We’re almost there
Smartness is in. Today even a bin Thinks it is a sin To mix And not fix The biodegradables With harmful disposables. IoT is on its way to win Smartness is finally in. Look anywhere around in a store or browse anywhere on an online portal, the most frequent eyeball catchers will invariably be gadgets...
A maverick trapped in a body
Life is a fun-loving sentence that doesn’t follow any rules of sublime grammar. No rules of nouns and pronouns or conjunctions and prepositions asking words to follow a specified pattern. I have seen full-stops popping up even before pauses have existed. There are times when adjectives pile up in comic sequences without even attempting to...
For those wanting to study or live abroad
Dreams of wanting to study or living abroad obviously begin with a thorough appraisal of your own abilities, a long-term appraisal of what you intend to do there, and knowing the English language. I have talked about the Pearson PTE Academic Test as The Third Alternative in an earlier post that I wrote in April...
The way stories unfold
Ideas for stories believe in a 360 degree freedom to enter. This is more than the mind being like a fortress that is besieged because inspirations for plots do not need the fortress gates to open. Ideas have the power to come in anyway and they could very well walk through the walls as if...
Trapped inside the same pattern
Most of us choose to stay away from unnecessary challenges. We love the usual, get confused when life offers an array of ever-multiplying choices, and firmly believe that getting out of one’s comfort zone is extremely fool-hardy. I know that most readers will read this and mutter, ‘Nonsense! Not me, at least.’ But hey, don’t...
The wrong sort of traveler
A few years back we were trying to fall in love with the treacherous landscape of Spiti and had our bookings in home-stays in the villages around Kaza. Places like Dhankar, Tabo, Hikkim, Demul, Kibber, Langza, and Komik are well about 4000 metres, the air is rarefied and breathing isn’t easy, and the houses are...
We are not living in violent and depraved times
Villainy and violence are quite intimidating and generally do no good to any sort of development anywhere except being a sporadic inspiration for stand-up comedians, mimicry artists, and doodlers on the net. When I commanded Google to fetch for me pictures or images of villains of Bollywood, it surprised me by putting in the US...
Nothing ever disappears
The funny thing is that we humans believe that everything that is born will eventually die. But nothing dies. Nothing disappears forever. Moments of disorientation, sadness, anger, discontent, ill-will, hatred, live on just as moments of love, harmony, contentment, camaraderie, and togetherness do. They do not come and stay forever but also do not suddenly...
A woman is the full circle
Diane Mariechild wasn’t off the mark when she called a woman a full circle and added that ‘within her is the power to create, nurture, and transform’. The entire system of a 360 degree development revolves around women and even Kofi Annan wrote that ‘there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment...
XXX
Thirty in Roman Numerals is XXX and we know the three together are often used for love and kisses besides to their snide relationship with porn. So when I read somewhere that most of us use barely thirty percent of the capabilities of a smartphone or any other gadget, I wasn’t surprised. ‘After all,’ I...
Entering the unexpected
‘What on earth is a blind list?’ I asked myself some time back… and hopped from one explanation to another and soon enough realized that the moment I mention a destination (imaginary or otherwise) and make it a part of a document or make a subliminal decision to go somewhere or discuss with friends about...
Jump into the pool, dammit!
Seeing something bad happen and me learning a lesson was never a part of my destiny. In fact I can safely hazard a guess that most people are like me. We love watching, tut-tutting, discussing the importance of doing things the right way… and then going ahead and doing the same thing that had got...
