Antara Echoes

BIAL Project Inception : 1991 Current Status, 2007 : 16 years later report says there are 'Flaws in Bangalore Airport Design' Verdict : Can we have a law against morons please? We Bangaloreans have pulled all the petals from the proverbial flower in a desparate attempt to know if we will have our International Airport or not. Going by today's newspapers looks like we have a long wait before the Airport see's daylight. For today the Times of India reports that the Bangalore Airport design is flawed . As per the reports there is a structural design flaw as it shows three sides of the terminal's building below ground level. While the Bangalore Airport has been stalled, Hyderabad's International Aiport has been given the green signal. The Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BAIL) has been one most awaited projects since when it was conceived in 1991. Announced with much fanfare, a lot of promises were made. To be built at the cost of Rs 1,334 crore ...

Nancy Drew is the iconic teen detective (created by Edward Stratemeyer and published under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene) and in the process captured the imagination of very teenage girl. I was first introduced to her books at class 4, just the time probably when I had started to think for myself. I clearly remember most of the girls of my class being completely smitten by this young sleuth who was smart, intelligent and had so many wonderful adventures. It’s been 77 long years but Nancy Drew Mysteries still create magic and delight for children. So when I read the news of an upcoming Nancy Drew film ,I was intrigued to know who was going to play my childhood heroine onscreen and it turned out to be the very young and beautiful Emma Roberts .I can't say I am disappointed for the girl looks gorgeous and comes with the right set of DNA, for she is daughter of Eric Roberts and niece of Julia Roberts. Its scheduled to be released theatrically on June 15, 2007 in the U.S Here is a excerpt...

There was nothing unusual about the apartment. “Jyotirmay”, as named by its builder, an old Bengali babu, it was located in the suburbs of North West Delhi. The 90’s building consisted of several blocks, with each block having 6 flats - three on either side of a small central porch (for the want of calling it anything else) and a parking. Asphalted pavements dotted with tall trees, a small children’s park, it made a pretty picture. The ground floor flat 01 at Block C was occupied by the Gupta’s and Flat 02 by their archrivals the Reddy’s. Flat 05 & 06 on the second floor had been converted to a single penthouse by Mr. Jiten Shah. While Flat no 04 was recently vacated, Flat 03 was the residence of the Palakkad Maami - Ambujam.   She & her husband, Ramachandran Mama (the dear old man who had faithfully served the Tata’s for 25 long years and now post retirement was dutifully serving his wife), had come to Delhi when their son got transferred here. Within few months...

America's conservative evangelist Jerry Falwell died on Tuesday. He was 73. Jerry Falwell was known for his fundamentalist Christian teachings. He faced a lot of flak when he announced that the popular children's program Teletubbies was a bad influence on children as its cheerful central character - Tinky Winky was gay! Expending his theory in an article called 'Parents Alert: Tinky Winky Comes Out of the Closet', he said: "He is purple - the gay-pride colour; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay-pride symbol." So here is the condolence from Tinky Winky to Rev. Jerry Falwell - BBC ishtlye Teletubbies member Tinky Winky issued a statement today on the passing of Jerry Fallwell. 'I have to confess, Rev Falwell was correct. I am a homosexual, and my true goal on teletubbies was to promote my lifestyle to infants in their formative years. I would like to announce also, that I am Jewish, and the anti-Chirst. Rev Falwell was your last chance. You...

Does Rahul Gandhi , son of congress president and kingmaker Sonia Gandhi deserve the highest security cover of the land? Z plus category security is entitled for people under the "Very Very High threat" and the person is provided with a pilot car, escort vehicles, 36 top personnel including personal security officers, and guards at home and office. Z plus is supposed to be for people in the "Hit List" or who face some kind of imminent danger and Rahul does not seem to fall in either of the list. This looks like blatant misuse of public money. I suppose Indian politicians like to rather flaunt that they live in the shadow of death. Surely Mahatma Gandhi would be crying hoarse in his grave on these ‘Z’ category security-holding dimwits trying to run this country in the name of independence!

Anyone using the net will surely have come across Wikipedia - The online interactive encyclopedia. It has been hailed for being the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet with over four million articles and still growing. The world's 12th ranked Website! But the big question is how reliable or credible is wikipedia? The bone of contention against Wiki is the very foundation of its "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" concept. A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. There is no review before modifications are accepted. Wikis generally practice the philosophy of making it easy to correct mistakes, rather than making it difficult to make them. Wiki in News: For all the wrong reasons - There was recently a scandal surrounding the academic qualifications of one of the editors at Wiki. Wikipedia administrator who stated that he was a professor of religion with advanced degrees in theology...

Diets & Weight loss are,like the weather, topics that can easily bond people together. Weight Loss Programs are almost on every girl's mind - if she is fat she is desparately trying to get slimmer and if she is thin she would be fighting hard to remain so. And just for the record there are no girls who are absolutely happy with the way they are. The world of dieticians are well aware of this weakness and have milked it dry with all possible kinds of diets. Listed here some of the famous ones - - Slim Fast - Cabbage Soup Diet - Banana Diet - Kellog's Diet - Rosemary Conley's Diet - The Atkin's Diet - Yeast-free Diet - Fat-Burning Foods Diet - Starve-and-get-thin-Diet - Get-Bulimic-diet - The Instant Abs Eating Plan Diet and so on and so forth. Well if this was just about another diet, I wouldn't have written it here. So what is it new that Paul Mckenna has to offer? Lets start from the start. Paul Mckenna is a British hypnotist, Author and Tel...

Spiderman 3 has all the trappings of an interesting Bollywood flick but in a much more slicker way. Its got some absolutely breathtaking moments like the scene where this huge iron beam rips through an entire floor of a skyscraper and then through the floor just below it. Along with toppling down desks 'n chairs a pretty young thing dangles at the edge of a jutting beam just to be saved at the last minute by our Super Hero. Whoooosh! Your heart shall go skipping several beats. Atleast mine did. Sam Raimi surely knows to woo his audience. Unlike the previous Spiderman, there isn't a single moment lost in inane story building. Afterall there are three villians to be fought and 'ladies'-in-distress to be saved! Spiderman 3 takes us on an emotional rollercoaster ride starting with Spidey preparing to propose his ladylove - MJ. But then life is never smooth for a super hero! So there is the alien devilish symbiote - Venom that latches on to him, making him don a black suit i...

The other day I was traveling back from work and it was the rush hour traffic in Bangalore. An old couple were trying to cross the road to possibly reach the Ganesh temple which was on the other side. Every time they took a few steps forward, cars & bikes whizzed past honking rudely. Not a single one of them had the courtesy to stop by and let them cross peacefully. Since my side of the traffic was blocked I could see the trouble they were facing and sadly there was nothing that could be done. Bangalore must have been a much pleasanter place to live then [before the so called IT boom] than it is now. The people with whom they probably might have associated should have been friendly and kind, having the time to share each other's joys and sorrows, and enjoy simple pleasures of life. Low rise homes with sprawling gardens that I grew up in, roads with trees on either side, parks in every nook and corner and pavements covered with dried leaves from the trees– it was aptly called t...