Quick Home passport photos

If you have a home printer capable of printing photos and some photo paper lying around – This is a 2 step cheap and quick way to print those passport photos. Step 1 – Upload any good photo – full body, half body, taken from mobile or a camera to this site tsg.phototool.state.gov. Make sure you are following all the guidelines for a good passport size photo. Step 2 – Upload the photo downloaded in step 1 to idphoto4you. This will create a ready made template of 4 passports on a 4×6 sheet. Download and print.

The Darkening age

“Once again, [Goddess] Athena was beheaded. Once again, her arm was sheared off.”

Raja Shivchatrapati – Volume 1

The below excerpts are from Raja Shivchatrapati – Volume 1, English edition, Publication Date April 2022 by Babasaheb Purandare

“Skin him alive and hang him on Devgiri’s gate!”
Immediately the work began. Harpal was skinned. That red bloodied body writhed in agony, and Sultan was delirious with joy. Yadav’s son-in-law was hung on Devgiri gates like a skinned goat.”[1]C1-Sec5, Pg29, Para3 #blood

“He (Mahammadshah) massacred seventy thousand people in the area of Adoni. His thrill was to kill people. Later he slaughtered a large number of people at the border of Karnataka. This was such a big genocide that the whole area become desolate and inanimate” [2]C1-Sec5, Pg32, Para4 #blood

“This meant that there were five Sultans instead of one. In Elichpur Fateulla Imadshah, in Ahmadnagar Nizamshah, in Bidar Kasim Beridshah, in Vijapur Yusuf Adilshah and in Golconda Kutubshah established their independent kingdoms. Out of these five, Yusul Adil had come from Turkey. Kasim Berid had come from Georgia and Kuli Kutubshah had come from Iran. They had no connection with Maharashtra. But Imadshah and Nizamshah were originally Vedshastrasamppan – learned Brahmins. Converted to Islam.[3]Ch1-Sec6, Pg36, Para3 #blood

“Even our names and towns began to take on Farsi, Arabic colour. ‘Baiko’ means wife. Baiko is a word from Turkish language. Means even our wives were no longer Marathi. Sweeter than ambrosia, Dnyaneshwar’s high-caste Marathi language donned the salwar-tuman and got engrossed in obsequiously presenting appeals in he service Hazrat Shahenshah Bandgan Ali Jilhe Subhani Sultan Adilshah” [4]C-1-Sec1, Pg40, Para5 #language #civil

References

References
1 C1-Sec5, Pg29, Para3
2 C1-Sec5, Pg32, Para4
3 Ch1-Sec6, Pg36, Para3
4 C-1-Sec1, Pg40, Para5

The Kashmir Files – Must watch movie for every Indian

So I Watched #TheKashmirFiles the last weekend. I have been anxiously following the development of Kashmir files since the teaser release. Although Vivek Agnihotri had proven with “The Tashkent Files”[1]https://www.zee5.com/global/movies/details/the-tashkent-files/0-0-73415 that he is not a typical Bollywood character, I was still skeptical.
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References

References
1 https://www.zee5.com/global/movies/details/the-tashkent-files/0-0-73415

Install Oracle 12c on CentOS 7 – Part II

Note: This tutorial is just for installing/testing Oracle for personal purposes. If you are installing for some production environments, consult expert advice. This is a second part of two part blog on how to install Oracle 12c on CentOS 7. First part can be found here Now create a user ‘oracle’ and groups ‘dba’ and ‘oracle’. Then login into GUI using user ‘oracle’.
[oracle@centos7 12c]$ ll
total 2.6G
-rw-r--r-- 1 vivek users 968M Aug  5 08:06 linuxamd64_12102_database_2of2.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 vivek users 1.6G Aug  5 08:16 linuxamd64_12102_database_1of2.zip
Get the Oracle pre-requisites repo for their website. After setting up the repo, issue the command:
[oracle@centos7 12c]$ sudo yum install oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall
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