Navarathri in Maharashtra

Dussehra in maharashtra

According to the great Hindu epic Ramayan, Dussehra is the day on which Lord Ram killed Ravan, the evil king of Lanka. It is considered as a shubh-muharat - a very auspicious day - to start a new venture. It is a symbol of the victory of good over evil. People decorate the entrances of their homes with torans, flower studded strings, and worship the tools of trade, vehicles, machinery, weapons and even books. As the evening falls, the villagers cross the border, a ritual known as Simollanghan, and worship the Shami tree. The leaves of the Apta tree are collected and exchanged among friends and relatives as gold.

Self Destructing Email

First there was invisible ink, a boon for anyone in the espionage trade who wanted to keep their words a secret. Then in the 1960s Mission Impossible introduced television viewers to messages on cassette tapes that would self-destruct five seconds after being listened to. Now an American company has invented technology to produce the 21st century equivalent, vanishing emails. New York firm VaporStream guarantees messages will disappear in a puff of virtual smoke after being read once. The company's bosses believe the service will be popular with high-profile businesses which are trying to safe guard corporate secrets. But they admit it could help those involved in shady dealings as well, who might have other reasons for not wanting a permanent record of their dealings. Both sender and receiver must be subscribes to use the technology. They use their usual email addresses, but when routed through the self - destruct portal, the names of sender and receiver vanish and so does the message after being read once. The message cannot be copied, forwarded, or edited, and there is no record of it anywhere on any computer. It is much like a telephone call, in the sense that it doesn't leave a record, but it has the convenience of email.

Rock carvings in Goa

ROCK CARVINGS IN GOA

Goa is one of the most attractive tourist spot. It is mainly famous for its beaches.
But how many of you know about the rock carvings in Goa which are believed to have been created in Stone Age times. Very few people who may know about it.

Any ways if you ever visit Goa take some time out to travel south to the district of Quepem. Make your way via Tilamol town, down the main road, to Zambaulim. From there go further to Rivona and Colombo till you see a little wooded and rugged landscape. You’ll notice the sign board of Archaeological Survey of India.

When you reach you’ll come across an immense pit that has been scooped out of the red earth, a large water body gleaming from its center, like the watery mouth of some prehistoric beast.
The place – Kevan-Dhadole, Usgalimal of Pirla village in Sanguem Taluka is the site of Stone Age rock carvings. More than Hundred figures of creatures, craved deep into hard flesh of rock. Thousands of year ago in the dim reaches of the past when hunting and gathering communities sought to express themselves by creating forms on rock faces.

‘Rock Art’, in India there as many as twenty-two clusters of painted rock shelters.
The unusual creations in Usgalimal differ from these as they are on hard laterite rock with intense iron content. Apart from this – they are carved and not painted.

To explore these powerful creations, you will have to walk among them. Carvings reveal themselves as those like the zebu bull, deer, gaur, boar-like beasts.

You leave with the feeling that this is surely a place that should be visited by more people and perhaps should be protected and developed. ref - (Heritage India)