![Kim, Kasab, Korea and Karkare](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Kim02.jpg?resize=124%2C103&ssl=1)
I accidentally read about Kim Hyon-hui. Her story [Link] is so strikingly similar to Kasab’s that it needs to be recounted; it may perhaps hold…
![Of Slumdog, Dictionary and Millionaires](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/slumdog.jpg?resize=96%2C140&ssl=1)
Having studied in a Marathi medium school, I have retained the habit of looking up every new word in dictionary. This occasionally throws up surprise….
![By the measure of self discovery or contribution?](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Thinkingman.jpg?resize=110%2C120&ssl=1)
The big applause surprised me! The master of ceremony had just finished my introduction. He had ended it by pointing out that I had worked…
![Seven Sentences of Communication](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/communication02.jpg?resize=123%2C124&ssl=1)
The Saturday Club at Dombivali invited me to address them at their conference held last weekend. I used to stay about a kilometer away from…
![The 'Spouse' Benefits](https://vivekvsp.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
I used to read about same sex marriages and the peculiar problems they pose in USA. Here goes Australia too. Australian Parliament has passed the…
![Renaming without purpose](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/MILS.jpg?resize=81%2C114&ssl=1)
I joined Bombay Labour Institute in 1971 and graduated in 1973. I remember my very first visit to the Institute in 1971. A neglected institution,…
![Abhijit writes......](https://vivekvsp.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Here is Abhijit’s response which I thought of publishing as a post rather than as a comment: After a 3 week gap, I was excited…
![Two Birds on the Tree of Life and Two Autobiographies](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/DevAnand.jpg?resize=90%2C133&ssl=1)
I enjoy reading a lot of autobiographies. A friend handed over a copy of ‘Romancing With Life’, the autobiography of Dev Anand. Dev was my…