Atul Karmarkar.Com

I’m sure a lot of people across the world were surprised when it was announced that US President Barack Obama was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, warding off contenders who seemed more deserving. The blogosphere and twitterati were all agog over this issue and I’d been meaning to write about this, but something kept [...]

A friend’s wife recently had a harrowing tryst with “Keratoconus“…   Here’s her experience, or rather “eyesperience…  Shri Ganapati Netralaya……… http://www.netralaya.org/                                                                 An experience to remember!!   Like any newly wed happy bride, I was settling down to a new life in Pune – one that would be interspersed with activities that I was passionate about.  [...]

Have not been finding enough time to blog lately, and the frequency of posts looks all set to dwindle to some extent. As if lack of time wasn’t a problem enough, my internet connection has been acting up big time. The service provider (BSNL) has been giving me a lot of grief and yes, numerous [...]

One of the biggest WTF kinda news I’ve come across…  Ghanshyam Kevat, a dreaded dacoit, was gunned down by UP cops in a village in Chitrakoot yesterday. Nothing particularly amazing about this piece of news, but then look at the stats.. it was a single dacoit against almost 500 heavily armed cops and commandos, and what’s [...]

Intolerance seems to have become a way of life lately, and it doesn’t take too much to offend people or “hurt their sentiments” if recent events are any indication; some people from an NGO beating up a Pakistani girl for sporting an Urdu tattoo on her back, others vandalising Mumbai University over a perceived injustice to the Marathi language, the [...]

Here’s wishing everyone and their close ones a Happy New Year. Hope 2009 rings in some change for the better and we have a more peaceful year than 2008. In retrospect, 2008 leaves behind memories and experiences I will always treasure. Here’s a warm and heartfelt thank you -

On November 22, 1963, US President John F.Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas. This is probably one of the greatest whodunits ever, with no conclusive evidence about the events of that day. So many theories, that it’s simply mind boggling…