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Long time ago ... We read in school books ... The basic needs of life are Food, Clothing and Shelter ... Round about the same time ... i also saw the movie starring Manoj Kumar.... 'Roti, Kapda aur Makaan' ... Just looking back at that paradigm and in perspective looking at my own life today (and that of several of my friends and colleauges.... ) ... there is a change .... Today ... The basic needs of life are Bread, Butter and Broadband :-)

Heres some news from that side of my life which belongs to my child ... brain'child ... Arbit Choudhury Arbit in Mobile space After entertaining fans across the world though the Web, Arbit has now forayed into the Mobile Space. Arbit Choudhury Jokes are now available on India's 'Indiatimes 8888' SMS Service !! Just SMS "MBA" to 8888 to receive Arbit zOkes .... Arbit on Wikipedia Arbit reeived a mention on the Front Page (Home Page) of wikipedia for one complete day. Read about Arbit on wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbit_Choudhury Arbit on Orkut In response to several requests from Arbit fans ... we now have an Arbit Choudhury community on Orkut. Visit the Orkut community of Arbit at http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=10533730 Arbit Yahoo Group We continue to release fresh new comic strips every fortnight (on the 1st and 16th of every month) through the Arbit Yahoo Group. Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arbit_mba/ and click on the ...

Our knowledge of things and our viewpoint of issues is often dependant on what is popularly known and publicised. We think we have an opinion .. an independant opinion of our own on any particular issue .... How true is that ?? Often it is the media or the politicians of the world who feed our need for information which we feel is essential to make our opinions ... oblivious to the fact that our own opinions are so much governed by the info fed to us by the very media we are using to seek the info .... Commercially, product companies will try to publicise a perspective, a thought process conducive to publicity and sale of their product / service ... tell the world through 'trusted' media sources that your product / service is the hottestone today ... and it might just become so ... Here is a small part of an interview .... which looks at a historical event and an individual of historical significance from the other side of the fence ... Read for yourself ... Note - I do not ...

After the game is over …the King and the pawn go to the same box … that’s the reality of life … A quote from the movie ‘Being Cyrus’ (I have no idea … where did they get it from .. I got it from the movie so that’s my source :-)

"kya cheez hain mumbai … aamchi mumbai … vo vada pav ki chatni … vo mahim ki phirni … vo local train ke dhakke … vo signal pe chakke … vo traffic , vo kuda , vo kachra … vo auto taxi ka nakhra … vo machchi wali ka jhagda … vo bhel, vo pani puri , vo ragda, vo wadala, vo chakala, vo bandra … kahin sakhubai … to kahin sandra vo aunty ka adda … saala main road pe ich khadda … " jaisi bhi hain yaar … apun ki mumbai se apne ko hain pyaar … The above lines are uttered by Don Sunil Shetty when he is hit by Nostalgia in the presence of the meek Akshay Khanna and bomb-shell Mallika Sherawat in the movie 'Shaadi se Pehle' … (the last line above is in a different colour … simply because it is not from the movie … its my contribution … my feeling ) As I went through the scene, Nostalgia hit me too … the third time so strongly in the past one month and that too while watching a movie … I was massively hit by Mumbai Nostalgia earlier this month when I was watching ‘Bluff Master’ an...