Biggest events of 2009

Slumdog Millionaire -bagged Oscars

India achieved Oscar glory in February when Danny Boyle's movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' based in Mumbai, bagged 8 Oscars at the 81st Academy Awards. Music maestro A R Rahman won two Oscars for 'Jai Ho', while Pookutty bagged an Oscar for best sound mixing.

Nobel Prize for Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 

Indians across the world rejoiced when Indian born scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his pioneering research on ribosome, a cellular machine that makes proteins.He is a senior scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge

.Chandrayan - traced the presence of water molecules on the moon's surface

It was a giant leap for India's space programme and one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the 21st century when the country's first unmanned lunar probe, Chandrayaan I, traced the presence of water molecules on the moon's surface, that could pave the way for growing vegetation there in the future.

Team India rose to the No.1 position in ICC Test 

2009 will be fondly recalled as the year of India's ascent to the pinnacle of Test cricket, Team India rose to the No.1 position in ICC Test rankings, for the first time ever in the history of cricket, by beating Sri Lanka 2-0 in a Test series.

Along with other main stories hit the news stand  were attacks on indians in a Australia, Swine Flu attack in india, the multi-crore scam in a Indian based company Satyam , the Mumbai terror attacks shook India and stunned the world, death of two known Kannadigas Dr.C.Ashwath, well known singer and a famous actor Dr.Vishnuvardhan

Although other stories and persons were in news in  2009 this one post in this blog is not enough.India has achieved a lot and also for some time it is in news for some wrong reasons.Change is life.We have to accept it

A Visit to Hampi

ಹಂಪೆ - ಒಂದು ನೋಟ

Last week on saturday , 5th December I had been to Hampi (ಹಂಪೆ) with few of my family members.

First we went to Bellary as our relatives are there.We left Bellary around 9:45AM. Its almost 2 hours journey to Hampi from Bellary .As heavy goods vehicle and mining vehicles travel in that road, its pathetic.But if you have patience and when you reach Hampi you will forget the bad experience of road journey..I had plans of visiting since many years , but became reality thanks to my wife Shobha . Hampi is a beautiful and well maintained place. Thats why its a Worlds heritage site of India along with other known places of world.

But in Hampi there are no good hotels except the one which is maintained by Karnataka government. I want to share one experience, I met a foreign visitor from Austria. When I asked him about his experience in Hampi he really appreciated about India and Hampi. But he pointed out clearly with a laugh told here auto drivers, vendors ,others charge extra amount as soon as they come to know that we are from abroad.Hope concerned will look into this to save Indians image across India and globe.

For more information about Hampi you can visit :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampi

There are many places which we can see in and around Hampi like:

• Achyutaraya Temple/Tiruvengalanatha Temple
• Akka Tangi ಗುಡ್ಡ (ಅಕ್ಕ ತಂಗಿ ಗುಡ್ಡ )
• Anegondi  (ಆನೆಗೊಂದಿ)
  
• Anjeyanadri Hill (ಅಂಜನಾದ್ರಿ  ಪರ್ವತ)
  
• Aqueducts and Canals
• Archaeological Museum at Kamalapura
• Badavi  Linga (ಬಡವಿ ಲಿಂಗ )
  
• Chandramauleshwar temple (ಚಂದ್ರಮೌಳೇಶ್ವರ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ )
• The Kings’ balance (ಅರಸನ ತುಲಾಭಾರ )
  
• The Underground Temple (ಪಾತಾಳೇಶ್ವರ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ )
  
• Tungabhadra River (ತುಂಗಭದ್ರ  ಡ್ಯಾಮ್ )
  
• Uddana Veerabhadra temple (ಉದ್ದಾನ ವೀರಭದ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ )
  
• Ugra Narasimha (ಉಗ್ರ ನರಸಿಂಹ)
  
• Virupaksha Temple (ವಿರುಪಾಕ್ಷ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ )
  
• Vittala temple  (ವಿಠಲ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ )
  
• Yeduru Basavanna (ಎದುರು ಬಸವಣ್ಣ )
  
• Yentrodharaka Anjaneya temple
• Zenana enclosure
• Virupapura
• Madhavan Palace with more than 1,000,000 pillars
• Sasivekalu Ganesha (ಸಾಸಿವೆಕಾಳು ಗಣಪತಿ )
  
• Elephant stables (ಗಜ ಶಾಲೆ)
  
• Lotus temple (ಕಮಲ್ ಮಹಲ್ )
  

We also visited TB Dam (ತುಂಗಭದ್ರ ಡ್ಯಾಮ್ ),Hospet and Kannada university.(ಹಂಪೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವ ವಿದ್ಯಾನಿಲಯ )

So getting ready to visit Hampi  now or whenever you are free :-)  ? For any other info please let me know so that I can share my experience and whatever I know ... ಬನ್ನಿ ಹಂಪೆಗೆ ಹೊರಡೋಣ

CHANGING CLIMATE - Badalaaguttiruva vaatavarana

ಬದಲಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವ ವಾತಾವರಣ . Although we are developing in terms of Science and technology life style of human beings are also changing . Of course change is life, we have to accept change.But this does not mean we have to forget a basic concept of this universe and nature of earth.If we go against nature, it will show adverse effects without any hesitation . In recent times as industries developed, pollution has increased, As population increased users of 2 and 4 wheelers have reduced as a result noise pollution, and air pollution automatically is raising. 

Everywhere awareness is increasing day by day saying that we should not cut trees, even if we cut its inevitable we have to plant new ones, we should not use paper unnecessarily as we have to cut trees to manufacture paper, we have to use plastics less and even if we use that should be having certain thickness as it may remain in soil for a long time which is harmful.

Climate change conference will be held on Dec 7-Dec 18 copenhegan http://en.cop15.dk/ where many countries are participating to plan on how to reduce pollution , how to retain this earth for future.Hope some useful discusssion will take place and world's different countries decision makers will useful decisions take care of our mother earth .Come lets join hands to save this beuatiful earth from getting polluted .

As Our Father of the nation Gandhiji has said :

The world has enough for everybody's need but not enough for everybody's greed'?. 

Lets Save this world for us and  for our future generation .

Kannada Rajyothsava: Karnataka Formation Day

Kannada Rajyotsava (Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ), or the Karnataka Formation Day (literally "Birth of the Kannada State") is celebrated on 1 November every year. This was the day in 1956 when all the Kannada speaking regions of south India were merged to form the state of Karnataka.


On this day of November first in 1956 (೧೯೫೬) Mysore state, comprising most of the area of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore, was merged with the Kannada speaking areas of the Bombay and Madras presidencies, as also of the principality of Hyderabad, to create a unified Kannada-speaking subnational entity. The newly unified state initially retained the name "Mysore", which was that of the erstwhile princely state which formed the core of the new entity. .....

Celebrating Kannada Rajyotsava On November 1st
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Kannada is one of the major Dravidian languages of India, spoken predominantly in the southern state of Karnataka. It is the 27th (೨೭ ನೆಯ )most spoken language in the world, with native speakers called Kannadigas. It is one of the Official languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka.

Brief History About Kannada Rajyotsava
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The state of Mysore was created taking into fold various parts of the region, which were ruled by kings. Several districts in, now called North Karnataka and Hyderabad Karnataka were dissolved in the new state. The new state was named after Mysore, which by itself was a princely state.

People of North and Hyderabad area did not accept the name Mysore. People of this region were demanding a change in the name. After prolonged debate the name of the state was changed to Karnataka on November 1, 1973. ( ನವೆಂಬರ್ ೧ , ೧೯೭೩ )


*Kannada Writers has won 7 (೭ ) Jnana peetha awards :
(The Jnana peetha Award is the highest literary award in India)

Amongst the South Indian Languages, there is written data available for Tamil, Kannada and Telugu languages. In Kannada, the first shaashana is the 450 A.D.(೪೫೦ ) Halmidi shaashana. Ancient books like Vaddaaraadhane 800 (೮೦೦) , Kaviraja Marga  850(೮೫೦ ) are also available.


Located in the southern part of India, Karnataka is one of the most significant states and also the hub of software industry in the country.

For more details we can refer any search engine or wikipedia

ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ  ಮತ್ತು  ಕನ್ನಡದ  ಬಗ್ಗೆ  ಏಷ್ಟು  ಬರೆದರೂ  ಕಡಿಮೆಯೇ .ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಲೆಕ್ಕವಿಲ್ಲದಷ್ಟು  ತಾಣಗಳು  ಇವೆ .

"ಒಂದು ನೋವಿನ ವಿಷಯ ಏನೆಂದರೆ ಬರೀ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು , ಮೈಸೂರು ಅಥವಾ ಮುಖ್ಯ ನಗರಗಳು ಮಾತ್ರ ಬೆಳೆದರೆ ಸಾಕಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ,  ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಬೆಳೆಯಬೇಕು .ಇಲ್ಲವಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇರೆ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಬೇಡಿಕೆ ಈ ಹಿಂದೆ ಇದ್ದ ಹಾಗೆ ಮುಂದೆಯೂ ಬರಬಹುದು
". ಇದರ ಕಡೆ  ಸಂಭಂದಪಟ್ಟವರು  ಗಮನ  ಕೊಟ್ಟರೆ  ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು .

ಕನ್ನಡ  ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವನ್ನು  ಕೇವಲ  ನವೆಂಬರ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ  ಆಚರಿಸದೆ  ಇಡೀ  ವರ್ಷವೆಲ್ಲ  ನಮ್ಮ  ದಿನನಿತ್ಯದ  ಬದುಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ  ಎಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಿ  ಸಾಧ್ಯವೋ  ಅಲ್ಲಲ್ಲಿ  ಆಚರಿಸೋಣ . ಉದಾಹರಣೆಗೆ  ಕನ್ನಡ  ದಿನಪತ್ರಿಕೆ  - ಪುಸ್ತಕವನ್ನು  ಓದುವುದು ,ಕನ್ನಡ  ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಗಳನ್ನು   ಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು , ಸಮಾಜದಲ್ಲಿ  ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲೇ  ವ್ಯವಹರಿಸುವುದು  , ಕನ್ನಡ  ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಯನ್ನು ನಮ್ಮ ವಾಹನಗಳಿಗೆ  ಬರಸುವುದು , ನಮ್ಮ  ಅಂಗಡಿ -ಕಚೇರಿಗಳಿಗೆ  ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲೂ  ಹೆಸರನ್ನು  ಬರೆಸುವುದು , ಉತ್ತಮವಾದ  ಕನ್ನಡ  ನಾಟಕ , ಸಿನಿಮಾಗಳನ್ನು  ನೋಡುವುದು ...................

ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕಾಗಿ , ಕನ್ನಡ  ಭಾಷೆಗಾಗಿ  ದುಡಿದವರು  ಮಡಿದವ್ರೆಸ್ತ್ಹೋ ..ಬನ್ನಿ  ನಾವೆಲ್ಲ  ಇವರೆಲ್ಲರ  ಪರಿಶ್ರಮಕ್ಕೆ  ಬೆಳೆಕೊಡೋಣ  ಮತ್ತು  ನಮ್ಮ  ಸುಂದರವಾದ , ಸಮ್ವ್ರುದ್ಧಿಯಾದ ಭಾಷೆಯನ್ನ  ಇಂದಿನ  ಪರಭಾಷೆಯ  ಹಾವಳಿಯಿಂದ  ಸಂರಕ್ಷಿಸೋಣ . ನಾವೂ  ಬೆಳೆಯೋಣ  ನಮ್ಮವರನ್ನೂ  ಬೆಳೆಸೋಣ ..

" ಹೆಸರಾಯಿತು  ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ  , ಉಸಿರಾಗಲಿ  ಕನ್ನಡ  ".

ಜೈ  ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ  ಜೈ  ಕನ್ನಡ  ಮಾತೆ

Ganesha (Ganapati) festival,significance,importance

Captured above video of Ganesha which was kept in our area.

Its the time of fetivals and we all celebrated Ganesha festival on last sunday (23rd) all over India and around the globe.

Ganesha is one of the popular God.Usually Indians do Ganesha pooja in the beginning of any major functions or progammes. We have given so much importance to him and he has taken a special place in our hearts.

Ganesha is known by different names like Vinayakaya,Ganapathi, Vighnesha, Vighneshvara, Ekadanta, lambodhara

Ganesha is widely revered as the Remover of Obstacles.

ಏಕದಂತಾಯ ವಿದ್ಮಹೇ ವಕ್ರತುಂಡಾಯ ಧೀಮಹಿ ತನ್ನೋ ದಂತಿ: ಪ್ರಚೋದಯಾತ್

ಗಣಾನಾಂತ್ವಾ ಗಣಪತಿಗ್‍ಂ ಹವಾಮಹೇ ಕವಿಂ ಕವೀನಾಮುಪಶ್ರವಸ್ಥಮಂ|
ಜ್ಯೇಷ್ಠರಾಜಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಣಾಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಣಸ್ಪತ ಆನಃ ಶೃಣ್ವನ್ನೂತಿಭಿಸ್ಸಾಧನಂ||


EkadaMtAya vidmahE vakratuMDAya dhImahi tannO daMti: pracOdayAt

gaNAnAMtvA gaNapatig^M havAmahE kaviM kavInAmupaSravasthamaM|
jyEShTharAjaM brahmaNAM brahmaNaspata AnaH SRuNvannUtiBissAdhanaM||


At the time of independence this celebration was being celebrated with a purpose of unity and now we all of us using this platform to use this festival to show our devotion and for various other reasopns.During this festival we can see children ,young and old plan and they keep Ganesha Idol at our home and in Streets on a platform.People collect and few donate and they will arrange for the festival with great enthusiasm and devotion.People in different areas arrange for Orchestra, entertainment, devotional (Bhakitgeeta) songs by eminent singers and differnet functions are arranged before ganesha festval functions gets over and is immersed in water.

Spoke live in FM Rainboow (101.3FM) in dinner time progaramme on monday and shared view on Ganesha Festival.

Few of us keep Gowri idol also along with Ganesha at the time of festival.

Whatever the opinion Ganesha is simply moving ahead travelling on his own vehicle Rat(mouse).....!

SOME OF THE VIDEOS TAKEN

SHIMOGA OLD BRIDGE



FASHION SHOW ON TOP OF TALAVARA HILL




son sujay doing puja





KRISHNAJANMASTHAMI IN FRIENDS HOME :

Gangubai Hangal

Gangubai Hangal was born in Dharwad to Chikkurao Nadiger, an agriculturist and Ambabai, a vocalist of Carnatic music. 'Gangubai', as she was called in music circles, received only elementary education and her family shifted to Hubli in 1928.Initially, she learned classical music from Krishnacharya and Dattopant Desai before studying under Sawai Gandharva, a respected guru.She married Gururao Kaulgi, a Brahmin lawyer, at the age of 16. Her family was of low social status and for women of her generation singing was not considered appropriate employment; Gangubai struggled against this prejudice and made a career.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9QSXeheRq4&feature=endscreen&NR=1



Gangubai Hangal served as honorary music professor of the Karnatak University. She was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor, in 2002. She gave her last concert in March 2006 to mark her 75th career year. She had overcome bone marrow cancer in 2003, and died of cardiac arrest on 21 July 2009 in Hubli, where she resided. Krishna Hangal, Gangubai's daughter and accompanist, died from cancer in 2004, aged 75.

Gangubai hangal expired today in Hubli. She is survived by two sons.

Son Sujay with watering plants and activites

Our Son Sujay who started walking in last August 2008 has become more active now a days.

Below are couple of his videos :

It was difficult to understand him in the beginning especially whenever he was hungry or at time of his sleep.



We can see lot of changes in the mean time. He started speaking couple of words like thata(grandfather),ajji(grandmother),appaji,(daddy),amma(mother),atte,myanni(for maggi),car, socks,ppa(for chikkappa & doddappa)......

Now a days he wants to do few activites or things on his own like wearing slipper -shoes,eating ....

General election in India , 2009

India is currently holding general elections,the largest democratic election in the world to the 15th Lok Sabha in five phases on April 16, April 22-April 23, April 30, May 7 and May 13, 2009.

According to the Indian Constitution, elections in India for the Lok Sabha (the lower house) must be held at least every five years under normal circumstances. With the last elections held in 2004, the term of the 14th Lok Sabha expires on June 1, 2009.

The election is conducted by the Election Commission of India, which estimates an electorate of 714 million voters, an increase of 43 million over the 2004 election. During the budget presented in February 2009, Rs.1,120 Crores (€176 million) was budgeted for election expenses

Compared to last decade and couple of years back , there is a lot of changes in terms of Election campaign, disclosure of the assets of the person contesting the election, eduacted class contesting election, awareness among people has increased..

probable persons who can become Prime minister are Manmohan Singh of Congress, L.K.Advani of BJP, Mayawati of BSP...

Although there is couple of violence incidents here and there overall a peacefull election so far thanks to People, Election commission of india, Security, the government .....

Now a days after the introduction of Electronic Voting machines there is almost no chance of fake voting which is a very good change

One more interesting this is although people have enrolled their name & altough many of them had voiter id card could not vote in first two phases as their name is not appearing in the list may be due to lack of planning or discrepency..

When I went for voting i had to search my name for more than 30 minutes before voting..Finally got relieved when i saw my name & voted with id proof(we can vote even if have dont have Election id card \with ID
Proof such as PAN card, Driving licence, Bank passbook with photo card, ID card s given by college.....around 20 such ids so that we can use our power to elect our own leaders.

Nice to know software engineers, educated class people started contesting elections which is a good sign and from whom we can expect good governement and less corruption..

Hope India will see much more progress in coming years..

Coorg Trip

we colleagues had been to a Trip recently to Coorg,Nagarahole,Kushalnagar,Mysore and few other near by places.

Actually our colleagues had decided to hire vehicle but without driver so that we only could drive & enjoy as per our trip.Trip was awesome and memorable in many ways..may be free from regular office work, enjoying nature & outing,pulling others leg, nice drive,enjoyed friends vehicle drive .............

We were able to see a beautiful , nice morning view from Raja Seat in Coorg,excellent golden temple in Kushalnagar,Nice bath in Irpu Falls,a natioal park in Nagarahole.Nice swim and water play in Dubare Forest (but we could not go for Elephant safari as it had closed at 12:30PM),Mysore palace along with food in Mcdonalds & KFC..  

Trip was memorable in couple ways as for the first time I saw actaually witnessed travelling in a vehicle reaching upto 160km/Hr  on Road , thanks to nice highway although its little  risky to reach with that speed ,unless anybody knows driving well & has a nice control over it, thanks to Sanjay.Then Nadeem who knew basics of 4 four wheeler driving, driving with confidence , Sahoo with nice questions & answer session, Shafi for his awesome talk, Sam for his full energy filled inspiration to all, Shashir from his unique style,Pravash with nice causal talk to all of us & especially with shafi ..!

We enjoyed the trip overall..! :-)

Foriegn Notes

From my child hood that is from my primary School i started collecting Stamps.Later as i grew up started collecting variety of coins of our own country India & abroad. In recent years I started collecting foreign notes(Currecny) whenever I get an opportunity ..

Although it requires time & patience and of course interest to post detailed blog of these collections , i thought to post a blog to start with a couple of foreign notes.

I used to ask my close friends if they have these notes or coins ,if they have visted western counties or any country.I am lucky to collect some of them from friend Sandeep who had visted Bangaldesh, Nigeria couple of years back & my younger brother Arvind who got an opportunity to visit US,Korea,Hongkong,UK..

Here are some of the notes.

Bannerghatta National Park

Today I had been to Bannerghatta national parkwith family members.Here are some of the photos and details.. 

                                                     

Bannerghatta National Park is situated 22 km south of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The journey to the park takes nearly an hour from Bangalore. This hilly place is the home for one of the richest natural, zoological reserves. The 25,000 acre (101 km²) zoological park makes this a major tourist attraction of Bangalore.

Travel Info

Altitude: 1245 to 1634 meters above sea level
Visiting hours: 9am to 5pm
Holiday: Closed every Tuesday

There is a small museum in the zoo which showcases zoological exhibits. The zoo, which is a major attraction in this area, also has a reptile park and a small theatre.. The Zoo closes on Tuesday (weekly Holiday)

The zoo has separate charges for weekdays and weekends (or Holidays). The prices currently for A Grand Safari — of Lions, Tigers & Herbivorus costsRs. 100 on regular days and Rs. 125 on weekends (and other holidays) where as, to move around the zoo would cost you Rs. 25.00. The Tiger and Lion safari is the most interesting and one can avail tickets only for that at a lower cost.

The entire month of May has holiday fares as that is the time when children in India have summer holidays.

Bannerghatta National Park contact phone number: +91-80-27828540

Butterfly Park

The country's first Butterfly Park was established at the Bannerghatta Biological Park couple of years ago..

Barack Obama -Man of the moment

Barack Hussein Obama ( born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect of the United States of America, and the first African American to be elected President of the United States.

Campaigning and the selction of a presidential election started almost a year ago in US.He has beaten Hilary clinton to get nomination for presidential election..

Campaigning attracted people & media not only from US but from all over the world for many reasons.May be United states is one of the largest & powerful country in the world.It has many multinational companies operating in different countries and Barack Obama will head the counrty who can make rules and take any strong decisions in this time of financial crisis.Many countries and their heads and thier country men are eagely waiting as US has always played a major role in terms of Worlsd politics,international affairs..

Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005 until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president will begin on January 20, 2009.

Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African-American president of theHarvard Law Review. He worked as a community organizer, and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama was elected to the Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama helped create legislation to control conventional weaponsand to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change,nuclear terrorism, and care for U.S. military personnel returning from combat assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

When I spoke to many people from United states right from campaigning till his election to President I got varied opinions and respnse like , politicians give lot of assurances and they dont do as in other countries , few pepole were least bothered about the person whoever is elected, some are having hopes that he will do good job..

Obama has lot of challenges ahead as Unites states as US is going through tough time in terms of financial crisis.Many country men are thinking that he may put some restrictions on outsourcing job to other countries..

Lets wait and watch as time has come to see his power & his dreams for his country ...

All the Best Obama ....