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Aam Aadmi Party 19 Aug 2013 | 12:33 pm
The online battle for 2014 has been joined by another active participant. Got this email from Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi party, presumably part of a big outreach to the business community. I li...
Listening to the user 8 Jul 2013 | 02:05 pm
Given this is the longest running topic on the internet, I will keep my two cents very short. Every time I set up a calendar slot or an alarm on an Apple product, I find it just that bit easier … Con...
Dhingana, Bombay Royale and Indira Gandhi 30 Jun 2013 | 04:09 pm
As I listened to a medley of popular 70s hindi music over the last couple of weeks on Dhingana, the online music app I have recently discovered, a thought struck me. Seventies hindi music seems to h...
Bicycle Travel 10 Jun 2013 | 05:53 pm
Got this Youtube link from my old colleague, good friend & mega bike-enthusiast Mohit. And since I wholeheartedly approve of the notion of slow travel in its ability to suck out every bit of juice of ...
The population conundrum 6 Jun 2013 | 02:26 pm
Mauritius is a country in the Indian Ocean with a population of 1.2 million people. India (the country from which, incidentally, the Indian Ocean gets its very name) has 1.2 billion people – which is ...
Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival, Bangalore, December 2012 31 Dec 2012 | 04:07 pm
Was at Dr L.Subramaniam’s annual fusion music festival last night. He started with a real foot stomper called ‘Indian Express’ (poetic justice indeed, since the festival itself is sponsored by the Tim...
MOMA/Iwent 14 Nov 2012 | 11:49 am
Last month while in Manhattan I visited the Museum of Modern Art for a few hours. And was captivated by an initiative they have right at the lobby. Here is what they do. All visitors to MOMA can pick ...
Coke Studio Pakistan 6 Jul 2012 | 08:01 pm
Last weekend I seriously overdosed on Coke Studio Pakistan on Youtube and have not been able to purge it from my system since. Looks like this weekend is set to be a repeat. As many have pointed out b...
Online music is here 8 Feb 2012 | 07:07 pm
This is one of the better things to happen for Travellers. As I wait for another delayed flight at Bangalore airport the magic of online music hits me. Switching between Saavn (the online Indian music...
Split ends 25 Jan 2012 | 03:05 am
If yoga and meditation are the epitome of ‘stillness’, Facebook and Twitter are the apogee of ‘noise’. And these days I am immersed in both – making life interesting…