A living case study

Thanks to TED, today I happened to listen to this inspirational talk by Dr. Thulasiraj Ravilla, CEO of Aravind Eye Care. That he is leader and part of the team that provides community service for a noble cause stuns me, but more important than that, Aravind is a business case study for all of…

Book Review : Terror Incorporated

Prologue:

If CIA or FBI profiles me based on the keywords from my google searches in the last week or so, they can ‘suspect’ me for technically anything. Of course, if they show up at my house, I will show them that all my google searches were…

Humming now #6 — Grand Episode

What I am about to write about in this episode is more than just humming now. This is more like “humming forever”. I am going to write about 3 ragams, which may be different in their nuances, but are very close to each other and hence for somebody like me, hard to…

Humming now #4

In August of 200&, I first blogged announcing the new series of blog-posts called “Humming Now” which would strive to appreciate the beauty of carnatic music, one raga at a time. I never really kept with it. I would like to revive it, so here you go:

Spellbound: Retirement

Spellbound: Apparels

Humming now #7

It was more than 10 years ago when I listened to this album called Colours with Kunnakudi on Violin, Zakir on Tabla, Sivamani on Drums and Dilip Kumar (now AR Rehman) on keyboards. One song particularly intrigued me, that I listened to it countless times afterwards. It is almost like Zakir doing the…