December 31, 2008

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009.

hi
every one. i wish you all a happy new year.
i miss you all.especially my 10 cousins.
enjoyed all the old posts and comments and photos.

December 12, 2008

Double B'day


tomorrow, two of us are celebrating their birthdays--
DMR (ramamohan) and SBD(bhargavi).
Bavagaru and vadina--"Many happy returns of the day".

December 11, 2008

December 10, 2008

Aditya singing Ramadasu Keerthana - Mangalam

Sorry, next week being finals week for this semester and I'm quite busy. Things are busy at work too, so feeling a little under pressure.
Anyways, I found some time to record a video of Aditya singing and here it is. When the exams are over, I will post my experiences from the Warren Buffett trip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjLxmu1nfk0

December 5, 2008

Good book!

I just finished reading 'Nehru: A contemporary's estimate' by Walter Crocker. This book came out recently and should be on the stands of most bookshops. Crocker was the High Commissioner from Australia to India during Nehru's prime ministership. So, it is truly an objective view (not a British or Indian viewpoint) and also it is a view of the time when Nehru could be seen in isolation rather than in the shadow of Gandhiji. The book is extremely good because:

1. It is very pithy- only 185-odd pages. It also restricts itself to the 16 years of Nehru's rule than his entire life...so no ramblings about childhood incidents

2. It is amazingly knowledgable about India and its psyche, given the book is written by an Australian

3. It is uncannily prophetic- the author had published this book in 1966, and the predictions he made of India are very accurate, if we see the India we have become, 40 years hence

4. It is very sympathetic to India and Nehru: it generates the same sense of respect and awe for our leaders at the time of the independence struggle that usually is the effect of reading Gandhiji or Rajaji

Don't miss it.

December 4, 2008

I Am Going Deaf

This earsplitting silence is shattering my eardrums!!!!!
Someone please say something.