The Raghavan Instincts

Share Am terribly disappointed. For a lot of reasons. But the most, by one. "A man's value/influence on this society is determined by the no. of heads that mourn on this death" , it's said. A legend has just passed away. Not less than a week ago. And what have done other than FB status msgs, Twitter taggings, a few +1's and by some stone agers' Orkut scraps...? He'd never asked me to buy any of the products of his company. Neither did I care to think of it since they were more clearly overpriced. But how could such a legend not be here from India...? There has to be an Indian connection , did I think. Not that this is the only country that can host such a genius. But yet, when we don't / cant have something, it's at least a bit soothing to celebrate it as if it were ours. We Indians are still proud of Aryabhatta/Bhaskara for giving this world it's greatest digit ZERO and other jaw-dropping gyans. Be it Bhagavad Gita/Thirukkural....

It was a warm summer evening... Nothin spl... Me, Siddharth n Bharadwaaj were jus havin some vetti talk... :) As usual, our favorite topics like mythology, culture, linguistics n other topics were goin on... especially Sanskrit was the topic of discussion then... We accidentally came across the word Windows and I dont remember who gave the idea of having Windows OS in Sanskrit...! Sounded initially funny, but we came across several interesting terms in Sanskrit, as we are all eminent poets in the same ;) Not exactly, but we have some significant knowledge in Sanskrit... :) We started giving terms like: मम संघटक: - My Computer धूळि पेटिका  - Recycle Bin आनन पुस्तकं - Facebook, etc. :) It was fun coining terms in the most ancient language for the most modern technologies...! :) I think Sanskrit is the mother of all languages (so do many) and although its difficult sometimes, sometimes its fun…! :) And I’ve (we’ve) loved Sanskrit and we all will. The thing is, its easy to make up wo...