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03rd November- This is the day I was born few years( say decades!!) back and all these years I have been thinking this date as significant as 25th December or 02nd October ( May those holy, respected souls forgive me) by seeing a lot of friends,colleagues and relatives showering me with their wishes year after year in person,over phone and through Emails. Yesterday( 03rd November), I want to experiment on how true is this , changed my Birthday on my profile !! on all social networking sites( Facebook,LinkedIn) and waited what's happening.....Nothing happened- except few great souls around me who really feel the day is significance because "I "was born ( heights of Ego!!) has wished me and others who generally shower their wishes have forgotten in their daily chores. The underlying fact behind this is... 1. Gadgets and technology on networking , no doubt, bring people together and may remind us all the important days like a Birthday of your friend or yours.But you are ...

A couple of days back one of my virtual friend on the internet has posted a discussion on a social networking site-"Let us show our real name - Bharat to the world".I replied to him with my question "What are you trying to achieve by changing the name of your( our) country??". I wish he is not one among those superstitious Indians who is very badly affected by the Numerology mania which is an ongoing thing. I have couple of my friends who changed their names by adding/deleting few letters from their existing name believing it is going to bring them fortune or their existing name is the reason for all their misfortunes!!.My name has five"E"s and people often think it is such a numerological obsession- believe me it is purely for pronunciation reasons only and I am ready to have a change of name with the world's most horrible,unlucky numerological set up as I believe names are for identity and to avoid ambiguity rather than bringing luck or misfortune...