Promise of Reason

Millions of Hindi speakers across India and the rest of the world have a reason to cheer: Google News is now available in Hindi.

Google News gathers news stories from the various Hindi news sources on the web and presents a ranked one-page summary with all the links to your favourite news sources in the various sections. One of the interesting challenges google faced in this edition was the fact that not all Hindi news sources are in UTF-8 format. Though google strongly back and urge the adoption of the Unicode-based UTF-8 standard by all Indian language websites, google didn’t want to deprive hindi readers from reaching content on some of google’s favourite news sources which are not yet there. So google internally translate this information to the UTF-8 standard and do all the processing necessary to provide links to these sites. Google hope that this edition will enable the huge Hindi-speaking Internet population to easily reach all of their favourite news content across the web, and also help news publishers to connect to their audience better.

And now I’m off to tell my beloved family members and friends all the great news –or should I say Google News?

Compilation of quotes about india from some of the greatest people of different fields.

1. If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. ~ Romain Rolland (French Nobel Laureate)
2. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. ~ Hu Shih (Chinese ambassador to the US)
3. India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. ~ Mark Twain
4. So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. ~ Mark Twain Read the rest of this entry »

So India got “Right to Information Act”. Is it same good old news? No! This time India’s premier institute IIT Kanpur was on fire. Fire was started by your truly by posting a document on local news group of IITK, which I got from one of my friend, who in turn got it by RTI from Dean’s office.This document describes the CGPA (CPI) distribution in different batches of IITK in terms of number of students.

So conversation in student community started like this (I have used nick names of people on ng to avoid any conflict ,those who don’t know what a news group is can google )

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