Simple Emotional Oscillations

Quite often, what we think we’d do turns out to be different from what we actually end up doing. — In crisis, we think we’d possibly feel upset for a little amount of time. Ideally, we do not even want that — we’d like to be the eternally calm surface of a deep lake. What [...]

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A Few Pounds Lighter?

THEN NOW Encourage me!

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Childhood Games (part 1?)

Okay, this is a post about childhood — but not about your general whining: “Oh those years were awesome, I wish I could go back!” This is a post about games. Innovative games, the kind which we seem to invent only during those ‘stupid years’. Almost everyone I know has played some unique games during [...]

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Time and the Universe

There is one question most of us ask, but do not know the answer to. Since early childhood, I have asked the same question to my parents, teachers, friends, almost everyone I know…. And yet, no clear answers. How did the universe begin? What is the underlying principle, if there is one, that governs the [...]

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Resolutions

Small and simple: 1. Be in office by 9. 2. Cook food at least twice every week. 3. Read news only once during the day, preferably in the evening. 4. Start saving a little for travel. 5. Write every day, and more frequently, on the blog. 6. Read a good book, a-little-a-day Remind me if [...]

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8 Random Facts About Me

I am a very boring person, not the kind you would want to tag. Dimple and Koke have, however, done exactly that. It’s been a long time I wrote something. And now that there is so much time on my hand, let me begin by obliging to their request. This is how it works: 1. [...]

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Have Fun while you Grade This!

… so wrote JBD on his final exam. I had no idea of how interesting a task it would be, when I opted to grade an undergraduate course last semester. The final paper dealt with properties of magnetic materials, and magnetically aligned regions, called domains in a material. Here are excerpts from the most hilarious [...]

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This Friday Dinner

The menu:1. yubu chobab , cooked by Sangah (Korea)2. fried tofu, seabelt with carrots, cooked by Jun (China)3. rajmah, cooked by Sangameshwarand4. chhole, naan, paranthe, courtesy yours truly Jun tries in vain to teach us how to pronounce Chinese stuff, until she decides to write it down in plain English syllables for us And they [...]

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Now that I have my Toy

I can click!And show you a little bit of Philadelphia… This is where I live…Spring is around… I know it isn’t tidy, but this is exam time…And I should better be studying!

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Grass on the Other Side (Part 2) – Cooking Bhindis in a Carnivorous Society

This article was also published in the JAM magazine, Mumbai. “All residents, this is an emergency. Please vacate your rooms immediately, and come to the ground floor through the staircase. Do not use the elevators. I repeat: do not use the elevators.” Everyone rushed to the staircase – people in their pajamas and slippers, girls [...]

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