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This photograph is of the runway of Bangalore airport from Wind Tunnel Road. There was a lot of crowd was gathered there to look at the planes landing and taking off. Good to see that people in India find avenues of entertainment where there aren't any...Is it time to run the ridiculous Hutch ad featuring Rahul Dravid again? Please see my earlier post on Rahul and the Hutch ad for clarification...
Those who have seen Amitabh's ads on Uttar Pradesh will understand what I am trying to say to him:
सजन रे झूठ मत बोलो,
खुदा के पास जाना है.
वहाँ न बैंट्ली है न रौयस है,
वहाँ पैदल ही जाना है...
Oh dear, please don't lie. Afterall you have to go to His place one day. There is no Bentley or Royce to take you there. The only option is to walk.
Saw this at Mysore Lancers Pump House near RT Nagar on Thursday. One of the best disclaimer messages I have seen in recent times. Couple of guys from inside the office saw me taking this picture, but I was on my scooter and managed to quickly pull away.Celebrations!! I have been declared Time magazine's person of the year. But don't be jealous and lose heart, so have you been. Check it out.
What was CBI thinking when it brought about a case of disproportionate assets against Lalu Prasad for just 46 lakhs? Its a joke of a case since CBI itself would have spent more than this amount on prosecuting Lalu. What is 46 Lakhs anyway now a days? In Bangalore you cannot even get a flat in a nice locality for 46 Lakhs.
Need some info from readers (with citations, of course)... which Harayana minister said that 1400 crores is a small change in politics?
Mr Jethmanali, it was not a sikh man who shot Jessica Lall, it was a sick man who did so. And you too are a sick man who is trying to spin such stories.
Hello Readers,
Its once again my turn to ask for help. This time, it is regarding the Wordpress installation and problems that I have been facing with permanent links (permalinks in Wordpress parlance), since I have not been able to customize it to my liking. I have version 2.0.4 of Wordpress installed on Godaddy's linux hosting package.
As you can see, I have a lot of posts and under a few categories on my Astrology blog. When it comes to category links, a trailing slash at the end of the URL is making a lot of difference. i.e. for the category link:
http://www.planetarypositions.com/notes/category/astronomy/
if I remove the last slash and then refer to the URL as follows:
http://www.planetarypositions.com/notes/category/astronomy
Then Apache returns an error of 404 and the page does not appear at all. I suspect it is a problem/bug in the Godaddy's wordpress installation. I searched on the net and found out the following thread on the wordpress support site:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/81515?replies=6
I have also been playing around with the .htaccess file under the notes folder. As of now, the exact text of this file is:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /notes/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /notes/index.php [L]
RewriteRule ./category/(.*)[^/]$ ./category/$1/ [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Any ideas?
We need to kick these politicians out completely. What right did they have in asking for clemency for Mohammad Afzal? None of the politicians died in the parliament attack of 12/13. The people who died where policemen who were doing their duty.
Also, what right do they have to comment on the judicial process? There was a fair trial and the court found the person guilty. It punished him to be hanged... thats the law of the land and it must be respected. Period. How can we forget that our country nearly went on having a war with Pakistan after this incident.
Good article in TimesofIndia.com - "Considerations of religion, caste or political loyalty are irrelevant and fraught with discrimination"
I travelled from Bangalore to SF over the weekend and a very funny incident happened at the airport. The Singapore Airlines folks were distributing a form to everyone who was going to the USA. It was mandatory to fill out that form with an ominous "Homeland Security" cited as the reason.
I was zapped looking at questions numbered 3 and 4. I pointed to a Singapore Airlines official that I do not know my date of expiry :-) She asked me to fill the details of the passport there. Then I pointed out that my passport was issued and not born and it did not have a date of birth :-D. The person just looked at me, could not even smile and walked away.
And Deepa Mehta is acting ultra cheap. She figured out that this year India has some really good movies lined up this year as potential entries - Lage Raho Munnabhai, Rang De Basanti, Omkara etc and her movie Water would stand no chance as India's official entry to the oscars. Thus, she got her movie Water to be nominated from Canada!
I do not care how good this movie is. I would probably not even go watch it even if it was released in India without any cuts. India's entry to Oscars should be a movie that really represents the spirit of this country and showcases the performances of some of the leading actors of Indian film industry. At the time of "Monsoon Wedding" and "Lagaan", there was absolutely no competition. Lagaan was superlative.
Just heard on television that Rang De Basanti is the official entry from India. It is a good movie and I really home it goes all the way.
