Top Indian Celebrities and Their Enviable Car Collection

Men are judged by not by what drives them but what they drive. So yes, indeed these shiny, roaring, majestic cars tell a lot about the personality of the owners especially,their financial standing in this matter.

Let’s sneak a quick look into the car collections of some of the most famous Indian celebrities that drive its economic and current film scene.

THE TYCOONS

The Ambani Brothers

The business tycoons Mukhesh Ambani and Anil Ambani, of the Reliance Corporation have a dedicated interest towards cars. Rumours say that that the elder one has about 168 cars that include the breathtaking Mercedes, one S Class and one Black SL500.

But the younger Ambani doesn’t lag behind his brother and owns many beautiful four wheelers like the Lamborghini Gallardo, Porsche and the German luxury car, Maybach.

Ratan Tata

With the launch of cheapest car in India Tata Nano under his belt, Tata himself owns the splendid red Ferrari California, the exquisite Italian Maserati Quattroporte and a Cadillac XLR amongst many others. No wonder car devotees envy him!

Vijay Mallya

The chairman of UB Group, Vijay Mallya’s enthusiasm for cars can be seen by his dedication towards the F1 racing in India. With cars like Jaguar Sport XJR 15, and has a knack for keeping vintage cars as well like Chevrolet Corvette, Ferrari 365, California Spyder and Shelby American Cobra 427.

RAZZLE DAZZLE FILM STARS:

Amitabh Bachan

Big B has his great share of the love for the automobiles. With vehicles like Rolls Royce Phantom, Bentley Continental GT and BMW 7 Series, among many others, we must say that his greatness is indeed seen in his taste for cars too.

Shahrukh Khan

Following the steps of Bachan, King Khan too has a grand collection of such beauties. From Rolls Royce Phantom, Bentley Continental GT, BMW 7 Series (like Big B) Shahrukh Khan also owns a Mitsubishi Pajero SUV along with many more.

Salman Khan

The Second Khan owns many SUVs including Range Rover and BMW X6 amongst others.

Sanjay Dutt

“Everybody dreams of an Audi” but the master of gangster films, Sunjay Dutt simply owns the whopper with not just one but three: Audi R8, Audi Q7 and Audi A8 along with the magnificent like Rolls Royce Ghost as well as Porsche SUV.

Imran Khan

The relatively new yet dashing, Imran Khan is also trying to make some space for himself by fitting in the car club. He is already on the way and owns a BMW 6 Series, Porsche Cayenne, Volkswagen Beetle along with a Custom Ferrari.

Parineeti Chopra

Nothing feels better than the taste of success and fame. Parineeti Chopra who’s on a roll with her hit movies is enjoying all the fame and money coming her way. Recently, she was spotted with her luxury ride, an Audi car.

Real Love - Really Touching One

It was a gloomy Saturday afternoon.
A flock of birds was spending great time searching for food
and playing on the main road.

All of a sudden, a big truck sped through...
A very sad thing had happened.

Birds can feel too. Although this bird had already died,
another bird flew over to her immediately,
just like a family member, unable to accept the truth.

Not long after that, another car stormed in causing the dead bird's body to whirl with the wind.
The spouse noticed the movement.
As if she was still alive, he quickly flew beside her again.

He stayed beside her and yelled ... "WHY ARE YOU NOT GETTING UP!?"

Unfortunately, she's no longer able to hear him.
In the meantime, he's trying to lift her up.

He, of course, was unable to bear the burden.
Another car soon passed by. He quickly flew off.
Once the car had gone, he came down again.

Although other birds told him its useles, he never gave up.
He was trying his best to lift her up to see her flying again.
Another car passed by, her dead body whirled again
as if still alive and trying to fly.

He had used all of his energy, however...

The photographer said he couldn't shoot any longer. The photographer was so worried that the living bird was going to get hurt by passing cars. So he picked up the dead bird and left it at the roadside. The live one still lingered at a nearby tree as if crying with his singing and refused to leave.

Vampire attack long CRUEL scary prank

God’s own country and hartal’s own people

Every day, my six-year old daughter, who is a first standard student in the GUPS, and I leave home together at 9 a.m. Leaving her in the school, I go to the bus stop to catch my bus to office. One day, I waited longer than I had to wait, but the bus was not coming.

Then somebody who knows me came up and asked, “Didn’t you know? There is a hartal in the panchayat area where you work. Somebody stabbed to death somebody yesterday late in the evening.”

The hartal was called by the political party to which the deceased belonged, thinking that the other rival party murdered him. (Later, when the culprit was nabbed, it turned out that he also belonged to the same party and both the killed and the killer were goondas).

Three days later, again buses are not seen. A man was hacked and admitted to hospital. A hartal is being observed en route to my office. I travelled around the hartal area and reached office and in the evening took another route to home. Instead of 7 km, I had to travel 40 km!

Again, two days later, when I reached office everybody was coming out and the peon was locking the entrance door! A party was observing a district-wide hartal and it was on a communal issue.

Fortunately, my wife was on leave as my daughter was suffering from wheezing and the child was not sent to school. (All my colleagues were calling to their homes to know whether their children had returned home from school. Everybody was out of his/her home and stranded on the way!) We sat in front of the office till the evening as refugees and somehow managed to reach home.

The other day, my colleague, who comes from another part of the district, called to say that he could not come as there was a hartal in his area in protest against the murder of a murderer.

These instant hartals deal with local ‘issues’. After having had to ‘celebrate’ three instant hartals within a week, I was surprised to hear the news of a grand hartal (Statewide) planned and declared three days in advance! It was against the proposals for protecting the Western Ghats.

On the eve of the grand hartals, there are long queues in front of Beverages Corporation outlets and a heavy rush is seen in poultry shops. People are collecting the necessary ingredients to celebrate the hartal.

If you think hartals are anti-democratic and the people suffer greatly, no political party will agree with you. Each one of them says the hartals they observe are for the public good and those protests called by other parties are against the public interest. Often, people are not bothered even to know for what ‘cause’ the hartal is being observed.

When a hartal is observed, people including foreign tourists are stranded at railway stations. Being forced to spend the whole day in a public space without having anything to do, anything to eat, anything to drink is something traumatic especially for children and women.

But, the following day, the party that had called the hartal would claim gleefully that it was a great success. The main factor that makes hartals a success or grand success or medium success is the mastery of the parties concerned in the art of vandalism.

If you are my fellow citizens who live in other parts of our country and are interested in seeing God’s Own Country, you are most welcome. But keep in mind that you are coming not only to God’s Own Country but to Hartal’s Own People too. We celebrate hartals. Take care, we are not like you; we are God’s Own People, and we will be happy only if we make the people like you suffer at least twice a month because we believe that all other States in India are Satan’s Own. We are God’s Own.

That is why we are killing people every alternate day and observing hartals to protest the killings. That is why we want to destroy the Western Ghats; that is why we are destroying all our rivers; that is why we are making all our cities more and more stinking ones, that is why we are bulldozing all our hills and filling all our wetlands. I think you know that of all Indian States, Kerala is the most developed, the most literate, the most what not! We are having great esteem of ourselves and consider all other people unintelligent and socially underdeveloped. If you take exception to our considering you so, we will call a hartal to protest your objection too.

(The writer’s email: lsevsuku@gmail.com)

Eleventh Century synagogue renovated in "Mal-Aha"-[mala] kerala

Jewish Monument - Synagogue and Cemetery - Mala Thrissur, Kerala

The rare remnants of Jewish Settlement in Mala will attract any tourists of aesthetic mind. In ancient period Mala street was known after Jews and it was called "Jews Street Mala". In 1948, when Israel was formed, the Jews left this place and back to their mother land. There is currently no Jewish community left in Mala.

Mala Jewish Community

The charm and splendor of synagogue of the Mala Jewish Community with its beautiful carvings in a variety of patterns speak volumes about their artistic skill and culture. There is also a Jewish Cemetery which exudes memories of Ancestors of Mala Jewish Community.
According to tradition and available records, Jews have been in Kerala, since at least the beginning of the common era. It is believed that it was in AD 72. Jews immigrated to Mala for trade and settlement. There were 40 Jewish families settled in Mala. Mala Jews were the first Jewish community that migrated from Kerala to Israel. The place name "Mala" in Thrissur District might have originated from the Hebrew word "Mal-Aha"which means "Center of Refugee".
Photo Gallery of Mala Jewish Monument - Mala Synagougue and Jewish Cemetary.

Mala Jewish Synagogue

It is located at the intersection of two bustling small-commercial streets, and set now behind a row of shops, up a narrow unkempt alley, the Mala synagogue is a handsome stretch of yellow building with three traditional upper windows looking out from the main sanctuary. An outside balcony on the second level looks out on the intersecting streets below.
~~Corners of the building, plaster over stone and brick, are broken and walls on the sides show the usual need for maintenance typical of this tropical climate.~~Inside the sanctuary, everything belonging to the Mala synagogue has been removed - most of it taken by the community to Israel. Exterior steps lead to what was the woman's gallery, two stories up, looking down on the courtyard well and broken roofs.

History of Mala Jewish Synagogue

There is a different opinions among the sources as to when the Jews who had settled in Thrissur Mala first built a synagogue. The building was realized for an active community of Jews who are remembered by the town's people as productive shop owners, small traders, or involved in agricultural work.
Prem Doss Swami Doss Yehudi, wrote about a Jewish Malayalam folk song revealing that the wood used for the building of the synagogue in Mala was donated to Joseph Rabban in 1000 CE by the Rajah of Cranganore on behalf of his fellow Jews. Mala was then under the sovereignty of Cranganore, and the Rajah was said to have welcomed a diversity of faiths.
Yehudi also claims that the original early eleventh century synagogue was pulled down for an unspecified reason and a new building was erected in 1400, and it was, in turn, renovated in 1792. This is in conflict with the observations made by the Church of England missionary Rev. Thomas Dawson, who was stationed in Kochi beginning in 1817.

Current Status of Mala Jewish Synagogue

The keys to the former Mala Synagogue are in possession of the panchayat, or municipality, and all visitors must stop at its building on the edge of town to arrange access. The office staff is normally helpful in approving the visit and locating the keys, and in most cases someone accompanies guests to the synagogue.
In recent years, the Mala Synagogue building has been marginally at best maintained and rarely used. Since ownership of Mala’s synagogue passed to the municipality officially in 1955, the building and its grounds have been altered and, in part, extensively and even irrevocably compromised.
The synagogue’s tebah, heckal, and all furnishings and fittings were removed years ago and are now lost, although the balcony with its second tebah remains.
The platform seen near where the heckal was located is a post-1955 addition. In response to the growing interest among the public in Kerala’s Jewish history and its still functioning and former synagogues, modest renovation and repair work on the exterior of the synagogue has been scheduled to be carried out in late 2010 by the municipality, and the area along the long elevation of the building facing the street side is to be covered with paves to improve site conditions.

Mala Jewish Cemetery

Marked as a Jewish cemetery with a clear sign over the entrance gate in English the site is protected by the local authority; a framed black sign inside the gate lists the three trustees of the cemetery, from Chennamangalam and Ernakulum, who deeded and handed over the cemetery to the Mala Panchayat on April 1, 1955.
The cemetery is in two sections of land; in the first, there were three tomb stones - two were in the first section of open field, one was partly hidden under a cashew tree. The second section - at least twice as large - lies beyond the first on higher ground that is separated from the first by a stone wall, has no graves or tombstones.
A court edict, brought about by petition from the Ernakulum Jewish community, has kept the town from using this spacious part of the cemetery area for a play field. The cemetery is located in a central residential area of Mala and is flanked on either side by attractive residences.

How to Reach Mala Jewish Synagogue and Jewish Cemetery?

Mala Synagogue: It is in the heart of Mala Town. Mala Cemetery:It is visible from Mala Police Station and 250 meters away from Private Bus Station towards east.

Even though, they had left this place, the flowering memories of their lifestyle and the precious remnants of that era hold a special place in our hearts when we leave this place.

Mala Jews

Mala Jewish Monuments

Ban student politics if uncontrollable: HC

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KOCHI: If student politics can't be controlled to enable proper functioning of educational institutions, the state government should ban such politics, the high court said on Wednesday.

A division bench comprising chief justice Manjula Chellur and justice A M Shaffique said student protests that hamper the functioning of educational institutions are in violation of fundamental rights.

The court was considering a petition filed by N Prakashan, a student of Ernakulam Law College, alleging that college days were being lost due to continued and violent protests by Kerala Students Union (KSU).

Expressing shock at the violent protests in the law college, the court said right to education is a fundamental right and is part of right to life. In a democratic society, actions that violate such rights is violation of fundamental rights, the division bench pointed out.

Those who engage in strikes at colleges should know the rights of the others, who study in the same institutions. Education is aimed at preparing the students to become outstanding citizens, the court said.

The court also frowned at protests that included gheraoing the principal by stating that it is high time that such goondaism and vandalism were brought under control.

Further, the government was directed to ensure that normal functioning of educational institutions are not affected by activities of student unions. All necessary help should be extended by the government to the institutions, the court directed.