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Utthishta Bharata

I remember watching one or two episodes of Chanakya TV Serial in DD National TV and suddenly it stopped airing after some episodes. I didn't know why at that time, I was a kid. I don't remember whether I understood the serial or not or whether I was interested in that or not.But I think I believe I was interested because I still remember those episodes.

And after stopping that serial, they started airing,Akbar the great serial(or it was Tippu Sultan serial don't remember exactly).

And the time passed on... as always time passes on and we never realize what we left behind.

Recently I got Chanakya TV Serial video CD's from one of my friend, and I spent watching the episodes almost 18 hours continuously without stop. I was spell bound to watch such a serial, and later came to know why DD National stopped airing it.And it was congress govt which stopped the serial, thinking that it expresses Hindu Oriented Nationalistic views & those of RSS & BJP ideology.

I really liked Chanakya serial. It is very much essential for the future generations. I request all of you to have one copy of all the episodes with you and see yourself as well as show it to your family members & kids. Protect our culture.

And I heard "Utthishta Bharata" word in that serial, in Sanskrit it means, "Arise India". It empowers each one of us, bharatiya's, to put our efforts into protecting our Motherland as well as our Culture.

Utthishta Bharata, Jai Hind.

Windows CodePage and Unicode Conversion using C#

Life & Tragedies

Benjamin Button: Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it. A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping, but she had forgotten her coat - went back to get it. When she had gotten her coat, the phone had rung, so she'd stopped to answer it; talked for a couple of minutes. While the woman was on the phone, Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the Paris Opera House. And while she was rehearsing, the woman, off the phone now, had gone outside to get a taxi. Now a taxi driver had dropped off a fare earlier and had stopped to get a cup of coffee. And all the while, Daisy was rehearsing. And this cab driver, who dropped off the earlier fare; who'd stopped to get the cup of coffee, had picked up the lady who was going to shopping, and had missed getting an earlier cab. The taxi had to stop for a man crossing the street, who had left for work five minutes later than he normally did, because he forgot to set off his alarm. While that man, late for work, was crossing the street, Daisy had finished rehearsing, and was taking a shower. And while Daisy was showering, the taxi was waiting outside a boutique for the woman to pick up a package, which hadn't been wrapped yet, because the girl who was supposed to wrap it had broken up with her boyfriend the night before, and forgot.

Benjamin Button: When the package was wrapped, the woman, who was back in the cab, was blocked by a delivery truck, all the while Daisy was getting dressed. The delivery truck pulled away and the taxi was able to move, while Daisy, the last to be dressed, waited for one of her friends, who had broken a shoelace. While the taxi was stopped, waiting for a traffic light, Daisy and her friend came out the back of the theater. And if only one thing had happened differently: if that shoelace hadn't broken; or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier; or that package had been wrapped and ready, because the girl hadn't broken up with her boyfriend; or that man had set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier; or that taxi driver hadn't stopped for a cup of coffee; or that woman had remembered her coat, and got into an earlier cab, Daisy and her friend would've crossed the street, and the taxi would've driven by. But life being what it is - a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control - that taxi did not go by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed."

From the movie : Curious Case of Benjamin Button

01022010

Today is a special day. 1 February 2010 => 01/02/2010 => 01022010.

01022010 number is a palindrome.

For those of you who don't know what palindrome is :
"A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction."

"Happy Palindrome Day"

Export Limitations in SSRS

Problem :

In SSRS, when you export the report in CSV format, you will not get values. (Export Limitations in SSRS)

Solution :

The data renderers, CSV and XML, only show data and not any layout, means it display non-static data.

Data renderers don’t render static data by Default, they only render expressions.
So either change the table to render real data coming from data base or expressions, or change data output option for table cells (only cells which contain dynamic data, not the headers) from “Auto” to “Yes”.

Or
you can control the export behavior on a textbox-by-textbox basis with the DataElementOutput property.You have 3 options to select, Auto (default), Yes, No.

Right click on Report in Visual Studio solution explorer, select view code & then

add <DataElementOutput>Output</DataElementOutput>

After the name of the text boxes which will be filled by dynamic data.

Hope this helps, Let me know if you find any difficulty.

Solar Eclipse @ Kanyakumari on 15 Jan 2010

Details about this Eclipse:

* Moon's shadow will cover the sun & you will get to watch the 'Ring of Fire'(Annular solar eclipse occurs when the sun and the moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the moon's shadow is smaller than that of the visible disc of the sun. The covered sun, therefore, appears as a 'Ring of Fire', with its rays appearing spread out from the outline of the moon.)

* This is millennium's longest annular solar eclipse that is between 2001 and 3000, maximum duration of the eclipse would be 11 minutes 08 seconds over the Indian Ocean.

* Last time India saw this 'Ring of Fire' was Nov 22, 1965, and it will not be witnessed again before June 21, 2020.

* In India, the eclipse started at around 11 a.m. and ended at around 3:15 p.m. The eclipse first seen in south of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and then moved obliquely to Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi. It moved to Kerala and ended in Mizoram in the northeast.

The path of the moon's shadow begun in Africa at 10.44 a.m. and passed through Chad, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia. After leaving Africa, the path crossed the Indian Ocean.

The central path then continued into Asia through the extreme southern part of India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and China.

Update : My friend Sharanu has wonderfully written about our Solar Eclipse @ Kanyakumari Adventure on his blog post : My Romance with Sun

The year 2009

Hello!!!!!


How are you? Sorry for not updating my blog these 3 months properly, I too got affected by the recession. I had time to read & write but was just too lazy to do anything. Now & then I popped into internet just to check emails & watch movies.

I am still amazed about the way this year went by. Few more days and we will start living in 2010!! I really liked 2009, it was one of the memorable years in my life, health, career & interest all were in good condition. As people say all good things come to an end so too this year :( .

As everybody does, I too hope the coming year,2010 will be a good year.Hope to blog regularly in the coming year.

Will update this post in another day or two with some more information about 2009, before 2010 begins.

Lakshmi Pratury on letter-writing

Aate jate khubsoorat awara sadko pe

Aate jate khubsoorat awara sadko pe kabhi kabhi itfaq se,
Aate jate khubsoorat awara sadko pe kabhi kabhi itfaq se,
kitne anjaan log mil jate hain,
unme se kuchh log bhool jaate hain, kuchh yaad rah jate hain,
unme se kuchh log bhool jaate hain, kuchh yaad rah jate hain

Aate jate khubsoorat awara sadko pe kabhi kabhi itfaq se,
kitne anjaan log mil jate hain,
unme se kuchh log bhool jaate hain, kuchh yaad rah jate hain,
unme se kuchh log bhool jaate hain, kuchh yaad rah jate hain,

awaz ki duniya ke dosto, kal raat kisi jagah pe mujhko,
kis kadar ye hasin khayal mila hai,
rah mein ik reshami rumal mila hai,
kis kadar ye hasin khayal mila hai,
rah mein ik reshami rumal mila hai

jo giraya tha kisi ne jaan kar, jiska ho le jaye wo pahchan kar,
warna main rakh loonga usko apna jaan kar,
kisi husn wale ki nishani maan kar, nishani maan kar


hasnte gaate logon ki baaton hi baaton mein,
kabhi kabhi ik mazak se,
kitne jawan kisse ban jaate hain, un kisson mein chand bhool jaate hain,
chand yaad rah jaate hain,

unme se kuchh log bhool jaate hain, kuchh yaad rah jate hain

Taqdeer mujhpe meharban, jis shuak ki ye dastan hai,

usne bhi shayad ye paigam suna ho, mere geeto mein apna naam suna ho,
usne bhi shayad ye paigam suna ho, mere geeto mein apna naam suna ho,
door baithi ye raaj wo jaan le, meri awaz ko pahchan le,
kaash phir kal raat jaisi barsat ho, aur meri uski kahin mulakat ho, mulakat ho
lambi lambi raaton mein jab neend nahi aati,
kabhi kabhi is phirak se,kitne hasin khwab ban jaate hain,
unmein se kuchh khwab bhool jaate,kuchh yaad rah jaate hain,
unme se kuchh log bhool jaate hain, kuchh yaad rah jate hain

Aate jate khubsoorat awara sadko pe kabhi kabhi itfaq se,
kitne anjaan log mil jate hain, unme se kuchh log bhool jaate hain, kuchh yaad rah jate hain

Language basics to learn while going to a foreign country

You may want to learn some basic language, when you are going to some distant place where nobody speaks the languages you know. The best way is to buy a dictionary and learn the following. This is not the complete list, its just the bare minimum things you need.

1. Every Day terms ( Food Names, Greeting Terms,

2. Numbers ( frequently used is enough most of the time)

3. Names of Places

Also read this : Learning New things

Wonder that was India

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Fundamental Forces and their Force Carrying Particles

Difference Between Interface and Abstract Class

Interfaces
--contain only abstract methods
--interface can't be inherited from a class
--using interfaces we can achieve multiple inheritance
--doesn't allow accessibility modifiers (Public/Private/Internal)
--can't contain fields, constructors
--is must implementable & its scope is upto any level of its inheritence chain.

Abstract Class
--contain both abstract methods as well as concrete methods
--can extend another class and implement multiple interfaces
--we can't achieve multiple inheritance
--allows accessibility modifiers
--can contain fields, constructors
--class Abstract class is must inheritable & its scope is upto derived class

How To: Delete Duplicate Rows from a Table

Problem: You have a table (table1) & values as above, and it contains the duplicate records as shown, how will you delete the duplicates?

Solution: Use following query, the records shown in the below image will be deleted

delete from table1 where empid not in

(select max(empid) from table1 group by empName,empEmail,empCity);

let's look for life in the outer solar system :Freeman Dyson

Life & Computation

The Face of Leonardo Da Vinci

We all have seen the drawings made by Leonardo Da Vinci but most of us have not thought about his portrait or how he looked like. Most of his contemporaries had drawn their self portrait & Leonardo also must have drawn his portrait. In below video Illustrator Siegfried Woldhek tries to show us the true face of Leonardo, have a look & enjoy.

Signals Intelligence

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