- The Abbott and Costello Show
- ABC's Wide World of Sports
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- All in the Family
- An American Family
- American Idol
- Arrested Development
- Battlestar Galactica
- Beavis and Butt-head
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Brideshead Revisited
- Buffalo Bill
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- The Carol Burnett Show
- The CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- Cheers
- The Cosby Show
- The Daily Show
- Dallas
- The Day After
- Deadwood
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- Dragnet
- The Ed Sullivan Show
- The Ernie Kovacs Show
- Felicity
- Freaks and Geeks
- The French Chef
- Friends
- General Hospital
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
- Gilmore Girls
- Gunsmoke
- Hill Street Blues
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- The Honeymooners
- I, Claudius
- I Love Lucy
- King of the Hill
- The Larry Sanders Show
- Late Night with David Letterman
- Leave It to Beaver
- Lost
- Married... With Children
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- M*A*S*H
- The Monkees
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Moonlighting
- MTV (1981-1992)
- My So-Called Life
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- The Odd Couple
- The Office (American)
- The Office (British)
- The Oprah Winfrey Show
- Pee Wee's Playhouse
- Playhouse 90
- The Price Is Right
- Prime Suspect
- The Prisoner
- The Real World
- Rocky and His Friends
- Roots
- Roseanne
- Sanford and Son
- Saturday Night Live
- Second City Television
- See It Now
- Seinfeld
- Sesame Street
- Sex and the City
- The Shield
- The Simpsons
- The Singing Detective
- Six Feet Under
- 60 Minutes
- Soap
- The Sopranos
- South Park
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- SportsCenter
- Star Trek
- St. Elsewhere
- The Super Bowl/Super Bowl advertising
- Survivor
- Taxi
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- 24
- The Twilight Zone
- Twin Peaks
- The West Wing
- What's My Line?
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- The Wire
- Wiseguy
- The X-Files
- Your Show of Shows
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ICC Champions Trophy 2009 Schedule
Group A | India | Pakistan | West Indies | Australia |
Group B | South Africa | Sri Lanka | New Zealand | England |
Date | Time (GMT) | Match Details | Venue |
September 22 | 12:30 | South Africa v Sri Lanka, 1st Match, Group B, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Centurion (D/N) |
September 23 | 12:30 | Pakistan v West Indies, 2nd Match, Group A, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Johannesburg (D/N) |
September 24 | 07:30 | South Africa v New Zealand, 3rd Match, Group B, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Centurion |
September 25 | 12:30 | England v Sri Lanka, 4th Match, Group B, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Johannesburg (D/N) |
September 26 | 07:30 | Australia v West Indies, 5th Match, Group A, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Johannesburg |
September 26 | 12:30 | India v Pakistan, 6th Match, Group A, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Centurion (D/N) |
September 27 | 07:30 | New Zealand v Sri Lanka, 7th Match, Group B, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Johannesburg |
September 27 | 12:30 | South Africa v England, 8th Match, Group B, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Centurion (D/N) |
September 28 | 12:30 | Australia v India, 9th Match, Group A, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Centurion (D/N) |
September 29 | 12:30 | England v New Zealand, 10th Match, Group B, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Johannesburg (D/N) |
September 30 | 07:30 | Australia v Pakistan, 11th Match, Group A, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Centurion |
September 30 | 12:30 | India v West Indies, 12th Match, Group A, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Johannesburg (D/N) |
October 2009 | |||
Date | Time (GMT) | Match Details | Venue |
October 02 | 12:30 | A1 v B2, 1st Semi-Final, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Centurion (D/N) |
October 03 | 12:30 | B1 v A2, 2nd Semi-Final, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Johannesburg (D/N) |
October 05 | 12:30 | Final, ICC Champions Trophy 2009 | Centurion (D/N) |
some best novels
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The ALCHEMIST By PAULO COELHO |
Dreams, symbols, signs, and adventure follow the reader like echoes of ancient wise voices in "The Alchemist", a novel that combines an atmosphere of Medieval mysticism with the song of the desert. With this symbolic masterpiece Coelho states that we should not avoid our destinies, and urges people to follow their dreams, because to find our "Personal Myth" and our mission on Earth is the way to find "God", meaning happiness, fulfillment, and the ultimate purpose of creation. |
LIFE OF PI
BY Yann Martel
n the author's note that prefaces this vertiginously tall tale, Yann Martel blends fact and fiction with wily charm. Yes, he'd published two books that failed to shake the world - eager, studious-young-man's fiction with a strain of self-conscious experimentalism - and taken off to India nursing the faltering seeds of another. But no, he didn't there meet a wise old man who directed him to a putative "main character", now living back in Martel's native Toronto: a certain Piscine Molitor or Pi Patel, named for a French swimming pool and nicknamed for an irrational number, who in the mid-1970s survived 227 days lost at sea with a Royal Bengal tiger.
Despite the extraordinary premise and literary playfulness, one reads Life of Pi not so much as an allegory or magical-realist fable, but as an edge-of-seat adventure. When the ship in which 16-year-old Pi and his zookeeping family are to emigrate from India to Canada sinks, leaving him the sole human survivor in a lifeboat on to which barge a zebra, a hyena, an orang-utan and a bedraggled, seasick tiger, Pi is determined to survive the impossible. "I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day." And Martel writes with such convincing immediacy, seasoning his narrative with zoological verisimilitude and survival tips about turtle- fishing, solar stills and keeping occupied (the lifeboat manual notes that "yarn spinning is highly recommended"), that disbelief is suspended, like Pi, above the terrible depths of the Pacific ocean.
Martel dextrously prepares us for the seafaring section in the first part of the book, which describes Pi's sunny childhood in the Pondicherry zoo and his triple conversion to Hinduism, Islam and Christianity. We learn much about animal behaviour - flight distances, aggression, social hierarchy - which is later translated to Pi's survival tactics on the lifeboat. Like a lion tamer in the circus ring, Pi must convince the tiger that he is the super-alpha male, using toots on his whistle as a whip and the sea as a source of treats, marking the boundary of his territory on the boat with urine and fierce, quaking stares.
The ongoing miracle of his existence at sea is also foreshadowed by his spiritual life on land; Pi is a creature of faith (or faiths) who sees eternally renewed wonder in God and his creation. There is joy on the lifeboat - as well as horror, and gore, and "tense, breathless boredom". He had chosen his irrational nickname because of his schoolmates' insistence on pronouncing Piscine as "pissing", but he also has a believer's scepticism about reason, "that fool's gold for the bright". In one of the many elegant, informative digressions in the book's first section, Martel takes us through instances of zoomorphism, whereby an animal takes a human or another animal to be one of its own species, and the usual predator-prey relationship is suspended. Pi characterises this adaptive leap of faith as "that measure of madness that moves life in strange but saving ways"; in other words, his coexistence with the tiger is possible precisely because it has never happened before.
Faith and science, two marvelling perspectives on the world, coexist throughout the book in a fine, delicate balance, as when the two Mr Kumars, one Pi's atheist teacher and the other the baker who introduces him to Islam, meet at the zoo to "take the pulse of the universe" and wonder together, in opposing ways, at the sheer surprisingness of the zebra and its stripes. In its subject and its style, this enormously lovable novel is suffused with wonder: a willed innocence that produces a fresh, sideways look at our habitual assumptions, about religious divisions, or zoos versus the wild, or the possibility of freedom. As Martel promises in his author's note, this is fiction probing the imaginative realm with scientific exactitude, twisting reality to "bring out its essence".
The realism that carried the reader in the erratic wake of the small boy and large tiger falters as they begin to waste away and die - and then the book gets seriously strange, with ghostly visitations and impossible islands, as though Martel wants not so much to test our credulity as entirely to annihilate it. It's an odd tactic, though it does leave a fertile interpretative space, a dark undercurrent below the narrative's main structure, which has the neatness of fable.
Though horrors are hinted at, "this story", as the book had unfashionably assured us, "has a happy ending." Pi runs safely aground in Mexico, and the tiger about which he still has "nightmares tinged with love", which saved his life by coming between him and a more terrifying enemy, despair, leaps ashore and disappears into the jungle, denying him an anthropomorphic goodbye growl. Of course, the officials who arrive to investigate the ship's sinking don't believe him for a moment. In a daring coda, Pi offers them another story, which turns the tale on its head and seals Martel's extraordinary, one-off achievement. He had written earlier about how a blinkered dedication to factuality can lead one to "miss the better story". The better story has a tiger in it.
SHANTARAM
BY GREGORY DAVID
Shantaram is the fictionalized account of the real life adventures of author Gregory David Roberts. The narrator is a man called Lin, escaped from an Australian jail and arriving in Bombay, India with a fake New Zealand passport. He immediately meets a taxi driver named Prabaker who gives him tours of the city and a hut in the local slum. Lin starts a free clinic for the people in the slum, and to provide for his own income, he sells drugs to tourists. This gets him the attention of the local gangsters, and he's increasingly pulled into their world of crime, from counterfeiting to gun running to passport schemes. Lin falls in love, nearly dies in an Indian prison, and survives a continuing series of adventures. More than just an account of drugs and crime, Shantaram is the story of a man who, even in a life of violence, genuinely loves those in his life and the city that became his home, Bombay. Shantaram has received positive reviews with The Telegraph saying, "Shantaram is an exuberant, swashbuckling story of derring-do, told with reckless gusto and obvious affection, and if Roberts is no sort of stylist (and he isn't), you'd have to be a snob not to admit to enjoying yourself."
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Have you ever felt the need to know what exactly fantasy fiction is? If yes, this is an excellent book by a master story teller. This book is strictly to those people who accept the writer’s imagination, and are able to define with it; else any one seriously examining this book is going to find it full of Indian english jargon.
The second important thing to read this book, is you should have the nerve and patience to read through Salman Rushdie’s prose. Sometimes, there are sentences (without fullstop) carrying over 1 full page. Imagine one sentence from top to bottom of the page… It’s difficult to continue with that kind of writing but if you do cope with these minor things, then behold, for before you lies one of the greatest books written in history!
The story is as usual written in first person and begins with a remark on our independence. In fact in real sense, it is an autobiography of the fictional character. He begins with his birth, which by the stroke of luck, was at midnight on the day India gained freedom. Similarly like him hundreds of other children are born too and they all have one thing in common, the power of telepathy! All the people born on the stroke of midnight on Independence Day, 1947, have these powers!
The story begins in Bombay, moves to Pakistan, then to Bangladesh, to Bengal, to so many places, before eventually ending at Bombay again. The character explains his journeys and what all he experiences with similar people born on the same day (midnight’s children). The political and historic backdrop which Salman Rusdhie has used, works very well with the story. So well, that one might not notice that Gandhi is killed on a wrong day instead of January 30th 1948. Don’t worry, the book is full of chronological disorders, but that was the way the book was written in the first place.
The events co-incide and influence his life in more ways than one. Rushdie also takes a dig at Indira Gandhi, as the Widow, who is in fact also the main villain of the story! The Widow is out to kill all the gifted children, ‘cause she fears them. Of course, the gifted children as they are, do manage to escape. The author then returns to Bombay to carry on with his life in a pickle factory!
Rushdie’s main charm lies in the way he has mixed all the political events of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh effectively in the story; more so for the fact, almost all the events are at wrong times in history and yet its difficult to notice it!! Language has always been Rushdie’s forte. I cannot think of any other writer who can convey a 4-pageful of facts in 4 lines. The humour and sarcasm too are very well written and placed in the book.
Midnight’s Children is a story that makes excellent reading. It’s classic Rushdie. That’s what makes it excellent. But it’s that excellency – that Rushdie ability to create-a-perfect-story – is what keeps it from perfection. And in my opinion it truly deserved the BOOKER of BOOKERS.
Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini
In The Kite Runner, Amir and Hassan grow up together in Afghanistan like brothers, although they couldn't be more different. Amir is the son of a wealthy businessman, a Sunni Muslim, a Pashtun, and he's educated and reads voraciously. Hassan's father is a servant to Amir's father, and Hassan is a Sh'ia Muslim, a Hazara, he's illiterate, and he has a harelip. But neither boy has a mother and they spend their boyhoods roaming the streets of Kabul together. Amir, though, continually uses his superior position to taunt or abuse Hassan, and one day hides in fear as Hassan is beaten mercilessly by bullies. The Soviet invasion of Aghanistan sends Amir's family to the United States, but he returns there as an adult during the Taliban rule to atone for his sins to Hassan. Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan émigré living in San Francisco and his debut novel has received mostly good reviews. The Denver Post says The Kite Runner "ranks among the best-written and provocative stories of the year so far."
The Fountainhead
By Ayn Rand
yn Rand has proved the same in this 1943 classic, which can be described as ‘a hymn in the praise of an individual’. She has created a new style of writing with ‘The Fountainhead’ and her a subsequent novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’(1957). Both are valuable pieces of writing, having sold more than 5 million copies each. Rand, a Russian who migrated to the United States, took more than seven years to finish ‘The Fountainhead’. The novel was rejected by 12 publishers, and was finally accepted by the Bobbs- Merill Company and later went on to become an international bestseller.
The novel’s protagonist, Howard Roark is not the most loved person. He is not even the most liked person. But his strength lies in his belief of being indifferent to all except his work. He is the a compulsive dreamer, a man so honest, that he has never been affected by the frivolities of the world. His behavior may come across as rude, but his mindset is clear, as he aims to breakthrough the conventions of the world. He is honest, and blunt. A man so emotionally strong and content that work gives him the ultimate joy.
On the other hand, we have Peter Keating, frivolous and close minded. His main aim is to achieve success by hook or by crook. Unlike Howard, he is not a dreamer and thus gains popularity by being the superior’s pet or by diluting the importance of others.
Rand has created the plot of such a serious novel with love, ego, jealousy and passion, all well balanced. Dominique (Howard’s love), Gail Wynand, and Toohey make a mark as their characters have been uncompromisingly described.
This book is the ultimate classic. Telling the story of a hard working and never compromising Howard Roark, who is trialed by his school, his superiors, his love and the law. Affected only by his work and love, he emerges as the ultimate winner at in the end. Ayn Rand, teaches the reader to dream and be the most honest with his work. Drawing a contrast between Howard and Peter, the author justifies Peter’s selfishness as his weakness, and in the end, the reader is filled not with hatred, but with deep pity for him. It is the writer’s passion for her work that is reflected in through Roark’s character.
Drawing out very simple, but true images of the characters, their described physical appearances explains their nature. The book is easy to read but lengthy. Portraying different types of people from the different walks of life, all in a single maze, is defintely a triumph for the author. A change from the usual, melodramatic tales of the rich and beautiful, the blatant honesty of this book help the reader introspect and think of the superficialities of the world. The book is a 600 page journey in the life of Howard Roark, where you identify with him, laugh with him, work with him, cry with him, and win with him.
This book is a work of fiction, but has been influenced by people’s behavior and leanings.
Ayn Rand manages to astonish the reader with her boldness in writing, and simplicity in reasoning. She is truly a master of words, thought and of course, the creator of a legend.
Some amazing and unbelievable true statements
- The entire human race would fill in the volume of a sugarcube.(as atoms have99.9999999999999% empty space)
- A cup of coffee weigh more when it is hot than when it is cold.(as energy/heat has some mass, though negligible)
- An atom can be in many different places at once, the equivalent of you being in New York and London at the same time.(quantum theory proves this beyond any doubt)
- You age faster at the top of a building than at the bottom. (as you go high, time would run faster though negligible)
- There is a liquid that can run uphill (helium 4 is the liquid)
- One percentage of the static on a television tuned between stations is the relic of the Big Bang. (remants of microwave radiations still remains)
- Time travel is not forbidden by the laws of physics.
- Every breath you take contains an atom breathed out by Marilyn Monroe or Einstein. (there are trillions and trillions of atoms we breath each time))
- Quoted from Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You by Marcus Chown
WORLD OF CHANGE
Toyota reveals new Land Cruiser
The new Toyota Land Cruiser will be available in the UK exclusively with five doors and seven seats, with only one diesel engine option.
It's 3.0-litre D-4D engine will churn out 171 bhp and will be mated to a five-speed autobox. It has combined fuel economy of 14.7 kmpl and CO2 emissions of 214g/km, which Toyota claim are the best figures in its class.
The body-on-frame construction remains from the old model, but Toyota claims it has increased rigidity by 11 per cent. Insulating frame-to-body mounts have been added to absorb engine, drivetrain and road noise, and to improve ride comfort.
Higher spec models will be offered with a new electronic kinetic dynamic suspension system (KDSS), which adjusts the front and rear anti-roll bars for optimised on and off-road performance.
The top-spec LC5 model gets Toyota�s adaptive variable suspension system (AVS) with roll posture control, which offers a choice of three damper settings. An electronically controlled rear air suspension system works with the AVS, providing an auto-leveling function and switchable height control.
A new multi-terrain select system feature automatically controls power and braking to optimise performance for different types of off-road surfaces. A multi-terrain monitor feeds real time images from around the vehicle from a network of four cameras to provide the driver with more information about the immediate surroundings.
Prices are expected to start at around �30,000 when it goes on sale on 1 December.
Toyota has also launched its redesigned Land Cruiser Prado in Japan. This would be the fourth generation Prado and it gets all the high-tech equipments like the Kinetic Dynamic Suspension System, Crawl-control feature, a Multi-terrain select switch, and the world�s first Multi-terrain Monitor which displays the road conditions around the vehicle taken by four onboard cameras.
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IAF opens new airstrip near China border
The touchdown by the medium lift transport aircraft signifies India's capability to move its troops quickly to the forward areas, whenever required.
The IAF move comes in the wake of reports of recent Chinese intrusions into the Indian side of the LAC, including airspace violations by their helicopters and painting Mandarin letters on rocks in red.
The AN-32 aircraft, flown by Shaurya Chakra awardee Group Captain S C Chafekar and carrying Western Air Command (WAC) chief Air Marshal N A K Browne and Northern Army Commander Lt Gen P C Bhardwarj, landed at Nyoma at 0625 hours, WAC spokesperson Flt Lt Priya Joshi said in New Delhi.
Nyoma ALG is situated at an altitude of 13,300 feet above sea level and is the third such ALG opened by IAF in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir in the last two years.
The ALGs opened earlier were Daulat Beg Oldi, the world's highest airfield at 16,200 feet, in May last year and Fuk Che in November that year.
The IAF had, before this AN-32 landing, used Nyoma airstrip only for helicopter operations. Only recently, the IAF took up work to convert it into an ALG for transport fixed-wing aircraft operations by laying a compacted airstrip, IAF officials said.
"After deliberating on all aspects and carrying out aerial and ground reccees, it was concluded that Nyoma could be developed for fixed wing operations as well," Joshi said.
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62 | S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore |
63 | Chaitanya Bharathi Inst. of Technology, Hyderabad |
64 | IIIT, Bangalore |
65 | SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai |
66 | SASTRA, Thanjavur |
67 | Bangalore Institute of Technology Bangalore |
68 | The Technological Inst. of Textile & Sciences, Bhiwani |
69 | IIIT Gwalior |
70 | JNTU Anantpur |
71 | M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore |
72 | Gitam Vishakhapatnam |
73 | NIT- National Institute of Technology Hamirpur |
74 | NIT- National Institute of Technology Jalandhar |
75 | SV University Engineering College Tirupati |
76 | NIT- National Institute of Technology Raipur |
77 | Vasavi College of Engineering Hyderabad |
78 | The ICFAI Inst of Science and Technology Hybd. |
79 | NIT- National Institute of Technology Patna |
80 | Cummins Colleges of Engg of Women Pune |
81 | VIT Pune |
82 | Shri Ramdeo Baba K.N. Engineering College Nagpur |
83 | Muffakham Jah Engineering College Hybd. |
84 | Karunya Institute of Technology, Coimbatore |
85 | D.J. Sanghvi Mumbai |
86 | Sathyabhama Engineering College Chennai |
87 | Kongu Engineering College Erode |
88 | Mepco Schlek Engineering College Sivakasi |
89 | Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana |
90 | Hindustan Inst of Engineering Technology Chennai |
91 | SDM College of Engineering Dharward |
92 | R.V.R. & J.C. College Of Engg Guntur |
93 | Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi |
94 | K.L. College of Engineering Veddeswaram |
95 | Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology Nadiad |
96 | S.G.S. Institute of Technology & Science Indore |
97 | Jabalpur Engineering College Jabalpur |
98 | Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering Trivandrum |
99 | G.H. Patel College of Engg & Technology Vallabh Vidyanagar |
100 | Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Bhubaneshwar |