Today I happened to watch Bhakti TV which clarified an important doubt many people have. Its a widely followed custom on Vinayaka Chavithi or Vinayaka Chaturthi festival to buy an idol of Lord Ganesh and offer prayers.
Many people have doubts and misconceptions about the significance of the location of the trunk of the Elephant faced Lord.
It was clarified that even if the trunk is on the right or left side of the Lord, both are auspicious. However there’s an interesting difference in the benefits the devotees would get.
If the idol has trunk on its right side, then it gives moksha related benefits. The devotee would understand that all the pleasures on this earth are momentary and the real bliss is much beyond that. They would eventually lose interest on petty things of life and gradually get into serene life style. They stride the path of achieving ultimate bliss.
And if the idol has trunk on its left side, it showers blessings on the devotees with wealth, pleasure and all sort of things that they would like to enjoy in their life. It takes for granted that the devotee wants to complete the journey of life with decent perks to his side and so grants him.
So to summarise, if you want bliss you have to workship idol with trunk on its right side and if you wish to enjoy current life to the fullest then workship the one having trunk to its left.
Whats the Story ?
After losing the war against Japanese, a British Batallion becomes their prisoners. The Strict Japanese Commander, Saito has a mission to finish, construct a Bridge on the river Kwai using these Britishers, with in a tight schedule. The whole British Batallion is uninterested over this. Saito tries to use his power to push British soldiers to finish the work well in time but a difference of opinion with British Commander starts a rift, punishes him and the construction goes haywire. British Commander doesn’t give up on his principles and finally Saito comes in agreement with him.
British Commander agrees to take up the mission and orders his troop and convinces them to prove the ability of Britishers that they could construct marvels. Some of his members do not understand why they should work for their enemy in positive spirit but they believe in the Commander.
On the other hand, one of the Britishers successfully escapes from the area and when reaches his troops, the officials decide to bomb the Bridge to weaken the opposition. They have no clue that British Commander is infact building it in positive spirit.
Finally a total mishap leads to the death of all key people and the bridge also gets destroyed proving that the madness among the two sides has indeed resulted in nothing.
An amazing concept of a new invention ‘Source Code’ which can be used to track past and effect future. A train blast happens in Chicago and inorder to avoid the subsequent blasts, the Officials try to use ‘Source Code’, a unique and complex invention about the theory that memory of brain retains for last 8 minutes around the death of a person.
The Officials choose the Hero as the person for mission who in fact is a soldier, dead fighting over helicopter with his team in Afghanistan. They plant him in the place of a passenger in the train who just died along with many people in the bomb blast. They use Hero in this way to find out the bomber to avoid further bombings. They do this by putting him in 8 minutes slot, before the blast multiple times struggling to convince him with his mission and personal worries.
Finally hero finishes the mission and also dazzles the creators by going once last time again in source code and prove them that Source Code is much much more powerful than they themselves ever believed and demonstrates that it can change the world also.
The tale is told in an engrossing way, with things getting unfolded one by one. It is a brilliant concept which looks stylish and slick, yet shot in a very limited budget, with hardly an office and a train journey.
Kudos the creator. Must watch !
Introduction:
* I first heard the name of this Chat Center from one of my friends, who was going ga ga over the taste of the Pani Puri over here. I inquired with him about the location of it and wanted to try it immediately.
* It is situated near Madhapur Police Station. If you are coming from Hitech City you need to take second left after Police Station (there is a bus stop) and then first left. You need to reach the dead end of that road. You can take the road of Talwalkers gym but the first option is better.
Earlier this chat center used to be located at the Y shaped road just at the second left from Police Station. I used to wonder at the brilliance of these guys in choosing such a comfortable and ideal place. Anyways it looks like the craze of Maha raja has turned against them and forced them to move out of the earlier landmark location. However the current location is also interesting, as there’s lot of space for car parkings.
* Maharaja Chat Bhandar is the most frequented places for urban youth. Many people come in cars, order items and take in/outside their vehicles. Many notable personalities like film celebrities, TV Anchors are regular customers. I have seen Music Director RP Patnaik, Anchor Pradeep and many TV and Film celebrities.
Highlights:
* The quick service and the way the staff functions is impressive. The founders are very active people and do their best to satisfy customers. They also talk and treat customers politely. I guess more than taste it is this behaviour and the quality of chat items that are responsible for their stupendous success. Many customers take their phone numbers and give bulk orders.
* I didn’t try many items here but my most favorite item is ‘Dahi Puri’. Its probably the quickest item that you can get . I’m also a staunch admirer of its taste.
* The use and throw plates, tissues, cool drinks come in handy while taking the items there itself.
* The premises are clean and well managed. The main concern with Pani Puri centers is about the water and the items they use and here the quality is impressive.
Lowlights:
* Though many people like the taste of Pani Puri over here, I didn’t feel it to be great enough and it was just average. Some of my friends also opined the same. Some didn’t like serving Pani Puri as a hot item.
* The items are slightly over priced. For Dahi Puri they charge Rs 30 and Pani Puri I think it is now Rs 20 for 8 pieces. However when compared to the stalls in Shopping Malls the rates are reasonable.
Bottomline:
On the whole, Maharaja chat bhandar is quite different from regular chat centers that we see. It serves clean, good to taste chat items and people wouldn’t ask for more better services but for more items from them. Highly recommended !
* When my parents shifted to Hyderabad in Yousufguda area, the first thing that there were worried was about Gas Connection. After inquiring with neighbours we came to know that Banjara Gas Service is the one which provides Indane Gas Service in our locality. With some trouble we located the address and it is beside the famous Ganapathi Complex in Yousufguda, Yellareddy Guda area. Can be said as in the middle path of Yousufguda and Srinagar colony.
* When we first visited them, with in a short time we could realize that it is one of the most busy gas services that I have ever seen. With four telecallers on the phone lines it was jam packed with customers curious to resolve their requirements.
* The manager was courteous enough and he accepted our application of gas connection transfer from our hometown. He asked for identity and residential proof and upon submitting that we could get our gas connection renewed. They also verify with the house number, if there’s a connection already existing.
One common thing customers don’t like and gas agencies enforce is the gas stove kit. Though we have one we need to again buy it from the agency on getting a new connection.
Getting double cylinder is not easy and he asked us to wait for some more time when they give double cylinders.
* After getting the gas connection, I have been observing their service and it has been quite satisfactory. They usually give the date of delivery when we book the cylinder and promptly deliver on that day or even before that.
* One small problem I have observed with them is that though they have their go down near by it is a trouble for an individual to take gas cylinder from the go down to home as the service of Autos and availability of them is not much. An individual has to take his cylinder for the first time on getting the new connection.
* Booking of cylinder through phone was also not satisfactory as couple of times when I booked through IVR (Interactive Voice Response) it said that it booked my request but didn’t get effected in the system. May be thats the reason they have taken out the service for some time and gave a new mobile number now. Recently when I visited the centre, I observed that the staff were giving instructions to book via the mobile number as in person bookings also would be stopped.
* On the whole Banjara Gas Service has been satisfactory when compared to other stories about gas agencies giving nightmares to customers.
* My association with this school is very emotional as I have studied from LKG to 8th standard in this school till year 1996. I still remember those days and many of the teachers who moulded our initial life.
* Sashikala madam is a great inspiration and has handled the role of Principal with finesse for a very long period.
* Rajamani Madam is one elder lady who proves us that passion for anything keeps you going irrespective of your age.
* Drill Teacher Jhansi Madam is also great and brave lady who can control students with her eyes.
* We feel great that we were gifted with the chance of studying CBSE syllabus in a town like Anantapur. Many students got good introduction to English and Hindi from this School.
* I always regard my parents decision of choosing St. Joseph Pulic School, as the best one they made for me and my siblings.
* It has been very long that I visited the school but the memories are live. In this era of jammed school premises, St. Joseph still have decent playground and infrastructure. It has evolved as one of the finest and best institutions in Anatapur District with many laurels on its side.
* It is the school that got us introduced to Computer with games like Digger, Paratroopers, Pac Man and languages like BASIC.
* It also promoted the culture of using Library effectively. I still wonder how they managed to have a great deal of collection in the early 1990s.
* It used to encourage us a lot in participating in Inter-School, District Competitions on Quiz, Sports etc. It also has Annual Day every year and organizes it very well. National Celebrations like August 15th and Republic Day are a treat to watch in St. Joseph Public School.
* Three of my relatives are studying in this school and they also feel great about it.
* Almost all my classmates and schoolmates who studied in the premier Institute have settled down very well in their lives and I strongly recommend it.
Introduction:
For some time I have been observing lot of buzz around Aadhar Card that it is going to be the most significant card for many Government and Private services for an individual. But I didn’t care much and was in a dilemma whethere to take it at my native place or at the current location. Then came the right twist of enforcing strict rules in Gas service..etc common household needs. The local municipality has realized that many people are not taking Aadhar card seriously and so mandated it for Gas supply. This gave the first alarm and I was immediately looking for the procedure to register.
On an high level I understood that using Aadhar Card, the Government Of India is trying to identify each and every citizen of India on the likes of Social Security Number in United States. It was headed by Nandan Nilekani initially.
Procedure:
There’s a community hall in near by our locality and the Aadhar Card registrations were happening there. To my surprise, unlike other government works, this looked to be more streamlined and well organized. There were people at reception who were patiently clarifiying all the doubts a typical individual would get.
Based on the number of people in the family, they give the respective form. I took for 2 members, I and my wife. The form was very easy to fill and liked the way. The document proofs asked were also less, like one photo and one address proof. There are no strict rules though.
The most common problem faced by many tenants in Cities like Hyderabad, is how to get an Electricity Bill or similar bill on our name when we are just tenants. Aadhar card doesn’t mandate it and they would consider even if the address is not on the candidate’s name. Voter Card serves as both photo and address proof and if you have it on the current residential address that would serve the purpose of proofs.
Another common problem is, the husband would be having an identity proof and the spouse wouldn’t. Even in this case, the restrictions are quite relaxed and if minimum proofs are given they would accept. After submitting the form with the copies of proofs, they would give the time on when to come for Photo, Iris and Finger prints and return the forms to us. I liked this procedure of giving the slots for us to avoid infinite delays.
For us it was the next day morning and we reached sharp on time and could complete the process in just 10 minutes. Better be early on your time. They had arranged multiple counters for this and so though there were many people, there was not much waiting time.
Another interesting and quite impressive thing that I observed is, the staff were taking lot of care in taking the Iris and Finger prints correctly and so patiently were asking the individuals to pay more attention. After that they give us time to check all our details so that the frequent complaints on corrections of names and details can be edited immediately. In voter card registration this step is not practised and every second voter card proves to be errorneous. Appreciate the directions give to staff in feeding accurate details.
That’s it we were done with the registration and were given the acknowledgment. We were told that it takes atleast 45 days to get the actual card. The acknowledgement can be produced for Gas Supply kind of services.
Introduction:
I first heard from Beam Cable some time in 2004 when they were aggressively marketing it as a new age revolution in broadband Internet service using Optical Fiber. From then owing to the limitations in the area coverage I couldn’t try their service and so chanced upon Reliance Broadband and a Local Service Provider before.
Reliance Broadband was very good but as I had to shift my location had to quit it. In the new area there were no players and had to depend on Local provider who gave me many nightmares. Finally I had to shift once again and this time luckily had Beam cable and Airtel coverage.
Many of my colleagues were using Airtel and were pretty satisfied with it but I wanted to try out Beam Cable for its tempting speed. The installation was smooth as the response time from the Beam Cable was decent enough. I took this connection in 2009 and from then onwards my feeling over Bream Cable/ Beam Fiber has been dillydallying but I’ve stayed with them.
Highlights:
- Obviously speed. Beam Cable continues to dazzle its customers with amazing internet speeds. With in a very short span, my plans got upgraded from 512 Mbps to 1 Mbps and then to 2 Mbps and I was awestruck when they upgraded to 10 Mbps from 2Mbps just like that and for free !!! All these upgrades were done by them very quickly and with no extra charge. Looks like they always want to surprise the customers.
Now I get about 1 Mbps download speed which I never dreamt also. Now I need not wait for buffering in video streaming sites.
- Offering Internet with just a LAN cable plugged to your Ethernet card. With the days of Modem and many device installations in place, the installation of Beam Cable is very smooth. The simple plug and play system is really handy.
- If there is an outage, they promptly send SMS informing the same.
Low lights:
- Customer service is the biggest problem with Beam Cable. Once in a month or two I keep getting Network Cable Unplugged error. Filing the complaint itself is a very big task . We will be asked to wait for a very long time over phone as the Incoming call rate for Beam Cable is very high. I noted the time also in many occasions and it went up to 5 mins sometimes. This is really frustrating. But the only encouraging part is, once you are successful in filing the complaint, they are good in resolving the issue as soon as possible.
- Many of my friends who use Beam Cable have complained about one common problem. If you are Beam Cable customer and have shifted your location then shifting your Internet connection would be a nightmare. Many people struggled like hell to get the Beam Cable connection in the new location under the same account.
Bottom line:
It is hard for anyone to beat Beam Fiber in speed. 10 Mbps for Rs 1000/- !!! Can’t ask for more. But on support they’ve to definitely catch up. Airtel is best on support but charge Rs 1000/- for 2 Mbps. So infact a tough decision to make between the two. A tough competition is going between Beam Fiber and Airtel, the former trying to prove on customer service and the latter on speed.
Introduction:
Last Saturday night I attended Filmfare South Awards 2010 function at HICC, Novotel. Though I was not much interested in regular film awards functions, the brand Filmfare excited me. But honestly speaking its way below standards of the current gen Bollywood functions. With IIFA standing high in surprising viewers, Filmfare is struggling now to catch up. However Filmfare North is lot better. The negligence on South Awards was evident.
Highlights:
- Though there were initial hiccups, Tamil Hero Arya’s Anchoring was interesting. He could bring out his usual sense of humour out at some instances. Eg: He went to Trisha and asked her if she is in the function just to attend the after parties, as trusted sources informed him so. This brought laughs all around. And also another notable comment on Daggubati Rana when Arya enquired him if John Abraham and Bipasha Basu had split because of him.
The lady Anchor was Lekha Washington and her grip on accent worked as her merit.
However I got enlightened on a very interesting thing. I used to feel like these Anchors are too good to give such wonderful performances impromptu on stage. But the reality blew me off. I was sitting next to a white screen on which a prepared presentation with all text including exclamations, pauses everything was getting scrolled. Then to my bitter dismay I came to know that the Anchors on stage just read out what’s coming on and ofcourse they have the lever to manage the text, to scroll up/down.
My great respect for the Anchors of Awards diminished right away.
- Hansika who was onced mocked as a struggling dancer rocked with her performance. Could say it is her best performance I have seen ever.
- Tamannah also gave a splendid performance at around 1 AM when the show was ending. The movements were tough and challenging, I was surprised to see her executing all steps with finesse at such odd hours. Kudos to Tamannah !
- Venue: HICC Novotel was great. With expandable area, indoor auditorium, cooling system it is excellent for such functions.
Lowlights:
- Unlike interesting awards functions where in the winners are declared on stage, here they were informed before hand and the stars who have come were to just collect their awards. This diluted the interest in the functions as there was no suspense factor. Many biggies skipped the function. Stalwarts like Chiranjeevi vanished from the place after they received their award.
- There were no skits or themes in the performances, so it was usual medley of songs done by different heroines. Siya Goutham, Deeksha Seth, Divya Spandana, Sruti Hassan etc gave passable performances.
- The show which was supposed to be started at 7:30, started at 8:45 and ended at 1 AM.
- The Awards list was controversial. Many awards were surprising and there were discussions going on, judging the jury.
Bottomline:
On the whole the show was average, didn’t give any lasting expression and I decided to comfortably skip next time.
Q) How did you get introduced to Neosporin Antibiotic Powder ?
I got injured with big bruises on Knee, elbow and on palm. I tried couple of other antibiotics…but did not seem to work well. Then my parents suggested the Neosoporin powder. It comes in small container of 10 grams and costs about 40 rupees. The container comes with a Thick Sky Blue cap. ( Do not buy the one with black container cap)
Q) What do you like about Neosporin Antibiotic Powder ?
It is very good in terms of healing. It absorbs all the puss and other liquids formed in the wound. I had deep wounds in skins, the anti biotic powder just absorbed everything and kept the wound dry. It forms a layer in couple of days and cures within 4 to 5 days. A good sign to show it is working is that it creates a small tickling sensation indicating the wound is healing. My wounds got cured within 5 days. You can also apply small amount of coconut oil on top of wound along with the powder to have the medicine stick to the wound.
Q) Do you want to suggest anything on Neosporin Antibiotic Powder ?
It is a great antibiotic powder. There is also an Ointment version of this, but not sure if that works like this. Continue to produce same quality medicine !
Q) Any final words about Neosporin Antibiotic Powder ?
It really works very well on any kind of bruises or wounds. My parents used this powder on severe wounds and it worked like charm. The beauty of the powder is, it is antibiotic and absorbs all the puss or any bad liquids created in the wound. It is better than any ointments available out there. You can always use coconut oil for any kind of support to the powder for it to stick to the wound.
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