The lead characters in a recently released movie called the city by that name which was made obsolete by reinstating the city’s original name, and this created controversies that lead to stopping of screening of movie in certain theatres/screens and eventually made its producer apologize.

Now that all’s fine why don’t we realize that even after more than 60 years of Independence our Country is still called India and not Bharat, its original name.

For quite sometime I had virtually no posts on this blog. And today when I sat down to write something, I was greeted by a parking page. Seems like I mis-spelt my domain name. But no, I did not. It was indeed a parking page on my own domain name. Oh God! I forgot to renew the domain!! It was due for expiry on 24th and today is 26th (in fact 27th as I am writing this at 12:40 am IST)

So, next thing I did was go back to my registrar page and renew the domain, and next went to wordpress.com to renew the domain upgrade there too…

Now when all should have started up normal again nothing was. I went back to registrar and checked the dns settings and there I saw the mess. The DNS entries that I had built there since first registering the domain, two years back, were all gone due to not renewing before expiry, and I had no records for what went where! Though I succeeded in starting up the blog again, there is more work to do to get back to normal.

And now what was that, that I wanted to write today on the blog? I forgot !!

Heet, is the name that we decided for our son. Since the name was to be decided according to zodiac sign, we had very few names to choose from. I initially had decided that whatever name we finalize should have corresponding .net domain available (after all each one us in my family have a name.net domain) but later dropped the idea as there was nothing that I could serve on the domain and that dwij.net and bhumika.net are still not in use, even in the second year of registration. So we decided on Heet which translates to ‘Best Wishing’ (ref) even though heet.net was already taken.

Name ceremony (called Jhori) was done yesterday on his 12th day of birth. Adhering to our traditions we had not taken a single photograph until yesterday. The pic on the right has our elder son Dwij holding little Heet. More photographs are here.

Time moves so fast! Just a few years ago (precisely 7) we had an infant Dwij with us. His smile made us smile, the scar on his right eye-brow made us cry, we witnessed his first walk, his first day controlling the computer at age of 23 months, his first spoken words. I wish I had started blogging earlier to note all those things. Then on second thought it’s never late to do so. And thus starts today my small family blog heet.dwij.net where I will write about Dwij and Dwij will write about Heet, may be. Well in fact four of us would be there to write, sooner or later.

Me and my wife Bhumika have been blessed with a baby boy on 3rd April. While we all are happy, my son Dwij sees no limit to happiness as now he is Big brother. Though in 3rd grade now, he has learnt the Theory of Relativity and that to be called ‘big’ you don’t need to be grown up, a little one in the family will do.

Coincidence of 15:

Dwij was born exactly 15 days before my wife’s date of birth, and the new born (we name a new born in a ceremony on the 12th day after birth) was born exactly 15 days after my date of birth. Now the gap of 15 days was a coincidence for both children as it is same as that between birth dates of me and my wife. So, from 17th Feb to 3rd April our family will be celebrating a birthday every 15 days (exception: leap year).

I hate forwarded mails that are sent without checking the correctness of the information supplied in it. Today I got an email forward which made me hate the thought of possibility of it being true. The mail said that the roadside vendors selling Nimbu Pani (Lemon Juice) procure ice from morgues! Attached news clip image from a Marathi language newspaper reported this and ends with “Now! Coming for a Nimbu Pani drink?’ Read the mail text below

Dear Friends,

Please read attachment (marathi-newspaper cutting) or this mail carefully and forward it to everybody you know.

It bewares us about the Nimboo Paani available from road side vendors. May be we might not drink from them, but there are many who do whom we care for. This attachment says that the – ice this vendors use for Nimboo Paani might have been sourced from Morgue.

In Government hospitals, dead bodies are preserved in ice until further procession. Daily morning this hospitals disposes this ice. There is crowd of this vendors outside hospitals to buy this ice, just because this ice is available very cheap and increases their profit margin.

PLEASE MAKE AWARE ALL YOUR KNOWN FRIENDS, RELATIVES AND ALSO OTHER PEOPLE WHO YOU KNOW.

Circulate this attachment (marathi-newspaper cutting) and my mail for English copy.

Thanks.
Take care

Ever since I came to Mumbai, I have on number of occasions drank nimbo pani from these roadside vendors. You can find them at nearly every important streets and around the local railway stations The mail though could make anyone hate drinking nimbu pani in future, I decided to give it another thought and came up with below conclusions

• A glass of Nimbo Pani already has a good profit margin when they are sold at Rs.3 per glass, while each glass costs just half lemon, and little quantity of sugar, ice and water. Is it possible that these vendors will get ice from morgues just for a little more profit margin?
• A few road side vendors also sell ice laddoo or gola, and a number of vendors comparable to number of nimu pani vendors sell sugar cane juice too. And you can find a number of vendors selling Fruit juices for as low as Rs.5 around railway stations when restaurants sell them for Rs.30-40. These vendors too use a lot of ice. Then how did it happen that only Nimbu Pani vendors got involved in such possibilities and not others?

Aren’t these point something that you should think of? Right?? Now I noticed another news that may or may not have something to do with this Nimbu Pani episode.

PepsiCo India has introduced Nimbu Paani variant of 7Up called ‘Nimbooz by 7Up’

Want me to write anything more?

There is a popular puzzle that asks for three English words that ends with GRY , while first two are “Angry” and “Hungry”. If there is no catch in the puzzle the answer is “There is no third word”. Wikipedia points out that there are no such words currently in use but if you go for archaic, obsolete, or uncommon words you will find many. It gives a comprehensive list of such words. One of the words that caught my attention was ‘Jingry’ and source of information was Google Books Search.

If you search for Jingry in Google Book Search more than 40 results are returned. So do you believe that “Jingry” is in fact the third word? Don’t! Just click one of the search results say this one you will get to read the original text as it appears in the Book. What is it? Looks like “Angry” right?

“Angry” gets indexed as “Jingry” thanks to the error in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) which reads out text from images fairly accurate but not 100% accurate. So still there is no third word that ends with GRY

Anyways, reading this page on Wikipedia was fun since it lists out a number of tricky versions of the puzzle that do have answers. Check those and trick you friends.

College ————— Yaadein
Principal ————— Jaani Dushman
Classes ————— Kabhi kabhi
Canteen ————— Kabhi alvida na kehna
Course —————- Godzilla
Exams —————– Kalyug
Examination hall ——– Chamber of Secrets
Exam-time ———— Qayamat se Qayamat tak
Question paper ——— Paheli
Answer paper ———- Kora kagaz
Cheating ————- Aksar/Chupke chupke
Paper out ————- Plan
Examiner ————- The killer
Last exam ————-Independence day
Paper correction ——— Andha kanoon
Marks —————– Assambhav
Result —————- Murder
Pass —————— Ajooba/Chamatkar
Fail —————– Devdas
Supplementary ——— Aakhri raasta
Vacation ————- Waah life hoto aisi