D-day
September 6, 2005Tomorrow is D-day. I go in for my lapsroscopic surgery to get out my gallbladder. I have learnt more about gallbladders and liver and other body parts than i ever wanted to know. in fact, if i was really curious about any…
Where Parvati cannot sing for Shiva
September 6, 2005One of the saddest stories that I have read in a long time was the furore over singer Parvati Khan being prevented from singing at the sacred Jyotirlingas. The temple loves her music but not the fact that her husband is a…
Oh To Be Poor …
September 6, 2005Our poor and their poor are two different things. Everytime I fill out one of these online thingees that ask for annual income I compute my Indian income into dollars and check the correct amount – I don’t use purchasing power parity…
Theogony of Gods
September 4, 2005My current read is Karen Armstrong’s History of God . Theogony has always fascinated me. So has how Gods are born, grow unfashionable and then die out. . It is almost a peek back into society and figuring out how society evolved…
Using Social Software for a Car Pool
September 3, 2005Sid from Patang.org has a great new social software in place. And unlike the rest which use fluffly terms like networking, and community – this actually does something tangible. It is a car pool for people who live in a geographical area….
anatomy of a breakdown
September 3, 2005The last few months have been kind of strange. Work has beeen proceeding well. Business seems to have picked up. And there is a level of contentment in personal life, that is satisfying. Yet, over the last 6 months or so –…
How ?
September 2, 2005How can a nation that cannot provide security for its own people, hope to restore democracy in Iraq and Afganistan? This is New Orleans blogger Maitri on the devastation: A few states kindly offer shelter, guards and other help, but this is…
Our Flood & Their Flood
August 31, 2005I have been watching images on various news channels showing the devastation left behind by Katrina. I have been following Maitri’s blog on the more personalised aspect of surviving Katrina. And one thing struck me – however developed you may be, how…
Today is Blog DAy
August 31, 2005And as promised here are my list of 5 blogs that i found interesting, from across the world. a) From South Africa – African Dust – The journal of Clare. A mathematician, A christian and a white African. I loved her piece…
Blog Day – 31st August 2005
August 29, 2005The mega event of blogdom is here – BlogDay2005 is around the corner. What is BlogDay 2005? BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of…