A Permanent Anti-Genocide Movement

When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms.

April 6, 1994 was the beginning of a deliberate and ruthless systematic movement to exterminate an entire group of people from the face of the Earth. For 100 days, over one million Tutsi men, women, and children, along with Hutu sympathizers, were killed. Although ample reporting on this crime against humanity was present, the world and its leaders condemned the horrors while sitting on their hands.
Where the world witnessed a hero "Paul Rusesabagina". As manager of the Belgian-owned Mille Collines, a luxury hotel in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, he knew when to slip a bottle of Scotch to corrupt colonels to keep them in his pocket.
Those street smarts became his salvation when Rwanda plummeted into genocide as a wave of ethnic violence ten years ago in an event that transformed the genial businessman into an unlikely hero.

As ethnic Hutus began killing their Tutsi neighbors, Rusesabagina—a Hutu married to a Tutsi woman—turned his hotel into an impromptu refugee camp for more than a thousand terrified Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Deserted by international peacekeepers, Rusesabagina began cashing in every favor he had ever earned, bribing the Rwandan Hutu soldiers and keeping the bloodthirsty militia (mostly) outside the gates during the hundred days of slaughter.
In the end, he survived along with his wife and three children, as did most of the refugees he sheltered.
Over the course of 100 days in 1994, almost 1 million people were killed . At great personal risk, Rusesabagina offered the Mille Collines Hotel to shelter 1,200 people from certain death.

The movie named Hotel Rwanda tells about courageousness of Paul Rusesabagina on those 100 dark days , The movie is heart throbbing and a excellent master piece for the movie makers and its still my greatest movie of all time.

“I’ve become a humanitarian and I never thought I would become one. And, as a humanitarian, I wanted to take this message on a wider scale, to raise awareness of what happened in my country so that the international community can help others who suffer now.”

- Paul Rusesabagina


More Links:

IMDB

Charity 4 Rwanda

Wikipedia

Official Site "Hotel Rwanda"

Cobain-GONE TOO SOON

At the age of 14,Kurt Cobain was given his first guitar by his uncle. (Cobain was offered the choice of a guitar or a bicycle as a birthday gift, and chose the guitar.) Cobain started by learning a few covers, including AC/DC's "Back in Black" and The Cars' "My Best Friend's Girl". He soon began working on his own songs.
In 1991, the arrival of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" marked the beginning of a dramatic shift of popular rock music away from the dominant genres of the 1980s and toward grunge and alternative rock. Other hit songs written by Cobain include "Come as You Are", "Lithium", "In Bloom", "Heart-Shaped Box", "All Apologies", and "About a Girl".
During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with drug addiction and the media pressures surrounding him and his wife Courtney Love. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead in his home. His death was ruled a suicide by self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. Since then, the circumstances surrounding his death have fueled much analysis and debate.

Kurt Cobain is legally recognized to have committed suicide; however, several theories have surfaced suggesting that the frontman of Nirvana was murdered. However the police report claimes that the doors of the greenhouse could not have been locked from the outside, meaning that Cobain would have had to have locked them himself. Cobain's Proponent Tom Grant claims that when he saw the doors for himself, he found that the doors could be locked and pulled shut. Grant also questions the lack of fingerprint evidence connecting Cobain to the key evidence, including the shotgun. However, Grant notes that the official report claims that Cobain's fingerprints were also absent from the suicide note and the pen that had been poked through it, and yet Cobain was found without gloves on his hands. None of the circumstantial evidence directly points to murder, but Grant believes it supports the larger case.

More:



Kurt Cobain Lyrics


List of songs referencing Kurt Cobain


Declassified Police report

Life Story

Suicide Dispute

Cobain final weeks

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

-Cobain(1993)

INSIDE RAW

Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) is India's external intelligence agency. Its headquarters are on Lodhi Road in New Delhi.

Around the end of 1966 the concept of a separate foreign intelligence agency began to take shape. In 1968, after Indira Gandhi had taken over, it was decided that a full-fledged second security service was needed. R. N. Kao, then a deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau, submitted a blueprint for the new agency. Thus the India's first foreign intelligence agency named as the Research and Analysis Wing or R&AW. R&AW has been organized on the lines of the CIA[13]. Most of the occupants have been experts on either Pakistan or China. They also have the benefit of training in either US or the UK, and more recently in Israel.

Functions of R&AWCollection of information:

R&AW obtains information critical to Indian strategic interests. Both overt and covert means are adopted.
Classification of information: Data is sifted through, classified as appropriate, and filed with the assistance of the computer network in the 13-story bombproof building situated at Lodhi Road, New Delhi.
Aggressive intelligence: The primary mission of R&AW includes aggressive intelligence which is comprised of espionage, psychological warfare, subversion, sabotage, and promoting insurgency in enemy locations.
Counter intelligence: R&AW has a dedicated section which spies against enemy's intelligence collection oganizations. With unscrupulous enemy agencies abounding in Indian neighbourhood, this is the second most important function of R&AW. However due to failure of R&AW in containing high profile defections, major portions of Counter intelligence operations have been handed to IB.

Training of R&AW AgentsRecruitment Initially, many candidates are taken from the police and other services. Later R&AW began directly recruiting graduates from universities. Today R&AW has its own service cadre, the Research and Analysis Service (RAS) to absorb talent. The criteria for selection are fairly stringent.

Extensive Training:

• Technical jargon and classification of information are taught.
  
• Case studies of other agencies like CIA, KGB, Chinese Secret Agency and ISI are presented for study.
  
• The inductee is also taught that intelligence organisations do not identify who is friend and who is foe, the country's foreign policy does.Given firsthand experience of what it was to be out in the figurative cold, conducting clandestine operations.
  
• Instructed to avoid capture and, if caught, how to face interrogation.
  
• Learns the art of reconnoiter, making contacts, and, the numerous skills of operating an intelligence mission.
  
• Exhaustive training in the art of self-defense, an introduction to martial arts and the use of technical espionage devices.
  
• Drilled in various administrative disciplines so that he could take his place in the foreign missions without arousing suspicion.
  
• He is now ready to operate under the cover of an Embassy to gather information, set up his own network of informers, moles or operatives as the task may require.

References:Wikipedia,FAS.

My Movie Collection:FIGHT CLUB

FIGHT CLUB is 100% Entertainment.

One might really cant get through the movie at first but at end it was a real of much more surpise than expected,especially, a stunning performance by Prit and Edward.It is a gruesome story about two young men creating a club with rules just for pure radical street fight which is thought to be a out of emotional ride and this leads to more and more men into the club thus creating group of busted guys performing novel crimes leading to "out of blue " end.Its a worth watching movie.

Its talks but virtual human realtion ship,street boxing,stress buster,psyche,Crime,self proclaimed leadership and finally it is of a real Entertainment.

INDIA OUT OF WORLD CUP

Many of our cheering mouths went to silence as Srilanka won India shattering the dreams of billion indian fans...Lets wait for another four years :(

"When is the Cricket World Cup going to be won by India?"

As Friday night turned into Saturday morning in India, the hopes of more than a billion cricket fans to see their team lift the World Cup for the second time almost came to an end with Sri Lanka winning the Group B match at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain by 69 runs to all but end the journey of the Men in Blue in the tournament.
Chasing a fairly competitive target of 255 in 50 overs after skipper Rahul Dravid chose to field first, the Indian team were bowled out for only 185 runs in 43.3 overs for their worst performance in the World cup since the 1979 tournament.
In the 1979 World Cup they had failed to win even one match.
And now their only chance of making it to the round of Super 8 is if (and that is a big if) Bermuda beat Bangladesh by a massive margin in the final group match on Sunday, which going by the spate of upsets in the tournament does not look impossible.
The big difference between the two teams was the attitude of the batsmen when the going was tough in the middle.
While the Lankan top order also failed but their middle and lower order rose to the occasion and put on 254/6 on the board in their allotted quota of 50 overs which in the end proved to be too much for the famed Indian batting line-up that had three batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs.

My Movie Collection:TAXI DRIVER

"Some day a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."

Robert DeNiro's performance in Taxi Driver as Travis is one of the best I have ever seen. DeNiro does every pause, smirk, and stare in exactly the right time. He transformed a despicable and psychotic character into a lonely and desperate man, who the audience can relate and understand. His scenes talking to himself in the mirror is entertaining, at the same time, terrifying.
-Johnpaulz(IMDB.com)

The great aspect I like in this movie is the touching storyline about a mentally unstable youth(Robert De Niro) called by name Travis a taxi driver who as been noted for his disgusting and unruly behaviour.

Intially Travis falls in love with a beautiful gal Betsy but soon there relationship broke up as Betsy mistook Travis in one occasion and ignored him, but Travis could'nt resist himself without Betsy and was totally heart broken.
Once on his way home he met a 12 year old gal (Jodi Foster) abducted and subjected to prostitution illegaly thus this incident makes travis to go violent towards pimps and thus he finds the way to rescue her.....as of climax everybody, including media makes Travis as a National figure for rescuing a gal from such scum and making Betsy brokenhearted.

If u get a chance dont miss it ,especially the scene with Betsy at the end is excellent.