February 2012
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January 2012
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Meanwhile, at Di's →
Di is the finest person I know, even if I haven’t met her. I thank God that He made her a photographer, for I see through her pictures how a good heart sees this world.
The pursuit of happiness
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Happiness: a lesson from Alastair Campbell,... →
Piece by “spin doctor” Alastair Campbell in the Guardian. He is a depressive, can get awfully grumpy even now, but he says he has found happiness. He says that to know happiness you should have experienced unhappiness, even extreme misery. Also, you need family, and enduring friendships, and a full life. For that reason, he says you will know the answer to whether you have been happy only at the...
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The Path →
First thing in the morning, soon as I arrive at the table, I’m reading a chapter from it.
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Best New Year's Resolution? A 'Stop Doing' List →
Discovered at Jim Collins’ website. Thanks to Behance.
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“To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.”
Eugene Ionesco
December 2011
8 posts
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the fears that accompany leisure →
I spent the weekend in Malnad. On Saturday I rose a little before dawn and stood by the floor-to-ceiling window and looked up at the pulsing stars. Dark figures of silver oak loomed before…
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Wayward thoughts in this cataleptic winter →
In December and January I will not leave Bangalore, for I cannot have enough of this gentle chill in a cocktail with the warm sun, capped by this clean blue sky. The…
Bharat, ek Khoj →
Singapore: more than mere commerce →
SOTA: The School of the Arts, Singapore For having believed them, I am as guilty as those who have often told me that the Singaporean is defined by the make of his car and the class of his…
November 2011
11 posts
pardon me, but, your honor… →
The view from the court building, Bangalore I had to accompany a lady to the criminal courts recently. She is close to me, and is the wronged party in an incident that happened twenty years…
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This week's post: pardon me, but, your honor… →
Up in the Air (2009) →
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Ramadorai at the UTC Supplier Conference →
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Coffee picking season →
Arcade Fire - Ocean Of Noise →
Dance Me to the End of Love →
The Shiva Temple at Nandi Thota →
October 2011
10 posts
Feist - The Bad In Each Other →
Some more New York →
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Good Job!
On the steps before the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, NYC. The little book on the iPad box is The Holy Quran, an English edition.
Times Square →
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Times Square
You don’t stop a soccer game if rain comes in to also play. You don’t leave Times Square if a drizzle attempts to spoil your time.
In the US, suddenly seeking silence →
Midweek last week I arrived here in the US, and now after a week I’m tuned in to the many accents of this great, indivisible country, after some initial struggle first in San Diego, then in…
While at work! →
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While at work!
In San Diego. View from the balcony of the Conference Hall.
A James Joyce memory, Paris →
Some Fire, for a small harem? →
Click through to the Amazon site
Big people are saying that the unimpeded march of the iPad is finally met by able competition. “The march has met its match,” they assure. I’ve been…
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A James Joyce memory, Paris
September 2011
19 posts
Coffee @ Shakespeare & Co →
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Coffee @ Shakespeare & Co
East Parade Church →
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East Parade Church
on Dickenson Road, off MG Road.
Old San Juan, Puerto Rico →
Abandoned building, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Rain, 40th Street, NYC
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Dinner @ Sunny's, Bangalore
I had an Italian guest who could take no cuisine but his, though he has a voracious appetite for every culture. Sunny’s worked well, because they had also Chinese and Thai, and I had two Canadian guests, and four Indian colleagues. Every style was acceptable. The service was decent but unremarkable. Nice people at the filled up tables; the couple at the next table were Malaysian.
And I wish I'd rather be… →
Some wayward thoughts after reading Adiga’s good book.
Aravind Adiga: Last Man in Tower
Aravinda Adiga’s builder—Dharmen Shah—is super-rich. And fat. He goes about his workday with a…
The lounge at Dubai International Airport