Hello, world.
"Hello, robot," said the mattress.

• This links to my webpage. Thanks to GI for the layout :) !


• Here is one of my favourite poems - and a variant by Bill Watterson, from The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes.


• The prophecy of the Raven King, from Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.


• Something I wrote during the 2005 Ashes. It is biased, in that it chronicles the defeats of one side, but...
• Just how tough is Mike Hussey?


• On November 5, 2005, I sang live on the Diwali Special Radio Program, of the Indian Channel "Lotus Beat" of Northwestern University.
  Here is Raag Shyam Kalyan (22:45).


Who truly knows, who can honestly say where
This universe came from
And where it will vanish to at the End?
Those godlike wise men who claim they know were born long
After the birth of Creation.
Who then could know where our universe really came from?
And whoever knows or does not know where Creation came from,
Only one gazing at its vastness from the very roof of the final Heaven
Only such a one could possibly know,
But does even He know ?

- Rigveda - 129.6. 7


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