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To The Himalayas - The Great Indian Quest For Peace (Part I of Many)

Rahul Desai

April 10, 2010

3 mins read

To Himalayas, via McDonald’s at Lonavala: Just like all my previous whacky trips, this too had to start on an odd note. For the flight at 6 AM from Bombay, I was still at work in Pune at 1 AM. With the grace of God (and pressure/torture from ...

25 Things About Me (You May Not Know)

Rahul Desai

April 06, 2010

4 mins read

One of my closest friends once tagged me in a note on Facebook revealing some of the shocking secrets. The idea was to write some equal number of random things about myself, tag all the other people I wanted, to read these 25 things about me....

My Tweet In Newspaper

Rahul Desai

February 02, 2010

About a min read

Wooppiee! My tweet got ‘published’ (as in ‘printed’) in today’s Times of India – Pune Mirror (Feb 2, 2010 – Page 31 Variety). Boy, am I excited to see my name up there! Probably my trip to Shirdi did some trick… (I just can’t stop blushing – as...

Pursuing Clarity Of The Self

Rahul Desai

October 27, 2009

About a min read

History repeats itself. It does. Earlier this evening, I was sitting at home sipping the best coffee in the world (I made it); and it suddenly felt if I was getting back to my good old routine. Well, talking of ‘repeating’, the only thing in...

Quick 15, Favorite 15

Rahul Desai

October 12, 2009

2 mins read

There was this note by my cousin - Khushboo on Facebook some time back about listing fifteen books (in really short span of time with some other wacky (whacky?) ‘rules’). One of the rules talked about listing ‘the first fifteen books I’ve read’....

Road To Healthy Life ‘09

Rahul Desai

October 02, 2009

About a min read

Article title courtesy: Symantec Road to Cutting Edge ’09. The big difference being, when I write ‘Road’ I mean ‘Road’. Lately, with my highly conscious efforts to get into some good shape (other than ‘round’ shape), I had to make some serious...

Memories, Forever

Rahul Desai

July 24, 2009

2 mins read

It’s like I waited my whole life… for this one night…It’s gon’ be me, you and the dance floor… It’s so amazing how we unknowingly manage to find things that can bring a smile to our faces. Take this random video I ended up with. What's more,...

Cloud Computing - Taking Us Green

Rahul Desai

May 30, 2009

4 mins read

‘Go Green’ seems to be the Mantra of the moment. Not sure if it’s an outcome of the recession, every organization is talking about it – big time. I recently happened to attend one of Microsoft’s technology conferences - Tech.Ed 2009 (SHOW TIME!!...

The Divine Self Lives Within You

Rahul Desai

May 30, 2009

2 mins read

Done with all the books in your collection and wondered what mroe to read? Hate fiction, and need a break from philosophical/idealistic books? Ever felt that urge of reading but not sure what to read? (With my limited collection of books,...

Listening

Rahul Desai

April 09, 2009

2 mins read

Suhas and Hiral – one of my closest friends and one of his closest cousins, resp – recently brought this amazing game from one of their (common) closest cousins, a game called OSHO – Heart to Heart Tarot (A Unique Tool for Spiritual Quest). The...

Slumdog Millionaire

Rahul Desai

February 01, 2009

About a min read

Director(s): Danny Boyle/ Acto(s): Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?". He is arrested under...

Dilemma

Rahul Desai

January 16, 2009

2 mins read

Talking of Dilemma, a few things hit my mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilemma http://www.howstuffworks.com/morality-located-in-brain1.htm That monophonic Dilemma – Nelly ringtone on Nokia 3310 mobile, back in early college days. The...

How To Deal With Change?

Rahul Desai

August 17, 2008

3 mins read

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life,...