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Net Gains (Sep 24, 97) |
Sudheer Birodkar, a student of Indology has recently completed
a book (with 18 years of effort in it) on the subject, "India's
Contribution to World Culture". This book aims at disproving
the generally held belief that in ancient times India had only
been a land of spiritual development with modest achievements
as far as material culture goes. Keeping his target audience in
mind, Sudheer took the decision of converting his book into HTML
format and hosting it on Tripod. Check it out at http://members.tripod.com/~sudbee/
DEN (Dale's Entertainment News) - http://www.indianbusiness.com/den,
is a monthly Indian entertainment magazine on the Internet. DEN
clubs news, reviews and previews of films, television and music
with modelling, fashion, art and culture in an attempt to give
readers a complete picture of the Indian entertainment scenario.
DEN is conceived, edited and partly written by freelance film
journalist, Dale Bhagwagar. Besides the current edition, monthly
archived issues are also available, right since DEN first saw
the light of day in November 1996. Check it out if you're one
of those entertainment junkies !
"Wherever you may roam, there's no place like home"
- waxed a poet long ago, and numerous Indians around the world
drive home the point - even in cyberspace. Most Indians abroad
who have homepages to their credit, inevitably have a link to
some pages Indian. Some, full blown comprehensive mini-sites -
about India, or in more specific cases, about the state they left
in search of greener pastures (and notes).
Goa Mania (http://www.kuwait.net/~ulysses/goa/) is one such
page with 20 sections - from tourist information and time pass
to recipes and learning konkani. Even though Goa Mania is not
a commercial site, and is actually a personal site, it is very
detailed, and has won numerous awards for its content.
Some of the unique sections here are the konkani, recipes, and
mailing list sections. If you need to learn konkani, you can easily
pick up commonly used phrases and sentences, words and their pronunciation
(and in the near future, even audio files teaching you to speak
easy). Or you could spend some time learning how to make Goan
sweets, curries, masalas, pickles, meats and shellfish. Drool
! Then there are mailing lists you can sign up for - once again
related to Goa yaar, what else do you expect from a site on Goa
?
If you browsed Goa Mania a couple of weeks ago, you would have got the feeling that the creator is an midi fan, what with one song or the other continuously playing in the background on most pages. Faux Pas on the very first page was the national anthem which automatically started playing - what were we to do ? Stop surfing, stand at attention, and waste Internet connection time ? I think not. But then that's the advantage of having your own homepage - you can put up whatever you want. A little discretion though is always advised when you're creating your own pages.
Just how dynamic a medium the web is came across just yesterday : the site had been stripped of midi files, accelerating surfing !
- 26th : T.S. Eliot (http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Poetry/Poets/Eliot__T_S___1888_1965_/)
- 27th : Meat Loaf (http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Rock/Meat_Loaf/)