tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12535777203904848052012-02-17T07:02:43.976+05:30A bosom full of thoughtsNiranjanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01210238014623663147noreply@blogger.comBlogger1161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253577720390484805.post-57172142410164166092012-01-01T19:16:00.000+05:302012-01-01T19:16:30.729+05:30

Welcome welcome to this dirty world, 2012. You will have a tough time in this world. You will make it though just like your predecessor did. We have heard that you have something drastic stored for us. On the 21st of December this year you plan to realize the "Doom's" day as we know it. Is it true? What a foolish question that was. You never divulge your secrets till the time it is time to

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The red-light intersection on the outer-ring road near the place I live is a live example. Most of the evenings, one finds the vehicles crossing the stop-line and ready to jump into motion as soon as they realize the other intersection is going to go red, and it is going to be their turn now to go green.However the days when a lone traffic cop with a diary snugged up his armpit is standing at a

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This is what I tweeted. I do not know how to react. As far as his physical loss is concerned I am really not impacted in any way, but from now on there is always going to be that feeling inside that JS is no more with us. I have been listening to his music from the age of 14. My understanding of music does not go much beyond his performances. Such is his power of music, that I still do not feel

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For the last few weeks, I've been working on my near year old 'X10 mini pro' to install custom firmware on it. Sony Ericsson has already declared that they are not going to provide any further updates on this model. This means I have to remain stuck at Android 2.1 (Eclair) for the rest of my phone's life, or take on the risk of installing custom ROMs on my phone. Prior to be able to install

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Heard this disturbing news yesterday that JS was admitted to Lilavati and operated upon in the evening after he suffered a brain hemorrhage. The reports say he is still critical and in ICU. We can all hope for the best, but surely we will not be able see him performing live anymore.  It was only the other day that I was discussing with my wife that one must attend at least one live concert of

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There has to be some power that dictates the sequence of events in this universe. Otherwise how could one event be linked to other as a chain of actions? When I say there exists God, I do not imply that he is someone who would always do good to someone. By God, I mean some power (or anything I don't know yet) that dictates what will follow what and why in this universe. And, I do not think that

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The project that I work on at my workplace, it is possible to obsolete a delivery if there are some serious issues with it. This set me wondering, how nice it would be if we could all have this feature in our lives. I would obsolete so many things, few memories from my school days and many right after it. I could also use it to undo few utterances for which I regretted later. I could undo my

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This monsoon season, a thought time and again surfaces on my mind. How nice and peaceful life it would be if my wife and I could stay in a small town, with almost all the basic necessities. We would have a little house, and I would have no work to go to. Our garden would be covered with plush green grass, freshly grown this season. The trees would all be covered with greenery. We would take a

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Well I suddenly realized that after purchasing the new laptop, I've yet to install Firefox on this machine. However, I don't think I will be installing it anyways. I am of course using Chrome as my default browser and not the one supplied by Redmond.I will be playing a little with HTML 5 this weekend. Let us see, it should be fun!

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Seven years and some months, it seems that I am still doing the same sort of work that I did when I had started. It is not that there were not times when I have had opportunity to work on interesting things, but in majority it has been the same boring stuff, 'fixing broken things' (named various things in service companies).This routine work is probably a result because I have yet not worked with

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It is suddenly raining with thunderstorm here in Delhi. It was predicted by our MET department. Satellite images are made available on their website, with periodic updates. It is a welcome respite from the rising heat, though surprisingly, it has still not got that warm here till now.JS is going to perform a first ever "Ghazal Symphony" of some sort in Gurgaon, today. I am not attending of course

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There are many instances, when I have noticed that Jagjit Singh used the same tune for the ghazals with same beher. During one of his (rare) workshops in Bengaluru he demonstrated to the audience how he goes about composing ghazals. In that, he chose a Mirza Ghalib ghazal and one another ghazal and demonstrated how ghazals with same beher can almost always be composed on a same tune. It is

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For a few days, an old public message that used to be aired on "Doordarshan", keeps floating in front of my eyes. It showed that a single stick by itself was easy to break, but when tied together with a piece of rope, they were impossible to break. That is, "Ekta mein bal".Now, I have been thinking that this philosophy has an intrinsic overhead. When the number of sticks are massive, then tying

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Just to say, that I am once again connected to all of you, courtesy Airtel :)

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So my 20 month stay in foreign land is about to be over. It was a pleasant experience. I had wonderful view of the Europe subcontinent, beauty of which is so difficult to summarize in few words.People, are the next best thing. The general courtesy, smiling faces on the streets, sense of driving on busy roads were all new experiences for me. The methodical system and the discipline to obey the

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Wishing everyone happy and prosperous new year and all that. So, last year I fared miserably on my average on number of posts per year on this blog. I will try my best to make it up this year. Last year like the one previous to it, just came and went by. I did not even realize the "swishing sound" that it made!This year seems to be one like the previous two again. I am set to change my

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I have been reading about the Stuxnet virus for sometime now. It seems to be a very dangerous virus, with many of the first of it's kind features. This virus attacks SCADA systems. It installs code into the PLC and has the capability of hiding itself from detection. It then can cause the control systems to operate erratically and cause subtle but substantial damage.Jeffrey Carr in his blog here,

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This weekend I set to add some more features to one of my existing Google App Engine application, Our countdown app. I wanted it to send reminder emails once the events near their due date. (Something like Google Calendar). Now I could have done it the easier way, and have a cronjob executing every day to check for the dates and send the mails. But I found that the appengine has a neat service

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The timing of disclosure is very important. Things when disclosed at one time may result in a totally different situation, than when disclosed at a later time. Strange are the ways of life!On the other front, have started to explore a bit on the iPod/iPhone devices. I find Apple restricting a lot. The fact it runs on Darwin and that people have made great progress outside of Apple world, should

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Sometimes we so casually respond to the equally casual question, "How are you?" with "Ya.. I am (we) (are all) fine".We may be keeping a poor health, or facing a critical problem but we hide it from people. There could be various reasons for hiding it, probably from the near and dear ones, so that they do not worry too much.

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Life is such that, a small event in one's life can bring unlimited happiness. It is just a single line in a 22 page visa decision page document, that changed the mood of one entire family!Well so far so good, waiting and hoping the rest from here on goes off smoothly.

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Well, the entire world is gripped with this fever now. The first & second round matches have thrown so many surprises. Who could think of Germany, France and Italy (as of now, they are 1 down to New Zealand).So one can watch the matches live on the "links" available, which I do not want to share here for obvious reasons :). But there are some good alternatives. NDTV has come up with a cool match

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I am happy that my last post evoked mixed response (and some emotions) from either side of the roles in which my friends work in their respective jobs today. I was also reminiscing my initial days in the industry, the associated struggle and slogging overtime. Oh! how very 'a dedicated resource' I used to be.I also remember this ghazal by JS and CS. I used to hum this ghazal during my walk from

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This post is dedicated to the supposed "Superman" of a software project. In any software project, you will find one or two blokes who have this habit of taking on the responsibility of the entire project on their heads, even when there is no need for such drastic actions.Over the years I have analysed some traits of these "Supermen":1. The basic habit of "I'll do all" comes from the fact that

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Felt so nostalgic today, after listening to the title track of Panchatantra. This serial used to be aired on Doordarshan when I used to be a kid.Those were the initial days, and this title song struck me even then. Though I could not recall the entire track I distinctively remembered the "Ye pachatantra hai..." and the "kudrat ke jaadu hai isme". Jagjit's unique style of rendering caught me quite

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Life's basic equation is:sadness = happinessThis equation always holds true at every moment in one's life. It is just the way we interpret certain events that lead us to believe that one side of the equation is not balanced. But in reality every event cancels out some other or maybe itself on the other side of the equation. Because the equation above is a net zero, if we move either on the

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Thank God! its going to be Monday soon!The weekend was very dull outside. It was a couple of degrees below zero and the sky was covered with cloud with forecast of rain or snow. I stayed mostly inside. Apart from chatting with my wife over the phone (thanks to VOIP telephony) I did not have anything exciting planned. So I decided to play around with something that was on my mind for sometime.You

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नेताजी ने आज लोकल ट्रेन में सफर किया| इस खबर पर समाचार माद्यम टूट पड़े| इन्टरनेट पर विडियो क्लिप्स भी आनन् फानन में जोड़े गए| विशेषज्ञों ने अपनी विशेष राए में यह बात रखी के ऐसा करके नेताजी ने अपने प्रतिद्वंदियों को मुंह तोड़ जवाब दिया है|यह भी देखा गया के एक सफर के साथी नेताजी से बात करते हुए इतने भावुक हो उठे के उन्होंने यह कह दिया के नेताजी इतने अग्रिम राजनीतिज्ञ हैं उन्हें उनके प्रतिद्वंदियों के

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Just writing this post to get back on track and start the सिलसिला of blogging once again.Happy new year 2010, and all that.So, everything went well and as planned. Thanks to all for the wishes and blessings. It seems a lot different these days.We are now executing the hard part of the deal. Before, we felt it would be easy, but now it seems to get tougher day by day. Obviously a lot depends on

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The counter now reads:Remaining: 00 weeks, 06 days, 15 hours, 49 minutes, 38 seconds, and 594 milliseconds as I prepare for my wait at the Dublin Airport for another 8 hours before I can check-in!!!Could be sometime before I post again.

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Well, now I am on the verge of wrapping up this phase of my life. This phase started with the world and life showing it's true and harsh face to me. Out from my adolescence, these realities were a great jolt to me in the beginning. Later they replaced themselves as my teachers and today I have a much better knowledge of life and it's ways than I had 10-12 years ago. I have learnt many lessons.

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During my recent project experience, I was introduced to this wonderful concept of virtualization. This concept allows one to install the true installations of "guest OSes" on a host OS. For example one can install Windows XP, Windows 2003 server on a PC running Windows Vista. What's more you could install the Linux flavours too! And the best part is that you could setup a virtual lab of these

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There are few relations, that are always there for you. Like your parents and God (or whatever power you believe is equivalent to that).Even after thousands of mistakes, if you go to them and accept your wrongdoing they will forgive you. Why? Because it is unselfish love, something that is very difficult to cultivate with every other person. When you do enter into such a relationship, ego on

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Well, next week would be travel time again. This time to Sweden for around 3 months or so. They say it is already cold there and going to get even more colder by the coming months.We will be off to a city named Linköping. Work there should be hectic, and let us hope it is hectic. The laziness and the lethargy gained here in Athlone, would wear off somewhat.Also, starting to get excited about

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I started to read about HTML 5 since yesterday. It promises to bring revolutionary changes in the way we write mark-up code for our browsers to render the hitherto "static" web pages. What interests me specially are the new video, audio and the canvas tags.Watched the seminar held by the Google guys involved in the development of Google Chrome regarding the HTML 5 support in that browser, for

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My Kaaboom downcounter:DFrom my very first days of programming the 8085 micro-processor and later on the 8051 microconrtollers, the x86 family and the Pentium micro-processors, I have a facination for the digital timers and counters. Well, decided to program this one in javascript. It is a down-counter, with a large number of bits in its register bank!!The code is obfuscated, though you guyz

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.. Well I got that in the morning today, for the first time.

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Well, I have posted a lot of JS on this blog, but may not have posted much about Chitra ji. So I decided to dedicate this one to her. I have posted a lot about her works in our PDJS wordpress blog though.Chitra ji, is said to have brought in a whole new dimension to the life and personality of Jagjit Singh. Both came from totally different backgrounds. Chitra ji is said to have "polished" JS's

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I have always held this view, from my childhood. Many a times in the debates hovering around the sort of topics, "women are better than men", men are potrayed as "bad" character guys. Examples are often set by citing politicians, law enforcers and positions to that effect, and the way they misuse them. The only reasoning one can give, is that since the ratio of men in these positions are far more

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कर रहा था ग़म-ए -जहां का हिसाब, आज तुम याद बेहिसाब आए.-- Faiz Ahmed 'Faiz'This rendition by Begum Akhtar is marvellous. Until a few months ago, when I used to listen to this 'sher' in her voice, I used to be in a state of desperate depression. But in the recent past, this sher has a completely different effect on me. I feel immersed in a soothing essence of a beautiful thought.And the reason for

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Theoritically no mass can travel at speeds greater than the speed of light in vaccum. That is what the physics of today tell us. But just think of it for a moment, how boring it would be if this is true.Man dreams of travelling to the great milky ways and galaxies thousands of light years away. If the above fact is true then man will never be able to make it there! In the history of mankind, no

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मैं रोया परदेस में भीगा माँ का प्यार, दुख ने दुख से बात की बिन चिट्टी बिन तार|... Yes, indeed Nida is a poet who has seen and felt things with his own eyes and heart.

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If you have so less people, then things are ought to be in place. Everybody follows the traffic rules, the roads are clean and most importantly people are patient. Just release half of Karol Bagh's population here... and just see the entire system crumble.

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When I asked for it, I did not know that by the time the request would materialize the situation would be so different. So different, that had I known, I might not have requested for it in the first place!Anyways, still many factors support the cause for it, and may be it is the best time for it. Now is the time for packing and settling down at a far off place for some months. Hope everything

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The results of the general elections are out today, and I am happy that the people of India have been decisive in their mandate this time.The people of this country have given the present government much more power this time to govern. I hope the allies of the main political party, do not start to act in a self-centered childish manner as they are known to do, say an year from now. These regional

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Well, was just going through the tracks on my hard-disk, till my ears struck on this one by Ghalib:देखिए पाते हैं उशाक़ बुतों से क्या फ़ैज़,इक बराहमन ने कहा है के ये साल अच्छा है.Though it is never a good thought to provide an "implementation" of such a great poetic work, it turns out to be something like this: "Let us see what abundance the lovers will get by praying to the idols, One brahmin has

Niranjanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01210238014623663147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253577720390484805.post-33585546623960603832009-04-23T22:22:00.003+05:302009-04-23T22:45:48.168+05:30

No doubt, the bengali mothers spend most of their time of the day in the kitchens, cooking one dish after the other. The bengali tribe is known for it's love for food. Kolkata is one place, where there are a variety of cuisines available. "Oh! Calcutta" is definitely a must try (esp. for the Delhiets) if you are interested in quality bengali cusine.The height of the love for food amongst 'bongs'

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This is the name of the new ghazal album by Saheb (Big Music, Big Music and Home Entertainment). Released after a gap of couple of years, this ghazal album features 8 tracks, and thankfully containing ghazals by various poets.There are two ghazals by Payyam Sayeedi (remember "ab ke baras bhi" & "hum dosti ahsaan wafa" from yesteryears releases of JS?), and one each by Faragh Roohvi ("dekhaa jo

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I have watched all the movies of the Pink Panther series. The ones featuring Peter Sellers as well as Steve Martin. Each movie is fantastic!Now, the Pink Panther movies never have any basic sense of story and are filled with nonsense comedy. But the way it was acted by Peter Sellers, and now by Steve Martin is just wonderful. Of course one would find many people who would complain of "missing"

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Well, the travel was a nice change, after a long time. Almost after six years! This gave me a good opportunity to note various kinds of people and their behavior under varied circumstances.At a "romantic" night a newly wed couple who were on their honeymoon and having dinner on a beach side restaurant I observed the young wife, neatly dressed and her husband. The look on the wife's face was so

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Shall the goal be achieved doing all these things? Maybe, because not doing these have not yielded results as yet. Let us see.Oh yes! the title credit for this post goes to Tess. Thanks.The question mark is to indicate, the confusion, whether the title phrase is actually what I meant or not.

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President Obama in his message to the people of India, on the occasion of our Republic day declared that America was the "best friend" that India has. Well, though the Indian media went "ga-ga" over this "personal" touch, is it not the other party that should feel the same? Is not President Obama's remark a little laughable? I hope, the President means with all honesty, in what he said.And how

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No, not me as yet :) I refer to the title of the post in third person narrative. Actually, of late I've been attending in short spans, marriages of my close friends.Knowing them so well for the past so many years, it is an unique experience to see them go through the motions of the rituals and the "hulla-gulla" associated with typical Indian weddings. I never forget to ask them the question, "Kya

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I congratulate the people of America on electing their 44th President. In these difficult times, I hope the decision of the citizens of America is proved right in the years to come.What has been irritating however, is the manner in which the Indian media has handled his election as the next president. The media is trying to portray that with him as the president, there is going to be some

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Last weekend, I bought VCDs and DVDs of two T.V. serial series, which were broadcast on Doordarshan in my childhood. One, "Vikram aur Betaal" and the other "Malgudi days". I had watched only a few of "Vikram aur Betaal" episodes, and only one of "Magludi days". We did not have T.V. at home in those days, so my viewing was even more restricted.The last episode of "Swami and Friends" was touchy. It

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After Satyam, we have two more firms that were barred from bidding direct contracts of World Bank. The ban on Wipro is much talked about, more so since Wipro claims to follow the highest standards of business ethics and practices in its operations.After reading the detailed press release by Wipro, it seems that the intention of "offering" shares to its customers was driven purely to "promote"

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I read the letter by Ramalinga Raju to the board of Satyam Computers. If I was an employee of that organization I would be chilled after reading it. I would probably be filled with anger which would gradually turn to fear, when I would realise that my earning is at a risk from the next month. Raju claims that he and the managing director had not taken a single "rupee/dollar" from the "inflated"

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I had a four day holiday this weekend starting from Christmas. It was a nice opportunity to practice on my driving. At the end of it, I see that I drove around 65 Km. in some 2 and 1/2 hours time.I drove not more than 40-45 Km/hr and mostly I kept my speed just below the 40 mark. Many a times at the signals, I stalled the engine due to that nasty clutch, which I release suddenly and with a jerk,

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It is winter, and again time to catch the blues. Damn! but cannot help it... whatever protection I may take.कर रहा था ग़म-ऐ-जहाँ का हिसाब,आज तुम याद बेहिसाब आए|आए कुछ अब्र, कुछ शराब आए....Happy and contented now?

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Yes, Chandrayaan-I has finally reached at a 100 Km moon-orbit. It has beamed a picture of the moon too. If interested, you can view it here. The Terrain mapping camera (TMC) and the Radiation Dose Monitor (RADOM) payloads have been switched on. We now wait for the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) to hoist the Indian national flag on the moon surface. While crashing on the moon surface the MIP, is also

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After last game's defeat, Vishy managed a draw to split the point in Game 11. This makes him the World Champion once again. Great job!!! Congrats!!! Hurray!!! :) It was easy, all through the game, once Kramnik responded with Sicilian Najdorf variation and Vishy was dominating the game throughout.Now focus is on Chandrayaan-I. As per today's update, the EBN-4 phase was carried out, the craft has

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I watched the live webcast of the 9th game of the World Chess Championship 2008, (Bonn) yesterday night. I had feared much worse but Vishy managed to scrape through the match with a draw, thanks to some lapse in concentration on Kramnik's part. Just one more draw is what is required to win the championship.On the Chandrayaan-I front, as per update by ISRO (dated: 26th October 2008), Chandrayaan

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I keep my fingers crossed for Vishy and Chandrayaan-I.I hope and pray everything goes well in the next phase in both the cases.

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I had never followed Harry Potter, until last week. Not having the enthusiasm to pick up those fat volumes of printed material, I turned to the movie versions.Currently I am watching the fourth in the series, "Goblet of Fire". The entire series is fascinating. Rowling seems to have created a virtual world all by herself. The "magic" and the school-ish environment appeals to the children almost

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I watched Ratan Tata on the videopod broadcast of NDTV, announcing the decision to move the "Nano Project" out of Singur. A very well balanaced appearence, exactly letting the media know the reasons why the decision was taken and who is to be blamed for it. He also clearly seggregated this issue with the other investments in West Bengal, and a promise to be a part of the development of the state

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Today was another day of turmoil in the US financial markets. A 158 year old financial institution announced banckruptcy due to the global credit crunch. It is said that it had around $46 million of mortgages account. Merrill Lynch, is also being bought out by Bank of America at $29 per share.This did send the stock markets into a tizzy, but what one wonders is the impact it would have on the job

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Today on a Thursday, I watched "A Wednesday". The movie is an absolute thriller till the very end. Though such movies are unrealistic in real life, the underlying social message it carries, adds a lot of extra thrill to watch such gripping action packed drama.The movie is paced very well. The performances of Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher are beyond description. In totality, a must dekho

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My nVidia video card, finally hang up it's boots today. It simply refuses to respond and causes the screen to freeze on Windoze load. I wanted to check if the problem was with the card or the driver, but gave up after finding that my Fedora Core 8 DVD was corrupt. I am back to using the on-board Intel(R, and all that) graphics card. I am unable to use the Aero(R) interface, since that would

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I am so pathetic! It is such a simple thing. Everyone seems to be able to do it with ease. It doesn't require logic or brains either. Why can't I do it?It has been almost 3 and 1/2 hours into it, I cannot still ease up the clutch pedal to the "biting point", release it gradually and apply gas simultaneously. Obviously, I should remember to be on the first gear for all this. Blast me!I knew I was

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I was totally drenched today evening, while returning from my client's place to my office to catch my cab.Was it because the All Mighty wanted to wash away the remaining tit-bits of the 12 year old story? Or was it because he wanted me to get wet, catch a cold and fall sick with fever, and have another miserable time?Well I will know that in a day or two.

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वही सद रंग नाला फर्साई,वही सद गूनह अश्क़ बारी है|

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अजीब सी बेचैनी है| न जाने क्यूँ आज ऐसा महसूस होता है,तस्सव्वुर में भी तो वह अब नहीं,रातें भी इतनी तन्हा नहीं| :)मेरी तन्हाई मेरी तन्हाई है.... :D

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Just read a detailed write-up on the Chandrayaan - I, India's first launch vehicle to the Moon. It is supposed to be launched sometime in September this year, though a final date is not yet confirmed.Chandrayaan - I will primarily be a remote sensing satellite, for sensing the lunar surface. This satellite is expected to map the lunar surface and create a 3-D atlas of the topography. The entire

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This is the expression I would like to borrow from Bertie Wooster, to describe the current political situation of my country. The entire world is under a tremendous economic stress, and all that our politicians can think of is the approaching general elections. Energy needs of our country, rising inflation and cross border terrorism are all at their disposal to exploit public sentiments and

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As was expected the Reserve Bank fiddled with the rates, and forced the banks to up the lending rates for home, personal and car loans. I think I will wait for a couple of months, after which I will make my purchase, anyways.The big question is whether to go in for a diesel, petrol or a dual one with LPG and petrol model of the stuff. Since LPG and the dual ones are really a pain to fill up in

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After the fuel price hike, we now have an inflation of around 13%. I have heard that the Reserve Bank of India, will further tighten the monetary structure. This means that lending rates are bound to increase. Already, the RBI has hiked the repo-rate, in effect discouraging the banks from lending. What impact it will have on the industries and the growth rate of the economy, is to be seen next.I

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Well, here is another ghazal, which has been on my mind for sometime now. A typical "Nida Fazli" stuff about life and our involvement in it.देखा हुआ सा कुछ है तो सोचा हुआ सा कुछ,हर वक्त मेरे साथ है उलझा हुआ सा कुछ|होता है यूँ भी रास्ता खुलता नही कहीं,जंगल सा फैल जाता है खोया हुआ सा कुछ|साहिल की गीली रेत पर बच्चों के खेल सा,हर लम्हा मुझमें बनता बिखरता हुआ सा कुछ|फ़ुरसत ने आज घर को सजाया कुछ इस तरह

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Another ghazal, and it's beher analysis. This one is by "Bekhud Dehlvi", a poet of the patronage of "Daag". His real name was Sayed Wahiduddin Ahmed.This time I will present the ghazal first and then give the syllabic breakdown.न कह साक़ी बहार आने के दिन हैं,जिगर के दाग़ छिल जाने के दिन हैं|अदा सीखो अदा आने के दिन हैं,अभी तो दूर शर्माने के दिन हैं|गरीबाँ ढूंढते हैं हाथ मेरे,चमन में फूल खिल जाने के

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It started with the bad news of JS having a bypass heart operation. Slowly and steadily, all aspects of my life, professional, personal, national (read as economics (growth rate & inflation rate), nuclear deal, etc.), international (read as cyclone in Myanmar, Earthquake in China, disgracing the turban of a Sikh in the US etc.) have taken a negative turn. Everything seems to be so irritating,

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It is April end and summer time is in, and pretty badly. The heat wave is on with no respite. Summers in Delhi bring along with it shortage of many things, electricity, water, fruits, vegetables, the temper and patience of the Delhites. The last two are anyway short in supply perennially in this city.Also, it is the time when there is shortage of holidays from office. For example, after "May Day"

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Ok... for our analysis we choose a classic ghazal rendered by JS, early in the 1980s, Live in Pakistan. In that tour he chose classic urdu poetry since people of Pakistan, naturally speak that language. This one is by "Maahir Ratlaami". Below is the ghazal, and the split of the syllable construct. We will number the ghazal as per the misra... so "Jo nazar..." would be line no. 1 and "Aap apna ...

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Well this one is close to my heart. I have a long standing desire to learn the metric system in which ghazals are written. Initially I had interest in learning the English metric system, but I found that as a "top-up" (or an icing on the cake) rather an established system.Over the years I have read whatever I could lay my hands over. My inability to read the Arabic script hampers the learning in

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I am very upset at Vishy's loss in the blindfold and rapid chess format. Better luck next time. No more chess for the time being.I watched a documentary on "The lost book of Nostradamus". It is said that this book contains water colour drawings by Nostradamus and his prophesies. What was interesting at the end was the mention of the great galactic alignment that is scheduled in the year of 2012.

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I have been watching the Nat. Geo. series on air crashes lately. The human tragedy involved is grave. It is shocking when the RCA of the mishap is done, and all of it points to human error.For example, consider the decision of the captain of an aircraft (with over 10,000 hours of flying experience) to get into a thunderstorm, knowing very well that the prescribed limits were being exceeded for a

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While our "master-blasters", "Yuvis" and "Dhonis" got sold at premium rates, Vishy has been silently at work again, in the Morelia-Linares Chess tournament, in Morelia, Mexico. The Grandmaster recorded his 3rd victory with the black pieces, as he defeated Peter Leko of Hungary in 45 moves. He now stands at the top of the tally with 3.5 points by the end of the 5th round.His luck with the superior

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Vegetarians (who are revolted at the idea of eating non-veg stuff) may excuse themselves from reading this post.This bird-flu thing has done one thing for sure. It has made me switch to "Mutton" for the time being. Usually chicken is preferred over mutton in our house.Now Bengali households cannot do more than a week, without having either of fish, chicken or mutton. The duration of fish lasts

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I do not know which of the two it was that triggered it. The development of the situation or the 'maqta' by Qateel Shifai. Whatever be the root cause, I have decided to put my foot down. I will not do things that I do not want to do. Also, no beating about the bush, straight talk and demands placed with a bold face.Let us see how the other side responds.By the way the 'maqta' in question:जागा

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I don't know what winter does to me. Today was another sombre day at home. Fortunately, I put on a Begum Akhtar CD on the music system and it helped a lot in stabilizing my senses :) Now, I have earlier remarked that BA, is one from my list of three favorite singers. She had pioneered the "semi-classical-ization" of the ghazals in our country. The album is unique in the sense that every ghazal is

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It is again that time of the year here. Sun disappears from the sky during the days and cold wind blows, pricking every skin. For me it is the time, when I am low-down, most disgusted with my life and my achievements of the year. Somehow I am always able to put the blame on the same thing.Wonderfully said by 'Mahir Ratlami'उनके आशिक़ की ज़िंदगी 'माहिर',कितनी नाकामयाब होती है| The 'matla' is

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The US economy is in a bit of a problem. The subprime mortgages issue is now at its peak. I was just reading an article on the internet, which was detailing the efforts of the US State Treasury Department in mitigating the crisis.We all have a lesson or two to learn from the situation. Do not borrow more than you can repay. And nothing in this world always surges northwards. Yes, not even

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In every field, be it religion, science, arts, sports, economics and others, there are two different kinds of contributors. One are the researchers who dwell in detail about a single topic and come up with new theories in their respective fields. These theories provide the stepping stones for the other genre, the "implementors" who actually put this theory into practice, by their innovations,

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I always dream of this nightmare. It came yet again yesterday. Our house is somewhat close to the domestic and international airports and the Western Air Command (Around 6 km from the airport). Often the aircrafts fly past our houses at a low altitude, for the final landing.From time to time I have this dream, that some aircraft has crashed into our colony and everything is burning all around.

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Our neighbour is in trouble and it saddens me. I would like to see the happy faces and a peaceful existence for the common man in that country.The steps taken to contain rising terrorism and military reverses there, are open for debate, and I am least bothered with them. What worries me is the fact that if things go wrong, we could have a situation, where the military revolts, and different

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It is different fun altogether, when the entire team goes out for a movie, and that too in office hours! We did exactly that today, during the closing hours of our workday. This luxury was awarded to us, as we yet again received the highest possible customer satisfaction rating from our client.Now for the movie, "Jab We Met". As confusing is the title, the story and performances are left wanting.

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I remember blogging few months ago, regarding my experience with Vista. The only thing that was now causing trouble, was watching videos/DVDs on it. Vista kept on crashing. Searching the internet I came to know that this problem has a technical term in the industry now; Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR). This is well documented on the MS website.Unfortunately, even after updating to the

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This is not about our cricket team. Notice the singularity in the title. It is about "Vishy" winning the World Chess Championships 2007 in Mexico. This is the second time he wins the championship, the first time being in the year 2000 beating Alexei Shirov 3.5 - 0.5 in Tehran.I remember way back in 1995, when he played his first championship match against Kasparov. He got visibly nervous, when

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The music of JS is like my lost love. How much ever I try to convince my mind, that his compositions these days are very much unlike in quality than the yesteryears, they impose on my mind even stronger, gripping me like a crab.The latest is from his latest album 'Karuna' (Released by EMI, Marketed by Virgin Records (India) Pvt. Ltd). As I was listening to this album, he switched to a clip, that

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Nowadays this new T20 thing is being injected into our systems. I do not like it at all, as of now. Maybe I will start to, once I have no option left, other than to watch this "further-shortened" version of the game. Further, seeing the less capable teams scoring at an express rate, with no respect for the bowlers, makes me wonder, if anybody in the future would be interested to pursue his career

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India successfully launched its fourth GSLV (GSLV-F04) and fifth in total, last Sunday. Along with it, it deployed the next generation INSAT-4CR multi-role satellite, needed desperately for the communication systems, since the last GSLV launch was unsuccessful. The previous one crashed because one of the four strap on boosters on the rocket had malfunctioned seconds after it took off .Even this

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"OP Maashi" visited our house today. She is one of our most closest family friends. She was widowed a couple of years ago and from then on she mostly visits religious places across the country.As she was talking to me, she gave me a bad news. She said that, when 'Mesho' (her husband), was admitted to the ICU, in the adjacent cell, the founder of my school, was admitted too. Our founder expired a

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