Today, I'm back in the college after the onam holidays...but the trip back wasnt very easy this time...My train was supposed to leave Mangalore at 230pm...but before that, some people of Bajrang dal broke into some of the churches in mangalore(Milagres church, and few other churches) and destroyed some idols there!!...and that obviously resulted in agitation; and within an hour, the roads in the city were blocked...people were pelting stones at vehicles and there were police everywhere...So i wasnt able to reach the station. Then we thought of going to Kasaragod and catchin the same train there; but the roads enroute were blocked too... Then we decided to go to the second station in Mangalore, and luckily we got there on time (actually an hour early for a train that was 1.5 hours late!). And I managed to get back to college. Lucky Renzil...he was supposed to come with me, but left early morning because he wanted to watch the race in the afternoon.
But why do these people do such horrible things?! Cant they just forget about others' religion and live in harmony? Yesterday there were serial bomb blasts in Delhi and now today this!...Will this ever end?! Its the duty of us, 'educated' people, to spread the word of secularism. Most of the wars today in the name of religion. Lets consider people before considering their religion, nationality, caste or anything. Lets make India the world, a better place to live in!
Hoping for a better tomorrow...
Links out:
Mlore shut; police protesters clash-TOI
Mangalore tense-IBN live
PS: Do watch 'A Wednesday', a new hindi movie starring Naseeruddin Shah, addressing the issue of terrorism and communal violence. Its good!
Back in college...after a bad day
Google - The next Microsoft (?)
There is no doubt that Google is expanding at an alarming rate, and is all set to be the biggest company in the IT industry.
Was going through the new products of google at Google Labs. There you can find new projects of google, most of which are in the testing stage. There you can find gtalk-labs edition, with invisibility feature (but it has some other problems). One interesting software I found here is "Lively by Google". Its a chat software; but much better than the normal ones. Here you have to create an avatar for yourself, before chatting. You can have fun playing with the animated avatars. There are many chat rooms too(discos, club bars , cafes, beaches, etc), which you can join. And the avatar sometimes reacts according to what you type too...if you type lol or rofl, your avatar would start laughing!
I was watching Download- The true story of the internet, a documentary on discovery channel hosted by John Heileman, sometime back. It showed how Netscape had challenged Microsoft in the 90s, but eventually lost the battle to the giants. But google now doesnt show any sign of losing.They have now come up with their browser- chrome- which is not the best browser now, but is only going to get better. Once Google comes up with their own Operating System(they do use "Goobuntu"- a linux distribution based on ubuntu, but only internally), and something to replace MS Office, they can have the monopoly. But microsoft is not going to watch everything, doing nothing!
