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The old order changeth
Lost and Found on Mars
North of Northeast Part XIII
A kick in the butt
Endangered Forest Owlet now sighted in Madhya Pradesh Jungles too!
A Yellow Taj Mahal?
Allergies; a modern age nemesis
Killing two birds with one stone
North of Northeast Part XII
What’s in a label?
India building deep underground laboratory to study Neutrinos
A “Vedic” flying machine; Myth or Historic reality?
Unnecessary surgeries; a case of Trust deficit
100 days strong; good for years to come
On New Year Resolutions
New discovery of Buddhist sculptures near Taxila in Pakistan
North of Northeast Part XI
India building deep underground laboratory to study Neutrinos
North of Northeast Part X
A juggler’s trick on board International space station
MIG 21 fighter aircraft; still a long wait for replacement
North of Northeast part IX
India’s 4 tonne payload capability rocket blasts off successfully.
India’s first nuclear powered submarine enters open seas for sea trials
Scions of Genghis Khan
The invisible fence
North of Northeast Part VIII
An Oily Catastrophe
The trust deficit
India to partner giant 30 meter telescope project
From Berlin wall to Baluchistan trench
North of Northeast Part VII
Operation Water
What’s in a baby’s name?
Nepal’s senseless religious carnage
Baby steps towards a manned space flight
Return of the lost one
Cambodia’s Vulture restaurants
North of Northeast Part VI
A great step forward- getting hassle-free visas for India
Better late than never
A helicopter as a gift
A watchful eye opens on India’s coastline
Language learning muddle
North of Northeast Part V
Riding piggyback on a comet – Day 2
North of Northeast- Part III
Godmen of India
India and the internet
Riding piggyback on a comet- Day 1
North of Northeast – Part II
North of Northeast-Part I
Its OK to be different
Was the eastern reservoir in Dholavira, actually a great bath, like the one in Mohenjo Daro?
Bulldozing through the space
Yal Devi roars again
Lost and found
The Laws that govern India
The Happy hours
The quest for light
A quantum jump in Astrophysics
On cruelty to animals
The Cattle shall stand only!
Wildflowers of Kaas – Part IV
Wildflowers of Kaas – Part III
Wildflowers of Kaas – Part II
Wildflowers of Kaas- Part I
A hot new star
Cambodia retains it’s piece of history
Piracy on the rise in Malacca straits again
Quest for a better mosquito repellent
A different kind of treasure trove
Pakistan in a nutcracker situation
Mysterious case of the stolen idols
On spoilsports
The run machines
Studying Maths is no key to career success
Halloween in Deepavali
What’s in a name?
Ancient gold to turn in ash, says the Seer!
Epicenter of terrorism
The clock hidden within us
The Worst and the best!
A tree of Gold
Heritage lost
Kudankulam nuclear power generator tastes the water
Shutting down a city, for dummies
Doing the groceries!
Feeling it in the bones!
Incredible India!
What is happening in Air India?
Sisterly love or partners in crime
Apathy, neglect and indifference
The night of the wild winds
Kiss and tell: China’s new whistleblowers
A new doomsday Scenario
Believe it or not!
As illusive as his Goddamn particle
Visa troubles for Indians and Chinese
Net controllers of China
Water: from toilets to tap
Horoscopes, Astrology and statistics
International day of older persons
Howler of the year
The Jewels in the ice
They do it with typewriters
‘Made by Nature’ drones kill 28 people in China
Island emerges out of sea off Pakistan coastline
Crunch the dictator
Restoring The Magnificent Palace of the Peshawa’s -The Shaniwar Wada
Catching Butterflies in Taliban country
Sacramental rites or not, no escape from tax
Challenging Miss world
Return of the Yogini
Callous indifference at its worst
Relevance of Agni V
From deadly weapons to Art forms
Celebrating Autumn
Two disasters that defined India’s south-west border with Pakistan for ever
Sunset at Montmajour
India’s first military satellite up in the sky
Costliest grin ever
From Tibet with Gold
London’s new solar cooker
India’s middle classes feeling short changed
A village under siege
Fish in your pants?
Dimwits galore
India’s melting pot
Tainted baby milk storm now hits South Asia
Prelude to an ancient wonder
A Rescue drama on high seas
Traditions and onions
Laughing all the way to the bank
No longer the peoples car!
Summer colds and air conditioning
You too, Brutus?
A boozy dream comes true
They do it with blinkers!
It’s a lion! It’s a dog!
Smartphone aid for the Slouchy
The strawberry Generation
Chennai airport saga: Here we go again!
The amazing power of Bollywood
Corporate jungle and self interests
Koreans make Nikola Tesla’s 1905 dream come true.
Hey! Who flushed my toilet?
The Harappan pot of Gold
In the footsteps of the Mahatma
Internet and the elderly
The spirit of innovation
Jungle rule in Bengaluru city
Going (Coco)nuts!
A story of unbelievable compassion
No entry for the oversized!
The great deception
A 1000 year old treatise on architecture
Chocolates, coffee and Bookstores
Cutting flab means gold in Dubai
Prey to the God to stop the rains!
Death of a watermelon vendor
India’s Midday Horror of Horrors
Boom town goes bust
Shoot down that drone!
Crazy Bicycles Part III
Olives from a desert
Kudankulam goes critical
In quest of that pure unadulterated sound!
Disliking the likes
Celebrating a Birthday with Bullets
The Runaway train
Miracles do happen, even now!
Terrorists target the Buddha
The Ultimate Dressing up
Eavesdropping, please do it!
Blow Hot Blow cold
Europe hit by Snow(den) storm
Cost of free stuff
The nights of long knives
About investment decisions
A midsummer night’s madness
Check the foundations first!
A look at Himalayan disaster relief operations through Indian Army Tweets
A Universal Problem
Taliban kill foreign mountain climbers in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
Hazed out in Singapore
The new digital divide
Blackmailing civil servants
Three Coins in a fountain
Australians discover a 1200 year old lost city in Cambodia
Life without a mouse
The end of DiDi–DaaDaa-DiDi
What should medical profession offer to the suffering? Worst case scenario or a ray of hope?
Amazing flight of fancy ends in jail
Singapore’s Gardens by the bay: Celebrating nature with Hi-Tech excellence; Part III
Four big yellow ducks
Archaeologists discover a 2500 year old urban conglomerate in central India
New hope for victims of a dreadful scourge.
India’s own GPS network takes shape
A shipwreck in South China Sea
India deploys front line fighters at a new base in deep south
Roaches are forever
Dinner theater
The back door
Parenthood for sale? No way!
Internet swindlers find a new way to cheat; through a woman’s heart!
Take a break please. Be gadget free!
Dreading loneliness
Manicuring the green image
Grandparents Day
A true story
Chennai airport again!
Definitely not on my palate
Selling Ice to Eskimos
Return of the king
Lost and found
A friend in need
Mahabharata warriors finally going home
As bad as it can get!
But who wants to live longer?
New Harbingers from India
A street fight on way to mount Everest?
Building a little Sun of our own
The whole rotten system
Singapore’s Gardens by the bay: Celebrating nature with Hi-Tech excellence; Part II
That Sinking feeling….
Pune’s Superbikes of the 1950’s
Singapore’s Gardens by the bay: Celebrating nature with Hi-Tech excellence; Part I
The ‘Juna Bazaar’ days
Parting is always painful
This is my vacation after all!
Internet saves Xuan Zang’s heritage temple in China
Fair and lovely
Eating Fads
Sitting on a $5.3 Million treasure without knowing it!
The problem of e-waste
Fly only if you are slim and fit!
Bengaluru’s Cardboard Policemen
A different kind of Hair Cut
Garland bearers of the Buddha
The big joke is finally over!
A new Glasnost
What if we don’t have the guns? We have gunshots!
No train travel for me any more!
Amazing Dholavira Part IV
Head on collision
The Power of a comma!
Who said ‘NO’?
Are you Obese?
Stone age justice
Passports for Pianos and Violins
The curse of pigs
Mapping the sky in twenty one verses: The genius of ‘Surya Siddhanta’
Operation Red Thread
The way to go
India’s rank in WEF’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index 2013, Not bad, but could have been better!
Antonio’s lucky Buffaloes
A Car for the future
Amazing Dholavira, Part III
Melaka Spice Part III
Melaca Spice, Part II
Melaka Spice, Part I
Lust for gold
Amazing Dholavira, Part II
Problems of Plenty
Lost memorial for Indian soldiers found in Sri Lanka.
Nano Satellites
Amazing Dholavira; Part I
Bihar farmer causes heartburn in China
Iran bans Buddha statues along with Barbie dolls
Caught in the cross winds?
A Shower by fire
Reacting to a neighbour’s big bang
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part XII
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part XI
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part X
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part IX
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part VIII
Chinese 2013 Incursion in Northeast Ladakh: Why did they do it? Part II
Chinese 2013 Incursion in Northeast Ladakh: Why did they do it? Part I
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part VII
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part VI
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part V
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part IV
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part III
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part II
Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part I
Victoria’s secret gold
The Magic box goes silent
The Indian Australian
The Surkotada horse, Part III
The Surkotada Horse, Part II
The Surkotada Horse, Part I
Even censorship has it’s limits
Singapore Musings
You win some loose some
Farewell to an old friend
Crazy Bicycles, Part II
Crazy Bicycles: Part I
Light at the end of the tunnel
Need for parental controls
Myanmar refugees ordered to swim the sea for 500 meters.
Frugal Engineering
The abandoned parent
Finally, a Train song for Kashmir
Let thousand flowers wither
A Profile in courage
The Wave power
About Road Rage
Living under a shadow
Digging their own grave
Cold comfort of metal
The sum of all subtractions
A precursor of things to come
Great Balls of China
Relevance of Sir Creek
No ram, islam or indians on the Internet!
Flushing out Ganga defaecations
India’s Afghan test
Memorial for a scholar philosopher
Robin Hood Marketing
Startup village
Hampi and Badami: Deccan delights part VIII
Hampi and Badami: Deccan delights Part VII
Hampi and Badami: Deccan delights, Part VI
Hampi and Badami: Deccan Delights part V
Hampi and Badami: Deccan delights, part IV
Hampi and Badami: Deccan Delights, Part III
Hampi and Badami: Deccan delights, Part II
Hampi & Badami; The Deccan Delights, Part I
Laws of the land
Coffee, Coke and Honeybees
Mount Everest trash converted to art-forms
A big joke
Simple test for Virginity or at least for Chastity
The island that never was
Great magician’s cheap tricks
Be fat! Be healthy and happy!
Alma mater
Is ASEAN unity an illusion?
A victim of religious traditionalism
Ignoramus Prattle
She came, She saw, She (perhaps)wondered!
Size Minus Zero
Indian Army gives new eyes to the soldiers
A peep inside Desi (Indianized) Starbucks
How to steal history?
E-Governance: a small town from India shows the way
A ‘Civic’ in the sky
Its O.K. To kill! Just do it our way!
In search of an Illusive peace
Tribal people of Western Ghat mountains: ‘Katkari’
Garbage in my Garden
Trees of the Jurassic age
Neighbourly Talk
Water scarcity hits Zimbabwe’s elephants
Trouble down under
Tiny men of 1962 Part IV
A school for Etiquette
Tiny men of 1962, Part III
Tiny Men of 1962 Part II
Tiny men of 1962 -Part I
P.M.’s fall from grace
A Night at the Museum
India’s super missile- BrahMos
Unwanted guests
Backpack
Remembering Rezang La; Part III
Remembering Rezang La, Part II
Remembering Rezang La, Part I
A bestseller story of fiction; yet it happens to be true!
Indian Housing project in Sri Lanka: The Labour of Love
Sea trials of India’s new aircraft carrier.
High fashion from trashed bags
The Gates of the Shrine at Somnath
A feather in the cap
Business of Brands
The bad Debt by Sir Winston Churchill
An Aircraft Boneyard
A bad omen for Internet
Hampi ruin destroyed by miscreants
The last laugh
The return of the Bodhi tree
A Cure worse than the disease
Drum beaters of Bengaluru
Misusing the social media
Shooting the breeze
A Matter of multiple choices
Baby boom in Delhi, yet no one is complaining!
New Custodians of traditions and culture
The meaning of Independence
Flying Nymph from China
Milkman par excellence ( An Obituary)
A century of sorts
A striking similarity
Chinese Checkers
On Tidying Up!
India trying to buy its way out of Rohingya imbroglio.
Upping the Ante
From Casino Royale to an Aircraft carrier
The Mail arrives, 46 years late!
The Kapilavastu Controversy Part IV
The Kapilavastu Controversy Part III
The Kapilavastu Controversy: Part II
The Kapilavastu controversy: Part I
Internet, Rumours and the Government
Historic treasures unearthed? Bury them again!
Wooden Slates of Nia: part II
Wooden Slates of Nia: Part I
The Final act
Reinventing the Loo
Ta-Prohm: the incredible
Filling up the Alchi dam
A clogged urban future
End of a beginning!
A little game of Ping Pong
Darwaza Khona: Restoring a toll gate
Treading on slippery ground
Suthamalli Nataraja
India’s Northern Black hole
Doing your own thing!
ASEAN getting ship-wrecked on the Nine dash line
The Super star
Bliss is a Nokia battery
Unpardonable horror of an atrocity of unspeakable cruelty
The lurking danger
In the footsteps of the Big Brother
God’s Particle and the Universe
Let the bugs handle it!
Western Ghat Mountains of India on UNESCO World Heritage List
The other side of the coin
Malaysia’s nano ‘Bhopal’
Forcing remembrance with a Pianoforte!
A seniority Dilemma
Carrying your own food on travel
A costly tweet.
Why should India keep holding the Saltoro Ridge?
Nepal’s Wonder drug- a wild fungus
A Phoenix rises again
Masala Dosa’s, Idli’s and Mig 29 Fighters
Playing with addresses
From Xuen Zang to present day truckers, Salang Pass- a pain in the neck
Solving the riddle of the Indus valley civilization!
Battle Royal of Koh Ker, now come the spectators!
Standing up to Goliath
How Embarrassing?
Filling in the blanks!
The Night of Death at Choglamsar
Colonel Bogey, River Kwai and Death Railway
The curse of Fong Kong
Reducing the number of tea ladies
A training school for street hawkers
Playing with poison
For Russian aerospace industry, a dream ends with a disaster
Problems of Plenty
Why India prefers this little girl to the boy ?
Beware of New Drugs! They may not have been tried before!
Ignominious disgrace
Indian Film makers discover an ancient road to China
Travelling- without a Mobile phone?
Ginger Tea and British Patent Office
Last train from Pakistan
Concrete balls prevent rooftop travel
An amazing feat
New Delhi’s Nehru Place Electronics Market blacklisted by US
A Gold foiled Indian Snack- Masala Dosa
A golden page from history
Health services or commercial dealings?
Artificial tummy for a would be mother
Sidewalk Adventures
Garbage Island
A disaster in Baltistan
A Murder story- Chinese style
Counterfeiting enemy weapons
Would Duryodhana ever come back home?
Treasures of Java Sea Part III
Treasures of the Java Sea – Part II
Treasures of the Java Sea – Part I
Finally… some hope for India.
The invisible River
Smashing cars with a tank; new faces of Tourism
Restoring an urban river bed to its natural Eco-system; A Singapore experiment
A 21st Century Love story
Food and Internet
A Tragedy of Errors
Lost in Sim Lim Square
The art of selling art
From Chaos to Anarchy
Singapore’s ‘ i light ‘ art exposition.
The Buddha statues of Bamiyan
Leading the people out
Story of The Bactrian Gold
Small is Beautiful
The World of Smell
The Great Bend
A modern city in desert lands of western Tibet
The Rohtang Tunnel
Singapore’s Poison Ivy
Wrestlers of Koh Ker
Thieves of Internet
Just for a bar of chocolate!
Zubeida’s crashed airplane
How hot is my Chili?
Tea Caravan Trails of Tibet
No train travel for me!
Are we Special ?
Singapore Memorial for Indian National Army (INA)
Qalandar
Siachin- World’s highest battlefield
A museum of the heartbroken
Garland bearers of the Buddha
Maharshi Karve Museum of Pune- A photoblog
No Milk Please, we drink wine only!
A Good Kill
Nizam’s Hot Rod
Pune Police present their own Colaveri De
Birds of the same feather and flock? -Part III
Birds of the same feather and flock? -Part II
Birds of the same feather & Flock? -Part I
It happens only in India
Striking At the roots of the poisonous tree
Kabul Museum recovers one of the priceless artifacts from Germany
Helicopter aided Power lines repairs
Donkeys of Bengaluru
For Indian Traders in Yiwu, Fear is the key
Solar Telescope in Ladakh
1143 year old printed book- Diamond Sutra
Ignorance is bliss (sometimes)!
Ginger Tea and British Patent Office
Mighty peaks of Eastern Karakorams
A jump in to the future
Generation Gap
Chakra 2.0
A Nani for the Nano
2011 in review
Evil Shadows of Ignorance
Buddha’s Original Alms-Bowl
An Irreparable Loss
The Crash of the Rupee
Mystery of Czar’s treasures
Kolaveri De – Why this murderous rage dear?
Flash Mob – What’s that?
India’s parliamentarians demand Red beacons for their Cars.
Beaches of South Karnataka- a Photoblog
Too little; too late!
Motoring in the south Sahyadri’s – Part V
Motoring in the south Sahyadris- Part IV
Motoring in the South Sahyadris- Part III
Motoring in the South Sahyadris- Part II
Motoring in the South Sahyadris- Part I
Knife’s edge on Durand Line
Johnny Johnny! Yes Papa!, Telling Lies? No Papa!
US$35 Tablet for India: would it go the Nano way?
Pakistan Quagmire
And quiet flows the Irrawaddy!
Sandblasting Bangladeshi’s
Tata’s Gold
Gutter Oil Scam
The pot of Pain
Lord Ganesha fights the Third Reich
The return
Dark clouds on the North-Western horizon
Freedom from cooking
Silence of the Lambs
On being irrelevant
Road to Sembawang
Walking the hills
In Search of Wilderness
Musings of a Silverfish
Pleasures of International Air Travel
Lifestyle
Bullying the South China Sea
Ladakh Escapades -Part VII
Ladakh Escapades- Part VI
Ladakh Escapades Part V
Ladakh Escapades Part IV
Ladakh Escapades Part III
Ladakh Escapades – Part II
Ladakh Escapades- Part 1
XuenZang’s Maharashtra (MO-HOLA-CH’A) -Part III
XuenZang’s Maharashtra (MO-HOLA-CH’A) -Part II
XuenZang’s Maharashtra (MO-HO-LA-CH’A) -Part I
Nandan Nilekani’s Aadhar UID scheme, going bonkers with poor execution.
Gems from the National Museum- New Delhi, Sir Aurel Stein Collection – Part 4
Gems from the National Museum- New Delhi, Sir Aurel Stein Collection – Part 3
Gems from the National Museum- New Delhi, Sir Aurel Stein Collection – Part 2
Gems from the National Museum- New Delhi, Sir Aurel Stein Collection – Part 1
Time to flex muscles
Gag the Blog
A new window opens for India
The Apsaras of Angkor
Grandparents Day
Marching towards Global food prices regime
2010 in review
Another year goes by
Bleeding Borderlands of Pakistan
My days with the Gods – 3
My days with the Gods – 2
My days with the Gods – 1
Bottle-Neck of the world
Looking east, further and deeper
Real Politic, Sri Lanka and Commonwealth games.
Salaam Bangladesh!
A case for Mandarin
Is Age just a number for seniors?
India’s ancient gateway to central Asia
Red Flag up for Bangladesh,India
Flooding Pakistan
Significance of soft power
It’s Raining Goodies in Myanmar
Guarding the oil- silk route
String of Pearls- a paranoidal illusion
A Coffee Primer
The Gateway of India
ABC of Mobile Phone Banking
The Strongest takes all.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
Pickaxe and Shovel war
Walk the Talk, The Indian Way.
Enter The Dragon
New game in the east
Genie in a bottle (or in a Can)
Water Scarcity in Cherrapunji?
A Very Different University
The Sahara Crocodiles
Poisoning Bangladesh
Indian Pharmaceuticals Hit a jackpot with PEPFAR
Pirates of the traditional Indian knowledge
No Toilette? No Bride!
The Great Game –Part II
A Bleak Future For Senior Citizens
Inner Web
Hidden Treasures of Staffordshire
Quality of Life
Poverty of Imagination
Working class
Battery Power
Juicy Stuff
The Bread Winner
Village of Death
A New Identity
The art of doing nothing
Sweet sugar! Bitter Cycle!
What Next? Nano or Rewa?
Horror Story
The House smells rotten eggs!
A Relaxed Morning at East Coast Park
Independence Day
Simple test for Virginity or at least for Chastity
Double Trouble
Proving Thomas Malthus wrong.
Magnificent MacRitchie
The ‘Dadri’ Muddle
Height of Stupidity
Counterfeit drugs-A national disgrace
Plot to criminalize India’s drug exports
Buying Europe with a VISA debit card
A Road too far!
Visiting Bali
Humans or monkeys?
Chinese Magic
Environmental Black Holes – Part III
Singapore Ruminations
Environmental Black Holes – Part II
Environmental Black Holes – Part I
D.I.Y. USA
Postings from a broken hand
A Lengthening shadow
Killer Schools
A Side Street
A True Angel
An Armchair Traveler
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