Pongal celebrations

Its festival time.

Pongal celebrations started with little ones in my neighboring house doing a kolam depicting the Mattu (Cow) Pongal. This kolam was drawn by Miss.Prianka my neighbour who is studying VI standard

The firing up of the traditional stove to start the festive event.

With fire going up we were waiting for the milk to boil out and push off to the brim of the utensil.

Yep, the festive treat captured on my mobile camera.

Happy Pongal wishes.

Proto.in An event happening in Chennai

The event – Proto.in

Where – Asiana Hotel (Phone – 044-67411000)
Dates: January 18th, 19th 2008
Location – Old Mahabalipuram Road, Chennai

What is this?
Its a premier event in which startup companies and the alike showcase their products, technologies and companies to a selected gathering of investors, VCs, et la…
This event is happening twice every year and so far happening in Chennai. Of course this event is bound to sail across cities other than Chennai in the future.

Here is the agenda of the event.

If possible trying to live blog the event with photos from the venue.Related articles.

by Dr Rao, Adviser-Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India

by Vijay organizer of the event

by Kausikram Krishnasayee

by Siddhi
Update (14 Jan): Direction to the venue using Yahoo Maps is here (Thank you Siddhi)
Update (17 Jan) : Agenda updated with the latest one.

Nano – Tata’s small car – Boon or bane

To Tata Inc,

You have just introduced the world’s cheapest car.
Yes its India’s pride. You have made a revolution in the car industry.
Your dream product is really a special gift to the middle class Indians.
In spite of increasing input costs you have stood by your promise of 1 Lakh Rupees.
I salute you.

BUT

The already congested roads in the Indian metros will surely witness an explosive growth of car population.
Your competitors are bound to follow your business logic..,
Are you doing good to our country’s poor roads?
Should the morality of daily office goers be injured with increased journey time?

Why the car makers are making the traffic poorer ?

This same country had well planned cities called Harappa and Mohenjodaro that too 4000 years ago which had even a well planned drainage.
But today our country is heading for a more heart burn to the road users.
Why not the country make the roads richer ?

My blog post features on Y! Developer Network

It was an excitement for me to know that one of the photos I took on my 2MP Mobile Phone Camera has got featured on the Yahoo Developer Network.
A mention on my pipescamp review at the Y! site tells that its a “Play-by-play” of the event.
coOL!!
Seems that many of the Yahooligans had feast on reading my pipescamp review
The organizers have really put in great efforts in churning this world’s first ever unconference on Yahoopipes into a success.

Thank you Mr.Matt McAlister of Yahoo Developer Network & everyone for making pipescamp a brilliant one.