Having bought >120 books, I recommend Flipkart.com to buy books online (India)

UPDATE: June 2010. Now I have shopped some 350 books from flipkart.  Flipkart rocks! Flipkart now also sells CDs, DVDs, Music and games and have raised $8 to $10 million dollar VC funding (source); so expect more!
I had a very bad experience with online shopping (I was cheated by Rediff Shopping and then [...]

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See the colours of India: My full photo website on the SurajKund Crafts Fair

www. surajkundmela.wordpress.com
It was my maiden visit to the famous SurajKund Crafts Mela on 14 February 2010 as part of the JNU UNESCO and Photography clubs’ trip to the fair. I shot more than 450 pics of the 24th edition of the fair and ended up making an online pictorial documentation of the fair a few [...]

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हिंदी: Hindi poem on love and Valentine’s Day by Wasi Bastavi (link)

A lot of visitors come to this blog searching for Hindi poems, messages, Hindi SMS text etc. With Valentine’s Day round the corner, it would be in order to publish a Hindi poem on the theme of love and Valentine’s Day. The Hindi poem linked below is by JNU student Wasiul Haque and was written [...]

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Fun: Get Your AVATAR or see my Avatar

Loved the film Avatar?! Want to Avatarize yourself? Want to see how your Avatar would look? There was this McDonald Ireland link that no more works now but another site called Avatarize Yourself works perfectly!
You can create your Avatar, customize it, change background and share and/or download the image Avatar. The site may take some [...]

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5 Things Hospitals Can Do to Improve the Customer Experience

We have many things wrong with our healthcare system. But, one thing we do right is give Americans (or at least those with insurance) plenty of choices in healthcare. Large cities often have many hospitals for patients to choose from, and even smaller areas offer competition among hospitals for patients. So, what can hospitals do [...]

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16 interesting photos from the New Delhi World Book Fair 2010

These are some interesting photos from the 19th New Delhi World Book Fair (Pragati Maidan). I was there from about 11:30 am to 4 pm on 4 February 2010. Please see the end of the post for links to many more photos of the Book fair and the Pragati Maidan. What I did not like [...]

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