'Humko Deewana Kar Gaye' - Bollywood Movie !

'Humko Deewana Kar Gaye'
2 hours 35 minutes

Cast:Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Bipahsa Basu
Director: Raj Kanwar
Screenplay: Robin Bhatt
Story: Raj Kanwar
Dialogue: Jainendra Jain
Producer: Raj Kanwar, Gulshan Kumar, Kishan Kumar & Bhushan Kumar
Music: Anu Malik
Cinematography: Vikas Sivaraman
Choreography: Ganesh Acharya
Lyrics: Sameer

This is the story of two people who fall in love despite being engaged......but not to each other.

Akshay Kumar plays Aditya, an engineer in a car company, who is as passionate about cars as Shakespeare was about writing. Not only is he an engineer, but also a test driver for the company. A post like that can explain how well he could drive. Aditya is engaged to Sonia (Bipasha Basu), a fashion designer about to make her mark in the field.



As individuals, Aditya and Sonia are not on the same wavelength. Sonia is a 21st Century woman for whom career comes first and she believes in changes. And as much as Aditya tries to overlook those facts, they keep coming in the way. Though the marriage date is fixed, Aditya has to leave for Canada to learn about the technique of a new car model, to be launched in India, while Sonia has to leave for Paris for a fashion show.

Aditya arrives in Canada where his sister Simran (Bhagyashree) is living. He meets the family but cannot live with them as the company has given him an apartment close to the workshop. But he makes it a point to meet the family on weekends.

In between work, co-incidence or destiny makes him bump into Jia (Katrina Kaif) more than once. Jia, daughter of business tycoon Yashwardhan Birla, has come to Canada all alone to shop for her wedding with the business giant, Karan Raichand (Salman Khan). Jia is a simple girl with simple needs. She has got everything she could ask for in her childhood, but never time from her ever so busy father. And now the man her father has chosen for her hardly has any time to spend with her too. And that is when she finds a friend in Aditya.

Aditya and Jia manage to spend time with each other and as time passes, the friendship between them grows. Being an amazing driver, Aditya gets a chance from his company to participate in a car rally. And somehow he persuades Jia to participate with him, and wins it too. On returning from the destination of the rally, their car gets stuck in the snow and they have to spend the night together. They share intimate moments, which make them forget that they are engaged.....but not to each other.

With passing time, they fail to realize when they start falling in love with each other. But a misunderstanding with Aditya and prior commitment with Karan makes Jia go back to India to get married with Karan. Aditya also comes back to India to get married with Sonia and does not attempt to meet Jia ever again.

But fate makes them meet for the last time – at Jia’s wedding.What happens next? Does Jia marry Karan or Aditya? Do Aditya and Sonia enter into wedlock?

The Dharma Dons

The Dharma Dons - a slide show on BusinessWeek.com features a few of today's most prominent management thinkers of Indian descent.

Amongst them are

Ram Charan
CEO Coach, former professor, Harvard
Among the world’s most sought-after CEO advisers, Charan has worked closely with executives at General Electric and DuPont. The key point of the Bhagavad Gita, Charan says, is for leaders to “put purpose before self"

Vijay Govindarajan
Professor, Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business
Helps companies such as Corning and Johnson & Johnson build innovation strategies. He sees “karma”—the fate people determine by their actions—as relevant to leaders. “Destiny is not preordained. You can create your future.

Dipak Jain
Dean, Kellog School of Business
At Kellogg, has brought in self-help gurus like Deepak Chopra for exec-ed programs and added courses on ethics and social responsibility. Jain, a director of John Deere and Northern Trust, says Indian thinkers are helping to “create the globally conscious business leader of the future.

Rakesh Khunara
Associate professor, Harvard Business School
Wrote Searching for a Corporate Savior in 2002, which questioned the hunt for charismatic, celebrity CEOs. Coming from a traditional society with many ethnic groups, says Khurana, helps one realize “no social order can be sustained if benefits go to only a few.

C. K. Prahalad
Professor, University of Michigan
With The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Prahalad transformed companies’ approach to the developing world. “The ultimate challenge is to create capitalism that puts individuals at the center of the universe,” he says.

It is a great slide show. I am sure there are many more prominent thinkers of Indian descent making waves in the US and all around the world.

2006 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Muhammad Yunus

Ishaan Tharoor wrote this article for Time.com:

Paving the way out of Poverty

Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize not for giving to the poor, but for helping them to help themselves . Click on the title to read the article on Time.com

Women are incredible money managers says Yunus in the video below, I believe that ! This video is from the "International Forum Social Entrepreneurship Award: Honoring Muhammad Yunus" The video is 1 hr 7 mins 23 secs This video explains how he got started in the micro lending industry and a Q & A session. His vision of MICRO LENDING has helped the "cottage industry" in the small villages. Click to watch video.

International Forum Social Entrepreneurship Award: Honoring Muhammad Yunus

As the proverb goes, Muhammad Yunus taught Bangladesh how to fish. Beginning only with $27, the 66-year-old former economics professor from Chittagong built an institution which uplifted impoverished millions in his country and, if you listen to him, portends the end of global poverty. His Grameen Bank—which is named after the Bengali word for "village"—extended credit to rural poor, empowering entire communities, and especially women, to work, earn income and improve the conditions of their lives. He spoke to TIME moments before hearing the news that he and the bank he founded had been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Peace.

Khaike Paan Benaras Wala...

Paan is India's famous triangular shaped digestive traditionally chewed after a rich Indian meal. It is also commonly known as "Beeda". 'Paan' is a fresh green betel leaf in which is wrapped a variety of ingredients like fennel seeds, chuna, cardamom, cloves, gulkand etc. It is used as a digestive and also works as a mild stimulant. This triangular package is wedged inside your cheek and chewed slowly.


This small yet almighty culinary creation has captured the hearts and tongues of many and has been inspirational in the very famous song sung by the most popular Indian actor "Amitabh Bachan" - Khaike Paan Benaras Wala...

A very common scene in many cities big and small is the familiar smiling, betel chewing face of the corner "Panwallah". He deflty slaps on the chuna, katha and supari to make you the most delicious after dinner snack. It is quite a science and an art - Paan making. Each paanwallah as his own recipe. Just like Indian cuisine there are slight and many variations of sweet paan. The next time you visit India - order a paan. ! Paan is an acquired taste and novices should start off with the sweet or "mitha" variety.

Gone are the days when the hosts would often make the pans themselves for their guests. A very ornamental silver or gold container with tiny compartments for the various ingredients, especially designed for this purpose, called "pan daan" would be brought out at the end of the meal.

Today there are "Paan-wallahs" are the professionals who make the paan. They develop incredible reputations, usually involved with the dexterity and culinary expertise with which they make the paan and the exotic ingredients they use to make the paan. Thus demanding astronomical prices for their paans which may even be covered with silver and even gold foil. Many hotels and fancy Indian restaurants in India have a 'paanwallah' sitting outside with his shining brass pedestal and fresh paan ingredients to make the clients of the restaurant a paan according to their specific preference after a sumptuous meal.

Types of Paans

1. Calcutta
2. Banaras
3. Maggai

The Calcutta paan is darker green in color, compared tothat Banarasi paan and Maggai. The Maggai is a smaller, tender paan and is much more expensive.Varieties of Paan"Meetha Paan " or "Sweet Paan " like the "Benarasi Meetha", "Calcutta Meetha" - The sweet paan usually contains a gooey substance called gulkand, rose essence, menthol, fennel, cardamom and cloves.