4 years of blogging!Vishy KurugantiFebruary 09, 20123 minsPic: courtesy rodrigues.se Yup – 4 years! To celebrate my 4-year blogging anniversary, I migrated my WordPress-hosted ulaar.wordpress.com blog to ulaar.com. I’m sure it’s an event the blogosphere’s…
What a laptop outage can teach us about lifeVishy KurugantiDecember 26, 20114 minsApple’s 1st line of Intel-powered (Core Duo) MacBooks (Courtesy: EveryMac.com) When I turned my back on a corporate career and embarked upon a protracted stint as a full-time blogger, I knew I had to…
What progress, oh human being?Vishy KurugantiSeptember 21, 20111 minsI 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…
If you want to ‘feel’ the American civil rights movement, listen to this songVishy KurugantiSeptember 10, 20112 minsMississippi 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…
A definition for pleasure and painVishy KurugantiSeptember 02, 20111 minsI 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…
Swami Vivekananda on entrepreneurship and focusVishy KurugantiApril 14, 20111 minsTake up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other…
My experiments with calligraphyVishy KurugantiDecember 30, 20103 minsPic: courtesy calligraphylearn.com This is the first blog post I wrote (I mean hand wrote) with my new Lamy fountain pen. Considering that the paper and pen are a dying breed (a question of when, not…
Darndest English signs in ChinaVishy KurugantiOctober 23, 20101 mins(Hat tip to my pal Dhananjay for forwarding these gems with the hilarious captions) Bottled water…in a can! Gee! Exciting!
Natural Remedy for Late Stage Dengue – Raw Papaya Juice?Vishy KurugantiAugust 19, 20104 minsPic: courtesy maldivestoday.com For the last 3-4 months, I’ve been reading about the many cases of dengue-related deaths in Bangalore. A colleague’s (S) daughter was also diagnosed with dengue…
Don’t let your friends fly with AfrinVishy KurugantiAugust 14, 20102 minsMy inseparable flying companion for the past 12 years! [Jan 7, 2015 update: seven years after I wrote this post, a helpful commenter informs us that the technique described below is called the…