Archive for July, 2008

Samvedna



A lament for this moment; Jagjit Singh with his mellifluous voice - taking you on a journey through solitude, loneliness and a feeling of overbearing pain. Lyrics penned by the former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Beautiful. If you are able to appreciate the lyrics - I suggest reading further or keep your eyes [...]

Continue...

Missing Rasam Sadham



Its not exotic dishes that you crave for. When you have been having rajma and dhal every day for close to a month now… its the humble rasam that you are dying to have!
If some one stays near Bannerghatta Road, and knows how to make rasam - the south Indian way, can you please [...]

Continue...

Free Biking



Free Spirits! Brilliant Stuff… and if that made you feel happy, you must watch this one…

… and to think of it my Apache has been languishing in the parking lot for quite some time now.
PS: Dedicated to Sandesh’s fondness to the group’s tagline!

Continue...

When the prime minister of the country stands up in parliament to give his concluding speech on the Motion in the Lok Sabha, and he is not allowed to speak, How badly does it reflect on our country? The man in his weak voice, stands tall and continues his words, legislators from the opposite side [...]

Continue...

Happy-ness!



Nam got placed today, at Accenture. For once signal was available in the room, and the voice was loud and clear, and the happiness definitely contagious!. Listening to her narrate the whole experience. Answers to this question, answers to that - stories of an aptitude test, a gd and two PIs and an outcome. [...]

Continue...

Probability Karma?



When we were introduced to probability in Engineering College - I didnt find the whole thing intuitive. Skipped it. Would never attempt problems on probability. Preparation for CAT 2006-08 - Was more than happy to skip it, in favor of other problems. Today after Six Years, Probability has finally caught up with me - Quantitative [...]

Continue...

GDP of a language…



If you were from Bangalore, you would have seen this phenomenon - Students from upmarket schools, having lived close to 23 years in the city, when asked to speak a sentence in the local language would claim ignorance and cry murder saying that they never had the need to know the language.
I always would wonder, [...]

Continue...

The whole feeling of watching the night morph into dawn is something truly magical. Its not just the lights that change, not just the skyline which brightens but its the changes in emotions that makes the whole experience surreal. The Solitude of the football field, marked golden yellow by sodium vapour lamps, accentuating the earth’s [...]

Continue...

See Pee?



You wait in the class, in between those lectures, and a pretty woman slides into the class. Tries to be inconspicuous, moves to the last row behind the class. Ofcourse the entire class cant help but notice her, but they continue, pretending to be busy in talks about the previous night at the hostel; of [...]

Continue...

10 power 4



A typical vehicle number plate in India has 4 digits, each of which can take the values from 0 to 9. So how many such numbers are possible? Elementary you would say 10,000. Well therein lies the catch, have you ever seen a number 0000(eg, KA04-S-0000)? Well, just because you havent seen the [...]

Continue...

Next Page »