BENGALI… The big fat Punjabi wedding 15 May 202218 May 2022 I am attending a big fat Punjabi wedding in my in-laws family in Delhi, which is basically a week long celebration of eating drinking and dancing, with a short ceremony…
adventure… Guest post by a brilliant young doctor punster poet and writer, Dr Priyamita Ghosh 25 Jul 202125 Jul 2021 FIRST IMPRESSION I was in my fourth year of college. The semester exams were over and Durga Puja was just round the corner. My friend/batchmate Anwesha had invited some of…
adventure… Going to school 10 Nov 20202 Jun 2021 Going to schoolBoy was taken one day to a strange building by his parents and after some bewildering conversation with a man in a funny white gown, was fussed over…
adventure… The Probationer 15 Apr 202015 Apr 2020 The Probationer Ajay Sharma was slightly apprehensive. This was to be his first day at the job. Ajay was from a respectable middle class family from UP. His father worked…
addictions… Pluminion 18 Nov 201918 Nov 2019 Delhi plummies meeting at Dr Chaturvedi's Blandings Castle where every prospect pleased.The food was Anatoles.The sky was blue. The music was divine. The quiz was spiffing.The gentlemen were dashing. The…
bringing up children… Cricket and fathers day 18 Jun 201919 Jun 2019 CRICKET AND FATHER’S DAY This time the greatest cricketing clash between father and son which takes place every four years, the match between India and Pakistan in…
Fiction… Ghost story 7 Oct 2017 GHOST STORY Since my teenage days I had been fascinated by the idea of ghosts. From Doyle to Poe to more popular contemporary writers in English and Saradindu and Ray…
Fiction… No country for the innocent 3 Jun 2017 No country for shy people Ram Kumar and Shyam Singh were colleagues, Punjabis, professionals, batch mates and friends in a large corporation, posted in different towns of Punjab as Branch…
Fiction… I Forget….. 14 May 201714 May 2017 I forget... Being absentminded is the privilege of the genius. We hear stories of the ridiculous stupidity and feeble mindedness in everyday matters by such greats as Einstein and Newton…
education… The initiation 18 Dec 2016 The Initiation He was an eager young rookie, in his early twenties, barely out of college, finding his way around the maze of the public sector corporate world. He was…
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