Hijabaya

Why does a person wear abaya? http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=hub260909why_i.asp

Most Powerful Women In Indian Business

Here is the list of powerful women.

Best Places to Buy Real Estate

Best places in India: http://in.finance.yahoo.com/photos/india-s-major-residential-destinations-1353562082-slideshow/india-s-major-residential-destinations-photo-647169189.html

Plight Of Shiites

This article is about Shiite muslims.

Staying Young

On staying young: http://m.timesofindia.com/tech/personal-tech/computing/Your-smartphone-can-help-you-stay-young/articleshow/17349875.cms

Human Brain: Men Vs Women

Analysis of the way the male and female brains work: https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=379050672180946&set=a.312850485467632.75421.312842482135099&type=1&refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php&_rdr

Liquor Mafia

Good organization this on Ponty Chadha.

Updated on Nov 26, 2012:
http://in.news.yahoo.com/blood-and-billions--062044956.html

Relationships And Being Demanding Or Generous

Some links on being demanding / relationships:

Demanding: 

• http://www.sofeminine.co.uk/mag/psycho/d1768/s7446.html
• http://www.sofeminine.co.uk/mag/psycho/d1768/s7446.html
• http://juvarya8.hubpages.com/question/131922/did-i-ruin-the-relationship-by-being-too-demanding
• http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/09/8236833-what-are-the-signs-of-a-demanding-relationship-should-a-man-call-it-quits-if-the-relationship-gets-too-demanding

Relationships:
Love or friendship: http://www.sofeminine.co.uk/guide/relationships/f12323-love-or-friendship.html

Terrorism

I read this article on Kasab y'day. I have written about terrorism earlier. 

Indian E-Commerce Portals And Teenagers

Here is a list of Indian e-commerce portals and their taglines. I watched the Quikrr ad and wanted to know who the person was who wanted to sell his flat at Amboli. He looked like a Bengali.

As per a survey Indian teenagers spend 86% of their time on Facebook and 54% of their time on Twitter. Wonder how to interpret these numbers and what the maths is supposed to be.

Six Days And Seven KANKs

Here is the link for the movie six days and seven nights.

OMG: Oh My God

OMG is a lovely movie. You can watch it here. (If the link doesn't work, don't blame me. It may be an act of God).

Paresh is very nice as usual.

Lagniappe: SRK with Yash Chopra

Right Fit

This is an article on predicting right fit. Hmmm, interesting.

Hewlett Packard Duped

Interesting article. About 8B dollars to be written down by HP.

Bridges Of Beach County

I read this interesting anecdote about Napier bridge (Mrs Napier) who eloped with Elliot beach (Mr Elliot). 

Visa On Arrival

Here is the list of countries offering visa on arrival for Indians.

Another list of countries which give visa on arrival to Indians: http://in.finance.yahoo.com/photos/countries-that-offer-visa-on-arrival-to-indians-1353038963-slideshow/countries-that-offer-visa-on-arrival-to-indians-photo-123345294.html

Ek (Nahi) Tha Tiger

Article about About Thackeray.

Wait Until Blind

Aint that nice... http://tradeinniftyonly.blogspot.in/2012/11/the-gift-of-love-brings-light-into-our.html?m=1

Train To Pakistan

This is a movie I want to see. By Khushwant Singh.

Protecting Online Assets

Very nice article on protecting online password etc.

Chennai Has Cold Weather

Chennai had cold weather: http://m.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/nippy-weather-prevails-chennai-looks-for-warmth/article4102732.ece/ Look at the picture in the link.

Ancient Vs Modern

Very nice article on ancient vs modern India.

Waterfalls, Airport

List of waterfalls in India.

Abudhabi's new airport.

Beijing's new airport. In slide 4, it talks about 120million passengers a year. Assuming an average of 200 passengers per flight, that's about 600,000 flights in a year. about 1643 flights in a day, about 68 flights in an hour, more than one flight a minute. Wowowow.

What will be the bottleneck? The infrastructure outside the airport: parking, roads etc? Or that inside, being able to handle 68 flight loads each hour? Or the aircraft bay boarding / alighting, runways?

Women Travel

This is a useful portal for women planning to travel alone or with kids.

Husband Store

This link shows the difference in the shopping behavior of men and women.

Sony Bravia Advertisement

Here is the boy who took the moon. The way the boy runs once he enters the house and the video switches from black and white to color is very nice. Equally nice is the action of the girl (in blue sari) at the 55th second. See the movement of her hands. See this also: http://www.bestmediainfo.com/2012/11/for-sony-its-all-about-being-brighter-and-having-a-big-zoom/

Space Problem

How much space needed? http://m.thefrisky.com/pl/2010-06-04/how-much-space-can-you-really-give-a-man/

One sided relationships:
http://www.torontosnumber1datedoctor.com/NEWSLETTER%20ARTICLES/one_sided_relationships.html

Babies Dislike Their Siblings And Other Interesting Articles

Babies dislike their siblings as per this article.

Articles of interest:

IIM outsources training to its alumni: http://m.timesofindia.com/home/education/news/IIM-A-outsources-foreign-student-training-to-alumni/articleshow/17176009.cms

We love our parents and country: http://m.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/parents-or-the-pot-of-gold/article4085771.ece/

Pakistan's Malala, plan for education of girls: http://m.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/pakistan-launches-education-plan-for-children-with-focus-on-girls/article4086668.ece/

Rape case against Bhandarkar dropped: http://in.movies.yahoo.com/news/rape-charges-against-madhur-bhandarkar-dropped.html. "In her statement, Preeti had then said, "We had sex 16 times and Madhur made promises of giving me a lead role in his films. However, he didn`t offer me a lead role in any of his movies. At times when I refused, he raped me."" Oh boy...

David Petraeus, Career killed: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/david-petraeus-and-other-political-sex-scandals-what-does-it-take-to-kill-a-career/2012/11/09/b7c8e17a-2ab5-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_blog.html

Chocolate

List of  the biggest chocolate companies. There is a Turkish and a Japanese company.

List of IT Companies.

Tree Mother

This is on the tree mother.

High Alcohol Drinkers

Here is the list of high alcohol consuming countries. Almost all countries in Eastern Europe find a place here. Bulgaria seems left out.

And there is Andorra in the list. Wonder WHERE that is in Europe. A ha, it's inside Spain.

Oh Calcutta

Stuff to do in Calcutta: http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/india-secrets-west-bengal-174533840.html

Fraud: Reserve Bank Of India

I received a mail today at 10:10AM apparently from RBI. When I clicked on the link below it took me to a site where I was to begin the verification process. 

I wonder why the first line in the mail is in Greek.

Now I traced the mail, it is a mail from Spain:

IP: 82.98.160.91

Hostname: hl28.dinaserver.com

The mail to me went like this:

**************************************** Beginning of Message ****************************************************

All Indian Banks Customers Online News Update

Reserve Bank Of India no-reply@rbi.org.in	10:10 AM (14 minutes ago)
to me

Dear Indian Bank Customer,

Reserve Bank Of India, has lunched a new online security protection, for all banks in India, to reduce fraud and theft in various banking system.

This is to enable all customer's online banking in all Indian Banks to get protectedand Secured.

Reserve Bank Of India, has introduced a new online protection, called,"Netsecured".

It's mandatory that all online banking customers in all various banks in India, must update with us to get his/her online bank account secured and protected.

Kindly follow the Official update website link below and select your bank to get your Account Secured and Updated. 

Click on our official website below to get started. 


http://www.rbi.org.in/accountupdate  (the link does not work)

Thank you for banking with India.
Reserve Bank Of India
Security Team.

www.rbi.org.in

****************************************End of Message *******************************************************************

I would recommend that you don't click anything here. Have the scamsters of Nigeria and Ghana moved north to Spain?

Design For Simplicity

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121106224406-10842349-the-uk-government-shows-how-to-design-for-simplicity.

Have we ever thought this way? Starting from the user's needs and not from the seller / provider's needs? 

Batterers And Abuse

A friend sent me this interesting article on family violence.

Are Black Men More Entrepreneurial?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/04/greed-trumps-race-how-to-be-a-successful-african-american-in-silicon-valley/

Oh Boy, Won't Rape Ever Stop

Another ugly rape story.

Sringeri, Agumbe, Sharda Mutt

Agumbe (near Sringeri): http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/travelgalleries/#1 and http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/photos/agumbe-crown-jewel-of-the-western-ghats-slideshow/

Monsoon: http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/travelgalleries/#2

More Details On Bus From POK To UK

I had earlier written about a bus service from Mirpur (POK) to Birmingham. 

Here is some more info about the same subject from Sep 2012.

Additional reading:
On Kasab suffering dengue from a Pak newspaper: http://tribune.com.pk/story/461030/ajmal-kasab-does-not-have-dengue-report/

You Who Shirk Jihad

You Who Shirk Jihad: A letter

Dieting

Why our weight doesn't reduce despite dieting: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/diet/5-Reasons-why-your-weight-stays-put/articleshow/12002939.cms

About cholestrol: 

http://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/making-sense-of-cholesterol-tests

Updated on 13-Nov-2012:
Avoiding diabetes: http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/photos/natural-remedies-for-diabetes-slideshow/natural-remedies-for-diabetes-photo--299627000.html

About Papaya: http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/benefits-papaya-110737329.html

Updated on 26-Nov-2012:
Avoiding cancer: http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/photos/5-ways-top-doctors-prevent-cancer-slideshow/prevent-cancer-photo-384226094.html

Himachal And Kashmir

This is a nice blog with lovely pictures from Kashmir and Himachal.

Top Miss India

List of top Miss India. My vote goes to this actress who features in this song "Yeh Khaamoshiyaan Yeh Tanhaaiyaan" from the movie Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke (1963, MD: Ravi).

It's Not Cricket, It's Racketball

I had written earlier about rescuing not being cricket.

Rescued persons keep coming back. Stockholm syndrome, huh? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/F1-gone-foreign-prostitutes-stay-on/articleshow/17054725.cms.

Nilam In Chennai

Yesterday I went to the beach at 3:30pm. Cyclone Nilam was supposed to hit the coast between 4 and 6 pm.

Quite a lot of trees fallen on the ground. The waves were rough at Besant Nagar. But I hadn't heard of the ship which had gone aground, I read about it later. I didn't see it either.

See the waves and how windy it was.