Raavan has been secretly visiting the neighborhood Hanuman Temple. Either this is some serious acid tripping at work, or someone really seems in a mood to mend old bends 
Seems liked no one ever wants to see a city burning, that too by a tail end , and my Raavan at his monstrous best, is still definitely no Joker - who loved to watch the world burn.
Raavan met my mom today, (not for the first time), but today he was blushing, gushing and flushing all the time….like one new flirt.
Aha….it was such a treat to watch them court each other 
Seriously, I have never seen someone with 10 heads flirt before 
I was talking to someone and telling him that I usually end up petitioning wealth, because I want “money to buy things I want”, versus (and I am seeing more of this in my neighborhood 
), folks end up with an avarice for the green because “ it can buy them things money can buy”.
I don’t know if you see the subtle play of words, but in the real world, it’s salt vs pepper
Just finished Lisa Genova’s Still Alice, a fascinating look into the mind of a dementia (Alzheimer’s patient), very similar to Samantha Harvey’s The Wilderness (which is far more poetic, less real, but really haunting).
I loved the book, its un-down-puttable. It forces you to think of what life is, and what it could be.
My blog is a battle against one such eventuality 
I can see a lot more folks blogging after they read this book…serious….it makes you feel fragile.
| # | Date | Author | Book | Rating | Comments |
| 17 | Oct 2012 | Lisa Genova | Still Alice | 9/10 | Outstanding. You just connect with Alice immediately and her life becomes yours. You can see shards of her mind through the book. |
| 16 | Oct 2012 | Arthur C Clarke | Rendezvous with Rama | 9/10 | Outstanding. It hooks you on completely, and leaves with emotionally attached with Rama, quite some time after you have finished the book. |
| 15 | Oct 2012 | Salman Rushdie | Joseph Anton | 7/10 | Good Read. Strictly only for a Rushdie fan. |
| 14 | Sep 2012 | Walter Issacson | Steve Jobs | 9/10 | Excellent read. I found it inspiring and the book made Jobs a more humane person with an infantile ego |
| 13 | Aug 2012 | JM Coetzee | Disgrace | 10/10 | Outstanding. My 3rd read of the book. If you have not read this book…I urge you to. Minimalism combined with stark imagery. Coetzee is cross between Kundera and Rushdie, my two other fav authors |
| 12 | Aug 2012 | Randy Pausch | The Last Lecture | 3/10 | Crappy. This is my third attempt at reading this narcissist take on dying. I have learnt more from the Jobs book than this shit tale. I have never finished the book. |
| 11 | Aug 2012 | Garth Stein | The Art of Racing in the Rain | 9/10 | Fantastic. It starts of as a cute book, gets philosophical, and actually gets damn endearing and makes a bigtime emotional connect. |
| 10 | Aug 2012 | Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 10/10 | Outstanding. My 3rd read….and 2nd in the last 2 years. What can I say? I plan to read this every year, at least once. |
| 9 | Jun 2012 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight’s Children | 8/10 | Fantastic. My 4th read…..strangely I did not enjoy it as much this time around. |
| 8 | June 2011 | Robert Spencer | Books on Islam (set of 2) | 6/10 | Engaging Read. But very Islamaphobic. I am genuinely interested in religion and philosophy, so I liked this history….but others might not. |
| 7 | May 2011 | Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 10/10 | Outstanding. My 2nd read. |
| 6 | May 2011 | Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar | 6/10 | Read Once. Her poems are so much better. |
| 5 | Apr 2011 | Salman Rushdie | The Enchantress of Florence | 7/10 | Read Once. Only for fans. |
| 4 | Mar 2011 | Stephen King | The Shining | 9/10 | Haunting. Must Read. The movie and the book are both one of a kind. |
| 3 | Mar 2011 | Michael Ondaatje | Divisadero | 4/10 | Pass. Very mediocre book. |
| 2 | Mar 2011 | Salman Rushdie | The Satanic Verses | 10/10 | Outstanding. Controversies not withstanding. My 4th read, as a piece of fiction, this book is a masterpiece. Also, its really not disrespectful to Islam, all it does is use a bit of creative licensing while telling history. |
| 1 | Mar 2011 | Salman Rushdie | Shalimar The Clown | 10/10 | Outstanding. Fall in love with Kashmir. |
I liked both of these posts from my alter ego.
The title of this post is a tribute to his creativity, not mine.
and
Do read it and have a laugh.
How to eat a Masala Dosa?
(Another forward. Lovely photos. Source unknown. Reproduced verbatim.)
Some nostalgic pictures - A rarity to have - Needs to be preserved!
15th August 1947, First News Paper of INDEPENDENT INDIA
DAIRY MILK CHOCOLATE 1905 TO 1999 
Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky 
An Awesome paint of Leonardo da vinci 
The front page of the April 16, 1912 evening edition of the Boston Globe, detailing the Titanic Disaster is shown 
The Elephant Rock - 1858 
Star Cinema ( now at Pakistan ) 1943 
Shooting-the-mgm-lion-logo-in-1924 
Incomplete Howrah bridge 1935 
Howrah Bridge under construction... 1942... 
HOWRAH BRIDGE 
Calcutta bus stand near Howrah bridge, most likely on the Howrah station side of the Hooghly River 1944 
view of the hoogly river at 1880 
Last time Netaji was arrested by British police 
A rare one of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his wife Eimilie Shenkl 
Gandhi ji with his wife Kasturba Gandhi 
the crown of India 
Maharani of Jaipur Gayatri Devi - 1940's 
The last train , Dhaka to Calcutta!!! Taken in 1947 
British India and Afghanistan border - 1934 
Gandhi-ji with Netaji 1932 
Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhulabhai Desai, and Rajendra Prasad (Center) at the AICC Session, April 1939 
Chatim talay gurudeber janmodin 1937… 
Rabindranath Thakur 
Sharat Chandra with Surendranath 
Bagha Jatin 
deho rakhchen thakur ramkrishna paramahansa deb 
rare picture of the family of maa sarada devi 
1968 shayam bazar more 
Family of Indira Gandhi 
July 1983 Indira Gandhi felicitates Kapil Dev, captain of Indian cricket team 
Satyajit Roy only 22 years old , picture taken at 1943 
Asha, Mukesh , Lata , Kishore & Manna 
rare picture of Kishore kumar & Bhupen Hazarika 
awesome picture of RK, dilip sahab and Dev anand 
Amit ji with his mom Teji bachan.... 
Jaya with her son & daughter 
C. V. Raman - The Great Indian Physicist
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect 
The original picture of Jhansi Rani Laxmi Bai. This picture has been taken by German photographer Hoffman 160 years ago 
This was how the Taj Mahal was protected from bomber jets in 1942 during world war.
It was covered with huge scaffold, to make it look like a stockpile of bamboo and misguide bombers.
The covering is still incomplete in this photo. The whole of Taj Mahal was covered but this picture shows only the main dome covered. The govt. didn’t allow any photographers later to shoot the final scaffold cover.
During the India-Pakistan war in 1971, it was protected by covering it with a green cloth and making it almost invisible i.e. camouflaged within the greenery around it.
Even in 2001, after the Sep 11 attack, Archaeological Survey of India took up the precautionary measure to cover it with cloth and it took them more than 20 days to do that!!
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