Everywhere was green and beautiful: the tall trees were flourished by varicoloured blooms, the brilliant dews were shining on green grace, and birds were singing on trees. It was just few weeks from launch of our ninth class (school); though, we were as sprightly and happy as cheery birds that were flying joyfully on sky. [...]
Indian railways is this wonderfully complex net of railway lines running almost all over the country that allows us to travel to our heart’s content at wonderfully cheap prices. Who doesn’t have fond memories of a long distance travel in a train…. The main pain with Indian Railways reservation is that reservations usually are full [...]
Sheesh, yet another Arundhati Roy interview. Its like the self-proclaimed democracy advocate never tires of dictating what a democracy should be or introspects. She plain refuses to ‘get it’ It is very wearing and frustrating to read a mind with such astute insight consistently make them useless by self-concluding and leaving out dissent – to put [...]
Anant Pai passed away from a heart attack at the age of 81. All I could think of was how I grew up reading his stuff. Now I am all grown up, and Anant Pai reached the end of the road. The cycle of life goes on. I mourn the loss for the child in [...]
Got really bugged by some of the reporting for Kashmir. While I am in favour of Kashmiris finding justice and joy and all that, I am not too delighted about my country being blamed for every sneeze they get. The Kashmiris and media are so busy talking about human rights abuses and all, that many [...]
I think we should rename our country. We have a lot of states, and the government insists we are all united. We are no different from America – both are big, democratic countries and the correct way to describe democratic countries is by explicitly stating all the states in it are united. Just see – [...]
A memory of how my High caste Brahmin grandmother took a Dalit girl under her wing and mentored her education… a relationship triggered by me, but sustained, nurtured and celebrated by one unlikely pair.
Visited a friend. Was delighted…. and surprised to find “Teri Deewani” blaring at full volume. Oh how I love that album. It was quite unexpected, because I had always associated this woman with hardcore Indian classical. In fact, I don’t remember her singing much of film songs at all. In fact, she’s more likely to [...]
Who can forget the sight of Rajnikant killing two villains with one bullet? Over the years, what began as a juvenile thirst for ridiculing has developed into a genuine love of the bizarre. I just love Rajnikant jokes. Collecting some of them in this post. [text-box color="orange"]When Rajni plays Monopoly, it affects the actual world [...]
The great Egyptian software upgrade as it unfolded on Twitter. This is a collection of Tweets with so many authors that it is not possible to identify the origins. My thanks to all. And now, boot up your government, we have a lot to do!