Revant Nandgaonkar

Age limits for drinking in Mumbai

2011-06-03T06:55:00.000-07:00

I would prefer prohibition.

Law is powerful enough to govern nature
(the Plant has never killed or harmed anyone 18+ years of age)
Then why only age limits on man-made poisons (alcohol and tobacco) which kills?
These poisons must be completely banned.

Anyways, India is run by people not papers. They say "contact"

Call me R-E-V-A-N-T

2010-04-02T05:24:00.000-07:00

Revant
Pronunciation:

Ray-Won-Th
(Th as in 7th)

Revant rhymes with 7th

(रेवंत)

Wave of Linux and FOSS

2009-11-28T00:26:00.000-08:00

I love using linux and I love the control it gives me over my desktop.

100% legal.
I can use my computer up to its full capacity. No forced upgrades.
Availability of software from variety of sources.
Ability to do just what i need on my desktop/laptop i.e. 20 sec boot - 3 min email - 5 sec shutdown.
Control over internet usage for leeching more linux distributions ;-)
Stupid people are scared of my computer.

So I feel, Linux/FOSS - as a pure stream from the mountains of free software, should remain pure. Just to scare away stupid people.

But brands of linux/FOSS -- Chrome OS, ubuntu, suse, android, Maemo, etc. make it easy for everyone to use their personal cloud client.

As Time goes by and due to perpetual succession of Mobile/Cloud/Laptop/Desktop Computing, there will be a new breed of people who have evolved into better computer users

With the separation of devices Gaming, Internet, Productivity, Office, Server, Desktop, etc. it has opened a wide market for software.

Stream of free/open source software from the mountains is pure source code, based on this Organizations can create brands and communities

Only brands can be promoted and are active competitors in market. Brands go through QA and cater specific markets. We can't demand from the brand "Mozilla firefox" to act as a CD/DVD mastering software. We can't demand from the brand "Ubuntu desktop" to act as a Smartphone OS

But interested developers can use XULRunner to create a software to master CDROM. and Linux kernel can be modified for smartphones.

But to promote this new development they will have to create new brands separating them from FOSS in mind of layman

Branded smartphone OSs :

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/21/canalys_iphone_outsold_all_windows_mobile_phones_in_q2_2009.html

Global Smartphone market by Operating system.

OS	Market	Source Model
Symbian	50.3%	Moving to Open source
RIM Blackberry	20.9%	Closed source
Apple iPhone	13.7%	Closed (with open components)
MS Windows Mobile	9.0%	Closed
Google Android	2.8%	Free and open source software
Other (Palm, Linux)	3.3%	Closed source for Palm

Promising technologies and brands are already moving their source model to Open source

On one hand I stick to the brand that Canonical has created -- Ubuntu. On the other hand I extend my ubuntu usage by installing anything from free world.

I don't want free world to be branded. It keeps my computer safe from stupid people

Swine Flu Deaths reach new heights

2009-08-12T23:14:00.000-07:00

People please understand the profits you can hamper if you really make everyone aware of the reality of swine flu

"Pharmaceuticals sales increased by 21% in local currencies or 6.0 billion Swiss francs, strongly outperforming the global market thanks to the key oncology products and also Tamiflu, Bonviva/Boniva and Lucentis. Pharmaceuticals sales now account for 79% of Group sales."
-Roche Annual Report 2006: Finance – 2006 in brief (http://www.roche.com/fb06e.pdf)

Just like the sponsored and hyped event carried out by media on 26th Nov 2008 in Mumbai. Let the media, hype this too.

The following people profit from the hype,

TV Channels
Newspapers
Magazines
Pharma Cos
Doctors
Hospitals
Government Agencies
Co-operatives
NGOs
Some intelligent individuals :-)

Please let them profit, you can also join them for a share.

Just like pharma cos profited from the sale of 'hepatitis vaccine' and NGOs unnecessarily injecting it to masses as a measure to prevent epidemic, Let Tamiflu Take over now

India is a big chawl! and we need Media to hype the 'Nalavar chi Bhandana' (Quarrels for using Water Taps) and 'Samel kakanchi sardi' (Samel Uncle's flu)

After a week, media will apologize and we will forgive. Anyways we always have a Short term MediaMemory Loss

See you after a short break!

Monkey making machine

2009-07-12T07:36:00.000-07:00

Why I want to study further?
I want to know more about management. I want to know about how people think. I want to know about business administration and planning, entrepreneurship, project management, Six Sigma, startups and other things that fascinates my mind. I want to start a business.

What will I get when I enter a college?
I'll get placements as advertised, uniform thinking needed by a machine like employee, meeting deadlines set by immediate superior, mental pressure to sustain in corporate ladder. I'll be trained to be perfect employee!

Are colleges really institutions where we learn? or are they just the monkey making machines acting as employment exchanges? We need a change of thought. We are humans not resource just as other organizational resources. We are unique. Yes, everyone of us is unique in their own way. Just like paintings or sculpture. No artist can copy each other.

I am lost and ruined because of studying in an employment exchange. I'm not a monkey made by the machine. If these people want to call me human because they helped me evolve, I wont call myself human! I'll be happy without education which creates labour market or human resource. I want the education which will enlighten me.

Management Quiz: Vigour 2008-09

2009-02-06T23:29:00.000-08:00

College Name: Vidyalankar School of Information Technology
Project Name: Management Quiz - Vigour 2008-09
Date of Project: 22nd January 2009 and 23rd January 2009
Project Location: Vidyalankar Campus, Wadala, Mumbai
Cost of Project: N. A. for individual section of festival
Participants: 15 participants, 40 spectators
Volunteers: Revant Nandgaonkar, Kaushik Yeole, Sumit Mohadikar, Shyamli Gunjan,
Description of Events: Eliminations were conducted on 22nd January and all the 5 participating teams entered into the Final Rounds,
4 Final rounds were conducted on 23rd January eliminating each team in each round and last team standing was declared as winner.

From inhibitions to exhibitions

2008-08-10T00:29:00.000-07:00

B.M.S, course from Mumbai University demands enthusiasm from students. I am such student. I have term work for all subject and it needs certain human skills to complete it on time. First I need to interact with the world to gather data, I interact with my group to compile data and make it presentable. Finally, I come on stage and present.

It is not easy as it seems. Most of the time I got rejected by the people I approached for gathering information. Incomplete data, further adds to complete lack of confidence. I planned 15 minutes of presentation, on stage it becomes 5 minutes and voice starts breaking. I can see the class least interested in what's going on presentation slides. The presentation is over. Then I climb down from the stage to join the class in not listening to 10 other presentations.

Worst things to come, I can forget lines, I can forget topics and I can even get blank on stage. To add up this, public will throw stones in form of questions. This is a situation for a semester, then we learn to get it done, and I mean we barely get the presentation done. Why? I think this is because of lack of these skills.

This is where training comes in. There are many options for me to be trained for human skills. I can find a training program and pay for it, I can find a mentor, I can ask professors and lecturers, but in the end I lack direction due to endless information and sermons. If I pay a chunk for being trained I get the unfair advantage over students who can't afford. Heck! who cares about that in unfair world? And after all, these options are not available for every student.

College understood the problem and Dale Carnegie Training for students was arranged. This program raised the competition bar by raising the initiative amongst the students. Dale Carnegie Trainers have their own way to motivate students to take part in the program. Now, every student is polished in human skills. What is the magic they do? Memory techniques, conversation and human interaction skills, presentation and public speaking skills, stress management, goal setting and time management.

Students now participate in delivering seminars, arranging events, group debates and discussions. Everyday there is new challenge to be accepted instead of just barely getting things done.

For further information about Vidyalankar visit vsit.edu.in and visit www.dalecarnegieindia.com for information about Dale Carnegie Training, India.

Karma and Janma: My thoughts

2008-07-31T00:36:00.000-07:00

Imagine...

What if I cease to exist this moment? What will really happen? While I am alive, I stop my breath, I can't keep holding it for more than a minute and I need to breath. What if it stops now? I'll hallucinate, I'll be unconsciousness and my mind will start dreaming. If it's a sweet dream, I want to sleep forever. If it is a nightmare, I want to wake up to react. I will have to wake up whenever I get scared, I will have to wake up to fight back or react to the nightmare. BUT I CAN'T! because I'll have no body if I die.

My search for existence will begins. I want to live to fight my nightmare. I want to exist just like a bee. No! Like a fearless tiger? Or bear! Or a bull? Some life I want to exist. I want to be here in a body to find peaceful dream.

perhaps I am dreaming and I am alive just to satisfy that forgotten dream?

I can imagine the following after assuming my body and my mind are two separate entities:
The only thing which makes me (my body) perform karma and face the consequences is my mind's desires. The only thing I can remember after my birth is that i have had mind since then. The only thing I can imagine after me i.e after my death is something imprinted in some level of mind. That time I won't call it my mind. Mind is the only level I can reach up to now.

I don't know why my mind wants to perform karma? It might be due to my previous karma or some other reason but that reason, I cannot satisfy to stop my mind from demanding more.

Whatever done by an individual is due to his desires. These deeds have a place in his mind and his mind has a place in the universe. This is because mind is like a drop of water, after the body is discarded this drop unites with the sea - Mind of the universe. Thus the karma is a written log in this universe created by mind and its desires.

State of mind is closely related in creating karma. The mind desires to be in a body to enjoy worldly pleasures. If actions are free from the influence of mind, it does not create karma and there is no desire to be born or enjoy the pleasures.

Death is a state for mind and a end for body. If state of mind is without reason you are free from the karma cycle.

That was just my imagination. Karma might be false. Janma might be false. But I am alive because of my birth and I'm doing actions desired by my mind.

This is my foolishness!
Thanks for your interest :-)

A Commet on my college

2008-07-26T10:45:00.000-07:00

My college "Vidyalankar School of Information Technology" has posted my comment on it's website under the "Students speak" section. You can visit it here.

I've also written a feedback/log for VSIT (Vidyalankar School of Information Technology) about Dale Carnegie Training which I got privilege to attended because of my college. This feedback was about "Dale Carnegie Training" and how helpful it was for me.

I thank my college for arranging such workshop.

Mozilla Weave 0.2 on Ubuntu 8.04

2008-07-05T11:35:00.000-07:00

Follow the steps to install Mozilla Weave 0.2 on Ubuntu 8.04

Uninstall Weave from Firefox. Close Firefox.
Install working builds of libnss3 and libnspr:

Command-line

sudo apt-get install libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev

Graphical User interface

System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
Search and select libnss3-dev and libnspr4-dev and Apply all changes.
Install Mozilla's version of Firefox.

Get the tar.bz2 from here.

Open the .bz2 file, and you will see that it contains a 'firefox' folder. Double-click the firefox folder, and you will see the folders inside that. Press Ctrl-A to select all, then click extract and browse to "/usr/lib/firefox-3.0". Make sure you are extracting 'selected files' and not 'all files', then press extract. You are basically overwriting Ubuntu's version of Firefox with Mozilla's.
Open Firefox, and install Weave 0.2. Restart Firefox.

Follow the wizard and create a new account or login with your user name. You should be able to login now.

Its all with me

2008-04-13T11:28:00.000-07:00

Food is with me,
The mind to give food is with me
Cleanliness is with me,
Enthusiasm is with me,
Capacity to protect is with me,
Capacity to earn food is with me,
Strength to chant manthras with out fault is with me,
Fame is with me
Strength to recite properly is with me,
Enlightenment inside is with me,
Heaven is with me,
The spirit of the soul is with me,
Aapana is with me,
Vyaana is with me,
The soul is with me,
Thought is with me,
Things known by thought are with me,
Words are with me,
Mind is with me,
Eyes are with me,
Ears are with me,
Strength of organs for gaining knowledge are with me
Strength of sensory organs are with me,
Strength of soul is with me,
Strength to defeat enemies is with me,
Span of life is with me,
The old age is with me,
The soul inside is with me,
Good body is with me,
Pleasure is with me,
The Armour to protect the body is with me,
Strong stable organs are with me,
Bones are with me,
Joints are with me,
Fame is with me,
Capacity to head is with me,
Internal anger is with me,
External anger is with me,
Fathomless mid is with me,
Pure cold water is with me,
Capacity to win is with me,
Capacity to be honoured is with me,
Immovable assets are with me,
Sons and grand sons are with me,
Deathless progeny is with me,
Pleasure of wealth is with me,
Growth of knowledge is with me,
Truth is with me,
Attention to detail is with me,
Assets are with me,
Wealth is with me,
Capacity to attract is with me,
Luster of the body is with me,
Sports is with me,
Happiness coming out of that is with me,
Whatever has been made is with me,
Whatever is being made is with me,
Praise of gods is with me,
Good deeds are with me,
Saved money is with me,
Whatever money I will earn is with me,
Earned assets are with me,
Assets, which I am going to earn, are with me,
Places, which I can easily reach, are with me,
Good paths are with me,
Good results of sacrifices done are with me,
Good results, which I am going to earn, are with me,
Assets earned by proper ways are with me,
Good capacity to carry our things is with me,
Capacity to foresee is with me,
And stability to manage is with me,
Pleasures of this world are with me,
Pleasures of other world are with me,
Liking is with me,
The desire due to that is with me,
The result of the desire is with me,
Relatives sweet to the mind are with me,
Security is with me,
Great fame is with me,
Good habitats are with me,
All good luck is with me,
All wealth is with me,
Teacher showing the way is with me,
One who carries me like father is with me,
Protection of assets is with me,
Courage is with me,
Good to all are with me,
Reward is with me,
Knowledge of Vedas and science is with me,
Capacity to teach is with me,
Capacity to order is with me,
Capacity to get work done is with me,
Wealth of cattle is with me,
Destruction of blocks in my path are with me,
Fire sacrifices and other good deeds are with me,
The good result of such action is with me,
Freedom from tuberculosis is with me,
Freedom from small fevers are with me,
The medicine for life without sickness is with me,
Long life is with me,
The state of all people being my friends is with me,
Absence of fear is with me,
Good conduct is with me,
Good sleep is with me,
Good mornings are with me,
Good days are with me,
Food is with me,
Good words are with me,
Milk is with me,
The essence of milk is with me,
Ghee is with me,
Honey is with me,
Taking food together with relatives is with me,
Drinking together is with me,
Agriculture is with me,
Rain is with me,
Land which gives victory is with me,
Production out of plants and trees are with me,
Gold is with me,
Gems are with me,
Greatness that wealth brings is with me,
Health is with me,
Wealthy harvest is with me,
Fame that the harvest brings is with me,
Many good things that harvests brings are with me,
Further and further growth is with me,
Completeness is with me,
State above perfection is with me,
Deathless state is with me,
Maize is with me,
Rice food is with me,
Wheat is with me,
Black gram is with me,
Oil seeds are with me,
Green gram is with me,
Other grams are with me,
All types of wheat are with me,
Masoor dhal is with me,
Lentils are with me,
Sorghum is with me,
Millets are with me,
Red rice is with me,
Stones are with me.
Mud is with me,
Hills are with me,
Mountains are with me,
Sand is with me,
All that grows from soil is with me,
Gold is with me,
Steel is with me,
Lead is with me,
Zinc is with me,
Black iron is with me,
Other metals like copper are with me,
Fire is with me,
Water is with me,
Climbing plants are with me,
Medicinal herbs are with me,
All, which is cultivated, is with me,
All produce, which is not cultivated, is with me,
All that is in villages is with me,
All that is in the forest is with me,
All animals are with me,
All material required for fire sacrifice are with me,
All assets inherited by me are with me,
All assets of children and friends are with me,
All my assets are with me,
All movable property is with me,
All immovable property is with me,
All religious duties are with me,
Strength to do duty is with me,
Good results of duty are with me,
Pleasures that can be attained are with me,
Methods to attain such pleasures are with me,
Attainments are with me,
And all these are with me,
Because I worship the O N E.

It's not you, it's your mind!

2008-04-08T10:47:00.000-07:00

The Shiva manasa pooja by Sri Adi Shankaracharya is a unique stotra. It is in the form of a prayer by a devotee who imagines in his mind all the offerings and rituals prescribed in a pooja and offers them to lord Shiva with faith and devotion. This stotra is an eye opener to those who are fanatic about rituals as it clearly shows that faith and intentions are more important!

Ratnaih kalpitamaasanam himajalaih snaanam cha divyaambaram
Naanaaratnavibhuushhitam mrigamadaamodaankitam chandanam.
Jaatiichampakabilvapatrarachitam pushhpam cha dhuupam tathaa
Deepam deva dayaanidhe pashupate hritkalpitam grihyataam.h ..1

Sauvarne navaratnakhandarachite paatre ghritam paayasam
Bhakshyam pajnchavidham payodadhiyutam rambhaaphalam paanakam.
Shaakaanaamayutam jalam ruchikaram karpuurakhandojjvalam
Taambuulam manasaa mayaa virachitam bhaktyaa prabho sviikuru ..2

Chhatram chaamarayoryugam vyajanakam chaadarshakam nirmalam
Veenaabherimridangakaahalakalaa giitam cha nrityam tathaa .
Saashhtaangam pranatih stutirbahuvidhaa hyetatsamastam mayaa Sankalpena
samarpitam tava vibho puujaam grihaana prabho ..3

Aatmaa tvam girijaa matih sahacharaah praanaah shariiram griham
Poojaa te vishhayopabhogarachanaa nidraa samaadhisthitih .
Sajnchaarah padayoh pradakshinavidhih stotraani sarvaa giro
Yadyatkarma karomi tattadakhilam shambho tavaaraadhanam.h ..4

Karacharana kritam vaakkaayajam karmajam vaa .
Shravananayanajam vaa maanasam vaaparaadham.
Vihitamavihitam vaa sarvametatkshamasva .
Jaya jaya karunaabdhe shriimahaadevashambho ..5

Translated as

I have imagined a throne of precious stones for you, cool water for you to bathe in, divine robes adorned with many jewels, sandalwood paste mixed with musk to anoint your body, jasmine and champaka flowers and bilva leaves, rare incense, and a shining flame. Accept all these which I have imagined in my heart for you, o merciful God.
Sweet rice in a golden bowl inlaid with the nine jewels, the five kinds of food made from milk and curd, bananas, vegetables, sweet water scented with camphor, and betel leaves - I have prepared all these in my mind with devotion. O lord, please accept them.
A canopy, two yak-tail whisks, a fan and a spotless mirror, a viinaa, kettledrums, a mridangA and a great drum, songs and dancing, full prostrations, and many kinds of hymns - all this I offer you in my imagination. O almighty lord, accept this as my worship of you.
You are my self; Paarvatii is my reason. My five praanaas are your attendants, my body is your house, and all the pleasures of my senses are objects to use for your worship. My sleep is your state of samaadhii. Wherever I walk I am walking around you, everything I say is in praise of you, everything I do is in devotion to you, o benevolent lord!
Whatever sins i have committed with my hands, feet, voice, body, actions, ears, eyes, or mind, whether prohibited by the scriptures or not, please forgive them all. Hail! Hail! O ocean of compassion! O great god! O benevolent lord!

Shivoham Shivoham

2008-04-06T11:19:00.000-07:00

Aatmashatakam

Chidananda rupas Shivoham Shivoham
Manobudhhi ahankar Chitta ninaham
Nacha Shotra jive nacha ghrana Netre
Nacha Vyoma Bhoomir na tejo na vayu
Chidananda rupas Shivoham Shivoham -1

Nacha prana sandhno na ve manchtauh
na va saptadhatur na va panchakoshah
na vak panipadau na chopastha payu
chidananda rupas Shivoham Shivoham -2

Na me dwesh ragau na me loobha mohau
mado naiva me naiva matsaryabhvah
na dharmo na chartho na kamo na mokshah
Chidananda rupas Shivoham Shivoham -3

Na punyam na paapam na Saukhyam na dukham
na mantro na tirtho na veda na yagna
aham Bhojanam naiv bhojam na bhokta
Chidananda rupas Shivoham Shivoham -4

na me mrutu Shanka Na me Jatibheda
Pita naiva me naiva mata na Janma
na bhandu na mitra gurur naiva shishya
Chidananda rupas Shivoham Shivoham -5

Aham Nirvikalpo Nirakar rupo
Vibhurvyapa sarvatra sarvendriyani
Sada me samatvam na muktir na bhandha
Chidananda rupas Shivoham Shivoham -6

Translated as

I am eternal blissful Shiva - love and happiness. I am not mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the reflections of inner self(chitta) . I do not have senses, I am beyond that! I am not the ether, nor the earth, nor the fire , nor the wind. I am indeed, eternal blissful Shiva - love and happiness.
Neither can I be termed as praana (energy), nor five types of breathes. Nor the seven essenses, nor the five coverings (Panchakosha) Neither am I the speech, nor am I the hands and the feet, nor the genitals. I am indeed, eternal blissful Shiva - love and happiness.
I have no hatred, nor the affiliation, nor the greed nor the delusion, nor the haughtiness, nor the feeling of envy. I am not the dharma, nor the money nor the kaama nor the moksha. I am indeed, eternal blissful Shiva - love and happiness.
Nor am I the merit, nor the dismerit. I do not commit sins or good deeds. Nor the happiness, nor the sorrow. I do not need mantra, holy places, veda and yagnas (sacrifices). I (the triplet) do not consume anything nor am I consumable, nor I am consumptions I am indeed, eternal blissful Shiva - love and happiness.
I do not have fear of death(I do not have death) and no seperation from my true self, no doubt (about my existence), nor have I the descrimination on the basis of birth . I have no father, no mother, nor did I have a birth. I am not the relative, nor the friend, nor the Guru, nor the desciple. I am indeed, eternal blissful Shiva - love and happiness.
I am all pervasive. I am without any attributes, and without any form. I am always in equilibrium. Nor I have the attachment to the world, nor liberation(Mukti). I do not have wishes for anything because I am everything, everywhere, everytime - always in equilibrium. I am indeed, eternal blissful Shiva - love and happiness.

Hiding archived files in JPEG images

2008-04-01T01:13:00.000-07:00

I write things which i want to preserve, but they are supposed to be secret. Now first thing i can do is store it on my gmail and access it or I can archive it and password protect that archive.

But, what if I don't want people to get curious when they see password protected achieve? I want to store images on my cell phone which can be extracted just like any rar, zip, 7Z, etc.

What we need is:

JPEG Image file which you want the archive to be stored into
some (un)archiver to create archive to be stored

If you are using Windows/DOS, use the following procedure.


c:\> copy /b File1.jpeg+File2.rar ArchiveFile.jpeg

If you are using GNU/Linux, use the following procedure.


$ cat File1.jpeg File2.rar > ArchiveFile.jpeg

The above code will attach "File2.rar" at the end of "File1.jpeg" and create a new file named "ArchiveFile.jpeg", this ArchiveFile.jpeg will open everywhere as a JPEG file but it will have File2.rar with it. You can rename this ArchiveFile.jpeg to ArchiveFile.rar and extract is just as a RAR Archive.

Have fun hiding your files!

VSIT BMS Semester II Question Bank

2008-03-14T00:27:00.000-07:00

Students of VSIT BMS Semester - II appearing for exams on 17th March 2008 can download the question bank from here. The question bank covers all the topics taught in this semester.

Do not bother me if you keep term or keep year because of this question bank. If you feel there are extra questions in this question bank please clear your doubts with someone else, but not me! (I believe there is nothing extra)

Best of Luck!

Download Question Bank (Acrobat Reader Necessary)

Rotaract Club of Dadar

2008-03-11T22:22:00.000-07:00

Rotaract Club of Dadar Got chartered in presence of DRR Rtr. Himanshu Kapadia, Rotaractors from Rotaract Club of Mumbai Shivaji Park, Rotarians from Rotary Club of Mumbai Shivaji Park.

I've launched a blog/web for Rotaract Club of Dadar. Our new club also organized a Cricket Tournament on 2^nd March 2008 called "Rotaract Club of Dadar - Cricket Cup March 2008". The organizational plan will be put up on that same web/blog later.

Stay Connected!

Shree Ganesh Rotary Medico Health Camp

2007-09-30T21:25:00.000-07:00

Rotary Udyan Ganesh Health Camp

Free Medical Health Camp held by rotary and managed by O N E

Results Out!

2007-06-07T23:07:00.000-07:00

Subject	Revant Nandgaonkar	Riddhimaan Nandgaonkar
English	054/100	070/100
Hindi	043/100	041/100
Economics	071/100	075/100
Book Keeping & Accountancy	070/100	094/100
Organisation of Commerce	061/100	062/100
Secretarial Practice	069/100	064/100
Total	(61.33%) 368	(67.7%) 406

Mumbaiyya and Mumbaikar

2007-06-02T10:33:00.000-07:00

I love Mumbai and also the most commonly used language here. I proudly speak Mumbaiyya! Because I can only speak in Marathi, English and Mumbaiyya.

Mumbaikar, The person who stays in Mumbai is called Mumbaikar. This name generated when Bombay was renamed Mumbai, the Bombayites became Mumbaikars instead of Mumbaites. It is a complete Swadeshi transformation of the name. Many of the Marathi surnames end in 'Kar' showing originating place of the person, the same theory was applied here.

Typical Mumbaikar is very easy going person who mixes up with crowd and interacts with others in local slang of Hindi (Mumbaiyya), This interaction is normally seen in public transport and street.

The personality of Mumbaikar is mistaken with rudeness (Reader's Digest Survey) due to the language used in common i.e. Mumbaiyya. Commonly strangers are called 'Boss' or with a noise made with lips called 'Mucchh'. Although ladies are always respected and called Madam or Behen-ji. The life of Mumbaikar is very tightly scheduled according to Railway Time-table. Any effect on world or surroundings never matter for Mumbaikar. The day always begins with the first Local and ends with a last local (train).

Contradicting to the Reader's Digest Survey, Mumbaikar will always help in calamities, Man-made or natural, he will always tip you about stock market, He'll always guide Tourists to Crawford Market, down town, and best food Joints. He will offer the staple food ofvada pav and pav bhaji.

Mumbaiyya, the commonly used slang of Hindi. It developed with words from many languages used by people from different Indian cultures.
It has words from, Hindi, Marathi, English, Konkani, Gujarati, Tamil, Urdu and more.

English :
Full to : Totally
Cut-to-cut : to the Point
Load, Tension : Mental Stress
Time ki Khoti : Wasting time in vain
Style Marna :being Fashionable
the sufix 'ing' (nad-ing, Chad-ing) : Nading : Taunting, Chading : Boasting

Marathi :
Ajun, Akkha, Dhapan, Bindast (Bindaas), Aaila, etc.

Few common words and phrases : (from wiki)

Ajun tak - As yet (The proper Hindi phrase for this is abhi tak. In Bambaiyya, the Marathi word ajun replaces the Hindi word abhi).
Apun - Me, we, us, myself, oneself (A variant of the Marathi word aapaN which means "us" or "we").
Atrangi - Something strange or extraordinary.
Akkha - (Translates to "whole" or "complete" or "full").
Battery/Double battery/ḍhāpnyā - A person wearing prescription glasses. Dhapan is slang for glasses.
Bin Pagaar Full Haazri (lit. No pay, full attendance) - A guy who has has lot of free time on his hands.
Bindaas - Someone who's cool, without worries.
Bhankas - Something of little or no value. Usually used for wasting somebody's time with gibberish. e.g: "Stop your bhankas- I've got work to do."
Chappan tikli (lit. Fifty-six dots) - Actually used for ones who have small pox/chicken pox scars but also for ones having pimple scars.
Chhaava or Chhaavi (from the Marathi word for a lion's cub) - Boyfriend/girlfriend
Chaila or Chamaila - An interjection, equivalent to 'Oh shit!'
Chikni or Barfi or Maal or Item - A good looking girl.
Chote, Tambi or Ramu - Any kid working in a tapri (small tea shop or eatery).
Cutting - Though an English word, it is used to refer to half a glass of tea.
Dhaasu - Awesome.
FC - Fokat Chand or Fakir Chand - someone always trying to get stuff done for free, a freeloader.
Full to - to be complete or full of something, e.g: "The film was full to action", which means that the film was full of action.
Gheun taak - A Marathi phrase literally meaning "take it". Used to encourage someone to do something that seems really easy.
Ghochu - Fool
Haila or Aaila or Tujya Maila - literally means to your mother in Marathi. ('Haila!' is believed to be derived from the word 'Hai- Allah!'). Aaila is a Marathi word meaning "(to) your mother". It is an offensive word, but is not taken with the literal meaning. Mostly used as an exclamation rather than as an abuse.
Jhakaas - Awesome, superb or wonderful.
Khamba - Literally a pillar but means a full bottle of liquor (750 ml - contains 12 and a half large pegs at 60 ml each).
Quarter - A 180 ml bottle of liquor (a nip) which is equal to 3 large pegs (at 60 ml each)
BPT - bevda peeke tight - An extremely inebriated person.
Kharcha paani - (lit. (Money for) expenses and water. The word "water" is used a substitute for "miscellaneous things") - Usually denotes a bribe. Also denotes beating someone up.
Pandu - Cop. Equivalent to the English fuzz.
Town - Southern Part of Bombay.
Setting - Try to arrange for something to happen e.g. "Ladki se setting kar rahela hai" (lit. He's trying to woo the girl).
Dhinchak - Loud, flashy

The deva revanta: Mythology, iconography, history and ritualism

2007-05-27T00:47:00.000-07:00

|| OM asidharAya iShudhanvine huM phat svAhA ||

Like kArttikeya, revanta, a once popular deity, has faded from the Hindu mind, with decline of Indic civilization. We have long wanted collate a file on this deva and revive his rites as we are amongst the few still adhering to his worship. We have been made aware of some other works on him but we have not read those.

Mythology
The purANas narrate the core myth of the origin of the god revanta thus:
vivasvAn was given sanj~nA as his wife by tvasTA vishvakarman. vivasvan begot the twins yama and yamI, and manu vaivasvata through her. However, sanj~nA was unable to endure the excessive fiery lustre of vivasvAn and decided to leave him and go to the regions of the uttara kuru. She created a replica of herself in the form ChAyA and placed her with vivasvAn before retiring in the form of a mare. vivasvAn took ChAyA too be sanj~nA and begot on ChAyA, the inauspicious shanaishchara, the daughter tapatI and manu sAvarNI. One day ChAyA got into a conflict with the death-like yama vaivasvata as she mis-treated her foster son. Thus vivasvAn realized that ChAyA was not sanj~nA and through his dUradR^iShTi located her in the uttara kuru regions as a mare. So he assumed the form of a stallion and reached there. They copulated first via their nostrils, spawning the ashvins and then internally spawning revanta. He was born with a sword and bow, riding a horse and bearing a quiver full of arrows. vivasvAn said to revanta that he shall be the lord of the guhyaka tribe of yakShas and yakShiNI-s. He mentioned that at the time of forest fires and volcanic eruptions, and when dasyus and mlechChas devastate the land the mortal need to invoke revanta to obtain relief.

Versions of this tale are narrated in the viShNu (VP 3.2) and mArkaNDeya (MkP 78) purANa-s. The matsya (MP 11.2) and agni (AP 272.3; 273 in MBLD edition) purANa-s narrates a variant in which vivasvAn has a separate wife rAj~nI through whom he fathers revanta. The devi bhAgavataM mentions revanta as riding on uchChaishravas to visit viShNu, when lakShmI gets fascinated by the horse and fails to pay attention to viShNu. As a result he curse lakShmI to became a mare and generates the haihaya dynasty in this account (DB 6.17-18).

Iconography and history
varAhamihira states that idols of revanta should be shown on horseback with attendents hunting and sporting. This depiction of revanta is seen throughout the early medieval period throughout Greater India from Afghanistan (as reported by Priyatosh Banerjee) to the Vanga country. Typically he is shown with hunting attendants and is invariably accompanied by a dog. As with sUrya he is also shown with high-legged shoes and usually wields a sword and bow. revanta's iconography is strikingly similar to that of the deity popular in mahAraShTra, karnATaka and Andhra know as khaNDoba or mallaNNa. He is depicted as riding a horse with a a dog accompanying him and holding a sword. Further, khaNDoba is known as a manifestation of mArtaNDa-bhairava and an explicit connection with the solar cult through this link is seen in some khaNDoba temples of Maharashtra where he is show with a solar emblem. Thus, it is likely that revanta evolved into the local khaNDoba cult after the 12 the centure CE in middle India. Unlike the late vedic/"itihasic" deities such as kArttikeya and the pA~ncharatric tetrad and the rapidly evolving vinAyaka who spread throughout India, revanta's zone of initial spread (prior to 1100 of the CE) appears to only span the region from the northwest to northeast. His southern most spread in the east in the classical form is seen Orissa. The khaNDoba derivative appears to be a much later atypical variant that eventually reached the south and in the process lost connection with the classical revant. He has a prominent presence in Rajasthan and Gujarat which also correspond with the western zone of the old saura sect. Given this and the similarities in depiction of sUrya and revanta, it is possible that the shAkhadvIpi brahmins had an initial role in spread of the revanta worship. The epithet revant and its Avestan cognate raevant have been widely used for Vedic and Avestan deities including mitra in both the texts (see below). Given this it is possible that the name itself could have even emerged in the para-avestan Iranian Hindus.

Worship of revanta
There are several other references to worship of revanta in the purANas and associated texts.
-The agni purANa (AP 116.22) in describing the oblations to be made during the pilgrimage to the holy spot of gayA mentions that offering of rice balls to the 12 Aditya-s, agni, indra and revanta free on from the hold of disease and one attains heavenly pleasures. The garuDa purANa (GP 1.86.23 ) gives a homologous description of the rite at gayA, but in this the offerings to revanta are made to obtain good horses.
-The agni purANa states that making a gift of a horse consecrated to revanta decorated with gold removes the fear of death (AP 211.28).
-In the grand coronation of a king, where the entire Hindu pantheon is invoked to imbrue the rAjan with power, revanta is invoked along with kumAra, vinAyaka, vIrabhadra and nandI in one series of incantations (AP 219.18)
-The ashvAyurveda of shAlihotra states that periodically in the Ashvina month on the full-moon day the ashvashAnti rite for horses should be done. Amongst deities worshipped are revanta, for whom a lotus and pitcher with water are placed on the altar and 100 oblations with sesame, rice, ghee and white mustard are made (shAlihotrIya ashvashAntiH verse 6). A homolgous rite is mentioned in dhanvantari's hayAyurveda (verse 6) which states that oblations should be made for the safety of horses to revanta and tonic be prepared during the rite of the sarala, nimba, guggulu, sarShapa, tila, vachA and hi~ngu extracts ground into butter. The Kashmirian nIlamata purANa (NMP 394) also mentions that the owners of horses should make oblations to revanta.

mantra prayogas
The worship of revanta deploys the tantric mantras and tantricized R^igvedic formulae. First one meditates on revanta riding a horse with a sword and bow and an excellent quiver. He is accompanied by his dog and his horse borne pArShadas.

The one utters his gAyatrI:

|| oM ashvaprIyAya vidmahe sUryaputrAya dhimahI | tanno khaDgiH prachodayAt ||

Then one utters his names offering flowers:

1) oM revantAya namaH 2) oM vaivasvatAya namaH 3) oM saMj~nAputrAya 4) oM ashvapriyAya namaH 4) oM ashvavAhanAya namaH 5) oM ashvapataye namaH 6) ashvavidyAdhiShThAya namaH 7) oM shreShThAya namaH 8) oM nisha~Ngine namaH 9) oM dhanur-hastAya namaH 10) oM charma-dhR^ite namaH 11) oM suvarNa- bANa- tuNa- samanvitAya namaH 12) oM ugra-tejasAya namaH 13) surya-retasoddhbhavAya namaH 14) oM mR^igavyAdhAya namaH 15) oM dasyu-taskara-mlechChAdi-upadrava- nAshakAya namaH 16) oM yauvanAya namaH 17) oM ashva-pAlAya namaH 18) guhyakAnAM-patye namaH 19) oM AraNyachAriNe namaH 20) oM suvarNa-kavachine namaH 21) yamAnujAya namaH

Then one performs tarpaNaM-s or oblations with the mahAmantra of revanta:

rAM rIM ruM tAnAshiraM puroLAsham | rUM reM raiM indremaM somaM shrINIhi | roM rauM raM revantaM hi tvA shR^iNomi | raM svAhA revantaM pujAyAmI tarpayAmI namaH ||

One shall than install the yantra of revanta by invoking his parivAra of eight shakti-s:

Then one shall meditate upon the syllable raM at the center of the yantra. Then tantric mahAmantra of revanta shall emanate from that:

|| rAM rIM ruM rUM reM raiM roM rauM raM asidharAya iShudhanvine huM phaT svAhA ||

[This Article is borrowed from Somasushma with their permission]

Solution for the High tone for Ubuntu installed on Asus M2N-MX

2007-05-22T06:48:00.000-07:00

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04. Kernel 2.6.20-14-generic.

Adding the following to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base fixed the problem
for me:

# Ubuntu bug #89036, fix high pitched squeal from one channel
# on M2N-MX nVidia MCP61 board
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack

Google Desktop Sidebar and Mozilla Firefox

2007-05-07T23:53:00.000-07:00

To make Google Desktop Sidebar open Mozilla Firefox as default browser you have to manually set Mozilla Firefox as default web browser in the Default Programs in Windows Vista.

Start > Control Panel > Programs > Default Programs > Set Program Access and computer defaults

Change the default web browser to Mozilla Firefox there.

Only making it default from the Mozilla Firefox Options itself won't make Google Desktop Sidebar open internet links in Mozilla Firefox.

About me!

2007-04-26T06:05:00.000-07:00

Today about 1,114,274,426 users are using internet, me and you being the part of them. Writing something which is worthless won't attract any internet users here!

So people who really want to know me can meet me.

I've a better deal, instead of reading about me on my blog, you can read and further suggest what I do.

I'm a hardcore liberty promoter and I hate government Interference in my life and my biz.

Me and you .... we can destroy the walls and live in a world without boundaries.

Orkut Login

2006-08-30T01:08:00.000-07:00

You Need a HTML Browser on you cell phone to proceed
To Login Orkut from your cell phone visit here.

[Get Opera Mini]

Black Hat

2006-07-23T01:19:00.001-07:00

The Black Hat.

MES Reunion, Organisers' Dinner Party

2006-07-08T01:35:00.000-07:00

Venue was at SPG, Khaya, Piya, Maza kiya (Food and Fun!)
Tejas and Devakee missed it :(

EveryONE Rock! to see these cool guys and girls visit here

School Friends Bash

2006-06-25T23:35:00.000-07:00

MES School Friends reunion rocked!
I'll Post Pics and distribute CDs as soon as editing gets over!

Also visit the Modern Crasher Blog here.

Boom!

Anti-Reservation at Shivaji Park

2006-05-21T23:45:00.000-07:00

This is what happens when people want democracy but dont want to be the part of minority!

Snaps by Mangesh Wagle.

Vickramgad Trip

2006-05-12T22:58:00.000-07:00

Back from Vickramgad, Place wasn't cool but people were!
I'll try to upload some pics ASAP.

Photos

2006-04-24T13:36:00.000-07:00

hmmmm

ahmmmmm

Coconut Tree, Nandgaon

Rameshwar, Nandgaon.

Shivaji Park

2006-04-16T04:10:00.000-07:00

Shivaji Park

H & O

Revant's Photos

2006-04-10T03:21:00.001-07:00

Revant - Picture

Revant - Picture

9th April, 2006

2006-04-09T01:54:00.000-07:00

Today is the official start of this blog,

Look out for Pics, Events and more......