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Tiger Pataudi on Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2010
“A lot of stuff (has) been spoken about match fixing..hmm..I think I would like to talk about…the BCCI; I am not particularly critical of the BCCI because I have been a part of it at least on the periphery…“ thus starts the late Tiger Pataudi (1941-2011) in a short speech he delivered in 2010. In … Continue reading
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In a recent interview Prof Amartya Sen , an Indian economist of repute, batted for ‘elitism’ [in education] and he explained that by ‘elite’ he meant ‘striving towards excellence’ and not ‘exclusivist’. In the case of Carnatic music, we mean less of ‘excellence’ and more of ‘exclusivism’. This is an age old debate and before … Continue reading
“ “Because of the cunning shown by natural selection the whole of Nature is little more than a series of gadgets. This distinguishes [it] strongly from almost all the important problems in physics. Typically, the errors in one gadget are corrected in a further one” ” p 165. Francis Crick, The discoverer of the genetic … Continue reading
The things that I am going discuss here are linked to one another in a strange and beautiful kind of way. I am sure most of you know what Ferns are. A Fern is a vascular plant that belongs to the group of plants called pteridophytes. Here, we are interested in a Fern leaf. Most … Continue reading
ನಾನು ಕನ್ನಡ ಪದ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಆಗಾಗ್ಗೆ ಬರೆಯುವುದುಂಟು. ಆದರೆ, ಆ ಪದ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಕವಿಯಾಗಿ ಓದಬಲ್ಲ ಮನಸ್ಸುಗಳು ಸಿಕ್ಕುವುದು ಈಗ ಬಲು ಕಷ್ಟ. ಆ ಕೊರತೆಯನ್ನು ನೀಗಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಸಲುವಾಗಿ, ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಹಿರಿಯ ಕವಿ ಜಿ. ಎಸ್. ಶಿವರುದ್ರಪ್ಪ ಅವರನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ ಅವರಿಗೆ ನಾನು ಬರೆದ ಕೆಲವು ಪದ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸಿ ಸಲಹೆ ಪಡೆಯೋಣವೆಂದು ಹೋಗಿದ್ದೆ. ಅವರು ಧಾರಾಳವಾಗಿ ಸುಮಾರು ೬೦ ನಿಮಿಷಗಳ ಕಾಲ ನನ್ನೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದರು. ಆ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಕವಿಯ ಧರ್ಮ ಮತ್ತು ಕವಿತ್ವದ ಕುರಿತಾಗಿ ಅವರಾಡಿದ ಮಾತುಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂಗ್ರಹಿಸಿ … Continue reading
Science fiction is a revered literary genre. Not many can write it and only a few can write it well. Personally, I struggle to come to terms with the idea of fantasy. I cannot imagine what many authors try to construct when they write a scientific fantasy. I try to hang onto trace amounts of … Continue reading
Try at least one of the following, (whichever is close to your heart). Imagine doing your PhD under Linus Pauling (Nobel winner) and then imagine collaborating with Francis Crick (Nobel winner) for your postdoctoral research and work on wobble hypothesis! Imagine doing your debut on a cricket field with Sir Garfield Sobers (the greatest all … Continue reading
Not Indifferent (oxy”moron”)
ಕಣ್ಠೀರವ ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಬಹುಪಾಲು ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಗಳಂತಲ್ಲ. ತಮ್ಮದೇ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆಯುವುದು ಕೆಲವರಿಗೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿರುವ ವಿಶೇಷ ಅನುಕೂಲ ಮತ್ತು ಜವಾಬ್ದಾರಿ ಎಂಬ ಅರಿವಿನ ಆಶಯದೊಂದಿಗೆ.
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