Bilingual Way
This morning I was reading June edition of 'Business world' and found an interesting article titled 'Bilingual Way'.The article talks about a survey conducted by National University of Education Planning…
Pseudo Indians
Even today Indians are living a pseudo life!Be it color of the skin or language, we tend to 'ape' whatever the westerners do. Let me give some examples:Fair is beautifulWhen…
Toilets in Indian trains
Found this interesting information in Bangalore majestic station's waiting room:Akhil Chandra Sen, a passenger wrote the following letter to Indian railways in the year 1909.I am arriving by passenger train…
Voted for the first time
Karnataka state assembly polling was held today. I got an opportunity to vote for the first time. Fortunately the election commission announced that citizens can a use a list of…
How logical we are?
Its interesting to observe the way we Indians think!We apply logic and build complex software. But forget to apply basic common sense in many aspects. Following are some simple examples…
Landmark Forum – Part II
I understood quite a lot of things by observing people who attend landmark forum. Primarily the educated, upper-middle class, urban population attend this and they don't have any clue of…
Landmark forum – Part I
It’s been 6 months since I attended Landmark Forum in Bangalore. For people who don't know what this is all about please check out this link. I have mixed opinions…
BOOK REVIEW: Games Indians play
In 2002, I visited USA for the first time. During transit I spent some time in Singapore and Hong-Kong. I was totally shocked to see the great infrastructure, well defined…
India – A ‘garbage’ land ?
Recently came across couple of interesting experiences, which prompted me to write this post. Scene 1: Bangalore Airport I was waiting in a long queue for checking in and came…
BOOK REVIEW : Wise and Otherwise
Author: Sudha Narayanamurthy This book contains collection of short stories, which the author wrote in many newspapers and magazines. The author has traveled extensively to the rural parts of India…