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One of the beautiful keerthanas in the praise of Lord Vishnu by Annamacharya. Though I learned classical music, I never learned keerthanas. I learnt this one from my sister. Love this one so much that I listen to it every day. Here are the lyrics in telugu:

మాధవ కేశవా మధుసూదన విష్ణు | శ్రీధరా పదనఖం చింతయామి యూయం ||

వామన గోవింద వాసుదేవ ప్రద్యుమ్న | రామరామ కృష్ణ నారాయణాచ్యుట |
దామోదరనిరుద్ధ దైవ పుండరికాక్ష | నామత్రయాధీస నమోనమో ||

పురుషోత్తమ పుండరికాక్ష దివ్య | హరి సంకర్షణ అధోక్షజ |
నరసింహ హ్రుశికేశ నగధర త్రివిక్రమ | శరణాగత రక్ష జయజయ సేవే ||

మహిత జనార్దన మత్స్యకూర్మ వరాహ | సహజ భార్గవ బుద్ధ జయతురగా కల్కి |
విహిత విజ్జాన శ్రీవెంకటేశ శుభకరం | అహమిహ తవపద దాస్యం అనిశం భాజామి ||

Listen to the song.



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{March 16, 2008}   Pav Bhaji – Weekend Special

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{March 11, 2008}   Parachute Ride..

This weekend I went for a parachute ride. I held on to the ropes in trepidation. As I was dropping, I saw the ground, and trees far far beneath me. I struggled with the ropes to turn left, turn right, just hoping to land on my target safely, and go home.

But alas, I fell 19 meters away. Here’s to an almost perfect parachute ride, from which I escaped unscathed.

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Fooled you, didn’t I? Oh well, better safe and sound in a museum than falling from the sky into water 19 meters away from land :)





The first thing I miss when I think of India is food!!. This weekend I attempted to make veg puffs and succeeded. I was so bored that I went to Trader Joe’s to get pastry wraps and started making veg puffs. Came out very tasty.

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{March 3, 2008}   FLUENT graphics sucks!!

It’s been almost 3 years since I started working with FLUENT including my undergraduate project and my masters thesis. I was always amazed by the solver capabilities, but I observed that the graphics sucks. If we close a graphics window, the whole program crashes :( … Closing the graphics window by right-clicking at the task-bar works sometimes (Depending on ur luck). Recently I worked on another program STAR CCM+, its graphics are simply awesome . The scene update in post-processing can be seen immediately and the geometry can be rotated while iterating…if the same thing is done in FLUENT, the program freezes!!

This new program is mostly limited to under-hood thermal management and automotive applications. I am waiting for a new program which combines FLUENT’s capabilities with STAR CCM’s interface quality.



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