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Unexpected! But enthralled … Hard work never goes unrewarded.

“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”

I am glad that my post on google bots was selected as best technical post of the week by Blogadda team. While writing no body expects and imagines about the success and spread of it, it all happens in the quality of content we produce; hence it was the spicy pick of the Saturday.

“…in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.”

Thanks again to “Blogadda” for encouraging the unrecognized talents.

I promise to give more such interesting posts which help the internet users.

Thanks again for all my readers too…This is success not only mine but also my readers.

Refrence : http://blog.blogadda.com/2009/03/14/blogadda%E2%80%99s-spicy-saturday-picks-mar-14-09

Trains, jobs and news information on Gtalk – gtalk bots

I wondered to see the extent of gtalk bots coming these days – Now we are just a click away in searching Trains or in search of a suitable job for us. With the help of best portals in their profession it made possible and easy for us to use aswell. Thanks to Naukiri and cleartrip sites which made these bots available for us. 

Gtalk bots are simple automated programs for doing some particular task, often over a network.

This Gtalk bots looks like just a email id which you need to add as a friend in your G-Talk messenger.

Once this id is added to our Gtalk id and visible as online we can directly chat in the chatwindow for this id. But the chat instructions are specific, we need to know lititle knoledge about these instructions. But always a proper help will be provided by these Gtalk- bots.

  

Naukiri.com Job search on G-talk:

Naukri.com a pivotal Job portal from Info Edge (India) Limited has announced it integration with Google Chat aka GTalk which enables one to search Jobs within GTalk or GMail chat.

Naukri.com has launched this app called NaukriOnChat that lets you search and apply to jobs using Gtalk. This kind of Application comes handy when such kind of Job boards are banned in offices or most of the companies keeping tab on their employees resulting such sites to be blocked at workplaces. With this app one can search or even apply for jobs without having to visit the Naukri.com website.

Once logged in on your GTalk desktop app or within Gmail browser window one has to add jobs@chat.naukri.com to Gtalk friends list or chat friends of Gmail to get the NaukriOnChat get going.More info: type “Help” when u chat.

Trains Information on G-talk:

Online travel company Cleartrip.com has launched a new chat-based train search service that allows users to check train schedules and availability through basic internet chat, such as Google Talk. To use the service, one first needs to add cleartrip.trains@gmail.com as a friend in GTalk, after which the Cleartrip train search bot starts acting like an online advisor. 

Gtalk bot input 

Tell your journey details like this: ‘Chennai kanyakumari Mar 11 3A’

Output with in a second: 

Searching for trains between Chennai and NAGERCOIL JN on 07 Mar class 3A

2633 – Kanyakumari exp Rs. 320, @ 17:30 [Waitlist 90]

6127 – Ms guruvayur ex Rs. 299, @ 07:50 [Waitlist 257]…

etc

Similarly I found many more Gtalk bots in this link..

Here is the information from the above link

You can do lot of interesting stuff with Google Talk like get alert notifications, save bookmarks to delicious, manage web calendars, set reminders, write blogs, and so much more.

Such features can be easily integrated into Google Talk through ‘bots’ which, in simple English, are like virtual friends who are online 24×7 and will always respond with a smile to your questions or requests.

Chat in multiple Languages

• Add a transliteration bot to your friend list. There are 5 of them available currently: (en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Hindi, en2kn.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Kannada, en2te.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Telugu, en2ta.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Tamil and en2ml.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Malayalam)
• Start chatting with your friend.
• Convert the chat session to a group chat and invite the particular bot (you added in step 1) to the group chat.

From now on whatever you type in english will be converted to the appropriate language by the bot.

Lattest news from IBN Live :

To get the lattest and hot news directly on your Gtalk add im@ibnalerts.com in your buddy list in Gtalk.

Send help as instant message and you can get the list of accepted keywords.

The keywords are like sports, ent and top. You receive news stories snippet along with link to the news story.

By using IBNlive Gtalk buddy you can also search for stories on IBNlive.com, just send search “your query” (without quotes) as your message and you will receive links for your search related stories (for e.g. search Beijing Olympics )

Apart from these cool gtalk bots there still many more …Here are the eleven most useful ‘bots’ that transform Google Talk into a more useful program:

1. imfeeds@gmail.com – Add this IM Feeds bot as your Google Talk buddy and you’ll be able to read any blog or website that syndicates content via RSS feeds.

To subscribe to a website in GTalk, simply send a new IM message that says “sub labnol.org” where labnol.org is the site address that you want to read inside Google Talk.

2. friendfeed@bot.im – This secret bot lets you post to FriendFeed from Google Talk. You may submit either hyperlinks or text messages.

3. imified@imified.com – This imified bot turns Google Talk into a real powerhouse.

You can post bookmarks to delicious, send messages to Twitter, submit blog entries to WordPress, Tumblr or Blogger, manage events in Google Calendar, shorten long URLs, run whois and so on.

4. inezhabot@gmail.com – Like IM Feeds, iNezha bot helps you read feeds inside Google Talk but this is slightly more versatile. For instance, you can simply say “digg” and it will show a list of all feeds that match that search term so you don’t have to type (or copy-paste) feed addresses.

5. Translation – This is a free service from Google that helps you translate words from a foreign language into your native language. Just add the relevant bot (e.g. hi2en@bot.talk.google.com for Hindi to English or en2hi@bot.talk.google.com for English to Hindi) as your buddy, send him a message and it will get translated instantly.

6. Use Google Talk with Twitter – Invite twitter@twitter.com to become your friend in Google Talk and verify your account. Now whenever you IM this new friend, the message will automatically publish on your twitter account.

7. Set Task Reminders – If you need to remember something important, Google Talk can send you reminders for that event.

Just add timer to your Twitter friend’s list and then add twitter@twitter.com to your buddy list in Gtalk. Now if you want to get a reminder after 50 minutes, send a direct message to twitter  like “d timer 50 pick kids from school” and a reminder will automatically pop up in your Google Talk after 50 minutes.

8. Transliteration – If you want to chat in your mother tongue (like Hindi or Tamil) but feel more comfortable using the English keyboard, Google Transliteration bot will come in handy.

For instance, add en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com to you friend’s list in GTalk and all messages you type in English will get transliterated in the language of your choice.  Available only for a few Indian languages.

9. Xpenser – With xpenser, you can record travel expenses via email, SMS or even Google talk. Add xpenserbot@gmail.com as your buddy and send a message like “lunch 33.2 with Bill Gates” and that will be added as an expense to your online spreadsheet that can be accessed from anywhere.

10. Ping.fm – Like Imified, ping.fm is one of the most useful Google bots out there especially if you are a social networking or micro-blogging addict.

Add pingdotfm@gmail.com to Gtalk and you can communicate with twitter, jaiku, wordpress, identi.ca, facebook, myspace, bebo, friendfeed, linkedin, tumblr, plaxo, friendster, delicious and more.

11. Meshly - Add meshly@gmail.com as your friend and you’ll be able to post web link to your Meshly account via Google Talk. You can also add tags, categories and description to your hyperlink via Gtalk itself.

మార్పు – నేర్పు

మార్పు – నేర్పు

ఎక్కడో అమెరికా లో ప్రజలు మార్పు కావాలి అంటే, భారతీయులంతా కూడా అదే కొరుకుంటారు అనుకునే అంత అమాయకులా మన నాయకులు ? నినాదాలు కాదు న్యాయమైన, నాణ్యమైన నడత కావాలి.ఒక్క రాజకీయ పార్టీ తో మార్పు వచ్చెస్తే ఈ స్వర్ణ – స్వతంత్ర భారతి ఎప్పుడో అభివ్రుద్ది చెందిన దేశాల సరసన ఉండేది.

మాకు మార్పు వద్దు !! కాని మెరుగు కావాలి, మెరుగైన సమాజం కావాలి, మెరుగైన నాయకులు కావాలి, మెరుగైన రాజ్యాంగం కావాలి .కేవలం “ప్రస్తుతానికి” మెరుగు చాలు “మార్పు” వద్దు. మెరుగే మార్పునిస్తుంది; మా ఆలొచనల లో మార్పు నిస్తుంది; మా నడత లో మార్పునిస్తుంది; మా జీవనం లో మార్పు నిస్తుంది; మా సమాజం లొనే మార్పుతెస్తుంది.

నాయకులంటె, నాన్న లాంటి వాళ్ళు. ఓక ఇంటి స్థితి – గతు లను తండ్రి ఎప్పటికప్పుడు ఎలా మెరుగుపరుస్తాడో; మన నాయకుడు కుడా తన సమాజమనే కుటుంబాన్ని, దాని స్థితి – గతు లను ఎప్పటికప్పుడు మెరుగు పరిస్తే చాలు. మార్పు ఒక్క ఎన్నికలతో రాదు. మనల్ని మనం మెరుగు పరుచుకుంటే అదే మార్పు !

“చెట్టూ మాదే – పుట్ట మాదే” .. “విత్తు వెసింది మా తాత, పుట్ట కట్టింది మా మామ” అంటూ కుటుంబ కీర్తి కి నిదర్శనాలు గా రాజకీయపార్టీలని మర్చెవాళ్ళు ఒక్కలు అయ్తే , ఫులి ని చుసి నక్క వాతలు పెట్టుకున్న చందాన అవగాహనా రాహిత్యం తో రాజకీయ రంగు ని పులుముకుంటు కుటుంబ సబ్యులందరికి అదే రంగులు అద్దుతూ “హొలీ” పండగ చెసుకునీ నయకులు కొందరు.

మార్ఫు దేని కోసం ? ప్రజల బ్రతుకుల లోనా, వారి జీవన శైలి లోన, వారి జీత బత్యా ల లోనా ,దెనిలో ..?
ఏ ఒక్క దానిలోను ఇన్నాళ్ళ లో, ఇన్నేళ్ళలో ఏ మాత్రం పెనుమార్పు చూడలేదు. ఇక చూడం కూడా. అందుకే మార్పు ఎందుకు ? మెరుగు చాలు !

కేవలం మన నాయకులు చెప్పే ఆ మార్పు ఎంటో తెల్సా ? అది కేవలం వాళ్ళ కి ఒక జల్సా !!

వాళ్ళకి కావల్సిన మార్పు – వాల్ల జీవన శైలి లో ఒక మార్పు, వారి స్థాయి లో ఒక మెట్టు అదిగమించటం, వాళ్ళ పరపథి పెంచుకొవటం.ఇవి కాక వాళ్ళు కోరుకునే మార్పు కి ప్రత్యేక ఆలోచన ఎమీ ఉండదు. ఉండి ఉంటే వాళ్ళు సమాజం పట్ల కలిగి ఉన్న భావలన్ని ఎందుకు వ్యక్తీకరించరు ?ఎందుకంటె వాళ్ళకి సమాజం లో అసమానతలంటే తెలీదు. “గంజి తెలుసు – బెంజి తెలుసు ” అన్న మాటల గారడి లో అంతరార్దం సామన్యుడు గుర్తిస్తే వాల్లు చెప్పుకునే మార్పు ఎమిటో కుడా విదితం అవుతుంది.

ఎన్నికల కొసం ఎన్నికళ్ళతొనో ఎదురుచూస్తున్న ఓ సొదర సొదరీమను లారా (ఓటరు మహాశయులార !! ఎంట గౌరవం ఉంది ఆ పిలుపులో ??)

నేతలూ మీ మాటల లో నేర్పు అవసరం లేదు! ఆ నేర్పు మీ చేతల లో మార్పు తేవటానికి ఉపయొగించండి . అదే ఈ సమాజాన్ని మారుస్తుంది .  

ఇక నయిన మీరే ఆలోచించడి మనకి మార్పు కావాలా ?

Trip to Lepakshi – A Heritage Place

(Cont ..)

Around at 11 AM we started returning from Ghati to Dodballapur. After enquiring the local people about Lepakshi we came to know that there was a direct bus (Private Travels) from Dodballapur to Lepakshi. So we got into that bus at around 12 PM. I think ticket price is so economical, it is just 35 R/- per head. We reached Lepakshi crossing all the red soil roads with out much trouble. But route is not great at all. Bus cruised in very moderate speed as the route is not so great. Both of sides of the route we can see nice greenery paddy fields ones enter in Andhra Pradesh state. Sun was high up and showing off himself at his best. I was totally exhausted and hungry.

As mentioned in others travelogues there were no hi-fi restaurants or even hotels to have lunch in Lepakhi. One should be careful to plan the lunch/dinner while visiting this place. The best place I can suggest to have lunch or dinner in this trip is at Hindupur. You can find some what better hotels in Hindupur. Point to note here is “Don’t expect nice Andhra style foods though Hindupur is a Town in Andhra”. Hindupur just serves typical Karnataka style food.

At last we had our lunch in small hutch which villagers regarded as the best hotel in the village. It was unforgettable meal I had in my life; they served white rice with Dal and some chutney. I think it was unlimited meal but we had only ones I remember. Healthy part of it is he charged just 10 R/- for it and it is the biggest surprise I had in the whole trip. This hotel is located just in the right corner for the entrance street of main temple.

Then we quickly headed towards main temple with out wasting any time. The temple was on top of a hill (Kurmasila) and some of the parts of temple are half built. But as a whole it’s a wonderful peaceful place where we can see the fantastic architecture and scriptures. People like me; who are in love with history about places have to take a guide for sure. I feel archeology department can still spend some more money to develop this village and improve tourism here. This temple was constructed by “Virupanna” in the 16th century. Veerabdra is the main god in the temple and idol is such a huge one.

One should marvel at the art and scriptures in the temple, it reflects the talent and brilliance of our ancestors in many aspects say art, culture and vaastu etc. I was totally enthralled while watching the “Floating pillar” and a special painting of Lord Sri krishna on top of a roof. The specialties of that paint is that – Stand at any side of the paint and observe it, Bala krishna’s eyes in the painting will stare at you only. We can many best mural paintings here; include many Hindu gods, musicians, painters and some other famous personalities (kings) in the history.

This temple is again an added credit to Vijayangara Samrajyam – Sri Krishna Devaraya. It reminded me my visit to “Hampi”. One should gawk at the beauty of the paintings and carvings. The monolithic Nandi situated outside the village facing towards the Siva linga in main temple is quite famous and most of us know about it. The talent of the architect who made this nandi is that – One can see the Siva linga in main temple from this Nandi itself. Nandi here is 15 feets tall and 27 feets high, it is the largest monolithic Nandi in the world.

In the evening at 4 PM after visiting this monolithic Nandi we reached Hindupur by a local bus and from there we got into Banglore direct bus. The route from Hindupur to Bangalore is quite good. Really I should thank our guide who gave clear history picture about the temple who reminded us the Jataayu pakshi story in Ramyana, Ideal man and woman characteristics, designs of Dharmavaram series and Vijayanagra dynasty’s glory.

One can stay in AP tourism guest house if looking for accommodation. The best travel route I can suggest is to reach Hindupur from Bangalore and then take some local vehicles from Hindupur to Lepakshi as Lepakshi is just 15 KM from Hindupur.

History Reference: http://www.anantapur.com/travel/lepakshi.html

Lepakshi consists of three shrines dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and ‘Virabhadra’. On one of the hillocks near the place is known as “Kurma Saila” (tortoise shaped hill), are located the temples of ‘Papanatheswara’, ‘Raghunatha’, ‘Srirama’, ‘Veerabhadra’ and ‘Durga’, of which the Veerabharadra temple is the most important.

Veerabhadra temple is a notable example of the Vijayanagar style of architecture. A reference is made in the ‘Skandapurana’ to Lepakshi as one of the hundred and eight important ‘Shaiva Kshetras’ (shrines). Though the temple of Veerabhadra is claimed to have been constructed by Saint ‘Agastya’ himself, it was developed into the present exquisite shrine by ‘Virupanna’, the treasurer of the Vijayanagar Kings.He conceived the idea as he found the image of Veerabhadra.

He executed the plan in the absence of the king and used the treasure when he was away at Vijayanagar. When the construction was almost finished and it was being supervised the king returned and found the treasure empty. The king ordered, as a punishment to this heinous crime, that he should be blinded. The treasurer being a loyal person carried out the punishment spot with his own bands.

Even today one can see two dark stains upon the wall near the ‘Kalyana Mandapa’, which are said to be the marks made by his eyes, which he himself dashed against the wall. The builder did not survive for a long time and the village is called “Lepa-akshi Lepakshi”, i.e., a village of the blinded eye.

The temple is divided into three parts – the ‘Mukha Mandapa’, (also called ‘Nitya Mandapa’ or ‘Ranga Mandapa’), the ‘Artha Mandapa’ and ‘Garbha Griha’, and the ‘Kalyana Mandapa’, with 38 carved monolithic pillars in grey sandstone is unfinished. These three form a triangle with a common Mandapam.

As per local legend Lord Shiva and Parvati were married on the spot where the Kalyana Mandapa stands. The temple is surrounded on all sides by an outer enclosure. A second inner enclosure contains the main portion of the temple. Its finest parts are the ‘Natya’ (Dancing) and ‘Ardha’ (worship) Mandapas. The former is decorated with superbly sculptured pillars on, which are carved life-size representations of musicians and dancers in various poses displaying spirit and vigour. The Kalyana Mandapam is a standing monument to the exuberance of Vijayanagar art but it is left unfinished.

The best specimens of the Vijayanagar style of sculpture and mural paintings are found in the Natya and Kalyana Mandapams (dance and wedding halls). These sculptures depict puranic episodes like those of ‘Ananthasayana’, ‘Dattatreya’, ‘Chaturmukha Bramha’, ‘Tumburu’, ‘Narada’ and ‘Rambha’.

24Jan09Ghati Subramanya Lepakshi

Dil se – Jayaho Rehman

Jayaho Song MP3 Download(All Slumdog Millionaire Songs)

Screaming out loudly with my heart (Dil se) “Jayaho Rehman” …That’s how I can convey my Congrats to my pacifier. It is the proudest moment for Indians like me. It’s not only my acclaim but also the entire globes.

A R Rehman(Allah Rakkha Rahman) proved again the best musician in the world; holding two Oscars in his hands in the 81 Acadamy Oscar Awards function for categories Best Original score and Best Original song.

    No Doubt!!! He is the “Legend”
                         He is the Music Magician.
                         He is Music Maestro.
                                       What not; as a whole he is the glory to My India.

He is humble in his thanks speech even,How great? And sensible he is!

“Though I have nothing; but I have a mother and her blessings”

“God is great” he said this in his regional language Tamil.

It reveals and reminds us the perfection of our life and dedication in work.

“All my life I had a choice between hate and love. I chose love and I am here,” said Rahman after receiving his second golden statuette.

There may be 1000 critics to talk about “Slumdog Millionaire”, but I strongly feel it unveiled many true facts about India, What’s wrong in that? We are like that hence we are…I am strong enough to accept the true fact. Why should we hide ourselves? Keeping all these discussions aside A British director – Danny Boyle’s Vision about India in the form of “Slumdog Millionaire” won the 8 Oscars out of 10 nominations in best categories including Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score and  Best Original Song.

When A R Rehman got Golden globe award for his “Jayho” song from this movie and when I came to know that he was nominated for 3 Oscars for this film I strongly decided that; he will definitely get at least one. But I am pretty sure; all this happened only due to a British Director for this film. If it would have been directed by other than British man; keeping the technical crew for the film as same as now I don’t think it would have happened. But what ever the reason our talent got reputation globally. Rehman is the first man who received 2 Oscars in a same Acadamy awards function. This is enough! He proved it.

He conveyed this message in one interview. I felt those are really pleasing and inspiring.

“Be open and Do some thing Original” – this is the best message to young talents.

According to me Rehman has given so many better scores in many Indian films prior to Jayho; but he got no reputation for any .But this time every thing is only due to British director. Rehman has spelled his music combining Kawaali and sufi tunes.Every body are pleased with his rocking scores.

Here is a list of scores which we can’t forget for our life…I bet! No music lover leaves his Tune “Chayyaa Chayya from Dile se movie”

Not only Chayya Chayya… There are many more

Gajini – Behka Behka ; Tumeri Aduri;Roja,Sakhi,Guru,Mumbai ,Jeans,Taal,Rangeli – Tanhai ,Premikudu,Premadesam – Mustafa, Hello doctor,Iddaru – Sasivadane, (Narumugane -Tamil)

This list goes on and on.

Slumdog Millionaire – Oscar Award details

1. Best Picture: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. “It has been collaboration between hundreds of people. All of us are here to share this moment. This was an extraordinary journey,” says the Slumdog… team.

2. Best Direction: Danny Boyle for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’

3. Best Original Song: A R Rahman for ‘Jai Ho…’ (Slumdog Millionarie)

The Indian music maestro, AR Rahman wooed the audience while performing ‘Jai Ho’ on stage as a nominee for Best Original Song.

4. Best Original Score: A R Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire . “I have nothing but my mother and she is there with me. I thank her for making me coming all this way with her blessings,” said a proud Rahman.

5. Best Film Editing: Chris Dickens for Slumdog Millionaire

6. Best Sound Mixing: Ian Tapp, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke for Slumdog Millionaire. “This is just not a sound award, but a history being handed over,” said Indian receiver Pookutty.

7. Best Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle for Slumdog Millionaire

8. Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy for Slumdog Millionaire. “The cast and crew of the film told me so much about India and writing,” said a proud Beaufoy.

From bottom of my heart this is my hearty congratulations to Rehman and this post is dedicated to you.

Valentines Day … 2009

I don’t know who invented this concept of celebrating a day in view of particular occasion. Among all the days apart from national important days really Valentines Day is the best and special for most of us. Irrespective of the people in love and those are not in love everybody are eager looking for this day Feb 14.

Love it is almost married… so the sharing hearts really feel the good ness of it especially on this day. The way expressing their love especially on this special day may differ from one to other. It may be single rose, bouquet, garland or it may be Kiss or a hug. The one who is in ones heart should know better reasons and affection about them. So not even to propose but also to express their love Valentines Day is the best day for nay body.

Love it is different – it is unique, it may be between mother and child, God and devotee and between a Lady and a Gent. Where ever it is Love is love.

Love loves love as love.

If love can be replaced, if it has jealous, if it is insecure, if it has no kisses and hugs then it won’t be Love at all.

We let our heart to go where it loves; it may go near your heart. But we know who will stop and who would catch and keep it in their hands. Love it is aches for body, tears in eye but still Love is Love we can’t live with out it. Though we know that it is in some other place but we know it is in safe place. It is damaged to get it healed it came to you. So keep it safe and make it heal.

My heart is in despair …so please take care of it.

I want to dedicate this post to just my heart and soul as it is in some others heart …Happy Valentines Day.

Trip to Ghati Subramanya temple

Hmm boredom! it is the biggest peril for a bachelor like me … that to with out GF in this age how to pass the time? I can’t explain you this loneliness – so difficult you know…So, I came to a conclusion that my best boredom buster would be a road trip or any kind of traveling to a new place.

And that idea helped many time as like this last long week-end… In lieu of Republic day (Jan 26) and normal week end we got around a 3 days off from work. After a long discussions and phone calls with friends decided to go to “Lepakshi”. Some one added another place on the same way which is “Ghati subramanya Temple”.

We are just 3 – Ravi teja, chandu and me, so decided to go by KSRTC bus this time for a day outing and able to execute the plan perfectly.

Plan: Catch the KSRTC direct bus to Ghati in the very early morning.
          Visit the temple and prayers then return back to Dodabalapur from Ghati.
          Catch the direct bus from Dodballapur to Lepakshi.
          Go from Lepakshi to Hindupur and catch direct bus from Hindupur to Bangalore.

Started on my pulsar at 5:30 from koramangala to Silkboard to pick up my friend Chandu to reach majestic by 6 AM. Lucky to have the very early hour’s darshan at Madiwaala ayyappa temple we reached Majestic bus terminal around at 7:15AM. Quickly had idly and once Teja reached that place we found the direct bus to Ghati from KSRTC bus terminal and got into it with out keeping high expectations about seats. Surprisingly the bus is so clean and perfect in condition. With just around less than 20 people bus started its trip. It was good enough speed we reached Ghati around at 11 AM.

It is a remote place from Dodballapur and the temple is the only visiting place. It’s a very old and famous temple. God here is Subramanya and Narasimha swamy in the same idol. Temple is on a small hillock which we can’t even identify once we reach there. We can see many small “Nagendra idols” and we can see a silent pond back of the main temple There we can see beautiful peacocks in the temple premises along with few other birds.

It’s really a nice feeling for me to travel in a local bus to visit local place with local faces all around me. It’s all a magic sound for me listening to local peoples slang in the local language. I like it.

The best part of the Ghati I like is the idol here; it is having two Gods in the same rock facing back to back. One God is Subramanya swamy which will be faced our side and back side Narasimha swami was made visible for us in a mirror. According to local people word this God is famous for giving boons to people in terms of marriage and kids. People, who come here seeking marriage or kids in their life, will be surely blessed with what they want.

Date : 24-Jan-2009

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Flowers show at Lalbagh, Bangalore – January 2009

Blooming buds

As Wordsworth said “A flower is poet’s darling”, yes it is – but I would like to reframe that as some thing like “A flower is people’s darling”. Why because ?  every human on this earth like the flowers. It is the complete solace one can have from nature beauty.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.  ~John Ruskin

I am resident of Bangalore since 2006, every year there used to be agog news about “Flowers show” which is bi-annually conducted in Lalbagh(Botanical Garden).This is year due to long week end I was pretty free to visit this show, Though I was bit tired due to journey the day just before this plan I just did this as I am strongly prepared my self to go there. At last we visited this show, with Chandu and Teja accompanying me. It was really awesome show with thousands of flowers collected together to beautify our minds. Though it was started on 18th Jan there was huge crowd in Lalbagh. I think its all  festive mood which we can see on republic day celbration in Lalbagh with this flowers show.

I don’t think – there will be people who don’t like flowers in this world.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.  ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

Lalbagh-Bangalore is the old botanical garden in an area around 240 acres. It has many variety species of plants and trees including rose garden, ponds and different fountains to intoxicate the minds of the visitors. There is a glass house in this garden and this is the place where generally Flower show would happen every year. And it was well used to decorate and exhibit around 350 varieties of flowers.

The theme of this flower exhibition was the world peace. To reflect this they made a globe with around 1 lack roses with different colors and placed two doves in a love symbol on top of this globe. This was the ultimate one and I am sure this flick will lie in my eyes for whole of my life. All the corners of this glass house is decorated well with thousands of flowers with versatile themes. We can see the elephant shape prepared with betel leaves is also superb!

Flowers are without hope.  Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

And there were around 100 stalls to display the rare spices of plants, to sell gardening gadgets like manures, pots, books on plants, herbal products, saplings and also seeds.

The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.- Persian Proverb

“I enjoyed the show here, I like India and all places here” said an European when my friend and me asked in this exhibition. As whole I like this show and all Bangalorians must see this at least ones.

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
~William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” 1804

World peace theme at Lalbagh Flower show

Note : Unlike other days the entrance fee was 40 R/- this year.There is a separate parking place provoded if we enter from south gate of Lalbagh and parking charges applicable.

Other Photos from my cam : 

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ETV’s Dhee – Perfect entertainer and best platform for dancers

ETV Dhee

Channel Name: ETV
Show Name: Dhee
Producer: Syam Prasad Reddy (Malle maala creations)
Anchor: Udaya Bhanu
Important Participants: Haranath reddy, Monika, etc
Important masters: Shiva sankar, Noble, Sreedar
Judges: Prabu Deva, Brinda, Tarun master.
 

E-TV(Telugu)’s recent block buster and super hit reality dance show “Dhee” aired some months back and bought its Rank – 1 back in high competition time too. Increased TRP’s or getting Rank-1 among all telugu TV channels is one thing but this is like getting its pride back in the very crucial and challenging situation for Mr. Ramoji Rao for his Name and fame with Eenadu group in the Andhrites hearts. As in the recent past times he was facing many issues with film city being pointed by Mr. Undavalli Dayaklara Rao and also his dispute with his son sumanth ade the situation too worse. At last he is the winner proving his strength again to win the Andhra people’s hearts.

Coming to the ultimate reality dance show “Dhee”, it created really new trend in the TV shows especially Telugu channels with its unique concept of making the most renowned choreographers participated along with their teams. And each show is unique with a tough competition between dancers to prove their trainer’s caliber. It became a competition between the choreographers/trainers at one stage. Making the viewers breathe stop at the results and tying the viewers hearts close to the show timings is not an easy task it was made possible with this show. The other reality dance shows in many channels now started thinking of doing their best with the best formula in Dhee to compete themselves. It is the Purring dance shows in TV till it was shown.

Any body jaw has to drop while watching show like this especially a unique show being done by an old choreographer like Shiva sankar. I was not able to follow this show till I saw Shiva sankar’s performance. His age is around 70 and in one episode he was eliminated and in that moment he has expressed his acceptance with his ultimate performance and was forwarded to next episodes with thousands of audience SMS to make the show pleasant. The fierce race among television channels to garner TRPs is now a point think with the “Dhee” show.

Dhee stifles your curiosity while watching any participant/team performance in each episode and it will be asphyxiating no doubt. The costumes being used by all the participants are wired especially Monika like dancers excelled with their unique selection of item songs and costumes.

Eliminated participants were sobbing inconsolably in some episodes, but TVs are ready to showcase everything including feelings in everyone just to entertain the viewers or feel about what they telecast.

Unison hands movement shows attracted totally in many of the episodes. Though the base show for all these are from a Chinese dance show it was well reused in the Dhee shows too. We all know that the same show was performed in recent hit Telugu movie “Gamyam”. Unison hands movement specially used in “Dasavatarm dance” show by Harinath reddy.

The specials episodes like story board are best designed to measure the participant’s caliber in terms of creativity too and the one I like among them is Rajeswari, a Shiva sankar’s contestant.

And coming to this building/set, it is aesthetically very pleasing and especially special Dias for finals episodes is also awesome. Revelry on the entertainment channels is the current trend and passion for viewers and it was organized well in the Dhee too.

Undoubtly there are masses of people out there whose only mission in life is to impersonate movie stars, but very few are unique in admiring them to evolve as new star of the world.The winners are like this in this show.

He was Mr.Prabhu deva, called Indian Michel Jackson who has pranced the show in the finals.

Though it is ironic fact that it affects the kids well to change their life goal itself, but sure it creates definitely a positive goal for them.

Other Show videos :http://a2zindianews.com/general/etv-dhee-final-prabudeva-videos/

Special Dance by Harinadh