It is amusing to see how religion and politics play and how politicians have to change facts — and history — in the interest of votes. Read this article about Government of India’s position on Ramayana being history (or not). Also see the bbc report. This is an interesting incidence in ‘modern’ India.
I have never been out so long from US — left on July 27th and came back on Sept 14th. I entered US first time on Janyary 13th 1978 and have never been away for more than a month or so. Singapore was great, but coming home feels really sweet. But no time to (poor) [...]
An obvious approach for multilingual search that has not been used as much as is possible is to convert a term in to its equivalents in multiple languages and search accordingly. This approach has been used for image recognition by UW researchers. See this article. I believe that this is OK but what we really [...]