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This post is connected to a historic incident. It’s connected with Gandhiji’s assassination according to the sources we believe that Gandhiji uttered the word “Hey Ram” at the time of his death. But he didn’t utter such word at the time of his death says Gopal Godse the elder brother of the assassin Nathuram Godse. Gopal Godse was imprisoned for 18 years and now he is 80 years lives in a small apartment with his wife in pune. Still he is proud of the murder. Godse believed that the Mahatma, or great soul, was responsible for the 1947 partition of India and the creation of Pakistan. Godse and his friend Narayan Apte were hanged. His brother Gopal and two others were sentenced to life imprisonment for their part in the conspiracy. Here I present his recent interview to a leading journalist.

Journalist: What happened in January 1948?
Godse: On Jan. 20, Madanlal Pahwa exploded a bomb at Gandhi's prayer meeting in Delhi. It was 50 m away from Gandhi. [The other conspirators] all ran away from the place. Madanlal was caught there. Then there was a tension in our minds that we had to finish the task before the police caught us. Then Nathuram [Gopal's brother] took it on himself to do the thing. We only wanted destiny to help us -- meaning we should not be caught on the spot before he acted.
Journalist: Why did you want to kill Gandhi?
Godse: Gandhi was a hypocrite. Even after the massacre of the Hindus by the Muslims, he was happy. The more the massacres of the Hindus, the taller his flag of secularism.

Journalist: Did you ever see Gandhi?
Godse: Yes.

Journalist: Did you attend his meetings?
Godse: Yes.

Journalist: Can you explain how he created his mass following?
Godse: The credit goes to him for maneuvering the media. He captured the press. That was essential. How Gandhi walked, when he smiled, how he waved -- all these minor details that the people did not require were imposed upon them to create an atmosphere around Gandhi. And the more ignorant the masses, the more popular was Gandhi. So they always tried to keep the masses ignorant.

Journalist: But surely it takes more than good publicity to create a Gandhi?
Godse: There is another thing. Generally in the Indian masses, people are attracted toward saintism. Gandhi was shrewd to use his sainthood for politics. After his death the government used him. The government knew that he was an enemy of Hindus, but they wanted to show that he was a staunch Hindu. So the first act they did was to put "Hey Ram" into Gandhi's dead mouth.

Journalist: You mean that he did not say "Hey Ram" as he died?
Godse: No, he did not say it. You see, it was an automatic pistol. It had a magazine for nine bullets but there were actually seven at that time. And once you pull the trigger, within a second, all the seven bullets had passed. When these bullets pass through crucial points like the heart, consciousness is finished. You have no strength.

When Nathuram saw Gandhi was coming, he took out the pistol and folded his hands with the pistol inside it. There was one girl very close to Gandhi. He feared that he would hurt the girl. So he went forward and with his left hand pushed her aside and shot. It happened within one second. You see, there was a film and some Kingsley fellow had acted as Gandhi. Someone asked me whether Gandhi said, "Hey Ram." I said Kingsley did say it. But Gandhi did not. Because that was not a drama.

Journalist: Many people think Gandhi deserved to be nominated TIME's Person of the Century. [He was one of two runners-up, after Albert Einstein.]
Godse: I name him the cruelest person for Hindus in India. The cruelest person! That is how I term him.

Journalist: Is that why Gandhi had to die?
Godse: Yes. For months he was advising Hindus that they must never be angry with the Muslims. What sort of ahimsa (non-violence) is this? His principle of peace was bogus. In any free country, a person like him would be shot dead officially because he was encouraging the Muslims to kill Hindus.

Journalist: But his philosophy was of turning the other cheek. He felt one person had to stop the cycle of violence...
Godse: The world does not work that way.

Journalist: Is there anything that you admire about Gandhi?
Godse: Firstly, the mass awakening that Gandhi did. In our school days Gandhi was our idol. Secondly, he removed the fear of prison. He said it is different to go into prison for a theft and different to go in for Satyagraha (civil disobedience). As youngsters, we had our enthusiasm, but we needed some channel. We took Gandhi to be our channel. We don't repent for that.

Journalist: Did you not admire his principles of non-violence?
Godse: Non-violence is not a principle at all. He did not follow it. In politics you cannot follow non-violence. You cannot follow honesty. Every moment, you have to give a lie. Every moment you have to take a bullet in hand and kill someone. Why was he proved to be a hypocrite? Because he was in politics with his so-called principles. Is his non-violence followed anywhere? Not in the least. Nowhere.

Journalist: What was the most difficult thing about killing Gandhi?
Godse: The greatest hurdle before us was not that of giving up our lives or going to the gallows. It was that we would be condemned both by the government and by the public. Because the public had been kept in the dark about what harm Gandhi had done to the nation. How he had fooled them!

Journalist: Did the people condemn you?
Godse: Yes. People in general did. Because they had been kept ignorant.

1) In a restaurant:
OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, AND WEEKENDS TOO.

2) A sign seen on an automatic restroom hand dryer:
DO NOT ACTIVATE WITH WET HANDS.

3) In a maternity ward:
NO CHILDREN ALLOWED.

4) In a cemetery:
PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS
FROM ANY BUT THEIR OWN GRAVES.

5) Tokyo hotel’s rules and regulations:
GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE OR DO
OTHER DISGUSTING BEHAVIOURS IN BED.

Google has introduced a new mobile application for Nokia handset users it is they can search what they need in Google only by uttering it to get the information they need.

"The application is equipped with speech recognition technology to understand Indian accents. Its software enables users of Nokia S60 handsets to access information on the internet by voice search," said an official. Google India product head Vinay Goel said that "The downloadable application automatically detects the user's location and facilitates faster access to Google search." He also added that this mobile application software helps users to get match updates and also to locate nearest super market, hotels, malls through voice. Goel also revealed that "The extension of Google's search by voice feature to mobile handsets is a natural next step for our mobile strategy. Speech is one of our key innovations in the mobile space out of the India engineering centre," the new mobile application can be downloaded from www.m.google.co.in.

Yahoo! Geo cities won’t be available after 26^th October and it has informed its refugees to set up a new online homes. Yahoo! purchased this web hosting services for $3 billion at the height of dot- com boom. Initially it offered web hosting for just $5 for the first 12 months. Yahoo! Has taken this decision as a part of cost cutting measure it has helped yahoo in more than triple its net profit despite a 12 percent decline in revenue in its third quarter. One of the internet pioneer said in his message to Geocities site that “However, we have decided to focus on helping our customers explore and build relationships online in other ways”. Yahoo! Soared in its net profit over 244 percent in the quarter to $186 million or 13 cents per share, from $54 million or four cents per share. The performance was better than the expected because of the large cost cutting measures that were taken by Carol Bartz being named in January to replace Yahoo! Co founder jerry Yang as chief executive.

Now a days we people talk much about global warming in order to save our environment and to save our world. As a part of this awareness program there comes a new trend and it is called as “Green IT” it comprises of initiatives and strategies that reduce the environmental hazards of technology also provides the same quality of service. It concentrates more on the three major terms such as economic, ecological and social. As the techies consume more electronic gadgets in their work environment so the ecological balance is disturbed by them as they consume energies like electricity, fuel, paper and also includes hardware and also they are the major consumers of Air conditioner. The Green IT initiatives also produce cost savings in energy use, purchases, management and support, in addition to environmental benefits. Beyond cost savings and environmental benefits, some initiatives may address stakeholder and regulatory needs and demands. So lets this new revolution may be the stepping stone of a big revolution.