hola bloggy...!Bob Dylan's song can well express my mood for today.....
I am a lonesome hoboWithout family or friends,Where another man's life might begin,That's exactly where mine ends.I have tried my hand at bribery,Blackmail and deceit,And I've served time for ev'rything'Cept beggin' on the street.Well, once I was rather prosperous,There was nothing I did lack.I had fourteen-karat gold in my mouthAnd silk upon my back.But I did not trust my brother,I carried him to blame,Which led me to my fatal doom,To wander off in shame.Kind ladies and kind gentlemen,Soon I will be gone,But let me just warn you all,Before I do pass on;Stay free from petty jealousies,Live by no man's code,And hold your judgment for yourselfLest you wind up on this road.
When is the last time you felt whatever you did never mattered to anybody?or rather when have u felt like you have just no one to bank on...??Work mite keep you busy but not always...and especially if it's a person like me...then work also would no longer be in focus...!
Feel like goin on a looooonnnggg break...and take a chill pill...!:)
But sometimes feeling like this is needed coz then u realise that can do much better to feel better the next time you think and sulk over it....ok i guess i have completely confused u by now..!!
Need a Pune Break...very soon...scorps...and scorps ki chai...with those long night bitchy sessions with meghu and debbie..!
HOLD ON PUNE...SHOULD BE THERE SOON....!!!:)
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
what my name means...!
Reshmi means Silk in Hindi. Its a definition for someone who is
As sweet as Rasogulla
As vast to be Explored like Earth
As precious as Silk
So brilliant to be Humble
As beautiful like Moonshine
And highly Imaginative
Its Reshmi, Reshmi, Reshmi, Reshmi, Reshmi, Reshmi... She the one and only one..
well thats what urban dictionary states...about my name..!!hmmm...not bad...!
As sweet as Rasogulla
As vast to be Explored like Earth
As precious as Silk
So brilliant to be Humble
As beautiful like Moonshine
And highly Imaginative
Its Reshmi, Reshmi, Reshmi, Reshmi, Reshmi, Reshmi... She the one and only one..
well thats what urban dictionary states...about my name..!!hmmm...not bad...!
Friday, August 24, 2007
Noor Inayat Khan
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC, MBE, (January 1, 1914, Moscow - September 13, 1944, Dachau concentration camp), usually known as Noor Inayat Khan, was a British Special Operations Executive agent in World War II of Indian origin and the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France to aid the French Résistance.
Early years
Noor was the eldest of four children. Her father Hazrat Inayat Khan came from a princely Muslim Indian family (he was a great-grandson of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth century ruler of Mysore) and lived in Europe as a musician and a teacher of Sufism; her mother Ora Meena Ray Baker Noor was an American from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who had met Inayat Khan during his travels in the United States[1]. Her eldest brother Vilayat Inayat Khan later became head of the Sufi Order International, founded by her father.
In 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, the family left Russia for London and lived in Bloomsbury, while Noor attended kindergarten at Notting Hill. In 1920, they settled in France, moving into a house in Suresnes near Paris, a gift from a benefactor of the Sufi movement.
After the death of her father in 1927, Noor had to take added responsibility for her grief-stricken mother and her younger siblings. The young girl, described as quiet, shy, sensitive, and dreamy, studied child psychology at the Sorbonne and music at Paris conservatory under the famous Nadia Boulanger, composing for harp and piano.
She started a career of writing poetry and children's stories and became a regular contributor to children's magazines and French radio. In 1939 her book 'Twenty Jataka Tales' was published in London. It should be noted that the "The Jātaka Tales" (Sanskrit जातक) which inspired the book are an important part of the Buddhist religion and culture, being a voluminous body of folklore and mythic literature concerned with previous births (jāti) of the Buddha.
After the outbreak of World War II, when France was overrun by German troops in 1940, the family fled from Paris to Bordeaux and from there by sea to London, landing in Falmouth on 22 June 1940.
Wartime activities
Although Noor Inayat Khan was deeply influenced by the pacifist teachings of her father, she decided to help defeat Nazi tyranny. So on 19 November 1940 she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), to be trained as a wireless operator.
Two years later she was recruited to join F (France) Section of the Special Operations Executive and in early February 1943 she was posted to the Air Ministry, Directorate of Air Intelligence, seconded to First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), and sent to Wanborough Manor, near Guildford in Surrey[2], from there to various other SOE schools for training, including STS 5 Winterfold, STS 36 Boarmans and STS 52 Thame Park. During her training she took on the name Nora Baker.
Despite not completing her training and the mixed opinions about her level of intelligence and the suitability of her temperament for the task, her fluency in French and competency in wireless operation made her the strongest candidate in response to the urgent Parisian request for further help.
On 16/17 June 1943, cryptonymed 'Madeleine'/W/T operator 'Nurse'. She was given the cover identity of Jeanne-Marie Regnier. Assistant Section Officer Inayat Khan was flown to landing ground B/20A 'Indigestion' in Northern France on a night landing double Lysander operation, code named Teacher/Nurse/Chaplain/Monk.
She traveled to Paris, and together with two other women (Diana Rowden, code named Paulette/Chaplain, and Cecily Lefort, code named Alice/Teacher) joined the Physician network led by Francis Suttill, code named Prosper.
Over the next month and a half, all other Physician network radio operators were arrested by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), but in spite of the danger and rejecting an offer to return to Britain, Noor chose to remain and continue transmitting as the last essential link between London and Paris.
Moving from place to place, she tried to escape capture while maintaining wireless communication with London. "She refused to abandon what had become the most important and dangerous post in France and did excellent work."[3] It is mainly attributed to her efforts that the Physician network could be reconstructed[4].
Imprisonment and death
Finally Inayat Khan was betrayed to the Germans, either by Henri Dericourt or by Renée Garry. Dericourt (code name Gilbert) was a SOE officer and former French Air Force pilot who has been suspected of working as a double agent for the German Abwehr.
Renée Garry was the sister of Emile Garry, Inayat Khan's organizer in the Physician network. Allegedly she was paid 100,000 Francs, but acted mainly out of jealousy because she had lost the affection of SOE agent France Antelme to Noor.
On or around 1 October 1943 Inayat Khan was arrested and interrogated at the SD Headquarters at 84 Avenue Foch in Paris. There is no evidence of her being tortured, but her interrogation lasted over a month. During that time, she attempted escape twice. Hans Kieffer, the former head of Gestapo in Paris, testified after the war that she didn't give the Gestapo a single piece of information, but lied consistently [5].
Although Inayat Khan did not talk about her activities under interrogation, the SD found her notebooks, in which she had kept, contrary to security regulations, copies of all the messages she had sent as an SOE operative. Although she refused to reveal any secret codes, the Germans gained enough information from it to continue sending false messages imitating her.
As London failed to investigate properly anomalies in the transmissions which should have indicated they were sent under enemy control, three more agents sent to France were captured by the Germans at their parachute landing, among them Madeleine Damerment, who was later executed together with Noor Inayat Khan.
After refusing to sign a declaration not to make further flight attempts, Inayat Khan was taken to Germany on 27 November 1943 "for safe custody" and imprisoned at Pforzheim in solitary confinement as a so-called Nacht und Nebel-prisoner, i.e. without any contact with the outside world and in complete secrecy.
She was classified as 'highly dangerous' and shackled in chains most of the time. As the prison director testified after the war, Inayat Khan remained uncooperative and continued to refuse to give any information on her work or her fellow operatives[6].
On 11 September 1944, Noor Inayat Khan and three other SOE agents from Karlsruhe prison, Yolande Beekman, Eliane Plewman and Madeleine Damerment, were moved to the Dachau Concentration Camp. In the early hours of the morning, 13 September 1944, the four women were executed by a shot to the head. An anonymous Dutch prisoner emerging in 1958 contended that Noor Inayat Khan was cruelly beaten by the sadistic SS guard Wilhelm Ruppert before being shot from behind.[7] Her last word was "Liberté"[8][9].
Noor Inayat Khan was posthumously awarded a British mention in dispatches and a French Croix de Guerre with Gold Star. Khan was the third of three World War II FANY members to be awarded the George Cross, Britain's highest award for gallantry not on the battle field.[8] Here is a picture of Noor's memorial plaque at the Dachau Memorial Hall.
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC, MBE, (January 1, 1914, Moscow - September 13, 1944, Dachau concentration camp), usually known as Noor Inayat Khan, was a British Special Operations Executive agent in World War II of Indian origin and the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France to aid the French Résistance.
Early years
Noor was the eldest of four children. Her father Hazrat Inayat Khan came from a princely Muslim Indian family (he was a great-grandson of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth century ruler of Mysore) and lived in Europe as a musician and a teacher of Sufism; her mother Ora Meena Ray Baker Noor was an American from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who had met Inayat Khan during his travels in the United States[1]. Her eldest brother Vilayat Inayat Khan later became head of the Sufi Order International, founded by her father.
In 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, the family left Russia for London and lived in Bloomsbury, while Noor attended kindergarten at Notting Hill. In 1920, they settled in France, moving into a house in Suresnes near Paris, a gift from a benefactor of the Sufi movement.
After the death of her father in 1927, Noor had to take added responsibility for her grief-stricken mother and her younger siblings. The young girl, described as quiet, shy, sensitive, and dreamy, studied child psychology at the Sorbonne and music at Paris conservatory under the famous Nadia Boulanger, composing for harp and piano.
She started a career of writing poetry and children's stories and became a regular contributor to children's magazines and French radio. In 1939 her book 'Twenty Jataka Tales' was published in London. It should be noted that the "The Jātaka Tales" (Sanskrit जातक) which inspired the book are an important part of the Buddhist religion and culture, being a voluminous body of folklore and mythic literature concerned with previous births (jāti) of the Buddha.
After the outbreak of World War II, when France was overrun by German troops in 1940, the family fled from Paris to Bordeaux and from there by sea to London, landing in Falmouth on 22 June 1940.
Wartime activities
Although Noor Inayat Khan was deeply influenced by the pacifist teachings of her father, she decided to help defeat Nazi tyranny. So on 19 November 1940 she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), to be trained as a wireless operator.
Two years later she was recruited to join F (France) Section of the Special Operations Executive and in early February 1943 she was posted to the Air Ministry, Directorate of Air Intelligence, seconded to First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), and sent to Wanborough Manor, near Guildford in Surrey[2], from there to various other SOE schools for training, including STS 5 Winterfold, STS 36 Boarmans and STS 52 Thame Park. During her training she took on the name Nora Baker.
Despite not completing her training and the mixed opinions about her level of intelligence and the suitability of her temperament for the task, her fluency in French and competency in wireless operation made her the strongest candidate in response to the urgent Parisian request for further help.
On 16/17 June 1943, cryptonymed 'Madeleine'/W/T operator 'Nurse'. She was given the cover identity of Jeanne-Marie Regnier. Assistant Section Officer Inayat Khan was flown to landing ground B/20A 'Indigestion' in Northern France on a night landing double Lysander operation, code named Teacher/Nurse/Chaplain/Monk.
She traveled to Paris, and together with two other women (Diana Rowden, code named Paulette/Chaplain, and Cecily Lefort, code named Alice/Teacher) joined the Physician network led by Francis Suttill, code named Prosper.
Over the next month and a half, all other Physician network radio operators were arrested by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), but in spite of the danger and rejecting an offer to return to Britain, Noor chose to remain and continue transmitting as the last essential link between London and Paris.
Moving from place to place, she tried to escape capture while maintaining wireless communication with London. "She refused to abandon what had become the most important and dangerous post in France and did excellent work."[3] It is mainly attributed to her efforts that the Physician network could be reconstructed[4].
Imprisonment and death
Finally Inayat Khan was betrayed to the Germans, either by Henri Dericourt or by Renée Garry. Dericourt (code name Gilbert) was a SOE officer and former French Air Force pilot who has been suspected of working as a double agent for the German Abwehr.
Renée Garry was the sister of Emile Garry, Inayat Khan's organizer in the Physician network. Allegedly she was paid 100,000 Francs, but acted mainly out of jealousy because she had lost the affection of SOE agent France Antelme to Noor.
On or around 1 October 1943 Inayat Khan was arrested and interrogated at the SD Headquarters at 84 Avenue Foch in Paris. There is no evidence of her being tortured, but her interrogation lasted over a month. During that time, she attempted escape twice. Hans Kieffer, the former head of Gestapo in Paris, testified after the war that she didn't give the Gestapo a single piece of information, but lied consistently [5].
Although Inayat Khan did not talk about her activities under interrogation, the SD found her notebooks, in which she had kept, contrary to security regulations, copies of all the messages she had sent as an SOE operative. Although she refused to reveal any secret codes, the Germans gained enough information from it to continue sending false messages imitating her.
As London failed to investigate properly anomalies in the transmissions which should have indicated they were sent under enemy control, three more agents sent to France were captured by the Germans at their parachute landing, among them Madeleine Damerment, who was later executed together with Noor Inayat Khan.
After refusing to sign a declaration not to make further flight attempts, Inayat Khan was taken to Germany on 27 November 1943 "for safe custody" and imprisoned at Pforzheim in solitary confinement as a so-called Nacht und Nebel-prisoner, i.e. without any contact with the outside world and in complete secrecy.
She was classified as 'highly dangerous' and shackled in chains most of the time. As the prison director testified after the war, Inayat Khan remained uncooperative and continued to refuse to give any information on her work or her fellow operatives[6].
On 11 September 1944, Noor Inayat Khan and three other SOE agents from Karlsruhe prison, Yolande Beekman, Eliane Plewman and Madeleine Damerment, were moved to the Dachau Concentration Camp. In the early hours of the morning, 13 September 1944, the four women were executed by a shot to the head. An anonymous Dutch prisoner emerging in 1958 contended that Noor Inayat Khan was cruelly beaten by the sadistic SS guard Wilhelm Ruppert before being shot from behind.[7] Her last word was "Liberté"[8][9].
Noor Inayat Khan was posthumously awarded a British mention in dispatches and a French Croix de Guerre with Gold Star. Khan was the third of three World War II FANY members to be awarded the George Cross, Britain's highest award for gallantry not on the battle field.[8] Here is a picture of Noor's memorial plaque at the Dachau Memorial Hall.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
DUDES OF MY OFFICE!!
GIRLS BEWARE!!!!
THE ONE ON THE LEFT IS THE SO CALLED PERVERT TABLE CHAMP-"KASH"
THE ONE ON RIGHT IS "CURLY HAIR BULLET CHAMP-GUTAM".
at work!!
well..just reached office...and i hate to check my mails...god knows what would be the next terrible thing to do...!!it's too quiet a place to do anything...!!..hmmmm..well to start with My team is one of the best things ever happened to me...i made some amazing friends...like Amar,Prasanna,Gautam,Kashyap,Asim,Sahitya,Chari and the list is endless..but i love all of them..!!ok time for me to get back to work...next break and i would be back..with some more gossip...!
lazy morning!!!!
got up really late...!!it's ten now...and i am feeling damn lazy to go to work...but thinking of sitting at home is even more boring..!!:(.i have been planning to create a blog for a looonnngg time..finally i managed to do that..so this goes as my first hi to the blog..many more to come...hang on!!
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