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<span style="font-size: large;">The Foreign Star, "Bhindeshi Tara". Time travel
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Friday, 20 May 2011</span></h2>
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The Foreign Star, "Bhindeshi Tara". Timetravel with Timeless Music....(lyrics & English translation)
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Ohhhh"... yes that was the exact expression i had today.. while returning home from work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was quite an interesting ponder session or should i say flashback.
Its quite funny that certain music can send you to time travel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was driving back home while i came across trafficjam, ugh no big
dealio these days if You're living in city. At first i thought okay
another 5 minutes halt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">5 minutes turned to 10 minutes, 10 turned to 15.. The whole situation was making my mood for the weekend absolutely cranky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I needed something to change this whole negative state of mind, so i switched off the FM & turned on my stereo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now it was quite awhile since I've listened to Stereo in the car. The choice has been always FM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then this song plays - a sudden 180 degree change of my mood. I listened
the song & then again i go back & played it, and then again i
played it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here's the song which literally translates to "Foreign Star".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the bengali lyrics of this song, I've tried to translate it
below for those who doesn't understand Bengali. Its such a beautiful
song. Thats the least i could do.<br />
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Bhindeshi Tara<br />
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Amar bhindeshi tara akaa rateri akashe<br />
Tumi bajale aktara amar chilekotahr pashe<br />
Thik shondhe namar mukhe<br />
Tomar naam dhore keu daake<br />
Mukh lukiye kaar buke tomar golpo bolo kaake<br />
Amar raat jaga tara tomar onno parae bari<br />
Amar bhoy pawa chehara ami adote anari<br />
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Amar akaash dekha ghuri kichu mitthe bahaduri<br />
Amar chokh bedhe dao alo dao shanto shitol pati <br />
Tumi mayer moto bhalo ami aklati poth haati<br />
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Amar bichiri ak tara tumi nao na kotah kaan e<br />
Tomar kisher ato tara<br />
Rasta paar hobe shabdhane<br />
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Tomar gaye lagena dhulo<br />
Amar dumutho chal chulo<br />
Rakho shorir haat e jodi aar jol makho dui haat e<br />
Pls ghum hoye jao chokhe amar mon kharaper rat e<br />
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Amar raat jaga tara amar akash choya bari<br />
Ami paina chute tomay amar akla laage bhari.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please let me know, if somebody come up with better translation, I'd be happy to be corrected. =)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's my attempt to translate the song:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My foreign star...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Alone in the night sky</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You played the ektara (an instrument with 1 string)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Right next to my house</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Just before sunset</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Someone calls out your name</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On whose chest do you hide your face</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Whom do you tell your tale?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My sleepless star</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Your house is in another neighbourhood</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My scared face</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am nothing but a fool</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I look at the sky</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">With false pride.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Close my eyes with light</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Give me a peaceful, soothing mat</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You are as good as a mother</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But I travel all alone</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My ektara is out of tune</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And you don't listen to a word I say</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What is your hurry</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Watch your steps while crossing the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The dust don't touch you</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The two morsels of food on my plate</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Place your hands on my body</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And smear your hands with water</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Please become the sleep in my eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On my depressed night</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My sleepless star, your sky touching house</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I cannot reach you, I feel so lonely all alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's it - simple. Yet deep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then the traffic started to move on. But i have long since not bothered
to keep track of time, i guess that is what it feels like to time
travel.=) Don't know how Marty Mcfly felt Lol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few moment of traffic jam & then you are confronted with such a timeless melody.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, i hope you listen to it and enjoy as much as i did. You can even go to my Youtube Channel & listen to it there. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1M7Jf8LJvE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1M7Jf8LJvE</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can also check my New Bengali Facts Channel on Youtube</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA39yZu_tYjpKw9EBSHCrvg" target="_blank">WatDaFacts</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So long, Adios.</span></div>
ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177347751753459426noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525225099728885731.post-43073716653804753272013-01-16T00:59:00.000-08:002013-01-16T03:47:56.827-08:00Back To Childhood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Keeping the room clean</h2>
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If you are a guy and been asked to clean the room its like asking a girl
her age. Anyway one afternoon i was told to clean my room and i had no
choice but to do it. Now cleaning a room that hasn't been touched for
years was a monumental task. I couldn't even figure out where to start. I
opened my old dusty cupboard and empty packets of Gold Flake cigarettes
fell out. The strangest thing was that my long-forgotten cupboard kept
yielding one memory after another. I ran into a lot of stuff from my
school that had got lost in decade gone by. I started thinking of all
those wonderful days. And that is when it hit me. Down the memory lane
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Wonderful years </h2>
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I still remember how Y2K was all the
rage then. Only a handful of us had computers, yet everyone was worried
how the virus would affect the machines. Nostradamus had apparently
predicted that the world would end; but thankfully neither did Y2K cause
stir nor was Nostradamus right.<br />
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We dint have Facebook then but we did have ICQ. One line none of us from
that 'era' can ever forget is 'ASL (age/sex/location) please', when
meeting someone new on ICQ. We had atrociously funny sounding email ids
-- therockrulez@hotmail.com, dude_am@indya.com and the like and even
funnier names in the 'chat rooms'. You couldn't Google but had to go to
altavista.com or approach Mr Jeeves for any queries and clarifications.<br />
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You still had to call a girl on her landline and muster all the courage
to askfor her. the only place you could hang out at was Wimpy's or McD
and one still stayed away from the solitary Coffee Day. One had to stand
in a long queue to buy tickets for Mission Impossible 2.<br />
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TV still played The Wonder Years and The Crystal Maze and the world
seemed far smarter minus the Saas-bahu soaps and the stupid reality
shows.<br />
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You still find the time to read book in the evenings and play cricket in
your 'gully' on Sundays. 'Canada Dry' was the only source to get high
and sweet, candy cigarettes were puffed at most of the times.<br />
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VSNL ensured porn still loaded one byte at a time and VCDs were all the
rage. Hulk Hogan was perpetually rank one on all the 'Trump Cards' and
Cameron Diaz from The Mask was in every puberty-hitting youngsters'
dreams. The only operating system we knew was Windows 98.<br />
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Anyone with a printer was treated with respect and the World Book
Encyclopedia was the only source of information for projects. Hero Pen
with the original Chinese nib was still preferred over the brash new
'Pilot' pen.<br />
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Azharuddin was still our captain and Jadeja and Robin Singh were two
pinch hitters. Venkatesh Prasad was the only one with the balls to mess
with the Pakis and we still lost all the test matches. And I definitely
cannot miss out wearing a 'color' dress to school on your birthday and
distributing Eclairs to everyone. I could go on and on. But i guess you
get the drift.<br />
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As i cleaned my room, I ran into my long forgotten collection of Diamond
comics. Gosh, how i used to love those comics (nerdy i know). I
distinctively remember the first time I was ever caught by the teacher
in class. She caught me because I wasn't looking at the blackboard. I
was looking down. This was in the 4th standard. I was caught because I
was reading a Comic book.<br />
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I guess some of us might hate to admit it now but every one of us have
read a comic book at some point or the other in our childhood. Even
thought it would really uncool to talk about 'Chacha Chaudhury' now, he
was the coolest character we knew in junior school. Before there was
cartoon network, before Swat Cats took over, there was Uncle Scrooge on
Doordarshan and there was Diamond Comics.<br />
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I remember how summer holidays would be the time when mum would pack us
all in a train and take us to visit granny far, far away. The best part
would be the train journey where one would spend hours reading comics
and waiting excitedly for the next big station to buy the latest series
of the Chacha Chaudhury comics. You'd be lost in the magical world of
Chacha Chaudhury, Saboo, Dhamaka Singh, Chachi, Lambu Motu, Billu and
Pinky.<br />
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I guess diamond comics have long been forgotten but they will always
remain with us in our memories and will always remind us of times when
things were simpler, when we get up at 7a.m on Sundays to catch Talespin
and Junglebook later on DD. When we wouldn't worry about deadlines,
meetings, Facebook and everything else that our lives have become today.
We would only worry about when the next Diamond comics would be out.
Thank you Cartoonist Pran the creator of Chacha Chaudhury for the loving
memories. :)<br />
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ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177347751753459426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525225099728885731.post-60542639790771505052012-12-28T03:04:00.001-08:002021-09-02T01:44:13.906-07:00CMC Hospital Vellore<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mostly people travel to vellore from different parts of the country</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">or abroad for one reason, CMC (christian medical college) for treatments.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">CMC Vellore ranked 2nd top medical college in India next to AIIMS, Delhi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vellore is connected by trains with other parts of India. Best option is to travel to chennai by train or flight and <a href="http://track.in.omgpm.com/?AID=606470&MID=155755&PID=8119&CID=4127179&WID=51530" target="_blank">then take a bus or train</a> to vellore or katpadi station (vellore station). Trains like Brindavan Exp., Lalbagh Exp. etc from chennai to bangalore goes via katpadi (vellore). Its only 120 kms from chennai. But the trains stop only 2-3 mins in Katpadi station. So keep that in mind if you are carrying heavy luggages. From katpadi CMC is only 5-6 kms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are lots of places to stay in vellore during your visit to CMC, there are cheap and decent <a href="http://www.yatra.com/offer/dom/detail/irresistible-lowest-price-guarantee-offer" target="_blank">lodges and hotels</a> near vellore cmc, such as divya guest house, arun lodge etc in baburao street which are pretty decent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being a non-south indian.. visiting Vellore, one of my concerns were food, because if you are not accustomed of the south Indian food you will have difficulty to stay there, trust me i'm saying it from the experience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are coming from northern or north-east part of India to vellore and not used to with south indian food.. NO WORRIES.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There are lots of north indian and bengali hotels in baburao street near CMC vellore. Hotel Rimpa in baburao street is one of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And after that if you want to go for sight seeing while staying in vellore you can go visit the Golden temple & the vellore fort which are quite amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are going for treatment at CMC, its better to stay close to the hospital. There are several guest houses/lodges near the CMC hospital just across the street. Some of the contacts i have given below. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Divya guest house, Babu Rao Street, Opposite Sathya Residency, Gandhi Road, <i>Vellore</i>, <i>Tamil</i> <i>Nadu</i>, <i>India</i>
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<span style="font-size: large;">CRPS guest house, No 45/2, Sukkiyavadiyar Street, Opposite Gurusaidev Tours & Travels, Gandhi Road, <i>Vellore</i>, <i>Tamil</i> <i>Nadu</i>, <i>India</i>
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<span style="font-size: large;">62/46, T.P.K. Mansion, Babu Rao Street, <i>Vellore</i>, <i>Tamil</i> <i>Nadu</i>, <i>India</i> <span itemprop="postalcode">632004</span></span>
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