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Monday, September 30, 2013

Lost City of Dvaraka, SR Rao

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Lost City of Dvaraka, S.R. Rao One-line review : Mythology excavated, history re-incarnated. Short review : Arguably the single most ...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Mahabharata Ch 31-35, Adi Parva, Astika Parva

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[ Ch 26,27,28,29,30  «  Ch 31,32,33,34,35  » Ch 36,37,38,39,40 ] Parva:Adi; Upa-parva:Astika; Chapter: 31 ; Shlokas:18 Shounaka now asks...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Mahabharata Ch 26-30, Adi Parva, Astika Parva

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[ Ch 21,22,23,24,25 « Ch 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 » Ch 31,32,33,34,35 ] Parva:Adi; Upa-parva:Astika; Chapter: 26 ; Shlokas:47 As soon as Garu...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Mahabharata Ch 21-25, Adi Parva, Astika Parva

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[ Ch 16,17,18,19,20   « Ch 21,22,23,24,25 » Ch 26,27,28,29,30 ] Parva:Adi; Upa-parva:Astika; Chapter: 21 ; Shlokas:17 Garuda arrived and...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

Mahabharata Ch 16-20, Adi Parva, Astika Parva

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[ Ch 11,12,13,14,15  « Ch 16,17,18,19,20 »  Ch 21,22,23,24,25 ] Parva:Adi; Upa-parva:Astika; Chapter: 16 ; Shlokas:40 Continuing, Souti d...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Make Time for the Work That Matters

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Make Time for the Work That Matters " Make Time for the Work That Matters " is an article from the  Sep 2013  issue of the  H...

Mahabharata Ch 11-15, Adi Parva, Pouloma,Astika Parva

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[ Ch 6,7,8,9,10  « Ch 11,12,13,14,15 »  Ch 16,17,18,19,20 ] Parva:Adi; Upa-parva:Pouloma; Chapter: 11 ; Shlokas:17 The dundhuba told...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati, Michel Danino

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The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati, by Michel Danino   Kindle IN , Amazon US , Amazon IN , Kindle US ,  Flipkart One-line ...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Interview with Bibek Debroy on the Mahabharata

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Icing on a Delicious Cake People following my blog will know that I started reading and writing about Dr. Bibek Debroy 's unabridged ...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Mahabharata Ch 6-10, Adi Parva, Pouloma Parva

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[ Ch 1,2,3,45  « Ch 6,7,8,9,10 »  Ch 11,12,13,14,15 ] Parva:Adi;  Upa-parva:Pouloma;  Chapter: 6 ;  Shlokas:13 Puloman carried away Pul...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Mahabharata Chs 1-5, Adi Parva

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[Ch 1,2,3,4,5 »  Ch 6,7,8,9,10 ] Parva: Adi; Upa-parva: Anukramanika; Chapter: 1 ; Shlokas: 210 नारायणं नमस्कृत्य नरं चैव नरोत्तमम् ...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

In Spite of the Gods, by Edward Luce

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In Spite of the Gods - The Rise of Modern India, By Edward Luce One line review : Crass. Clueless. Sadly Shallow. Long review : Writ...
Friday, August 9, 2013

Land of the Seven Rivers, by Sanjeev Sanyal

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Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography, by Sanjeev Sanyal One line review : Five millennia, one history, on...

Using R to Unlock the Value of Big Data

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Using R to Unlock the Value of Big Data , by Tom Plunkett, Mark Hornick This is a brief (approximately 80 pages) introduction targe...
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Krishna on Svayamvara

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( edited Aug 4, 2014 ) Svayamvaras resulted in much confusion and carnage in the Mahabharata. There is the svayamvara of the daughters of...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

Mohammed Rafi - My Abba - A Memoir

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Mohammed Rafi My Abba - a Memoir, by Yasmin Khalid Rafi One-line review : a daughter-in-law's honest and loving tribute to a legend...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

The Mahabharata and The Godfather

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With this one post I may end up offending both the Mahabharata and The Godfather fans. Let us start with The Godfather, one of the best H...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Strand Book Stall Sale, July 2013

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Valuing Waning Nostalgia The Strand Book Stall sale used to be a much bigger, better attended, and eagerly expected event than it is no...
Friday, July 19, 2013

The Inferno by Dan Brown

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Inferno, by Dan Brown " An Annotated Frommer's Guide " Robert Langdon is in a race to read us the entire text of From...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

WebEx 2002 - Sands of Silicon Valley

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Companies on the sands of Silicon Valley: Webex This is another from the several photos I took while in the Bay Area in the summer of 200...