‘blog’ Archives
The Peepli (Live) experience, Live!
Peepli (Live) is a brilliantly funny satirical movie where politicians and the media are ripped apart mercilessly. God knows they deserved it, and Anshu Rizvi has done a stunning job of giving them their just desserts in the face of all that we commoners have endured. I'm sure you've read reviews or heard enough about Peepli (Live) to read any [...]
Conspicuous Consumption Goodbye
When I was much younger, I was told of how North India is culturally different from where I was born and raised. I paid little heed to these words, simply because it was of no consequence to me. I had spent a third of my life in South India and it made little sense for me to deeply analyze something that I felt had no direct impact on my way of [...]
Weekends in the NCR
After moving out of home in 2004, Gurgaon is the third city that I have lived in after Bangalore and Hyderabad. In Bangalore, my weekend planning was initially governed by when I would leave the city to head to Mysore. When things settled in and I began discovering, exploring and understanding Bangalore, and eventually falling in love with the [...]
Public Transport in Gurgaon
One of the first things that I was told when I informed people that I would be living and working in Gurgaon from April onwards was that I needed my own transport and that the transport vehicle should preferably be a car, given how the heat and the dust and later, the cold would be unbearable on a two wheeler. Two months into living in Gurgaon, [...]
American Gods and Minor Chords
When I was in Bangalore to attend the Simian's wedding on 23rd May, I had time to kill between the wedding ceremony (which I went late for, thanks to horrendous traffic, only to eat the lunch served there like the shameless freeloader that I am) and the reception later in the evening. I then decided to indulge in my current favourite pastime, [...]
Notes About Nothing – The Gurgaon Chronicles Continued…
So I return yet again with a continuation of the 'Notes About Nothing' series, after spambots hogged my website bandwidth for the second month in a row. I was initially taken aback by the fact that I was getting 509-ed (getting a bandwidth exceeded error) despite having very poor traffic, but the use of some plug-ins will hopefully stem the [...]
Notes About Nothing – The Gurgaon Chronicles
I was meaning to write about settling in for a while, but for some strange reason, my website exceeded the allocated bandwidth limit despite getting very few hits on average per day. COnsequently, around 22nd April, when I was itching to blog, all I could do was to sit and stare helplessly at the 509:bandwidth exceeded error, much like eunuchs at [...]
Stooping to New Lows
Sometime in early 2008, a friend of mine and I were having a competition regarding whose life was more pathetic. Winning this competition gave one of the participants considerable pride and props in the eyes of the other person. Think of it along the lines of a slow cycle race where the participants battle it out such that the last person to [...]
