Once in a way, it may appear as if we could do without any principles (not referring to anything specific) or anything of that sort. So many people though indifferent to such an idea – plenty of politicians for example – and living corrupt, decadent lives, seem to be getting away with it all, and…
I was saying earlier that I’ve lived in just one single house all my life. At that time I’d not really imagined that that wouldn’t be for very long! We are finally executing the long long pending plan of my mother’s generation in rebuilding the house from scratch, to replace it with something new, modern…
Found this in an old mail from last year while searching for something else, but thought its nice to post here… Ramakrishna told about a corridor in a house, where there were two doors at the end. On one of the doors there was written “heaven”, on the other “lecture about heaven”. When you looked…
This isn’t really a post, but just an open question that was suggested by a reader as it came up as this issue was brought up in Muktha (a Kannada TV serial) recently. Does the medical industry including drug manufacturers and doctors generate business by creating fear among people ? This industry like any other…
Any reader here is unlikely to notice anything different. however if there’s anything unexpected please let me know, thanks! The upgrade from 1.5 to 2.02 should’ve been extremely simple actually, maybe I did something the hard way 😉 though I more or less followed instructions. I think largely the FTP must’ve failed somewhere in the…
mini-island Originally uploaded by common man. Actually I’m just discovering why Leonid was so impressed with flickr. There are countless other features like customizable APIs, tags, calendars, etc but one of the coolest things is the way it provides an upload tool that integrates with Windows Explorer – just right click and send to Flickr!…
[Though there are specifics here, my guess is that similar ideas are applicable to any caste] Going through the” trauma” 😉 of arranged marriage reveals many things, among others, the role of caste in our modern urban highly developed Bangalore society. It is just unbelievable how many highly educated families are so closed knit about…
Well here’s a confession of an unmarried man – in all my life of 30+ years, only one time have I taken a girl out alone for coffee and a chat. And that was only after I found out that she was married and there would be no cause for misunderstanding 😉
Here in UK they call any Indian masala based item as curry 🙂 and just like how in blr we guys generally go out to have pizza for a treat, here they go to have “a curry” … its seriously that popular!
A year or so ago, one of my uncles (not much in touch with him, mother’s cousin) had expired. My mother and me visited his family – there were a lot more people than I expected standing both outside and inside the house. In a room inside, where the body was placed, some elderly gentleman…
