Archive for October, 2006

interview with a millipede

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

centipede Originally uploaded by common man. I had always thought this fellow was a centipede until I looked up wiki and found that centipedes are actually venomous and look totally different and I don’t remember ever seeing one in my life. So all the ‘centipedes’ I’ve ever seen have actually been millipedes… but well, what’s […]

bottoms-up!

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

bottoms-up! Originally uploaded by common man. A duck diving underwater gave a lot of entertainment to a group of excited scout and guide kids watching it from on top (in Lalbagh this morning)!

"let me tell you a secret"

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

more water-snake pictures… Originally uploaded by common man. That’s what this fish seemed to be telling the snake. I don’t know what they spoke but the very next moment the snake quickly darted away and the fish dived underwater.

learning from a lotus

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

a morning in lalbagh Originally uploaded by common man. The beginnings of the lotus are in the slime of the depths. Its development and blossoming are in response to the light of the sun. The lotus symbolizes the divine possibilities of human nature. – The Dhammapada (edited by S. Radhakrishnan)

jaanapada jaatre in namma bengaLooru

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Got this in a forwarded email… an interesting programme over the weekend…

for tennis fans and non-fans

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

I’m a tennis non-fan, i.e. in general I enjoy watching tennis but its somewhere in #7800231 in my list of priorities… Still, loved this really cool article by Scott Adams! Dilbert blog: Winning

what are you looking at?

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Look at these pictures and make a guess… should be fairly easy… Its an actual photograph, maybe a bit of distortion due to some digital zooming…

lage raho munna bhai

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Finally managed to see the movie Lage Raho Munna Bhai last week! In summary I’d say it was not just a case of a ghost or schizophrenia or a new label ‘gandhigiri’, but a simple matter of discovering within ourselves… an elegant and creative possibility of living non-destructively ! 🙂

ordinary everyday life

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” …Einstein had remarked. However R.K. Narayan seemed to differ in this aspect…

different perspectives of an airport

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Douglas Adam’s had this to say about airports… anyone who’s been a frequent flier might relate to this brilliant description immediately!