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The Lady And The Monk

Posted on March 18, 2009 - Filed Under blog

The first fleeting taste of Japan felt like the answer to some unspoken question. For through whatever curious affinities propel us towards people or places we have never met, I have always been powerfully drawn towards Japan. Ever since boyhood, I had only to glimpse a Hokusai print of peasants huddled under driving rain, or [...]

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Death to All (Zionist) Juice

Posted on January 5, 2009 - Filed Under blog

So I saw this on someone’s google reader shared items (most likely that of Mohit’s) but figured it had to get on my website nevertheless.
It is indeed a serious concern in these grave times that hardcore fundamentalist radicals are calling for the death of all juice. Mercifully, they added the Zionist word later on, [...]

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Compulsory Military Service

Posted on November 28, 2008 - Filed Under blog

In the light of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, our government, our intelligence, our security forces and the public will probably end up doing a lot of introspection and soul-searching, in order to try and find ways of dealing with such situations.
Sometimes, one gets to wonder what the outcome of these attacks would’ve been had our [...]

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Churumuri

Posted on September 30, 2008 - Filed Under articles

Churumuri started off as a Mysore centric blog around the time Dr.Raj breathed his last, and has been a strongly popular blog managed by former editor of Outlook and Vijay Times, Mr.Krishna Prasad. I had written three pieces for this site, after which I’ve not had a chance to contribute to this venture.
However, what KP [...]

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Outsourcing Santa

Posted on December 25, 2007 - Filed Under blog

While watching a plethora of arbit and nauseatingly gooey Christmas specials on TV, I was suddenly struck by my usual hourly flash of inspiration.
Mouthing curses at fundaes that encompassed the ‘joy of Christmas’ and the ‘festive spirit’ and ’seasons greetings’ and all that nonsense, I decided instead to log on to the net, and while [...]

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Operation Last Chance

Posted on November 30, 2007 - Filed Under blog

This operation, an initiative of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre – a Jewish human rights group aims at catching what is left of the remaining Nazi World War II criminals before they die of natural causes, nestled comfortably in some place in South America. It literally would be the last chance for the dispensers of justice [...]

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