Author: Ramkumar R

  • No pain, no gain

    I visited the gym in ISB once during my stay there as a student and never went again for reasons best known to most one day gymmers. A few days back, I had this wonderful idea from somewhere to start using the office gym. Armed with the required accessories and…

  • Migration to wordpress

    I had been contemplating the move to wordpress for a long time now but had not taken the step for reasons akin to why a mobile phone user with a lot of contacts wouldn’t change his number that easily. But a decision apparently made by a government agency (or misunderstood…

  • Bangalore Gayana Samaja concerts

    Bangalore Gayana Samaja is organizing its 38th music conference from the 13th to the 20th of August 2006. The concerts scheduled for this period are as follows: 13th Aug 2006 Saxaphone: Kadri Gopalnath Violin: A. Kanyakumari Mridangam: V.Praveen Ghatam: Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan Khanjira: A.S.N.Swamy Morsing: B.Rajasekar 14th Aug 2006 Carnatic Vocal:…

  • Sikkil Gurucharan @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja

    Sikkil Gurucharan (SGC) performed at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja auditorium today. The highlights of the beautiful concert were the kannadagowla raga alapana and alapana & kalapana swaram for the main kriti in todi raga. On a day when there were 4 good concerts, all clashing with each other, especially the…

  • Kyun kiya tumne aisa .. kyun

    Thats what the world seemed to ask Zizou after the head-butting. Zidane may have said “Is kyun ka jawaab nahi hai mere paas” but here is a take on might have led him into doing that when the whole world was watching. Matterazi pulls Zidane’s shirt, suddenly smells something and…

  • Concerts this weekend in Bangalore

    Carnatic music concerts scheduled for this weekend in Bangalore are as follows: 15th July 2006 – Saturday 1) 6PM: Carnatic Veena Recital by Nirmala Rajasekar @ Ananya Sabhangana,92/2 ,4th Main, Malleswaram, Bangalore-560003 16th July 2006 – Sunday 1) 5:00 PM – Carnatic Vocal by Sikkil Gurucharan @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja,…

  • I, the tagged one

    Not long ago, two people decided to tag me. So here goes something akin to what everyone who gets tagged seems to do ….. I am thinking how should I go about this tagging thing thrust upon me by Snoop and Baarney I said once to my best friend that…

  • 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…