Halloween – a terrifyingly sweet myth to have fun.
( Note: I wrote this piece a few years back. republishing it with a few changes) To me, Halloween is[…]
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Author: bala.sunderosho
Countess Ada Lovelace, a day in October that honors her memory and celebrates Women in science, and a gentle enquiry into her contribution towards software programming.
Casually ask any software developer you know – who was the world’s first software programmer and you are likely to[…]
Read moreOh! Jerusalem – An attempt at understanding the genesis of the struggle between Israelites and Hamas
To understand the current war between Israel and Hamas, one has to go back in history, not fifty or hundred[…]
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Thoughts on love, the book ” The Devotion of Suspect X” and its film adaptation “Jaane Jaan”, and Paul Erdos, the mathematician – a brief digression.
Love is a strange phenomenon. It is universally recognized, but almost impossible to define and rationalize. Sometimes love materializes in[…]
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Kavya Janaki Chandrasekhar – officially an Architect today.
( I wrote this short piece in 2019 when Kavya graduated from Manipal. I made a few revisions to it[…]
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The idea of a vigilante, the Equalizer Trilogy and the brilliance of Denzel Washington
The word Vigilante derives from the root “vigil” – Spanish in origin, meaning to keep watch or be aware. The[…]
Read moreA few lines on a wedding that is close to my heart – Kavya & Gowtham’s
One of the predominant motifs that adorn the architecture of many Hindu temples is the marriage between the Gods. You[…]
Read moreMisrepresenting Sanatana Dharma.
It is extremely sad and unbecoming of a young minister (whose primary qualification for the job, may I add, is[…]
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Thoughts on couple of movies I liked
Ever since I watched the rushes of “Gargi”, the Sai Pallavi starrer, on YouTube in 2022, the movie has been[…]
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“Jailer” – An experience that exhausted me
A request, or a word of caution, if you will. For those who believe Rajni’s “Jailer” is a come-back film[…]
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