Top 10 Guitar Anthems Of 2011

This list celebrates all those amazing guitar-driven songs that emerged from the bubbling Indian indie music laboratory over the past 12 months. Songs that pushed the guitar beyond its conventional role, as well as tunes that reaffirmed our faith in the classic role of the guitar in the music we listen to. Feel free to add to this list and send us your feedback in the comments section at the bottom!
1.       Avial – ‘Annakallan’ (from Salt N’ Pepper OST)
Kerala’s favourite alternative-rock sons of the soil haven’t released a new album since their 2008 self-titled debut though the band has kept hinting that their next album is literally just around the corner. Till then, they’ve kept fans happy with the release of ‘Annakallan’ from the OST of the movie ‘Salt N’ Pepper. All crunchy guitar swagger and slamming drums, ‘Annakallan’ sees Avial infuse their alternative rock DNA with a healthy dose of radio-friendly glamour to make their catchiest and tightest tune yet.
Watch the video for ‘Annakallan’ here: http://goo.gl/T6dTJ
2.       Swarathma – ‘Aaj Ki Taaza Fikar’ (Single)
Best known for their socially-conscious folk-rock sound, Swarathma crank up the rock on ‘Aaj Ki Taaza Fikar’, the new single from their upcoming second album. With guitarist Varun Murali more involved in the song writing and production this time around, his classic hard rock influences shine through on this boisterous romp from the Bangalore folk-rockers. While the song still retains Swarathma’s signature tongue-in cheek social commentary, the new sound kicks the rock factor into top gear resulting in a sinewy, guitar-infused beast of a single.
Listen to ‘Aaj Ki Taaza Fikar’ here: http://goo.gl/L1GFR
3.       Junkyard Groove – ‘Beautiful Crime’
As his band collapsed around him twice this year, Ameeth Thomas, frontman and creative fulcrum behind the Chennai alternative-rock band, kept on recording, releasing an EP of acoustic versions as well as two new songs. ‘Beautiful Crime’ released in August featured one of the best guitar riffs of the year, a wailing, jangly electronic squall courtesy JYG guitarist Naveen Thomas Joseph.
Listen: http://goo.gl/2gx9x
4.       Pentagram – ‘Nocturne’
Having been around for the last fifteen years, Pentagram are Indian indie’s elder statesman. Still, you’d never guess it on the strength of Bloodywood, their fourth album. Seized by a restless creative energy, the Bombay foursome has crafted what is probably their most complete album to date, a buzzing, banging ode to their hometown Bombay.  In contrast to the rest of the album’s electro-rock riffs and beats, album closer ‘Nocturne’ actually lets the guitars and drums breathe just a little bit more, making it Bloodywood’s guitar hero moment. Shimmering with atmosphere, ‘Nocturne’ is without a doubt, one of 2011’s most epic guitar anthems.
Watch the making of ‘Nocturne’ here: http://goo.gl/iXjsh
5.       Karsh Kale, Baiju Dharmajan and Njeralathu Harigovindan – ‘Sacred Science’
As part of the TV music and travel series The Dewarists, Asian electronica producer and multi-instrumentalist Karsh Kale, Carnatic rock guitarist Baiju Dharmajan and edakka drum maestro Njeralathu Harigovindan were brought together in Angadipurram in Kerala. Over the next few days they collaborated on a song that saw them throw all their individual musical influences and backgrounds into a metaphoric communal pot of ideas, eventually emerging with a swirling collision of cultures and ideas.
Watch the video for ‘Sacred Science’ here: http://goo.gl/3nHM2
6.       Skyharbor featuring Daniel Tompkins and Marty Friedman – ‘Catharsis’
Skyharbor quickly became the most exciting new act in Indian metal when it became known that Keshav Dhar, the man behind Skyharbor, was quietly working on a solo progressive metal project that featured collaborations with the likes of ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman and ex-Textures vocalist Daniel Tompkins. Over the course of the year, the buzz encouraged Dhar to put together a band to perform the project’s songs live with a single instrumental performance at the NH7 Weekender. The album titled Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos was set to release at the Weekender but got pushed to a 2012 release date after Dhar signed with British metal label Basick Records.
Listen to ‘Catharsis’ here:  http://soundcloud.com/skyharbor7/catharsis
7.       Goddess Gagged – ‘Visionary’
Alongside Skyharbor, the Goddess Gagged’s album Resurfaces was one of the most anticipated Indian metal releases of the year. The buzz around the band quickly grew after the band released the original version of ‘Visionary’ online earlier this year. They released Resurfaces, their debut album at this year’s NH7 Weekender Festival in November to rave reviews.
Listen to the album version of ‘Visionary’ here: http://goo.gl/k3RZn
8.       The Lightyears Explode – ‘She Probably Still Is’
Three minutes and forty six seconds of sweaty, fist-pumping, high-energy punk rock, ‘She Probably Still Is’ is the Mumbai trio’s opening salvo on their debut EP. Combining The Lightyears Explode’s three-punch formula of slashing guitar riffs, pounding drums and a super-sticky na-na-na chorus, the song goes for the kill from the get go. The Lightyears Explodes make music that demands that you get up and move. With that kind of energy, it’s no wonder that the band is one of the most exciting live acts to emerge from the scene this year.
Listen to ‘She Probably Still Is’ here: http://goo.gl/thLxq
9.       Dualist Inquiry – ‘Gravitat’
From Dualist Inquiry’s (real name: Sahej Bakshi) Dualism EP, ‘Gravitat’ combines futuristic electronic beats-and-bleeps with the urgent buzz-saw edge of Sahej Bakshi’s guitar playing to create a banging electro-rock crossover anthem that works equally for dance music junkies and rockers alike .  ‘Gravitat’ is part of one of the most stunningly brilliant debuts this year. Look out for more from this pioneering production maverick as he takes Indian indie in a whole new direction.
Listen to ‘Gravitat’ here: http://goo.gl/eAgKm
10.   Sidd Coutto – ‘Free’
The first single from Coutto’s debut album Sunny Side Up, ‘Free’ saw the multi-instrumentalist choose not to throw everything into the mix, opting instead for a simple acoustic guitar, a trumpet and minimal percussion. The single would set the tone for the rest of the album, a collection of acoustic guitar led tunes that featured Coutto’s signature pop hooks and laidback, almost soulful vocals.
Listen to ‘Free’ here: http://goo.gl/Uk2tf

Love is more than saying I Love You !!

Every couple can learn a lot from this beautiful pair. In these days lots of couple are getting divorced for silly reasons. It is very easy to say I love you, I love you for ever, I will be with you forever, I will die for you, I will care for you etc etc.. Love is more than saying “I Love you”.
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.
The couple Ahmad 26 and his wife Fatima 25-year-old are disabilities.
They got married few years back. Ahmad disability of both hands and both feet of Fatima is.
The couple with disabilities, but strong in the field of artworks activities.
Fatima is washing dishes in the kitchen
Ahmad comb his hair by the foot
Fatima is helping Ahmad to tie his hair
Ahmad ironing clothes
Ahmed and Fatima watching television and eating Breakfast
Ahmad is washing his feet
Ahmad is brushing
Fatima spraying the perfume on Ahmad’s clothes before going out of the house
Fatima and Ahmed in the way of music workshop of rehabilitation nursing sector workshops
Ahmed and his friend practice a piece of music
Ahmad and Fatima help each other in home work
Ahmed and Fatima at lunch
Ahmed and Fatima in chat and review their wedding pictures
The young and passionate Ahmad Sometimes, speak with the God in solitude
Fatima is listening to Ahmad’s lovely poem
Always enjoy life, no matter how hard it seems!
When life give you a thousand reasons to cry. Show the world that…
You have million reasons to SMILE!!!










MEANING OF LOVE
Where there is trust there will be love.
Never try to tested the true love its very hard to forget.
You can not see the love and touch it.
Love can only be felled
Every supreme sacrifice of this world behind it there will be love.
And we human exist in this world is because of love.

Highest Paid CEOs in India

It is not Mukesh Ambani, Azim Premji or Gautam Adani in the list of highest paid CEOs in India. The Capitaline study has made a clear salary figures on the highest paid CEOs in India which is listed below.

Naveen Jindal:

Naveen Jindal, chairman and MD of Jindal steel and power gets a salary of 69.7 Crores per annum that means 5.8 Crores per month. This is the highest salary fetched by the CEO in India. Jindal group is the fourth largest private sector by assets and sales turnover. Though his salary dropped down by 3.66 percent in 2010-2011 tenure he still ranks first. He is also a member of parliament from Haryana from where he gets 50,000 as income which he will be donating for social activities.

Kalanithi Maran:

The chairman and MD of Sun Network, most profitable television network in Asia and Spicejet is the second highest paid CEO in India with a salary of 64.4 crore. Kalanithi's salary got boosted up by 73.68 percent for 2010-2011. His television channels and newspapers dominate the whole south Indian media. He was won prestigious honors like young businessman award from VNBC and Ernest and young. The U.S. based Forbes magazine listed him as the television king of southern India. He is the son of the late and former union minister Murasoli Maran and grand nephew of the DMK president M. Karunanidhi.

Kavery Maran:

Kaveri Maran, wife of Kalanithi Maran and the joint managing director of Sun TV is the third highest paid CEO with a salary of 64.4 crores.
  
Sunil Mittal:

Telecom mogul, Sunil Mittal is the fourth highest paid executive in India. The chairman, founder and the group CEO of Bharti Enterprises fetches a salary of 27.1 crore that rose by 17.11 percent this year. In the year 2007 he was honored with Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honor. He is also known for his philanthropy. His works towards educating India through Bharti foundation that has established over 200 schools and listed him in the top 25 philanthropists in the world in the year 2009.

Brijmohan Lall Munjal:

The founder director and the chairman of Hero Motocorp, Brijmohan Lall Munjal is the fifth highest paid CEO in India with a salary of 26.75 Crores. His salary dropped down by 12.69 percent in 2010-11. He is the key person who developed the company to a great level which rose up from a cycle manufacturer to motor cycle and scooter.

Pawan Munjal:

The brother of Brijmohan Lall Munjal, Pawan Munjal is the sixth highest paid CEO in India. He is the MD and CEO of Hero Motocorp and is the key person in the success of the company. His ideas and deliberate plans elevated the brand name.  

B.G Raghupathy:

The chairman and MD of BGR Energy Systems makes the seventh place in the list with a salary of 25.92 crore that rose up by 180 percent on 2010-2011. Till now the company has implemented 226 contracts in 74 countries and over 1,000 contracts in India. His company holds business in two parts, the supply of systems and equipments and Turnkey Engineering project contracting.

Pankaj Patel:

The Chairman and MD of Cadila Healthcare is the eighth highest paid CEO in India with a salary of 25 Crore though there was a salary drop of 12.68 percent for 2010-2011. He has perceived his bachelor and master degree in pharmacy from Gujarat University. Patel was named as the "best Pharma man of the year 2003" by the foundation of Indian industry and Economists. He was named the "Best Pharma man of the year 2003" by the Foundation of Indian Industry and Economists.

 Sajjan Jindal:

The vice chairman and MD of JSW steel is ranked ninth in the list. He obtains a salary of 20.80 crore. He holds a bachelor degree from Bangalore University.

Debu Bhattacharya:

The head of Aditya Birla group and MD of Hindalco industries, Debu Bhattacharya. He gets a salary of 17.31 Crore. His salary increased by 31.64 percent in 2010-2011. Bhattacharya is also the VC of Novelis Inc.

Corbett National Park

Jim Corbett National Park—named after the hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett who played a key role in its establishment—is the oldest national park in India. Situated in Nainital district of Uttarakhand, the park acts as a protected area for the critically endangered Bengal tiger of India, the secure survival of which is the main objective of Project Tiger, an Indian wildlife protection initiative.
An ecotourism destination, it contains 488 different species of plants and a diverse variety of fauna. Once inside the park, the safari is great, you get to see very relaxing jungle views,  several kinds of antelopes, birds, Langur monkeys, and of course- tigers!
Over 585 species of resident and migratory birds have been categorized, including crested serpent eagles, blossom headed parakeet and the red jungle fowl — ancestor of all domestic fowl. 33 species of reptiles, 7 species of amphibians, 7 species of fish and 37 species of dragonflies have also been recorded.

History

The park was originally named Hailey National Park after Governor Hailey and was created on August 6th 1936. It was India’s first National Park. After independence the park was renamed after the Ramganga River and was call Ramganga National Park. The park was renamed again 1957 after James E. Corbett, who helped to set up the park and spent most of his life in the area.
The area of the park was increased in 1991 when the Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary was added to the park.

Climate

There are three well defined seasons in the Corbett National Park- the winter season which lasts from November to February, the summer season which lasts from March to June, and the rainy season which covers the rest of the month. The summer rains cause flooding in the park. The temperature in the Winters can go down to 4 degrees centigrade at night and the entire jungle is dry in the summer months as the temperature goes up to 44 degrees centigrade. The annual rainfall in the park ranges between 1400mm and 2800mm.

Get There

It is normally accessed from the town of Ramnagar, and is a two hour drive to the north.
The main areas (Dhikala and Bijrani) of Jim Corbett National Park are closed from 16 June – 14 Nov for the monsoon season. Jhirna & Sitabani (Buffer Zone)remain opened all year round.

See

Bengal tigers, although plentiful, are not easily spotted due to the abundance of camouflage in the reserve. Thick jungle, the Ramganga river, and plentiful prey make this reserve an ideal habitat for tigers who are opportunistic feeders and prey upon a range of animals. The tigers in the park have been known to kill much larger animals such as buffalo and even elephant for food. The tigers prey upon the larger animals in rare cases of food shortage, often in packs using the advantage of numerical superiority. The reserve has enormous boars, weighing up to 200 pounds, who provide a match for the tigers as a large male boar is capable of killing a tiger. There have been incidents of tigers attacking domestic animals in times when there is a shortage of prey.


Leopards are found in hilly areas but may also venture into the low land jungles. Smaller felines in the park include the Jungle Cat, Fishing Cat and Leopard Cat.] Other mammals include four kinds of deer (barking, sambar, hog, Black buck and chital), Sloth and Himalayan Black bears, Indian Grey Mongoose, otters, yellow-throated martens, ghoral (goat-antelopes), Indian pangolins, and langur and rhesus monkeys. Owls and Nightjars can be heard during the night.


In the summer, Elephants are seen in large herds of several hundred. The Indian python found in the reserve is a dangerous species, capable of killing a chital deer. Local crocodiles were saved from extinction by captive breeding programs that subsequent;y released crocodiles into the Ramganga river.

Indian Student Bag NASA Award

Students of three Indian education institutions, which designed and launched their own satellites, have won a U.S. space agency's student competition (foreign category) challenge.

The three institutions are Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K), Anna University of Chennai, and SRM University located near here, according to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) website.

The students won the environmentally responsible (green) aviation college student challenge in May 2011.

According to a statement issued by SRM University here Friday, a four-member student team -- Akshay Garg, Surya Kiran Peravalli, Abdul Sayeed Khan and Pate Sweety Prakash -- under the guidance of G. Mahendra Perumal, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, participated in the contest.

"They developed a conceptual aircraft named SERA (SRM Environmentally Responsible) Airliner".

The team designed an airplane for 200 passengers incorporating efficient technologies in many aspects like fuel efficiency, aerodynamic performance with small take-off and landing distances.

NASA's Langley Aerodynamic Research Centre, located in Virginia, is organising a student forum during Nov 15-16 and the SRM University team has been invited to make their presentation, the statement said.

IIT-K and SRM University launched their small satellites -- Jugnu and SRMSAT Wednesday -- using an Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

City-based Anna University became the first Indian university to have launched a satellite Anusat in 2009.

Company Logos and their Meanings

Ever wondered what company logos mean and whats the significance behind them? Wonder no more!

You might think the arrow does nothing here. But it says that amazon.com has everything from a to z and it also represents the smile brought to  
the customer's face. Wow, that is quite deep.

 
Am not sure how many of you have noticed a hidden symbol in the Federal Express logo.
Yeah, I am talking about the 'arrow' that you can see between the E and the x in this logo. The arrow was introduced to underscore speed and precision, which are part of the positioning of the company.


 The old logo of Baskin Robbins had the number 31 with an arc above it. The new logo took this idea to the next level. The pink parts of the BR still form the number 31, a reference to the 31 flavours.


 Carrefour is one of the biggest European retailers, and its also French for crossroads. The logo symbolizes this word via two opposite arrows. They also added the first letter of the name, because if you look closely youll see the letter C in the negative space between the two arrows.

 
 At first, this logo might not make much sense. But if you look closely, youll see the number 1 in the negative space between the F and the red stripes. I also love how this logo communicates a feeling of speed.


 The NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is one of the biggest American television networks. I think most of you have already seen the peacock in this logo. The peacock has 6 different tail feathers, referring to the six divisions at the time that this logo was created. The peacocks head is flipped to the right to suggest it was looking forward, not back.


Sony Vaio is a well known brand of laptops. But did you know that the name Vaio logo also had a hidden meaning? Well, the first two letters represent the basic analogue signal. The last two letters look like a 1 and 0, representing the digital signal.


Toblerone is a chocolate-company from Bern , Switzerland . Bern is sometimes called The City Of Bears. They have incorporated this idea in the Toblerone logo, because if you look closely, youll see the silhouette of a bear.



Unilever is one of the biggest producers of food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. They produce a huge amount of different products and they wanted to reflect this in their logo. Each part of the logo has a meaning. For example: the heart represents love, care and health - feeling good, a bird is a symbol of freedom. Relief from daily chores “ getting more out of life.

Paul Rand (who designed the iconic IBM logo in 1972) designed this 'eye bee M' logo in 1981. I like that they are quite relaxed about the logo, unlike certain other companies who do not like the logo to be tampered with in any way even for internal promotions


The SUN Microsystems logo is a wonderful example of symmetry and order. It was a brilliant observation that the letters u and n while arranged adjacent to each other look a lot like the letter S in a perpendicular direction. Spectacular.
 
The above are two magazines from the Readers Digest stable. Again, the attempt to communicate what it is about quite figuratively through the logo catches my attention.


This was a logo created for a puzzle game called Cluenatic. This game involves unravelling four clues. The logo has the letters C, L, U and E arranged as a maze. and from a distance, the logo looks like a key


Eighty-20 is a small consulting company which does sophisticated financial modeling, as well as some solid database work. All their work is highly quantitative and relies on some serious computational power, and the logo is meant to convey it.

People first guess that 20% of the squares are darkened, but that turns out to be false after counting them. The trick is to view the dark squares as 1's and the light squares as 0's. Then the top line reads 1010000 and the bottom line reads 0010100, which represent 80 and 20 in binary.

Kinda like the surreal green screen of The Matrix, they want us to read stuff in binary