Nokia really is going through a rough patch. They have just not been able to cut it in the high-end smartphone market, and at the lower end the Chinese have pulled out all stops and left them struggling to resolve what is nothing less than a brand identity crisis. To compound matters, they ran a […]

The Yog Vasishtha, that ancient scripture wherein the sage Vasishtha unravels the secrets of the universe to the young, perplexed Lord Rama, is at once fascinating, revelatory, convoluted and confusing. The suggestion, especially, that each one of us creates, and then proceeds to inhabit, multiple universes simultaneously, seems to be a bit hard to swallow […]

How could the government not have expected the reaction of millions of Indians to Anna’s completely unjustified arrest? They really pressed a raw nerve by swooping down on the non-violent septuagenarian who is a model of righteousness, when noted criminals and purveyors of terror are either left scot-free or mollycoddled in the name of “democracy/secularism”!It’s […]

Perhaps the greatest hoax that we perpetrate upon ourselves as human beings is the delusion that we can “figure out” how life works. Guruji often tells the story of the man who spends all night making his bed so that he can have the perfect sleep, only to see the sun coming up when he […]

It’s not that getting an iPad will make me more productive; the iPhone has already taken care of that — it’s amazing what the Apps can do — and this without even requiring a 3G or wifi connection; simple Edge on our local provider is good enough!What the iPad has really done for me, though, […]

Shri RSV Ratnam (Acharya Ratnananda) and Smt Vishalakshi, known to us all as Pitaji and Amma, will always live on in our hearts. We are indebted to them for all they have shared with us.Pranams and Jai Guru Dev

As you can see, we have been trying to incorporate new elements into the blog without changing the basic structure and look too drastically. Please do bear with us over the next few days as Alpesh (my tireless webmaster) and I try a few experiments. I hope you like the page with all my photography […]

Entirely my fault for having been away this long; its been a wonderful and very successful year, and I have been taking two-three flights a week for the past 10-12 months; have been making notes in my diary to turn into longer posts but truly have not had the luxury to sit down and convert […]