Its Different ..

I frequent the ibn live blogs , not exactly for the quality of posts there or even the insight they provide on a gamut of issues that our nation faces ... but probably more to guage the level to which the Hippocratic bias of front line Indian intellectual media (read ndtv/cnn-ibn and the likes) can get to ....and more to go through the comments section rather than the actual post :) ..

To my surprise today i came across a very subjective post ... which talks about actual governance on the ground and keeps itself away from the Hippocratic pseudo secular line that you will come across more often ...

Surely one of the few good reads you will find there -

cnnibn - different blog

and enclosing one of the typical ones "just to tell the difference" :)

cnnibn - typical blog

:)

My new address on the World Wide Web ...

Being consistent with changing times ... and evolving through time ... which has been the theme of my Blog since Monday Feb 20 2006, I have now migrated to Google .

Being one of the strongest proponents of Google , its technology and vision, I should have been doing this a long time back ... and well ... I indeed had .... its just that i have become a bit too lazy to actually do a "cut over" (As we say as per the standard migration process) , so here .. on the 16th Of August 2008 completely move from O3 at Indiatimes to here ...

My previous posts will remain available at - http://o3.indiatimes.com/someramblings , though i have not been a prolific writer in any sense of the word , but whatever little bit i write going forward will be here .... till evolution again demands change

Update : 10/05/2009

I found a way to Migrate my earlier posts to Blogger , so all my posts are available here also.

something has changed ....

There was a time (not that long ago) when i had lots of time ...and i had to find ways to make use of it ,and today looks like days have shortened ... do we still have the same 24 Hrs a day which i had 3 years back ? things have changed .... life has changed ..... maybe even priorities have .... , when i had started off my career in the technology space .... some 5 years back ... I always belived that i am the one whos working the most and making all the $s for my company .... today i feel i am the one whos slogging it out and these juniors just out of college just dnt want to work ..... now is this just a perspective or a different generation a different mindset .... i dont knw ... all i knw that when i thot i slogged a lot 5 yrs back i had a lot of time to forward junk to the world ... be 24X7 online ........ write blogs .... be active on the social network ... play cricket ... play TT .... go to gym (once in a while ie) ... get into a volleyball game ... roam around the chennai beaches ... . be involved with socio political groups ... be part of change ... try to influence change and what not ... if i look down ... just the last 5 years i can see what it is ....... is it just abt getting practical with all your experiences ... with time you get your priorities right (now who knws 5 yrs down the line i might think otherwise) .... u understand yourself and your environment ....what you can do and what is beyond urself .... it is something like a couple of years back in a similar setup i was away frm India and there were those ghastly bomb blasts in the mumbai subarban train network .... I was shocked angered and wanted to change the world ... today I am again somewhere far off and i hear of bombs going off at the same Bus stops in bangalore where I had waited for my bus to e-city 100's of times ...and I just dont get that same feeling i had 2 years back ... i know nothing can change and nothing will change ... that spark ...that exuberance.... that hope .. seems to be deserting me ....Today the only passion i see ... offcourse other than cricket :) ... is my job .. my work, why has so much changed in the last year or so .... maybe its just that i am getting married .... i know its not right ... but its imminent ..... what i always feared is coming true ... once u get married have a family you ... the selflessness starts diminishing and the selfishnes begins ... i know its coming .... i knw its happening ... and i know it happens to most .... but i always thought i am diffrent ... the question i need to ask myself is ... what makes me change ... why cant i be my real self as i was B4 .... why cant i still find time to do what i always did ... why cant i still play the games i loved ...why cant i keep thinking big .... why cant i spare time for firends .... why cant i just be online as used to be before !!

Cricket ..... lives on ...

Now i had to write this one .... after the relatively depressing post ....post the 5050 wc exit i had to write this one , theres no way cricket is anywhere near death ... the way hockey reinvented itself when it was being dominated by India ... by gettin in the astro turf .... cricket has found a way to get over aussie dominance ..... cut short the game make it more unpredictable !!! .... a masterstroke i feel .. though not tooo great a newz for other sports in India ...

"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini -- A review

Stuck in my ofc waiting for the rain gods to give way .... just happened to browse past my now neglected blog , and as always am thinking of excuses .... instead lemme do smthg which i havnt tried my hand at .... a "book review"
The most recent book i happened to read ... by accident, courtesy my cousins unscheduled visit not only to bangalore but subsequently to a book store here ... i happened to notice this one , i had recently heard a friend talk abt .... " The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini ...
The story line is really touching and the setting in the 60's to the mid 80's in afganistan is really well done .... goin thru the book page after page u get the feel of actually being there and get ... kind of a first hand experience of the socio political situation of afghanistan during the those turbulent times .... now i cant really get into the literary aspects to the writing as i dont consider myself competent enuf to do that ..... but its the kind of story which engrosses u .... makes u experience a spectre of feelings ... of angst, of helplessness, of envy, of pride, of friendship, of love, of devotion and what not .... all in all a complete novel ..... u just cant put down ...
The pro american touch throughout the book is quite expected given the fact that the author had been given political assylum by the US during most turbulent times in afghanistan .....
The period and the events covered by "the kite runner" probably still has a very huge influence on the socio political scene across the world including india even today ...
so ****** and a biiiiiiiiig reco frm me :)