If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Like thousands of others, I too got the idea of picking up a dead-tree edition of a newspaper to preserve the moment of Obama’s victory. I drove out to the local Starbucks at 7am and picked [...]
April 11th, 2008
Offshore Excursion – Tulum Ruins in Mexico
This is the concluding part of the narrative of our honeymoon cruise. I had written earlier on the dining options and the activities & entertainment aboard Carnival Conquest and later shared our experiences at the ports-of-call, Montego Bay (Jamaica) and Cayman Islands. Our final port of call was at Cozumel which is a small island [...]
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History, Personal, Religion, Travel | 
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March 1st, 2008
Thoughts on India After Gandhi
Given the number of blog posts, magazine (and journal) articles, and news reports I read these days, I had almost given up on books with more than 300 pages often citing attention deficit as a lame excuse, as compared to other people who seem to chew on books like a raging bull. But when I [...]
Patrix | Books, History, India | 3 Comments »
February 29th, 2008
‘Border’ battle never happened?
Major General Atma Singh, now retired who won the Vir Chakra for gallantry for his role in the Laungewala battle fought in 1971 now claims that no ground battle was ever fought there and the army merely rehearsed it on a sand model after the ceasefire to cover up the incompetence of military commanders [source]. [...]
Patrix | Current Affairs, India | 2 Comments »
November 1st, 2007
Bhagat Singh – a terrorist?
In the recently-concluded general studies paper of the UPSC’s Civil Services exam, candidates saw a strange question that asked them to evaluate the contribution of revolutionary terrorism represented by Bhagat Singh [source]. Since Indian citizens are always waiting to be offended, it was only matter of time before protests and law suits followed. Is Bhagat [...]
Patrix | Current Affairs, History, India | 2 Comments »
May 1st, 2007
How does the future look?
Many futuristic movies show flying cars and climate-controlled cities on far-flung planets. Even the first Terminator had predicted robots going to war against mankind as early as 1997 but thankfully nothing of the sort happened. Science fiction deals completely with visualizing the future and more often than not predicting doom (because I guess, it makes [...]
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April 17th, 2007
Matheran Train completes 100 years
Matheran Train completes 100 years in 2007. A renaming issue is brewing as it seeks to find a place in the World Heritage List.
Patrix | History, India | 2 Comments »
February 3rd, 2007
Everything is Illuminated
“I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. [...]
October 19th, 2006
Gandhi: Rare Videos
The power of YouTube is evident when we come across wonderful gems of modern history. Via Digg, I found a link to clips of Gandhi from the pre-independence era. This clip is a montage of his life when Nehru announced Gandhi’s death on All-India Radio
Other Gandhi videos:
Gandhi in Shimla
Gandhi-Jinnah meeting, 1944.
Update: If you are [...]
Patrix | History, India, Videos | 3 Comments »
July 3rd, 2006
10 Vital Days
Ten days that changed America. I am surprised they left out 9/11 or Al Gore’s defeat to Bush. I bet history will tell a different story.
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Movies I've Watched...
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2009-06-21 15:30
Michael Cera is the only bright spark in an otherwise listless comedy.
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2009-06-10 19:00
Love political movies so loved this one too. Frank Langella plays a terrific Nixon.
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2009-06-05 16:45
Outrageously funny. Not recommended for watching with your kids or parents.
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