Fair, white, and light
We know now that the word ‘fair’ has been eased out of brand promotion for a certain product and that Sunny Jain, president of Unilever Beauty Division has even gone on record to announce that the company recognizes ‘that the use of the words fair, white, and light suggest a singular ideal of beauty that...
I don’t want to be like you
Days have this strange habit of throwing different sorts of people towards you… and this is why I call them fun to be with. I mean earth days, of course. Not sure if this happens on other distant planets as well, but here on earth, I can open a sleep laden eye and see Specky,...
The day I met Gandhi
Yes indeed, I met Gandhi a few days back. No, not the one who just wants to be left alone by his political friends. Neither any of the hundreds who go around with the Gandhi surname dangled around their existence. I met the real Gandhi. The one we all know as Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi....
Limerick on a twit
Limerick on a twit When tweets bellow but have no wit They challenge sanity bit by bit I’d say You may Call this tweeting dolt a twittering twit. . . . . . . Arvind Passey 24 August 2017
Stand-up comedy in India isn’t yet dead
News in India, some assumed, was like discarded fodder only meant to be fed to unthinking animals. I strongly disagree. News in India is definitely fodder for the stand-up comedian and it makes my heart grow fonder of our own made-in-India headlines. Look at the way peacock tears and peahen pregnancies have shot into limelight....
Cheers, jeers, and fears
I know hundreds of cricket fans who know nothing about the technicalities of the game and yet they look forward to watching every match and also have strong favourites… and I know yet another set of hundreds of fans who talk intelligently about the game, watch every game, but have no favourites. They divide their...
What do I think of when I’m not thinking?
There are times when Specky suddenly asks, ‘What are you thinking?’ I want to tell her that I wasn’t thinking at all. Do I really need to think? Thinking is such a hazardous task. I will then need to question. Decide what’s right and what’s wrong. Take sides. Be a bully for a frail one....
Stray thoughts, stray comments, and stray dogs