Shashikiran Mullur

War Memorial, down Brigade Road, Bangalore

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:12:00 +0530

War Memorial, down Brigade Road, Bangalore

The worry in India

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:04:00 +0530

The worry in India

There’s a lot said there between the lines…

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:42:45 +0530

There’s a lot said there between the lines…

“You know that all I desire and demand of life is to feel an urge to work!” —-...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:20 +0530

“You know that all I desire and demand of life is to feel an urge to work!”

—- Gustav Mahler

St. Martha’s Hospital, Bangalore… The part of the place where...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:05:00 +0530

St. Martha’s Hospital, Bangalore…

The part of the place where they see both through the flesh, and through to the matters of the mind.

Mahatma Gandhiji Caption from the July 15, 1946, issue of LIFE....

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:32:00 +0530

Mahatma Gandhiji

Caption from the July 15, 1946, issue of LIFE. “At 76, the Mahatma is in good physical condition. He weighs 110 pounds, but he is not so frail as he looks.”
See more photos from his revolutionary life.

(Margaret Bourke-White—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Fashion still doesn't give a damn about…

Mon, 06 May 2013 06:58:00 +0530

…the deaths of garment workers

To the Guardian article by Lucy Siegle to which the image above points, I add from what I’ve seen:

Bargaining is tough when buyers from transnationals fly down to set hourly rates with manufacturers. Decisions to move away to lower-cost sellers are taken in an instant and aggressive sellers desperate to cover overhead do everything they can (but shouldn’t) to meet target prices. Both sides are at fault in this dynamic, so it is the market economy that’s at fault, and who can change this situation but roused people moving their governments?

The road to…

Sun, 05 May 2013 15:30:32 +0530

The road to…

Tango. Strategy. Analysis. Debate. Oval. Agenda. The names of...

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:40:00 +0530

Tango. Strategy. Analysis. Debate. Oval. Agenda. The names of the meeting rooms at the Vivanta by Taj, Fisherman’s Cove, Chennai. The place is said to be a resort but in truth the priority is business. The beach was empty.

The sounds we heard last evening at Nandi Thota. We were on the...

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:18:00 +0530

The sounds we heard last evening at Nandi Thota. We were on the upper deck of our bungalow. The humid air promised rain whereas the sky was clear. The birds were subdued and the crickets were muted, as though they were both doing a sound check to improve their performance. It was bedtime for the birds and starting time for the crickets and they should both have been shrill.

Now in the morning the leaves of the coffee plants are glowing with life given them by the dew. The sounds of the birds and the crickets are downed by the chug and drone of our neighbour’s pump. It is draining the stream that separates our plantations.

I’ve pulled on my headphones and tapped on Tom Waits. But audio above is of last evening’s.

On the Shatabdi Express of the Indian Railways to Chennai....

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:27:41 +0530

On the Shatabdi Express of the Indian Railways to Chennai. Instant coffee, which I had to return. The ride was good.

In this video a 9-year-old boy drives a Ferrari in Kerala with a...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:46:00 +0530

In this video a 9-year-old boy drives a Ferrari in Kerala with a child aged five beside him and nobody else is in the car. He cannot pull on the seat belt because if he did his feet wouldn’t reach the pedals. The video was filmed by his mother and she uploaded the video to YouTube—full of pride and ignorant of wrongdoing.

The police took the father into custody. The video has gone viral and also the outrage so I’m not altogether ashamed of this episode that happened in India.

Why I like Churumuri

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:05:00 +0530

Because it gives a sense of the times in right-size shots of photo and text. Go there!

Chennai Central Railway Station

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0530

Chennai Central Railway Station

Vivanta by Taj, Covelong Beach, Chennai

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:57:00 +0530

Vivanta by Taj, Covelong Beach, Chennai

nevver: “A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:43:09 +0530

nevver:

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”
― John le Carré

Shanghai: view from my room on Flickr.

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:19:00 +0530

Shanghai: view from my room on Flickr.

"This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing."

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:12:39 +0530

“This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”

- Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via stackofbooks)

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:00:00 +0530

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to...:

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state of god-like awareness one sings; in this realm the world exists as poem.

—-Henry Miller in The Wisdom of the Heart

anthophilae: “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:40:52 +0530

anthophilae:

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.”

—Harun Yahya