Just a bit of (harmless?) patting-myself-on the back.
This blog was featured on today’s ‘Comment is Free’ section of The Guardian UK website. Go to the Best of the Web section at the bottom of the page, and you’ll find me there. I have no clue how it was picked up, but (insert evil grin and […]

Posted on October 16th, 2008 by apu
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Just something beautiful which I wanted to share. Via the very-interesting Indian By Design blog, which I discovered recently, I came across this artist and her work. I  doubt I’m ever going to be able to afford original art, but if I could, I would love to have this one up on my wall. I […]

Posted on September 25th, 2008 by apu
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Last evening, I made my way to the BEML area near Indira Nagar, to visit someone who had undergone a minor operation. I was passing through the always-crowded Old Madras Road, when an ambulance started sounding urgently. The siren went off again, and again, and again. In India, of course, we don’t really have the […]

Posted on September 19th, 2008 by apu
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Turning thirty is believed to be a significant moment in an individual’s life. It is not as though the first thirty years don’t have their own milestones. At nine or ten, we enter middle school; I remember how thrilled I was - finally, finally, I was allowed to discard the pencil and take up a […]

Posted on August 31st, 2008 by apu
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A couple of days ago, I was thinking - that I have no clue how to write in brief. I can’t remember too many short blog posts I’ve written. Well, that changes with this one. I’m not a big one for trivia, but I had to share this. The weirdest search term that has led […]

Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by apu
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Atithi Devo Bhava, so the Upanishads say. And one would like to believe that, in a different age in India, this was very much true. I don’t know if it really was; were guests ever welcome at all times? And did it extend to any kind of guest, as our scriptures teach us to welcome? […]

Posted on August 5th, 2008 by apu
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