Welcome!

Welcome to my space in cyberspace.  Here, I have collated my views, philosophies and writing on various topics that have tickled my interest and got me thinking.  I invite you to browse through the pages and links here.

If you read something that interests you, please leave a comment.  Tell me what you like, and what you don’t; what you agree and disagree with. You may see a consonance with your own perspectives, albeit with differing nuances.  Or you might see things very differently and disagree with me totally.  Perhaps you can convince me to change my views and edit what I have posted here, or maybe post another entry in this blog.  Either way, I would love to hear from you.  We will all benefit from the discussions and analysis that will follow, and the appreciation of the vast diversity and yet striking similarity that characterizes humanity and everything around us.

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Thank you for visiting. I hope you enjoy your time here, and that you come back another day for more….

Deepak Hegde

वक़्त ही तो है!

A poem on life’s perspectives.

मीठे खजूर, खट्टे अंगूर

I have posted a poem with the title मीठे खजूर, खट्टे अंगूर.  You can find this under the tab Poetry and Prose or just click here.  This was posted on February 25, 2010 but I had inadvertently deleted the post.

ओस की बूँदें

I have just posted a new poem. Look for it under the tab Poetry and Prose or click here. I Hope you like it. Please help me correct my spelling and grammatical mistakes as I am still learning Hindi/Urdu and struggling with the challenges of transliteration and formatting.

India in America

I have just posted a response to an article in TIME Magazine on July 02, 2010 by Joel Stein titled, ’My Own Private India’ in which he talks about how his hometown in Edison, New Jersey, was transformed when Indian Immigrants moved in.  The article was meant to be satire, but it irked a lot of Indian immigrants who considered it racial.  TIME and the author immediately reverted with an apology of sorts. You can find my response under the tab Perspectives or click here.

रिश्तें

Just added a new poem with the above title.  You can find it under the tab, Poetry and Prose or simply click here.  Hope you like it!

Is the Nation in a Coma?

I posted an article with the above title.  The article has some of my perspectives on corruption in India and in the USA.  You can find it under the tab Perspectives or simply click here.

New Template

I have:       

1. Changed the template to provide drop-down menus for easier navigation and a more organized look.
2. Segregated articles on Values under a different tab so that they are not lost amongst the more serious articles on Philosophy.
3. Created sub-pages on articles that I hope to write on.  These are marked with an asterisk and are currently blank, but they should give you an idea of what to expect and hopefully encourage you to subscribe to this blog so that you are automatically intimated as when I publish them.

I hope you like the changes.