Last GLIMPSE Of Fab ISHMEET...

Hundreds of Ludhiana residents had turned out with drums, crackers and sweets to celebrate Ishmeet Singh's ascent to stardom last November. The same people came out of their houses on Thursday - this time to bid adieu to the young singer.

Shops in the area remained closed for the second day Thursday as a mark of respect to the Voice of India, which fell silent on Tuesday evening. Ishmeet had drowned in the swimming pool of a resort in the Maldives.

Even as the reality show singer lay in a glass coffin at his modest residence here, people known and unknown to him came for a last glimpse. 

"I cannot believe he is no more. His face had a look of satisfaction. I felt that he would just get up and start singing in his sweet voice again. God has not been fair in giving him so much in life and then snatching that life in a second," said Rajbir Singh, a resident of Ludhiana's Sarabha Nagar.

Ishmeet's family - father Gurpinder Singh, mother Amritpal Kaur and sister - were inconsolable even as scores of mourners kept pouring in. They sat beside his body even as preparations for the last rites were being made amidst religious hymns and chants of Satnam Wahe Guru.

Doctors at the Dayanand Medical College and hospital (DMCH) Thursday said that preliminary post mortem results showed that Ishmeet had died of drowning.

"The preliminary cause of Ishmeet Singh's death is drowning. His viscera has been sent to Patiala for further chemical examination. If there is any additional cause of death, it will be declared later," senior medical officer Harvinder Singh told reporters.

However, hours before he was scheduled to get a state funeral, Ishmeet's uncle Charan Kamal Singh said injury marks on the forehead and chest and the budding singer's swollen face had aroused suspicion that he may have been murdered.

"His death is not an accident alone. It could be part of a conspiracy. We want the matter investigated thoroughly. The governments of India and Maldives and the Punjab government should be involved in this investigation," said Ishmeet's uncle. 

Photographs of the singer's body clearly showed a black mark on his forehead. 

The 19-year-old singer had gone to the Maldives for a promotional event with the music company with which he had a contract. Ishmeet left Mumbai Tuesday morning for the Maldives, where he was to perform August 1. However, he drowned Tuesday in a swimming pool at a beach resort.

Maldives' national newspaper Haveeru quoted officials from the Chaaya Dhonveli Beach Resort as saying that Ishmeet had drowned between 5.15 p.m. and 5.20 p.m. Tuesday in the hotel's swimming pool.

"He went into the swimming pool with a couple of his friends in the afternoon," Marlon Robert, assistant manager of the resort, said.

"None of them knew how to swim so he was using the baby (shallow) swimming pool. Since he didn't know how to swim we had advised him not to use the big pool. Somehow or other he ended up in the big pool. When he couldn't get out of it his friends apparently went looking for help," Robert added.

The Haveeru report quoted the Maldives Police Service saying that Ishmeet's body was immediately brought to the ADK Hospital in Male after the incident. The doctor who had attended to him said that the cause of death seemed to be drowning. Police said they were conducting investigations.

Sources said police in the Maldives did not get a post mortem done since there are no facilities for it in the island country.

On Nov 27, 2007, Ishmeet had won the "Voice of India" singing contest, pipping his closest rival Harshit from Uttar Pradesh in a keen contest. He was given the winner's trophy by melody queen Lata Mangeshkar.

Supporters of the singer voted heavily for him from Punjab during the finals of the contest. Though Harshit led the votes tally in most regions of the country, the final count went in Ishmeet's favour due to heavy voting from Punjab.

Was Ishmeet Singh murdered in Maldives?

Family members of Ishmeet Singh ~ winner of Star TV’s singing reality show Voice of India, who died after drowning in a swimming pool in a resort in Madives on Tuesday ~ suspect foul play behind his death. 
Ishmeet's family members in Ludhiana have demanded a high level probe into his death. However, just hours before he was scheduled to get a state funeral in Ludhiana, Ishmeet’s uncle Mr Charan Kamal Singh said that injury marks were found on his forehead and chest and the singer's swollen face has aroused suspicions that he might have been murdered. The post mortem report, contested by his family, states that his death was caused due to drowning. He appealed to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Punjab chief minister Mr Prakash Singh Badal to order a proper inquiry into the death of the singer. 

Mr Singh said there could be three suspected reasons for his reasons ~ jealousy of fellow-contestants, conspiracy of professional singers or murder by some militant outfit.

"Before the Tragic Incedent ,Ishmeet Was ATTACKED quite number of times........."

The postmortem report released on Thursday citing drowning as the cause of Ishmeet Singh's death has failed to convince his family. 

According to them, the Voice of India winner may have been murdered in Maldives. 

In a startling revelation, Ishmeet's uncle GPS Chadha told NoGyan that there was an attempt to kill the 19-year-old singer just two weeks before he tragically drowned in a hotel swimming pool. 

"Ishmeet told me that he was travelling in his car from Mumbai to Pune on July 13 when another car suddenly came from behind and hit the side on which he was sitting. There was a choreographer travelling with Ishmeet as well, but I don't remember his name. Ishmeet's car was badly damaged and he had a narrow escape on that occasion," says Chadha. 

The story was corroborated by Ishmeet's other uncle Chaman Kamal. 

According to him: "When the news of his death came, the first that came to my mind was the earlier attempt to kill him in a car accident. I know that the postmortem report found water in his lungs and heart, and suggests death by drowning. But I don't agree with this finding."

"What I suspect is that he was hit and then thrown into the pool. When I spoke to Vyom who was with him at the time the incident happened, he was not speaking properly. I could hear someone telling him from behind what to say. The other girl Arunima told me she was not there at the time Ishmeet drowned. She said she was at some other pool. However when I made enquiries at the Chaaya Island Dhonveli resort where they were all staying, the staff said they had just one swimming pool," adds Kamal. 

The distraught member of Ishmeet's family insists there are too many lose ends for the matter to end with the postmortem report. 

"I want a proper enquiry conducted into his death. Everybody who was there with Ishmeet should be questioned and the culprit has to be punished. Ishmeet knew how to swim. Sure, he was not an expert swimmer but he was no novice either. He had learnt swimming while in Mumbai. Will someone explain to me how Ishmeet reached the center of the pool when it was so deep and far away from the corners? Only a proper investigation can reveal the truth," he says. 

Ishmeet's father Gurprinder Singh Sodhi, still grappling with the grievous loss that has befallen his family, also thinks Ishmeet's death is unnatural. 

"There was no reason for him to die like this...I suspect foul play," he says.

Assistant Manager of the Chaaya Island Dhonveli resort Marlon Robert refused to comment on the conspiracy theories surrounding Ishmeet's death. 

According to him: "I cannot say anything about the family's allegations of foul play. The Male police are investigating the matter and if something wrong happened, it will come out." 

What he is sure about is that the resort did not err in letting guests swim in the absence of lifeguards. "We cannot stop our guests from going to the swimming pool," says Robert. 

Vyom and Arunima, the two singers named as eyewitnesses to Ishmeet's death, could not be reached for their comments.

Thousands turn up to bid adieu to Ishmeet

As the body of 19-year-old Ishmeet Singh made its last journey from his home to the cremation ground in Ludhiana on Thursday, commoners and celebrities turned up in force to bid a tearful farewell to the "Voice of India".

Mystery still surrounds his death in the swimming pool of a Maldives hotel, but that he was much loved was evident from the presence of thousands of mourners, among them Bollywood singers and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. 

Residents of this industrial city couldn't help but remember how they had turned out with drums, crackers and sweets to celebrate Ishmeet's ascent as the winner of the "Voice of India" show in November. 

"I cannot believe he is no more. His face had a look of satisfaction. I felt that he would just get up and start singing in his sweet voice again. God has not been fair in giving him so much in life and then snatching away the life in a second," said Rajbir Singh, a resident of Sarabha Nagar who had come to Ishmeet's modest home. 

Among the crowds were Gajendra Singh - the man behind most of the successful reality shows on various TV channels, singer Abhijeet - who treated Ishmeet like his son - and popular Punjabi singer Hans Raj Hans. 

Shops in the area remained closed for the second day to mark respect to Ishmeet.

"I can still hear him" Speaks out Himane

"I can still hear him call out 'Oy Himaneeee' from across the room," says reality show contestant Himani Kapoor who is still in a state of shock on learning about Voice Of India winner Ishmeet Singh's death in the Maldives.

"He was such a gem of a person. Why should he be taken away so rudely? I'm leaving for Ishmeet's hometown Ludhiana. I want to see him for the last time. I still can't believe he's gone," says Himani. 

Ishmeet, 19, had gone to the Maldives for a promotional event with the music company with which he had a contract. Ishmeet left Mumbai on Tuesday morning for the Maldives, where he was to perform on August 1. However, he drowned Tuesday in a swimming pool at a beach resort.

Himani accompanies the whole Voice Of India team to Ludhiana for the funeral Thursday at 4 p.m. Ishmeet's body was flown to Ludhiana from the Maldives Wednesday evening.

"All of us from Voice of India, Toshi Sabri, Irfan Ali, Aishwarya plus two members of Endemol, the company that produces the show, will be going to Ludhiana. And of course, Gajendra Singhji (the programme's producer and director)."

Till late Wednesday evening Gajendra Singh was unable to take in the bad news.

"How could this happen?" he kept repeating.

DeStiny....!!!!!!

What is the meaning of destiny ??

The Arabic word translated as “destiny” is qadar. In its derivations, this word also means “determination,” “giving a certain measure and shape,” “dividing,” and “judging.” Muslim scholars of Islam define it as “Divine measure,” “determination,” and “judgment in the creation of things.”

In one sense, Decree and Destiny mean the same thing. In another sense, however, Destiny means to predetermine or preordain, while Decree means to execute or put into effect. To be more precise, Destiny means that everything that exists, from subatomic particles to the universe as a whole, is known by God Almighty. His Knowledge includes all space and time, while He Himself is absolutely free both of them. Everything exists in His Knowledge, and He assigns to each a certain shape, life span, function or mission, and certain characteristics.

Consider the following analogy: Authors have full and exact knowledge of the book they will write, and arrange its chapters, sections, paragraphs, sentences, and words before writing it. In this sense, Destiny is almost identical with Divine Knowledge, or is a title of Divine Knowledge. It is therefore also called the “Supreme Preserved Tablet” (or the “Manifest Record”). Destiny also means that God makes everything according to a certain, particular measure and in exact balance:

Different concepts of destiny and fate

Destiny may be envisaged as fore-ordained by the Divine (for example, the Protestant concept of predestination) or by human will (for example, the American concept of Manifest Destiny).

A sense of destiny in its oldest human sense is in the soldier's fatalistic image of the "bullet that has your name on it" or the moment when your number "comes up," or a romance that was "meant to be." The human sense that there must be a hidden purpose in the random lottery governs the selection of Theseus to be among the youths to be sacrificed to the Minotaur.

Destiny may be seen either as a fixed sequence of events that is inevitable and unchangeable, or that individuals choose their own destiny by choosing different paths throughout their life.

Destiny in literature and popular culture

Many Greek legends and tales teach the futility of trying to outmaneuver an inexorable fate that has been correctly predicted. This form of irony is important in Greek tragedy, as it is in Oedipus Rex and the Duque de Rivas' play that Verdi transformed into La Forza del Destino ("The Force of Destiny") or Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, or in Macbeth's uncannily-derived knowledge of his own destiny, which in spite of all his actions does not preclude a horrible fate.

Other notable examples include Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles, in which Tess is destined to the miserable death that she is confronted with at the end of the novel; the popular short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs; and the M. Night Shyamalan film Signs. Destiny is a recurring theme in the literature of Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), including Siddhartha (1922) and his magnum opus, Das Glasperlenspiel also published as The Glass Bead Game (1943).The common theme of these works is a protagonist who cannot escape a destiny if their fate has been sealed, however hard they try. Destiny is also an important plot point in the hit TV shows Lost and Supernatural, as well a common theme in the Roswell TV series.

Divination of destiny

Some believe that one's destiny may be ascertained by divination. In the belief systems of many cultures, one's destiny can only be learned about through a shaman, babalawo, prophet, sibyl, saint or seer. In the Shang dynasty in China, turtle bones were thrown ages before the I Ching was codified. Arrows were tossed to read destiny, from Thrace to pagan Mecca. In Yoruba traditional religion, the Ifá oracle is consulted via a string of sixteen cowries or oil-palm nuts whose pattern when thrown on to a wooden tray represents the 256 possible combinations whose named "chapters" are recited and verses interpreted for the client by the babalawo. The Ifa Divination system was added in 2005 to the UNESCO list of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

On a trivial level, there have been multifarious methods for European maidens to detect in advance the husband for whom they were fated.

Destiny versus fate

Although the words are used interchangeably in many cases, fate and destiny can be distinguished. Modern usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course of events. Fate defines events as ordered or "inevitable". Fate is used in regard to the finality of events as they have worked themselves out; and that same sense of finality, projected into the future to become the inevitability of events as they will work themselves out, is Destiny. In classical and European mythology, there are three goddesses dispensing fate, The "Fates" known as Moirae in Greek mythology, as Parcae in Roman mythology, and Norns in Norse mythology; they determine the events of the world through the mystic spinning of threads that represent individual human destinies.

One word derivative of "fate" is "fatality", another "fatalism". Fate implies no choice, and ends fatally, with a death. Fate is an outcome determined by an outside agency acting upon a person or entity; but with destiny the entity is participating in achieving an outcome that is directly related to itself. Participation happens willfully.

Used in the past tense, "destiny" and "fate" are both more interchangeable, both imply "one's lot" or fortunes, and include the sum of events leading up to a currently achieved outcome (e.g. "it was her destiny to be leader" and "it was her fate to be leader").

Fate can involve things which are bound within and subject to larger networks. A set of mathematical functions arranged in a grid and interacting in defined ways is Fatelike. Likewise the individual statues in a larger work of counterpoint art are aesthetically Fated within the work. In each case Fate is external to every individual component, but integral to the network. Every component acts as Fate for every other component. The entire world can be seen as existing within such a network, a kind of mythical spiderweb controlled by unseen forces.

Fortune and Destiny (Gad (deity) and Meni) appear as gods in Isaiah 65:11.[1]

Destiny and "Fortune"

In Hellenistic civilization, the chaotic and unforeseeable turns of chance gave increasing prominence to a previously less notable goddess, Tyche, who embodied the good fortune of a city and all whose lives depended on its security and prosperity, two good qualities of life that appeared to be out of human reach. The Roman image of Fortuna, with the wheel she blindly turned was retained by Christian writers, revived strongly in the Renaissance and survives in some forms today.[2]

Destiny and Kismet

Main article Predestination in Islam

The word kismet (alt., rarely, kismat) derives from the Arabic word qismah, and entered the English language via the Turkish word kısmet, meaning either "the will of Allah" or "portion, lot or fate". In English, the word is synonymous with fate or destiny.

Famous Say...is

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”