Category: Us people
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A check list when you visit a sick person.
“Mala uttaure Deva” Aunt Ursula was demanding of our father in heaven. Like he would want to saddle himself with another whining, dissatisfied soul. I can imagine her entering the pearly gates and telling St. Peter, “tycha phatley saaf kor” and out of sheer fright St.Peter would pick a duster to dust the pearly gates.…
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Ayya-Appa-Swamy Yeddy, Steady Go.
For the moment from Yeddy Steady go Karnataka politics has become about Ayya-Appa-Swamy In his book the Pregnant King Dr.Devdutt Pattnaik asks a question Who should rule the people those people who gambled their future? Or those people who could not keep their word? Now that Karnataka electoral drama is history and the media has…
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world cultural diversity day
In a new place just talk to your auto driver, you will learn a lot. One thing that impressed me was the anger that the auto driver at Trivandrum had against Amity Shah for his insensitiveness is wishing people happy Vamana jayanthi without realizing that Onam is the festival of Kerala and not just the…
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Musing on Museums
May 18th is the International Museums Day. It is a day created to raise awareness on how important museums are in the development of the society. Museums have been around since 3rd century BC, and the first ever one was at the University of Alexandria. Then came the European custom of family owned museum which…
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world art day
April 15th is the world art day. The International association of Arts set up UNESCO in 1954 chose this day as it is the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci. I am a little confused about this, what do they mean by art? Maybe anything that is not science. Or is focused on drawing, paintings…
