Archive for November, 2007
Operation Last Chance
Posted on November 30, 2007 - Filed Under blog
This operation, an initiative of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre – a Jewish human rights group aims at catching what is left of the remaining Nazi World War II criminals before they die of natural causes, nestled comfortably in some place in South America. It literally would be the last chance for the dispensers of justice [...]
Read More..>>Jumbo King!
Posted on November 27, 2007 - Filed Under blog
We pledge to make the Vada-pav world class!
Thus sayeth the caption of the poor man’s McDonald’s, Jumbo King, which specializes in the selling of a limited menu of vada-pav and its variants.
Anyone who has been to Mumbai (even in transit) and hasn’t eaten vada pav deserves do die a painful death. There is enough and [...]
Dorky Guffaw’s Local ‘Training’
Posted on November 27, 2007 - Filed Under blog
Dorky Guffaw was about to die a horrible death.
Or so he thought.
Standing there within the compartment of a slow local train bound from Thane towards CST, he was supposed to get off the train at Dadar. The train had just slowed down to a halt at the station, and the people within the crowded [...]
India’s Hottest
Posted on November 23, 2007 - Filed Under blog
One of the crappiest things that I have come across in recent times on TV has been an ad on Channel V, about how your photographs will be featured on one of their shows if you upload it onto the site – Indiashottest.in or something.
This will spur the mall rats (who don’t go there for [...]
Groomsman
Posted on November 20, 2007 - Filed Under blog
Societal faux pas and inability to fit into a crowd notwithstanding, here is another bullet-point I can add to my set of life-experiences, a little less than two years down the line.
I am being elected to be a “Groomsman” by the Groom Sankar(and the Bride,Neerada, as I later found out), though I would’ve preferred being [...]
Self Deprecation Rules
Posted on November 19, 2007 - Filed Under blog
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Words from Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” that just endorse my theory of self-deprication being better than someone else pointing fingers [...]