Figuring Things Out

  Last week on X, I came across a site that took me down the memory lane. The link to  Felt Map Archive site  came from @tejamalladi and the...

Distance running is a fun way to learn Anatomy, and Latin :) A part of the fun is of course taken away by the fact that these lessons come p...

  Each civilisation had a different way of looking at the stars. They found different patterns and linked them to a wide range of traditions...

George Orwell's book, "Burmese Days" is centred on a fictional town called Kyauktada 'in Upper Burma'. It is the stor...

  The last time I visited Bhopal was during my JICA days, in the early 2000s. My projects were far fron the city, in Sagar, Damoh and Tikamg...

This is a note to myself. As the years go by, and as details of our numerous treks in the Himalayas start to get mixed up, I find it necessa...

  If there is one word you would catch from the numerous clips from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, it is "Dawai!" Even though it ...

  I have been a fan of Bill Bryson for many years now. Starting with "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (2003), I have tried t...

  I guess it does not take much of marketing to sell a fish that evokes images of kisses, mountain streams and rainbows.  The rainbow trout,...

At first glance Sanjoy Hazarika's book may seem rather dated. It gives a snapshot of the North Eastern states up to the early 1990s.  Mu...

   Jantar Mantar is one of the iconic monuments of Delhi. It figures in almost every representational image of the city skyline alongside th...

  If you are curious about something but nobody is willing to tell you, what do you do? Recently, BBC reported on an interesting method of ...

  Last Sunday I got a big scare - one of my newest external hard disk drives (HDD) let out a few scratchy noises and suddenly stopped work...

  Adidas Adizero Boston11 Refuel . Quite a mouthful for a brand-name but it certainly counts as the most unusual pair of marathon shoes I ha...

  Last year when I switched from my old Nikon D90 + 18-105mm kit lens combo to a full-frame Sony A7C I had agonised over right lens to go wi...

An endless white expanse of saltpans, blue skies, and Dholavira. If you are a history buff nothing quite prepares you for the ancient Harapp...

  This is a collection of short-stories Murakami published in 2020. The title comes from the last story in the collection but the one I like...

  It was good to return to the Brahma temple in downtown Bangkok after a few years. I missed a few shrubs and trees that once stood in the a...