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Archive for March, 2007

Ugly face of Malayalam blogging - Threats, harassment and blogger gangs

It all started with the Yahoo copyright issue where a number of Malayalam blog posts were copied by Webdunia content team and it appeared on the Yahoo’s Malayalam portal. When this issue was reported, Yahoo promptly removed the content.
But Malayalam bloggers were not satisfied with this. They wanted a formal apology from Yahoo. Hence [...]

Air India Express starts online booking of flight tickets for Doha

Air-India Express (Air-India’s budget airline) opens its online booking for its Doha services today. You can access it here.
All passengers who had purchased tickets for travel on Air-India from March 25 onwards can visit Air-India office to transfer their bookings to the budget carrier and reissue their regular tickets as e-tickets.
Currently Air India Express flies [...]

Terror in Trivandrum - thugs on bike

It seems that some youngsters without jobs in Trivandrum decided to go for self employment. Here is a short summary of their modus operandi.
1. Get an old bike on dirt cheap prices. Then change or hide the registration number plate.
2. Get another youngester without job as an accomplice. Only qualification is that the fellow has [...]

How government encourages corruption

Whenever any new regulation is introduced by government, it invariably leads to corruption. The easiest way to reduce corruption is to reduce permits/approvals etc. required from government departments.
For example, just after thattekkadu tragedy, many government employees started harassing boat owners and started collecting money as bribe.
Kaippally points to the latest government regulation on the [...]

Kerala Blogger Awards 2006 results and the winner is

We are very happy to announce the results of Kerala Blogger Awards 2006. It was a very close competition. Here are the winners,
Kerala Blogger Awards winner for 2006 is Just Jo by Joseph Thomas with 46 votes. Jo’s blog deals with a wide range of topics including music, politics and personal stuff. Jo takes home [...]

Partial Solar eclipse on 19th March

In Kerala, a partial solar eclipse will be visible on monday (19th March) between 6AM and 7AM. Hence the eclipse will end even before the day starts! The highest degree of eclipse is estimated to be around 6%.
The solar eclipse can be viewed at observatory in Kerala University.
Important : Solar eclipse should not viewed [...]

God, nudity and politics in Kerala

Is God nude? To put it in another way, does God need to put on clothes? These are some important questions which has turned Kerala upside down. It is reported that many in Kerala needed trauma care after the following news came out. Many were unable to visualize God without clothes…
It all began when Kerala [...]

Search the Web in Malayalam

Thomas P John has setup a site to simplify searching Malayalam content on Google. If you used to type Malayalam words in Varamozhi and then used to copy it to Google search, this site will be very handy!
Tapioca (Search the web in Malayalam) is powered by Mozhi and Anajli old font. From Tapioca,
Tapioca at this [...]

KBA 2006 - Registrations closed

Kerala Blogger Awards 2006 voter registration is closed. Please cast your votes. The poll will be locked on March 17th 5PM IST. Please vote as early as possible.
There were some problems with approval of some email addresses. Now all verified addresses have been approved. Thank your for your patience.
If you are not able to vote, [...]

Santosh George Kulangara (a malayali) to become India’s first space tourist

Santosh George, the Managing Director of Labour India Publications, and producer of ‘Sancharam’, a weekly travel programme being aired on a Malayalam television channel will become India’s first space tourist.
He has got a confirmed seat on Virgin Galetic’s Spaceship. The registration had cost him around USD 20,000 (Rs 9 lakhs). The total cost of [...]

KBA 2006 - Voter registration closes today!

Today is the last day for the Kerala Blogger Awards 2006 voter registration. I have extended the voting (not registration) for two more days since there are a number people yet to post verification code. So the voting will close on 17th March and no further polling will be allowed.
Currently a total of 168 users [...]

Geodesic trademarks our “Mundu”

“Mundu” is the traditional dress used by men in Kerala. But unfortunately the word “Mundu” was trademarked by Geodesic company recently!
Mundu Messenger enables real-time collaboration between trusted lists of IM contacts across public IM Networks on the Web, Desktop and Mobile phone.
Nooooooo! Now we cannot use “Mundu” without putting “TM” near it!
Bloggers, [...]

Sahodaran on Kerala’s sex maniacs

In Kerala, whenever a bus passes through a busy junction, you will see that a lot of male faces in the junction turn towards the back of the bus (or front if the bus is a private bus). What are they looking for? They are doing something called “visual rape”. They are looking for women [...]

CIA agents among Kerala journalists?

Our current chief minister Mr. Achuthanandan has a unique gift. He can generate huge controversies in Kerala just by joking on a subject (Our late ex. Chief Minister Nayanar also had this unique ability. His speeches were a huge hit just because of humor content. I remember listening to one of his speeches and by [...]

Nishant’s beach soccer

Nishant writes about the beach soccer he played with his friends in 2002. It is hilarious :),
Soon a spirited game was on and a small crowd had also gathered to watch us. Suddenly something shot through the feet of the people and charged at the ball. It was a dog. Looked like a mangy [...]