2 C OR NOT 2 C ???

30Nov06

 
 To see or not to see? That was the question. For the play was Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright perhaps ever to have been. I very much wanted to see it, but then as in most of the cases with me, destiny and fate (if you are aware of any difference between the [...]

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The Midnight Stroll – 3

22Nov06

The midnight stroll had made me realise a few things which had escaped me in the light of the day.

The dog is a man’s best friend; at least for those who sleep on the road.
Don’t walk rapidly on seeing the police (especially at night).
Keep to the extreme left on the roads.
Not all drunk guys are [...]

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The Midnight Stroll – 2

22Nov06

A cool breeze welcomed us as we stepped out into the night. Quietly opening and closing the gate (the old landlord being especially fussy about his sleep), we walked along the deserted street onto the main road. Crossing the road was much easier at this late hour. We walked to the nearby temple and not [...]

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The Midnight Stroll – 1

21Nov06

Dreamily I opened my eyes. The world seemed blurred and hazy. I could vaguely make out the figure of a half naked body lying next to me on a mattress on the floor. Too tired to move a muscle or say a word, I closed my eyes and drifted back to sleep.
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“Wake up…..wake up“, someone [...]

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The Declaration!

13Nov06

I was talking to one of my Bangalore friends y’day. We weren’t actually talking. It was more of a who-can-talk-louder-than-the-other contest and I could actually see and feel the angry eyes that were fixed on me.  If looks could kill, I’d have been dead long long ago. Coming back to the conversation, he said he was [...]

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Jarring Thoughts…

11Nov06

It came on y’day… suddenly.
Raw information is called as data (as per a book).
Processed data is called as information (as per the same book).
And this vicious circle went on (forever) without ever telling me, what either data or information, really was.
Then again,
Newton’s 3rd law: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Now, what’s a reaction? [...]

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The Alphabets of Maths

09Nov06

The following piece was published in the Sunday Express of The New Indian Express some years back, under the column Beyond a Boundary written by Suresh Menon. The column was eagerly awaited by me and I was heartbroken when it was taken off after a few months. The column and the columnist I hope, have [...]

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I’m Waiting…

07Nov06

Why is everyone around me so ****ed up about being on the Business Wait (as it is called in the corporate language)? Why do they want to get off it as soon as possible? Is it so bad actually? I don’t understand this (though it’s true that I don’t understand many things).
Now that I’m telling this [...]

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OLD FRIENDS…

07Nov06

When I was in college, I got hold of a very old, roughed up book. It was an anthology of poems by many great poets, whose exact names are kind of difficult to recollect now (of course, I still do remember the more famous ones). The book was in a very pitiable condition but the [...]

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Ten little…

06Nov06

Gumnaam is a movie which I’d watched as a child, way back in the early 90s. I was really scared by the movie and sat for the most part with my eyes closed. I’d put my hands over my ears too, to shut out the eerie sounds emanating from the background. The music was really [...]

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