Some Fresh Wind In My Sail
In fifty years, the Guardian says, temperatures in India would rank with Saharan Africa. My son would be eighty then. My grandson would be fifty-five.
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Bangalore
Bangalore is where I live, and work as a manufacturer of parts and systems for aerospace and military applications.
What's in a Name?
As regards Zuriberg, they say the owner used to be a doctor in Switzerland. And Maple up the street belongs to an elder who taught physics in North America.
Lockdown Diary: Cures and Other Responses
He has a course of preventive medicine for COVID 19, to be taken twice a day, for five days. Did she pick it up? Absolutely. Are we taking it? You bet.
Lockdown in Bangalore Lifted a Little
And we're afraid, too. Because above all, there's the daunting question: What if one of our numbers tests positive?
Lockdown Blues In Bangalore
The breeze comes in now and then and soothes the face, but it smells of worry and of flagging hope. Will the lockdown end after three weeks?
The Yelahanka Clan and The Mayo Hall Museum
The emperor was Krishnadevaraya, and Kempegowda, a trusted vassal. Kempegowda asked to establish a new city, a mercantile centre. Krishnadevaraya said yes.
Bats That Camped In My Tree Are Now In My Head
"You don't like bats, no?" my conscience is telling me. "You're scared they bring you bad luck. Admit it!"
The Devanahalli Fort in Bangalore
Built of mud by the Gowda rulers, Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan fortified it with stone. Afterward, the fort fell to the British under Cornwallis.
The Ugly Indians
In the end, in that little spot in Bangalore, the stench, the hideous wet and dry garbage, and that sense of shame that's our lot in India — all evaporated.
An Indian Ruminates on Independence Day
Though some of us speak of lost values and vanished principles, none will risk disruption of this opiate prosperous state of being.