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…
[Republishing another old draft…] One thing about the Egyptial Vulture is that it is one of the very few birds that can use a tool – it uses stones to break open eggs. Sometimes flying high with a pebble and dropping it to break the egg open! The Egyptian Vulture has developed the ability to…
On a visit to this beautiful book shop – a venerable landmark of Bangalore – found that it might soon be closed. The lease for it is over and the the money-minded owner dosen’t want to renew it. Mr. Shanbag was pretty tranquil about it, he calmly explained that he’s trying to either extend it,…
While flipping through TV channels during lunch time showed the movie Contact playing on one of them. I hadn’t seen the movie before but had a vague idea of the story outline from the trailers, that it was a science fiction about a lady contacting extraterrestrial intelligience. It was an interesting scene… just before leaving…
On a scale of all knowledge from 0 (Nothing), to Infinity (Everything), its really nice to know a little more about myself – though who knows after a few years if I look at the number 0.000011 I might laugh at having overestimated it 😀 But anyway I’m really happy to have learnt a little…
Like the hibiscus plant, one can never imagine what can teach us what… sometimes even some random television scene can become a teacher! Recently was watching TV with my mother and doDDamma (mother’s elder sister) and while flipping through the channels stopped at a Hollywood movie. It seemed to be an interesting scene where people…
I’ve never donated blood except to mosquitoes, but though I’ve come pretty close to doing it, it somehow got avoided due to some or the other really silly reason. Anyway got a forwarded mail recently that looks useful… —– Hi Everybody, Many of you know that finding -ve (negative) blood group is very difficult. There…
[some corrections made on 21-Nov-2005] The story of Astavakra is pretty fascinating, and sets the background and the context. As per what I remember from a seminar I attended recently, I present the speaker’s opinions as I remember them, I hope I do not misquote anything!
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…
since I upload even old entries that I dig up from some digital store into this blog, I’ll keep a post here to link to them. Until I implement a more elegant solution like adding links on the side bar or using a Pin Up plugin that I remember seeing in wordpress. the indian woman…
