Vineet Gupta

My sincere apologies to folks who attended the IDF lab today. I got late reaching the venue and nothing gets worse than that. Vinod gamely started the lab on time and I am so grateful to him for stepping in. While this is no excuse for my delay in showing up, read on to find out what [...]

Manish Sharma has started a blog. Manish works for the public sector team in Microsoft India and is one of the smarter guys I have met. We were on a trip together to the US early this year, and he made me laugh so much over everything. The first post, where he busts the "Google Boom," is classic Manish [...]

I love eating good food (and it shows! ). Yesterday evening, the entire family (that’s about 10 people) went to this place called Pind Balluchi on Ring Road, right next to the Lajpat Nagar flyover. Actually this was my second visit. Chikki, Gagan, Montu and I had been there a couple of weeks back and [...]

One of my American friends got confused by the first entry in this blog. His question was how can writing a blog be Karma? Isn’t Karma a sort of divine power?   Well, deude, I am no expert on metaphysics or theology, but from what I do know of my mother tongue (Hindi, which derives from Sanskrit) and [...]

karmany evadhikaras tema phaleshu kadachanama karma-phala-hetur bhurma te sango ‘stv akarmani   (You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty) – Krishna [...]