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“You have to do upasana daily” – he replied to me in soft voice.

Standing on the shores of river Souparnika, I had struck up a conversa..

This was one place that, for me, has been so close yet so far. A place I always wanted to visit, but never got around to doing it. Finally..

”Don’t be afraid your life will end;
Be afraid that it will never begin.”
– Grace Hansen

Here’s to another new beginning – Happy New Year!

Talking about happy, here’s an edX course you could check out (thanks to my buddy ‘LJ’ for sending me the link): https://www.edx.org/course/science-happiness-uc-berkeleyx-gg101x#.VKtiJsnP-RC

One Sunday afternoon. He sees his mother recording a script for a game that my company had developed. He hovers around her as she is worki..

Mangalore, or Mangaluru as it is now called, is one tiny city in Karnataka that is really undersold when it comes to tourism. I live in th..

“I’ve never been to Fort Kochi“, she mumbled, as she sat staring out of the car window, absorbing the scenes whizzing past. My mother spen..

“Gooood moooorniiiiing Pondi!!!!”: cried out the message on my mobile as the train pulled into Puducherry railway station.

That was my ..

“The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities.”
– Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)

I meant that in the positive sense of the phrase – past couple of weeks have been interesting and fun. It has been travel, travel, and mor..

Phew! Can’t believe it is mid of August already! It has been such a happening month for me, and I hope it has been a fulfilling month for ..

It is late Thursday night as I write this. That movie I wanted to watch – The Great Gatsby – is playing on TV. I will probably miss a good..

Yesterday, I came across this beautiful blog called sketchplanations – run by Jono Hey where he has used simple sketches to explain concep..

Finally after serving us for close to 10 years, our TV died on us last week.

This one was from the generation that did not require ..

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch..