Ganesh Chaturthi 2009 @ My Home

Ganapati in CAVE

Siddhagiri Museum – Kaneriwadi, Kolhapur

Recently we went for one day picnic to visit Siddhagiri Museum. The place is near from Kolhapur city towards Belgaum on Pune-Bangalore highway. Siddhagiri Museum is spread over 700 acres, includes more than 300 sculptures. The main objective of this museum is to refresh the history of self-sufficient village.

The journey begins with the sculptures of great ancient Indians in fields of Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicines, Ayurveda, Law, and Management. Aryabhatta (Mathematitian), Bhagirath (Engineer), Bharatmuni (Musicologist), Maharshi Kaanad (studies on biatomic & triatomic molecules), Kashyap (Gynecologist), Varahmihir (Astronomer), Vishnusharma (Politics – Panchatantra) are to name a few.

After this a typical farming is described in the form of sculptures. All the operations of farming (Perani, Malani, Nangarani etc.) are shown here. The village describes every possible work profession which are necessary for human living. There were 12 BALUTEDARS (12 main profession based casts i.e. Professions performed by generation by family members) and 18 ALUTEDARS, who provided equipment's to all villagers useful in their day-to-day necessities of domestic as well as Agricultural life. Raashi Garden is newly added feature in this museum. Raashi garden has sculptures of zodiac signs.

Great care and efforts have been taken to build this museum. The sculptures are 5 to 6 feet tall and made of cement. These sculptures looks very realistic and every minute detail of human body like nerves on forearm & forehead, abdominal muscles, eyes, expressions etc. is shown. Maintenance of the museum is not very good and road to reach the museum is also in bad condition but it makes you to forget these things after watching all the sculptures in museum. Taking photographs is banned at this place. I found some pictures on internet which i have attached as screenshots. More information about this museum can be found on http://www.siddhagirimuseum.org/

Create and Share themes in Windows 7

Windows 7 is the latest product in the Microsoft Windows Operating Systems family and the most talked operating system these days. It's fully loaded with new exciting features Aero Peek, Aero Shake, Superbar (New Taskbar), Jump Lists and many more. But there is no great change compared to its predecessor Windows Vista. One more feature of this OS is windows 7 themes. It gives options for users to install new themes and also create of their own themes. There is inbuilt wallpaper changer is included to change the desktop wallpaper after certain time. These new themes can be saved on computer and shared with family and friends. I have created a theme of Jessica Alba. To download the themepack click the link below and after downloading double click the file to install.
Jessica Alba Themepack: Link 1
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Windows 7 Colorful Themepack. Link 2

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CONFUSING YET TRUE

I believe and have interest in astrology, numerology and similar kind of sciences. This topic is related to the names of people. We meet so many people every day and see many celebrities & famous people on TV. Astrologers say that our name has some influence on our future. Any name also gives some vital information on behaviour.

I have found an interesting sequence. Every one of us is having our name starting with some or the other English alphabet from A to Z. E.g. Amit, Aakash ------ Zakir etc. I found that the people whose names begin with letters A are more successful in numbers than B and it goes on till Z. I don't want say that people like Zaheer Khan (Vs. Javagal Shrinath, Anil Kumble), Zakir Hussain (Alla Rakha Khan), Salman khan, Sachin Tendulkar (Vs Don Bradman) are unsuccessful but the ratio of people is more on prior side.

Just give a try and look for some people around you. You may find the similar sequence. In schools, colleges there are divisions like A, B, C. Have you ever noticed that students from 'A' divisions always ahead in rankings than other lower divisions?

I'm giving some more examples of famous people from different areas.

• Amitabh Bacchan (off course Abhishek & Aishwarya are family members now)
  
• Aamir Khan, Anil kapoor, Akshay Khanna, Asin, Akshay Kumar (His Real name is Rajiv Bhatia)
  
• Atal bihari Vajpayi, Rajiv Gandhi, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi (Popular as Gandhi), A P J Kalam, Javaharlal Nehru,
  
• Mallika Sherawat – Reema Lamba;
  
• Dilip Kumar – Yunus Khan
  
• Ambani's (Anil, Mukesh, Dhirubhai), Aditya Birla, Indra nui.
  

Thus people with A, B, C, D ... are more in numbers than W, X, Y, Z.

Tip: If there is any naming ceremony going on in your family then make sure that the name starts with A.

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Pranav Marathe