Posted in imported-from-old-blog, travel and getaways on September 7, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I was staring out of my window at the endless morass of white and grey clouds when the pilot’s voice crackled on the microphone. “Ladies and Gentleman, in a short time we will be landing at Paro. Please fasten your seatbelts and put your seats upright. And if during the descent you see mountains closer [...]
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, personal, tagged bmath, isi, male-bonding on August 11, 2005 | No Comments »
Went to meet Anshul today. It was nice to talk of old times.
He informed me that there is a True-Lies website. The articles on 29 and the monthly PJ awards are by me. And oh, the first year at ISI! The first term in particular! Has there ever been a time like that? It was [...]
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, personal on August 11, 2005 | Enter your password to view comments
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Posted in imported-from-old-blog, travel and getaways on July 26, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Massive Mount San Antonio- or Old Baldy if you prefer- is the grand climax of the 50-mile backbone of the San Gabriels. No other peak in the range rises to challenge its 10,064′ elevation. From its summit you look over a good part of Souther California- an expanse of mountain, desert and coastal lowland. On [...]
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, personal on July 19, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Isn’t it reasonable that the expression of the most intense emotions, the most powerful feelings should lead to good art? No, dear reader, it usually leads to bad writing. A hotchpotch, a conglom of crap. You wish it would move her, but it doesn’t, and how can it, when it doesn’t even move you when [...]
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, on certain arts, writings and performances, personal on July 18, 2005 | 1 Comment »
On a stream of consciousness from my last post…one of Robert Frost’s best poems
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, on certain arts, writings and performances, personal, tagged growing up, harry potter, on certain arts, writings and performances, reviews, rowling on July 18, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Has the world ever seen a phenomenon like Harry Potter? There are a million theories -spanning the whole gamut from writing skills to ingenious marketing- about what makes the series so mindbogglingly popular. Personally, I stand for the simplistic view that they are just outstanding books. Massive popularity quite often signals mediocrity- not in the [...]
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, personal on July 16, 2005 | 5 Comments »
1. Once upon a time, I thought tidbits was spelt tit-bits. P corrected me.
2. I am hearing ‘Bheegey hont tere’ right now. There is something so intensely romantic about this song…and it affects me in a way I cannot adequately describe. It has the chill factor for me, and the line - Kabhie mere saath [...]
Posted in belles-lettres, imported-from-old-blog, on certain arts, writings and performances, personal, tagged apprehension, belles-lettres, dementor, Mozart, music, poetry, reviews, Salil Choudhury on July 10, 2005 | No Comments »
It is summer, and there’s not much to do. In other words, there is plenty of opportunity to feel sad.
I suppose it is a season of dementors. They glide into you and take control, and sometimes they do their job so well that you think you’ll never be happy again. But eventually they let you [...]
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, tagged monologues, reviews, sex, stage-performance, theatre, vagina on February 5, 2005 | Enter your password to view comments
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Posted in imported-from-old-blog, miscellaneous, on certain arts, writings and performances, personal, tagged dementor, hikes, love, reviews on February 2, 2005 | No Comments »
It’s been a while.
To get over the essentials…
The winter’s over, it’s a new term, new courses. Nothing much happening otherwise. The same old stuff - homework , chat , angst, movies, cricket. An occasional trip to someplace else. Joshua tree, Long beach, Channel Islands.
There are some nice pics at my homepage
Watched an old western today. [...]
Posted in education, imported-from-old-blog, math, tagged mathematician, mathematics, serge lang on November 9, 2004 | 3 Comments »
So how is it listening to Serge LANG?
For starters, awesome! On second thoughts, phew!
Well, Lang is a guy who actually jumps around while lecturing and every five minutes or so, comes up to a member of the audience and asks the poor creature questions!
So Jennifer was sitting there along with the rest of us, when [...]
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, travel and getaways on October 29, 2004 | No Comments »
Yeah, yeah…we live by the desert, but when the Caltech Y is here, can fall colours be far way?
So we went on a hike to Zion National Park, Utah.
We leave Caltech around 2 pm, Friday. There are forty of us. Some veterans of several Y-hikes, others new, all excited! Zion is 400 miles away, in [...]
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, personal on September 24, 2004 | No Comments »
With orientation almost over, it’s tempting to post on nostalgic lines. I wonder why it doesn’t ring true? Perhaps the fact that the (earlier) international orientation was so much more fun made the transition smoother.
It is not like IMOTC, whose last day nostalgia was strong enough to make a good story.
But then, there’s the hike [...]
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