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Jagadanandakaraka! 29 Aug 2012 | 07:21 pm
Vishakha Hari mentioned in one of her discourses on पञ्चरत्न वैभवम् that this great kriti actually contains a 100 names of Lord Rama. One can only marvel at Tyagaraja’s genius and the grace bestowed u...
IPL, Money Mania 25 Apr 2009 | 04:17 am
We’ve all been fretting and fuming about the IPL. I’ve been wanting to write some nasty posts about Lalit Modi, the strategy break and so on… but haven’t found the time. Thankfully, cricinfo’s new Pag...
Jaya Janakiprananayaka! 10 Apr 2009 | 01:00 am
It’s been a while since I have blogged, but I just had to write about this new-found obsession of mine, with Jagadanandakaraka. I keep humming it all the time these days, despite my scanty knowledge o...
TATA Star Bazaar — good, but obnoxious 11 Jul 2008 | 04:14 am
Been putting off writing this post for four months now. Better late than never, huh? 16-March-2008 Being a Sunday morning, we had planned to go out to Forum. Too early to eat at Gramin (wanted to po...
LATEX rules! 2 Feb 2008 | 06:16 pm
Ah, then! We do have LATEX support in wordpress… although I’ve taken nearly a year to realise this Check out http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/02/17/math-for-the-masses/ So, then we can have , and what...
BrahMos 22 Jun 2007 | 04:19 pm
Hehe, just close on the heels of yesterday’s post ridiculing Pratibha, here we have Dr Kalam handing over the BrahMos to the army. Read the Hindu article here. Let’s hope for a miracle to have Kalam a...
The Presidential Joke 21 Jun 2007 | 10:14 pm
As the hunt to fill in Kalam’s shoes is on, I just thought I might write some of my views on one of the sadder jokes in Indian politics. Last time we had a certain Lakshmi Sahgal contesting alongside ...
India Rising… 9 Jul 2006 | 06:00 pm
My Sunday’s been wonderfully brightened by two posts on rediff: Are India’s infrastructure woes over? I think all of us have been witness to the mobile phone revolution and the telecom revolution in...
Why Are Nails On A Blackboard Irritating? 3 Jul 2006 | 05:50 pm
“Fingernails on a blackboard. Why does the very phrase send chills down one’s back? The question has annoyed scientists for at least 2,300 years. Aristotle mentioned “hard sounds”, but didn’t try very...
पल पल है भारी (Pal Pal Hai Bhaari) 26 Jun 2006 | 03:51 pm
One of the most extraordinary songs I’ve heard recently, not just the music but even the lyrics… Kudos to A R Rahman and Javed Akhtar… मधुश्री: आ… आ… मधुश्री: पल पल है भारी वो बिपता है आई मोहे ब...
