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January 31st, 2007
Now the self financing college association says,
We will do 100% admission. We won’t use entrance rank alone as it is not transparent. We are going to look at a lot of parameters before giving admission.
This is the funniest statement I have seen lately. Note that word “transparent”. Self financing college association using the word – [...]
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January 30th, 2007
Thulasi’s photo blog is one site where you can spend hours looking at his brilliant photos.
But sometimes photos can be shocking as well…
Sainaba was born with this head due to pesticide endosulphan which was used very heavily in Kasargod district.
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January 30th, 2007
Even hardcore American liberals would bow before Kerala liberals!
‘We have found that close to 36 inmates are affected with HIV. Even though there has been no confession by the inmates that they indulge in homosexuality, it is explicit that this takes place,’ said Harikumar, director of Project Support Unit (PSU) that works among [...]
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January 30th, 2007
Ministry of communications & information technology has released a suite of tools for Malayalam language. You can download them here. The package contains,
Malayalam fonts (true type, open type etc.)
Malayalam spell checker
Malayalam-English and English-Malayalam dictionaries
Malayalam Microsoft word tool
Malayalam OCR (very useful!)
Malayalam text to speech tool
I don’t know how Achu mama will react with all these Microsoft [...]
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January 28th, 2007
Stanley varghese visits harbour market restaurant in bangalore (owned by Mohanlal) and is blown away by the experience!
Well, one look at the Menu, and my stomach (already grumbling not havin eaten anything the whole morning) turned into a sailor-knot. Well, you guessed right – It was the bloody prices!!
To give you an idea,
Idly [...]
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January 28th, 2007
Sometime back I wrote a post about the karuvannur toll bridge guessing that probably it is the cheapest toll bridge. The toll is for 2 rupees.
Kuttan menon writes about an incident in Amala hospital which shows how valuable 2 rupees can be!
കഞ്ഞിക്ക് പത്തുരൂപയാണ് വില. ആ സ്ത്രീയുടെ കൈവശം 8 രൂപയേ ഉള്ളൂ. കൌണ്ടറിലെ പയ്യന് അല്പം പരുഷമായിത്തന്നെയാണ് ആ [...]
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January 28th, 2007
IBN Live reports – An example of communal harmony from Alappuzha,
Jameela is deaf and dumb and earns a living by working at the temple. She cleans the premises and washes the utensils used for the puja. While Ansila says that she would never have completed her schooling after her father’s death, if the temple authorities [...]
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January 27th, 2007
Cheru Cherian John (via The Wharton Journal) looks at the anti-american sentiment in Kerala,
Citibank to them was the only possible representative of anything Ah-mary-kkan (America, as it is often pronounced in my home state) that they could get at (After all they recently banned selling Coke across the state alleging the presence of pesticides in [...]
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January 27th, 2007
Yesterday I wrote a post on the kerala sabdam article on ‘exploitation in IT companies in Technopark’. After writing this post, I happened to talk to a friend who works in Technopark. He had some interesting things to share,
Technopark is run by Kerala government. So like any government department, corruption is part of it. There [...]
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January 26th, 2007
Almost everyone in Kerala owns a mobile phone. You can get a mobile set with incoming only for a very nominal monthly rental.
SMS is quite popular in Kerala. Lot of creative work can be seen in the SMS messages that are exchanged between people. Here are some which I got recently,
deivamee enikku sms ayakkathavarude mobile [...]
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January 26th, 2007
Reliance offers broadband service (if you can call 144kbps service as broadband service!) through its mobile network called netconnect. Two devices(USB and PCI) are available in the market for about Rs. 4500. The USB device is the best!
This device also has a phone number, hence you can make or receive calls when the device is [...]
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January 26th, 2007
I am a regular reader of Kerala Sabdam malayalam weekly. In this week’s issue, kerala shabdam has an interesting article titled “slavery and exploitation in Kerala IT industry!”.
The author/article is highly biased (kerala sabdam claims to be neutral, but in general leans to left) against IT companies. He says that there is widespread exploitation of [...]
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January 25th, 2007
Caroline makes you smile
I was blessed with a seat in the 5th row on my first leg, only to find it wouldn’t recline because the exit row was behind us. The two computer engineers on either side of me were headed back to their jobs in Singapore after their first year of work [...]
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January 25th, 2007
Check out this cool free Malayalam calendar for 2007 from Kerala Kaumudi. It is copy of the real calendar and can be printed. Please note that this is a 1.5MB PDF file.
Update: 2008 Malayalam Calendar can be downloaded here.
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January 25th, 2007
Laurie Baker is a British architect who came to India 50 years back and is currently staying in Trivandrum, Kerala. He pioneered unique building construction methods suited for Kerala climate and lifestyle. His work is so famous that anyone in Kerala knows what a “Baker home” means
Check out this article to know more [...]
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