Aditya Kumar’s Weblog
Yesterday evening, at Reliance Timeout, for launch of Dilip D’souza’s book, “Roadrunner”, there was a very insightful conversation that happened. We had the author along with India’s best historian, Ramachandra Guha and Rahul Dravid talking about India, America, about few of the the many dots that connect the two democracies and how this particular book [...]
Sunday morning, walking from Bangalore’s Garuda Mall to LifeStyle Mall, we pass by The Bangalore Football stadium. A game going on inside, tickets priced at Rs.20, no takers for it. I am tempted to think — In this nation of cricket worshippers, for all we know they could make the entry here free and yet [...]
A few days after I told my house owner that I would like to vacate the house I am in now, word seems to have spread fast across the estate brokers of my colony. So much that after a few days of it, I notice that my house has a “TOLET” board on. How it [...]
I will be hosting a Windows 7 launch party at my home sometime around the 22nd of October - The official launch day of Windows 7. The aim of the party is to see Windows 7 ultimate, the first day, first hand. Those of you who have had their experience with Windows 7 RC should [...]
In the three weeks that saw this blog, the writer of this blog and the world’s largest democracy grow an year old there were a few things that we could have done without. To name a few:
1. The bombs in the city were too many and enough to spark a debate, yet again, on how [...]
Barely 250 meters ahead was the U-turn that would enable the rider to be where he wanted to be. 250 meters the side I was on and 250 meters on the other side — A ride of half a kilometer would all that would take him to respect the law.
But yet he kept waiting on [...]
Last week had the opportunity to listen to Jeffrey Archer while he visited Bangalore and promoted his latest book: A Prisoner of Birth. The speech he gave was worth listening and is posted below. Quite a long post you’d say but then it was a 20 minute speech. Reading it should take less than that [...]
