Friday, January 04, 2008

Listen to Hindi Music Online - Dhingana.com

Just came across this phenomenal Web 2.0 style music site called Dhingana. It's by far the best site that I have come across in years for listening to hindi music online. It has features like song sharing, smartlist, ratings, leave comments and a whole suite of social networking type features.

Goodbye to sites like raaga.com, and smashits which look very old style, and annoying after the great experience on dhingana.com. Dhingana is addictive and it's now in my top 10 sites that I visits everyday. For an Internet addict with being online for over 10 hours everyday browsing large number of sites it's awesome. This tells how happy I have been with the quality of the service delivered by Dhingana.

Enjoy!!!

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Real Estate in Pune

Last week, I was in Pune on house hunting trip so thought of sharing my experience and finding out more from you all about your experiences.

Here are some of the interesting properties and areas that I got chance to check out.

1. Magarpatta - Rate was around 3500/sq ft for apartment. Good project overall with appartments in a couple of buildings open for sale. This project seemed to offer good amenities like hospital, shopping mall, swimming pool, etc. It's close to Hadapsar area so as soon as you get out of Magarpatta you are hit with chaotic Pune traffic which can be extremely frustrating.

It has a small IT park with small to mid-size IT companies (like Avaya, Sybase, etc) at the center of the project.

2. NIBM - This is a pretty good locality I felt, perfect for retirees as it is quite and away from the main city chaos.

Couple of interesting projects in this area were Cloverfield which has row houses available for 5500/sq ft ready for possession. Another one was named California which was quite awesome but expensive at the same time running at 4850 for 3 bedroom apartments. One of the buildings has swimming pool on each floor. The one i thought was of good value was the Palm Spring project of approx 45 bunglows by Kumar Builders which was running at 4000/sq ft.

3. Wakad - I checked out 2 projects at this location. Park Street and Park Royale both by Pride Purple group. Park Street project over 80 acre land looked quite impressive. Rate was around 3300/sq ft for 3 bedroom apartment. I am seriously considering investing in Park Street and would love to hear from anyone who has recently purchased property there.

4. Kalyaninagar - This was the most expensive of all the places I had been. There were couple of projects by Kumar Builder that I had checked out. They were ok and didn't look as attractive as Park Street or California for the price they were quoting.

5. Hinjewadi - There is only 1 project that seems to have all the buzz which is Blue Ridge by Paranjape group. The early phase of the project seemed to have gotten sold in just 2 days. There were none available when I was there. The last sale was at 3250/sq ft for 3 bedroom appartment. 

6. Audh - I wasn't much impressed with the city but it seems to be quite popular choice with quite a few IT folks., The one project that I checked out there was Roseland Residency. It looked descent but I didn't felt good about the overall city look.

If you have recently purchased property in Pune, I would like to hear your comments, suggestions so please feel free to post/write your feedback here so that we can all help each other and use power of the Internet to avoid falling in trap of cunning builders. Not to say that all builders are bad but I definitely felt that builders are usually not very open and transparent about all the details. They do sometimes lie/modify/forge about the real data/facts about their projects just to create hype to force customer into a rush decision which usually ends up in customer frustration and overprice sale. 

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