A tale of Two Posters
September 14, 2011So Pakistan Published an Ad on 9/11. In the WSJ. The trouble with laughing so much that your stomach hurts, is that there is no time to feel outrage 😀 And, then given that it is the net and there is a…
Category: And Finally …
Aahir Bhairav – Nusrat
September 4, 2011I heard Nusrat in my teens – a set of classical music tapes that a friend from had. For long, I heard his qawwalis – without understanding too much of the language – neither my Urdu nor my Punjabi are much to…
Dad on Anna Hazare
September 3, 2011My father, on the Anna Hazare Saga. My dad worked with the State Trading Corporation for a good part of his life. Childhood memories included being told not to use the phone – the Govt. paid for it – and sending back…
Random Musings
September 1, 2011It is enchanting the way a taste, or a smell or a scene brings back memories of growing up…. A piping hot water bath with chandrika soap brings back memories of growing up in Vile Parle. We lived there till I went…
60 DP – Things I Hate
August 16, 2011List of things I hate, in no particular order : Bad Music on Loudspeakers. especially bad religious music Bad Drivers who cut lanes, use high beam blinding other drivers, drivers who don’t follow signals People who send me mails like this –…
60DP – Footprints in the Sand
August 13, 2011Just one wave, and the footprints will be gone… Two waves down and all traces of the footprints will be erased… Time … it erases most things … collective memory, wisdom, culture, languages, relgions. I wonder how many forgotten ‘gods’ there…
60DP – Pity you can’t Deport Him
August 12, 2011Interesting. This in the Guardian In the aftermath of this week’s riots, a 23-year-old student with no previous convictions was jailed for the maximum permitted six months after pleading guilty to stealing bottles of water worth £3.50 from Lidl in Brixton. Two…
60dp – Mumbai Monsoons
August 7, 2011There is nothing quite that can beat Mumbai Monsoons. The darkening of the skies, the cool breeze, the smell of earth – and this entire feeling of the city being washed clean. Yes. Traffic is a pain. the roads disintegrate. Idiot drivers…
60DP – Information & Attitudes
August 5, 2011(am now on the 60 day project 😀 – enjoyed the 30 day project too much to give up) Been hearing an audio book – The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick. Essentially been my car listening when…
The Thirty Day Project – Day 30 – and Next
August 4, 2011And it is done. The thirty day project. My way of reclaiming my life and interests, my friends and family, from ennui. When I started the project, I didn’t think I would be able to last the 30 days. Inertia is not…