January 5, 2009 by sankarshan · Leave a Comment
On Saturday, Runa and me went for a stroll around the Aga Khan Palace. It was not exactly twilight, but the gentle fade-to-dusk light from the evening sun along with the lush silence did work wonders for a bit of walking.
A few more photos at the usual place. And, in other news, she has updated the food blog.
The Goddess and her puja
October 9, 2008 by sankarshan · Leave a Comment
Runa went to the puja at Rohi Villa Palace, on 7th Lane at Koregaon Park, Pune and took a couple of nice photos.
Durga Puja at Pune
October 6, 2008 by sankarshan · Leave a Comment
We went to visit the Durga Puja at the Congress House at Pune. The book shops were missing, the cutlets were not ready. But the goddess was there alright. Resplendent and magnificent.
From my meta-blog- Who is a MapMyIndia product user ?Sometimes I wonder how websites that are supposedly used by a large client base get away with being stupid. The recent case being MapMyIndia. If one selects a product that allows an “e-download” (read that as electronic download) one receives a download link in the e-mail. The goofiness is that it does not specify the […]
- An old songI spent some time yesterday rummaging through my collection of music. The actual intent was to search for an elusive recording of Layla (live at some concert). I have this fascinating obsession with the song and end up listening to various versions of it through the years including some cover versions where I’d have gladly […]
- Being sick and other such mundane stuffI don’t like being sick. I am sure that no one does. But in my case it makes me a heavily cranky person. Especially so because irrespective of the reason I am sick I get these persistent headaches that make reading anything off the screen a distasteful exercise. And, if like me, anyone else does […]
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More Photos - Books on my bookshelf
- The Toss of a Lemonauthor: Padma Viswanathan name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.40 book published: 2008 rating: 2 read at: date added: 2010/09/02 shelves: review: […]
- Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Timeauthor: Howard Schultz name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.66 book published: 1997 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2010/09/02 shelves: review: […]
- 7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar Artauthor: Devdutt Pattanaik name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.50 book published: 2009 rating: 2 read at: date added: 2010/09/01 shelves: review: […]
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haleyauthor: Malcolm X name: Sankarshan average rating: 4.28 book published: 1965 rating: 3 read at: date added: 2010/09/01 shelves: review: […]
- The Silmarillionauthor: J.R.R. Tolkien name: Sankarshan average rating: 3.59 book published: 1977 rating: 3 read at: date added: 2010/09/01 shelves: review: […]
- Schindler's Listauthor: Thomas Keneally name: Sankarshan average rating: 4.16 book published: 1982 rating: 3 read at: date added: 2010/09/01 shelves: review: […]
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- What I recently said
- sankarshan: The EPW beta site http://beta.epw.in/home/ looks way better than the existing one :) Time to shift I guess.
- sankarshan: http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2010/09/01/#20100901-gpl_enforcement [..] and a very surreal but important case (Harald Welte's blog)
- sankarshan: @Airtel_Presence what's wrong with this message ? The date/time is being set to yesterday anyway. http://twitpic.com/2kfx6n
- sankarshan: @suddentwilight Indeed.What's life without a little respact (sic) ? :D
- sankarshan: @suddentwilight The portal needs an online dictionary and spelling checker plugin for the input forms :)
- sankarshan: @runa_b Follow that list.It is mighty entertaining :)
- sankarshan: @Airtel_Presence I'm on the DND and yet I get calls from 9970403066 promoting Airtel post-paid plans.How does that happen ?
- sankarshan: https://fedorahosted.org/security-spin/wiki/availableApps : list of available apps for the Fedora Security Lab Spin.Give the spin a try :)
- sankarshan: PuneLUG meeting on04Sep2010 has a session about teaching kids of 7th/8th standard programming using Alice and other FOSS tools.
- sankarshan: http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ReadingandSugar-en-2010.07.12-00.46.21.pdf (PDF link) Reading And Leading With Sugar.Recommended.
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