Sunday, August 21, 2011

The rich culture of INDIA :- "Janmastami"


"Janmastami"
The festival celebrating the birth of Shri Krishna, known by various names such as Shri Krishna Jayanti, Janmashtami and Gokulashtami is an important festival in the Hindu calendar. This festival has been celebrated on the eighth day after the full moon in the month of Shravan. 


As the festival is known by different names so also it is celebrated on two different days by different Hindu sects
The first day is known as Krishnashtami or Gokulashtami and the second day is known as Kalashtami or Janmashtami. 


Lord Krishna is worshipped as the eighth incarnation (avatar) of Lord Vishnu.


Janmashtami celebrates the birth of one of the most famous Gods of Hindu religion, Bhagwan Krishna, on the eighth day (Ashtami) in the month of Sravana or Savana. 
Lord Shri Krishna was born on the ‘Rohini’ nakshatram (star). 

It is generally celebrated in the month of August-September according to the Christian Calendar.
 Legend has it that Shri Krishna was born on a dark, stormy and windy night to end the rule and atrocities of his maternal uncle, Kansa.

It is only at midnight between the first and the second day that birth of Sri Krishna took place. 
The actual festivities begin during midnight in this 48 hour period. 
The celebration reaches its peak at midnight, with the birth of Lord Krishna, with lot of hymns, arti taking place and blowing of the Conch (shankh), rocking the cradle of Lord. 

The idol of lord is bathed with Panchamrit (A mixture of milk, ghee, oil, honey and Gangajal). 

The Panchamrit is later distributed as Prasad to the devotees along with other sweets. 
While some Fast on the first day and break it at midnight for others the fasting continues for both days. 
The period coincides with rainy season.

Tonite this festival will b ecelebrated at my home..
I ll be uploading the pics of that soon..

Keep smiling.... 

Friday, August 5, 2011

Encryption-Decryption

Hi readers,
Recently I and my dear friend were talking about some exciting things that we could do in Facebook, and an idea clicked into my mind which was related to my final year computer science project.

I told my friend that why dont we talk in facebook with encrypted texts. The idea was just to convert the readable text  into cipher text(the text formed after encryption) and post it on the wall, then the person at other hand had to decrypt that text so that it is again converted into human readable form.
Finally I got an idea regarding the encryption-decryption algo that i used in final year project , and using it, I created another algo with few changes and finally I made a software named "Crypto".

We just have to login and then we can encrypt and decrypt the messages,, Its working awesome..
In my next post , I'll write regarding how to use it ,