Was passing by the Gandhi Bhavan in Malleswaram on an evening walk with my wife and noticed a notice outside of some lecture going on inside. I’d sort of taken for granted that any lecture there was probably for old people who had nothing else to do, but Vijetha went over and had a look…
Had written about the adventurers after my trip to Honnemaradu… recently visited Swami and he did have some really promising sounding courses for eco-tourism. I was enquiring for my brother-in-law. Will post more substantial info soon, but for now here are some tribal paintings that I’d been talking about earlier… These are just some old…
Hadn’t known something like this was there for India – I’d seen plenty of such things for Western tourist spots. Really this is a beautiful use of technology for publicising our art and heritage! UNESCO World Heritage Tour: Hampi in Karnataka If you know any more such links please post them here.
view album… Visited Vijetha’s village along with Anand (her brother) and my mom yesterday (“yesterday”, considering that its its just 2 minutes past 12). Mainly just posting photos here with a short summary here, more detailed writeup… hmm… don’t know when…
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…
mini-island Originally uploaded by common man. Actually I’m just discovering why Leonid was so impressed with flickr. There are countless other features like customizable APIs, tags, calendars, etc but one of the coolest things is the way it provides an upload tool that integrates with Windows Explorer – just right click and send to Flickr!…
Here in UK they call any Indian masala based item as curry 🙂 and just like how in blr we guys generally go out to have pizza for a treat, here they go to have “a curry” … its seriously that popular!
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,…
Are multinational companies helping or harming India’s development? I don’t know the answer and haven’t come to any conclusion of my own, I’m just putting some pieces here, any more are welcome… 🙂 … or even any differences in opinion!
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…
