Recently, I had a chance to drive State Highway No 25 ( SH-25) between Rajkot to Jamnagar in Gujarat in March 5, 2013 and I felt so good driving there that I thought I must post an article about it.
Well, before I drove on this road, I thought the Delhi Panipath National Highway was the best in India. Not anymore. I think State Highways in Gujarat are better than any National Highways anywhere in India.
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I have been a Nikon DSLR user for last 12 years and now finally decided to sell off all my Nikon bodies, Lenses, Flash lights etc. But before doing so, I would like to advise anyone not to buy Nikon DSLR anymore. I think, Nikon was good till the time they manufactured their DSLR bodies in Japan. The day they started outsourcing it to Thailand, their quality has gone down the drains.
I bought D7000 some 10 months ago and my problems started after it has crossed 25k actuations. Before that, I had owned d40, d90, d3100, d5100, and I never had problems. Here are the top 3 reasons why you should not buy Nikon DSLRs
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After waiting 20 agonising days, I got my 8 Months old Nikon D7000 repaired ( well, they replaced the complete prism box, cleaned the sensor), after 10 days and after 800 clicks, a bright sensor spot started appearing! Well, I put the lens Sigma 150-500mm on this body Nikon D7000 on 21st Feb 2013, at Nikon Service Centre, Jaipur and never removed it once! I even shot few nigh portrait shots with flash using the same lens, just to avoid getting any dust!
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Recently, I observed a small spot on the sensor of my Nikon DSLR D7000 while viewing through its viewfinder. I also noticed a small spot on printouts of photos with sky or white background!
I almost got panicked and decided to handover the camera to Nikon service centre in Udaipur as my camera was not even 10 months old! I first called up Nikon toll free number, listed in their website www.nikon.co.in and I was informed about a service centre in Udaipur.
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I almost respect Airtel, how they come out with innovative ways to ‘steal’ money from its subscribers in the name of Value Added Service (VAS)!
My domestic helper, who has been living with us for many years in Assam and who came to live with us recently as we have an infant in our house. We got her a mobile phone so that she can speak to anyone she wants in her privacy or any one can call her in her own number!
But sadly, she is illiterate, but knows how to press the green button, and red button to make and receive calls. But she can not read SMS!
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Yesterday, I got an SMS from Airtel, thanking me for choosing their AUDIO TALKIES! Also, they promptly deducted Rs.1 from my balance! Wow! what a service! Only problem is, I never heard of such service AUDIO TALKIES, and I never subscribed to it!
So, I promptly tweeted to Airtel_Presence as well as updated in my Facebook. Also, I sent an email to Airtel Customer Care email ID as well as its nodal officer of Delhi/NCR. I am still waiting for their response.
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If you are parents of kid around 5 years old, if you have a TV with cable connection ( or DTH), chances are you have bought an item called “Kinder Joy” for your kid. This product Kinder Joy is advertised extensively in all Kid’s channels like Cartoon Network, Ceebies etc.and chances are, you get to watch its advertisements at leas once in every 10 minutes. Also, your kids.
The cost of this Kinder Joy is Rs. 30. But did you know what contents does it have ? Here is the pictorial explanation :-
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I tried to sell two things in Quickr, once a almost new Nikon D5100 DSLR with kit-lens and the other time, I tried to sell my Nikon AF-S 70-300mm ED VR lens. Both the times, I was contacted buy Nigerian Net fraudsters!
The first one posed as an wife of Indian Oil executives posted in Nigeria and asked me to ship the camera to some address Nairobi. Another one posed as doctor in United Kingdom. It was interesting experience, these fraudsters think that it is easy to dupe people!
One lady went on to such extent that she even sent me some bogus PayPal payment notification which I could capture only when I actually ship the material and give them valid courier tracking number! I was almost tempted to courier half a KG of camera sized rock! But when I found out that the cost of such shipment is above Rs. 3000/-, I resisted myself from throwing away money!
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While traveling around India, as well as some other South Asian countries, I have observed that, the migrant communities normally live in and around railway stations! I have not found any difference in this pattern even in Raurkela, in my numerous visits here!
Raurkela was a place of Adivasis ( original inhabitants of India, now classified as scheduled tribes) as I heard. I have done any studies about this, so I can not vouch any truth in it. But, I can vouch that, the areas near Rourkela railway station, is inhabited by migrant community, who can not be local here! I found many Rajasthani people, Bengali People, Bihari People who can not be local here! I mean they are migrant here, may be living here for long time. Thanks to Raurkela Steel Plant, this town also have migrant community from almost all states from India, in last 50 years!
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As per latest report, 22 people have reportedly lost their lives in New York City in a devastating hurricane Sandy which struck east coast of USA yesterday. Millions of people went without power and people are updating their Facebook status as having to have candle light dinner!
Once again, nature has proved itself to be much more powerful than humans with so much progress in technology and information! Humans become helpless in front of natures fury again and again.
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