This was one place I had to instantly fall in love with :p
The menu
To start with only tried the safer ones – Steam idli, Rava idli, Kadhi idli (the best!). Aim to try out all items 
All variety always not available. Mornings & evenings best times to eat out there.
This is on JM Road, Pune. On the left almost halfway towards Deccan stand from Balgandharv
Its been a while I wrote something.. finally coming to realize what work+load is.
I switched to DIY hosting at Gandi. So will take some effort in maintaining it.. than just point & click.
Thanks to having a hoodman lcd cover, I realized a little late I was shooting with no CF card!! But this still is not as bad as when I shot a roll on Vivitar 3800N without advancing the film (since I never put it in sprocket properly in first place), and missing a whole set of photos, of a memorable trek in Bhutan! My A70 did save me that time.
Gnunify’09 is on, be there if you can not to miss some learning & fun.
PLUG bookmarks are worth taking
Doodhsagar waterfall
Originally uploaded by karunakarg.
Doodhsagar waterfall as seen on train route of Goa-Karnataka, this was from Goa express.
Ever since I read about it couple of years back, I wished to make the Kangra Valley narrow gauge trip. Also with the aim to complete all Hill trains.. Trips done till now
Neral – Matheran
Shimla – Kalka
Pathankot – Baijnath Paprola
Next in target Ooty & Darjeeling hill trains.
KVR is the longest route of all, 164kms from Pathankot till Jogindernagar reaching peak altitude of 1210m. For the first 50kms it runs fast enough covering the distance in couple of hours, with halts extra, then gradually ascending, until Kangra and coming closer to Dhauladhar range, then a steeper ascent upto Palampur, Baijnath with highest point at Ajhu – 1210m (near Bir), then descending down to Jogindernagar at 1139m.
Photo set on flickr
More on this in a photo blog post
the good news is my 400D has arrived (@ home, will get it on sunday!).. body with kit lens (18-55), canon 55-200mm, speedlite 430x, extra battery & a 2GB CF waiting for me! (& a nice fat CC bill too 
.. now only to get couple of extra 4GB CFs, a full height tripod, lens hood, filters…. etc!
on other fronts, slowly getting busier at job, battling the bulge, aquring RSI…
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officially i turn thirty today!.. gifting myself a 400D .. also good that india kept its record intact
thanks to prakash for this link. Now you can hack on your digicam (only Canon models with Digic II chip), using CHDK. I cant wait to try it out..!
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Venus occultation
Originally uploaded by karunakarg.
18th evening saw, moon & venus cozying up… one of the rare events of moon eclipsing a planet… here moon approaching venus few mins before hiding it (called occultation).
this photograph through a telescope (4″ 1000mm, 25mm eyepiece), shot at 0.1″ , f/4.0 by canon A630 using afocal method
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jupiter2
Originally uploaded by karunakarg.
Jupiter through 4″ reflector, 25mm eyepiece, 1/5s shutter.
