Chakravarthy Parankusam

Wish you a happy new year. Hope the new year(2008) brings many good things to you. I am aiming to increase my frequency of publishing to 4 per month (one on each sunday). Small things which make life beautifull: Try to live in the moment. Did you ever heard the sound of coffee brewing (except in movies). Try to observe the small things which happen beside you. Did you ever listen the chirping souds of birds ? Did you ever see the rising Sun? The list continues.... (This is not the end )

Many of my friends have lot of doubts and un-answered questions on Tirupati, Tirumala and Lord Balaji. You can find answers regarding Traveling, Staying etc. from the people who already visited or from tirumala.org website etc... There are some questions which my friends ask me (as I come from Tirupati) like, Does lord Balaji have long hair? Is there a big hole behind lord Balaji's Idol ? You can't find authenticated answers to these questions any ware. There are another set of questions regarding utsavams, culutural practices, theerthams etc. for which it is very difficult to find right answers. If you also have such questions or you want see the answers to these type of questions then definetly you need to join/visit an orkut community called Tirupati Venkateswara-Balaji . As this community is maintained by a Priest (Ramakrisna Dixit Archakam) who really touches and offers puja to the feet of Lord Balaji, the information provided will be authentic and practical. H...

This is an email on chain marketting from my friend Vamshi Shekhar. (Published with his persmission). Last week I was invited by one of my close associate to a chain marketing company(QuestNet) which as usual claims to be legal, credible and give you a dreams of making easy bucks. I spent the whole evening talking to the executives there. I was surprised to see a lot of educated people(mostly software employees) jumping in to this stuff. I wasn't convinced with the proofs of the credibility, legality or the business plan of the company. So I started researching on these and found some facts, which I think would be helpful for you guys in making further decisions. Legal Issues These guys claims to be following referral marketing strategy even though it is very much same as multi level marketing. Multilevel marketing is banned in our country under Prize Chits and Money Circulation Scheme (banning) Act, 1978. Any sort of network marketing is banned. Please have a look at all th...

Before marriage.... He: Yes. At last. It was so hard to wait. She: Do you want me to leave? He: No! Don't even think about it. She: Do you love me? He: Of course! Over and over! She: Have you ever cheated on me? He: No! Why are you even asking? She: Will you kiss me? He: Every chance I get. She: Will you hit me? He: Are you crazy! I'm not that kind of person! She: Can I trust you? He: Yes. She: Darling! After marriage.... Simply read from bottom to top. Source: Eye(Nayan)

Today's Sunday suplement of Eenadu paper features a website called Free Rice . It poses questions on synonyms for English words. For each word you get right, the website donates 10 grams of rice through United Nations. The website gets money to donate rice from sponser's ads which appear while you answer the questions. This is a WIN & WIN situation for charity and learning. You can improve your english and at the same time can donate.

Yesterday, I visited a fort in devarakonda with the Save Rocks group. It was a nice fort with well built facilities like, wells, lakes, cannon camps etc... We had some rock climbing experts with us and they helped us to do bouldering. The fort is built surrounding five hills. All the water which flow down the hill is stored in small dams built under them. There were lot of paddy fields one side of the fort which gives a beautiful sight from the top of the hill (one of the five hills). It was very relieving to see the nature full of rocks and greenery after being in Hyderabad containing lot of Traffic and Pollution. It takes 2 hours to reach the place from Hyderabad. We need to save these forts (which showcase our natural heritage) and pass them on to the future generations. Save Rocks Society: The aim of the society is to make people reliaze the beauty of rocks (which take millions of years to form naturally) to people and save them from destroying. In the effort of d...

Yahoo is trying to compete in social networking with rest of the world (facebook, orkut, myspace). It started 360,kickstart and now it is pursuing inbox2.0. (You can read the history here .) Yahoo has large user base with Yahoo mail which is shifting towards google these days. But still yahoo owns an asset which no one can steal from it. It is yahoo groups. It is very difficult to move for people from yahoo groups to google groups as there are many groups with large no. of users and are created long back. Yahoo can concentrate on turning yahoo groups into social networking without changing its simplicity (the beauty of yahoo groups).