Some trinkets which have kept me amused through the years. Broken chips of life, disconnected, abrupt; clear and polished at some places, blurred and cracked at others; littering my backyard with the nonchalance of disorder, questioning the confused dregs of an arbitrary life.
Blogroll
Interesting sites
Lectures/Speeches/Articles
- Avant Garde and Kitsch – Greenberg
- David Deutsch's TED talk on our place in the cosmos
- Federer as a religious experience
- Hamming’s lecture on research
- Murray Gell-Mann's TED talk on beauty and truth in physics
- Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Decay of Lying’
- P.G. Wodehouse’s ‘The Clicking of Cuthbert’
- Watterson's speech in Kenyon
Music/Poetry/Art
- Beautiful recital of parts of Madhushala by a youtube user
- Beethoven's mesmerizing Ode to Joy – conducted by Karajan
- Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine man
- Horowitz plays Chopin's Ballade 1
- Horowitz plays Chopin's Polonaise in A flat major
- Janine Jansen performs 'The Lark Ascending' (violin)
- Kseniya Simonova's heartbreakingly beautiful sand drawing
- Pandit Jasraj singing 'Allah Meherbaan' – Raag Bhairav
- Pandit Ravishankar's beautiful Sitar piece in the Heart of Bangladesh concert