Learnings & Experiences
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My son’s new life at Aarohi Life Education
In the month of June this year, we embarked on a new journey of schooling for our son (Advay) & ourselves. We got him into Aarohi Life Education, an open-schooling campus near Hosur.
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Making of wooden beads & toys using Pattari in Channapatna
This April, a friend of ours (Srilakshmi) hosted a workshop at her home in Channapatna. We learned about what goes on behind the scenes when the famous wooden toys are made there. Mr. Ravindra, an artist and teacher who has been making toys in Channapatna for the last 30 years, offered to coach us on…
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Making technology training experiential
Since 2003, I have been conducting corporate training programs on various subjects like Qt, OpenGL, VTK, GCF. At one point I was even teaching Linux Kernel and Device Driver Programming, thanks to my employment at Linux Learning Centre. Over the past 13 years, I have been able to observe certain meta-data about the training that…
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Progress with Vipassana
Since completing my Vipassana course in Jan this year, I have been trying to scrape time to practise atleast once a day, if not two (like they suggest). The idea is to find a place at home and practise Vipassana for a period of 1 hour, twice a day (morning & evening). I have been…
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Community living of Ants
I happened to look at this brilliant condo of Red Ants. They have painfully glued together three leaves and live in commnunity. The above pic was taken from the rear end of their abode. Below is a pic taken from their front door.
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My son wants to pose
My son wants to make faces and pose for me to take a pic.
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OpenGL Course @ Havelsan, Ankara, Turkey
What an awesome and intellectually satisfying time I had in Ankara, Turkey giving a course on OpenGL to 16 wonderful people at Havelsan.
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Vipassana – Getting in touch with reality as-it-is
It has now been almost a month since I finished my Vipassana course. I still feel the magic! So I thought that it is apt to write about my experience now – since it has not faded away. There are a ton of blogs out on the Internet that give a fairly accurate day-by-day account of the…
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Vipassana – almost begins
Since my graduation – there has always been some sort of an interest in “figuring out life”. The vast abyss that life is – sometimes scares me, sometimes inspires me and sometimes makes me just plain lazy. I seek education in the hope that I might be able to make leaps in my journey of…
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School timetable – does it really work?
Almost every school I have seen in my life so far follows a “simple” timetable structure for its activities. Each day is divided into 8 “classes”, so 40 classes a week. Each “class” focusses on one subject and lasts for some 40 minutes. Almost immediately after one class, the next would begin. Unless there is a…
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You don’t have to raise VC investment to create value
Examine and interrogate your motivations, reject the money if you dare, and startup something useful. A dent in the universe is plenty. Curb your ambition. Live happily ever after. David asks you to RECONSIDER your ambitions in this honest and insightful article.
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Stay “grounded”
Am reading a book called “Earthing” recommended by a friend. Its available for download from here. The book encourages you to literally be in touch with the earth / ground beneath your feet. Perhaps keeping your feet grounded in the cities may not do the trick, but a walk (bare feet) in the park might…
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Punyakoti – India’s first ever Sanskrit Animation film!
My friend Ravi Shankar has been talking about making an animated movie since the time I first met him in 2012. He is someone who is passionate about telling a story (this story in particular) and is genuinely moved by the impact it will have on people when the story is listened to, seen and…
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Protected: An inspiring story
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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The end of an era
A major chunk of my life completes today! Today was VCreate Logic’s last day as a company with several team members. From today onwards, it will be back to being a company for handling my independent consulting efforts. My team members have all moved on. When I come to office tomorrow morning, no one will…