A legend charges into the mind…
One fact that I have always believed in is that legends never die. This could be because they are invariably a step ahead of even truth… and truth, as we have seen often, kowtows and merges into a stronger truth. A legend, a friend said once, is like a sip of 100 Pipers rushing through...
Half Ticket
I am not talking about my days when my parents bought a ‘half ticket’ for me during rail or bus journeys… but of times when we called one friend of ours ‘half ticket’ because he could never understand that the girls in our class would never want to be in our gulli-danda team. Well, not...
The battle of ‘e’
I know a lot of my readers will have the first impulse of associating the ‘e’ in the title with some new-age word like email or e-governance or electronics. The truth is that right from words like evolution to emergence, from elevation to energy… e has had a pretty good run. This alphabet rules the...
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...
Travel into time
We were in Connaught Place in the heart of the Capital and had met after years. Talking to him was more like going back in time… the school tales, the after-school jaunts into long conversations that ended up in dreamy resolves, and all the funny and not-so-funny times… they were all coming out one by...
Ageing in a cask
‘A whisky gets its ageing and maturation in a cask?’ Specky asked in a tone replete with incredulity. I didn’t answer and so after a while, he went on, ‘I wish we could put all our immature professionals in a cask and let them out only once they were of the right blend and delicacy...
What matters and what doesn’t
This has been a month for connections. Everyone during the election period is busy talking about what matters and what doesn’t. Corruption issues matter. Reservation matters. Division of states matters to some and doesn’t to others. Alleviation of poverty matters. Ushering in prosperity matters. There are both serious and inane things that seem to matter...
When days are hot and scorching
‘One of the deadliest truths about life is that when days are hot and scorching all you remember are the evenings spent in scotching,’ said Saibal with a smile. Prodeep agreed with one whole-hearted nod and all others sitting there agreed. Not everyone loves scotching, but then no one really loves getting scorched. And this...
A TIGER without vowels
Well, a tiger without vowels isn’t a fantasy at all. Now before you start shoot inane queries like: A tiger can be without canines but can he be without vowels too? Have you got mixed up with your Bs and your Vs and did you really wanted to use the word ‘bowels’? Yes, they’re all...
A beverage of leisure
Leisure never comes alone. It brings with it a lot of other friends… some go along with books, some with words as they are in a conversation, some with game-playing, and some chill out with their beverage of leisure! ‘Aha! What is a beverage of leisure?’ asked his friend Ginger, ‘is it something that you...
