WHIZky – A crossword for whisky lovers
Yes, WHIZky is indeed a crossword for whisky lovers. Though you may need to take a print of the grid that I have added to this post as an image. The clues are given just below the grid image… and the answers? Well, the answers too are right on this page and you just need to...
Usquebaugh
Usquebaugh! I first read this word emblazoned on a tee-shirt and I thought, ‘Here is another one who is wearing something he probably doesn’t know the meaning of!’ I didn’t just go on thinking, I went up to this man and asked, ‘Sir, this seems to be an interesting word. What does it mean?’ He...
Blending truth, senses, and poetry
An approximately 130 years old brand, calling itself the perfect scotch is what Black Dog is all about. Yes, someone did once describe this scotch as sunlight held together by water… though I’m sure Sir Walter Millard, a Scot, might not have agreed to the technicalities of the phrase but would surely have loved the...
Letter to Aditi
Hi there Aditi Listen girl, I love you. But this doesn’t mean I’m not going to tell you all that you need to change right here, right now and on your face. Err well, it isn’t easy for me to look at you and say anything so I need to write it all down. Yes,...
The lost truth
The artwork was finally approved and sent to the agency. My design team had left and I was waiting for any last minute query coming from the publication and one that needed to be solved speedily. The phone rang and I asked, ‘All well? Has the artwork reached the publication? They are holding the dummy...
Rolling in roles
BLOG This word was small, seemingly strong, and had a great new-age rolling effect in my mouth… but its meaning confused me. I asked people around me what a blog really was but all I got was everything between a few stuttered exclamations and deliberately averted eyes. Nobody was sure but a lot of them...
Chit-chat on bloggerinterviews
Rahul Miglani wrote on his website bloggerinterviews.blogspot.in : Frankly I am fan of only a few people, Saru, Animesh and CS from Indiblogger circle and then I am silent fan of few, well one of them is Arvind, well, for this interview I had to wait a lot, I have done around 50 interviews so...
Life – Change – Blogging… are they connected?
Do lines change lives? Will words ever move in or shuffle out to brighten moments? Or will they obey logic to make unbiased decisions? Do lines change lives? Is it correct to use the word ‘do’ in the above lines… or will it be more appropriate to have used the word ‘can’? Both ways the...
The dodos of 2012
This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 31; the thirty-first edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton. The theme for the month is ‘Strangers in the Night’ If there...
The future teller in London
Trip: London. June to July 2010. Summer of 2010. Our forty-second day in London. Pushkin’s graduation ceremony at the AA School of Architecture and Planning was over, most of our ‘walks’ to explore the real London were done, all stores on Oxford Street and the ones adjoining this place were visited, food in lots...
Is Blogging A Spiritual Activity?
Blogging, like any other creative activity has both a spiritual as well as a demonic angle to it… so long as a blogger sources outpourings from within, it remains blissful. This is because he is ‘creating’ and any act of creation has the power to take one much above the plane of mortal existence. The...
The magic of headlines!
Do you read a few chapters first before you decide to buy a novel? No, you probably look at the title, maybe browse the blurb, stare at the cover graphic… and then let your gut feel do the rest. When it comes to ads, do you read the full ad first and then look at...
