Dedication

Squirrels are wild creatures. The normal North American grey squirrel grows up so fast, anything older than 12-14 weeks is impossible to catch. We usually catch animals that are to be released back into the wild at night when they are kind of slow and cannot see too well (unless they are nocturnal [...]

Encore

Pandit Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar
Birmingham, Alabama. October 29th 2007

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Just another day(?)

While Kodsi went on an errand and was back at 10 AM and rushing to work, I got up. I haven’t felt a sore throat in 4 years like I felt today, quickly rushed through samachar and indiauncut and Times of India in 5 min and was at the car showroom for servicing, had planned [...]

Biology 101

I saw a dissection today! The first in my life (if you don’t count eatables like fish, maybe crab and chicken). But the ones I’ve cooked have been neatly cleaned inside out (except for crabs, I cannot understand, how all aunts and grannies in my Mom’s native village handle live crabs with perfect ease), the [...]

Modi’s Truthiness

Kya re Karan Thapar, take a lesson from Tv9 and be more persistent. At least you have a valid cause.
5 years later, Modi is (alive and) still the CM of a state, is free, has not been convicted, is not on trial either(?), can proudly proclaim only two-three people think he is a mass murderer [...]

I-Scripto 1

I love movie scripts. And to share the same passion with you, I would like to present from now on an occasional feature that will include some of my favorite lines from some of my favorite movies. Primarily English, but some meaningful Hindi and Telugu ones too, with translation. And to start with two of [...]

Loneliness

Just that few arduous moments, when everything that was beautiful now looks so hollow, so incomplete.
Yet nothing has really changed, except maybe how you look at things around you.
But unless you can FEEL this, how can you feel the other things; warmth, friendship, love, satisfaction, that make a person so complete.
Welcome, just another chapter of [...]

Simplicity not his style

Much has been heard and said about cricket and about Sreesanth who is getting more popularity for his antics than his performance, hitting someone for a six after being provoked is atitude, provoking someone unnecesarily is bad-titude as I would call it, and Sree looks like he has a ton of it…
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