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| Monday, June 15, 2009 |
| The Tantra Challenge |
India TV, one of India’s major Hindi channels, invited Sanal Edamaruku for a discussion on “Tantrik power versus Science”. Pandit Surinder Sharma, who claims to be the tantrik of top politicians and is well known from his TV shows, represented the other side. During the discussion, the tantrik showed a small human shape of wheat flour dough, laid a thread around it like a noose and tightened it. He claimed that he was able to kill any person he wanted within three minutes by using black magic. Sanal challenged him to try and kill him. Hilarity ensues as the tanrik tries to kill Mr.Sanal by using magic.All magic words recited,he's still alive.Then the tantrik backed out saying that he has a better magic spell and it will work only during night.So,another tv show was shot during night.As expected, the tantrik fails this time too. View full article. Finally,one of the wide spread superstitions in India has been debunked.
Youtube link for video of the program: (click on the images to view the video)
* tantrik means magician of some sort
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posted by bharath @ 2:45 PM   |
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| Saturday, June 6, 2009 |
| Google's logo today |
I happened to see this google logo and posted it at reddit, with the title,
"Google India's logo today".
Someone on the site immediately posted back,
Enjoy it while you can, because once that piece falls...
"Google India's logo tomorrow"
Funny indeed.Labels: funny, google, india |
| posted by bharath @ 5:02 AM |
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| Thursday, June 4, 2009 |
| India's telecom infrastructure - a report |
India's development in the wireless,wired phone network and internet,broadband penetration.
These graphs are excerpts from the 2008 report of TRAI.
As the above graph shows, wired telephone connections are falling.
And, wireless connections are rocketing.
Interesting to note that Airtel has larger base than BSNL.
In GSM operations, #1 Airtel, #2 Vodafone, #3 BSNL...
In CDMA operations, #1 Reliance, #2 Tata Indicom, #3 BSNL.
 The internet subscribers stand at 110lakhs. Broadband subscribers stand at 38.7 lakhs. Of all the leading ISPs, #1 BSNL, #2 MTNL ,#3 Airtel... Labels: india, indians |
| posted by bharath @ 3:56 PM |
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| Map of World peace |
The results of the Global Peace Index for 2009 suggest that the world has become slightly less peaceful in the past year, which appears to reflect the intensification of violent conflict in some countries and the effects of both the rapidly rising food and fuel prices early in 2008 and the dramatic global economic downturn in the final quarter of the year. Rapidly rising unemployment, pay freezes and falls in the value of house prices, savings and pensions is causing popular resentment in many countries, with political repercussions that have been registered by the GPI through various indicators measuring safety and security in society.
Complete list of countries
How global peace is defined and calculatedLabels: map, peace, people |
| posted by bharath @ 2:59 PM |
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