I am not going!

So basically in order to keep up with the latest fashion of getting sick every month resulting in frequent visits to toilets and chemist shops, I feel sick again just a week before the YHAI saurkundi pass trek. It came as an after effect of attending a wedding, which I was doing after a period [...]

Life Lesson

Its human nature to unload his/her truck of crap into your backyard. So what to do? You can’t keep you backyard already full of shit. The only way out is you convince/force your neighbor to keep his shit in his own house and take yours too.
If somebody gives you one bucket of shit, you give [...]

Christmas Gift!

My laptop is working, and working well. I know its a two year old model, with only 256MB ram, but hey, I got it pretty cheap! Just had to set up a desktop and prolly would have to buy a 19” LCD monitor. But what I got in return – a laptop of my own, [...]

Happiness = Success??

At age 4, success is… not peeing in your pants.
At age 12, success is… having friends.
At age 16, success is… having a driver’s license.
At age 20, success is… having sex.
At age 35, success is… having money.
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At age 50, success is… having money.
At age 60, success is… having sex.
At age 70, success is… having a driver’s [...]

Suddenly..

sometimes so much happens in a day or two that we don’t even register the importance of those proceedings, which only later slowly dwell upon us. What all happened in last 2 days:
1)  Delhi trip on Diwali got cancelled. which means for the first time I would be away from home on diwali. (I am really senti about celebrating diwali at [...]

Thinking Beings

The education system in India is so screwed up that the “cream” of the brightest students (as they are so called) of the country who went to the “best” colleges, who have the skills to land up in any field or develop any skills they want to, who have the resources required for same, are aimless in [...]

Leftovers

Yesterday, I was finally able to take my folks to an acclaimed play, “Class of ‘84“, staged at IHC, enacted by all small n big screen celebrities. During most of the play and in interval I was only trying to figure out where I have seen those people before, obviously except Rajit Kapoor who was [...]

In a temple above the town.

(Finally found the courage to write this down. Below is the travelogue of my stay in Naggar, a little town near Manali in Himachal, with a family which was running a local NGO – Ananda Society.)
It was the most difficult journey I have underwent so far, including the 10 hrs long treacherous trek to Hemkund [...]

Sometimes when..

my mom gives me answers from her experiences to some of the most perplexing questions: I feel courageousness again
my dad tries to end an argument by agreeing with everyone and asking everyone to agree with each other: I realize the need for peace n quiet (and that all humans have some reason ‘coz of which [...]

The Exercise School

While I was just beginning to start reading in the evening today, a child’s voice from the other room attracted me strongly and I couldn’t help moving to the drawing room to hear what Arnav, my 4 years old nephew, had to say. He seemed to be describing some place to mom, dad and my [...]