Panoramic view 1

This is a tile picture of the sunset and horizon taken from my home.

SC stays 27% quota for OBCs in IITs, IIMs

The Supreme Court has stayed the OBC quota! The government wanted quotas for OBCs based on the 1931 census data!! Finally some rational and sense seems to have prevailed over illogical nonsense. And now the government wants to collect data backing its decision for quotas! It is like sentencing somebody to death and then trying to manufacture the reasons for which he was sentenced to death. The Supreme Court in its judgment has clearly stated that the government’s intention to implement OBC quota was for divisive vote bank politics and not the welfare of the people. It is indeed unfortunate that the government has successfully misled several millions of people that this move was for the ‘upliftment’ of ‘poor and backward’ people. Thankfully their bluff was called by the judiciary.
In fact it is not just the government but all political parties as a whole that this judgment indicts. They are the people whose minds need to be ‘uplifted’ and these are the minds that are truly ‘backward’.
I think the Supreme Court needs no proof that the people who are mentally backward and in dear need of reservations are the politicians. So, now the Supreme Courts should transfer this quota from OBCs to politicians. This should solve a lot of problems. Let us hope and pray that at least an education at the IITs and IIMs changes these people and India moves ‘Ahead’ instead of falling over ‘Backwards’. Only then it will be time to celebrate..

Quoted from the community "Reservations must be removed", by Aditya

The Indian cricket team DEPARTED!

BANGLADESH or SRI LANKA, it doesn't matter when you are facing INDIA!

Not surprisingly the Indian cricket team DEPARTED from the ICC world cup like every edition.
But this time with more humiliation with an oust in the very 1st round of the cup.
The much hyped 'MEN IN BLUE' lost on the so called minnows/underdogs Bangladesh cricket team(note there is no exclamation for this sentence!). And then were defeated terribly by the one time champions Sri Lanka.
So as the caption of the movie Departed says "cop or a criminal, it doesn't matter when you are facing a pistol!" on the same lines a new caption for the MEN IN BLUE says..........
"BANGLADESH or SRI LANKA, it doesn't matter when you are facing INDIA!"
this simply means any team can thrash the MEN IN BLUE!
What do you say????

I've no words for this ultimate thing................

This was taken in the Flower conservatory, San Fransisco,California

Solar eclipse on the very first day of the Lunar new year.

The first pic was taken around 7.00am IST. and the last was taken around 7.30am.
However I was not awake for the first contact =)
This was the first solar eclipse in 2007 and also in the 'SARVAJITH' samvathsara.

Wishing you all a happy new year.

ಯುಗಾದಿ ಹಬ್ಬದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು. ಸರ್ವಜಿತ್ ನಾಮದ ಸಮ್ವತ್ಸರ ತರಲಿ ಯೆಲ್ಲರಿ ಹರ್ಷ.

Wishing RMS a very happy Birthday!

I wish Richard Stallman a very happy birthday. As you can see here in separate photos myself and my brother along with RMS!

I'm also happy to celebrate my birthday on this day(march 16th)!

ಹದಿನೆಂಟು ವರ್ಷಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳೆದಿದ್ದೇನೆ ನಾನು!

ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ಹದಿನಾರಕ್ಕೆ(೧೬) ನನಗೆ ಹದಿನೆಂಟು ವರ್ಷಗಳು ತುಂಬುತದೆ!
ಈ ಹದಿನೆಂಟೂ ವರ್ಷಗಳನ್ನೂ ವ್ಯರ್ತ ವಾಗಿಯೆ ಕಳೆದಿದ್ದೆನೆ ಎಂದು ಈ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳಲು ಆಶಿಸುತ್ತೆನೆ :P. ನನಗೆ ಹದಿನೆಂಟು ವರ್ಷಗಳಾಗಿದ್ದರೂ ಈ ವರೆಗು ಜೇವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಏನೂ ಸಾಧಿಸಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂಬುದೆ ಈ ಮೇಲಿನ ವಾಕ್ಯದ ಅರ್ತ!

Californian apples

Looks beautiful....tastes disgusting!

iPod Linux demo

Want to install Linux on to ur iPod ? then see this video