A tired athlete comes back to his locker after a long day of practice.
He sits in his room, sipping some water. It had been a tiring day. He knows that it was to be the last of it’s kind. There had been changes at the top. The management which used to run the race earlier [...]

This afternoon, I received quite a few emails about the “Earth Hour”. Mostly forwards from friends and relatives and corporations such as HSBC, asking me to pledge my support for this cause. The text in one of the e-mails ran thus:
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: <xyz@pqr.com> [Edit: e-mail address of the sender is not made [...]

A month back, before this year’s great Indian cricketing Circus Began, I made a few predictions the teams involved. About the finalists of this season, I had said,
Though I will be rooting for Royal Challengers Bangalore throughout the tournament,  I don’t think they have it in them to make it to the semis yet. The [...]

Quick takes:

India leads the 7 match series 4-0. Dhoni’s Dashers do it again.
Poker has become the new favourite game here at Civilization.inc
If a team loses the match due to losing the toss, can you use the phrase “Gone for a toss” ?

I am busy writing my statement of purpose these days, since the University application [...]

Earlier this week, I had been to my grandma’s place to celebrate Diwali. There, my young nephew was roaming in the hall repeating the names of everyone present. Suddenly he said something which made me smile. He pointed to a photograph in the  showcase and called out a name aloud.  “Doni mamama”, he said. The [...]

No, I am not talking about Eric Clapton’s song or Jeffery Archer’s senti short story.
I am refering to Number Theory, a subject which I have liked and aced since my high school upto my engineering. We had Number Theory and Cryptography as an elective and it was one of the most challenging papers I have [...]

People who know me, know the fact that I like to keep my options open. Simply because it allows the freedom to defer any decision till it really needs to be taken.
However, in the last couple of years, I have observed that this has a common side effect: A totally scattered mind which is trying [...]

It’s simply wonderful how a combination of sights and sounds can unlock some of the memories hidden deep inside!
It rained today evening. The evening air was cool. As I was bicycling back home from work, Lucky Ali’s Sunoh started playing on my iPod. And all of a sudden, I was imagining an egg-roll and a [...]

Opening Mood: OLS paper got selected!
Opening Song: None
Funny thing! When luck doesn’t favor you in love but the loved one gets lucky, you celebrate with them, wearing a mask of sanity, the price for which you pay by burying your own loss. Until one fine day, when there won’t be any difference between the [...]

Opening Mood: Lazy! Totally!
Opening Song: The God that failed - Metallica.
Finished the Harry Potter series recently. I must say, I am a bona-fide fan of the series now. True, the story is great and the characters are so lively and all that! But what I loved the best was her ability to “invent” magical [...]