Month: November 2004
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Anand Wins Indus Technovators Award 2004
Anand Chandrasekharan, who guest blogs here , has won the Global Indus Technovators Award for 2004. Anand will recieve this award today at a special ceremony to be held from 6-9:30 pm. at Wong Auditorium, MIT . I did know this news a couple of weeks back but was waiting to post it here only…
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Kollywood Godfather
This post isn’t about the multitude of films that borrowed story ideas from the Hollywood classic Godfather. With the protests over english names for tamil movies still gearing up, I was suprised this morning to a see an film ad on tamil dailies that read, God father. A middle aged man with a thick white…
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Blogger Meet Update
The rain clouds aren’t above Chennai. We are on schedule, as of now. I am awaiting a reply from our may-be sponsors. Looks like they have also gone on a diwali long leave. We have 15 official enteries through my comments box. We might have more bloggers if the rain isn’t playing spoil-sport. Will put…
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The Diwali that just went by
Giving a live commentary of deepavali is getting a little boring. Thats even to me but I just can’t resist this one. The fireworks stuff, I think just got better over the years. South India has really adopted the crack the crakers in the night from the north over the last couple of decades. Tonight…
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My site just woke up
It’s deepavali morning. The night is still chasing the dawn. The sound, the smell and the smoke all underlining the quintessential character of Deepavali. This site was down for past couple of days and it’s just up today, as a deepavali gift. Thanks to the guys at bloghosts who got this up. Anyway, if you…
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