Guru Music - Mindless Rediff

"No one but A R Rahman can compose the music for a Mani Ratnam film!"

I strongly condemn the above lines. Mr.Ilayaraja has done a greater job for Mani Ratnam's previous works. The reason why they parted their way is a different matter altogether.

GMail Firewall problem

I got this problem recently when I was browsing Gmail. A link pointed to this site.

God Exists

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer.

"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."

The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with lon g, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.

The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."

"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"

"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long ! hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! " answered the barber. " What happens, is, people do not come to me. "

"Exactly!"- affirmed the customer. ! "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look forHim. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Google Trends

Most of you by now will be knowing about Google Trends. With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite topics. Its a good tool for doing market research. Let us see some interesting trends.

India Vs Pakistan

We Indians are less concerned about ourselves and pakistanis, but Pakistanis are more concerned about themselves and about us.

Here is the another one, Tamil vs Hindi vs Marathi vs Telugu vs Kannada

Hindi leads the pack in India, UAE, Saudi, Canada and UK. While Tamil leads in Srilanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland an almost comes equal with Hindi in Kuwait.

Any guess which is most searched term in Google? ;)

Official with Indian cricket cap

How can a board official(here its Kiran More, Chief of Selectors) wear an Indian cap as shown in this picture? Recently this issue was raised by Sunil Gavaskar on Gloster(Indian cricket team physio) wearing the official cap. Picture courtesy: Rediff.com