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The Free Culture imperative
Excellent painting depicting One World, by Joe Average Being part of a movement which in the grand picture aspires towards freedom of knowledge in the digital domain, and a future with access to free knowledge to all of humanity is … Continue reading
Tagged free culture, openness, society
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Nature vs Man and his worldly goods
The post title, inspired from one good book I am yet to read “Man and his Worldly goods”, suits best to describe the mindset of us humans, with respect to our frivolous perception of Mother Nature. The Japanese catastrophic natural … Continue reading
Tagged calamities, japan, nature
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The oblivion of the small and the beautiful
Hasn’t it been a while since a Postman knocked at your door? Or you went down and met your tailor to get your clothing stitched? Or that you’ve seen that bright entrepreneurial glee in the eyes of a small scale industrialist? What … Continue reading
Tagged change, decentralize, gandhi
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Cognizance of being better and above the system
I did try to come up with a smaller post title, but nothing could better encapsulate the idea I am trying to propose in this post. The severe reverence people have come to give to the systems each one is … Continue reading
From ponderous to wondrous!
It has been quite a while that I laid back and did what I love the most: To let my mind wander… Off late with all the tasks and corresponding completions timelines, there has been little opportunity at hand to … Continue reading
Hypocrisy as the Lifestyle syndrome
I meet many people; people who don’t enjoy what they do. They simply go through their lives, getting on with it. They got no great pleasure from what they do; They endure it, rather than enjoy it, and wait for … Continue reading
Tagged hypocrisy
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Bryan Adams and the Greatest Sing-along concert in Bangalore!
Bryan Adams in Bangalore (image from TOI, we weren’t allowed with our cams!) After the two hours of Bryan Adams in Bangalore, I was unable to make an audible sound, or even stand up straight; I was drenched in dust … Continue reading
Tagged 2011, bangalore, bryan adams
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ಕೋಪ ಬರಲೇಬೇಕು!
ಇತ್ತೀಚಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ಸರಕಾರೀ ಕಛೇರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲಸವಿದ್ದಿತು. ಒಂದೆರಡು ಮುಖ್ಯವಾದ ದಾಖಲೆಗಳನ್ನು ಅವರಲ್ಲಿ ಕೊಟ್ಟು , ಕೆಲಸಕ್ಕೆ ಹೊರಡಬೇಕಾದ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಷ. ಆ ಕಛೇರಿಯ ಕಾರ್ಯಸಮಯ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ೯:೦೦ ರಿಂದ ಸಾಯಂಕಾಲ ೫:೦೦ ರವರೆಗೆ ಎಂದು ಒಂದು ಫಲಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೂಚಿಸಲಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಈ ಕೆಲಸದ ಸಲುವಾಗಿ ಹಲವಾರು ಬರುವರೆಂದು ಅರಿತ ನಾನು, ಮತ್ತು ನನ್ನಂತಹ ಇನ್ನು ಕೆಲವರು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಬೇಗನೆಯೇ … Continue reading
The Motorcycle Diaries
I knew not who this young man was, or what he had become later on when I watched The Motorcycle Diaries, intermittently in Zee Studio before a couple of years. I tried to read the book now, pretending to have … Continue reading
Working Class Hero
In the year 1984, in Shimshapura, a village not far away from the Silicon capital of India, Bangalore, there lived a rational man who was ahead of times, in relation to the circumstances he was brought up in. The story … Continue reading
Tagged hero
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