Partha Sarathi Goswami, DXer, Radio Hobbyst, Web Developer, Content Writer, Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

Independence of Bangladesh and two perspectives

2011-03-26T21:56:00.000+05:30

Today on the auspicious occasion of Independence day of Bangladesh heard two pro grammes - one from NHK RJ another from Radio Teheran - and amazed to see that how a same thing can be seen from two different perspectives? When Radio Japan highlighted about the hardship of Independence war - the torture on Bangladeshis by Pakistanis and a success story of a war for good reason then Teheran was busy to find why Bangladesh failing to be a Islamic Country - the faults of current leadership in Bangladesh - they even talked many things supporting Jamat-e-Islami (a supposed rebel group) in Bangladesh - what people can say when there wearing colored glases...!!!

Google to compete Facebook’s dominance with Google ME

2010-09-21T00:36:00.000+05:30

By Ramy Elorbany
Monday September 20, 2010, 9:49 am ET

Facebook has developed into the world's largest social networking website, with over 500-million registered users worldwide, and that number is quickly growing as the site adds more than 500,000 new users each and every day.

Facebook's exponential growth in popularity can be attributable to the site being the first social network to offer a more seamless user experience with an emphasis on sharing what friends really wanted to see and read, instead of a steady stream of spam-like content found on then the largest social network, MySpace, which is owned by News Corporation.

Competitor's underestimated Facebook's growth potential, forecasting it's strong momentum at the time would not sustain in the longer run.

Fast-forward only a few years, and Facebook today is challenging Google's top spot as the world's largest web property.

Over the last couple of years, Google has tried to better establish itself in online social networking due to the intensifying threat from rivals like Facebook, but its offerings haven't really been as widely embraced by consumers as the company has hoped.

Most recently, about a year ago, Google released Google Wave, a real-time asynchronous communication, collaboration, and social networking platform that brought email, real-time chat with voice and video, and social networking all in one place – the first of its kind – yet the service has too not become as popular.

Only less than a year after general availability, Google announced early last August that it would stop Wave development, and said it intended to keep the service available at least until the end of this year.

Despite Google's marginal results in social networking, the company remains very well positioned strategically to develop a complete social network if it can correctly integrate some of its popular products that millions of people already use and rely on daily.

And right now, it appears Google will finally utilize already popular products to leverage itself into social networking by adding layers of social networking elements into some of its properties, like YouTube, starting as early as this November.

Google will subsequently launch a new social network called Google ME, which will be the most comprehensive social network built by the company, and could actually become a real substitute to Facebook.

Our source, which spoke on condition of anonymity because the plans were not made public, knowing people familiar with the project, told us that users could centrally upload and share content, as well as access information from other social networks like Twitter, play multiplayer games with social elements, and create groups of friends with different privacy settings.

Furthermore, if enabled, friends would be able to see search queries, and search results could be optimized based on friend contributions.

Additionally, Google ME will be integrated with key Google products, including Gmail, Voice, and Docs, among other products.

Google will also initially offer popular games from the publisher Zynga (Google is an investor in the company, its share has not been disclosed), including "FarmVille", "Texas Poker", and "Mafia Wars", some of which are already available on Facebook and mobile devices like Apple's iPhone.

As Facebook continues to grow, it could outpace Google's growth and push the search giant out of the number one spot as the biggest web destination on the Internet.

Given that Facebook has amassed a significant amount of data about users on the site, the social network every day becomes more and more of a threat to Google's search and advertising business.

Is the Sun Missing Its Spots?

2009-07-23T13:02:00.001+05:30

July 21, 2009

NASA SUN GAZING These photos show sunspots near solar maximum on July 19, 2000, and near solar minimum on March 18, 2009. Some global warming skeptics speculate that the Sun may be on the verge of an extended slumber.

By KENNETH CHANG

The Sun is still blank (mostly).

Ever since Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, a German astronomer, first noted in 1843 that sunspots burgeon and wane over a roughly 11-year cycle, scientists have carefully watched the Sun's activity. In the latest lull, the Sun should have reached its calmest, least pockmarked state last fall.

Indeed, last year marked the blankest year of the Sun in the last half-century — 266 days with not a single sunspot visible from Earth. Then, in the first four months of 2009, the Sun became even more blank, the pace of sunspots slowing more.

"It's been as dead as a doornail," David Hathaway, a solar physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said a couple of months ago.

The Sun perked up in June and July, with a sizeable clump of 20 sunspots earlier this month.

Now it is blank again, consistent with expectations that this solar cycle will be smaller and calmer, and the maximum of activity, expected to arrive in May 2013 will not be all that maximum.

For operators of satellites and power grids, that is good news. The same roiling magnetic fields that generate sunspot blotches also accelerate a devastating rain of particles that can overload and wreck electronic equipment in orbit or on Earth.

A panel of 12 scientists assembled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now predicts that the May 2013 peak will average 90 sunspots during that month. That would make it the weakest solar maximum since 1928, which peaked at 78 sunspots. During an average solar maximum, the Sun is covered with an average of 120 sunspots.

But the panel's consensus "was not a unanimous decision," said Douglas A. Biesecker, chairman of the panel. One member still believed the cycle would roar to life while others thought the maximum would peter out at only 70.

Among some global warming skeptics, there is speculation that the Sun may be on the verge of falling into an extended slumber similar to the so-called Maunder Minimum, several sunspot-scarce decades during the 17th and 18th centuries that coincided with an extended chilly period.

Most solar physicists do not think anything that odd is going on with the Sun. With the recent burst of sunspots, "I don't see we're going into that," Dr. Hathaway said last week.

Still, something like the Dalton Minimum — two solar cycles in the early 1800s that peaked at about an average of 50 sunspots — lies in the realm of the possible, Dr. Hathaway said. (The minimums are named after scientists who helped identify them: Edward W. Maunder and John Dalton.)

With better telescopes on the ground and a fleet of Sun-watching spacecraft, solar scientists know a lot more about the Sun than ever before. But they do not understand everything. Solar dynamo models, which seek to capture the dynamics of the magnetic field, cannot yet explain many basic questions, not even why the solar cycles average 11 years in length.

Predicting the solar cycle is, in many ways, much like predicting the stock market. A full understanding of the forces driving solar dynamics is far out of reach, so scientists look to key indicators that correlate with future events and create models based on those.

For example, in 2006, Dr. Hathaway looked at disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field that are caused by the Sun, and they were strong. During past cycles, strong disturbances at minimum indicated strong fields all over the Sun at maximum and a bounty of sunspots. Because the previous cycles had been shorter than average, Dr. Hathaway thought the next one would be shorter and thus solar minimum was imminent. He predicted the new solar cycle would be a ferocious one, consistent with a short cycle.

Instead, the new cycle did not arrive as quickly as Dr. Hathaway anticipated, and the disturbances weakened. His revised prediction is for a smaller-than-average maximum. Last November, it looked like the new cycle was finally getting started, with the new cycle sunspots in the middle latitudes outnumbering the old sunspots of the dying cycle that are closer to the equator.

After a minimum, solar activity usually takes off quickly, but instead the Sun returned to slumber. "There was a long lull of several months of virtually no activity, which had me worried," Dr. Hathaway said.

The idea that solar cycles are related to climate is hard to fit with the actual change in energy output from the sun. From solar maximum to solar minimum, the Sun's energy output drops a minuscule 0.1 percent.

But the overlap of the Maunder Minimum with the Little Ice Age, when Europe experienced unusually cold weather, suggests that the solar cycle could have more subtle influences on climate.

One possibility proposed a decade ago by Henrik Svensmark and other scientists at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen looks to high-energy interstellar particles known as cosmic rays. When cosmic rays slam into the atmosphere, they break apart air molecules into ions and electrons, which causes water and sulfuric acid in the air to stick together in tiny droplets. These droplets are seeds that can grow into clouds, and clouds reflect sunlight, potentially lowering temperatures.

The Sun, the Danish scientists say, influences how many cosmic rays impinge on the atmosphere and thus the number of clouds. When the Sun is frenetic, the solar wind of charged particles it spews out increases. That expands the cocoon of magnetic fields around the solar system, deflecting some of the cosmic rays.

But, according to the hypothesis, when the sunspots and solar winds die down, the magnetic cocoon contracts, more cosmic rays reach Earth, more clouds form, less sunlight reaches the ground, and temperatures cool.

"I think it's an important effect," Dr. Svensmark said, although he agrees that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that has certainly contributed to recent warming.

Dr. Svensmark and his colleagues found a correlation between the rate of incoming cosmic rays and the coverage of low-level clouds between 1984 and 2002. They have also found that cosmic ray levels, reflected in concentrations of various isotopes, correlate well with climate extending back thousands of years.

But other scientists found no such pattern with higher clouds, and some other observations seem inconsistent with the hypothesis.

Terry Sloan, a cosmic ray expert at the University of Lancaster in England, said if the idea were true, one would expect the cloud-generation effect to be greatest in the polar regions where the Earth's magnetic field tends to funnel cosmic rays.

"You'd expect clouds to be modulated in the same way," Dr. Sloan said. "We can't find any such behavior."

Still, "I would think there could well be some effect," he said, but he thought the effect was probably small. Dr. Sloan's findings indicate that the cosmic rays could at most account for 20 percent of the warming of recent years.

Even without cosmic rays, however, a 0.1 percent change in the Sun's energy output is enough to set off El Niño- and La Niña-like events that can influence weather around the world, according to new research led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

Climate modeling showed that over the largely cloud-free areas of the Pacific Ocean, the extra heating over several years warms the water, increasing evaporation. That intensifies the tropical storms and trade winds in the eastern Pacific, and the result is cooler-than-normal waters, as in a La Niña event, the scientists reported this month in the Journal of Climate.

In a year or two, the cool water pattern evolves into a pool of El Niño-like warm water, the scientists said.

New instruments should provide more information for scientists to work with. A 1.7-meter telescope at the Big Bear Solar Observatory in Southern California is up and running, and one of its first photographs shows "a string of pearls," each about 50 miles across.

"At that scale, they can only be the fundamental fibril structure of the Sun's magnetic field," said Philip R. Goode, director of the solar observatory. Other telescopes may have caught hints of these tiny structures, he said, but "never so many in a row and not so clearly resolved."

Sun-watching spacecraft cannot match the acuity of ground-based telescopes, but they can see wavelengths that are blocked by the atmosphere — and there are never any clouds in the way. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's newest sun-watching spacecraft, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is scheduled for launching this fall, will carry an instrument that will essentially be able to take sonograms that deduce the convection flows generating the magnetic fields.

That could help explain why strong magnetic fields sometimes coalesce into sunspots and why sometimes the strong fields remain disorganized without forming spots. The mechanics of how solar storms erupt out of a sunspot are also not fully understood.

A quiet cycle is no guarantee no cataclysmic solar storms will occur. The largest storm ever observed occurred in 1859, during a solar cycle similar to what is predicted.

Back then, it scrambled telegraph wires. Today, it could knock out an expanse of the power grid from Maine south to Georgia and west to Illinois. Ten percent of the orbiting satellites would be disabled. A study by the National Academy of Sciences calculated the damage would exceed a trillion dollars.

But no one can quite explain the current behavior or reliably predict the future.

"We still don't quite understand this beast," Dr. Hathaway said. "The theories we had for how the sunspot cycle works have major problems."

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: July 22, 2009
An article on Tuesday about the recent decline in the frequency of sunspots incorrectly described the research of David Hathaway, a scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. His forecasts for the strength of the solar cycle are based on the magnitude of sunspot-caused disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field, not in the Sun's polar magnetic fields.

Green Power :: Cheap political points and misleading scare tactics

2009-05-01T13:53:00.000+05:30

Dear Partha Sarathi,

Cheap political points and misleading scare tactics. You'd be surprised what
defenders of the status quo would do to derail progress toward a clean
energy jobs plan.

One member of Congress went so low as to say that closing the carbon
pollution loophole "is the greatest assault on democracy and freedom that
I've ever seen in Congress." He said he feared it more than wars. More than
terrorist attacks.

We can't let these desperate scare tactics stop the creation of millions of
clean energy jobs and close the window of opportunity to solve the climate
crisis that we have right now.

We have organizers across the country working hard to support clean energy
jobs and solutions to the climate crisis. Your support will help them reach
thousands of people.

Will you support their efforts with a $25 donation today?

Vice President Al Gore testified with Senator John Warner (R-VA), co-author
of the Lieberman-Warner bill considered by the Senate in 2008, on the
Bipartisan Leaders' Panel for the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

Gore spoke of the economic and environmental damage that would be caused by
delaying action, saying "Each day that we continue with the status quo sees
more of our fellow Americans struggling to provide for their families. Each
day we continue on our current path, America loses more of its competitive
edge. And each day we wait, we increase the risk that we will leave our
children and grandchildren an irreparably damaged planet."

There is no doubt that the economic, environmental and security challenges
we face demand sweeping, comprehensive legislation. But overcoming the
opposition's scare tactics to pass a historic clean energy jobs plan will
require your help.

Please stand with me, Vice President Al Gore and millions of other Americans
in saying that we won't be defeated by the same old divisive tactics. Please
donate $25 to support our grassroots effort at this crucial time.

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Thanks for all you do,

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P.S. Click here to watch Vice President Gore's testimony.
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Five Elements Mountain or Kunlun Mountains :: Reffered in The Forbidden Kingdom

2009-04-06T19:08:00.003+05:30

Firstly it is one of the Places where I would like to go...

The Kunlun Mountains (simplified Chinese: 昆仑山; traditional Chinese: 崑崙山; pinyin: Kūnlún Shān; Mongolian: Хөндлөн Уулс) is one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending more than 3,000 km.

The Kunlun runs westwards along the northern part of the Tibetan plateau to form the border range of northern Tibet. It stretches along the southern edge of what is now called the Tarim Basin, the infamous Takla Makan or "sand-buried houses" desert, and the Gobi desert. A number of important rivers flow from it including theKarakash River ('Black Jade River') and the Yurungkash River ('White Jade River'), which flow through the Khotan Oasis into the Taklamakan Desert.

The highest mountain of the Kunlun Shan is the Kunlun Goddess (7,167 m) in the Keriya area. The Arka Tagh is in the center of the Kunlun Shan; its highest point is Ulugh Muztagh. Some authorities claim that the Kunlun extends north westwards as far as Kongur Tagh (7,649 m) and the famous Muztagh Ata (7,546 m). But these mountains are physically much more closely linked to the Pamir group (ancient Mount Imeon).

Bayan Har Mountains, a southern branch of the Kunlun Mountains, forms the watershed between the catchment basins of China's two longest rivers, the Yangtze River and the Huang He.

The mountain range formed at the northern edges of the Cimmerian Plate during its collision, in the Late Triassic, with Siberia, which resulted in the closing of thePaleo-Tethys Ocean.

Mythology

The Kunlun mountains are believed to be Taoist paradise. The first to visit this paradise was, according to the legends, King Mu (976-922 BCE) of the Zhou Dynasty. He supposedly discovered there the Jade Palace of Huang-Di, the mythical Yellow Emperor and originator of Chinese culture, and met Hsi Wang Mu (Xi Wang Mu) , the 'Spirit Mother of the West' usually called the 'Queen Mother of the West', who was the object of an ancient religious cult which reached its peak in the Han Dynasty, also had her mythical abode in these mountains. Jesuit missionaries, the noted American Sinologist Charles Hucker, and London University’s Dr Bernard Leeman (2005) have suggested that Xiwangmu and the Queen of Sheba were one and the same person. The Transcendency of Sheba, a religious group, believes that the Queen of Sheba's pre-Deuteronomic Torah recorded in the Kebra Nagast was influential in the development of Daoism. They insist that after vacating the throne for her son Solomon the queen journeyed to the Kunlun Mountains where, known as the Queen from the West, she attained spiritual enlightenment.

The Kunlun Pass

References

Leeman, Bernard Queen of Sheba and Biblical Scholarship. Queensland Academic Press Westbrook Australia. 2005. ISBN 097580220
Munro-Hay, Stuart Aksum. Edinburgh: University Press. 1991. ISBN 0748601066
China Tibet Information Centre
Worldwildlife.org description
Chinaculture.org

Coordinates: 36°00′N 84°00′E / 36°N 84°E / 36; 84

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunlun_Mountains"

The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

2009-04-06T18:41:00.001+05:30

One of the best films I ever saw...
Jackie Chan and Jet Li together - Crouching Tiger & Sprinting Monkey

Leopard style, dragon style. Fight to the air, fight on water, Prying Mantis, Bouncing Sparrow
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e66Og0lOCcE

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt086 5556/

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DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8c36df6d6716f6ead9d5c56d04dfa8b0ed739d008b3dc9ae5be6ba49b5870170

Pass: kosovadc

It is the first film to star together two of the best-known names in the martial arts film genre, Jackie Chan and Jet Li. The action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping.
the inebriated traveling scholar Lu Yan (Jackie Chan), a supposed 'immortal', who is surprisingly alert and agile even when drunk. Later that night, seated in a teahouse, Lu Yan tells Jason of a legend of the Monkey King, who caused havoc at the banquet held by the Immortals on Five Elements Mountain celebrating the Jade Emperor's forthcoming 500-year period of meditation. The Jade Emperor took a liking to the Monkey King and awarded him a heavenly title, much to the chagrin of the Jade Warlord (Collin Chou), who was the Emperor's general. The Emperor then left the Jade Warlord to rule Heaven before retreating to his period of seclusion. The Warlord then challenged the Monkey King to a duel to display their fighting and magical abilities. After tricking the Monkey King into setting aside his magic staff Ruyi Jingu Bang, the Warlord changed him into a statue of himself, whereupon the Monkey King threw the staff beyond the Warlord's grasp. Lu Yan ends the tale by stating a prophecy in which a person known as the "Seeker" will find the staff and free the Monkey King. Lu Yan and Jason are then attacked by the Jade Warlord's soldiers, from whom they are rescued by Golden Sparrow (Liu Yifei), a young girl who refers to herself in the third person, who reveals that her family was murdered by the Jade Warlord, against whom she has therefore sworn revenge.

Goddess Durga, Scroll of the Dragon Warrior and CSS 2.1

2009-03-13T08:19:00.000+05:30

While I am writing the story its 6:37 am in the morning and I just woke up after a unique dream of mine, all dreams are unique & priceless to me, as usual.

The summery of the dream was – I found after a long journey to a village like place, I found Goddess Durga was giving me the Scroll of the Dragon Warriors, after seeing it I just find all the knowledge on CSS, ever gathered by human being, everything just became aligned properly, now I can interact with the environment, colorize them and align them, even control there shadows, wow.

Soon after while I woke up, it was the bird chirpings that I heard, cuckoo, crow, pigeon, florican, finch and many others, it’s the set of sounds I always like to hear in the morning, from my childhood. Now it is only available in some places like my home, not in my urban residence. Often Barsha, my wife starts talking in the morning but soon discovers I am not giving any reply – why she asks, it is the sounds I reply, in the morning I don’t like to talk until I became saturated with natural sounds, inner peace…

Then soon after I have decided to write this story, hence opened the window, Right then the sounds of police parade from nearest headquarters entered my ears, LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT, LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT – the entire experience was turning bitter as some one is poisoning my ears, soon I turned my mind, started writing, and turned on my love – my shortwave radio.

Prelude

For the logical weird: Last night my mother was watching some TV Serials regarding Goddesses, I have recapped yesterday Kungfu Panda, and obviously I was working on my web development projects.

But yesterday’s best experience was having a dozens of hot white rice pie (sada pitha) with red sweet syrup made from dates (khejuri goorer rash) in the evening.

ভয়াবহ ভবিষ্যৎ পৃথিবীর সামনে

2009-03-13T07:47:00.000+05:30

আমাদের বিশ্বের সামনে রয়েছে খুব কম সময় – সমুদ্রপৃষ্ঠের উচ্চতা বৃদ্ধি প্রসঙ্গে কথাগুলো বললেন আইপিসিসি বা জাতিসংঘের জলবায়ু পরিবর্তন সংক্রান্ত প্যানেলের প্রধান রাজেন্দ্র পাচাউরি৷

এর আগে বিভিন্ন সময়ে করা সমীক্ষা বা গবেষণার পর বলা হয়েছিল ২১০০ সাল নাগাদ পৃথিবীর সমুদ্রপুষ্ঠের উচ্চতা ১৮ থেকে ৫৯ সেন্টিমিটার বা সাত থেকে ২৩ ইঞ্চি বৃদ্ধি পাবে৷ ফলে পৃথিবীর সমুদ্র উপকূলবর্তী বেশীরভাগ এলাকা পানির তলে তলিয়ে যাবে৷ কিন্তু কোপেনহেগেনে অনুষ্ঠিত বিশেষজ্ঞ সম্মেলনে সর্বশেষ গবেষণার ফলাফলে জানানো হলো আরও ভয়ঙ্কর তথ্য৷
এই সম্মেলনে বলা হয়েছে, আগের যে গবেষণা তাঁরা করেছিলেন, তার থেকেও ভয়াবহ ভবিষ্যৎ পৃথিবীর সামনে৷ নতুন গবেষণায় দেখা যাচ্ছে,একই সময়ের মধ্যে বিশ্বের সমুদ্রপৃষ্ঠের উচ্চতা ৭৫ থেকে ১৯০ সেন্টিমিটার বৃদ্ধি পাবে৷ এমনকী যদি সবকিছু ঠিকঠাকও থাকে এবং গ্রীনহাউস গ্যাস নির্গমন বেশ ভালোমাত্রায় কমানোও হয়, তাহলেও ২১০০ সাল নাগাদ সমুদ্রের উচ্চতা বাড়বে এক মিটার৷
এক্ষেত্রে বাংলাদেশ ও ভারত মহাসাগরের উপকূলবর্তী দেশগুলো কিংবা আফ্রিকার দেশগুলোই বেশী ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত হবে বলেই মনে করা হচ্ছে৷ কিন্তু প্রশ্ন হচ্ছে, হঠাৎ করে দুই বছর আগের হিসাবটি পাল্টে গেলো কেন? উত্তরে জানানো হলো, মূলত মেরু অঞ্চলের বরফ অতিমাত্রায় গলতে থাকার কারণেই এই ভিন্ন চিত্র৷
বিশ্বের প্রায় ৬০ কোটি মানুষ বসবাস করছে সমুদ্র উপকূলীয় নিবিড় অঞ্চলে৷ নতুন এই গবেষণায় দেখা গিয়েছে, দেশগুলোর মধ্যে সবচেয়ে বেশী ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত হবে বাংলাদেশ৷ প্রায় দেড় কোটি মানুষ বাস্তুচ্যুত হবে৷ মোট আয়তনের শতকরা ১৭ ভাগ জমি পানির তলে ডুবে যাবে৷

ধর্মশালায় অন্যরকম দিন - from DWorld

2009-03-13T07:16:00.000+05:30

ধর্মশালায় অন্যরকম দিন

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: ধর্মশালায় তিব্বতীদের সমাবেশে দালাই লামা৷

ধর্মশালার মঙ্গলবারের দিনটা ছিল অন্যরকম৷ উত্তর ভারতের পাহাড় ঘেরা এই শহরে সমাবেশে যোগ দিয়েছেন হাজারো তিব্বতী৷ লক্ষ্য – তাঁদের ধর্মগুরু এবং তিব্বতীদের আন্দোলনের নেতা দালাই লামার বক্তব্য শোনা৷

বিশ্বের বিভিন্ন প্রান্ত থেকে তাঁরা জড়ো হয়েছেন চীনের নিয়ন্ত্রণ থেকে মুক্তি আন্দোলনের সুবর্ণ জয়ন্তী ও পাশাপাশি গত বছর তিব্বতীদের প্রচণ্ড বিক্ষোভের একবছর পূর্তি উপলক্ষ্যে৷ ১৯৫৯ সালের ১০ই মার্চ তিব্বতে সূত্রপাত ঘটেছিলো এই আন্দোলনের৷ যদিও সেই আন্দোলনের বিরুদ্ধে চীনা কর্তৃপক্ষের কঠোর হস্তক্ষেপের ফলে পরবর্তীতে সেটা ব্যর্থ হয়ে গিয়েছিলো৷ আজ সেই দিন উপলক্ষে দেয়া ভাষণে দালাই লামা কঠোর ভাষায় বললেন, তিব্বতীরা বাস করছে পৃথিবীর এক জাহান্নামে৷Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: লাসায় কড়া নিরাপত্তা

তিব্বতীদের আন্দোলনে নানা নির্যাতনের কারণে দালাই লামা বহু বছর আগেই ধর্মশালায় নির্বাসনে রয়েছেন৷ পূর্ণ স্বাধীনতার বদলে তিনি অবশ্য চীনের শাসনের মধ্যেই তিব্বতীদের জন্য স্বায়ত্ত্বশাসনের দাবি করে আসছেন৷ সেখানকার প্রধান বৌদ্ধ মন্দিরের সামনে দাঁড়িয়ে দেয়া ভাষণে নির্বাসিত এই নেতা বলেন, পাঁচ দশক ধরে চীনা শাসনে তিব্বতীরা এক অবর্ণনীয় দুর্দশায় ভুগছেন৷

এই দিবস উপলক্ষে চীনা সরকার তিব্বতে কঠোর নিরাপত্তা ব্যবস্থা গ্রহণ করেছে বলে বার্তা সংস্থাগুলোর খবর৷ বিশেষ করে তিব্বতের সাউথ ওয়েস্ট ন্যাশনালিটিইজ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় এলাকায় নেয়া হয়েছে কঠোর নিরাপত্তা ব্যবস্থা৷ সেখানে মোতায়েন করা হয়েছে আধা সামরিক বাহিনী৷ সেখানে বিদেশীদের যাতায়াতের উপর নিষেধাজ্ঞা আরোপ করা হয়েছে৷

ধর্মশালায় দেয়া বক্তব্যে দালাই লামা আরও বলেন, স্মরণকাল থেকে তিব্বতী ও চীনা জনগণ প্রতিবেশী হিসেবে অবস্থান করে আসছে৷ আমরা তিব্বতে একটি বৈধ স্বায়ত্তশাসন প্রত্যাশা করছি৷

দালাই লামা চীনের কমিউনিস্ট নীতির সমালোচনা করে বলেন, তিব্বতীরা এমন এক তীব্র দুর্দশা ও কষ্টের মধ্যে আছে যা আক্ষরিক অর্থে পৃথিবীতে দোজখে থাকার নামান্তর৷ দালাই লামা বলেন, আজও তিব্বতীরা তিব্বতে ভীতিকর পরিবেশে বাস করছেন৷ আজ তিব্বতীদের ভাষা, সংস্কৃতি, ধর্ম, পরিচয় সব কিছু মৃতপ্রায়৷ তিব্বতীদের সঙ্গে অপরাধীর মত আচরণ করা হচ্ছে৷ বার্তা সংস্থাগুলো জানাচ্ছে, দালাই লামার ভাষণের আগে তিব্বতের জাতীয় সঙ্গীত বাজানো হয়৷ সেই সঙ্গে ২০০৮ সালে চীনের বিক্ষোভ দমন অভিযানে নিহতদের স্মরণে এক মিনিট নীরবতা পালন করা হয়৷

মূল অনুষ্ঠানের পর বেশ কয়েক হাজার তিব্বতী 'তিব্বত মুক্ত কর' লেখা পোস্টার নিয়ে ধর্মশালার বিভিন্ন পথ প্রদক্ষিণ করে৷ তারা তিব্বতে বর্তমানে চীনের কঠোর নিরাপত্তা ও কড়াকড়িরও প্রতিবাদ জানায়৷

তবে দালাই লামার বক্তব্যের বিষয়ে সরাসরি কোন মন্তব্য না দিয়ে চীনা পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রনালয়ের এক মুখপাত্র কেবল বলেছেন, আমি দালাই লামার মিথ্যা বক্তব্যের বিষয়ে কোন মন্তব্য করতে চাই না৷

সাগর সরওয়ার

Jamming: a primer By Chris Cork

2009-02-19T15:17:00.001+05:30

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Much has been talked but little actually done in the matter of jamming the
so-called "Mullah Radio" that has done much to inflame the situation in
Swat. The government appears to take the position that this is an immensely
complex and expensive task, requires vast resources and the import of
foreign equipment - most of which is not necessarily the case.

Few will have little idea of what "jamming" actually entails - or even what
it is. Radio jamming is the generally deliberate transmission of radio
signals that disrupt communications or the radio channel by increasing the
signal-to-noise ratio; which is defined as the ratio of a signal power to
the noise power corrupting the signal. Signals can be unintentionally jammed
or interfered with by another broadcaster transmitting on the same frequency
without first checking that the channel is in use; alternatively, the signal
can be disrupted by the switching on of something like a cable TV plant. The
plant radiates a signal which, for instance, could interfere with the
emergency frequency used by aircraft. None of this is "new knowledge" and
has been around almost as long as radio itself. (Marconi is generally
credited with the invention of radio in the last years of the 19th century
and the early years of the 20th.)

Intentional communications jamming is usually aimed at an adversary's radio
signals to disrupt control of their equipment and communication/information
systems during a battle. A transmitter, tuned to the same frequency as the
opponent's receiving equipment, and with the same type of modulation, can,
with enough power, override any signal at the receiver. There is a range of
ways in which this can be done. The most common types of this form of signal
jamming are random noise (sometimes called "white" noise), random pulse,
stepped tones, warbler, tone, rotary, pulse, spark, recorded sounds, gulls
(as in the sound of the common seagull, which is a disconcerting "squawk")
and sweep-through. These are all forms of noise designed to overlay
broadcast and render it unintelligible, and they can be divided into two
groups - obvious and subtle.

Obvious jamming is easy to detect because it can be heard on the receiving
equipment. It usually is some type of noise such as stepped tones (bagpipes,
for instance, an instrument played in Scotland with a penetrating "drone"),
random-keyed code, pulses, music (often distorted), erratically warbling
tones, highly distorted speech, random noise (hiss or "white noise") and
recorded sounds. Various combinations of these methods may be used, often
accompanied by a regular Morse-code identification signal to enable
individual transmitters to be identified in order to assess their
effectiveness. For example, China, which has used jamming extensively, and
still does, plays a loop of traditional Chinese music while it is jamming
channels. The purpose of this type of jamming is to block the reception of
transmitted signals and to cause a nuisance to the receiving operator.

Subtle jamming is jamming during which no sound is heard on the receiving
equipment. The radio does not receive incoming signals, yet everything seems
superficially normal to the operator. These are often technical attacks on
modern equipment, such as "squelch capture." Thanks to the FM capture
effect, Frequency Modulated broadcasts may be jammed, unnoticed, by a simple
unmodulated carrier - something that would present little or no difficulty
to the communications wing of our armed forces were they to be directed to
locate and interdict transmissions from "Mullah Radio." (Location will not
be a problem either - simple signal triangulation will suffice.)

Screwing up the oppositions comms (radio-geek-speak for "communications")
has been something in the military manifest for many years. During World War
II ground radio operators would attempt to mislead pilots by false
instructions in their own language, in what was more precisely a "spoofing
attack" than jamming. Jamming of foreign radio broadcast stations has also
often been used in wartime (and during periods of tense international
relations) to prevent or deter citizens from listening to broadcasts from
enemy countries. However, such jamming is usually of limited effectiveness
because the affected stations usually change frequencies, put on additional
frequencies and/or increase transmission power.

A more sophisticated form of jamming is used to limit access to the Internet
by totalitarian regimes - China and Saudi Arabia, for example, both of which
severely limit Net access. Pakistan has the capacity to do this also, but it
has been used infrequently. Netizens are usually able to find a way around
Net jamming by using proxy servers. Jihadi groups make extensive use of the
Internet to propagate their message. The increased use of Net-based comms
systems like Messenger and Skype present other challenges to the jammer;
with Skype giving particular difficulties as it uses an encryption system
whose key it refuses to release.

In occupied Europe during WW2 the Nazis attempted to jam broadcasts to the
continent from the BBC and other allied stations. Post-war and into the Cold
War Soviet jamming of some Western broadcasters led to a "power race" in
which broadcasters and jammers alike repeatedly increased their transmission
power, utilised highly directional antennas and added extra frequencies to
the already heavily overcrowded shortwave bands, to such an extent that many
broadcasters not directly targeted by the jammers (including pro-Soviet
stations) suffered from the rising levels of noise and interference. Radio
Free Europe and its sister service Radio Liberty were the main target of
Soviet jammers, followed by Voice of America and the BBC World Service. The
BBC World Service is still jammed in China from time-to-time.

Against this background of nigh-on a century of interruptive activity of
radio signals, both shortwave and FM, we may be able to see that our own
inability to shut down or disrupt Mullah Radio is not a failure of
technology on our part, nor is it something beyond our technological reach.
Indeed, were we to be really serious about shutting down Mullah Radio it
would be a simple matter at field-level to locate the signal source and then
vector an appropriately armed aircraft and blow the thing - and its
operators - to kingdom-come. It is doubtful that the operators are yet so
sophisticated that they can auto-shift frequencies to confuse any jammer,
their on-air timings are not difficult to determine and the equipment they
use is not so portable as to be something they can backpack from location to
location. Simply put, they are the proverbial sitting ducks.

The failure is not military or technological - it is political. It is a
failure that stretches far back into the Musharraf years and is probably
linked to the fallacious notion of "strategic depth" that still in part
informs military and political thinking. Today we are seeing a shift in the
political winds as the new American crew breezes through our part of the
world. President Zardari has spoken clearly and forcefully in the last few
days of the threat presented to us by the Taliban. Their power and reach are
both extended and consolidated by the use of radio and other media, and the
State has been either absent, slow or simply negligent in terms of
understanding the threat presented by Mullah-radio. We can and should switch
off their mouthpiece. Jamming would be the humane way of accomplishing
that - starting tomorrow.

The writer is a British social worker settled in Pakistan. Email:
manticore73@gmail.com

2009-02-17T16:17:00.002+05:30

The electrifying redemption of Americas revolutionary declaration - Spread the word. A key moment.

2008-11-13T14:54:00.005+05:30

Dear Partha Sarathi,

In an editorial published Sunday in the New York Times, Al Gore outlined the Repower America Plan -- how to achieve 100% clean electricity within ten years. We've included the editorial below. Vice President Gore describes what's required to transform our nation's energy economy. Can you help spread the word?

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This is a key moment. President-elect Obama has said that focusing on energy and climate will be a first priority in the new administration. Congress and the new President need to see that they have strong support to "go big" in solving these problems, with clean, homegrown energy -- even in the face of the powerful fossil fuel lobbies.

To build this kind of national commitment, we need to clearly expose the "common thread" that connects three of our nation's major challenges -- the economy, national security, and the climate crisis. This common thread is our dependence on dirty coal and foreign oil.

As Al Gore writes, "Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis."

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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Op-Ed Contributor
The Climate for Change
By AL GORE
Published: November 9, 2008

The inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he -- and we -- must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis.

The electrifying redemption of America's revolutionary declaration that all human beings are born equal sets the stage for the renewal of United States leadership in a world that desperately needs to protect its primary endowment: the integrity and livability of the planet.

The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is "unequivocal." To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future of the human species, please wake up. Our children and grandchildren need you to hear and recognize the truth of our situation, before it is too late.

Here is the good news: the bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis.

Economists across the spectrum -- including Martin Feldstein and Lawrence Summers -- agree that large and rapid investments in a jobs-intensive infrastructure initiative is the best way to revive our economy in a quick and sustainable way. Many also agree that our economy will fall behind if we continue spending hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign oil every year. Moreover, national security experts in both parties agree that we face a dangerous strategic vulnerability if the world suddenly loses access to Middle Eastern oil.

As Abraham Lincoln said during America's darkest hour, "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." In our present case, thinking anew requires discarding an outdated and fatally flawed definition of the problem we face.

Thirty-five years ago this past week, President Richard Nixon created Project Independence, which set a national goal that, within seven years, the United States would develop "the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy sources." His statement came three weeks after the Arab oil embargo had sent prices skyrocketing and woke America to the dangers of dependence on foreign oil. And -- not coincidentally -- it came only three years after United States domestic oil production had peaked.

At the time, the United States imported less than a third of its oil from foreign countries. Yet today, after all six of the presidents succeeding Nixon repeated some version of his goal, our dependence has doubled from one-third to nearly two-thirds -- and many feel that global oil production is at or near its peak.

Some still see this as a problem of domestic production. If we could only increase oil and coal production at home, they argue, then we wouldn't have to rely on imports from the Middle East. Some have come up with even dirtier and more expensive new ways to extract the same old fuels, like coal liquids, oil shale, tar sands and "clean coal" technology.

But in every case, the resources in question are much too expensive or polluting, or, in the case of "clean coal," too imaginary to make a difference in protecting either our national security or the global climate. Indeed, those who spend hundreds of millions promoting "clean coal" technology consistently omit the fact that there is little investment and not a single large-scale demonstration project in the United States for capturing and safely burying all of this pollution. If the coal industry can make good on this promise, then I'm all for it. But until that day comes, we simply cannot any longer base the strategy for human survival on a cynical and self-interested illusion.

Here's what we can do -- now: we can make an immediate and large strategic investment to put people to work replacing 19th-century energy technologies that depend on dangerous and expensive carbon-based fuels with 21st-century technologies that use fuel that is free forever: the sun, the wind and the natural heat of the earth.

What follows is a five-part plan to repower America with a commitment to producing 100 percent of our electricity from carbon-free sources within 10 years. It is a plan that would simultaneously move us toward solutions to the climate crisis and the economic crisis -- and create millions of new jobs that cannot be outsourced.

First, the new president and the new Congress should offer large-scale investment in incentives for the construction of concentrated solar thermal plants in the Southwestern deserts, wind farms in the corridor stretching from Texas to the Dakotas and advanced plants in geothermal hot spots that could produce large amounts of electricity.

Second, we should begin the planning and construction of a unified national smart grid for the transport of renewable electricity from the rural places where it is mostly generated to the cities where it is mostly used. New high-voltage, low-loss underground lines can be designed with "smart" features that provide consumers with sophisticated information and easy-to-use tools for conserving electricity, eliminating inefficiency and reducing their energy bills. The cost of this modern grid -- $400 billion over 10 years -- pales in comparison with the annual loss to American business of $120 billion due to the cascading failures that are endemic to our current balkanized and antiquated electricity lines.

Third, we should help America's automobile industry (not only the Big Three but the innovative new startup companies as well) to convert quickly to plug-in hybrids that can run on the renewable electricity that will be available as the rest of this plan matures. In combination with the unified grid, a nationwide fleet of plug-in hybrids would also help to solve the problem of electricity storage. Think about it: with this sort of grid, cars could be charged during off-peak energy-use hours; during peak hours, when fewer cars are on the road, they could contribute their electricity back into the national grid.

Fourth, we should embark on a nationwide effort to retrofit buildings with better insulation and energy-efficient windows and lighting. Approximately 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States come from buildings -- and stopping that pollution saves money for homeowners and businesses. This initiative should be coupled with the proposal in Congress to help Americans who are burdened by mortgages that exceed the value of their homes.

Fifth, the United States should lead the way by putting a price on carbon here at home, and by leading the world's efforts to replace the Kyoto treaty next year in Copenhagen with a more effective treaty that caps global carbon dioxide emissions and encourages nations to invest together in efficient ways to reduce global warming pollution quickly, including by sharply reducing deforestation.

Of course, the best way -- indeed the only way -- to secure a global agreement to safeguard our future is by re-establishing the United States as the country with the moral and political authority to lead the world toward a solution.

Looking ahead, I have great hope that we will have the courage to embrace the changes necessary to save our economy, our planet and ultimately ourselves.

In an earlier transformative era in American history, President John F. Kennedy challenged our nation to land a man on the moon within 10 years. Eight years and two months later, Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface. The average age of the systems engineers cheering on Apollo 11 from the Houston control room that day was 26, which means that their average age when President Kennedy announced the challenge was 18.

This year similarly saw the rise of young Americans, whose enthusiasm electrified Barack Obama's campaign. There is little doubt that this same group of energized youth will play an essential role in this project to secure our national future, once again turning seemingly impossible goals into inspiring success.

Al Gore, the vice president from 1993 to 2001, was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He founded the Alliance for Climate Protection and, as a businessman, invests in alternative energy companies.

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Tintin by Steven Spielberg on 2010?

2008-11-09T21:05:00.001+05:30

Directed by Steven Spielberg

Characters    Hergé

Screenplay    Steven Moffat

Producer    Nick Rodwell    Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy    and Peter Jackson

Associate producer Adam Somner

2010 Animation/Adventure/Family film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Eric Stoltz, Andy Serkis and written by Hergé, Steven Moffat.

Steven Spielberg to direct Tintin

Les Studios Hergé, based in Bruxelle (Belgium), initially announced that Peter Jackson (Lord of the Ring, The Lovely Bones) would direct the first Tintin movie. However, Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg announced that Spielberg will alone direct the first episode of the Tintin Trilogy.

Peter Jackson remains producer and will direct the second movie.

The first Tintin movie, developed by DreamWorks and written by Stephen Moffat, is based on the two comics books: The Secret of the Unicorn, and its sequel, Red Rackham's Treasure.

This story starts when Tintin finds an old model sailing ship and gives it as a present to Captain Haddock, and an exciting adventure quickly developes. From an ancient diary, they learn of the story of the of the ship, the Unicorn - a story of cutthroat pirates and lost treasure. Helped by their detective friends, Thomson and Thompson, Tintin, Snowy, and the Captain set out to uncover the secret of the Unicorn. But there are many narrow escapes for Tintin before the mystery is solved and he is ready to set off in his next strange adventure, the hunt for Red Rackham's Treasure . . .

The Tintin movies will make use of a 3D based Animation system said to be similar from what was used for Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf.

Tintin financing issues

Tintin, the digital motion-captured film adaptation of Hergé's comics, is still at the starting blocks awaiting final financing plans to be concluded.

Steven Spielberg's project of bringing the most famous Belgium reporter to the Big Screen is definately more complex to set up than expected. The first Tintin movie (from a trilogy) was expected to be relased in 2009. However, when financing fell through with Universal at the moment of the divorce of DreamWorks and Paramount, Spielberg lost the participation of his lead actor Thomas Sangster.

At this time Sony Pictures Entertainment and Paramount Pictures are talking about co-financing the project. Paramount would be the distributor in North America and some other English-speaking territories, while Sony would handle the foreign releases. No more mention of DreamWorks appears in this deal. It also sounds like the negotiations are only about the first Tintin movie directed by Steven Spielberg, and its sequel directed by Peter Jackson. Does it mean the idea of a trilogy is abandonned?

The first Tintin movie has been reported to be based on the two comics books: The Secret of the Unicorn, and its sequel, Red Rackham's Treasure.

Steven Spielberg is still expecting all this to be sorted out, and to have the first movie completed in time for a 2010 release.

Thomas Sangster

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Born	Thomas Brodie Sangster May 16, 1990 (1990-05-16) (age 18) London, England
Years active	2001 - present

Thomas Brodie Sangster (born May 16, 1990) is an English actor, perhaps best known for his roles in the films Love Actually (2003) and Nanny McPhee (2005).

Biography

Personal life

Sangster was born in South London, where he now lives with his sister, Ava, and his parents, actors Tasha (née Bertram) and Mark Sangster.^[1] His mother, a dancer and characterist, has appeared in several BBC films while his father, who is also a musician, starred in The Lion King musical in Germany.^[1] Sangster is the second cousin once removed of actor Hugh Grant; his great-grandmother, Barbara Bertram,^[2] and Grant's grandmother were sisters.^[1] Sangster's great-grandfather, Anthony Bertram, was a novelist.^[3] Sangster's interests include painting, tennis, drawing and skating. Two of his favorite artists are Eminem and Queen. He is 1.67 m (approx. 5'6"). He studies in Pimlico School in Pimlico, London.

Career

Sangster's first acting job was in a BBC television film, The Adventures of Station Jim. He subsequently appeared in a few more television films, including the lead roles in Bobbie's Girl, The Miracle of the Cards (based on the story of Craig Shergold) and Stig of the Dump. He won the "Best Actor in a mini-series" award at the 2003 Monte Carlo Film Festival for his role in the miniseries Entrusted. Love Actually, in which he played Liam Neeson's stepson, was Sangster's first major theatrical film.^[1] He was nominated for a "Golden Satellite Award" and a Young Artist Award for his role in the film.

Sangster next appeared in a television adaptation of the novel Feather Boy (2004) and played a younger version of James Franco's role in the film version of Tristan and Isolde (2006), which was filmed in the Czech Republic. Among other things, Sangster takes part in a swordfight in the film. Sangster next starred in the commercially successful film Nanny McPhee, as the eldest of seven children.^[1]

In 2007 he appeared in a two-part story ("Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood") in the third series of Doctor Who as schoolboy Tim Latimer,^[4] and guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio dramas The Mind's Eye and The Bride of Peladon. His voice lowered during filming of the Doctor Who episodes. That same year he voiced the character of Ferb in the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb. He also starred alongside Love Actually and Nanny McPhee co-star Colin Firth in the film adaptation of Valerio Massimo Manfredi's historical novel The Last Legion, released in 2007.^[1]

Sangster is next scheduled to appear in the Holocaust-themed, The Fence. As of December 2007, he was also working on the filming of a television series of the story of Pinocchio. Steven Spielberg cast Sangster in the lead role in his Tintin film.

A Positive Diwali Wish & US Election

2008-11-05T20:40:00.003+05:30

This is a good diwali wish which I got from my friend Indranil Chakraborty.

Hi!
Nothing is derogatorily darker than the darkness of mind!

Still many are busy in their age-old futile attempts
either to attain virtue through violence,
or to bring justice against one atrocity
through accepting another atrocity!

Darkness of minds keep all these always widely prevalent.

In the absence of the light of appropriate knowledge,
we almost always become mere slaves of the existing systems.

Obliteration of the darkness of our minds
is itself an 'Eternal Festival of Light',
which spreads the light of knowledge
to grow our collective wisdom,
which in turn transforms our world
into a better place to live!

Greet you heartily with the thought
on this 'Seasonal Festival of Light of India'!

Hi!
... Conveying my Heartiest Greetings ...
Let's Spread the Light of Freedom ...
The Celebration would be Beautifully Brighter,
if We Care to be little more Sincere & Honest
to the Virtues of Independence & Democracy ...
Please allow yourself to read in detail
at the links provided with the following excerpts ...

" ... we citizens of India
are living through an attack on our democracy
far more insidious and lethal
than anything a bunch of terrorists
could have concocted.
Future "travellers from an antique land" called India
may well recall Ozymandias. ... "

[Source: http://gyanoprobha.typepad.com/gyanoprobha/2008/06/dont-focus-only-on-binayak-sen.html]

" ... In India,
nutrition surveys of
the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau have shown
that over 33 % of the population
have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of less than 18.5,
considered to be the minimum level
for less than starvation standards.
Translated to demography,
this means that over 400 million people are exposed to
near starvation conditions.
To add to this catastrophic situation,
we are confronted now with a new set of crises.
Between 1990 and 2005,
the daily per capita availability of foodgrains
has fallen from 510 grams to 438.
World food prices have risen,
and the concentration of land ownership in a few hands has intensified. ... "

[Source: http://gyanoprobha.typepad.com/gyanoprobha/2008/05/dr-ilina-sens-acceptance-speech-at-jonathan-mann-award-banquet.html]

" ... We are firmly committed to Peace:
but to a Peace animated by justice and equity
and based on the values of life and liberty.
In the absence of these,
restoration of peace through military action
can only lead to the graveyard of peoples’ aspirations.
I end with a plea
that in the twenty first century
let us not repeat the bloodshed
that our ancestors inflicted upon populations
across large areas of the globe.
The resources of the world are for us all to share.
Let us affirm our faith in that common cause."

[Source: http://gyanoprobha.typepad.com/gyanoprobha/2008/05/dr-ilina-sens-acceptance-speech-at-jonathan-mann-award-banquet.html]

... If We can do ...
India will Shine
in the Beautifully Bright Light of Freedom & Democracy ...

Please add your voice
to demand justice & immediate release
of Dr. Binayak Sen
[Winner of the 2008 Jonathan Mann Award
(Source: http://www.globalhealth.org/news/article/9833)] at

http://petitions.aidindia.org/binayaksen/index.php

http://www.petitiononline.com/Binayak/petition-sign.html

Lucky - Be a Billionair - The E-mail Proposes You

2008-10-12T18:48:00.001+05:30

The 419 Scam

Sorry to dash your hopes for a share of the ill-gotten booty, but the letter below (and many variations on the theme) is a well-known scam that pre-dates the Internet. But unfortunately, alarming numbers of people are taking the bait in what has been dubbed "The 419 Scam".

FROM THE DESK OF MR. JOHN EBERE -- NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION -- PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

Dear friend, Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information Gathered from the Nigerian Chambers Of Commerce And Industry, I have the privilege to request your assistance to transfer the sum of (45,500,000.00) FORTY-FIVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS, into your accounts.

The above sum resulted from an over-invoiced contract, executed, Commissioned and paid for about three years ago by a foreign contractor. This action was however intentional and since then the fund has been in a suspense account at The Central Bank Of Nigeria Apex Bank. We are now ready to transfer the fund overseas and that is where you come in.

The total sum will be shared as follows: 60% for us, 35% for you and 5% for local and international expenses incidental to the transfer. The transfer is risk free on both sides.

When a potential victim reponds to the scammer, they are asked for their bank account and other personal information. The fraudster then tries to establish credibility by providing documents bearing Nigerian government letterhead. But invariably a "problem" arises. The victim is then pressured or threatened to provide one or more large sums of money to save the venture. According to the U.S. Treasury, this scam grosses hundreds of millions of dollars annually, and in a few cases scam victims have been killed.

To learn more about the Nigerian 419 Scam, check out this link. I think you'll also enjoy the very funny Annual Nigerian EMail Conference parody.

Lyrics I Like :: Chris Rea > Auberge (4:40)

2008-09-27T19:00:00.001+05:30

Chris Rea › Auberge (4:40)

On the hard fast train
On the road to gain
Something gets right through to your telling bone
Theres a sudden itch
An electric twitch
Sometimes I swear this bodys got a mind of its own

This is the naked truth
This is the light
Theres only one place left to go
Auberge

You meet the silent type
On a windy trail
With a shiny cloak and an unseen silver dagger
You can talk till you ache
Give yourself one more break
You can tell by the look on his face that it just doesnt matter

This is the naked truth
This is the light
Theres only one place left to go
Auberge

Give me a weekend
Give me a day
Dont like what Im seeing though I hear what you say
Think with a dagger
And youll die on your knees
Begging for mercy
Singing please mister please

This is the naked truth
This is the light
Theres only one place left to go
Auberge

Lyrics I like :: Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton

2008-09-27T18:10:00.001+05:30

Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven lyrics

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven
Will it be the same
If I saw you in heaven
I must be strong, and carry on
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven

Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven
Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven
I'll find my way, through night and day
Cause I know I just can't stay
Here in heaven

Time can bring you down
Time can bend your knee
Time can break your heart
Have you begging please
Begging please

(instrumental)

Beyond the door
There's peace I'm sure.
And I know there'll be no more...
Tears in heaven

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven
Will it be the same
If I saw you in heaven
I must be strong, and carry on
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven

Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven

Lyrics I like :: Road To Hell by Chris Rhea

2008-09-27T17:19:00.001+05:30

Road To Hell - Chris Rhea

Stood still on a highway
I saw a woman
By the side of the road
With a face that i knew like my own
Reflected in my window
Well she walked up to my quarterlight
And she bent down real slow
A fearful pressure paralysed me in my shadow
She said 'son what are you doing here
My fear for you has turned me in my grave'
I said 'mama i come to the valley of the rich
Myself to sell'
She said 'son this is the road to hell'
On your journey cross the wilderness
From the desert to the well
You have strayed upon the motorway to hell

India - Sexual Life and culture - Part I

2008-08-27T05:14:00.000+05:30

You'd expect the land of the Kama Sutra to be as sexy as the temple art but Bollywood hasn't yet cracked Hindu morality.
Are there any people quite so beautiful as the Indians?

Possibly not, however male-female relations in India are heavily defined by the religion and culture. In theory sex should only take place in marriage and a woman's virtue and reputation are carefully guarded. If one girl should commit an indiscretion the shame spreads to all her sisters too.

In a country where just about everything is watered down or polluted, Indians are obsessed with ideas of purity. Naturally, this only applies to women who are good for one use and then are defiled for life.

Of course there are many Indias and in the wealthier circles in cities with a cooler social scene like Mumbai, Pune or Bangalore, then you might find yourself in a circle where casual sex and romance is accepted.

For the most part though, the average male traveller isn't going to meet any Indian girls as he's just not part of the culture, religion or society.

And if he does somehow find his way in then the 'love' will often come with plenty of strings attached. You see the occasional Westerner that gets married but they marry a village at the same time.

Likewise, the only cool Indian guys that a woman might want to meet will be from a wealthier background who have had the opportunity perhaps to travel and get a little more hip. Their perspectives on the gender roles are still likely to be a little outdated though – could suit old-fashioned girls.

The rest of the Indian guys in the street are always at the ready but most are hopelessly immature and only have a vague, Bollywood notion of what sex is about. Sex education is pitiful through most of India and you can be sure that any notions of foreplay, female orgasm and sex lasting more than a couple of minutes are few and far between.

Indians are beautiful but rarely sexy Not easy to get laid in the land of the kama sutra
So how did India come to be so repressed, a country that produced the karma sutra and the erotic carvings to be fond on temples up and down the land. Well, things change and the culture became radically more conservative in the last few centuries. Marriage in India is seen as a duty. Following the example of a god like Rama, Hindus should marry and procreate not for their own good but out of religious obligation. Their happiness is supposed to always come second to that.

Czech Republic: Photographer of Soviet-led invasion remembers events 40 years on

2008-08-21T12:21:00.001+05:30

By Rosie Johnston

Listen 16kb/s ~ 32kb/s

It was 40 years ago this Thursday that Warsaw-Pact troops invaded the former Czechoslovakia, putting an end to the hope and reform of the so-called 'Prague Spring'. All this week, Radio Prague will be commemorating the invasion by broadcasting the testimonies of those who were there. For today's programme, Rosie Johnston spoke to Libor Hajský, a junior photographer at the Czech Press Agency on August 21, 1968 – the day that Soviet tanks rolled into Prague.

Libor Hajský, photo: Oleg Homola

Libor Hajský was 20 years old when the Warsaw-Pact troops invaded the Czechoslovak capital in the early hours of August 21:

"It was a shock for every Czech, because up until the last minute, we just had no idea. Though it is true that in the Czech Press Agency we had an inkling of what might happen, because we knew that Russian soldiers had been doing drill in the Czech forests since June. Some West German photographers had shown us images of the troops. But mere mortals had no clue that these soldiers had come to train and never left afterwards. But even then, for us, for everyone, August 21 was an absurd shock."

As a press photographer, what was his job like that day?

Photo: Libor Hajský

"I started work at 5 in the morning. I lived five minutes away from the Central Committee of the Communist Party where overnight they had arrested Dubček, and so I took my camera and ran over there as soon as it was light. Around 8 in the morning it started to get a bit dangerous, soldiers started shooting at civilians, and I think two people died. The action moved towards Wenceslas Square, and the Czech Radio building, as tradition dictates. So by late morning, I was taking photos outside the radio building."

And what did he see, not necessarily through his camera lens?

"Well personally, I was just lucky to stay alive, because perhaps two metres away from me stood a couple of people. I stepped away and a truck crashed into them, someone at the top of the hill had released the truck's brakes. I took a photo of an overturned tram which was being used as a barricade, and the troops were shooting from behind this tram and right beside me, three people were shot dead. It was like a war zone, it really was."

Photo: Libor Hajský

In Britain and America at least, some of the best known images of the invasion were taken by fellow photographer Josef Koudelka. In Libor Hajský's view, do these famous images really reflect what happened that day?

"Josef Koudelka was ten years older than me, and was already a very established professional photographer. I was just a novice, while he was a mature professional – which shows in his photos. He had a really good camera at that time and the other thing was that he had no fear. I saw him sticking his head into tanks to take photos, he had no sense of self preservation."

There are several different photo exhibitions running in Prague at the moment to commemorate the Soviet-led invasion. Libor Hajský's photos have been on display at the J. Sudek gallery until recently, while Josef Koudelka's photos of the occupation are currently being exhibited at Prague's Old Town Hall until September 10.

The Georgian conflict and the confounding of cross-border information

2008-08-20T22:52:00.000+05:30

"Georgian authorities have blocked most access to Russian news broadcasters and websites since the outbreak of the conflict with Moscow. Georgia's Interior Ministry said the action was not anti-democratic, but Russian broadcasts could not be allowed to 'scare our population'. ... Georgian media, private and state-owned, are generally under the sway of President Mikheil Saakashvili, who promotes his country as a Western-style democracy. However, the country's main opposition television station was shut by the Interior Ministry at gunpoint in November and some of its equipment was smashed up." PC Magazine, 19 August 2008.
     "Within hours after fighting erupted, Russian hackers had established a site, StopGeorgia.ru, that showed a list of Georgian Web sites targeted and which sites had been brought down, and allowed visitors to download a simple program to enable their own computers to join the attack." UPI, 19 August 2008.
     "NATO calls it iWar... 'It's very easy to cause a lot of trouble using three guys and a laptop.'" Canadian Press, 19 August 2008.
     "What frustrates computer-security experts is that the features that make the Internet such an invaluable resource -- its openness and interconnectedness -- also make it easier for hackers to do harm. As a staple of 21st-century warfare, cyberattacks will become increasingly sophisticated, forcing governments and private industry to build ever-stronger firewalls and other defenses, experts said." CNN, 18 August 2008.
     "Internet access, in one form or another, is being driven into developing nations at an astonishing rate, thanks to a combination of philanthropy and profit-making. ... PC manufacturers, meanwhile, already rely on developing markets in China, Russia, India, and Brazil to drive both growth and profits. Any effective security policy will have to take such growth into account, and plan accordingly. At present, technological dominance and superior infrastructure may give the United States a decisive edge, but history teaches that this edge will inevitably degrade as other countries either catch up or as the threats themselves evolve." Joel Hruska, ars technica, 18 August 2008.
     "From a domestic perspective, the most frightening thing about this whole Georgian cyber-attack situation isn't that we're vulnerable to a similar onslaught of legions of cyber-warriors, government-sponsored or not, it's that Washington doesn't really know what it's doing." Cyrus Farivar, Salon Machinist blog, 18 August 2008. Posted: 20 Aug 2008

Voice of Russia expands broadcasts "for Georgia." "Voice of Russia radio station will increase its broadcasting from Moscow for Georgia by using additional transmitters and increasing airtime. 'Voice of Russia will increase its broadcasting for Georgia by increasing the number of short- and medium-wave transmitters. The broadcasting facilities of the seven transmission units in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar and Samara have now been connected,' the Voice of Russia said in a press statement. Moreover, Voice of Russia's Russian programs will be re- broadcast in the Abkhaz capital on the FM frequency at 107.9 MHz. ... On August 9, a decree by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and the decision by Georgia's National Security Council banned all Russian television and radio channels and barred access to the Russian part of the Internet. Voice of Russia stopped its broadcasting from Tbilisi for Georgia from the early hours of August 8. The radio station started broadcasting for Georgia from Moscow." Interfax, 17 August 2008. See also website of Voice of Russia, successor to Radio Moscow. Sergei tells me these VOR broadcasts are not in Georgian, but Russian: "Most educated Georgians speak fluent Russian so it's not the problem. The poor quality of those programs is another issue." Posted: 20 Aug 2008

RFE/RL interviews France 24 re Georgia. "RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel speaks with Robert Parsons, international affairs editor at France 24 and former head of RFE/RL's Georgian Service, who is in Georgia." Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 17 August 2008. See also RFE/RL News, 18 August 2008. Posted: 19 Aug 2008

Former BBCWS MD, and I, remember the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. "The radio came on a minute or two before 8am on the morning of August 21, 1968. It always did. That was the start of family routine in our north London home. This morning, however, was shocking and unforgettable. The BBC bulletin led on the news that 165,000 Warsaw Pact forces had invaded Czechoslovakia from all points of the compass. ... I was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936, moving to England with my family when I was three. My first thought that morning was for my relatives, living mainly in Moravia. Ann and I, newly married, had visited them in 1961. We had experienced the dragooning of small-town life, the public loudspeakers barking out instructions to the farmers." John Tusa (managing director of BBC World Service 1986 to 1993), The Telegraph, 19 August 2008.

Even before the Prague Spring, Radio Prague's English service had a relaxed tone, refreshing for stations from communist eastern Europe. One could sense that Czechoslovakia was the Warsaw Pact country most likely to reform. During the Prague Spring, Radio Prague was one of the best international radio stations on the air.
     It may have been the evening of August 20, U.S. time, that U.S. newscasts were reporting the invasion. As a teenager in northern Indiana, I tuned to Radio Prague's English broadcast at 0100 GMT on its 7345 kHz frequency. Instead of the usual "Forward Left" interval signal before the transmission, I heard stern march music. Then a routine broadcast of Radio Prague, making no mention of the invasion. It must have been recorded before the invasion began.
     The next night, Radio Prague did not appear. It did return weeks later, with the Radio Prague staff thanking listeners for their messages of support, and stating that the Soviet troops were not invited. After a few more days, the familiar voices disappeared from Radio Prague's English service, and the station took on a very pro-Soviet line.
     Meanwhile, the North American Service of Radio Moscow, having heard many references to Soviet invasion forces from Western news sources, started referring to U.S. troops in South Vietnam as U.S. invasion forces.
     "It was just at this time, literally days after the invasion, that a 24-year-old Englishwoman started working here at Radio Prague. Her name was Liz Skelton, and a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to record an interview with her as she revisited the building where she had worked 40 years before." David Vaughan, Radio Prague, 17 Augut 2008. Posted: 19 Aug 2008

Chuti- A Holiday

2008-08-16T10:19:00.001+05:30

14th August, Mama, me coming home - Aj onek din por, Sudhu Chuti katate bari ashlam, only holidays, 15,16 august chuti, na kono kaj noi, no work. I have packed my bag with a pair of books, puja sankha Anandamela ar Digit. And of course my Sony Icf-SW7600GR receiver, and i-mate JAQ to get connected with the world. At night 9.30pm reached my home in the dark, through the half known paths, at the corner of my village.

My home, I love it very much, and although I come once a month or less, it loves me a lot. As I reached, there was a welcome dinner ready, and my mom know what I like in this season, OL BATA NARKEL DIYE, SATHE NARLE VAJA, AR OLER DALNA, AHA PRAN JURIYE KHAELAM. BANGAL RANNA, ER SADH ATULONIYO, TAR UPOR MA REDHECHE, ER POR KOTHA HOI NA. AFTER being overloaded with a heavy dinner, I was failingly tried to read books at my bed, falen asleep soon. And in the sleep, the best sleep was waiting for me, as it started raining heavily, on the corrogetted tin roof, the best sleeping music I could ever heard have started. From the child hood I Like this sound, and it works like heavy dose of diazepam or alzolum (which I never requir) to me. Oh it was a heavenly sleep... Till nextday morning at 6 o'clock...

AJKER DUPUR, SILIGURI

2008-07-29T15:52:00.001+05:30

I AM WAITING FOR DENTIST IN FRONT OF HIS CHAMBER, OPPOSITE SILIGURI
PS. DOCTOR HAVE BEEN TO HIS HOME FOR LUNCH, IT WILL TAKE ARROUND 1 N
HALF HOUR TO WAIT. IN THE MEAN TIME I HAVE DECIDED TO CHECK
LOCALMAGAGINE STALL FOR SOME COMICS BOOK. BUT SURPRISINGLY FOUND THAT
THOSE STALLS JUST VANISHED...

Story Part 2 - First Engine Motor

2008-07-28T12:16:00.003+05:30

২. প্রথম ইঞ্জিন গাড়ি

আমাদের বাড়িটা ছিল গা থেকে একটেরে। এদিকে কোনো রাস্তা ছিলনা। বাড়ির পরেই সবুজ ঝোপঝারের ঢেউ।
আমাদের সবচেয়ে কাছে আন্নালি-আগার বাড়ি। তবে আমার বন্ধু ইয়াজলির সাথে কথা বলতে হলে উথতে হত বারির চালে কিংবা গাছে।

সেদিন চালে প্রথম উথেছিল ইয়াজলি।
'কা-য়ু-য়ু-য়ুম!' গলা ফাটিয়ে চেচাঁল সে।
দুধের পেয়ালা রেখে ছুটে গেলাম আঙিনায়।
'কী-ই-ই-ই!' প্রানপনে সারা দিলাম।
'চলে আ-আয় এখানে। বাবার আছে লোহার গাড়ি!'
ছুটলাম আন্নালি আগার বাড়িতে।
আঙিনায় বড়ো বড়ো লোহার চাকার ওপর বিচিত্র এক লোহার জীব।
'এটা আগুন খায়।' ফিসফিসিয়ে বললে ইয়াজলি আর সঙ্গে সঙ্গেই উঠে বসল সীটে, 'উঠে আয়! আগুন না দিলে এটা নড়বে না।'
তবে ভয় হচ্ছিল আমার।
বাড়ি থেকে বেরিয়ে এলেন আন্নালি-আগা।
'বস রে উটের বাছুর ইয়াজলির পাশে।'
কী আর করি । উঠে বসলাম শক্ত সীটটায় । আন্নালি-আগা ইঞ্জিন চালালেন । গোঁ গোঁ করে কেঁপে-ঝেঁপে উঠলো ট্র্যাক্টর , ইয়াজলিকে জড়িয়ে ধরে চললাম । খেতে যখন পৌঁছলাম , ততক্ষনে লোহার গাড়ির গন্ধ, তার ঘড়ঘড় আওয়াজে অভ্যস্ত হয়ে গিয়েছিলাম । এমনকি নজর করেও দেখলাম যে আমাদের পেছনে টেনে আনা হচ্ছে কী একটা দাঁতালো জিনিস , দাঁতগুলো তার তার কুড়ুলের মতো । আন্নালি-আগা টের পেলেন কী আমি দেখেছি । জিগ্যেস করলেনঃ
‘জানিস এটা কী ? ’

বললাম , ‘জানি এটা লোহার গাড়ির বাচ্চা।’

আন্নালি আগা হেসে উঠলেনঃ

‘এটা হাল রে, হাল। এখন আমি জমিতে হাল দেব, আর তোরা ভাগ, বাড়ি যা।’

লোহার ইঞ্জিন গাড়ির সঙ্গে সেই আমার প্রথম পরিচয়।

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Sories - 1. Kijil Ayiyak

2008-07-27T12:02:00.002+05:30

আমার পছন্দের যতো বই আছে তার মধ্যে সবচেয়ে সুন্দর একটা বই থেকে আমি তোমাদের গল্প শোনাবো... নামটা এখন বলবো না তোমরা বুঝতে পারলে বোলো...

১। কিজিল-আয়িয়াক

আকশের তলে যত পাহাড়ে গা আছে, আমার জন্মের জায়গাটা তার
মধ্যে সবচেয়ে সেরা, সবচেয়ে সুন্দর । আমাদের গা কথা বলে, সবচেয়ে মিষ্টি আমুদরিয়া নদির গানে। জীবনে শুধু একবার, এক ঢোক তার জল খেলে, সে স্বাদ কখন ভোলা যাবে না।

আজ পর্যন্ত রোজ সকালে গায়ের চারপাশে দেখা যাবে খরগোশ, সজারু, শেয়াল, হিংশ্র শৃগালের নখরের দাগ। সে কি বলবো!

ছেলেবেলায় আমার ধারনা ছিলনা কিজিল-আয়িয়াক জিনিসটা কী।
হয়ত তার জন্য দায়ী আমার আত্মীয় স্বজনেরা। আমাদের বাড়ি বেড়াতে এসে তারা সবসময় আমায় খেপাতঃ

'কই, দেখা তো তোর পা। তুই যখন কিজিল-আয়িয়াকের ছেলে তখন তর পা হবে সোনার।'

তুর্কমেন ভাষায় 'কিজিল' মানে লাল, তবে 'সোনা'ও বোঝানো যায়। আয়িয়াক
– পা। তবে প্রতিবেশী জাতিদের ভাষায় 'আয়িয়াক' মানে পাত্র, পেয়ালা। রুপকথার শাহ জেমশিদের ছিল আশ্চর্য এক সোনার পেয়ালা – কিজিল আয়িয়াক। তাতে তাকিয়ে জেমশিদ শাহ দেখতে পেত দুনিয়ায় কি ঘটছে।

খুব সম্ভব আমাদের গায়ের এই নাম হয়েছে তার আগেকার অধিবাসীদের ধনদৌলতের দরুন। লোকে বলে, ভেড়ার পালে এখানকার বালি ছেয়ে যেতো যেভাবে বাদলার দিনে মেঘে ঢেকে যায় আকাশ । অবিশ্যি এসব পালেরই মালিক ছিল জন কয়েক ধনী জমিদার বা বাই। জনগন যখন নিজেদের হাতে ক্ষমতা নিল , বাইরা তাদের গরু-ভেড়া নিয়ে চলে যায় আফগানিস্থানে।

পাশের গ্রাম থেকে পরিত্যক্ত কিজিল-আয়িয়াকে, তার উর্বর জমিতে উঠে আসে ষাট জন দেকখান-চাষি, আমার বাবা ছিল তাদের একজন। গড়া হল যৌথ খামার ‘তিয়াজে দুনিয়া’ (নয়া দুনিয়া)।

তারপর অনেক দিন কাটল। সোনার কাপ শুন্যি হয় নি। আমাদের কালে আমাদের গা সত্যি করেই সোনার কাপ –
এ মাটির প্রতি যারা অকৃতজ্ঞ, যারা তাকে ফেলে পালিয়েছিল, তারা এখন দারুন হিংসেয় জ্বলে মরছে।