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Quote I found on the back of a token - "ವಿಶ್ವಾಸವಿದ್ದರೆ ಪ್ರೀತಿ. ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಿದ್ದರೆ ಗೌರವ." Which roughly translates to "There is Love if there is trust. There is Respect if there is love" 4

Weekly Notes 03/2025

Time flies faster than we can think of. Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2025 is open for applications; this is our eighth edition. When I started it, I didn’t think much about how it would turn out in a couple of years. So, there were no expectations. But it has grown into its own...

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Weekly Notes 35/2024

It was a busy week at work; a significant feature we have been working on for the last six weeks went live mid-week. I am happy about my team’s work and the result.

Biography of Girija Lokesh 0

Feb 2021 – Reading Status

The last year 2020, was terrible in terms of reading. I heard a lot of podcasts but didn’t read much. This year’s goal is to read 25 Kannada books minimum; any books I read in English are special. You can track them under the tag #25KA2021 on my social blog. In Jan and Feb, I read five, which is a decent start.

Why Buddhism? 0

Why Buddhism?

I just finished reading Buddha or Karl Marx By Dr. Ambedkar. It’s just a long essay or Booklet. The thing that caught my attention is the summary of Buddhist Tripiṭaka. I think this summary is the best I have read about Buddhism and why its required. The below points are quoted from Buddha...

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Book: The Annihilation of Caste

“The Annihilation of Caste” was supposed to be delivered at a conference organized by a Hindu reformist group Jat-Pat Todak Mandal in Lahore, 1936. At last-minute the group took back the invitation saying speech was against Hinduism and its shastras. Ambedkar self published the speech as the book. At that point the content...

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Book: Spam Nation

Spam Nation by Brian Krebs reads like a crime thriller. For cyber security enthusiasts Krebs is no stranger. He has been writing about cyber security and crime on his blog KrebsOnSecurity for more than seven years now and before that at WaPo. I have been reading his blog for more than half a...