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  1. I am on Cloud nine

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    / July 31, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In the midst of one’s busy life, starting from education to professional and personal life till retirement, a man always nurtures in his heart some Chinna China Aasais (small desires). Somehow he does not find time to fulfill them till late in his life. Strangely, these so called “small desires”...

  2. Autofocussed

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    / July 27, 2012 / 4 Comments
    I have always held the belief that by and large, auto-rickshaw walas across India are goons, thugs, louts, bullies and a few other unmentionable things which I can’t bring myself to utter in public. But every time I make a trip to Bangalore or thereabouts, this conviction of mine takes...

  3. Decoding Bangalore’s green DNA

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    / August 5, 2011 / Leave a comment
    The number of trees in the city may not have kept pace with the number of people but the truth is that Bangalore is not called the `Garden City’ for nothing. To find out the age of a locality in Bangalore, all we have to do is measure the girth...

  4. Gagan, Gun, Gold, Glory

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    / July 22, 2011 / 1 Comment
    Look at the photograph below. This is the home page of the website of Gagan Narang’s new venture `Gun for Glory’ that is India’s first international shooting academy. Located in Pune, the academy is now home to 29 shooters, 23 of who are international shooters. Four of them, including Gagan,...

  5. Kumbakonam degree kaapi, a joy forever

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    / July 5, 2011 / 2 Comments
    How to kickstart your day on a happy note? Get up at any reasonable hour. I am not asking you rise at 5 am. After you get ready, settle down in a comfortable chair and tell your spouse that you are now ready for the legendary Kumbakonam Degree (Coffee) Kaapi...

  6. Mere paas … Upma hai

    Posted by Vasanthi Hariprakash
    / June 21, 2011 / 5 Comments
    ‘Gobbra’ is not a word you want to use to describe a USD 100,000 winning dish. Gobbra, in Kannada, means manure; further details you wouldn’t want to know. But in thousands of Kannadiga homes, Upma aka Uppittu has been called that. Or in English-speaking Kannada homes, `fertiliser’. So you can...

  7. Art on the move

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    / June 12, 2011 / 3 Comments
    There’s no bigger advertisement for a bus service than the bus itself. Over the years, the art on the sides of the humble public transport has been a canvas, not unlike the painted hoardings for South Indian movies. The privately-owned buses that ply to towns within two to fours of...

  8. Music I like

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    / May 17, 2011 / 2 Comments
    I am very happy to present `Music I like’, a collection of classic Carnatic compositions such as Maha Ganapathim, Krishna Ni Begane, Brochevaarevarura, Pibare Ramarasam and Nagumomu. The idea for the album came from a Hyderabad-based friend Madhukar, who is a music producer. It sounded good and we chose very...

  9. I have a confession to make

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    / January 31, 2011 / 1 Comment
    My life’s greatest regret is that I did not thank the two people who saved my family and me from possible physical harm on 21st May 1991.   I live in Bangalore. Twenty years back, I had some urgent personal work in Chennai and I had gone there with my...

  10. To love a man, it’s not easy

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    / December 19, 2010 / 2 Comments
    Relationship status: It’s Complicated. When I see this status message on the Facebook page of several friends and acquaintances, I know there is a story there, some of which I may know, many of which I don’t know. But can it get more complicated than this, I wondered when I...

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