Archive for June, 2005
The Srirangam Temple. Well done, Chenthil & JK. Though JK wasn’t able to figure out what exactly that is, he managed to trace the location and tell that it is something north of Tiruchirapalli.
Look at the bigger picture here or here.
The blue/white strip is the Cauvery River and the dry strip that is behind [...]
Can you guess what exactly is inside the red circle? (Red circle is not very clear. That explains my Image editing skills).
Remember the live telecast of cricket matches in Doordarshan days? There would only be final few overs left in the match and it would be all tensed up when the live telecast would end because the News can’t be shifted to some other slot. Sometimes, they would interrupt to announce that the rest of the [...]
I had one of the weird problems over the weekend. Somehow, my bathroom door got locked from inside. It is a kind of door that you could lock only from inside (anyway, whats the purpose of locking someone inside the loo?). I don’t know how it happened, but it happened. Perhaps, I had banged the [...]
If you are in UK and travel in National Express coaches, this piece of info would be useful to you.
Bus fare in UK is calculated on taking to account the distance between two points as the crow flies rather than the distance actually travelled.
For example, the distance between Bournemouth & Heathrow Airport is [...]
Watched the live telecast of second round match of the Wimbledon Championships between Sania Mirza & Svetlana Kuznetsova. What a match it was. Until the final game, the match was unpredictable and its a very long time since I watched such a tennis match. 2 hours very well spent. It is not very often you [...]
Four years back, Vinayak Lohani – an alumnus of prestigious IIT – Kharagpur was working with Infosys. He then joined another prestigious educational institution, IIM – Kolkatta. He was on the threshold of a great career in the corporate sector when he simply gave up that to take up the path, which many dare to [...]