Year: 2006

  • A trip to Srirangapatnam/Mysore – Part 3

    Click Part 1 and Part 2 to access the earlier posts on this topic. The last place in our itenarary was Mysore. We first visited the Mysore Palace. Its construction culminated in 1912 at a cost of Rs. 41.5 lakhs then. There were apparently three palaces at the same site…

  • A trip to Srirangapatnam/Mysore – Part 2

    Part 1 of this post can be accessed here. After seeing Sangam and boating in a coracle there, we went to Ranganathittu which is a bird sanctuary spread over many islets on the river Cauvery. Located about 3 kms from Srirangapatnam, it is considered to be a paradise for bird…

  • A trip to Srirangapatnam/Mysore – Part 1

    Six of us went on a one day trip to Srirangapatnam and Mysore on Saturday. Though there is a package tour offered by KSTDC, we rented a qualis for the trip as the cost per head wasn’t coming out to be much different from the KSTDC package and because it…

  • Captain – thou art the greatest

    He can defy laws of physics, give shock to electricity itself, lend bouyancy to sunglasses, stop bullets in their path, show how primitive man could have lit up fire without even using stones, make goons fly with a simple touch to his moustache and do data entry work in windows…

  • Situation under water

    Here are two of the many snaps I got through email depicting Mumbai during the rains every year: Paani paani re … car-mein paani .. sorry paani mein car reChaahe duniya doob rahi ho .. hum hain (saas-bahu) serial ke diwaane Don’t know how authentic the second picture is but…

  • The Cut of Hamlet

    I had gone to Chennai over the weekend to attend my apartment mate’s betrothal ceremony and had the opportunity to watch my first English play titled “The Cut of Hamlet”, courtesy KR. There were four of us from the ISB – Class of 2006 at the Sivagami Pethachi Auditorium in…

  • Concert @ Infy, Bangalore

    Played mridangam accompaniment in a 2 hr carnatic classical concert yesterday at Infosys campus, Bangalore. Details are as follows: Flute: S. Datta Violin: B. Lakshmi Mridangam: R. Ramkumar (thats me) List of songs: 1) Era nApai (varnam) – tOdi – Adi – pattanam subramaniya iyer 2) bAgAyanaiyya – chandrajyOti –…

  • Cricket humor

    Some light moments from the game Indians are mad about ….. don’t know whether these actually happened, but thought these are worth sharing: 1) Boycott was facing a torrid over from Micheal Holding . After playing his first 5 deliveries somehow, he got out bowled the last ball. When Boycott…

  • R. Vedavalli @ BTM Cultural Academy, Bangalore

    “Sangeetha Kalanidhi” Smt R. Vedavalli sang to a packed house on Saturday at Sri Ramana Maharishi Academy for the Blind, 3rd Cross, 3rd Phase, J.P.Nagar, Bangalore. The concert was organized by BTM Cultural Academy. Strict adherence to tradition, step-by-step build up of raga alapanas with all important patterns covered were…

  • R. Vedavalli – The Living Legend

    “Sangeetha Kalanidhi” Smt R. Vedavalli (refered to as RV henceforth) is considered to be a living legend. In a career in Carnatic Classical music spanning over five decades, she has enthralled audiences in India and abroad with her staunch adherence to tradition, deep understanding of and vast knowledge about Carnatic…

  • Diary of an MBA

    Diary of an MBA ….. a hilarious mail I received from a batchmate of mine recently …. couldn’t restrain from posting: Dear Diary, I can’t hold myself down. My FIRST day on the job!! And I like it already. “Assistant Junior Deputy to the Vice Chairman – Manufacturing”. My dad…

  • Hilarious blog

    Ford Prefect‘s was the hilarious blog I used to visit a lot till some time back. I do read his blog even now but there is one more that I have been frequenting these days – Great Bong’s blog @ http://greatbong.net . I have been hooked to this blog ever…

  • Rudest city in the world?

    A survey done by the magazine Readers Digest has resulted in amchi Mumbai being termed as the rudest city in the world, when it comes to common courtesy. Sao Paulo and New York have been found to lie at the other end of the spectrum. Click here to read more.…

  • Sikkil Gurucharan @ Music Academy

    Sikkil Gurucharan performed at the Music Academy Mini Hall in Chennai on Sunday in a 4 hour long Carnatic Classical Vocal Concert organized by Sarvani Sangeetha Sabha. He was accompanied by S. Varadarajan on the violin, K.V. Prasad on the mridangam and Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan on the ghatam. The (partial) list…

  • A busy weekend

    Went to Chennai this weekend to spend some time with my parents who had come there but ended up spending most of the time with friends. Met with a few ISB batchmates in Chennai on Saturday. It all started with the 4:15PM show of the Tom Cruise starrer MI-3. The…