Red eyes, How? Kathakali

Kathakali – red eyes

I am sure, you all wondered how the eyes become red, I thought it was glycerine, but later realized that it would wear of in minutes.

How do dance artist make their eyes red?

chunda seed

The answer is solanum anguivi lam a.k.a Chunda poo, they use the seed.

I was in a state of shock to see the seed, placed in the lower part of lid

chunda poo kuru – ottanThullal

I asked Ashan, doesn’t it hurt, for which he answered, You know what

” Your eyes become super cool, you need little practice to have seed under the lid. Once you remove the seed, the effect stays for an hour or so, and it becomes natural. Worried about Cataract – this is best medicine” and he laughs out loud.

 

 

Meet Ganesha

Ana Thavalam

Ana Thavalam

Ana Thavalam

From the above pictures, can you find Ganesha. I found him in this condition at Ana Thavalam, Kerala. The white patches what you see is bird droppings.

Here is one more photo, the lively Ganesha is also not spared, Trust me they take good care of all Ganesha’s very well, I shot this before his bath.

Ana Thavalam

Spot your train on Google maps – Indian Railways

http://railradar.trainenquiry.com/

RailRadar

Trust me, the site is unusable. Reasons stated below

1. Why would a user want to know 1000+ Active train running currently? Why load all the data, making it slow
2. Like the search option, Ajaxified, Well after a click on the result the blue and red arrows don’t mean any thing to a user, Why confuse the user
3. Click on the train Icon, You get details about the train, Stops don’t mean any thing to an user on a Map and neither it is too interactive, just points out stops with station name
4. Finally Clicked on the hyper link 10 points size Check “here” for latest status, A new window opens up with relevant data. Which makes little sense.

Search for a station is currently useless. Just displays lots of arrows around, clicking on them reveals the train number etc.

How

RailRadar

Overall a nice effort with little bit of usability the site could help millions of travelers in India. I still don’t understand How google maps solves this problem.

Spot your train southern Railway – not smart phone friendly

I use this site often http://www.trainenquiry.com/indexNS.aspx on the desktop browser.  Recently I started using an iPhone 3GS IOS 5 for browsing on the move. Today morning I wanted to check on a train entered the train number and clicked on search.
Guess what?
2 browser window opened up, each of which was an online advertisement. All I was seeing is the Advertisement and I was searching for the “train number” and the station name.

The problem is that the smart phone display the last opened page. So I lost the main page.

Would be happy if the site works on all browsers and have the advertisement run inline and no new browser windows.

Are there any Indian Movies Spoof

Does any one know of any Indian Movies bragging about other Indian Movies?
If you know of one title kindly share on the comments section.

I am sure, Quick Gun Murugan is comedy, hope it is not a spoof movie.

Statistics on Water, India needs to do something soon

via princeton.edu

Seems like India will have water problem.

Bhuvan, India’s answer to google earth

via bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in

India’s answer to Google Earth.

2 wheeler parking

only 2

Halogen bulb macros

You have saved my life at all times, so I want you to take the center stage.

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Night Photography, Aadi velli celebrations

We all love Aadi velli.  But some time takes a toll on the traffic, because of this celebrations the roads were blocked the traffic was diverted, was wondering did God ever wanted it this way.
By the way how come Chennai Government give permission or do they ever need permission to block the road.

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