Location: India 🇮🇳

Uma likes rides on motor cycle 1

Back to Basics on an old Bike

I often find something that still doesn’t feel 100% right. These days, it has been the cold start and the choke. After the bike came out of restoration, it had a cold-start problem. The usual solution was to use the choke without throttle, and that mostly worked. During the recent six-month service, I...

ನಾವೆಲ್ಲರು - Installation at APU 0

Weekly Notes 03/2026

It seems like yesterday, but we are in the 9th edition of NMG. NMG/2026 applications are open now. The last date to apply is March 15th. Please share it with your friends. Please do apply if you think it suits you.

ನಾಗರತ್ನ ಸ್ಮಾರಕ ಅನುದಾನ - Nagarathna Memorial Grant 6

Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2026 Open for Applications

Welcome to the ninth edition of the NMG grant. I am grateful to friends (Nemo, Gangadhar, Shweta, Divya, Miss.Y, Mr.S) and other anonymous folks who have joined me on this journey with additional grant support. We do have some of them supporting us this year, too. Since last year, we have separated the...

Uma watching Manikantan 0

Weekly Notes 02/2026

The weekend and the week were busy as we wrapped up at Thrissur, traveled, and got back to work after the holiday season. Uma’s school also restarted this week after the holidays. We are back to regular programming.

At Kochi-Muziris Biennale/ 2025 0

Weekly Notes 01/2026

Welcome to the new year. I didn’t do much on New Year’s Eve or Day, other than maybe sleeping a bit. However, I took some time to write and publish the year-end post. This is the 18th year of publishing year-end posts.

Uma at Taj Kumarakom 0

The Year that was 2025

The year 2025 has been a decent year personally. I got to focus on and spend time with family, friends, and on personal growth. The work has been decent. I am still able to explore, learn, and apply new things. It helped that I am mostly off popular social media, spend very little...