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This was taken from Deccan Chronicle Hyderabad Edition today and you tell me what's wrong with society? Is life so cheap and meaningless. Mob kills thief for CD player NIZAMABAD Hasagiri Mallesh, 26, of Chandrababunagar in Indrapuri area was beaten to death on Wednesday by residents of Nagaram and Indrapuri on charges of stealing a CD player and amplifier from the New Apostolic Church. According to police, Mallesh, a habitual thief, stole a CD player from a church in Chandrababunagar on Sunday. Suspecting him, the local youth searched his house on Tuesday night and found the CD player. The youth then severely beat him up along with his father Satyanarayana. Later on, the local residents tied up the accused to a electrical pole and beat him again.

The price of oil has touched the USD 140/barrel mark and what is next in store for us? Do you think that speculators are up to their tricks again? I guess most of the countries which had subsidised petrol has decided not to do so and this definetly has a spiralling effect on the cost of consumer goods which in turn has brought inflation to an all time high in most of the countries. Strikes and agitations are organised everywhere instead of focussing their energy on other important issues (not to say that this is not an issue). Maybe this effect is irreversible but what does it mean for ordinary citizens like you and me? Can we really make ends meet now or tomorrow? We know for a fact that developing economies from China and India are consuming a lot of oil but wasn't this anticipated by the major oil producing nations as this didn't happen overnight. Why can't we be prudent in our requirements for oil? With the increase in oil prices, even electricity goes up and I believe ...

It just started to rain for 10 minutes and there goes the power at 10.31 p.m, what the hell do they expect us to do... sit in the dark...it really cheeses me off. I not only hear the raindrops but also the buzzing of the mosquitoes...even typing this blog is so difficult. Lucky for me I had just finished my dinner otherwise I would have to share my food along with the mosquitoes who succk on my blood. Well this blog is written under protest.

Yesterday I was at the Food World chain of supermarkets near the place where in live. I saw they had Alfonso mangoes and I took 2 mangoes and some tomatoes and I was standing in line to get the items weighed and a lady was doing that, she writes the weight on the plastic bag with a permanent marker and in front of me was a guy with quite a lot of stuff. I was waiting patiently for my turn. Out of nowhere an elderly person butts in with his stuff and wanted the lady to weigh it and his excuse was “I have only one item”. I am sick of this line used by people here, I had two items and I was waiting patiently and I told him whether it is one or more item, please stand in line but he just ignored me and he looked educated. What is education if it can’t instill simple civic sense in you? I told the lady who was weighing that she should not have entertained him but she had a dumb look on her face as I guess the managed hadn’t trained her. This is not the first time I had encountered this,...

Well I just downloaded Firefox 3 RC 1 and I am on a test drive now. The browser is cool but my blogger site looks a bit handicapped. Some of the widgets cannot be displayed properly. But overall I think it is a cool browser as it is quite fast in loading the pages and maybe it would take some time for all the features to be displayed as this is not the full version. Anyone with FF RC 1 having any problems? Do let me know what you are doing to rectify it. I find the themes and add on are meant for the older version, it must be a matter of time for the switch over. I am blogging now with Fire Fox and I think I have a lot of tweaking to do. Just in case if you want to test drive FFRC 1, here is the link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

After months of competition and elimination… after 96++ million votes… America voted DAVID COOK to win this year’s season of ‘American Idol’! David Cook got 56% of the votes, while Achuleta got 44%. Quite a close fight! Oh, he cried after the announcement! Very happy that Cook won and not the little Archie. Although Archie was also good, Cook showed more maturity in his performances, which I think made the audience love him more than Archie. Nevertheless, Archie too will definitely have a lot of recording proposals and contracts wowing him in the next days to come. Well this news is what I got from a blog in the net and it was a spoiler as I was eagerly waiting for the show tonight in India. Guess it has come to an end and I am happy with the result as I believe David Cook has the personality to carry himself.

Summer without power cuts is not summer in Hyderabad. I guess it's God's way of punishing us and maybe let us feel what it is like in hell. Yesterday I was in my room for 2 hours in the evening without power and decided to play some games on my HTC phone(pocket pc phone) and what happened after that was I screwed up my vision, couldn't read the letters on my computer when the power came back. Got scared though, so I placed an ice pack on both my eyes, now it's okay. This morning I woke up with a power cut for an hour, without A/C and the room was getting unbearably hot. I keep telling myself, why doesn't the public here take any action against the utility company. I mean electricity is not a free commodity, you are paying for a service and if you don't pay, the board would be more then eager to cut your supply. Just look at the consequences of the consequential losses that one would suffer due to this frequent power cuts, productivity comes down and life comes t...

The photo that I had posted was taken at our site a couple of years ago during summer(in Hyderabad) and it was a small pond which had cracked up due to the heat. So I guess it is easy for you to visualize what I am writing below. It is 10 in the morning and the temperature is already 30 degrees Celsius in my room and I can't imagine how it is outside. But I guess life goes on and I do empathize with the manual laborers toiling away irrespective of the scorching heat, after all they have to earn a living. On my way back yesterday I had seen a boy lying on the roadside and I guess it must be been sun stroke that he was suffering. I can't blame him for walking under the sun as he has no other option. Sometimes we complain about the seasons, but can you imagine if there weren't any season and everyday throughout the year is the same. Life then becomes monotonous and there wouldn't be any excitement in the waiting for what is in store every season for us. I am sure summer br...

I was reading an article on this subject and I was prompted to write about it based on my experience in writing my blogs. I think what you post depends on the subject matter and how much thought that you have put on it. The simplest blog would be a cut and paste job from the internet or from the other blog sites. Now that would make you a copycat and after sometime I guess the readers would be able to spot a rat and maybe your visitors would start dwindling. I write what is in my head and correct it as I go along and I follow this tip that I had read from a book by Lindsay Camp aptly titled " Can I change your mind? -The craft and art of persuasive writing. Remember the reader and the result (RRR) is a good point to keep in mind and also to visualize your piece as an advertisement, now if you were to place an advert on the newspaper on what you had composed, does it have the impact to pull the buyer(reader) and be swayed by it. An ad (in our case our blog) that doesn't persuad...

TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Unimpressed by US President George W Bush's hypothesis of a better eating India causing woes for the US, the UPA government dished out figures to claim that American cereal consumption had gone up substantially despite a significant decline in food production in North America. Quoting Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) figures, minister for science and technology Kapil Sibal on Wednesday said cereal intake in India was projected to have grown by a mere 2.17% from 193.1 million tonnes in 2006-07 to 197.3 million tonnes in 2007-08. Around the same time, the Americans had eaten a lot more, Sibal claimed. "In the same period, consumption of cereals in the US has been projected to have grown from 277.6 million tonnes to 310.4 million tonnes," the minister said. In fact, the Chinese -- another people accused by Bush of gluttony -- actually ate moderately. According to the FAO figures quoted by Sibal, cereal consumption in China had gone up by ...

A very long title indeed but I really want to know what does it take to get the visitors to say a few words as common courtesy. Is it window shopping at the blog sites, look see and disappear. Why can't you make your presence felt. I have my polls for you to click for instance but no one even bothers to click on it. The least you can do is let me know whether what I am doing is ok or not. I always leave a comment on other peoples site and if there is a poll, my curiosity won't leave me until I click and find out the statistics. So visitors, do me favour and be a little generous. I am not asking you to donate any money, but just your kindness. Be a good sport.

Washington: Close on the heels of President George W Bush’s remarks linking Indians’ food habits to rising global prices of commodities, the US has now partly attributed the surge in oil futures to the increased demand in India and China. “There are a lot of different ways that we can reduce our dependence, but we have more to do and it’s just — and also I would point out that, obviously, the demand for oil is growing around the world,” White House deputy spokesman Scott Stanzel said in a briefing. “Many developing nations like India or China are having greatly increased demand, which obviously is having an impact on price,” the senior White House official said responding to a question on the crude oil price crossing $120-mark. The White House official stressed that it was important for the US to become less dependent on foreign sources of energy. Stanzel spoke regarding Bush’s remarks, which have drawn a lot of flak from India, saying the US saw “higher living standards” of people the...

Oil prices are up! Prices of essential commodities are up thanks to inflation. World economy looks bleak and share markets are not doing well either. So what else is new? Look at the state that we are in after so much that we have learned from our past experiences. What does the future really holds for us? Is there a way out here? When are we going to see happier times? ©sukku

This afternoon I tried my hands on changing my 2 column template into a 3 column template that I seem to have a fancy for as it looks great. I saved my old settings and ventured into the unknown territory as I am not an IT geek (maybe a dinosaur). I was refering to a blog site which shows you how to go about doing it. And I messed it up. I wish there was a simpler way to go about doing this (anyone to help me on this). So what I did was change my previous template (minima)to the current one which is "minima blue" and it looks cool. Don't you think so? Maybe I should just keep my fingers to myself and be satisfied with what I have. It's the contents that matters, and not the appearance. The sad thing though, there are not many hits on my blogs and that seem to be a wee bit depressing (not that I am contemplating suicide). Unlike my blogs in Opera, where I had a lot of hits and have many friends there, I wanted to venture in greener pastures but it doesn't seem to l...

Some qoutes to cheer me up, to remind me that I am not alone. To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976 Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. Pearl Buck, US novelist in China (1892 - 1973) A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark Twain They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney English poet, politician, & soldier (1554 - 1586)

This blog is my special tribute to the fearless road warriors in Hyderabad. It is a breath taking experience if by chance you had the honour of driving in Hyderabad or at least be a passenger in a Taxi, Auto or a hired car. I had my pleasure of driving around in Hyderabad (that is on Sundays and Public Holidays) and being driven around by my driver. Each time when I am on the road I get this strange feeling that I am going to knock someone or vice-versa. The safest way to drive here I guess is to drive on the opposite side of the road, whereby the drivers would give way to you.I had my drivers making U-turns wherever they please(sick of educating them), I see cars parked wherever they please and sometimes right in the middle of the road. I had a funny experience with one of my drivers, whom I had the privilege of reliving him of his duties. He had stopped under a flyover, and I noticed that he had the hazard lights on, and I asked him if there was anything wrong with the car, he told m...

The prices of essential commodities are increasing day by day. So what do we do? Our salaries have not increased over the years and even if it did, inflation is at an all time high now. So that really leaves a huge hole in our pockets. There are a few steps that we can take to buffer the effect of rising cost of living. I have drawn out a list that can be used as a guideline: 1. Stop eating outside unless it is necessary. Fancy restaurant cost you fancy money. 2. Cook extra food so that you can refrigerate it for later use in the week (saves on gas, oil, time and labour). 3. Eat more raw vegetables (saves on cooking oil) and limit your intake of meat. 4. Switch to cheaper brand of rice/cooking oil. 5. Stay away from the bottled drinks and drink more water. 6. Switch off all unnecessary electrical appliances and lights. 7. Don’t buy extra clothes, more than required just because it is on sale. 8. If you need to shop, make a list and stick to it. Don’t be distracted by special offers. 9....

SHASHI ON SUNDAY The future, of course, is never what it used to be. There was a time when predictions of global food shortages were rife in conventional wisdom. Writers like Paul Ehrlich and the "Limits to Growth" school of the 1960s and 1970s kept saying that the world's population was growing past the point at which the earth could sustain it. The burgeoning new environmentalist movement added their own concerns about the dramatic threats to our fragile ecosystems brought about by heedless development. And the new breed of futurologists spawned by the Cold War — whose ideas were given new currency by the accelerating pace of technological change in the era of man's first walk on the moon — kept issuing dire warnings that our planet was imminently going to run out of food as the global population grew and the land available for agriculture inevitably proved inadequate. By the early 1980s, the doomsayers began to look silly. They had not anticipated the Green Revolu...

Netlore Archive: Circulating via email, the text of a speech allegedly given by Bill Gates in which he sets out 11 rules of life for today's high school students. 2003 Variant: Email example contributed by Sarah C., 12 July 2003: BILL GATES' SPEECH TO MT. WHITNEY HIGH SCHOOL in Visalia, California. Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. Rule 1: Life is not fair -- get used to it! Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-...

That’s a very good question to ask? Do you know the reason why you blog? I can list down the reasons why I blog: 1. I blog therefore I exist! (lame excuse). 2. I know someone somewhere is reading my blog and he/she says “Hey that’s a pretty cool blog".Let me save this site(wishful thinking). 3. Pass down my experience (in other words I am older by the day). 4. Share a common interest with others if ever they decide to comment on my blogs. 5. A cheap way of publishing my thoughts on the internet. 6. Sharpens my mind and broadens my horizon. 7. Enlighten some souls along the way (so I can earn my brownie points). 8. Improve on my writing skills. 9. Pour out my frustration or joy on my blogs. Maybe tickle some of them too. 10. Killing my boredom I guess ten reasons would be sufficient to keep me blogging. What are the reasons that make you a blogger? Feel like sharing it with me. ©sukku2008