What do you do, when you’re the Department of Posts in India? Your profits are slipping, trust in your service is zero and the only people who use your services are the students who are forced to use the Speed Post to submit their application forms for various examinations. The competition postcards that you introduced [...]
After reading Chetan Bhagat and Khushwant Singh, my opinion of Indian authors was something in the range of ‘pathetic imitators’. They suck. They are so bad at it that they shower misery upon book-lovers! Every page is a torture full of illogical bullshit which makes you wince as you turn another page. Khushwant Singh thinks [...]
The Mahabharat and The Ramayan are India’s two greatest epics. Both are celebrated as the victory of good over evil. The good versus evil story is as old as civilization itself. But, what sets these two epics apart is the absence of absolute and outright evil figures. In both these epics, the antagonists suffer from [...]
This is the real life story of a man who dared to believe until he realized he had ‘friends’ – You see a girl in college and there’s instant infatuation. You can’t explain why you like her but you do. The next thing you do is you try to know more about her through your [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The month of June, I would say was a heart-breaking month. It marked the demise of the biggest superstar in the history of mankind. Michael Jackson. How I learnt of his death was, I read it in the newspaper. I can’t recall the exact moment but it went on something like- ‘At about 3am last [...]
This is the story of my family, probably yours too… My mother; it seems that she told everyone “I will be very happy in life once I have a child”. Soon I was born… did she become happy? Then she said she would be happy if I grow into a healthy child… then she said [...]