It’s weird but true. Every now and then I get these horrible dreams which are nowhere but nowhere related to reality. They are quite ominous. They shake me from top to bottom. Usually I wake up with my body in a pool of sweat. I feel bitter after waking-up… and can never get to sleep [...]
The Jinnah djinn is out to hound the BJP again. This time it is Jaswant Singh who’s courting ire from the Sangh Parivar for his book on Jinnah. Jaswant Singh’s work warrants appreciation but there’s been nothing but scorn from political circles. No politician worth his/her salt has stuck his head out favourably for Jaswant [...]
Duniya mein dukh aur bhi hai, mohabat ki ilawa
Daaman thamke baithe` hain phir bhi usi ka.
Chalo phir se muskurayein
Chalo! phir se dil lagayein
Unginat lamhon ki yaad hai
Kuch pal ke liye udaas hai.
Haal-e-dil zubaan pe le aaye
Wafa se bewafa ho gaye.
Waqt hua unke aane ka
Aarzoo hai, unke liye
Chalo phir se muskurayein
Chalo! phir se dil lagayein.
- Nabeel
Why do people get married? No, why do people in India have to get married? Its like, they have to. They’ve got to. What’s a social taboo?! That people who don’t get married by 30 (ahem, women only) are either crazy or impotent, or promiscuous(as we all know). And what is with this age-limit that [...]
If the press conferences, meetings with the ministers, letters to the PM, interviews to news channels and dragging each other to court wasn’t enough, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani found yet another way to attack his brother – newspaper advertisements!
Take a look at the advertisment in The Tribune, dated 17/08/2009 :
I’ll type down the entire text in [...]
62 years is a long time to get one’s act together. Enough even for a country. It’s been 62 years since India gained it’s independence. Today, India is apparently on the verge of ‘greatness’. ‘Greatness’ is an amorphous term. If America is a great country, then you’re talking about the cultural dominance, economic muscle, military [...]
I just finished watching a brilliant documentary based on “How Google Works”. To be frank, I don’t know why they named it “How Google Works” because it was more of a criticism that they had posed than its working. But you know what, it was actually true. I don’t know but I am in deep [...]
Winston Churchill once said of India – ‘ India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation like the equator ’. Churchill was also of the belief that while Pakistan would flourish, India was doomed to disintegrate and fail. Churchill, with all his hatred for India was probably talking logically. India is [...]
Some of you may be aware that CAT (Common Admission Test), one of India’s most proficient exams, is going to be online this year. Actually it is not going to be online but will be a computer based test as per the officials. But it doesn’t make any huge difference to a layman. Just yesterday [...]
The one place in Chandigarh where you will always find entertainment and amusement, is Sector- 17. You know the place where there are lot of fake jewellery stalls and punjabi music blares out of some super-high definition speakers. That’s the happening set!!
Incident no. 1
It was late October last year. I was shopping with a friend. [...]