Unguaranteed Prophecies & Guaranteed Ramblings

1950: Declaration of Republic of India on the model of Socialist Democracy

2008: Somewhere, Nehru’s dream of Socialist Democracy goes down the drain and Ambani s’ dream of Capitalist Democracy begins to show its ugly head.

Me: What the fuck is the Judiciary doing?

Alter-ego: What? I mean, WTF are the elected representatives doing?

Read Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s “Economic rights [...]

This post draws heavy inspiration from Eddie Vedder’s “Long Nights” song. I recently watched the movie, “Into the Wild” (2007). It is such a terrific film and would recommend it to anyone that liked “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest“/”House of Sand and Fog“/”A Perfect World“. “Into the Wild” introduced me to Eddie Vedder’s work [...]

Without doubt, I can assertively state that ஃ (Ayutha Ezhuthu - 2004) or its Hindi version (Yuva) is heavily inspired by Amores Perros (2000). The Director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Writer, Guillermo Arriaga deserve credit for their close-to-reality depiction of life in Mexico. The movie weaves the relationship between the main characters and their canine. [...]

Carpediem

“The whole battle of life is figuring out one’s identity and the constant flirtation with meta-physics. If you hate it then better soak yourself in the love of family.”

This is a very generic set of instruction to get one started with SVN. The setup environment is assumed as Linux. To be precise, this should work for Ubuntu.

Make sure you have the required svn libraries and svnadmin tool installed.

Execute the following as a super user:

mkdir /usr/local/svn
mkdir /usr/local/svn/repo
mkdir /usr/local/svn/repo/trunk
mkdir /usr/local/svn/repo/branches
mkdir /usr/local/svn/repo/tags

Set appropriate user-group permissions.

svnadmin create [...]

“Is Government job an excuse for running families?…To me it is all about bureaucracy, paperwork and formalities”

Thought, I would come up with a compilation of statistics per Olympics Discipline and the Countries that have dominated it since their inception. Here is a set of five images. If you are creative enough, you can correlate something from History on the performance. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the gender wise contribution to these final [...]