Intelligence ?? It is such a rare, precarious spark that flashes for a moment somewhere among men, and vanishes. One cannot tell its nature, or its future....or its death Read More

The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, The Lost Symbol....having run through (yes! literally, as you cannot keep these books down once you have started!) all of these Dan Brown's "history-m… Read More

I agree that being wealthy gives you the luxury of worrying over things that otherwise might not be on top of the list. I also agree that cleanliness is not a luxury but a basic essential to… Read More

Time and again I keep coming across these group emails extolling the greatness of India and Indians. Like x-singh did this first 3 centuries ago, y-Rao invented that blah-blah before westene… Read More

I agree that being wealthy gives you the luxury of worrying over things that otherwise might not be on top of the list. I also agree that cleanliness is not a luxury but a basic essential to… Read More

The lil Nemo that I have been nurturing for the past one year....(click to view video) Read More

After browsing over the internet for good, economical and not-too-far (hard to have all of them together) cabin accommodations around NYC, we decided to change the theme of vacation to &ldqu&hell…Read More

Though I have been near NYC for over an year and a half, I never got a chance to explore the city, with the exception of a couple of night club visits. A bunch of friends visiting from Louis… Read More

A camp trip after a longtime came as welcome break from the daily grind. Communing with nature once in a while has always infused a sense of revival in me. I seem to find no words to describ… Read More

Pop-pop steam boats have always caught my attention as a kid. Not surprisingly I found out that they continue to do so. Mechanics, motion, water dynamics, electricity and magnetism have been… Read More

Steve Jobs speaks Read More

It's mere coincidence that a friend and I were talking about "Re-incarnation" and around the same period I was reading about Henry Ford out of sheer curiosity. I found Henry Ford's view on "… Read More

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. The gods too are fond of a joke. Evil brings men… Read More

If you have a longing to go to India, but your job has been keeping you back. Don’t lose heart !! The Indian Government has not forgotten us. They put up consulates across the globe… Read More

Here are the ten rituals of radiant living that Robin says, in his book "The monk who sold his Ferrari", should be practiced everyday;1) Practice brief periods of solitude to recharge your b… Read More

It was in the times when I was reading about “Deluxe Moksha” offered by the new-age religious tourism promoters in the form of helicopter rides to the cave shrines of Bhadrinath… Read More

After some futile efforts at planning a camping-cum-rafting trip for the July 4 long weekend, I took off tangentially and happened to visit, on a sweltering hot day, the famed Bronx Zoo, NYC… Read More

Seeing Hyderabad, India, after a gap of nearly 4 years, had certainly unsettled me for a while. Cell phones and credit cards are distributed like pamphlets. The next-door grocery stores are… Read More

I bumped into this interesting site droppingknowledge.org, an open-source platform where the people across the globe can ask and answer quetions on subjects of their interests from pool of 2… Read More

Here are couple of quotes from the book that caught my attention;“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”“Worry drains the mind much of it power and, sooner… Read More

Here are few interesting quotes from the book "ubiquity". Unlike the quotes on love, romance, office, men, women etc that we normally get through our yahoo/google groups, these are quotes on… Read More

That’s a book by Mark Buchanan that I recently read. Though the book promised to be an interesting one, something like “The brief history of time”, it turned out to be a dr… Read More

That's the magnificent Golconda fort shot at dusk from atop my home. This pic seems to reiterate the old saying "Old order changeth yielding place to new." The fort which once boasted of aco… Read More

That Lord Balaji (popularly known as visa devudu) of Chilkur, a village around 25 kms off Hyderabad, had fulfilled most of what I had prayed for, it was pay-back time. And so, I set off at 1… Read More

One thing that never stops is the wheel of fashion. The bell-bottoms, the likes of which Rajnikant and Chiranjeevi wore in the 70's, is nudging its way in. Add to it the tight shirts, flappy… Read More

Perhaps the Capricorn in me goaded me to start another blog www.desi-art.blogspot.com. Check it out !! Read More