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Solo.22.Male. Calicut|Delhi
Traveller, in both body and mind.
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The Sea Inside
Arnav ne� Amon. The Highway loses itself into the Sea.
Lost Highway
Amon. Whimsical wanderer, chief film critic, walking movie encyclopedia. This blog is now concluded.
neverendingroad
Sumit. Senior of mine here in K. Famed for his bike trips. Go straight to the Sep 23 entry and you'll know.
Mode C
Nitai. Another senior of mine in K. Very good at writing and other creative jazz. Movie freak. Good place to get the dope on whatever's going on in K.
Whirlwings
Refreshingly frank on general life, esp that of a career woman. Healthy, non-fanatic spirituality at times.
The Raven's Desk
TheBoFi. Even longer posts than mine, and much more thought-provoking. Admittedly schizophrenic. Perceptive and sensitive view of life.
The Purple Haze
ZuluBoy. Evocative stories, deep Hindu philosophy; the mini-Tao of Physics.
Purple Cow
Keerthi. Assorted rambles on campus life, and a way with words. Salinger zealot.
the Quintessential Q
QuintEssence. Rock fanatic, poetry lover, SF freak. Well-expressed thoughts, and photo-laced accounts of life at FMS, Delhi.
Bright Sunny Days
Anil. K classmate. Can give Keynes & Friedman a run for their money when he's deconstructing Economics from a 'layman's perspective'.
Sneha Nagesh
Under The Spreading Chestnut Tree. The lengthy thoughts continue to cogitate (See below), stronger than ever.
Cogitated Thoughts
Sneha. Reading, guitar. Feelings captured adroitly in long sentences that make me feel inadequate. Blog continues in Spatial Chronicles, above.
Aadisht Khanna,
The life and times of. One of the Eldar bloggers on the circuit. With anecdotes, arguments, humor, and more, his is the quintessential blog.
The Pink Files
The Observer. Much Kafkavian allegory, threads of thought, and an explosion of pink.
The Catcher
Learned discussion of everything creative; occasional humor.
Bhavya
Stories, satire, school to university. And of course, food. Nice writing.
Me and My Solitude
Prateek. Good Hindi poetry; bittersweet account of life at MDI, Gurgaon.
Looking for LiFe
Piya. Young engineer grappling with pressures of a new job, yet trying to maintain the creative streak, while searching for the meaning of happiness.
Blokes A Blogin
Very wide knowledge of Tamizh ('zh' pronounced as retroflex 'l') culture and art. Account of life both American and Indian. Often discusses spirituality and education.
My Crazy World
Ranjitha. Practical jokes in an ad agency. Rather obscure poetry at times. Not for the faint of cerebrum.
Dream Chase
Rashmi. Poetry, 'anatomical' analysis of art, the (successful) struggle for a desired job.
Not an Essay
Scott. Thinks much like I used to in late teenage, and still do, to some extent. Critique of school life, and many thoughts on the lack of intensity in our lives.
Arnab's World
Arnab. Programming guru; one of the guys who made blogsnob.
_________ Quint's e-Books
Just what it says. Large collection, though with the proliferation of broadband, most of you might have most of them.
Himalayan Home
Karamjeet Singh. Encyclopedic info on the Himalaya. An itinerant life which is the stuff of dreams.
Stephen Knapp
Indophile traveller. Great photos and perceptive analysis of India from a foreigner's viewpoint.
Pagal Guy
MBA discussion forums. Much more than that for hundreds of addicts. Meeting place of many intelligent people. My nickname is Gwaihir.
Today is the first day of the Hindu New Year. This is the month of Chaitra, and the waxing phase of the moon begins, heralding a new Samvat, year 2062 of the Vikrami calendar. In Sanskrit, this date is called Chaitra Shukla Pratipada.
Today is also the beginning of Navratri, the nine days of worshipping Shakti, the female creative force.
According to legend, among other things, on this day Lord Rama was coronated as the King of Ayodhya; Vikramaditya* was coronated as the Emperor of India; and King Yudhisthira became the just ruler after the war of Mahabharata.
May the day bring a new creative energy in all you do henceforth.
[*The most famous king given the title of Vikramaditya was Chandragupta II, c. 400 AD, of the Gupta dynasty. But many claim that the Vikrami calendar starts from the day of Vikramaditya's coronation. As far as I know, this is not borne by historical facts, since there was no famous king named thus in 57 BC, from when the calendar starts. There was also a famous Chalukya king named Vikramaditya, but he was in the 11th century, so can't be the one from whose time the calendar begins.]
Posted at 08:12 pm by Solo
Solo April 23, 2005 05:25 PM PDT Hi Blokes!
I've never heard of the Pratiba year, is it a Tamil concept?
But by this calendar, Krishna's era comes out to be c. 3600 BC. I've read at many places that the Mahabharata happened 5000 years earlier. Memory's fuzzy, but I read somewhere that the 18-day war was in November 3018 BC, according to astronomical data given in the epic. Of course, _that_ far back in time, a few centuries here or there matter little.
blokes April 22, 2005 10:14 PM PDT 14th April heralded in the Pratiba year. there are 60 years in the name of 60 asuras, that keep recurring. according to the number of cycles thus established, it is now the 56th century after Krishna. time after all is cyclical not linear:)
