“Hot-cross buns! Hot-cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, Hot-cross buns! If you have no daughters, Give them to your sons; One a penny, two a penny, Hot-cross buns!” ~ A popular Nursery Rhyme All right, then! You are…
Category: Uncorked Angst
Unreliable Skunks
Having entered a phase of life where I tend to reflect more in retrospect than in prospect, it has dawned upon me why I’ve been in love with the character of Sherlock Holmes all these years. More than his prescient…
Don’t Cry for Headley, India!
Don’t cry for Headley, India. It is good for your feeble heart that you are not able to have him extradited. There would be a hundred compelling sentiments to get hold of the delinquent, a thousand compelling logics to twist…
A Hole in My Pyjamas
It’s a cold night and there is a hole in my pyjamas. It is shameless of me to be cribbing in a city that has never seen the mercury slipping below ten while the good old Delhi is raring to…
The Lance in My Heart
Is love a primordial element of life? It depends on the lover, of course! Yet, there are few who have not smouldered in these flames. Indeed, many have turned to cinders. For it is the nature’s trump card to ensure…
Marked
"Drifting, what am I like? A gull between earth and sky." -Du Fu / Vikram Seth The more I think of Internet as a huge river where blogs float like boats, the more I am overtaken by the faithfulness of…
From Privet Drive to Diagon Alley
In a shrewd move of one-upmanship in keeping with the indomitable Indian spirit, I have decided to write a flawsome post, realizing how folks have been writing awesome posts all over the Internet. What is so God-forsakenly flawsome about it,…
The Man who stole a Mouse
When I opened the browser today, it simply said: Steve Jobs 1955 -2011. When he stole a mouse and a few graphical boxes from Xerox, he actually stole a dream. A dream, because Steven Paul Jobs was born a dreamer.…
Rest in Peace, Aarushi.
Dear Aarushi, This is a letter from a father of twin daughters that you will never read. Now I am not the only one to have daughters but I am obviously better suited to relate to the emotional whirlwind that…
2010 in Review (Courtesy WordPress)
I am not sure what is tougher: being a banker, being a branch head (with depleted human resources), being a middle level manager of a public sector enterprise in India, being a housewife in an Indian middle class home –as…
My Journey to an Android Phone
My first mobile phone was a Motorola C350 purchased in 2003 after furious bouts of research aided by the redoubtable Google, not to mention the brain-storming sessions with wife. It was a cute, imminently pocketable handset with a colour screen…
Death of Deterrence
'Think of how many you don't even know about'. Bill Bradford, to the jury that sent him to the death row, holding him guilty of double rape and murder. The chilling message was not lost on the investigators of Los…
One Grain Amongst the Storm 