Sanjay at Narada Gana Sabha, Karthik fine arts

Sanjay Subrahmanyan-Nagai Sriram-Thanjavur Murugabhoopathy-S Karthick

Song list:

1. Chalamu-panthuvarali-kanda ata
2. Sakethanagaranatha-harikambhoji-rupakam(n,s)
3. Kaaba kannayiram-neelambari-adi
4. Evarikai-devamanohari-misra chapu(r)
5. Kamalambam bhajare-kalyani-adi(r,s,t)
6. Sarasa sama dana-kapinarayani-adi
7. RTP-Bhoopalam ("ethanai koti inbam vaithai iraiva iraiva iraiva"). Ragamalika swarms in huseni, sallapam(also known as surya)
8. Ethanai koti-desh-adi
9. Thillana-dwijavanti-adi

What a good product and goodwill does to you

Dear Allan Odgaard, Author Of TextMate:

"Given the value that we get out of TextMate, it’s already grossly underpriced. Please let us give you more money."

Here's an example of what a good, some would say great product, does to its customers. The product had won all hearts back in 2006, when it released and seemed destined fr greater things. Although that next version of the product never came out. Still hasn't.

Imagine the number of companies using TextMate out there and raking in profits!

Wanna feel your palms sweat? Watch this!

There used to be a time, when I wasn't scared of heights (not like this one). Wonder what I feel like now, on a tall tower!

Kanavenum laksham kangal - Suruti

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A recording from the Musri Chamber Concert, 2010.

Update: Accopanists- Karaikal Venkat (Violin), Tanjavur Praveenkumar (Mridangam)

No, this blog is not dead

Some reading material on the latest drama that's happening in India. The Hazare story and some views.

FAQ: Why Anna Hazare is wrong and Lok Pal a bad idea—Nitin Pai
Of the few, by the few—Pratap Bhanu Mehta
The dangers of a movement—Ranjit Hoskote
The Making of an Authority: Anna Hazare in Ralegan Siddhi—Mukul Sharma
Spare Us the Gandhian Halo—Hartosh Singh Bal
The Anna Hazare Show—Manu Joseph
Time to Step Back—Pratap Bhanu Mehta

And also, here’s an interesting piece on Hazare’s media strategy.

All this is not to say, of course, that our government hasn’t behaved entirely ridiculously in all this. They’re also clowns. Such it goes.

Update: Also read this excellent piece by Gautam Patel: Rupees, Annas And Vice.

(Via India Uncut - Amit Varma)

Update 2: Just to add, my two cents, let me see the draft of the Lokpal Bill before I decide whether I want this to be passed or not. I am ambivalent about the whole thing, for now.

Bang on!

“But to value every company as if they are the next Google, rather than valuing them all as if one of them might be, is pretty much the definition of a bubble.”

— Tim Worstall

A worthwhile note on Sport

"All sports represent the collision of wills: people or teams who want the same thing and have to cause somebody pain in order to get it". It is easy, if you so choose, to find in this a metaphor for warfare, but the beauty of sport is that people rarely die playing it. Sportsmen compete fiercely and proudly, exhausting themselves mentally and physically in the pursuit of victory, and then the victor and vanquished walk off the field, shaking each other's hand, and often with the knowledge that no victory or loss is final. They will compete again tomorrow and there will be another shot at redemption. That is the essence of sport."

- From The Meaning of Sport, by Simon Barnes

How does everyone not get this? Or do they?

Time for some pasta!

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Spent Sunday evening with Aarabi making some pasta. First time we were cooking together and a sign of the days to come. :) The pasta ended up being simply awesome!

Here are some pictures.

Rethas-Aarabi Nischayathartham

A wonderful and momentous day for Aarabi and me, we got engaged on February 9, 2011. Here are some photos of all the lovely and smiling people, who were all there!