Photos from the wedding are at: www.flickr.com/photos/RameshJain Now I can relax. I can only imagine the situation of my friend Prakash and Jyashree — the father and mother of the bride.

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I am attending an Indian wedding in India after a long time. Indian weddings are a lot more ‘grand’ affair than weddings I have attended (and organized) in USA. They are long — 3 days of action — and involve lot more functions and people. They are also very expensive. Since I am currently only [...]

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Nagpur is growing at a fast pace. It becomes obvious right from the airport. The airport is going through a major renovation and new construction phase. In the city also one sees signs of growth everywhere. City has expanded in every direction. One sees construction everywhere. Nagpur has been able to maintain wider and well [...]

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Discounting a short — less than 24 hours trip in which I did not go anywhere except from airport to the meeting place and back — this is my fist trip this year to India. I arrived here from Singapore. Mumbai International airport is going through lots of construction/renovation work. Logistic definitely seems to be [...]

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More I think about indexing multimedia data, more I feel that the correct approach may be Context-Audio-Visual (CAV) based indexing rather than current keyword based and feature based approaches. COntext captures significant information about the environment in which the data was collected. This information may come from many sources ranging from metadata from the devices [...]

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