You must be born in and reside in India (any region).
The whole thing will take no more than 5 minutes of your time. You will never be identified by name to anyone except for me.
As soon as we are done, I will send you $2 via Paypal. Please note: you need to have a good quality headset to participate.
If you are interested, please e-mail me at eugene@tsuprun.com suggesting a few different times that work for you. Also, please let me know your skype ID.
I also find it a bit weird that people who consider themselves "foodies" or "gourmands" know so little about Indian food. I remember as a child arguing with one of my teachers about curry. She insisted that it was that powdered stuff you get in the supermarket, while I told her--rather emphatically--that it was the term for the gravy that is in various Asian cuisines. This went on to the point where my teacher reported me to the principle and a phone call to my mother was threatened. This would have been in 4th or 5th grade, so maybe I was trying to bite off a bit more than I could chew? In any case, I had my mom communicate CLEARLY with the teacher that I was right.
Having a spat with a teacher of this nature is rather precocious and my children are NOT encouraged to do the same. I suppose it's an instance of do as I say.....
I wanted to share this American advertisement with everyone.
Now, I don't know how common it is that American advertisements have recognisable Indian numbers playing in the background but I found it quite interesting. (Mods, please delete this post if you deem it inconsequential.)
The ad has clearly appropriated (or misappropriated?) one of the most famous Bollywood songs of the early 1990s. I don't know if the composer's widow or his estate got any royalties for this. Have at it :)
( Click for ad video )
Kinaara is an experiment of sorts, and the culmination of much plotting and planning and tearing of hair. Kinaara, to be somewhat more formal, is an upcoming online magazine for the South Asian youth and diaspora, concerned with literature and culture, and in discussions and depictions thereof.
The two lj-ers connected to Kinaara are
We will post the first edition of Kinaara on 01.07.2009. The permanant address of the magazine will be revealed at the time.
Thank you.
Hi Guys,
Community for Rajasthan Royals Fans. Please join and enjoy!! Post and keep updated about the activities of your favourite IPL Team!!
http://community.livejournal.com/rr_fana
Indian Literature isn't an official community or representative of any organisation. We creators/moderators are, like everyone else, just people who like (or dislike) their books. We won't moderate anything except hurtful/insulting/harrassing posts... and oh, posting your own creative writing. There are other communities for that,
Also, while the community is quite generically called Indian Literature, we're quite open to talking about all South Asian and diasporic literature. We'll be talking about literature in regional languages. We'll be talking about fiction and chicklit and comics and poetry. No restrictions.
See you there at
Hi All,
General Elections are heating up this summer in India, and there has been a lot of opinion sharing & shaping on LiveJournal as well around it. We partook of a similar wave during the historical presidential elections of US in 2008, with this community. The intention was to facilitate wide ranging public discussion of important political issues, including reactions of people in the U.S. and abroad to the U.S. presidential elections.
For India, we are certain we want LiveJournal to become the hub for - facilitate, drive, and be part of in any way possible - all citizen driven initiatives. As a progression toward that, we have partnered with Vote Report India, a collaborative citizen-driven election monitoring platform for the 2009 Indian general elections.
Vote Report India has been seeded as a collaboration that would allow increased transparency and accountability in the Indian election process, and also provide the most complete picture of public opinion in India during the elections. With our community India_Politics, Vote Report seeks to garner opinion through comments, polls, etc. about events and issues around these elections, pool in and share existing expert-views on a regular basis, as well as allow the global community on LiveJournal to share their thoughts.
I’d urge all of you to visit India_Politics, share your thoughts on existing posts or initiate some discussions yourselves. Look forward to hearing you,
Cheers!
LiveJournal is marking its 10th Anniversary this year, it is indeed one of the Granddaddy’s of Social Media. :) To celebrate the anniversary Team LJ is bringing out a book to mark this milestone.
One of the things that the editors are keen to include is a sense of the global breadth of LiveJournal. They are looking for examples from across the worlds of great writing within LiveJournal. If you have suggestions, we’d love to hear from you.
Please post them in the comments section below and the team will be in touch. You can read more about this in this community too http://community.livejournal.com/lj_turn
Looking forward to your submissions.
Team LJ India
Hi All,
Team LJ India
The submission deadline for the LJ India Page Design Contest is being extended uptil the 15th March, 2009; heeding to requests from some of our LJ friends. Also, in case you are not well versed with Photoshop, feel free to send in your submission in jpeg format anyway.
All else stays as is, the details of which are here again.
Do put in your entry for the contest.
Cheers!
Contest: To create a page design for the LJ_India community
Who can participate: Anyone. You just have to be a LJ_India member.
Brief for the contest: LJ_India is an active hub for all Indian users of LiveJournal, as well as all LiveJournal users interested in India. It is here that LiveJournal members can get updates on various India communities like new initiatives, interesting prompts, upcoming contests and much more.
Members of the community also participate and suggest ideas & improvements, ask questions, post queries, garner insights from other LJ users or just find friends with similar interests.
To participate in the contest, you have to create a design for the LJ_India community page which depicts the essence of the community accurately.
Hi Everyone,
This is your chance to write a HAIKU.
For more details visit India Writing community or just click here.
Cheers,
Rajika

Hi, friends!
I participate in a photo contest which is organized by TM 'Marmot'.
A subject of the contest is 'Marmot is in harmony with different places on the Earth'.
All of my photographs are taken in my lovely India (Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh...) :)
Vote, please, for your native places!
(go to the below references and
then click on a fifth star which is under photos)
http://ru.marmot.com/index.php/v/vnesog
http://ru.marmot.com/index.php/v/estest
http://ru.marmot.com/index.php/v/vodopa
http://ru.marmot.com/index.php/v/okruge
http://ru.marmot.com/index.php/v/ravnov
I want to apply for the Broadband connection offered by BSNL. But I am not able to decide which modem to choose.
1) Should I buy my own modem or take the one provided by BSNL?
2) If I decide to buy my own modem then which modem is a better one (Company and model number would be helpful), how do I configure the modem that I own. Will the installation guys come and configure it?
3) If I take the modem from BSNL, should I opt for rental or out right purchase?
4) Which type of modem should I take, if I am opting to take the modem from BSNL:
Type - I
Type - II
Type - III
Type - IV
Whats the difference between them all ?
Suggestions like don't go for BSNL connection is not valid, since BSNL is the last option I have got. I have tried every other connection and every thing sucks, especially Wi-MAX.
| Along the Ghats, Mathura |
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Hi All
I have pleasant news, so let me not indulge in pleasant talk :)
The judges have given us the much-awaited, celebrated winners of the Quick-Tales contest we held for the india_writing community, and we are keen on having some pomp-and-show around the annoucements too! So, we'll be letting the news out on the 18th of November, 2008 at Oxford Book Store, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi. We warmly invite all our members to a short-story reading session by Suhel Seth, who will, of course, be reading from the winning entries. The event details are here and we'd like all of you who can make it to register at the soonest!
Also, present to highlight LiveJournal's progress in India and share thoughts on supporting self-publishing through social-media platforms will be Benjamin Wegg-Prosser, Director of Corporate Development, LiveJournal.com.
All of you, who cannot be present, have no cause to despair. We'll be updating you about the event on-the-go. We are hoping that this would be the first of many such off-line meets through which this community will grow and share some beautiful writing in times to come. :)
Just to remind you all, the people's poll is coming to a close tonight as well, and the winner would be announced at the event.
Hoping to see all of you there. :)
Manpreet
if you have been watching the news there was a earthquake in Pakistan few
days back
over 1 million people are effected
the temperatures sub zone
we are arrange to buy blankets and sent it there to help from our side.
the cost per blank should be about $ 4 plus some shipping cost will be
there.
if you would like to give any amount to help it would be good of you.
Please pass this email on to other if you think it might help
thanks,
Zuned Sunesra
msn: sunesra@hotmail.com
Icq: 435778070
I am new to this community. I hope it is OK to write this kind of an entry, so please let me know if it is not.
I work best with points, so here it goes:
1) I am really excited to be part of this community. I am glad LJ is focussing on India. I believe there are several Indian members of LJ and I want the number to grow. I am really excited to have a forum to interface with fellow Indians and talk about various issues concerning (or not concerning) our country.
2) I am slightly unclear about the scope of this community. What do you discuss here? I mean we are Indians all right but we are people first and as we know from the multitude of accounts and communities on LJ, people have a lot of different types of issues to discuss. Is it alright to have just one community to include all of that? I mean we can discuss politics, society, religion, sports, entertainment, music, life, and so on and so forth. Wouldn't it be better to have a bunch of communities under the overall India umbrella? Or to revive and group such communities where the exist? After all we don't have a single LJ_USA community.
3) Until (and unless) the above happens, is it OK to write anything - political rants, philosophical insights, random chitchat etc. in this community? If not what are the guidelines to stick to while posting to this community?
Glad to meet you all friends, look forward to hearing for you :)
Ciao!!!
