A happy farmer near MHOW, Indore

"The agrarian crisis is about a much wider rural distress. It's a crisis driven not by drought or natural calamity as Mr Sharad Pawar has said in the Parliament. And he didn't use the word crisis. It's a crisis driven by policy; global, national, local.

November Rains in Chennai

Mr. Systematic

Excuse me!", I wanted to ask him, "If you didn't want it in the first place, why did you ask me to look for it?" But I didn't, of course. Because I was weak kneed with relief. A lesser man would have peed in his underpants...

Sweet Pongal, Another New Year

Another Pongal, the exclusively Thamilzh harvest festival, is here. This time, with the additional distinction of being the Thamizh New Year. So that is two New Years in a month...

The Satyam Fallout – Is The India Inc’s Image At Stake?

This question struck into my mind after coming across the plethora of reports/views/comments, etc that the Satyam incident will rob the India Inc as a whole (and not precisely the Indian IT industry) of the faith and confidence of the foreign investors.

Glucose Biscuit-The Flag mast of Indian Food Industry

Cookies and biscuits are adorable snacks as they contain, besides sugar and fat, important growth nutrient protein also. In India the three major biscuit makers are Parle, Britannia and ITC, each having a dozen successful products in the market.

Where’s ‘Satyam’ Raju ?

is a question to which no one appears to have an answer. CNBC-TV 18 reporter in Hyderabad who raised the question with the police was told that in the absence of anyone filing an FIR they weren’t really looking for Sri Ramalinga Raju of Satyam.

Road-trip report … continued

We left early for Coonoor the next day morning. The road to Coonoor from Ooty passes through Charing Cross. So we thought we would have a quick breakfast at Preethi Palace (a hotel recommended by the Concierge at Sterling)...

What's on your desk?

Went back to work yesterday after 3 weeks! And felt good to be back there. I looked around at all the familiar things in there, and realized something.of the things in there are gifts from friends and family...

WOW, Heavenly...

Every minute in our lives are interesting, important and intriguing. It keeps us going on "what next?". There are some moments that are memorable, some that are touching, some - testing but there are truly very few that are breathtaking...

Praying Mantis

We saw this Praying Mantis perched on the wall so gracefully. All of us crowded around her, but she didn’t budge from that place or pose...

Hamburger History

I always thought that, in Germany, the people went about
Eating Hamburgers by the tonne. There wasn't any doubt!
After all, Hamburg's in Germany as everybody knows.
That would be the source of it, wouldn't you suppose?

The pace of development!!!

Unanswered Questions

The article raised many issues that I have touched upon in my years of blogging: corruption, the lure of money, political nexuses and above all the need of apportioning responsibility....

Lessons in Learning

What happens when you are forced to justifying your claims? And when your GPA counts on it? What happens when it becomes a requirement for you to look into matters, establish opinions on them, and dwell on matters that interest you?...

Paataal Paani, near MHOW, Indore

Alongside is a metre-guage railway track, and the spot offers obvious opportunities to turn into a modern picnic spot with cable cars and walkways.

Photos: Grandchildren

Being president is hazardous to health

Anyway, let me get back to our main topic of this post, the hazardousness of being president. I am one of those speedreaders who looks at the headlines and any pictures shown in the article and automatically divines what the author wanted to say in 2000 words...

Hamas has key to peace

West Asia (Middle East) has never seen peace. As things stand today there is little hope. Unless, there is a huge change in the mindset of both Israel and Hamas, blood will continue to be spilt...

Gaza Still Burns

But the same Indian in me refuses to ignore the cries of the innocent civilians in Ghaza who are being given and were given a very unfair deal by the world. This madness needs to end. Only God can help them...

Concert Vignettes

Flautist N. Ramani kept his cool when his mike went berserk in the middle of his concert at the Narada Gana Sabha, like a banshee wailing. It is a fire alarm drill, whispered someone.The person in charge came rushing in from outside to stop the awful sound. Ramani had already stopped playing...

Safe and Healthy Food-The Royal Proclaimation

Does this augur well for the industry? Already, clearance of import consignments at our ports takes inordinate time because of the archaic procedures in place currently and setting up another bureaucratic body "to gauge risk factor associated with imported items" is going to pose further problems...

Gaza under ground attack.

After a week of pounding from air Israelis moved their troops into Gaza strip. TV channels, notably CNN, kept up a running coverage, but their reporting was from the Israel end,...

IIT Thesis cheating and Satyam …

Ok, this is something that took me back by surprise. Really shocked me. All around, there is always talk about the IITs (Indian Institute of Technology) being the most premiere institute in the country. And Today...

So thoughtful!!!

When I went into the kitchen to make my lunch, I was amazed!
He had set the pot, filled in the required amount of water (so that I don't have to go to the sink to get it!), broke the noodles into even pieces and set aside in a plate...

Nambiar, Bose & Germany

ACN Nambiar was well known to the freedom fighter clan, but I doubt if anybody will even recollect anything about such a person, today. In many ways his work resulted in the ‘proverbial straw’ breaking the camels back...

Ranakpur Jain Temple

Spread over an area of approx. 48,000sq.feet, this temple is made of amber stone ...

Power from rice husk - a 3-in-1 idea

Generating electricity from rice husk, besides being eco-friendly, can be a viable business model with three streams of income - 1) sale of electricity generated from a rice-mill by-product; 2) sale of husk ash to cement units;...

Banyan tree at Beirchaa Lake

The mutiple trunks and aerial roots are quite closely spaced and provide myriad ideas, glimpses and dialogues...

P.S. Rain Dance

The best advice I ever heard
With reference to life's pain
Is 'Realise storms are coming
But....
Learn to dance in the rain.'