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| Total Unique Visitors: 640865 |
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| Monsoon is when… |
| 2011-06-09 08:30:13 |
The view outside looks like a painting framed by my window. Big raindrops bounce off the window sill. Sherlock returns home from his evening constitutional and shakes himself dry. He ends up wetting everything and everyone around him. After a bout of rain people walk down the street with arms folded across their chests, shivering [...]
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| To Those For Whom Cricket Is Religion |
| 2011-04-03 05:53:55 |
If the wild bowler thinks he bowls, Or if the batsman thinks he’s bowled, They know not, poor misguided souls, They too shall perish unconsoled. The lines are from Andrew Lang’s Brahma, a parody of Walt Whitman’s poem by the same name which, in itself, is an imitation of the language of the Gita. The [...]...
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| 10th Anniversary of Wikipedia, Mumbai |
| 2011-01-18 03:07:02 |
Jan 15, 2011 marked the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia. I attended a meet-up of Wikipedia users and contributors held in Mumbai to commemorate it. Read about it here on my technology blog, Technosophy: 10th anniversary of Wikipedia, Mumbai Here is my message for Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary posted in the Wikipedia Time Capsule: Wikipedia of 2006, [...]...
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| Wordless Wednesday 3 |
| 2011-01-04 21:42:22 |
Wordless Wednesday Home This ferris wheel was at a food-and-fun fair held near my home. Filed under: wordless wednesday Tagged: ferris wheel, fun, joyride...
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| 2010 in review |
| 2011-01-02 07:47:42 |
I was pleasantly surprised to see this summary and funny review of the blog’s performance mailed to me by WordPress. It even includes information on the stats, the top referrers and even the posts that attracted the most visitors and comments. I moved to WordPress in early September 2010 and I am glad I did. [...]...
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| Dona Nobis Pacem |
| 2010-11-04 06:27:22 |
This peace globe is my entry for this year’s round for the BlogBlast for Peace scheduled for November 4, 2010. Signing the globe is taking a pledge for peace. At the top of the image is the word ‘peace’ written in all the languages I speak. I am privileged to have participated in the first [...]...
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| Moving to Wordpress |
| 2010-09-20 01:32:00 |
This blog has been moved to Wordpress under a new name http://alphatauri14.wordpress.com
Please update your subscriptions and/or blogroll and let me know so that I can blogroll you back.
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| Kerala Trip - IV |
| 2010-05-15 08:24:00 |
(This is an account of a week spent in Kerala in late September, 2009. Cross posted here. )
There are numerous churches in Kerala with bright, colorful murals and glass paintings of an armoured man on horseback holding an unsheathed sword aloft. (I believe he was one St. George of Norfolk.) On the day before I left Thekkady for Cochin, I decided to visit one of them. Everyone inside the church
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| Kerala Trip -III |
| 2010-05-14 14:50:00 |
(This is an account of a week spent in Kerala in late September, 2009. Cross-posted here. )
If I were to make a list of things I wanted to eat before I died I would count in the home-made chocolate of Thekkady. Made from cocoa grown in the plantations there, it is unprocessed and has all the goodness of a local produce.
For eons, Kerala – green, fecund, tropical – was the prime source and
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| Kerala Trip - II |
| 2010-05-10 00:57:00 |
(This is an account of a week spent in Kerala in late September 2009.)
Munnar was a six hour bus ride away from Cochin. Much of the journey was through the Nilgiris, pristine hills shrouded in blue at dusk. (Would that have given the Niligiri, literally meaning ‘Blue Mountain’ its name?) Despite the forest cover, hairpin bends and zigzag curves, the roads were pleasantly motorable. My hotel,
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