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Official Google Blog: Google Translate welcomes you to the Indic web

2011-06-23T00:03:00.000-07:00

Official Google Blog: Google Translate welcomes you to the Indic web: "(Cross-posted on the Translate Blog and Research Blog ) Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-co..."

am I retarded ?

2011-05-25T11:01:00.000-07:00

am I retarded if I believe, feel or say that this world has an immense social and economic inequality? Everyone knows this, but seeing it every day here through living in an extremely developed place (Canada) I'm unable to take it anymore. I always believed and believe even now that we are linked to each other in this world, if one suffers and one lives in excess luxury, I believe they both are linked too. Is there a justification to this? Isn't all of the world a single 'world'? or should we say to ourselves, like in Hindu religion they say "People suffer because they might have done something in their previous life and it is their karma".

p.s : I don't believe in any religion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_inequality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality

Did you ever wonder what happens to your e-mails and online accounts when you die ?

2011-03-29T17:37:00.000-07:00

You may want to check this video :

and also visit this website :

click here - thedigitalbeyond

A simple animation on human's thinking

2010-12-13T15:25:00.000-08:00

The Arctic Circle from Kevin Parry on Vimeo.

Focus: A new book on simplicity in the age of distractions

2010-10-23T12:11:00.000-07:00

It’s about finding simplicity in this Age of Distraction.
It’s about finding the focus you need to create, to work on what’s important, to reflect, to find peace.

The Free Version
The free version is simple: it’s 27 chapters that you can download for free, without having to give an email address or do anything else. It’s uncopyrighted, and you can share it with as many people as you like.
Download free version here (a pdf download).

p.s : I have not read the book yet. (not even the free ebook) Therefore, I do not wish to give my views on it.

A post

2010-10-23T11:59:00.000-07:00

Life is going really fast. It has been 2 months already since my last post on the experience I had of visiting a conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees.

I and you see that in my last post I mentioned in the last line that I would let you know of 'my views' on 'how' we, everyone is associated with every aspect of the world.

For past 2 months I got busy, because of internship, which started on September 7th and also had some highly stressed moments because of internship, also of my playing around with a new "training" of gas station cashier job and I could not make time to do research, analysis and put my assumptions on paper (doc on computer) in an organized way. So, I could not make any post on that one. Even now I do not even have a draft of such a post, but, for sure, I would make such a post in future.

I apologize.

(I agree, if you say that, there is always time and people cannot just say that they do not have time because they got busy, but, you see I am still learning how to live life. Note that, I said above that I had stressful moments, which clearly meant I could not even handle stress - which is considered as part of life to everyone. So, I am still a very new person, learning and learning).

For now, I would like to make a post which is just a copy paste of an article which could help everyone in organizing their life better. (if you think you are not organized at best).

I found this one at www.lifehacker.com, which re-directed me to : http://zenhabits.net

Thank you

A special day

2010-08-20T20:59:00.000-07:00

I didn't knew its been so long that I made a post in my blog here, as I still feel writing about attitude (one of my previous posts) just few weeks ago, though its been an year already. Anyways, here goes my 'View'

A special day

Prashanth's Disclaimer : please read this post completely. The entire post is completely my personal opinion and may contradict with your opinions or factual data.

Today was a special day for me ...not because i had last exam of the semester but because i had a chance to watch two very good documentaries on the issue of human rights in North Korea and gave me more insight knowledge on the present situation over there and what made such situation arise. They are listed as below with their official websites.

The Red Chapel : http://www.theredchapel.com/

Kimjongilia: http://www.kimjongiliathemovie.com/

For people who doesn't have any clue of what i am talking about and what is THAT situation, please read more about it and North Korea here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea

I hope you don't ignore reading it with the excuse of availability of time to you at this instant.

I also had a privilige to see the director cum producer of the documentary herself answering questions after the screening.

I can't wait to participate in tomorrow's international conference on human rights in North Korea.

Please visit here for more info: http://www.nkconference.org/

People, friends and family who know me closely already know that I am learning Korean language and I am into Korean but actually I am more concerned about Human rights, environmental impacts, climate change, cultural changes, peoples' attitudes and stuff like that anywhere in the world.

While i was watching the documentaries, I had an immense emotional feeling of how millions of such people existing around the world must be suffering, while others are living extremely well and we don't do anything to them in any way, all we do is just show a feeling of 'concern' whenever we watch such a documentary or any such issues are shown on News.

Just imagine yourself escaping from a prison, running wild in the rocky snow covered mountains, crossing a river not knowing when you would get shot in the back just to escape from the huge prison camps, starvation and torture.

Ironic point is that all this is not caused just because of few people like saddam hussein or kim jong il or such people but its partly associated with everyone of us. Yes, you and me. How ?

I would let you know about my Views on 'how' in my next post (please note that again they could be just assumptions and of my own personal opinions).

do you know 'Zeitgeist' ? O_o

2009-10-29T03:02:00.000-07:00

Zeigeist (Noun) : The spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation
source: Word web

Zeitgeist (German pronunciation: [ˈtsaɪtɡaɪst] ( listen)) (from German Zeit-time and Geist- spirit) is "the spirit of the times" and/or "the spirit of the age." Zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and/or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambience, morals, and sociocultural direction or mood of an era (similar to the English word mainstream or trend).

source : wikipedia...

Ever heard terms like

'God'
'dooms day' 'world is going to end'
'new world order'.....
'9/11 conspiracy' .... 'what's the reason for the economic meltdown'......

if you are interested in getting the answers, you may want to watch this documentary film named 'Zeitgeist' at below link

first 12 minutes of the documentary is removed in the above link for some unknown reasons, so if you would like to watch even the missed film, just please try to find it somewhere else !!

If you liked watching the documentary, I would like to recommend you to watch the 2nd part of 'zeitgeist'.

I feel that this documentary has the power to change the thinking of many people around the world which in turn would change the way we live in the coming years
related links :
http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist,_the_Movie

Attitude !!

2009-03-03T08:17:00.000-08:00

Attitude !! What exactly does attitude mean ? I just keep wondering about this word all day .....all week ......all the time !! As I feel people are showing a lot of attitude ....may be I should say a lot of self-centric kind of attitude, or is it that I myself have such an attitude which is because I feel that others are showing their attitude ?

Do you guys believe in positive attitude ? I mean do you think does attitude of a person influence his/her efficiency at any scenario, like in an organization or in a relationship or so. People around me believe that 'negative' attitude is kind of necessary to sustain the competition present in this era. Sorry to say but I believe the opposite that negative attitude helps only temporarily but not all along in life.

Please tell your opinion on 'attitude' in the comments below.

p.s : I was talking about the attitude of people around me (in India) so I hope you understand what I meant.

Today !

2008-10-10T01:54:00.000-07:00

It happens in India .......... may be at your place too .... I do not know.

Today I was walking back home to a near by bus stop, from a class as my vehicle was giving trouble. I saw some of typical situations which happen only in India. First I saw 2 people were ready to fight over because 1 person hit the other person's Skoda Fabia and its tail lights are broken. Now I recall the dialogue by Sue in the movie 'Rang de Basanti' 'two people are looking for an excuse to fight'. They were ready to bash each other but I could not do anything as I would get bashed up by those two if I interfere that's how it works in India. I just walked as few people were coming over there already to stop the fight or may be to have a delightful watch with the scenario.
The traffic alreayd started to get jammed just because of that small fight, now I understood how a traffic jam could be caused with such small accidents too ! lol

Then I boarded a bus, the ticket issuer was asking a person (who was on the foot board smoking) - 'would you like to get down or turn off the smoke' as smoking was recently banned. I felt good that such good things do still happen. I wonder why such seriousness doesn't happen with everyone. Then when I got down the bus I could see other person smoking in the public near the auto stand. Contradicting with what I saw few minutes ago. Phew !!

with just 5 minutes of walk I could see an accident I wonder how many things I may see if I walk around in my commute daily instead of using a vehicle.

I hope Indians (including myself) take everything more seriously than they are taking it now (as I believe they do take it).

So much blabbering !! :p

Guess what !!???

2008-06-11T11:34:00.000-07:00

woooo !! It's so strange that I found the answer to the below post in 1 more movie "The Kingdom". Frankly I really didn't knew the answer for the questions which I asked in my previous post but it seems now I am aware of the entire Southwest Asia and the conflicts (except the Palestinian story). By the way I'm not against anyone so please don't misunderstand. So Americans were helping Saudi Arabia from the Iraqi invasion and Bin Laden got pissed off as his offer of helping Saudi Arabia was rejected by the Saudi Royal family. This perspective is quite reasonable enough though I'm unaware of how true it is. This is what was shown in the movie "The Kingdom", the movie was quite interesting, full of action and kinda suspense too. If you want to know how it would be in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) then I guess this is the movie which depicts how americans live over there. (I guess only the americans who really live there knows if the film depicts their true life or not).
I'm outta here for now.

Mixed Feelings

2008-04-07T07:24:00.000-07:00

Recently I saw the movie Rambo(2008) the so called Rambo IV, I got shocked seeing the first introductory scenes as the Myanmar's war environment and surroundings were shown. I didn't knew that the country got such a government led by the military power, I referred to the wikipedia to get some information if what's shown in the movie is real or not. Apparently it turned out to be true and I finished watching the movie and came back to the same wiki page and just wondered how could such brutal things can happen in such a geographically large country.
There were some interesting facts about the Myanmar in that web page. I still don't understand why the USA doesn't want to remove the military rule in the countries like this and not only the Iraq and so. Is it that US concentrates only on the oil potential countries ??

Can someone please justify the movements of the USA as I am totally confused !!