The highlight of the day....I received the download link for my...yes....you guessed right...that BBC (Blessed Birth Certificate ( Read more... )

Throughout your life, my friend, if you
Want a document in the Indian milieu.....
If there is a related number
That you cannot recall
You can count on it, my friend
It will be the most vital of all!

No use keeping diplomatically quiet ( Read more... )

My driving licence expires on 22 Oct '19 (My 65th birthday falls on 23 Oct '19 ( Read more... )

Day before yesterday (22nd June, 2016) my driving licence (along with many other cards and quite a lot of cash, but that's another story) was stolen ( Read more... )

Today Mr R, 88 years old, and I, applied for a renewal of his passport online. We had to apply for him and for Mrs R. He'd already downloaded the application form for himself, fill it up, save it as a .xml file. What we did: we registered his name, and got an authentication email, where we clicked on the link to activate the account. Hah, sounds ( Read more... )

All rights reserved. I am going to fluff up this one simple sentence into a 700-page book and mint money and become a Concept Guru ( Read more... )

I've been interacting, on FaceBook, with the MD of BESCOM (Bangalore Electricity Supply Corporation), Mr Manivannan (though our interaction is not mainly on civic issues..he's quite a poet!). I have been getting the sense that he's shaking up this behemoth and making them more accountable and user-friendly ( Read more... )

On Friday, 11th Jan 2013, a few of us were going for a birding trail, and we were waiting at the chai shop at Mantri Residency Apartments, on Bannerghatta Road, for a couple of others to arrive ( Read more... )

Yesterday, as part of the

Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival I watched a documentary, "Nero's Guests", made by Deepa Bhatia. There was extensive footage of P Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor of the Hindu, as he showed how poverty is never properly covered by the mass media, even though farmers are regularly committing suicide. The film was made against ( Read more... )