Char oli

Sagar pohat bahubalane, naav tayasi milo na milo re,

Swayech jo tejonidhi tarani, tad gruhi deep jalo na jalo re.

Jo Kari Karm Ahetu, Ved Tayas Kalo Na Kalo Re

The struggle against complexity

As I spend more and more time in the world of enterprise software, I realize that my job as a programmer…

Why.

The most common reaction when I tell people that I quit is ,”Why?!”.

Golfers’ egg

I was thinking of what to eat the other day and suddenly remembered a simple but delicious dish that we used to eat as kids: golfer’s egg! Sent an email to my uncle and my father asking for the recipe — since my uncle replied first he gets the credit for being the inventor or discoverer of this dish! It…

So, you want to be a writer?

This is intended as a note to self.

if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at…

On children

Khalil Gibran was a wise man. An excerpt from ‘The prophet’.

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, “Speak to us of Children.”

And he said:

Your children are not your children.

Toad

Why should I let the toad work
Squat on my life?
Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork
And drive the brute off?

Six days of the week it soils
With its sickening poison -
Just for paying a few bills!
That’s out of…