All Things Considered

The last time I was in Budapest, Cycling was still a very small movement popular only amongst a thinking few..Definitely doesn’t seem like that now, does it !
The first time I heard about Critical Mass was from a Hungarian friend-  about what it was, about how CM was shaping traffic rules there, how it is […]

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“If the concept is there in the book, it doesn’t mean you need to know it. I mean, you could know it, I suppose. But, it isn’t necessary to know it. But if you would read it, you could appreciate the simplicity of it. And if you read it, you should be able […]

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A discovery of wonderful poems by Emily Dickinson -  from a friend who quoted her today.
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
I taste a liquor never brewed,
From tankards scooped in pearl;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an alcohol!
Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.
When […]

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The only thing that is going right these days: The evening rains of the summer.

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The question that begs asking is just when are these red-robed apple-cheeked little monks most adorable ?
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A series of posts on Ladakh shall soon start..

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Is 2008 seriously gone ? I’m staring in disbelief ! How *can* a year pass by so quickly ? This is not the usual ‘Time-flies-quick’ yada yada. This one just flew !

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This is an attempt to answer that question that people seem to be asking too much lately. “Not writing on the blog ? Whatz up lately ?”
- Was at IFFI Goa - 3-4 days of movies back to back. Life seemed too perfect. It was, too.
- Idlyllic Karwar and that unforgettable sunset with green(yes, green), […]

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Ricky Roma (played by Al Pacino) doles out a world of wisdom sitting at a cafe to Lingk (played by Jonathan Spruce). Did you say you have’nt watched the movie ? Blimey ! ;)
Read ONLY if abundant patience is your virtue. Quite a long extract, this one.
A restauraunt. Roma strikes a conversation with Lingk who sits in the booth […]

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Thanks to the age of free speech, things like this continue to happen. And what is more disheartening is that there is a sizeable population EVEN amongst filmbuffs that supports this.
We’ll do all that it takes to stall the shooting of ‘Water’ in Varanasi. And then a Deepa Mehta would have to go all the way to SriLanka to shoot the […]

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 The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
`Cheshire Puss,’ she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it […]

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When a person walks into your salon to get a hair-cut done, please please try not to assume anything about the individual’s likes or dislikes, will ya ? Can you please not assume that everyone wants their hair stylish ? Did it ever occur to you that some people come for their hair-cut only because they […]

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They are not names of african tribes. No, not characters from Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy either !
Okapi is a mammal of the Ituri rainforest in central africa. Binomial name: Okapia Johnstoni. It was brought to notice to the world by Sir Harry Johnston who organized the first expedition to Congo in 1901 to collect […]

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