Travel Nassim Road, Singapore Nassim is the name of a Jewish family that once owned a lodge there that they sold, and several of their family migrated to Israel.
Travel Singapore, Arrival Taking in the moment, I sensed another, presently inaudible rumble: cars revving up; buses starting at their terminals; the MRT starting up — at various points across this small island, all to converge here, on Orchard Road.
Bangalore With U.R. Ananthamurthy and Abdul Rasheed Ananthamurthy stoked Rasheed's thoughts, and mine, put forth his views, and the possibilities crackled and multiplied.
Musing Our Bucolic Neighbours, and Some Questions on Land Use We could see the horizon on all sides now, and fertile land running all the way up to it. I wondered at the wisdom of granting arable land to the industry when the nation suffers a shortage of it.
Musing Remembering the Sounds of Yesterday The radio-voices of distant foreigners sounded magical in my room. The sound that evokes the most nostalgia in me is Willis Conover’s Jazz-Hour on the Voice of America, which program came on in the evening, opening with Take the A Train.
David McMahon On David McMahon's blog, I saw an offer no blogger can refuse: the offer to critique a blog.
Indian Journeys The Drowned French Church At Magge But I saw and wondered at the power of government — how when they so choose they can arrive at a citizen's door and tell them to leave because they're going to flood their home.
Bangalore Just Another Evening In My City I wonder where they were before yesterday and where they've gone today.
Musing America is the Oldest Civilsation in the World Diverse peoples emigrating to America have carried in their baggage old and new know-how that goes into making a civilization.
Travel Muay Thai — a Sport for Kids? Two kids fought the first match. Their eyes were locked hard on to each other, intense, brutal even. I wondered if it was right to be watching this at all.
Don Quixote I'm reading the thousand-page book, and I can't believe I've committed to such monumental reading.
Bangalore Vidyabhyasa A bright yellow halo shone behind the guru's piled coiled pyramidical hair. Here before me was a new-age gurukula.
Bangalore Welcome Rain, Unwelcome Portents What I've seen these last days is the ominous sight of twisting waters swirling down the streets going toward nowhere but disaster.
Musing We Didn't Get a Future, But We Got a Past Alright He lined up the top scorers in the month's class-tests on his left and gave each a palm-sized certificate of merit. Next, he lined up those who scored the least on his right and lashed them till his cane broke.
Bangalore The Tempers This Summer The policeman, a thinnish fellow, stared disbelievingly at the biker and at his own sullied shin and hit the burly biker hard on the shoulder and reeled from the effort.
Musing Thanks, Di She's given me many pats on my back, so in a way, she's who keeps my blog going. Last fortnight she mentioned my blog twice on her page. Thanks, Di.
Coffee Planter's Diary Hassan Town: Our Beginnings It's all very promising. A deep trench is dug on our boundary for a high wall to stand. A micro-economy has sent out its baby roots.
Coffee Planter's Diary Hassan: Memories and Lanes Three or four matches were on simultaneously — quite often, a hit from one game sent the ball to the field of another.
Musing MM Is Right "Let's call the whole thing off," the great old man said, going all the way to the brink. "We'll lose talent, and then we'll lose some 210 billion dollars of yearly business."
Travel Thai Writing: Sightseeing The farang lurks in every tale, tales of family, of parent and child, of people in a complex society, and of how the farang impinges on Thai life.
Travel The Grand Palace, Bangkok King Rama V went and fell in love with Victorian Europe, came back and built a Windsor-like palace in his capital city.
Musing Missed the Moon By belief, a moon-sighting on Ugadi day would have brought a year's load of luck.
Musing A Wedding, and the Celebrity Tax Arun Nayar, of whom we know very less, married Elizabeth Hurley, of whom we’ve known not much more. It was an expensive wedding, topped by a celebrity tax.
Coffee Planter's Diary A Place That Cheered Us I said out loud that I'd build a study by the tank if I owned a plantation, but the planter didn't quite approve. "Snakes," he said. In the manner in which he said it, there appeared to be other threats as well that he wouldn't speak of.
Musing The Living, Among The Dead I catch a glimpse of a crowd of tombstones, and I have an anxious passing thought that they'll appear in my dreams. They haven't.
