There's no such thing as perfection - only under-specification.

The weekend of March 14-15 was one to remember. It's not every weekend that one sings at 2  Holi functions (in 2 cities, too). Rarer yet would be a weekend where the real highlight is something else - great as the Holi celebrations in Heidelberg and Freiburg were, the biggest thing was that a paper got accepted after a lot of work. This now means ( Read more... )

I was just talking to a friend about how nobody uses the word "genii" anymore, when this came to me:

Genii, genii
is this how words die?
Drowned by a variant
suddenly dominant?

1. Lyrics are important to me - if I like a song, I’ll likely learn its lyrics too. I must know the lyrics of hundreds, possibly over a thousand, songs in Hindi and English. There was a time when people singing the wrong lyrics used to pain me quite a bit. But I’ve grown up :-)

2. I also play around with lyrics, often changing a few lines and ( Read more... )

I never could dance.

The few occasions that I did dance on, were always under special circumstances. To put it simply, I simply had no talent. It just didn't come naturally to me, and the fear of looking ridiculous was ..... overpowering. Plus there were the easy cliches to resort to, like "Tough guys don't dance", or the self-improvised "It is ( Read more... )

Even for someone who's been moving around a bit in the recent years, 2008 has been absolutely crazy. It seems like I'm never in one place.

January: I welcomed the new year in Bangalore, and spent some days in Banaras and Delhi before flying back to Germany (I'd been to Agra and Belpahar in the last fortnight of 2007, by the way).

February-March: ( Read more... )

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Friend : Oh oh jaane jaana,
               khaata rahoonga khaana ........

Rileen : Kha kha ke phat jaoon to,
               maiyyat mein meri aana

Am a bit surprised to not see even one post on my friends' page mentioning this :

Kudos to Abhinav Bindra, and here's hoping that the day shall come when an individual gold medal for India is not an amazing one-off, but  another - albeit priceless - contribution towards a healthy tally.

Liike a digital display,
before it's come into play -
today's date
08.08.08

Have a nice weekend :-) !