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Nostalgic : The Doordarshan Era

Just two days back, early morning I was discussing with Jinesh Bhai, that something is changed through times , and we got ourselves disolved into the 10 years back era of Doordarshan(DD 1). Even though both of us are from diffrent backgrounds, diffrent place ( Jinesh Bhai from Nausari, and I am from Orissa ) , the realisation that we can connect each others childhood - teenage memories through the Television Medium ., Basically the Doordarshan Monopoly Era. The Era was golden for us, as we had so many advertisements, serials, historical and educational programes like Bharat Ek Khoz -Based on Jawahar Lal Neherus Book, The Discovery Of India(The Book I recieved from UGC as the First Prize in a Quiz Competition in 1992), Surabhi(Renuka Sahni and Siddarth Kak), The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, Vikram Aur Betal, Mougli-Jungle Book, Malgudi Days, Bomkesh Bakshi, Dada Dadi Ki Kahaniyan, Giant Robot, Humara Bajaj.. Bland Bharat ki Buland Tasveer , And the National Integration Songs whi

Fresh up your Application

Morning seems to be good when you see something new and bright. Its the same morning once again , when i heard of the Google Gears , API and the Extention out for testing. Google Gears, is an extention for the browsers , which can be installed @ clients machine and is used to corellate- synchronise heavy database driven web applications , with a local database. So that means a database (basically SQLite) reside on client and it fetches the data as required by the dataserver, both when online and offline mode. And the synchronisation happens when its get online. Its really a substantial product to boost web Application platform in general. Current Mood : Energetic Current Song : Yahan ke hum Sikander BreakFast : Onion Poha. (courtesy : Chinu :)