Tag Archives: musing

Life on a leaf

Yesterday I took time out from work to visit a place in Mahalakshmipura near ISKON temple. The folks here have a repository of ancient palm leaves that allegedly have the lives of people written on them, and people flock this place to see if they have theirs, and to know how their life is going

The amazing power of human perception

I was talking to a friend of mine at IISc. He was telling about IISc being a smoke free campus. There are no cigarettes being sold in the IISc campus. The nearest shop in any direction atleast over half a kilometer from IISc. A friend of his professor’s was visiting india (obviously another professor), and

Platonic Relationship

Maddie and I were discussing about relationships the other day and we both seemed to agree that there can be no such thing as platonic relationship. The way I see it, the fact that you behave differently when you are with a person of opposite sex is an adequate sign that it cant be platonic,

A week of dupes

This week has witnesses an exceptional number of successful dupes. It amazes me how people come up with the most devious schemes with innocent false starts. Once the bait is set, and the prey is caught hook, line and sink, they simply just reap the benefits. Phoolan Devi’s killer escapes from Jail This is a