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2014

A 10 Minute Good Reads Challenge

So, my colleague and good friend Raj prodded me towards this post. He asked us to come up with a list few memorable blog posts that we’d all liked. What cons...

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2013

My First Pycon

Late last month, Vinu, Aditya, Jay and I attended Pycon India for the first time. I made a presentation about the technology stack we use at Levitum for the ...

A New Site Design Pelican Kleen Theme

So, I moved from Blogspot a year or so back, and began using a fabulous static site generator called Pelican. The distribution offers a number of themes, but...

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2012

The Pursuit of Dreams

The Education section of todays Times of India has covered my wife Monami Bhattacharya, chronicling her journey from an REC Warangal engineering grad working...

Musiguru - Part Deux

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” ― Albe...

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2010

My Birthday

Time flies. Or does it soar? I can’t believe that nearly a year has passed by since my last birthday! My wife and I threw a BBQ party, had a bunch of frien...

My mom retires this Friday!

After nearly three decades as a middle school science teacher, Padma Krishnaswamy, my mom retires from D.A.V. Gopalapuram in Chennai this Friday!There, now...

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2009

Twit or Tat

A little bit of this,and a little bit of that.I tweet lots,and twit not.Follow me on Twitter,and we'll get to know each other.Like birds of a feather,flock...

Trends to Watch

Our team at Levitum has put together a list of key mobile cloud trends to watch in 2010 based on market research. While some of this is stating the obvious...

Ten Little Things

It's been a whirlwind few months, and I've mostly been staying in touch with friends through Facebook and Twitter havent quite done a good job of staying l...

Je rêve un rêve

Sorry for having disappeared for a bit again - it's been a busy couple of months, and this should be an eventful post. Firstly, the acquisition of the ente...

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2008

Car Accident

This is a slightly delayed post to share an update that most of you are aware of by now, but may not be aware of all the details. Unfortunately, I was in a...

Comic: Ma Belle’s Vet Trip

Ma Belle is now a happy four month old pup and is growing up into the sweetest thing ever. She is the darling of the kids in the neighborhood who love play...

Ma Belle vs. Froggy

Our golden retriever pup is a hyperactive bundle of energy and loves playing my wife's old stuffed animals. Watch this duel with her toy frog - she gores i...

Does meeting madness get to you?

Do you feel at times that you are in so many meetings that you just arent adding much value? Or that you are in an ad-hoc meeting where you land up and th...

Birthday gift for Monami - Ma Belle!!!

We have a new addition - my gift to Monami for her birthday! A golden retriever puppy! Although her birthday was early May, we didnt get around to pup hunt...

2008 - Carpe Diem!

What a crazy, crazy world we live in! Time flies by through the year and the best time to reconnect with your friends is often through a new year greeting ...

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2007

Voila! Travel pictures!

There's so much to write about our travels and experiences in Europe over the last month, but there just hasnt been enough time!!!!! For now - here are a ...

Ten Questions with Jeffrey Pfeffer

Here's a little insightful gem straight from Guy's blog - an interview with Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at...

Hanauma Bay Snorkelling - Comic Strip

Hanauma Bay StripPictures from our snorkelling adventure in Hanauma Bay in Hawaii I threw together while experimenting with ComicLife, a neat Mac applicati...

An April Fools Day prank

I started a silly prank on a few colleagues this Fool's Day - The pretext? That we had just closed a deal through a reseller in Pakistan and that they had ...

Good news - my patent received!

Well, some good news to share: A patent applied by Iowa State in Feb 2001, based on work I had done earlier during my M.S. (in 1997/1998) was finally award...

Jan 24th - I got married!

*Note: This is a backdated entry*The highlights from our wedding and honeymoon are now online! More pictures to come as we get around to uploading them - p...

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2006

Maine Kya Kiah?

Melanie organized a fun carol singing event at work last week. Although I joined the first days practice, a bad throat infection kept me out through the re...

Goofy Duo

Mons and I got a digitized sketch made at Garuda Mall.

Hampi Dumpty - my fall

That's a small gash I had from my bike fall. Not seen in the picture - I had bruises on my arm, knee and shoulder, which took a couple of weeks to heal. My...

Operation Heliconia

Back when I was in highschool, our teacher gave us a biology class assignment - each one of us was to put together a herbarium with 10 phylums on display. ...

Kabbaladurga

Inspired by Vidya, one of the 'kids' in our office with a passion for trekking, a few of us set off on a day trip last Sunday to Kabbaladurga, a picturesqu...

DAV Gopalapuram - India’s best school

My highschool (DAV Gopalapuram, Chennai) featured recently in a Rediff article titled "Welcome to India's best school".Excerpt - "At the Central Board of S...

Bheemeshwari Cauvery Fishing Camp

Last weekend, Aditya, Vengada, Ramesh and I made a trip to the Bheemeshwari fishing camp along the Cauvery river. The package was offered by the Jungle l...

A thespian dies, and Bangalore burns

Rajkumar, the Kannada thespian died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 77 last Wednesday, and the state plunged into mourning the demise of their beloved mo...

The Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music

The Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music is an annual "dusk to dawn" all night long music festival held at the Fireflies Ashram off Kanakapura road, Bangalor...

My 55 word short story

I am "it". I was "tagged" by my colleague Monami as a part of this ongoing online feud to write the best 55 word short story (started by the New Times from...

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