October 2007

These coal carriers carry coal, on their bicycles, up the hill to sell. This meager income doesn’t justify the effort required in this physically exhausting task. They operate in the areas near to the coal mines of Dhanbad, they are mostly stolen or collected coal. Poverty forces these men to take up this daunting task of carrying the coal sacks on their bicycles. A sack of coal would typically sell for Rs. 200 so this means a maximum income of 1000 per trip ( you expect more than 5 sacks, huh?), which is very lucrative considering the level of poverty in Jharkhand!

I thought they made a mistake while quoting ‘166 dead’. I later realized that it was the biggest terrorist attack in Pakistan. Once again innocents, who had absolutely nothing to do power game going on the democrazy of Pakistan, were targeted.

Two bombs exploded Thursday night just seconds apart and feet from a truck carrying the returning opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, narrowly missing her but killing scores of people and bloodying a triumphal homecoming after eight years in exile.

Various reports said up to 126 were killed and some 150 were wounded, including civilians and party workers. In the initial chaos, however, the Interior Ministry could only confirm 70 deaths.

Saw this on the back of a truck. The truck was a petro-chemical product carrier. The the spelling of valve is totally screwed but all the words in the word ‘valve’ do exist.

My blog was down for almost a week because I was struggling with my new host, Bluehost. I have moved my sites away from media temple (mt) because the recent database server downtimes had become too annoying. (mt) didn’t live up to my expectations as the costly hosting was becoming unreliable each day.

I had issues with setting up wordpress on bluehost because I was not accustomed to cpanel. The .htaccess file was making all the php files non-executable, they were being downloaded. I finally figured out the problem and fixed the issue. Hopefully bluehost will my final home.