Digital Wealth

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Attached below is a Gurbani wallpaper that I have created and intend to submit to SikhNet.com for inclusion in their wallpaper collection for downloads. It comes in six flavours, each slightly different – select the one that you like most. The wallpaper is a composite: the pebbles background was photographed by me in Goa, the [...]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, first Indian Sikh prime minister is undergoing a confidence motion as I write this. He invoked a war prayer by Guru Gobind Singh Ji while introducing the motion. The meaning of the prayer is very well narrated here. I quote below the relevant section: “Daahay shiva bur mohaay eaahay sub karman [...]

I came across QR codes recently. QR stands for Quick response. The coded message looks something like this: In Japan, they are printed on business cards so that you can take a photograph of the code with your mobile phone, and use special software (also in the phone) to decode it. It makes your life [...]

Here are some of my all-time favourite photos, taken by myself. These have been pulled up from their respective galleries. For more photos, visit http://foto.hardeep.name. Click on the images to see the full picture.

Really liked the message in this one:

There is an interesting folklore in India, where Raja Harishchandra, one of the ancestors of Lord Rama promised a saint a large sum of money. He had to sell off himself, his wife and his son in order to repay the debt of this saint. I came across a nice painting by Raja Ravi Verma [...]