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  • 25 May 2006 (A new haven for the musings maven and how I love tooting my own horn)
  • 16 May 2006 (Parichaya)
  • 18 April 2006 (Gone to lunch)
  • 5 April 2006 (Wetter, wetter, wetter)
  • 19 March 2006 (North and South)
  • 8 March 2006 (A letter to the Editor)
  • 1 March 2006 (B M Khan and Sons Cycle Works, 8th Main Road, Malleswaram Bangalore 560003)
  • 22 February 2006 (A Bay Area Wedding)
  • 3 February 2006 (Sell-out)
  • 27 January 2006 (Sesquibicentennial Mozart)
  • 12 January 2006 (Bollywood old school)
  • 10 January 2006 (Waterborne; The BBC starts to rhyme now)
  • 28 December 2005 (Home and away)
  • 21 November 2005 (The full-moon hike)
  • 15 November 2005 (My Austin-American Experience)
  • 3 November 2005 (3 Jammin' Gents)
  • 25 October 2005 (A month in the wilderness)
  • 16 October 2005 (Hail merry)
  • 12 October 2005 (In which the virtues of a circuit-breaker are extolled in cases when one can be found )
  • 4 October 2005 (BBC+India)
  • 27 September 2005 (Flaubert's Parrot)
  • 17 September 2005 (The Summer of '05)
  • 3 September 2005 (The pot calling the kettle black)
  • 31 August 2005 (Hard Times at the Big Easy)
  • 27 August 2005 (North and South)
  • 16 August 2005 (The Third Test)
  • 10 August 2005 (Two weeks in Costa Rica: Day 3, 25 June 2005)
  • 7 August 2005 (Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble)
  • 6 August 2005 (KCET Pledge Drive)
  • 2 August 2005 (Alms for the poor)
  • 29 July 2005 (Midnight's Children; Bombay Rains)
  • 21 July 2005 (Oh, what a charming day of cricket at Lord's and bomb blasts in London)
  • 18 July 2005 (Two weeks in Costa Rica: Day 2, 24 June 2005)
  • 17 July 2005 (Animal Liberation Orchestra)
  • 12 July 2005 (Costa Rica: The Sitcom; Two weeks in Costa Rica: Day 1, 23 June 2005)
  • 7 July 2005 (From Catalina to Mentor via Costa Rica)
  • 20 June 2005 (Four defeats and a slap)
  • 12 June 2005 (A temblor Sunday; Herbie goes to Montreal)
  • 11 June 2005 (Extended 'Gloom'; Aptly Named)
  • 2 June 2005 (How to handle the media: A lesson in eight parts -- by the 49ers; No Smoking in the Corridors)
  • 31 May 2005 ('Deep Throat' and the Ol' Glory Days of the "Old Media")
  • 28 May 2005 (Bunty Aur Babli)
  • 17 May 2005 (A tale of two Bohemians)
  • 8 May 2005 (The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn)
  • 5 May 2005 (The Runner's Knee)
  • 28 April 2005 (C*A*L*T*E*C*H, From a period to a comma)
  • 21 April 2005 (Something to skewer them by)
  • 14 April 2005 (The Office)
  • 6 April 2005 (Here's to stronger bilateral ties)
  • 31 March 2005 (Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour)
  • 27 March 2005 (The Nostalgic Eighties)
  • 25 March 2005 (Two more inches, BBC humour, Feels great to be back)
  • 13 March 2005 (A day at the races)
  • 11 March 2005 (A hazy shade of spring)
  • 5 March 2005 (Walter Mosley at Caltech)
  • 4 March 2005 (Wet, wet, wet)
  • 27 February 2005 (Memes in Indian politics)
  • 24 February 2005 (The boy from Ballia)
  • 23 February 2005 (California Green)
  • 18 February 2005 (Old faces, new hats and a rant on the Indian left-wing)
  • 13 February 2005 (Some sundry happenings on in the past few weeks)
  • 31 January 2005 (The lengthening day, The Wal-Mart experience)
  • 24 January 2005 (The last on the Caltech Tsunami Relief Effort, The headlines, the same old headlines)
  • 16 January 2005 (More on the Caltech Tsunami Relief Effort)
  • 7 January 2005 (Caltech Tsunami Relief Effort)
  • 2 January 2005 (The cost of life)
  • 31 December 2004 (An ode to Madras)
  • 28 December 2004 (The call of the sea, The tsunami brings news in its wake)
  • 22 December 2004 (Persepolis)
  • 20 December 2004 (Swades)
  • 17 December 2004 (Just the blue sky above us)
  • 14 December 2004 (The Confederate capital)
  • 8 December 2004 (US Foreign Policy: An enlightening speech)
  • 3 December 2004 (Twenty years onwards after the Bhopal episode)
  • 30 November 2004 (The cookie crumbles for Ken Jennings)
  • 29 November 2004 (Hiking in the San Rafael Wilderness)
  • 21 November 2004 (Snow on the mountain, snow on the mountain!)
  • 20 November 2004 (A city within the City)
  • 10 November 2004 (The antiquarian ways of Indian newspapers)
  • 4 November 2004 (Four more years)
  • 1 November 2004 (Gripped, swamped, saturated, overwhelmed)
  • 28 October 2004 (The Red Sox comet and the power of the underdog)
  • 20 October 2004 (Rain at night, rain at dawn, Give me victory, or give me death, Pride and Prejudice, according to Kieran Healy and Brad DeLong)
  • 18 October 2004 (A rainy day, now and then, here and there)
  • 11 October 2004 (Death is less harsh in the simple present)
  • 1 October 2004 (Real Time with Bill Maher)
  • 29 September 2004 (The presidential debates)
  • 28 September 2004 (Hitler's secret Indian army and BBC's sweet-tooth for India)
  • 24 September 2004 (Of the people, for the people and by the people)
  • 20 September 2004 (Another year, another fall)
  • 12 September 2004 (A Preview of Coming Attractions)
  • 8 September 2004 (The Hollywood Bowl)
  • 7 September 2004 (National Brotherhood Week)
  • 28 August 2004 (The del.icio.us world of social bookmarking)
  • 23 August 2004 (The British love a teary-eyed loser)
  • 22 August 2004 (From Pheidippides to Noguchi)
  • 20 August 2004 (The Olympic drama)
  • 16 August 2004 (Where are all the attack ads?)
  • 14 August 2004 (Saturday, the 14th)
  • 28 July 2004 (Kumbakonam and the Indian news media)
  • 16 July 2004 (Govinda, Govinda)
  • 10 July 2004 (Five days in Madras)
  • 28 June 2004 (Nattakuranji)
  • 26 June 2004 (Pride and Prejudice)
  • 23 June 2004 (The Urdu renaissance)
  • 20 June 2004 (There and back again)
  • 12 June 2004 (The wonders of Lexis Nexis)
  • 5 June 2004 (That day on the beaches of Normandy)
  • 4 June 2004 (Come on, Henman)
  • 3 June 2004 (More on Gandhi vs. Ghandi and the Language Log deluge)
  • 27 May 2004 (It's Gandhi with an 'h' between the 'd' and the 'i')
  • 22 May 2004 (The dust settles)
  • 13 May 2004 (All the nation loves a wronged one)
  • 12 May 2004 (One-day national)
  • 9 May 2004 (Old School and immigrant literature)
  • 8 May 2004 (War Room, Lilac Blooms, Playing by the book, Site Update)
  • 30 April 2004 (The hills in the backyard, Capitol Steps)
  • 27 April 2004 (Death of a hero)
  • 24 April 2004 (Kitty Genovese and the origins of 911)
  • 17 April 2004 (Journeys with George)
  • 13 April 2004 (Glorious test cricket)
  • 11 April 2004 (Pasadena Symphony Orchestra)
  • 7 April 2004 (Three talks in three hours, More April Fool's jokes)
  • 4 April 2004 (Eroica Trio, Party Time)
  • 1 April 2004
  • 27 March 2004 (In the mist of it all)
  • 23 March 2004 (The rise of the batter)
  • 13 March 2004
  • 9 March 2004 (An amateurish dash at meta-journalism)
  • 8 March 2004
  • 29 February 2004
  • 26 February 2004
  • 23 February 2004 (Rain, rain come back again)
  • 18 February 2004 (Happy days are here again)
  • 13 February 2004 (Begging for alms)
  • 6 February 2004 (Leahy at Caltech)
  • 5 February 2004 (Riverdance in Pasadena)
  • 4 February 2004
  • 3 February 2004 (Herman Wouk at Caltech)

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