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• My Travel Diaries - Varanasi, Chunar and Sarnath

  

  Blame it on Benaras, if I get even wee bit spiritual and lest my thoughts wander like a Bohemian septuagenarian, high on marijuana. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014

• 'Naughty and Nice' List of the Bygone Year - Part 1

  

  Its about time I get on with compiling this year's list of the 'Naughty and Nice', shouldn't I? Sit back, relax and get a box of tissue, just in case. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2013

• I Drank Your Milkshake, Officer!

  

  It was a long time ago when Kolkata was called Calcutta and Ballygunge was, well.. the posh neighbourhood as it still is. Being a posh neighbourhood, it used... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2013

• Guilty as Charged, and Perhaps Some More

  

  If you turn on the television now, you'll find that nearly all the major Indian news channels are doing exactly the same thing. Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2013

• "Legends Never Retire"

  

  With his retirement, it almost feels as if our favorite childhood memories are being yanked away from us. The fact doesn't sink in yet, even though we... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013

• A Love Story is Born!

  

  I have traversed the seven continents and have crossed seven seas to find the truth behind why most of the perfect women in Kolkata date almost all the wrong... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013

• Madras Cafe - A Review

  

  The first door-bell of the day had rung almost two hours earlier than usual that morning. It was still night-time, with the sun yet to rise at the horizon. Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2013

• The Scent of Memories

  I've always believed in a particularly enigmatic method of time-travel. And before you abjure this piece of information raising doubts on it's credibility, I'd... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013

• The Cyborg of the Future...

  In the past few years, I have adopted academia as the way of living. And subsequently have I been clarified on a large number of presumptions regarding science... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2013

• 'Man of Steel Treks Into Darkness' - A Review

  

  Now that I'm into a writing halt for quite a while, I am actually reading and not skimming through every other blog, selected at random. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013

• A New Pup In Town

  Second day in the new neighborhood, and my mum and dad still don't think it's safe for me to be let out on my own. Pity. Maybe I would just have to keep... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013

• The Royal Challenge of Bangalore!

  

  In a city where everyone is capitalizing on the moolah that the IT sector seems to provide, is it but wrong on the part of an auto-wallah of Bangalore to... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013

• A Mumbai For Women

  

  It was a Saturday. It was a lazy afternoon. And to top it all, it required for me to travel an hour on the Mumbai local train to reach the venue. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013

• Some Memories In Scarlet

  

  It is that time of year, when the national dress code for guys is a skin-tight shorts, borrowed from the rickshaw-puller's son who lives nearby. On top, you... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013

• My Tryst with a Crazy Cabby

  

  Oh Bombay!As I otherwise immerse myself completely for the cause of foul-smelling genetically modified organisms in the lab, there are only the sudden, last... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013

• A Bombete in Bombaayi

  As I celebrated the new year's eve on train this year, I found myself among a band of babblers for company. It consisted of a precocious girl of 18, her dad:... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013

• The New Indian Cinema and Cricket

  

  In a first, the worst book I've ever read, got converted into an excellent on screen adaptation! Kai Po Che. 3 Mistakes of My Life.Reading the book was my... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013

• Pissing, and the Associated Memories...

  'Are you pissing?'That particular sentence from 'Life of Pi' brings back memories. They are the 'not-so-worthwhile' snippets and clippings from our mutual... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012

• 'Mango People, Banana Republic..'

  

  So, apparently I'm at risk.Not just me, all you 20 something youth of the second most populous democratic constitution in the world. You are at risk. Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2012

• My Travel Diaries - Pench National Park

  

  I had never been to Nagpur before, so when Divya asked (read demanded) us to come visit the Orange city of India over the period of Diwali holidays, I was the... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2012