travel

Have very less experience in taking portrait pictures, (not that I have a lot of experience in other types of pictures, but relatively speaking 😉 ) and I took these candid pictures.

[updated 9-Nov-2005] Some photos from the general class train on the way to Hyderabad…

updated 26 Sep, 05 Though I’d read the Mahabharata in my childhood days – all abridged versions, though from multiple sources , I heard a story today in a seminar in IISc that I had never heard before… (What’s in italics here is merely a verbatim repetition to the best of my memory…)

Managed to fast again yesterday. This time it was much easier, completely effortless. Maybe I’m getting faster at it 😉 [ugh, couldn’t resist]

One of the biggest differences I see in the work cultures of the east and the west are in taking leave – atleast a few days off from work. I’ve come across people in India who have worked for a decade or two at a stretch – and proudly proclaiming that they have not even…

[updated on Sep 2nd] Yesterday evening Jigar was telling me that a week starting from today marks a special time for Jains and they’re involved in fasting. A one day fast would be from yesterday night to tomorrow morning – only thing permitted would be hot water. I don’t know what made me decide to…

Over 11,000 days of my life so far I’ve lived completely for myself and those related to me, and I’m pretty happy with that, since I’ve so far held the same opinion as the Sonejis: Interestingly enough, the Sonejis don’t believe in doing service. “…we are not into social service. We believe that our own…

There is an interesting story in Indian mythology, about Goddess Kali… where Rakthabija was a demon who after a lot of penance asks for immortality, but since he can’t get that, he’s granted a workaround – that every drop of his blood that touched the ground gets transformed itself into another Raktabija. The gods tried…