Disclaimer: This is not a sympathy post. It might feel insensitive to some people. Please avoid this post if you are one of those who believe this is not a time for humor at all. The worst thing about a lockdown for a moderately privileged middle-class person in India is the lack of easy access […]

Our honorable PM announced a 21-day lockdown due to the pandemic caused by the deadly COVID-19. Many people felt it was the right decision. Some even felt it was a week too late. However, considering the havoc it caused in countries like China, Iran and Italy-all 3 in different levels of development and government, what […]

November 8, 2016 – San Francisco: We were getting ready for a big party to celebrate the winning of Hillary Clinton as the first female president of the United States (Well, I was mostly there for the booze). Most of the exit polls showed that this was an inevitable conclusion. There was even a Trump […]

Hello, 2018.A new year brings new resolutions, new ideas, new hope, new wishes, new everything. And we can thank Pope Gregory XIII (According to Wikipedia) for uniting different countries with different ideologies, and religions under one umbrella of time. Come to think of it, he had a more profound effect of uniting people than any […]

Adolescence is tough. Being an Indian teenager caught in a rat-race you never wanted to be a part of even more so. Preparing for entrance examinations because being a doctor/ engineer is the only path to success is like a rite of passage. Study hard, play not, attend classes, attend coaching, practice what was done-yeah, […]

My sincerest apologies in advance if you are going to read this entire piece. Also, it  also serves you right for ignoring my first warning. It is definitely not a sad sob story of some dance between someone who does in the end, or some father-daughter/ mother-son post marriage celebration. Rather, it is the stalemate […]

We talk about freedom – freedom of speech, freedom of expression and a host of others which I never ever paid a second thought about. The latest one particularly trending now is the freedom of the internet, and  the protest for net-neutrality. I am totally away from the battle zone. The results doesn’t affect me […]

Belonging to the generation when inter-state or STD (no, let’s not get into the present and relevant context of this acronym) calls were expensive and a luxury, the beauty of receiving the blue inland letter from your sister, every couple of weeks is an experience which few of us have experienced. The vivid descriptions of […]

We are identified by our face, our appearance, our personality, our education, our work, our income, the friends we keep, the house we live in, the car we drive, the holidays that we take, the pictures that we post, the camera that we use to take that picture, the cell phone that we use, the […]

Day -1: I hate my job. Debugging is such a pain. Wonder who hired such an idiot of a programmer? But somehow this is preferable. I cannot stand going back home where my 3 month pregnant wife is at her crankiest self. But then, my angel of a daughter needs to get her homework done. […]