When I was a kid, I loved to play a game that came in some comics and magazines: What’s wrong with the picture? You had to spot illogical, unreal, mismatched and other such oddities hidden in small details in the picture. The game encouraged attention to details, keen observation, and application of concepts like harmony, …
Category Archives: pune
Pune Blog Camp 2: Reflections
Many folks asked me for an update on Pune’s Blog Camp, after the previous photo-post. How was the experience? Was it worth it? Who was there?
Not being diplomatic, I can say that the experience was an interesting one for me, with positives and negatives. I had never been to any blog camp, bar camp, or Tweetup …
Blog Camp Pune 2: Photo Post
Here are some photographs I managed to click at Blog Camp Pune 2 when I could disengage myself from the talks. Snaps are hosted on Flickr, please click to get higher resolutions. My thanks to all the ‘un’-organizers of the event for making this such a flawlessly smooth event!
Apartment Building Gate Sign in Pune, India
“Bachelors & Foreigners As Tenants Not Allowed”
Runaway Train
Prologue
I decided to add this prologue after the first few comments to this post. This post uses an incident in India, but is actually universal in nature and focuses on the moral, philosophical, and ethical decision-making involved in an emergency.
Main Post
Imagine you’re traveling from Mumbai to Pune by train, which is full to capacity, as …
Parenting the next generation
I continue to be amazed by our precocious children. And I’m sure every generation before us has gone through the same amazement. What’s unique about our children? Nothing unique, in my opinion, just that as the rate of technological advance increases exponentially, the degree of difficulty in parenting increases exponentially as well.
I was chatting with a …
Inside and Outside a Restaurant
Update: As of August 2009, I am no longer associated with this restaurant and am no longer involved in the food business.
Apart from my regular IT job, one of the things I do is run a restaurant. Indian bloggers are typically consumers. That’s how we have restaurant reviews (like this excellent one), describe our experiences …
In Memory of Ingmar Bergman
Dear Ingmar Bergman,
I have not watched many of your movies. In fact, I have only watched Fanny and Alexander. But I was so young then, that I couldn’t get it at all. And later, when I started getting a glimpse of what film-making as an art is all about, I was afraid to watch your films.
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Detroit Superbowl XL
I was fortunate to be living in downtown Detroit when it hosted the Superbowl. For the uninitiated, Superbowl is the championship game of the National Football League (NFL) in the US. Superbowl Sunday is a de-facto national holiday. It is the most-watched television broadcast of the year, and the second highest food-consumption day in the …
