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June 18th, 2009
08:41 am - The Band theory
It was a cold august night in 2006 at the army base in Leh, and after biking for more than 4 days I was spending that time resting in my room. I was sharing my room with an army officer and every evening we would discuss quite a few things and he'd tell me quite a few tales. And this is one of the most important things he told me that night:
( its preachy, beware! )
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May 13th, 2009
08:35 am - Welcome Maximus
My new ride, a 4X4 Safari dicor EX - mountain green. Been wanting this for a longtime for all my jungle travels, with 4 wheel drive and green color its just perfect for the forests. With 140bhp under the hood and a refined 2.2 ltr engine, its powerful and more fuel efficient. And ofcourse I'm not selling the zen :)
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April 16th, 2009
09:13 am - Decisions easily made...
Yesterday we were at a protest to save lalbagh, whose walls have been illegally demolished and trees illegally cut.
The only election candidate to make a presence there was Capt. Gopinath, where were the others? Busy in coffee day?
Some decisions are easily made. Capt Gopinath atleast has served the country, has had a vision to make air travel affordable and showed up for a cause which south bangalore is fighting for. For me having a "cool image" + "foreign education" + "cool dressing" doesn't just cut, ofcourse lets not even talk about BJP
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April 14th, 2009
12:19 pm - Blue winged leaf bird
Leaf birds are one of the most difficult birds to photograph because of the green foliage it roosts in and its own color which blends with the background. Lucky to have it sitting like this.
See here if you can spot the same bird
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April 8th, 2009
April 6th, 2009
05:16 pm - What's been keeping me busy?
Quite a bit of travel, Was shooting for JLR, traveling through all there properties, loads of photographs to process. Hopefully sometime soon I should put up new pics. Some more travel ahead. You can catch more updates on my twitter
Also do any of you know of a good 3d/2d freelance animator?
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February 24th, 2009
February 14th, 2009
10:40 am - Aliens of desperado
So its Valentine's day and there's love in the air. Well there are atleast more signs of love in the air than a regular day. This is not about the valentine's day but about a bunch of aliens from desperado. Most of these aliens look like us, dress like us, sometimes (rarely) even talk like us. Initially I found it hard to believe we had aliens living with us though Ford prefect has been with us for a while, but after a small bit of thinking I ended up believing the alien story.
( Read more... )
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February 9th, 2009
09:41 am - Freshwater Jellyfish - Craspedusta Sowerbii
Last few weeks have been really lucky in terms of photography. Found freshwater jellyfish in the cauvery river. This is only the third sighting of the species in India, and these are I think the only good photographs of this species in India. More about this here in today's Deccan Chronicle
More photographs here, here and here
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January 31st, 2009
10:13 am - Journalism takes a hit
http://furobike.blogspot.com/2009/01/barkha-dutt-vs-ckunte.html
[update]
and the original post that has been removed is here
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Silencing public opinion! Uff, I can't believe it.
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December 26th, 2008
03:47 pm - Yahoo small business and rightly called so...
While there are a megazillion number of domain registrars, how does one registrar stand out?
1. Give one year free subscription to a porn website ***
2. Show some coolness in the name: do-daddy! go-mommy!
3. Have lucky draw contests where one can win a chinese ipod or a electric hair spiker
OR
You could get further creative and charge 35$ for a 10$ domain. Well it works in 5-star hotels to charge ten times for the same burger or pizza, but then again our folks have just forgotten one small thing, a higher price means added service. "Oh Yeah! Everytime you register your domain, we all scream Yahoo!", well thats some relief, some added service. Well I screamed as well when I saw the 35$ invoice, not Yahoo! but something else and yes you guessed it right.
What's more, their creativity has no bounds! They will do anything to get profits to the company and that new coffee machine into their office pantries. How does one find out he's about to pay a higher price for his domains? He gets an intimation saying he has to pay higher and which point allowing the customer to have an option to cancel. "No sir, not here sir, we don't believe in choices. We decide and you pay" - sounds as poetic as a web nazi can get.
But Yahoo is been kind in quiet a few ways I must agree
1. They don't make you do that extra click, as they've made sure you are auto-charged on your card
2. They don't make you go through the headache of canceling the service by renewing much in advance without warning
Well I have now new found respect for Yahoo, and its small business rightly called so
*** - definitely works!
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December 24th, 2008
10:18 am - Ghost of darkness
A sudden trip to Hampi, made it one of the most memorable ones. We drove to Daroji Bear Sanctuary in the evening and as the light started fading, we got out of the sanctuary. Sanath was driving the car and after a while he spotted the leopard on the edge of the road! It was wading through the empty fields, and what followed later will need a 4 page essay. In short we photographed this guy for a long long time, enough to run out of battery and memory card. I have close to a 100 shots of him in all sorts of positions, but here's one for the start.
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December 17th, 2008
01:38 pm - Have they lost it or have they yet not got it?
"May we live in interesting times" - The chinese curse I think has come true. The R-word has made its way across the board to everyones lives. So in these times when everyone's try hard to keep up business, even 5 star hotels are slashing prices by upto 40%, we have some geniuses who have either lost it or yet not got the news.
1. French loaf on church street is a small little bakery shop which charges an average of 900/- for a kilo of cake, really are you selling gold?
2. via prashanthks, the prices of movie tickets and DVDs are still crazily high, I've stopped watching movies on weekends
3. Airline prices are still high, if they cut down their costs atleast they can make up their losses in quantity than just flying 10 ppl per flight
4. Some folks in kerala also hasn't got any clue yet, the cgh group of hotels had a stall for food near volvo ocean race media center and a sandwich (sucky ones) costed 200/- plus tax
Can all these guys please go ahead and get a life before they shut shops?
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December 5th, 2008
December 4th, 2008
01:17 pm - Volvo ocean race - update
Back from Cochin for a week before I go back again to shoot the race. Its amazing to go sail into deep-sea shooting the yachts and meeting the crew. Its one of the most challenging sports I've witnessed, and my respect for sailing has gone up tremendously, sailing for 40 days on a yacht, seeing no land, being on guard 24hrs and surviving on dehydrated food is something beyond ordinary. More when I get back.
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November 27th, 2008
10:28 pm - My 2 cents on the blasts
I've been following the developments close on various media nets. Couple of observations...
1. The Israeli expert said the terrorists want advertisements and air time to spread terror and thats what hundreds of media organizations around the world are giving them! Free air time and its more than 24hrs of it! It now makes sense why the terrorists have not done a suicide bombing which would have lasted merely a couple of minutes and would have killed hundreds, but are holding hostage for more than a day and getting the attention of the whole world.
2. Why are we so ill-equipped? The chief of ATS got shot in the chest. What kind of bullet proof jacket allows a man to be shot in the chest? Look at the indian commando v/s a SWAT team personnel
3. Why haven't we heard from any of the politicians or the thackerays who are so concerned?
4. Why hasn't there been another attack on the US after 9/11, but a series of them in India? Clearly there has been no progress in our approach to any of these terror attacks.
We will all get back to our lives in a day or 2 after this clears and it'll be back to square one until another attack. There were great leaders fighting for our independence back in time. Where are all the leaders now? We have progressed exceptionally in fields of communication and technology. We have much more man power than we ever had and the whole world (6.7 billion) is terror struck by a network not more than a few thousand strong, Can WE do something and not forget this again, Any thoughts?
2 must watch videos
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=-IUSZyjiYuY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOXOImxK0NA
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November 25th, 2008
09:40 pm - Foss.in - Day 1
The first day went on superb! Catching up with old friends being my favorite activity :D
Here are the pics http://flickr.com/photos/amogh/tags/fossin2008
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November 24th, 2008
08:24 pm - Volvo Ocean race
Pixetra has tied up with the Cochin port for the Volvo Ocean race to provide a platform for photographers to provide a great opportunity to capture some moments of this race. Here are the details
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