It is always sad to bid adieu to a good friend. Even sadder to watch that friend wither away to a long drawn out but inevitable end. When that friend has been a companion for almost half your life it…
Homage to an Electric Kettle
Category: Musings
Pyari – An Ectoplasmic Roommate
The biggest debate about Pyari is on whether he is male or female. I am of the firm opinion that he is a he and Aadi adamant that he is a she. There is no doubt however on the fact…
Memories of my Father
It has been five years since my father passed away. Five years in which life has changed in so many ways. However I still miss him. In fact I miss him even more. When you lose a person the…
Year End Review
It has been a long time since I wrote. Changes tend to do that to you. Tumultous changes, that completely change your life. Caught in the swirling flux of life that changes drastically all around you one is left with…
Ode To A Mobile Phone
It was almost three years to the day when you entered my life. Today you leave my life. This is a tribute to you, the Nokia Lumia 720 that had been a partner of my life for the past 1000…
Lessons From The Blind
Yesterday was just a regular day with me returning home in a BMTC Volvo bus. It is generally a short commute and I usually spend my time observing people around me. Euphemisms and sniggers can be generated for the previous…
The Gift of Hope
I have often felt myself unlucky for never having experienced relationships. But now I consider myself lucky for that. Rather a clean slate than a slate muddied up. Forgive me, dear reader, if I tend to uncharacteristically dawdle on matters…
At peace with Serendipity
With the last of the debacles behind me I am once again at peace with the hope for a moment of serendipity. I am content with solitude. Not to say that I would not dare to dream or to love…
Love – Random and Manmade Probabilities
It is the bane of any Indian man approaching the age of 30 that he has to seriously contemplate with the prospect of marriage. Isn’t it really strange and rather disconcerting that marriage and love are not often spoken together…
Krishna Key – The Power of Prayers
I have just completed reading the book “Krishna Key” written by the author Ashwin Sanghi. I had desisted from purchasing or reading this book for a long time considering it just another copycat in a long list of history-mythology revisionist…