Tag Archives: India

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

Update: Click here to play all songs in your browser.
To play the song, click on the small triangle before the song name. (needs javascript and flash plugin)
To download the song, right click on song name and select “Save Link As” or “Save Target As”

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

Children’s songs in Marathi

Update: Play all files in your browser.
To play the file, click on the small triangle before the name. (needs javascript and flash plugin)
To download the file, right click on file name and select “Save Link As” or “Save Target As”

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 [...]

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 [...]