I have love and hate kind of relationship with Google. Few days back I email Google to know that if I can use my domain “Dontbegoogle.com” just for fun stuff and purely to write positive things about Google, but they refused and I was denied to use that domain. I mean they didn’t say that I can’t use it, but they said that I cannot put Google adsense on it. I know if I use that domain and put some other adsense on it, still one day I will receive notice from Google to bring down my website, b’coz I’ll be using their brand. So I have dropped the idea of using domain my “Dontbegoogle.com.” I like the way Google keeps changing its ...

The cricket series, Indian Cricket League (ICL) was announced in April by Subash Chandra, Essel Group - the owner of Zee TV who will broadcast the tournament.The inaugural tournament, featuring a series of big name stars at the end of their careers in the first class game, will start shortly after the first-ever ICC Twenty20 World Championship, taking place in South Africa in September. According the latest issue of Spin magazine, Shane Warne and Brian Lara have signed up for the breakway Twenty20 compeition (ICL) taking place in India this october and are joined by Inzamam-ul Haq and Shane Warne with many more big names to follow. Zee have their eye on a series of other Legends who have been recently retired or are on the ...

I wonder what level one can go to get attention or to be in limelight. Flop actress and cricket commentator Mandira Bedi, while hosting a show on Set Max channel during the final of the World Cup Saturday, wore a sari that had the national flags of 16 participating countries printed on it. India's flag, however, found place near her knees, which allegedly violates the Flag Code. The controversial sari was designed for Mandira by Satya Paul especially for coverage of the World Cup. "I reckon if Satya Paul had taken some more pain in designing the saree, the Indian flag would have found top place on the saree." Gyan Prakash Kamra, a Jaipur resident, has accused Mandira of disrespecting the tricolour ...

1 small ripe mango2 medium bananas4 cups milk, chilled2 tablespoons honey8 grapes, quartered1/4 cup pomegranate pearls Peel and chop bananas and mango.  Put these pieces in a smoothie maker.Add half the chilled skimmed milk and blend.Add honey and the remaining milk and blend again.Add ice and blend till it gets crushed.Place the grapes in stemmed glasses and pour the milk shake over.Sprinkle the pomegranate pearls and serve immediately.

8 eggs8 tablespoons oil2 small onions, chopped8 medium fresh button mushrooms, chopped1 small green capsicum, seeded and choppedSalt to tasteWhite pepper powder to tasteFor one portion: Break two eggs and separate the yolks from the whites.Heat one tablespoon oil in a large shallow pan.  Add one fourth the onions, one fourth the mushrooms and one fourth the capsicum and sauté. Take the egg whites in a bowl, add salt to taste and whisk.Add this to the pan and stir till the eggs set. Sprinkle a pinch of white pepper powder.Drizzle some oil along the sides and flip to turn the omelette. Cook on the other side too.Serve immediately. Make the other omelettes in the same way.

1 cup fusilli pasta in different colours1 medium red capsicum, halved and seeded  1 medium carrot, thinly sliced  1 medium onion, sliced 4 tablespoons olive oil4-5 cloves garlic, chopped1/2 cup tomato pureeSalt to taste1/4 teaspoon black pepper powder1/4 cup fresh cream1/2 teaspoon dried basil2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsleyPreheat oven to 180°C. Cut red capsicum into one inch sized pieces. Put red capsicum, carrot and onion on a tray and sprinkle one tablespoon of olive oil and cook in the oven at 180°C for 10 minutes.Boil sufficient water in a deep pan with salt. Add one tablespoon of oil and cook different coloured fusilli pasta in it till al dente. Drain and refresh in cold water. Add one tablespoon of olive oil and mix.Remove the vegetables ...

1 medium green capsicum, seeded and diced 8-10 fresh button mushrooms, quartered 1 medium carrot, 1 cm cubes 1/2 cup green peas2 tablespoons sweet corn niblets1 tablespoon oil3 cups vegetable stockSalt to tasteA pinch of sugar 1 whole dry red chilli, crushed2 tablespoons cornflour Method:Heat oil, add green capsicum and mushrooms and cook for two to three minutes on high heat. Add warm vegetable stock along with carrot, green peas and sweet corn niblets. Bring to a boil. Add salt to taste, sugar and crushed red chilli. Add cornflour blended in quarter cup of water, stirring continuously. Cook on high heat for one minute. Serve piping hot.

We talk about modern India and modern “soch-vichar”.  We go to cinemas to watch English movies and then we show-off among our friends that we know everything about Hollywood and Western culture. We talk, walk and eat like them and even copy their food; Italian, continental, burger, pizza, hotdog, pasta and god knows what more. We celebrate all festivals whether it belongs to our culture or not, but just b’coz it is celebrated in western countries we do it (Valentine day). We colour and style our hair, want to wear branded clothes and throw some western attitude at others. We make sure that our child speaks fluent English at the age of 3, infact the first word of the baby should be ...

A four-storeyed building collapsed in Surat yesterday, but there were no casualties as the fire brigade had evacuated the occupants in time. Occupants of Firdosh Guest House, in Kamela Darwaja area, had found building had tilted in the morning. The shopkeepers tried to open the shutter of their shops but were unable to lift it. They informed the fire brigade and vacated the building. Official say the two huge hoardings on top of the building may have caused the collapse. According to official sources the Firdaus building on the busy Ring road was damaged during the last year floods. The building collapsed like a pack of cards. I am sure we all have seen a collapsed building before, but ...

 I was shocked, when Tony Blair announced that he will step down as a Prime Minister on 27th of June 2007. I always admired him, I still remember when he became the Prime Minister in 1997 and was on every news channel. He was dashing and dynamic. At that moment I wished we had a Prime Minister like him for India. Well we had, not one but two Mrs Indira Gandhi and Mr Rajiv Gandhi (our bad luck we lost them too early). I don’t think Blair should step down as a Prime Minister, if anybody has guts, then why not fight him in elections and let the people of the UK decide who should be the next Prime Minister. ...