March 10, 2007 by Manav | मानव.

That’s right - Yahoo! is now in Hindi. Goto http://in.hindi.yahoo.com and enjoy your favourite stories and access all of the yahoo services in Hindi and other Indian languages. Don’t you love the stories like:

भारत जीता , मुनाफ ने झटके 4 विकेट - मुनाफ पटेल की धारदार गेंदबाजी 10/4 की बदौलत भारत ने विश्वकप के ठीक पूर्व अपने दूसरे और अंतिम अभ्यास मैच में वेस्टइंडीज को 9 विकेट से रौंदकर स्पर्धात्मक मुकाबलों के पूर्व जबरदस्त आत्मविश्वास हासिल किया।
 

सुनीता ने अंतरिक्ष में खाए छोले - भारतीय मूल की अमेरिकी अंतरिक्ष यात्री सुनीता विलियम्स धरती से बेहद दूर अंतरिक्ष में भी हिंदुस्तानी व्यंजनों को भुला नहीं पा रही हैं। हालाँकि उन्हें पसंदीदा समोसों का स्वाद तो नहीं मिल पा रहा है, लेकिन आजकल वह अपने अंतरिक्ष यान में साग पनीर और छोले का लुत्फ खूब उठा रही हैं।

‘निःशब्द’-जिन्दगी के शब्द - रामू की फिल्म ‘निःशब्द’ लोलिता के प्लॉट पर तो बुनी गई है किन्तु उसकी बुनावट का सारा परिवेश बदल गया है।

ln my view, English media can never bring such juice to the stories. There is something about writing stories in Hindi and I love all of it. 

Cheers!

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February 17, 2007 by Manav | मानव.

Now there is good news for the bachleors who miss cooked food by their mothers! ITC via their Kitchens of India and Aashirvad brand and others like MTR have introduced ready to cook meals in modern packing. Now all you need to do is pick up your favourite meal and cook it and enjoy!

Checkout Latest flavours: http://www.kitchensofindia.com/

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February 3, 2007 by Manav | मानव.

I love this concept of mapping entire universe. I just found out my home in Meerut and created this mapping! It’s awesome and so cool.

House marked as + inside the square is the one! On South West is Water Tank (round shaped object) and you can see the 2nd gate inside Defence Enclave.

Checkout: http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=29028452&x=77674000&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2

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October 11, 2006 by Manav | मानव.

A recent survey by BIS found out that most of the jewellers in India don’t adhere to the hallmark selling gold jewellery. They found out that most of these jewellers who advertise 22 carat actually fall short by considerable percentage. I personally found that something that was advertised as 23 carat in actual turned out to be 20 carat!!! I recently did some excercise and I’m sharing my thoughts/math with you.

Basics:

• 22 Carat Gold translates into 91.6% or 916KDM as popularly known as. ( 22/24 * 100 = 91.6%)
• 24 Carat Gold does not translate into 100% but into 99.9% or 999 as popularly known.
• Cost Computation – Assuming rate of 24 Carat Gold is 8700
  o   Rate of 22 Carat Gold should be 7975 == (22/24) * 8700
  o   Similarly 18 Carat Gold should be 7118 = (18/24) * 8700
   

Criteria I use:

• Pay for Gold based on the current market rate – you can find MCX rate in popular channels like CNBC TV18, NDTV Profit etc.
• I never pay for Hyderabad rate or Chennai rate or Vijaywada rate as popularly called by various jewelers
• Never pay for wastage – why?
• Pay for making charges – this will vary based on jeweler to jeweler, type of design etc.
• I don’t mind paying higher charges for the designs I like.
   

Jewelers where I shop in Hyderabad (they sell what they advertise i.e. 22 Carat gold == 22 Carat Gold)

• Tanishq – Making charges are high
• TBZ – Making charges are high but they’ve great designs
• Alukas – Best rates (one can tally with rates from TV) – making charges are reasonable and they’ve great designs.
   

Avoid

• Mussadilal – Punja Gutta
• Shankar Lal – Rd 10 Banjara Hills
   

Tricks jewelers use – assuming we’re buying 22 Carat Jewelry

• Assume
  o   24 Carat == 8700, therefore
  o   22 Carat == 7975
  o   20 Carat ==  7250
• Wastage  
  o   10% translate into Rs 797.5
• Making Charges
  o   Nil
• This should translate into
  o   7975 + 797.5 == 8772.5 ß This is what we pay
• In reality they sell you 20 Carat gold and this translate into
  o   7250 + 797.5  == 8047.5 ß This is their cost. Assuming 10% wastage covers their actual wastage + making + overheads + margin
  o   Therefore you paid Rs 725 extra == (8772.5 – 8047.5)
• In other words
  o   8772.5 == 7250 + (797.5 + 725) == 7250 + 1522.5
  o   OR Cost of 20 Carat Gold + 21% of 20 Carat Gold
  o   Or 21% over cost of Gold
   

Assume you go to a genuine seller who charges reasonable making charges

• Assume
  o   Rs 100 per gram of making charges or Rs 1000 per 10 gram
• This translate into
  o   7975 + 1000 == 8975
  o   OR 12.5% over cost of Gold

You can now see how these jewellers are benefiting. A simple math can revel it all. I hope this helps all of us being a smart buyer.

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September 28, 2006 by Manav | मानव.

This evening my wife Meenu told me she is proud of me! Wo…slow down girl was my response. She was indeed serious and than she started talking about someone she knew and how her husband was not treating her well.. yady yady yada. She was proud of me the way I treat her with respect, love and dignity. I am a believer of treating everyone with respect and especially girls/wife/sister or any female for that matter. I guess good things come back to you and can pleasently surprise you in a ways you never thought before.

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