Neglected Serendipity

My attempts at song recording!

Ketan — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:10:07 +0000

Now don’t get too carried away by the exclamation mark above in the title! I know the final outcome is quite ordinary, or perhaps even worse. But anyway, I take keen ‘amateur interest’ in listening to music, and am not trained in music in any way. Nor do I even consider myself a good singer. […]

Your Laughter and My Wall

Ketan — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:23:35 +0000

I had never told you before, but whenever you would be with me in public and you would laugh, your laughter would not completely register because I would not know what I would do with the amount of happiness I would feel to know YOU would have laughed. I start feeling very dishonest because I […]

What Ails the Indian Economy: An Amateur View

Ketan — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:29:11 +0000

A few Premises Let us start with a few premises (applicable to economies of ‘civilized’ societies): 1. We need goods and services. 2. We get goods and stuff in return of money we pay. 3. (Usually) we get money in return of something we produce (goods and services) that others ‘demand’. 4. Either we must […]

One of the ‘Aam Admis’ Views on Indian Politics

Ketan — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:09:26 +0000

I had started tweeting about this, and thought a slightly more elaborate blog post was in order. Today, my family had traveled to a nearby city in our car, and as nobody in my family is confident enough to drive, we had hired a driver for the purpose. He is not in our regular employment, […]

Twitter ‘Bio’: The Old and the New

Ketan — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:58:51 +0000

I replied something to a fellow tweeter, and realized that tweet described one of my prominent traits quite accurately. I thought that would be my apt twitter ‘bio’. And, I reached the field from where I could edit it. Exactly when I was about to use the ruthless backspace on my keyboard to send the […]

Ethics in Tangents – Part 5: Do Doctors coming out of Government-Run/Aided Institutes Need to ‘Pay Back’?

Ketan — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:30:11 +0000

This in response to a very narrow aspect of Vidyut’s blog post – Globalization – Brain Drain (click). Expense of education borne by less developed country, while fruits of the person’s service are reaped by developed countries. Today’s outrage on Twitter was the government making it mandatory for doctors going abroad for further education to […]

Life is the Dance of Existence

Ketan — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:43:05 +0000

Today I was talking with Her on the phone, and She was taking particular pleasure in recounting to me a goof up by someone reeking of sheer incompetence. My laughter did resonate with hers, but somehow I, on that particular occasion, did not feel contemptuous of the person in question. On most occasions I would […]

Thank you, Life!

Ketan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:44:31 +0000

“I realized I’d started thinking of how perfect life could have been had everything been going right, and then I realized that what we have been experiencing, currently are and will be experiencing in the future is too wonderful and making such an assessment on the lines of “could have been” would be unfair and […]

Please Board the Train!

Ketan — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:00:59 +0000

When I had cajoled you into boarding the train and told you we would be alright, I later realized my words were completely empty. My gestures were only an attempt to transfer all the strength I had to you so that you could face the moment, look forward to the life that was immediately going […]

In Response to ‘Relation Limbo’ by Khamba

Ketan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:55:30 +0000

Relationship Limbo (click) is a blog post by G. Khamba, and this post is in response to what he writes and asks there (and it can be taken as actually addressing him). I was unaware of the term ‘relationship limbo’, but I was certainly aware of the phenomenon, the way it is felt in one’s […]