The Blah Blahs and the Yada Yadas

Gay Ho!

The first week of July, 2009, has had special significance to Indians. While many people possibly in weird body paint danced in joy, hugging on the streets; others yet marked it as black day for Indian society, solemnly grieving the ‘decline’ of India as a country. Personally, I thought those were rather extreme reactions to [...]

ABC and the three R’s

Education is neither a measure nor an indication of common sense. Thus spake my dad. And any time you started doubting the statement, wondering “Hey, that just can’t be true“, he’d just point out a real life example; an educated idiot. Human life hasn’t evolved enough for dad to run out of people to point [...]

Stop! In the name of the law!

Stop me if I’ve told you this before… Actually, I don’t know how in blazes you’re going to stop me. I mean… It’s not like you can set time back to when I started on this article, trace me to where I was sitting, and yank off my keyboard. No. No can do. You can’t [...]

To zig, to zag nevermore

Have you ever been buried in the sand up to your neck, and just when you think things can’t get any worse, a wayward bull comes along and repeatedly kicks you in the neck? No? Ok, I do concede that’s not an everyday event for most people. But can you imagine what that feels like? [...]

Of Brides and RSVPs

No. Not premature at all. And I didn’t come to this decision lightly. A great many number of days spent with two fingers alternatively tapping the forehead outlined the kind of thinking I put in before I came to the conclusion. It was quite clear in my own mind. It certainly doesn’t require a month [...]

And the award goes to… ME!

If you’re in the habit of popping into random blogs, you may already be familiar with Mathew. He’s one of the most prolific bloggers this side of the hemisphere, and I’ve found him active on almost all the blogs I’ve liked. He’s kinda like a seal of approval for Indian bloggers. However, in a move [...]

Better to have lost and found than never to have found at all

“What’s wrong with me?” “Well, we can start with the fact that you’re lying on the couch talking to yourself” “?? Err… that was a rhetorical question, you know…” “Oh. How was I to know. Besides, as far as rhetorics go, that was a particularly stupid” “Stupid?? It’s NOT stupid. If anything, it’s profound… You know, like ‘What is [...]

What a zitty month

This sort of thing shouldn’t happen to me. Not at this age. When you have moved on across the path of maturity, there are some baggages that you essentially leave behind; dump a bag or two on the maturity road and hope nobody comes and pinches you for littering. Some of the leading experts à la mom ’n dad [...]

The Incognizant Smuggler

I would never ask that they cut back on airport security. I wouldn’t, and you know I wouldn’t. I am just asking that they try to be smarter about it. While I still hope that terrorist organizations are not the smartest ones out there, it’s too much to hope that they are in fact dumber [...]

Trimm’s fairy tale

The quest to waste some waist seems to be a popular one. I have come across a whole bunch of people who say they are prepared to give an arm and a leg if only they could lose some weight. I must confess that logically, I can find no flaw in the reasoning. There is [...]