Category Archives: India

बाल विहार प्रार्थना

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१ एकदन्तम्‌ महाकायं लम्बोदर गजाननम्‌ ।
विघ्ननाशकरम्‌ देवं हेरम्बं प्रणमाम्यहम्‌ ॥
(Ekadantam mahakayam lambodaragajananam
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Customer Support in India

I received the following in email forward. It is supposedly a customer support call to Idea Cellular. It sounds like it is a staged conversation, but is hilarious anyway! Knowledge of marathi is recommended

Customer Support in India

काही बालगीते

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नाच रे मोरा
आम्ही कोळ्यांची पोरं हाय हो
अगडम बगडम
छडी लागे छम छम
चांदोमामा [...]

Children’s songs in Marathi

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Aala Aala Paus आला आला पाउस आला बघा बघा हो आला आला …
Mala [...]

Fix maharashtratimes.com font problems on firefox

Maharshtratimes.com (or maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com) is a marathi news website using unicode fonts. But it does not display correctly on firefox browser. The problem is because of a single HTML div which uses justified font style. It displays correctly on IE (which is why it is not getting fixed) - this could be because of firefox’s buggy [...]

Search the web for devanagari words.

I created a small form using which you can search the web for unicode devanagari words. It is very cumbersome to actually enter unicode devanagari characters using qwert keyboards, so I have adopted the phonetic transliteration scheme from Manogat website. Do give it a try:
http://amit.chakradeo.net/search/
Start typing devanagari words phonetically and you will see unicode characters [...]

Religious Stotra - काही धार्मिक स्तोत्रे ध्वनीरूपामध्ये

Update: Click here to listen to Complete Ganesh Pooja.
I keep getting a lot of hits on some of the old posts (Ram Raksha Stotra and Hanuman Chalisa) with visitors asking for audio versions of the stotra. Here is a page where I will keep collecting the audio versions of various stotras.
To Play: If [...]

Jana Gana Mana

Wow, google video makes it so easy to embed videos to webpages. Here is the Jana Gana Mana video (A. R. Rahman / Bharat Bala)

[tags]India, Video, Google[/tags]

Visa Stuff to remind me later…

Consulate SFO web page
Visa camp in LA
Bank of America (for emergency Cashier’s check)
Bank Of America
13905 Pioneer Blvd
Norwalk, CA
Phone: (562) 868-1448
UPS store:
Address: 4067 Hardwick St, Lakewood, CA 90712
Phone: (562) 408-2383

“The Travails of Single South Indian men of conservative upbringing” or “Why we don’t get any…”

A great piece about why typical South Indian men do not get any good girls in town …
http://sidin.blogspot.com/2004/05/travails-of-single-south-indian-men-of.html
Full text follows below in extended entry…

India’s Electronic Voting Machines compared to Diebold…

Techaos: Indian EVM compared with Diebold
Indian EVM compared with Diebold
I am writing this while the results are coming out for the Indian Assembly
Election of 2004. 8 news channels are showing results updating like stock
prices on the screen. Yes a 3 second update. The counting is although very
simple and [...]

BPO to help BPL (Below Poverty Line) families in Kerala…

NASSCOM - Using BPO to help BPL families IN Kerala
A BUNCH of women from Below Poverty Line families in Kerala may well be competing with `hot and happening’ BPO companies elsewhere if a plan by the State to take business process outsourcing to the grassroots takes off.
Kerala plans to set up BPO units by bringing [...]

A Very good critique on NTP (National Telecom Policy of India)

Just came across this very good critic on India’s National Telecom Policy 1999.
I guess we need to have more public reviews of such policies.
BTW http://www.deeshaa.org/ is the weblog of Prof. Atanu Dey from Berkeley, and the site has a lot of insightful articles. He is off to India to implement a model [...]

Ram raksha Stotra!

Update: (2006-12-19) I added a new page to collect audio versions of different stotras. Here is the link: http://amit.chakradeo.net/2006/12/19/religious-stotra/
Amazing what you can find on the web!
index_ram
Here is another link

Ram Raksha Stotra
Viniyogah:
Aasya Shriramrakshastrotamantrasya budhkaushik hrishi:
ShriSitaramcandro devta anushtup Chanda: Sita shakti:
Shriman hanuman keelkam ShriRamcandapreetyeRthe
Ramrakshastotrajape vinyOgah:
Dhyaaedaajaanu baahum dhyaanam dhrit shar
dhanusham badhhpadmaasanastham
Peetam vaaso [...]