Vishwas Krishna

How does one write about music? Of all the arts, the most difficult to describe is the music, at least, for me. With films (and books), I can very clearly say what I like, what type of acting I do, or do not like (since my main criteria for liking films is acting and then the story and rest). Also, with films, there are so many areas which I can write about, the direction, story, dialogues, screenplay, music, cinematography, etc. But when it comes to music, or as in the case of this blog post, a particular song, there is that song and nothing else. Especially, for someone like me, who does not understand or worry much about lyrics. The purpose of this lengthy introduction is me trying to explain how difficult it is to write about the song which I love and love only for the sake of the music. However hard I may try, it would be difficult to fully express how much or why I love this and to what extent. Perhaps, this is because of the limitation of the language or my knowledge of the...

This was something which was long overdue. Finally found the time to visit the KSRTC suburban bus stand and review it. KSRTC took a long time to repair or renovate or whatever nonsense they wish to call it. But the bus stand is pretty much the same as it was before that wasteful exercise.  The idea to write about this and the person who accompanied me to the bus stand and without whose inputs this review wouldn't have been anywhere near what it is now, wishes to remain anonymous for various reasons. Below, I reproduce the article which first appeared at the MGP blog over here .  Poorly Designed Suburban Bus Stand The suburban bus stand of Mysore on Bangalore Nilgiri Road has been upgraded at a cost of Rs. 30 crores under JNNURM. MGP has received complaints from the public about the poor conditions prevailing in this expensive bus stand. These conditions appear to be a consequence of numerous defects in the planning, design, execution and maintenance of the ...

A quick review of the Nokia N8 which I bought recently . Home Screen Menu My Nokia N8 came with the latest version of Symbian, that is, Anna. For someone who was using a XpressMusic 5800 Symbian^1 phone, this was a huge improvement. First, the obvious, camera. 12MP Carl Zeiss camera is actually as good as what I had heard about it since it's release. So much so that, I have never felt the need to use my Nikon L120, unless it involved using optical zoom. You can checkout few pictures in my Flickr stream . Weather App Ovi Store Since there was already a leaked version of Symbian Belle available on the net (only for N8), I did not hesitate to break my warranty and install it. And I'm glad I did that. The new notification bar, more options with the home screen and widgets and also the improved battery life plus the overall look of the phone is too good to miss. Smart Office gNewsReader At least for me, battery life is important factor for a s...

After having used the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic for around two years, last week, I finally upgraded to Nokia N8. Of late, I have been using my mobile device to view and write huge amounts of text. The 3.2inch resistive touch screen of 5800 wasn't helping my cause. My use of mobile phone, right now, is restricted to 1. Browsing (Belle browser, Opera Mobile 11 and Opera Mini 6 are doing the job efficiently) 2. Using twitter (of course, Gravity ) 3. gNewsReader for Google Reader feeds, SymPaper for Read It Later articles, SymNote for writing notes. 4. Picsel Smart Office for reading pdfs and using MS Office documents 5. Default Symbian^3 mail client and Mobile Documents for using my Gmail and other mail accounts. Taking pictures (12 megapixels Carl Zeiss camera), using "USB on the go" and also, the FM Transmitter are some of the other features which I regularly use on the device. But why not Android? Yes, in that price range, it is easier to find better ...

  As evident from the poster (which is in Kannada), this is about the book release function of " Etta Haaride Hamsa ", authored by noted theatre director S Raghunandana . For the first time, our theatre troupe, RANGAVALLI is venturing outside the area of performing plays. With the guidance of Prashanth S Hiremath, S Dwarkanath and K J Sachidananda (who also designed the above poster), we are conducting this program on the coming Sunday, 14th August at 10:00 am at Sriranga, Mysore.  Please do come.

Few days back, I was part of the conversation at home, which circled around the state of roads in Mysore. Roads in Mysore can be categorised in to two categories. Either they are bad or in the process of becoming so. Because every new road invariably turns into a field of potholes immediately after encountering few rainfalls. Also, contributing to this is the constant road repairs by JUSCO and JNNURM projects.But the surprising thing is the way citizens of Mysore tolerate such bad roads. We ended our conversation admitting that we were not any different from the rest. (Note: I'm different. So I posted this.)

This is a temporary post until this blog becomes active. I'm not even sure when this will be active. Hopefully, soon. I'm currently blogging here and here is my twitter page.