Figuring Things Out

A couple of days ago Delhi consumed more power in a single day than ever before.  According to reports from the State Load Dispatch Centre ...

  I like books that breathe life into familiar streets. "Kokoro" by Natsume Sōseki begins with a brief description of the street...

 Toyota has a flaw that has slipped through its famous production systems. A problem it chooses to ignore - or brazen it out - but the backs...

It had been more than two years since Covid-19 scuttled my annual treks into the Himalayas. So when a friend set up a new WA group titled, ...

  "Vatapi Ganapati" is a much loved composition in Carnatic Music, one of the two branches of classical music in India. Composed b...

 "El Sendero de la Anaconda" or the Path of the Anaconda, must be one of the most impressive documentaries I have seen recently. ...

"You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop." - Rumi It is difficult to associate the mighty oce...

 I am not fluent in Oriya language, and yet, last week, I found myself tuned in to a series of bilingual interviews titled "Startup Sto...

  It seems nobody actually thought the cornered bear would attack, but last week, it did. Perhaps it was assumed that all the snarling and s...

Winter has switched to spring quite abruptly this year.  Within a span of a week cold foggy mornings gave way to bright sunshine all day pro...

 It is amazing how news of a certain type suddenly blows up.   A couple of weeks ago, in a hot, humid coastal South Indian town called Udupi...

  We ran for hours, deeper into the forest. The path had ended, but we kept running until the sky swallowed the sun and gave birth to the mo...

  "Do you see how the edges are curved? It fits out lips better..." - Ayse Birsel, TEDxCannes One thing I discovered this winter ...

 This is an interesting talk - Focus: the Hidden Driver of Excellence | Daniel Goleman . Speaking to an audience at a Google office, the Pro...

The latest economist (15 Jan., 2022) makes makes a claim that seems absurd at many levels - "In an index of societal discrimination aga...

  On the banks of Manimala river in Tiruvalla, Kerala, there is a place called Thottabhagom. Perhaps the area gets it name (~ 'garden ar...

 How things change in one year! At the beginning of 2021 everybody seemed perplexed that the much anticipated first wave of Covid-19 had som...

A few days ago, an old friend, a physician, shared a graph that got me puzzled. It showed an NHFS-5 graph plotting percentage of men with di...

What happens when the sublime meets the ridiculous? Maybe one of the things you get is goat cheese. Carmina Burana (Songs of Beuren) is supp...

Lighting changes everything.  Last week I visited the Indian Museum in Kolkata after more than a decade, and I was struck by the way in whic...