Mathematics &Philosophy &Poetry Entropy | 31 May 2008
0 Philosophic in its complex, ovoid emptiness, a skillful pundit coined it as a sort of stopgap doorstop for those quaint equations Romans never dreamt of. In form completely clever and discrete—a mirror come unsilvered, loose watch face without the works, a hollowed globe from tip to toe unbroken, it evades the grappling hooks of [...]
Music &Poetry Entropy | 22 May 2008
J.S. Bach is being regarded as a genius of Western music. In fact Brahms described Bach’s Chaconne (BWV.1004) as containing ‘a whole world of the deepest thoughts and the most powerful feelings. This poem by Lars Gustafson wonderfully expresses Bach’s influence on classical music The Silence of the World before Bach There must have been [...]
Architecture & Design &Photography Entropy | 18 May 2008
I have an endless fascination with New York city and its Architectural Landmarks The building of New York’s bridges, photographed by Eugene de Salignac, De Salignac, it turned out, had worked for the Department of Bridges (later the Department of Plant and Structures) from 1903 to 1934. Vast reaches of infrastructure were laid down in [...]
Architecture & Design &Photography Entropy | 17 May 2008
Wish to showcase my photographs of Colonial architecture at a house in Bangalore. Villa Pottipati For a larger size Preview click here
Architecture & Design &Photography Entropy | 17 May 2008
Wish to share photographs of recent visit to Coorg, Karnataka Coffee plantations. This was the residence of the Diwans of the Rajas of Coorg built in 1898. Designed by a Swiss architect this grand mansion sits on a raised clearing in the rainforest, among a hundred acres of coffee and cardomom plantations, paddy fields and [...]
Economic Behaviour &Globalisation &Thought Provoking Entropy | 16 May 2008
This is thought provoking article published in recent Orion Magazine on social consumption hysteria. The first fully enclosed shopping mall in America, and probably the world, was the Southdale Center in Edina, outside Minneapolis. Built in 1956, it is credited to Austrian immigrant architect Victor Gruen, who wanted to re-create the intimate scale and feel [...]