Archive for February, 2006

Kannada literature

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

For a DCDB (desi born confused desi 😉 ) like me who had achieved a reasonably high level of proficiency in English (well according to an IELTS exam I’d taken a couple of years ago), Kannada was something I hardly ever bothered about. However since October 2001 when I started seeing a lot of things […]

ajji and tata

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

I’ve been particularly lucky to have had the opportunity to spend time with my grandparents right up to their last days. Grandparents are really special people and in my case they were both more my friends as much as grandparents! I have many things to say about them, and this post is more of a […]

smile please

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

> Computer splices up Mona Lisa’s mood > > Paris: Now it’s official: Mona Lisa was 83 per cent happy, 9 per cent > disgusted, 6 per cent fearful and 2 per cent angry. > That’s the conclusion of a University of Amsterdam computer that applied > “emotion-recognition software” to Leonardo da Vinci’s work, the […]

from 0.00001 to 0.000011

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

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 […]

to be continued…

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

At some point I had speculated doing a PhD. Dr. Richard Butterworth in his brilliant essay I did a PhD and did NOT go mad says… There’s only one way of doing a PhD and that’s your own, that’s your own, that’s your own… I find that life – including everyday life in all its […]

walls redefined – as giant canvases!

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Came across some pictures taken at Parikrama Foundation during a visit there.