Perennial dilemma of a seeker…
Sometimes when I give too much importance to my emotions then I see the quality of my life deteriorating. Activity of the mind becomes uncontrollable. Closing eyes seems to take [...]
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The 200
I was at office when Sam called me and said, “Do you know what the score is?”. My reply would have impressed my boss, “No”. Sam told me the score [...]
How to write a business plan
One of the occupational hazards of working for a VC firm is that you need to go through business plans of every kind. This is especially true of the space [...]
Transform The World, Start From Within
In every human being, there is an aspiration to become better, more loving and more concerned about one another and the planet. But people are trying to work towards it [...]
Federer 1, 2, 3,…,15
Found this wonderful article summarizing the 15 Federer wins in numbers. I think they should replace the number Fifteen with Fedteen! Awesomeness personified, humility magnified and perfection achieved. The greatest. [...]
keekate
That’s what my son calls Cricket!
And that’s exactly what I am upto nowadays on the weekends. This game makes me look forward to my weekends. There is a club [...]
A namaskaram can take you beyond
Yesterday my colleague and I had a longish discussion on ‘free will’ and ‘determinism’ (Ok ok, don’t close the window, they are in fact the world’s way of communicating simple [...]
Maa Tujhe Salaam
This is by far the best dance performance for the song I have seen till date. Great formations and near flawless coordination. Considering that these are kids who are doing [...]
Rahman’s music is available to those who are willing
I am yet to come up with a way of writing this. Rahman won the Oscar – not one but two. And he did it in his characteristic matter-of-fact style. [...]
I chose love…
…and I am here. God Bless!
Those were Rahman’s words on winning his second Oscar (for Best Original Song – “Jai Ho” alongwith Gulzar) of the day. This is his [...]
Science meets spirituality
To get to what is beyond our comprehension is not impossible. The technology is available. It’s our perception that needs to go beyond. “What is Real?”, as Morpheus asks in [...]
Oh my God!
Check this out.
Law of averages had to catch up with India! We desperately needed this tonic of happiness. And who else to provide it to us than Allah Rakha Rahman. [...]
The Globe sees A R Rahman
See this:
Source: http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/index.html
And this:
It was just a matter of time. If you followed the American press you would have predicted this easily. But for me, I was still doubtful because [...]
a-Satyam: Do we really know?
I am sure by now you are innundated with mails and news reports about how and what Ramalinga Raju did to Satyam. Of course he built it up from 0 [...]
Belated wishes
To all:
For a Happy New Year!
To Rahman:
On his birthday! Hoping that this is the year that people actually recognize his talent!
He separated the men from the boys
Since the day I understood cricket and began following the sport, this man was always an integral part of it. Today when they say he has retired I find it [...]
Don’s average is 99.94
I am sure you are saying, “Come on Adi. Tell us something new”. Okay then, this is the news: Don Bradman’s average could actually be 100 if we are to [...]
Overheard during the Olympics closing ceremony
The evergreen DD commentators strike Gold [I can take this word without getting emotional about it anymore. Thanks Abhinav!] yet again! I am not going translate this into any other [...]
Life and how to survive it
A great speech at the NTU annual convocation that I found here. Adrian Tan gave this speech to the graduating class of 2008.
[via my colleague Deepak]
I must say thank you [...]
Blasts minds and energies
25th July 2008, Hotel Leela Palace, Bangalore, 3.00PM
I was there attending a conference when my colleague flashed the screen of his blackberry at me which had breaking news from BBC: [...]
Watch out!
Read this:
The partly charred body of 48-year-old Basha was found lying in a pool of blood. This is the fourth murder under similar circumstances in the Ashok Nagar [...]
Where the Hell is Matt?
Some people just seem to have all the fun in this world. See this video for example.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Check out this [...]
Sometimes, there are events that occur that cannot be labeled as mere events. These events (I continue to use the word because of the lack of a better alternative in [...]
Why Isha Yoga?
Many people asked me, “Adi, do you believe in this guy Sadhguru?” Their intention was noble behind asking me that question. They meant to be helpful and help me avoid [...]
My second tryst with yoga
There was a yoga course that I did in September 2005. Today I attended the first class of another programme by the same foundation. It is a good foundation to [...]
BSNL Broadband tech support
This is a true incident that happened with my friend. He told me about it and the first place I wanted to put it up was this blog!
1st June, 2008, [...]
Random rant – pls ignore! ;)
Some people have this amazing knack of ignoring problems. Unfortunately they don’t ignore the problems, they ignore the people behind the problem leaving behind a tremendous sense of frustration in [...]
The A R Rahman effect
Watch this video. Must be the youngest fan of A R Rahman joke the others in the video. But it again says a lot about A R Rahman.
PS: This is [...]
Parents and parenting
Watched this movie ‘Santhosh Subramaniam’ yesterday. Its a tamil remake of the telugu blockbuster “Bommarillu“. Here is a feel-good review about the movie. I am not sure it is so [...]
Bengaluru inter’naasha’nal airportu
Why does anyone build something new? Usually because the old one had developed certain problems that could not be solved by incremental fixes. So we now move from HAL airport [...]
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