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…
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!
When I was a kid and used to grow vertically I used to stand straight against a wall where my Dad had drawn a vertical line. He’d hold a ruler above my head to mark it with a dash and write the date inspite of my mom’s complaints about not dirtying the wall. So later…
some pictures…
Happened to come across a nice post involving trees today and felt like putting up some pictures from a walk through forest/plantations in Chikmagalur (October 2003) Naseeb, a Geneva native of 12 years and a Stanford and Oxford graduate, was traveling to a third world country once to “help”. His driver stopped the car in…
For a DCDB (desi born confused desi 😉 ) like me who had achieved a reasonably high level of proficiency in English (well according to an IELTS exam I’d taken a couple of years ago), Kannada was something I hardly ever bothered about. However since October 2001 when I started seeing a lot of things…
I’ve been particularly lucky to have had the opportunity to spend time with my grandparents right up to their last days. Grandparents are really special people and in my case they were both more my friends as much as grandparents! I have many things to say about them, and this post is more of a…
