October 2010
9 posts
“Pia kissed an apple, sensuously, with all the rich fullness of her painted lips;...”
– Unlikely pair: indirect Bollywood kisses & the death of Mahatma Gandhi
(Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children)
“The fiddly thing about practice, whether at programming, exercising, playing the...”
– A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
“phir bhi dil hai hindustani….
why are we not as innovative, why...”
– Sujit Singh, a programmer at @betterlabs in Pune, discusses why India hasn’t developed successful software products to date.
“India has the largest market for fairness products, and I am not simply trying...”
– Helter Skelter | Immortal Lies
why snotnose was born atheist
One Kashmiri morning in the early spring of 1915, my grandfather Aadam Aziz hit his nose against a frost-hardened tussock of earth while attempting to pray. Three drops of blood plopped out of his left nostril, hardened instantly in the brittle air and lay before his eyes on the prayer-mat, transformed into rubies. Lurching back until he knelt with his head once more upright, he found that...