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Rankala Teh urban wetland and birds paradise

I used to stay near Rankala some years back and never knew the history of it before bu recently one of my students met me and openend my eyes and taught many lessons. It is the artificial urban wet land and very nicely constructed by british officer. It has a great ecological history of variety of birds coming to visit Rankala. It has the spiritual lienage of Rank Bhairav th guard of the city.The sandhaymath is the oldest monument historically standing there for so many years!and so on.......

Internet's 40th anniversary

Internet's 40th anniversary celebrated in US
Fri, Oct 30 12:35 PM
San Francisco, Oct 30 (IANS) The 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet was celebrated in the US with events being organised at the University of California and the Computer History Museum in Los Angeles to mark the occasion.
Industry leaders, researchers and analysts, among others, attended the function at the California University Thursday, Xinhua reported.
Computer science professor of the university, Leonard Kleinrock, who on Oct 29, 1969 headed a team to send the first message over the ARPANET, which later came to be known as Internet, also attended the event.
'The moment the Internet was born, ushered in a technological revolution that has transformed communications, education, culture, business and entertainment across the globe, leading to dramatic change in our social, political and economic lives,' the university said in a statement.
Activities were also planned at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, to mark the occasion.
'The 1969 connection was not just a symbolic milestone in the project that led to the Internet, it connected computers and eventually billions of people to each other,' Marc Weber, founding curator of the museum's Internet History Programme, said in a statement.
'In the 1960s, a few hundred users could have accounts on a single large computer using terminals, and exchange messages and files between them. But each of those little communities was an island, isolated from others,' Weber noted.
'By reliably connecting different kinds of computers to each other, the ARPANET took a crucial step toward the online world that links nearly a third of the world's population today,' he said.
Four decades after its birth, the Internet is seen by some to have encountered some kind of middle-age crisis. But others argue that it is still in the early stage of innovations.
At a symposium hosted this month by market research firm Gartner, Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Internet search giant Google, said he envisions a radically changed Internet five years from now.
In the next five years, the Internet is expected to be dominated by social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time, he predicted.
'It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources. Learning how to rank is the great challenge of the age,' Schmidt said.
Indo Asian News Service

I wish to let all my friends know the importance of network invading our life and privacy.HOw are we going to live with this change?

Hey Kolhapur is changing!

I wish to inform all the visitors that The way you look at Kolhapur has to be changed and the e revolution has finally reached the collector office.
I remember when i ws trying to publicise internet connectivity and meet people in 19996 nobody was willing to listen to me. I met somebody in nicnet kolhapur office but at that time the nicenet was a bit conservative and they had alot of protocol so the connectivity could not be discussed. At that time BSNL was very active and Mr Sanyal was the man who took the initiative to support the activity and made us create a resoultion at KCCI ( Kolhapur Chamber Of Commerce & Industries) to get internet connectivity through NICNET.An application was sent through Hon Sadashivrao Mandalikji to SUshama Swaraj the then minister for this portfolio and in 1999 Kolhapur was added in first 92 cities to be connecetd via internet backbone.
I was checking for the data of kolhapur and saw dist collecotrs website i was surprised to see Mr deshmukh's blog with a very sincere appeal.
I remember vasant manwadkar's guest book of Kolhapur.com where all those who have left kolhapur used to coment that kolhapur is not soft city but a very hasrh city.
Now the flow is growing the nests are being emptied and many fathers and mothers waiting for their sons and daughters regret for not being in Pune or so..
Actually this is high time for the IT to come to Kolhapur.
Thank god the colllector is at least connected to this part of globe and this time Kolhapur will not miss the bus.

Tukaram Baba

When i started my career as a copywriter there was nobody to tell me about how i should or should not make it and then one day i referred TUKARAM GATHA very nicely indexed one so that say a word and you have something said by tukarambaba. Then i made him my guru like eklavya and after some years when i participated in an exhibition at mumbai through SAKAL i met gopi kukade the maker of the ONIDA advt The very famous neighbour's envy owners pride and he in his speech explained how he was inspired by TUkaram's nindakache ghar asave shejari... It was a great confirmation for my intellectual makeup and then i never looked back in my way of thinking.
I had to close my agency in 1999 due to recovery problems and changing world and then i read the spiritual stuff more seriously and last year i went to dehu the Babas' place. It has shaken me to pieces and i bought the new Gatha there,But it was only possible to have that thought because of the website tukaram.com.
I wish all of you plese check the website of TUkaram and understand what i mean..

KARVEER NAGAR VACHAN MANDIR kOLHAPUR

I was talking of books and then i understood the dimensions of public library this year when i met mr uday kulkarni of Karvver Nagar Vachan Mandir Kolhapur. The oldest of all the public library. This year i found that every where there is rejuvenisation is taking place and temples are getting rebuilt people are coming together to do somehing constructive.

Population is creating pressure on the infrastructure and resources are being pressurised. Everything is asking for a makeover.

Karveer Nagar Vachan Mandir is the one public project awaiting for this makeover in it's own style but the condition is that it should be done by public support only.Interstingly the collection is so rare but hihgly neglected because academicians are not serious about public libraries.

I made some of my studnets visit this library and made presentations here are some photohraphs.

The students have worked fantastically and sincerely.

DASSARA A NEW DESTINATION TO REACH!

I wish you all happy dassara and let all the ravans in you burn to reality and all the ram the essence of life come to you on occasion.Last time i had requested you to support the cause of various spiritual activities in kolhapur. One of them was the ramkrishna centre at kolhapur. Here are some photographs of the developments in rajarampuri 11 th lane kolhapur.

This place is blessed by many of the monks from rkmath at various places and holds the highest esteem in the minds of the people around and the devotees of all religion.

I appeal to all my students with the earnest request that this being the future of the new generation please donate generously for the cause.

To add to your information on how visinoary vivekananda was i read a book called east and west compiled by him, it describes comparison of faith belief and value system of the entire world including the dressing style as well as food and cultural habits. worth reading it.i you can get a copy of it from nagpur math india.

The latest update on this east and west is here

THE NEW THOUGHT MOVEMENT: A LINK BETWEEN EAST AND WESTDelivered at the Parliament of the World's ReligionsChicago, September 3, 1993
Alan AndersonCurry College.Perhaps what the world needs most is a religion that lovingly includes diversity, that invites all people to turn within themselves to find their individualization of the universal Reality (of whatever name, or none), a religion that offers techniques for using their awareness of the ultimate presence to solve their daily problems. New Thought has been doing this for more than a century of inspiring people, healing them, and encouraging them to engage in what is new thought and practice for them.
Perhaps the best description for New Thought is William James's chapter title, "the religion of healthy-mindedness." Ervin Seale often referred to New Thought by this name. Whatever else healthy-mindedness may be, it is open-mindedness, a willingness to grow in understanding of oneself and of others, whether individuals or groups. It means reserving the right to change one's mind, to be "open at the top" for new growth stimulated by whatever new light may come, open to God's ever-new self-revelation in ourselves. Whatever our faiths, may we all welcome whatever new thought we discover, with or without capital letters.

I hope that we understand the god in tru spirit and essence.