plastic in the microwave
[Date of this entry only an approximation] As a result of the previous post, just out of curiousity to find the real answer, I looked up google and found some interesting things…
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the village idiot
[Date of this entry only an approximation] At home we’ve known about the usefulness of the microwave oven but somehow never actually got down to buying one, somehow it seemed unnecessary. However recently one finally made its way into our kitchen in the form of a birthday gift for my mom. Then there was the…
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music out of the ordinary
Still buried under tons of miscellaneous activities but felt compelled to write a short note. Heard just a few seconds of some music and felt there was something unique about it. My aunt was viewing Doordarshan for a change, and the violinist playing the music was Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan The extraordinary thing was the unpredictability. Usually…
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the reluctant autorickshaw
The following is something I’d written a while ago in a “learn kannada” forum… Real life incidents though not exactly verbatim… Auto-rickshaw drivers of Bangalore nowadays have become more selective than infy in ‘choosing’ their ‘projects’! They usually refuse to go wherever a passenger wants to go, and drive off, and one has to stop…
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the greater sacrifice
Once in a way, it may appear as if we could do without any principles (not referring to anything specific) or anything of that sort. So many people though indifferent to such an idea – plenty of politicians for example – and living corrupt, decadent lives, seem to be getting away with it all, and…
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bringing the house down
I was saying earlier that I’ve lived in just one single house all my life. At that time I’d not really imagined that that wouldn’t be for very long! We are finally executing the long long pending plan of my mother’s generation in rebuilding the house from scratch, to replace it with something new, modern…
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a tale of two doors
Found this in an old mail from last year while searching for something else, but thought its nice to post here… Ramakrishna told about a corridor in a house, where there were two doors at the end. On one of the doors there was written “heaven”, on the other “lecture about heaven”. When you looked…
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questioning conventional medicine
This isn’t really a post, but just an open question that was suggested by a reader as it came up as this issue was brought up in Muktha (a Kannada TV serial) recently. Does the medical industry including drug manufacturers and doctors generate business by creating fear among people ? This industry like any other…