Two weeks ago I went to Monbetsu, Hokkaido. That's the northern tip of Japan. One of the things I adore about my research is that it takes me to most amazing places. My research is on numerically modeling the sea ice in Arctic. Therefore most of the symposiums and research conferences are happening in the coldest places. This is the ...
At the beginning of 2012 I had resolved myself to eat 20 foods that I hadn’t tried before. It was a lot of fun to keep this resolution. By the end of the year I ended up trying more than 30 dishes. I'm too lazy to write about all of them so I'll pick 20 dishes that I liked. ...
Last month I turned 28. Having just two more years to end the 20s doesn't make you feel any better. Time to time through some Facebook links of your young siblings you get a glimpse of what a weird place this world is turning out to be in a few years. In order to survive in this chaotic place one ...
Indian music has always been close to my heart, probably because I had been watching Hindi movies since I was 9 years old and have never missed to watch a single Hindi blockbuster movie that was released until I came to Japan. My Hindi listening comprehension is much better than that of Japanese even without having taken a single ...
Some books haunt us long after they are read and this book is one of them. The book started as an ordinary book. It brought back memories from reading, “A tiger for Malgudi” It’s amazing how this book converts itself from an ordinary tale to a mind boggling piece of work at the end. I was fascinated by the first ...
The first half of the book was a masterpiece and I really wished it was more compact. I was re-exploring every part of India through the eyes of Lin. The love, simplicity and genuineness in people made me realize why I miss that part of the world so much. In this book I met the happiest person I’ve ever met ...
“A man is not a man until you give your love truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.”-ShantaramFor the first twenty five years of my life, I could never understand how could anyone love those little humans who are pain in ...
I felt as if I’m listening to a grandfather who relates his personal stories. It was a long read but yet it worth all the time spent. He might not be a great writer yet his huge collection of life experiences make him a great story teller. He describes a horrific part of the human history in a way that ...
This is my first fiction by Haruki Murakami. Since I’m living in Tokyo it made me look at some things in a different perspective. For me it showed a different side of this elegant city, the side of the city that no one would ever discuss in Japan. The book also touches the complexities in Japanese society such as the ...
