Well Deserved!!

Though, I am still a Nadal fan:)

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Gandhi, Guha and the Moolah

Contemporary history’s best-known ‘fakir’ has landed his latest biographer the fattest kitty in the annals of Indian publishing. Penguin India has offered an advance of Rs 1 crore to bag historian Ram Guha’s two-volume project on Mahatma Gandhi in a quiet but stunning recession-era deal that has wowed the competition and pitched Indian book industry [...]

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Ulysses and Us

In August 1924, the long-suffering Stanislaus Joyce sent a letter of complaint to his brother, James, in which he mentioned his difficulties with Ulysses. “The greater part of it I like,” he wrote, before adding with characteristic bluntness: “I have no humour with episodes which are deliberately farcical… and as episodes grow longer and longer [...]

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Sharmila Tagore on Cannes Jury

Well, there’s the surprise, Sharmila Tagore had been added to be the nine and final member of the Jury that will be deciding winner of the Palme d’Or this year. I do have childhood memories of seeing her in Indian movies, but haven’t seen any of her movie in the recent past. I guess I’ll [...]

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Interesting insight on brain functions

more about “Interesting insight on brain functions“, posted with vodpod

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Interview

In a candid interview here at The Paris Review, Kazuo Ishiguro talks about his passions, obsessions, music that inspired him, his American dream, his books an all.
Here’s something from the interview.
INTERVIEWER
How did the English setting come about for The Remains of the Day?
ISHIGURO
It started with a joke that my wife made. There was a journalist [...]

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Learning German

This essay: The Awful German Language by Mark Twain throws some light-hearted light upon the difficulties in the language. German language, along with Latin and Russian, is said to be one of the difficult language to master. Since I have already paid my money at the Goethe Center, I guess I will have to live [...]

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Matter-Antimatter Split Hints at Physics Breakdown

Link
Nothing concrete, the article just gives insight on latest clues and advances.

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Last day in office

So finally another chapter closes. Lets see what future has in store for me now.

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National Geographic Photo Contest

Here few images from National Geographic Photo Contest. More here.

Caged monkeys await their fate at a medical laboratory in Hubei Province, China.

People Winner
Brother and sister in Tibet

Women going through windows

From 1982 to 1987 in the Luwero District, Uganda, more than 100,000 civilians were massacred in an attempt to clear the area of rebels. Because of [...]

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Without Numbers

Now here’s a tribe which doesn’t have the concept of numbers or colours in it. People there don’t talk in past tense verb conjugations or even use any words associated with time. Most of the communication is based on what is being experienced at that moment. So much so that, the lack of recursion [...]

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Dark Future

Cosmologists have put themselves in the shoes of their future counterparts by pondering the consequences of dark energy, an enigmatic force discovered in 1998 that seems to be pulling galaxies apart at a steadily increasing clip. Eventually, this accelerating expansion of space will yank galaxies away from each other faster than light can travel between [...]

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Kurt Vonnegut dies

Kurt Vonnegut, the amazingly comic and frequently satirical writer, who wrote against the wars and the mindless human technological pursuits, famous for classics like “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle”, died yesterday at the age of 84.
In the times of Bush we loose an important moralist like Kurt. Sigh.
Here’s NYT ’s piece on him.

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Guilty, But Who?

Dr. Wayne S. Fenton was killed this month by a 19-year-old patient suffering from severe psychosis.[ link ]
Now here’s that classical situation again
Suppose there’s a man lying in the gutter, with all his clothes torn, living in an hypothetical world, viewing himself as king but in reality its just an illusion, a plain overextended [...]

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Ranking without a cause

Today i went through an article in Hindu where the author talked about India being ranked as 6th most dangerous country for children. The survey was conducted by a panel of more than hundred experts and journalists.
Why?
Why are so much money and people being wasted on ranking someone and something that no one would like [...]

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Unjustified rating..Is it!!

Yesterday I came across an article “Coming soon: Mind-reading computers”. It sounded interesting so I went through it but it came out be nothing great but just average. Not something path breaking that I expected. As I reached the end of the article there were some reader ratings given to it. And to my surprise [...]

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