What are you doing ?
I am trying hard to finish this post on #twitter that has been in the drafts for over a week now. If you are a twitter addict, the ‘#’ tag would say it all. But you’d be wondering if @roshinroy has gone insane cuzz this is just a blog post and not a 140 char tweet !
where you’d have to #hashtag key words for references:) #Fail 
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Typically, these updates are answers to one simple question – “What are you doing?” Twitter is a multi-modal messaging platform that lets you send and receive messages of 140 characters via the web, SMS, Instant Message clients, and by third party applications. Since you carry your phone with you all the time you have quick access to all your ‘followers’. A 140 character long micro-blog wont take much time out of your life.
People who have never used the service often think that twitter is for people who are incredibly boring and wish to tell others about their incredibly boring lives. Today, three years after it was conceived, twitter is less bout status updates and more about conversations.
Twitter as a social network is just like your orkut, facebook, myspace etc. But its a lot different from them all. While all other online social networks expect you to make friends with someone and then communicate with them, you can follow as many people as you want in twitter. You don’t need them to accept you as a follower, just like in real life. Your followers can watch you over weeks, months or years before they reach out and extend their interest in you, your work, your thoughts or even a common cause that you work for. All that while, you’d be tweeting about when you went to bed, what you had for breakfast, the movie that you watched, the book that you read, your neighbor, her furry cat, your friends, your city, your family, your work, your boss, you dog, anything .. Over a period of time, you would have painted a self portrait of yourself though your tweets that will be available for anybody who would want to know you better. If this sounds scary to you, keep yourself away from Twitter.
Twitter is not just growing, it is evolving. I should come back and write about some cool applications that can work around twitter…
Now how does the story go? They say he kidnapped Sita, Ram’s wife and took her home with him to Lanka. Yeah right ! If he wanted her, he would have had her when her dad, King Janaka had arranged for her swayamvara. Ram just went up there and broke the bow that none of his competitors could do. Big deal! But did you know that Ravana was one of those elite people who had come for the swayamvara? Yes. He was there and his strength was beyond the strength of any mortal of that time. And why didn’t he break the weapon himself but instead bow in front of it with respect ? The iron bow was not just another weapon. Ravan had understood that it was the ‘shiv dhanas‘ which belonged to Lord Shiva and being a true Shiva devote, he refused to make a mockery of the weapon and disrespect his lord.
Besides Ravana was in a curse to be “Eka-Patni-Vrathastha” by lord Bhrahma when he had abducted Sita, which means, no fooling around when he was married to Mandodhari his beloved wife.
Is that all? He respected Sita so much that he gave her a private space, a palace with all the guards, servants etc where she had her will. And how was King Ravana defeated? I would say he was cheated.. even by the Gods who were supposed to stand for truth and honor. You would be surprised to know what Ravan took to the battle ground in his arsenal. This dude had all the powers that was needed to end the battle. And why didn’t the great king of Lanka not defend himself against the Brahmastra that Rama had attacked him with? Its cuz he knew that he could defend the brahmastra only with a bramastra that he had in his arsenal. He also knew that the impact of such an action would be .. hmm .. err .. apocalypse .. Yes, it was like nuke missiles colliding and Lankeshwar Ravana took a call which can be compared to putting and end to .. err .. a nuclear standoff. Thus, the lord of the underworld fell, inspite of his knowledge death defying ‘maha mriuthunjaya manthra‘ and his ultimate power of ‘kundali jagran’ – his command over his own fate.
Next time you hear about the deamon lord, king Ravana, you should know that he was one powerful being who worked hard and struggled to earn all the ultimate powers that the Gods could offer. Unlike, his assasin, Rama who was born privilleged and was bestowed on with all the powers that he had. And what did he do with it ? yeah .. well i hope to come back and write about Rama someday .. soon ..
