Experiences
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Why Is Common Sense Not So Common?
A couple of incidents that happened recently got me thinking about our reactions to different situations. Also how, more often than not, we miss the simplest of things because we are not able to focus completely at that particular time. In hindsight, what is called common sense appears to be very common, but somehow we Continue reading
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What Is The New New?
Old-fashioned is the new Modern. Che Guevera is the new capitalist icon. Sleeping is the new Awake. Giving up is the new Acquisition. Hopeless is the new Hopeful. Getting Lost is the new Finding Yourself. Non-conformity is the new Conformation. Dropping Out is the new Joining In. Working Hard is the new Laziness. Resignation is Continue reading
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You Can Call Me On My Mobile Phone
No wonder they call it the Xtreme Sports Bar. Because we visit that place bar bar (not just because it’s a bar) and extreme things happen while we are there. For example, Zee Sports is the channel they were playing on the TV screens the first time we went there. And why not, doesn’t that Continue reading
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Are You Really That Hot Then? Curious Incidents In The Life Time
Are You Really That Hot Then? Location: Aboard AI 620, Mumbai to Bangalore.Time: Between 2:15 and 2:30 am.Date: January 17, 2009.Feeling before the incident: One of immense relief having reached the airport only minutes before the departure and miraculously enough, being able to clear the security, customs and the immigration check (Yes, it was a Continue reading
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And Then One Voted
What I had to go through to get my voter ID card will take up two and a half blog posts, but after having cast my vote now, I feel it was worth all the effort. Here’s to Indian democracy – Wrong finger? Thank you very much, DNA. Huh. Old Airport Road, Bangalore at 6:45 Continue reading
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The Trip To Talakadu
Photos from the trip to Jaladhama, on the banks of rivers Kaveri and Kapila at Talakadu, about a couple of hours drive from Bangalore. Flower Power Photos taken during the breakfast stop-over at the Kamat Upachahra on Mysore Road. Scattering of Light? Barb Wire? Photos of the fields on the way – the Well Fielded Continue reading
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Mysore Dasara Trip 2008 Or Why I Can Now Die A Happier Man – I
The Theory of Happening Trips has been proved once again. That the best trips are those which are decided at the spur of the moment with minimum fuss about the planning, stay, travel and the company. And that the ones that are planned and thought over, over and over, never quite happen. The Mysore Trip Continue reading
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Why I Can’t Have Enough of Gujarat
I find it quite strange that during the four years I was at Surat and even during my trips to Gujarat before that, I had not come across Sanedo. I had not even heard or discussed about it with any of my friends from Gujarat. It was only at the Garba here in Bangalore that Continue reading
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Koel – Kahaan Gayi Teri Boli?
[Promise to myself – This is the first and last time that a post is entirely about a celebrity] Maybe this post was supposed to be about Rock On!! Or it was supposed to be about my our music story or about Vajra, our college band comprising of Mrinabh, Joji, Chinsi and Shubam which I Continue reading
Nikhil Kulkarni 