with wet pavements ( thanx to BDA ).... Sorry to all you guys who are stuck in traffic... But I am loving it.. I am kissing the rain.... Love you Bangalore...

To All My Smoker/Drinker friends

Smoke, originally uploaded by PrasoonRana.

Is May ko na pee Katra Katra,
Gin Gin Ke na le sanse Apni....!
Jeena hai to jee, jeene ke liye,
Jeene ka Faqat Ilzaam na le...!!


I am not against Drinking or Smoking just do it in control and intelligently... try not to hurt other's sentiments for these small things... Enjoy your life as much as you want but that'll be possible only if you cares for other's too............

Lepakshi

Face Details : Male Dancer, originally uploaded by PrasoonRana.

Lepakshi is a small town just 120KM from Bangalore.. Road is awsum and It's around 2 and half hour drive from Hebbel Flyover.. We visited Lepakshi this weekend and it was an awsum drive.Lepakshi(Lepa-Akshi) means " a Village of Blinded Eys", is very important place from the Historical and Archeological point of view.
Town is very small and other than a monolithic Nandi and shrine of 'Shiva','Vishnu' and 'Virabhadara' on top of rock... there is nothing much to do.... We didn't carry our Lunch and we regret abt it later... Had half eaten Masala Dosa ( we couldn't eat it more than that ) and Soft drinks for lunch... By the time we reached Bangalore We were dying of Hunger..


So if you carrying your Lunch box with you Lepakshi is a beautiful weekend getAway from Bangalore... Beautiful carving on Pillars and Paintings on the roof are nice to experience... you can spend hours in beautiful Temple compound .. Not too many visitors makes this small town even more simple and uncrowded.

more pics at Lepakshi

A Beautiful Backward Country

Well I and my friend was discussing about current " I am Backward... I am Backward... " fight which is going on in Rajasthan and Other northern states of India. I think when everyone in India is fighting for becoming backward.. isn't it a good Idea to make/declare the whole country as backward country.... and then fight on international level for reservation...
Reservation in travelling, Reservation in Sports, Reservation in developing Atom Bombs or Reservation in getting OIL/Power/Food and Water.... and yeah Reservation in World bank Loan.. after all we are backward....
I think we'll be able to win Cricket World Cup then... and I am sure that'll make most of us vary Happy.... That's the dream we indian seeing for last 24years now.... I gave the Idea that we should be given 100 over instead of 50 over to play because we are backward.. my friend rejected immidiately saying " That's not possible we can't play for 100 over and why should we... We are Backward"... so instead opposite Team should be given only 25 overs to play...

If at all such things happens , I am telling you, no Indian will be Ashamed... we are not ashamed of being called Backward and being given reservations.... we take it as our right...

so what if we live in a country which has almost every kind of Geographic environment and hence that many opportunity.... What if we are considered as a intelligent species ... what if our country is considered as one of the most visited,travelled place in the word... What if we have some of teh oldest heritage and culture/tradition in the World.....
We are still Backward.. and we fight for that... So shameless are those politician who say that if they win they will give there cast status f being Backward as a gift......

There is no reason which can justify Reservation in this Great country. I am agree that there is a huge diversity of Rich/Poor in this country but how reservation can help in that... if people who dont deserve will take responsible posts how can this country develop....

If you think any poor community is not getting what they should get .. give them the free education, give them free seats in any damn professional college but let them get those seats on there own...

What are we doing with this beautiful country.... Why are we making it backward.... It's time to rise.. it's our time... It's time to go UPWARD....


I strongly hate Reservation in getting seats in Educational Institutes,in getting Govt. Jobs or getting promotions in Govt. Jobs.... please let me know any reason which can justify Reservation in it's current state in our country.... may be I am missing something....

हमसफ़र

The Rising
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana.

क्यूं कहते हो मेरे साथ कुछ भी बेहतर नही होता
सच ये है के जैसा चाहो वैसा नही होता
कोई सह लेता है कोई कह लेता है क्यूँकी ग़म कभी ज़िंदगी से बढ़ कर नही होता
आज अपनो ने ही सीखा दिया हमे
यहाँ ठोकर देने वाला हैर पत्थर नही होता
क्यूं ज़िंदगी की मुश्क़िलो से हारे बैठे हो
इसके बिना कोई मंज़िल, कोई सफ़र नही होता
कोई तेरे साथ नही है तो भी ग़म ना कर
ख़ुद से बढ़ कर कोई दुनिया में हमसफ़र नही होता!!!

Two sides of coin....

LoveBirds : Black Headed Ibis(Threskiornis melanocephalus)
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana.

I was talking abt words last time and will continue thinking about it...

Another thing I commit myself and I noticed in some people is when they critiq or comment on something.... I think giving honest comment on something is not bad but when we find anything negative about anything,just before taking that out we should definately think if we have said enough positive thing.
I have not followed this thing many times and I can imagine how the other person would have felt. Giving you an example , I bought a new laptop last year. I paid a good amount for that and was excited about it... with all that excitement I showed it to one of my friend. First thing came out of him is "It's very heavy"... phissssss... I felt like asking him to put it back and get out( I didnt do that obviously )... he said lot of good things about Laptop later but was I listening ? I know he didn't have that intension to hurt me.He was just being honest and didn't feel like doing any formality with his good friend.But that hurts.. I still remember those moments that's enough proof that it is not that simple as it looks... if he had said the same thing after saying two good points for my laptop I would be agree with him for weight because I know it's right... I am agree that it's heavy.
We dont do it intentionaly and many time we dont even notice that but others do.I think there are always some positive things about everything on the earth.. but we are so used to of negatives that we take good things as granted and point out the negative part of anything first.

Before commenting on any negative side of anything .. Think if you have said enough positive things about it.Both side of a coin are important but which one you shows first make difference..

Back to Basics...

Tell Me The Story....Dad
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana.

Well Last weekEnd I was driving on some of my Fav roads in Bandipur and Madumalai region and then drove to Ooty too.
While driving on traffic filled roads of Ooty I saw a beautiful church at the corner.parked my bike there I went inside the church to find out that there is some white lady giving lecture to School kids by telling some stories..
I stayed and listen those words just to remind myself all those basic of living a Good/Happy life.
She was talking about WORDS.. once gone, never come back so we should spend them with lot of care...

She proceeds : just before saying any words to anybody just ask three question to yourself:

Q1: Is it True ?
Q2: Is it Kind ?
Q3: Is it Necessary ?

I thought about it a lot .. how important are these small things in our life.. to make any sense out of our life..
Otherwise it's just like spending some years on this earth.. It's the people around us,Good or Bad, makes a life.

If I see above three question and try to answer them I find that You need not open your mouth untill unless answer of atleast two questions is "YES"
if you simply follow these rules Everything should be fine...
If I try to remembe any unpleasent situation or argument I went thru... in all the cases it happened because I broke the above rule...

Sometimes I said Truth very proudly when it was neither kind nor necessary for me to say it..

These are the basics of life which were taught to us in school but they still are so much important....

Here I go Back to Basics.....

Jindagi Rocks.... sometimes too much

Jindagi Rocks.. and sometimes it rocks too much to handle.... It shakes you from inside.. all your values and believes rocks... and it hurts... you start analysing your own believes... on which your whole life was based on..... you were proud of these things and today you are questioning them.. Questioning there existence......
You cant be good always.... you cant be good always for everybody.. you have to learn becoming bad.... that hurts lesser.... none will have expectations then... if you try to be good for everybody, it'll hurt at the end.... It'll hurt you.... it'll hurt them more.... you cant devide urself in two.. I wish I could.......
Jindagi Rocks........ better you Rock with it !!

Night full of Music

Violinist
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana.

French Violinist Bernard Wacheux @ fireflies festival,Bangalore
Came to know about fireflies festival from my Photography Group on flickr.I always love to shoot event and festivals. Low lighting in the event made me decide to go for shoot and experience & learn from this golden opportunities...This festival turned out more then what I was expecting.I was worried if I'll be able to awake whole night as it Dusk to Dawn festival.But variety in the music and beautiful surrounding wont let you get bored. you cant think of sleeping when you see so much energy around.More then photography I enjoyed music and jugalbandees... With the decision of coming back to fireflies next year I reched home at around 8 morning.. had Dosa and karaBath on my way back home...

Greedy little Angels

Hey wass up ?
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana.

These Beautiful angels attacked my biscuit pack .. well My mistake, I left it open in my kitchen.... but now when they are busy eating those tasty .. egg made biscuits.... I'll keep troubling them with my huge lenses ( atleast they are huge for these kidos ) and strong light straight from my table Lamp.. untill they give me some National geographic kind of stuff....... Only problem with these guys is that they are too small to focus and they run very fast... I focus on there beautiful faces ( actually it looks horrible with there sharp teeths) and what i get in frame is there Dark Black ... hairy ASS......... no worries dude keep clicking in this digital ERA .. and u'll get something.... sooner or later....

Dream

Dream
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning

In the Air...

sometimes you just at wrong place at wrong time..

In the Air...
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana.

Am not gonna leave you !!

Am not gonna leave you !!
Originally uploaded by PrasoonRana.

Jallikatu : Strength , Courage & Energy

Jallikatu is a Tamil word which means 'Bull fight'.This Festival is celebrated on day after Pongal and at someplaces day after that.It's an amazing show of courage and strength by village youth of Tamilnadu, India. you can feel lot of energy and excitement in villagers for this show.Whole village and people from other villages including children and women start coming here early morning to get there place .Everyone want the best view of the event.

Bull owner brings their bull , all dressed up and painted, and stands in a queue.One by one they send there Bull inside the game area where all youth who are participating will be ready to catch the bull. Aim is to hold the bull from its back for sometime and control it.If someone hold the Bull for specifid time he gets the prize otherwise Bull Owner gets the prize.Small Items like plastic chairs,TV,BiCycle etc are given as price.and sometime even chiken,goat etc.

More then prizes its the cheering crowd which makes these youth risking there life in the event.When I reached there I didn't get a single point from where I could shoot pics. Forget shooting I was not even able to see the event.I was alone and I dis not understand Tamil.Later somehow with the help of two other photographers whom I met at the event only, I managed to get some place on the ground.It was tough to shoot from there but actually got the nice angel which I figured out later.

This was all fun part of the event but its not only Fun.These young people put there life on risk. every year several people give their life in the event. Lot of people and groups are raising voice to ban the event.At the same time villagers support it as their traditional sport.

I am agree with both the sides.Some people see it as a cruelty to Animal as sometime these bull are given Bhang and even nonVeg to charge them,Which is really bad. But at the same time if you keep away all the cruel part done to Bull It a traditional sport of Tamils. Putting ban on ages old tradition and culture is also not right as it is against human right and after all humans who got hurt at the end.

Well it is like argument on Non-Vegetarian food... We should not eat Non-Veg because they are living beings but then Human is a omnivorous species.If someone loves animals and don't want to eat them doesn't mean everyone should stop eating Nonveg...

Whatever will happen to this sport in Future. I loved to be the part of this event this year.The energy and excitement at the place was great.
Also this bike trip of arnd 1000KM broke all my previous record. First 425KM(10 hours) drive in a day while going & 530KM (13 hours) drive in a day while coming back and that too Alone.
for more pics of the trip please visit : http://www.flickr.com/photos/prasoonpics/sets/72157594488009323/

006 - A Beautiful year...

Thank God for such a beautiful Year.... It was not very eventful year for my career and profession like last year but at personal front it was a great year....

Lot of dreams completed... Lots of unforgettable trips... Lots of love from everybody

what else one need from life....?

Thanx to my Parents,SISs,Friends for giving me your love,having trust on me and sharing many beautiful moments with me... I hope new year has much more for me to explore... so keep going keep clicking....

Have a wonderful New year 2007...........