06 Sep № ···

✻ An elephant, a drunken man and a cron job

It was a serene evening one summer day in 2010. Sony, Sherin, Nandu and I sat chit chatting in an estate tucked away a few kilometers into the woods of

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14 Aug № ···

✻ Goa - The last stop on the hippie trail

Goa. Those three letters are now synonymous with parties, beaches and cheap booze. It has been taken over by the brute force of commercialism, but look a little harder and

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01 Apr № ···

✻ A drive through New Zealand - Part 2

The South Island The Ferry, Picton & Nelson The ferry from Wellington to Picton in itself is an experience worth it. The journey was pleasant and relaxed with a picturesque

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24 Mar № ···

✻ A drive through New Zealand - Part 1

The North Island Introduction New Zealand was always a dream destination for me and been in my bucket list for quite some time. So when a plan came up for

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23 May № ···

✻ Malayalam slang and their origins

Malayalam has always had a history of assimilating loan words from various foreign tongues. This has been true even in some of the common everyday slang words that Malayalees use

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19 May № ···

✻ Hello Ghost!

I have been meaning to get this site back on track for sometime now. It has been a while. Procrastination was one primary obstacle, Wordpress was another. But then I

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05 Sep № ···

✻ Flickering text with CSS and JavaScript

This is a simple hack to simulate flickering text using the magic powers of CSS3 and some javascript. Pretty much a lazy evening experiment I did for the landing page

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29 Mar № ···

✻ The Third Home

Photo by Diego Jimenez / Unsplash   –    L’Auberge Espagnole (2002) The seemingly random chaos of the roads, streets and corners of this city all falls into place now. After 2 years

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28 Feb № ···

✻ The Butterfly Effect

*Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?*  One of my favourite thought exercise is to romanticize about the chaos theory. So

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23 Nov № ···

✻ The Problem with Choice

One fine evening, tired after the days work, I found myself seated on my couch at home lazily surfing channels on the idiot box, unable to decide what to watch.

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11 Oct № ···

✻ Ladakh in October

October and Ladakh are not two things that go together. Winter starts to set in; it starts snowing; temperature creeps into negative territory and add to that the problems of

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02 Oct № ···

✻ The (mostly south) India Darshan

Though my lack of the otherwise prolific stream of travelogues here would suggest otherwise, the past 1 year has been a great year for me in terms of travel. I

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26 Sep № ···

✻ Redesign!

After 6 years; Rusty.in has moved on to a brand new design. The design is minimalistic, and I have tried my best to make the site much more readable.

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25 Aug № ···

✻ Anna Hazare, Lokpal and the trendy Indian youth

The world seems to be filled about posts on Anna Hazare and Lokpal; maybe the last thing that you need is to read one more armchair analysis. It’s a

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10 Aug № ···

✻ Developing cross platform desktop applications

Right from the beginning of my interest in programming; I’ve always had a thing for developing apps. Apps in the classic sense; the ones with a lot of bells

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06 Dec № ···

✻ 2010 : Reflections

Another year has gone by and as usual it went pretty fast. I guess as you get older, time flies faster than before. One more year deposited to your nostalgia

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09 Sep № ···

✻ ‘Auto’cracy

Auto-rickshaws for me, were cheap, convenient (though uncomfortable usually) means of transportation in any Indian city. Despite having to haggle, bargain and sometimes (most of the time?) pay extra, it

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31 Aug № ···

✻ To Sikkim and Beyond...

I hadn’t travelled much around India except for the south. So when Prema asked if I was interested in a Sikkim trip, I yelled my yes. After a long

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18 Aug № ···

✻ My Programming Progression and the Language Block

Tech content advisory : Non-techies exercise caution reading this, maybe a bit of geek overload in here. :) Like most people (ok, geeks!) of my generation, my first tryst with programming was

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02 Aug № ···

✻ Media's Tech Illiteracy?

Allow me to be that guy who for once ignores his emotions and patriotism and just says WTF. A few weeks back, there was big fanfare orchestrated by a lot

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27 May № ···

✻ Kites didn't soar

6 PM on a Sunday evening, and me and my friend, Hazer are chatting away at our usual hangout – the parking lane in between the museum and   Kanakakunnu  palace in

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03 May № ···

✻ Oh my god(s?)

I was lazing around in a nostalgic mood watching an old Malayalam movie on TV and was a bit surprised when my dad interrupted and told me to get ready,

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15 Apr № ···

✻ A tale of a few cities...

I was speaking to my friend Manju the other day, and she was asking about my new life in a new city. She asked me to blog about my thoughts

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29 Mar № ···

✻ The Gods, floods and another train journey

Edward Luce’s   In Spite of the Gods – The Strange Rise of Modern India  , is a brutally neutral perspective about India from an outsider’s point of view. It is

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15 Mar № ···

✻ Adventures with Ubuntu Karmic Koala

*No I am not talking about a spiritual trip to Australia or about the animal; Karmic Koala is the latest version of the Linux distro Ubuntu :) * So I decided to

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