Talking of searching for solutions to your technical problems online, there’s this curious thing. Sometimes you come across forums where frustrated souls have posted their queries, submitted parts of their code and then the trail has gone cold. There are no new posts since past 5-6 years.

Makes you wonder whether these good folks finally got their code working or not. And how, if they did. Not one of life’s great unsolved mysteries, I agree. But a mystery nevertheless.

तिळगूळ घ्या आणि गोड गोड बोला

दिवस रात्र महिने वर्षं बदलत जातात
माणसं देखिल बदलतात
पण मनापासून जपलेली अनमोल नाती?
ती मात्र बदलत नाहीत
जपूयात  ही नाती ह्या संक्रातीला
तिळगूळ घ्या आणि गोड गोड बोला 

Interested in learning on the internet? Check out the following sites:

https://www.coursera.org/

http://www.udacity.com/

https://www.edx.org/

You never know to what extent an event has affected you until one day it jumps at you. I had my moment last week. A couple of days back, I had written on this blog how I suddenly felt calm and peaceful while going home in a bus one evening. The BEST buses must be my equivalent of the proverbial Banyan tree because I seem to reach some conclusions with alarming clarity while traveling in one. This time, I realized that the feelings that I had experienced were neither peace nor calmness – but just plain old relief. I was relieved to see that not every male in this country is out to rape women, that there is still some measure of normalcy left in the day-to-day life where people are just interested in reaching home to their loved ones at the end of the day, that women need not look over their shoulders every time another passenger in an almost empty bus gets down at the next stop….

It was then that I realized how deeply the Delhi incident - plus the continued barrage of news of similar incidents being displayed over and over in a ticker on the display in the bus – has affected me. L

उतर जाए रगोमे जो तो ये नशा है
इसकी आदत जो पड जाए तो ये सजा है

This is what the lyrics of a song from Taxi No. 9211 have to say about the island city of Mumbai. God knows that's true but then there are moments when you want to get away from it all - the traffic, the incessant honking, the pollution, the noise, the routine....

Well, that's what I did over the last weekend. Here are the snapshots of the time that I spent away from my most favorite city in the world.