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What does it take to float like a butterfly?

What does it take to float like a butterfly?

March 06, 20131 mins

Q: What does it take to float like a butterfly? A: (Randy Smith on Facebook) It is a humble and meek beginning as a caterpillar. Then one must willingly submit to the transformation process in the…

The Zoo-enslaved Panther’s Ritual Dance

The Zoo-enslaved Panther’s Ritual Dance

February 26, 20131 mins

[Pic courtesy vanwageningen.net I forget where I found the extract below. But it instantly transported me to the last trip to Mysore Zoo – the description couldn’t be more spot-on. The desperation of…

Manmohan Singh’s shambolic apology for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots

Manmohan Singh’s shambolic apology for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots

February 21, 20131 mins

In Dec 2012, Firstpost’s Editor-in-chief R. Jagannathan (@thejaggi on Twitter) wrote an incisive piece titled Maya, Modi and the art of the unapologetic apology. It caught my attention this morning…

Fridge Logic for Runners

Fridge Logic for Runners

February 17, 20132 mins

Over the weekend we stumbled upon “Magazines” in Koramangala. A charming store that stocks only magazines (mostly old ones) and comics. While this store had only opened a few months ago, the Church…

On a nation with drastically low expectations

On a nation with drastically low expectations

February 12, 20131 mins

Three tweets from @albatrossinfo (RT’d by CentreRight India’s Prasanna Viswanathan) caught my attention this evening. 1) As a nation we are a race of people with such low expectations from the ruling…

Ejipura evictions and Karnataka State Human Rights Commission

Ejipura evictions and Karnataka State Human Rights Commission

February 05, 20132 mins

If you have read about last month’s evictions (and demolition) of a slum in the Ejipura/Koramangala neighborhood of Bangalore.. and want to do something about it, here’s a sample of the letter you can…

Bangalore BESCOM’s MD sets the bar for (gasp) efficient babudom

Bangalore BESCOM’s MD sets the bar for (gasp) efficient babudom

February 01, 20131 mins

While the UPA-II government has been working tirelessly to muzzle social media at every opportunity they get (and creating some along the way), some bureaucrats are using social media the way it’s…

Amazon Webservices or dedicated server?

Amazon Webservices or dedicated server?

January 30, 20133 mins

If your website needs are anything more than a blog (or corporate website), chances are you’d have researched options like “cloud hosting”, “dedicated hosting”, virtualization or the big daddy…

Jaipur’s Day of Shame

Jaipur’s Day of Shame

January 28, 20134 mins

Yesterday was the 4th edition of the Ambuja Jaipur Marathon. My friends from Delhi (Strang and Rakhi) were eagerly looking forward to running the half marathon in Jaipur for the first time. Little did…

Cramps in the final 10k of a marathon – what gives?

Cramps in the final 10k of a marathon – what gives?

January 24, 20135 mins

Pic: courtesy tumblr.com/Google Images I missed the marathon season’s closing race Mumbai Marathon aka the ‘Kumbh Mela of Indian Running’. Wish I could claim credit for that moniker but no.. it was a…