Raga Chintamani- A guide to Carnatic Music through Tamil movie songs Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Disclaimer: My knowledge of Carnatic music is quite primitive. I can recognize only 2 Ragas- Mayamalava Gowla, the basic raga any music stu...
Indian Railway goes Crazy-Adds Extra Berths Tuesday, September 09, 2008 First published during December 2007. Reposted with relevant photos. Indian Railways has decided to increase the capacity of its trains by a...
Trek to Tada Hills, courtesy CTC Tuesday, September 02, 2008 First time when I heard the name TADA, what came to my mind was Urmila Matondkar’s song in the movie Hindustani- Latka Dikha diya humne jhat...
A look at Modern day restaurants Monday, September 01, 2008 Assume this-I announce that I have a bike for sale for Rs 40k. You’re interested in buying the bike and you paid me 40k. I promptly handover...
Monthly Update & August 2008 Summary Sunday, August 31, 2008 August marks my 6th consecutive month of travelling out of Chennai every month. Details later. Of the 10 posts published this month, Two pos...
Lifestyle in Singapore-Guest post Wednesday, August 27, 2008 This is the first guest post in this blog, introduced as an experiment. As all these years I’ve been writing India based articles, thought ...
My article in print after a long time Monday, August 25, 2008 Glad to inform you that after a long time one of my articles has been published in print. Chennai based ERGO issue dated today (25th August...
Intelligent Scene Recognition is not that intelligent… Friday, August 22, 2008 Some digital cameras claim to have a feature called intelligent face recognition and intelligent scene recognition, wherein they automatical...
Excessive blogging disorder and compulsive writing syndrome Tuesday, August 19, 2008 An old post- I was tempted to re publish it. Those who have already read it please excuse me. -----------------------------from April 2007 a...
Impact Analysis-Live music ban in Bangalore pubs Monday, August 18, 2008 Recent topic of debate in Bangalore was the ban on live music performance in pubs by Bangalore police and subsequent protests by those affec...
Internet for latest news- A decade ago Wednesday, August 13, 2008 This post, republished here, was originally written on the occasion of OneWebDay and was published at onewebday blog . This write up is bas...
Indian SNS Yaari.com changes for good Wednesday, August 13, 2008 April 2009 Update : This post has lost relevance as Yaari has changed yet again. An year ago, Aug 31, 2007, I had published a post reviewing...
Branding Tender Coconut & Toddy palm Sunday, August 10, 2008 We’re already used to apples and oranges sporting a small sticker, branding themselves against others. What’s new is that more and more fru...
Hertz & HSBC-How they lost a prospect.... Wednesday, August 06, 2008 2 examples how companies lose prospective customers: Example 1: Hertz car rental company, New Delhi Me: (on phone) Hello Hertz, tomorrow mor...
Gender confusion over the name Shrinidhi! Friday, August 01, 2008 Recently I realized, that it’s not only humans, even facebook applications are struggling to recognize the gender associated with my name. ...