Pondicherry is not a big city. It is more of a tourist spot, and a place wehre politicians fight for their superiority within their 1 KM zones in which they would be elected. I have never cared to learn what it is called in English, but in Tamil, they call it Toguthi. Well, so, the only standard ISP in Pondicherry just like in most parts of India is BSNL, and both at my home and at my office I am stuck with BSNL broadband, since the only other good one available is Airtel and it has a very very limited coverage here in Pondicherry.

Untill a few months ago, the connection at my home used to give problems every once in a while, and I used to get heavy bills for the usage though I doubt that I have used it much in those days, but right now, with the unlimited connections both at home and office, there is hardly any downtime.

Untill recently. At the office, for the past few days in the afternoon hours a strange phenomenon is occuring when the internet goes off every 150 seconds and comes back after every 150 seconds. This simply acts an an on off cycle with a frequency of 150 seconds. I got fed up with this today and went directl to the exchange, and they asked me to bring the modem stating that it si a modem problem. Bloody hell, a modem will not act like this, it is the problem of the bloody port to which our line is connected.

They are just refusing to check it, and when I came back to the office I found that net is working without the breaks, but with latency of upto 5 seconds per ping. I wonder how that works, there is a delay of 5 seconds or over 5000 ms for every request that is sent every second. Maybe the people programmed ubuntu know what they have been doing, and its correct.

Well, what is the best way to get connected to the internet? People these days do say that there will be satellite downlinks all over India in the next 2 years, and India would be the next server farm, and that you will find one in every home. If BSNL doesnt improve its service, people will start hosting their servers on BSNL, and that would come down as another black mark for India. The Land of Bad Servers.

For some time now, airtel has been the top notch player in the mobile phone industry in India. But god knows what the hell, airtel too is loosing touch. Every one else sucks, and though I use vodafone just for the name of it, I am not really happy with it.

What will happen if all mobile companies keep their networks busy and stop providing decent services to the people around? Who would serve the country with a billion people and a trillion mobile phone connections? Maybe there would be a new player who would be soon coming in to take over all these service providers and become a monopoly.

Addiction to mobile phone has affected almost everyone in the world, particularly Indians, and no drug rehabilitation center will be able to help them out, as even in a drug rehab you find people talking on mobile phones.

People always blame hospitals for charging a lot of money for even the most basic medical help. But it is actually the cost of the medications, the equipment that they use, what they pay for having good doctors on board, and for maintaining the buildings for Gods sake. Imagine all that. That is a lot of money. And the next time you step into the hospital, note all these things closely, and you will find out why you are being charged a lot.

Well, if you really hate paying those huge medical bills, you can always make your insurance company pay it for you. For that ofcourse, you will need a mediacal/health insurance policy.

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There is a bit of China everywehre in Kerala. The houses, temples and any building looks chinese, Kerala uses the ancient Chinese Fishing nets, most local festivals are connected with the Chinese. For example, The important festival in Chettikulangara temple near Mavelikara is the Kumbha Bharani festival conducted during February-March. The important festivity associated with this utsavam is “kettu-Kazhcha’ which resembles the Chinese festival celebrated on the birthday of Budha. Also, Mavelikara is a place in Kerala where one can find The Statue of Buddha in Seated Position, from the 9th Century C.E. The seated Buddha is in front of famous Sri Krishna Swami temple.

The Kerala Government says in its tourist guides that ages ago, the Chinese used to trade with Kerala. I think thats bullshit. There were chinese people here before Aadhi Shankaracharya arrived in Kerala. He drove them out, but somehoe the people seem to have retained the ancient culture still. Thats why in a stupid country such as India, there is 100% literacy only in Kerala. People there know the value of education.

Malayalam is a mix of Tamil and Sanskrit though. There has been no influence of the Chinese language.