12 Interesting Facts about Earth..!

1. 100 tons of small meteorites enter the atmosphere every day.

2. There are really only 23 hours, 56 minutes, and four seconds in a day, not 24 hours. 

 
3. Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water.
 

 

4. A solid iron ball 1,500 miles wide sits at the center of the earth. The temperature there is about 9900 degrees Fahrenheit.

5. The continents move about 2 cm every year.

6. Only 14% of the earth species have been identified.
 
 

7. 99% of the earth’s gold lies in the core.
 
8. 97% of water on earth is salted.

9. There are 8.6 million lightning strikes per day.

10. Natural gas doesn't have an odour, strong smells are added to it by humans so it can be detected when there are leaks.


11. Hawaii is moving towards Japan at the speed of 10cm a year. 
This is because they are on different tectonic plates.

12. The volcanic rock known as pumice is the only rock that can float in water.

Memories of 90's kids..!

For everyone, childhood is the best part of their life. And most of us had spent best part of our life in 90s. Whenever I speak with person of my age about 90s, he/she gets nostalgic. In this blog I have written about that time, when we knew the words to ‘In-pin-safety-pin’ and ‘akkad-bakkad’ by heart; the time when playing hide-and-seek was obsession; the time when “cool” was the coolest word. It is really difficult to put a glance on each and every thing in a single blog, but i have tried my best to include as much as details i can. I have classified important things in the form of Movies, Cartoons, Advertisement, T.V Serials, Video games and others.

Movies:

“Hum aapke hai kaun (1994)”, it tells the story of two lovers, Prem (Salman Khan) and Nisha (Madhuri Dixit). It is a complete family drama. “dhiktana dhiktana”, “didi tera devar deewana”, “joote do paise lo”, “chocolate lime juice” whenever we hear these songs, we start murmuring them for entire day.

You most probably saw “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995)” at the cinema at least once. You also fantasized about singing songs in mustard fields as in the movie.
 

“Kuch kuch hota hai (1998)”: For girls having hairstyle as kajol (Anjali), and for boys wearing t-shirts (GAP) as SRK (Rahul) was a style statement.

“Dil to pagal hai (1997)”: Inspired many to form their own dance troupe, and that typical whistle throughout movie was classic. The story of four lovers: Rahul, Ajay, Pooja, and Nisha. This Yash Chopra fantasy explores romance as the days go on.

“Hum dil de chuke sanam (1999)”… and the list is still very long…….

When we talk about Hollywood, “Titanic” was the first favorite English movie or probably first seen English movie.

T.V Serials:

Doordarshan of 90s produced most unforgettable T.V Serials. DD of that time was much better than having 100’s of channels now.

Alif Laila (1993-1996) was a TV series based on the stories from The Arabian Nights.
Chandrakanta (1994-1996) was an Indian fantasy T.V series.

Shaktimaan (1997-2000s), Shrimaan Shrimati, Surabhi, etc we cannot forget this epic Serials for years to come.

We had seen many many many episodes of “Antakshari” on Zee TV and experienced the only thing constant in the show was Annu Kapoor.

And Special thanks to Shri. Adhikari Bros. for producing the most hilarious comedy serials.

WWF (now WWE): Those were the days when everybody thought all that glam wrestling was actually real. I remember School-kids discussing about how The Undertaker has 7 lives stored in a bottle.

Video Games:

Even today if I ask anybody about their first video game they played, brought up in 90s, the most common answer would come out to be “Super Mario”.
The summer vacations were largely dominated by mushrooms, bullets, bypass, one-up, flags, turtles and finally the Dragon and the priceless Princess.

We Indian kids during 90s had played Hide-and-Seek, chor-police, Gulli-danda, lagori, Marbles, ‘Doctor, doctor, help us!’, ‘Lock and key’. Super Mario was the starting point from where the Indian kids actually reduced their outdoor games and got involved into video games that opened up a huge market. What followed were Super Contra, Double Dragon, Battle City, Age of Empires, Counter Strike and many more.

“You thought Mario and Contra were the coolest things ever invented”

Cartoons:

“Jungle Jungle Baat Chali Hai Pata Chala Hai! Chaddi Pehen Ke Phool Khila Hai Phool Khila Hai!” We watched “The Jungle Book” every Sunday morning (9.a.m) and simply loved Bhaloo, Bagheera, Akdu-Pakdu, Leela, Chameli, Kaa, Chil and above all, Sher Khan and Mogli. Jungle Book remain in the memories of all those who truly lived their 90s.

After that we watched and loved Disney Hour, which had cartoons like Aladdin, Gummy Bears, Tail Spin, and Uncle Scrooge (Duck Tails).

Old Cartoon Network:   In compare to Cartoons of 90s like Scooby Doo, Johnny Bravo, Dexter’s Lab, Swat Cats, Flintstones, Jetsons, Topcat, Powerpuff Girls, Captain Planet, etc , the current cartoon network displays are pathetic. They should be sued for messing around with kids of this generation. Cartoon Network channels didn’t

even spare Tom & Jerry.

Indian Commercials: 

Dhara Cooking oil Advertisement: Do you remember the kid, who runs away from home and returns to home only when he comes to know that his mother has made jalebi.

 

Unique Tag lines like: “Badi gazab ki bhookh lagi, Maggi chahiye mujhe abhi, “Sunday hoya Monday roj khayo andey (eggs)”, “I love You Rasna”. “Mayur Mayur kya hit, kya fit”, “Bole mere lips, I love uncle Chips!”, “Doodh si safedi, Nirma se aaye”, “Action ke school shoes!!!!”…..

Miscellaneous:

*Maggi launched 30 years back in 1982, but even today it is most widely consumed noodle. It was our favourite morning breakfast in 90s.

* Goldspot Cold Drink: Believe it or not, this is something a lot of people miss today.

* Devang Patel was at his peak. “Pichadi mein kutta kata”, “Meri Marzi” and list go on.

* Singles like “Made in India” and “Dekho Dekho, Yeh Hai Jalwa- Remix” were at the top of the charts.

* When we thought of MTV in 90s, Cyrus Brocha was the main face.

* Floppy Disks, Floppy drives, Tape-cassettes, Philips tapes.

* You collected trump cards of wrestlers, cricketers,airplanes, and Pokemon and the other Japanese trends that followed.

* You couldn’t wait to start 4th standard so you could start writing with PENS instead of with pencils!

* Parle Glucose G Biscuits and Britannia Little Hearts.

* We have consumed more Frootis than oil in Iraq.

* Owning car means either Maruti 800 or Ambassador.

* Senseless acronyms like SRK, DDLJ, DTPH, KKHH, etc.

* We had debated at least once, who is more beautiful Sushmita or Aishwarya?

* “Bournvita” quiz contest.

I hope, you will laugh at least once while browsing through glimpses of past. Memories of 90s are the most amazing, beautiful and pleasant ones.

Ideal Cops of Bollywood

It's raining cops in Bollywood these days! Not that we haven't seen police based movies in the past, but the sudden glorification and fascination towards cop drama in Bollywood has only raised the demand to see actors in khaki wardi on-screen. Following that, more and more actors are taking keen interest in portraying cops.

1. Ajay Devgan

Ajay has played cop in number of films like SUNDAY, INSAN, MASTI, GANGAAJAL, but he looked best as a police officer with his Macho look in Rohit shetty’s blockbuster film Singham.
Ajay Devgan’s role as Bajirao Singham is one of the virile characters in bollywood. Singham brought Ajay Devgan into the 100 crore club and became the biggest hit of Ajay’s career so far.

2. Salman khan

He may have played a brutal, angry cop in the past in films like AUZAAR, GARV, WANTED but it was his cute, funny with daredevil attitude act in DABANGG that gained him popularity,
he looked killer as a cop Chulbul Pandey in Dabangg, after which he is often referred to as the ‘Dabangg dude’.

3. Akshay kumar

Akshay Kumar is most suited for the role of a police officer. He entertained all his fans with his superb role as a cop in Rowdy Rathore.
Rowdy Rathore brought back the serious and intense acting performance of Akshay Kumar after ages. As cop Akshay performs two shades of character one is serious and other is comic. Both the roles are well appreciated by the audiences and made him another ideal cop.

4. Aamir Khan

Aamir Khan’s role in Sarfarosh as ACP Ajay Singh Rathore is one of the most intense and influential characters we have ever seen and the way Aamir Khan enacted it earned him lot of praises across the country and lot of actors still get influenced from that character while doing cop roles.Well the actor has come a long way since then and is all set to become a police officer in his film Talaash.

Hilarious Slogans on "Ab ki baar Modi Sarkar"..!!

 
1. Daya tumhare samne darwaje hai bekar, AB KI BAAR MODI SARKAR..


2. Salman ne kia black buck ka shikaar, AB KI BAAR MODI SARKAR..



 
 3. Ek duni do, do duni Chaar, AB KI BAAR MODI SARKAR..

4. Chutney k bina Dhokla hai Bekar, AB KI BAAR MODI SARKAR..

5. Circumference of a circle is 2πr,  AB KI BAAR MODI SARKAR..




 6. Chamatkaar pe Chamatkaar, AB KI BAAR MODI SARKAR..
 

 

7. R..Rajkumar..Nahi..!! , AB KI BAAR MODI SARKAR..


8. Iss budget k baad susti hui car, AB KI BAAR MODI SARKAR..



9. Salman aur Shahrukh ki never ending takrar, AB KI BAAR MODI SARKAR..

 


 10. Twinkle-Twinkle little star, AB KI BAAR MODI SARKAR..

12 Interesting facts on India..!!

1. The mobile users of India grows every month with about 2.5 million people.

2. Property prices in Mumbai and Delhi have more than doubled in the past 18 months.

3. The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.




4. Calcutta is the only place in the world where you still can travel by riksha pulled by humans.

5. Indians go out to the cinema about 3 billion times a year.

6. Half the world’s outsourced IT services come from India, amounting to a $47 billion dollar industry.

7. Walmart alone outsources $1 billion in IT contracts to India.

 


8. India is the world's second largest importer of arms and has spent $50 billion on defense purchases in the last decade.

 

 

9. India grows 12 million tons of mangoes in a year, the weight equivalent to 80,000 blue whales.

10. Over 1000 elephants were used during the construction of the  Taj Mahal.

11. India's Cherrapnuji is the wettest places on earth, receiving 425 inches of rain every year.

12. A bigger movie market than America and Canada combined, India sold 3.2 billion tickets last year.