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To just be My dance and music classes this semester have been quite a revelation to me . It has been something like stepping out of my comfo...

Human face Saw , heard , performed a lot of acts ( all the world's a stage and so I think the word acts encompasses all that happens aro...

Dharm Just finished a brilliant movie on communal violence .."dharm " ..starring pankaj kapoor . It brings to light again one of t...

Little men and women Somedays we come across certain people who make us realize how blessed our lives our ....soon after landing into the US...

Commemoration .... The D -Day is finally here . I am going back to india after 1.5 years in the US ..i call it commemoration because it kind...

Evolution of Haricutting From Kamruddin nayi (barber) @ Jhansi , Uttar Pradesh India to Aveda Hair Cutting Institute Minneapolis , Minnesota...

Fall 2008 Its been a year since I came to the US now .... feels longer than a year though ..so much has changed , I have seen so much and le...

Royal Treatement 3 months of living life kingsize has left me dreading getting back to the third world graduate life at school . For once yo...

Indianness I was watching Gandhi my father , the other day and then something struck me about what Indianness actually means . Before I go f...

World is Flat Recently have been reading this bestseller called World is Flat which is about flattening of economies world wide. It got me ...

5 miles Yesterday was one of the small accomplishment day . I ran 5 miles non stop on the tread mill . I had decided I would write a blog on...

Sicko One of the most touching documentaries that I have seen in recent times . It questions the medical system in the US . Privatization of...

Turkey - Two lifestyles was the heading of a article i read in the morning today . Immediately the numerous discussions I have had for the ...

Cabbies In the land of Uncle Sam the most interesting and knowlegable conversations that you can have are with cabbies. They are the people ...

HIV AIDS My first confrontation with the problem of HIV aids was back in India when I worked with my fellow rotractors to increase awareness...

Think Media . Over the past few days I have been thinking a lot about how the media is making us think . I am from India , one of the world...

Imagine a dollar being credited to your tax refund account bcoz some bummer somewhere in the US wrote down the same SSN number as yours and ...

Remember some times in life when nothing seems to be going quite well ..i remember a few in my life ..well now would go down in the memory l...

A Lesson I got my detection and estimation marks yest . I got 9/30 . I guess just one more person in that class of 30 has marks less than me...

Teaching bug My teaching bug got the better of me today when I spent 6 hours teaching till i finally hoarse and could not talk anymore . I t...