Google search ends in Raichur

Learn more about the village called Google in Karnataka India. They have no way of googling them since they have no internet connection. Heh!

Cost of keeping Kasab alive: Rs 31 crore and counting - India - The Times of India

Heh! How many pockets have been en richened by this, how many officials are now crorepathis. I wonder.

Thackeray bahu Smita set to join Congress

Heh!

India thrash Sri Lanka, become No. 1 Test team

Way to go boys! Imagine getting your 100th victory, and becoming the No 1 test playing nation with such a comprehensive and convincing win!

Sri Lanka 191/8

Finish it off today fellers!

Dubai shocks investors amid debt fears

"Investors view this as shockingly bad news," said Rob Whichello of BNP Paribas. Two hours after announcing it had raised $5bn from two Abu Dhabi banks, the department of finance asked for a standstill until May 30 on all financing to the heavily indebted Dubai World and its troubled property unit Nakheel, which is due to pay back $4bn on an Islamic bond on December 14.

Debt Standstill - Mechanism by which a country agrees to cease payments on its debts until a restructuring agreement has been negotiated with its creditors.

IND 642/10
SL 229/10 &56/4 [this means the follow on has been enforced]

Heh! Heh! Heh!

I finished reading Ford County Stories bu John Grisham.

In this Grisham narrates a set of short stories, apparently the first time he has written a book of short stories. And all stories relate to a place called Ford County, and their people. Each story is interesting and gripping. And you wish that Grisham had packed more stories, since you can finish off his book in just under a day.

Last week I finished reading Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple, the first book of his that I read was At the Court of the Fish-Eyed Goddess [titled Age of Kali outside India]. Subsequently I have read his other books last being The Last Mughal : The Fall Of A Dynasty, Delhi, 1857. With Nine Lives he once again does what he likes best, travel around India [and around, he visits the Sindh for one story] and meets a bunch of people [as you'd guess nine of them] from varied cross sections of Indian society and religion, and as is apparent in the book virtually stays with them to get their stories. In between the story of the character he gives a back drop of the character's belief, religion or performance.

Unlike the history books of his that I read prior to this [Last Mughal, White Mughal] this one is a faster read.

1965 Ford Other SHELBY



This is a hand made copy, probably from a kit. But see how beautiful it is.