A lot has been said about Barkha Dutt and NDTV’s legal notice to a blogger who poured out his emotions over what he felt was irresponsible and shoddy journalism.
Many people have spoken out about the freedom of speech and the freedom to voice out our opinions on the internet. I have read the blogpost against [...]

A couple of months ago, I had posted an entry titled Dharmayuddha@Kurukshetra.in where I wrote about the rules of engagement in the Mahabharata war. In the penultimate paragraph, I mentioned the following:
One might want to question the validity of terming Kurukshetra war as the “Dharmayuddha“, since both the parties resorted to deviate from the accepted [...]

Today I got to hear a strange comment about Globalization, which scared me.
A bunch of us were having dinner at a nearby restaurant, and a friend who recently returned from Germany joined us. He brought along another friend who used to be a vegetarian, hailing from a Udupi Brahmin family, but took to eating meat [...]

Like I mentioned in my previous post, today’s event promised to be a eclectic one with a jugalbandhi between Vani (voice) and Veena (strings). Not wanting to miss it, we left in time, reached the venue in time, but damn, all the front seats were taken. I should have factored in the “Saturday+hariharan” factor into [...]

I wanted to write this post yesterday night immediately after returning from the concert, as I did on the past two days, but I got caught up in an interesting discussion. More on that in another post, another day, when I can put those thoughts in some kind of coherent order.
Coming back to Virasat, the [...]

Finished the weekly status call a bit early today evening, inorder to catch a bus to moodubidre. This time Mom accompanied me. We reached the venue at 6. The concert was scheduled to start at 6:15 PM and it did! We secured the places just a few rows from the stage, at a decent distance [...]

I was on a rather long vacation from December 26th to Jan 5th. I decided to stay back at Karkala for one more week and work from here in order to attend Alva’s Virasat 2009, a cultural festival held at the nearby town of Moodubidre from Jan 7th to Jan 12th.

An annual affair, I have [...]

Imagine a infinitely huge flat disc spinning at an arbitrary speed. Let, at various angles, one experience various things like heat, pleasure, violence, and so on. At the opposite end, let one experience the counterparts, i.e,  cold, pain, non-violence etc.
As one is closer to the center, faster does one travel through these dualities. As one [...]