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Roughly 10km from Tumkur is a place called Ajjapanahalli. A small boy traveled all the way from Bangalore to visit the temple there quite often. There were memorable moments for him in every journey, like travelling with eight other adults in an auto on a broken road or walking the last mile in the scorching heat. Whatever the odds, the boy always enjoyed visiting the place. There was a reason for his madness. The temple was something very unique. A very quiet lake adored it's background, birds chirped in merry and the whole village setting was perfect in every sense. He would enjoy running around the temple without a care in the world and a nice lunch was always assured when all was done. There were no worries on the departure time or the mode of transport. All he knew was the place was charming and fun. Today, the boy has grown up. The journey is no longer an adventure. It's just a nice road in a nice car with the aircon set just right. He thinks he has moved up in life and f...

Diwali has always been a joyous and colorful festival, personally. Ever since I was a small boy, I enjoyed dressing up for the occasion and bursting crackers before anyone in my street! It does bring back some memories. This year though was a totally different scenario. All the noise and cracker fumes(!!) were no more exciting. They were annoying and left me sick for a few days. It got all more irritating as I had to write an exam online. My quite neighborhood turned all errr.. noisy and mad. Can you concentrate in such situations? If yes, hats off to you! I couldn't and the results showed just the same. There even came moments when I wanted open the window and shout-"It's a festival of lights and not crackers!". However, it never happened and kids continued to make merry. Interestingly though, despite what I thought was the most annoying Diwali, the Pollution Control Board reported an all time low level of poisonous gases this year. That left me wondering. In this bu...

I have mentioned many times that I have taken up CAT this year. It was on September 12th. To be brutally honest, I had not expected the registration process to be trouble free and well integrated. Turned out I was wrong, by a long shot! It was a breeze and easier than standing in long queues to submit applications. (Some more streamlining is required during sale of vouchers. However, given that it is the first time CAT has gone online, this is acceptable.) I was so impressed that I even thought of writing about it in my blog. Guess I just could not put things together then. But don't get too carried away, this is not a Bollywood flick where everything ends up fine and everyone's happy. Yesterday, I casually opened my application and admit card and boy was I in for a shock! The details of my name were not matching with those in my high school graduation certificate. The only thought that came across was "Write a mail to Prometric!". And that's exactly what I did....

The past few weeks have strengthened my belief that poverty is the biggest problem faced by our nation right now. A recent visit to Mulbagal, near Kolar only made it err..stronger. After a tiring drive, the best way to relax was to catch up with the days' (and previous days') happenings. So, I took out the newspaper and as I was sipping on some piping hot beverage, came across one of the best put together articles to date. The following lines are taken straight from Deccan Herald (3rd October issue). Sit back and enjoy reading! Appropriating Gandhi for reasons of business By Randeep Ramesh, Oct 3, The Guardian: Sale of costly pens on his birthday is symbol of triumph of an economic model he railed against The rebadging of the ascetic apostle of peace, Mohandas K Gandhi, as a salesman for haute couture fountain pens in India is a triumph of celebrity over his legacy but not over his ideas. Gandhi, who spurned both luxury and foreign-made goods during his lifetime, was not averse...

In one of my previous posts, there was a mention about technology being helpful and how it is constantly under the criticism of the environmental freaks. This time though, the advantages are in the limelight. The idea suddenly popped up when I was having a conversation with a friend of mine, when all of a sudden the topic of "science fiction" came into picture. Movies in the 60's and 70's suggested that we would have robots doing the house work and space thrusters to reach offices on time. Although we have not developed as per their expectations or should I say, ideas, we certainly have grown by leaps and bounds. For example, if you wish to enroll yourself to an institute or an exam, no longer do you have to wait in long queues for your forms or receipts. Everything is now online and just a click away. You can even look up in discussion forums and interact with fellow students whom you would have never met or might not even meet in the future. How cool is that? Have a...

No fancy titles this time. Chiefly because I cannot think of anything significant to write about. However, it's been quite a while since I sat down in front of my comp and put a few lines together. Something worth mentioning perhaps is that I turned 21 last week!! Hurrah!! Completely legal to make my own decisions about everything in my life. Yes, EVERYTHING!! They say in America, you only turn 21 once and make it sound like an eventful day. I din have any such emotions though and nor did I receive any surprises (which others get I must admit). Perhaps it's because of my non-happening lifestyle. Coming to my inability to update my blog. Well, put simple my comp is in need of a heart/processor transplant. I've gone to the extreme ends of suffering and even had long thoughts about how we take things for granted when they work smoothly! Lastly, I've enrolled for CAT 2009 on 28th November at 10 in the morning. The clock is ticking and every day must be put to good use. See...

Norman Lewis, the author of Word Power, keeps pointing about how our vocabulary gets saturated as we get older. That's exactly the problem I am facing right now. Oh yes, words flow freely and writing articles does not need much time or work. However, there are no new words you can find here. Every word I can type in these articles here are the one's I learnt in my high school and to a certain extent my PU courses. I can actually go as far as saying that the sentence formation techniques have also remained the same. Some say reading might help solve my problem but I doubt that very much. You see there is a significant difference between learning the meanings of new words (or their roots) and knowing how to use them to frame sentences in a diplomatic manner. This is certainly not a good thing. If you read through the editorials in your daily newspaper, you certainly come across words you never knew existed but using them yourself to write articles in something as informal as say ...