…Clueless

I was flipping through the channels while eating dinner tonight when I suddenly noticed Aarushi Talwar’s photograph with people sitting around her body. I looked at the logo of the channel and saw that it was Star Plus.

Then I realised what twisted shit was being aired. It was that stupid soap meant for dumb fucks - Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki. And Ekta Kapoor proved what a silly fuck she is by dramatizing an issue like this. You made a mockery out of someone’s death. Really shitty. The photograph in question is this :

The colour of the shirt, the pose, the hair style, everything was copied. Made me sick. Ekta Kapoor proves that the Idiot Box is really for idiots. And some equally sick women in this country must be watching that episode and enjoying the vulgarity. God bless the little girl’s soul.

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Just read it on the NDTV ticker. The vice-captain of the Indian Cricket Team, Yuvraj Singh, has been invited to Sunday’s Euro 2008 match between Switzerland and Portugal to present the man-of-the-match award.

Great news for Yuvraj! He seems to be going places these days. He captained his side well in the IPL and now he gets invited to one of the most prestigious soccer event in the world, the Euro 2008, as the chief guest for a game.

Thus, Yuvraj Singh will be India’s brand ambassador at the event. Good luck to you mate. But what still baffles me as to why he was chosen over the other greats, such as Sachin Tendulkar or the Captain M.S. Dhoni.

Yesterday, I voiced my concern regarding the website facebook.in which appeared a little suspicious to me. I contacted the folks over at Facebook and got a response from them today. Here’s what they had to say :

Hi Rahul,

We appreciate your concern. “http://www.facebook.in” is a secure Facebook login page. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns or see anything else that is suspicious on the site. We apologize for any confusion.

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

Emma
User Operations
Facebook

So, Emma from Facebook basically confirmed that http://www.facebook.in/ is a legit Facebook website and a property of Facebook. Thus, we can safely conclude that facebook.in is Facebook’s entry into India and probably will be the website to which the Indian users will get redirected in the near future. Facebook India is still broken and doesn’t work properly so I guess it is still more of a placeholder than a proper Indian version for Facebook.

A similar step was taken by MySpace (http://in.myspace.com/), Orkut (http://www.orkut.co.in/) and YouTube (http://in.youtube.com/) recently. Facebook will compete with Orkut, which is the leader in the Social Networking segment in India.

There is a kind of rush to get into the Indian market which is still in its nascent stage but has a whole lot of potential keeping in view the fact that majority of the Indian population is young and broadband penetration is increasing as every day passes.

Well, I’m a relieved man, now that it has been confirmed by Facebook that it wasn’t any scam.

I use AirTel as my ISP. Sometimes, I forget to add the domain suffix and prefix and just simply enter the name of the website. The AirTel DNS is intelligent and redirects me to the required website.

But something unusual happened today. I keyed in “facebook” in the address bar of my Opera browser and hit enter. I was redirected to facebook.in. At first, I didn’t notice anything strange and didn’t even look at the URL in the address bar. I simply put in my username and password and proceeded to login. But the login took forever.

I refreshed the page and this time I noticed something different. The username and password fields did not have their usual yellow borders, which show that you have the credentials stored in the Opera Wand password manager. This time I decided to look at the address bar and saw that I was on http://www.facebook.in and not on facebook.com

I did a quick whois for the domain. The information seemed pretty fake to me but the server it points to seems to be a legit facebook server. It shows up results when you search for friends but everything else on the website is broken. The results also seem to have been fetched from Facebook as the original Facebook uses “s.php” for fetching results whereas facebook.in uses “srch.php“.

So, I am not sure if this is a fake website or a legit one which is yet to be launched. As a precaution, I logged into Facebook and changed my password. I’ve emailed Facebook, lets see what they have to say about this. This intelligent feature of my ISP turned out to be a big security risk for me!

Here’s another article about the dimwits that are in power. My last post was about the government in the state of Uttar Pradesh but here’s some news from their worthy rivals residing in Maharashtra.

The Maharashtra government is planning on turning Mumbai into New York. And how eactly do they plan on doing that? Well, they think they can match the world’s busiest city by copying its famous landmark - The Statue of Liberty.

Bravo!! What a plan! I mean, they don’t even need to create an artificial island for it. Just erect the damn thing anywhere in the city. When it rains, it gonna flood, so that aspect of the statue is covered. The statue is going to be of Shivaji, the great Maratha warrior.

With all due respect, what the fuck?! Would Shivaji like to see $4.5 million of the taxpayers’ money go down into a useless statue that serves no purpose besides giving the government some political mileage? Are the people of that state so fuckin’ dumb that nothing besides this “We are Marathas” shit enters their brain? Just when you thought the Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena had done enough damage with their crazy regional propaganda, Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh decided to draw his own guns!

They should consider doing such dumb things once they make Mumbai a little more habitable. The Indian government never fails to justify its stupidity. Cheers to them!

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Yes, you read right! The results of the Class 10th and 12th examinations were declared recently. Every state government is bragging about how the quality of education has improved under their rule. But why is the chief minister of Utta Pradesh, Ms. Mayawati Naina Kumari so quiet?

You can usually see her on the television, bragging about one thing or the other; how the Dalits have benefited under her or how the crime in the state has reached an all time low. But why isn’t she bragging about the education like all the other chief ministers?

Well, that’s because she has nothing to brag about here!! 20 lakh students, yes 20 lakh students have failed in the class 10th and class 12th examinations held this year. This is quite a number. The state of U.P. now has 20 lakh kids who will not enter college or not even be high school graduates.

The state of U.P. is in a sad state! Someone needs to do something about the situation quickly. There was an anti-copying law that was introduced more than a decade back in the state which saw the pass percentage of the students in the state plummet to the lowest levels. When Mulayam Singh came into power, he abolished the law and the pass percentage increased from somewhere in the mid-thirties to around eighty pecent. But the law was recently passed again which resulted in 20 lakh students failing in the examinations.

These kids will probably do what their other, older siblings are doing - indulge in some anti-social and criminal activities. U.P. is sick and some immediate steps are required to heal it. The politicians in power are useless and corrupt. The people are illiterate and ignorant. The infrastructure is in shambles.

Lets stop dreaming about becoming a super power and focus on issues that matter.

So, during my exams, when I really didn’t want to study, I hopped on over to wikimapia. I located my house and my college. The images are pretty dated. I guess the next update would set things straight because lots of things are currently missing.

• My house
• My College

Kinda freaks me out you know. Anybody, anywhere can just log on to the Internet and spy on anyone. Crazy.