I recently came to know which is quite embarrassing and a very shameful for us Indians that our honorable Prime Minister's website www.manmohansingh.org had been hacked by Pakistani Hackers. :-(
The website was fixed soon & not much damage was done to it. It would have been a really bad situation if the hackers would have hosted the website on some other country's server. The government never seems to learn from their mistakes as there has been such incidents in the past also when tampering has been done with government websites.
I've been blogging after a long time, was involved in a lot of things from the past few days.
There has been a lot of interesting stuff going around, innovations happening, startups opening (Locally & Globally) which i have'nt written about. Writing some of them together in this post.. :P
1. eBook Reader comes to India
Recently Sony brought its eBook reader in India followed by Amazon Kindle started shipping to India. I think this eBook reader with its latest eInk technology has a long way to go & will be the next big gadget to look out for. It has revolutionized the way people read books & have changed the way of reading which has been the same since books were invented. After seeing all the eBook readers by Sony, Amazon, Samsung the latest entrant is the nook, which is the best out of all.
See this vid of nook & u'll find it why.
2. TED finally comes to India
TED has organized their first event in India in Mysore at Infy campus. For those of you who don't know what TED is, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design but believe me its far more than that. I was seeing it live at ted.indiatimes.com.
From all the talks the best one was by Pranav Mistry founder of Sixth Sense. He demonstrated his technology live which left the audience shocked & excited.
Sixth Sense uses a camera and gesture recognition technology to turn any surface into a screen and to use your fingures to interact between the real and the virtual world.
This is a new startup into the Indian advertising space. As the ROI of traditional advertising mediums are decreasing with time, new innovative mediums are catching up like this one. They advertise on the back pages of photostat pages in colleges. I always found this idea being implemented in US, Japan interesting but now its in India giving it an Indian touch. Very well implemented and they have got a few advertisers on board as well like FastTrack, Nirula's etc.
The most amazing part in this company is its its unique name which they have also registered as a Trademark. Good Going !!!
Just read this article & i got mentally satisfied by this reasoning that yeah I am not hit by recession.
According to Economist.com, the demand for male underwear will decrease as "hadly anyone see's a guys undies so that will be the first thing they will stop buying" and all this has been backed by facts as there was a decline of 12% in the demand. (Wow...)
So this means now there will be only superman & batman contributing to the demand. I am still guessing what can these superheroes do to cut their spends.
A lot of people think that its pretty cheap to open & run a company or a website & will cost about 50k to 1lac or so, but one learns with experience that there are more things that need money like legal costs, dedicated server, office costs etc. I read this article & found it pretty helpful which explains all the costs which have to be incurred when you open a serious business. Click here to read the article
Google always lives upto my expectations whenever they come up with something new. This time Google will change the experience of the all the users around the world who search for images.
See this video
Visit this link to use it as this is still in Labs & not released yet.
Airtel has launched 16 Mbps speed in India which might excite a lot of people as Airtel says its for the Impatient Ones. Click here to see the Airtel 16Mbps plan offered by the company. Take another look it at carefully & then you'll see impatience totally ripped off... :0
Now here's the working...
The company's plan is Rs. 2999 for 20 GB /mth. If we calculate it its just 2hrs 47 minutes per month. :) (Now thats an eye opener). It means approx 6 mins a day of impatience at just Rs. 2999 (cool isn't it). The additional charge is Rs 1 /second so 6 hrs a day will cost just Rs. 6.47 lacks / mth.
Conclusion: I am going to buy the company's stocks right away...!!!
The Pigs are not in a good mood since the past few days...This big was interviewed & he said, "Enough is enough man, its been a long time you humans are eating & killing us, now its our turn..Grrrr....We purposely made a plan & some of our brave soldiers in mexico had to give their lives but we wont let their sacrifice go waste & before it reaches India & indians start fighting over our religion we want to make it very clear that we are not Hindu, Muslim or sikh like the kala bandar in Delhi 6".
These Swarr ke bacche have now learned to fly so the police is in search for them across the world. If we come to think about it they are fighting for their community & their rights, the right to Live, right to survive, right to play in the mud, right to shit anywhere they want so should we support them.
This babe was asked to comment on what she feels & she said:
"Pigs are very lovely animals, i really love them as i can relate to them as they are from a very similar community in which i grew up so if they come to India i will support them & their leader will be given admission into our party & will stand for the next elections"
Mayawati sorry Honorable Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh is really concerned about the developments in the state so she is now onto something big this time. When i come from Noida regularly i have seen seeing some construction going on the road towards Budda Chowk & sometimes saw government amabssadors standing outside so as everyone assumed that some construction has been going on but now comes the reality. Mayawati started this construction by first sealing the green parks around & people thought that its just an initiative of preserving them but its the total opposite. She is building a museum with statues of Dalits in it.
This construction has been going on from the last year round the clock & it is being said that this is even bigger than the Akshardham temple. I feel really sad as this project is not only being built on government's land, the money spent i.e approx 300 crores will surely come from the taxes we pay & about 3000 trees have also been cut , forget about the whole two parks being totally eaten away.
A lot of guys are happy... :) The newspaper publishers are happy. They are getting good news but no one is doing anything about it
This dude (Kanshi Ram) will be happy in heaven as his statue will be there in the museum. (feels nice to dead..right)
She will be the happiest of all as she deserves to get even a bigger MALA than this. Hats off to her.. (Even her statue will be there)
BUT the Television Media is Sad..They have not been able to get a good shot as no one is allowed to enter the construction premises...
These things have been done in the past also, its not a new thing in India so we have learned to adjust with the times & let our Behanji do what she wants, after all its her state & she definitely deserves a jaddu ki jappi now.
Sports Minister M S Gill is angry over the casualness of the behavior of MS Dhoni & Harbhajan Singh for not attending the Padma Shri function when they had to receive an award from our President Pratibha Patil as probably they might be busy shotting for some commercials.
M S Gill said that he will issue a circular to ensure sportspersons treat national awards with respect & he will ensure such an act does not happen again. It seems as if M S Gill is in a habit of ordering people around and he is the master as he sounded like Dhoni & Harbhajan has commited a serious offence by not attending the awards. So what they did not attend, so what they were busy shotting for advertisement or were hanging in a bar, it is them who have earned this status & fame and they bring pride to India and by the way they also pay huge taxes every year from where M S Gill gets paid his salary (under the table is a different case).
By the way we all know how these government awards are decided in the political process & who deserves & who gets awarded. I am sure they are well aware of all this stuff so i guess it was a good decision made by them by shooting commercials & contributing to the taxes rather than attending the function which is yes of national importance but are not at all fair.
"Life is a little haraami & we are little haraamkhoors too. When we find someone whose haraamkhori match ours, we fall into mutual harampanti & call it friendship"
This is really true & wow now it has been proved by a research.. :)
Recently i read an article in TOI that a research has been conducted that medicines, doctors etc yes help a person to live longer but the main ingredient for a longer life is friendship. A person tends to live longer in his life if he has friends with whom interaction takes place regularly & develop somewhat similar characteristics as of their friends. They say friends are a really powerful weapon to fight illness, slow aging and prolong living & its very true. Friends are the only people when you can be the TRUE YOU when you are with them & all the other times we wear different masks with different people. I feel really blessed by GOD that i have such lovely friends in my life which i have made for my own selfish reasons (for a longer life).. :)
DLF, the largest real estate player in the Indian Market with such a strong brand that they don't even need to market their projects & everything sells out just by the name, is really in a huge problem with about 130 million rupees debt in their books as on end of 2008...Yeah you read that correctly.
Thats not the real problem, the problem is that need to repay 43 billion rupees by June this year and how will they do it...by ofcouse selling real estate (their core business) but in these recessionary times not much people are investing in real estate so they are only left with the option of selling of their non-core businesses like wind power business (which is bound to become big in the coming years) & a lot of people are critizing this decesion but i think they are left with no options other than selling it and thats a real bad sign. They are also planning to sell away with the land that they had kept to be used for retail and other commercial projects and this is the situation of the company when experts believe that the markets are down for sure but have not hit the bottom & the worst is yet to come.
What DLF is just doing is that they are postponing the debt problem but not actually solving it.The markets are still in a correction phase so probably a time can come when they have to pay the other biliion rupee debts and they will find themselves back to square one with the same challenge but without the wind power business to postpone it further.
The other part of the story is that i have heard people that DLF & some other players are in a very comfortable position as they can afford to do major price cuts in their projects (upto 50%) & still not be in a loss. But they are already doing that, RIGHT... DLF projects are being offered at 20-30% discounts but still there arn't many buyers. The major problem for the realtor's are that huge amount of capital gets blocked in their projects & when they fail to find buyers then they land up in the same problem as DLF.
The sure thing is that it will be a real pain for DLF coz they are selling the wind power business as it's right now in a nascent stage but its bound to grow big & they must have planned to reap its benefits in the long term which now they won't be able to. No one knows how the situation & the condition of the real estate will turn up in the future. We should hope for the best as a major part of our economy is dependent on it.
Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, you all must have heard his name, ya you are right he is the famous person from Pakistan now in Mumbai caught by the police who is smiling and ordering the government these days that he wants a lawer from Pakistan. Everyone knows that he is a terrorist from Pakistan, accused of 166 murders, caught red handed from the TAJ with ammunation, his father recognised him, a citizen of pakistan & other evidences are all in front of us but after all this he is still a terror suspect by the government...haha....not still a confirmed terrorist.
India is an emerging economy & are setting global standards in various fileds like Tata Nano & now setting another global standard in the making - India is setting a standard for how to treat terrorists & all the facilities they should be given so that they should not feel uncomfortable in the police hands. Kasab is being allowed to meet his mother from Pakistan (she can be a terrorist too), he is being allowed a Muslim Laywer & talks are still on for bringing a lawyer from Pakistan & what will be next Pizza from dominoes...huh...
So now let the court do its duties, the case will start soon & no one knows how long will it last - a few days (i don't think so) 1 year, 5 years, 15 years or 25 years like the riots of 1984 case...India will bloody well take these many years & after soo many evidences to decide that he is a terrorist..till then he will be treated as India ka Damaad with visits from his mother & friends from Pakistan. This is a big red question mark on the Indian Judicial System that they need 25 years to solve one case, thats a hell lot of time means if a case is on for a 50 year old person then we cant really say he'll be alive for the court's decesion...
To tell you frankly i feel India does not have the balls to hang him or punish him in such a way that it becomes a lesson for each & every terrorist that India is ready to face anyone so BRING ON...!!! but but but...India will not do that...They say they have pressures o them...Haha... Narendra Modi says that we are a country of a billion people so we should be putting pressures on others rather than being pressurised & i think he is right.
Thats for time to see what happens with Kasab but now i have stopped hoping after all this.. :(
I am a common man living in India in the capital & i have been trying to write a blog regularly since a long time but now i have finally made up my mind & will express my thoughts (can however be bold sometimes so don't mind), my views, opinions and other stuff in my life.
My life cannot be called quite interesting as i am no celeb you'll like to follow but my thoughts surely will be interesting that i can say.
Recently Sony brought its eBook reader in India followed by Amazon Kindle started shipping to India. I think this eBook reader with its latest eInk technology has a long way to go & will be the next big gadget to look out for. It has revolutionized the way people read books & have changed the way of reading which has been the same since books were invented. After seeing all the eBook readers by Sony, Amazon, Samsung the latest entrant is the nook, which is the best out of all. 
at Delhi-NCR