News, Views and Social Issues

Calicut, Kerala Visit. Few photographs from there

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:18:41 PST

Here are few photographs and Flickr link at the bottom from my Calicut Visit in Feb, 2012.

There was Flower show organized there at that time.

More photos from Calicut visit here at Flickr directly.

Lalbaug, Bangalore Flower Show, 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:03:54 PST

Here are few photographs from Bangalore Flowshow which comes every years for few days. It is organized in Lalbaug Garden. I visited today (Sunday). But I felt sunday is not good time to visit as the area was very crowded.

Few more photoshots from Flower Show, Lalbaug, Bangalore at Flickr.

Sunset and Cloud Photoshots

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:13:21 PST

Here are few sunset and cloud photoshots for you.

View full size photographs on Sunsets and more here on Flickr.

Learn YUI3: Attach Event to Dynamic Content [Digg]

Digg — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:33:33 PST

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Synchronizing Files and Folders between Home System and Office system [Digg]

Digg — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:25:02 PST

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Yercaud - An Office Trip from Yahoo!

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:50:37 PST

Yercaud, a set on Flickr.

Here are few photographs captured during Yercaud trip. It was a trip organized from office.

Does it look like a scene from Ghost Movie

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:24:55 PST

Click images to enlarge it.

A sunset and Cloud with it.

Most Charitable Companies, Sector wise Charitable Companies and more

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:49:27 PST

I liked this Infographics and thought to share with you. It is cool data about most charitable companies around the world, sector wise charitable companies and more. It has individuals listed in it who are most charitable and popular causes where most charitable money is going.

Recent Tradition seen in Bollywood Ghost Movie

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:46:09 PST

I am seeing a new pattern in recent Bollywood ghost movie. Ragani MMS, Hunted or other are all having innocent and creamy kind of girl and on whom torture happen. People who cannot get frightened by ghost can be carried away by torture on sweet girl. Director and producer are seeing this opportunity!

Yesterday movie - Hunted has given me headache. Too much crying sound and torture. huh!

Chhath Pooja - why it become popular

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:03:13 PDT

I see Chhath pooja has become important according to news I am listening. I am surprised to listen this. Why is this so?
First why people need new method of praying to God. Is god listening to them! I am from Bihar and I know it is very difficult to keep Chhath Vratta. What is your take on increasing popularity of this festival. Is that Bihar is becoming popular and so whatever it is doing is getting more attention!

Lauki (Bottle Gourd) Juice or Fruits With or without Peel?

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:08:42 PDT

Just now I have watched discussion on Aaj Tak channel about Lauki (Bottle Gourd) juice. 3 people has died due to Lauki juice. So, should one take Lauki juice or not!
In the discussion, scientists said that better take Lauki without its skin. Peel can have dangerous substance that causes toxins. There will always be a risk of poisonous substance going inside your stomach if you take Lauki with its skin. If your Lauki (Bottle Gourd) has that toxins more than normal Lauki has then your Lauki will taste bitter.

img from nandyala.org

Ramdev Baba also joined in the discussion and he said, he always suggested not to take bitter Lauki. He also said that Lauki grown with fertilizer can be more risky with due to these substances.
So, finally conclusion is not to take Lauki with its skin. He also suggested that if you peel Lauki then chemical sticking on top of the fruits can be avoided. Also, many peel even muli as they think due to this they can avoid much of bacteria.

In home sometimes it is a matter of arguments about peel. I preferred not to take ANY fruit with its peel. As these days it is difficult to find fruit grown in organic farming. So, why take risk for minor gain. If you well off then you may be taking nutrients in abundance or more than required. So, do not take bad things inside. Yoga also said do not take more than required. Yoga also says there are more in peel. But you know chemical is a big risk. We cannot avoid all negative effect of chemical because due to chemical, many changes has already occurred in fruit or vegetables. Only chemical struck outside of fruit/vegetable can be washed off or removed by bay of peeling.

Bhutkun plant as I remember from Childhood

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:24:13 PDT

Bhutkun plant as I remember from Childhood. I could not dare to eat it thinking it is right one or not! I have taken snapshot using my mobile camera. I have found this plant at my Lodge.

If you have noticed a dirty people has spitted pan on it then sorry! These people cannot see this green plant!

Photography of CD with Water Sprinkled and a try to use Flickr

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:38:54 PDT

On Flickr, I can share photos like this. It is very restricted. I thought, at least, I could post a slideshow here. On Picasa, I can easily create a slideshow and share. I saw a person has posted an image like this so I thought to do the same and use CD as subject.

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satya61229's Photography photoset

Oh! It is too small. Cow in a Small Carrier

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:15:46 PDT

Here I saw a cow in small carrier. Barely she can stand and her legs were rubbing by ropes but on stop her fall. Probably her mouth may also have been injured due to this. It is cruelty against animal.

I have captured this using my mobile while going to Office.

Learn Hindi

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:45:16 PDT

I was working on a PHP code and I was looking for Hindi Consonants and Vowels to copy a letter to use in my PHP code. As you have guessed I only have English keyboard, I need to do this. I need to search a lot to find a web page on net to get Hindi letters in a way that can be copied and pasted into my PHP code file. Almost all web pages were showing Hindi letters in image format or web page itself was in PDF. Here is one site that is looking good and have Hindi letters in copyable format. ~~Learn Hindi~~. http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/devanagari.htm

Today I Woke Up Early

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:55:53 PDT

Today I woke up early and tired my photography on Sky and Cloud. Cloud has covered the sun after some time. and after that I went back to my room. To see in bigger sizes, follow this link on Picasa.

Today I Woke Up Early | Photography [Digg]

Digg — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:48:08 PDT

Sky and Cloud Photography

Images from Sankey Tank, Bangalore, India

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:59:59 PDT

Here are few images I have captures from Sankey Tank, Bangalore, India. Few more may come in near future. I felt lazy to go there but when I visited and started photography then it was all fun.

It is big. Spread in 15 ha (37.1 acres). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_tank

Walkways all around


Greenery

Huge reserve of Water. The Lake is manmade and was developed as water reservoir. But latter converted into park.

Really colorful!


Children playground. People play badminton as well.

Few ducks are there.

Update: Few more images from Sankey Tank

Children Park, Great place for your children to enjoy your company and open space alike on weekends

Swing, three swing side by side

Verities of places to enjoy by children

Many more here in slideshow or visit the Picasa:

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A Glimpse of Changing Bihar

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:03:56 PDT

Efficiency of Bihar Government is yielding fruit. Here is a video on various parameters Bihar is taking to progress and work done by state government as reported by NDTV.

India Matters: Bihar calling by tvnportal

Bihar Economic Development is Real!

Laloo's Ice Cream Company in America - just got a funny name

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:39:09 PDT

Just got a Ice Brand name called Laloo's. Is this anything to do with Laloo of Bihar! I have no idea of it. It is a America based Ice Cream company and I found it funny to read Laloo's Ice Cream company in America, so sharing with you.
Ice Cream is based on Goat milk. Now, it got a free publicity through my blog?

A Funny Joke on Laloo Yadav (Lalu Yadav)

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:11:09 PDT

There are many jokes on famous Laloo Yadav, but this joke reads very funny and hilarious to me because there is no politics in it!

Rabri Devi died and went to heaven (Don't Laugh).
As she stood in front of yamraj , she saw a huge wall of clocks behind.
She asked, "What are all those clocks?" Yamraj answered, "Those are LieCloks. Everyone on Earth has a LieClock. Every time you lie, the hands on your clock will move."
"Oh," said Rabri, "Who's clock is that?" That's Gautam Buddha's. The hands have never moved indicating that he never told a lie.
"And whose clock is that?" That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have only moved twice, telling us that Abraham only told 2 lies in his entire life."
Rabri asked, "Where's my Laloo's clock?" "Laloo's clock is in my office", replied yamraj, "I'm using it as a ceiling fan.

Source - http://jayesh.profitfromprices.com/Fun_laloo_prasad_desi_jokes.htm

Don't Forget How you Supported Anna and his Dedicated Team

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:27:41 PDT

Now, Lokpal bill is going to pass in parliament and it will become a law, I request to all people who has supported Anna and his dedicated and intelligent team that do not forgot your good work and carry over wherever you go and whatever you do. This bill will enable few people to watch people in government and in judiciary but they can also become corrupt over time if you do not show anti-corrupt attitude. All the work will go waste and all money that is going to be spend on watch dog for anti-corruption will continue to go waste.

Image by newsreporter.in

Our leaders are corrupt and dirty because we are like that in lesser extent. To handle people like us they need to be like that. Team Anna cannot say this otherwise you may not have supported them. So, they just pointed on few 'looking factual' thing. Ramdev baba just pointed on money stashed away in foreign bank. But the real point is corruption. Corruption will reduce and efficiency of government will increase only if we as common public carry it over. Government is dependent of bureaucrats. Then few people who work at high level of government offices and judiciary cannot dare to do at such extent. They are taking bribe in crores or lakhs of crores.

The burden lies to good people to unite and support other good people for good society. Only good people of our society can support good thing in society and they need to raise voice in common public for anything bad happening.

Yesterday, I came to know that Arvind Kejriwal has worked for activating RTI (Right To Information) at grassroot level. He is doing great work from long time in this regard. We will remember him for bringing this kind of most basic and important things. Now he has supported Anna and his team for bringing Jan Lokpal Bill.

Background of Jan Lokpal Bill

The word Lokpal was coined in 1963 by L.M.Singhvi, a Member of Parliament during a debate in Parliament about grievance redressal mechanisms. His son Dr. Abhishek Singhvi is now the head of the Parliamentary Standing Committee reviewing the bill. The prefix Jan (translation: citizens) was added to signify the fact that these improvements include input provided by "ordinary citizens" through an activist-driven, non-governmental public consultation.

The Lokpal bill was first introduced by Shanti Bhushan in 1968 and passed the 4th Lok Sabha (Lower house) in 1969. But before it could be passed by Rajya Sabha (upper house of the Parliament of India), Lok Sabha was dissolved and the bill lapsed. The Subsequent versions were re-introduced in 1971, 1977, 1985, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2005 and in 2008, but none of them passed. The bill is inspired of setting up an independent commission like Independent Commission Against Corruption (Hong Kong) (ICAC).

from Wikipedia

Bagmane Tech Park - In Support of Anna Hazare and against Corruption

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:55:49 PDT

Today, people from Bagmane Tech Park, Bangalore, India went on to show his support to Anna Hazare and his dedicated team. This was a demonstration against corruption. People sought slogans and did a march from BTP, Bangalore to BEML gate/circle.

Few moments / photos Captured by my Mobile Camera

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 05:42:48 PDT

Here are few photos captured by my mobile camera. In the photos, you will find few photos related to Yahoo! location, HCL and few are from here and there.Yahoo! has organized painting competition for Yahoo! children, which you may enjoy the most! I got these photos while cleaning my mobile memory. It all looks worth sharing.

DTH Services in India - Tata Sky Reviews

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:56:45 PDT

Very recently I have subscribed to Tata Sky DTH services. Set-top box got is for HD quality. It is working correctly. Picture quality is almost all the time good. and sound quality is also good.

After using DTH (Satellite TV) services for few days, I saw one common problem that is visible everywhere. and that problem is Advertisement problem. Marketing manager want to feed as much advertisement as they can! I am watching TV at home and I have paid for the service but still they are pushing advertisement aggressively. Whenever I switch on the TV, I see ad. It can be regarding TATA's own channel (Active channels) or other promos. Hungama Channels are advertising there days through Tata Sky. Instead it should display the channel I was watching before switching off the TV!

Few other things I want Tata Sky to consider are:

Sound became louder than it was originally. It should be left as TV settings. Or this just become better in clarity and I should lower the volume! Need to check clearly.
When I browse channels I can see one channels at a time. It should show 10-15 channels at a time so that I can choose it easily and sooner than going through each channels in long list of channels.
While browsing channels, they show TataSky logo in big. While watching the channels (any) they also show Tata Sky logo in big. Why they do these thing. I have already purchased this satellite channel and I am using this service at home, who else is going to see the Tata Sky logo and who will get affected by it! Instead it should show channels name in big font while browsing the channels list, so that I can see the channels name easily from long distance and even when I am not at 90 degree of the screen.
After switching on the TV, it should show me the last channels I was watching. and not its own advertisement.
Over all there are lots of improvement required in interface for easy navigability. It just say channels not in your plan than showing all channels in my list and telling that this channels is not in you plan. It may happen that this problem will go away after my free time will end. but chance are less as those channels I cannot watch they are telling that you cannot watch because you are put into this and that package. If they remove all the channels which I cannot watch then I can fast browse channels. They should put all unsubscribed channels in different list so that when I miss something then I can look into that list and subscribe.
They must keep in mind the consumer right for their the service they provide.

This list is not a comparison list among different satellite channels provider. There can be high possibility that other DTH service providers are giving worse service or good service. I have not checked other satellite service provider. Overall Tata Sky has good reputation in Bangalore as I felt after listening few.

Needless Tata Sky big logo and normal size font in big screen, difficult to see from long distance: (picture taken from short distance)

Bangalore Elevated Tollway - From Silkboard - Electronic City

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:29:49 PDT

Here are few snaps from Bangalore Elevated Tollway (From Silkboard - Electronic City) and one video as well I have taken from there. It is a place where I have drive at highest speed.

and a video here as well:

Information about tollway:
Elevated Tollway charges
Bangalore Elevated Tollway Ltd

Digital Timer at Traffic Signal

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:36:05 PDT

I see digital timer at traffic signal is very important in saving fuel. The traffic signal where digital timer is present, help people to know how long they need to wait and according to that people switch off his vehicle. Those without self start also switch off his vehicle at traffic signal where digital timer is provided. They can try starting their vehicle 5-10 seconds before the time ends. Those halted first at traffic signal can think of how long they need to wait at traffic signal, if they are passing by that way regularly. They can guess how long is the signal timing at particular signal but those who came latter cannot determine how long they need to wait, therefore they do not switch-off their motorcycle, car, etc. So, I request to the management to make digital timer available at every traffic signal to help us and government to save valuable fuel. It is directly related to saving currency and reducing money spent in importing fuel.

Congress (INC) work is to mess with External Affairs

noreply@blogger.com (Satya Prakash) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:45:36 PDT

Congress party has a record in messing thing of Foreign relation. One living example is Kashmir issue. Even after winning the war with Pakistan, we are the looser. We lost our territory, and loosing many thing since then. We lost the peace along the border and inside.

now, another example is dam on river Brahmaputra. Why the government has not taken it very early. Matter of this magnitude cannot be taken latter. China or any country will not listen anything after everything settled. They will surely try to defend their action. After doing all the mess, we are left with facing problem and letting other countries to do the same thing with us. It shows our very soft, breakable policies.

More can be read on net:
-India outraged. But the government reacts meekly
-China's refusal to have water-sharing pacts may have serious consequences for India

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Why American Mothers are Superior [Digg]

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Editor's note: The Wall Street Journal lit up the blogosphere last weekend with an article titled, Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. This played right into the stereotypes about Asian parents being obsessed with their children’s education and myths about Chinese and Indian education being superior to U.S. education. The Journal article was over the top—way over. In fact, TechCrunch contributor Vivek Wadhwa called it “bizarre” in a response that he wrote in his BusinessWeek column. Chinese and Indian parents really do care about their children, just as American parents do, as do others all over the world. Some Chinese and Indian parents are really strict and push their children extremely hard. But he doesn't know any who would call their children “garbage” either in private or in public as the Journal described. And he doesn't know any middle-class Indian or Chinese children, in this day and age, who allow themselves to be subjected to the type of abuse the article details. You can read his views. But here is the perspective of one of his Twitter followers, Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, President of The Julia Group. She said that she felt compelled to write this after reading his piece.

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