Doha, Qatar

Kashid Beach

Kashid is a beach town on the shores of Arabian Sea, in the North Konkan region of Maharashtra, India. It is located 30 km from Alibag and 135 km from Mumbai on the Alibag-Murud road.

Phansad Wild Life Sanctuary

Phansad Abhayaranya, in Raigad district is about 152 kms from Mumbai via Panvel, Pen and Alibaug. The sanctuary is spread across an area of 52 sqkm. The Murud-Roha road passes through the sanctuary.

The sanctuary has a wide varietyof flora and fauna. Leopard is the major carnivore. The other animals include Heyena, Jungle cat, Palm civet, Sambhar, Barking deer, Bonnet Macaque, Wild boar and malabar giant squirrel. There aer 148 types of birds (including the interesting Pied hornbill, Three toed Kingfisher, Malkoha, Pitta), 90 species of butterflies (including Common Map, Black Prince, Nawab, Blue Mormon) and a number of poisonous and non poisonous snakes. About 710 species of plants have been identified here.

The entire forests and sanctuary were earlier private hunting block of the erstwhile Siddhi Nawab of the Janjira state. The Nawab constructed roads, water bodies, and evacuated several villages from the sanctuary.

There is a guesthouse and few tents available to stay here.
Its a nice place for a trek around the forest.
There are 4 major nature trails (approx 12km each) in the sanctuar, passing through various habitats, providing an opportunity to experience the wild life

Kolad White Water Rafting, Kayaking and other water sports

Celebrating Mom's Birthday on 7th Sep

Celebrating Mom's Birthday at night 12 on 7 Sep 2011

Esha swiming in 2010

Esha dances during Ganesh Festival in 2010

Today is My Birthday!

The cake was prepared by Kalpana! And we also had Sangeetha visit us at 12 in the nite.

Finally Solution for Samsung Galaxy GT i9003 Android mobile phone problem of going automatically in Flight Mode

Is your smartphone going automatically in flight mode?

I bought a new Samsung Galaxy GT i9003 smartphone in July 2011. I started facing problems with the phone going into Airplane mode and locking up automatically. When I go into the settings and try to turn airplane mode off, it won't allow it. Then when I hold the power button down, it tells me that airplane mode is off. Trying to change the settings also does not work. Initially, I thought this problem is happening when I have no cell service, but it doesn't correct itself when I get cell service again. Later I felt that it randomly goes into flight mode. I have to reboot the phone to get it out of airplane mode and use the phone. I read a lot of the posts about the Samsung and other Android phones having this same issue. One post said to turn off the Wi-Fi so I did, but it did not work. Another post said to stop using GPS and uninstall applications using GPS. I tried that but again it did not work.

I escalated the issue to Samsung Service Center but no one seemed to have a clue about the resolution. The Samsung service could not isolate if this was a software/OS problem or Hardware Mobile problem.

This issue of my Samsung mobile phone going automatically into flight mode continued for almost a month. This behaviour had made my mobile phone useless. Every time I reboot or somehow get the mobile back to normal, it would again go back to Flight mode within minutes or sometimes within a few hours.

I tried all the below as suggested by other people facing this problem and as suggested by Service Center Support.

1. Restart the phone

2. Removing all the GPS application

3. Switching off the wifi connectivity

4. Restoring factory settings

5. Software update (by Samsung Service Center)

6. Motherboard Replace (by Samsung Service Center)

Finally, the last option worked.

Now, I believe replacing the motherboard has done the trick.

It has been few days since my mobile has not gone into flight mode. I am still observing it.

However, the service center replaced the motherboard on the mobile and now I am observing it. So far the mobile is working perfectly for the past few days.

Today on 8th Aug 2011, it has been more than 2 weeks and I have not yet faced the issue of phone going automatically to fligh/airplane mode.
Yippee!!! So now I believe that the solution of replacing the motherboard has worked for me!!!

Please do let me know if this solution worked for you'll OR Please let me know if some other solution exists!

कल्पनाच्या कविता - भाग 2

माझ्या मनाच आणि डोक्याच
नेहमीचच भांडण आहे
मनाच वागण मला आवडत
तर डोक्याच अगदीच बिनडोक आहे !

कल्पनाच्या कविता - भाग 1

कोवळया उन्हात मी बसले असताना
वारा स्वताशिच हसत होता
एकट्यानेच असे हसत असताना कुणी पाहिल तर हसेल
म्हणून मध्येच शांत होत होता !

Ganga Aarti at Varanasi from a Boat is really a beautiful experience