I was writing a blog post on an interesting topic “dormant” for a daily blogging challenge called Daily Prompt held by The Daily Post. As I was outlining the content for the post, I felt …
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The thing about being dormant
Dormancy in life's like a physical object mentioned by Newton. You're permanently dormant in life unless you commit yourself to change that state, which kind of makes it not permanent. Contradicting, really.
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Dunkirk (2017)
(#) 10/10 (+) Everything (-) Nothing
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Learning new languages (or not) is a mindset problem.
Learning languages (or not learning) is a mindset problem. People with one mindset make efforts to learn it. Those with the other mindset don't.
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We have a new President. Will we remember him ten years from now?
Will Mr. Kovind leave behind his RSS-BJP affiliation and rise above mediocrity or will he be another president who'll use public funds to enjoy all the material facilities and perks that the post brings? Time will tell.
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Some toilet gyaan for my fellow Indians.
Some of us cringe when advertisements on television featuring our favorite actors preach the benefits of building a toilet at home. The middle classes and the rich wonder if the technology savvy India is really that backward! We can place 104 satellites in their orbits with precision but can't build toilets for half a billion people.
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The middle-class approach to leisure and living life
That's the irony of middle-class. They know to save and they know to enjoy life. They know to find large-sized happiness in smaller things of life. A box of crackers, a box of top-quality sweets, the best of the small cars, a stylish scooter that gives the best mileage, a 40-inch LED TV that we hope will last two decades and so on.
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Not just Karnataka, every state in India should have a flag.
There's nothing wrong in having a flag dedicated to the state. In fact, I believe every single state in India should be allowed to design and hoist their own flags next to the Indian flag.
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A walk through Old Bengaluru
We walked close to ten kilometres today, through a variety of localities, from the crowded Chickpete to the well planned Basavanagudi. I realized how I missed those walks. I realized the need to get back to photography, to fill these blogs with frames that capture the essence of this city, it's energy and colours.
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You are your city’s ambassador
I believe every city has its own character. Cities are characterized by a synergy that exists between its peoples, cultures, food, economy, art, music and such things.
