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LetsDiscuss: Vote for your PM - General Elections 2009 Contest
Elections are in the air. The world's largest democracy is going to polls next month. Who is going to hold the reins of a potential power horse for the next 5 years. India is certainly going to shape the world in the coming years, and this is a very crucial period for the entire world. Since we are going to be such a power house, we need to be more responsible as citizens. We should be proud of our work, our nation and we should contribute solemnly in the shaping of the destiny of the world. So citizens vote for your PM - who is the most dynamic person to lead the country for next 5 years, let us know your thoughts and stand a chance to win cool Rambhai Tshirts.
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Masti: Rambhai.on Twitter - Follow Rambhai on your mobile
Dear Rambhaiyyas, you can now follow Rambhai on twitter. You can follow minute by minute as hot posts make it to the home page. Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, or through applications such as TwitterMobile, Tweetie, Twinkle, Twitterrific, Feedalizr, Facebook, and Twidget, a widget application. Here is Rambhai's twitter link Rambhai on twitter
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LetsDiscuss: Brief Introduction to The History of the Internet
In 1957 The First artificial earth satellite was launched by USSR. After This US comes with his newly formed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within theDepartment of Defense (DoD) which works for the science and technology developments in military applications.
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LetsDiscuss: Why We Are Not Conscious About Our Own Security?????
I think the Title it self says everything about the our security. But I Wan to share my feeling as i feel in last day after watching a video about robbery in the Mumbai local bus. Which is caught on hidden CCTV camera system. Many of you also have watched this video steamed on major Tv networks in India.
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LetsDiscuss: Help Others To Stop Domestic Violence With Bell-Bajao-Compaign
"Bell Bajao" (Ring the Bell) urges men to take a stand against domestic violence. One out of every three women faces violence behind closed doors, so whether it's ringing a door bell to stop a crime, or speaking out, make sure you're doing your part to ensure women and families in your community are living free of violence. It's about time we stop being silent witnesses.
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Miscellaneous: Suicide Is It The Last Thing To End Up Pains????
Last Day I was sitting & reading newspaper I found more than 5 articles about the suicide.Three of them who committed suicide are of teen age.
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LetsDiscuss: Towards a better rambhai
Dear Rambhaiyaas,This post is to thank all members of our vibrant rambhai community because of whom this virtual chai stall has come a long way since its humble inception more than two years ago.
Nevertheless, there a lot of distance is yet to be covered. Rambhai wants all its members know that on his part, he will be slowly and steadily making efforts to make rambhai.com a comfortable place for its members to keep stopping by for chai time news and discussions.
As a small step in that direction, we want to do some house housekeeping so that we improve the overall quality by reducing spam on rambhai.com, especially on the queue pages. We are making the following changes and will love to know your thoughts on the same:
1. Default view for stories in the queue will show them sorted in descending order of votes (you might have already seen this over the past few weeks) This means that karma becomes more important, as stories posted by users with high karma will show up first)
2. Given increased dependence on karma above, we are moving to a new and improved karma system which will penalize bad behaviour (might even result in negative karma and thus user's stories not showing up in the queue upon submission). The karma will now also give more weightage to recent activity to account for efforts of people who have done good in the recent past. You will start seeing these changes on rambhai.com over the next few days.
3. To stop people from using round about ways to flood the queue we have plugged-in some of the holes (like sql-injection) in our base platform but we need support from our user community as well. Do visit the queue whenever you are around to vote for stories as well as to highlight spam - simply click on the text 'bakwaas' next to the story tags Ofcourse, clicking on 'bakwaas' counts as good behaviour only if done judiciously and in the right spirit.
Rambhai will keep you posted on more initiatives towards improving this virtual chai stall. In the mean time, do let us know of your thoughts; we might not be able to take up all your suggestions, but will certainly keep them in mind when deciding next steps.
cheers,
Rambhai
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LetsDiscuss: Help Lines Or Pain Lines
As A Consumer i want to Say Something
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Miscellaneous: The Power Of Three Little Words
Some of the most significant messages people deliver to one another often come in just three words. When spoken or conveyed, those statements have the power to forge new friendships, deepen old ones and restore relationships that have cooled. The following three-word phrases can enrich every relationship.4 comments | category: Miscellaneous | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
Movies: Bollywood Actresss Removing Her Blouse
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Miscellaneous: Rambhai: About Us
What is Rambhai.com all about?
Rambhai.com is an India-centric link/news sharing website that is based on the principles of:
Free Expression
User Moderation
On rambhai, you can share/read stories which you think are of interest to Desis (this is a term used to refer to people who have some form of association with the Indian sub-continent).
We encourage users to be as fair as possible while passing a judgement by either voting or commenting. Basically behave unto others as you would have them behave unto you.
How do I contact the Rambhai team?
Send us an email at rambhai@rambhai.com
What kind of links can I expect?
The links/discussion will generally be on topics relevant to Indians/Desis. We expect the discussion topics to range from entertainment, sports, tech, politics etc. Overall following the free expression, user-moderation philosophy, we can't say in which direction the website will evolve. We do not want to control the direction.
What is your concept of free-expression in the Indian context?
Free expression is about feeling the freedom to post a story or a comment, lack of fear, desire to express and be recognized by a close-knit community of Desis.
Who is Rambhai?
Well. Rambhai is your neighborhood chaiwalla. It could be the guy serving in your college, just outside your workplace, anywhere you take a break, have a chai/coffee/smoke and discuss anything under the sun. We aspire to be that place on the net. Specifically, the name is inspired by Rambhai, the chaiwalla outside IIM Ahmedabad, who predates most people on the campus and is a very liked and talked about personality including in the classroom case-discussions of IIM Ahmedabad. IIMA guys-n-gals hang out there (many more options of hanging out have since come up like the CT etc) and chat about wide-ranging topics of interest.
Rambhai in media
Rambhai appeared on front page of TOI Ahemdabad in January 24,2008. Here is a link to the story . An excerpt from the TOI story:-
For the last 25 years, he has supplied steaming cups of chai at his kitli, offering food for thought and creating a space for debate and discussion for students of IIM-A.
Now, this chaiwala is raising a storm in a tea cup in cyberspace, with a website created in his name that has a popular discussion board which touches on almost everything — from global warming to “hot” Carla Bruni.
“Students come to my kitli and discuss a wide range of topics. I join in and like to have open discussions and exchange of ideas,” says Rambhai Kori, who came to the city from Uttar Pradesh when he was three.
Not surprising then, that the site named after him is a discussion board for topics and links for stories ranging from ‘Bloodbath on Dalal Street’ to ‘India’s launching of the Israeli satellite’ and ‘10 reasons why you should date a fat girl’. Another discussion is on Bin Laden’s son advising his father to change his ways, while another talks on ‘Sicko grabs Koena’s stomach’.
Rambhai chaiwalla recently appeared in TOI Ahmedabad edition, here is link to that story
Can I post anything here?
The freedom is broad but has limits due to law of the land. The user-moderated free-expression media as a concept is new to even the internet, atleast in the Indian context. So remember that we are the pioneers and it up to us to make this initiative a success. To this end, we will have to ensure that we adhere to some guidelines:
Reduce obscenities as much as possible.
Tone down personal attacks
Adhere to laws of the land i.e. the Indian Law if you are in India or the law of the country you are in.
We do not feel the above are too stringent and so reserve the right to remove content we feel is going against the law etc. Thus within these limits we will try as much as possible to keep the philosophy of free expression intact.
Visit Rambhai.com regularly. Post links of interest to Desis. Vote/Comment on the ones you like. Enjoy... Lets make history!
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