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A friend on a mailing list had talked about Krishna, and said ( Read more... )

My friend, Saritha Rai, has started a new fortnightly column in the New York Times online-

click here to read her article on day care, and night care

I posted this on a mailing list to which I belong, and here are two responses:

cybersurg (he doesn't post on LJ) SS

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On KM's classmates mailing list, we are having a very interesting conversation. It started with Vasu, who teaches in Ohio, posting a link to Louis Kahn's work, designing the IIM-A campus:

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click here for the link to Louis Kahn's notebook and sketches A fascinating set of sketches and more ( Read more... )

It started with a friend, MM, making this update on Facebook ( Read more... )

prashanthchengi and I were having a long chat veered to psychic and occult experiments. He expressed the following reservations about seances and such experiments, saying that he'd read a book, which said that "just like precautions ought to be taken before any other kind of experiment, precautions ought to be taken in case of occult experiments too. He ( Read more... )

Someone I know just announced a photography workshop, and to underscore the fact that this workshop will be different from, and probably diametrically opposite to, conventional workshops, this quote by

Stephen Shore was used ( Read more... )

...The two...just don't mix, I think. Faith, by definition, is the act of believing in something from the heart; the brain has nothing to do with this. And so I often find that attempts by rationalists and people of faith to find common ground are doomed even before they start ( Read more... )

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