The Crossword on ‘Internet is Fun’
Internet is fun — A crossword Clues Across Clues Down The Answers Come on now, you think I will give you the answers for this simple crossword? You are actually supposed to know all the answers… Just print the grid and start solving… I’m sure you will enjoy the crossword. You will then agree that...
It always happens when the mind wants it to happen!
There was a distinctive tinkle and I knew that my phone was ringing. I took the phone out of my pocket and paused for a while before allowing my index finger to swipe and let the caller in. Strange that I actually paused… it was probably a signal to warn me from taking that call…...
S-Fun is… funADs on the move!
She explained to me what wild nights really mean… one sultry afternoon in Connaught Place. I had a short and a rather revealing conversation with a teenage friend of mine as I sat munching my favourite Tuna Sub in CP. ‘Why do you guys say all the time that you’re having fun,’ I asked, ‘...
Nothing unusual. (Review of ‘Faceless’ by Tapan Ghosh)
Yes, there is nothing unusual in the book… not one page that steps out of what I have come to expect of a lot of first-time novelists. Despite being thoroughly non-descript and devoid of either realism or fantasy, there is one discovery I made because of this book. I stumbled upon the fastest way to...
Itadakimasu: I humbly receive. (Review of Robin Sharma’s ‘The secret letters of the monk who sold his Ferrari’)
If you like to travel, you’ll like this book. This book takes you all over the world to some really wonderful places and you’ll enjoy reading about those cities and the way they’ve changed over time. The author takes you to different locations all over Europe, Asia, and North America… and the travelogue part of...
Murder is murder. Everything else is just details. (Review of ‘The devotion of suspect X’ by Keigo Higashino)
Yes, this one is a murder story. The first forty-eight pages hold your hands and take you around this little town by the river Sumida. They build an image within you that you cannot forget and at the same time rapidly build the characters of Yasuko, her daughter Misato, the Math teacher Ishigami, and Togashi,...
Tech blogging and the cult of copying!
I was telling a friend about the need to find your own expression when it comes to writing when the discussion took a sudden turn towards a rather unexpected aspect though I wouldn’t call it entirely bizarre. ‘You can be comfortable with only your style of writing,’ I said, ‘and this comes only when you...
Unconnected and Unrepentant. Review of ‘The Asocial networking.’
Frankly, I loved the book immensely because it gave me all the reasons to have a hearty hoot after every few hundred words… and mind you, this book isn’t in the comedy genre at all. It is supposedly a serious treatise on the state of the social networks today. The book claims to take you...
Angry. Smart. Intelligent. Winner. Understand all four in this post.
No, I’m not angry with anyone, nor reading this post is going to make you angry. Yes, you’ll certainly be left a bit smarter if you don’t smart at the idea of using those specialised grey cells in your brain that are used to solve crosswords. Yes, this is a crossword indeed and it will...
Notes for a novel – Review of ‘Loser’
I’ve read all of the 212 pages and this includes the ‘dedication’ as well as the blank ones at the start… and I finished reading the novel (Oops! The notes) in less than half-a-day and also went about completing the normal chores for the day. What is important is that I wasn’t tired or over-stressed...
Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. – a winner’s mantra!
Winning isn’t just a feeling. Winning is a benefit. Winning means more. Winning gets you more. Winning leads you on to win more. Winning is a synonym for MORE! Just look at any of the winners anywhere… in politics, in sports, in the arts, in theatre, in films, in writing, in your class, your college,...
Sun-glasses and the eternal seeker within me
‘Why do I want to buy shades?’ – is the question I was once very prone to ask myself. But this was before my encounter with the sunglasses salesman in a large store in a large mall in Delhi. My wife and I were at the shades counter there and I was looking wistfully at...
