silence before the storm

Urbanites are individualists, who are complacent with their lives, engrossed in its sophistication. The widely accepted fact that they don...

Shaheed Bhagat Singh: Inquilab Zindabad (Long live the Revolution) Excerpts from one of the best articles ever written:  "We (athei...

Eating the hands that feed us! What a profound statement. It was made by one of my fellow activists, during the discussions about the issue...

Excellent painting depicting One World, by Joe Average Being part of a movement which in the grand picture aspires towards freedom of kno...

The post title, inspired from one good book I am yet to read "Man and his Worldly goods", suits best to describe the mindset of us...

Hasn't it been a while since a Postman knocked at your door? Or you went down and met your tailor to get your clothing stitched? Or that...

I did try to come up with a smaller post title, but nothing could better encapsulate the idea I am trying to propose in this post. The sev...

It has been quite a while that I laid back and did what I love the most: To let my mind wander... Off late with all the tasks and corresp...

I meet many people; people who don't enjoy what they do. They simply go through their lives, getting on with it. They got no great pleas...

Bryan Adams in Bangalore (image from TOI, we weren't allowed with our cams!) After the two hours of Bryan Adams in Bangalore, I was u...

ಇತ್ತೀಚಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ಸರಕಾರೀ ಕಛೇರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲಸವಿದ್ದಿತು. ಒಂದೆರಡು ಮುಖ್ಯವಾದ ದಾಖಲೆಗಳನ್ನು ಅವರಲ್ಲಿ ಕೊಟ್ಟು , ಕೆಲಸಕ್ಕೆ  ಹೊರಡಬೇಕಾದ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಷ. ಆ ಕಛೇರಿಯ ಕಾರ್ಯಸ...

I knew not who this young man was, or what he had become later on when I watched The Motorcycle Diaries, intermittently in Zee Studio befor...

In the year 1984, in Shimshapura, a village not far away from the Silicon capital of India, Bangalore, there lived a rational man who was ah...

The question of whether or not all the complexities we have drawn onto our daily lives, is worth or not has kept my mind boggled for quite ...

Change your profile picture in tricolor theme; Post a futile status message saying "Happy Republic Day", without knowing what a R...

First a recap of the proceedings in India, with some points specific to Karnataka: The overall inflation has hit 8.8 %, with food inflation...

We meet a lot of people on a daily basis. Not everyone leaves an impression on us occupying neurons in our brain. And of the few people who ...

Firstly, at the risk of sounding chauvinistic, I dare to confess: Of all the cities  I've visited (as yet, only within India) nothing co...

My recent decision of voluntary, but temporary disconnect from the online networking happened spontaneously. I had no clear explanations to ...

The post caption gives a deep, contemporary insight into the ever growing disparity in India. BPL (Below Poverty Line) population in India ...

I have decided to take a sabbatical from all my online activities for sometime (including my personal mails). I shall stay so, for at least ...

Firstly, Wish you all a radical and blissfully happy new year :-) Let us strive towards making this year and the future from now on bette...

Physics being the denominator of all science, is based on the fundamental fact that 'likes repel', whereas 'unlikes would rather...

ಬಹಳ ಅಂತರದ ನಂತರ, ಒಂದು ಆಹ್ಲಾದಕರ ಕನ್ನಡ ಚಿತ್ರವನ್ನು  ನೋಡುವ ಅವಕಾಶ ದೊರಕಿತು. ಯೋಗರಾಜ ಭಟ್ಟರ 'ಪಂಚರಂಗಿ', ಒಂದು  ಸರಳವಾದ ಮನೋರಂಜಕ ಚಿತ್ರ. ಇದರಲ್ಲಿ ಬಹಳ...

Most of us profusely talk about change. It has come to be inherited in our social behavior. We feel compellingly necessitated about change, ...