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I have subscribed to SBS Radio's Hindi podcast. They usually have Australia specific stuff but once in a while, they cover general issues. Its refreshing to hear pure hindi. One of their episodes had poetry reading by Ashok Chakradhar. He read his latest on Loan. You can hear him here. What wonderful words and an apt message for the times we live in. I am reproducing it here for you.अशोक चक्रधर -

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If I haven't told you before, I am saying it now. I love this song. This song is from hindi TV serial Chanakya that was aired on Doordarshan in 1990. I don't know how I missed it, but when I saw it years ago, I was so impressed and fascinated that I bought the whole DVD set of 47 episodes and watched it everyday after work till it was over. It shows how Chanakya, a pioneering professor of

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Just as so many who grew up in India traveling by trains, I also love traveling by trains. As my dad used to work in Indian Railways, we used to get two free passes to travel by first class anywhere in India. So, we used one of those passes to travel to Delhi every summer. I used to look forward to this journey and get so excited on the day of the travel. The journey back was always painful. Some

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These numbers are just mind boggling.We all know trash in the landfill is not a good idea. It takes a lot of time for things to decompose. We all know recycling is good for the environment. Just how good is it? Just read these numbers to realize how big of a mark you leave on this earth when you don't recycle.Time Required To Degrade:Paper - 2 to 5 monthsFruit - 6 monthsPlastic Bags - 10-20

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One of the funds in my portfolio must be Baron's so I received a note from them in mail.Effective 30 days from the date of this Supplement, in connection with Baron Asset Fund, the definition of mid-sized growth company is one having a market capitalization of $1.5 billion to $12 billion at the time of purchase. The Prospectus of the Baron Funds, which currently defines a mid-sized company as one

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Sequoia gave this presentation to all the CEOs of their portfolio companies. Gives you some idea about the severity of the crisis and the indication of the times to come.

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खुदा के लिए (In the name of the God)Just saw this Pakistani movie yesterday. I must commend the effort of the writer and director Shoaib Mansoor to make such a movie at this day and age. Technically, it starts out very choppy hopping between Chicago, London and Lahore but from midway onwards, the flow gets better and the movie becomes gripping. Lots of the scene sequences, choice of words in

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This is one of the most creative firefox plugin I have ever seen. It makes the collection of pictures come alive in a clickable, zoomable, browsable wall of pictures in full screen. All the major pictures and social networking sites are supported including the results page in google, ask.com and yahoo image search.Thanks to JG for this. You can download the plugin at www.piclens.com

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The battle is on. Garmin is back with a vengeance. Introducing nuvifone.iPhone is clearly a leader in the cool smart phone segment but it lacks some key features. GPS, 3G support and VoIP calling over Wi-Fi to name a few. Some of these concerns might be addressed by the new GPS-Phone that Garmin has just announced. Knowing Garmin (I own a Nuvi 660) I know that they will have a very usable UI and

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One of the pictures that we took in Rome got included in the Free Guide for Rome in 2008 - The Schmap Guide.It's a good endorsement of my composition. The picture was taken using Nikon Coolpix 5200, a 5 Mega Pixel Point and Shoot camera.

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Everybody stumbles in figuring out what is the right set of "social networking" features. Its scarier with Google because it holds so much of your information. Google Reader introduced a feature recently which shares your shared blog subscription items with everyone in your google talk list. The slashdot discussion is here. I am glad I never switched to Google Reader from Bloglines. Its good to

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2007 was marked with mostly usual (read crappy) unremarkable masala movies in bollywood, some small budget movies with substance but the only one that also got audience revved up was King Khan, Shah Rukh's "Chak De India"...Well, until Aamir Khan's "Taare Zameen Par" was released in December. It not only met but also exceeded my expectations. The subject of the movie was very apt for the

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Happy Halloween Friends.This year Castro Halloween party was declared DOA by SF Chronicle. It used to be a great party and I have been there a few times in last few years during Halloween. Hundreds of thousands of people would come down to Castro in various different innovative and ready made costumes. It was fun to watch. It was more fun to go dressed up as someone. It is a time when you get

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It is a well known fact that the earth's magnetic field protects us from Sun's solar flares and harmful radiations. It also gives us our North Pole and South Pole. So, if anything happens to this magnetic field, it would be quite catastrophic, right? Not quite. Pratik, my brother-in-law, said last weekend that the earth's polarity is changing. I google'd about this and found this lesser known

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One, yes there are more than one today, article in NYTimes starts thus:Talk about hype. In the last six months, Apple’s iPhone has been the subject of 11,000 print articles,10,569 in the NYTimesand it turns up about 69 million hits on Google. 68 million of these, lead you back to the NYTimes websiteCultists are camping out in front of Apple stores; Most of these "cultists" are NYTimes employees,

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कबीर का एक और दोहा सुना तो ब्लोग करने का मन कियापाषाण से हरी मिले, तो पूजुं पहाड़तां ते तो चक्की भली, पिस खाए संसार ।Heard this in a song from Abida's CD in which she sings Kabir's dohas in a sufi style. The CD also contains little bit of voice over by Gulzar. I highly recommend this. The songs are very soothing and the wisdom in Kabir's words is just सोने पे सुहागा.

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Microsoft was left far behind in the web world and it is trying to do what it does best, catch up. At least in the live.com space. Checkout the Live Maps and you will see Google Earth like product embeded in the browser. You have to install a 3D-plugin like software but once installed you can control the 3D view of buildings like you would in the Google Earth. Also, the game Flexicon is a neat

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You probably would say Habanero. Not even close!! The spiciness of any chilli, or chilli peppers as is known in these United States, is measured in SHU which is Scoville Heat Units. More details about what SHU is and which method is used today to measure the spiciness could be obtained from here. In recent tests done by the Chili Pepper Institute the spiciest chilli was found to be Naga Jolokia

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Whenever I read an article by Somini Sengupta, I feel it to be leaning more towards showing the negative side of things. Just consider the heading of her last few articles in NYTimes.Even Amid Its Wealth, India Finds, Half Its Small Children Are MalnourishedIndian Army and Police Implicated in Kashmir KillingsFormer Cabinet Officials Arrested In Bangladesh Corruption SweepEthnic Unrest in

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Seems like my friend, Cedric, had a bad time dealing with Wells Fargo support. I completely empathize with him and can only hope that these big banks become a little more nimble about changing their stupid rules. Even though there is no monopoly in banking, why are these banks like this? Don't they want more customers and don't they want to grow their base or are they so overwhelmed with their

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This was one of my favorite poems in school.चाह नहीं मैं सुरबाला केगहनों में गूँथा जाऊँचाह नहीं प्रेमी माला मेंबिंध प्यारी को ललचाऊँचाह नहीं सम्राटों के शव पर,हे हरि डाला जाऊँचाह नहीं देवों के सर पर चढूँ,भाग्य पर इठलाऊँमुझे तोड़ लेना बन-माली,उस पथ पर देना तुम फेंकमात्रभूमि पर शीश चढ़ानेजिस पथ जायें वीर अनेक!- माखन लाल चतुर्वेदी

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David Beckham signs a $250 million, 5 year contract with a struggling MLS team, the Los Angeles Galaxy, and will leave the spotlight of European Soccer in style. Read the NYTimes Report.

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LittleIndia, a small magazine available freely in Indian grocery stores and restaurants and targeted towards Indians immigrants in America, ran a cover story on Killer Belly. It mostly talks about how recent research throughout the world has show how Indians, even seemingly healthy looking ones, are more inclined to having a heart disease and dying young. Dr. Enas A. Enas, Director of the

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I know some of you already use bloglines.com but I started using it just a few weeks ago. I feel so much connected now. Bloglines makes it so easy to keep track of all the blogs you read on a regular basis. It shows you all the blogs as unread mail folders and whenever you access any of the folders (blogs) it shows you the summary of all the new blog posts. It also has AJAX enabled updates so

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I was looking at various projects listed on this Indicorps website when I came across this list of fellows. To my surprise, these are all the kids raised in the US or other countries, going and living in rural/urban India to give back to the country. This way, they get a good international experience and get to learn a lot about India by living and traveling. Hats off to the kids who have done

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NYTimes reports that David Martinez, a Mexican financier, just bought a Jackson Pollock's drip painting, "No. 5, 1948", for $140 Mil. from a Hollywood entertainment magnate, David Geffen. Well, what do I know about art, but you can create your own drip painting at this website.Image Courtesy: NY Times

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Gujarati reading skills: RequiredRead it in a surati/parsi styleIt took me a while to get this but once you get it, its pretty funny. I couldn't stop laughing for a while. Hats off to whoever wrote this.

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You must have heard the news last year about how the creationists on the Kansas School Board advocated that the Intelligent Design Theory be taught in the classroom along with the Scientific Darwinian theory of Evolution. This year voters voted noncreationists in majority (6 to 4). Well, someone here has written this open letter to Kansas School Board. Its simply brilliant.I think we can all

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Most of you know I ran the San Jose Rock 'n Roll Half Marathon last Sunday. I have been telling the same thing to lots of people so I will just create a post to share this with everyone. The first marathon I ran was San Francisco, US Half. SJ RnR was certainly easier as the course is almost flat with no big hills like SF US-half. There were lots of rock bands on the way. Water stations were

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Three Nobel Prizes in three days. With Stanford, UCB and UCSF in 50 mile radius and an environment of innovation, anything is possible in the Bay Area.

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1 Astronomical Unit (AU)= 93 000 000 miles1 light year= 63 000 AU= 58 00 000 000 000 miles (5.8 trillion miles)Speed of light= 186 000 miles / secondPluto, is about the farthest planet (now dwarf-planet) located in the Kuiper belt, about 31-51 AU far from earth. That means light will take between 4-8 hours to reach pluto from earth.To calculate - ( (31 or 51) * 93000000) / (186 000 * 3600) = 4.3

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Its been a while since a good hindi song touched my heart. I love oldies because of the melody and more importantly the lyrics. Newer songs are sometimes melodious but still don't cut it to be called poems..However, this song from Zinda really touched my heart so wanted to share it with you all. It is sung by a pakistani group - Strings.यह है मेरी कहानी – ज़िन्दाSingers – Strings, John

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World Cup 2006 is turning out to be a very entertaining world cup to watch. I remember watching the games in the previous world cups with only a handful of attacks, but in this WC, the teams are playing very aggresively. The african teams from Ivory Coast and Trinidad and Tobago gave awesome fight to heavy weight European teams before going down. Ecuador is sitting on top of the group with

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In the first opening match of Group E against Czech republic, USA succumbed to a 3-0 loss. The Czech team was assumed to be a slower and older team but people forgot that experience is something that is only beatable by superior skills, which the US showed very little of in today's game. The towering czech forward Jon Koller at 6' 7" scored a dream goal in the fifth minute. From this early

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चलती चक्की देख कर, दीया कबीरा रोयदुइ पाटन के बीच में, साबुत बचा न कोय - संत कबीर

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Aargh!! I have been trying to write something in Hindi here for sometime. Finally I created a post and posted here but it wouldn't show the characters properly, only ????. So, I published the post, quit the browser, logged back in to blogger and edited the post. The content was gone. All I could see now was ???? instead of hindi characters. So frustrating that blogger didn't save my content as

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I have been busy preparing for our Europe trip so haven't been able to write anything, but when I saw this video I couldn't stop. I had to share it with everyone.This video of comedy central's Stephen Colbert delivering a speech at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner in his own style is out of this world. Its a must see. You can see it at google video.

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Mind Without Fear- Rabindranath TagoreWhere the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead

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Check out this video. Pretty soon this kind of multi-input touch screen will be a reality.

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Google has been in the midst of a debate about its action of allowing the Chinese communist government to censor Google's search results in China. On one side of the argument it is becoming a tool of oppression for the Chinese government as Chinese citizens are not being allowed access to "sensitive" information. A company, whose motto is "Don't be evil", should not become a partner of some

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Jeremy Siegel is a very accomplished professor of Finance at Wharton Business School, UPenn. He is writing a two part article on India Vs. China.India lags in the hard infrastructure of roads, airports, and buildings, but leads in the "soft" infrastructure of democratic institutions, free press, and an independent judiciary.

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Can any democratically elected government be un-palatable to US? Looks like the newly elected palestinian govt. is going to be formed by Hamas, which is considered by the US govt. to be a terrorist organization. The US policy is that they don't negotiate with terrorists. Is it OK to work with a democratically elected "terrorist" group? Will Hamas modify their ways to match the requirements put

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My friend Priyank Desai is an excellent flute player. He is the one who initiated me into hindustani classical music when we were in undergrad at LD College of Engineering at Ahmedabad. He just started blogging. He will have good resources on Hindustani music on his blog. One such gem - http://www.parrikar.org/I have learned tabla from Emam for couple of years, so I know little bit about and

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We went to Kirkwood for couple of days during the MLK weekend. I go to Tahoe for snowboarding at least twice or thrice a year since last 3-4 years. I have been to Squaw Valley, Northstar, Alpine Meadows, Rose Bowl and Sierra-at-tahoe, but Kirkwood is better than most. I remember Northstar and Squaw and I remember waiting in lines for a lift for at least 5-10 mins. Not at Kirkwood. The lines

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Yes, that is the name of Bhojpuri version of "Namak halal"1000% profit is what is drawing some of the bollywood talent in Bhojpuri Phillum Industry. Read this BBC ArticleSome interesting tidbits:Made on a modest budget of $65,000, Sasura Bada Paisawela took in over $3m at the box office. Daroga Babu mopped up nearly $900,000 on a similar budget.Rani Chatterji - originally Sabiha Sheikh and

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I have been very busy getting my essays in order to apply for Round 2 for MBA at various colleges, so haven't been able to write, or read, in a while. Someone forwarded this presentation on Identity 2.0. It is extremely well done and uses powerpoint in a completely new way.http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/ (Disclaimer: 15 min clip)

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I was a little surprised to see the real interest rates were actually at the most 1% if not less. Most banks have savings rate of 3.5% but the inflation is around 3%. Currently the rate of I Bonds is 6.73%. You can read more about I Bonds at treasurydirect.gov. I am sure this gives no way even close to the ROI results you get when investing in the market over a long run, but this is certainly lot

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The news that Sony's music CDs install rootkit app when you play them on your Windows PC, without your permission, has created an outpouring of outrage in the blogsphere. Rootkits are these apps which are hidden from windows apis and users, so non-windows expert have no way of finding out what is on their computer. You can read more about what rootkits are here and download this utility by

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Tried GriffinTechnology's Radio Shark. Its rad. Its a TiVo for Radio and very easy to use on mac or PC. It has looks of latest mac gizmos. I got it as part of my pledge to kqed.org.

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GOI = Government of IndiaHave you followed the passing of law to outlaw the dance bars from Mumbai and now to close the dance clubs in Bangalore? Well, I was in Mumbai when the dance bar closure issue was in the limelight and now, I am reading this article about Bangalore.First let me differentiate between regular "Dance Clubs" and exotic "Dance Bars". I think I need to do this based on the

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Salman Rushdie was on SF Forum on Oct 3rd. Michael Krasny interviewed him and they talked about his new novel "Shalimar, The Clown". They announced that he would be at Books Inc. in Mountain View at 7:30 PM. It perfectly worked out for us, and Stuthi and I met him and got two of his books autographed. Midnight's children and Shalimar the clown. Unfortunately, it was a small bookstore and it was

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My friend, Sai, just wrote about how you can achieve your retirement goals if you start little but start early. In his post, Quadrant2: Retirement - Start early, he also has a link to his presentation which contains links to more resources. I have read about this at many other places too and completely believe in this. Time, is that rare resource which if not used wisely, can never be returned.

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I found this article corroborating what I have believed, that to explore an idea, a thought or a concept, writing is the best tool. If you put down your thoughts, you have a chance of not only explaining it to others, but also to make your beliefs clearer. You wouldn't discard stupid ideas or wouldn't even try to classify your thoughts or judge your thoughts, but when you write them down, you

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Over the last few months, I have read about and discussed various financial management topics with my friends. I used to think I was lost in terms of knowing where I was heading in managing my finances. Since then, I have actively organized my finances and have set some goals. I am pretty comfortable now about which direction I am going with my finances and would like to share with you about what

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I am a big fan of books and want to be able to at least write good coherent essays at this point in life. So, looking for topic, I found this one and wrote something about it which I would like to share.Anonymous Claim: The fear is widespread among environmentalists that free trade increases economic growth and that growth harms the environment. That fear is misplaced. Growth enables governments

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I often read Thomas I. Friedman's articles on economics in the NYT. In one of his latest articles titled The end of the rainbow, he talks about how Ireland went on to become the second richest nation of europe. I really like the article as it is terse and shows what changes has worked for Ireland.Here is a small excerpt I would like to emphasize upon:Ireland's advice is very simple: Make high

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Honeymoon in Maldives was amazing. (More pics on flickr)

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War on Iraq - Nothing Personal, just business. I have been appalled by the amount of american media coverage US's war waging endeavour against Iraq receives. There is nothing else on TV. We, normal citizens of the world only rely on media on what is going on. But,inquisitive mind is always asking questions. I always feel that things are not the way they seem to be. So, in search of truth these

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