Yesterday I gave my old bike for servicing. It was in such bad shape that for a while I was worried that the cost of servicing would be greater than the salvage value of the bike. This morning, when I went to pick it up, I was pleased to see that the bill came up to Rs. 445 only. The first thing I did after that was to ask the mechanic how much I ( Read more... )

So on Wednesday I watched a Hindi movie in a theatre after a gap of a year and three months. The previous time too, Ashwin was with me, though the rest of the personnel were disjoint. Anuroop also joined us this time, before he embarks on a mission to sell phones in the seven hills. I had seen Baradwaj Rangan's positive review of Jaane tu ya jaane ( Read more... )

That's what i did immediately before I proceeded to the VidyaShankara temple to look for porn. I spent half an hour at the Sri VidyaShankara Home Products store buying pickles and other assorted condiments. I ended up buying a bottle of Appe Midi Mango pickle (made out of whole uncut tiny mangoes). Then one bottle of Amla (nallikai) thokku - a kind ( Read more... )

I finally uploaded pics from my recent pilgrimage. Here you go..


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During my recent pilgrimage, three of my four meals were at temples - two at the Horanadu temple and one at Sringeri. For the fourth meal, we took a conscious decision that a temple meal may not be suitable for an overnight bus journey on a bumpy road, so we ate at a restaurant.

The temple meal was kinda standardized. In both places. Steaming hot ( Read more... )

I don't understand why most temples ban photography inside the premises. I mean there are so many strong things that are there inside temples that are "capture-able" that it's almost criminal that photography is banned. My mom says the ban is so that unscrupulous elements don't take pictures and then distort them. If this is the reason, then I ( Read more... )

Now that this half-blasphemous title is out of the way, let me get straight to the point. Actually I think a bit of beating around the bush is warranted. When I read Tyler Cowen's Discover Your Inner Economist, I wasn't sure if i would be quoting part of this book on my blog. However, considering that I almost directly applied one of the ideas ( Read more... )

I'm off on a pilgrimage tonight. My mom, for a long time wanted to visit Horanadu and Sringeri and for some reason she's had to keep postponing it. Finally, taking advantage of my joblessness we are going tonight, along with two of my mom's cousins ( Read more... )

I'd gone to Madras yesterday to participate in the annual QFI open quiz. Went with the usual team - kodhi and madman (aadisht). Missed qualification for the finals by one point. The only saving grace was that we didn't miss any obvious question, so we didn't feel that bad for not qualifying. A few pertinent observations from the trip

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Just thought I should let you people know regarding the background of my IPL  pragati piece. It all started with this blogpost. I initially wrote it for this blog, following a comment by
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