Tuesday, January 31, 2006
This is a beautifully written book. A fantasy tale, its central theme itself is the role of stories in life. The plot revolves around the boy Haroun, the son of a famous storyteller. Haroun’s father has lost his ability to tell stories – and Haroun travels to the origin of his father’s wonderful stories – [...]
It’s heartening to see young people in India starting a political party. Much of the problems of the Indian political scene – we feel – is due to lack of involvement of new ideas from the younger generation. Lets hope Paritrana can fill the gap. I’m impressed by the party’s ideology, which is based on [...]
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Couldn’t resist the title and the cover – I bought this book soon after I returned from my trip to India. The story starts just after Episode III ends. Overall, its just about a decent book. Revenge of the Sith (the book) has seriously raised both the writing standards of Star Wars Literature as well [...]
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Wishing all Indians a very Happy Republic Day. This and other snaps from today’s celebrations at the Indian High Commission are here. The poster was created using fd’s Flickr Toys.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
On our network, we have a daemon that continuously port scans all our PCs – basically attempts to hack them and reports any vulnerability it finds. I used to be really impressed with the idea; until I saw some of its reports. Here’s the latest. I get a report of a critical security vulnerability and [...]
In a 2002 poll, Kiran Bedi was adjudged by “The Week” magazine to be the most admired woman in India. After reading this book, I was not at all surprised. For a woman who starred at tennis and managed to get fame even as a traffic cop, her achievements spanning crime prevention, police training and [...]
Saturday, January 14, 2006
I hope Team India has got the message. This is not the Pakistan team we played in 2004. I watched every ball of today’s play and that fact is imminently clear. The pitch, of course, is flat – perfectly suited to batting. That fact only partly explains the scorecard at the end of the day’s [...]
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
One of the many wonderful things about being in India. Five sports channels. The crucial part is – at any given time, at least two will be showing cricket. I’ve been home for three days and all three nights, I’ve slept off watching cricket at night. No better lullaby than “Thats an excellent drive.. he [...]
Thursday, January 5, 2006
I recently got an email out of the blue from somebody asking me to suggest a topic for a PhD in Computer Science. I can only think of three responses to such a question. The instinctive response, of course, is to tell the person to go consult an astrologer – whose input I figure will [...]
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