Category Archives: pune

What Is Wrong With This Picture?

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,

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”

Traffic Road Sign in Pune, India

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.
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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.

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