Ravi’s Blog

Yet another real estate mega deal. This one is on the outer ring road for bangalore. It seems like RG Villas, are being marketed mainly towards NRIs. The pricing on the site is all in USD ranging from ~70K to the top end of $430K. Althought most of the single family homes seem to be […]

Last weekend I saw this movie indian move Laage Raho Munna Bhai. I walked in with tempered expectations as this a sequel to a really funny first part. How often do sequels improve on the original? In my opinion - rarely. Given that sequels are very very rare in indian movies, i guessed this would […]

Last year, when the new yahoo maps api came out, i developed a quick wordpress plugin - GeoPress - that allowed a user tag their wordpress posts with lat/long. It was a neat toy, but wasn’t as fun or usable. For example, folks could only include static maps vs the cooler, nicer draggable maps. […]

One of the side-effects of visiting india regularly is that i got caught up in all the realestate related excitement in india. Indian cities , especially Hyderabad and Bangalore, have this boom town feel where everyone is excited to make a deal, try new things out and move up fast
I recently […]

About 45 days back, i posted about a contractor who was unreachable after taking some advance money from me. It took a bit of introspection for me and hesitation to post something negative like that. Eventually, i felt that as a contractor he is different from an employee and he deserve get reviewed online. I […]