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Book review: 7 Secrets of Shiva by Devdutt Pattnaik
2012-02-08 19:55:00 Smeared with ash Draped in animal hide He sits atop the snow-capped mountain Skull in hand Withdrawn, with dogs for company Destroying the world with his indifference He is God who the Goddess shall awaken His name is Shiva. Locked in his stories, symbols and rituals are the secrets of our ancestors. This book attempts ... More About: Mythology , Book Review , Review , Book
To Be In Delhi
2012-02-05 18:13:00 What happens when a girl from Sandra’s Bandra moves to a semi-urban locality full of nouveau upper middle class Punjabis in saddi Dilli? Even the community pet dog is named Monty. (I suggested the name Dogfather but Monty won hands down.) Monty is a respectable name compared to Beauty, the name of the neighbour’s male ... More About: Delhi
2011 in review
2012-01-01 11:27:00 The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,300 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to ... More About: Review , Blogging
Book Review: The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
2011-10-20 19:37:00 Hassan, the storyteller of Marrakesh , is a raconteur at the Jemaa el Fna, the “world’s most storied city square”. Every year, a large, motley, colourful audience gathers to hear him recount the tale of a young foreign couple – a French American woman and an Indian man ? who had gone missing one evening from ... More About: Book Review , Review , Book
Monsoon is when?
2011-06-09 15:30:00 The view outside looks like a painting framed by my window. Big raindrops bounce off the window sill. Sherlock returns home from his evening constitutional and shakes himself dry. He ends up wetting everything and everyone around him. After a bout of rain people walk down the street with arms folded across their chests, shivering ...
Wordless Wednesday 4
2011-06-08 15:50:00 Wordless Wednesday Home Filed under: wordless wednesday Tagged: color, Mumbai
To Those For Whom Cricket Is Religion
2011-04-03 12:53:00 If the wild bowler thinks he bowls, Or if the batsman thinks he?s bowled, They know not, poor misguided souls, They too shall perish unconsoled. The lines are from Andrew Lang?s Brahma, a parody of Walt Whitman?s poem by the same name which, in itself, is an imitation of the language of the Gita. The ... More About: Cricket , Religion , English
10th Anniversary of Wikipedia, Mumbai
2011-01-18 10:07:00 Jan 15 marked the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia . I attended a meet-up of Wikipedia users and contributors held in Mumbai to commemorate it. Read about it here on my technology blog, Technosophy: 10th anniversary of Wikipedia, Mumbai The Time Capsule of Wikipedia 10 invites users to share their thoughts, views and wishes for Wikipedia?s 25th ... More About: Events , Anniversary
Wordless Wednesday 3
2011-01-05 04:42:00 Wordless Wednesday Home This ferris wheel was at a food-and-fun fair held near my home. Filed under: wordless wednesday Tagged: ferris wheel, fun, joyride
2010 in review
2011-01-02 14:47:00 I was pleasantly surprised to see this summary and funny review of the blog’s performance mailed to me by WordPress. It even includes information on the stats, the top referrers and even the posts that attracted the most visitors and comments. I moved to WordPress in early September 2010 and I am glad I did. ... More About: Review
Dona Nobis Pacem
2010-11-04 12:27:00 This peace globe is my entry for this year’s round for the BlogBlast for Peace scheduled for November 4, 2010. Signing the globe is taking a pledge for peace. At the top of the image is the word ‘peace’ written in all the languages I speak. I am privileged to have participated in the first ...
Wordless Wednesday ? 2
2010-09-22 09:40:00 Wordless Wednesday Home Filed under: wordless wednesday Tagged: clouds, mountains, munnar, sky
Suncretic Shrines: Mount Mary Church
2010-09-15 19:11:00 (The fair at Mount Mary Church , Bandra, Mumbai lasts for a week from the Sunday after the Feast on Sept 8 every year. First published here in August 2010 at Wayfarers and Pathfinders.) The Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount, better known as the Mount Mary Church looks like a typical Roman Catholic Church ...
This Monsoon
2010-06-09 14:01:00 I hope the weatherman’s prediction of 98% rainfall during the monsoon this year is correct and that there would be no one-minute-peekaboo showers like last year. Since I can’t sing Megh Malhar, here is an AV request to Indra, Zeus, Jupiter, Chac et al. The title translates into ‘This monsoon’. Ab Ke Sawan – Shubha Mudgal ...
Living With Gaia
2010-06-07 11:13:00 Blogadda invites bloggers to share their thoughts, tips and information on ?Conserve. Recycle. Discover?. Here are mine: The Jaltara water purifier ingeniously developed by the BARC puts to smart use a filtration technique that has long been used for other purposes. It does not work on electricity and is inexpensive and efficient to boot. Atmospheric ... More About: Living
Kerala Trip ? IV
2010-05-15 15:54:00 (This is an account of a week spent in Kerala in late September, 2009. Cross posted here. ) There are numerous churches in Kerala with bright, colorful murals and glass paintings of an armoured man on horseback holding an unsheathed sword aloft. (I believe he was one St. George of Norfolk.) On the day before ... More About: Trip
Kerala Trip -III
2010-05-14 22:20:00 (This is an account of a week spent in Kerala in late September, 2009. Cross-posted here. ) If I were to make a list of things I wanted to eat before I died I would count in the home-made chocolate of Thekkady. Made from cocoa grown in the plantations there, it is unprocessed and has ... More About: Trip
Kerala Trip ? II
2010-05-10 08:27:00 (This is an account of a week spent in Kerala in late September 2009. Cross posted here. ) Munnar was a six hour bus ride away from Cochin. Much of the journey was through the Nilgiris, pristine hills shrouded in blue at dusk. (Would that have given the Niligiri, literally meaning ?Blue Mountain? its name?) ... More About: Trip
Kerala Trip ? I
2009-10-07 18:07:00 Kera, from the little Malyalam I know, means coconut. When I left Mumbai for Kerala , I expected my trip to be an endless mis-en-scene of coconut country – plantations of coconut, banana, tea, stretches of paddy fields, lotus ponds, verdant valleys and emerald – green pools. As I packed my bags, I hummed the vicarious ... More About: Trip
Wanderlust
2009-09-21 03:10:00 Turn on email auto-responder. Check.Energy bars. Check.Camera. Check.Hand sanitiser. Check.Toothbrush. Check.Wanderlust. Check. I am heading to Kerala today and taking a leaf out of Anusha’s book, I’d like to chronicle my travels. It’s my first visit there. Watch this space. Happy Eid-ul-Fitr. Posted in travel Tagged: Kerala, travel
Suggestions Invited
2009-07-04 09:10:00 At the end of the two-month blogging holiday, I find my blogging mojo has run away. Can you, the reader, help me out? Leave a suggestion in the suggestions tab about a topic you would like to read about or just drop me a line.
A Bit Of Stardust
2009-05-03 06:43:00 Guess what I have in common with Bing Crosby, Niccolň Machiavelli, Uma Bharati, Golda Meir and Princess Haya of Jordan? Well, this. Posted in Personal Tagged: birthday More About: Stardust
A Bit Of Stardust
2009-05-03 06:13:00 Guess what I have in common with Bing Crosby, Niccolò Machiavelli, Uma Bharati, Golda Meir and Princess Haya of Jordan? Well, this. More About: Stardust
Sweet Success
2009-04-24 14:52:00 fatigué: adjective meaning 'tired'.My team and I won a difficult legal wrangle today. The law suit was about something I had put my sweat and blood and tears into. I was about to give up hope but the court's ruling arrived just before it would have been too late. That and a few other things were the reason for the sabbatical. The blogging holiday will sadly continue because there is still a lot More About: Success , Sweet
The Thieveses
2009-04-16 10:37:00 Having unexpectedly got a day off today I couldn't resist posting this meme from Terra Shield's page who in turn stole it from Sunday Stealing. It brought back loads of memories from the days I started my only blog ever.1. How did you come up with your blog title OR what does it mean?Google's English-to-Hindi translator calls it 'Pagal Razai'! I wanted it to be like a crazy quilt - colorful,
A Break
2009-04-10 09:13:00 I may be gone for about two months. I'll try to slip in a blog post, though. Please keep your feed readers tuned. In the meanwhile, you may keep reading the Quilt byhitting the View Random Post button.heading over to the 'Best of Crazy Quilt' section in the left pane.I love my little space in the Blogosphere but life is bigger.So long. Stay wonderful. More About: Break
Seek And You Shall Find
2009-04-02 15:49:00 Humankind is constantly searching. Searching for love, for peace, for answers, for solutions. Sometimes it searches on Google, Yahoo, MSN and the like. And then this is what happens. what dr to go to for knot in tongue (At least they don’t come here looking for constipation cures.) is tashreef the urdu word for butt ... More About: Find
Seek And You Shall Find
More articles from this author:2009-04-02 15:19:00 Humankind is constantly searching. Searching for love, for peace, for answers, for solutions. Sometimes it searches on Google, Yahoo, MSN and the like. And then this is what happens.what dr to go to for knot in tongue(At least they don't come here looking for constipation cures.)is tashreef the urdu word for butt(Possibly. Though I understand it may also mean 'presence'. Thanks for bringing your More About: Find , Seek 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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