Today we celebrate two heroes, Lachit Borphukan and Guru Tegh Bahadur.
Guru Arjan Dev the 5th Guru of the Sikhs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRSAkNWe7ko Yesterday was the day that the 5th Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev was martyred. Looking back everyone talks about Akbar and his secular move, yet the seed of Guru Arjan’s martyrdom was sown during his reign. Guru Arjan Dev was the first Sikh Guru to be born to a Sikh family. He also consolidated …
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Reviving Rangoli — Man On a Mission.
A lean bifocal gentleman would stride. Give a gentle smile. I have vague memories of this man running an art school. I could be mistaken but he remains strongly in my memory as “Rangoli Bayiri.” This is just sharing a few things I remember him telling me. Few things that I picked along the way. …
Pondering over Dwaita Philosophy and Kanakadasa.
The Lord of Udupi is trapped within the temple , his devotee is trapped in a cell outside. People throng, gone are the days where in the open corridors of temple sat genteel women stringing flowers and singing devaranama. Beside it was the place where the swamiji from one of the ashtamatta would be rendering …
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Toast to the world’s first programmer.
My workspace seemed to filled with IT personal and people speaking of AI for while I assumed AI was Air-India then I learnt it was artificial intelligence. I am told by these kids who create computer programs that computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no …
Baba Budan Saheb the Patron Saint of Cafficionado
Marie Von Tropp finds it easy to say let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start with. Obviously she does not know, coffee is the right place to start with. With the wafting fragrance of coffee, the day begins and as the coffee falls into the stomach it triggers a commotions. …
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