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  • Book Review – Love and Longing in Bombay

    “So now that began to develop into a full-fledged shouting match of its own, and all in all it was soon a full-scale old-style Bombay tamasha, with people watching from every balcony and window in every building, up and down the road, laughing and giving advice and yelling at each other.”

  • Two Murders and some Bitcoins.

    Two Murders and some Bitcoins.

    Bitcoin is the ultimate expression of trust in the power decentralized networks.

  • The Dinner Table

    The Dinner Table

    relationship is an empirical formula integers are variables.

  • Goan Reader’s club — discussing the Devsar.

    Goan Reader’s club — discussing the Devsar.

    Recently, an aunt told me some stories of a ghost / spirit that used to stay in the forests around some of the villages in Goa long ago when her mother was a young woman – my aunt is in her eighties now – I tried looking up this word devsaar / deosaar? But I…

  • Arrows

    Arrows

    An interesting comparison. Rama had only four arrows, each arrow would cleanse itself in the sarayu after use and return to Rama’s quiver. The arrow would manifest its use according to the need. The arrow of Jambupati was poisonous and magical, it could transform into anything at all and no one could match its power.It…

  • The Story of Jambupati

    The Story of Jambupati

    from the Pali cannon,

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