My Thoughts

An Episode in Life

2011-12-19T23:19:00.000+05:30

Dr. Rudra picked up his phone. Amidst his continuous flow of patients, he suddenly remembered to make the call. He is a very busy man with little time for triviality. He sees close to hundred patients during his evening session alone; what can be termed as his rush hour. He called up Sunita and when she answered, he said-' Hello. Dr.Rudra here.' 'Hello... How are you doing?' 'Good good'

Casualty friendship

2010-11-30T15:56:00.000+05:30

My dear friend Ananya, once posted in her facebook status-'It is easy to pretend death. Switch off your mobile and stop coming online, people will start asking whether your are alive or dead!!! Times have changed but people haven’t. Rules of friendship has changed drastically. The actual proverb should have been ‘A friend for nothing is a friend indeed’ instead of the original one. Well, here

Headlines Today

2010-11-17T23:05:00.002+05:30

Can one industry change the way people think? Media is a powerful tool. It has the power to break or make things in our world. May be the term ‘Breaking news’ originated from this power. A lot has been already said about Indian media. They have been sneered for their ‘breaking news’ and shoving the news down our throats. I will not get into all that. I want to give my 2 cents on internet media

Irresolution

2010-11-14T22:23:00.001+05:30

What do you do when you are governed by fickle instincts? I am clueless. There are people with compulsive behavioral problems. And then there are people who are just plain lazy. I belong to none of these but a combination of both-fickle mindedness. My every decision has a very opposite flow of action following it that it sounds so stupid. I know I went a bit too far by not calling myself lazy.

Good Bye

2010-09-11T14:09:00.002+05:30

I have decided to stop writing indefinitely. I hope I will be back but am not sure. I will definitely be around reading blogs. Take care people. :)

Reincarnation

2010-08-23T22:43:00.002+05:30

Prologue When death takes over, life becomes a laughing stock. Ironically, there were none to laugh. The year 2012 has seen destruction of everything leaving the towns and cities in ruins. The humans ceased to exist and the silence around the world had a chilling effect which fortunately the dead couldn’t feel. All through their existence for thousands of years, humans achieved everything

Aunts

2010-08-09T23:55:00.003+05:30

Aunts are a special and rare species. Now, I clearly understand why Wodehouse made a living writing about them. They can irritate the hell out of you and yet you wont even realize that you are being scrutinized to the last detail in their utterly nonsense gibberish. From the latest recipe to the most recent marriage, the discussion among them can get very engrossing, provided you have the label

Burn darling burn!

2010-04-05T22:46:00.010+05:30

It’s time to make amendments. We have a new game/sport in which India is shining and I am undertaking this mission to make it our national game. Join me in signing a petition to the government to make this sport very popular and Olympics be damn, let’s have the tournament in our country and invite other countries here. I am sure; Somalia, Pakistan and other high spirited countries might give a

Selling blues

2010-03-01T22:39:00.006+05:30

Disclaimer: I shall not take the name of the product/service which my office deals with I had always thought, as long as there are people to buy, salesmen have their jobs. But in real, it’s the opposite. As long as there are salesmen, people will always buy no matter how bad the product/service is! On my first day at office, some 5 months ago, I learnt my first rule of selling-don’t sell the

A year that flew by...

2010-01-04T22:05:00.010+05:30

Wish you a very happy and prosperous new year. Well no, this isn’t a post on New Year resolutions. I took a resolution 6 years back, not to take any during New Year eve and I have kept my promise. This must be the zillionth post on New Year, everyone I know have been giving their 2 cents on the topic. So I thought, why not jump the bandwagon? But when most people look towards their future, I

A screwed up trip...

2009-12-28T22:10:00.006+05:30

A stay is better than a mere visit. Literally, I would love to stay in Chennai all my life if needed but a visit to that place is a strict no-no! Unfortunately, last week I had to visit Chennai. I was visiting the city after 4 long years but nothing changed. Chennai is a city which doesn’t change much. Let me list out few problems at Chennai for visitors. 1) Exorbitant charges by auto

A treat to ears...

2009-12-02T22:56:00.014+05:30

I am blessed. Ok, WE are blessed. On September 26th I had written a post called A Musical Journey about some of the rare gems in Hindi composed by Ilayaraja sir. Even while writing that, I was still waiting for that 'Perfect' hindi album from the genius and the feeling I have right now (since one month) is nothing short of divinity. I was waiting for this particular movie from almost 1 and

The Beginning

2009-11-10T23:39:00.008+05:30

Many years ago, on a hot afternoon, I took birth. I looked so skinny that the nurse had wrapped me in a thick towel before showing me to my mom, just to make me look fatter. One look at my face, my family had prophesized that this young lad will grow up to be a great man. Even as the jubilant family members each took their turns to hold the ‘would be’ great man, I fell asleep. My first sleep in

Thoughts

2009-10-12T23:39:00.014+05:30

I talk to myself. Now this sounds like an anti climax but it’s true literally. I remember, when I was a little kid, I used to like talking to myself. Talking about oneself and to himself is like two sides of a dice-the remaining four sides are repeated with these two again. I don’t know the inner details of psychology but I can gather my wits fast enough to understand I might look crazy.

The Naked Truth

2009-10-07T23:10:00.011+05:30

EVERY LINE IN THE STORY IS FICTIONAL AND I APOLOGIZE FOR ANY FACTUAL ERRORS. She is a fighter. And so are million people like her. As she glanced around her room, she noticed everything is in order. She liked it that way and had taken pains to keep everything in place. It’s ironic that her own life is in disarray but that never deterred her to keep her surroundings clean. She paced

Random talk

2009-09-29T21:27:00.011+05:30

Sitting on the porch, I was fiddling with Chaitu’s wallet. As usual, I found it empty except for few odd papers. Inside a small punch, I found two photographs. One was his own passport photo while other was a picture of Shirdi Sai Baba. As I was looking at the two, he said “You are looking at two greatest people in this world”. I was amused. I replied “Well everyone knows about one of them...

A Musical Journey (Hindi)

2009-09-26T00:16:00.010+05:30

NOTE: Click on the 'play' button before the song to listen to it. Music is a part of our life. No questions about this-we switch on the TV and we listen to the same song every 2 minutes on every third channel. And it continues-everyday we are exposed to thousands of songs by various music directors, private musicians etc. They are constantly pounded on us whether we like it or not through TV

Project-The final touch

2009-09-21T23:29:00.008+05:30

NOTE: Those who are reading this story for the first time, please check PROJECT-PART 1 and PROJECT-PART 2 before proceeding any further. It was an ill fated Friday. Overnight, we all became heroes. It was unprecedented. The story spread like wildfire in college with different versions. Right from the security guys to the most studious nerd of the college, everyone heard the story. The rumor

Project-Part 2

2009-09-15T23:21:00.010+05:30

NOTE: Those who are reading this story for the first time, please check PROJECT-PART 1 before proceeding any further. A teacher has many facets-a friend during fun, a stern disciplinarian when we cross limits, a story teller when we are bored and last but definitely the best, a mentor during dire situations. One such person in our lives at college was Mr. Jyothi Swaroopan. There are many

Project-Part 1

2009-09-13T00:04:00.013+05:30

Whenever we search for something at home, we are most likely to get our eye on something else and our mind gets diverted. It happened to me today. I was searching for few papers and my eyes fell on a book. It had a whitish brown cover (it was white few years back) with black binding and bold letters on the cover indicating the title. The title said “A New Algorithm for Calculating the Load”. I

A brochure

2009-09-09T23:28:00.008+05:30

Disclaimer: This is a repost of sorts with changes and additions from my old deleted blog. Being a MBA graduate has its own pros and cons. During the admissions season, I get lot of scraps from different MBA aspirants who find my profile from various ‘college related communities’ that I have joined in orkut. I don’t claim to be the only one who gets them-probably all my batch mates would be

In the driving seat

2009-09-06T23:50:00.009+05:30

The ordeal is finally over. For the last one and half months, I have been learning how to drive the car and finally my training has come to an end. And needless to say that I am very lazy, this was one hell of an experience. My teacher (driver) from the driving school is a young lad, may be 19 or 20 yrs of age took pains to teach me every morning. I have always been a slow learner; I take time

Our greatest gift

2009-09-03T23:14:00.007+05:30

This is not a movie review. No, this post is not even going to recommend you to watch the movie. This movie is one of my favorites and incidentally I had discussed it exactly one year back, at a different blog under different circumstances. That blog is now deleted and so is that article but a mere delete button can’t erase a thought process. I frankly don’t know why I like this movie. I am not

Our Hero-Tuffy

2009-08-30T00:00:00.010+05:30

When my friend asked me the question, I laughed. I laughed at the imaginary repercussions that might occur in case it really happened. I might be even banished from my own home for lying; deception, pretense and entertaining illegal activities (according to my dad) at home in the absence of the family members. Or probably ,my friends would never be allowed to come home again. Sad, they would be

A Stroke Of Luck

2009-08-25T23:18:00.008+05:30

Odd things happen to you every day? You make meticulous plans and yet they crash like a pack of cards always? You try travelling by bus and it breaks down almost every time? You try travelling by your bike and it gets punctured twice in half an hr span? You try browsing internet and power goes? The power comes back the very second you shut down your computer only to go off