<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634</id><updated>2011-09-28T15:58:00.992-05:00</updated><category term='Indian music'/><category term='national park'/><category term='engineering'/><category term='books'/><category term='politics'/><category term='rape'/><category term='Austin'/><category term='Oscars'/><category term='Himalayas'/><category term='theater'/><category term='FDA'/><category term='Creativity'/><category term='movie'/><category term='Life'/><category term='friendship'/><category term='social immorality'/><category term='travel'/><category term='army'/><category term='food'/><category term='smoking'/><category term='thoughts'/><category term='sports'/><category term='poetry'/><category term='constitutional laws'/><category term='temple'/><category term='Ganga'/><category term='happiness'/><category term='corruption'/><category term='architecture'/><category term='love'/><category term='government responsibility'/><title type='text'>Flight To Infinity...and Beyond</title><subtitle type='html'>As far and wide as my thoughts and imagination</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>46</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-496232320920729606</id><published>2011-09-10T15:36:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-10T15:54:53.480-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='national park'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>The Trip to the Melting Glaciers</title><summary type='text'>There are a few self-evident truths in the journals of travels. Wear your most comfortable pair of shoes, if you have none, just buy one. Never wait to take a better photograph. The gamble is not worthwhile in the age of digital photography…the sun and the moon wait for none. Walk that extra mile if that was meant to be your final destination. I realized a more important one; never wait to take a</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/496232320920729606/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=496232320920729606&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/496232320920729606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/496232320920729606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2011/09/trip-to-melting-glaciers.html' title='The Trip to the Melting Glaciers'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BTJR6rDdLII/TmvLBfPyxkI/AAAAAAAAIII/_mRiyjVW4Qk/s72-c/IMG_1754.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-4276091698167210507</id><published>2011-08-04T13:39:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-08-04T13:45:28.896-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thoughts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Curing Only the Symptoms</title><summary type='text'>The world has been spiraling in one long downward roller coaster ride ever since the industrial revolution. Perhaps  there have been a few breathers where we have coasted along and felt pleased at all the achievements and exhilaration, but I do not believe that the power holders have once looked forward to see where we are headed. I say world here because no country has proved to be an </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/4276091698167210507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=4276091698167210507&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/4276091698167210507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/4276091698167210507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2011/08/curing-only-symptoms.html' title='Curing Only the Symptoms'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_dGuisbJOFs/TjrnWb6NMgI/AAAAAAAAIHM/nCOMfhJ9beU/s72-c/shrug.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-8706480807361541489</id><published>2011-05-07T01:40:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-07T01:52:17.531-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poetry'/><title type='text'>All Questions Lead to One</title><summary type='text'>Oh,why? Why this cruel smile?
Must I cry or simply smile

Suffer might I to stay afloat?
Pull not with a cripply smile

Was flying spark heavenly light?
fizzling out my wimpy smile

Then why my bottomless depths?
you smirk at my limply smile

Is the game a mighty puzzle?
There seem clues in impy smile

Do the questions have answers?
Or exist to evoke a grizzly smile

Why a phoenix if fire is to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/8706480807361541489/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=8706480807361541489&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8706480807361541489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8706480807361541489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2011/05/all-questions-lead-to-one.html' title='All Questions Lead to One'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-6890227794031246559</id><published>2011-05-02T09:55:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T15:43:32.691-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poetry'/><title type='text'>A humble Offering</title><summary type='text'>I cannot recall when it was that I fell in love with youBut do you remember the doubt that first behest you
A while it took for me to shed my vain defiance in fullPerhaps  when a part of me was in thirst to be just you
I could never have known an entire day of futile gloomHad you bestowed that smile on me that once vest you
If I have learnt to value every unfinished hour of the dayIt is a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/6890227794031246559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=6890227794031246559&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/6890227794031246559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/6890227794031246559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2011/05/humble-offering.html' title='A humble Offering'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-151000579070214170</id><published>2011-02-26T19:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T19:42:10.734-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Creativity'/><title type='text'>Calvin is in Everyone- II</title><summary type='text'></summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/151000579070214170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=151000579070214170&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/151000579070214170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/151000579070214170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2011/02/calvin-is-in-everyone-ii.html' title='Calvin is in Everyone- II'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Z_pkUM5uXtg/TWmrx3vzn-I/AAAAAAAAHnM/BAdUCFSWdS4/s72-c/creativity.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-6403628462979922445</id><published>2011-02-26T00:18:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T00:22:16.101-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thoughts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='books'/><title type='text'>The Tender Roots of a Bookful Life</title><summary type='text'>Life has been too busy for a good book, or a blog or for anything  that matters truly in life..yet I opened up a news site this morning to see what experts had to say about Australia's thumping triumph over New Zealand...and I never even found that out. A side headline acknowledging the demise of "Uncle" Pai stirred memories within me so deep that I had even forgotten they existed.I did not read </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/6403628462979922445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=6403628462979922445&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/6403628462979922445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/6403628462979922445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2011/02/tender-roots-of-bookful-life.html' title='The Tender Roots of a Bookful Life'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-3375386457696169155</id><published>2010-11-30T23:20:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2010-11-30T23:22:08.573-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corruption'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='constitutional laws'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>The Great Hunger Debate</title><summary type='text'>Three year olds in Ganne, a village south of Allahabad eat dried mud and silica because they are hungry. Tribals in Madhya Pradesh are increasingly found on the doorsteps of hospitals and are being refused treatment because of their social and economic conditions. Even as you finish reading this sentence, 5 more people in the world have died as a direct or indirect result of malnutrition, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/3375386457696169155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=3375386457696169155&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/3375386457696169155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/3375386457696169155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-hunger-debate.html' title='The Great Hunger Debate'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-1488035874942911587</id><published>2010-11-11T21:20:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T09:56:53.115-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thoughts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poetry'/><title type='text'>Break the Fetter</title><summary type='text'>Round and round 
spiralling in a box
gravity bound
In the dark of nox

She tries to fly
with might need she try?
Nay, for she is her gravity
Her night,imprisoned by infidelity


Farther she searches , farther
Until she can see no more
Oh, why now demur?
Only the mirror shows her foe

An impetus to grow
A spark to ignite
A brake to her tow
Her friend,the fear inspite

Her only prisoner
Her only </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/1488035874942911587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=1488035874942911587&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1488035874942911587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1488035874942911587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/11/break-fetter.html' title='Break the Fetter'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-298463164524421082</id><published>2010-10-28T00:24:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-28T00:33:05.526-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theater'/><title type='text'>Where Dreams are Born</title><summary type='text'>“I’ll teach you how to jump on the wind’s back- and if there are more winds than one they toss you about in the sky- they fling you miles and miles- but you always fall soft into another wind- and sometimes you go crashing through the tops of trees, and scaring the owls, and if you meet a boy’s kite in the air you shove your foot through it. The stars are giving a party tonight. Oh Wendy, when </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/298463164524421082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=298463164524421082&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/298463164524421082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/298463164524421082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/10/where-dreams-are-born.html' title='Where Dreams are Born'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/TMkKcSaYLJI/AAAAAAAAHkk/IwHxS30I2YI/s72-c/PeterPan2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-2050714678223310600</id><published>2010-10-13T16:09:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-18T15:14:30.826-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports'/><title type='text'>The constant in a Changing Equation</title><summary type='text'>I search hungrily for every single news item I can find in every newspaper I can think of. The contents are all the same, the adulations similar, and yet each one only heightens a vague sense of euphoria.The media does after all give us little to rejoice for these days. They revel in bad news, blow up bad news to make them terrible news, splatter papers with scandals, and in the midst of all this</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/2050714678223310600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=2050714678223310600&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2050714678223310600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2050714678223310600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/10/constant-in-changing-equation.html' title='The constant in a Changing Equation'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-2989271226908627020</id><published>2010-09-18T14:31:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-18T23:30:44.103-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Indian music'/><title type='text'>I Bow to Thee</title><summary type='text'> I have been staring at the screen long enough now without knowing how to translate feelings into words…that’s what last evening was all about for me. The on-stage choreography was almost comparable to the cirque de solei, the technology and lighting were a good second to Broadway musicals, but beneath this entire extravaganza was the soul stirring music.Rahman once again proved that genius </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/2989271226908627020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=2989271226908627020&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2989271226908627020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2989271226908627020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-bow-to-thee.html' title='I Bow to Thee'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/TJUTWgR3c5I/AAAAAAAAHiw/q5TaHXhzmms/s72-c/ar-rahman.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-2840329702716431960</id><published>2010-09-10T15:03:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-09-10T15:07:53.892-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theater'/><title type='text'>A be-heading from Spokane</title><summary type='text'>                Finally a mediocre Broadway play with raving reviews…to say that “A Behanding in Spokane” fell short of the mark is an understatement. Why did the newspapers think it was hysterically funny? Did they take any special precautions to avoid a headache?The play is unmistakably American. I mean this in context of the presiding language. The cast consisted of a behanded racist lunatic, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/2840329702716431960/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=2840329702716431960&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2840329702716431960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2840329702716431960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/09/be-heading-from-spokane.html' title='A be-heading from Spokane'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/TIqQD0-sVyI/AAAAAAAAHio/9-T0783KLp0/s72-c/behanding_bag_560.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-1419272114682248823</id><published>2010-07-28T11:21:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T13:05:46.295-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theater'/><title type='text'>The Mousetrap</title><summary type='text'>Another play, another experience. Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” was all it promised to be. First produced in 1952, The Mousetrap is today known to be the longest running play in the history of theater. I shall be presumptuous enough to say “English play”, for undoubtedly “Ram-Lilas” and “Hari-Kathas” have been enacted for centuries in India.The play is set in a fairly typical Christie plot. A</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/1419272114682248823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=1419272114682248823&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1419272114682248823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1419272114682248823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/07/mousetrap.html' title='The Mousetrap'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/TFBbU2YCA4I/AAAAAAAAHgo/JtGH5PkmQ0s/s72-c/Mousetrap+poster_opt.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-2085239470469463825</id><published>2010-07-11T22:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-11T22:12:50.400-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Austin'/><title type='text'>Vacation Down Memory Lane</title><summary type='text'>A long weekend came and passed. And for once, I made no plans of travel to any exotic National Park and extensive hikes. It was nice coming back relaxed and happy instead of tired and happy. I just decided to spend three days at my first home in the US.Although I visit Austin fairly often, my friends and I never take the time out to spend time in places of the fairy-tale past. We spent a rainy </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/2085239470469463825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=2085239470469463825&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2085239470469463825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2085239470469463825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/07/vacation-down-memory-lane.html' title='Vacation Down Memory Lane'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/TDqFiaAPq5I/AAAAAAAAHYw/Zy4qbcxZkvY/s72-c/2007+faal+026.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-6389610573082400381</id><published>2010-06-29T14:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-29T14:05:18.240-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theater'/><title type='text'>Boeing Boeing</title><summary type='text'>The story was cliché. The set comprised of 2 couches, a bean bag, a desk and chair, a flower vase and a table , three hanging lights and four doors that supposedly led to different rooms in the house- it was the same scene throughout the 2.5 hours- no curtains, no lighting changes. (Well, the color of the flowers changed often). There were no costume changes for 5 out of the 6 actors. So was </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/6389610573082400381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=6389610573082400381&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/6389610573082400381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/6389610573082400381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/06/boeing-boeing.html' title='Boeing Boeing'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-8559929134848858300</id><published>2010-05-14T23:18:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-15T13:33:29.990-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Himalayas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ganga'/><title type='text'>All Roads Lead to Ganga - Part 1</title><summary type='text'>This is not from my own travels, neither is it from one of those fancy travel books displayed on the front isles of book stores. I picked this tiny hundred page book, thinking it was going to be a light read, but I just could not read it on one shot. I needed about five sittings...it was just too much to imagine and assimilate. Ruskin Bond’s “All Roads Lead to Ganga” brings ethereal beauty to not</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/8559929134848858300/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=8559929134848858300&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8559929134848858300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8559929134848858300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/05/all-roads-lead-to-ganga-part-1.html' title='All Roads Lead to Ganga - Part 1'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_fAABwhMTEIQ/SlDTda_gZZI/AAAAAAAADUU/QTTy3JdnD0M/s72-c/067+Mandakini+Vally.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-1613471628505713801</id><published>2010-05-09T23:17:00.118-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-12T07:46:54.097-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='national park'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>Hiking in the Grand Canyon</title><summary type='text'>It's been almost two years now since I went to the Grand Canyon, but at the time I was so busy with my thesis that I never had a chance to organize my thoughts. However, quite recently, I had the pleasure of this view when I was flying from Texas to California. (There are advantages to the window seat on an aircraft as well) and it triggered a string of overwhelming memories.I remember having </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/1613471628505713801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=1613471628505713801&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1613471628505713801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1613471628505713801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/05/hiking-in-grand-canyon_09.html' title='Hiking in the Grand Canyon'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/S-qiMDKCc6I/AAAAAAAAHWU/VdnEAJz4bSY/s72-c/3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-5017638923456560537</id><published>2010-04-29T13:26:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-29T19:46:46.698-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Lunch Time Muse on the News</title><summary type='text'>HC dismisses PIL against Shiv Sena, Thackerays over 'MNIK':
"The court also remarked, during the argument, that "majority of people are following them (Shiv Sena). What can be done?""

The court is here to please the majority rather than render justice, is it? The weights are definitely no longer balanced...

No entertainment tax on IPL this year, says Chavan:

""It is not possible to levy tax on</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/5017638923456560537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=5017638923456560537&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/5017638923456560537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/5017638923456560537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/04/lunch-time-muse-on-news.html' title='Lunch Time Muse on the News'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-8791397253650030092</id><published>2010-04-28T22:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-28T22:32:37.818-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corruption'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social immorality'/><title type='text'>The Trap for Corruption</title><summary type='text'>This is a first hand story of my friend who was narrating his experience with the customs officer at the Hyderabad airport on his recent visit to India. Image copyright@www.tisrilanka.orgMy friend had two laptops with him. One was a gift to someone and one was his personal computer. The rules on this are slightly ambiguous. The general understanding is that as long as you can prove that only one </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/8791397253650030092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=8791397253650030092&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8791397253650030092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8791397253650030092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/04/trap-for-corruption.html' title='The Trap for Corruption'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-4220789937842916445</id><published>2010-04-26T15:52:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-28T22:37:04.443-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corruption'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>The Shame of a Nation</title><summary type='text'> This is not democracy, for majority do not subscribe to it. This is not socialism, for the taken money is not distributed to the needy. What then is this new fanged atrocity? It sparks in me an extreme level of disgust and anger at the injustice of it all..and every time I read or hear about it.
It is disgust at the perpetrator of the crime and disgust for all those masses who revel in it. I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/4220789937842916445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=4220789937842916445&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/4220789937842916445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/4220789937842916445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/04/shame-of-nation.html' title='The Shame of a Nation'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/S9X8vmOJqwI/AAAAAAAAHUE/RCv1AuD7Qu0/s72-c/PHO-09May15-162182.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-8710048543784170744</id><published>2010-04-20T16:53:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-20T21:56:34.752-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FDA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>What You See is NOT What You Eat</title><summary type='text'>        Can one keep track of everything that is in one's food anymore? Not even if you are eating  a green salad or drinking a cup of home made coffee, unless of course every single ingredient is home grown. No doubt my post is late, and a few of you may wonder  why I am talking of dead and decayed news and yet...I want to share my opinions on two new shockers for me for this week. And this is </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/8710048543784170744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=8710048543784170744&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8710048543784170744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8710048543784170744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-you-see-is-not-what-you-eat.html' title='What You See is NOT What You Eat'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-8450799394639610137</id><published>2010-04-05T22:33:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2010-05-01T01:46:46.421-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='engineering'/><title type='text'>Love for Science Series- I, Engineering Life</title><summary type='text'>I love watching shows on TV that feel like a Jules Verne script, a fantastic science fiction in today’s world but one that could well be a reality sooner than one would imagine. Today, scientists on Nat Geo were debating and proposing a way to recreate evolution all over again, but faster and this time on Mars.

The issue involved making Mars’s atmosphere and terrain inhabitable, planting seeds </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/8450799394639610137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=8450799394639610137&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8450799394639610137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8450799394639610137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/04/love-for-science-series-i-engineering.html' title='Love for Science Series- I, Engineering Life'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-457057807109486893</id><published>2010-03-29T18:09:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T13:15:53.323-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='constitutional laws'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social immorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Response to Comments on Previous Post</title><summary type='text'>This is in response to many comments I got(not just the ones who were good enough sports to share their views openly)on my last blog. For the record, I would like to note that so far I have more approvals. This is heartening for I could have wept otherwise.Firstly, that blog was not a personal attack on anyone. I am too out of touch with all your lives to know or care how you live. So there is no</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/457057807109486893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=457057807109486893&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/457057807109486893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/457057807109486893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/03/response-to-comments-on-previous-post.html' title='Response to Comments on Previous Post'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-7549991986246411588</id><published>2010-03-28T22:57:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T13:15:34.507-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='constitutional laws'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social immorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>A Right to Live, Not Live-In</title><summary type='text'>The Supreme Court has done away with the need to use the term “illicit relationship”, and to satisfy whom this time? I cannot believe that a purely immoral and illogical behavior can now be justified as a fundamental right. I am not afraid of social censure here to suit “modernists”.Our whole society and culture has been built over 1000’s of years with certain basic building blocks. There is no </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/7549991986246411588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=7549991986246411588&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/7549991986246411588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/7549991986246411588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/03/right-to-live-not-live-in.html' title='A Right to Live, Not Live-In'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-6709592515190897689</id><published>2010-03-27T00:14:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:51:09.652-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theater'/><title type='text'>The 39 Steps and the Imagination of One Man</title><summary type='text'>How interesting would you imagine a play with a cast of four to be, if you have never seen one? How tiring would you imagine it to be if you knew that 3 of the four actors were going to play the other 30 characters the script demands? From my experience, watching movies with even great actors in more than 4/5 roles gets a little too tiring, even if I can acknowledge the great display of screen </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/6709592515190897689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=6709592515190897689&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/6709592515190897689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/6709592515190897689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/03/39-steps-and-imagination-of-one-man.html' title='The 39 Steps and the Imagination of One Man'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-224391396549883433</id><published>2010-03-24T23:46:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:33:47.643-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='temple'/><title type='text'>In India..In God's Own Land</title><summary type='text'>It’s now been a month back since I came back from my vacation in India, although it already feels like a year. Everything seems just so distant and surreal...the morning namaaz from the nearby mosque, the newspaper man, the milkman, the growing buzz of traffic, the national anthem from a nearby school, the steady hum of the mid-day calm and the evening rush of activity…I was going home after over</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/224391396549883433/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=224391396549883433&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/224391396549883433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/224391396549883433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2010/03/its-now-been-month-back-since-i-came.html' title='In India..In God&apos;s Own Land'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/S6rocBAwsnI/AAAAAAAAHHY/tN1eQ1mcVEk/s72-c/IMG_0815.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-5017760761107677272</id><published>2009-12-27T23:08:00.007-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T13:14:26.745-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='constitutional laws'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>The Inequalities of Equality?</title><summary type='text'>The recent surrender by the Indian government to KCR's "fast-unto-death" raised a lot of fresh questions in my mind about the purpose of the Indian Constitution and the relevance of fundamental rights and the selective applicability of certain sections of the Indian (Ranbir) Penal Code .
Fasting unto death is by no means a new form of political agitation. The earliest and most quoted and probably</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/5017760761107677272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=5017760761107677272&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/5017760761107677272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/5017760761107677272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2009/12/inequalities-of-equality.html' title='The Inequalities of Equality?'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-8193230533514547594</id><published>2009-12-25T23:05:00.008-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:32:35.794-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movie'/><title type='text'>Three Idiots-  No Spoilers</title><summary type='text'>Its entertaining, emotional, outrageous, heart warming, no skimpily clothed heroines and no sexual vulgarity. Above all, it brings a sense of hope and euphoria.
After a long time (Taare Zameen Par), I would actually like watching a Hindi movie a second time, albeit they are not in the same league. The movie had an almost perfect script, with the right blend of comedy and emotions and an </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/8193230533514547594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=8193230533514547594&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8193230533514547594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8193230533514547594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2009/12/three-idiots-not-review-no-spoilers.html' title='Three Idiots-  No Spoilers'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-7415926671584250961</id><published>2009-10-31T00:22:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:32:11.649-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theater'/><title type='text'>Ride through Wonderland</title><summary type='text'>Chim chim cher-ee, non stop applause and periodic foot tapping...I cant believe that my only motivation  to go to this extravaganza was the memory of my first Broadway show, Lion King. I was sitting tired after an 8 hour exam and a 24 hour empty stomach tossing my mind between sleeping and watching Mary Poppins, when I suddenly knew that if I did not go that day, I wasn't going to go at all.

Toe</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/7415926671584250961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=7415926671584250961&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/7415926671584250961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/7415926671584250961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2009/10/ride-through-wonderland.html' title='Ride through Wonderland'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-1499782346750523109</id><published>2009-08-18T17:22:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T13:14:04.995-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='constitutional laws'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Fire the Gun</title><summary type='text'>A friend of mine recently enlightened me about the seriousness of certain constitutional rights in the US and the inability of the federal government to ban the right even when they wanted to. I am referring to the right to carry fire arms allowed by the second amendment of the constitution of United States of America.
The subject of guns has always been sensitive with me. I am apalled that there</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/1499782346750523109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=1499782346750523109&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1499782346750523109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1499782346750523109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2009/08/fire-gun.html' title='Fire the Gun'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-631224153661637826</id><published>2009-08-17T16:53:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T13:13:49.946-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Blue Blues are Not Just Blue</title><summary type='text'>Another Indian celebrity visits the US.. Another airport detention..another media circus. Somehow some people never tire fuming about how their favourite celebrity was once again humiliated and some others never tire idolizing the impartial and 'extreme'ly committed spirit of the men in blue.

I am definitely no great fan of SRk but I deinitely tend to look at this incident as another one of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/631224153661637826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=631224153661637826&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/631224153661637826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/631224153661637826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2009/08/blue-blues-are-not-just-blue.html' title='Blue Blues are Not Just Blue'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-2568460811251396066</id><published>2009-06-28T16:01:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:30:25.070-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social immorality'/><title type='text'>Omnipresent Irksome Human Flies</title><summary type='text'>This post comes out in an hour of frustration but this recent incident in my life only re-emphasizes my dislike of people of a certain kind and my dislike at the fact that the world is full of such people. I know hate is a very strong word, but I hate it when people have no respect for another person's time and efforts. I know for a fact that most people do not think it is a big deal to tell a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/2568460811251396066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=2568460811251396066&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2568460811251396066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2568460811251396066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2009/06/omnipresent-irksome-human-flies.html' title='Omnipresent Irksome Human Flies'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-5923540358584410054</id><published>2009-03-03T20:55:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:29:56.991-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><title type='text'>Joy of Small Things</title><summary type='text'>This is something that happened to me almost a month back but the incident is still so vivid in my memory that it acts as a tonic to my soul when it is not in it's best spirits. I parked my car and headed towards a doctor's house. Before I finished crossing the breadth of the small front lawn, something  (turned out to be someone) hurtled towards me and gave me a squeezing hug. I wanted to look </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/5923540358584410054/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=5923540358584410054&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/5923540358584410054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/5923540358584410054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2009/03/joy-of-small-things.html' title='Joy of Small Things'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-2352953382348858850</id><published>2009-02-27T17:05:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T13:13:31.129-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social immorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Eyes Wide Shut</title><summary type='text'>Ram Sena- are they hypocrites or simply misguided fanatics? All their recent 'moral' policing has evoked a lot of outrage and indignation but in the midst of it all, I find that the crucial point is missed...by all parties. The whole 'Pink Chaddi' campaign reminds me of the hindi movie ' Asthithva' of which I whole heartedly disapproved.
The movie disgusted me because of the moral it was trying </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/2352953382348858850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=2352953382348858850&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2352953382348858850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2352953382348858850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2009/02/eyes-wide-shut.html' title='Eyes Wide Shut'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-166894659981952093</id><published>2009-02-22T00:46:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:27:02.099-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movie'/><title type='text'>The (non) Terminal Spirit</title><summary type='text'>This is the first time I am writing about a movie I watched but "The Terminal" was so rejuvenating that I feel the need to share my experience. The entire movie is shot in the International lounge and terminal of the John F Kennedy airport in New York. The first 20 minutes of the movie made me wonder if I really needed to watch something so sad and spoil 2 hrs of my weekend. I felt sad not </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/166894659981952093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=166894659981952093&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/166894659981952093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/166894659981952093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2009/02/non-terminal-spirit.html' title='The (non) Terminal Spirit'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-3230348479180889965</id><published>2009-02-21T23:09:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:24:53.946-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oscars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Indian music'/><title type='text'>And The Oscar goes to...The Mozart of Madras?</title><summary type='text'>Tomorrow may well be one of the biggest and most important nights to my favorite music composer, A.R. Rahman whom other writers of wider reading audiences call the Mozart of Madras. I am not sure if that title is entirely deserving considering that there have been other musicians in the land of Tollywood who have produced immortal music too. I am not sure if he is going to win anything tomorrow, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/3230348479180889965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=3230348479180889965&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/3230348479180889965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/3230348479180889965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2009/02/and-award-goes-tothe-mozart-of-madras.html' title='And The Oscar goes to...The Mozart of Madras?'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-939046109463275522</id><published>2008-12-11T18:45:00.012-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:23:59.538-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><title type='text'>Life is Not Always Like This</title><summary type='text'>Can commitment and support make tragedy feel a little less tragic? Read this story and tell me what strikes you about it apart from the obvious..
CHENNAI: Nirmala Shankar got married on November 30. She had everything on her — the make-up, wedding sari, jewels and flower garlands — just like a perfect bride. But she also had a piece of a bullet stuck to the frontal lobe on the right side of her </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/939046109463275522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=939046109463275522&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/939046109463275522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/939046109463275522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-process.html' title='Life is Not Always Like This'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-1628231807907313097</id><published>2008-11-12T21:06:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T13:13:08.098-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Guards of Honor</title><summary type='text'>There are some things we would do out of passion, some for honor, some to keep us from being idle and some merely for money. Materialistic as it may sound, the fact remains that working for passion and honor alone without money enough for happiness (not greed) will slowly eat through to the very roots of that passion and honor. And, even if not for any noble reasons, should we not as a nation in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/1628231807907313097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=1628231807907313097&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1628231807907313097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1628231807907313097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2008/11/guards-of-honor.html' title='Guards of Honor'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-1522001599131149901</id><published>2008-11-11T19:59:00.014-06:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:22:10.015-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports'/><title type='text'>The Day of a New Era</title><summary type='text'>Its been three days now since we emphatically won the test series against Australia, but not surprisingly, the excitement has not died. Some cynics argue that the victory is not quite so special because it was on home ground, some others say that Australia came home leaving behind formidable players like Mcgrath, Warne and Gilchrist. While both statements have substance, I (and perhaps many more </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/1522001599131149901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=1522001599131149901&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1522001599131149901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1522001599131149901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2008/11/day-of-new-era.html' title='The Day of a New Era'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-4379797146604287943</id><published>2008-08-05T18:45:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:20:18.797-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports'/><title type='text'>Homerun!!!</title><summary type='text'>This is a highly biased narrative of my first experience at a baseball game. So, baseball lovers please donot read further. Last friday evening, I went to watch a baseball match live. It was the day I was mentally relaxed after a long time, so I did go in the hopes of enjoying myself. I made one important mistake though, and that ruined my enjoyment. I believed all those who told me that baseball</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/4379797146604287943/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=4379797146604287943&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/4379797146604287943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/4379797146604287943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2008/08/homerun.html' title='Homerun!!!'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-5419563915286150193</id><published>2008-07-22T18:26:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:18:45.473-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lessons Forgotten...</title><summary type='text'>It has been a month since I started work. It has been interesting for more than the usual reasons. Once or twice a week, we have seminars, either in house or hosted by architects/vendors or other people in the industry to talk about interesting or 'latest' things that are currently happening. One such seminar today made me lose my focus on what the speaker was saying. I was busy remembering my </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/5419563915286150193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=5419563915286150193&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/5419563915286150193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/5419563915286150193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2008/07/lessons-forgotten.html' title='Lessons Forgotten...'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-8455492773577620117</id><published>2008-04-10T03:21:00.011-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:52:09.862-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='engineering'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='architecture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='temple'/><title type='text'>An ode to Engineering - I: Brihadeeswara Temple</title><summary type='text'>It was the first time I changed my ideas on grandeur,colorless beauty and progress in engineering.The jolt came when I had just turned into a civil engineer,cocksure of myself and ready to learn progressive engineering in a country whose noteworthy structures were all built in the 20th century, 1000 years after the construction of this phenomenal tribute to architecture and engineering.A visit to</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/8455492773577620117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=8455492773577620117&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8455492773577620117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/8455492773577620117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2008/04/ode-to-engineering-i-brihadeeswara.html' title='An ode to Engineering - I: Brihadeeswara Temple'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R_3RKecJKmI/AAAAAAAADWY/irSbFExoa-k/s72-c/ThanjavurBigTemple.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-2542702863154482295</id><published>2008-04-03T17:53:00.012-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:14:11.734-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><title type='text'>Calvin is in everyone -I</title><summary type='text'>Click on Image to enlarge


</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/2542702863154482295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=2542702863154482295&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2542702863154482295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/2542702863154482295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-sometimes-feel-like-calvin-i.html' title='Calvin is in everyone -I'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R_V21taHUBI/AAAAAAAADWQ/9CZNvhr0L8o/s72-c/cal.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-5796949432122381764</id><published>2008-03-27T02:30:00.011-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:13:17.319-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='smoking'/><title type='text'>Its the Cool Way to Die</title><summary type='text'>
The subject of debate these days is whether you are more likely to die of tuberculosis or from lung cancer. The undisputed fact is that this classy way of making a statement,a symbol of women liberation WILL lead to death. Death it may be but atleast it is a cool way to die. And the deceased will forever be remembered as a passionate, bold and glamarous person who puffed in until he snuffed out.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/5796949432122381764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=5796949432122381764&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/5796949432122381764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/5796949432122381764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-cool-way-to-die.html' title='Its the Cool Way to Die'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R-tObNaHT3I/AAAAAAAADT0/1TTWIAefuEY/s72-c/youngsmokers.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-7906948042116310104</id><published>2008-03-17T19:00:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:13:42.429-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government responsibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social immorality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rape'/><title type='text'>मातृ देवो भव</title><summary type='text'>An unadmirable growth rate of 700 percent over the last 30 years... grown from 7 reported a day to 53 reported a day and growing...children and grown ups treated alike...villages,cities,everywhere...India's fastest growing crime.

Welcome to Incredible India, a glorious civilization degenerated; a land of integrity and culture, in posters and presentations,the land where values from time </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/7906948042116310104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=7906948042116310104&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/7906948042116310104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/7906948042116310104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-post.html' title='मातृ देवो भव'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R99MtPAjeMI/AAAAAAAADR8/hTiBXGpufGQ/s72-c/images.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144117454958569634.post-1381701126503019706</id><published>2008-03-11T15:25:00.023-05:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T20:08:43.739-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='national park'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>On Planet Earth: In an  Age of no civilization</title><summary type='text'>It was a long way.We were two hours late and we were driving fast.The sun was mocking at us, trying to hold us static with its magical beauty even as we were speeding away from it.Only when we were rid of the sun did I realize that our destination must be enchanted, for the beautiful west side sun was just the first of many obstacles.



The apsaras in the sky began their hypnotic dances leading </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/feeds/1381701126503019706/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7144117454958569634&amp;postID=1381701126503019706&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1381701126503019706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7144117454958569634/posts/default/1381701126503019706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flighttoinfinitywithlax.blogspot.com/2008/03/in-planet-earth-in-age-of-no.html' title='On Planet Earth: In an  Age of no civilization'/><author><name>Lakshmipriya</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09371376964796870282</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9B93XNSHPI/AAAAAAAAC74/y-4QsJ1G0g0/S220/DSC00471.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_69mK4rLu8V8/R9br6_AjeBI/AAAAAAAADPg/l6XVJ1D5CHg/s72-c/7.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry></feed>
