Author Archives: Ananda Mahto

Six new old stories….

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 18, 2008

I was ego-surfing the internet archives the other day, and I realized that some of the posts that I had made before my old server went down had actually been archived there and not simply lost to the digital graveyard. I’ve decided to pre-date them to match the dates they were originally posted, so you [...]

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Compassion and Empathy and Sticks and Stones

By Ananda Mahto | Published: December 8, 2007

For people in a country that is supposed to be based on Gandhian principles of tolerance and pacifism and where people won’t eat meat because all animals are God’s creatures or whatever, most Indians I’ve observed sure seem to have a strange way of showing compassion for animals. It looks like a special kind of [...]

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Reality Control? Compilations

By Ananda Mahto | Published: October 22, 2007

After quite some time, I’ve decided to get around to taking some stuff off my minidiscs again, converting them to mp3s, and uploading some more music. This time, I’ve decided to revisit some of the cool stuff that John Lyons used to release. (John’s much too busy doing much cooler things these days, so he [...]

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The Birth of Mithun

By Ananda Mahto | Published: September 18, 2007

There are times when India really makes me laugh…. … I mean, other than things like watching Bollywood videos where it seems like people are always going through weird mating rituals replete with bright costumes, head bobbing, and peculiar synchronized dancing…. … or like the time that a student asked me to download a song [...]

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Sat. Jan 27 – In Delhi, living like royalty…

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 18, 2007

What an interesting morning. We all woke up very well-rested from our comfortable business hotel, but nevertheless, were dissatisfied with the pricing, location, and so on. We were most dissatisfied by their treatment of our driver, however. They wouldn’t provide a room for him (most hotels make some form of accommodations for drivers) and when [...]

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Fri. Jan 26 – Driving to Delhi… and a little bit of tourism….

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 11, 2007

Good roads really do make a difference. The drive from Jaipur to Delhi was totally painless and quick. However, it seemed to be very disconcerting to Henny, who really didn’t like all the big trucks. She actually said at one point how terrible it was, and how she would much rather take the small bumpy [...]

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Thurs. Jan 25 – Jaipur forts and shopping

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 7, 2007

Henny wanted to know the whole time in Jaipur, how can people who built these impressive forts and who were so smart still be taken over in battle? I don’t think I was paying enough attention to the guides or reading enough of the stuff at the sites we visited to find out, but they [...]

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Wed. Jan 24 – Forts and Observatories in Jaipur

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 6, 2007

Axle’s not feeling too hot today. She seems to have a pretty horrible cough and just sounds generally groggy. I’m actually somewhat surprised that she is the first to get sick, but I don’t know if it’s a stomach thing or a chest thing. She thinks it’s just a chest thing, which may actually be [...]

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Nested Lists and CSS

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 2, 2007

I don’t use lists too often for my own stuff, but I do have to use them often either with my work or with school assignments. Often these lists can be quite long, and have many lists nested within each other. I was recently converting an outline from a Word document to an HTML document, [...]

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Tues. Jan 23 – Where are the tigers?

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 28, 2007

We get up extremely early and head out to find out if we have managed to get a Jeep for ourselves. After waiting for some time, we find out that Amy’s pressuring got us one, and that it would be here in a few minutes. It’s freezing—even for me—and being in an open Jeep doesn’t [...]

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