Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs

Christmas looms. You’re thinking, dark clouds loom, last date for filing IT returns looms, but surely a season of peace and goodwill can...

There’s a Tiger in Our Woods ”Tiger is a model for how athletes should conduct themselves…. He handles himself with class, and he's ar...

(Or How to Take Your City Back) "Over the past 80 years we have been building cities for cars much more than for people. If only chil...

(Wrote this a year ago, about a week after the Mumbai terror attacks) “Ram Gopal Varma ki yahi kamayee Do sarkar banaye, ek girayee.” On...

(Appeared today in the BANGALORE MIRROR) We’re drowning in traffic, they tell us. Slowly choking to an agonising death on roads that are m...

(MY COLUMN IN THE BANGALORE MIRROR TODAY) “Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot ...

It’s quite astonishing how many misconceptions the average pappu-pinky-on-the-street has about stuff. And I count myself to be one such papp...

  I’m confused. The recession is over, they say. And it must be. Firstly because the experts say so. After all, aren’t they the o...

Belated congratulations to the great Manna Dey! Unassuming and very often looked over because of his more high-profile colleagues - yet no o...

  The Tenth Night – Dusshera! A 1000 too little..... This is my last post on Navaratri. The nine nights are over and today is the...

Divine Nine For nine days and nights we have celebrated the triumph of the Goddess over evil. Navaratri. Why nine, you might ask? ...

Naturally, no discussion on the Goddess Saraswati can be complete with music And her presence in the glorious, infinite ocean of Indian mu...

Veena Vadini One of the many names of the Goddess Saraswati and so her association with the veena is fairly well known. But what has the...

Some would call her a herb but that would be the most inadequate of labels because she is so many things. Medicine, antiseptic, health food,...

Padma – Lotus Padmavarna – She who is the colour of the lotus Padmapriya: She who loves lotus Padmalochana – She whose eyes are l...

Today is the first of the three nights of Navaratri dedicated to the Goddess Lakshmi As MahaVishnu lay resting on a fig leaf in the form...

When Bri. Maya Tiwari was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer at the age of 23, and at the height of an extraordinarily successful career...

Tonight is the second night of Navratri The Garba dance that is part of navratri celebrations comes from the word “Garbha deep”. Garbha ...

This is a  story about a goat, a Gyani and his shisya, a wonderful insight into  human nature Once upon a time there a Great Gyani (heret...

The First Night of Navaratri Aditi, Aparna, Malini, Nalini, Nandini, Sandhya, Medha, Ranjani, Rajni, Gauri, Nirupama, Savitri, Madhumat...