The days Seen by TAJ MAHAL Palace- The Icon Of Indian Hotel

The Taj Mahal Palace hotel resort was commissioned by Jamsetji Tata and first opened its doors to guests on December 16, 1903. Tata allegedly decided to build the luxurious hotel after he was refused entry to one of the city's grand hotels of the time, Watson's Hotel, as it was restricted to `whites only'. The original Indian architects were Sitaram Khanderao Vaidya and D. N. Mirza, but the project was completed by an English engineer W. A. Chambers. The cost of construction was 421 million Rupees. During the World War I, the hotel was converted into a 600-bed hospital.The side of the hotel seen from the harbor is actually its rear. The front faces away to the west. There is a widespread misconception that the architects' building plans were confused by the builder so that he built it facing away from the harbor. This is not true, as the hotel was deliberately built facing inland rather than to the harbor. This was probably a deliberate snub to the British king by Jamsedji Tata due to nationalist feelings. Some people believe that the front of the hotel had to face inland because the horse carriages, in which guests came to the hotel, could easily approach the hotel from the city. The carriages were then taken to Wellington Mews. Five decades ago, the old front was closed off, and access is since then through the harbour-side entrance.There used to be a Green's Hotel at the Apollo Bunder, which was purchased by the Taj Mahal Hotel. It was at the Green's Hotel, that a small group of pro-Indian Goans (largely employees of the Indian state and communists) assembled and formed the Goan Liberation Council demanding that Portugal cede Goa to India, in the 1950s. This was done at the instigation of Jawaharlal Nehru, and funded by the Kamani Group of Companies. In 1973, Green's hotel was demolished and the present Tower wing was constructed in its place.




And... November 26, 2008 emerged as the black day in the history of Taj




And after a gun battle of more than 24 hours, at around 11.35 PM on 27th November, "All hostages at Taj Hotel in Mumbai have been rescued, but there could be some still trapped at Trident hotel and Nariman House where operations were on to flush out terrorists", Maharashtra police chief A N Roy said on Thursday, ruling out any negotiations with the terrorists." The damage has already happened.. Death toll of more than 125 people with more than 400 injured, the never sleeping city of India has for sure seen almost 2 days of sleepless nights. The beauty of Taj is also damaged a lot. Its true it can be bought back to its original state but what about the lives of those innocent people and the brave police people who gave their lives for a cause......? ???

Terrorism Has no religion

Deccan Mujahideen Letter

Translation of Message From 'Deccan Mujahideen'

Hours after terrorists began their attacks in Mumbai Wednesday, the previously unknown group identifying itself as "Mujahideen Hyderabad Deccan" sent an email to few Indian media organizations.

The two-page-long letter, written in Hindi peppered with Urdu, is in the form of a notice to the Indian government and a warning to India's Hindus. Its title: "Not the Warning but the Fact."

The following is a partial translation by The Wall Street Journal's Krishna Pokharel:

• We inform and warn India's government to stop the continuing injustice against the Muslims. Return all the states seized from the Muslims. We are that "nation" that never forgets its history and repeats its history again and again. The fresh examples of which are Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Somalia and Kashmir.
• Whatever you had to do you did that and what we had to endure we endured that … This is now our innings and we won't let it go from our hands. We will play our innings with style …
• We know India government won't take this warning seriously…. So we are determined that this warning be made real … You have already seen its vivid example in Mumbai.
• Hindus, don't think India's ATS [anti-terror squad] and army are laced with modern weapons and are also courageous.
• This attack is a reaction to those actions that Hindus have been carrying out since 1947. There would be no actions now, only reactions. … And it will continue till we take revenge for every injustice done to us. … It will continue till we take back all our seized states …
• Hindus now give up thinking that martyring of Muslims' mosques, weakening Muslims' economic condition through riots, and putting educated youths in prison will weaken the confidence. No, not at any cost. …

Mujahideen Hyderabad Deccan

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Deccan Mujahideen Letter

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Google:An evil company which wants to take over the world??

Google has emerged today as leader in web services and slowly also expanding to offline services. They have been the biggest supporters of free and open source software, sponsoring almost every event that endorses open source, supporting every open source product based company financially as well as technically. Also itself has been conducting a lot of events to bring together developers of the open source community. Most people are now under the impression that Google is the Messiah that has been created to save the world from the "evil" Microsoft. Their premiere argument being that Microsoft does not give enough rights to the user and they're evil and they are hacking into all your data and they're evil and they dont give you code and they're evil, though I appreciate the fact Google has been able to sideline itself from 'directly' making these alligations.
Almost every computer user uses Google's tools for any kind of web service used by him and as an icing on the cake these services are completely free of cost. We love everything that comes to us for free, and why not, we work hard to earn that money. Now Google understands that well, doesn't it? Thank You Google.
Now where my understanding of Google beats me is why doesn't Google release the source code of its own products. To start with, well i'm using the search engine am I not entitled to have the source code for it, if the code for my operating system happens to be my birth right.
Now have we seen an open source version for googletalk with all its features for Unix based systems?Shouldn't they give the code for gmail to its every user.
Web services certainly are different but again they're being used by me, take my private data and run mostly on my PC. Why must I not view what data is being captured from my system or the application I have opened using these services.
Another point I would like to specify on these web services by google, how many of them have been Google's own creations and have made it big except for the search engine.
Orkut, google's socializing site was made by someone else, bought by google.
Blogger, this very site was bought by Google not released by them.
Youtube, again bought by Google.
It certainly is quite honorary to be taken over by google. Every start up dreams of it. Why, because they've done a lot of hard work in creating the start up, and if they're getting a hefty reward for it right at the moment, why reject it.
I would say Google was lucky, it wasn't taken over by any major comapany during its time of creation. They tried but Alta Vista was too snobbish for that. Now Google does not want to see a repetition of 'The Google Story'. They buy every possible company which emerges as a possible competition. It certainly is the Emperor of Internet ruthlessly conquering every small opposition in the most nascent stages.
But the emperor's insatiable thirst for power also has its eyes set on the offline services. Their biggest competition is Microsoft, "Well, they're bigger than us. We can't buy them. Hmm!! so my enemy's enemy is a friend. Hence, it befriended the open source community. All they have to do is pump in some money from time to time and Microsoft is busy parrying off the open source guys. Now they've come up with android(which was not introduced as open source) to enter the phone markets, and another mentionable feat by Google, CHROME. I don't understand what were they thinking, we put together the open source brilliantly built browser in the market, replace it with our label and reintroduce and with a privacy policy that we can use any data that you open with chrome. Wha ha wha!!!
Oh! and another thing I forgot to mention why are none of the open source products by Google(of the very few) that I know of GPL licensed?? Why do they go for something else like Apache Software licenses? Why do Google's products fail to provide the Four Kinds of Freedom?

Now Google I'm sure is just waiting for the right time to release its own OS though not very soon I'm sure. Just as soon as they can get enough from the open source community on Microsoft which could take a while because I think now its time People understood the Evil that is GOOGLE.

I hope the open source community realizes this before its too late.