Tomorrow is Mahalaya, the advent of the Devi… And the day after is Navratri… As always, I will be writing a series for the next nine-ten days, a bit of what has been written before, and a bit about my experiences this time. As before, I will be observing vrata for all nine days, eating …
The iPhone 14 is here, and so are the done-to-death “sell my kidney” jokes. Do I upgrade? Well, err…ummm….anyone looking for a Gold iPhone 12 Pro Max Fantastic 256GB? The airpods refresh seem tempting too. But then, so does gold, at a yearly low, and equities, that are expected to dip as recession hits the …
Dheena Karunakarane Nataraja…Neelakantane… A few days back I had written about Rohāmrta’s fascination for ‘The Wheels on the Bus’, an American folk song that turned into a rhyme along the way. Read more about it down below. As it turns out, the kid has since turned desi. More precisely, Southern desi. His favorite channel (in …
Shri Raju Srivastava, best known for his Gajodhar bhaiyya performances, has passed. In an era where comedy is now synonymous with four-letter words and obscene comments, Raju bhaiyya was an exception. He kept it clean, and continued to do so even when many others got ahead by peppering their so-called stand up comedy with expletives …
Who am I? This simple question has elicited many responses over the course of the existence of humankind. And these responses have been a lot philosophical, some candid, some exploratory. But no one has come up with an answer that has satisfied anyone and everyone. And so we continue on our quest, a journey into …
The question of eternal life is as old as life itself. Humankind has made great strides in life expectancy, from an average of 30 years over most of our existence, to over 70 years today. In a short span of less than a century, this has gone up twice over. A lot of us do …
Here’s a fun fact about resending lost data: you can never be 100% certain that both people, communicating on a network where information might get lost, share the same information—and this holds even if nothing ever actually gets lost! Here’s an example. Let’s say you want to send the very important message “Hey this is …
I’m reading a book interestingly titled “How to take over the world”, by Ryan North. I know it sounds a bit off, but it really has workable strategies to take over the world:)) Provided everything suggested falls into place that is. Nevertheless, the reason I mentioned the book was because of a bizarre, yet practical …
Ok, a lot of you knew this post was coming, isn’t it? Well, I don’t have to take you through the journey of the man – most of you already know it, or at least some parts of it. Today, I want to speak about learning. Constant learning. Modiji is an exceptional politician because of …
Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in the wind.One said, “The flag moves.”The other said, “The wind moves.”They argued back and forth but could not agree.Hui-neng, the sixth patriarch, said: “Gentlemen! It is not the flag that moves. It is not the wind that moves. It is your mind that moves.”The two …
