Butterfly
The number of butterflies in Delhi is reducing, a recent newspaper report said. No surprise, given the pollution levels. I captured for my kids what they may not be able to see, but is this enough?
Orange flowers
I don’t know the name of this flower, but it has been my favourite since childhood. As a kid, I used to ask my father to get me these flowers. He would leave some behind, before leaving for office. After coming home from school, the first thing I would do is to find the flowers [...]
Ozymandias – the king of kings
The frequency of postings having gone down a bit, the readers may be wondering what I am up to. I am preparing for the first anniversary of this blog. Today I want to share with you a second poem that has persisted in my memory since school days – the first one having been Twenty [...]
Jogging
Am trying to motivate myself these days to initiate some physical fitness activity, hence writing about jogging. You know its time to resume running when you try to do a few push ups and discover that certain body parts refuse to leave the floor. Michael Johnson, the Olympic gold medal runner went to a club [...]
Drawing on Palm
When I purchased my Sony Clie handheld, I was quite happy about the ability to create scribbles/drawings. This method, I found, was much better than writing on paper and scanning because the result had fewer colors and all sorts of transformations – like rotation, conversion to B&W etc – were much easier. Also the results [...]
Guns on video games
As a teenager, I used to have a video game console with a ‘gun’. On the screen you could see some ducks – flying around – and you had to shoot them down. I used to wonder how, with a normal TV - the gun was able to detect whether a duck has been shot or [...]
