Sometimes a shiny new toy is exactly what one needs. 15 years ago, I bought my first digital camera, a Fujifilm Finepix 2650 2.0 megapixel point and shoot. There was something about it, the shine, […]
Two mothers
You tell me, I used to hold and tug your dress, You tell me, I slept with your hand in mine, It must be true, for you give me strength with a gentle press, I […]
Analyzing the Medicare Prescription Drug Cost Increase 2010 – 2015
There has been a lot of conversation on the rising cost of prescription drugs. Companies are slowly raising their prices, sometimes by many fold, in one year. Turing bought Daraprim, and raised the price overnight from […]
The Fake News Explosion – Reader beware!
There has been a lot of talk about fake news. The number of articles that come across my social feeds has increased as everyone of my contacts and me included, share interesting articles that we […]
Bangalore – there’s much to see if you can dust it clean
Bangalore, or it should be called now, Benguluru, is the Silicon Valley of India. In 1983, Infosys setup an office in Bengaluru and over the next 30 years, other IT behemoths and multi-national corporations made […]
Incredible India – A to Z, a month long discovery of India
In 2003-2004, as I was learning photography, I was publishing a photo a day and was part of one of the first online photography communities at Pbase.com. Photography I realized was a combination of skill, […]
Mysore and Mandya – in search of Hoysala architecture
It had always been a wish, a plan to visit Mysore on our yearly trips to Bangalore, India. In undergrad, years ago, I had made a day trip to Mysore, but that was before my […]
Montreal, Canada -a jewel on the Saint Lawrence
Click to see Photo Galleries of Montreal The sun shone through our curtains at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in Old Town Montreal and as it filled our room with energy, we woke, the youngest first, […]
Toronto – a Canadian city with true American values and Niagara Falls eternally connecting two countries
Click to see Photo Galleries of Toronto Toronto is the most diverse city in the world. In the last 40 years the visible minority population has grown from 13% to almost 50% and is expected […]
Go find your park; your heart, your mind and your soul will thank you for it.
Link to Photo Galleries of National Parks On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill that created an agency that was tasked “to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife […]
Karthik Raja 