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August 2005
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Brown Bread
They had just gone to get bread and tomatoes from the super market. He quickly went and picked up thick sliced white bread. She scowled at him, “do you want to hear a lecture again” she said. “why dont you keep it back and get brown bread instead”. He did the [...]
The forgotten spy
The story of a forgotten spy.
“As a boy, my name was Mani. We diligently listened to all the conversation the British officers had and later on, all five of us discussed the information we had collected, and then conveyed it to Netaji. Those were very exciting days,” said Rajamani, the excitement coming through even [...]
The bloggers meet in London
Chakra was the person. He was the man in touch with most of the desi bloggers in UK. So no wonder we pushed him to organise a bloggers meet in London. The venue and the date was fixed quickly and the message was passed around. So came the date of the [...]
Nuclear power
One of the careers that I thought of when I was growing up was becoming a scientist. My friend santosh at that time had a big trunk full of science books. For him it was a treasure box. Thats from where I first got to read Yakov Peralman’s “Physics can be fun”. [...]
The real heroes
The real heroes – India’s greatest Spies.
agents were often double and triple, pretending to work for India but working for Pakistan — but actually working for India.
Have a nice holiday.
Mauli mama
I have heard several stories about mauli mama. During his youth he was involved in several adventures, was a constant companion to my grandfather during his Sabarimalai trips and maybe he was related to us in some way. When I was growing up I saw him drunk most of the time, but the [...]