Maximum engagement
One hears the MEA spokesperson mention ‘maximum engagement’ so often these days… but then so does the person on TV debating on the social media interactions, or the activist shouting hoarse for women’s safety, or even the hordes of MBAs from big and small institutes when they discuss market intervention or product projection. But all...
Reimagining our world
Politicians are forever doing this. I mean, reimagining the world. They have glorious day-dreams of cleaning up the safes of the rich and the poor, the mighty and the insignificant, the tax-payer and the cheat… they love clean safes. Even their safes in their homes are generally clean, unless the transfer to their Swiss bank...
Games, Glares, and Giggles
Games have always made my heart beat faster… from Ludo that I played when I was a kid to high-stakes gambling at a singapore live casino online, from taking the bat out to hit a few runs to using the mouse to make my next move on my first PC. Every time I played or...
Talking of ‘touch’ a bit differently
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Spark. Touch. Passion. Chemistry. In 2014, sitting in my Study, my mind easily links such words to a smartphone. And then a person like me gets into the complex matrix of terms that include amoled screen, processor, quad pro, octa pro, app density, and user interface to murmur later, ‘Life...
Toilets and UFO sightings
In a country where a fraction of us go ahead and prepare for the TOEFL and IELTS exams, there are millions who will fail a simple vocabulary test. Ask them the meaning of these terms that the privileged few of us know and understand and you’ll know at least one of the most sordid truths...
I met God once, you know
God is a sensation. And He is sensational too. This fellow has a knack for springing surprises at the most unexpected time. Every time in the midst of writing a post as I am constructing a really difficult but interesting sentence, the phone will ring… and with my left hand I just pick it up...
A little more is a lot more
There are more than 3 crore Indians settled abroad but that isn’t more. It isn’t less as well but then only numbers are never more. This summer I was in London and stayed with my son and daughter-in-law… and the two months that we spent in London have made me revise the way I...
Smile Times
Celebrations and festivities are invariably under duress these days. These are cataclysmic times and a lot of people all over the world are suffering because of one reason or the other. But is remaining glum or serious or in darkness the only ways of showing solidarity with them? I mean, what they need is more...
Escaping health rules
When I was small I was always escaping health rules. ‘Don’t get up late. Going for steroids is unhealthy!’ my father always shouted… and I invariably went to sleep late as I was reading fiction, over-slept and was forever reaching school late and getting a massive moral lecture from my Principal every day. I kept...
Ghar redefined
Yes, there is nothing like celebrating Diwali at home. I still remember everything that happened when I was a school kid. ‘Leave your novel aside right now and come here,’ shouted mummy. I dropped the P G Wodehouse that I was reading and ran into the kitchen. The sight of freshly palmed besan ke laddoo...
Education is for ediots
Let me say at the outset that education has single-handedly pushed humanity into a vicious cycle where we’re going round and round in circles that are stacked on top of each other. By this definition we should be high enough to watch even the Everest look alarmingly up as we merrily trot on our circular...
My Yorkshire aromas
My awareness of the relationship between an aroma and a place began around twenty years back in York. We were here because Specky was a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of York and working for her DPhil then. Out of India for the first time, every little whiff of any sort of fragrance that came...
