Summer in Delhi
The summer season in Delhi is one of scorching heat with temperature running into forties (degree centigrade), and of hot air blowing (called loo). Its difficult to venture out into the sun even for five minutes. Plants, especially outdoor ones, need a lot of water and care. However even in this weather there are some [...]
Symbol for the Indian Currency
Economic Times has started a survey to find a symbol for the Indian currency similar to the Dollar symbol ($). The site shows some proposed designs, and the visitors can vote for one of those, or the visitors can provide their own suggestions. To the left is the symbol proposed by me. Its based on [...]
Indian Photographers II: Raghu Rai
Having talked about Lala Deen Dayal I want to move on to a more contemporary photographer: Raghu Rai. He was born in 1942, and is a photographer and photojournalist since 1965. He joined The Statesman in 1966 and was awarded the Padamshree in 1971. A photograph by him: Some more photos featuring him: A gallery [...]
Potted flowers – II
Some more of my potted flower shots, hope you like them. Please leave your comments behind: The first photo, Natural Grace is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License. The other photos (eg. ‘Smile Please’), are under the more restrictive license used by the rest of this blog.
GIF vs JPEG
There must have been times when you would have wondered what the difference is in pictures of type “GIF” (having file extension .gif) and those of type “JPEG” (having file extension .jpg). At other times you might have wondered which type to use for a picture you are uploading. Well, today I am going to [...]
