Makar Sun
The sun transits from Sagittarius to Capricorn during the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and India celebrates Makar Sankranti.Continue Reading →
How Stupid Can Stupid Get?
Definitely not stupider than me. Bogged with helping coordinate and conduct over 700 interviews in three days, I didn’t even…
Cracking the Laundry Code
Recognise these signs? Can comprehend them? Maybe you do. After all you had memorised them for the driving test. How…
The Wellness of Wiretapping
Many years ago – when getting a telephone connection from the never so reliable Department of Telecommunications (DoT) took months, if not years, a dead phone implied an infinitely extended…Continue Reading →
Crossing the Brahmaputra
Rivers have always left me in awe. And when it is the he-river – the Brahmaputra, the vast expanse of…
Blast from the Past
Chassis and engine from a Tata or Ashok Leyland truck (some vintage ones with Mercedes and Bedford engines still exist), body locally made of wood and tin. Their popularity declining…Continue Reading →
Stimulation Maximised
“What’s so manly about men’s magazines?” asked a female colleague, flipping through my copy of Man’s World (Ever since Gentleman…
Poor Fishermen Used as Human Shield in Manipur
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to those of us who are aware of what’s going on in Manipur in…
Nostalgic Stuff Redux
Apart from my good ol’ blog buddies, search engines help in generating a sizeable (by my standards) page hits on…
