Avi speaks on love and romance in Hindi movies

Avi speaks on love and romance in Hindi movies

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Measuring Social Media Influence

You spend a lot of time and energy to promote your business on social media. But is your time and efforts are really worth this? That all depends on the visibility and sales that you generate by promoting your product or service online. In simple words, it all depends on your social media influence.

What is social media influence?

Your ability to command attention of people using social media and getting sales from them is your social media influence. Your influence depends of how efficiently and properly, you can use your social media make your product or service visible to people.

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Promoted Pins Arrive on Pinterest

When Facebook makes money with advertisements, how can Pinterest stay behind? There are promoted pins on Pinterest to enhance its revenue.

You heard it right! Pinterest has launched an advertising business to target its 46 million users. It is charging brands to place content on users’ “pinboards” much the way Facebook and Twitter allow businesses to pay to put their messages inside streams of updates from friends.

Pinterest is looking to earn the $2.5 billion valuation it received after its last financing round of $200 million.

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Monday, October 21, 2013

How Helpful Are Twitter Analytics

If you are the admin of a Facebook page, then you can see the analytics of that page in the “Insights” section of Admin Panel.

Similarly, now it is possible for checking analytics on Twitter. Earlier this privilege was available for Twitter ad customers only. The new facility is being rolled slowly and it is only a matter of time before it would be available for everyone.

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Facebook Merger Part 3 – Merging Facebook Place Page and Business Page

Among the great products launched by Facebook, Facebook Places has been one of the greatest. Facebook Places went live on 18 August, 2010.

It is a product for both local businesses and Facebook users alike, especially since the launch of Deals.

What is Facebook Places?

When a Facebook user checks in to a location using his/her iPhone, Android phone, BlackBerry or via touch.facebook.com, he/she is automatically connected to what is called a “Place Page” for that local business on Facebook.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Then And Now

I wrote this story for a story writing competition. Now I am sharing it on my blog.

DISCLAIMER – All characters in this story are fictitious. Any resemblance to those who are living or dead is purely coincidental.

My name is Vijay. Right now, I am doing the most difficult task in this world. That is to feed my 8-year-old son Jayesh so that he can finish his breakfast and go to school. My wife has gone to office.

“Arey beta! Kha le na! Taste toh kareke dekho!” I am telling him.

[TRANSLATION: Hey son! Just eat it! At least taste it!]

“Mujhe yeh achha nahin lagta hai!” Jayesh said in an agitating tone. This sentence made me recall my childhood memory.

[TRANSLATION: I don‘t like this!]

I was 7-years old. My mother had given me lunch comprising of chapatti, dal (pulses) and cooked brinjal. I was saying, “Mujhe yeh achha nahin lagta hai!”

[TRANSLATION: I don‘t like this!]

My mother took it and pushed it in my mouth saying, “Khao isko! Sab achha lagta hai!”

[TRANSLATION: Eat this! You like everything!]

I was angry. During my teen years, I used to recall that incident and laugh a lot.

Today, I know that my mother forced me to eat brinjal because it was good for health. But my little son does not understand that. Not his fault because even I did not understand that when I was of this age. What I do understand right now is that if my son goes to school without breakfast, he would faint during Morning Prayer and fall. Then teachers will call me and scold me for not giving proper breakfast to my son. How can I make him understand?

10 MINUTES LATER:

My son has somehow, finished his breakfast and he is ready to leave for school. But he is crying. He says, “I will not go to school! I will go to office where you go!” I am telling him, “Good boys go to school!”

“I am not a good boy!” He tells me. Now what can I say! Hey! I have a great idea! I tell him, “If you don‘t go to school, then in office, you will have a peon‘s job!”

Now Jayesh asks me, “Who is peon?”

I tell him, “Peon is the man who rings bell in the school!”

Jayesh says, “He is the only good man in the school! Had he been not there, neither madam will allow us to eat tiffin, nor she will allow us to go home! He rings bell to give us freedom!”

Again I am speechless. As a child, I also used to cry when I was being sent to school. My mother used to tell me, “He-Man also used to go to school!” I wanted to be like He-Man. Since that day, I never cried when I went to school.

Now I tell him, “Chhota Bheem also goes to school!” Jayesh said, “I never saw him going school!”

I tell him, “He goes to school when he is not on TV!”

Now, Jayesh realizes that why he does not see him on TV every time. He is ready to go to school.

In order to convince Jayesh do things that are good for him, I need to give him reasons that my mother gave me. Today, he is too young to understand. But years later, when he understands and recalls all this, both of us will laugh on these memories together.

Now kindly excuse me! I have drop Jayesh to school and then I will drive towards my office.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Facebook Merger Part 2 – Merging Facebook Profile With Existing Facebook Page

In our previous article in this series, we had described how the merger of personal Facebook page with a fan-page on Facebook could be done.

Now we will have a look at another aspect of merger where we merge a Facebook profile with an existing Facebook page.

Is it possible to add my Facebook friends as my page fans?

One of the simplest but most step-intensive, processes available to Business Owners on Facebook is the process of “rolling” a profile into an existing page.

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Monday, September 9, 2013

Facebook Introduces Embedded Posts

In an era where social media captured every aspect of our life, we all come across plug-ins that are related to some social-media platforms.

Given the fact that Facebook is popular enough to be a synonym for the term “social media”, one can expect many plug-ins targeting Facebook. The latest one is about embedded posts.

What does the “embedded posts plugin” do?

Embedded Posts is a social plugin that enables you to easily add public posts from Facebook to your blog or web site. At the time of this article being written, you can launch embedded Posts with Bleacher Report, CNN, Huffington Post, Mashable and PEOPLE. Soon a broader availability is expected.

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Image Source: Hail Katrina Hail Ileana on Facebook

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Reasons to Convert Your Facebook Business Profile Into Page

Have you ever come across profiles that have the name and images of a business organization (especially a logo as profile picture) instead of a real person? Some people may also receive friendship requests from such profiles.

There are various businesses that have profiles (instead of pages) on Facebook.

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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Faking The Fakes Part 5 - Identifying Fake LinkedIn Profiles

LinkedIn is a social network for professionals, intellectuals and educated people. That is why its reputation is high.

Today, the reputation of many people of LinkedIn can be at stake if they have a spammer or some profile in their network.

Does the menace of fake profile exist on LinkedIn too?

Yes! There are numerous fake profiles on LinkedIn as well. Their aim is to join the network of people and spread the spam messages in their news-feeds and clutter their message boxes with spam messages.

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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Faking The Fakes Part 4 – Identifying Fake Followers on Twitter

In the era of social media where the worth of a brand is determined on the basis of LIKES on Facebook or follows on Twitter, it is obvious that like Facebook, Twitter is also a hotbed for fake profiles.

There are cheats who take money and get twitter fake followers for a profile. Some people who want to trap people into some fraudulent deals often follow random people.

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Friday, August 16, 2013

Twitter Suggest Hashtags While Tweeting

As anything on social media goes viral, social networking websites need to introduce new features to impress users and stay viral (ahead of others) in competition.

After Facebook introduced Hashtags, something that was keeping Twitter ahead of Facebook and preferable over Facebook over social media advertising and marketing, Twitter has once again capitalized on hash tags, something that made it popular.

As noted by Livefyre’s Lead Social Strategist Nick Cicero, Twitter is offering suggested hashtags as you compose a tweet.

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Avi Introduces Dhwaja on India's Independence Day

Today is Independence Day of India. So I decided to share this story with a fabulous artwork.

On the request of my friend Ashutosh Singh Rajput, I am writing the origin story of Dhwaja (female Tiranga). This super-heroine Dhwaja is on an Earth where women are stronger than men.There society sees women as more important than men.

DISCLAIMER 1 - Tiranga is a trademark of Raj Comics. Created by Raj Comics. Creators are Sanjay Gupta, Tarun Kumar Vahi and Dileep Chaubey.

DISCLAIMER 2 - This is only a fan-fiction, written only for the entertainment of comic-book lovers like me.

DISCLAIMER 3 - All characters in this story fictitious. Any resemblance to those who are living or dead is co-incidental.

DISCLAIMER 4 - The characters of this story have not been created to hurt the sentiments of any community. These characters are purely fictitious.

DISCLAIMER 5 - This story is for mature readers. If you are a prude and get shocked by violence, please do not read beyond this point.

Female version of Tiranga created by Ashutosh Singh Rajput. Story by Avijit Misra a.k.a. Avi Rapstar

Aabha was a young lawyer. She was born in a world (a parallel Earth) where women were more important than men. They were also physically stronger than men. The most important super-heroine in this world was Nagrani. Aabha wanted to be that in the field of law what Nagrani was in the field of crime-fighting. She wanted to win a big case. So she took businesswoman Ratna Daga to court, accusing her of ignoring environmental laws while carrying out production in her factories.

However, Ratna Daga won the case due to money power. Aabha realized that she needed to find concrete evidence. She started investigating Ratna, secretly. Later, she found that Ratna was secretly manufacturing a biological weapon with the help of Sarani which she intended to sell to Pakistan (of that Earth). Abha secretly went into the factory to investigate and she saw Sarani there. Sarani was a wanted criminal and she was on the run. Thus, it was surprising to see that Ratna Daga was giving shelter to Sarani.

(The crime that Sarani was wanted for has been described in Foonkaar (Nagraj Series) when Sarani was talking to her gang in Shell Jail.)

Aabha took pictures with a camera.

However, she made some mistake because of which panic struck the factory. It caused an explosion which killed many laborers. Sarani had escaped the factory. Aabha felt sad as she considered herself responsible for the death of laborers. Ratna Daga got the incident dismissed as an accident. She offered compensation to the families of victims. Aabha was sad to see that police was not interested in investigating the case.

Later, Sarani was captured by Nagrani. Aabha argued the case on behalf of prosecution in court and sent Sarani to jail.

(Sarani‘s arrest would be followed by her escape that was shown in Foonkaar.)

However, later Aabha learnt that Sarani had created the biological weapon. So to save her country, she donned a costume on the basis of national flag, complimented with a mask. Calling herself Dhwaja, she investigated and found out Ratna‘s plans. She foiled the deal between Pakistani terrorists and Ratna as Ratna wanted to sell the biological weapon to Pakistan. This time, Dhwaja succeeded in getting Ratna arrested. The weapon was confiscated by Indian government.

Aabha decided to continue her life as Dhwaja to investigate crimes and gather evidence and use that evidence in court as Aabha to get the criminals sentenced.

I hope you enjoyed this story. Please post your comments and observations.

Image Courtesy: Ashutosh Singh Rajput

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Fake Number Of YouTube Views Can Spell Trouble For You

In our Faking The Fakes series, we explained how fakes LIKES on Facebook and fake follows on Twitter can damage your ranking as well as reputation.

We also explained that on LinkedIn, you can go through the headache of seeing spam links in your Inbox if you allow fake profiles to join your network. When the menace of fakes can haunt three biggest social networks, it only grows big when it creeps into YouTube in the form of fake views.

Does the concept of fake views on YouTube exist?

Of course it does! It exists as much as you and us. There are fraudulent ways to increase the number of views on YouTube.

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Faking The Fakes Part 3 – Identifying Fake Profiles on Facebook

In the previous article of this series, we told you how to find out if a Facebook page was buying LIKES. We also explained how such fake LIKES destroy the credibility of page.

Security firm Barracuda Networks has explored the menace of fake profiles in a study titled “Facebook: Fake Profiles vs. Real Users.”

What did the study say about the fake profiles on Facebook?

The study analyzed a random sampling of 2,884 active Facebook accounts to identify key differences between average real user accounts and fake accounts created by attackers and spammers.

Results of the studies:

1. Almost 60 percent of fake accounts claim to be bisexual. That is 10 times more than real users.

2. Fake accounts have six times more friends than real users. They may have 726 friends while average real users on Facebook have 130 friends.

3. Fake accounts use photo tags over 100 times more than real users, 136 tags per four photos versus one tag per four photos.

4. Fake accounts almost always (97 percent) claim to be female, as opposed to 40 percent for real users. This would encourage lonely boys to send them friendship requests and enlarge their network of spam receivers.

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Monday, August 12, 2013

Using Twitter Lead Generation Card With MailChimp

In an earlier previous blog post, I explained the concept of Twitter Lead Generation Card and the procedure to create it as well as use it.

Now, as we promised, we are back again, this time, with an easy procedure of using Lead Generation Card from Twitter with MailChimp. Using Lead Generation Card will MailChimp is really easy.

To connect to your Lead Generation Card to your MailChimp account:

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Faking The Fakes Part 2 – Identifying Fake LIKES on a Facebook Page

Among social media, Facebook is one of the greatest platforms on cyberspace. Anything on Facebook grabs a lot of eyeballs.

People highlight serious issues on Facebook to draw the attention of people. Politicians in uncivilized countries try to ban Facebook which is a tool for social activists there that can be used to expose corruption.

Thus, it is obvious that Facebook would be targeted by unscrupulous people who set up fake profiles on Facebook for unscrupulous activities.

In the second article of this series, we will discuss how to find the number of Fake LIKES on a Facebook page?

Why fake profiles are made on Facebook?

Some people are willing to risk their reputation, integrity, ethics, trust, clients and relationships for a few hundred or tens of thousands fake Facebook fans.

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

New Video Feature Arrives On Instagram

With the popularity of websites like YouTube and Dailymotion, posting and sharing videos on social media has become a fashion.

Two hot apps for posting are Instagram with Facebook and Vine with Twitter. Recently, Vine introduced the feature of sharing videos and that has now prompted Instagram to follow the suit.

Facebook acquired Instagram for $1billion in April 2012. According to Instagram, it has 100 million monthly active users and 40 million photos are uploaded to the app daily.

Now users will also use it to upload videos.

Is bandwagon rivalry important?

Among all the apps at Apple‘s app store, Vine is among highest ranking apps. According to Topsy Analytics, Vine is the No. 3 iOS app used this month while Instagram is No. 21. Instagram has more than 100 million active members while Vine has 13 million.

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Monday, July 1, 2013

Hashtags Come To Facebook

After ruling Twitter, Google Plus and Instagram, Hashtags are here to rule Facebook.

Now Facebook can tap into the marketing dollars that have been flowing into hashtag-focused campaigns.

Arrival of Hashtags:

The buzz of hashtags coming to Facebook had started in March 2013. Finally, they are here.

Facebook said:

Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook. Similar to other services like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, hashtags on Facebook allow you to add context to a post or indicate that it is part of a larger discussion. When you click on a hashtag in Facebook, you’ll see a feed of what other people and Pages are saying about that event or topic.

Why introduce hashtags now?

Greg Lindley, a Facebook product manager, wrote in the blog post:

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Faking the Fakes Part 1 – Concept of Fake Profiles

On social media, there are lots of fake profiles on various platforms. These profiles are used for a number of purposes. Sometimes this is done to create impression of a social media page or a blog having high popularity.

Sometimes, it is done to create comments and LIKES to show that the page does have active participation from members. Sometimes, it is done to post spam links.

For many such purposes, innumerable fake profiles are created on different platforms of social media and they spread all over cyberspace. Thus, in this series of “Faking the fakes” we are going to explore various aspects of the fakers in virtual world.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Now Easily Search And Find Your Pins On Pinterest

On Pinterest, everyday you pin many pictures. It is a known fact that Pinterest generates more traffic than Facebook.

This is the reason that everyday thousands of people pin and repin millions of pictures on Pinterest. Thus, when you try to find some favorite or important pin of yours, sometimes it is difficult and time consuming. Therefore, now Pinterest is ready to help you with a new update.

New update from Pinterest introduces user-friendly pin-search:

A new feature has updated the list of fabulous things that Pinterest offers. Previously, users had to just shift through what could be hundreds of images in one board.

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Monday, June 17, 2013

Facebook Introduces Verified Pages & Profiles

In 2007, when MySpace was the most popular Social Networking website in North America and Europe, a lot of profiles and groups were being created on the names of celebrities by fans on this network.

Some fans added disclaimers on Homepage, saying that they were not affiliated with the celebrity to who the profile and group was dedicated to. However, some fans posed as the celebrity on whose name they created the profile.

Why did the need for profile verification arise?

In October 2007, many celebrities objected to the fake profiles on their names and thus, MySpace prepared a list of celebrities (starting with official profiles of WWE Superstars) that were confirmed by officials and Superstars. Celebrities started getting their profiles verified by MySpace.

This is how, the concept of verified profiles, pages and groups started.

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Avi Enjoys new Superman movie - MAN OF STEEL

Today, I saw MAN OF STEEL. Loved the story. I will give it 10/10.

However, in cast, I feel that there were many characters whose Smallville characters were better. For example, Erica Durance made a better Lois Lane than Amy Adams. Amy Adams did not change a bit. It seems that she has not aged at all since 2001 when she appeared in Smallville episode "Craving". Henry Cavill has a great voice. But in terms of appearance, I would have still preferred Tom Welling.

And Callum Blue made a better Zod than Michael Shennon. Same thing goes for Dr. Emil Hamilton.

In the credits, instead of crediting Jonathan Nolan, WB credited Christopher Nolan with David S Goyer. Perhaps they feel that Christopher is a bigger brand than Jonathan.

The only character whose MAN OF STEEL version was better than Smallville version is Faora.

Also, I am surprised to see that there was no Jimmy Olsen in this movie. Producers forgot that he is an important character of Superman comics.

Usually in movies, the lead heroine is the hottest looking character. But instead of Lois Lane, Ayelet Zurer (Lara Lor-Von) and Antje Traue (Faora) were the hottest females in the movie.

Zack Snyder did an awesome job as director in this movie but in my opinion, the best Zack Snyder movie is still Watchmen.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

26/11 - One Year Later (Fan-Fiction)

I wrote this story, in 2009. Shared it on Orkut and Raj Comics website for friends, and I also showed it to Sanjay Gupta, the head of Raj Comics Creative Team. So do not try to claim this story as your own. Later, the forum of Raj Comics website went down and my friends could not read it there. Therefore, I decided to share it on Facebook, so that those who could not read it on Raj Comics website can read it here. Hope you guys enjoy it.

In Halla Bol, there were alternate versions of Nagraj and Doga who were known as Narak Nashak Nagraj and Dana Dan Doga. This puts an element of fantasy in the realistic storyline. I have written a realistic sequel to Raj Comics' story 26/11. But before I begin, this is a disclaimer:

DISCLAIMER: The characters and incidents depicted in this story are fictional with no resemblance to real people, living or dead. Any resemblance to those who are living or dead is purely co-incidental. The characters of this story have not been created with the intentions of hurting the sentiments of any community. These characters are purely fictitious. Nagraj and Doga are the trademarks of Raj Comics. This story is meant for pure entertainment and not for any commerical purpose.

Now, Here the sequel (my story) begins----

In media, there was news about the arrest of American terrorists of Pak origin who were identified as Saud Gilani a.k.a. David Dudley and Tahir Rana. They were planning a series of terrorist attacks in India and Denmark. A CBI team from India left for USA to interrogate them but were denied access to them as US laws do not allow foreign agencies to interrogate terrorists arrested in USA.

FBI shared info with Indian government that Gilani had acquired the name David Dudley to hide his criminal record and get Indian visa. FBI's investigations further revealed that Rana and Dudley had visited India on various occasions to know about Indian cities and Mumbai and Pune were on their radar where they had also tried to recruit people for future terror strikes.

Nagraj reached USA. This time, Senior FBI officer Perry Carlton welcomed him with open arms. Officer Julia was happy to see Nagraj again.

(DISCLAIMER: In order to know about Julia and Perry Carlton, read "Zahreela Barood".)

Americans were not very keen to share the intelligence with CBI but they knew that they could trust Nagraj whole-heartedly. After all, he had saved America from Bomber.

Nagraj hypnotized Dudley and Rana who told him about the plans of terrorist strikes in Denmark and India.

At an unknown location, a man who was a key figure in the terror network Dudley and Rana worked for, was spitting fire to his Jihadis, "Gilani (Dudley) and Rana have turned traitors! They told FBI about our activities! The traitors who go against the spirit of Jihad and succumb to the pressure of kafirs deserve death sentence! My farmaan (order) of their death should be executed soon! You have to carry out a suicide attack on the building of FBI headquarters! Your plan is to enter the building, fire some gunshots and then blow up the bombs tied on your bodies!"

Jihadis chanted in chorus, "Insha Allah, we will punish Rana and Gilani (Dudley) and their punishment would be a lesson for all traitors and Kafirs!"

Terrorists drove to the building of FBI headquarters in two vans. One van halted at a distance and the other went closer. Terrorists came out of the van that had stopped at a distance from FBI HQ building. Firing gunshots, they ran towards the buildings. Nagraj was present at FBI HQ but unfortunate terrorists did not know that.

From the roof of building, Nagraj jumped and came swinging on the snake rope. Terrorists who were running with guns in their hands saw him coming. The sight of Nagraj made them stand still and forget about their mission. They realized their mission when one of them received a kick on his chin from Nagraj. They started shooting at Nagraj but bullets could not harm Nagraj. One terrorist had a rocket launcher. He shot a rocket on Nagraj grabbed the rocket with his snake rope and hit the rocket on the van (one close to FBI HQ) in which terrorists had arrived.

Van exploded with the rocket. Terrorists still near the van got thrown in the air due to explosion.

Nagraj punched the other terrorists on the face, making them drop the guns. Nagfani snakes appeared out of his wrists and he scratched the faces of terrorists with them. Punching one terrorist on the nose, Nagraj said, "Feel this pain! Mahsoos karo jab dard hota hai to kaisa lagta hai! Kai Maasoomon ko tumne yeh dard diya hai! Ab samjho unka dard!"

(TRANSLATION: Feel this pain! Experience how physical injury hurts! You have given pain to many innocents! Now feel their pain.)

Nagraj grabbed him and broke his neck by twisting it. He shot Nagfani snakes that started cutting the explosive belts tied around their chests or waists which the terrorists intended of using to blow themselves up after entering the building of FBI HQ. Nagraj took all the belts in his possession. His snakes flew and bit the terrorists, killing them instantly.

Seeing Nagraj, terrorists in the other van were puzzled. One of them said, "Now we can not stay here! We should drive away so that at least, the second part of our mission is not compromised ! The mission to kill Dudley and Rana!"

The second van drove away towards the Federal Prison where Dudley and Rana were lodged. Nagraj chased the van, taking a swing on snake rope. By now, the security guards of FBI HQ had taken the bomb-belts in their possession.

The van was few minutes away from Federal Prison and the driver could the see the building of Federal Prison. Nagraj shot Nagfani snakes from his wrists and tyres of van got scratched by the spikes of snakes. With flat tyres, van got thrown in the air for a moment and fall down.

Terrorists inside the van were hurt. One of them shouted “Zulfikaar! Nagraj ko rok! Hum Dudley aur Rana ko dhoondh kar dozakh panhucha denge!"

TRANSLATION: Zulfikaar! Stop Nagraj! We will find Dudley and send them to hell!)

Zulfikaar jumped out and started shooting at Nagraj. Nagraj evaded the bullets and kicked Zulfikaar on the chin and made him drop the gun.

He saw other terrorists running towards the Federal Prison. He shot snakes that bit them.

Seeing his allies dieing, Zulfikaar was almost mad. He took out his hair-pins and started throwing them on Nagraj. He said, "Zulfikaar ki zulfon main chhipe zahar se koi nahin bachta, Nagraj!"

TRANSLATION: Nagraj! Nobody escapes the venom hidden in the zulf (hair-strands) of Zulfikaar!)

Hair-pins laced with potassium cyanide pierced the chest of Nagraj. Nagraj was still standing and smiling. He punched Zulfikaar on the jaw and said, "Mera naam "Koi" nahin, Nagraj hai! Aatank-harta Nagraj!"

TRANSLATION: My name is not "Koi" (somebody)! My name is Nagraj! Destroyer of terrorism Nagraj)

Zulfikaar's jaw broke, blood was oozing and five teeth had fallen on the ground. Seeing his four dead allies, Nagraj said, "Five terrorists! Five teeth!"

Nagraj did not kill Zulfikaar. He hypnotised Zulfikaar and learnt about his allies and the ringleader of his organization in USA. He learnt that a big terror strike was about to happen in Denmark. Zulfikaar said that someone was going to die. Nagraj shared the info with FBI and FBI acted swiftly on the info of Nagraj and arrested many of their allies in USA. Carlton promised to stay in touch and promised to share new info with Nagraj.

Nagraj left for Denmark.

In USA, during interrogation, Dudly mentioned the name of a Bollywood personality called Nakul which was not known to anybody. FBI contacted NIA for the details of this personality but NIA had nothing on him. Based on the tip, the NIA started investigating and learnt that Nakul who was the son of Film Producer Brajesh Bhatt was also working as a trainer in a gym in Mumbai which was frequented by Dudley during his stay in Mumbai. It also emerged that Nakul had developed friendship with Dudley and has also shown him around Mumbai.

Ilyaas, a former trainer in that gym told a news channel that he was the trainer of Dudley when he used to visit that gym. He had introduced Dudley to Nakul. Later, some unknown criminals surrounded him when he was going home.

Ilyaas was shocked. Their leader Ballu choked Ilyaas and put a gun on his forehead saying, "Bahut bhaunk raha tha TV par! Ab khuda ko yaad karke bol Tata!"

[TRANSLATION: You were barking a lot on TV! Now think about God and say tata (bye bye)]

Ballu tightened his grip and started choking Ilyaas, "Kyon? Ab kyon nahin bol riya hai? Zubaan par chhaala pad gayo? Gale mei maindhak ghus gaya kya?" he asked.

TRANSLATION: What now? Why are you not speaking? Got blisters on your tongue? Or is there a frog in your throat?)

Other goons laughed. Just then, Ballu received a gunshot on his shoulder. His goons saw Doga coming out of a dark lane. One of them shouted “Ballu Bhai! Aadam Kutta!"

TRANSLATION: Ballu brother (boss)! Human dog is here!)

Doga punched the goons shot them. Two criminals whipped out knives and ran towards Doga to stab him from behind. But Doga fired two gunshots in their directions without turning back and one goon got hit by the bullet on his throat. Other got hit on his forehead. Both of them died instantly.

Doga grabbed Ballu's throat and started choking him. He said, "Ab bol... Ab bol! Apne gadhon ke saamne to bahut dhenchu dhenchu kar raha tha! Zubaan par chhaala pad gayo? Gale mei maindhak ghus gaya kya? Ab iss bandook ki naal mei jhaank aur bol, Tata!"

[TRANSLATION: Speak up... speak up now! Like a donkey, you were braying in front of your donkeys! Got blisters on your tongue? Or is there a frog in your throat? Now peep into the barral of this gun and see tata (bye bye)]

Ballu looking in the barrel pointed on his left eye by Doga, said, "Ta..." *BANG*

Doga had shot on the left eye of Ballu, killing him. Bullet had also passed through Ballu‘s skull. Not just eye.

Ilyaas thanked Doga for saving his life. He told Doga that Nakul had introduced Dudley to Bollywood actor Rehaan Hashmi. Acting on the information NIA interrogated Nakul Bhatt and Rehaan Hashmi. Nakul admitted that he knew David Dudley but Hashmi denied any association with Dudley.

Doga went to the house Nakul Bhatt. Nakul's body-guards attacked Doga and Doga bashed up all of them. Nakul was scared to see that. Doga interrogated him in an intimidating style. He asked him, "How did you know Dudley? What are plans about sponsoring terrorist attacks in India?"

Doga placed a gun on the forehead of Nakul. Nakul denied about knowing anything related to Dudley's terror links. Pleading for mercy, he kept on saying, "I don't know anything!" Doga left but not before telling Nakul that he would return if he found Nakul to be lying. He said, "My return would not be good for your health!"

Doga went to the house of actor Rehaan Hashmi. He did not face attack or problem from Hashmi's guards and Hashmi politely co-operated with Doga during interrogation. Doga left.

Next day, Monika stubbornly asked Suraj to take him for the new movie "Hum Mile" starring Rehaan Hashmi. Suraj wondered why Monika wanted to watch that movie. Monika said, "I want to spend time with you! I would watch any movie with you!"

The hall screening the movie was suddenly vandalized by workers of a political party. They declared Nakul Bhatt a "terrorist" and said that they would not allow the screening of a movie that was produced by "terrorist's father". Suraj sneaked into a dark corner and blew his dog-whistle. He returned as Doga and bashed up the activists saying, "Tumhe deshbhakti ke naam par goondagardi aur araajakta nahin failaane dega Doga!"

(TRANSLATION: Doga will let you indulge in hooliganism that you are terming as nationalism.)

Meanwhile, in Denmark, Nagraj was in touch with police department of Copenhagen. He had spread his snakes in various areas of Denmark and police department had told him about the office of a newspaper that was on the hitlist of terrorists.

Nagraj received a telepathic message from his snake watching over the office of that newspaper. He arrived there just in time and fought with terrorists killing them. Later the editor of newspaper told him that few years ago, their newspaper had published a cartoon that invited the outcry of certain people who vowed to kill the people associated with the newspaper. Cops arriving at the scene immediately recognized many of the dead terrorists and said that those terrorists came to Denmark by seeking asylum and they were planning to regroup Al Faida group. Nagraj recalled the killing of Al Faida leader Khameera Khan by Doga years ago. Many super-heroes and even some super-villains had helped Doga in destroying the terrorist camps of Khameera Khan. Al Faida had issued threats to attack that newspaper in past.

(DISCLAIMER: In order to know about Khameera Khan and Al Faida, read Pakistan Zindabad.)

Nagraj recalled that Zulfikaar, a terrorist in USA had told him that someone would die. Nagraj wondered who could that be. Just then he recalled that terrorists wanted to destroy the building of newspaper and kill staff members because of a cartoon. So the cartoonist could be the one who would die. Nagraj took the address of that cartoonist from newspaper editor and swung on snake rope. He was right. A criminal from an African country had reached the house of cartoonist with an axe. The cartoonist was hiding in the bathroom. The assassin broke the front door and entered the house. He broke the door of a room and was welcomed by Nagraj who kicked him on the face. Nagraj had entered the house through a bedroom window by splitting his body into atoms.

Giving him the next punch on the nose, Nagraj said, "If you did not like the cartoon, you could simply ignore it or file a lawsuit against the cartoonist or demand his arrest by filing a police complaint on the charge of hurting your sentiments! But killing is not right!" Criminal said, "I have come to punish someone who asked for the hatred of people like me! I am proud to be a Jihadi and I will be rewarded by Al Faida and Allah after I kill this Kafir!"

Nagraj, scratching his face with Nagfani snake, said, "By feeling proud to be Jihadi, you are bringing disgrace to your religion and insulting it! Your religion is a religion of peace but it is being used by your bosses who are misguiding people like you! You are also maligning your community and your country with your act of attempting a murder in a foreign country! You are hurting a country that gave asylum to save you from the chaos in your country! A country that gave you the right to live a dignified life! A country that did not impose its religion on you!"

Soon the Police arrived and took away the criminal.

The criminal was not a professional terrorist and police confirmed that he did not have any criminal record, prior to his act of attempting to murder the cartoonist. Criminal told Nagraj, "You bloody Indian! You better go to India and save Mumbai!"

Nagraj a bit surprised asked, "Why?" Criminal told Nagraj about the alliance of Lashkar-E-Aaka and Al Faida. He told him that four days later, there would be another terrorist strike in Mumbai on 26 Nov 2009 to mark the first anniversary of 26/11. Nagraj had very little time to act.

He contacted Doga on a transmitter on the frequency of Brahmaand Rakshak to tell him about the next attack.

In Mumbai, international wrestling superstar The Great Bali had arrived to participate in a Peace March to pay tribute to those brave soldiers and cops who laid down their lives to save the innocent people in the Mumbai attacks. He had a huge fan-following in India because he was the first Indian to win the world title in the biggest wrestling promotion in USA. There had been some American and Canadian wrestlers of Indian origin (born to Indian parents) but he was the first to be born in India to make it big in American wrestling.

The Great Bali criticized Indian government for failing to curb terrorism and punish Kasai, the lone surviving terrorist of 26/11. He was applauded by people when he said that he would kill Kasai if he had his way.

Some agents of Lashkar-E-Aaka had plans to disrupt Peace March. They opened fire at people and tried to kill Bali. Just then Doga came there opened fire on them with his machine-gun. While shooting them, he said, "Nihatti bheed par goliyaan chalaane wale haivaanon! Ahinsak janta ka khoon bahakar Mumbai ko ek doosra jaliaanwaala banane nahin dega Doga! Pichhle saal tumhaare Lahori aur Multani ne mujhe 150 se bhi zyaada zakhm diye the kyonki kisi nirdosh ke jism par pada zakhm Doga ki rooh par padta hai! Aaj usse zyaada zakhmon aur goliyon se bhar jaayega tumhaara ye badzaat jism!"

(TRANSLATION: Evil demons firing at innocent crowd! Doga will not let you indulge in the blood shed of inncoent people! He would not let you make Mumbai another Jaliaanwala! Last year, your Lahori and Mulatani gave me more than 150 wounds because the wound on the body of any innocent person is a wound on the soul of Doga! Today, your bodies would be filled with more than those wounds and bullets!)

One terrorist recognized Doga and said, "Yeh to vahi kutta hai jisne Pakistan main ISI Chief Mashroof sahab ko ghoonsa maara tha!"

(TRANSLATION: This is the same dog who punched ISI Chief Mashroof Sir!)

(DISCLAIMER: Read "Doga Hamain Do" and "Ghoonsa Hindustani" to know about that.)

Within two minutes, all terrorists were shot dead by Doga.

The Great Bali said, "Maan gaye Doga! Log mujhe hero samajhte hain par asli hero to tum ho!"

(TRANSLATION: Wow Doga! People consider me a hero but you are the real hero!)

Doga walked away without saying anything. Though, he wished to tell Bali that he was also a wrestling fan as his physique was similar to a Wrestling superstar.

Doga told his dogs to stay alert as new terror strike was going to take place in Mumbai.

According to newspaper reports (in real life), even after 26/11, Indian government or Maharashtra government have not taken enough steps to ensure the safety in the sea and security checks on sea-ports. It was 26 Nov 2009 and on a sea port of Mumbai, some terrorists had landed once again on the land of Mumbai. They were walking but were stopped by Doga. Doga's dogs had sniffed guns and explosives with them and told Doga. Doga killed them.

After receiving a gunshot on stomach, one of them said that he and his allies were just decoys to distract Doga. Real danger was in Mumbai itself as this time, the local agents of Lashkar-E-Aaka would be carrying out terror strike. The dieing terrorist said, "A team of Pakistani terrorists from Italy would have arrived in Mumbai by now to aid them."

Doga asked him, "How did they plan to arrive?"

Terrorist laughed and said in a language that had many Hindi and Arabic words, “They came by plane! To mock your security and take advantage of your security lapses which are common! They obtained proper visas to arrive in India, just the way, Dudley and Rana had obtained when they came to India to recruit terrorists! Even your Union Minister says that granting visa to them was a security lapse! Smuggling weapons was also easy as they had boarded a Pakistan based flight in which weapons were kept for them! They came to Italy airport unarmed and boarded the charted flight in which weapons were kept! Now you will see how India would pay for such security lapse! Indian missions abroad don't even verify the address given by visa applicants and it is easy to fool them! Pakistan Zindabad!"

(DISCLAIMER: The statement about Indian missions abroad not verifying addresses is on the basis of the real-life news report published in the Pune Edition of Times Of India, dated 24 Nov 2009.)

Doga shot that terrorist on the head and headed for Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport to find the terrorists. However, he did not need to find them as terrorists had ALREADY unleashed chaos on airport. They had killed many people, took many members of airport staff as hostage and had taken control of an Air India plane that they intended to fly over Mumbai and bring a rain of bombs and hand-grenades on the economic capital of India.

They had also taken hostages in the plane so that police or military would not dare blow up that plane or fire on it. Some Indian terrorists in Mumbai who worked for the Lashkar-E-Aaka attacked the house of Mumbai mayor and shot the security staff. Security guards had outdated weapons as Indian laws (in real life) allow only armed forces to possess latest technology weapons. Security guards were no match for terrorists as terrorists had latest technology weapons provided by Pak and Chinese government.

Terrorists brought mayor to the plane and held him hostage there. At the Airport Doga needed to plan a strategy before attacking the terrorists at as they were holding hostages in different offices and cabins of airport. The plane controlled by terrorists had already taken off.

Terrorists also had rocket launchers. In control room, they threatened to blow up any plane that landed on the runway of airport.

Nagraj was still in a plane from Denmark and the plane could not land on International Airport. State Government issued the order that the plane should stay in air for some time.

The plane was still in air but Nagraj could not wait to get his hands on terrorists. So he jumped with his snake-parachute from that plane. Nagraj was on the runway and he knew that terrorists would start killing hostages if he tried to enter the airport. So hiding himself in the parachute, he brought out Nagu who used his diamond to transform himself into Nagraj. Real Nagraj transformed himself into a snake and joined the snakes forming the parachute.

Terrorists saw fake Nagraj (Nagu) landing with parachute. Snakes forming parachute spread on the runway and formed a circle around Nagraj (Nagu). Real Nagraj sneaked away in snake form. Terrorists warned "Nagraj" to stay at the point he was standing. Real Nagraj saw a window. He split his body into atoms and reached inside the airport through that window. He spread his snakes around the airport and received a telepathic message that Doga was near the airport. Nagraj sent a shape-shifting snake to Doga who told Doga to enter airport within 40 seconds. Nagraj puffed huge amount of his venomous vapor that covered many security cameras of airports. He also sent some more shape-shifting snakes out of his body to puff vapor on more cameras. Within 10 seconds, all security cameras had been blurred by venomous vapor.

Doga sneaked in. His filter had saved him whenever he passed from a point where he was very close to security camera. But most cameras were on a height and Nagraj and his snakes had puffed venomous vapor only on the lens of cameras.

Doga requested Nagraj to save the hostages in the plane whose pilot was flying the plane on gunpoint. Doga was sure that he would defeat terrorists on the airport. Nagraj left but told some of his shape-shifting snakes to help Doga whenever there was a need to blur a camera.

Nagraj spread his snakes in Mumbai and told them to trace the plane and immediately inform him the location of plane.

Meanwhile, the terrorists in the plane had ordered State Government to release Kasai or else, the "bomb-rain" would continue. They threw some hand-grenades from plane on some streets of Mumbai. The plane was not flying high and thus, grenades reached the Earth surface by the time they exploded.

Meanwhile, at the airport, Doga fought with terrorists and killed them with his pistol. Some terrorists shot at him but he was quick enough to take out knife and cut the bullets in the air, just the way, he had chopped the bullets shot at him by politician Amar Tripathi.

(DISCLAIMER: Read "Doga Neeti" to know about that.)

The masked leader of terrorists was in the control-room. Doga broke the door and barged in. The leader of terrorists pointed a gun on Doga but Doga was swift enough to shoot and injure his right hand in which he was holding the gun. Doga punched hard on his face and his kick made the leader fall down. Doga removed the mask and said, "Oh! Pakistani actor Junaid Shaikh! So you were the leader of these terrorists! You came to India make a name for yourself in Bollywood! You succeeded when you played actor Sahir Khan's father in the film "Om"! I should have known about your involvement as your association with Videsh Films, the company of Brajesh Bhatt is well known! Now you better start barking and tell your plan!"

Junaid Shaikh said, "You are right! I came to India but my real purpose was to recruit youth and strengthen the network of Lashkar-E-Aaka in India and mark the anniversary of 26/11 with another tragedy! When David Dudley and Nakul Bhatt became friends, they met me because Dudley knew the real purpose of my stay in India! I came to know Nakul Bhatt and Brajesh Bhatt when I worked with Rehaan Hashmi in a film based on cricket match-fixing in which I played an underworld don who wanted the fixing of World Cup! Brajesh Bhatt and Rehaan are innocent. Nakul does not have any association with Lashkar-E-Aaka but it was his bad luck that he became the friend of David Dudley! His security guards had attacked you because I had instigated him to issue such orders! Actually I had sent men to kill Ilyaas because he was the one who told media about the friendship of David Dudley and Nakul Bhatt! But you saved him! But now, just try save Mumbai if you can! As the plane would have dropped bombs in various areas and streets! Ha Ha!"

Doga shot Junaid Shaikh and killed him. He sent a message to Mantralaya, the office of Chief Minister that Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport was now safe from terrorists as all terrorists had been killed. All shape-shifting snakes at airport, met Nagu who had now regained his real appearance. Nagu said, "Now my diamond will trace Nagraj and teleport us to the place where he is! And we will also take all those snakes who had formed the parachute for Nagraj!" Doga called his dogs to find the position of plane. One dog saw the plane and started barking. Other dog heard it and barked. Third dog on a different road heard the bark and barked the message to the fourth dog. Message reached Doga after passing through "dog-chain". Doga headed to aid Nagraj.

When Chief Minister received the news of airport being saved by Doga before the arrival of police, he was convinced that Doga and Nagraj will save Mumbai! He ordered police not to release Kasai!

The conversation between Doga and Junaid Shaikh had got recorded in the tape of a security camera installed in the control room. Doga took out the tape and contacted Cheetah on a transmitter that Batman uses to contact Oracle a.k.a. First Batgirl a.k.a Barbara Gordon. He told Cheetah to meet him as soon as possible and make copies of that tape. One copy should go to police and other copies to news channels as this tape could prove that Brajesh Bhatt and Rehaan Hashmi were innocent. Tape was necessary to nail Nakul and show the real face of Junaid Shaikh.

Terrorists in the plane heard the news of their allies on airport killed by Doga. With government's refusal to release Kasai and the presence of Nagraj in Mumbai, their morale had to go down! The stock of their explosives was also getting over! Now they decided to become martyrs and crash the plane by colliding it with the building of Bombay Stock Exchange that would hit Indian economy hard and make Mumbai lose its mayor who was hostage in the plane! On gunpoint, they forced the pilot to fly towards the building of Bombay Stock Exchange. One of them said, "Maarenge! Aur mar jaayenge! Khuda ke bande kehlaayenge! Hum jannat main jaayege! Bark-ul-Jihad ki aag main Mumbai ko jalakar Duniya ko ek doosra 9/11 dikhaange!"

(TRANSLATION: We will kill and we will die! We will be known as the agents of God! We will go to heaven! We will show this world, a new 9/11 by burning Mumbai in the fire of jihad!)

Another one from Afghanistan said in Pashto language, "Aaka thinks we are good for nothing! But he knows that even the worst soldiers of his organization can be successful in India due to ill-equipped police and corrupt politicians! We will prove to Aaka that we can also do something right!"

Plane was dangerously heading towards the building of Bombay Stock Exchange and the collision seemed inevitable in seconds but ----something was seen emerging on the front portion of plane and the plane started getting t dragged in another direction. Plane now flew towards sky.

Terrorists decided to turn the plane and try again. But they saw that the thing wrapped on the front portion of plane was the snake rope. It was Nagraj who had changed the plane's route.

Doga reached the spot with a rocket launcher and shot a rocket on the plane. Terrorists took the plane further upwards to dodge the rocket. One said, "We need this plane for the success of jihad! We can not crash it into the building as long as Nagraj and Doga are here!"

Nagraj requested Doga not to fire the rocket as there were hostages in the plane. Now Doga could not do anything. But Nagraj could. He tried to reach the plane through the snake-rope. One terrorist tied a rope on passenger seat as he was about to open the emergency door. He tied the other end of rope on his waist so that he would not get pulled out of plane due to air-pressure when door opened. He tied two more ropes on a seat and tied their other ends on his ankles for extra safety. He opened the door and saw Nagraj coming towards plane. Snake rope was disappearing in the wrist of Nagraj and he was coming closer to the plane every second. He shot bullets on Nagraj but bullets could not harm Nagraj. Then he shot a rocket. Nagraj was very close to plane now. He split his body into atoms and reached inside the plane. The rocket was about to hit a building. But a rocket shot by Doga's rocket launcher destroyed that rocket in the air. Terrorist was wondering where did Nagraj go. Nagraj said, "I am here!"

Terrorist turned and was shocked to see Nagraj inside the plane. Nagraj cut the ropes with Nagfani snakes and terrorist fall out of the plane.

He fell on the ground and his head was near Doga's shoe. He was about to die as all his bones were broken. Doga shot him in the head and people of Mumbai paid tribute to his deadbody by kicking it. Nagraj was inside the plane and a big terrorist called Chemical Saddam attacked him. He was big in size. He had extra-ordinary physical ability and muscular physique as his blood had various types of strength-enhancing steroids and chemicals. Nagraj could not puff venomous vapor inside the plane as there were hostages. He looked at him and said, "Damn! He looks like the elder brother of Rojec Katilio!"

(DISCLAIMER: Read "Omerta" and "Aankh Michauli" to know about Rojec Katilio.)

Chemical Saddam punched Nagraj hard and Nagraj was thrown near the door. Nagraj jumped and bit him. But Chemical Saddam said, "Chemicals have made my skin hard. Your teeth can not bite me." He grabbed Nagraj in a bear-hug and tried to break his backbone and Nagraj could not easily break free as many snakes were not inside his body. Just then Nagu appeared in the plane with all snakes (including those snakes who had formed parachute for Nagraj earlier). All snakes went inside the body of Nagraj and Nagraj regained strength to break free from the bear-hug.

Chemical Saddam punched Nagraj on the jaw. He hit Nagraj hard on the backbone and the head. He lifted Nagraj and walked towards the door to throw him. But Nagraj shot snakes in his mouth and scratched his arms with Nagfani snakes. In mouth, jaws are made of flesh. So snakes could bit on the jaws of Chemical Saddam. Nagfani snakes had the divine thorns from Dev Kaaljayi. They succeeded in making Chemical Saddam bleed. Nagraj immediately bit Saddam at the point where Nagfani had scratched him. This time, venom went inside the body of Chemical Saddam from two sides. From jaws and arms. The body of Chemical Saddam melted. Nagraj shot a snake that bit the terrorist holding pilot on gunpoint. Terrorist died. Now only one terrorist was inside the plane. He put a gun on mayor's head and said, "Nagraj! Jump out of this plane or I will kill him and all other hostages!"

Nagraj jumped out of the plane. Terrorist was relieved. Just then he realized something and felt that he was being pulled towards the door. He saw that a snake rope was wrapped on his ankle and he was being pulled out of plane. Out of door, he saw that Nagraj was sticking to the surface of plane. Nagraj had pulled snake-rope from one hand. Nagraj jumped inside and from another snake-rope he strangled the terrorist. Nagraj told pilot to fly towards airport. Plane flew and on the way to airport, people saw the terrorist dangling from the door of the plane and snake-rope curled around his neck, strangling him. They were happy. Plane landed on airport and Nagraj hanged the deadbody of terrorist in front of the main entrance of airport. People including mayor came out of the plane and thanked Nagraj. Nagraj swung high on snake-rope with all heads looking up in the sky.

Tape obtained by Doga was shown on TV. Nakul Bhatt was arrested and Rehaan Hashmi had been given a clean chit.

Doga thanked Nagraj for saving Mumbai. Nagraj said, "You also deserve to be thanked! You also worked hard!"

Doga : What are your plans now?

Nagraj : I will go Italy now! I saw the news of two Pakistanis arrested there! They had funded the attack of 26/11! I will go to find out more links to 26/11 so that I can punish more terrorists involved in this attack! Last time I went to Italy to save Italians from Mafia. Now I will go to get justice for Indians and ensure that the sacrifice of heroes like Karkare, Salaskar, Kamte and Unnikrishnan does not go waste!

(DISCLAIMER: In order to know about the Italy tour of Nagraj, read "Teen Sikke", "Jung Maut Tak", "Nagraj Under Arrest", "Omerta", "Aankh Michauli" and "Paanchva Shikaar".)

Doga went back to his job of protecting Mumbai and Nagraj boarded a flight to Italy. Woh nikal pada, aatankwaad ke khilaaf apne anth-heen safar par!

(TRANSLATION: Nagraj resumed his endless world tour for his quest to destroy terrorism.)

THE END

Going by RC style...Samaapt

Hope you guys liked it. Do share your comments and your observations are must.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Twitter Premiering TV Ad Targeting and Twitter Amplify

Today, reading and listening to music are not enjoyed by people as much as it was enjoyed years ago.

However watching TV is something that people of the world enjoy today as well. Advertisers wish to advertise their product at a place where everyone will notice their products. That is why, on TV, we saw commercial advertisements during the breaks on TV shows.

Many people found it absurd when advertisements started on News shows and News channels. That is because advertisers had realized that everybody watched news.

Twitter, TV and Ads – Brothers in Arms

Last year, 32 million people in the U.S. tweeted about TV programming that included tweets about big events, like the Super Bowl (24 million Tweets) or their favorite weekly series, such as American Idol (5.8 million Tweets during 2012).

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Monday, June 10, 2013

How to setup lead generation card for Twitter

While this new feature has crated a quite a lot of buzz, everyone wants to know how this feature works? Lead Generation Card is applicable for promoted tweets only as its for advertisement. Follow the below tutorial to setup your lead generation card for twitter.

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Monday, June 3, 2013

Twitter Introduces Lead Generation Card

Marketers aim at generating leads and driving purchases for a product or service. Today, marketing and promoting such things on Twitter and Facebook is not something new.

Now a new tool called Lead Generation Card, which will be a boon for Marketers is all set to take marketing on Twitter to a whole new level.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Pins on Pinterest Now More Useful

Everybody knows how much traffic Pinterest generates for a picture. Pins as well as repins ensure wide coverage for the picture.

When you find something interesting on Pinterest, you wish to know more about it. Hence, now pins on Pinterest will be more useful to you. Also, it will be easier for you to pin something on Pinterest, irrespective of your location.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

New Experience For Android Phones Unveiled By Facebook

On 9 April 2013, Facebook held an event in its Menlo Park headquarters to show the world its “new home on Android.”

Prior to this event, when Facebook had started sending invitations to people regarding this event, many people speculated that at this event, Facebook would be launching an Android Smartphone.

However, what actually happened at the event was indeed different from the expectations.Facebook Inc unveiled its most ambitious attempt yet to enter mobile computing without a phone of its own. It introduced a new app that replaces the home screen on some Android Smartphones.

This app is Facebook‘s “new home on Android.” That is why it was called Facebook Home.In Facebook home, pictures from your Facebook news feed would take up the entire display screen. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that users will see the world through people rather than apps.

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Monday, May 27, 2013

Twitter Launches Music App

Twitter surprised many music lovers by launching Twitter music app. A new service called #music will change the way people find music, based on Twitter.

This service uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists.

It also brings artists’ music-related Twitter activity front and center. Users will go to their profiles to see which music artists they follow and listen to songs by those artists. You can also tweet songs right from the app.

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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Google Plus Introduces New Design

Google+ has rolled out new features for its profile and pages. The new features include a “Local” reviews tab and larger cover photos, one day ahead of Facebook‘s big News Feed announcement.

On Wednesday, 15 May 2013, Google announced in a Google Plus post that users will gradually start to see some new features added throughout the social network. The announcement was made at Google I/O annual conference in San Francisco.

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Facebook Fix Affects Virality

Not long ago, Facebook announced that they had found a bug that may have underreported Reach for Facebook Page Admins. Speculations started that Virality would be experiencing a decrease across the board. However, research showed that the Reach of pages had indeed increased. Due to increased Reach, decrease in Facebook Virality was unlikely to be seen.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Avi enjoys Telugu Movie Badrinath

DISCLAIMER: The writer has taken every precaution to confirm the accuracy of facts presented in the article(s). But the writer does not hold responsibility if any fact turns out to be inaccurate.

I love action movies. And when action movies have South Indian action, it is something that always fascinates me. I do not know Telugu language and watch them with English sub-titles. I recently watched the movie Badrinath and loved the action so much that I decided to review this movie.

Movie: Badrinath (2011)

Language: Telugu

Cast: Allu Arjun, Tamanna Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Kelly Dorjee, Ashwini Kalsekar, Brahmanandam, Raghu Babu

Genre: Action

My personal rating: *** (3 Stars)

This is an exciting story and has great music also.

The jihadi attacks on various Hindu temples are increasing in India. Thus, many priests have decided to recruit some warriors in order to protect the temples.

Bheeshm Narayan (Prakash Raj) is a saint who trains all volunteers to protect the temple. One day, he sees a boy called Badri and decides to train him along with other boys in all ancient Indian martial arts.

Years later, Badri (Allu Arjun) grows up and becomes an adult. The temple to be protected that has been alloted to him as a responsibility is Badrinath temple.

Alakananda (Tamanna Bhatia) is an atheist. She had witnessed a tragedy in her childhood. She blamed God for that tragedy. Her maternal grandfather has brought her to Badrinath in order awaken her faith in God. Her maternal grandfather told Badri that she is in danger. Sarkar (Kelly Dorjee), a dreaded Don, is trying to force her marriage with his son. On the request of her maternal Grandfather, Badri helps Alaknanda to gradually believe in God's existence.

Alakananda loves Badri. However, she has not told that to Badri. Badri is unaware of Alakananda's feelings. On her request, he helps her to do some religious ceremonies of Badrinath temple. These religious ceremonies will bring good luck in Alakananda's life and it will get her married to the man she loves.

Sarkar and his men come to Badrinath. They want to abduct Alakananda. Although Badri manages to save her, he is injured and he needs medication. Meanwhile Bhishma Narayan is shocked upon seeing Alakananda's affectionate behaviour towards Badri. He wants to make Badri his successor. According to the rules of monastery, the chief trainer of warriors must remain unmarried throughout his life.

Alakananda leaves for home after receiving assurance from Badri that he will ensure her wedding with the man she loves. Her maternal grandfather goes with her.

In Bellary, Sarkar kills Alakananda's maternal grandfather and abducts her.

Badri has promised Alakananda that he would bring her back to Badrinath Temple for success in her love.

Badri goes to Bellary to rescue Alakananda from the clutches of Sarkar, who is planning to fix the marriage. Badri aims to escort Alaknanda back to the Holy Shrine. He fights with all the goons and escorts her to Badrinath. Sarkar vows revenge on Badri as Sarkar's son is severely hurt in the process by Badri. Subsequently Sarkar with his goons, goes to Badrinath. He destroys Bheeshm Narayan's Ashram.

What will happen when Badri meets Sarkar for a final showdown? And what will happen when he gets shocked on the revelation that he is the man that Alakananda loves? You must watch the movie to find out.

This movie has some elements of comedy and comic relief here tickles your funny bone when Badri meets Baaty Baba (Brahmanandam), a conman who claims to be a saint alive for centuries.

All songs in this movie are Melodious. "Omakareshwari" is the only song which is a part of narrative. Song "In The Night" is in English. Except "Omkareshwari", all the songs are imaginations of Alakananda whenever she imagines herself romancing Badri. Excpet Omkareshwari and Nath Nath, Allu Arjun appears in short hair, contrary to the hair style he has in the entire movie.

Action sequences are awesome in this movie. In many scenes, Allu Arjun has been depicted as a one-man army, a trend which is not new in India. There is a scene where Jihadis attacked Amarnath temple and killed some devotees. Holding many devotees as hostage, they demanded the release of their leader. Their leader was freed but Badri fought and killed all the terrorists, including the leader thus saving both the temple and the devotees.

This movie deserves one viewing.

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Monday, April 15, 2013

Facebook Adds Reply Button To Comments

When you participate in a discussion on a Facebook page, you post comments. When you reply to the comment of another person, you mention that person in your comment so that he/she would get a notification and notice your reply.

However, now this is not needed as it will be possible to reply a person directly. Now there will be a reply button on every comment that is there on a Facebook page. Clicking on Reply button, you can reply to a particular comment directly.

Like Facebook Graph Search, this move will encourage Facebook users to spend more time on Facebook.

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Kelly Kelly Could Have Been America's Trish Stratus

DISCLAIMER: The writer has taken every precaution to confirm the accuracy of facts presented in the article(s). But the writer does not hold responsibility if any fact turns out to be inaccurate.

This article for all those friends who love WWE.

In September 2012, WWE released WWE Diva Kelly Kelly (real name Barbara Jean Blank a.k.a Barbie Blank) from their contract. I was hurt when I saw this.

Since January 2007, I have been celebrating Kelly's Birthday every year on 15 Jan by distributing sweets and snacks among friends and family, no matter whether they love WWE or not.

I believe that Kelly left much before WWE could explore her full potential.

Kelly Kelly could be America's answer to Trish Stratus (real name Patricia Anne Stratigias), one of the most popular and decorated divas in WWE in the modern era of wrestling.

Jerry "The King" Lawler called Trish "Canada's Greatest Export". As Kelly and Trish have a lot common, Kelly would have been America's own equivalent to Trish.

I am going to point out few similarities and few differences between these two legendary divas:

1. Kelly and Trish did not want to become wrestlers. They entered the world of wrestling by co-incidence.

Kelly has a background in gymnastics and cheerleading. She studied broadcast journalism, hoping to become a TV anchor, and worked as a model for Venus Swimwear and Hawaiian Tropic. But John Laurinaitis saw a photoshoot of hers and recommended her to WWE. WWE offered her a contract.

Before entering wrestling, Trish was enrolled at York University, where she studied biology and kinesiology and played soccer and field hockey. She would have become a doctor. But a strike occurred. Being a foreigner, Trish had to be a student or an employee to stay in US. So she started working as a receptionist in gym where a photographer of MuscleMag saw her. She did photoshoots for many fitness magazines and started her career as a fitness model. She was also a part-time RJ on a radio station dedicated to wrestling. WCW and WWF (now WWE) offered contracts to Trish. Trish chose WWF and became one of the most recognizable face of Attitude Era.

Hence, both divas entered showbiz as models.

2. Kelly and Trish did not have wrestling skills when they made their debut. Both of them were eye-candies, doing sexual themed storylines.

Kelly was performing striptease dance in her segment Kelly's Expose. Trish was a valet for Test and Albert, immediately grabbing eyeballs due to the on-screen seductress that she was playing.

3. Both divas slowly improved their wrestling skills as their matches increased. Trish's wrestling skills were better because Ron Hutchinson and Dave Finlay were among her trainers. Kelly was trained by OVW staff.

4. Both divas stayed with WWE for 6 years and developed a loyal fan-base. Despite, WWE going PG, both divas had their fan-base intact. Trish was with WWE from 2000 to 2006 while Kelly was from 2006 to 2012.

5. Both divas have their feuds with Team Lay-Cool in the list of the most important feuds they have been in.

In 2001, when Test and Albert became enemies and Trish aligned with Albert, WWE felt that Trish needed quick elevation. Thus, they cancelled Trish's role in the feud and paired her with Vince McMahon so that Trish could feud with Stephanie. Too bad that Kelly did not get such push.

6. The storyline about Vince dominating Trish and bullying her had few similarities with the storyline about The Miz bullying Kelly and ordering her to the extent of preventing her to date Balls Mahoney.

7. In order to push Ashley Massaro and Mickie James, WWE paired them with Trish as she was a big star. In the case of Kelly, her wrestling training was still going on in early 2007 but she had become popular due to her dancing skills. Layla El and Brook Adams needed training for wrestling but WWE wanted to popularize them. Thus, WWE paired them with Kelly and the trio was known as Extreme Expose. The recurring segment Kelly's Expose was also changed to Extreme Expose. However, WWE were planning to go PG. Thus, Extreme Expose did not perform striptease like Kelly. They only danced. While performing with Layla and Brook, even Kelly also stopped stripping.

Now here are few differences between Kelly and Trish, professionally as well as personally:

1. Trish is a 7-Time Women's Champion and 1-Time Hardcore Champion. Kelly is a 1-Time Divas Champion. WWE did not utilize Kelly properly.

2. Though Trish acted in many romantic stories with different WWE Superstars, she never dated any WWE Superstar in real life. On the other hand, Batista and Test are two wrestlers who dated Kelly in different walks of time.

3. Trish married her High-school sweetheart Ron Fisico in 2006 after retiring. Kelly was not so lucky as things did not work between her and the guy she dated before becoming a star. At the time of this article being written, Kelly is rumored to be dating NHL hockey player Sheldon Souray.

4. Kelly and Trish are seen among some of the hottest blondes in WWE. However, Trish is not a real blonde. She is a brunette. Kelly is a real blonde.

I wish Kelly all the best for anything. So many similarities show that Kelly could be America's Trish had she received proper push. I hope someday Kelly returns to WWE.

On this page, you see a pic of Kelly and Trish. Being a fan of both divas, this was a classic moment to me.

Your feedback and comments are welcome if you agree or disagree with the facts presented here.

Image Source: WWE

Monday, April 8, 2013

New YouTube One Channel Design Coming Soon

YouTube is one of the most visited website on Internet.

Every day, so many people come to watch videos. Videos from every genre and field are available on YouTube. Many times, not only videos even the channels become popular if their videos are popular.

Some YouTube channels are so popular that people eagerly wait for the new video to appear on that channel.

Some people have a huge following on their YouTube channel and they quit their jobs to record videos for their YouTube channels.

Any change on YouTube is big news in the world of Social media and in an era when many YouTube channels have become brand names, a news involving change on YouTube channels can be even bigger news.

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Easy To Have A Verified Website with Pinterest Website Verification Analytics

Popular organizations and people, especially celebrities have so many websites and social networking profiles that have no affiliation with them.

So many fake profiles impersonate celebrities and reputed organization on Internet. Therefore, it is good for a celebrity or organization to have the websites affiliated with them, to get verified. It is helpful for the fans as well as websites.

On Twitter, you may find many people impersonating a Hollywood actor. But the verified account that really belongs to the actor will have a mark at the top of profile where a white tick mark inside a blue-circle can be seen.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Google Plus Sign In Takes on Facebook

Though, Google had presence in the field of Social Media in the form of Orkut and YouTube, Orkut was not a worthy competitor for Facebook. And YouTube being more of a video-sharing website has videos that are regularly shared on Facebook.

With people seeing video links shared on Facebook and coming to YouTube after that, obviously Google wanted something bigger to compete with Facebook. So it came up with Google Plus, a new social networking website which was similar to Facebook in many ways.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Google Plus Super Size Cover Image

Google had launched Google Plus to compete with Facebook. Obviously, many features of Google Plus were supposed to be similar to Facebook.

However, something that intrigues people about the profiles on Facebook and Google Plus is Cover Image. Profile Pic or Display image is passé. Now Cover Image is the thing that commands attention when someone wishes to understand the nature, taste and mentality of a person.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Now Send Gift Cards From Facebook

For someone who identifies Facebook only with social media, it would be unique for him to notice that Facebook is gradually offering more retail services. However, the biggest social-networking giant still relies on advertising for the bulk of its revenue.

Last year, Facebook had launched a feature that allowed users to send retail goods, such as sunglasses and pastries, to their friends on the social network.

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Pinterest Testing New Look

We all have a hobby of pinning the pictures of our favorite holiday spots and celebrities on our wall. That is how the photo-sharing website Pinterest got its name with people pinning their pictures on their account and sharing other pictures.

Now Pinterest is planning to redesign itself and testing a new look.

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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Facebook Adds Voice Messaging to Messenger

If you are an avid Facebook user and if you regularly use Facebook on some iOS or Android device, this is good news for you.

Facebook has recently released an update to its standalone messenger to iOS and Android apps. Now you can send up to one minute voice-message from this service.

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Saturday, February 23, 2013

SEO Tips for Facebook Graph Search

If you create a database about the total number of people active on Facebook, then more than 500 million people will be found in the database. With so much success as a social media platform, definitely, Facebook would like to spread their wings and fly towards avenues beyond social media and have a presence there.

Now they are competing with Google in its primary field with Facebook Graph Search.

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

SocialChamps Mentor MERC B-School

SocialChamps is known for its excellence in promotion and marketing on social media platforms. Expertise and knowledge are two treasure which do not get exhausted even if they are shared.

SocialChamps did the same. It shared its knowledge with a group of students from Managerial Excellence Resource Center (MERC) which is a reputed business school.

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