Blogging from Word?

Trying out this Blogger Ad-On for MS-Word. The big promise of this software is that you need not visit the site to publish. You can type in stuff from the comfort of you MS-Word editor and publish your blog from there. So, does that work? Well, if you are seeing this. It does!

Terrorism and Loveism!!

In the age and time that I have lived – Terrorism is an important world issue. I was born in 1979, so I missed most of the Cold War action. That was good, because it ultimately turned out to be nothing. A damp squib. I vaguely remember seeing the Berlin Wall fall and the break […]

Holy Cow!!

Reading this book called “Holy Cow” by Karan Chopra – it’s such a delight. It’s written for first time tourists to India. Our country is so colorful. And we hardly notice. Reading about the Mughals, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sadhus – it is somebody telling me everything I know……. for the very first time. And you know what? That changes everything! […]

Creating in Emptiness

Revisiting this blog, after almost a year. So much has happenned. I really should write more often. Make that – I really will write more often. A friend left for a month – leaving me with suddenly empty evenings. All current personal projects, brainstorming sessions and pleasant outings came to a sudden stop. When I […]

I should have…

The saddest words in English Language are – “I should have….” The novel ‘War and Peace’ by Leo Tolstoy has a character called Ian. Ian is old and he is dying. On his deathbed this is what Ian says to himself “What if my whole life has been wrong? What if all I did was […]

Wake up call

A person who is sleeping can be woken up. A person who is pretending to sleep cannot be woken up. The worst and the most significant lies are those which we tell ourseleves. The worst actions are the ones that we take, all the while knowing that our soul does not want it. The worst […]