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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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