Inflation and developing economy

As an economy develops the per capita income also increases. Benefits of the development start reaching the bottom of the economical structure. Their purchasing power and thus demand increases, this increases the price. Increase in the price pushes them to earn more. They become more efficient to earn more to meet their requirement. Hence contributes in the development. Inflation causes the development. According to a Times report, inflation had been used as the tool by the Latin American governments for the economical development.

When the inflation becomes higher, government starts spending more on curbing inflation than development works. Giving subsidized food to the poor usually controls food inflations, which costs more for the government. The central bank increases the lending rates, which in turn pressurizes the banks to push their products at higher interest rate. The growth slows down.

Most challenging problem in the developing economy arises when it faces the problem of wage-price-spiral. When the economy develops, the industries see prosperity the workers demand for higher wage. Higher wages increases the cost of the products. Hence the manufacturer and the service providers increase the price of the product. This in turn affects the society and again a demand for the higher wage. This cycle is called as wage-price-spiral. Presently Indian economy is facing this problem and central bank accepts it is very difficult control wage-price-spiral.

Moderate inflation is always good for the developing economy. But development should not be an excuse for the central government and central bank for its failure to curb the problematic inflation.

Inflation is the second nature of developing economy. But development should always be the first nature.

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.

Is your mobile number registered for Do Not Disturb?

National Do Not Call Registry (NDNC Registry) is a database which has the list of all the mobile number who does not want to get telecalls from tele marketers. The primary objective of this registry is to curb Unsolicited Commercial Communication(UCC). Telephone subscriber (Landline or mobile) who does not wish to receive UCC, can register their telephone number with their telecom service provider for inclusion in the NDNC registry. Telecom Service Provider shall upload the telephone number to the NDNC within 45 days of receipt. The Telemarketer will have to verify their calling telephone numbers list with the NDNC registry before making a call. To discourage the telemarketers who make calls to the numbers registered in Do Not Call List, a provision has been made whereby Rs.500/ - shall be payable by the telemarketer to the service provider for every first unsolicited commercial communication (UCC) and Rs.1000/- shall be payable for subsequent UCC.
For customers who would like to register/de-register their request for NDNC registry may dial 1909 or SMS to 1909 with keywords 'START DND' for registration and 'STOP DND' for de-registration.
Check your telephone/mobile number with DNDC registry.

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

How to search Kannada in Google?

I always keep watching what my readers want and what they are looking for while entering the keyword in google search, why they land to my site. If my blog does not have an answer for them I try to answer to them. This is such a article.
Recently a visitor hit my blog looking for "how to search Kannada in google", "how to use google Kannada search". Here is a answer:
Go to google.co.in. Then click on Kannada which is given in the list of languages available, or directly go to Google Kannada. Then type what you are looking for in English. For example if you are looking for ಉತ್ತರ ಕನ್ನಡ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ just type 'uttara kannada jille' in the search box and it will show the options in Kannada as soon as you type. See the snap shot. Select the option if that is correct and hit search. If you don't get the word what exactly you want, you can type in the google transliterate and copy the Kannada word and paste in the search box. I don't think you never find it necessary to go for this. Once you get the word in search box, you are done. Pages matching with the Kannada words will be listed in the search result.

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 use the mouse!

VTU, SBI and My result

SBI is the largest bank in India. Pay package for an entry level officer in SBI is double than the average CTC of an entry level engineer graduate. The company in which I got placed told me that it will pay Rs 2,75,000 per year, where here it was Rs 5,40,000 per year. In July, SBI called for application for exam for various officer posts on probationary basis. When I applied in Aug 2008 I was not aware of these facts. As I am always interested in competitive exams made an application. At that time I was clueless about the economic situation of today too.
It was not tough, I could easily clear both SBI prelims and main exams held in Oct and Nov 2008. I got result of main exam in January. The world already started experiencing a hard time. Thousands of job cuts are being reported from all over the world. It was my second anniversary of Campus placement, joining date was not intimated by the company. So I was happy that I could go to SBI and beat the effect of economic recession or also you can term it as depression on me. But the fate was different.
I went to SBI headquarters in Bangalore on 9 Feb 2008. As it had been mentioned in the advertisement of SBI recruitment cell, a person who has finished his graduation on or before 1 July 2008 was only eligible to apply. I had finished my graduation in the month June 2008. Though VTU had provided me the marks sheet tells I passed the exam in July 2008. There started a conflict. On which date I became a graduate? But the officers were not ready to accept my application is valid because there is no proof to confirm I became graduate on or before 1 July 2008. I had completed my last exam in June 2008, if my university VTU had printed the fact that "he has passed the examination held in June 2008" I had no problem. But they did not.
Look at the pictures. First tme table- clearly tells exams were over in June 2008, but certificate read "held in July 2008". A small neglect of VTU made me pay a heavy loss. I was sure that I will get this job, as my performance through out the examination procedures was good , if this mistake from the VTU was not there in my certificate.
Later a question aroused. From when should a student considered as a graduate? Is it on the day when he gets result? or from the day when he writes the last exam? or the day when the university delivers convocation certificate? When it was discussed with the educationalists and some high court attorneys they made clear that a student becomes a graduate from the day when he writes the last exam. Result tells whether he became a graduate or not from that day. But now, whom should I blame for this? University- VTU- which did not provide the fact that I passed the exam in June 2008, or SBI- not willing to accept my application because I don't have a proof that I had not been a graduate on 1 July or my result itself?

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.

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.

Obama may be first for US, India has seen many

One of my friend attended a programme at her office, where a scholar from US was delivering a speech. He quoted that if a Dalit becomes prime minister of India, it could be a great day for India as the victory of Obama in USA. He knew only two races in India- Brahmin and Dalits. It is not his fault. It is the default of Indian media. They never highlight what is good here. It could be CNN IBN or BBC, or some other magazines.

But the truth is Obama may be first back to take charge of white house. But India has seen many such firsts. Here dalits have become presidents, prime ministers, minorities like what foreign, including some highly noticeable Indian media burns a image- the whole Hindu community is against to- Muslims has seen high places. It is not knew for us. We have given a equal, to tell truth, we have given more chance to dalits and minorities.

They tell Only when a Dalit rules India can the country truly be said to have attained its own “Obama moment.” Shashi Taroor answers, in theory, this already has happened: K. R. Narayanan, born into a poor Dalit family, served as India’s president, the highest office in the land, from 1997 to 2002. Dalits and India’s aboriginals (listed in the Constitution as “Scheduled Castes and Tribes”) are entitled to 85 seats in India’s 543-member parliament that are “reserved” for candidates from their communities. One step forward India has had a female prime minister, Indira Gandhi, one of the most powerful leaders this country has seen. Now we have female president at Rastrapathi Bhavan. Can't they see these before criticising. US Department of States itself tells in its report India has had a female prime minister, Indira Gandhi, one of the most powerful leaders this country has seen. What else you need?

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 to download YouTube video? Here is the best way.

How to save video from YouTube?
How download YouTube video like torrent file download?
Why YouTube down loader is not working now?
Is there any free YouTube down loader software?

Do you have a question like this?
You have landed to the page which gives you a complete solution.

YouTube: YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. Now it is the largest video sharing site. The videos are published in ".flv" file extension.

How to download .flv files?
Now I'll tell you step by step procedures to enable your computer to download YouTube videos:

1. Get a latest FireFox browser (If you already have one, go to step 4)
2. Download FireFox from Mozilla.com
3. Install Mozilla settings restart your system if it asked to do so
4. What all you need is an add-on which detect the .flv or other media file and makes you download them easily.
5. Get DownloadHelper add-on set up from Mozilla (recommended) or DownloadHelper
6. Click on add to FireFox, then click on install.
7. Restart FireFox (remember- not necessarily your system)
8. Open a YouTube video in your FireFox browser
9. You will see an animating image like this
10. Clicking on this you will get the list of the file you can download.
11. Click on the file name and start downloading
    
12. It will be saved to DownloadHelp folder in your my document by default
    
13. More help go to user manual

How to play downloaded .flv files?
Simple get a Gom player and enjoy. It is free-ware. You can download it from GomLab. Small size (withing 5 mb) and easy to access.

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?

"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.

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.

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.

Eye defender- A simple answer for CVS

EyeDefender is a freeware rest reminder designed to prevent Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) resulting from working on a computer for hours. CVS symptoms include eyestrain, blurred vision, delayed focusing, headaches, back and neck aches, dry and burning eyes, light sensitivity, distorted color vision, forehead heaviness, and sore eyes.

CVS is impossible to get rid of but you can reduce and even eliminate most of its symptoms. The recommendation is simple – take a short rest break from your computer every hour. The difficulty lies in scheduling a regular break and keeping to it. That's where EyeDefender can help you. It'll remind you to take a break and relax eyes at fixed intervals.

Download free from eterlab

Computer vision syndrome (CVS) is a temporary condition resulting from focusing the eyes on a computer display for protracted, uninterrupted periods of time. Some symptoms of CVS include headaches, blurred vision, neck pain, fatigue, eye strain, dry, irritated eyes, and difficulty refocusing the eyes. These symptoms can be further aggravated by improper lighting conditions (ie. bright overhead lighting or glare) or air moving past the eyes (e.g. overhead vents, direct air from a fan). CVS has not been proven to cause any permanent damage to the eye.

CVS is caused by decreased blinking reflex while working long hours focusing on computer screens. The normal blink rate in human eyes is 16–20 per minute. Studies have shown that the blink rate decreases to as low as 6–8 blinks/minute for persons working on the computerscreen. This leads to dry eyes. Also, the near focusing effort required for such long hours puts strain on ciliary muscles of the eye. This induces symptoms of asthenopia and leads to a feeling of tiredness in the eyes after long hours of work. Some patients present with inability to properly focus on near objects after a short duration. This can be seen in people aged around 30–40 years of age, leading to a decrease in the accommodative focusing mechanisms of the eye.

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. 

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.