The Secret Letters: A Self Help Novel

I never liked reading self help books. I am not a big fan of Robin Sharma. The only book I read earlier was The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. It could not lengthen my favorite book list. Recently I bought two books just for reading it while traveling. First one was The Greatness Guide, turned few pages and closed it. Second one was The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. This became the first self help book I read with interest.

Jonathan Landry was in trouble. His life was running as he wished. Julian, the hero of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari was his uncle. To make understand few important aspects of life he sends Jonathan to collect the Talismans and letters from the safe keepers all around the world. Jonathan starts unwillingly. Jonathan learns many lessons in his travel. Finally it ends in Delhi after seeing the Taj Mahal.

I am putting this book in must read again list. This book is more than a self help book and teaches the lesson as you go on reading it like a novel. But one need to stop and read again and again the every letter that Jonathan gets to understand oneself better and for self improvements. The chapter before the letter itself is enough to explain the essence of the letter. Buy read and store this book.

It is v v v Vidya all the way!

Vidya Balan in Kahaani

Time to forget the hot debut of Vidya Balan in Dirty Picture. Now she is a pregnant widow in the kahani(Story) that happens within the movie Kahani, a complete female-centric movie. It is all about Bidya.. Sorry.. V V V V Vidya. Vidya Balan has not just played the role of Bidya Bagchi, she has become Bidya. Vidya Balan and her Kahani hold your attention through out the film without boring for a minute.

Mishap happens in the Kolkota Metro to leave hundreds dead. After two years of that mishap, pregnant Vidya comes from London in search of her missing husband. Everyone tries to convince her that her husband does not exist. She gets the help of earnest cop named Rana. She visits the National Data Center. The HR manager of NDC to which her husband supposed to visit recalls that there was an employee who left the job two years ago exactly looked like her husband. The HR manager is murdered. That makes the intelligence beuro officer arrive in to the scene. Then the story starts taking the turns. Finally she kills
Milind Damji who made that mishap which killed her real husband who was also an intelligence officer and accomplishes her mission. This is a thriller movie and one should watch the  movie to get the thrill of the story

No wonder if Vidya Balan’s performance in this film could get her another National Award. She has taken all the responsibility to run the entire show on her own. Her performance is the major attaction of the filom. Definitely Vidya Balan makes everyone to come out of the Dirty Picture hang out in this Movie. Without a love scene, an item song, not even a dance, Kahani makes Vidya Balan a block buster heroine in Bollywood.

Vidya Balan in Kahaani

Online Shopping- in the way of making life more easy

I was in Hyderabad for the first time. Accommodation provided by the organization was away from the city and I did not know anything about the city. I had planned to visit some place the second day. I was shocked to know my 4 GB SanDisk Memory card of the camera was not working. It was showing memory of 1.3 TB and unable to format or recover. My schedule was little tight and I knew it could not be a fair excuse to go away from the schedule to go in hunt of new memory card. I had a good experience with Flipkart earlier to this. They had delivered most of my orders within a day. I believed in them and placed an order in the evening. The Flipkart Cash on Delivery guy was at the door of my office by 11 A.M that is 5 hrs before the 24 hours of my order.

I should appreciate Flipkart.com for bringing the change in the dimensions of the online shopping in India. Earlier to Flipkart, e-bay, India Times, Rediff Shopping were present and unable to attract the customer, may be due to the inferior quality brands they were selling through third parties. I always felt the business with these players were not as reliable as the Flipkart. Even today though Naptol, SBI Card Mega mall like shopping sites tries to provide the same materials at cheaper price due to the third party participation I never bought anything from them.

I have also tried with infibeam.com and letsbuy.com. Prices in both the shopping sites are very competitive to any of the others. But the delivery time is very high compared to Flipkart. Infibeam delivered few books in the interior city of Karnataka in 10 days were Flipkart within 3 days through courier. I purchased electronic items both with the Flipkart and Letsbuy, Flipkart COD was delivered in 1 day where Letsbuy took 7 days to deliver on COD. Advantage with the flipkart is that in all the major cities it has its own delivery services. The flipkarts self delivery service is really appreciable. Once I had doubt about the product packed due the way they have packed, the delivery guy of fliplkart asked me to open and confirm the product, and otherwise I can return without paying the amount. This can not be expected from the courier services employed by others.

Now my most of the Electronics, Durables, Home appliances and very importantly books are purchased online. I never experience the under quality products, cheating or frauds as some of my friends are frightened to do online shopping. I can even compare, read the reviews and compare prices in online shopping as against conventional shopping. It is really a hassle free.

Google SMS channels thrash MyToday?

MyToday and SMSGupshup are the ony players in the informative group SMS field. They offer SMS free daily on various topic and their revenue generated by putting oneliner ads at the bottom of such SMS. MyToday really lead the rally with 4 million subscribers and 11 millions subscriptions with a very simple website MyToday.com. Gupshup came second in the field and now the Internet giant Google also entered into SMS channels.

Google SMS Channels is a service that enables channels/groups on SMS. It's a free service that enables you to get premium content published by Google publishing partners, Google popular products (Google News, Blogger and Google Groups) and websites with RSS/Atom support for free. SMS Channels allows you to create your own channel(s) to publish content that other users can subscribe to. You don't pay anything to send or receive messages using Google SMS Channels. When you post a message to your channel, all the members of your channel get the message forwarded for free.

The main difference is that the Google allows the user to create their own channel and put it forward for the subscribers and also you can configure your interested channels online visiting to Google SMS channels. Hence you don't need to spend even a single sms to configure the sms channels.

I'm using MyToday from last 2 years and the quality of the service is not so good as it was earlier. This could be due to infrastructure problem. Google SMS channels are very systematic and it took hardly 5 minute to register, verify, search and subscribe to the services. Hence to service in this race both MyToday and SMSgupshup might have to change their complete strategies. Let us wait and see.

Related articles: MyToday is no more reliable

Kannada Online Radios

There are few Kannada online radios now available. I'm too addicted to online music stations. It is just because I need not to take the work of collecting the music files and framing a play list. I'm giving you the list of some of the online music stations in Kannada. I have listed them in my own priority considering the quality of music tracks they play, ease of use and so on.
1. Radio Girmit
I like this station most. Songs could be old or new but they play very nice songs. Play list selection could be appreciated. You will never get bored by hearing to this station. You can also hear to spacial programme 'e'-Haadu Yaarigaagi every Sunday by online-RJ Divya. She has a nice voice, the best voice heard after Vasanti Hariprakash. No advertise, the best in ease of use, available in 3 modes Popup the player, Winamp and itunes, RG players. Just go to its home page, I hope you will also get addicted to it.
2. Kannada Kasturi
It is also very good radio station. I was really confused in giving rank to this station as 1st or 2nd. But active nature of Girmit took 1st place. If you want to listen to the latest songs better choose this station. It is available in Winamp player file(.pls), ease to handle, no advertise. Just go to its home page. You can easily find the player.
3. Maja Madi
A radio station with a complete entertainment discussion forum. Play lists are good. But I don't like this site because they are not focused on music. In the home page you will feel like you are in maze and will be confused where to go to listen to the music. Even though musics tracks are selected cautiously it took 3rd place because of disturbance in the site. We are here only for music. Before get confused by entering into home page try here: Winamp/iTunes/Real player : CLICK HERE; Windows Media player : CLICK HERE
4. Kannada music online
A blogspot site. Track list are good. Available in three player formats. You can go to home page but you will again feel like stuck at maze. But you will be able to find out the player links, if you have patience. If not directly click here: Winamp player and Windows player. From this site you can download Kannada songs also.
5. Naanu
Its OK OK kind of radio. I have not get the home page of the radio. Don't know much about the radio station. You can listen to it by clicking here.

There are some other online stations like Surf Music and Inchara. They don't have their own radio station and play list. They just redirect to the players on Kannada Kasturi and Radio Girmit with lot of ads in their page. Avoid using them stick to originals.

ಇನ್ನೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಕನ್ನಡ ರೇಡಿಯೋ ತಾಣಗಳು ನಿಮಗೆ ತಿಳಿದಿದ್ದರೆ ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ತಿಳಿಸಿ.

ಪತಂಗದಂತೆ ಹಾರಲು ಪ್ಯಾಪಿಲಾನ್ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ ಕಷ್ಟಪಟ್ಟ

ಪ್ಯಾಪಿಲಾನ್ ಅಂದರೆ ಫ್ರೆಂಚ್ ಭಾಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪತಂಗ. ಪ್ಯಾಪಿಲಾನ್ ನಿಜ ನಾಮಧೇಯ ಹೆನ್ರಿ ಛಾರೇರೆ. ಆತ ಇದ್ದದ್ದು ಜಗತ್ತಿಗೆ ನಾಗರೀಕತೆಯ ಪಾಠ ಮಾಡುವ ಸ್ವಚ್ಚಂದ ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ. ಅದು ೧೯೩೩ನೇ ಇಸವಿ. ಎರಡನೇ ಮಹಾಯುಧ್ಧಕ್ಕು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಮೊದಲಿನ ಕಾಲ. ಪ್ಯಾಪಿಲಾನ್ ಮಾಡಿದ ಒಂದು ಸಣ್ಣ ತಪ್ಪಿಗೆ ಅವನಿಗೆ ದೇಶಾಂತರ ಕಳುಹಿಸಿ ದ್ವೀಪವೊಂದರಲ್ಲಿ ಏಕಾಂತದ ಶಿಕ್ಷೆಗೆ ದೂಡುತ್ತಾರೆ ನಾಗರೀಕತೆಯ ಪಾಠ ಮಾಡಿದ ಜನ. ಅವರ ಮೇಲೆ ಸೇಡು ತೀರಿಸಿಯೇಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕೆಂದು ಪಲಾಯನದ ಕನಸು ಕಾಣುತ್ತಾನೆ ಪ್ಯಾಪಿ. ಅದು ನೆರವೇರಲು ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ ಬೇಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಆ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಆತ ಅದೇಗೆ ಆ ಪಲಾಯನದ ಆಸೆಯನ್ನು ಜೀವಂತವಾಗಿ ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡು ಸಾಧನೆಗೈಯುತ್ತಾನೆ ಎಂಬುದೇ ಒಂದು ಜೀವನ ಪಾಠ.
ಪ್ಯಾಪಿ ಜೈಲಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಹೊಸ ಅನಾಗರೀಕ ಪರಿಸರ ಕಾಣುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಅಂಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ ತೂರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದ ಕೊಳವೆಯಲ್ಲಿನ ದುಡ್ಡಿನ ಆಸೆಗೆ ದಿನವೂ ನಡೆಯುವ ಕೊಲೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕರಳು ಬಗೆಯುವುದನ್ನೂ ಕಾಣುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಅಂತದ್ದರಲ್ಲೂ ಡೇಗ ಎನ್ನುವವನ ಕೊಳವೆಯನ್ನು ತನ್ನ ಅಂಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡು ಆತನನ್ನೂ ಆತನ ಹಣವನ್ನೂ ರಕ್ಷಿಸಿ ಆತನ ಜೊತೆ ಪಲಾಛಲ ಬಿಡದ ತ್ರಿವಿಕ್ರಮನಂತೆ ಮತ್ತೆ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಿ ಗುಜಿರ ಎನ್ನುವ ಬುಡಕಟ್ಟು ಜನರ ಜೊತೆ ಆರು ತಿಂಗಳು ಅವರಂತೆಯೇ ಬದುಕಿಬಿಡುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಅವನಿಗೆ ಮನೆ, ಇಬ್ಬರು ಮುದ್ದು ಮಡಯನ ಮಾಡುವಾಗ ಸಿಕಿಬೀಳುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಹಾಗೆ ಇನ್ನೆರಡು ಪಲಾಯನ ಯತ್ನಗಳು ವಿಫಲವಾಗುತ್ತವೆ. ಆದರೂ ದಿಯರು, ಬದುಕಲು ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಎಲ್ಲ ಇದ್ದರೂ ಇದಲ್ಲ ತಾನು ಬಯಸಿದ್ದೆಂದು ನೆನಪಾಪಿ ಮತ್ತೆ ಓಡುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಕ್ರೈಸ್ತ ಸನ್ಯಾಸಿನಿಯರನ್ನು ನಂಬಿ ಮೋಸ ಹೋಗಿ ಮತ್ತೆ ಜೈಲಿಗೆ ಹೋಗುತ್ತಾನೆ.
ಏಕಾಂತ ಶಿಕ್ಷೆ ಅನುಭವಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಯಾರ ಬಳಿಯೂ ಮಾತಿಲ್ಲದೇ ಮೂರು ವರ್ಷ ಕಳೆಯುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಒಂದೇ ಒಂದು ಬಾರಿ ಆತ ಅಲ್ಲಿತನಕ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ್ದು! ಕತ್ತಲೆಯ ಕೋಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬದುಕುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಮತ್ತೆ ಪಲಾಯನದ ಕನಸು ಕಾಣುತ್ತಾನೆ. ವಿಧಿ ಮತ್ತೆ ಜೈಲಿಗೆ ತಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ. ಕಾಲು ಮುರಿಯುತ್ತದೆ. ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರ ಕೊಲೆಗಳನ್ನು ನೋಡುತ್ತಾನೆ. ದೋಣಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪಲಾಯನಕ್ಕೆ ಯತ್ನಿಸಿದರೆ ದೋಣಿಯೇ ಮುರಿಯುತ್ತದೆ. ಆದರೂ ಆತನ ಪಲಾಯನದ ಆಸೆ, ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಜೀವನದ ಆಸೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಕೊನೆಯಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.
ಒಮ್ಮೆಯಂತೂ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಯ ಮಗಳನ್ನು ಶಾರ್ಕ್ ಮೀನುಗಳಿರುವ ಸಾಗರದಲ್ಲಿ ಜೀವದ ಹಂಗು ತೊರೆದು ರಕ್ಷಿಸಿ ಶಿಕ್ಷೆಯಿಂದ ಬಚಾವಾಗುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಪಲಾಯನಕ್ಕೆ ಅನುಕೂಲವಾಗಲೆಂದು ಹುಚ್ಚಾಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ ಸೇರುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಮತ್ತೆ ವಿಫಲ. ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬ ಮಿತ್ರನ ದಾರುಣ ಸಾವು. ಕಣ್ಣೆದುರಲ್ಲೇ ಶಾರ್ಕ್ ಮೀನುಗಳಿಗೆ ಆಹುತಿ. ಮತ್ತೆ ವಾಪಸ್ಸಾಗಿ ಮತ್ತೆ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ.
ಅಂತೂ ಈ ಬಾರಿ ತೆಂಗಿನ ಕಾಯಿ ಚೀಲವನ್ನೇ ತೆಪ್ಪವನ್ನಾಗಿ ಬಳಸಿ ಶಾರ್ಕ್ ತುಂಬಿರುವ ಸಮುದ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ೩ ದಿನ ನಿದ್ದೆಯಿಲ್ಲದೆ ತೇಲಾಡಿ ಒಂದು ದಡ ಸೇರುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಅವನೊಡನೆ ಬಂದಿದ್ದ ಮಿತ್ರ ಕಣ್ಣೆದುರಲ್ಲೇ ಜವಳು ನೆಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಳುಗಿ ಸಾಯುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಹಿಂದೆಲ್ಲ ಯಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ದೊನಿಗಳಿರುತ್ತವೆ, ನಾವೆಯಿರುತ್ತದೆ, ಜೊತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಜನರಿರುತ್ತಾರೆ, ಆದರೂ ಸಿಗದ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಈ ಬಾರಿ ತೆಂಗಿನ ಕಾಯಿಯ ಚೀಲದ ಮೇಲೆ ತೇಲುತ್ತಾ ದೊರಕಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಆ ದ್ವೀಪದಿಂದ ಹೊಸ ಗೆಳೆಯ ಕ್ವಿಕ್ ಕ್ವಿಕ್ ಜೊತೆ ಪಲಾಯನ ಮಾಡಿ ವೆನೆಜುವೆಲಾ ತಲುಪಿ ಅಂತೂ ಅಲ್ಲಿನ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಪ್ರಜೆಯಾಗಿ ಬದುಕುತ್ತಾನೆ ಪ್ಯಾಪಿ.
ಎರಡು ಭಾಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪೂರ್ಣಚಂದ್ರ ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ ಅನುವಾದಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಓದಲೇ ಬೇಕಾದ ಪುಸ್ತಕ. ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯಿಕವಾಗಿ ಏನಿಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೂ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷವಾಗಲೀ, ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತಾಗಲಿ, ಯಾರೇ ಅಡ್ಡ ಬರಲಿ, ವಿಧಿಯೇ ಬಾಧಿಸಲಿ; ವಿಧಿಯನ್ನೇ ಸೋಲಿಸಿ ಗುರಿ ತಲಪುವ ಮಾರ್ಗ ತೋರಿಸುವ ಪುಸ್ತಕ. ನಿಜಕ್ಕೂ ಅದ್ಭುತ ಸಾಹಸ. ಪ್ಯಾಪಿಗಿರುವ ಅರ್ಧ ಛಲ, ಸಹನೆ, ಗುರಿ ನಮಗಿದ್ದರೆ ಏನನ್ನಾದರೂ ಸಾಧಿಸಬಲ್ಲೆವು.
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ಮತ್ತೆ ನೆನಪಾಯಿತು "ಭಾರತ ದರ್ಶನ"

"ನೀವು ಯಾವುದೇ ಚರಿತ್ರೆಯ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ತೆರೆದರೂ ಅದರ ಮೊದಲ ಪುಟದಲ್ಲೇ ಭಾರತದ ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾಪ ಇರಲೇಬೇಕು. ಒಂದೊಮ್ಮೆ ಇಲ್ಲವೆಂದಾದರೆ ಆ ಪುಸ್ತಕದ ಲೇಖಕ ಉದ್ಧೇಶಪೂರ್ವಕವಾಗಿಯೇ ಸೇರಿಸಿಲ್ಲ ಅಥವಾ ಮೊದಲ ಪುಟ ಹರಿದು ಹೋಗಿದೆ ಎಂದೇ ಅರ್ಥ." ಹೀಗೆ ಶುರು ಆಗುತ್ತದೆ ಭಾರತ ದರ್ಶನ.
ನಾನು ಚಿಕ್ಕವನಿದ್ದಾಗ ಗೋಕರ್ಣದ ಸಮೀಪದ ನನ್ನ ಅಜ್ಜಿಯ ಮನೆಯ ಪಕ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ಸಾರಸ್ವತ ಹಿರಿಯರೊಬ್ಬರು ಅವರ ಹಳೆಯ ಟೇಪ್ ರಿಕಾರ್ಡರ್ ಸ್ವಚ್ಚಗೊಳಿಸಿ ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರತ ದರ್ಶನದ ಒಂದೊಂದೇ ಭಾಗ ಕ್ಯಾಸೆಟ್ ಹಾಕಿ ಕೇಳಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಅವರಿಗೆ ಅದರಿಂದ ಆಗುವ ವಯಕ್ತಿಕ ಲಾಭ ಏನೂ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಭಾವಿ ಭಾರತದ ನಾಗರೀಕನಿಗೆ ಭಾರತದ ದರ್ಶನ ಮಾಡಿಸುವುದರಲ್ಲೇ ಅವರಿಗೆ ನೆಮ್ಮದಿಯಿತ್ತು. ಆರೆಸೆಸ್ಸ್ ಹಿರಿಯರ ದೇಶಪ್ರೇಮ ಅದಾಗಿತ್ತು.
ನಿಮ್ಮಲ್ಲೆಸ್ಟು ಜನ ಭಾರತ ದರ್ಶನ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೀರಿ? ಸ್ಲಂ ಡಾಗ್ ಆಗಲೀ, ಬಿಳಿ ಹುಲಿಯಾಗಲೀ ಭಾರತ ದರ್ಶನ ಮಾಡಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಭಾರತವೆಂದರೆ ಬೇರೆಯದೇ ಇದೆ. ಒಮ್ಮೆ "ಭಾರತ ದರ್ಶನ" ಮಾಡಿರಿ. ರೋಗಿಸ್ಟ ಭಾರತ ಎಂದು ಇಲ್ಲೆ ಹೀಗೆಳೆಯುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಅದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿದ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ವಿವೇಕಾನಂದರು ಅದೇಗೆ ಭಾರತವನ್ನು ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಪುನೀತರಾಗಿಸಿದರು ಎನ್ನುವುದನ್ನು ಹೇಳುತ್ತದೆ- ಭಾರತ ದರ್ಶನ. ನಾವೂ ಭಾರತಾಂಬೆಯ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯ ಪುತ್ರರಾಗುವುದು ಹೇಗೆಂದು ಕಲಿಸುತ್ತದೆ ಭಾರತ ದರ್ಶನ.
ಆರೆಸ್ಸೆಸ್ಸ್, ವಿಶ್ವ ಹಿಂದೂ ಪರಿಷತ್ ಗಳನ್ನು ಭಯೋತ್ಪಾದಕರು ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯುವ ಸಿನ್ನೆನ್ನ್ ಐಬಿಎನ್ ರಾಜದೀಪ್ ಸರ್ದೇಸಾಯಿಗೆ ಭಾರತ ಎಂದರೇನೆಂದು ಕೇಳಿ ನೋಡಿ. ಕಮ್ಯುನಿಸ್ಟ್ ಕನ್ನಡಕ ಹಾಕಿಕೊಂಡು ನೋಡಿದ ಭಾರತದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಆದರೆ ಅದಲ್ಲ ಭಾರತ. ನನ್ನ ಭಾರತ ಬೇರೇನೆ ಇದೆ. ಭಾರತ ದರ್ಶನ ಮಾಡಿಸಿದವರಿಗೆ ಟೆರ್ರರಿಸ್ಟ್ ಪಟ್ಟ ಕಟ್ಟಿ ಸಿಮಿಯಂಥ ಕ್ರಿಮಿಗೆ ಹೋಲಿಸುವ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಗಳಿಗೆ ಏನು ಗೊತ್ತು ಭಾರತದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ.
ನಿಮಗೂ ಭಾರತದ ದರ್ಶನ ಮಾಡುವ ಆಸೆಯೇ? ಆರು ಭಾಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇಡೀ ಭಾರತದ ದರ್ಶನ ಮಾಡಿ. ಭಾರತ ದರ್ಶನ ವಿಶ್ವ ಹಿಂದೂ ಪರಿಷತ್ ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಉಚಿತವಾಗಿ ಲಭ್ಯವಿದೆ. ಭಾರತದ ಇತಿಹಾಸ, ವರ್ತಮಾನ, ಭವಿಷ್ಯ ಎಲ್ಲವನ್ನೂ ಕೇಳಿ ತಿಳಿದು ಒಂದೈದು ನಿಮಿಷ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಯೋಚಿಸಿ. ಆಗ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನಿಮಗೆ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆ ಅನಿಸದಿದ್ದರೆ ಹೇಳಿ. ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ಹುಟ್ಟುವುದೇ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆ! ಭಾರತಿಯರಾಗಿ ಜನಿಸುವುದೇ ಒಂದು ಪುಣ್ಯ.
ಭಾರತ ದರ್ಶನಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. ಕನ್ನಡ ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ಹಲವಾರು ಭಾಷೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಲಭ್ಯವಿದೆ.
೫೯ನೇ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು. ಭಾರತಕ್ಕೆ, ಭಾರತೀಯರಿಗೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದಾಗಲಿ. ಇದಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಈ ಬಾರಿ ಶುಭ ಕೋರುವ ಪರಿ ನನಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ.
Keywords: Hindutwa, Bharat Darshan, Indianisation, RSS, VHP, Hindu, History of India, Simi, Republic Day of India

Airtel.com, Airtel.in and Domain squatting

Before going in detail I have to tell you what is domain squatting. Domain squatting is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. Now the question is whether the following case a domain squatting?
Let us analyse the situation. Click on Airtel.in. You will be taken to India's popular cellular service provider Airtel. Airtel is largest cellular service provider of India with more than 79 million subscribers as of November 2008. Now click on Airtel.com. You will be navigated to Vodafone Spain site. It may be a Spanish, where Airtel has no service, it still is the competitor’s website. Airtel has tough compitition with Vodafone in India. Whoever types Airtel.com and looks for Airtel detail he will be taken to Vodafone's website. Vodafone gets free traffic from Airtel.
What could be legal action? Before tell it I should also inform how I can write about this. I am a student of Post Graduation Diploma in IPR Laws in National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Now come to the case. By the definition of Domain squatting or Cyber squatting, if domain name Airtel.com is registered with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else that is well established Airtel, then Vodafone could be asked to transfer the domain name according to the WIPO Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. WIPO takes care of transfer of domain names to the true trademark owner.
But this case is quite different. Look at this information:

Domain name: AIRTEL.COM
Host IP 212.73.32.153
Created on: 1998-12-15
Updated on: 2008-09-29
Expires on: 2009-12-14
Registrant Name: AIRTEL MOVIL, S.A.
Contact: AIRTEL MOVIL, S.A.
Technical Contact Address: Psg. Lluis Companys, 23
Technical Contact City: Barcelona
Technical Contact Postal Code: 08010
Technical Contact Country: ES
Contact Phone: +34 935074360
Contact Fax: +34 933102360

The domain name is registered very long back in 1998, when cellular service called Airtel was there in Spain. But later it is acquired by Vodafone and they took the advantage and started redirecting the traffic from Airtel.com to their Spanish site. So Airtel-India can not do anything on this issue. But the domain name Airtel.com will get expired on 14 Dec 2009. Hope Vodafone will not re-registeres the domain name and continue to use it.
What happens if Vodafone re-registeres Airtel.com even though now it does not own trademark Airtel? I have to ask our lecturer, IPR expert, advocate J Suresh to answer this question. If you know the answer you are free to write a comment.

Slumdog millionaire and true India

Sum dog millionaire grabbed 4 Golden globe international film awards. A R Rehaman, most favourite music director of India become first Indian to win that award. As everybody thought i also accepted it as a crown for India. Later I realised it is completely a myth. What is there in this movie which will distinguish from a normal bollywood movie? It has successfully pictured India as a country of slum, beggars and prostitutes. It has become an international trend. If somebody pictures eastern countries as slums, they will get award. Even white tiger is an example of this. I can bet, this Slumdog is not at all comparable with Taare jameen par or Lagaan.
The i wrote some articles on Slumdog, my friend, a software professional Shivaprasad had told me that it is like any other bollywood film, directed by someone who had never seen India positively. We had better film than this. It won't get even a state award. I did not believe him, because I heard Rehaman's Vande mataram, Jana gana mana and many other songs.
India is never treated better in any International awards including Nobel. Can you show me anybody who can compete with Mahatma Gandhi when he got nominated for Nobel peace award? But he did not get it. What is good in India is never recognised. This does not matter. But when Indians could not recognise what we have, it costs more.
Slumdog starts convincing you Mumbai as a biggest slum in the world. Then it comes to communal disputes- mother of two Muslim boys murdered ( by another community. No need to tell more) Then the story goes towards world of beggars, prostitutes, bar girls, criminals. Should I write more?
Also read Shocked by Slumdog's poverty porn

Watch Slumdog Millionaire- Jai Ho video

Music composer A R Rahman became the first Indian to win the 66-year-old prize, Golden Globe for the best original music score for Slumdog Millionaire for the song Jai Ho. It is a very sweet music to Indian ears lyrics by Gulzar. Ironically, the movie has still not been released in Indian theatres. It is supposed to be released in India on 23rd Jan.

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Slumdog Millionaire- Jai Ho MP3 with lyrics

Music composer A R Rahman became the first Indian to win the 66-year-old prize, Golden Globe for the best original music score for Slumdog Millionaire for the song Jai Ho. It is a very sweet music to Indian ears lyrics by Gulzar. Ironically, the movie has still not been released in Indian theatres. It is supposed to be released in India on 23rd Jan.

Download Slumdog Millionaire Jai Ho
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Lyrics: (Source: Inkspillz)
Jai Ho....!
Aaja aaja jind shamiyaane ke taley
Aaja zari waale neele aasmaane ke taley
Jai Ho....!
Ratti ratti sachchi maine jaan gawayi hai
Nach Nach koylon pe raat bitaayi hai
Ankhiyon ki neend maine phoonkon se udaa di
Gin gin taarey maine ungli jalayi hai
Eh Aaja aaja jind shamiyaane ke taley
Aaja zari waale neele aasmaane ke taley

Baila! Baila!Ahora conmigo, tu baila para hoyPor nuestro dia de movidas, las problemas lo que sean, Salud! Baila! Baila! (It is in spannish)

Jai Ho....!
Chakh le, haan chakh le, yeh raat shehed hai
Chakh le, haan rakh le,
Dil hai, dil aakhri hadd hai
Kaala kaala kaajal tera
Koi kaala jaadu hai na?
Aaja aaja jind shamiyaane ke taley
Aaja zari waale neele aasmaane ke taley

Jai Ho....!
Kab se haan kab se jo lab pe ruki hai
Keh de, keh de, haan keh de
Ab aankh jhuki hai
Aisi aisi roshan aankhein
Roshan dono heerey hain kya?
Aaja aaja jind shamiyaane ke taley
Aaja zari waale neele aasmaane ke taley
Jai Ho....!
English translation of the song is there at InkSpillz.

Bihar IAS officer, TIME Asian Heroes of 2004, corrupted officer Gautam Goswami no more

Gautam Goswami, A true example of oscillating life to the two extremes is no more. He was an IAS officer, TIME Asian hero of 2004, accused in the infamous flood-relief scam passed away on Jan 5, 2009.

A 1991-batch officer(with ID no 01BH042600), Goswami, also an MBBS and MD from BHU. He had received a gold medal for topping the MBBS exam from Benaras Hindu University. He became a hero when he literally put his hand on microphones to prevent the then Union home minister, Lal Krishna Advani, from continuing his speech at an election rally in Patna in 2004. “Sir, your time is up,” the officer told the minister referring to the Election Commission’s model code of conduct which proscribed use of public address system after 10 pm. Later Time magazine also conferred the “Asian Hero” award on Goswami.

Later in the same year 2004, during the flood in Bihar, his life got a dramatic turn. Goswami later quit the IAS and went on to join a private firm even before his resignation was accepted. In the meantime, his name figured in an FIR lodged in connection with the swindling fund which was meant for providing relief to flood-affected people in the state in 2004. Goswami, who was in charge of the relief operations in the north Bihar districts in 2004, became the main accused in the Rs 250-crore scandal. A court issued an arrest warrant in 2005. Goswami surrendered in June that year and was remanded in judicial custody. The government suspended him from service and he was jailed for 17 months with 10 other prominent government officials.

Goswami was diagnosed to be suffering from cancer in early 2008. The Bihar government revoked his suspension on December 8, 2008, on “humanitarian” grounds.
TIME magazine once wrote, “Goswami’s reputation for upholding the law improves the image of a civil service perceived by many Indians as corrupt or inefficient.” But he ended his life as a corrupted officer.

How is Google Chrome?

     
Google Chrome (beta) is a newly launched web browser to join the group of already existing number of browsers. Because it is from Google, it will not be one among them. It looks good, browse faster.... but I feel little complicate to handle. It gives a widened space for web window, where others viz. internet explorer 7, mozilla (3), netscape will sometimes eat half of the screen for useless informations.

When it comes to speed of browsing I felt it is equivalent to mozilla. There is another browser Safari (3.1) from Apple which claimed it is faster than Mozilla, but I saw it slower than that. I sincerely agree that it is much faster than Explorer from microsoft. Even though Internet explorer is slower you have to keep it in your PC if you run oj windows, because some Web applications ask for it.

But safari and Chrome are not supporting entry of indic scripts while they display indic scripts better than any. Internet explorer is good if you write a blog entry in Indic scripts like Kannada or hindi.

If you are addicted downloader prefer use of Chrome or mozilla as it does this task smoothely. Some MP3 or video couldn't be downloaded using these. When I clicked on the link there browser tried to open it in new window intead of saving it to drive. It does not have option "save terget as" like explorer. 

The 3 Mistakes of My Life

the 3 mistakes of my life

You can not read it like a novel.

It is written as a script for a Bollywood movie.

Two fights: One at the beginning, to make readers understand how much the heroine Vidya’s brother, Ish loves her. Another at the climax, a friend of the hero Omi dies to save the twelve year old Muslim boy from his own uncle Bittoo mama. Inturn Bittoo Mama will be killed by the future Tendulkar, Ali. hitting straight sixes to his face.

Romance: The hero teaches maths to the sister of his friend. She does everything to attract him, he falls in love. They have sex on her 18th birthday when her brother is fully involved in watching cricket match. She tells “I’m no more a virgin” without a trace of guilt feel. They had sex 9 times in 2 months. She is a middle class Ahmadabad girl!

Item song: 100 topless women at Bondi beach of Australia; six were playing Frisbee. So there are 200 breasts to look at. Hero loves maths, he counts the breasts too.

Scenes you remember even after years: The member of a Hindu political party, kills the twelve years old Muslim boy, consuming marijuana, after his son’s death in Godra incident. The communal fight starts. At the same time, the hero’s cell gets an SMS from the girl stating that she got her periods and no need to worry. Her brother reads it as the cell is with him. There are many other ready-made scenes for the director adopting this book for a movie.

Writing something on Indian Religion system and communal riots is far tougher than writing CAT. Author should have done more homework on these issues. One will enjoy reading the story lines with cricket and love. But to enjoy the political issues of the story, you need to be inclined to left or be a pseudo secular. Every political and riot events tries to convey Hindu party workers are devils. I believe the author should have balanced the views on the religions and left the decision to the readers.

The book says only Hindu party workers are devils, not Muslims. The book is at safer side, not to get banned.