Archive for September, 2009
More Gultland Bands Battle
Posted on September 21, 2009 - Filed Under blog
Sunday, the 20th September saw me visit another Xtreme Sports Bar, this time around in Karkhana, Secundrabad. This bar was significantly more spacious and looked like it could hold more people than the one at Banjara Hills, but the latter was split into two levels and I didn’t really get a chance to head to [...]
Read More..>>Battle of the Gultland Bands
Posted on September 14, 2009 - Filed Under blog
Turns out that my having written for RSJ for three years has given me enough street cred to be able to judge a music competition.
I was asked to judge some music competition at the office for a bunch of campus recruits quite some time ago, and I assumed that I would be so bored [...]
The Relationship Plimsoll Line
Posted on September 8, 2009 - Filed Under blog
The Plimsoll line, also known as the International Load Line or the Waterline is “an imaginary line marking the level at which a ship or a boat floats in the water.” This is to ensure that a ship has sufficient freeboard and reserve buoyancy.
Now, in the true spirit of content on this site, you must [...]
Placebo – Live in India in 2010!
Posted on September 7, 2009 - Filed Under blog
After the brilliant news that Porcupine Tree is going to be part of the 2009 Mood Indigo festival at IIT Bombay, it is now turn to rejoice again as one of my favourite bands, Placebo is all set to tour India in 2010.
According to their official website, tour dates have been announced only until the [...]
Temporal Manifestation of Divinity
Posted on September 7, 2009 - Filed Under blog
It was not too long ago that I quoted Pico Iyer on my site, mentioning how he’s written so beautifully about the connection he felt with Japan even before he visited the place, which in turn triggered a thought process in my head about how I felt a strong connection with this other place that [...]
Read More..>>The Cold Call
Posted on September 7, 2009 - Filed Under blog
Two enterprising classmates of mine, Reetu Srivastava and Pruthviraj Haral have come up with this super-stud brilliant comic strip which has been appropriately titled ‘The Cold Call‘, which documents life on campus.
Their refreshing cynicism and their bold attempts at highlighting and making fun of all the absurd things that sometimes go on on campus is [...]