Archive for October, 2006
I Have Read That Somewhere
The title of this post is with reference to a book that has been written by a certain Aswath Venkataraman, who, according to wikipedia is "the author of the book I Have Read That Somewhere. A Tamil Brahmin hailing from Ranchi, Jharkhand, Aswath has lived in Bangalore in the recent past, having done his graduation at RVCE and MBA at IIM [...]
Urban Travelling
Come this long Diwali weekend, a whole lot of people from Bangalore who are residents of places elsewhere are getting ready to take that long train/bus/plane/bullock cart journey back home, hoping to spend substantial quality time with their near and dear ones.This is one of the phenomena that I have come to observe with irritating regularity [...]
Fortune cookies…pah!!!
"Your love life will be happy and harmonious." Thus sayeth my orkut profile's 'fortune for the day'. I hate such shit for the simple reason that my socialist inclinations refuse to believe that such a statement is egalitarian. What about all those that are single and have no such thing as a love life? What about those that have reached a [...]
The Importance of Being Hari Sadu
Not so long ago, Circa April 1983 AD, something happened that changed the course of my life forever.I was born.As is an obvious ritual among most Hindu families, there was a naming ceremony held for the then-new born kid, whose parents were hoping that he'd be the apple of their eye. The apple, it turned out, had lots of maggots in it, and parts [...]
