Archive for July, 2008
Deve Gowda International Airport????
If THIS ARTICLE is to be believed, the Bangalore International Airport might be named after Deve Gowda. As if naming a major traffic intersection on the ring road after him was not insult enough to the Bangaloreans, there might be a distinct possibility that even north Bangalore will be polluted by his name. If the Congress government does this, [...]
An Apt Pupil
A friend of mine named PGK, nicknamed Praveen Gopal Krishna and 'PeeGeeGay' respectively by his parents and his Malayali teachers in school and college is the founder of a theatre group named Merchants of Drama, which is staging a play, adapted from Stephen King's Novella - An Apt Pupil, at the Alliance Francaise (Off Cunningham Road) on the 11th [...]
Tell me Why..
...is it that most people that I know who work in the IT industry have shots of theirs put up either on orkut or facebook with them sitting proudly in front of their monitor in their cubicle? It is either that or pictures of them on their travels, proudly standing in front of known monuments with a smug look on their face that says - 'I was [...]
The Car Boot Prank
Sometimes the lunch time conversations at the office result in brilliant ideas, that I can't get enough of patting my own back about. One such conversation ensued this afternoon, and another awesome idea was born in the process. As the subject title of this post might indicate, the prank has to do with the boot of a car. Over recent times, [...]
Making Music
This is one bit of shameless plugging of self that I'm indulging in, for a good cause. I play the bass guitar for a band named 'Arth'. Our lyrics are in Hindi, and one can classify our music under the rock genre. On the first day of the beginning of the second half of 2008, we've uploaded three mp3s of our as part of an initial demo we've [...]
Arth Music
Arth is a Bangalore based band, which I play the bass guitar for. In a sudden burst of enthusiasm, we decided to record a few songs of ours and post it up online under the creative commons license, for people to listen to, download and distribute. The player above lets you stream songs, as well as gives you the option to download our demo [...]
