Sudheer's blog

New beginning.

Happy 2012!

Who can read between the lines?

Five years ago, I co-founded Binary Vibes Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. with two other friends. In these five years, many things happened that I never expected. Some of them were good and some not so good. Overall, the journey has been fantastic. Dealing with frequent uncertainties is a thrilling job.

Some of you identify me with Binary Vibes. Your well wishes has definitely contributed to the growth of Binary Vibes.

On Sunday, September 18, 2011 we launched Biblio Bengaluru. Biblio Bengaluru is a loosely knit group of bibliophiles in Bengaluru. We meet once in a month, typically at a coffee shop. On the same day, we had our inaugural meeting at Cafe Coffee Day. Follow the event page to view the pictures.

If you are in Bengaluru and read books you should join Biblio Bengaluru. The literary community consists of well read and interesting people. You can also exchange books with our members. Come, participate now.

If you are a grammar nazi, the first thing you'd have noticed is the weirdness in title of this blog post. It is hard to spot such capitalization of titles these days. I don't know if there's even a name for the style. I personally do not like writing titles with prepositions in lowercase and everything else capitalized. Somehow, lot of book titles are written in this manner. When the book arrived, I was excited. As soon as I opened the cover, the sight of the title put me off.

1984 is a novel written by George Orwell. The book falls under the science fiction category. At the mention of science fiction, I can sense your disbelief, you hard science fiction fan. For some of us, sci-fi means robots from fantasy land and amusing imaginary journey in the outer space. Science fiction has many subgenres such as hard science fiction, soft science fiction, time travel and superhuman. 1984 belongs to the subgenre social science fiction.

State Of Fear is techno thriller novel by Michael Crichton. The book was released in the year 2004. I read it a couple of weeks ago.

The book was gripping and fast paced. Throughout the nightly reading sessions, I kept on turning the pages. Global warming is the central topic of the novel. The character, John Kenner asserts the fact that global warming doesn't exist at all. The protagonist and others travel to places like Antartica and Africa to avert catastrophes conspired by eco-terrorists.

In addition to the story, you will also find

• Two appendices
• A personal afterword by the author
• Twenty page bibliography
• Graphs
• Footnotes referring to real scholarly literature

In the sunshine
He starts the engine
He gently guides the boat
Towards the destination

Then comes the storm
Pausing the journey
At night while resting
He gazes at the stars
He thinks about the universe

At dawn, he resumes the journey
Chatting with his buddies on board
They leave when their islands arrive
The boatman rows on and on
He thinks about the journey

His eyes catch a glimpse
Of life everywhere
In the air
In the water
In and on the earth
He thinks about life

He becomes one with the serenity
Of the blue sky
And of the water

I've been reading many books authored by John Grisham these days. Theodore Boone was an enjoyable read. Then I tried to read Playing For Pizza. That's the only John Grisham book I didn't like. I read about half and gave up. I even threw the book in the old newspaper lot at home. I wouldn't be surprised if someone else wrote the book and inscribed John Girsham's name on the cover. It was that bad.

It's the disease
It won't let you do
What you want to do
You were punished for not doing it
You thought you could get away with it
But you couldn't

You continue the race
Get stuck somewhere
Nowhere to go
Nothing to do
You start running back
But you don't want to

It won't let you go forward
It won't let you go back
You want the cure
Don't run back
Take a break
Rest for a while

Trash the illusion
Then proceed
Increase the pace
Win the race
Remember what you want to do
Reach where you want to go

Don't succumb to the disease
Make this the habit
The winning habit