Archive for August, 2005

timely link

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

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! […]

priceless

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

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, […]

temporarily out of bangalore

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

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 […]

indestructability of rakthabija

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

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 […]

war against terrorism

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

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 […]

independence – from what?

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

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 […]

new tag

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

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 […]

of touch typing and programming

Friday, August 5th, 2005

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! 🙂

rediscover india…

Monday, August 1st, 2005

I’ve been lucky to have lived at several places around the world, but have always felt there was something special about India – could never really pin point out exactly what. Maybe I’ll never figure out the exact answer why, but currently I feel that ultimately it comes down to the ordinary average people I […]

a "different" perspective of Yoga

Monday, August 1st, 2005

This is what a Western practitioner of Yoga for six years has to say about it. This was quite a strange perspective of and certainly quite interesting, if not outright entertaining. Its an article that says yoga is dangerous, and is some kind of a witchcraft, and the author has been desperately trying it out […]