Warning: Very long post, bit heavy with personal rants and may not be interesting for planet readers

I had read this blog post by Shobha De sometime before my planned trip to Guwahati and Shillong.

She writes:
There is very little pink left in the Pink City, which now resembles an ugly, impersonal,concrete urbanscape, devoid of any character or ( Read more... )

First up.. Wishes for a Happy Sankranti, Pongal, Lohri, Bhogali Bihu and all the nice things that are being celebrated today. I was up till nearly midnight last night trying my hand at making "pithe" (পিঠে). Nothing fancy, just the commong "churi-pithe" (চুড়ি পিঠে) that looks similar to "samosas", albeit flatter. Its called "Karanji" in Maharashtra ( Read more... )

i WANT to go on a vacation...

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Looks like there would be lots of stories for me when sankarshan returns :D


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So things were a bit busy for the past 2-3 weeks. Among the many things that happened, I took the Red Hat Certification exam and became an RHCT on Red Hat Enterprise Linux v 5. Shall try for an RHCE certification later some time.

Meanwhile, I am trying my hand at Publican, with some expert advice coming from mdious.

I was reading Nirav's post about becoming an Enlightened Worker. I particularly liked this point:

"Surround yourself with people you admire and respect. When you work with someone better than you, your performance will improve."

This is something my dad always told me when I was younger and I feel with each passing day. Working or socialising ( Read more... )

Indigo answered my prayers and now I am off home, on their spiffy new Pune-Kolkata flight (via Ahmedabad of course). But much much much cheaper than the other airlines. So I shall be away from mail and IRC for two weeks. Meanwhile I am pretty much anxious, that I might return to find sankarshan opening a chocolate factory inside the house. See ya folks!

A bug related to the positioning of the ৺ (Isshar sign - U+09FA) was fixed by Rahul today after quite a bit of research by Amitakhya and me. The character was being positioned at-level with the other alphabets:


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I woke up this morning after hearing sankarshan speaking to someone on the phone. Turned out to be an interview for the OpenOffice.org Education project that he is working on. Cool stuff ( Read more... )

I see no reason why truckloads of firecrackers need to be burned to celebrate and generally usher in a very polluted first-morning-of-the-year. The housing complex next door was having a celebration of sorts with loud music and crackers etc. Right now I can hear the caterers wrapping up after the party and talking to each other in extremely high ( Read more... )