Last week, in order to promote cycling to office and reduce the environmental pollution as well as traffic jams; few of stalls with imported cycles like Firefox, trek, Bianchi, Cannondale provided trials. This was the first time, I ever peddled a 8 *...

View On WhiteMelukote Temple is around 130 kms from Bangalore.Early in twelfth century, the great Srivaishnava saint Sri Ramanujacharya took up his residence and lived here for about 14 years (said so). It thus became a prominent centre of the Srivaishnava sect of...

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At Madiwala Market. The couple looked happy selling tomatoes. :)View On Black ...

Unlike anyone, who wants to buy stuffs from a huge check list. I, too, dreamed of buying a camera followed by a big list. ;) First thing to to decide the camera brand, mega pixel, zoom range, point and shoot, size and many other...

Roadside Fruit Stall at Madiwala Market, Bangalore.View On Black ...

Last October, Compy turned five. Being in a state of dilemma to upgrade to a laptop or not, I decided to go for a laptop ditching my earlier desktop. ;) Now, the latter part was to decide the so called brand. Comparing Dell...

Carvings on the stone pillar at Lepakshi Temple.View On Black ...

It is an immense pleasure to read this book especially if you have grown up watching the famous detective serial on Doordarshan : Byomkesh Bakshi, the role well executed by Rajit Kapur. Originally authored by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay in Bangla language , this fiction contains 54...

Mural paintings on the roof seen at Lepakshi Temple, Andhra Pradesh.View On Black ...

An year ago, impressed by the new features of Nokia E-series phones, I bought E-51, after my return from Udupi . While I explored helluva features of the phone and addicted to GPRS just because this phone supported features innumerable, though I missed out...

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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ~Rabindrath TagoreView On Black ...

Being addicted to photography for the past two years, I bought an annual subscription on flickr for $ 24.95 in 2008. My flickr pro account expired on 8th April '09. In dilemma and confusion to continue the subscription or not; following the current...

 Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion BoucicaultView On Black© Manasa. All rights reserved. ...

I am back to blogging after a long time. The gap was so high that, it was difficult for me to recollect my login password. :( First and foremost, I apologize for not reading your penned down thoughts. I know, most of you...