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Expectation

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wikipedia tells us, was a German writer and polymath. However much I love the idea of a polymath, this Johann dude was often wildly wrong like the one time when he said : “The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.”
Everything [...]

His boredom

Light.
Sky.
Land and trees.
The Sun, the Moon and the stars.
fish and bird.
beast and man.
Beer.  very good.
It is Monday again and I am bored.

A bye bye 2008 post.

2008,
I assume you must be preparing to leave. I cannot but admire your stoical acceptance of the impending end. We humans never seem to be able to undermine our sense of permanence. I apologize  for my kind’s failure to give you a decent farewell. We tend to make a spectacle of the new and hold [...]

The come back post.

I will to write.

Random Blabber

four-thirty a.m. content. sad. depressed. elated. confused.

The Arrogance of youth.

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An adventurous Polish toddler was found trying to check in for a flight after making a 15-mile journey to an airport on his own.
Three-year-old Mikolaj Sobolewski unlocked the front door of his parents’ home and got onto a bus from a stop outside their house to take him to Okecie airport in Warsaw.
He [...]

Updates

I will be joining the post graduate program at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) starting about three weeks from now.
I interviewed Sidin Vadukut for BeingaBlogger and we talk about blogging, freelancing and more. Sidin is an Alumnus of IIMA and could be touted as India’s first famous blogger. You may want to [...]

I’m a Charlie-Junkie

Introduction
If I were a good writer, I would have written a thousand page tome extolling the beauty of Charlie, the Unicorn. I’m so totally smitten by it. I am, I proclaim, the M.F.Hussain of this Madhuri; the Meerabai of this Krishna. Charlie, the Unicorn is truly the Sgt Peppers LHC of animated short [...]

Deccan Chargers.

It is with a lot of skepticism that I awaited the Indian Premier League, the poor country cousin of the EPL. But Dr. Mallya and McCullum gave us a spectacular night to remember. It might take a while before the club/city rivalries of the EPL are replicated here. But, it surely is not impossible.For my [...]

The Green One

“So, is it all over then?”, he asks.
I hang my head in shame. At that moment, I chose to keep still. If he wanted an answer, he’d have to come back, and he did.
“Is it all over?”, The green one’s tone carries a hint of urgency and amusement.
I wish I could stare him out of [...]