Monthly Archives: February 2004

Public figures and private life

The Clinton scandal raked up huge controversy and raised a huge public debate. In the eye of the storm was the issue of private lives of public figures. Does a person with a public life have right to keep his personal life a secret? The debate continues to rage, and there can never a be

Sex, Drugs and Rock-n-Roll

Just got off the newspaper with a small news item that Diana Ross was jailed for drunken driving. That set me thinking on the how the world of music has transformed beyond recognition over the decades. It’s been a long way from the Beatles to Darkness. I guess it all started with flower power and

On Haj, Mecca and pre-islamic arab

I was blog crawling when I came across Jivha’s Blog. The post on Haj stampede caught my attention. I went about surfing on the net on mecca, haj and islam… to my amusement the found some extemely interesting and thought provoking articles on origin of Islam and pre-islamic arab. The articles are extremely baised, yet

Stains and vessels

I was less than a furlong from my office, at Dickenson Road-MG Road junction when I realized that I had left the milk for boilng at home and totally forgot about it. Rushed back home only to come to an overheated vessel and black contents of what was, once upon a time, milk :( I