Archive for October, 2006

Ratnagiri

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Few pictures taken while I travelled to Ratnagiri for a day. Some have been taken during the 6 hour train journey, some in the town vicinities. Your comments, as always, welcome.

Happy Deepawali…

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

…to everyone who reads this! May this festival of lights bring you joy, happiness and prosperity!

Meanwhile, I’ve reached Goa and I am still nursing my injured arm. Thank you for the comments in the last post, thank you for the emails…I am going to reply soon!

Alive

Monday, October 16th, 2006

I always thought that since I hardly ever speed when I ride, I could stay away from accidents. But this is Bangalore. This careless pedestrian, a seemingly well educated man in his 20s, let me have this terrible accident that I have just had, rendering my right arm, well, unusable for at least a few […]

Congratulations

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

…Kiran Desai, on winning the man booker.

Some Links:

Wiki on Kiran Desai
Jabberwock’s interview of Kiran Desai

That war, 44 years ago

Monday, October 9th, 2006

CNN-IBN has dug up old wounds by claiming that the absence of IAF in the 1962 war against China proved to be the deciding factor for the conflict.

I write this, almost exactly 44 years after the Sino-India war. I feel there is still much to be learnt.

It was 10th of October 1962, when the Chinese […]

It’s a Sony

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

This last weekend, the long weekend that just went by, I decided to check out digicams. Deepawali is around the corner, shopping has been on my mind. Since SonyWorld showroom happens to be next to my workplace, it was obviously first on my list.

Turned out, I am not eligible to buy a Sony Camera.

The reason […]