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The Business Of God
Courtesy - http://www.dotheknowledge.com/There is a very famous anecdote about Sri Ramanujacharya, the greatest Srivaishnava Guru. ‘Om Namo Narayanaya’ is a sacred 8-syllable mantra that is considered...
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Boson and Brahman for the Bored
Courtesy - http://nitrousburnout.blogspot.co.uk/There’s a thrill in reading pure science books IF there is no exam looming over your head! Indeed, all my quantum physics and cellular biology PLEASURE...
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Shantaram
Courtesy - http://en.wikipedia.org/ I’ve always been a bit wary about foreign authors writing about India. I know it is a hopeless prejudice – but I kind of believe they have nothing new...
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Growing Up With Rajesh Khanna
Courtesy - http://www.rajeshkhanna.net/There was some excitement in the air. I saw Amma and Savitha aunty talk in gasps and giggles. Some plan was made for Sunday evening. “Ennango!” Amma called out to...
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Being Desi
Courtesy - http://www.brynmawr.edu/I’ve been working furiously on a screenplay for Ekta Kapoor. She does not know it yet, though – but I’m sure she will be bowled over. I’ve titled it as ‘Bade Kachche...
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Stop Slum Tourism
Courtesy - 'Wadala slums - Mumbai' by Swaminathanhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wadala_slums_-_Mumbai.jpgThere is much anguish over Oprah’s episodes on India shot during her Jaipur Lit fest...
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Terror In Dyatlov Pass
Courtesy - http://www.popgunchaos.com Nothing thrills me more than mulling over an unsolved mystery. Years and years ago, when I saw ‘Picnic to Hanging Rock’, the open-ending had me gnawing my wrist...
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Let The Games Begin...
Courtesy - http://www.london2012.comI am quite tired of reading and hearing the lines ‘1.2 Bn and we can’t produce medals’. Really. Every newspaper has comments of this nature. And I bet most of it is...
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'Into That Heaven Of Freedom...'
Courtesy - http://en.wikipedia.orgChildhood memories of Independence Day celebrations are not pleasant. Don’t get me wrong, I am just referring to the packaging of the entire event. August 15th meant...
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Faceless
The Great War on Facades by Rene MagritteCourtesy - http://drunkenmusings.blogspot.comThe past weekend was too frenzied for my liking. At my energetic best I manage to potter around, but usually,...
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Faces And Moments
Courtesy - http://en.wikipedia.orgVacations are all about ‘faces of interest’ rather than ‘places of interest’ for me. Watching faces and guessing stories behind those eyes must the world’s best...
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7 Insignificant Things About A Highly Inconsequential Person
Amit has accused me of writing inspiring blogs...and has even given me this award. At first I thought he was being cheeky. Then I realized he was not...he actually meant it. But I tell you I wash my...
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A Mysore Wedding
Courtesy - http://thefullwiki.orgI don’t know why but I remembered a wedding story that Appa always narrates and we end up cracking up hysterically. Now this was 1977or thereabouts. I don’t remember...
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Bonded
Courtesy - http://mediacircus2.blogspot.comI’d just about started middle-school (meddle school as far as I was concerned). I guess it was mid-term holidays. We had loads of homework to keep up the...
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Light Of The Mahalaya
Courtesy - http://www.earthsky.orgAs the Pitru Paksha culminates in the Mahalaya Amavasya, I have sombre memories of elders in my family performing the tarpana. In fact, whether we celebrated festivals...
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Another Time, Another Place
Courtesy - http://telegraph.co.ukThere are days when the mind refuses to stay still, like a fly beating against a glass pane. It’s tiresome having it buzz around so much, when all I want is some peace...
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The Silence Makers
This was taken on a winter morning in SundarbansRaise your hand if you, like me, associate silence with sound. How many times have you noticed the silence in a room because you heard a clock ticking?...
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A Christmas Debut
Courtesy: http://www.buzzle.comBack in those tedious school years, December indeed heralded a season of merriment. Right after the Dussera break in October (usually), it would be a month of unit tests...
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Identity Crisis
Courtesy: http://www.fsc.yorku.caAt my age, it is not good to have identity crisis. I thought I was done with that shit as a teenager. After that, somehow I settled down, and now I’ve been knocked over...
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Taming The Beast
My tireless running matesI was a weakling of a kid: slender as a reed, a handkerchief pressed to my ever-running nose (lack of resistance, the doctor said) and to top it all, a fainting problem – I’d...
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