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Jokes 4 Folks I

Have nothing substantial to say today, will share a joke: Fed up with his nephew boasting about how good he was at flight-simulator games, a colleague, who is a pilot, decided to give him a taste of the real thing and took him for a ride in his 2-seater plane. At about 60 meters over [...]

Limericks I

There was a young lady called Kate, who played in the dark with her date. When asked whether he had seduced her, she smiled and said – no it amused her, My dear, it wasn’t a man – it was a computer. There was a young lady named Mabel, so ready, so willing, so able. [...]

Pingalwara Society

Pingalwara Society

When I was in Amritsar, I visited the Pingalwara Society. In Punjabi Pingalwara literally means ‘a home for the crippled’. It was the brainchild of Bhagat Puran Singh. It has a lot of centers and looks after people given up by their children, mentally ill patients and terminally ill people. The main guiding principle was [...]

Twenty froggies

Talking about life two five year olds through a poem on frogs.

How does a coconut dry?

I have made a timelapse video of the drying of a coconut. Please have a look: If you are unable to see the video click here.

Six degrees of separation

Six degrees of separation is a hypothesis that every human being knows every other human being through six people. In other words for any two people A and B, either A knows B (1 degree of separation), or A knows someone who knows B (two degrees of separation) and so on. There have been experiments [...]