(re)discovers nature…
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, […]
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Yesterday evening, being ಯà³à²—ಾದಿ (Ugadi ), there was a question on RadioCity FM 91 on what bevu bella means. For a change I actually keyed in the answer and, very unexpectedly, got a call by Sunayna saying that I’d be on air in a minute, to get away from the radio, and stay on the […]
A little less than a couple of decades ago, when Sanjay was a little boy aged maybe 10 or so, his family used to go regularly on trips typically around South India. The whole group of family and some family friends, typically numbering around 15, would cram into a Matador van and head off to […]
There are so many things that influence our lives. I just made a list here, I am not recommending any of them, some of them may sound superstitious or ridiculous to some, but may be very strongly believed by others. This is merely a listing of things that I’ve come across so far.
The Gesture-based Keyboard (GKB) is a pen-based technology that will allow Kannada and other vernacular scripts to be recorded and stored directly in the computer without the use of a conventional keyboard.
A press meet and a gathering of Kannada Wikipedians (online for almost 2 years now) and all those who take interest in Kannada on the internet will be held on Sunday, April 2nd, 2006, at Nayana Auditorium, J C Road at 4 PM. There will be talks and assistance to people on how to use Unicode, how to enable […]
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 […]
Some dialogues from Muktha – maybe some poetry… or quotation from some literature… are truly inspiring! You’re welcome to post anything that you can recall any from any (old or current) episodes – anything that inspired you… or simply made you laugh !
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 […]