Blobs on my Blog 011 – Who is BIGG BOSS?
I’m not an American… and yet ‘big’ for me is bigg. The word suddenly sounds and looks bigg with that exxtra ‘g’. The sound of ‘g’ is vital to us Indians. Look at the sheer numbers who add ‘ji’ just about anywhere… neta ji, sahib ji, haan ji, nahin ji… so much so that...
Blobs on my Blog 010 – The dream snatchers
‘I want to make your dreams mine,’ sounds so like the witch in a fairy tale saying, ‘Gimme more! Gimme more!’ or some fearsome Count from a Scandinavian country doing some glib selling with punch lines like, ‘Let our blood flow as one!’ Obviously, for the Count thriving on sucking blood, the sentence is...
Blobs on my Blog 009 – An enigma called Modi
Mr Blob, as was his usual self, was quite upbeat about Modi. He called him a modernistic messiah and someone who wasn’t shy of technology and wasn’t averse to opening up India to the rest of the world. Ms Blob, however, wasn’t as upbeat as him. She was convinced that Modi was autocratic and...
Blobs on my Blog 008 – The insanity of vanity
The newspaper went on and on about ‘Vanity’ structures and how architects were obsessed with designing taller skyscrapers where almost a third of the top floors remained uninhabitable! ‘This is so unkind to resources,’ said Ms Blob. But then that very day she bought for herself a pair of ‘platforms’… a form of footwear...
Blobs on my Blog 007 – Always connected
Being connected isn’t so difficult now. The Blobs agree. ‘Go back to 1994, and you were sending me FAXes everyday when I was in the U of Y,’ reminded Ms Blob. Mr Blob nodded in agreement and remembered why the local phone-booth wala was happy with him. ‘He saw in me a guy who...
Blobs on my Blog 002 – Messing with missing
Mr Blob loves reading his newspaper. He waits for the chatttthudzzz sound of his bundle of newspapers as they are thrown on his inside balcony. Today was no different and he rushed to open the front door and pick up his newspapers. He came in and started reading. He then got up from his...
Blobs on my blog 001 – The toons who love to talk
Isn’t it funny to find that toons do most of the talking in most countries while the rest of the population sits silently, suffering the ignominies of the rulers? Yes, some do wake up, get up and begin some action plan… but what can just a handful of activated souls do to the massive...
