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18 Jul 2010, 1:05 am

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I'm just curious to those living in India and have seen the Taj Mahal.

Is it as pretty as this pic portrays it?


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Now be honest...


Its was beautiful, it will be beautiful if and only if ASI and UP government could restore it correctly. In all the intricate details stupids are filling wrong colored materials. :? Idiots are ruining it all, look behind taj, the yamuna river, its more of filth a than a river. :evil:

Also to add to above, the marble is getting a bit yellowish due to the pollution.


Awww well I guess as long as its memory's alive in photographs and stories.


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18 Jul 2010, 1:58 am

Its 77 days to go for the Commonwealth games to begin and the preparations are going on in full swing. I being a Delhite, am much eager to see how Delhi is able to host the games. Last time I went to delhi was in May and it looked like it need a lot more preparation, a lot has been done but still every where the work is still going on. Also, heard in news that the stadium work is still way behind schedule.

Now the question is will Delhi be able to host the games as good as Sydney did last time? Comments?

http://www.cwgdelhi2010.org/


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18 Jul 2010, 2:33 am

I have no clue about Commonwealth games, not into sports, which is not unusual for an aspie :)
But here's something I've been wanting to share for some time.

Qazi Fazli Azeem - Aspergers Savant from Karachi, Pakistan
http://www.youtube.com/user/qfazeem
Some of the videos I saw and found useful from Indian / South Asian point of view -

Unconventional strategies with Autism
Speech given by Asperger Savant Qazi Fazli Azeem at the 2nd South Asian Conference on Autism, Delhi, India on 16 Jan 2008.
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VAUdCwSsGQ
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cr-zSfwQ5Q

Fazli Azeem - Aspergers Syndrome Interview
Asperger/Autistic Savant Qazi Fazli Azeem interviewed on Business Plus TV in 'Loose Ends' program which was aired on 10th & 17th December 2006. A talk about personal experience with Aspergers Syndrome, collaboration with the Canadian Institute for Addiction & Mental Health for Genetic research in Autism and advice for parents and teachers of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmsvknuN9vs
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkPZTwYNyf0
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_mvbx4sgaY
Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSzczLb9yXo
Part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOi96XWJBBM

He has many other autism related videos on his channel. If anyone checks them out and finds them useful, please post a little bit about them.



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25 Jul 2010, 2:51 am

Dhawal wrote:
I have no clue about Commonwealth games, not into sports, which is not unusual for an aspie :)
But here's something I've been wanting to share for some time.

Qazi Fazli Azeem - Aspergers Savant from Karachi, Pakistan
http://www.youtube.com/user/qfazeem
Some of the videos I saw and found useful from Indian / South Asian point of view -

Unconventional strategies with Autism
Speech given by Asperger Savant Qazi Fazli Azeem at the 2nd South Asian Conference on Autism, Delhi, India on 16 Jan 2008.
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VAUdCwSsGQ
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cr-zSfwQ5Q

Fazli Azeem - Aspergers Syndrome Interview
Asperger/Autistic Savant Qazi Fazli Azeem interviewed on Business Plus TV in 'Loose Ends' program which was aired on 10th & 17th December 2006. A talk about personal experience with Aspergers Syndrome, collaboration with the Canadian Institute for Addiction & Mental Health for Genetic research in Autism and advice for parents and teachers of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmsvknuN9vs
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkPZTwYNyf0
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_mvbx4sgaY
Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSzczLb9yXo
Part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOi96XWJBBM

He has many other autism related videos on his channel. If anyone checks them out and finds them useful, please post a little bit about them.


Hey Dhawal, correctly said, all those videos are good from a South Asian point of view.

But I did not agree with "not into sports, which is not unusual for an aspie". I love sports, I believe if only one thing that can change the world is sports. I may not be a good sportsperson but the shortest distance you can take to know and be friends with people is through sports. This is my personal opinion.

My motto, loose all inhibitions and play, :) whatever it is and see how you can bridge the gap b/w you and others, i have felt so.


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24 Aug 2010, 7:22 pm

hi everyone on this thread. I'm not from India (i'm an Aussie) but I popped in to say hello. India is my FAVOURITE place in the world. I traveled there for 6 months and am so in love with it. It would be my dream to live there permanently. I love everything about india - people, culture, textiles, food (mmmm i love the food and not the crap they sell in take-aways here and try to pass off as indian food). so hello!!



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06 Sep 2010, 7:55 pm

First post here on WP. Hello there Sabu and others!
I am 24 year old female of Asian origin..though I am not sure if that counts as India (prolly Indian subcontinent!)
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09 Nov 2010, 11:52 am

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daer god, india :oops: do they have the internet there yet?


No.
India does NOT have the internet yet.

Since you're capable of believing that statement I just thought Id mention that Ive got some great beach front property in the Czech Republic that Id like to sell you!



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26 Nov 2010, 8:50 am

naturalplastic wrote:
Swerve wrote:
daer god, india :oops: do they have the internet there yet?


No.
India does NOT have the internet yet.

Since you're capable of believing that statement I just thought Id mention that Ive got some great beach front property in the Czech Republic that Id like to sell you!



hahahahaha *pats you on the back for good joke.


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27 Nov 2010, 11:47 am

Greetings. I am not from India, but I hope this post isn't off topic for this thread. My late father traveled the world as a flight engineer in the US Army Air Force, then the USAF, then the USAF Reserves from World War 2 until the late 1970s. He had the opinion that of all the people he'd seen in the world, the people of India were the nicest to each other. He also didn't like the way he saw the British treat the Indian people when he was stationed there in World War 2. This actually was a bit of a surprise to me, because my father was born in Texas and grew up there in the 1920s and 1930s when racial prejudice was so common in the mainstream society that people weren't aware they were prejudiced. I think his service in the war (actually three wars: WW2, Korea and Viet-Nam) and his extensive travels for many decades really broadened his mind.

I never learned much of the culture of India until I was in my thirties, and even more in my forties, but since then I have the greatest respect for the spiritual insights of Hinduism and its offshoot Buddhism. About six or seven years ago I was introduced to the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and was amazed at how much resonated with me, but then, who am I anyway lol.

Hinduism recognizes that different people are at different levels of awareness and have different talents and interests, so there are many possible paths. Ramana Maharshi said different things to different people sometimes that appear to contradict each other, but only if one doesn't realize he was addressing each at their level of understanding. The Buddhists call these techniques "upayas" (a sanskrit word) that means pedagogical tricks similar to a koan in zen, or the use of the Ten Commandments in the Bible to make man aware (supposedly) that he couldn't love God if he thought of himself as a selfish ego. Pelagius argued with Augustine around 400 A.D. that God wouldn't have given us the Commandments unless we could follow them, but Augustine pointed out that the writings of Paul in the Bible show that they were put there to show we couldn't.

It is my opinion, and not just mine, that the religions of the world teach the same core message expressed differently for different cultures, but that when people get stuck on the details of the story or on the storyteller, they may miss the point of what is being taught.

I am sorry if this is off-topic for this thread. I just want to thank the people of India for their contributions to the culture of humanity.
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01 Dec 2010, 12:04 am

aap kaise hain?


main hindi sikh rahi hun....

i love learning langauges :D



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03 Dec 2010, 9:50 am

hi ,just posting to let you know i exist



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04 Dec 2010, 5:06 am

Greetings to all members of WP, and a high-5 to those from South Asia, who have taken the first step, by coming forward and networking.
Together, in numbers, sharing experiences and abilities, we hold the power not just to change perceptions in our countries, but we can make our communities better, and share positive and humanistic moderate opinions. The philosophy and the opinions shared by Asperger Albert Einstein will lead the way for all our friends as a template for what the future should be. We should not limit ourselves by our 'prehistoric' notions of citizenship, race or religion. We represent the future of homo sapiens, and that is all that matters. You priority, each and every one of you who read this, is to educate yourself, acquire skills that generate employment, use youtube and video training free on the internet, learn technical and artistic skills, so that society recognizes you not for your limitations (social awkwardness) but for your achievements (professional success through technical superiority in your areas of interest). It is only then, when you have earned the respect of people around you, when the media starts paying attention to your success, that you can come out and tell people who and what you really are. Many people ask me how i do what i do and all I tell them is that its hard work, when i tell them the truth, that my aspergers syndrome ability allows me to do great things, they think i am either crazy or arrogant, so i stopped telling the world the truth. I just work hard, help people occasionally and give people advice which i learned, all this autism advocacy stuff is my past time, a hobby, a social impact that is secondary. It should never be your primary focus for your life, because no one will pay you or sponsor you or back you up on this good work, You should self sponsor this work when you are free, and support it yourself through the professional work that you do. I say this from experience. I am constantly bothered by people and non government organizations who want to use the good work i do and use it for their own fame or their own purposes or want to use me to generate funds or support for their own organizations. I believe in a philosophy that has made me strong and i am truly proud of this thing, being strong, standing up for what i believe in and instead of other people forcing me to do what they want me to do for them, i have turned the tables and made the media and society advocate autism awareness in my country, by showing them what is possible, and the success and influence that i have gained through doing good free social work on my own has made the path clear for people in the coming future to emulate this system and make their won social areas of influence better and more open about accepting and accommodating people on the spectrum.
I want you all to search my name Qazi Fazli Azeem on google, learn from what i have done and see my youtube video interviews (most in English- search my name qazi fazli azeem to find them) to understand. I may be the first on in south asia to come forward to speak for people on the spectrum, but i dont want to be the only one, come forward, give interviews, do good and great things, make your parents and society proud of who you are and what you can become.
And never forget who we are, we are the future, we represent the future of homo sapiens, in a few decades there will be many more like us, and then we will guide humanity out of their prehistoric misconceptions and superstitions into an era of science, logic, equality and true human progress.
Take one step back, two steps forward, know who you are, and light the way for future generations to follow. Your work begins today, you are not alone, seek others, bring them here, share your knowledge, increase the numbers. And most importantly, educate yourself, the internet was created by people like us, for people like us, dont lose out, make your own future.

If you wont stand up for something you will fall for anything.



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09 Jan 2011, 7:45 pm

Sabu wrote:
I haven't seen any aspie from india here at WP yet (I am a new joiner :)), so I thought of starting this forum to get to know each other. I'll start by myself.

My name is Saurabh (aka Sabu).
Location: Bangalore, India

Hope to see you here friends

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14 Jan 2011, 4:30 am

Today someone asked me if I wanted to be in the Bollywood remake of 'the Italian Job' thats being shot here, I thought, why not could be fun (I've never been in a movie) so I agreed to do it. Apparently I'm going to be a policeman, I assume it'll be something like running around in the background shouting in Faux Italian at something?! :lol:



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16 Apr 2011, 12:58 pm

Reviving a long lost thread

I am from India, Mumbai basically a keralite born and brought up in mumbai

life is tough because of AS.

And in India its tougher because of whole lot of socializing, joint family systems, relatives, arranged marriages there is lot of pressure to cope up with.



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25 Apr 2011, 1:55 am

My parents are from INDIA and I was born and raised in California. I had major behavior issues in school growing up (Aspergers wasn't even know about over here back then) and my mom always told me "back home in India, everyone is well behaved. Here in the U.S, they just LABELED you a problem kid and put you in a fun class where you go to do whatever you went. If you acted like that in India, you would have learned your lesson after a few hard beatings and then been NORMAL afterwards"

My mom still insists that Aspergers isn't real and just another "western label' and that people back in India don't have such "ridiculous disorders" because society demands everyone conforms.

I am going to show her this form to disprove her right now!