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[updated on Sep 2nd] Yesterday evening Jigar was telling me that a week starting from today marks a special time for Jains and they’re involved in fasting. A one day fast would be from yesterday night to tomorrow morning – only thing permitted would be hot water. I don’t know what made me decide to […]

A friend emailed me this this morning and is probably one of the best quotes I’ve come across: Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgement that something else is more important than fear Reminded me of a random statement I came across in a book

Learnt a lot about time management in Hyderabad (straightaway through the experience, there was no time to think about it!) I surprised myself by being a radically different fellow – a meticulous principled person completing each and every task perfectly and in time, handling random interruptions and yet addressing each of them completely and thoroughly! […]

Simply no other way to describe the smile I saw on his face. It was the last day, the silence was broken, some students had animated conversations, while others still stayed more or less silent. And this particular gentleman was among the more silent ones, quietly having his lunch. I was sitting opposite to him, […]

Over 11,000 days of my life so far I’ve lived completely for myself and those related to me, and I’m pretty happy with that, since I’ve so far held the same opinion as the Sonejis: Interestingly enough, the Sonejis don’t believe in doing service. “…we are not into social service. We believe that our own […]

There is an interesting story in Indian mythology, about Goddess Kali… where Rakthabija was a demon who after a lot of penance asks for immortality, but since he can’t get that, he’s granted a workaround – that every drop of his blood that touched the ground gets transformed itself into another Raktabija. The gods tried […]

One of the biggest mistakes we make about global terrorism is to associate it particularly with one religion – Islam – this is nothing but outright racisim. Those who want to argue vehemently that its justified may read The faith militant and those who feel hurt or angry about this mistake may read The way […]

These are some lovely quotes I got in an email from Channa: “It is only if we think back to the days of the freedom struggle that we will appreciate this day and our freedom all the more. If we know what our freedom fighters went through to achieve Independence only then will this day […]

A lot of this blog gets updated once in a way with archived digital content from various sources like emails or essays I’d written ages ago, and I figured that the only [well, atleast easiest] way for a reader to access them directly other than browsing through the archive, is by adding them to an […]

Leonid had written about touchtyping and I ended up putting in such a big comment that I thought it might as well qualify as an indendent post! 🙂