Delhi Blasts

A black ribbon (via Aswin) to protest the attacks on innocent victims in Delhi...



And a story of a real-life hero in the midst of it. And Sougata laments on how MSM has moved on.

Anil gets married

Anil, a blogger and Sixapart CEO, got married. He has posted about it on his blog. I am a regular reader of his blog. Couple of quotes from his post.

The defining trait of marriage in these contexts is that the commitment comes first. It doesn't occur to most people to get upset that they don't get to choose their siblings; You just love your brother or sister, or you try to, and you fight sometimes and you disagree, and then you get over it, and that's what family is about. And in some ways, marriage can be like that, too. There's a liberation in knowing you don't have an easy out: You know you're going to make it work, and you're not going to give up.

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So one of the great things about having had the perspective of another culture's look at marriage was realizing that there's a freedom in knowing you can always count on the commitment as a framework that you work within. The absence of that immutable commitment was the thing I most lamented and was dismayed by in so many of the marriages I saw growing up.

Perfectly said!

(via Desipundit)

Real time flight tracking

My mother got on a flight to India yesterday. I was looking for flight tracker and found this and this. It's cool they have it real time. The flight is right now on the way to Taipei.

Vedic Calendar

Follow up to previous post, if you wish to download the vedic calendar (panchangam) in US/International time zones, visit here.

Find your birth star

I tried looking up the birth star and rashi for most of my friends here. It worked accurate to the minute. Check it out here.