I share below two flavours of plaques containing the Mool Mantar, and meanings. You can either print them, or use as the desktop wallpaper. Click to enlarge.
Mool Mantra
Month: April 2009
Panja Sahib
The photo is by Shafqat Mirza kindly donated by him to CC-BY license on my request, and digitally enhanced by me.It is my wish to be able to one day visit the Panja Sahib – the Gurdwara in Pakistan where Guru Nanak, in 1521 AD taught Wali Kandhari a lesson. This is what they say happened: Guru Nanak reached Hassan Abdal (a place in Pakistan) and the number of his followers soon exceeded that of Wali Kandhari – who had been living as a ‘saint’ in the area for some time. So, he stopped the flow of water to the people of the village. Guru Nanak sent his disciple Mardana to him to request him to let the water flow. However, Wali Kandhari mocked them, and did not relent.
So Guru Nanak, lifted a stone, and from below a spring of water appeared. Angered on seeing this Wali Kandhari dislodged a big stone from the top of the hill intending to hurt Guru Nanak and his followers. However, Guru Nanak lifted his hand and this stopped the stone where it was. This hand is imprinted in the stone.
Click here to read a more detailed account of this.
There is another historic event that happened at this same place more recently, when a British Government train was passing through Hassan Abdal and having Sikh protestors being taken to the jail. Sikh people at the Gurdwara wanted to feed the protestors, but the British Government (coming to know about this) decided not to stop the train at the station. Read about that, and the courageous Sikhs here.
Symbol for the Indian Currency
Economic Times has started a survey to find a symbol for the Indian currency similar to the Dollar symbol ($). The site shows some proposed designs, and the visitors can vote for one of those, or the visitors can provide their own suggestions.
To the left is the symbol proposed by me. Its based on Hindi rather than English, and has the Ashok Chakra which shows that the currency is progressive, just as the Euro symbol has two straight lines which signify stability.
Please let me know your thoughts, and suggest design changes.
Scripted thumbnail generation: security perspective
While searching for something on the net, I came across some scripts that generate image thumbnail on the fly.
For example: http://tech.mikelopez.info/2006/03/02/php-image-resize-script/.
While using such scripts we should be aware of the security point of view: your site can easily become a proxy for other people or websites. Continue reading “Scripted thumbnail generation: security perspective”