Macro mode

This time I managed to work out some more - trying to capture a couple of insects on my ceiling.



















It can only get better.




















Can't believe I took something even as good as this.

The late evening sky from my balcony

Jobless as I was this winter evening a little past six, I decided to head out (to my balcony) and try out the night snapshot mode of the camera. It does seem to give considerably better results than in the auto mode.

Exam:fever :: Laughter:medicine?

The Data Communications final exam paper of the 5th Semester is one our batch will remember for long. Completely numerical; no amount of theory mugging would have helped in answering this one. VTU finally decided to pass most of those who'd attempted something. I'd tried all 8 questions, and managed to get a 75. A selection of images from this one below:







Recollection of this paper even two years after the incident will not fail to arouse at least a smile in most of those who attempted it.

Features wins over looks

[Possible Target Audience: Canon/Olympus wanting n00b digicam buyers]

It was for me to choose between the Olympus Mju 700 and the Canon Powershot A540. Both would have cost me about 15k overall. The Olympus is thin, and has looks (to repeat the cliche) "to die for". It just fits in one's palm so easily, and has dimensions just like some Sony Ericsson Walkman mobile. It's about 20.4 mm thick. The Canon on the other hand is 44 mm thick, and I suppose barely fits in my pocket. The Olympus was a 7.1 MegaPixel, and the Canon was just about 6.2. These facts made me lean in favour of the Olympus, mainly the sleekness. Upto last night, I was sure of buying the Olympus.

Still, the Olympus didn't have a viewfinder, which would most probably be useful shooting in daylight when the sun shines down into the LCD screen making its display invisible.
Also, it shot video at 15 fps only, which I guess is nearly as good as no video at all. And also I didn't want to take a chance on the other features Olympus might have cut in order to get that cam that thin (that cheap).


So, now, I am the somewhat-proud owner of the Canon Powershot A540.
Here's the bill details for reference:
The cam : 13,095/-
Sandisk SD 1 GB : 1,395/-
Uniross Charger 104865: 897/-

All these are inclusive of VAT (and other taxes). Because of the sale, I got discounts of approximately 10% on each of their MRPs.

I thank you all for your inputs.

An unexpected book purchase

[Substance-less drag - skip down, read the book titles, and borrow them from me.]

On my way back home, I was passing through Malleshwaram. For a change, I thought I'll go into a shop without intent to buy a specific thing - I thought I'll go into Nilgiris and see what they have in stock which wouldn't be available elsewhere. Coming from Gutahalli main road, I parked on one of the crosses and started walking down the main road on which I thought Nilgiris was. Soon, I'd reached Malleshwaram circle upon which I realized that, well, I wasn't on the right road - (Nilgiris is on Margosa road, I was on the Sampige road.).

Just when I was going to turn and walk back, to my left I saw a book exibhition cum sale. I did want to do some window-like shopping, and what better than books to, so I just get inside. I end up coming out with:
Jeffrey Archer's The fourth estate and First among equals, and Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Supremacy. Priced (fixed) at 90/- each, I didn't need to haggle with the shopkeeper. The books were in the usual bad condition, old brown pages, near-tatters, partly-torn outer cover etc. - much like how they would be if I got them from my local library, except without the outer plastic sheath.

My reasoning to buying them was that they're fat enough to take me at least two weeks to read them, my library would charge about Rs. 18/- per week for each of them, and if I get a couple of others to read these too, then that'd more than make up for the price of the book.

The hunt for a digital camera

[Possible target audience: Point-and-shoot low-budgeted amateur digital still camera buyers]

After long-time deliberations about whether or not to buy, finally the question had changed to which. The budget was set - Rs. 15,000 was about how much I could afford. The when and where part had been answered too - G K Vale have (/had) their Camera Fest at the (2nd floor,) Sigma Mall, Cunningham Road, Bangalore from the 15th to 25th December, 2006 where they offered about 10% (they claim upto 50% off) discount on all models.

Cash withdrawn, I went there this lazy monday early-evening. The fest is quite famous seemed like, judging by the crowd. Many of the companies had stall-likes inside the shop - pro's) - model separation, lower confusion, con's) - people at a stall will definitely want products at their stall to get sold over the others, i.e. I couldn't get someone who could impartially tell me which brand was better.

Neat posters displaying the fest models with their MRP and the discounted price were displayed all over the shop, making it easy for us price-conscious buyers.

They had Canon, Kodak, JVC, Olympus, Nikon, Sony, Polaroid, Panasonic, and Samsung, and also claimed to have Casio and Yashica.
Polaroid, Panasonic, JVC and Samsung aren't too established in this particular industry, at least as far as I've heard, so I thought I'll stick to the more-sold brands.
Looking at the Sony models, one word came to mind - "fleece". Kodak too didn't seem to catch my attention - they maybe the best with the film models, but digital is a different ball game, and I somehow thought they'll start fleecing me again with their photo docks.

Now, it was down to three.
Canon. Olympus. Nikon. For my budget, the following models seemed fine:

[Model - MRP - Fest Price]
Look up the specs of these models on their individual official sites or try the digital camera comparison at http://www.opendigitalphotography.com.

Canon:
Powershot A530 - 11,395 - 10,290 [Free 512 MB SD Card]
Powershot A540 - 14,495 - 13,095
(The A630 was 18,000 after discount).

The Canon guy was vehemently insisting I buy the lower end model, the A530, which was apparently the fast selling model which was why they gave the free card only with that.

Nikon:
L1 - 17,100 - 14,535
L2 - 15,500 - 13,175

A free SD card and a case with each of these, apparently.

Olympus:
FE-190 - 14,000 - 13,000
FE-200 - 17,000 - 16,000
Mju-700 - 17,000 - 15,000

A free 512 MB Xd card with each of these.


For possibly the first time in my life, I resisted the temptation to buy something when I had the money and had gone to buy it. (Of course, I'd informed at home I was only going to check out the range and the prices, and would buy only if there was a superb deal ending today, but with me being as lazy as I am, I buy at impulse.) I decided to do another internet based comparison on only these models, so that I could pick one of them and left the mall empty handed.


(continued)
Also, watch out for the post "The n00b's 15k digital camera buying guide".

Langauge Tips 2 - English (typographics, grammar, punctuation)

Most of the text below is from or based upon text in the Oxford English dictionary:

• Year and Time:

BC and AD instead of B.C., B. C. etc.
Also, write BC after the numerals, as in 42 BC.
Write AD before the numerals, as in AD 175, unless the date is spelled out, as in the fourth century AD.

a.m. and p.m. instead of AM, A. M., a. m. etc.

• Apostrophe usage:

The easy part -
Short forms:
he's, haven't, can't, don't, won't, we'll, '68, o' clock (of the clock).
Letters or numbers referred to in plural form:
Mind your p's and q's. Find all the number 7's.
Omit in MPs, 1940s.
Omit in plurals of a regular noun: three cats rather than three cat's.

Tougher -
To indicate possesion:
With a singular noun: boy's book, week's work, boss's salary
With a plural (s ending): a girls' school, two weeks' newspapers, the bosses' salaries.
With a plural (other than s ending): the children's books, women's liberation.
With a singular name: Abhijit's phone; Yashyas' (or Yashyas's) phone.
With a name ending in -es that is pronounced -is or -eez: Moses' mother
Omit in a business name: Grindlays Bank.

Only for the word its:
Use it's when you mean it is or it has. In all other situations, use its.

Also, a look can be had at: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html

Blog Customization

[Generally irrelevant blogging technicalities]

The site which hosted images of my customized blog template went down, and the blog was looking worser than usual (if that's possible). So, I've just dumped the customized look, and decided to stick to one of Blogspot's new-style templates. This one is readable and big fonted, but doesn't look too good at 800*600 with respect to the line wrapping, so please bear with me.

[Edit: It doesn't look good even at 1024*768, I just realized. Need to tweak the layout again :| ]

[Edit2: Now tweaked to look ok at 800*600.]

Reminiscence of a day at the cricket ground

[RD page-fill material]

We'd all gone to the ground to cheer our college team, the captain of which was our classmate. After the game (which we won), a 3-year old kid joined us playing on the sidelines. After playing [around] with him (or was it the opposite) for sometime, we decided to ask him his name. Someone asked in English, and another told the former that the kid wouldn't understand and repeated in Kannada, before which the boy had already answered - "Raja". Even to the question in Kannada, the boy gave his name, which led us to probe which languages the boy knew. Each one of us began asking him his name in any language we knew - Tamil, Telugu, Tulu, Malayalam, etc. and each time the boy replied correctly. Just when we were getting to be in awe of his linguistic talents, one of us managed to ask him in Kannada what his mother-tongue was. Pat came the reply - "Raja".

How many people in your class ?

[Low intellectual level, low global relevance]

In August 2006:
I've joined the CSE discipline in the ME program in the CSA department.
A: ~25 others have joined the same.
B: ~25 people have joined the ISE discipline in the ME program in the CSA department.
C: ~10 people joined for the MSc program in the CSA department.
D: ~10 people joined for the PhD program in the CSA department.

Similarly in August 2005:
E: ~25 people have joined the CSE discipline in the ME program in the CSA department.
F: ~25 people have joined the ISE discipline in the ME program in the CSA department.
G: ~10 people joined for the MSc program in the CSA department.
H: ~10 people joined for the PhD program in the CSA department.

I: MTech / PhD program students of the SERC department* joined whenever.
J: ?/PhD students of departments such as Mathematics, Electrical, etc. joined whenever.

I have taken 4 courses:
Computer Architecture: Strength - ~17 from ABCDEFHI
Discrete Structures: Strength - ~50 from ABCDEFGHI
Cryptography: Strength - ~20 from ABDJ
Database Management Systems: Strength - ~26 from ABCEFI

I would think that each of my courses could have been taken up by all of ABCDEFGHIJ and these current assignments you see above are only a fluke / co-incidence.


Note: All figures are estimates. The "from ..." are all guesses. Also, students from the August 2004 and previous batches, CSA department (mostly PhD students) maybe thought of to be in H or J. Students of SSA discipline of the ME program of the CSA+EE department maybe also considered in J.

Pardon the non-properness of abbreviations - For example, ME instead of M. E. - done for brevity.


* SERC isn't exactly a department, but we'll let that be.

nin uuru yaavudu

[Low intellectual level, zero global relevance]

Long long ago, there was a Soiro Pai was staying in Goa. When the Portuguese arrived there, he, like many other Hindu families at the time, fled with his family down south into Karnataka. They settled at a place called Harekal at the Uttara Kannada District. His son Vasudev Pai assumed Harekal as a prefix to his name, which was followed upto my father (at least my brother or me do not have it as a part of our name). Vasudev's son Vaman moved to Mangalore (Mangalooru?) to work at the port since Harekal was a small village and there wasn't much to do there. His son Narayan, was born and grew up in Mangalore, working in the rice trade. His son, my father, moved to Bangalore and has been here for over 25 years. I was born in Mumbai (then Bombay*), my mothers place of residence for over 20 of her initial years. From the age of 6 months right up to this day, I have generally resided in Bangalore (Bengalooru?).

This is only my father's father's ancestor story. There are 3 more (Pa's Ma, Ma's Ma and Ma's Pa), which I might add here later.

igaa naan keLtini, nanna uuru yaavudu, hELi.

* Thanks, Deva.

Switching Channels

Tom Armstrong eloquently puts the answer to a question even I've wondered about (looking at others) at times, in Marvin (Deccan Herald, Oct 10, 2006, Page 14).

Roy's wife: Why do you keep switching from station to station, Roy ?!
Roy: We're paying for 130 channels on this cable system
Roy: I figure to get my money's worth I've got to watch a few seconds of each one

Hard disk bought

[Informative, but only to hard disk buyers]

I am now the not-so-proud owner of a 160 Gbyte hard disk.

Not-so-proud because I had a bet with myself a long time ago, that I would never need more than 40 GB of storage, given that I had a CD-Writer; and also because this hard disk is P-ATA, which will be obsolete within the next 3 years.

Name: Seagate Barraduca 7200.9
Model: ST3160212A
Interface: P-ATA (don't know the UDMA rate yet).
Bought From: Fairdeal Computers and Peripherals, P. R. Lane (off S. P. Road)
Date of Purchase: 14th October, 2006
Cost: 2700/- + 108/- V. A. T.
Warranty: Seagate's 5 year limited.

This post is meant to tell you to not shell anything more than 2800/- if you buy the same hard disk in Bangalore (of course, with the assumption that costs of computer products almost always decline with time).

One Ways

A definitive proof that one ways lengthen distances by a signifcant amount can be found if one travels by BMTC buses. In particular, the cost to go from Kamalanagar Market to K.B.S. is Rs. 8/- in a 96D (regular blue-and-white) where as the cost to go from K.B.S. to Kamalanagar Market is Rs. 9/- in a bus with exactly the same number (and type).

A Test

[Long, low global relevance]

I had my first open-book test today - on a Sunday. It was a DBMS midterm, open book, open time...

As the name suggests, it was truly open book. Our syllabus was 8 research papers, and a little other theory. We could get these papers, any DBMS books, slide print outs, any other papers to the test room, and there was a computer in the test room from which one could access e-copies of all the previously mentioned, as well as free internet access.

When it started at 8:30 am, I was under the impression that it could go on till about 12 or 12:30 pm (thinking it's a long test and Sir wants to give us time to think). From 8:30 to 10 am, we read through the papers: 6 questions, 31 marks (including the one mentioned below) and Sir told us what each of the questions implied (- in this much time, some tests even get over).

By 11, we were asked whether we prefer tea or Slice, and in some time these were got (Appy instead of Slice, since Slice wasn't available). Along with these, Samosa and (pineapple?/chocolate) pastries were served by ~12.

(Walks outside the test room to the washrooms or just to stretch legs were permitted too, and though the initially specified restriction was one person out of the hall at a time, this wasn't strictly followed in the end - in this sort of test, it doesn't matter; after all, what can you discuss during the test which will help you so much -or maybe I've to still chat with some of our toppers here. Of course, we're all trust worthy students and did no such thing.)

The "open time" funda, I realized, kicks in now, and the time was extended by the TAs (Teaching Assistants, the (hopefully) nice chaps who will (hopefully) give me marks - two of our seniors) till 3:30 pm, and there were people asking for more time (can't believe them).

And then, finally people started leaving the hall, and I too gave my paper and got out at around 3:10 pm, though initially my plan was to sit through the 7 hours, just to claim later that I did, because I had anyway stopped writing a very long time ago.

Sir was suggesting we get newspapers to read, and that time, I thought, "ok, what newspapers; I'm going to write a test", but then as the test proceeded, and in the huge fag end (1.5 to 2 hours) of it, I was sitting joblessly, not doing anything, nothing in my brain, having put down something in the fair sheets for the 6 questions already, when newspapers seemed a good idea. Of course, we were allowed to use mobile phones (as calculators), and I even SMS'ed from inside the hall (not to discuss answers, though :) ).

We were asked to think (stare at the ceiling) for 20-25 minutes, and then answer for 5; Sir was very right about those ratios though it seems quite skewed to me when he initially said them; of course, for most part I was just looking around arbitrarily.

Performance Analysis:

Question 6:
The philosophy advocated in Lagey Raho Munna Bhai is:
(a) Goondagiri (b) Gandhigiri (c) Krishnagiri (d) Soniagiri
(1 Mark)

That's the only answer I'm guaranteed to get right. It's (b), by the way. And yes, some student(s) even looked up this answer on the internet, and there was at least one other who got this wrong (He wrote (a)!)

There was another question, which Sir called the "Laddoo" question, meant to be one which could be "done easily" (read: done by me), which was like a question which was a part of the paper our seniors got, which I'm hoping to get right was well. (3 Marks)

Orkut Birthday Reminder Psychology Test

Background
I changed my birthdate on Orkut to the 12th of September, on the 11th of September.

Story
Ok people, please don't kill me.
I am sorry.
My real birthday is on September 23rd, and not 12th (as was widely believed) or on some other date.Thank you for your wishes, they'll count for my birthday.

Statement of Purpose:
"I wish people on their (supposed) birthdays if it shows up on Orkut even if I have no clue about the persons birthday. I wanted to see if I'm the only one who does that, or do most."

In other words, this was a test to see how many rely solely on what Orkut reports for birthday wishings. This was a deliberate change made by me. Imagine for some time, I had not made the change, and Orkut (we all know how good technically Orkut is) made it by mistake, the results would be as they are here.

Statistical Results:

12 (MSR) Zubair, Ayush, Amber, Poonam, Ankit, Anmol, Chandan, Aashish, Madan, Sridhar, Lakshman, Amrithraj
9 (MSR not my batch) Yagnesh, Nikhil, Aashith, Abhishek, Shakeel, Ganesh, Sandesh, Sudhev, Dinesh
8 (KVM) Radha, Sumant, Preetham, Deepak, Sushil, Karthik, Debi, Rajeev
11 (NPS) Abhinav, Viphul, Shankar, Ruchika, Vinod, Vishnuram, Swastik, Shilpa, Venkat, Mahesh, Arabhi
1 (NPS not my batch) Puneet
4 (Online/SKA) Chaitanya, Priyanka, Arun, Madhu_Tejas
fell for it, and wished me either in advance, on the 12th, and even belated.
Count_A: 45

Mahendra, Kavitha, Hema, Ganesh, Srikanth, Deepshikha, Devadutta, Jagadish, Mayur (MSRIT) spotted the "error"
Count_B: 9

Asha, Madan, Prem, [Infant_Prabhu (MSRIT), Preeti] (scraps below do help in knowing the truth :) ), Srinivas (NPS) wished me but (later) got/had doubts.
Count_C: 6

All inclusions, especially to Count_B are welcome.
Please notify me if I have mis-spelt your name, want me to remove it, etc.


This psychology test was highly successful, going by the numbers.
Nearly half of my 131 Orkut friends responded.


Interesting Mentions:
Amrithraj, for giving me a "belated" wish on the 12th (my supposed birthday) itself.
Radha, for wishing me twice, once in advance, and once on my supposed birthday.
Ruchika, thanks really for your detailed wishes, you have patience.
Srinivas, for looking up my resumé to see if I was lying.
Madan, for SMS'ing me asking if it was my birthday.


Results: Most people, like me, rely (quite blindly) on Orkut's reminder for wishing.

Conclusion:
I can continue to wish people using Orkut's reminder system. Others may play pranks (possibly inspired by this), but I won't be the only one to get fooled.

Thank you all for participating.
Sorry for the trouble/hurting your feelings.
Do not be sorry that you have forgotten my birthday, I do not expect you to remember it; just like how I do not remember yours.
Treats will follow, yes.


Please continue flaming me on Orkut for this prank in my scrapbook, as well as commenting on this blog. Thank you.
BTW, my birthday this year according to the lunar calendar is on Sep 12th. So it really was my birthday! [Well, not really, I haven't bothered to check. And it's not as if you believed me this time ;)].


Other (not so) interesting facts:
Month is September (9).. 11 days to my real birthday (11) - The 9/11 connection, of course, has to be made with everything for it to be worthwhile. Why wasn't I "born" on 9/11, that's another story, let me know if you want to hear the long story preceeding this "event".

Other (nearly) famous people born on Sep 12th:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_12#Births

Code4Bill results

This news is over a month old (August 2nd, 2006), but if you've not read it yet, it might be interesting.

Abishek Kumarasubramanian (abi_k) gets to work with Bill Gates. The other way around, say you ? :)

Here's the report. Also, the official site.

I just realized that he was doing (just finished) Electrical Engineering from IITM and not Computer Science.

First Indian to reach Red on TopCoder

This is something we (jagadishm and me) were were waiting for (/speculating about) some time ago.

konqueror gets there on 19th August 2006. (current rating: 2276)

Also, a congratulatory thread on the TopCoder Forums.

Edit: Can any of you find konqueror's real name for me ?
Edit2: Solved by the man himself; thank you.

Gaim Plugin: Sendlog 0.1

This plugin is used to send the log of the current IM window to the user whose e-mail address is thetoaddress@targetdomain.com when the user types
/sendlog thetoaddress@targetdomain.com
as in IM window.

Get the readme.txt file first and read it completely before you get and use the plugin.

Get the GNU/Linux binary (.so), source, some additional required files, (and readme.txt) in a compressed file here.

Update: Memory allocation bug detected. Version 0.02 will be out soon to correct this.
Change the [1000] to something higher (or allocate dynamically) and recompile before use, else Gaim will crash if you put/get messages bigger than 1000 chars. If you can't do this, do not use this plugin in version 0.01.

Free Software: Current status and challenges

Speaker: Richard Stallman
Date: 19th August 2006
Venue: Faculty Hall, IISc.
Capacity: 160
Attendance: 120 at 11 a.m. to 140 by 11:10 a.m. to 120 by 12:40 p.m. to 80 by 1:35 p.m.

11:03 a.m. - 12:40 p.m. -> Talk
What was said: The usual. Humorous in parts, as expected.
Jokes like:
"GNU is often mispronounced as gnu or Linux."
"It's a moral duty. If there was a person drowning, and I knew swimming, and the person wasn't Bush, I'd have tried to save him."
Always expanded DRM as "Digital Restrictions Management", and TRIPES as "The Restrictions and Impediments to Profession, Education, and Society".

The 12:35 p.m. Saint IGNUcius act with the black overgarment, halo, and pose with one arm raised blessing the audience and the other carrying a laptop had the audience in splits.

Stuff I'm more convinced of than before:
The use of free software even if it is less powerful than propreitery software, because it means freedom.
To not use propreitery software _at all_ even if we have not paid for it.


12:40 p.m. - 1:35 p.m. -> Q & A.

1:35 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. -> Distribution of Gnu/Linux stickers for free, and Rs. 200 pins (to donate to the FSF so that they can hire more programmers / pay them).

Things to do:
Spend a few minutes a day advocating the goals of freedom to people using software, and if that's not possible, at least spend a few seconds a day calling GNU/Linux by it's correct name.

Notes:
Try pronouncing guh-noo, knew, new, gnu. The last 3 are pronounced the same by Americans (at least).
The right pronounciation of GNU is guh-noo, but one doesn't need to stress tooo much on the guh. Also, EMACS is pronounced e-max (not ee-max, e.m.a.c.s. etc.).

Richard Stallman doesn't get too tired even after 2 hours of speaking standing, doesn't need a prepared speech, wants a good mic and the air conditioner turned on high, and thinks his speech is the best at the start and will wait for people to enter so that they get to hear it as well. Pauses in the middle at times, but as expected, is very fluent and has an understandable accent.

Language tips 1 - English (spelling)

Possibility, not possiblity.
Theorem, not theorum.
Sentence, not sentance.
Negative, not negetive, though.
Weird, not wierd.

Also, 'hierarchical' and 'arbitrary'.

Any more words frequently used and mis-spelt by you ? Comment.

David Filo - Yahoo! and the Internet

From what is literarily (pardon the nonce word) "the horse's mouth"; not quoted ("...") because I do remember nearly the exact words, but can't take responsibility for my memory.

When Dave and Jerry started it, they called it "Dave's and Jerry's Directory of Cool Sites".
They decided they had to have some other name for it in the course of time.
Inspired (not they, but the name Ya...) by a popular program known as yacc (yet another compiler compiler), they decided to call their company "Yet Another something something" and they ran a search on some dictionary on their computer for ya.* and it returned yahoo, the American word for a rough uncouth person; which apparently Dave and Jerry at the time decided they were, and named their company Yahoo.
Later, their marketing team suggested that the full-form be "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle", and since the word officious meant something like neither useful, nor worthwhile (actually, I think it means something like interfering), they decided to stick to it.


Background:
David Filo - Yahoo! and the Internet
Date: 9th August 2006
Venue: CSA Seminar Hall, CSA Department, IISc.
Capacity: ~100
Attendance: ~120 (down to ~100 by 4:50 pm)
Schedule:
4:00 pm - 4:30 - Talk (no PowerPoint)
What was said -> "Yahoo! has problems of scale and is trying to find the answer to them."
4:30 - 5:00 - Questions from the audience
5:00 onwards - Tea and one-one Q&A with Dave Filo

Notes:
Americans, (pardon me for the generalization,) pronounce internet as innernet; inner not exactly like the Indian inner, but the "t" is somewhat silent. Mobile is pronounced as mobil, not moh-bil, but just mobil or mobill.

Testing .gif transparency and creating rounded corners in GIMP.

Continued into the morning.

Random evening timepass.

There is absolutely nothing here. I thought I shall copy and paste some text, but it is possible that that text is copyright, and some one will charge me under some arbitrary copyright act of their country, and I'll have to hire lawyers, in doing which, I shall have to sell my house and computer, go on the streets, and lose my educational admission and job. Thus, I will be reduced to a mere beggar. With this line, i.e. calling beggars mere, the National Association of Beggars has decided to launch a nationwide agitation against me, and also a case which will be decided by the Indian Human Rights commission, as well as the International Court of Justice, at Hague. In case both courts give conflicting verdicts, the acceptable one is decided on the basis of the flip of a coin. Which coin, you ask ? Details (possibly) in the next post.