The happiest day of my life!!

It was the happiest day of my life. Our cute little angel - Vedika - arrived, bringing with her indescribable joy to our lives! I had never imagined what an amazing feeling it would be to hold my little baby in my hands. I can look at her and talk to her for hours. And when I see her smile, it is a moment of ecstasy!

Akbar's harem

While browsing the internet, I came across an article that said that Akbar had about 5,000 wives! After my initial surprise, I did some research on internet, which led to the conclusion that this was probably true. The wikipedia article on Akbar (with a disclaimer stating "the neutrality of this article is disputed") mentions that Akbar had a harem, but does not mention its size. Most other websites agree that the number is around 5,000.

I don't remember my history textbook mentioning this fact about Akbar's life. That's quite understandable as Indian government is notorious for purporting bogus history, and glorifying those who committed atrocities against Hindus. Akbar was one such tyrant, who is fallaciously glorified in government published history text books.

Here's an article on Akbar, that you should read, and re-evaluate your beliefs about him. Here's another article that discusses Akbar's life and ends with the question: Why don't the Indian school texts give these details of Akbar, and what else are they hiding?

The Hindu Encyclopdia

I came across this interesting website: Hindupedia.com. It's an attempt at creating an encyclopedia on Hinduism.

Beautiful Seattle Photos!

Last weekend we went Alki Beach. It was very sunny, with temperature of around 25 degrees centigrade - beautiful weather to be on a beach. I shot some cool pictures of Seattle skyline. Here are a couple of them.

Seattle Downtown Skyline (click to enlarge)

Seattle Space Needle (click to enlarge)

World's largest economies

Did you know that India's economy is larger than that of Russia? I was surprised to know that. India's economy (measured in terms of nominal GDP) is larger than that of Russia, but smaller than Spain, Brazil and Canada. Check out the list of top economies of the world in 2009.

US GDP is bigger than the GDPs of next three nations put together! Japan was number 2 until last month. In August China pipped Japan to become the second largest economy for the first time. India's GDP is about 1,200 billion USD, approximatly 55,000 billion INR.

Amazing football goals

Here's a good collection of clips of extraordinary football goals. And the HD effect is really amazing! Jump ahead and ignore the first 50-odd seconds of the clip.