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"Yeah I sleep here. Like a king! When sometimes they would let me. Not a bad place yeah?But sometimes some people don't like me here. They probably find it very audacious on my part. It's not my place afterall. So I leave and sleep on the road instead. It's summer. So road is a better place to sleep anyway. It's cool, it's wide. You can roll around any which way you want and people don't mind as

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TL;DR This is a story of how Paypal abused my trust and opportunistically siphoned off INR 1200 from my credit card for a service (currency conversion) that I didn't ask for and on a transaction that was swiftly reversed by the merchant who understood my concern quicker than Paypal. Even after the refund, Paypal shamelessly kept the cut on the original transaction, and refunded the rest. 

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Many a times when problems overwhelm us, we tend to lose sight of simple solutions that can help reduce the problem's impact to a large degree, if not solve the problem itself.  For some time now the world has been confidently asserting that the low number of Corona cases in India have been because of under-testing. Rather than getting into the debate about such assertions, it is a fact

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I had been contributing to various automobile forums in India, somewhat infrequently over the last few years. Recently, had a very bitter experience with team-bhp and one of its very arrogant admin, who goes by the handle gto. With posts getting deleted selectively, changing the narrative, and after receiving arrogant communication like "do not question the admin", I started wondering why the

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It's been an amusing watching political reactions post the election results of 2019. On one side there is this repulsive Amar Singh, who changes colours faster than a chameleon, talking about how he kicked Manishankar Aiyyar's butt back in his hay days, and on the other side there are likes of Shashi Tharoor musing about the results in as honest terms as the suave diplomat in him allows himself

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The recent situation in Kashmir had me intrigued and I wanted to find out if there is any base, other than the age old separatist rhetoric, behind the boil. Incidentally, I came across this purportedly facebook post by a young Kashmiri lady - Shazia Bakshi touting reasons about how she went on from being an Indian to being a Kashmiri - vis-a-vis her 'identity'.  It had me concerned, not

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Today, I learnt, is birth anniversary of कवी ग्रेस (Poet Grace - A Marathi Poet). Someone sent an old poem as a message on the social network. That started a chain of events that lead to this emotions-dump. The poem was - ती गेली तेव्हा रिमझिम. It brought a lot of emotions, feelings with it. It's one of my all time favorite songs, sung by Deenanath Mangeshkar (here on youtube). Suddenly I

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... a bass boosted Rehman unleashed through the 5-channels, typically focusing on the sub woofer and beating the shit out of it, sending you into a tizzy as you discover some beats, and some notes from the upper band, unheard so far, and the collective effect of the air and the floor subtly vibrating together due to the force the sub woofer beats at ..... boy o boy! What a morning! Pure nirvana

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Warning: Some loaded rant and bitching about the past, ahead.  There is an almost evil sense of happiness/achievement when you look back in time and feel vindicated for that stand you took, and that crazy audacity you showed in taking people-with-power head-on.  While going through all the backups I had collected over last many years on my drive, I came across this write-up, which

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While eBay can be, and has been, a boon for sourcing items that are otherwise difficult to get, it's a big misery when the item doesn't get delivered, or a faulty one gets delivered. To make matter worse, the fraudulent practice that eBay calls - eBay Guarantee - adds salt to the wound. The whole eCommerce apparatus is based on trust between - not the seller and the buyer, but between the

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For long, I had been etching to write about AAP and why it still matters despite all its misgivings in the recent past. This question on Quora - Why do AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) volunteers follow Arvind Kejriwal despite his taking so many U-turns? - just gave the right trigger that was necessary to pour those long held thoughts down. Given the excessive emotions it raises, I had become a

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code, pre { border-radius: 3px; color: inherit; } code { border: 1px solid #EAEAEA; margin: 0 2px; padding: 0 5px; } pre { border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; line-height: 1.25em; overflow: auto; padding: 6px 10px; } pre > code { border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; } India lately has been outraged by this Devayani Khobragade saga, and the in general

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Unbelievable as it seems to me, it has been only one blogpost throughout this whole year. That's what meeting a girl does to you, I guess. Had a pleasantly turbulent year so far, with loads of things happening on personal as well as work front and though a few exhilarating treks, climbs and travels happened in between, I hardly got any time to sit down and pen them down. Life can sometimes

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This particular trek was on my mind for quite some time now. The Kalavantin Dug (कलावंतीण दुर्ग) or Kalavantinicha Buruj (कलावंतीणीचा बुरुज) was described as tough and dangerous by quite a few. But then, even Torna rockpatches were mentioned as tough by many. So I was skeptical, yet, I had seen the pics of the Buruj, supposedly taken from the top of Prabalgad, and it did appear as a

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Continued from: CKRT Day 07 - Malvan to Vengurla WARNING: This is going to be an extra-long post about the >500km drive I had from Vengurla to Pune in a single day. This is one of the longest, most tiring and hence probably most daring bike ride I have undertaken till date. But natural, that I am going to make it sound like I have been to moon and returned unharmed. So read at

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Continued from CKRT Day 06 - Devgad to Malvan (Tarkarli) Route: Malvan -> Vengurla -> Terekhol -> Aaronda -> Vengurla Day-7 was going to be our penultimate day, and the blues were already showing. This was a life that people long to live. And this very pleasure of travelling, seeing places, moving around, meeting different people, was going to end within a day. This

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Continued from CKRT Day 05 - Ganapatipule to Vijaydurga Route: Devgad -> Kunakeshwar -> Mithbav -> Tambaldeg beach -> Malvan -> Sindhudurga Fort -> Tarkarli देवगड किल्ला (Devgad Fort) The room in Devgad was fantastic and leaving it early was ruled out since we had some free time to go.  We woke up early in the morning and went to Devgad fort. In most area of

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I just watched Midnight In Paris - a movie written and directed by Woody Allen. It just reinforces my respect for the guy's creative genius. I had seen his Annie Hall, and though that movie didn't have a 'story' per se, it had clicked big time because of the character detailing (including their eccentricities), dialogues, realism and goofyness of the protagonist.  Midnight In Paris is

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code {background:#darkgrey; font-family: Courier, "Courier New", monospace; display:block; border:1px solid #999999; margin: 20px; margin-left: 50px; padding: 10px; padding-left: 50px;} Python standard library contains an excellent ConfigParser module. It allows one to directly read the configuration variables from an INI file, without much ado and overhead. Simple and beautiful. Here is Doug

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Continued from: CKRT Day 04 - Guhagar to Ganapatipule Route: Ganapatipule -> Pracheen Konkan -> Ratnagiri -> Pawas -> Purnagad -> Jaitapur -> Padel -> Vijaydurga -> Devgad Today was the day when the possibility of being forced to tent in the middle of nowhere, was looming large on us. Given the amount of locations to visit, the distance to travel, lack of clarity about

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Continued from CKRT Day 03 - Anjarle to Guhagar Route: Guhagar -> Velaneshwar -> Hedvi -> Tavsal -> ferry -> Jaigad -> Malgund -> Ganapatipule Who let the what out? We got up quite early in the morning. It was a fresh, cold morning. There was no trace of any ghosts around, nor did we remember hearing anything. I almost rolled on the floor laughing when Pravya told me

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I love Python for the freedom it gives to a developer, and for the way it allows one to concentrate purely on the business logic part of the solution, rather than on the nitty-gritties of the language. Coming over from C/C++ world, it's a breath of fresh air, no matter how much you love C/C++. Despite all this coolness, this awesomeness of Python, and this black-magic-like problem solving

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Continued from - CKRT: Day 02 - Shrivardhan to Anjarle Route: Anjarle -> Harne -> Suvarnadurga -> Anjarle -> Dapoli -> Burondi -> Ladghar -> Kolthare -> Dabhol -> Dhopave -> Anjanvel -> Guhagar After getting up early in the morning, we quickly set out towards Harne. Quite a few locations were on the mind - the Light-house, the fish market, the citadel of

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Mystic Peaks Monsoon is always magical in the Sahyadris. The irregular shapes and peaks of the mighty mountains, draped in prosperous green, playing hide and seek behind scurrying clouds make for a spectacular sight when accompanied by the random plays of shadows and light, selectively illuminating only certain portion of the mountains at a time. This coupled with the diffused light, thanks to

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Continued from CKRT: Day 01 - Murud Janjira to Shrivardhan Day 02: Sunday, 29-April-2012 Route: Shrivardhan -> Harihareshwar -> Bagmandala (jetty) -> Veshwi (jetty) -> Bankot -> Velas -> Bankot -> Kelashi -> Anjarle Shrivardhan in the Morning Setting off towards Aaravi Beach We got up quite early in the morning and went back towards Diveagar looking for

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