Things seem to be in a suspended animation. Things that were in an active frenzy before Diwali seem to have slowed down to a crawl. I suspect a dull December lies ahead.
On the family front things are fine, nephew's birthday was celebrated today at sis' place where she had organised a pooja. I wanted to give nephew a nice video-game, but my wife ( Read more... )

Wish you all a very Happy, Joyous and Bright Diwali 
and a 
Prosperous and Success-filled new सम्वत.

I is the back. The 45 minute return flight was delayed 90 minutes and upon landing, some illiterate oaf made off with one of our suitcases instead of his own and we had to get airport staff to make him come back to the airport to swap the bags back - entailing another 45 mins delay ( Read more... )

. . . so saying the brave Rajputs fell upon the Mughal host that vastly outnumbered them, and were martyred down to the last man. Thus go the romantic histories of the brave warriors of the desert fortresses of western India. To that land of bardic tales I go visiting from tomorrow ( Read more... )

Fate is conspiring against me!! Perfidious poufs keep popping up where I least expect them! I borrowed the DVD of 'Chicken Tikka Masala' - starring Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Sehgal, et al - from the British Library thinking it to be a funny movie about Indian immigrants to the UK. It turned out to be just another film about gays and queers!! And that ( Read more... )

Had posted this on bloop three years ago. A recent post by tingle-tangles inspired me to share it here as well.

I had received this as an forwarded email message back then.

It is written by a software professional who after spending several years in The Netherlands (Holland) lived in the Southern Indian city of Hyderabad for 2 years.

Enjoy...

Driving ( Read more... )

. . . afflict me right now.

The weekend was good. Very lazy. Slept a lot, played a bit of PC games. Played with HRH. Hogged on 'weekend special' meals  - pāni   puri on Saturday and dosas on Sunday.

Spend some time on Saturday and a LOT of time on Sunday cataloguing my personal book and ebook collection on 'Shelfari'. Actually, I had received ( Read more... )

. . . . commence today.

Navrātri is the arrived. Let the games begin!

 . .  that amiable character from Charles Dickens' 'David Copperfield'. I was reminded of the said character by Douglas Hofstadter acknowledging an email from Kenneth  Williford and Uriah Kriegel requesting a chapter contribution for a book they were editing as the seed that grew into his new book ( Read more... )

So anyway, the weekend workshop went off well. I should be able to send the draft report to the department's manager for his review and comments today  - or latest by tomorrow. So that's that.

Anyway, this entry is about some new bookage which has been the acquired. The memoirs of none other than the legendary Alan Greenspan titled "The Age of ( Read more... )