One of the ways I procrastinate from doing real blogging is by spending enormous amounts of time installing new blogs and fiddling around with them to customize them to my liking. Unfortunately I have not been so far successful in settling on one blog theme for any significant duration. I used to be crazy about [...]
Entries from September 30th, 2008
The New East India Company
September 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Words Of Wisdom
Indians of any background should have reason enough to celebrate their historical or cultural association with Nagarjuna’s penetrating philosophical arguments…Maitreya’s searching questions, Carvaka’s reasoned skeptisism, Aryabhattas astronomical and mathematical departures, Kalidasa’s dazzling poetry, Sudraka’s subversive drama, Abdul fazal’s astounding scholarship.. or Ravi Shankar’s and Ali Akbar Khan’s music, without first having to check the religious [...]
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If life were like the movies
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Humor, Philosophy, Words Of Wisdom
Thanks to a good friend I have been doing some existential contemplation. It’s not that I have never wondered upon matters suchlike before, but over the last three wonderful months, I had managed to hunt and put down most of my mental critters that I carried with me through most of my time in med [...]
Tags: Epiphany·Existential angst·life
Visiting Dr. Binayak Sen in Prison
September 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · activsm
The following is a letter sent recently by Dr. NM Samuel to the alumni of his alma mater CMC Vellore. Dr. Samuel is a graduate of CMC, batch of 1964. He is married to his class mate Dr.Susie, they have two children Rekha and Anish and two grand children. He started his career in leprosy [...]
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Misplaced Priorities
September 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Words Of Wisdom
I was going through the zen habits tumblog and found this One hour productivity marathon. The Post lays down how to spend one intense hour being “productive”. This includes spending five minutes reading the headlines, sitting down and planning your career etc. What sparked this post is this, quoting the article: Relationship – Give your [...]
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What's missing in ubuntu: Ubuntu Forums vs Schizo
September 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Ubuntu
I was going through Ubuntu forums, and not surprisingly there was a 72 page long “what do you miss in ubuntu” thread, basically about stuff people miss after porting from windows. Photoshop, Itunes, Games, powerful DVD and Audio ripping software, are some of the commonest software people seem to miss the most. My personal list [...]