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Happy Birthday! Madras!
2007-08-21 15:00:00 We all have that one 'special' day when we get cakes, gifts & bumps... A day that was made special to a few of the people around us, just because of our birth... If we, the mortals deserve it, why not a city that is beloved by thousands? Don't know about other cities, but Madras (namma Chennai) surely deserves it. If you think so, don't forget to wish Madras & all Madras-ians tomorrow(August 22)It is believed that on August 22, 1639, a sliver of land, where Fort St. George stands today, was transacted by the East India Company, laying the foundation of this great city, which has seen enormous growth in the last 368 years.Madras! My hearty Birthday wishes!Can read about 'The Madras Day' and various events happening around the theme in 'The Madras Day - Website'. More About: Happy , Happy Birthday
Google - Aggressive on Indian Market???
2007-08-15 19:53:00 After enthralling the Indian users with the orkut polls and logo change, Googl e is now planning a lot of new gifts for the Indian Users. Today, they have posted in the Official Google Blog that they are going to come up with a lot of new products(gifts) for the Indian users. Coupling this with the recent Google roadshows they conducted for creating awareness among the SME sector(Read about it at Business Standard - Google Roadshows @ Ahmedabad), it means only one thing - Google has started taking Indian markets very seriously. So all Google Indian users, we have exciting times ahead of us!Related Post: Orkut Celebrates India's Independence DayGot to know about the Google's Planned gifts for Indian Users from Namaste India(A post in the official Google blog). Probably the recent India centric-focus may be driven by the projected market for revenue through Adwords. More About: Market
60 Years of Indian Independence by a 20+ Young Indian
2007-08-15 11:47:00 For a country which began its walk at midnight(thanks to its astrologers), India has done really well in all the fronts. Right from the day one, the country not only carried the hopes of all Indian s(who are presently a billion strong) but also the hopes of thousand others who were still under the chains of bondage at that time. Now they look up to India for carrying the light of democracy among the liberated nations.This 60th Independence day is very special since no wherever in the past days we were as optimistic as today about the future of India. Today, there were reports splashed all over the newspapers and talk shows in all the news channels about the sixty years of Independent India. 'The Hindu'(Paper of my choice) has brought a special supplement - 'Independent India at 60' with esteemed leaders of India, right from Dr. Manmohan Singh to Amartya Sen writing a column in it. Orkut for its part is conducting polls through its website. But these reports do not portray them f... More About: Current Events , Young , Years
Orkut Celebrates India's Independence Day
2007-08-10 10:10:00 With most of the A-list Blogger doting on Facebook, i thought it would soon replace orkut as India's most famous social networking website. Orkut may last as India's #1 social networking webstie for a few years, thanks to the first mover advantage. But surely not more than that since Google is not paying the required attention to this product which is not a major revenue earner in USA. Remember we have all seen just a few updates in the orkut right from the time we joined it.But it seems the things are changing a little bit now. 4 Posts in the last ten days in the orkut Blog after months of inactivity. And one of them talking about India's Independence Day. Was pleasantly surprised to see orkut running a few polls about India's past and future to coincide with the India's 60th year of independence. So they are finally realizing the future competition on their hands, trying now itself to establish the emotional bond with the Indian customers.Listing down the questions, the Or... More About: Independence Day , Brat , Rate
When Words Fail You....
2007-08-07 10:17:00 No words can describe the sorrow the IIM - Indore family has gone through in the last 3 days. Two of our beloved friends - Nitesh & Neha are not with us any more. Thomas Campbell, a Scottish Poet once said,"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."Though the choral river may have taken them from us , it would never take them from our hearts. Nitesh & Neha, You will always be living in our hearts.In Newshttp://creativenits.blogspot.com/2007 /08/when-hopes-died.htmlhttp://nishantzwo rld.blogspot.com/2007/08/memories.htmlDea th leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.~From a headstone in Ireland More About: Words
GoodBye Harry Potter! The Boy who Lived!
2007-07-30 13:43:00 It has been 10 years, since this ordinary looking boy with only a lightening scar to differentiate him, was introduced to us. A mere 7 years of his school life was enough to take us all through a roller coaster ride of happiness, sorrows & of course, endless debates.Not by his skills, but by his magic he brought a frenzy among the kids & adults of today that has never been seen before. A magic that made kids & adults alike to wait for hours before the shops to get their first copy. A magic that had no counter curse not only in the Western World but all through the world. As an ultimate mark of his magic, today he has spawned an industry in the muggle world. A phenomenon with a minuscule chances of repeating itself. A Phenomenon that i am happy that it happened during my days of growing up.A boy whom i am going to talk about, even during my grand old age(to my grand children!) - "Of how this boy took the world by storm". "Of how we waited for his books to be released". "Of the h... More About: Harry Potter , Potter , Goodbye , Harry , Lived
Harry Potter - Questions (Un)answered
2007-07-26 21:57:00 Most of us were left with a huge number of unanswered questions, even after finishing the book - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. A few questions i had were:-Where are Harry Potter& Ginny living - Grimmauld Place or Godric's Hollow?What are Harry Potter, Ginny, Ron & Hermione doing for living?Anything important happened in the intermediate nineteen years? Was there any more dark lords?Who is the Present Headmaster at Hogwarts?Are Neville & Luna married?How did George Weasley coped with the loss of his twin-brother Fred Weasley? What happened to their shop?...................Some of us would have even started forming our own answers to this question. Personally, I was really worried that i would never get (official) answers to these questions. Thanks to Rowling, an encyclopaedia that goes beyond the short epilogue of the book is due in a short time. Even in the recent interview to NBC, she revealed answers to a few of the questions of hard core 'Harry Potter' fans. Read ... More About: Questions
Talent Nite @ IIM Indore
2007-07-25 09:57:00 Talent Nite '07 took place on July 15, 2007. A rocking performance by PGP-1(No surprises there). Read about it at IIM Indore Group Blog. [Yeah! IIM Indore Students' Blog is alive and back]. Add the feed-Life at IIM-I to your feed reader for continuous updates on Planet-I. More About: Talent , Tale , Lent
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Leaked
2007-07-18 23:49:00 Surpassing all my expectations, Harry Potter (e-book) is out 3 days before the official release. The only disappointment about the book is that it never betrays the expectations and predictions of die hard fans. Was really pleased to see that most of the predictions of mine coming true. [Read my predictions - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ].Spoilers follow:Snape is not evil. In fact Snape lived near to Lily Potter and loved her dearly.[Snape was the one who informed Lily Potter, a muggle born that she is a wizard. Until the day Snape called her 'Mudblood', there existed a very warm friendship between two of them.]As predicted, R.A.B. is Regulus BlackNo 'Gandolf' Business. Dumbledore & Sirius Black are dead.[The book portrays death as not a very bad thing. Rowling heavily borrows from the Christian notion of resurrection and the wisdom of accepting our own inevitable disintegration and decay.]Dumbledore's Biography is given the maximum coverage.Harry is infact a Horocrux ...
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Movie Review
2007-07-13 20:32:00 Ah! My first movie review in this blog... :)Being an avid fan of the 'Harry Potter books', the only reason I went to the movie is to check - how much of my imagination of the story matches with the director's version. Thankfully the director has done a very good job - by not missing most of the important scenes in the novel and by not providing a word-by-word rendition of the novels.Except for the scenes(in the novel) of tension between the members of the Order of the Phoenix - especially the one in which Mrs. Weasley would protest against saying the important matters happening at Headquarters - 12 Grimmauld Place to children, most of the other important scenes were there in the movie.Few Important ObservationsOn seeing Harry Potter teaching the other students of D.A. reinforced my doubts that Harry Potter would finally end up as "Defense Against Dark Arts" teacher at Hogwarts.Interestingly, no mention about Sirius Black's Brother - Regulus Black. J.K. Rowling, who was adamant ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review
Sambhar Night @ IIM Indore
2007-07-10 09:48:00 To explain Sambhar Night , I have to travel back a year down in my memory lanes...Flashback. zhig.. It was the first time that I have been outside TamilNadu for such a long time. That too, Indore being a God forsaken place, did not offer much to a foodie. And one month into IIM Indore, my mouth has started watering on just hearing the names of the South Indian Dishes i grew up with - Idli, Dosa, sambhar, rasam, etc. Then one fine day, PGP2 guys got the wisdom and decided to take us-PGP1 to a Tamil Mess - SICA around 20kms from IIM Indore... They said it is a tradition at IIM Indore among tamils..That day I understood, how simple & common food that u grew up with can become the 'Amirtham'[Elixir in tamil] of your life. I still remember the fulfilment i had after the meals that made me look double my size.Flashback Over.. Back to Colour Screen.. And the tradition continues... Sambhar Night 07' took place on July 7. And another batch of IIM Indorians got to savour the taste of amazin...
Blogging Addiction???
2007-07-09 19:09:00 65%How Addict ed to Blog ging Are You?Yeah! Ofcourse! I dont trust this result from a survey of 14 questions... But still liked the innovative idea(of using a survey to utilize the humans' attraction to flaunt his addictions) to drive traffic to his 3 month old online dating website. Not only that, but also hoping that this would eventually help in the site's increase in the search page rankings) :-)Hmm.. More About: Addiction , Blogg
Hiding Navbar in New Blogger
2007-07-07 23:40:00 As I promised in the post - "Tinkering with my Blog ", here is a first of the posts under the category - 'how i did it?'For removing the navbar just add the following lines anywhere in your Blogg er template[Dashboard-->Layout/Template-->Ed it Html] and the blogger banner will be gone forever. <style> #navbar-iframe { height:0px; visibility:hidden; display:none; } </style>Just make sure that this code is pasted somewhere inside <body> and </body> tags.For more hacks to remove the navbar in the New Blogger, please visit "How to hide Navbar in New Blogger" by Amit Agarwal. More About: Logger
Tinkering with My Blog
2007-07-07 00:24:00 For the last few days, I have started tinkering with this blog's code a little bit.For the people who have earlier visited this blog, you can notice the following things1. Blog ger Navbar at the top is gone for the good2. There is a new sidebar sprouting at the left hand side of the blog3. Google Adsense Ads are right inside the blog postsWill try to explain 'How I did it?" in the next one or two posts...P.S: It was very easy and there are enough step-by-step guidelines available in the internet for each of them.. More About: Personal , Keri , Erin
'Blogs I Never Miss' in My Feed Reader
2007-07-04 16:43:00 First to all greenhorns, A feed reader, is a client software or a Web Service which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing. For more about feed reader, can read it in Wikipedia - Web Feed Aggregrator. I came to know about them when one of my friends - Sreeram introduced me to Google reader and thereafter it has always been a love-love relationship between me and Google reader. It helped me to follow up a lot of blogs, even leading me to be the first commenter in most of the blogs. :) Slowly, It established itself as the first thing that i would open in my computer in the morning.Now to the five Blogs I would never miss in Google Reader [Not in any particular order. Left out all the friends' blog since i do not want to bring my personal prejudice into this]1. "How to change the World" by Guy Kawasiki - With the network he has developed, Kawasiki just brings so much value to each of his posts.2. "B... More About: Miss , Logs
I have a new hero and her name is Mika Brzezinski
2007-07-01 19:50:00 We always love to see the movies in which the hero stands his ground against the might of the villian[since we never had the guts to do so]... But if something like that happens in real life, I believe it is the duty of the cowards like me to salute these rare heroes. Mika Brzezinski , an experienced newscaster and journalist - is one such person who stood up against the Mighty.What did she do?She stood her ground and refused to read her segment's lead news item on Paris Hilton on live citing that it does not deserve to be the leading news item. Clips of her shredding the script were the lead item on the Technorati search, while the blogosphere is alight with praise of her. (FYI - Paris Hilton is one of the most searched terms in Google).Read the whole news here - 'I have a new hero and her name is Mika Brzezinski '. Waiting to see Mika Brzezinski of 'Times of India'...P.S - Thanks Govar for the news. More About: Hero
Desktop Tower Defense - One more Game Worth Getting Addicted to...
2007-06-25 10:35:00 Today when i dozed off in the class room, the images of creeps with decreasing lives - moving through the maze came alive before my eyes.. [Even now(while typing), I am seeing them in the middle of the editor]. No Deja Vu or Trance. Just the effects of playing another addictive computer game - Desktop Tower Defense all through the night. Desktop TD is a fun flash based puzzle / strategy game where you have to protect your desktop from invaders by spending money on attacking pieces and building a maze for them to follow. Strangely addictive yet stress relieving... Just try and find out how many levels can you survive?.. I am still struck up at 'Hard' Mode.Goal: Creeps enter from the top and from the left. You must stop them from reaching the other side or you will lose lives. You start with 20 lives, and when they are gone the game is over. Towers are used to attack creeps and also to block their path.If you have never played a Tower Defense before try the Quick Start Tutorial.... More About: Personal , Game , Worth
Desktop Tower Defense - One more Game Worth Getting Addicted to...
2007-06-25 10:35:00 Today when i dozed off in the class room, the images of creeps with decreasing lives - moving through the maze came alive before my eyes.. [Even now(while typing), I am seeing them in the middle of the editor]. No Deja Vu or Trance. Just the effects of playing another addictive computer game - Desktop Tower Defense all through the night. Desktop TD is a fun flash based puzzle / strategy game where you have to protect your desktop from invaders by spending money on attacking pieces and building a maze for them to follow. Strangely addictive yet stress relieving... Just try and find out how many levels can you survive?.. I am still struck up at 'Hard' Mode.Goal: Creeps enter from the top and from the left. You must stop them from reaching the other side or you will lose lives. You start with 20 lives, and when they are gone the game is over. Towers are used to attack creeps and also to block their path.If you have never played a Tower Defense before try the Quick Start Tutorial.... More About: Personal , Game , Worth
The Week that Was - 'Record Breaking' [Shivaji & Campus Placement]
2007-06-18 09:27:00 Shivaji, the Craze"Where are they releasing Shivaji @ Tirunelveli ?". This was the first of the series of questions that i bombarded the autowallah who was taking me home after my 2 month internship at Pune. Not only me, the whole Tamil blogging world has been set on fire with the pre-release Rajini mania. Even the English news channels were not able to keep this important news(!) from their headlines.. [Surprisingly such extensive coverage of 'Shivaji' was not even seen on any of the Tamil channels.. :)].. Just the fact that a Tamil Movie 'Shivaji' was able to make the whole India sit up and take notice of it - amounts to a record breaking incident for me. Add to that, the following record breaking achievements by 'Shivaji, the boss' in TirunelveliFirst time, a movie is getting released in 3 theatres in Tirunelveli.. [Do you want any more proof that Tirunelveli is a city????]50 lakhs was the amount paid by the theatres in TirunelveliOfficial rate of First Day, First Show Tick... More About: Campus , Week , Record , Breaking
The Week that Was - 'Record Breaking' [Shivaji & Campus Placement]
2007-06-18 09:27:00 Shivaji, the Craze"Where are they releasing Shivaji @ Tirunelveli?". This was the first of the series of questions that i bombarded the autowallah who was taking me home after my 2 month internship at Pune. Not only me, the whole Tamil blogging world has been set on fire with the pre-release Rajini mania. Even the English news channels were not able to keep this important news(!) from their headlines.. [Surprisingly such extensive coverage of 'Shivaji' was not even seen on any of the Tamil channels.. :)].. Just the fact that a Tamil Movie 'Shivaji' was able to make the whole India sit up and take notice of it - amounts to a record breaking incident for me. Add to that, the following record breaking achievements by 'Shivaji, the boss' in TirunelveliFirst time, a movie is getting released in 3 theatres in Tirunelveli.. [Do you want any more proof that Tirunelveli is a city????]50 lakhs was the amount paid by the theatres in TirunelveliOfficial rate of First Day, First Show Tick... More About: Campus , Week , Record , Breaking , Lace
Are Pyramid Schemes (Questnet, GoldQuest) Easy Way to make Money???
2007-06-08 11:19:00 During my engineering days, I immediately rejected the idea when one of my friends tried to make me a member of a pyramid marketing scheme - a new way of making easy money without any sweat or hard labour. But most of my friends who joined it either burnt their fingers or were just able to break even.. that too after efforts and persuasion that could have easily turned around a mountain... :) To hide the fact that they have made a wrong decision(against the advice of a few level headed friends), they usually came out with a reply that they learnt salesmanship ? a useful business skill.This was something that was bygone. But when i recently heard about a similar scheme from my friend in Bangalore, with a initial investment of Rs. 30,000+ [During my engineering days, it was Rs. 5,000/-], i knew a post was long overdue."A pyramid scheme (also known as "Pyramid Scam") is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the sc... More About: Money , Make Money , Make , Easy , Easy Way
Are Pyramid Schemes (Questnet, GoldQuest) Easy Way to make Money???
2007-06-08 11:19:00 During my engineering days, I immediately rejected the idea when one of my friends tried to make me a member of a pyramid marketing scheme - a new way of making easy money without any sweat or hard labour. But most of my friends who joined it either burnt their fingers or were just able to break even.. that too after efforts and persuasion that could have easily turned around a mountain... :) To hide the fact that they have made a wrong decision(against the advice of a few level headed friends), they usually came out with a reply that they learnt salesmanship ? a useful business skill.This was something that was bygone. But when i recently heard about a similar scheme from my friend in Bangalore, with a initial investment of Rs. 30,000+ [During my engineering days, it was Rs. 5,000/-], i knew a post was long overdue."A pyramid scheme (also known as "Pyramid Scam") is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the sc... More About: Money , Management , Make Money , Make , Easy
Things I never Knew - Eve Teasing
2007-06-05 14:48:00 I never knew it. I was ignorant of it. I was shocked when I came to know it - "Silicon Capital of India - One of the prides of India - Bangalore - is unsafe for women" . I was dismayed when my cousin explained - "Why can't she go to certain places in Bangalore?".. "Why can't she even go for booking tickets alone?".. "How tough it is for women to be women in cities?".."Eve Teas ing".. For some of us, it is fun.. According to some of us, the victims deserved it.. Some of us are not even aware of it.. But for most of us, it is something we read in newspapers or something that only some skewed people mostly from the lower strata of the society do.. For me, Eve Teasing has always been associated with 'Death of Sarika Shah' rather than as an social evil that my sister or friends daily face. [Here 'Us' is people who may read this post] If you belong to my category of men - who are not aware how rampant Eve teasing is there in the very own cities you live, please read wish list of wome... More About: Society , Things , Thing
Things I never Knew - Eve Teasing
2007-06-05 14:48:00 I never knew it. I was ignorant of it. I was shocked when I came to know it - "Silicon Capital of India - One of the prides of India - Bangalore - is unsafe for women" . I was dismayed when my cousin explained - "Why can't she go to certain places in Bangalore?".. "Why can't she even go for booking tickets alone?".. "How tough it is for women to be women in cities?".."Eve Teas ing".. For some of us, it is fun.. According to some of us, the victims deserved it.. Some of us are not even aware of it.. But for most of us, it is something we read in newspapers or something that only some skewed people mostly from the lower strata of the society do.. For me, Eve Teasing has always been associated with 'Death of Sarika Shah' rather than as an social evil that my sister or friends daily face. [Here 'Us' is people who may read this post] If you belong to my category of men - who are not aware how rampant Eve teasing is there in the very own cities you live, please read wish list of wome... More About: Society , Things , Thing
India indebted to Karunanidhi for his 'unmeasurable' love for Tamil
2007-06-04 15:15:00 This post was invoked by the wish list of an old man who knows he won't live long enough to see them - "Strive to make Tamil an official language, Karunanidhi tells youth". Wherever i go outside TamilNadu, one of the questions popped up by my friends & strangers alike is 'Why u Tamils never learn Hindi?'. So let me answer that question before i move to benefits that country has reaped of 'Tamils never learning Hindi'.One of the key reasons is the man who is presently the esteemed CM of TamilNadu - Read "TN ready to fight against Hindi dominance - Karunanidhi". This great man while ensuring that his children & grandchildren learnt Hindi, made sure that the other Tamils were ignorant of the fact that your life is tough in India without knowing Hindi.If you want to know the historical reason, you have to go and read the newspapers of January & February - 1965. It was during these days Tamils - a 30 million crowd stood up as a single unit to fight against the implementation... More About: Society , Love , Nani
India indebted to Karunanidhi for his 'unmeasurable' love for Tamil
2007-06-04 15:15:00 This post was invoked by the wish list of an old man who knows he won't live long enough to see them - "Strive to make Tamil an official language, Karunanidhi tells youth". Wherever i go outside TamilNadu, one of the questions popped up by my friends & strangers alike is 'Why u Tamils never learn Hindi?'. So let me answer that question before i move to benefits that country has reaped of 'Tamils never learning Hindi'.One of the key reasons is the man who is presently the esteemed CM of TamilNadu - Read "TN ready to fight against Hindi dominance - Karunanidhi". This great man while ensuring that his children & grandchildren learnt Hindi, made sure that the other Tamils were ignorant of the fact that your life is tough in India without knowing Hindi.If you want to know the historical reason, you have to go and read the newspapers of January & February - 1965. It was during these days Tamils - a 30 million crowd stood up as a single unit to fight against the implementation... More About: Society , Love , Nani
Reservation in TamilNadu - My Opinion
2007-05-23 19:59:00 This was my toughest post ever. On one hand, it is the first time someone(Karthi) requested me to write on an issue. In the other hand, I fear my opinions may hurt a few people including a few friends of me. That was one of the reasons I consciously avoided posting on the Reserva tion issue on my blog. (Even this post has been there in my blog for more than a month for want of publishing) Another constraint is that - the only demographic profile that i know of is TamilNadu making me ineligible to comment on the whole of India. So restricting the reservation issue to TamilNadu to make it much more meaningful for the people who read this.Is the reservations really bad?I have studied four years in a college which has around 60% caste-based reservation but none of us cared or gave a damn for this issue. We accept it as a reality and found a way to live with it. A few things I observed from my U.G. College isThe policy of having around 60% reservation in my U.G. college ensured a very go... More About: Society , Personal , Opinion , Tamilnadu
CFA exams cancelled for Indian students!
2007-05-22 19:55:00 You won't get to see this headline in any newspaper. But for more than 7000 Indian students who were slogging day and night for this particular exam on June 3rd, it was a huge shock & disappointment.If you have never heard the word 'CFA', the following paragraph is for you :CFA stands for Chartered Financial Analyst. First awarded in 1963, the CFA charter is the designation of professional excellence within the global investment community. The CFA Program offers a truly global educational challenge where you'll build a fundamental knowledge of investment principles that is relevant in every market around the world. Employers and investors know the CFA charter is the definitive standard for measuring portfolio management and investment analysis competence and integrity.[Copied from the CFA institute website] It is a must-do, in the calendar of MBA students whose car... More About: Students , Current Events , Exams , Ancel
Heard about twitter??
2007-05-21 19:27:00 Are you someone who regularly feel the need to update your friends & relatives - "What are you doing at that particular moment". 'Twitter ' is the right thing for you.A global community of friends and strangers are answering one single question: "What are you doing?". You can update using your phone, messenger or right through the web itself. I joined it today and was really excited by the concept. You can access my personal twitter at http://twitter.com/robinsamuel. Just access http://twitter.com to sign up for this new social networking website. More About: Personal
Displeasure of D(MK) with Maran
More articles from this author:2007-05-19 22:22:00 When I read about the tiff between the Maran family & M Karunadhi's, never thought that it was worth a post . But on seeing fellow blogger's coverage of the events - Asif and Badrirag, I also decided to come up with my own version of the events.Few Key things to know - to understand the whole controversy:-Stalin is in firm grasp of the DMK's party structure with very high loyalty to him running among its ranksThough Azhagiri claims that he is in charge of the southern part of TamilNadu, the reality is little different. Except for Madurai, it is Stalin's supporters who control the party. [Remember, I belong to southern part of TamilNadu]Stalin after the entry of Maran into political picture, started seeing him as his major competitor rather than Azhagiri Especially because of his dynamism and popularity with the common folkSo Stalin used this golden opportunity to get Maran out of the place from which he gets all the attention and fame. His argument was since MK already warned t... More About: Politics , Current Events , Sure , Pleasure 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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