Happy New Year 2009: 365 days in 40 Seconds

Hi Friends,

I wanted to wish you Happy New Year with a new message. I got this video in YouTube. This video shows whole year in 40 seconds. 365 days runs like seconds. It happened to me all these years. Could not even recall how I had spent 366 days in 2008. Hardly I could counted some hundred hours that I have done some useful jobs.
The same summer, same winter, same or more or less rain again repeats this year. But let our life may not be a repetition of previous year. Let it be more successful we have ever seen. Let it be more joyful than we have ever enjoyed. Let the tough time both we have faced individually and with the common minded people around the world not be repeated. Year 2008 has given many challenges to us, let us conquer these challenges in 2009. Let the world be peace, let the nature be calm, let us be cool.
Happy New Year 2009

How to read "how to books"?

Soon you may see a book with title "How to read 'how to books'?", sometaimes later, "How to write 'how to books'?" in book shelf. Not an amazing thing it is.

I used to read "how to" books sometime ago. How to speak, how to walk, how to talk, how to cook, how to grow rich, how to be intelligent... oooof.. a long list. But today I hate those books. I never find them useful for me, I never find any great achiever because of such books. Those books might have exampled some people, but remember those shall not have even time to hear such book titles. Nobody became great by reading such books. You have to grow by yourself, you have to find your own way, you have to make your own path.
I was discussing the same with a scientist of GE. He narrated a story how these "how to books" are written.

There was a Christmas get together. There met two ladies. One is very short, but not thin and another is very long and has flat chest.
Short lady asked the tall one after knowing her name "I have heard about you some where....".
The tall lady replied "Yeah, you might be. I'm an author, my book is a New York Best seller".
The short lady asked "Oh. Great. What is the title?".
The flat chested long lady replied "How to have a big chest and attract men?".
The short lady looked at her chest, fainted and could not reply.
The tall lady continued "Bye the way what you do?"
Short lady replied "I'm also a New York best seller author".
Tall lady asked "Oh, same profession, What you wrote?".
Short lady answered "How to grow taller?".
Short lady could not keep quite without asking "You have such a short gesture, how could you write on how to grow taller?"
The short lady told "I know short people are crazy about reading a book which tells how to grow taller. How could you write on having a attractive breast, having such a small...?"
The tall lady replied "I know how girls like me are crazy to get big breast. Because I was also mad for reading such stuffs."

Ask Barack Obama whether he has read how to master public speak. Ask Buffet if had read how to invest? Ask Bill Gates has he gone through a book on how to build a company? Ask Paulo Coelho has he read how to write a famous novel? If someone is writing such books on growing rich, ask how rich is he? What is his position in the Forbes List? Even though you would like to buy a book on How to grow rich, first untold lesson is- don't buy a original copy, get second hand or a pirated copy which comes in less than half of the original price. You will grow rich. A smile?

Focus on Focus to be successful

Focus is the essential requirement for success. Every success comes from focusing on your goal. The goal may be silly, very small comparative to others but when you focus on it you will be the ruler. So marketing guru Al Ries tells Focusing is key for success.

Not necessarily only in marketing, but for every moment of our life- focus leads to success. I can tell you why. You may be a software engineering student. Instead of trying to become master in every thing that comes in syllabus, just you could focus on "c", a very first language you learnt in your studies could make you master in "c" and you can rule it. If you are a MBA student you can just focus your ideas on McKinsey's 7s model and you can become master and it gives value to your life.

Most of the successful stories follows the same pattern. Google concentrated on search, it is ruling the world of search engines (now they are diverging, that is different kind of story).Coca-cola focused on coke, Mc Donald focused on Hamburger, Pizza Hut concentrated on Pizza, Coffee day on Coffee, Microsoft on Windows..... all are now unquestionable in their field. Today you decide what to focus on. Focus on what you want to focus. You will rule it.

"Satyam"- not Shivam nor Sundaram.

Satyam- a former construction company turned a Indian software giant, 4th largest IT exporter from India now at trouble. It is seeing a very tough time recently when market people did not accept Satyam's acquisition of Maytas Infrastructure and Maytas Properties where both companies are in the hold of family of Satyam's chairman B Ramalinga Raju. Satyam's this deal disturbed the basic confidence of Indian investers. You can look at the chart given here and observe more than 40% loss in just 1 week where the prices of 24th Dec compared with 16th Dec, the day before the Maytas- Satyam deal saw the red eye of investers.
The company dropped the plan to buy the two firms within hours after investors reacted angrily. But it didn't helped because it encountered another unfortunate moment- The World has barred Satyam, its top computer software services provider, from conducting any business with it for eight years. The WB has given the reasons "improper benefits to bank staff" and "lack of documentation on invoices" for taking this action. This again raised selling pressure of the Satyam shares.Even today (24 Dec) market drop and Satyam share fall are non comparable- Satyam was down 14.6 percent at 119.85 rupees at the time Mumbai market was down 0.9 percent.

Apart from these stories there are also strong reasons that Satyam's further fall that may not be able to acquire in this strange economic situation. Satyam clients General Electric, Nestle and Qantas Airways, cut its sales forecast in October. Satyam became a live example of bad corporate governance. There is no hope of Satyam becoming Shivam(auspiciousness-favorable quality of indicating successful) and Sundaram(beauty).

Internet providing new platform in freelance journalists

Freelance journalists are those who are not the internal part of the publishing houses, but without whom both the print and electronic media won't survive even for a single day. Difference between a regular journalist a freelance journalist are that a freelance journalist writes whenever he wishes, on whatever he likes but a regular journalist has a commitment of writing, he has a deadline. Freelance journalist has to arrange his cost of reporting his own where a regular journalist sent by the media unit will be prepaid by it.

Advantage of being a freelance journalist is that he can write whatever he wishes, whenever he finds himself free to write, he can publish whichever magazine or media and also can earn money from it. If you have a passion for hunting new information and analysing them to make a paragraph or two you too become a free lane journalist.

When it comes to Internet era, free lance journalists have a good opportunity and exposure never seen earlier. You can get information on your own or get from the net, add your own views and publish your own. Blogger are the best example for freelance journalists. A blogger is a writer, editor and a publisher of his own. He can be a designer if he has a little knowledge of html and some other web languages. He can also earn money by publishing ads which google or yahoo like sites provides or can get paid from some websites directly if he is a serious writer. If you are new to the field you can get noticed by others by writing to those who are already noticed by others. Internet just works by links.

For this what one has to do is write more original contents, get linked by some high page ranked sites, write something interesting and be active. I started my career as freelance journalist 8 years ago, entered blogging 3 years ago and changed some blogging sites until I find myself satisfied with the services provided, started earning(though not a significant amount) through blogging 4 months back. Why late, you too be a freelance journalist.

ದೀಪಿಕಾ ಪಡುಕೋಣೆ- ಮನೆ ಮರೆತ ಮದನಾರಿ

ಆವತ್ತು ಓಂ ಶಾಂತಿ ಓಂ ನೋಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಜನ, ದೀಪಿಕಾ ಪಡುಕೋಣೆ ತಾನು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಿಂದ ಬಂದವಳು ಎಂದು ಡೈಲಾಗ್ ಹೊಡೆಯುತ್ತ ಎಂಟರ್ ಆಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದಂತೆ ಹೋ ಎಂದು ಕಿರುಚಿದ್ದನ್ನು ನೋಡಬೇಕಿತ್ತು. ನಮ್ಮೂರಿನ ಹುಡುಗಿ ಎಂಬ ಅಭಿಮಾನ ನಮ್ಮವರಿಗೆ. ಆದರೆ ಅದೇ ಅಭಿಮಾನ ದೀಪಿಕಾಗೂ ಇರಬೇಕಿತ್ತಲ್ಲ? ಪಾಪ ಬಾಲಿವುಡ್ ಯಶಸ್ಸು, ಹಾದಿ ಬೀದಿಗಳ ಬೋರ್ಡ್ ಮೇಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಬಿಎಸ್ಸೇನ್ನೆಲ್ ಜಾಹೀರಾತುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ರಾರಾಜಿಸುವಂತಾದಮೇಲೆ ಮನೆ ನೆನಪಾಗಬೇಕಲ್ಲ? ಅವಳ ತಪ್ಪಲ್ಲ ಬಿಡಿ. ಸಿಕ್ಕಾಪಟ್ಟೆ ಮೈಮಾಟ ತೋರಿಸಿ ಎಕ್ಸ್ಪೋಸ್ ಮಾಡಿ ಗಳಿಸಿದ ಯಶಸ್ಸನ್ನೇನು ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಹಂಚಲು ಅವಳಿಗೇನು ಹುಚ್ಚೆ? ಹೇಗಿದ್ದಳು ಹೇಗಾದಳು ಎಂದು ಮಾತನಾಡಿಕೊಂಡವರು ನಾವೇ ಅಲ್ಲವೇ?

ವಿಷಯ ಏನಿಲ್ಲ. ಸಿಂಪಲ್. ದೀಪಿಕಾ ಪಡುಕೋಣೆಗೆ ಮನೆ ಹೆಸರೇ ಮರೆತು ಹೋಗಿದೆಯಂತೆ. ಕನ್ನಡದ ಚಿತ್ರೋದ್ಯಮಕ್ಕೆ ಸ್ಯಾಂಡಲ್ವುಡ್ ಅನ್ನುವುದು ಮರೆತುಹೋಗುವಷ್ಟು ಸೊಕ್ಕಿದ್ದಾಳಂತೆ. ಅದೂ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲೇ ಹಾಗೆಂದಿರುವುದು! ಟೋಟಲ್ ಮಳಿಗೆಯ ಲೆವಿಸ್ ಶೋ ರೂಮ್ ಆರಂಬ್ಹೊತ್ಸವಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದಾಕೆಗೆ ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರು ಸ್ಯಾಂಡಲ್ ವುಡ್ ಚಿತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ವಾಪಸ್ ಬರುವ ಆಲೋಚನೆಯೇನದರೂ ಇದೆಯಾ ಎಂದು ಕೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅವಳಿಗೆ ಸ್ಯಾಂಡಲ್ ವುಡ್ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಏನೂ ಅಂತಾನೆ ಮರೆತೋಗಿದೆ. ಹಾಗೆಂದರೆ ಏನೆಂದು ತಿರುಗಿ ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರನ್ನೇ ವಿಚಾರಿಸಿ ಯಾವಾಗಿಂದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಚಿತ್ರೋದ್ಯಮ ಹೆಸರು ಬದಲಾಯಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿತೆಂದು ವಿಚಾರಿಸಿದ್ದಾಳೆ. ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರಾಗಿದ್ದಕ್ಕೆ ಅಸ್ಟಾದರೂ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ್ದಾಳೆ. ಆದರೂ ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತರು ಸುಸ್ತಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇದೆಲ್ಲ ಆಗಿದ್ದು ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ ೧೯ ರಂದು ಎಂದು ಡಿ.ಏನ್.ಎ ವರದಿ ಮಾಡಿದೆ. ಅದನ್ನೋದಿದ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರು ಪೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಕನ್ನಡದಿಂದ ಅದೆಷ್ಟು ಜನ ತನ್ನ ಜೀವನ ಆರಂಭಿಸಿ ಮನೆ ಮರೆತಿಲ್ಲ. ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಇದು ಹೊಸ ಸೇರ್ಪಡೆ. ಸಧ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಅದೇ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ ಜೆನ್ನಿಫರ, ಧ್ಯಾನ್, ಪೂಜಾ ಗಾಂಧೀ ಮತ್ತಿತರನ್ನೂ ಮಾತನಾಡಿಸಿ ನೋಡಿದಾಗ ಅವರ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯೆ ನೋಡಿ ಅವರಾದರೂ ನೆನಪಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆಲ್ಲ ಅಂತ ಸಮಾಧಾನ ಆಯಿತಷ್ಟೆ.

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Mother India crying looking at Arundhati Roy

"We had the death of former prime minster VP Singh, the hero of Dalits and lower castes and villain of Upper caste Hindus pass without a mention." Arundhati Roy writes in an article, she is so sad that terror attack on Mumbai made the people not to remember VP Singh. Arundhati Roy treats VP Singh as a hero, it is obvious that she is a "secular" Indian. She sometimes calls BJP as villions of Dalits and praises Vishwanath Pratap Singh, who cobbled a coalition of the Left and BJP to dethrone Rajiv Gandhi in the 1989 elections as a hero of Dalits. VP singh once considered very close to Rajiv Gandhi, later slammed him, quit his government in 1987 on the issue of corruption in public life. She writes for Guardian like some Islamist Extremist or some Pakistani had entered into her body. Mother India is crying looking at Arundhati Roy.

She writes- Even today we don't really know who the terrorists that attacked the Indian parliament were and who they worked for. She advocates on behalf of LeT, Afzal guru and some other extremist. She brings Modi, RSS, Bajarang Dal, other persons and organisation in the article that she writes an the occasion of Mumbai terror attacks and condemns something else. She delivers a judgement that pro-Hindu people are terrorists and such organisations are terrorist groups. She advocates on behalf of Pakistan's government that the terrorist may not be belonging to Pak. Then, from where they came from? Mother India is crying looking at Arundhati Roy.

According to Roy, Muslims are not the only people in the gun sights of the Hindu right. Dalits have been consistently targeted. Recently in Kandhamal in Orissa, Christians were the target of two and a half months of violence which left more than 40 dead. She writes LeT chief tells "We would like to give India a tit-for-tat response and reciprocate in the same way by killing the Hindus, just like it is killing the Muslims in Kashmir." She arrives to an idea that India, Indians, Hindus are busy in sinful acts. Are dalits not Hindus? At the same time she forgets that how many Kashmiri Pundits are refugees now. Who made them refugees? Are Kashmiri Pundits Dalits? Who killed Swami Lakshmananand Saraswati? What could be the cause behind Kandamal incidents? Why people raised their voice and shoulder in Gujrat? She doesn't need explanation for these things because she writing article for an international magazine. If she was a follower of Islam, if she writes the same thing what she made her pen busy now against Islam she could have not able to calculate the number of fatwa could have been on her. Mother India is crying looking at Arundhati Roy.

Javaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten affair- An untold story

Javaharlal Nehru, Chacha Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India had a fashionable and privileged life. Recently Nehru is well discussed about his affair with the wife of Luis Mountbatten last Viceroy pre-Partition India. Nehru family was one of the richest family of India which was also had taken part in Indian freedom movement. Edwina also from a high class family of London where she was a leading member of London society at the time of her marriage. She was also leading a fashionable life. Her life almost totally dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure. Edwina was criticised by the news papers of her time for her affair with various celebrities of her time. It is also quoted "Lady Mountbatten occasionally traveled with her husband's sister-in-law, Lady Milford Haven, whose bisexual liaisons are perhaps better documented than those attributed to Edwina". She successfully suited newspapers for publishing her personal stories. But it was rumoured and remains widely believed, she an affair with Jawaharlal Nehru that could also be had a connection on Nehru's subsequent visits to England after her returning.

Pamela Mountbatten, daughter of Lord Mountbatten described the relationship between Nehru and her mother in her book India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power with a chapter called "A Special Relationship" Express India reports she says, ‘Love blossomed’ between a ‘lonely’ Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of the country, and the last Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten's wife, Edwina, who had had other ‘lovers’ before. She also writes affair between Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, and Lady Edwina Mountbatten, blossomed during a 1947 trip to Mashobra, a hill station, as part of a party of family and friends. The attachment between them lasted until her death in 1960. A packet of letters from Nehru was found by her bedside. In her will she left all Nehru's letters - a suitcase full - to her husband.

“…towards the end of the 15 months we spent in India, the immediate attraction between my mother and Pandit ji blossomed into love” by this sentence Pamela gives a sacred states to Nehru and Edwina love affair. The kind of love that the old knights of old, a chivalric love, just as deep an emotional love with two like souls in a way, people who really grow to understand each other, and to be able to listen to each other and to complement each other and find solace in each other. Whatever the stories that could be, the photoes will never lie.

Photos: A photo Nehru laughing with Lady Mountnbatten taken by World famous photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson in Delhi in 1948 showing Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten sharing a joke as Louis Mountbatten stands by. The photo was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery (UK) in 1990.
Nehru lightning cigerate was captured by the first women photo journalist of India Homai Vyarawalla.This is the one of the rarest photograph of Indian politics.

Reintoduce Sanskrit as National Language of India

Sanskrit (संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam) is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism. Sanskrit is the mother of all Indian languages. The literature for what India is considered as a great knowledge resource, were originally written in Sanskrit. That may be Ramayana, Mahabharata or nonreligious like Yoga, Ayurveda, Vedic Maths and even Kamasutra. Can India be considered as India without these? How we have treated this Holy language? Reintroducing Sanskrit as our National language can be a proper respect we could offer to it.

My intention is not to go against Hindi. Let Hindi be our administrative language, but we should also take into account that there are more non Hindi speaking people than Hindi speaking people in India(ref:Language in India). Most of non Hindi people are not willing accept Hindi. So instead of forcing Hindi into these regions, if Sanskrit is intoduced as National Language we can bring more National integrity. So sanskrit can be used as a tool for National integrity. Any how definition of Sanskrit could only achieve it: The word Sanskrit means 'put together', 'perfected', 'polished', 'accomplished', 'highly elaborated'.

Scholars who contributed for India also had the same view. Both Sri Aurobindo and Mother have suggested that Sanskrit should be the national language of India. Dr Ambedkar himself wanted to sponsor Sanskrit the official language of the Indian union along with his supporters Dr BV Keskar, deputy minister for external affairs, and Naziruddin Ahmed. He moved an amendment draft on September 10, 1949. The resolution had to be withdrawn due to political pressure.

One day Sanskrit will be introduced as National Language. Sorry it will be re introduced as our national language, once upon a time in the Golden ages of India Sanskrit was our nationl language. The day is not far if you believe Nostradamus forecast on Sinskrit:
"Congressus independantum Blancum copium est; necessarus changum indianus cumum facus est"…
As the Congress had heavily borrowed from the White Man (British ?) at Independence, it will become necessary to "Indianize" the nation so that it may manifest again its true unique soul.
"Panchayatum villagum empruntus. Sanskritus introdum est. Historicum ecritum manus, daemonus est. Yogum, respirationnus introdum est…"
Give back the power to the villages in the form of Panchayat. Reintroduce Sanskrit as the national language. Rewrite Indian History, which had mostly been devised by White Masters. Revive ancient traditional systems such as pranayama, yoga, and incorporate them in the education system and everyday life. Change the Constitution so that democracy may not be perverted as it will be.

One of the best article is there at Intellibriefs, though I found a comment is more interesting than the post.

Everything that is constructed is to be destructed

Everything that is constructed will be destructed. It may difficult to accept this truth. But that is. Everything, each and everything.... human life, a new innovation, a business, a building, a government, a policy, a law, a belief, a relation everything that is constructed today to be destructed one day.

I don't tell things to be completely collapsed to be destructed, but at least the form in which it is present shall be destructed to construct itself in another form. This seems to be law of nature. The theory of formation of this world itself tells that it is constructed by destruction. So sooner or longer it has to be destructed to construct another.

There were kings, kingdom, policies, laws, belief... they are no more now. They all are destructed to construct where we are now. A business, that is formed by years of hard work will be reformed to transform into another form in a minuets of time or it may be completely collapsed to make way to another business. But sure, it shall be destructed.

A record, may be a sports world record, or simply a Guinness record made by months of preparation will be reconstructed by another. A relation started by 1st meet goes to an end, that could be a full stop or transformation of type of relation. Open to close, close to open; social relationship to personal or a collapse of the relationship.

So, think of the way how it could be destructed before constructing. This will help you to reform it and save it from collapsing. Go for reconstruction before it collapse. So when you construct think of destruction.

Browsers to challenge search engines?

What is the relation between browsers and search engines? How could browser take over search engines? You may think I'm making fool. But if you carefully observe the developing trend of the browsers it seems to do this job early. Just look at this picture: you can see how the trend has changed.
Little ago I was depending on google (my favourite search engine) for everything I browsed. To go to YouTube or simply to yahoomail I was typing the query as YouTube or yahoomail in search box. It was the easier way I had to enter into any sites. But now? I use search engines only for those queries on which I would like to know the presence of more than a website or simply when I want to do some research on some topic.
Now, if I need to browse Indian Railway, I simply type India in URL tab, it generates some option which consists of "...India...". Select the site I'm looking for and just hit enter. I am done. This is now available on most of all the latest versions of browser software including Mozilla, chrome. Ultimately it reduced about 50% of my search engine usage. That means it simply reduced the hit on search engines.
This is what Mozilla FireFox people defines about this feature: "The new FireFox 3 location bar learns as you use it—it’s so highly evolved that we like to call it the “Awesome Bar”. Over time, it adapts to your preferences and offers better fitting matches. Type in a term and the auto complete function includes possible matching sites from your browsing history, as well as sites you’ve bookmarked and tagged in a drop down. For example, you could enter the tag: “investments” to find “www.fool.com”. Matched terms are highlighted, making the list of results easy to scan." It claims it will show the matching from browsing history, but chrome shows the matching sites even never visited. But days are not far away that it shows matching that represents your taste by scanning whole www.
If you look at search engine history it always had a rapid change. I strongly believe this new feature of the browsers could be a challenge for search engines.

ನಮ್ಮ ಗೃಹಮಂತ್ರಿ ಕೂಡ ಬ್ಲಾಗರ್!!

ನಾನು ಯಾವುದೋ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಬ್ಲಾಗರ್ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಬರೆದು ಲಿಂಕ್ ಕೊಡುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಗೃಹ ಮಂತ್ರಿ ವಿ. ಎಸ್. ಆಚಾರ್ಯಯವರ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಇದು. ನಿಜ. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಗೃಹ ಮಂತ್ರಿ ಕೂಡ ಬ್ಲಾಗರ್. ಅಂತೂ ರಾಜಕಾರಿಣಿಗಳೂ, ಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳೂ ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಂಗ್ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವುದು ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯ ಸಂಗತಿಯೇ. ಅವರ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ನೋಡಿದರೆ ಸಾಕು ಪಕ್ಕ ಜನಸಂಘದ ವಿಚಾರಧಾರೆಗಳು ನೆನಪಾದವು. (ನಾನು ಜನಸಂಘ ಇರುವಾಗ ಇನ್ನೂ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಯೇ ಇರದಿದ್ದರೂ ನಮ್ಮೂರಿನ ಅರೆಸ್ಸೆಸ್ಸ್ ಹಿರಿತಲೆಗಳ ಮಾತು ಕೇಳಿ ಅನುಭವ.) ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕವಾಗಿ ವ್ಯಕ್ತವಾದ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಧ್ವನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳಲೂ ಈಗ ತಾಕತ್ತು ಬೇಕಾದ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿ. ಅಂತದ್ದರಲ್ಲಿ ಗೃಹ ಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳು ನಮ್ಮ ಸಿಕ್ಕಾಪಟ್ಟೆ ಬುದ್ಧಿಜೀವಿಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆಲ್ಲಾ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದರೆಂದರೆ ಜನರ ಕೂಗು ಅವರಿಗೆ ಕೇಳಿದೆ ಎಂದಲ್ಲವೇ? ಹೀಗೇಕೆ ಹೇಳಿದೆನೆಂದರೆ ಈಗಿನ ಬಿಜೆಪಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ವಲಸೆ ಬಂದವರೇ ಹೆಚ್ಚಲ್ಲವೇ? ಅಕ್ರಮ ವಲಸೆ ಎಂದುಕೊಂಡು ಎಬಿವಿಪಿಯವರು ವಿರೋಧಿಸದೆ ಇರುವುದು ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಪುಣ್ಯ. ಅದೆಲ್ಲ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಸಲ್ಲುವ ಮಾತುಗಳಲ್ಲ. ಗೃಹ ಮಂತ್ರಿ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಇಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆನ್ನುವುದೇ ಲೇಖನದ ವಿಷಯ.

ಆಚಾರ್ಯ ಎಷ್ಟೇ ಮುತ್ಸದ್ದಿಯಾದರೂ ಗೃಹ ಮಂತ್ರಿ ಸ್ಥಾನಕ್ಕೆ ತಕ್ಕವರಲ್ಲ ಎನ್ನುವುದು ನನ್ನ ವಯಕ್ತಿಕ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ. (ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಯಡ್ಯೂರಪ್ಪ ಇವರನ್ನೇ ಹೊರತುಪಡಿಸಿ ಎಲ್ಲರ ಅನಿಸಿಕೆ ಕೂಡ.) ಅದರೂ ಅವರ ಕೆಲವು ವಯಕ್ತಿಕ ವಿಚಾರ ಓದಿ ಇಂಥವರು ನಮ್ಮ ಮಂತ್ರಿಯಾಗಿರುವುದು ಹೆಮ್ಮೆ ಎನಿಸಿತು. ಒಂದಂತೂ ಸತ್ಯ- ಇಂಥ ರಾಜಕಾರಿಣಿಗಳು ಮೂಲ ಬಿಜೆಪಿಯಿಂದ ಮಾತ್ರ ಬರಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವೇನೋ! ಹೀಗೇಕೆ ಹೇಳಿದೆನೆಂದರೆ ನಾನು ನೋಡಿದ ಹಾಗೆ ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಚರ್ಚೆಗೆ ಒಳಗಾದವರೆಂದರೆ ಮೊದಿಯೇ. ಅವರ ವೆಬ್ಸೈಟ್ ಹೊರತುಪಡಿಸಿಯೇ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಇನ್ನೂ ಹಲವಾರು ಸೈಟ್ ಗಳಿವೆ. ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ನಮೋ (ನರೇಂದ್ರಮೋದಿ) ಲೀಗ್ ಒಂದು. ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಿದಾಕ್ಷಣ ದೇಶ ಉದ್ಧಾರ ಆಗಿಬಿಡುವುದು, ಮುಂದಿನ ಸಲ ಇವರೇ ಗೆದ್ದು ಬರುತ್ತಾರೆನ್ನುವುದೂ ನನ್ನ ತರ್ಕವಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೂ ಭಾರತೀಯ ರಾಜಕಾರಿಣಿಗಳೂ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ ಒಗ್ಗೂಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆನ್ನುವುದೇ ಹೊಸ ವಿಷಯ.

ಅಷ್ಟಕ್ಕೂ ಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಅದೇಗೆ ಅಷ್ಟು ಕ್ರಿಯಾತ್ಮಕ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಇಡುವುದು ಸಾದ್ಯವಾಯಿತೋ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಗಾಂಧೀಜಿಯವರು ತಮ್ಮ ಲೇಖನ ಟೈಪ್ ಮಾಡಲು ಸ್ಟೆನೋ ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡಂತೆ ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಂಗ್ ಮಾಡಲು ಯಾರನ್ನು ನೇಮಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೋ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೂ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪವಾದರೂ ಪುರಸೊತ್ತು ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಂಗ್ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆಲ್ಲ ಅದೇ ಬ್ಲಾಗರ್ಸ್ಗಳಿಗೆಲ್ಲ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆ.

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Reliance broadband goes back to 108 AD

Reliance Broadband has a small programming error, but the result is taking you 100 years back !! It is similar to that of Y2K problem which most of us forgot. It is nothing but displaying year as 108 instead of 2008. This is observed when I tried to create a new account with Reliance broadband home page as a customer of Reliance broadnet. Here is a view of this funny mistake.

Standard Pakistani Response template; A forwarded mail

Don't know who generated this response by entering into a Zardari's heart. My friend Nitin Hegde, Muttige forwarded this mail to me.

Dear Prime Minister Manmohan Singh/Atal Bihari Vajpayee/Narasimha Rao /Rajiv Gandhi,

Pakistan strongly condemns / is shocked by / is pleasantly surprised with the success of our "freedom fighters" in the loss of dozens / hundreds / thousands / millions of innocent lives in the bomb blasts / sniper attack / hijacking / religious riots / other disaster that occurred in a busy marketplace / train / housing colony / Indian parliament building / an upper-class hotel / temple in Mumbai / Delhi / Kashmir / Assam / Punjab / Gujarat / Other.

The Pakistani citizens / soldiers / "freedom fighters" / "friendship agents" / students who were caught red-handed / found dead at the scene of the crime / convicted of the crime are actually undercover Indian / American / Israeli agents. Any Pakistanis proven to be guilty of terrorism will be rewarded handsomely / dealt with severely / promoted to Lt. Colonel / given a new Indian passport and sent back to India / handed over to the Americans as proof of our commitment in the war on terror.

There are no Pakistani army-funded training camps / terrorist camps / madrasaas in Azad Kashmir / Afghanistan / Nepal / Bangladesh . The satellite images / photographs / eyewitness accounts / videotaped confessions obtained by the Indians is fraudulent / fake / inconclusive / are actually from Indian terrorist camps and part of a larger RAW / CIA conspiracy to destabilize the Pakistani government by stalling democracy / encouraging sectarian violence / undermining Pakistani institutions / causing the next military coup in Pakistan. A destabilized Pakistani government / mafia could cause Pakistan to become a dangerous nuclear WalMart / Target / Seven-Eleven and a terrorist breeding ground / university / research lab that would be worse for the world.

We hope this will not derail the peace process started with the recent India-Pakistan cricket series / Lahore bus yatra / Muzafarabad- Srinagar road opening / Bollywood peace concert / open borders initiative / other confidence-building measures. We look forward to justifying further attacks against innocent civilians / resolving the core issue of Kashmir / developing best-of-breed plausible deniability defenses.

We stand by / are plotting against our Indian brethren in their hour / days / years / decades of pain.

Signed,

Asif Ali Zardari

President, Pakistan / Chief Operating Officer, Taliban Inc. / General, Pakistani Army

LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER

I received this mail from my friend Santhosh B. J. Don't know, who has written this letter. But I thought it is publishable in my blog. Thanks to original writer.

Dear Mr. Prime minister

I am a typical mouse from Mumbai. In the local train compartment which has capacity of 100 persons, I travel with 500 more mouse. Mouse at least squeak but we don't even do that.

Today I heard your speech. In which you said 'NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED'. I would like to remind you that fourteen years has passed since serial bomb blast in Mumbai took place. Dawood was the main conspirator. Till today he is not caught. All our bolywood actors, our builders, our Gutka king meets him but your Government can not catch him. Reason is simple; all your ministers are hand in glove with him. If any attempt is made to catch him everybody will be exposed. Your statement 'NOBODY WOULD BE SPARED' is nothing but a cruel joke on this unfortunate people of India .

Enough is enough. As such after seeing terrorist attack carried out by about a dozen young boys I realize that if same thing continues days are not away when terrorist will attack by air, destroy our nuclear reactor and there will be one more Hiroshima .

We the people are left with only one mantra. Womb to Bomb to Tomb. You promised Mumbaikar Shanghai what you have given us is Jalianwala Baug.

Today only your home minister resigned. What took you so long to kick out this joker? Only reason was that he was loyal to Gandhi family. Loyalty to Gandhi family is more important than blood of innocent people, isn't it?

I am born and bought up in Mumbai for last fifty eight years. Believe me corruption in Maharashtra is worse than that in Bihar . Look at all the politician, Sharad Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane, Bal Thackray , Gopinath Munde, Raj Thackray, Vilasrao Deshmukh all are rolling in money. Vilasrao Deshmukh is one of the worst Chief minister I have seen. His only business is to increase the FSI every other day, make money and send it to Delhi so Congress can fight next election. Now the clown has found new way and will increase FSI for fisherman so they can build concrete house right on sea shore. Next time terrorist can comfortably live in those house , enjoy the beauty of sea and then attack the Mumbai at their will.

Recently I had to purchase house in Mumbai. I met about two dozen builders. Everybody wanted about 30% in black. A common person like me knows this and with all your intelligent agency & CBI you and your finance minister are not aware of it.. Where all the black money goes? To the underworld isn't it? Our politicians take help of these goondas to vacate people by force. I myself was victim of it. If you have time please come to me, I will tell you everything.

If this has been land of fools, idiots then I would not have ever cared to write you this letter. Just see the tragedy, on one side we are reaching moon, people are so intelligent and on other side you politician has converted nectar into deadly poison. I am everything Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Schedule caste, OBC, Muslim OBC, Christian Schedule caste, Creamy Schedule caste only what I am not is INDIAN. You politician have raped every part of mother India by your policy of divide and rule.

Take example of former president Abdul Kalam. Such a intelligent person, such a fine human being. You politician didn't even spare him. Your party along with opposition joined the hands, because politician feels they are supreme and there is no place for good person.

Dear Mr Prime minister you are one of the most intelligent person, most learned person. Just wake up, be a real SARDAR. First and foremost expose all selfish politician. Ask Swiss bank to give name of all Indian account holder. Give reins of CBI to independent agency. Let them find wolf among us.. There will be political upheaval but that will better than dance of death which we are witnessing every day. Just give us ambient where we can work honestly and without fear. Let there be rule of law. Everything else will be taken care of.

Choice is yours Mr. Prime Minister. Do you want to be lead by one person or you want to lead the nation of 100 Crore people?

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ರಾಜೀನಾಮೆ ನೀಡಲು ಇಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಸಾವು ನೋಡಬೇಕಿತ್ತ?

ಅಂತೂ ಇಂತೂ ಶಿವರಾಜ್ ಪಾಟೀಲ್ ರಾಜೀನಾಮೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟರಂತೆ ಅನ್ನೋ ಸುದ್ದಿ ಕೇಳಿ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ನೆಮ್ಮದಿಯಾಯಿತು. ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಇನ್ನೊಮ್ಮೆ ಟೆರರ್ ಅಟಾಕ್ ಅದಾಗ ಪಾಟೀಲ್ರ ಅದೇ ಬಾಯಿಪಾಠ ಮಾಡಿದಂತ ಮಾತುಗಳನ್ನ ಇನ್ನಾದರೂ ಕೇಳುವುದು ತಪ್ಪಿತಲ್ಲ ಎನ್ನುವ ಸಂತೋಷ. ಪಾಪ ಬಡಪಾಯಿ ಮನುಷ್ಯರನ್ನೆಲ್ಲ ಅಂಥ ಸ್ಥಾನದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಟ್ಟರೆ ಇನ್ನೆನಾಗಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯ? ನಮ್ಮ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಹೋಂ ಮಿನಿಸ್ಟರ್ ಕಥೇನೂ ಅಸ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ವೇ?

ಸೋನಿಯಾ ಗಾಂಧಿಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಾಪಟ್ಟೆ ನಿಯತ್ತಿನ ಮನುಷ್ಯ ಅಂತ ಹೋಂ ಮಿನಿಸ್ಟರ್ ಮಾಡಿದ್ರೆ ದೇಶ ಸಂಭಾಳಿಸುವ ಚಾಲಾಕಿತನ ಎಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಬರಬೇಕು? ಶಿವರಾಜ್ ಪಾಟೀಲರನ್ನ ಅಬ್ದುಲ್ ಕಲಾಮ್ ಅವಧಿ ಮುಗಿದಾಗ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಪತಿ ಮಾಡುವ ಆಲೋಚನೆ ಇತ್ತಂತೆ. ಆದರೆ ಎಡ ಪಕ್ಷಗಳ ವಿರೋಧದಿಂದ ಅದು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗಲಿಲ್ಲವಂತೆ. ಅವರಿಗೆ ಅದೇ ಯೋಗ್ಯವಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಹೆಬ್ಬೆಟ್ಟು ಒತ್ತುವ ಕೆಲಸ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೇನೋ? ಅದರೂ ರಾಜೀನಾಮೆಗೆ ಇಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಬಾಂಬ್ ದಾಳಿಗಳು ಬೇಕಾಗಿತ್ತಾ?

ನಮ್ಮ ವಿ. ಎಸ್ ಆಚಾರ್ಯರ ಕಥೆಯೂ ಬೇರೆ ಏನಲ್ಲ. ಗೋವಿನಂಥ ಮನುಷ್ಯ ಅನ್ನುವುದು ಮಾತಿನಲ್ಲೇ ತಿಳಿಯುತ್ತದೆ. ಪೋಲಿಸ್ ಠಾಣೆಯಲ್ಲೇ ಉಲ್ಟಾ ಧ್ವಜ ಹಾರಿಸಿದ್ದಕ್ಕೆ ಟಿವಿ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ದೂರು ನೀಡಿದರೆ ಒಂದೊಂದ್ಸಲ ತಪ್ಪಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ಎನ್ನುವಷ್ಟು ಒಳ್ಳೆಯವರು. ಇವರು ರಾಜೀನಾಮೆ ನೀಡಲು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಇನ್ನೇನೇನಾಗಬೇಕೋ?

They are Islamic extremist! Do you Indian have guts to say it is "islamic extremism"?

O Hindus! O disbelieving faithless Indians! Haven’t you still realized that the falsehood of your 33 crore dirty mud idols and the blasphemy of your deaf, dumb, mute and naked idols of ram, krishna and hanuman are not at all going to save your necks, Insha-Allah, from being slaughtered by our hands? Nor is your fictitious faith in monkeys, pigs and nude statues going to save you from the Wrath of Allah and His Humiliating Punishment.

Are you a Hindu? What do you feel? How dare they are to tell so in our land. India, the Bharatha Khand, mother land of great civilisation, mother land of Vedic society was meant for Hindus, it will never change. How dare they are to send a mail from Indian soil?

Here we are back - the Mujahideen of India - the terrorists on the disbelievers - the radicals of Islam - after our triumphant and successful assault at Jaipur, once again calling you all, who disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) to accept Islam and bear witness that there is none to be worshipped except Allah, and that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is the Messenger of Allah. Accept Islam and save yourselves. "Fight them (the disbelievers), Allah will punish them by yourhands and bring them to disgrace, and give you victory overthem and He will heal the hearts of those who believe.” (Qur’an9:14).

Yes, basters, you are! But you don't know we Indians are not still entered the field. We believe in Krishna's words. Same bhagadgeeta, which upholds Shanti can also creat Mahabharath war to bring peace. Yes we can!

Get ready with all the weapons you have. Plan and organize your moves. Select your targets. Target these evil politicians and leaders of BJP, RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal, who provoke the masses against you.

I'm proud of you BJP, RSS, VHP and Bhajarang Dal. If you are enemies of terrorists you should be friends of Mother India. One should remember Enemies of enemies are our Friends!

Parliament and we hereby declare an ultimatum to all the stategovernments of India, especially to those of Rajasthan, UttarPradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra to stop harassing the Muslims and keep a check on their killing, expulsion, and encounters

So? Terrorists are fighting for muslims. Why the hell our political readers are still in love of muslims? So what next?

Oh dear Indian decide what to do!

Or just cry for India what her sons are doing to her!

Another terror attack in Mumbai; When will our leaders consider it?

ATS chief Hemant Karkare dead:

Mumbai Nov 26 (PTI): Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare, another senior IPS officer were among three officials killed Wednesday night in separate encounters with terrorists who struck at various places across India's financial capital. 54-year-old Karkare was killed when he was leading an operation at hotel Taj against terrorists who had taken 15 people, including seven foreigners, as hostages. Another IPS officer Ashok Marutirao Kamte, a 1989 batch IPS officer, was killed while fighting terrorists at Metro Cinema in the city along with encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar.

They are killed. Killed by terrorists, then? Our heartless secular leaders may call it as fake encounter; and advocate that death of the terorists should be given to CBI enquiry. This was the way our dirty politicians responded in earlier cases. This was the way they tried to pray for the sole of our IPS officers who gave thier lives for mother India and made never rested in peace!!

Politicians are the only reason behind these attacks. The persons should be punished are the political leader of the dirty secular parties those who show thier love to minorities even in the cases like terror attacks. What to do? They don't have guts to make a better policy against terrorism. Don't have time to think of it. Because they know most people those who go behind barrs due to these policies are minorities. They are busy in proving terrorism is not religion bounded, that means they are just busy in proving Hindus are terrorists!! What a pity!

Where are you Mr Home Minister? Please don't call for another press meet. Press people have too many recordings of the same. They will telecast any one. It shame of you that you haven't changed your words in any of the cases - Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Dehli and now Mumbai. This time at least don't come out. Our dear Prime Minister is happy with the Anti terror Policies of the union Govt. Thats why frenquent attact are going on to give some home work to Home minister. Look at the atacks, how strong our policies? Atleast now, instead of thinking terrors are Muslims, think of Mother India. Then I hope you can come out of minority politics and save India.

Read it:

Death Toll

Between January 2004 and March 2007 the death toll from terrorist attacks in India was 3,674, second only to Iraq during the same period, according to the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington.

The government has previously blamed terrorist attacks on organizations linked to foreign powers, without offering evidence or making arrests. Local media often blame the attacks on groups backed by Pakistan or Bangladesh, without identifying the security officials who provided the information.

India’s capital, New Delhi, was rocked by five blasts during an evening rush hour in September, killing as many as 26 people and injuring about 133. Indian Mujahadeen, which claimed responsibility for similar attacks in Ahmedabad and Jaipur, said it was behind the blasts.

Sixteen bombs exploded in Ahmedabad within 20 minutes late on July 26, a day after seven bombs tore through India’s technology hub of Bangalore, killing two. At least 20 devices hidden in cars and garbage cans were discovered and defused in the Gujarat city of Surat, days after the Ahmedabad blasts.

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. 

We are affected by bad global cues

Most of the engineers who completed their graduation in May-June with a software job in their hand through campus placements are still waiting for call from companies. Some companies have given the tentative dates that fall in second quarter of 2009. Some firms who came to campus for placement in the early 2007 have not yet given even tentative dates for joining.

I heard of comparing the situation to those in 1997-99. But experts tell it is wrong because now Indian economy is completely globalised, where every small change in world economy has its own effect on Indian corporate.

As we already know US economy is facing very bad time that has ever seen after 1929. In USA alone about 85,000 has lost their job in August. Running in loss and bankruptcy of the investment corporations could affect the IT companies, because they have invested huge amount in IT firms. AIG experienced a 90% fall in its share value this year. Stock price of GE went down to 11 years low. IT stocks in Indian market are also going low reflecting the situation

In US these developments are given political importance for the coming presidential election. US House of Representatives voted against the proposal of government intervention in economy which was $700-billion bailout plan. Obama, democratic presidential candidate said in his one of the campaign that he shall remove the tax holydays for the companies which are outsourcing their works, to increase the employment rates there. If so, what would be the fate of the Indian software firms which are mainly focusing n the outsourced works? Still we can expect smoothening of the situation after the US election.

Exchange rate of the USD against Indian Rupee is improving. It is now about 47Rs/USD where it was about 39Rs/USD beginning of the year. It seems good news for the software firms because their revenue comes from exporting the IT products. By telling so we want to run over the reality, but we can’t hide the fact why Rupee is going down. It is because the foreign investors are removing their investments from Indian firms. Is it good news?

As per the information, even the middle level HR managers do not know when they are going to issue joining date for fresher. Higher authorities of the companies have instructed them to suspend recruitment till next instruction. So fresher may have to wait for some more time without minding news in the air.

City bank helped a company for acquisition of another bigger company. City bank is showing loss in recent days. Person who does not reveal his identity responded that the company faced a hard time in the last financial year and now it is under recovery. This is the time when it needs help of investment banks. So nobody can tell when the company will call fresher without knowing the present status of relation between the company and the bank.

Do they require all those who got placed? We can not answer this question unaware of strategies of individual companies. But one should accept that IT firms are not running as they have forecasted two years back.

Let us fight inflation

Inflation rate is rising day by day. The prices are increasing. These many days we are not worried because we were not affected by the inflation. But the time has come that we, the common man of the R.K Laxman too get affected. So let us fight against it. I have made some very simple tips to secure ourselves from inflations:
Foods:
Reduce the frequency of visiting Cofee Day, Fizza huts, KFC and so on.
Relay on self service Darshinis instead of paying double for the same food at AC service rooms until inflation comes to hold.
Take homemade foods to office or college.
Gadgets:
Don’t think of changing mobile phones now.
Leave the idea of new Laptop when there is a PC in good condition at home.
Think foe second hand gadgets at good condition.
Fashion:
Don’t buy unnecessary clothes whenever you see some good stuff.
Open your wardrobe and look for clothes you never wore.
Move from brand factory to shops where you can bargain.
Buy shoes only if you need it.
Go for shoes and belts which suits for both formal and casuals.
Money:
Try to save money, make use of the increased interest rates of the bank deposits, now some banks are giving about 11% pa.
Take the advantage of market and mutual funds, make hey when the sun shine.
Stationeries:
If you are a student, instead of buying books for you self you can photocopy the pages you required borrowing the books from the library.
Use rough papers for rough works; let the A4 sheets for their own purpose.
You can adjust for a good low cost pen for sometime.
Traveling:
Travel only when it is necessary.
Walk if the destination is nearer and you are not in urgency.
Make your mind riding bicycle doesn’t harm your dignity.
Don’t waste 100Rs of petrol for the talk of 15 minutes, speak in phone, and make use of low tariffs.
Entertainments:
Stop visiting Coffee day, clubs, and pubs like hangout places and research how you can get entertained without these.
Stop watching every movie that releases in multiplex.Let us follow it for few days and fight inflation.

Get tensed like guitar

It is common hearing- don’t get tensed, dude. But I’m telling get tensed. Learn to get tensed from guitar. In terms of physics, when the string loaded with strain, tension builds up on it. If the strings of the guitar are loosened they won’t contribute good music. They should be tensed to produce good music as per the guitarist’s wish. Likewise we should also be tensed little bit to achieve our goal. If we are not at all tensed then we won’t produce whatever we dream. Before any event ahead of us we should build a little pressure on us, get little tensed, achieve it, and relax.

You also know what it happens to the string if it is more tightened; it breaks up under high tension. You too, don’t get tensed too much. It vanishes concentration, raises pressure, and gives head ache. An optimum tension brings a good music.

She was searching for somebody there to ask time

It happened in lovely Bangaluru. That calm afternoon I was about to reach Vijayanagara in bus no 61 A. I was at the door on the footboard. I could see a little garden and few small tents of the workers who might be working for the construction of the subway nearby. I saw a girl near that who was peeping out of the garden wall whose eyes could tell she is searching for someone.

I reached the bus stop. Started to walk in the same direction where I saw that girl towards the hotel. It was rainy and no one was on the footpath. The girl was still standing there, she looked happy by seeing me just like she got what she was waiting for. It was already ten minutes past when I saw her from the bus. I don’t know when she started looking for somebody. When I came nearer she asked “ಟೈಮ್ ಎಸ್ಟಾಯ್ತು?” what is the time now? I replied “ಎರಡೂವರೆ” two thirty. She was so happy and ran into the tent.

I had seen so many people asking time. But I didn’t know there are people who need to wait for someone to tell time!!

Google Transliterate in Kannada: Search, Translitarate and Blog in Kannada

Now you can type whatever you want, in English and you can get it in Kannada fonts using Google translitaration:

http://www.google.co.in/transliterate/indic/Kannada

You can toggle between Kannada and English very easily by using Ctrl + g. It is easier than any other Kannada software. But you should have internet connection for this. If you typed Kannada using Nudi, Baraha or like tools, typing in Google translates will be much easier job. You can type in Kannada without the knowledge of any such software. What all you need is internet connection, knowledge of keyboard and Kannada fonts to see whether it is correct. Enjoy typing in Kannada.

You can also type using on screen Kannada keyboard. Type and select letter you typed and place the cursor over it. You will get the options and the last option will be Edit. Select it. Then in edit tool bar click on "show keyboard."

You can also access this page by going to www.google.co.in and clicking on the “Language Tools” menu option to the right of the search box

Google also has its other products in Kannada.

Blog: http://blogger.com/indic/kn

Search: http://www.google.co.in/kn

For other Indian Languages refer: Google press release: http://www.google.co.in/press/pressrel/20080505_googletranslate_hindi.html

Remember, it is only a transliteration tool. You can not translate from English or any other language to Kannada. 

Also Read: No Google translate for Kannada

Long waiting is over! Google Lab has now came up with on screen Kannada Keyboard and enabled search option. This is the easiest of all Kannada Search. Similar search is also available in most of all Indian languages. No tutorial is required for this. Just in the use of mouse! Read this article.

First Dollar from Google Adsense

I had a dream, without investment I should earn money before I finish my graduation. Thanks to Google, it made my dream come true.

I started hunting for Adsense account in early March this year. I didn't get an account for a month for the reason that the address I had given was not valid. I wanted my address to be of my village; even the Google search would not return the result for the search of this unknown village. Later I got the account for the same address.

Then I started trying to put the ads in my Wordpress blog Sumsumne. I got html codes and tried a lot to insert it into my blog. Later I came to know Wordpress templates won’t support this. I had to subscribe for RSS by paying the charges, then only can upload my own template. It was not what I wanted.

I knew, blogger is supporting Adsense as it is also a Google product. I created my new blog in blogger and started posting into it. It took about one month to get a first click on the ad. I got first dollar in my Ad sense account.

That was June 25^th; I had just finished the last exam of my engineering graduation.

From Paying to Get Paid: Indian Telecom Market

Long ago…

When I was in elementary school the telephone was a white elephant. I have seen my mother covered the telephone with clothes. I was not allowed to talk much on the phone. It was used for very short and valuable conversations. Neighboring towns were treated as long distances and they were STD calls. Call to some more distant place was further troublesome. It was a ‘trunk call’. We had to call the telephone exchange and book the line. Trunk calls were very costly and many liked to write letters and telegrams.

What’s now?

Today we have forgotten what a trunk call is.

Not even a neighboring town, the whole state is now local. Leave the inter circle calls the whole India is now at 1 Re distance!

No telegrams now, SMS reaches the remote places where even telegram couldn't reach.

Go again few years back.

Mobile phones were there with rich people staying in big cities. They were paying about Rs 10 for incoming calls. Out going was out of reach.

Zamaana changed in a high speed manner!

Prepaid plans were introduced. Charging for incoming calls became outdated. Call rates came down to earth. SMS were charged a negligible amount. Mobiles became lot more than a communicating instrument. Young couples were allowed to talk at very little amount using couple connections, sometimes even free of cost.

Now!? You can even get paid for receiving calls. Virgin mobile announced it will give Rs 0.1 per 60 seconds for receiving calls.

What next?

Aishwarya Naked for penthouse magazine?

Is this Naked photo of Aishwarya Rai is real?

You might be curious to know whether the mail you had received or blogposts with this Naked photo of Aishwarya Rai, which claims it to be real is true or not.

The text in the photo reads: "It is not a computer generated photograph. It was published in Penthouse magazine 2004, and she took USD 4.5 million for the shoot".  Though this photo looks like real one, it is definitely a  fake photo. One of main reason is that there is no Aishwrya’s name in Penthouse pet’s list. Some people argue that this is real picture referring to Wikipedia, but remember Wikipedia can be edited by common readers like us.  Some claims that she was the pet of Feb 2004 and Penthouse tells that there was no pet for the month Feb 2004 in its website.

The person who worked on this photograph need to be appreciated. But while choosing the naked photograph he has done a mistake. Aish’s hands are not that much short like one which you can see in this naked picture. The experts tell that the mixing work can not be seen easily because the work is done along the necklace to hide any line or marks of editing.

Also read Pooja Gandhi nude for a Kannada Film? and Bipasha Basu naked for New York Lotto TV Add

Miss you all, my dear friends

It is a pure personal memory I am sharing with you. It is about a fantastic journey of 4 years in Bangalore and in MVJ College of Engineering. October 25th, 2004 was the first day of our engineering life. We all came together, became friends, fought with each other, witnessed love, saw affection, showed our unity in fighting with lecturers, went on strike against the college, we enjoyed, made merry and now departing with a heavy heart.

We were the batch of 28. We missed few friends due to useless VTU rule 'year back' for carrying more than 4 subjects, also we got new friends due to the same rules. The seniors became our classmates. One such friend who lost his one year, was always telling stories of other friends naming them with 'Shole' characters. He refused to sign on a letter signed by all of us against a lecturer just because that lecturer was giving him good marks in internal exams. The same lectures gave him NSSR and left the college. We missed another friend, who was always carrying a script for never ending TV serial with full of his family problems, sentiments and sex.

We were representing one of the feature of the country- unity in diversity. Different in cultures, we were loving each others. We had a great Krishna Bhakthe, a pure vegan, who followed each and every sentences told in ISKCON temple. She was a good friend of a guy from completely different culture, Muzzu, who never missed his Friday prayers, who was always dying for non vegetarian dishes.

Bindu had a mixture of Indo-US Culture, a great believer of God- only during exam and results!

Deepak a.k.a Deal Machcha, a good dealer of any thing in Bangalore from cabs for a trip to mobile phone.

Gaurav, Guruji of everything, was a expert in all matters from study materials to porn sites.

Karthik, my ultimate room mate from beginning to end was a live cartoon.

Dirty joke expert Raju Kaju is now an IITan Raju. We are proud of you!

Om lived his entire engineering student life on 'Bun Butter Jam'.

Vasant never read, he always practiced writing the answers.

BMTC’s most wanted Sourabh, never paid for bus ticket. Once he fell down from running bus to escape from ticket checker.

24 hour yawning machine, Swathi.

All of us  had a common thought; we had done a great mistake by taking admission in this college. We never been proud of our college or its location at outskirts of the city where it was situated, but we were always proud of our classmates.

We fought against the management of the college; we argued with the director, we made few bad lecturers to say goodbye to the college, and few others to stay back. We had unity; it gave us strength to go against anything that is bad for us.

We had great lecturers in our college. Our beloved HoD, Dr Manohar Shinde was the great scholar we had ever seen. Unfortunately we missed him in the last semester as he moved to industry from teaching. He was the most respected person for his knowledge and his friendly nature. Class became more joyful when our seniors started their career as lecturers. Adithya was a good friend, guide and lecturer. We were calling him 'Sir' outside the college, 'Adi' inside the class!! Let us pray god; he may get enough strength to come out of the grief of death of his father.

Friends, wish you all a successful life. Love you and miss you all...

Save Electricity, Save Environment

World Environment Day special

Uttara Kannada, a green district located in Western coastal region of Karnataka has many power stations including one nuclear power plant. The major hydro electric power stations include Gerusoppa, Supa, Kadra and Kodasalli.. The whole Supa sub district is submerged due to Kali reservoir. Thousands of hectares of forests have been lost during these projects. Thousands of acres of forest cut down to build Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant. Hundred of acres of green forests were vanished for high tension electric lines to supply power to nearby cities(See Press release by Save Kali Movement). The people of Uttara Kannada successfully opposed Tadri thermal power plant to get cancelled, which could be harmful to both flora and fauna of this region. Already this district is lighting millions of houses.

But,  there is no proper power supply to this district. There is a minimum of 6 hours official load shedding in the summer. There was no power for weeks even in major villages. There are number of villages without power supply from the state electricity board till date.

I’m sure, if you save a little power in your daily life it is more than enough to light these houses, because their electricity demand is very less. The power that could be saved by common men in household usage at Bangalore city can light the whole district for weeks. Also we can check some more new power plants which will spoil our environment. 

To save power and save environment follow these tips:

Air conditioners: Check and clean the air conditioners filter once a month; make sure the air conditioning unit is the proper size for the room it is cooling; locate the air conditioner on the north or east side of a house in a shady area; ventilate the house's attic to reduce heat build-up; install ceiling fans to improve air circulation.

Dishwashers: Wash only a full load; turn off drying cycle, open door to air dry dishes.

Washing machines and dryers: Use only with a full load; use warm or cold water, reserving hot water use only for heavily soiled clothes; use only full loads for the dryer and if a second load is necessary, dry that load immediately after the first to retain as much heat as possible; clean lint filter before each load.

Computers: Turn off computers when not in use or set the computer to energy-saving mode.

Lights: Replace incandescent bulbs with screw-in fluorescent bulbs, which use 75 per cent less electricity and last at least 8 times longer; turn lights off when not needed; install light dimmers or photoelectric switches that automatically turn off lights during daylight or install timers to control use of lights; for lights used for home security, install motion detectors so lights come on only when motion is detected.

New appliances: Replace aging appliances with new, more energy-efficient models when possible.

Ovens and hobs: Use microwave instead of oven where possible; food in glass dishes can be cooked at lower temperature; preheating oven is usually unnecessary; on the stove top cook with covered pans and match pan size to the size of the burner.

Refrigerators: Check door seals to make sure there are no air leaks; clean condenser coils on the back of the refrigerator; keep refrigerator away from oven or dishwasher and give the unit breathing room; turn thermostat down to 3°C (37°F); turn on energy saver switch.

Water heaters: Use thermostats and timer controls to regulate your central heating and hot water supply wherever possible; lower the hot water heating setting to 50 to 55°C (120 to 130°F); insulate the water heater and any exposed hot water pipes; use low-flow shower heads. (Tips ref: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2006. © 1993-2005 Microsoft Corporation)

Social awareness: Don’t show your prosperity by lighting the whole street at your family functions.