Monthly Archives: February 2011

Cricket Mania

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Makarand karkare

The cricket world cup started and now the whole nation is gripped in the cricket fever. Bulbul Sharma wrote a very funny article Television is my rival in love and marriage in the Sunday Times on 13th February. I highly … Continue reading →

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Accident at Shivaji Park

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Makarand karkare

Yesterday’s article about swimming brought up more related memories. It used to be a fairly long journey from home to the pool. However, we never felt it to to be long since we always looked forward to the swim. However, … Continue reading →

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Learning to swim

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Makarand karkare

One of my blogger friends Evelyn wrote an interesting post a few days ago about swimming. She was musing whether one’s favourite swimming stoke has any correlation with the personality of that person. That reminded me of my muse about … Continue reading →

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Thank you Uncle Pai!

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Makarand karkare

Anant Pai, popularly and fondly called “Uncle Pai” passed away yesterday. I am indebted to him forever, because he helped me make my kids realize that reading was fun. In the process, he also introduced them to Indian culture. I … Continue reading →

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Now we can get a thinking cap

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Makarand karkare

When we want to solve a problem, want to ponder about something, we say “I am going to put my thinking cap on”. What we really mean is that we want to take some time, and concentrate on solving the … Continue reading →

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Face pain to reduce it

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Makarand karkare

A couple of weeks ago, an item in Times of India caught my eye. The article was Looking at your body can reduce pain. Most people prefer to look away when they know something is going to hurt. However, a … Continue reading →

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Gray hair = wisdom (sometimes…)

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Makarand karkare

In the same Silicon India conference I mentioned in my yesterday’s blog, I met another Samir, also an alumnus of IIT Mumbai and my hostel mate, Samir Kumar, Managing Director of Inventus Capital partners, a venture capital firm. Unlike Sam … Continue reading →

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Our sixth sensory organ–Our cell phone

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Makarand karkare

Being in the field of mobile application development, I attended the Mobile Applications Conference India 2011 organized by Silicon India yesterday. The event was very well organized and well attended. It had a series of illustrious speakers representing the whole … Continue reading →

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Beware of iPod-itis!

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Makarand karkare

Every time I see Mayura, my daughter, completely immersed in her music on her mobile phone or her iPod, I start telling her about how bad it’s for her ears. She doesn’t pay any attention to what I am saying, … Continue reading →

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My first camera

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Makarand karkare

Today, thanks to our modern cell phones, almost each of us carry a camera. We are so used to having a camera with us, that we are now starting to put it to many novel uses. We had a discussion … Continue reading →

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