Since the blog has rather unexpectedly taken off as an interactive medium I decided to change the title after R K Laxman‘s cartoon character 
If at all inspite of the total lack of planning my name by some improbable chance ends up becoming famous, let it be because of something I do rather than something I write 😀
This is a photo taken at Samarkhand a real hi-fi restaurant on Infantry Road. Really loved this painting* – though the initial idea was mine a colleague took this photo – and I’d say she brilliantly composed it though not being too much of a photographer at all – she was delighted to have discovered…
I found this site Quiet American quite fascinating – the collections of a guy (& his wife) who collects sounds.
A small online comic strip… (click on the Forward link below to continue reading) I wrote “Living Forever” in a coffee shop in the spring of ’97. I had been thinking about how wonderful it would be to meet children’s book author and illustrator, William Steig, but I wondered why he would want to be…
Saw this on onion… 😉 New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less For those not familiar with Onion, its a really funny satirical look at the world… its comedy but with some background of truth in it… this particular one reminded me of the link between multitasking and absentmindedness… (absentmindedness has reduced for…
blorgmancy the state of a blog being blorgmant – derived from dormant, which dictionary.com describes as being Latent but capable of being activated – or here’s a more sophisticated explanation – In a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes 😉 Trying…
He: “oh I really missed you, don’t know how I managed without you all these days” She: “oh I thought about you a lot, but didn’t miss you at all this time” She turns around and finds he was referring to his Nokia E71 mobile 🙄 😛
I was just about to leave a comment and ask you why the name change :)) And I see that you have put up a post explaining it! 🙂
I like the new name!!
cool… thanks! 8)
hmm when I meet someone and they want to note down my email id, I sometimes say “just google for my name, either m sanjay or sanjay m” …since this site had for some strange reason ended up being the first among over 3 million hits. I wonder if it’ll still work after this title change. Afaik the title is one of the key things that google uses for page ranking 🙂
hesarEnO cennAgide. Adare nimma vaividhya caTuvaTike nODtidre nIvu common man alla asAmAnya mAnava. idu KaMDita utprEkSheyalla. nimma blog bahaLa cennAgide. prati oMdu sUtragaLannU nidhAnavAgi kUlaMkaShavAgi Odalu oLLeya avakASa koTTiddIra.
oLLeya kelasagaLu muMduvareyali.
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Tavishri said it right Sanjay. It is no exaggeration that yours is the best BLOG that I have come across. Both the content & presentation are very good. Nimma ondondu post kooda naavu adara bagge nidhanavagi yochiso hage maduthe.
Infact I wanted to request you to have a separate thread , based on your learnings from Vipassana. So that it triggers our thought process.
thanks very much Anitha, I’m really honored 😀
Well I’m only a novice in Vipassana (pronounced Vipasyana in Indian languages) and I’ve already spoken a lot about it… maybe too much 😉 (just search using the box above). Not that its some big secret but the only thing is a fellow who’s just learnt a little bit speaks about it and may lead other people astray from it. Its important to note that the name “Vipassana” is not so important, the process is the same even if someone calls it by some other name and someone else says that they don’t meditate at all 🙂 Anyway instead of a seperate thread I’ll post updates to the earlier post and so if anyone who is interested by themselves can read about it there.
🙂
Everytime I open this page and see “common man”, I think I have to come here and comment that actually the name is not too good for this blog 😉
Finally I came here, and see that others have already said what I wanted to say 🙂
Ok, ok, you might be a common man, but you have uncommon interests, and a very interesting and uncommon blog! Like Anitha says, one of the best – the layout, the subjects, and the effort you take to provide information and links, and keep it up-to-date and user-friendly – it is remarkable.
Wow Shruthi, I’ve been a passive intermittent reader of your blog, and found it as one of the best most insightful value-adding ones. Not only that, among the most popular ones as well going by the number of comments you get for each post! 😀 So coming from you this is quite a compliment (deserved or not!!) – many thanks! 🙂
Hmm… I remember when I was playing table tennis in my school days, every time I hit a really good shot or hit a really tricky return, I would continue playing well… but if someone happened to shout “good one!” then that’s the end of it, next five points are gone!
Compliments are quite devastating for me, I think I’m not yet sensible enough to handle it well… 😀 But on the other hand they’re kind of an acknowledgement that I seem to have done something useful [for a change 😉 ]
Blogging has ended up becoming quite time and energy conuming, hence the slow down in posts off late, but I’ll try to keep going…
Ha ha :))) The table tennis analogy is too good! 😉 Ok ok no more compliments, just keep blogging, thats all 🙂
And thanks a ton for your compliments.. and seriously, I feel like saying the same thing – coming from you, its a huge compliment 😉
sanjay,
as i told u over phone, i am a die-hard fan of Laxman. and the fact that u have named ur site after his famous creation is very apt(after i heard u) and after reading ur articles.
found this somewhere on the net today…
RK Laxman is Air Deccan’s brand ambassador. His immortal character `The Common Man’ is the airlines’ mascot. Air Deccan might have sought to position itself as a common man’s airline by choosing the cartoonist’s most loved character!