Poem: an SMS
On one morning recently, I got one of the shortest and most poignant SMSes I have ever received from my Brother-In-Law. This poem is a reflection on that. The background ink and watercolor picture is mine and reflects one of the most vivid memories I have from that morning. For those who do not know
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Dec
Dec
What the world eats…
Looking at what “typical families around the world eat in one week” (Part I and Part II), a few very interesting observations can be made: Money spent on food varies widely across the world. A family in Chad spends less than $2 while a German family spends 250 times that amount, for food that looks
The Movies That Move…
… if they didn’t, what’s the purpose? If a movie did not fundamentally alter something in you, moved a frame of reference, opened a new window, what purpose did it serve apart from expensive fleeting titillation? And you thought if only excruciatingly serious art films can make that kind of an impact, you’d be as
Quaint as Quintessentially Quaint Can Be…
Calling Atithi Parinay a ‘resort’ (or ‘ray-sort’ as it is often pronounced here!) is like calling Atul Kulkarni ‘The King Shahrukh Khan’! We lose our soul watching the latter’s movies but find it at Atul’s. I have used the word ‘movie’ very broadly here. The King Khan’s movies are attributes of the celluloid (or the
Food Is A Weapon… Use It Sparingly…
While negotiating a catering deal for a big event yesterday, I heard the customer say something that made me want to get up and hug her! No, it was nothing about my utter handsomeness (?!), something much more sensible than that. She said our sandwiches are waaaay big for one person and we should be
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Jul
Jul
Shakahari: A Mixed Bag of Veggies
Review of Shakahari: the veggie restaurant at the new Marriott in Pune, India
How Global Warming Will Breed More Europeans…
It’s official now. Global Warming is now ‘Global Weirding’. Before you pat me (gently, please!) for coming up with a brilliant phrase, in the interest of journalistic integrity (READ: I will definitely get caught if I lied, so I won’t), I must say that it was the flat-world guy, Thomas Friedman, who coined the phrase,
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Jul
Jul
Cleaning Muck With Mozart
The next time you clean your toilet, do the following before you start: dress down (no, not necessarily WAAAAY down, but that’d be OK too), grab a cleaning sponge, your favorite (!) bottle of toilet cleaner and then….turn on your music system and let Mozart waft out of the speakers. Oh, and then walk to
The Most High Tech Green Buildings
Nice slideshow on Forbes.com. Hats off to Calatrava.
Andy, We Need Sustainable Globalization, Not Guarded One…
While working at Intel for 18 years, I was in awe of Andy Grove, Intel’s legendary leader. Stories of his brilliance, temper, forthrightness etc floated everywhere. I have tasted some of that aggressiveness a couple times myself. So it gives me immense pleasure to confront Andy, standing tall to him… all from a safe distance…
