While on a sight seeing trip, got tempted to take this picture of a home by the highway. May be it wanted to bring home a point: When you are tanned and tired of your visits, just come back home. Relax. Then you will find the bliss that you have missed all along while wandering … Continue reading To bring home the point
More about me and my writing journey
Who am I and why do I blog? May be this should have been my first post. But then, it would have been too early. Of course now and then I have shared bits and pieces bout me and my outlooks. Here, let me sum it up and provide the missing pieces. Four months back … Continue reading More about me and my writing journey
Of Heroes Real and Reel
Those unknown heroes did not even wait to hear our applause One day, while I was driving to Bengaluru Airport, I spotted two small IAF planes moving in synchronicity. Instantly I was reminded of an aerobatic display by the Suryakiran team two decades back. It happened at a forward base. The local Chief Minister was the … Continue reading Of Heroes Real and Reel
Celebrating 30 years of Malgudi Days
It is a humongous task for any director to convert a novel into a movie retaining its authenticity. It becomes all the more difficult when the story is humorous. In my young adult days I used to be a great fan of RK Narayan. I still am. Malgudi Days, directed and produced by Shankar Nag … Continue reading Celebrating 30 years of Malgudi Days
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
PEBBLES AND WAVES 