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Readers Write In #693: Can ten days of meditation change your life?
By Hari PR In this post, I try mostly to make sense of the ten days I spent in a vipassana meditation course of ten days. I have dabbled in meditation before and have also participated in a few online meditation communities. My pet theory is that ‘serious’ meditation practice (lasting for about an hour everyday or […]
Readers Write In #668: Tracing the life of my great-grandfather Rao Sahib K Kothandapani Pillai (1896-1979)
February 15, 2024
By Venkatesh Kumar It’s been a pursuit and it happened incidentally in my life! My search in tracing the life sketch of my great grandfather Rao Sahib K Kothandapani Pillai (1896-1979), an Indian Diplomat who served as the Protector of Emigrants Madras during WW2 and was indeed involved in an event in bringing soldiers of […]
Twenty-one years, and counting…
January 30, 2024
And it’s 21 years, folks! Or as a friend told me, “Imagine all the useful things you could have done with your life if you’d not had to watch all those bad movies.” Heh, yes, perspective and all that — but I would not have it any other way. Thank you, thank you, thank you […]
Happy 2024!
December 31, 2023
One of the best things I did in 2023 is get off the Internet. These days, I post my stuff/video links and get out of there. I did it to see if I would really “gain” more time, as many people said — and I did. I have been writing an oddball, pulpy, non-socially responsible […]
2023 – The year on the blog
December 30, 2023
WordPress used to publish these stats. They stopped. They seemed to have started again. https://wordpress.com/annual-report/baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2023/
Mega Critics Round Table 2023 – moderated by Nona Prince
December 24, 2023
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My interview with Touring Talkies (Chai with Chithra)
December 2, 2023
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Bitty Ruminations 97 – Work-life balance
November 1, 2023
Madan wrote this about Narayana Murthy telling youngsters to work 70 hours a week: “I have worked 70 hour weeks. In fact, in my first corporate assignment (with a multinational bank), I often worked 15 hours a day 6 days a week – i.e. 90 hour weeks. Happy, Mr Murthy? Well, you wouldn’t be so happy to […]
Baradwaj Rangan 
May 4, 2024
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