Sourav's Diary: January 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Just Read ZERO PERCENTILE

I first came to know about this book from Poonam Sharma's Blog. What attracted me first about this book is its subtitle "Missed IIT Kissed Russia" . I bought the book immediately from Flipkart (at just Rs 71,in case you want to know).

Saraswati Puja 2010...a Memorable Experience

This year Saraswati Puja was really special for many reasons. Started with Anjali at Khushi's house. You can see the the purohit (who conducts the puja) in the blue sweater, sorry to say he became the victim of our leg pulling after being caught using some mantras on his own. I had lots of fun with Khushi and her brother Babu and sister Rushi. I am really blessed to have them in my life. Then had lots of fruits and sweets as prasad, and started for visiting our primary school. I was really very excited because I was going to meet my cousin sister Neha after one year.

Made difference on Makar Sankranti, Pongal ,Lohri ,Bhogali Bihu Uttarayan !!!

Thanks to Zooni I came to know all these name of this day. This is the best Makar Sankranti I have ever had. Day started with visiting Jagannath Temple with my parents. My parents are active member of Jagannath Mandir Puja Committee. Every year on this day, many beggars line up near Gandhi Ghat, where thousand people turn up for holy bath. People gives food, clothing, coins to those beggars according to their capabilities. Strangely in my 21 years of life, I was unaware of this happenings, rather I should say I was too busy with my rat race that I forgot to be human.

Chatur's Speach from 3 Idiots

After a long time I laughed so much in a movie! And let me present you that Funniest Speech from the movie 3 Idiots. Sorry my friends who doesn't understand Hindi, it can't be translated keeping the charm.

SocialMention-Real Time Social Media Analysis

If you want to measure real time influence of your brand in Social Media, you are definitely going to like Social Mention, and the good news is this is completely free service. You can search for your brand name in individual social media sources or in all sources together. The result page is like below:

Jyoti Basu Dead or Alive ? Questioning Authenticity of eNews!

I don't know much about Politics, but been listening this person's name from my childhood. He is really one of the most admired politician of India.

No doubtedly hootsuite is my favourite twitter client. So when Hootsuite goes down I become upset. But I become happier when it comes back with cool new features.

Same happened today, it went down for half an hour, and returned with the new feature Preview Link. I will be adding if I find any other new feature introduced.

Let me give you a screenshot of this brand new feature.

GiveWarmth - A Mission to Save Lives in Winter

Photo Courtesy www.ee.princeton.edu/seminars/iss/Fall2009/

So you are having very much trouble waking up in the chilly morning? Leaving the warm bed and blankets? I can understand! But yesterday Khushi told me something, and after that I am having trouble going to sleep!

Onexposure - a photo community with a difference

What is Onexposure?

Onexposure is an artsproject and a photo community with a difference. Take the most talented photobloggers of the web and other famous photographers as well as many serious amateurs, select their best work and put it all in one place - there you have Onexposure. Everyone is welcome to contribute, but every photo is screened, which means it has to be approved by an editor before being published. Onexposure is like a constantly evolving high class photo gallery with new art every day. We don't judge over good and bad, or over art, we merely decide if a photo fits into our gallery or not. Like in an arts gallery, you can buy many of the photos as prints and hang them on your wall. Visit

Thanks to Google, and its dropping apple doole I came to know that today is Sir Isaac Newton's Birthday.

What is Palindrome Day?

Few minutes ago I saw the above tweet from Bivas and I wondered What is Palindrome Day??? Did some google search and found that

The Date which can be read as a mirror image

This is probably most highly awaited website for all bengalis or all who loves reading bengali books. Now you can buy bengali books online from the website BoiMela

Happy New Year to all the readers of my blog!

You may be wondering why I given the pic of Google Search? Actually I came to know just yesterday that hitting "I'm feeling lucky" will display how much time left to start the next year. So I was curious to know what it does on the verge of New Year, that's why I hit the button on 00:00am and found the above sparkling 'Happy New Yea" wises.