Courage-Will-Sacrifice

Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan: On the night of 26 Nov 2008, several iconic buildings in South Mumbai were attacked by terrorists. One of the buildings where the terrorists held people hostage was the 100-year old Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.

Major Unnikrishnan was the team commander of 51 SAG deployed in the operation at the Taj Mahal Hotel to rid the building of terrorists and rescue the hostages. He entered the hotel in a group of 10 commandos and reached the sixth floor through the staircase. As the team descended the stairs, they sensed the terrorists on the third floor. The terrorists had held a few women as hostages in a room and locked it from the inside. After breaking open the door, the round of fire by the terrorists hit Commando Sunil Yadav, who was Major Unnikrishnan's buddy partner.^[13]

Major Unnikrishan led his team from the front and engaged the terrorists in a fierce gunfight. He arranged for Commando Sunil Yadav's evacuation and regardless of personal safety, chased the terrorists who, meanwhile, escaped to another floor of the hotel, and while doing so Major Sandeep continuously engaged them.^[14] In the encounter that followed, he was shot from the back, seriously injured and succumbed to injuries.

“Do not come up, I will handle them”, were probably the last words which Major Unnikrishnan told his men as he was hit by bullets while engaging well armed terrorists inside the Taj Hotel, Mumbai during Operation Black Tornado.^[3]

SI Tukaram Omble: Omble overtook the Skoda and stopped in front of it, forcing the driver of the car to swerve right and hit the divider. With the terrorists momentarily distracted, Omble sprang toward one of them, Ajmal Kasab, and gripped the barrel of the AK47 rifle with both hands. With the barrel pointing towards Omble, Kasab pulled the trigger, hitting Omble in the abdomen. Omble collapsed, but held on to the gun till he lost consciousness, which likely stopped Kasab from shooting others.
The other police, who by that time had killed the other terrorist, Ismail, captured Kasab.

"Kasab started firing from his AK47 as soon as he saw that we were coming to catch him," says Govilkar. Baudankar says that Assistant Sub Inspector Tukaram Omble was hit by the bullets as he was the first to charge towards Kasab armed with just a stick. "All those who were with Omble survived as he stood like a shield," adds Kadam. "When we saw that Omble was not letting go of the terrorist's gun, we knew we could not let his sacrifice go in vain. He held on and we completed his unfinished task," his colleague Sanjay Govilkar said.

Review: Mahesh Khaleja

"Comedy cheste nene cheyalroy" is a dialogue by Mahesh in the movie and it gives you the complete picture of what to expect from the movie.

Mahesh Babu is back after 3 years and like never before. All the criticism that he doesn't utter more dialogues can rest in peace as he leaves the critics nothing to point at this time around. He is a treat to watch in action sequences.

Anushka does well and is limited to songs in the 2nd half. Rao Ramesh and Shafi played the best roles in their careers, especially Shafi deserves a mention for his portrayal of 'Siddha'- the devotee of Raju, taxi driver.

Dialogues by Trivikram are excellent in places and sound repetitive in some. Overall he succeeded in presenting a new Mahesh to silver screen.

Music by Mani Sharma is not his best. Only 2-3 songs may impress the audience but the BGM is effective.

The negative points could be the under utilization of other roles, the whole plot-revealing in last part of the movie making the screenplay look complicated and lengthy, super human stunts at some places like the Scorpio-wheel-popping stunt.

If you can live with the coincidences in the 2nd half which corroborate the villagers' belief that the protagonist is God, you are in for a treat. Irrespective of how the movie does in the long run, its definitely a milestone in Mahesh career as he dons the comedy and loud drama departments which were untouched by him.

The climax fight also deserves applause as it was shot in a very fresh manner with high emotional appeal.

Best events in graduation

Some of the best moments of my life:

1. Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam visit- 04/02/2009:

Awesome speech and experience- Inauguration of Tech Fest Quark


Found this post by a student from AP who visited our campus to participate in the fest and was ecstatic to meet the ex president: http://www.indiastudychannel.com/resources/72877-My-Experience-with-Abdul-Kalam.aspx

2. KK Live- 07/11/2009:

Memorable 3.5 hours with 25 wonderful songs including Cheliya Cheliya from Gharshana- Special night in Cultural Fest Waves


3. Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia- 06/02/2009:

SPICMACAY BITS-Pilani Goa Campus chapter was inaugurated by Padmashri Dr. Kiran Seth and by Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia


4. Vidya Balan visit- 06/11/2009:

She was one of the judges for Fashion Parade event in Cultural Fest Waves



5. Ugadi Celebrations- every year:

With the huge number of Telugus on campus, it was our responsibility to make Ugadi big every year- Ugadi pachadi in breakfast, special lunch, culturals with panchanga shravanam, telugu movie screening- it was job well done every year.


6. Magadheera Screening:

Booked a show and a satellite screening at a local theater


7. Large number of other events:

DJ Nights, events in Waves and Quark, dance performances by Vineeth, Swagath, singing by Eknath, Futsal, movie screenings in audi and many more...

Three and a half years I will never forget and never get back- Thank You BPGC

The language is Telugu and the state is Andhra Pradesh

There is enormous mutual respect between Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The states were under Madras province under British rule but seems like many don't realize that we have come a long way since then and Andhra Pradesh now has a distinct identity with a beautiful capital in Hyderabad. The inspiration to this post is the misnomer very often used by people from other parts of India i.e. calling us as Madrasis. The worst part is saying "whatever" when we try to correct them.

• Telugu is the third most-spoken language in India (74 million native speakers according to the 2001 census) and is 15th in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide.

• Hyderabad hosts huge number of IT MNCs with Microsoft having their largest outside-US R&D and facebook opening its first center in India.

• Airport: 5th best in the world and the best in India award by Airports Council International

http://www.aci.aero/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-7-46^35015_666_2__

• Tollywood produces highest number of movies per year and the state and city hold records for highest number of theaters and audience in their respective categories.

So, please try to remember "Telugu" and "Andhra Pradesh" before generalizing South Indians for your convenience. We respect our language and expect you to respect our feelings.

BBT quotes- You'll enjoy them even if you haven't watched the show!

Penny: I'm a Sagittarius, which probably tells you way more than you need to know.

Sheldon: Yes, it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.
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Penny: If Leonard comes to know that I lied to him, I would absolutely die of embarrassment.

Sheldon: Physiologically impossible.
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Leonard: You are not Isaac Newton.
Sheldon: No, no, that's true. Gravity would have been apparent to me without the apple.
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Sheldon: You know, it's amazing how many super villains have advanced degrees. Graduate schools should do a better job of screening those people out.
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Sheldon: You bought me a present? Why would you do such a thing? I know you think you're being generous, but the foundation of gift giving is reciprocity. You haven't given me a gift, you've given me an obligation. The essence of the custom is that I now have to go out and purchase for you a gift of commensurate value and representing the same perceived level of friendship as that represented by the gift you've given me. Ah, it's no wonder suicide rates skyrocket this time of year. Oh, I brought this on myself by being such an endearing and important part of your life...
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Sheldon: A fear of heights is illogical. A fear of falling, on the other hand, is prudent and evolutionary.
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Penny: I give up. He's impossible!
Sheldon: I can't be impossible; I exist! I think what you meant to say is, 'I give up; he's improbable'.
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Sheldon: In A World Of Emoticons, I'm Colon Capital D
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Sheldon: What are you talking about?
Leonard: The cultural paradigm in which people have sex after 3 dates.
Sheldon: I see. Now, are we talking date the social interaction or date the dried fruit?
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Sheldon: Why are you crying?
Penny: Because I'm stupid!
Sheldon: That's no reason to cry. One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid, and that makes me sad.
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Sheldon: I made tea.
Leonard: I don't want tea.
Sheldon: I didn't make tea for you. This is my tea.
Leonard: Then why are you telling me?
Sheldon: It's a conversation starter.
Leonard: That's a lousy conversation starter.
Sheldon: Oh, is it? We're conversing. Checkmate.
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Sheldon: My new computer came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is much more user-friendly than Windows Vista......I don't like that.