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When an Indian Prime Minister spent a night in a village.. unannounced.. in 1964

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 29, 20114 mins

There’s no better way to relate this story than to transcribe the relevant pages from Verghese Kurian’s I too had a dream. In 1964 the Kaira Union’s new cattle-feed compounding factory sponsored by…

What progress, oh human being?

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 21, 20111 mins

I found another gem from Pandit Usharbudh Arya’s Mantra & Meditation: When you create a spaceship, the metal and machinery converted into the spaceship has made progress through the touch of human…

Attracting diaspora to address India’s higher education faculty gap

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 15, 20114 mins

Pic: courtesy hebrewhistory.info [Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on my other blog (TechSangam) – republishing here since it’s clearly relevant to the Return to India meme. Earlier…

If you want to FEEL the American civil rights movement, listen to this song

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 10, 20112 mins

Mississippi Goddam by Nina Simone By Nina Simone’s own admission, this was her first civil rights song. It was inspired by the murder of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on…

Verghese Kurien On a Roll

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 09, 20111 mins

I’m reading Verghese Kurian’s autobiography I too had a dream – an authentic account of his life’s work, as told to Gauri Salvi. The following excerpt from the chapter On a Roll might persuade you to…

Who is Corrupt? Essay by Sourabh Thakur

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 08, 20114 mins

Aam aadmi confused.. (Pic: courtesy milligazette.com) [Editor’s Note: This post was making the rounds on Facebook during the frenzied days of the Anna Hazare movement. Other folks had made this point…

Tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 06, 20111 mins

[Editor’s Note: I’ve been reading Francine Prose’s Reading like a Writer recently. The subtitle of the book, A guide for people who love books and those who want to write them, gives an indication…

A definition for pleasure and pain

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 02, 20111 mins

I found the following gem in Pandit Usharbudh Arya’s Mantra & Meditation: The Lawbook of Manu (IV.60) states: All dependency on other than one’s self is pain, Whatever is controlled by one’s self is…

That one perfect drive!

Vishy KurugantiAugust 22, 20115 mins

Following is an excerpt from PG Wodehouse’s A Mixed Threesome – one of many beautiful golf stories from The Golf Omnibus. The scene being described is that of the story’s protagonist (Mortimer Sturgis…

The third flight path out of the Lokpal imbroglio

Vishy KurugantiAugust 15, 20117 mins

Aruna Roy (Founder - MKSS, NCPRI and National Advisory Council member) - Pic courtesy thehindu.com This Saturday as I drove to the grocery store to pick up my wife and kids, I was pleasantly surprised…

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