‘Hinglish’ the only language that unites Indians

‘Hinglish’ — a mixture of Hindi and English widely spoken in India — may soon become the most common form of the Queen’s language, according to a British expert.

Indian expertise in writing computer software also means that Hinglish will spread via the internet, says Prof Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales.

“Certain phrases are bound to become global with so many Indians working in information technology. As more Indians talk in chat rooms and send emails, the phrases and words they use to describe their lives will be picked up by others on the internet,” he says.

Some are archaic, relics of the Raj, such as ‘pukka’.

Others are newly coined, such as ‘time-pass’, meaning an activity that helps kill time.

India’s success in attracting business has recently produced a new verb. Those whose jobs are outsourced to India are said to have been ‘Bangalored’.

English has long enjoyed a special status in India because of the country’s colonial history.

It is still the language of the government, the elite and the media. It is also the only language that unites Indians in a country that has 14 official ones and more than 1,600 dialects.

Why This Kolaveri Di Lyrics - Dhanush 3 Movie Song Lyrics

Lyrics Of "Why This Kolaveri Di" From "3"
Sung By Dhanush
Music By Anirudh

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yo boys i am singing song
soup song
flop song
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
rhythm correct
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
maintain please
why this kolaveri..di

distance la moon-u moon-u
moon-u color-u white-u
white background night-u nigth-u
night-u color-u black-u

why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di

white skin-u girl-u girl-u
girl-u heart-u black-u
eyes-u eyes-u meet-u meet-u
my future dark

why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di

maama notes eduthuko
apdiye kaila snacks eduthuko
pa pa paan pa pa paan pa pa paa pa pa paan
sariya vaasi
super maama ready
ready 1 2 3 4

whaa wat a change over maama

ok maama now tune change-u

kaila glass
only english..

hand la glass
glass la scotch
eyes-u full-aa tear-u
empty life-u
girl-u come-u
life reverse gear-u
lovvu lovvu
oh my lovvu
you showed me bouv-u
cow-u cow-u holi cow-u
i want u hear now-u
god i m dying now-u
she is happy how-u

this song for soup boys-u
we dont have choice-u

why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di

flop song

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Almost everyone can understand this song..
anyway here are the meaning for few words

Kolaveri - Killer rage or Murderous Rage.
"Soup Song" - Love failure Song
"Soup Boys" - Boys who failed in love

India's first 'Rock Theme Park' in Kerala to woo tourists

A 1000-feet high rocky hill cluster at Chadayamangalam in south Kerala, believed to be connected with mythical character 'Jatayu' in epic Ramayana, will woo tourists as the country's first 'Rock Theme Park'.

According to local tradition, the rock, 'Jatayupara' in Kollam district, is the place where the mythical bird 'Jatayu' fell after its wings were slain by the ten-headed Ravana by his lethal sword 'Chandrahasam'.

As per the epic, Ravana, who ruled Lankapuri (Sri Lanka), chopped off one of the wings of the bird when it tried to block his airship 'Pushpaka Vimanam' in which he was forcibly taking away Rama's consort Sita.

The project is a blend of ecological and epic tourism and the state government, through this public-private partnership venture, is building a high-tech theme park on the rocky terrain with a mammoth statue of 'Jatayu' as its core.

A host of facilities such as 4D theatre complex, cable van, ayurveda resorts and massage parlours, ethnic cottages and a mural painting gallery are also taking shape at the spot, located about 50 km from the state capital Thiruvananthapuram.

The whole site is conceived as a resort where holidayers can relax and have a peep into the culture, heritage and tradition of India through films, paintings in a fitting ambience of panoramic settings, said Rajiv Anchal, noted film maker and sculptor, who is the art-director of the project.

"The huge statue of Jatayu, laying on its back with wings spread out with raised head, will be the heart of the park. The statue, 65 feet in height, 200 feet length and 150 feet width, is designed as a functional structure within which a 50-seat 4D theatre complex will be built," Rajiv said.

Once completed, the Jatayu sculpture would be the biggest functional sculpture in Asia. It can be termed as the tallest as well, he said.

"The 'Rock Theme Park' will strengthen Kerala's position in the global tourism map. It will open a fresh destination for foreign as well as global tourists," Rajiv said.

A total of Rs 100 crore was expected for this venture. Fifty per cent of the construction of the bird statue has been completed. "We think we can complete the first phase within one year," state Tourism Secretary V Venu said.

The bird structure will have three-tiers with a total of 20,000 sq ft utility space. The visitors who enter the sculpture can literally have a bird's eye view as Jatayu's eyes are designed to be around windows opening to the world.

"A telescope will also be installed there to have a closer view of the panoramic scenes of the surroundings," Rajiv, whose film 'Guru' got the official Indian entry at the Oscars in 1997, said.

Visitors can view a 4D film on the 'Jatayu' episode of Ramayana in the theatre, designed on Hollywood standards.
The inside walls of the structure would be decorated with traditional mural paintings, which would be based on the poems on 'Jatayu' penned by Jnanpith laureate ONV Kurup.

Local tradition has it that the village with the imposing rock as its backdrop, got the name 'Chandayamangalam' because of its association with Jatayu. The area has remained obscure for long before its tourism potential was discovered.

Only devotees visiting a temple of Lord Rama in the area used to have a glance at the panoramic view of the surrounding area in the past.

A never-drying pond, believed to have sprung when the rock suffered a deep cut from Jayatyu's beak, and the markings on the rock held in high reverence by local people as foot prints of Rama, are other highlights of the spot.

"As the name itself suggests, rock will be the theme of the park. As part of the project, many artificial rocks, rock-like structures and cottages will be built around without harming the natural rock. It will be built in such a way that nobody could easily understand which is original rock and which are created by artists," Anchal said.

There would be a winding foot path leading up to the top stretching to several kilometers. Places for rest and a host of kiosks of coffee and ethnic snacks like baked tapioca, 'chiratta puttu' and 'dry-ginger coffee' will also be set up throughout the path.

Rock-carved honeymoon cottages and herbal gardens to grow a variety of shrubs and plants will be other features of the theme park. Pure water, collected and preserved through rain water harvesting, will be supplied to the visitors round the year. Electricity will also be generated within the park tapping the in-house sources.

"We are planning to build a tiny reservoir to collect and preserve rain water on the rock cluster. Solar panels will be installed and electricity will be produced from solar energy for the park. We have already signed MoUs with private investors for this," Rajiv said.

The Tourism Department has entered into a pact with a Dubai based company to install a 'cable car' facility in the 'Jatayu Rock Theme Park', he said.

It would be the first time cable cars were introduced in any tourist centre in Kerala, he said.

"The Rock Theme Park will strengthen Keralas position in the global tourism map. It will open a fresh destination for foreign as well as global tourists,"

20 Stunning Social Media Statistics Plus Infographic

Do you wonder why your productivity has dropped over the past 2 – 3 years?

There is a time sink and it’s not television!

Those of us who are connected to the internet and that is 2 billion of us, have been distracted by social multi-media publishing machines that are pumping out staggering amounts of content with enticing high definition images and videos!

You cannot escape their allure as they tempt you to log in when you are out and about with either with your laptop, iPad or smart phone.

These enticing, tempting distractions are robbing us of time that should be spent doing productive work like washing your car, cleaning the house or doing your tax… and I know how much you all enjoy those activities!

20 Social Media Statistics

These figures reveal the huge black hole that our time disappears into when we visit Facebook, Twitter or YouTube or other social media sites.

1.One in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook ( This number is calculated by dividing the planets 6.94 billion people by Facebook’s 750 million users)
2.People spend 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
3.Each Facebook user spends on average 15 hours and 33 minutes a month on the site
4.More than 250 million people access Facebook through their mobile devices
5.More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook
6.30 billion pieces of content is shared on Facebook each month
7.300,000 users helped translate Facebook into 70 languages
8.People on Facebook install 20 million “Apps” every day
9.YouTube has 490 million unique users who visit every month (as of February 2011)
10.YouTube generates 92 billion page views per month (These YouTube stats don’t include videos viewed on phones and embedded in websites)
11.Users on YouTube spend a total of 2.9 billion hours per month (326,294 years)
12.Wikipedia hosts 17 million articles
13.Wikipedia authors total over 91,000 contributors
14.People upload 3,000 images to Flickr (the photo sharing social media site) every minute
15.Flickr hosts over 5 billion images
16.190 million average Tweets per day occur on Twitter (May 2011)
17.Twitter is handling 1.6 billion queries per day
18.Twitter is adding nearly 500,000 users a day
19.Google+ has more than 25 million users
20.Google+ was the fastest social network to reach 10 million users at 16 days (Twitter took 780 days and Facebook 852 days)

Saif Ali Khan anointed Nawab of Pataudi

Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was on Monday anointed the tenth Nawab of Pataudi at a ceremony at his ancestral palace here over a month after his father Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi passed away.

The 41-year-old actor was made the Nawab at a pagdi ceremony this morning at the Ibrahim Palace here, where heads of 52 villages tied a white turban around his head as mother Sharmila Tagore, sisters Saba Ali Khan and Soha Ali Khan looked on.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was also present.

Mr. Khan has been given the honorary title last held by his father, who died on September 22 following chronic lung infection.

Mr. Khan was initially reluctant to be anointed as the Nawab, a title no longer recognised by the government, but gave-in to the tradition to honour the sentiments of villagers.

As the newly appointed Nawab, Mr. Khan will have to take care of his father’s estate, their ancestral home, eye hospital and other charitable institutions.

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, whose mother was the daughter of the last Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan, was born in Bhopal and was the mutawalli (patron) of the Auqaf-e-Shahi, the body managing the religious and charitable endowments of the erstwhile princely State.

The late Pataudi took over from his mother as heir in the Bhopal royal family, allowing him to become the mutawalli of dozens of shrines, orphanages and religious trusts that are part of the princely Waqf properties of Bhopal.

As mutawalli, the late Pataudi governed religious properties worth over Rs 2,000 crore, including Bhopal’s Jama Masjid. He also enjoyed special discretionary powers to sanction free lodging at the Rubat (building) at Mecca and Medina.

The Pataudi palace in Gurgaon, built in 1935, is sprawled across 25 acres and is divided into two parts, a main building and an annexe. One part of it has been turned into a heritage hotel where a number of English and Hindi films have been shot.

Pataudi gave up his title in 1971 when India abolished royal entitlements through the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India.

Mr. Khan’s sister Saba was made the patron of the Auqaf-e-Shahi last week.

Bhupen Hazarika: The bard of Brahmaputra falls silent

Bhupen Hazarika, the 'bard of Brahmaputra' whose ability to weave magic out of traditional music died of multiple organ failure at a Mumbai hospital, plunging millions of fans across the country, especially those in eastern India, into gloom.

Hazarika,86, was on the ventilator for four months and had been in and out of hospital, passed away at 4.37 p.m. on Saturday at Kokilaben Hospital in India's entertainment capital. His long time companion, filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi, his nephews and some well wishers from his home state of Assam were at his side when he died.

His body will be flown to Guwahati on Monday and kept at Judges Field for two days for the public to pay homage.

His death cast a pall of gloom on his millions of fans. Many in Assam were grief stricken as news of his death spread.

A poet, music composer, singer,actor, journalist, author and filmmaker, the self-proclaimed 'jajabor' (wanderer) took the rich folk heritage of Assam and interpreted it beautifully for the world through his songs.

With his death, the country has lost not only one of its few balladeers but also one of its greatest cultural icons, cherished in Dhaka as much as in Guwahati.

Born in 1926 in Sadiya into a family of teachers, the academically-talented Hazarika completed his basic education from Guwahati in 1942, BA from Banaras Hindu University in 1944 and MA (Pol Sc) in 1946. He did his PhD in Mass Communication from Columbia University. He also received the Lisle Fellowship from Chicago University, US to study the use of educational project development through cinema.

During his stay in the US, he met the legendary black singer Paul Robeson, whose famous number 'Old man river' was successfully transformed to the megahit 'Bistirno parore' ('O Ganga behti ho' in Hindi), a virtual anthem for generations of pro-Left activists.

In an interview to a national daily many years ago, he attributed his singing to tribal music.

"As a child, I grew up listening to tribal music - its rhythm saw me developing an inclination towards singing. Perhaps, I inherited my singing skills from my mother, who sang lullabies to me. In fact, I have used one of my mother's lullabies in 'Rudali'," the Dadasaheb Phalke winner had said.

He sang his first song 'Biswa nijoy nojowan' (in the second Assamese film "Indramalati") in 1939 at the age of 12.

In addition to his native Assamese, Hazarika composed, wrote and sang for numerous Bengali and Hindi films from 1930s to the 1990s besides other songs.

He was also one of the leading author-poets of Assam with more than 1,000 lyrics and several books including short stories, essays, travelogues, poems and children’s rhymes.

He produced and directed, composed music and sang for Assamese films like Era Batar Sur, Shakuntala, Loti ghoti, Pratidhwani, Chick Mick Bijuli, Swikarokti and Siraj.

His most famous Hindi films include his long-time companion Kalpana Lajmi’s Rudaali, Ek Pal, Darmiyaan, Sai Paranjpe’s Papiha and Saaz, Mil Gayee Manzil Mujhe and M. F. Husain’s Gajagamini.

“You paint through your songs. But I can’t sing with my paintbrush. It’s up to you to fill this lacuna in my artistry. That’s why I’ve taken you,” Husain apparently told Hazarika after choosing him for the music score of Gajagamini.

Last year, Hazarika featured in his first music video –“Our Northeast, Our Star” with music and lyrics by 3 Idiots duo Shantanu Moitra and Swanand Kirkire.

He also lent his voice to this year’s film Gandhi To Hitler, where he sang Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite bhajan ‘Vaishnav jan’

He came to Mumbai to work in the Indian People’s Theatre Movement (IPTA) with Salil Chowdhury, Balraj Sahni and other Marxist intellectuals. He soon made the city his second home.

“The generous city and its people have welcomed me, accepted me, and given me my second home since so many years. I admire its people for its willingness to allow people from the rest of India to earn a living and prosper, irrespective of caste, creed or colour,” he once said about his life in Mumbai.

A recipient of prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award in 1992, Dr. Hazarika rendered music, written lyrics and sung for numerous Assamese, Bengali and Hindi films from 1930s to the 1990s.

The Assam Government awarded him with the highest honour of the State “Asom Ratna” in 2008 and bestowed its highest award the ‘Shankar Dev Award’ in 1987 for his contribution to Assam’s culture.

He received the National Award for Best Music Director in 1976 for Chameli Memsaab and President’s medal for his films Shakuntala (1960), Pratidhwani (1964) and Lotighoti (1967).

He was a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from 1967-72 and was awarded the Padmashri in 1977 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1987. He was the chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi from 1999-2004.

He was also a member of Assam Film Development Council and the Central Board of Film Certification.

In 2003, he was appointed as a member of the Pratidhwani Board.