Bangalore University splits boys, girls

A LoC (line of control) has been drawn at the Bangalore University. A brutal attack on a group of women students in the English department on May 2, has prompted its Syndicate, the highest decision-making body, to pass a resolution: not to let boys and girls sit together during classes!

--TOI: Bangalore, 18th May 2006

Do read the article I wrote on Metroblogging Bangalore on this.

Ce sont les meilleures équipes, die Meister, die Besten

At the 70th minute, I spoke for the first time. I said, let the beautiful game win. And it did.

Sad for Arsenal. But happy for the game.

Henrik Larsson, what a farewell ...

Snivel, Murakami and Peeves

First of all, a little ditty about my present state.

Fever
cold, shiver
snivel
oh yeah, and dribble
Would be good to have a moll,
a nice li'l tab of paracetamol...

And yeah, a Nobel awaits someday, I know...

Apart from that, the return of our favourite peeve leads to a visit to Blossom. The following result:

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
And Quiet flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov
Goalless - Boria Majumdar, Kausik Bandyopadhyay
The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
Pigeon Feathers - John Updike
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Waiting - Ha Jin
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
Beyond a Boundary - CLR James

The last two mentioned are read, but needed a copy in hand. So there.

Ah, how eventful my life is !

I blog about my city

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Originally uploaded by Sinfully Pinstripe.

Remember that post on Street food in Bangalore that basically made me rich and famous ... (bah, or so you think)?

If you'd remember, I mentioned there about Metroblogging : Bangalore. Well, today is when *applause, applause* I become a member of the Metrobloggers of Bangalore. I blog about my city. I blog for my city. So do keep checking that site too, and bolster my ego ...

Also, read more about Metroblogging here.

Never grow up / Craziest

Now a great short film is one which focuses on, and captures the true essence of the product/ theme about which it is made. And the following two, both encountered today, are living examples of the same. I love both the games to bits. And loved both the videos too. Do have a dekko.

1. Never Grow Up. The wonderful game, its greatest artiste of the modern times, and the joy of soccer. You do not need to be a Ronaldinho to appreciate the joy of playing, of being. (Thanks to Harish KS).

2. Craziest. Scrabble is a very different sport from soccer. Or is it? Love, passion... aren't they universal feelings?

[Edit: Tending-to-average player that I am, I have had the good fortune of playing a triple triple. This was during my first few days at isc.ro , when I played broCaded (the capital letter indicates a blank) for 149]

The current favourites of the news channels

... are Shane Warne in yet another sex scandal (and I wish he has a zooter or a doosra or something in his public-persona armory, he is getting rather predictable these days) and little Budhia Singh the marathon runner.

Funny:

Hindi translation of Warne's ladies' quotes in AajTak (or was it NDTV India?). It's weird how sleaze, in Hindi, always manages to sound hilarious. And it's even more weird that whenever I hear Hindi sleaze, it reminds me of tha 'Bade Ladkey' talk show scene in Monsoon Wedding.

Funnier:

Sonia Verma, on NDTV, trying to converse with Budhia Singh's coach, Biranchi Das in Hindi. "Biranchi-jee, jab Budhia run karta hai..."

No name

2006. Low drone from the drawing room while I am playing scrabble. The lazy drawl of Peeves, the booming baritone of BSC and the occasional murmur of PK.

1998. Insecure to-be-engineers, for the first time out of home, at a distant land where the language nor the culture ring a bell, I saw the others' trials and tribulations, I saw them suddenly transform into men, and somehow unnoticed to myself, I had grown up too. From the unsure, volatile kid from Calcutta to the cold cynic that I am today, and these guys are testimony to it. Yes, lives change as circumstances change, but some things are for ever. Somehow, some things don't go away. Thankfully.

Please to note

Tailenders are not getting much better at batting. Atleast the numbers don't suggest so.

It's curious how much information numbers throw out. How many popular beliefs they break, or at least seriously question. Will need to look through these numbers and do my own analysis sometime though. Till then.... chew on the report.