<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss version="1.0"><channel><title>Diary of Siddhartha Gupta</title><link>http://newdemocracy.rediffiland.com/</link><description>Diary of Siddhartha Gupta</description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Happy New Year</title><description><![CDATA[<P><FONT color=#6633ff size=5><STRONG>A very happy New Year to all the members of Rediffiland.</STRONG></FONT></P><BR><P><FONT color=#6633ff size=5><STRONG>Let the New Year bring loads of happiness and bliss in your lives.</STRONG></FONT></P><BR><P><FONT color=#6633ff size=5><STRONG>I have been inactive for the past few months.</STRONG></FONT></P><BR><P><FONT color=#6633ff size=5><STRONG>But will soon start blogging in fullfledged way.</STRONG></FONT></P><BR><P><FONT color=#6633ff size=5><STRONG>                                      -Thank You.</STRONG></FONT></P>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:04:31 +0530</pubDate><link>http://newdemocracy.rediffiland.com/blogs/2008/01/01/Happy-New-Year.html</link></item><item><title>&amp;#2489;&amp;#2503;&amp;#2482;&amp;#2507;</title><description><![CDATA[<STRONG><FONT color=#333399>&#2453;&#2495; &#2476;&#2472;&#2509;&#2471;&#2497;&#2455;&#2467;&#2404;  &#2453;&#2503;&#2478;&#2472; &#2438;&#2459;&#2503;&#2472; ?</FONT></STRONG>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:47:16 +0530</pubDate><link>http://newdemocracy.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/10/11/Untitled.html</link></item><item><title></title><description><![CDATA[<P><TABLE style="CLEAR: both" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=row1><TD vAlign=top width="100%"><DIV><DIV class=ohtmlParent style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px"><DIV class=ohtml><STRONG><FONT color=#cc33cc>What is height of Fashion?<BR>Ans : Dhoti with a zip .</FONT></STRONG></DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#cc33cc><DIV class=ohtml><BR>2. What is height of Secrecy?<BR>Ans : Offering blank visiting cards.</DIV><DIV class=ohtml><BR>3. What is height of Active laziness?<BR>Ans : Asking for a lift to house while on a morning walk.</DIV><DIV class=ohtml><BR>4. What is height of Craziness?<BR>Ans : Getting a blank paper Xeroxed.</DIV><DIV class=ohtml><BR>5. What is height of Forgetfulness?<BR>Ans : Seeing the mirror and trying to recollect when you saw him / her last.</DIV><DIV class=ohtml><BR>6. What is height of Stupidity?<BR>Ans : A man looking through a keyhole of a glass door.</DIV><DIV class=ohtml><BR>7. What is height of Honesty?<BR>Ans : A pregnant woman taking one and a half ticket.</DIV><DIV class=ohtml><BR>8. What is height of Suicide?<BR>Ans : A dwarf jumping from the footpath on the road.</DIV><DIV class=ohtml><BR>9. What is height of De-hydration?<BR>Ans : A cow giving milk powder.</DIV><DIV class=ohtml><BR>10. What is Height of Kanjoosi ?<BR>Ans : Bania's house has caught fire and he is giving miss calls to the Fire brigade </FONT></STRONG></DIV></DIV></DIV></TD><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 92%" vAlign=top noWrap align=middle><BR><STRONG><FONT color=#cc33cc> </FONT></STRONG></TD><TD vAlign=top><STRONG><FONT color=#cc33cc></FONT></STRONG></TD></TR><TR class=row0><TD vAlign=top><A href="http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=9956728006350042574"></A><STRONG><FONT color=#cc33cc> </FONT></STRONG></TD><TD style="PADDING-TOP: 5px" vAlign=top width=9><STRONG><FONT color=#cc33cc></FONT></STRONG></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%"><DIV><DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#cc33cc></FONT></STRONG> </DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></P>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:32:14 +0530</pubDate><link>http://newdemocracy.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/08/20/Untitled.html</link></item><item><title>confusing world</title><description><![CDATA[<DIV class=storycontent><DIV class=snap_preview><P>Recently a fashion show was held in bengalooru to promote the sale of bikini. Media people showed it in their news and said it was a new era in advertisement world in India.</P><P>Few months back a incident took place in a village in Kanataka during some festival where some dancers participated with less dresses and the same media showed it as an uncivilized act which hampered our culture!! CONFUSING...... wear less dresses in a city in a fashion show is cultural but same thing outside city becomes uncultured act.</P><P>Drink alcohol and enjoy with great music in pubs - is party culture in cosmopolitan cities, do the same in dhabas in taluks or districts - uncultured youth; CONFUSING...</P><P>Ban arracj promote other alcohol products!! are the other products good to health??</P><P><STRONG><EM>Wrong is wrong outside cosmopolitan cities but the same wrong becomes right in cities.....TOTALLY CONFUSED......RIGHT OR WRONG.</EM></STRONG></P></DIV></DIV>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:19:04 +0530</pubDate><link>http://newdemocracy.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/08/12/confusing.html</link></item><item><title>A silly joke</title><description><![CDATA[<STRONG>One fine morning, Ravan felt guilty day for all his bad deeds. He felt that<BR>he<BR>should go an apologise to Ram for all the problems he had caused.<BR><BR>So he went to Ram's house and knocked on the door. Ram <BR>opened the door and was surprised to find Ravan standing there. Ravan just<BR>kept staring and thinking<BR><BR>but didn't say a word.<BR><BR>What was he thinking?<BR><BR><BR></STRONG><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><STRONG>Ans: "Kis mooh se maafi maangoon?"</STRONG>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:21:19 +0530</pubDate><link>http://newdemocracy.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/07/15/A-silly.html</link></item><item><title>Nice definitions</title><description><![CDATA[School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays. <BR>Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that<BR>you can die Rich.<BR>Nurse: A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills.<BR>Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree<BR>and a woman gains her masters. <BR>Divorce: Future tense of Marriage.<BR>Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the<BR>Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of <BR>either"<BR>Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.<BR>Compromise : The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody<BR>believes he got the biggest piece.<BR>Dictionary : A place where success comes before work.<BR>Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and<BR>everybody disagrees later on. <BR>Father: A banker provided by nature.<BR>Criminal: A guy no different from the rest....except that he got <BR>caught.<BR>Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are<BR>early.<BR>Politician : One who shakes your hand before elections and your<BR>Confidence after.<BR>Doctor : A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills. <BR>Classic: Books, which people praise, but do not read.<BR>Smile : A curve that can set a lot of things straight.<BR>Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life. <BR>Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.<BR>Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you <BR>actually do.<BR>Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to<BR>decide that nothing can be done together. <BR>Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.<BR>Atom Bomb : An invention to end all inventions.<BR>Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when <BR>dead]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:48:38 +0530</pubDate><link>http://newdemocracy.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/07/10/Nice.html</link></item><item><title>Birthday</title><description><![CDATA[<P align=left>My birthday is on 17th August.<BR> It is fast approaching.<BR>People seem so happy and content on their birthdays.<BR> Are they really that much happy, or putting up a show for the rest of the world.<BR> With each passing day our age increases and we slowly but steadily approach the inevitable end called DEATH.<BR>It seems that everybody is weary of aging and frightened of death.<BR>But how can then they be so blissfull about their birthdays which are nothing but harsh reminders of the natural process of aging.<BR>Perhaps it is because of these type of thoughts the ancient chinese used to weep on the birth of a child.<BR>Because with every breath and moment he was gradually inching towards to DEATH.</P>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:25:20 +0530</pubDate><link>http://newdemocracy.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/06/12/Birthday.html</link></item><item><title>Boycott these intellectuals</title><description><![CDATA[<EM>From the day that the barbaric massacre of Nandigram happened people from all part of the society have been condemning Buddhadev Bhattacharya and his fascist CPM regime.<BR>But a few so called intellectuals of bengal have been licking the feet of their master Buddhadev Bhattacharya for getting different economic and administrative favours.<BR>Following is a list of those hypocrite intellectuals.<BR></EM><BR><BR><B>PLEASE BOYCOTT THESE INTELLECTUALS!</B><BR><BR>These are the supporters of the Killer Buddha. Please expose and black list these hypocrite intellectuals who still support directly or indirectly the Hitler Buddha and his Left Front Government even after infernal Mass-killings in Nandigram. PLEASE BOYCOTT THESE INTELLECTUALS FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY. PLEASE WIDELY CIRCULATE THIS MESSAGE. BUT IT'S AN INCOMPLETE LIST; ALL OF YOU ARE REQUESTED TO UPDATE IT.<BR><BR><STRONG>Writers, Poets and Journalists</STRONG>: 1) Debesh Roy 2) Sunil Gangopadhyaya 3) Nirendranath Chakraborty 4) Subodh Sarkar 5) Mallika Sengupta 6) Buddhadeb Guha 7) Joydeb Basu 8) Amitabha Dasgupta 9) Amitabha Choudhury 10) Prachet Gupta 11) Ajijul Haque 12) Baharuddin 13) Dibyendu Palit 14)Debabrata Raptan 15) Suchitra Bhattacharya 16) Bani Basu 17) Saiyad Mustafa Siraj 18) Mohit Chattopadhyay 19) Krishna Dhar 20) Pabitra Sarkar 21) Dr. Sanat Kumar Mitra and Dr. Kshetra Gupta (Loksamaskrtit Gabeshana)<BR><STRONG>Actors and Actresses (Film and theater) and TV personalities</STRONG>: 1) Soumitra Chattopadhyay 2) Sabitri Chattopadhyay 3) Dilip Roy 4) Sabyasachi Chakraborty 5) Usha Ganguly 6) Chinmoy Roy 7) Shankar Chakraborty 8) Chandan Sen (junior) 9) Nilkantha Sengupta 10) Barry O Brien (quiz master) 11) Jagannath Basu 12) Urmimala Basu 13) Lily Chakraborty 14) Dipankar Dey 15) Jit 16) Swastika Mukherjee 17) Kanchan Mallick 18) Ushasi Chakraborty 19) Gita Dey<BR><STRONG>Film makers</STRONG>: 1) Mrinal Sen 2) Raja Sen 3) Anindita Sarbadhikary 4) Subrata Sen 5) Soumitra Dastidar<BR><STRONG>Singers:</STRONG> 1) Amar Paul 2) Haimanti Shukla 3) Indranil Sen 4) Utpalendu Choudhury 5) Subhendu Maity 6) Anushila Basu 7) Bangla band  Bhoomi, Cactus and Prithibi 8) Usha Uthhup 9) Shrikanta Acharya 10) Sudhin Sarkar 11) Rupam Islam 12) Shibaji Chattopadhyay 13) Kaji Kamal Naser 14) Saikat Mitra 15) Swapan Basu<BR><STRONG>Sports persons</STRONG>: 1) P. K. Banerjee 2) Sambaran Banerjee 3) Surajit Sengupta<BR><STRONG>Scientists:</STRONG> Saroj Ghosh<BR><STRONG>Magician:</STRONG>1) P. C. Sorkar Junior]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:31:00 +0530</pubDate><link>http://newdemocracy.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/06/11/Boycott-these.html</link></item><item><title>Medical convention against Nandigram massacre</title><description><![CDATA[<B><DIV class=post-body><P><B>Yesterday there was a protest convention by Doctors, nurses and medical students in Moulali juba kendra(Youth centre) in kolkata.<BR>Several distinguished guests form medical fraternity spoke against the fascist aggression against the people by the CPM lumpens and police.<BR>A CD was shown where graphic details of the atrocities were filmed.<BR>A 12 to 13 yrs. girl told that how she was raped by CPM men.<BR>A mother of two , was raped in front of her children and husband by CPM goons. They threatened to kill her two children if she resisted the rape.<BR><BR><B>It was alleged that small children were hacked by choppers and their body parts were either burnt in brick field furnace or were taken to the sea and put into fishing nets filled with stones and thrown into the water.<BR><BR>IN A NUT SHELL THE TERROR IN NANDIGRAM WAS BARBARISM AT IT'S WORST FOR</B></B></P></DIV></B>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:20:05 +0530</pubDate><link>http://newdemocracy.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/04/07/Medical-convention-against-Nandigram.html</link></item><item><title>SP admits to rape by policemen</title><description><![CDATA[<P><FONT size=2>KOLKATA: West Bengal police have confirmed that two of their men raped a woman protester at Nandigram — an admission that is sure to compound matters for the CPM leadership and the state government already reeling under the disastrous fallout of cop and cadre excesses at the proposed SEZ site last month. <BR><BR></FONT></P><DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia"><DIV><FONT size=2><BR>The rape "confession" came from East Midnapore police superintendent Anil Srinivas and is part of a report that chief secretary Amit Kiran Deb has forwarded to the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, which is probing charges of rape and molestation on March 14, when Nandigram witnessed large-scale violence. <BR><BR><BR>According to sources, the police chief of East Midnapore acknowledged that the claim of one of the two women who had accused policemen of raping them is true. "The brief fact of...Nandigram PS case number 44/07 is that on 14.03.07 at about 12 pm, the two police personnel caught Sona and raped her. The complainant fell unconscious and was taken to the Nandigram BPHC for treatment. Later (she was) referred to Purba (East) Midnapore district hospital on 16.03.07 and discharged on 25.03.07 after necessary treatment," the report states. <A href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Midnapore_SP_admits_rape_by_policemen_at_Nandigram/articleshow/1853052.cms">The Times of India</A></FONT></DIV></DIV>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:14:47 +0530</pubDate><link>http://newdemocracy.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/04/04/SP-admits-to-rape-by.html</link></item></channel></rss>