BLOGGING… FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TEXT CHALLENGED BLOGGER 27 Nov 201319 Jun 2014 Further Adventures of Tech Challenged Blogger If you have patiently pursued my adventures upto starting this blog, let me give you a close up. Author, head tilted on one side,…
Fiction… THE WEDDING 26 Nov 201322 Jun 2014 THE WEDDING Cross cultural weddings are great for national integration, but hell on the nerves of the protagonists. A brother bong, frolicking in our national capital under the guise of…
Fiction… THE TECH CHALLENGED BLOGGER 17 Nov 201328 Dec 2013 My fascination with words began early, perhaps not as early as Abhimanyu, as I don’t remember anything prenatal, but soon afterwards as I was fortunate in a literate ayah, who…
Philosophy… this is an essay by my daughter,about an incident involving us both.my memory was different..sharing her version in my blog 15 Nov 201324 Nov 2013 Go BackLife and times of Death Let us begin with a strikingly vivid painting of a harsh barren landscape, centering a fading creature seemingly in the throes of death and its…
book review BOOK REVIEW– WHITE TIGER 15 Nov 201325 Nov 2013 /div>White Tiger- Review White Tiger - the surprise Booker winner appears to be a cynical attempt at garnering awards and sales by blatantly pandering to the western media's preoccupation with India's…
envioronment A CHIPCO IS BORN 11 Nov 201323 Nov 2013 We have a young girl from the hills to help out with the house keeping-perhaps in contravention to some labour laws-but a good home, a basic education and by her…
college life… GROWING UP 11 Nov 201320 Jun 2014 'It's an IAS-making machine old boy. Put your son in at one end and our pops an IAS at the other.' Or so my father's colleague, an old boy, had…
book review THE SONG SEEKERS 10 Nov 201323 Nov 2013 Chandimangal Our friendly neighbourhood literary club had recently covered Mangalkavya,so when I chanced upon Songseekers while browsing the pavements for second hand books ,and the backjacket advertised it as based on…
Humour… CHAIN REACTION 8 Nov 201323 Nov 2013 My father's father was the first engineer in the family and he started a tradition followed by his brothers, sons, nephews, sons-in-law, grandsons and grand sons-on-law till we have the…
Humour… NAME THE SEX 7 Nov 201323 Nov 2013 In the days before gender identity became infra dig and when fond parents gave toy cars and guns to little boys and dolls and ribbons to little girls without being…
Idyll Dreams of an Idle Fellow 