As the COVID-19 outbreak puts a break to normal life, it leaves me with a lot of time to ponder. I am using some of it to learn a new skill, catch up on some tv shows or even do some fictional writing. For a while, I have a habit of listening to a podcast …
This weekend I ended up listening to a podcast by Matt Mullenweg with Anil Dash. For me, both are pretty much people I most admire when I think of the words “open web”. Here is a wonderful quote by Anil Dash from the podcast. I think a lot of us had lamented the web we …
While looking around on a Saturday afternoon to find something new to listen to while working, I came across this wonderful mixture of “Hey Jude” – Beatles and “Tere Bina” – A.R Rahman. This song is performed by the Shillong Chamber Choir group. The fun thing about the video is that the whole group looked …
The Russian folk song and its Hindi cover “Darling” in “7 khoon maaf”.
Also Usha Uthup’s brilliance…
A couple of days ago, I met a friend with whom I went on a very long walk. We walked for over 3 hours, waiting for breakfast, coffee later and some cheesecake by noon. There is something great about walking and talking with a friend for hours. For some reason there is a lot of …
I recently picked up a couple of books on Kindle. Starting with the An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor.
I was reading Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter Marshall. On a chapter on Tolstoy, it quotes him about writing and exposing the hypocrisy of the wealthy and respectful, including himself.
My grandmother told me stories of her mother who participated in the Quit India movement, and got arrest warrants issued on her name for writing seditious articles in her journal. She was one among thousands who took part in a political struggle by publishing something in a small printing press, often clandestinely. My grandmother told me stories of her mother who participated in the Quit India movement, and got arrest warrants issued on her name for writing seditious articles in her journal. She was one among thousands who took part in a political struggle by publishing something in a small printing press, often clandestinely.
Usain Bolt! What a champ! He has six gold medals in 3 events, over two Olympic Games. That means, in every Olympic event he takes part in, he has won the Gold. This time in London, Usain Bolt won the 100, 200 and 4X100m relay. How fast is Bolt? I thought of adding up all …
Usain Bolt’s 2 minute 6.32 seconds workout at the London Olympics Read
Watched part of the opening ceremony of London 2012. It was a pretty ceremony to say the least, but the most endearing part of it was watching Rowan Atkinson’s genius.