The Art of Navigating on Indian Roads

The Multi-purpose Indian Road An Indian road, in addition to its main role, may mean many things to many people. It can be a toilet, it can be a barn, or it can be a place to build a place of worship - temporary as well as permanent (be it of any religion). The kind of … Continue reading The Art of Navigating on Indian Roads →

Looking Back with Gratitude

So here comes my feedback form. My feedback at fifty. If the biblical life span is 70, for a Hindu the ideal life span is 100. So, here I am, at the thresh hold of my half way mark. I did my education at a number of schools in a number of localities falling in … Continue reading Looking Back with Gratitude →

Sunday Musings and Random Notes

Our movies are like our food While switching channels ( Sometimes I enjoy this bad habit), got stuck with Star Action. The movie was - The Other Man. It was supposed to be an action movie. There was so much silence. The dialogues were few. Some of the dialogues were not complete sentences. Yet the … Continue reading Sunday Musings and Random Notes →

The Notebook of a Blank Life

The post has been included in my book of short story collection. It has been withdrawn to comply with copyright and exclusivity issues

10 Couplets of Kabir to lighten your day

It is not for nothing that Kabir’s sayings are known as ulat vani. Whatever he says it seems contrary to our common knowledge or perception. This was not only true for his spiritual sayings, but also for his couplets giving worldly wisdom. Take this first stanza of my compilation. Our usual tendency is to keep … Continue reading 10 Couplets of Kabir to lighten your day →

A Brief Note on Stephen Hawking

Here is a brief introduction to Stephen Hawking from his official website: "Stephen Hawking is the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. Now the Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research at the Department of … Continue reading A Brief Note on Stephen Hawking →

watchings of idle hours #2: leadership lessons from a pow movie

Lessons from the Movie - The Bridge on the River Kwai It was only accidentally that I got to watch the movie. In a friend's house once I came across dozens of movie CDs gathering dust. I asked him whether I could borrow those and see if those contain anything worth watching. On a listless … Continue reading watchings of idle hours #2: leadership lessons from a pow movie →

watchings of idle hours #1 : A few Good Movies

A few good men Finally, last week, I could catch up with a few good movies that had been on my watch list for a very long time. One of them is –‘A few Good Men’. People with some military background would appreciate certain nuances of ‘military ego’ better. The movie is superbly acted and … Continue reading watchings of idle hours #1 : A few Good Movies →

Karntaka Heritage Sites – Photo Essay

For the Christmas vacation of 2015, the initial plan was to go somewhere far away, outside Karnataka. But plan A did not work out somehow. So here was the plan B – why not visit some nearby tourist places of Karnataka that we have been postponing visiting for years. A day before the visit, we decided, … Continue reading Karntaka Heritage Sites – Photo Essay →

Happy New Year – When Writers / Directors Run out of Ideas

When singers/music directors run out of creativity they bring out remix albums. When writers /directors run out of original ideas, the product is 'Happy New Year'. The movie has just the right remix to entertain the Indian audience, particularly those who are not great fans of Holllywood movies, or so the director thinks. And the … Continue reading Happy New Year – When Writers / Directors Run out of Ideas →