sometimes u love somebody more than anything else. u want to protect him from all.u feel that those who are close to him are trying to use him for their vested gains.ufeel bad and want to do something.but here the trouble is whom should you fight with.the person who is targeted is well aware of the siutaion and is not helpless.he know well how to tackle things but is delaying them as they are going to be painful.
this made me realise that no matter how much things change they remain the same.it is amazing how much the situations in lives of two people can be common.probabaly the pain that they have endured in their past has brought them together.you dont want to see your loved one beign harrased so all you wnat to do is become his shield and protect him from all injustice.
The situations that broke you ,you dont want the same situations to affcet your lover.you want to heal but he wants the wounds to reamin open as he draws strength from them.then all you wish that peace may be upon him.

Once upon a time, there was once a guy who was very much in love with this girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of papercranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small executive in his company, his future doesn't seemed too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back. She also told him that she cannot visualise any future for the both of them, so let's go their own ways there and then... heartbroken, the guy agreed.

When he regained his confidence, he worked hard day and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something out of himself. Finally with all these hardwork and with the help of friends, this guy had set up his own company...

"You never fail until you stop trying." he always told himself. "I must make it in life!"
One rainy day, while this guy was driving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking to some destination. Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched. It didn't take him long to realise those were his ex-girlfriend's parents. With a heart in getting back at them, he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to spot him in his luxury sedan. He wanted them to know that he wasn't the same anymore, he had his own company, car, condo, etc. He had made it in life!

Before the guy can realise, the couple was walking towards a cemetary,and he got out of his car and followed them...and he saw his ex-girlfriend, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone... and he saw his precious papercranes in a bottle placed beside her tomb. Her parents saw him. He walked over and asked them why this had happened. They explained, she did not leave for France at all. She was stricken ill with cancer. In her heart, she had believed that he will make it someday, but she did not want her illness to be his obstacle ... therefore she had chosen to leave him.

She had wanted her parents to put his papercranes beside her, because, if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him. The guy just wept ...the worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them but knowing you can't have them and will never see them again.
The End."

Always on my mind
by Chuck
You and me
Were meant to be;
In my dreams, and in my heart
We have something that can't be torn apart;
Dreaming of you, makes my night worth while
Thinking of you, makes me constantly smile;
Something tells me that your the one
Whenever I'm with you, we have so much fun;
Having you is the best thing ever
Having you is what i want forever;
Til the end of time
You will be mine;
I love you baby, your one of a kind
Because your always on my mind.

ndred performers and over 40 different acts - perfected after years of practice and performance. It's one of India's great entertainment traditions. Welcome to the world of circus.

But who's watching? Today the circus barely has an audience. Even with tickets costing as little as Rs 25, the seats remain empty. Today the Indian circus is barely surviving. What made it go out of fashion? Why are people not queuing up outside these tents? What motivates circus artists to risk their lives for hundreds of empty chairs?

Great Bombay Circus cyclist Subhash says, “Earlier all three shows used to be houseful but now all shows almost goes empty.”

The applause for circus has also died because the industry lacks infrastructure. Most circus companies are suffering losses and many are just about breaking even. A crunch of resources leads to sub standard acts resulting in empty chairs.

Ashok Shankar from Indian Circus Federation says, “The conditions of the circus owners are not today where which they can put money. It is just hand to mouth. So once you are into the industry, it is difficult just to maintain it.”

And the empty chairs in turn further demoralise the artists.

Great Royal Circus gymnastics trainer Jayakumar says, “We enjoy performing to a full audience. We start lacking enthusiasm when the audience turn out is not encouraging. We feel bored even at the time of displaying our talent.”

Many of those who chose to watch the two-hour show were disappointed.

Meena and audience says, “The quality has gone down in circus.”

Jayakumar was awed by the circus when he was all of seven years. He ran away from home to join his uncle - a circus manager. Today, Jayakumar is a gymnast, a flying trapeze artist and a trainer as well. He finds there are problems within the industry too. Most young artists want to make a quick buck without the hard work. They are hired on contract for a short while and often choose to move on.

“Time has changed. During our time the training and everything was different. Now young people are not much interested in training and all,” Jayakumar adds.

The law does not recognise children in circus as junior artists. Children under 14 years are in fact termed as child labourers even if they're gymnasts or acrobats and with age, learning the tricks just gets tougher.

Great Royal Circus trainer Das says, “Bada hone se fir jo apna kamar ka yeh sab karne ke liye, roll karne ke liye ho nahi sakega. Wo log ko taqleef hoga, yeh chhota hone se jaldi hum log kara sakta. Hum log sab chhota main he kiya.

Circus artists feel their profession is no longer roaring with life because they are not permitted to keep wild animals. They say lions; tigers, leopards and bears were instrumental in attracting crowds.

Great Bombay Circus owner Dilip Nath Nair says, “I don't want 40 tigers give me two each just two for showing the coming generation in smaller town where they don't have access to zoo. I don't want tiger to jump into the hoop. I don't want to lift his leg.”

But activists say animals are trained by the police, the army and the film industry among others and the least we can do is spare them from being used for entertainment.

Animal Rights Activists Norma Alvares says, “Circus companies are not at all equipped to maintain these animals. They cannot give them space, they've got to keep them chained, they keep them in small, closed conditions, in cages and so on.”

Circus owners also believe the public doesn't have the power or the inclination to shell out enough money on performing arts.

“Where is the money power with the Indian audience? The best circus abroad is across $300 and $200 work that out for yourself – Rs 15,000 and Rs 12,000 you are paying me Rs 100. I can show you this much there is a limit where you can stretch Rs 100,” Nair adds.

Owners feel they're going around in circles where the Government is concerned. Apart from entertainment tax exemption and concession on railways, they're offered little else. Grounds are usually on the outskirts, making circus inaccessible to a majority of the people. Ground rates in prime locations are simply not affordable.

Circus artists are not even recognised as skilled performers and as a result there is no formal training or academics for circus.

But many say the crux of the problem is that Indian circus lacks innovation and vision.

Theatre director Roysten Abel says, “The world has moved on, visual arts have moved on but the circuses are the same. The only place where they're trying to get some improvement is with the getting artists, acrobats from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan or you know these to come down and do another act within their own existing poor show and hoping that if they have a Russian artist, they will draw the crowd.”

Even the music in circus mostly consists of tasteless Bollywood film songs and musicians themselves are bored of performing. K V Lalji has been performing with circus orchestras for about 40 years now. He says technology has taken away the challenge from his job.

Lalji says, “Earlier the orchestrate style used to be different. The music used to be different. But time has changed everything is like automatic compose.”

Scarcity of funds, fading public interest, a ban on animals and a decline in the quality of artists are some problems that the circus is facing today. Once a popular and unique form of entertainment, today the great Indian circus is dying a slow death.

Mukesh and Anil Ambani have yet again made it to a list of richest people compiled by Forbes, only this time the recognition has been bestowed on them because of their running feud.
"Sometimes fighting has a silver lining, as has been the case for Indian brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani," the US business magazine wrote about the two siblings in a report on the latest list - 'Billionaire Family Feuds'.

In 2005, the two had a collective net worth of $7 billion, but in the Forbes' March 2007 list of world's richest persons, Mukesh alone was ranked at 14th place with $20.1 billion and younger brother Anil followed at 18th position with a net worth of $18.2 billion, the report said.

"Unable to get along, the brothers began fighting publicly in late 2004 for control of Reliance Industries [Get Quote], one of India's largest conglomerates. The situation became so untenable that their mother Kokilaben brokered a court-approved peace settlement that entailed divvying up the family businesses," the report noted.

"Once-inseparable brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani fought bitterly for months over control of Reliance Industries, one of India's largest companies, founded by their late father Dhirubhai."

According to Forbes, the bickering is still continuing between the two brothers despite their mother brokering a settlement to divide the family assets way back in June 2005.

Anil has taken Mukesh to court a couple of times, most notably over a crucial gas-supply agreement. The recent court ruling gives the brothers four months to renegotiate a deal."

Still, the fight has not affected the stock prices of their companies, which are continuing to soar and are making them much richer than what they were when the fight first started.

The other billionaire family feuds mentioned in the list include a then "19-year-old member of the Hyatt's Pritzker family, who successfully sued her father and almost a dozen other relatives, and a father and his beauty-queen fifth wife suing his son over the family fortune."

Half of the ten fights are related to the US families, while the Ambani family is the only one from India. There are also feuds involving families in Canada, Germany, Hong Kong and Switzerland.

Forbes has also listed the fight involving late celebrity actress and former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, who battled her stepson, of much higher age than her, for about a a decade to get the rights over the fortunes of her late husband.

While the case was yet to be resolved, both Smith and her husband died. They were married for just a month. "For these wealthy dynasties, there just doesn't seems to be enough money in the world to convince them to get along. Instead they turn on each other, and very often, take their relatives to court.," the magazine said about the families mentioned in the report.

Among other feuds, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, who runs travel group Carlson founded by her father, is being sued by her son. She has been accused of removing her son from the position of president and chief operating officer, thus ending his aspirations to become the company chief.

Swiss billionaire and celebrity art collector Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza after divorcing his fourth wife gave over his two-billion-dollar empire to his son in 1983, but after about two decades he and fifth wife, a former Miss Spain, filed a suit to get the control back.

After a three-year and 60-million-dollar battle in court, the Baron sought to settle the matter with his son in 2002. Baron died a few months later and the fortune is understood to have been split among various family members.

The magazine, however, said that for some billionaires, the family fights have been painful. According to the report, media baron Sumner Redstone is spending his late years fighting suits filed by his family. He was separately sued by his son and nephew last year for "cheating them out of their share of the family wealth."

"The two days that Brent (son) and Michael (nephew) sued me are two of the saddest days of my entire life," the report quoted Redstone as saying.