Road Trip Across India

Hey, wait... b4 u even think that this is my travelogue, let me say its not.

But this is one the best travelogue threads I have come across.
A guy and his family made this trip across India covering over 8K Km(that's right 8000 Km !!!) in 25 days.

This is an amazing account of developement or change sweeping across India right now. The photos and account of the travel is fantastic.

www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=341281

Hope u enjoy it as much as I did... and wish I would be able to do it myself someday...

Cheers,
Himanshu

Quiz - V

Here goes this Friday's Quiz:

1. Name the films with the following taglines:
   The film they didn't want you to see...Is now the film you have to see!
   The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe has been answered
2. Name the brands with the following straplines:
   Better sound through research
   God's own country! (Has two answers, either is acceptable, getting both is a bonus:)
3. Which well-known company, headquartered as Silicon Valley, was the first to build an IT product with "Made in India" tag as it was fully made by their development centre in India?
4. In net jargon, what do the letters DQM stand for?
5. Which sports event is watched physically by the largest number of people?
6. Name the only country which does not have its name on postal stamps? (Sitter)
7. Why was 26 January selected as the Republic Day of India?
8. Which organisation's tagline or motto is: "Where the people meet the people"?
9. Which other country shares India's Independence day, August 15th as its Independence/Liberation Day?
10. What is the term used to describe the object in the picture? Also what is so peculiar about it?
    

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Quiz - IV

So here's the Quiz for this week:

1. Expand NOIDA
2. Which company developed 'Blackberry' and owns the trademark?
3. “ Don’t Just Courier it, ______ it “. Identify the company
4. Name the Bank founded by Professor Mohammed Yunus
5. This dyslexic 16 yr old student dropped out of his school to found the British Magazine called ‘Student’. His headmaster remarked "I predict that you will either go to prison or become a millionaire." He did both. He was imprisoned for dodging the customs. Now a millionaire. Whom I am talking about?


6. Identify the advertiser.


7. Identify the advertiser.
8. Name the films with the following taglines:
   A Hero Will Rise
   There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean*, they're looking for one
9. What is the Snellen Chart used for?
10. Who is the well-known chairman of the board of Berkshire Hathway?

For Answers, check out the comments.

Best shots through my lens

Brighton

Dhanaulti

Paradoxically Speaking

I find paradoxes interesting...
some thoughts...

The Universe is defined as "everything that exists".

It is said that universe is expanding?
Now where is it expanding into? If everything that exists is the universe? There would be nothing left, not even vacuum of space to expand, coz that wud as well be part of the universe.

Counterpoint:
Also if that is so what is present beyond the universe, I mean what after everything.

Need a break...

Quiz - III

1. Who has classified his style of singing as “Urdu Blues”?
2. Name the films with the following taglines:
   The greatest fairy tale never told.
   She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees.
3. Who, in the 2006 Football World Cup, were referred to by the acronym WAGS?
4. Which comic character uses a machine called the "transmogrifier"?
5. What was Mark Twain referring to when he said “this day on which are reminded of what we are on the other 364”?
6. Which is the only country to have its map on the National flag?
7. What is the Stockholm Syndrome?
8. Name the author of the book, "Who Moved My Cheese?"?
9. Who was the first space tourist?
10. Which company's tag-line is(was?): 'Natural Gas, Electricity. Endless possibilities'?

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Quiz - II

1. In Tennis, what is known as “Double Bagel”?
2. Name the only team to have participated in all the F1 races.(Sitter)
3. Which films had the following taglines:
   Collide with Destiny.
   The guy next door just became the man upstairs
4. Which Fevicol commercial won the Cannes Silver Lion in 2002?
5. Name the creator of the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip characters?(Another sitter)
6. Where is the headquarters of Bata Shoes?
7. After acquisition of Sahara, Jet will brand it as a separate airline as a value carrier. what is going to be the new brand name?
8. Where and in which year did India's first metro run?
9. What was CII(Confederation of Indian Industry) earlier known as?
10. What is the name of the dog in HMV logo?

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Quiz - I

1. He got admission in Lala Lajpatrai College in Mumbai in the cricketquota. He was a right handed batsman and left arm spinner but never played for the college team. He once told Sucheta Dalal that he would've played Ranji for MP if he had stayed on at Raipur and not migrated to Mumbai. His first job was as a clerk for New India Assurance for Rs. 600?
   
2. This appeared in a company's annual report - "A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion __________ ago was yesterday morning". Fill in the blank.
   
3. What is common to Deepak Shodhan, Lala Amarnath,Hanumant Singh, Abbas Ali Baig, Surinder Amarnath and Pravin Amre?
   
4. Lt. Col. Douglas Kirkpatrick ( Prof. of Aeronautics at USAF Academy ) on observing something said : ___ has overcome the acceleration of the earth's gravity by use of muscle power in the vertical plane, thus producing a low-altitude earth orbit.
   
5. What is special/significance of the number of shares Google is offering in its second public offer i.e, 14,159,265?
   
6. Connect jhankaar,Amore,Upop,Swing,Shruti..
   
7. Described by one of its stars as "Four hours long, with no stars, and no women, and no love story, and not much action either", this film nevertheless took 7 Oscars at the 1963 Awards, including the ones for Best Film and Best Director. Just name the film.

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Quizzing..

Hi there...

Any quiz aficionados over here... If yes, u might want to try ur hands at the quizzes that I would post from now on(most probably weekly, every Friday).

Lets start with a short quiz you might want to rack ur brains at.

Post in ur answers... & No googling though..;-)
The only prizes : Getting to know how good ur :)

-Cheers
Himanshu

Gurgaon Woes...

Gurgaon, also called the city of malls or the millenium city. But wait... I wonder why would it be the city of the millenium!!!
Just because the real estate prices are sky high... or because the architecture of buildings is brilliant... or because new construction projects are coming up at ever increasing prices...
But, what is it basically like to stay here-

1. The power situation is extremely poor and only getting worse. The winters have power cuts of over 2 hrs everyday and in summers you would be lucky if power outage is less than 8 hours on any given day.
2. Public transport is as close to nil as possible. The rickety buses that ply between Delhi and Gurgaon are not worth getting on but they are the only option (unless u want to use the private cabs and risk ur life after the number of incidents in recent times).
3. I do not seem to understand the reason for lack of buses within gurgaon. Not that it is a small town. The distance from the railway station to sec57 would be in excess of 15 km. and there are areas which are further apart. Also no autos ply on the road, at least on the better planned side of NH. This leaves hiring a cab as the only option, which is a very expensive.
4. Traffic discipline/management is again nowhere to be seen. Just because the newer parts of city has decent roads does not mean everything is fine. No one follows rules. There are very few traffic lights and fewer still which work. Even where they work, people hardly care to wait and jumping signal is no big deal. Sometime when I wait, I feel foolish when everyone just drives past caring least for the red light.
5. After the flyovers on NH finally opened(though supposed to be completed long back), the number of accidents is consistently on the rise. No arrangements are in place for pedestrians who want to go to the other side and they risk there lives just to cross the road.
6. You can always see the cows, sheep, donkeys blocking the roads and causing a traffic snarl once a while too frequently.
7. Security: This is another issue that keeps cropping up in news papers everyday. I think anyone living in the place would agree that they dont feel safe going out alone in the dark. petty thieves, robbery even killing just for small amounts can be read in the newspapers almost everyday.

Inspite of lack of basic amenities like transport, power, security... whey would it become a millenium city... are you sure we are talking about the 21st century!!!

(feeling at peace, after pouring out my rants... :)