Abhinav Agarwal

This is the Bannerghatta Road, a state highway, beyond Meenakshi Temple, and as you can see, the road is not bad, it's at least paved. ...

The Kargil Hilton in Bangalore - yes, that's right. This is neither Kargil, nor is this a Hilton by any stretch of the imagination. An...

Oracle campus as a travel vendor?? No, not quite. This is just some innovative fella who decided that the Oracle campus in Redwood Shores ...

Prey by Michael Crichton ( Flipkart , Kindle e-book ) Just finished reading Michael Crichton's 'Prey' (see book page on Am...

Sex in advertising - Sometime last year in September 2005 I had posted a photo on sex in advertising Sex in Advertising , where I posted...

C|Net had a story, " India becoming a cog in IBM's machine " ( link to article on C|Net), that originally appeared in the Ne...

Wockhardt hospital on Bannerghatta Road - opposite the Indian Institute of Management and before the HSBC office and Mantri Paradise is wh...

View from Ebony restaurant on MG Road - this is the view of MG Road and the parade grounds from Ebony rooftop restaurant in the Barton cent...

Who is Opal Mehta? Read her Wikipedia entry (accessed Dec 31, 2013). The Opal Mehta book on Queen's Road this Saturday. I think this i...

A fairly long and detailed look ( link ) in the New York Times dated May 14 2006 at the project to scan all books, or at least those whose ...

Where was I in 1997 - who cares? Ok, let's be nice - this is my blog and I shall post on whatever suits my fancy. This is where I worke...

An RK Laxman gem, after a long time, from the May 1st 2006 Times of India. © 2006, Abhinav Agarwal (अभिनव अग्रवाल). All rights reserved. Re...

I have a deep dislike for people who make a career out of disparaging India, its achievements, its heritage, culture, and history. Especi...

Cognitive dissonance... Looking at Infosys' FY 05 annual report confirmed what I had been suspecting for many months now - I am severl...

Some photographs from graduation day at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore ( Wikipedia ), 2006. I should be posting photos from...

When traveling to North India earlier this month I came across this at the back of a truck. Most trucks, or at least a lot of them, especial...

  This is the Jayadeva flyover, March 2006. Since traffic has not yet been allowed, and probably won't be for many more months to come...

Seen in the March 12 2006 edition of the Times of India. © 2006, Abhinav Agarwal. All rights reserved. Reposted to this blog 2011.

Given that it's the Times of India, I am not surprised that this is the abbreviation it came up with for Computer Associates - Compute...

Yet another addition to Bannerghatta Road - I think it is an absolutely wonderful thing that Bangalore continues to witness such a frenetic...