Carnival this year @ Kalpakkam

The face of terror all over the world has changed my place.First let me tell you every year my place will be in a festive mood around this time of year.Usually a trade fair will be organised from 10th to 15th of August every year to provide some recreation and entertainment for the people of the “atomic” township.

The usual Carnival::
Gathering of almost entire township for fun,food,entertainment and a rest for usual routine for a week long. Till my school days, it used to be a place to have fun by going to fun rides, playing thambola,eating out.From then on it has been a place to unite all of us,used to be an informal reunion of batchmates,seniors, meeting school teachers.Everyone would wait for carnival and people travel from where ever they are to meet thier friends and have fun.

This year::
It started on 10th, since on the first day nothing would have been started,i dint go.Next day i went with one of my friend,it was still deserted as people from outstation come only on weekends.I met Tamilvendan Sir fortunately.He was one among few who inspired me and instilled the urge to learn computer science.Nothing else special other than that.Food was crappy and costly,nothing much interesting but for a huge book stall.I decided to sit at home(lazy buddy :D) on saturday.On sunday I was not feeling that well so decided could go on monday and met Niranj almost after 7 years and had couple of hrs chat with him.

Back to terror and security::
Well the world have seen lot of incidents of terror in the past few months including Mumbai blasts,West Asia crisis and the terror plot spoiled at UK.For few weeks there have been news that India’s “statergic” interests will be on high alert.After the US warning abt terror plots on nuclear installations things were too tight.On 14th morning i could see some hundereds of policemen have arrived at my place.I thought just for local security and security for plant.

That morning on my way to college i saw all roads leading to plant(even village roads where there is just a path) being blocked and checkposts have been erected.On the afternoon i got a message saying curfew is gonna be imposed. I came home around 5. my parents too voiced similar news.unfortunately our cable walah was doing some repair,so no TV too.. couldnt confirm with anyone.But we could see that carnival was going on without any problems,But none of them were interested to have fun when such a situation prevailed.Only today morning i came to know that curfew was only for surrounding villages and not for township.And yesterday Dataone too went off across the city (& state i guess). Imagine no TV no internet, undeclared curfew.between 14th August 6pm - 15th August 6am. People have just started to come out of thier homes,Hope i goto carnival and enjoy atleast today and meet my friends.

By the by HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!! JAI HIND
Terrorism cant override human kind anyday.

India Blocking Blogspot

India going towards China ????

I sign into my msgr, got a offline sayin “Indian govt bans blogspot inside India” WTF was my reaction.This is against the fundamental freedom of expression.How can they do it.. I was puzzled but wasnt worried coz my wordpress worked On googling i got this link which apparently said govt asked to remove some 20 sites/blogs. But almost all ISPs across India have decided to ban entire ” *.blogspot.com ” inside India.

For someone looking for loopholes, u can always use netvibes,my yahoo or other online feed aggregators. If u still want to browse www.pkblogs.com is a better option.It was started by pakistanis as pakistan banned blogspot since march 2006.India joins the elite group of China,Iran,Pakistan in doing this ******* act..Being a democratic country this is pure shit.Right to speech and expression is out of netizens.Thank god wordpress escaped from hit list of blogger,typepad,blogs,geocities.

The reason is silly.

Sources in the government said that a circular was issued by the Home Affairs Ministry three days back asking the Ministry of Information and Technology to block the 12 websites which posted content maligning India.

Officials defended the decision saying, “We would like those people to come forward who access these (the 12) radical websites and please explain to us what are they missing from their lives in the absence of these sites Source:Hindustan times

They forget india is a democratic country and millions are being deprived of freedom of expression since they found some 12 were against the nations interest..Silly..

It might be brought to notice that google earth was in for a ride few months back. But they couldn’t eventually do anything till date. I can view certain places of India’s “strategic” interest clearly sitting in front of PC, so can any t*****t and plan a attack.They leave out big issues, make fuss out of these small ones. Sadly even mumbaihelp.blogspot.com the one about which i told in my last post is also on the receiving end.

With tTechnology no one can stop people, that too in computers.New proxy servers are on the rise since yesterday.
Some proxy servers are
h**p://pkblogs.com/
h**p://www.ninjaproxy.com/
h**p://hidemyass.com/
h**p://www.inblogs.net/

I hope this ban is temporary.. anyway I’m hearing certain isp are allowing access to blogspot now..I just heard the Chief of ISP Association of India saying sub-domains can be blocked so that a large domains like blogspot isn’t blocked.. anyway have to wait and watch.

In the mean time i suggest people to move to wordpress, yet another reason to move to wordpress. Best to have your own site at 5gigs.com and install wp or other blogging API and post the blog there..

The previous restriction on Internet by govt was banning yahoo msn user chat rooms stating child p0rnography.It was acceptable to an extent.But blocking blogs are too much.

By the by My Mournings to those hundreds of people died in Java coz of Tsunami, i was tense for few moments when they gave warning for andaman, Tsunami Plz don’t come again..

Mumbai Blasts & its “SPIRIT”

It was indeed sad to hear about the serial blasts,inwhich over 180 people have lost thier lives.Mumbai’s metro is one of the greatest rail networks which connects people across different parts of the city & its suburbs.Very sad that so many innocent were the victim of terrorism. Television media has been largely helping people through thier messaging services,information bulletins etc. But lot of crap like Mumbaikars Spirit are shown..

Few examples are

1. People giving water to needy

2. People giving lifts to fellow humans.

3. Students shown playing football  saying that they have the spirit..

Mumbai i would consider not a place to be in when they say giving water,lifts which are basic humantarian are considered as a “SPIRIT”. It shows it lacks the same on an ordinary day.The same “effect” was shown for the floods also.Dint floods occur in other cities in India,then y the fuss abt mumbai alone.So its kind of evident that mumbai isnt that humanitarian in general..(I dont mean any offense or to create any hard feelings for mumbaikars)

Any way here is a nice website for those who look on information about the incident.It contains all contact info,lists of ppl died,injured etc. Hats off to those who made it..

http://mumbaihelp.blogspot.com/

May the souls(Also the ones who lost/losing lives on J&K daily) departed due to terrorism rest in peace and peace return to India