22 August 2025
Kalki 2 - The Last Mile
ENJOY THIS SONG ON YOUTUBE : https://youtu.be/mJnBz6ZktvQ (Verse 1) She’ll be happy without us Truth cuts like rust. We grind down her...
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Open Book by Raj Shekhar
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Our legacy to the future
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The Ignored Crisis
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22 August 2025
Kalki Series 1: The Sultans of Nothing
An Anthem for the enviroment ENJOY THIS SONG ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/7--fY13fSz4 A raw, dark, hard-hitting, unapologetic...
16 June 2024
To My Father
Nellooli Rajasekharan Was it a momentary pleasure? Or an accident? Or a passion to see you spread into eternity? Was it instinct? My...
19 April 2022
Why does India need Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises?
The three main reasons why India needs MSMEs to build its economy and to support its fast evolving group of entrepreneurs. Watch the...
16 April 2022
Dr N S Warrier - Memories
This year marks the 108th birth anniversary of the late #Dr. N.S Warrier, former Professor of Chemistry, and Principal of the...
8 September 2018
We are too many here!
We are too many here. We are about 8 Billion people now. That is huge to start with. And by most estimates we will be 9.8 Billion in 2050....
6 August 2018
My sand castles
We try or are forced to seek, design, and re-invent the meaning and purpose of life as we go along. Some of us wait for them to a dawn...
20 July 2018
She'll be happy without us
Every day, we hear and talk about environmental degradation, climate change, pollution and depletion of water resources, Greenhouse...
11 July 2018
The West got this one right!
I have been composing and publishing music for 40 years. The way music is created has changed completely. The large studios and 16 track...
5 July 2018
Believer preacher or fanatic? What are you?
What are you? I have altered my position on different issues and approaches. New information, experiences, or influences were...
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