Abhinav Agarwal

Mt St Helens is an active volcano. It last erupted more than 20 years back, in 1980, and blew off more than a thousand feet off its top, ...

The Undercover Economist I finished reading " The Undercover Economist : Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why Y...

Some recent "You Said It" cartoons by Laxman. This one below is actually a rerun (note the "TOI Archives" caption at th...

I went to the Strand Book Stall's annual sale at the Chinnaswamy stadium this weekend. Even though it was held at the Chinnaswamy stadi...

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal  ( Kindle Edition ) The best, most informative, and scary book I have read all ye...

My stay in the US gave me an epiphany (nope... didn't give me enough money, but that's a different story, and anyway you can neve...

1999 and 2000 were also the years I visited the Mt Rainier National Park ( Wikipedia link , National Park Service page ). If you drive sou...

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It   ( Kindle Edition ) Another book that I read earlier this...

It was in March 1999 (Mar 27, according to the date stamp on one of the photos) that I and Subhash went skiing. It was near the end of the ...

1996, Thanksgiving weekend, in New York City - my first visit to the big apple. The date stamp in the photo below is off by a day or two......

Nov 04 2006 This is by far the most expensive car I bought, and probably the most expensive I may ever buy. This is a 1998 Audi A4, 2....

The only time I went whitewater rafting was in August 1999 with three other friends (Subhash, Zahid, and Ramesh), in the Wenatchee river (...