Sometimes I wish my life had a erase/rewind button

Monday, June 16, 2008

Musings on a trip to a religious place

Its amazing the amount of violence devotees happily inflict on other devotees pushing and punching, jumping over ropes delaying those who actually wait in queue to get a darshan of someone who preached love and devotion!

PS: Those planning to go to Shirdi from Pune, the most convenient route is to follow the Yerwada road (if coming from Boatclub, get down the bridge and take a right. Just follow the route keeping always on left till Ahmednagar and there ask for directions to Shirdi.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Pesticide Free Vegetables?

So if you buy some fresh veggies and find insects, larvae etc alive on some, is it a good sign? A sign that its not doused in Pesticide?

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Indian Museum of Human Development?

NYTimes has a report about an impending auction of some artifacts of science history. How I wish one of our Indian agencies/corporate buys up some of these and makes a science museum. Its such a pity that the land that gave the world such wonders of science like the decimal system, the zero, had plastic surgery during the time of Sushruta in 6th century BC does not have a decent science museum while we spend millions on statues year on year.

We can start with a nucleus of such a manuscript library and slowly build it up (hopefully adding few remaining Indian manuscripts on science etc. It might rekindle the scientific spirit in some of its wonder struck children visitors.