My desire to adopt

Since my childhood, I had a desire to adopt a baby after my marriage. A child being born to me will always be loved but sharing your love to someone being brought into the family and raised as my own is what I always wished for. I don't have a reason when someone asks me why, it could be humanity but am not sure, it is something that has been going on in my mind and I have decided I would do it.

Also what comes into my mind is, why not each family, sponsor for the education of an orphan and give him a new life. May be not the low class families which have trouble paying for the education of their own kids but how about the rest of them. If every family could do this, how easy would it be to reduce the illiteracy and poverty in the world.
I always had the wish to raise this kid as my replica. I wanted to make him a better me. Give him all the things that I yearned for during my childhood, education which interests him, opportunity to learn new things which interest him. I never thought how I would raise my biological kid but I always planned this kid to be completely mine. I am so excited on this and I would surely see to make it happen.

Fight for Telanga

     There is this state in India which is called Andhra Pradesh. I am from there. Not until lately have I known that Andhra Pradesh is compromised of three regions; Telangana, Andhra and Rayalsima. These three regions  have joined together in the year 1956 and formed the state of Andhra Pradesh. Telangana region has the major city Hyderabad and except for that it does not have anything. There are no fertile lands, there are no major water bodies and is also the most backward province in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Andhra and Rayalsima have all these things except for the hi-tech city, Hyderabad.

     Some leaders in Telangana have been fighting for being left as a separate state (separated from Andhra and Rayalsima) since the people of Telangana are not treated with respect. According to them, they have been losing their jobs to the people from Andhra and they have been losing the funds from center to the non-telangana regions. One more reason that annoys them is the entire state is named after Andhra, no mention of Telangana. The main problem that raised is that the fight for this separate state is not started by good leaders. The leaders who are fighting for separate telangana are more interested in their personal interests than the interests of the public. Due to this, the fight for separate Telangana has been seen only as a motive as a group of evil leaders.

     The forming of a separate Telangana is opposed mainly by the people of Andhra. One of the main reasons for this is the investments the Andhra people have put up in Hyderabad; various businesses, lands, buildings etc. The leaders of Telangana say that they are going to let all the non-telangana people leave Telangana once the state is formed. All this led to fear among them and they have been strongly revolting the formation of separate Telangana.

     Advantage to other states: Andhra Pradesh has been a strong competition to some states like Karnataka (the once software capital Bangalore has been strongly overtaken by Cyberabad (popularly known as Hyderabad)) and Tamil Nadu (Andhra pradesh has more land and more intellectual people). Once Telangana is separated from Andhra Pradesh, neither would Telangana or Andhra Pradesh be any more competitor to Karnataka or Tamil Nadu. So some cruel politicians from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu do want Andhra Pradesh to split.

      All in all, my word would be to have a formal discussion between the people from the three regions of Andhra Pradesh and come up with a decision to be united. Division of states would not really help anyone. Evident is the case of Germany which split up into two different countries and later came together owing to the major fall of economy when divided. There are more people in Andhra Pradesh who want to be united, they should all stand up together and get rid of the few corrupt leader and their followers who are trying to get the state separated for their personal gains

Chetan Bhagat's novels

For all the people who don't know about Chetan Bhagat; he is an Indian author and has four best selling novels until this today. All his books are made into bollywood movies.

I was never into reading novels until one day I got this book "Five point someone" from one of my friends. The book was already famous by that time and I still did not read it. So after I got it, I started reading, only to avoid telling people, I did not read that book yet. Right from page number 1, the book was interesting. The main character of the book is the story narrator and the story is about his college experience. IIT is one of India's most reputed engineering school and he gets admitted for the undergraduate degree. He describes his friends, his girlfriend and his trouble getting the degree. Until the last page, the book kept me grasped. After five point someone, I felt the fun in reading books and then I went on to read novels by many other authors.

After an year or so I again lost interest in books and went back to my favorite pass time "watching movies". And soon, another book came out by Chetan Bhagat and it was called "One night at the call center". As soon as I heard about this book, I told my dad in India to get me a copy. He did by paying double the price since it was out of stock wherever it was sold. He sent it to my through one of my friends. I read it within 2 days. It started slow and after roughly 50 pages the book started getting interesting. It was filled with subtle humor as the first one. One thing that seperates Chetan's books from others is that his readers keep laughing while reading his books. He maintains that quality of fun and joy in his stories. "One night at the call center" may not be as good as "Five point someone" but it is a good book.

"Three mistakes of my life, the third book by Chetan Bhagat. I was talking to my friend on phone and he told me that he was reading this book. I asked who the author was and when he replied me I was surprised to know when this book came out. I told him to complete reading the book soon and send it to me. He gave the book soon to my dad who sent it to me through another of my friend who came to United States. "Three mistakes..." was a bore to start. It started very slow and took a lot of time to interest the reader. I took more than a week to complete this book. Only the last fifty odd pages were interesting. The book was about three most talked about things in India; Cricket, religious politics and unaccepted love. I felt Chetan has lost his miraculous touch where he could keep his reader in his magical spell and captivate him until the end of the book.

I have this habbit of collecting the electronic versions of all good novels and browse a number of websites, forums to update my collection. Last week I saw this post "Chetan Bhagat's new book 2 state". I was aghast ". When did this guy release another book? I went into his personal website and read the synopsis. Even though I was not impressed by his latest offering "Three mistakes of my life", I got "2 state" immediately and began reading it. He cracked the jack pot this time. Chetan was good with this one. This is about his life at IIM Ahmedabad. IIM is India's famous Business school. He describes his love towards a South Indian girl and how he gets married to her. Entire book was fun. I was all laughs again, forgot the rest of the world while reading and completed this big book within 2 days. I became a true aficionado of Chetan with this book. My advice to people who are not into reading novels is to read "Five point someone" and "2 state" as they are not novels but books filled with infinite humor