Book Review: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

You don’t need a book to learn that Loss is an integral part of life, but to read a book which includes this plain lesson with a deeper meaning of life, embedded with humor, common sense, knowledge and a fairly decent amount of scuttling between very diverse people, environments and situations is, SUCH a delight.
Diverse [...]

egayov nob

Every passing minute of time, until the destination is reached
my heart takes a flight, a breath and a blink’s delay
this isn’t reality, this can’t be a dream either
one thing will lead to another, until the destination is reached.
Good bye then, Happy Journey.
What next did you ask? Well this is just the beginning.
You’re now just a [...]

Ee Jeevitham

Jeevam leni jeevitham edi ra, gamyam leni payanam edi ra
Maranisthu jeevisthunna ee lokam sthithi gathilemira
Svardham tho aarjistunna ee lokam “ardham” emi ra
- by Naveen Reddy Jonnalgadda, friend from college in India, in Jersey right now. A budding poet and an inspirational person. Just a minute sample of his talent, 3 lines of a beautifully worded [...]

How to negotiate like an Indian

“In India, we bargain to the level of the individual vegetable purchase.”
Read it here
Courtesy: Surya on Gtalk

The grapes are sour

Around 1986-87, I was in Kindergarten and Vaidehi Ma’am was explaining to us kiddos one of the stories in an English text book. This one was about a fox that wanted to eat grapes and because it couldn’t reach them, it decided the grapes were sour. This was among the first instances of I failing [...]

Knight Rider movie

Remember this?

Come Feb 17th 2008, a full fledged 2 hr movie being produced by NBC
Press release video – Click here
And the model used in the movie is a Ford Mustang while the one used in the TV series was a 1982 Pontiac (from wikipedia).

Robot Demos

Robot comes of age, serves drinks to person who ordered them!
Honda’s Asimo
from www.liveleak.com]
Can Toyota be far behind then?
from www.liveleak.com]
How come robots look like aliens in the movies?

BEE Movie?

 Or shall we say DUCK Movie?

Chiranjeevi in the fray

Technically, I don’t usually talk about film stars in the positive sense, especially those who are known as movie actors but do not act proper in movies because they don’t need to anymore. However, when a national daily like the Times of India writes about Chiranjeevi starting a political outfit in the state of Andhra [...]