Sarawana Bhawan – South Indian Food served American style

The last weekend, Susmita and I had been to the new Sarawana Bhawan (yes! – the same guys from Chennai) for lunch. They had shifted their business to a new and a bigger location (from Castro, Mountain View to Mary, Sunnyvale).
Here’s is the list of things in their location that I found was different from [...]

Indian agony in the Olympics

The Athens Summer Olympics of 2004 is over. It does bring about a tinge of sadness in everyone because it has provided us with some wonderful sporting achievements. As an Indian though, I am more than relieved that the games are over. At least, we don’t have to go through the agony of not being [...]

Pain of Losing

The ongoing Summer Olympics at Athens, Greece has given us some wonderful sporting achievements – most of which, we shall remember forever. We are least likely to forget the unbelievable swim of Michael Phelps, or the incredible 100 m race, where 5 runners finished before 9.9 seconds or the domination of the Chinese divers. If [...]

Workrave – Open Source Software for prevention of RSI

Recently, one of my friends told me of Workrave, an open-source software, that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). I have seen various softwares of the same type, but none of them were open-source.
I checked out the features of this software. They currently have support on both Windows and the [...]

A Silver Lining for India at the Olympics – FINALLY

India’s Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore today won the Silver medal in the Double Trap shooting event at the Athens Olympics, 2004. This is indeed a great moment to savour for India – India has never an individual Silver medal … ever !
Additionally, there have been good news coming in for other sports for India today. Firstly, [...]