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With so many legs, who on earth needs a tripod?
On World Photography Day on Tuesday, Karnataka Photo News editor Saggere Ramaswamy captures the great orb preparing to take a dip below the now out-of-use Wellesley Bridge at the island-town of Srirangapatna, the erstwhile lair of the Tiger of Mysore, Tipu Sultan . Cross-posted on sans serif
With sports ministers like this, god tussi great ho
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: If the decision of the Congress party to field former chief election commissioner Manohar Singh Gill as a candidate for the Rajya Sabha in 2004 was bad enough, the move to make him a member of the Manmohan Singh ministry in the last reshuffle was worse. Not only had a body blow been struck on the notional in...
You lose some, you gain some in translation
Girish Karnad , on being elected as a UNESCO world theatre ambassador, in The Hindu : “I may write in Kannada, but the world only knows me through my English translations. I am an exceptional case in that I translate my own works into English. But Indian literature needs good translations—and translations are especially important for ...
Crack the mysteries of Mysore one step at a time
What’s the Mysore connection to Gujarat? Or the Irish contribution to Mysore? How do you connect to the Mysore Maharaja each time you turn on the tap? One way of finding out is to revv up your search engine. The other is to take a Royal Walk through one of India’s most pedestrian-friendly cities with Mukta Darera and Nikhil Ponana . ...
Happy birthday, and many happy returns (to us)
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy turns 62 on Wednesday, August 20. churumuri contributor ASHWINI A. sends an e-card to the Infosys chairman—with a wishlist for the year ahead on behalf of her countrymen and countrywomen. *** Dear Shri Narayana Murthy- ravare Namaskara . Huttu habbadha subhashayagalu . Here’s wishing you good h...
What Suhail Hindustani told cash-for-votes panel
The following is the English translation of the affidavit filed in Hindi by Suhail Ahmed , alias Suhail Hindustani , alias Raja Hindustani , the alleged go-between in the cash-for-votes scandal that rocked Parliament on July 22 on how the sting operation unfolded. (The translated version was emailed by Sudheendra Kulkarni to media organisations.) ...
‘What I told the Cash-for-Votes scam probe panel’
The following is the full, unexpurgated text of the written statement made by Sudheendra Kulkarni , the former aide to prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee , and currently aide to Lal Krishna Advani , before the parliamentary committee probing the cash-for-votes scandal on 22 July 2008, the day the trust motion moved by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
‘Globalisation + Localisation = Humanisation’
Thomas L. Friedman , the New York Times ‘ three-time Pulitzer Prize winning foreign affairs columnist, speaking at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. “Rural India and rural China are primed to join the flat world. The technology is there. The IT revolution has arrived in many ways. What hasn’t come is the ET revolution: t...
The highway hogs you don’t want to mess with
Balarama , Vijaya , Arjuna , Gajendra , Sarala and Abhimanyu arrive at Veeranahosahalli near Hunsur on Monday, as they begin their long trudge by foot (and on wheels) to take part in the Dasara festivities in Mysore. Photograph : Karnataka Photo News Also read : A people’s festival? Or a festival of gods and kings?
With sports ministers like this, god tussi great ho
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: If the decision of the Congress party to field former chief election commissioner Manohar Singh Gill as a candidate for the Rajya Sabha in 2004 was bad enough, the move to make him a member of the Manmohan Singh ministry in the last reshuffle was worse. Not only had a body blow been struck on the notional in...
You lose some, you gain some in translation
Girish Karnad , on being elected as a UNESCO world theatre ambassador, in The Hindu : “I may write in Kannada, but the world only knows me through my English translations. I am an exceptional case in that I translate my own works into English. But Indian literature needs good translations—and translations are especially important for ...
With so many legs, who on earth needs a tripod?
On World Photography Day on Tuesday, Karnataka Photo News editor Saggere Ramaswamy captures the great orb preparing to take a dip below the now out-of-use Wellesley Bridge at the island-town of Srirangapatna, the erstwhile lair of the Tiger of Mysore, Tipu Sultan . Cross-posted on sans serif
Happy birthday, and many happy returns (to us)
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy turns 62 on Wednesday, August 20. churumuri contributor ASHWINI A. sends an e-card to the Infosys chairman—with a wishlist for the year ahead on behalf of her countrymen and countrywomen. *** Dear Shri Narayana Murthy- ravare Namaskara . Huttu habbadha subhashayagalu . Here’s wishing you good h...
Crack the mysteries of Mysore one step at a time
What’s the Mysore connection to Gujarat? Or the Irish contribution to Mysore? How do you connect to the Mysore Maharaja each time you turn on the tap? One way of finding out is to revv up your search engine. The other is to take a Royal Walk through one of India’s most pedestrian-friendly cities with Mukta Darera and Nikhil Ponana . ...
‘What I told the Cash-for-Votes scam probe panel’
The following is the full, unexpurgated text of the written statement made by Sudheendra Kulkarni , the former aide to prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee , and currently aide to Lal Krishna Advani , before the parliamentary committee probing the cash-for-votes scandal on 22 July 2008, the day the trust motion moved by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
What Suhail Hindustani told cash-for-votes panel
The following is the English translation of the affidavit filed in Hindi by Suhail Ahmed , alias Suhail Hindustani , alias Raja Hindustani , the alleged go-between in the cash-for-votes scandal that rocked Parliament on July 22 on how the sting operation unfolded. (The translated version was emailed by Sudheendra Kulkarni to media organisations.) ...
‘Globalisation + Localisation = Humanisation’
Thomas L. Friedman , the New York Times ‘ three-time Pulitzer Prize winning foreign affairs columnist, speaking at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. “Rural India and rural China are primed to join the flat world. The technology is there. The IT revolution has arrived in many ways. What hasn’t come is the ET revolution: t...
The highway hogs you don’t want to mess with
Balarama , Vijaya , Arjuna , Gajendra , Sarala and Abhimanyu arrive at Veeranahosahalli near Hunsur on Monday, as they begin their long trudge by foot (and on wheels) to take part in the Dasara festivities in Mysore. Photograph : Karnataka Photo News Also read : A people’s festival? Or a festival of gods and kings?
Chaltha hai. Hogli bidi. Good karma. Bad karma.
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: How is it that our towns and villages are happily ravaged by floods every monsoon? Or rumour of a landslide can result in a stampede at a shrine? How is it that bus drivers can race against a moving train at railway level crossings? Or a busload of school children can meet a watery grave? Or a whole classroom can be roas...
Fedora links
Just some links to Fedora related stuff, which I liked. Anyone got stuck in Fedora has a very high probability of getting the right answers in from the following links. I got my answers or solutions most of the time... read more
Monthly Meet [February '06] Minutes
The february month ILUG-Mangalore meeting was held on 11th Feb 2006. The meeting was attended by the following members - Sripad, Venkatraja, Sharath, Jenkin, Dr. Neville and myself(Nithin). The meeting started with Venkatraja demonstrating a new of using program. It's called Klick! [url: klick.atekon.de]. Klick allows users to download and di...
Kstars?
Well, I travelled from Bangalore to Mangalore by the night bus. Being in a city, I had hardly got to see the real stars. The last time I had seen Kstars or Celestia, I had thought "If only in real world we could see so many stars with real world!". Yesterday's night was a revealing one. read more
Tango with QuantaPlus & Liferea
So what was i up to in the previous week, well quite a bit. Firstly i had to build a small site. The site is not yet over, but i finally learnt about CSS and its usage, till last week i was just telling myself that i had to learn it, but was never able to do so. While developing i discovered the real power of QuantaPlus , it is a really good web ed...
15 days without a harddisk!
You are a computer geek, addicted to computer life.. and suddenly you find that you have given your hard disk which contains your primary OS to a friend (who just enjoyed a trip to Kolkota from Bangalore) instead of your software repository harddisk. He will return butonly after 15 days .. what will you do? read more
How GNU/Linux helped save a USB Drive
One of my classmates has a 128MB USB thumbdrive which was not working and was almost discarded. Many people tried various methods to see if they could get it to work again, Windoze was not able to help as it frequently froze if one connected the USB and also the common methods used in Windoze like scandisk, format were rendered useless. I wanted ...
This months ILUG-Meeting: One of the best
This months meeting was held on 14th Jan at IBM ACE, there were about 7-8 members present for the meeting which was a bit less than what we had seen for the December meet where there were 18+ people present. Here is my take on the meeting. The meeting started with Venkataraja explaining about how to manage software packages using YUM in FC4, he...
GIMP for Screen Capture
All of you must be knowing that Gnome has a inbuilt screen capture utility which is invoked when "print screen" button is pressed, but did you all know that GIMP also has a screen capture option, to use it, goto [File -> Acquire -> Screen Shot] Cool right! This is just what one requires when one wants to take a quick screenshot an...
Your organization/college/school,
* currently deals in FOSS\n* plans to deal in FOSS\n* currently uses but does not deal in FOSS\n* plans to use FOSS tools\n* currently does not use FOSS tools has no plans of using FOSS\n* currently does not and has not a clue about FOSS.\n
How many friends doyou have who are interested in FOSS?
* 0\n* 1 - 10\n* 10 - 30\n* 30 - 70\n* more than 70\n
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