Yadagiri

Welcome to 30th district of Karnataka, Yadagiri.

Yadagiri has been formed bifurcating Gulbarga, the biggest district of Karnataka. It will have only three taluks Yadgir, Surapur, and Shahapur.

Greetings

HAPPY SRIRAMA NAVAMI

World Cup Hockey 2010 (New Delhi) Final standings:

1. Australia
2. Germany
3. Netherlands
4. England
5. Spain
6. South Korea
7. Argentina
8. India
9. New Zealand
10. South Africa
11. Canada
12. Pakistan
    

Saina, What a great day!

Saina Nehwal became the first Indian woman to reach the semi-finals of the All England Super Series badminton championship.

But she has lost her semi-final match.

Australia won the World Cup Hockey 2010.

Australia beat Germany 2-1

Australia took the early lead when Eddie Ockenden scored the goal in the 6th minute. There after they dominated the Germans. But a mistake from its player converted a free hit to penalty corner in favor of Germany. Moritz Furstle scored an equalizer in the in the 48th minute for Germany in that penalty corner. In the 58th minute, Luke Doerner scored the second goal for Australia.

Its Germany vs Australia

Germany will meet Australia in the Final of the Hockey World Cup 2010.

In the semi-final matches, Germany defeated England by 4-1 and Australia overpowered Netherlands by 2-1

How to revive Indian Hockey?

Wait for 2-3 years. Few more countries will learn to play hockey better than India.

India will fail to qualify for the major tournaments. And everyone will start remembering the past glories and eventually forget the hockey!

Priorities

 When all Indian politicians are fancying around Women Reservation Bill, the man who introduced it in Lok Sabha, an Ex-PM (1996), is too much busy in protesting against a road project!!

 

 

A miracle?

All four Shankaracharya's in a single TV show!

Now playing Live on Star News...

Was that necessary?

Earlier, Muslim women were not allowed to go out of their house. But the scenario has changed slowly. Today, Muslim women are pursuing higher studies and are working in many jobs which were once dominated by males. This evolution has happened without throwing out Burqa. The struggle for existence has changed the mindset of people world wide with the unforeseen challenges of increased population. But still they is lot of regressive forces which equally keep pulling the rope backwards.

 

One such force of course comes from the "highly educated" section of our society, i.e,. writers and thinkers. They think too much and think only to their level.

 

 

Even today, they are not ready to accept the gradual, steady, slow changes that has happened in our society, whether it is education of a girl child or the issue of untouchables. They simply keep on fishing in the disturbed waters. They should encourage and inspire the people. If they can't do that, at least they should keep quite by not raising the dead issues like Burqua... I have no hopes that they do.

 

Sudheer's Wedding Anniversary.

One year of Sudheer's marriage...

National Science Day

On every 28th February, National Science Day is observed to mark Raman Effect (which C. V. Raman discovered on the same day long back in 1928). 

It is unfortunate that entire nation have no time to bother about this great day. Only few prestigious science institutes arrange some meaningful programs on this day. Once again, the media is very busy with the "Breaking News"

Congrats Sachin.

For the first ever double century in the history of one-day cricket.

New MD of BEL: Mr Anil Kumar

Anil Kumar has taken charge as Director (Other Units) of defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL).

 

He was General Manager of BEL's Chennai's unit before his elevation.

 

Anil Kumar would head eight of the nine Units of BEL located at Ghaziabad, Panchkula, Navi Mumbai, Kotdwara, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Machilipatnam

 

 

ಸೆಸ್ಕ್ ಎಂಡಿ ನಿಧನ

ಮೈಸೂರಿನ ಚಾಮುಂಡೇಶ್ವರಿ ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ನಿಗಮದ (ಸೆಸ್ಕ್) ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥಾಪಕ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕ ಎಂ. ಎನ್. ಸುರೇಶ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ತಮ್ಮ ಮನೆಯ ಮಹಡಿಯಿಂದ ಕೆಳಕ್ಕೆ ಬಿದ್ದು ಮೃತರಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಕೊನೆಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ... ಮುಕ್ತ

The construction of "Underpass"  in Magadi Road and West of Chord Road junction near Vijayanagara Toll gate is completed and will be opened on Feb 25^th. The work was started in May 2006. It took nearly 4 years to complete.

 

 

ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಅಬಕಾರಿ ದಿನ

ಇಂದು ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಅಬಕಾರಿ ದಿನ..

 

ನನಗೇನು ಇದರಿಂದ ಲಾಭ ಇಲ್ಲ ಅನ್ನಿ!

ಮತ್ತೆ ಹಾಡಿತು ಕೋಗಿಲೆ

ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗಷ್ಟೇ ಶಿವರಾತ್ರಿ ಮುಗಿಯಿತು. ಫಾಲ್ಗುಣ ಮಾಸ ಮುಗಿಯಲು ಇನ್ನೂ ಸುಮಾರು ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತು ದಿನಗಳು ಇವೆ.
ಆಗಲೇ ಹೈದರಾಬಾದಿನಲ್ಲಿ ವಸಂತ ಮಾಸದ  ಕಳೆ ತುಂಬಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾ ಇದೆ. ಎರಡು ದಿನಗಳಿಂದ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ ಮಳೆ ಆಗಿದೆ. ಹೋದವಾರ, ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನದ ಹೊತ್ತು ಹೊರಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗೋಕ್ಕೆ ಬೇಜಾರಾಗುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಇವತ್ತು ವಾತಾವರಣ ಆಹ್ಲಾದಕರವಾಗಿದೆ.

ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಯುಗಾದಿ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಮಳೆ ಆಗೋದು ವಾಡಿಕೆ. ಆದರೆ, ಕಳೆದ ಒಂದು ವರ್ಷದಿಂದ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಹಬ್ಬಗಳು ಒಂದೊಂದು ತಿಂಗಳು ಮುಂಚೆನೇ ಬರುತ್ತಾ ಇವೆ. ಚಾಂದ್ರಮಾನ ಪಂಚಾಗದ ಲೆಕ್ಕಾಚಾರಗಳು ಹೀಗೆ ಯಡವಟ್ಟು ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತ ಅನೇಕ ಶತಕಗಳೇ ಉರುಳಿವೆ. ಆದರೂ ಇದರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಗಂಭೀರವಾಗಿ ಯಾರೂ ತಲೆಕೆಡಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿಲ್ಲ. ಹೀಗೆ ಲೆಕ್ಕಾಚಾರ  30 ದಿನ ಆಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಹಾಗೆ, ಒಂದು ಅಧಿಕ ಮಾಸ ತೂರಿಸಿ ಕೈ ತೊಳೆದು ಕೊಂಡುಬಿಡ್ತಾರೆ.

ಬೇಸಿಗೆಗೆ ಬರುತ್ತಿದ್ದ ಯುಗಾದಿ ಒಂದು ತಿಂಗಳು ಮುಂಚೆನೇ ಬರುತ್ತಾ ಇದೆ. ಆದರೂ, ಗಿಡ-ಮರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಚಿಗುರು ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿದೆ. ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಚಳಿ ಕಡಿಮೆ ಆಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ನಾನು ಬೇಗ ಏಳಲು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ಎದ್ದು "Walk-ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ" ! ಹೊಸ ಯುಗಾದಿ ಬಂದರೂ, ಬೇಂದ್ರೆಯವರ ಹಳೇ ಪದ್ಯದ ಪಾದವೇ ಗತಿ!  ಹೋದ ವಾರ, ಯಾಕೋ ವಿಷ್ಣುವರ್ಧನ್ ಹಾಡು ನೆನಪಾಯಿತು.

"ನವ ವಸಂತದ ಗಾಳಿ ಬೀಸಲು, ಮಾವು ಚಿಗುರಿತು ಆಗಲೇ,
ಮೌನ ಮರೆಯುತ, ಮಧುರ ಗೀತೆಯ ಮತ್ತೆ ಹಾಡಿತು ಕೋಗಿಲೆ"

ಮತ್ತೆ ಹಾಡಿತು ಸಿನಿಮಾ ನೋಡಿ ಸುಮಾರು 15 ವರ್ಷಗಳೇ ಕಳೆದಿವೆ. ಈ ಹಾಡಿಗೆ ಅಭಿನಯಿಸಿದ  ಬೇಬಿ ಶ್ಯಾಮಿಲಿ ಈಗ ಹೀರೋಯಿನ್ನು. ವಿಷ್ಣುವರ್ಧನ್ ಇಹಲೋಕವನ್ನು ತ್ಯಜಿಸಿಯಾಗಿದೆ. 

ಕಾಲಚಕ್ರ ಎಷ್ಟು ಬೇಗ ತಿರುಗುತ್ತಲ್ವಾ ಅಂತ ಅನಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ.

 

ನಾನಂತೂ ಕೋಗಿಲೆ ಧ್ವನಿ ಕೇಳಲು ಕಾತರಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ

ನಾನೇಕೆ ದಪ್ಪ?

ನಾನೇಕೆ ದಪ್ಪ ?

 

ಯಾಕೆಂದರೆ, ನನಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡದ 'ವಾಕ್-ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ' ಇದೆಯೇ ಹೊರತು ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷಿನ 'Walk-ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ'ವಿಲ್ಲ!

 

ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಮಹಾಶಿವರಾತ್ರಿ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು

The Karnataka government has transported over 50000 liter of 'Ganga jal' from Hrishikesh to distribute among devout as 'theertha' in select temples across the state.

When the state is getting ready for another summer which will cause scarcity of water, the idiots in Vidhana Soudha are wasting the resources on such gimmicks.

Only Lord Shiva has to rescue us!

 

 

 

Ghantasala

Today is the death anniversary of Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao popularly known as Ghantasala.

 

 

Magnus Carlsen won the Corus Chess Tournament-2010

The 72nd Corus Chess Tournament 2010 was held from 15 - 31 January in Wijk aan Zee.
Magnus Carlsen is the winner in Group A while the Group B winner, Anish Giri will play in Group A, next year and Group C Winner, Li Chao will play in Group B, next year.

 

Here  is the final Standings.

 

Group A  Standings				Group B  Standings				Group C  Standings
1	Magnus Carlsen	(Nor, 8.5)	2810	1	Anish Giri	(Ned, 9.0)	2588	1	Li Chao	(Chn, 10.0)	2604
2	Vladimir Kramnik	(Rus, 8.0)	2788	2	Arkadij Naiditsch	(Ger, 8.5)	2687	2	Abhijeet Gupta	(Ind, 8.5)	2577
3	Alexei Shirov	(Esp, 8.0)	2723	3	Ni Hua	(Chn, 8.0)	2657	3	Robin van Kampen	(Ned, 8.0)	2456
4	Viswanthan Anand	(Ind, 7.5)	2790	4	Erwin l'Ami	(Ned, 7.5)	2615	4	Danielle Vocaturo	(Ita, 8.0)	2495
5	Hikaru Nakamura	(Usa, 7.5)	2708	5	Wesley So	(Phi, 7.5)	2656	5	Ray Robson	(Usa, 7.5)	2570
6	Sergey Karjakin	(Rus, 7.0)	2720	6	P Harikrishna	(Ind, 6.5)	2672	6	Robin Swinkels	(Ned, 7.5)	2495
7	Vassily Ivanchuk	(Ukr, 7.0)	2749	7	Parimarjan Negi	(Ind, 6.5)	2621	7	Benjamin Bok	(Ned, 7.0)	2322
8	Peter Leko	(Hun, 6.5)	2739	8	David Howell	(Eng, 6.0)	2606	8	Nils Grandelius	(Swe, 6.0)	2515
9	Lienier Dominguez	(Cub, 6.5)	2712	9	Emil Sutovsky	(Isr, 6.0)	2657	9	Stefan Kuipers	(Ned, 6.0)	2340
10	Fabiano Caruana	(Ita, 5.5)	2675	10	Anna Muzychuk	(Slo, 5.5)	2523	10	Mariya Muzychuk	(Ukr, 6.0)	2447
11	Loek van Wely	(Ned, 5.0)	2696	11	Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	(Rom, 5.5)	2681	11	Kjetil  Lie	(Nor, 5.5)	2547
12	Nigel Short	(Eng, 5.0)	2641	12	Dmitri Reinderman	(Ned, 5.0)	2573	12	Zhaoqin Peng	(Ned, 5.0)	2402
13	Sergei Tiviakov	(Ned, 4.5)	2662	13	Tomi Nyback	(Fin, 5.0)	2643	13	Sjoerd Plukkel	(Ned, 3.0)	2279
14	Jan Smeets	(Ned, 4.5)	2657	14	Varuzhan Akobian	(Usa, 4.5)	2628	14	Soumya Swaminathan	(Ind, 3.0)	2323

In Kshetra's House

I have visited Kshetraprasad’s house for the first time. It’s nice to see his parents, in-laws and bhava. I finished dinner at his house. The Huli (Sambar) was very nice. Before that we both ate Akki Rotti at his Akka, Meena’s house.

These days I am very frustrated to eat Andhra style food! And I am really happy to taste the real tasty food J

Anand in action…

Finally Viswanathan Anand won a game (ending a long chain of nine consecutive draws) over Alexei Shirov in the tenth round of the of the Corus chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee.

 

'A' group positions after tenth round:

1.     Vladimir Kramnik (Russia): 7 points

2.     Magnus Carlsen (Norway): 6.5 points

2.     Alexei Shirov (Spain): 6.5 points

3.     Viswanathan Anand (India): 5.5 points

3.     Hikaru Nakamura (US): 5.5 points

3.     Leinier Dominguez (Cuba): 5.5 points

3.     Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine): 5.5 points

3.     Sergey Karjakin (Russia, defending champion): 5.5 points

 

'B' group positions:

1.     Anish Giri (Holland): 7 points.

2.     Erwin l'Ami (Holland):  6.5 points

2.     Ni Hua (China): 6.5 points

 

Parimarjan Negi is joint fifth on 5.5 points

Harikrishna is seventh on 5 points.

 

'C' group positions:

 

Abhijeet Gupta is joint fifth on 5.5 points

 

World junior girls' champion Soumya Swaminathan scored her first victory stands 13th in the 14-players competition.

 

Abhimanyu Mithun

 

Abhimanyu Mithun has been included in the Indian squad for the first Test against South Africa next month.

 

Mithun has emerged as the highest wicket-taker in Ranaji Trophy with 47 wickets.

All the best to Mithun J

 

 

PuPu is now Harshini

My niece PuPu (Putani Putti) has been named as Harshini in the Namakaranam which was held at Sri Subrahmanya Temple in Tarikere. There were many names in the list like Haritha, Harini, Haripriya etc

 

Finally Harshini was selected by my Akka and Bhava. It was a nice gathering of all our relatives and friends.

 

Since I am on strict diet,  I missed the Laddus but not the BajjiJ

 

Gummadi is no more.

Gummadi Venkateshwara Rao, veteran actor of Telugu movies  has died on 26th Jan at Care Hospital, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. He was 82. He acted in nearly 500 movies.

A saga by name “Chindodi Leela”

We have lost 4 eminent personalities of Kannada film industry within a month.

The death of Chindodi Leela is the latest one. I still remember the power of her acting, especially in theatres. I saw her for the first time in Davangere in 1998. She has camped for her play "pOleesana magaLu".  This play has seen 4500 shows and entered Guinness Book of Record.

 

I and Anjan were very enthusiastic to watch her acting. One day, after finishing our dinner at our hostel (Brahma Chaitanya), we got the great idea of watching the "Drama" of Chindodi Leela. We did not think for the second time and simply went to the "Camp" at municipality ground opposite to the railway station.

 

KS Ashwath is no more

It’s very painful to loose someone to whom we were emotionally attached. Ashwath was on of such rare persons who was respected by all.

It’s also very bad to loose Chamayya Meshtru and Ramachari just within 20 days.

All the best to Shammi

Shammi is getting ready to take on Albert-Chicago for its suspicious activities in the SEZ of Devasagara. She is the second girl after Kalyani to raise the voice against that company. Nirmala Kondalli may also play an important role in this issue.

All the best to these girls!

ಸಂಕ್ರಾಂತಿ ಬಂತು... ರತ್ತೋ ರತ್ತೋ...

ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಮಕರ ಸಂಕ್ರಾಂತಿ ಹಬ್ಬದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು

ಎಳ್ಳು-ಬೆಲ್ಲ ತಿಂದು ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ ಮಾತಾಡಿ ಅಂತಹ ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ.

ಮುನ್ನಾ ಭಾಯಿ ಗುಲಾಬಿ ಹೂವು ಕೊಟ್ಟಂತೆ, ಗೌಡರಿಗೆ ಎಳ್ಳು-ಬೆಲ್ಲ ಕೊಟ್ಟರೆ ಹೇಗಿರುತ್ತೆ?

 

 

సంక్రాంతి అంటే

"తత్ర మేషాదిషు ద్వాదశ రాశి క్రమణేషు సంచరతః సూర్యస్య పూర్వస్మాద్రాశే ఉత్తరః రాశౌ సంక్రమణ ప్రవేశః సంక్రాంతిః"

సంక్రాంతి పండుగ వేడుకలు

 

మీ అందరికీ, మీ కుటుంబ సభ్యులకు మకర సంక్రాంతి శుభాకాంక్షలు

What a pity!

When YSR was alive, I have always criticized his arrogance. But now, when he is dead, I am missing him.

All sundry extra players have become big leaders today! and the administration is lacking a leader.

Idiots

 

APSRTC has raised the bus fares from today.

 

One surprise is that they have not done this for many years. The biggest surprise is that they have done it now.

 

City bus transportation in Hyderabad and Chennai is very cheap when compared to that of Bangalore. Though the bus fares are high, Bangalore has more number of city buses when compared to Hyderabad and traveling in the city is not a problem.

 

Even though Hyderabad has less number of city buses, people can take little breath as they have 7 seats shared autos running in many routes.  Since the auto rickshaw drivers in Hyderabad have no 'Meter' culture, it's difficult to commute in Hyderabad for a new comer.

 

The sudden raise of minimum bus fare from Rs 2 to Rs 5 for (Ordinary buses, equivalent to Black Board in Bangalore) and from Rs 4 to Rs 7 (Metro Express buses, equivalent to Red Board in Bangalore) has received sharp reaction from the public.

 

Though the bus fares are higher in Bangalore, the Daily Pass is sold at Rs 30. But the same daily pass (Travel as You Like – TAYL Pass) in Hyderabad will now cost Rs 40. And the TAYL passes are not common for at least two to three different types of services.  Even the bus pass system in Hyderabad is one of the biggest fun for a Bangalorean.

 

I do not understand that what the 'EXPERTS' eat? Why they make some such ridiculous changes?

 

After the RTC, electricity fares will be raised soon.

 

The only question is that why they kept silent for last many years?

 

Answer is very simple…. YSR!

 

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan says "I’m not a prophet, I only know about ribosomes"

Just remember what Amarthya Sen and Arundhati Roy did soon after winning Noble and Booker prize respectively. Both started to give big lectures. One of the common lectures was on communal harmony.

 

"What is the relation between GOKULASHTAMI and Imaam Saabi?" is a very well known saying in Kannada which questions the relation between two irrelative things.  Most of the people are doing the same thing since many years. The latest one being Amir Khan who started batting for changing the education system after the success of his movie.

 

People have understood the hypocrisy of all those 'Celebrities' who think that they can talk about anything under the Sun!

 

Unfortunately, our Father of the Nation, MK Gandhi and Uncle of the Nation (Chacha Nehru) belongs to this category.  In our country, any lecture/writing will be incomplete if it does not refer to the above two messiahs. We have Gandhi's and Nehru's opinions on all possible 'TOPICS' and they are the virtual GODS in this country.

 

I am very happy about Venkatraman. His words make sense.

 

ಈ ಸಾವು ನ್ಯಾಯವೇ?

ನಮ್ಮ ನೋವು-ನಲಿವು, ಕಷ್ಟ-ಸುಖ, ಸೋಲು-ಗೆಲುವು, ಸಿಟ್ಟು-ಸೆಡವು, ಪ್ರೀತಿ-ಪ್ರೇಮ, ಕೋಪ-ತಾಪ, ಅಳು-ನಗು, ಮುನಿಸು, ಕೊರಗು, ಬೆರಗು, ಜಿಗುಪ್ಸೆ, ಹತಾಶೆ, ಉತ್ಸಾಹ ಹೀಗೆ ಅನೇಕ ಭಾವನೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಧ್ವನಿ ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಎರಡು ದಿವ್ಯ ಚೇತನಗಳು ಊರ್ಧ್ವಸ್ತವಾದವು.

ಓಹಿಲೇಶ್ವರ ಚಿತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ವಿಜಯ ನಾರಸಿಂಹ ಅವರು ಬರೆದ ಈ ಹಾಡು ಪದೇ ಪದೇ ಎಲ್ಲರನ್ನು ಕಾಡುತ್ತಿರುತ್ತದೆ.

Archit

Archit, BSP's son is very energetic and dynamic.

New Year Celebrations at Kendriya Vihar

Kendriya Vihar is a big campus of 20 blocks each having 20 flats. All the families celebrate special occassions.