For a family with young children or senior citizens with mobility issues that wishes to take a dip in the Ganges, Har Ki Pauri is recommended over Rishikesh What families need: My mother is 75 and has unstable gait due to diabetes complications. She needs…
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TL;DR – Staying safe on the internet is harder than ever. Network attacks could hit you within a minute even if you do not click on suspicious links or open dubious attachments. Today, we have more smart devices online than human beings further increasing our…
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To minimize corona risks when being chauffeured in your car, partition the air between your chauffeur and yourself and purify the air in your partition
Often, we come across a product, for which you find good quality information only on an Amazon page, but amazon does not allow you to easily download the high resolution image. For most purposes, you can manage perfectly using the snipping tool of your choice.…
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Covid-19 has raised anxiety levels for everyone and we are all washing our veggies after learning that the virus can survive on surfaces for days. Fortunately there is a better way. We can use the UVC (far ultraviolet aka UV-C) lamp from our ubiquitous water…
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This is only a partial solution since I haven’t figured out making it a true repeater with WDS yet. So I can actually use a RJ45 cable coming from my ISP (in my case, the modem in another room) as an input to the ADSL+WIFI…
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Updated as of Jan 2016 TL;DR – Its makkhan (butter). No seriously. The awesome camera and the fluidity are worth it. Why am I writing this blog? Because I am nauseated and fed up by silly bullshit comparisons of iOS and Android which demonstrate zero…
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I am the recent / proud owner of a CBR250R ABS. Honda India has next to zero effort / desire to please customers, forget winning in the market. They are only surviving courtesy the technical smarts of the Japanese engineers. The folks here are no-gooders.…
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Folks, This came out of a discussion on www.team-bhp.com – this is a standard newbie query. Why should I buy a more expensive bike? Let me “test the waters” first. There are two levels of issues: a. Long term commitment b. Type of cycling A.…
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