I met Kuldeep about 6 months ago. It had just been a few months since he arrived in Melbourne. As we conversed, Kuldeep mentioned that he’s studying cookery at one of Melbourne’ lesser known universities. He didn’t like cooking much, but this particular course, expensive as it was,…
Lately, I was thinking of taking a break from Delhi’s pre-monsoon humid weather, and head up-north to beat the heat a bit. Also to serve a quick retreat from work. So finally, I went to Dalhousie along with my family. Dalhousie is a less popular hill station for Delhiites,…
I just got back from a memorable trip to the east central Indian state of Chhattisgarh [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhattisgarh]. I visited my wife’s hometown (Bhilai [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhilai]), and adjoining towns on the trip (see map [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&…
Since I’ve been using a Treo [https://www.nilkanth.com/index.php?s=treo] lately, I thought I’d mention that Google Maps service is now available for Palm Treo [http://www.google.com/gmm/treo].…
Google finally puts Australia on the map! Here’s Melbourne on Google Maps [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=melbourne&ll=-37.817378,144.963913&spn=0.100892,0.284271&om=1]…
The Paradox of our Age [http://www.sharrongold.com/tshirts.html]. “We have bigger houses but smaller families, more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more medicines, but less healthiness; We’ve been all the way to the moon and…
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