Friday, December 10, 2004

Visiting Shivaji's southernmost bastion

Information on Gingee Fort,Tamil Nadu,India: "The Chola Dynasty built Gingee fort. The indomitable courage and valour of its erstwhile rulers made Father Pinments,a priest to call the Gingee Fort the 'Troy of the East'. "

Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Datta Who?

Happened to mention Datta to a friend on his birthday...

"First time that I actually remembered his birthday....... I was not able to reach him. How frustrating!!!"

"Datta WHO?"

This is college classmate
Deolekar and Deopurkar used to get simultaneous numbers in the exams..
He owes me half of his degree certificate..

He never used to spend a penny in the college
Used to get Rs10 from home every day. His bus ticket went up from Rs4 to Rs7 during 4 years of college. One way.

Owes me half his college time travel......and bhurji pav...

He would call me "abe bhadve kahan tha" across the gymkhana with 100 people turning around to see the pimp enter and take the chair across the carrom board

Me responsible for half his defeats.... as his partner.

I was suspended for 15 days for signing his proxy attendance.

Forged prof's signature on his journals.
Dont know how he's gonna repay that.

We used to go study in his house. 8 members in a two bedroom house used to invite 2 more to stay over during study holidays.
Indebted to them for half my education


That Datta…

Now in England working for top telecom service provider in Europe majorly appalled that they are distorting rules in my office carrom tournament.

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Spelt cynicism as Sinicism.
The word’s got to begin with Sin.

Monday, December 06, 2004

Kokrebellur

Me and my bike curse each other as we struggle through congested city traffic. Both of us are made for the highway. I take her out and we fly.



Pelicans look really clumsy flying from tree to tree, or trying to mend the nest. But once they fly high they are the masters of the sky. Graceful and truly majestic.



Eyes follow you all the time as you walk the streets. To see to it that you don't do anything stupid to disturb the guests. And it works.

Wildlife conservation like other values in life have to be imbibed into people's culture. No huge governed grants, no fancy NGOs. Just plain simple "we care" attitude.



The Pelicans are here. Painted storks coming soon.

Antaragni

Saw Anataragni perform on Saturday.
Heard Like Cocaine live for the first time.
Also Har saas me har dhadkan me ho tum written by Mohammad Aslam (Sunoh lyricist)
Check out the site.

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Bird Watching

Will be out of network range on Sunday...
Going Bird watching...
On my Bird.....
Destination Karnataka: Places to visit III: "Kokrebellur Bird Sanctuary (20km): This small bird sanctuary attracts migrating cranes, painted storks, pelicans and other birds from Australia, Africa and Europe. The best season to watch the birds is October-March."

Antaragni to cut album

NDTV.com - Music Story: "'We've just signed up with HMV for an album to be released next month. We are also shooting a video next month and it's about a girl from Mysore. It is called Mysore se aayi,' said Dixit."