Country names originating from Sanskrit words

Can you think of other nations following Sanskrit?  Yes!! They do… "Manu Smriti" says some ambitious Indians went abroad to establish kingdoms. So let’s see which countries other than India have their names origin from Sanskrit.

1. China- Largest country of the world has derived its name from Sanskrit word “CINA” referring to Qin dynasty of China.

2. Indonesia-Largest Islamic nation derive its name from the combination of 2 words “INDOS” coming from Sanskrit “Sindhu” and “NESOS” meaning island. Europeans simply called it ‘Indonesia’ as it has a lot of historical impact from India.

3. Malaysia- Derives its name from Sanskrit word “Malay” (Malay dweep meaning Island of mountains)

4. Iran-Modified form of Sanskrit word “Arya” generally meaning noble or free.

5. Burma- Derived from Sanskrit word “Brahma Desh”.

6. Singapore- Took its name from “Simha pura” meaning Lion city.

7. Sri Lanka- Combination of “Sri” meaning Gold or holy and “Lanka” meaning island.

8. Bangladesh-Sanskrit for land of Bengali

9. Cambodia-Derived from “Kambuja Desh” (Kamboja = one who enjoys beautiful things. from kamaniya bhojah)

10. Thailand-based on “Ratcha Thai” derived from “Raja Thai” (Kingdom of Thai)

11. Bhutan-Traditionally taken to be a transcription of Sanskrit “Bhota – anta” meaning “End of Tibet”.

12. Brunei – Possibly influenced from word “Varun” meaning regent of ocean.

13. Maldives-derived from “Mala dwip” meaning garland of islands.

14. Nepal- derived from “Nipalaya” meaning at the foot of the hill. Referring its proximity to Himalayas

15.Afghanistan-comes from word”Avagan” meaning mountainous country.

If you know any other countries, please post them in comment section.

Happy Reading :) 

Combating Cyber Crimes

The world is digitizing at a fast pace! From the time we used to go to banks and perform manual transactions to the time now where we sit at our home and just a click on computer will prove to be a boon. Is this really a boon? Let’s look at the other side of the coin. As rightly said "The excess of anything is bad" where technology has pacified our pain at the same time it has brought crimes to a bigger level. Cyber crimes have overtaken traditional crimes these days. According to National Crime Agency's Cyber crime assessment 2016, which was released on 7th July 2016 says that Information technology fraud is recorded to be 36% where as misuse of computer accounts for 17%. Specifically in India, From 2015 the rate of cyber crimes is expected to be doubled, main cause being increased use of smart devices for financial transactions. It is not that only financial institutions are in the hands of cyber criminals, retail business are even bigger victims. Cyber criminals have become more trailblazing and continue to design improved methods for infecting networks. They are also working on how social engineering techniques can help. According to Trust wave’s Global annual Security report 45% of is contributed through data loss and violation.

Additionally, SIEM( Security Information and event management) is widely used technology, it combines SIM( security information management) and SEM ( security event management).The SIM collects the data in a central repository to analyze the pattern and provides reports automatically. SEM deals with real time analysis, correlation of events and views. Most SIEM system works in specific hierarchy to gather security related events and views. But there is one danger using this technology, relevant content can be filtered out quickly. The main objective is to guard system configuration changes, manage log auditing and review response.

 Another successful approach is integration. Loss Protection technologies are a growing trend in retail market .Integration of security systems has been an intelligent choice as it permits multiple systems to be managed on single interface, This aims at reducing manpower and loss protection becomes efficient by assimilation of multiple interfaces to single one. Its benefit is that maintenance becomes easier. Market continues to fight problems like shop lifting, social engineering, commercial burglary, ORC (organized retail crime), return and refund frauds etc. There are detection systems which include alarms, thus minimizing theft and loss. One major drawback of these systems is non crime alarms. Too many alarms lead to false information which may turn authorities to behave in unresponsive way.

New security systems like using RFID (radio frequency identification) and GPS brought new hopes as they allow tracking the shipment and verifying if they are illicit or illegal. These technologies are mainly intended for preventing supply chain and cargo theft. To fight against refund fraud, POS systems are used. They have debit or credit card reader. When this function is not performed by system then retailer does it manually. Many retailers now a day’s use smart fixtures, locking cases, cables and cords etc. In recent years many improvements are being done in field of video surveillance. And a new technology video analytic is being developed. It tracks legitimate and illegitimate customer behaviors.

 In the retail sector where data is growing, known as big data. Big data is nothing but consists of 3Vs i.e. Volume, Velocity and Variety of data. Big retail organizations need secure systems to protect information from intrusion. This type of security cannot be handled by traditional methods; result was year 2014 or “The year of Security breach,” made experts to build hopes for bigger and better tools like Hadoop. This technology offers efficient Map Reduce based analytic jobs to visualize and transform dynamically structured data. Where Hadoop is able to handle Big data with efficiency there are several vulnerabilities that needs to be handled with care. The CDH4 enable hadoop to prevent malicious content. There are task allotted to master node, name node, job tracker and task tracker. Which performs the task in group so as to ensure data security.HDFS and Map Reduce enable control over user access to data like several vulnerabilities one of them has word readable files which allows local users to obtain passwords, another allows users to obtain the configurations. when the data encryption is enabled , it allows user to obtain sensitive information by reading the file. There are several areas in which Hadoop needs to be designed according to the business requirements. Big data experts and researchers are working on improvement in integrating with identity management and security systems

5 Awe-inspiring Shopping Streets in Pune

Pune...Place of Style... Fashion....Desire...Vogue...if you are shopaholic, This city is your place.Irrespective of the  number of malls that sprang up in the city, Still street shopping is a pleasure here.From local hand made products to imported branded stuff. Pune has got all of it!!! 

Being a crazy shopper, I explored and found Pune at its best.The city has got lot many shopping destinations and food joints to hang out. Specially people novice here, this blog is surely gonna help you finding interesting experiences of street shopping. 

The true essence of Pune "The Deccan Queen" is incomplete without shopping at the following terminals- 

1.  Fascinating  F C Road- The Road is on name of famous  Fergusson College.Here you will find varieties of dresses, tops, handbags, kurtas, books, magazines and fashion accessories, where you can shop strictly according to your budget.

This market is popular among youngsters  and is the prime location for commercial establishments like shops, showrooms, hotels, restaurants, offices. Chains like Barista, Cafe Coffee Day and Starbucks have their outlets here, which witness great rush. 

2. Fecund Fashion Street- The variety of clothes you find here are captivating enough to make you buy at-least few. Fashion Street in Pune fulfills to your every need, from clothes to footwear. This place has a lot to offer to those who believe in mix and match.A bunch of four hundred and fifty (450) stalls make up this market.

3. Harmonizing Hong Kong Lane - It is located in Deccan .The place is full of little shops that sell imported from the South Asian countries which lies on border of India. You can find junk jewelry, for both men and women. Beaded bracelets, lockets, interesting watches with leather straps, huge dials, and sports watches are some of the stuff available here. Also caps, belts and apparel accessories from Nike, Reebok and Diesel can also be bought from here. Book stores, mobile stores, cosmetics shops, CD shops and painting stores too are all over the market.

4. Lavish Laxmi Road - The traditional market of pune is Laxmi road. It is said that a visit to Pune is incomplete if you have not visited Laxmi Road once. This place too is a very busy and noisy place. But here, tourists can get household items; jewelery, Maharashtrians traditional wares, pearl nose ring, necklace and the nine-yard sarees from this busy market. The market road is approximately 4 km long. It starts from the Alka Talkies Square . Laxmi Road is not opened on Mondays .From beautiful salwar-kameez  to sarees; from jeans and t-shirts to skirts and blouses, get them all on this road.

5. Jazzy Juna Bazaar- Also known as Old Market, This  is a place for accessories  it may be jewels or home...like neck pieces, danglers ,show pieces and even  door hinges :P  Even many of  Punekars are unaware of this street many green horn coin collectors are familiar with this street.If you are into collecting old coins, this might just be the right place for you to go shopping and enhance that collection. This place stocks stuff that people might consider junk  but to those who know the value , it can be a priceless.

For all streets shoppers... keep spending.. keep bargaining... ;)

Life lies in your unique style and your way of mix and match. 

Wish you "HAPPY SHOPPING" :)

See through Technology

The day is not far away when we will be holding mobile phones that are light weight as well as transparent. Yes!!! The researchers at Oregon State University and Hewlett Packard have discovered entirely new class of materials provided by mother nature that can conduct electrically and are optically transparent, also are inexpensive and stable. The reason behind transparency is that the elements or compound absorbs all the colors in a given spectrum and does not reflect any.

Transparent Electronics is a science which is focused on producing invisible electronic circuitry. The motive to create a technology which is electrically conductive as well as optically transparent.Even, the imagination sounds exotic to ears.The materials are especially well suited for use in computer and video displays, photo-voltaic cells, and digital cameras . Private industry is working to identify applications for transparent semiconductors, and to develop prototypes of devices that can be useful in the real world.

Transparent conductors are neither 100% optically transparent nor metabolically conductive. From the band structure point of view, the combination of the two properties in the same material is contradictory: transparent material is an insulator which possesses completely filled valence and empty conduction bands; whereas metallic conductivity appears when the Fermi level lies within a band with a large density of states to provide high carrier concentration.

This appealing class of see through devices is still in  its research phase and could be used in creating highly portable e-paper computer display that could take the place of a monitor,transparent solar panel that could be attached directly to windows or skylights,flexible plastic display that can be applied to a vehicle windshield like a decal, allowing vital parameters such as speed, fuel level etc and obviously mobile phones, laptops etc.