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Questions that haunt!
Is this right?!Is this what I am supposed to be doing?Am i headed in the right direction?Is this the person, or ?Have i gotten complacent?What if I had done that, and not this, or not both, but something else? These, … Continue reading
Boulevard of Indian Dreams
Heavy crowd, a lot of noise, shopping malls with no adequate parking space, an eternal traffic jam – These are the constant sights one would see there on a daily basis. I look around, to find an enormous shopping complex … Continue reading
Escapsim!
Michael Jackson, in last of his appearances in “This is It” says that people crave for entertainment as an ‘escapism’ from their routines, and that exactly is what entertainers are supposed to be doing – Help people in their pursuance … Continue reading
ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ : ಒಂದು ಚಿಂತನೆ
“ನಾವು ನಿಂತ ನೆಲಕ್ಕೆ, ಅದರ ಚರಿತ್ರೆಗೆ, ಪುರಾಣಕ್ಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪರಂಪರೆಗೆ ನಾವು ಸ್ಪಂದಿಸಲಾರದವರಾಗಿದ್ದೇವೆ. ನಮಗೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಚರಿತ್ರೆ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ, ಪುರಾಣ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ, ಕಲೆ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ, ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಯೂ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ. ಹೀಗೆ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲದಿರುವುದು ಒಂದು ನಷ್ಟವೆಂದೂ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ!” ಜಿ.ಎಸ್. ಶಿವರುದ್ರಪ್ಪನವರ “ಯಾವುದೂ ಸಣ್ಣದಲ್ಲ” ಗದ್ಯ ಸಂಕಲನದಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವ “ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ : ಒಂದು ಚಿಂತನೆ ” ಲೇಖನದಿಂದ ಈ ಮೇಲಿನ … Continue reading
The Mad world of mostly Bad Ads!
Off late, although my TV viewing has drastically fallen, I am aggravated for the little duration I manage to watch it. No guesses. Yes, I am irritated by the silly,pointless commercial ads, and the havoc creating stupid media and news. … Continue reading
The Abstract Mother Nature
Two traits manifested only by Mother Nature are : Her awe-inspiring Majesty and the ‘immaculate’ abstraction in her manifestations. To me, the closest of these manifestations by Mother Nature are The Clouds:) If you have known me quite well, you … Continue reading
Connect to M$ exchange server from Evolution in Ubuntu
After trying numerous methods to get my Ubuntu machine connected to the M$ mail server which my company uses for it’s domain, finally I found out a simple method to retrieve mails from it. I was lost in trying to … Continue reading
The Irony of Freedom!
A realistic, contemporary interpretation of “the ideology of being free”, or Freedom was put up in one of the mailing lists. It is a transparent and dialectical analysis of freedom, rather than being superfluous and unrealistic. It goes as follows: … Continue reading
Raghavendra’s Rhapsody
After having longed for quite sometime, my desire to own and learn a musical instrument has turned into reality- I am thrilled and excited about it 🙂 I have wanted to learn an instrument for quite sometime, and of all … Continue reading
Well… That don’t impress me much :)
While talking to a colleague at work about the latest Ubuntu release, he happened to say that he had already started liking it, and it was tough to get him hooked onto any particular thing. I immediately started correlating to … Continue reading