silence before the storm

I admire Mr.Obama,check out my post Not only the greatest orator of our times,he's more than that... Wednesday, January 21, 2009 . Fi...

A dilemma which had snow balled into a parasite,chewing over my senses has been caught. The culprit was trying to hide behind a façade of th...

Recently,I have been discussing a lot of books,and mildly suggesting them too to few of my friends.I was recollecting the books I have read...

Today,while in conversation with a friend of mine,I happened to talk about the loss of my cousin on 24th July this year. And,even now i have...

There can be prophecies and,there  can be super natural premonitions about The Ultimate End ...But,the fact is that-We have crossed the thr...

The Lost Symbol,is now what could be called "A characteristic Robert Langdon type of a novel".... The cryptic symbols,the thrill...

"As you know,I'm quite keen on comic books.Especially the ones about superheroes.I find the whole mythology surrounding superher...

Mr.Subramani-the senior Sub editor of Deccan Herlad for the last six years...He has been a journalist for a longer period...He was the spe...

Its been one full year of this lovely endeavour of mine... The sweetest and the most bitter moments of churning thoughts together... It has ...

Sec 1:  A sudden plan to celebrate friend cum team mate's birthday today...And after hastily wrapping up a Talk at one of the college...

The five of us from FSMK,little did we anticipate that this journey to NIT-K to propagate Swatantra Software would turn out to be one of t...

(The pic is only a depiction of the post,and is not related to it...) Son of a farmer from a corner of Karnataka,he arrived in Bangalore...

The caption is a dear and well known cliché... But,I was wondering why is it so? As I have seen personally,the range of admiration for ...

The inhuman atrocity of the 9-11 attacks have caused the biggest paradigm shift of this age,in positive as well as negative ways... The ...

I was in a debate with a friend about the ratifications of our culture and a distinct society like ours,in moulding us into individuals ... ...

Imagination kept on hampering Sam's work but he enjoyed it... But,on an eventful day his imagination created a beautiful girl-Maia in...

The importance of having good teachers has been emphasised in our Indian Culture from times immemorial.... I,personally have grown tremendo...

Today,after a dramatic rescue and search operation the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh was found charred to death in a helicopter crash... ...

Birthday is definitely a special day...Apart from the quintessential fun and celebration, I have this critical introspection happening on th...

Expressing oneself by sublime words,exhilarating notes of music,divine colourful strokes of brushes and meticulously chosen pencil carving...

Dr. Vijay Mallya, the dream agent,the most lavish Indian businessman hailing from Namma Bengaluru,and an Indian Patriot...From the reclaimin...

At the outset,I am jovial and easy going. But,until now in my life,the real friends whom I want and would be with,the rest of my life are a ...

I'll try to personify this post like you-Simple and affectionate: Deyyy, Don't let the passion you show mellow down, Continue to be ...

A kind of a blank-out or an abrupt inadequacy of thoughts... These are regular times which I experience,wherein its tough even to contemplat...

Although I have previously donated blood four times at various donation camps,today was my first experience in a Hospital for immediate admi...

As I have grown up,I've seen the Hindu Festivals like Ganesh Chaturthi,Dussehra and Diwali celebrations get a tinge of austerity to them...

Quite often now,I've been put through particular weird situations -wherein,I have been the victim of a supposedly 'possessive' a...

Rarely,has a movie been capable of soothing your senses and instigating your mind simultaneously.... One such impact was delivered by this s...

Maximum of 20 minutes on any task has been the concentration period off late,the shortest duration as far as I can remember. Reading books, ...

Nice caption...Isn't it... This was one of the analogies which emanated from one of our cool FSMK activist, while he was trying to motiv...

After doing our routine rounds of work at the lab for the project,the best time comes when both the shift students get together for dinner. ...

A bowed percussion instrument made of a half coconut shell, a stalk of wood, three steel wires and a bow made of- I could not guess what.......

Ideas-are-immortal: These were the lines formed in my mind while I was watching one of my favourite movies -V for Vendetta... I had later po...

People close to me must have heard me say often- The worst of all laziness is the laziness to think. Just this feeling of someone being relu...

The way things are turning these days, I am amazed at the rate of reversals... There have been instances where I had made a few amateur deci...

"The secret of being a good cook is to keep tasting your preparation at regular intervals"---Regularly repeated by a TV Show host....

There have been lots of instances in History, wherein a superior being has lost to a mediocre one,just by the act of pure chance. A loser do...

I had been thinking of posting on my blog for long time.... But, I had no sufficient emotional strength to do it.... This would be the third...

This is the name of a chapter in one of the popular books I'm reading now... As soon as I read this- a spark struck in my head... I star...

All together a new kind of an experience.... We,the FSMK volunteers cum trainers, along with members from few other organisations were train...

Since long time,I've had many complaints and dissatisfactions with the way any democratic parliamentary government runs and,also in the ...

Lots of possibilities out of the numerous options, and an exponentially increasing confusion....The best solution at a particular moment is ...

After four quick years, I have completed my engineering and the path taken happens to be quite amusing,seeing from my end.... When I started...

Physical, physiological and psychological hurdles:Although active only for a short duration of time, each growing like a chain reaction coup...

To start with-I enjoyed this easy going and effortless read....This has been one of the rare books which I have involuntarily and effortless...

I don't think we,humans have groomed enough to comprehend many acts of nature...Even if we have understood them,I consider ourselves vic...

In the end, the superstar and the recluse were not so far apart. MJ built his stardom on paradox. As a child star he was precocious;as an ad...

The genres of forces acting upon my mind right now from diverse directions has just become too much to handle. I've always listened to m...

It has taken me time to understand the things going around me for quite sometime now....I hadn't realised until very late that many of t...

Dearest Sir, Four years under your guidance,and even after today,it will never be true that you aren't with us....You are the most beaut...

Eighth semester of my Engineering and the exams until now consistently have been going on well...But this time, it hasn't been the best....

I text a postcard sent to you Did it go through? Sending all my love to you You are the moonlight of my life every night Giving all my love ...

This was a T shirt quote i recently happened to observe.... Today being the World Environment Day,this is apt i guess..... Because the exten...

The final set of exams in my Engineering career(hopefully ;) ) are arriving and i'm starting the preparation to welcome them.... I, lik...

To feel relieved from all the expectations and the pretense of almost a grown up even for sometime,feels like heaven....And when there'...

In the following argument i am targeting all of you who have done the project in the so called project institutes or more precisely not enti...

I was overjoyed to see my friend so happy on her birthday yesterday...Days like these are essential for us to show how we perceive our dear ...

I was listening to the swearing in ceremony of the cabinet ministers and it actually was inspiring,to see my iconic-politician role models l...

Mind..... Thoughts.... Imagination....Creativity.... Cognizance.... Passion.... Defiance.... Energy.... I myself am amazed at this chain i w...

The latest album from Green Day-21st Century Breakdown, has an amazing collection of tracks which carry all their distinct signatures.... Vo...

After a good start on Saturday,the second day of the session continued with the same momentum... We started off with the Free Software Philo...

Today ,the much awaited encore workshop on 'GNU tools and Linux Kernel' organised by Free Software Movement-Karnataka(FSMK) and IEEE...

I knew i had been pushing myself a bit harder than what i had been hitherto...I thought my body would comply to my mind's orders.It did....