After seeing this website bangalorepothole – one might as well consider a PhD in potholology 😉 Seriously speaking, its pretty interesting and unexpectedly informative wrt potholes! But it does make one realise that some roads on Bangalore would make the moon’s surface look like a skating rink in comparison!
Category: india
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Green Bee Eater and some other birds
This was a pretty interesting explanation of their strange flight patterns…
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portrait pictures
Have very less experience in taking portrait pictures, (not that I have a lot of experience in other types of pictures, but relatively speaking 😉 ) and I took these candid pictures.
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demanding what one deserves
Its common among software engineers and I’ve been no major exception as well – to be perpetually pissed off for not having got a well-deserved hike or a promotion, esp as much as someone else got. Once in a way, we go beyond mere bickering and nagging to really trying to demand what we deserve. (more…)
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a class of its own
[updated 9-Nov-2005]
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short story from the Mahabharata
updated 26 Sep, 05
Though I’d read the Mahabharata in my childhood days – all abridged versions, though from multiple sources , I heard a story today in a seminar in IISc that I had never heard before… (What’s in italics here is merely a verbatim repetition to the best of my memory…) -
Jain for another day
Managed to fast again yesterday. This time it was much easier, completely effortless. Maybe I’m getting faster at it 😉 [ugh, couldn’t resist] (more…)
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leave phobia
One of the biggest differences I see in the work cultures of the east and the west are in taking leave – atleast a few days off from work. I’ve come across people in India who have worked for a decade or two at a stretch – and proudly proclaiming that they have not even taken a single day of leave, and have even received a medal for their service. While their dedication is of course to be appreciated, I doubt whether this is a really good thing.
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Jain for a day
[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 try it as well, just for one day.
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