India Holiday plans

We have had a hectic Christmas month and Jan went in working and finishing the pending work from Dec. But now that we are in Feb 2011, Deb and I plan to take a big break from work and go for a holiday with Chetan and Tirtha. A quick look at India Holidays 2011 Calendar shows that in March during Holi we can easily take a week off. So we plan to go visit either Pondicherry again or some place which has a nice beach and is not thronged with thousands of tourists.

Travel India Guide Does it again!

My website Travel India Guide did it once again! On 22nd Oct, we got over 30000 visitors for the Assembly Elections Results, made around $100 with Google adsense, and monthly page views crossed 300,000!

I had personally put a lot of effort in creating the content, and on results day I did not sleep whole night so that I can start updating results as soon as they come. AS they say, hard work always pays and I am glad that after the success the website received during 2009 General Elections, we were able to do it again.

Double Joy

It was a good day for me and my India Travel website today. After days of waiting, I finally made it to the top 100,000 list on Alexa. Today's ranking for the Travel India Guide on Alexa is 97,731 :)

Recently, I started with the Bollywood Movies section on the website. The second good news is that after about a two week wait, google indexed around 28 links of it and I got my first traffic to that section coming from google today.

1,00,000 pageviews in a month for India travel site

Yippee!!! Finally I cross 1,00,000 pageviews a month for my India travel website. I have been working on the site since November 2008 and it feels good to finally see it being liked by my visitors. Although major traffic has come because of the India election updates and news article that I write, but I hope the trend will continue even after the elections are over.

Alexa rankings have also be continuously improving and now stands at 2,43,487.

India Lok Sabha Elections 2009 Results

The results for the India election 2009 are scheduled for 16th May. The elections are being conducted by the Election Commission of India in five different phases. a total of 543 Lok Sabha constituencies will take part in these elections and more than 6000 candidates are expected to try their chances.
The main contenders for the elections are obviously the National parties, Congress and BJP. But the third front led by the Left parties and aptly supported by Mayawati's BSP, Jayalalitha and Biju Janta Dal, can come out as a king maker if they are able to muster some good number of seats to be declared for India 2009 election results. It is expected that if they muster 100+ seats, and Cngress needs their support for forming Govt, then Left parties may ask the Congress to support the Govt led by the Third Front. A separate fourth front has also emerged in this election with Lalu Yadav, Mulayam Yadav and Ram Bilas Paswan. However, possibly the only motive for this fourth front is to extract the biggest bargain after the polls, as it is very certain that they'd go with whoever is capable of forming the 15th Lok Sabha Govt after the elections.
Let's just hope that whoever gets a majority in this 543 constituency elections, works for the welfare of Indian people and helps take India ahead. We do not want illogical poll combination's and seat bargains to come up after the election 2009 results are declared.

India 2009 Elections

Another round of General Elections start in 2 days from now, but the common man knows nothing is going to change even after the elections. We'd again make the mistake of choosing the Govt on the basis of religion, caste or Political Party affiliation, irrespective of the fact, that even after 60 years, none of these parties has ever done anything for India.

When will we understand that India is not about fighting over one's religion or caste. We have the capability to really take on the world, to became the best there is. All we need is right direction, a strong leader. Look at the election manifestos. None of the parties promise anything substantial. We have Mulayam promising ban of computers and English, BJP promising Rs 2/kg rice and Congress with Rs 3/ kg rice. Is this what we really want after the election? Do we not need to know the actual development policies these parties have?

The truth is India 2009 Elections is not being fought on policies or principles. It is being fought on the same age old mentality of making fool of the common man by mudslinging and illogical promises. We'd again see film stars and no good politicians winning over good contestants who could have made a difference to India. And we'd be left with only ourselves to blame after the elections.

Heroes Season 3 last episode review, Heroes season 4 Fugitives talk

Season 3 Last episode review:

Not even close to what the season was building upto. Just before the last episode when they killed Peter's father, it was all looking like the story is just building, there's a lot more to come and all.....And then suddenly you see that Arthur Petroli is killed and it then dawns on you that the season ending is near by.

Useless story build up at the start, dragging illogically through out the season and then a very hasty end, that's what Heroes season 3 was for me. The primary aim of the season was to demarcate between two groups "The Good" and "The Evil". The writers got so caught up with that, that I am sure not even one single person watching the show would be aware who were in the good team and who were in the bad.

Season 4 Fugitives Talkback:

Looking at the Season 4 promo, it doesn't seem that's going to be any different. While in Season 3 Nathan was trying to create a force of warriors with special abilities, Heroes season 4 promo showed him complaining to the US President and asking him to shut all guys with special ability in a locker room. Now, when did he go through this mind change?
I'd probably skip season 4.