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Nepal
Google Maps Buddha’s Birthplace Error
Mar 5th
A letter of complain to Google Maps from Nimish:
If you search “birthplace of Buddha” you can see the map pointer is inside the area of Nepal but the location description is defined “Uttar Pradesh, India”. Well everyone is aware of the fact that Buddha was born in Kapilvastu, Lumbini in Nepal and even the pointer is pointed correctly in Lumbini area but how can the description be possibly written “Uttar Pradesh, India”? This has certainly drawn lots of attention, because it is delivering very wrong information to all the viewers of Google maps. Not to mention, this topic is very much More >
@Boston.com (recent hindu festivals and rituals)
Sep 7th
Tweet that Festival
Aug 20th
There is no calendar on my wall. The only calendar I have is in the cloud, Google Calendar. It is also synced with my Outlook in my desktop. Every event that I need to attend to, every reoccurring things I do monthly/yearly, every bills I have to pay, every meeting I have to attend, Google reminds me. It has been a real convenience.
I don’t have a patro (पात्रो) or that matter even a bhitte-patro (भित्ते-पात्रो). Forget it – I don’t have a regular calendar hung up in my wall. And for that I, if now always then most of the More >
Dance around the world
Jun 19th
I have loved Boston.com’s The Big picture. Today I found Gopal Chitrakar’s picture and would like to share.
Dancers dressed as Kumari, The Living Goddess, perform a traditional dance in Kathmandu, Nepal in this June 13, 2009 picture. A group of boys and girls from Vajra Kala Kunja dance troupe performed in public to showcase their learning of fast-disappearing Nepali traditional dance. (REUTERS/Gopal Chitrakar)
More of dance around the world can be found at The Big Picture.
