Sunday, 7 June 2009
Friday, 5 June 2009
Blogging: Legal and other problems of ‘anonymous’ comments
This is in continuation to my earlier post, Bloggers, beware of legal implications.
Every blogger normally welcomes comments on what he writes. These comments are something more personal than letters to the Editor in the print media. Blog comments generative active interaction between the writer and the reader. Sometimes there is severe criticism of what is written; if objective, they should be appreciated. Occasionally mistakes are pointed out. For that too one has to be grateful. Most of the comments are of an appreciative nature...
One down and two more to go
Just now came back home after finishing Company Law paper of CS Inter exams. More than the exam, the most difficult part for me was to reach the exam venue, I left home almost one and a half hour before the exam schedule time! Bangalore being new to me, I usually... More
Unique Way to Celebrate Environment Day
This year, the best way to celebrate World Environmental Day, on June 5th would be for all concerned Mysoreans to protest peacefully against the felling of 123 majestic and beautiful, carbondioxide-consuming, oxygen-giving trees for road-widening. Some of these trees are over 100 years old. More...
Weddings - Part 3 Welcoming the Bridegroom's Party
Once the bridegroom’s party arrived at the street corner, they were welcomed by the bride’s people warmly to the accompaniment of the auspicious notes of the nadaswaram and escorted to the house arranged for them. More.....
Motta maadis. . .
The Kannadiga community in South Chennai used to have an interesting event on their calendar.
Potluck dinner on the beach.
I am not sure if they continue with this wonderful idea.
Their destination was Elliots Beach in Besant Nagar...More
Potluck dinner on the beach.
I am not sure if they continue with this wonderful idea.
Their destination was Elliots Beach in Besant Nagar...More
Keeping it simple and sensible
SUVIDHA ELECTRONICS has recently come out with the pencil battery Mobile Charger - "a product that can charge any Mobile Phone using 4 pencil batteries...This device will ensure that your Mobile is never switched off, even while travelling and you need not worry about power source...More
Kochi to Trivandrum
This is what I woke up to on my first day in Kochi. A glowering sun trying to burn through looming monsoon clouds which threatened to unload any minute. Luckily for me, the sunshine won out....More
Suddenly, I know I want a lily pond of my own. Maybe not a big one like Monet's inspiration or even the one at Maryknoll.
I think I could be very content gazing at a serene urli of water on my balcony, afloat with water lillies....More
Our Lake District experience
The place which was the inspiration behind William Wordsworth’s poetry and Beatrix Potter’s lovely stories – Lake District. England’s Lake district also boasts of Scafell Pike – its highest mountain, Wastwater – its deepest lake apart from one of the most scenic locales in the country...More
This is your ... errr...captain
Took a flight here on the splendid Emirates airlines. For roughly the price of an ipod, I got pampered by the stewardess (intrguingly named 'Dragana'), got to watch two and a half movies on a tilting lcd screen, and developed double vision thanks to the copious Dewars Whisky plied by the said Dragana. But the thing that prompted me to write this post is the way pilots talk to us passengers when the plane is - how shall I put it - irrevocably in the air...More
Mumbai Dairy I: Live Dosa, Taxi Ride, Dog Bark
After I got into the cab, the driver suggested I pay the money and that he would give me a receipt. I was surprised why he wanted the money before he had taken me to the destination. He parked the taxi by the roadside, wrote out the receipt and gave me, implying I must hand him the money...More
Another Monsoon
Another monsoon awaits us and I hear that the final “venal mazha” or the Summer rains are now pouring down. This time they have predicted the monsoon to arrive earlier. The monsoon seems to have turned out to be a like a choosy lady these days! Anyway, as long as she continues her much awaited visits, it is fine...More
The Kangaroo Land (Australia) – Economically Developed, Culturally Impoverished
No matter how much economic development a country may have achieved, it does not necessarily guarantee that the country enjoys a truly refined and cultured society. This extremely unpleasant fact was again proved by the recent spate of racial attacks on the Indian students in Australia...More
A case of Nigerian con trick
Srihari is a friend, but we are not that close for him to e-mail me for money. Besides, the e-mail English was somewhat fractured; not the language one associates with a newspaper editorial writer that the Srihari I know is. As the e-mail read:...More
The ‘Kuri’ systems of Kerala
It was certainly interesting to trace the beginnings of this system. While the Kuri system itself has very ancient connections to Kavu Tattakam’s and other monetary schools practiced in various primitive civilizations, the system as such was social banking, created for the good of the needy...More
Unconference - Buzz 140
I am proud to announce the Buzz 140, an unconference in Chennai on June 21. People who know me will know that where there is KN, there is a quiz... so you wont be disappointed here :)...More
Leave behind your MEMORIES - Tree Plantation at Karur Public School
We at NISARGA, work a lot with schools as we do Nature & Outdoor based education programs all across Karnataka. On one of such program I met Santosh who is young and so passionate to give one of the best of the best education to his students...More
Mysore's Little Jewel
This time, I discovered a little jewel, though, just around the corner from the Ginger hotel where we stayed. An added bonus. More
Memorabilia from a Golden Era
a carpet that has seen a lot of history of this home in the last century and still spread out, but out of view for obvious reasons!
Shifting of houses for various reasons is also a process of disposing old and 'unwanted' things and move out lighter...More
A Detour to Melkote
We took one such impulsive decision yesterday which took us to Melkote, an ancient temple near Mysore...More
Brazil: Pele, Ronaldinho, Samba
Their ignorance is understandable. This land is so far, so remote in one's imagination, that to believe that all of Latin America speaks Spanish; that to Samba is the same as to tango is natural though not true.At my Brazilian end too, I get questions. "What is common and what is starkly different between Brazil and India?"...More
Is it too late to start?
Once in a while, you come across stories of ultra successful people. When you see their track record, it seems like they were born with success. But were they really much different from you when they started off? Consider these examples:....More
A Day in the Life of the Woman Centre
I just could not imagine that barely two years ago this place did not exist. What strikes you as you walk into the big yellow gate after having knocked at it and have someone open it for you, is a feeling of comfort and ease. It is a happy place...More
Social Conscience Part II and MNCs
Just the other day were thinking..what is it about US that has brought them at the top of the world.......see we Indians are forever copying them, so why shouldnt we copy that trait:).
After a lot of discussion we came to the conclusion may be it is their openness and freedom they give to every individual...More
After a lot of discussion we came to the conclusion may be it is their openness and freedom they give to every individual...More
Leaves of Life
In the early hours of the morning before the sky lights up over the horizon the city wakes up to urgent feet scrambling to make their rendezvous with street-side markets in Dadar, and elsewhere...More
When I went Rafting
It was not too difficult to be poetic there. The lively energy of the environment, the breathless excitement that mounted with every second, the sudden increase in adrenalin at the unpredictability of the situation inspired creativity...More
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