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Is erudition a problem?

Filed in General Interest, July 29, 2009, 7:00 pm by ,

TweetWhile you enjoy Abdul’s post below, please checkout my guest post on RK’s blog – Has twitter killed blogging & How to blog in the age of Twitter.  – Sukumar —— “Larding your conversations with small bits of erudition is more likely to irritate than to win friends and influence people.” – Stanley Fish as […]

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DA War

Filed in General Interest, July 23, 2009, 8:00 pm by

TweetIt all started because I wanted to be a fighter pilot. Tummy-achingly badly. They say women love a guy in a uniform. Since I’m one sandwich short of a picnic, I wanted to be the guy in the uniform. Chuck the guy out. Gimme the uniform. And not for dry cleaning. I want you to […]

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Three buckets of action

Filed in General Interest, July 19, 2009, 8:22 pm by , ,

TweetDear Readers,  here is Kumaran’s first post. Please welcome him to the blog with your encouraging comments.  – Sukumar — This topic actually came up when I was having a discussion about life with a friend of mine from college (Thyagesh). It has been close to 5 years now after we had the conversation now and […]

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Celebrating 5 years of blogging + Other Milestones

Filed in Books,General Interest, July 15, 2009, 5:41 pm by ,

TweetProlog It has been a while since i wrote on this blog. Thankfully Abdul Fakhri and Priya Raju have been doing a wonderful job of picking up the slack.  Fine Tastings Since this section has not been carried in a while, i decided that it may not be wise to list all the links i […]

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Can Michael Jackson ‘beat’ Rudyard Kipling to ‘it’?

Filed in Books,General Interest, July 5, 2009, 5:35 pm by

TweetOH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth! The […]