Today is Parsi New Year. And Srividya from Poona called me yesternight and requested me to post some things about Parsis this week… so here goes… The Parsis were a warrior race originating in ancient Persia a few thousand years ago. They were known for their bravery, their amazing intellectual achievements and their devotion to [...]

There is all this talk about global warming and corrupt politicians and ruthless businesses and blah blah blah… but not many seem to be doing much about it (other than ranting)… and there seem to be very few things that individually and collectively we can do together to thwart this menace… A path towards Global [...]

This one is supposed to be really tough… I got it in about 15ish minutes 1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. 2. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. [...]

Firefox is the browser i use… Today is the release of Firefox 3… go download it, if you have not done so already (it’s free)… the good folks who made it are going for a world record for maximum downloads in a day! You could be a small part of making History with Firefox! Firefox [...]

…We railwayed back to the ashram and what an eventful last few days we had here! The whole of India is talking about the agitation of the Gujjar community against the Rajasthan Government. Since being proactive happens to be Guruji’s mantra, he visited Bayana where the first round of talks were going to happen between [...]

Here is a superb perspective about a Billion… The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend… Lets put it into some perspective… A. A billion seconds ago it was [...]

A participant on the Bangalore Utsav wrote… Hi dear Bawa! This is Pratap who is doing Utsav course presently in Bangalore…I got pretty inspired by you and I hope to carry on applying the things you have taught us within these few days.But I have few doubts on the arguments to justify the reasons for [...]

There were many requests from people who wanted more on why veg?i have a few favourite websites i goto and will post things from them too by and by, but below there is a very nice article which i got off: http://www.flex.com/~jai/articles/101.html I have reproduced it word for word… please read, get warned, and spread [...]

Please dont stop sardar jokes… they are very good, and more than that they reflect on the very real sense of humour and tenacity and warm warmheartedness that these hardy people have in extraordinary proportions!Very much like the Parsis, this is one community which knows how to laugh at itself and is so much richer [...]

Dad sent me this mail and i thought i have to share it with all of you! Hi Everybody, Over the weekend, I filled up my car’s fuel tank, and I thought fuel has become really expensive after the recent price hike. But then I compared it with other common liquids and did some quick [...]