Archive for August, 2005
Google launched its text-chat and voice-communication program last Wednesday. Now in its beta release, Google Talk has little to offer its users. A crisp interface and close integration with GMail is all that may catch one’s fancy. But when it comes to features, Google Talk seriously lags behind its competitors. The fancy emoticons which […]
The West Bengal government has decided to do away with hand-pulled rickshaws, a symbol of Kolkata immortalised by Dominique Lapierre in the ‘City of Joy‘. As a Kolkatan, I would highly welcome the decision. It really hurt me to see a man pulling another man running barefoot and I always tried not to ride […]
Tennis sensation Sania Mirza got her rewards for making it to the last 16 at the US Open as she propelled herself to a career-high 34 in the latest WTA rankings. The teenager from Hyderabad jumped eight places after she added 134 points at Flushing Meadows, which took her aggregate to 888.75 WTA points. Sania, […]
Recently I read the novel ‘Namesake’ by Jhumpa Lahiri, the 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner. It is a poignant narrative of a few characters exiled between U.S. and India living a most unremarkable life. The author narrates in a very simple yet elegant style delving deep into the emotional space of the characters. Lahiri misses out […]
The open source web browser Mozilla Firefox reached 75,000,000 downloads on July 26, 2005.
Here are some facts to help you with a understanding of this huge number:
25% of the US population
Over 2 times the population of Canada
50% of the Russian population
16% of the population in the European Union
60% of the Japanese population
6% of the Chinese […]
As you all know, I was studying printing engineering in JU. Today morning, I went to the WBJEE engineering re-counselling and changed my stream to Pharmaceutical Technology, in the same university.
Well, it is definitely a better line than printing engg. But what matters most to me is the fact that Pharmacy classes are held in […]
Indian tennis queen Sania Mirza has kept her promise. She has almost reached her target of entering top 50 world players. Sania, now ranked 59 in the world, is all set to enter the top 50 club; she will have to wait till Monday when the week’s rankings are released. Sania achieved her goal four […]