Rice Plate @ Nagarjuna Hotel. Conquered.
Every now and then I have this strange feeling of being a South Indian. Actually, I am one.
But looking at my eating habits, hardly anyone can guess or believe, I am one. Speaking on the same context, people don’t even believe I am a brahmin guy, if you know what I mean.
Today was one of those days, I had the itch to eat as much rice as I can. The thought came last evening too.
So me n Shravan headed straight to Nagarjuna on Residency Road, Bangalore. That’s one of our fav places we go when we need to finish all the rice in Bangalore.
For newbies, here’s the report card.
Taste: 8/10
Varieties: 7/10
Place: 8/10
Category: South Indian dishes, Andhra Style Food.
Specials: Biryani/ Mutton Kebabs/ Sholey( Chicken) Kababs/ Fish Fry
Service: I had a bad experience today, but in general when its not crowded. 7/10
So next time, you get the itch for Rice, head straight to Nagarjuna hotel.
Did you try this place? Drop in your review of the place and food.
Praying Lips…..Helping Hands….The story goes on….
I have many friends.
Some Muslims, some Hindu, some Sikh, some Rajasthani, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and some pakka Marathas.
I am kind of fusion. Telugu guy born in Orrisa, bought up in between Maratha’s and formative years of my life in between Punjabi’s.
Studied in Chennai between majority of Tamil speaking folks. Working and living between Kannadiga’s from 6 years.
Who am I? I don’t know.
Over period of time, living with different sects and religion, I have learned that
- No religion is bad
- Every religion teaches to do “seva” {community service}
- Spread peace and love. Need comes pick up sword.
- Just coz u don’t like non-veg, doesn’t make you any veggie
- And, non-veg price has gone high coz, Brahmin, like me eat all kinds of things walking, crawling, or whtvever.
Plus just remember, a helping hand is always better than praying lips.
If you can serve or contribute anyway, step up, coz it’s not about only you.
It’s about who we are. And how we will be treated next.
[Updated] A March In March
While at Gurudware on Sunday, 25th March, Happy(yes, dats a name) from somewhere found a print out, requesting people to gather at MG Road to support Anna Hazare’s fast.
The first thought which came to my mind, why not? I said to myself, a helping hand is always better than praying lips.
Plus I hate people who are keyboard warriors (Read: Facebook, Twitter etc etc)
After having langar, Me and Suman headed straight to MG Road
We saw some 20-30 odd group standing. After quickly parking the bike, we joined the group.
This was our first candle light march, we were excited that we are contributing our bit by walking 4kms( or more?) and importantly, shouting slogans to keep the spirits high. LOUD.
We saw few elderly folks, kids, young couples and people from all walks of life joining the march. Some firangs too 
Volunteers were very supportive. Cups, Candles, Water, you name it they had properly thought through this.
Hope one day when the actually Jan Lokpal bill is passed, we will say, we march’d for the cause 
And rightfully, the walk ended at Bridgade road, with the song, Hum Honge Kamyab, Ek Din….
Shine on you crazy diamond.
PS: I think the India Against Corruption( IAC) team forgot to thank the Bangalore Police as they did walk with us and they were all supportive as well.
So here I say on behalf of everyone at the march, Thank you!!!
UPDATED
- Couple of people listening to us, gave us complements saying “Aawaz badi Jung hai”. To which suman n me said, we have more samples in our Gurudware 
- While we were shouting slogans, an old lady walked to us and offered water and said ” drink else you will have dehydration”. We looked at her, and silently drank water. She was wearing the jungle trip jacket she was kinda a cute grandma u cant say no
- By the time we left, that 20-30 gang had grown to some 600{more?} odd sanjat {Read: group or mob}
- And finally, Suman’s throat is fine and mine is dying. I would put him under a cycle to die. Yes, that’s a royal death I want for him
Two back to back trips: Kerala & Hyd
The missing me is back with updates.
Had travelled 2 places back to back.
The weekend 20-22nd Jan 2012, was in kottayam, Kerala. Lovely place, awesome people, great food and above all a great trip to remember by.
And, yes it was Ancy’s wedding.
Immediately, my parents were visiting my sister and brother-in-law in Hyderabad, so i too joined in.
Hyd did lil upset me with the traffic and pollution. But nevertheless it was a great time spent with family and home-made food, specially dosas and pooha or aulaki as you may know it.
Pics will follow soon…
Now planning for next month’s trip to Gujrat for Hiren’s wedding and soon after that planning a road trip to Goa
Will write in detail about the trips..later..
Parsing prototype’s responseXML in JavaScript
Here’s a quick code snippet to parse the responseXML using JavaScript.
I am printing the xml file using php, feel free to use your server side scripting language.
First make a quick Ajax.Request call to send the data to server file.
function AddItem() {
var input = ‘myinput=’+$F(‘myinput’);
var list = ‘ListID=’+$F(‘ListID’);
var user = ‘userID=’+$F(‘userID’);
var pars = input+’&’+user+’&’+list;
new Ajax.Request(
‘GetItem.php’,
{
asynchronous:true,
parameters:pars,
onComplete: ShowData
}
);
$(‘myform’).reset();
$(‘myinput’).activate();
return false;
}
Now that we have sent the data to our server file, in the above case its GetItem.php
Print the xml file in the php side.
Collect the reponse from the server in the form of the responseXML.
Below is the code to parse the responseXML and picking it up in javascript DOM.
function ShowData(originalRequest) {
var xmlDoc = originalRequest.responseXML.documentElement;
var value = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName(“ItemValue”)[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
var value1 = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName(“ItemID”)[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
divID = ‘DIV’+value1;
var div = document.createElement(‘div’);
div.className =’ItemRow’;
div.id = divID;
var val = ‘”‘+value+’”‘;
var i = document.createElement(‘input’);
i.type=’checkbox’;
i.id=value1;
i.value=value;
i["onclick"] = new Function(“MarkDone(this.id)”);
var t = document.createTextNode(value);
div.appendChild(i);
div.appendChild(t);
$(‘ItemTree’).appendChild(div);
new Effect.Highlight($(div));
}
This has worked perfectly for me, let me know if you run into issues with this code.
Cheerz
Show your love for names…
At lunch in cafeteria, someone just sparked the topic of hillarious and witty movie titles.
And, we decided to compile the BIG Daddy list of movie titles which tickle and make you laugh.
List the names of movies you know off in the comments and we will keep updating this list here ..
Let me start here ..( updated list)
1. Khooni Dulhan ( 2001)
2. Daaku Ramkali
3. pyasa haiwan
4. tarzan ki beti
5. khooni darinda
6. rengthi chudail
7. Aag Lagaa Do Saawan Ko
8. DIL DIYA DARD LIYA
9. Rampur ki rani
10. raat rani
11. raat rani
Simplest solution to end corruption in India.
If I hear one more time gush over anti-corruption bills and laws, I swear, I’m gonna puke.
Team Anna says they want a strong bill so that they want to punish the corrupt officials. What if I were to tell you, there are proof’s/stings of politicians and middlemen taking bribes on camera?
Well, I am no journalist, nor from any media background and the last thing, I am not attached to any political party. It’s disclaimer.
I want to know, what and how are you going to deal with them?
Now to give you proof’s, please hop on to Tehelka.com and you will find some stunning and shocking truth.
I happened to go over, the Godhra Coverage and the Operation West End.
One simple google search on the same, and you will find tons of articles and interviews of Tarun Tejpal and wikipedia entries of the same.
After going over each one of them, I feel Team Anna has just wasted theirs and nation’s time.
If they would have known how the powerful people in delhi corridor’s react on such corruption issues, and what extent they went behind people exposing it, they would have never expected the elected representatives to pass a strong lokpal bill.
And, guess what happen’s to people who are caught in bribery? Well, is there any other “India’s Upcoming Hero’s Award lined up?”
My curiosity lingers me to raise few doubts about the media itself. I wonder why no one picked up these stories in main stream media? Television debates? Why was anna fast covered?
So that brings me to suggest, this nation of 100 crore+ people, my simplest solution to end corruption in India.
Instead of wasting time, money and energy in organizing, attending and travelling all cities to make people aware of the jan-lok-pal or jan-joke-pal, just raise power and money.
Bring in people who are powerful or can give money ( any amount) at their disposal and take all that money and power and invest in Tehelka 2.0
Let these good, daring and selfless folks at Tehelka 2.0 expose everyone and anyone who are corrupt and are county’s enemies. Then let loose media to follow up on these corrupt officials and finally, we can also do a candle light march ( that’s kinda in-thing now a days) to make sure guilty is punished.
That’s my solution. If you don’t have a better one, please get your cheques ready, should anyone decide to start a Tehelka again, we should be ready with boat loads of money and power.
Agree? Disagree? Feel free to express your solutions in the comments section.
With love,
One Among The Mango People.
