Not even God can prevent rape
Now, now, please do not hang me for the title of this post. These are the words of Aziz Qureshi, a former Governor from Mizoram, quoted form news-reports from July 2014. And if you think he is the only Indian to have a contorted interpretation of the word, you are mistaken. Sheila Dikshit, a former...
Names never die
‘Prem,’ he said, by way of introducing himself. I smiled. It isn’t every day that you bump into a 20-something who has a name that makes you smile first and then look at the person. This Prem, by the way, is an ace mountaineer, has climbed the Mount Everest and a number of other peaks...
Bounce, buzz, and giggle
A blackberry can have a huge variety of reactions… on the emotive as well as the physical level. And I’m not talking about the blackberry that you hold in your hands to text or talk… I’m talking about the Blackberry Crush in the wide range of breezer flavours from Bacardi. For the absolutely uninitiated, a...
Diving into an ULTRA world
‘Ultra’ is not just any word… it is one word that has retained a fascination for me even after years of having first met it sometime in school. Over the years, the meaning too has slowly transformed from a mere scientific hint to a major social denominator. The Urban dictionary describes it: ‘Immoderately beneficial or...
