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Sehwag ko MAYUR pehnao Sachin ko PEPSI pilao Dhoni ko BRYLCREAM lagwao Ganguly ko CHAVANPRASH khilao Dravid mein CASTROL baharwao Yuvraj ko malai marke LASSI pilao... Lekin "KUTTO" ko cricket mat khilwao... The post world cup disaster, doing rounds on orkut..nice :P And I wonder, how dumb of the Advertisers, but they can't help it, can they???? Take this scenario: Dhoni gets to the pitch. Our last hope, if we got to qualify for the next round. And he gets out. And suddenly, the new 7-UP ad pops up on screen, saying how dhoni became dhoni...nice. People will definitely go n drink 7-UP...

A New Low...

Nandigram burns again. And this time around, it is even severe. The news says that policeman had to "resort" to firing at protesting farmers. Well, even if they had to "resort" to firing, did they really have no other option??? I am not getting into the controversy that surrounds Nandigram. The land issue, the selling of poor farmers' land at impossibly low rates to big corporate houses for their new whims and fancies (you may call it new entrepreneurial ventures..but do they really need to get into it? And no..I am not discussing that...) But I am sure going to ask why the police had to "resort" to firing. Nandigram, West Bengal. A state, where the words "revolution" and "protests" hold an entirely different meaning from the way rest of us perceive it. A state, which proudly colors itself in "red". And you curb that spirit of revolution, which has been as red as blood, by making your police fire at your own people. Is it

Q3. WRITE AN ESSAY ON "FESTIVAL OF COLORS - HOLI" (10 MARKS)

This used to be a regular question till class 6 exams. So finally, I have decided to earn those 10 valuable marks, that i always missed. Festival of colors - Holi. The significance of this festival also, like many others, goes back to the accepted legends. Lord Vishnu saved a demon king's son, who was his ardent follower. The king did not like his son to be a God's follower, and ordered his sister Holika, who was blessed by some lord (I think Lord Brahma) that fire could not burn her, to sit with the son in flames. By Lord Vishnu's grace, Holika burnt, and the demon king's son got saved, like in many previous attempts of his murder. SO that is the legend. I really don't know how "colors" got involved with the celebrations, but an intelligent guess would be that next day, people ran amok throwing colors at each other... Holi's prominence in the contours of Indian society can be judged by the immense patronage that it receives from the Bollywood, being o