Picking up Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol wasn’t an impulse buy. He is no J R Rowling to me. But I still felt the need to stay with the hype and make sure I don’t miss anything good in life. Turns out, I wasn’t missing anything that good. To be precise, not giving out any [...]

Sometimes I really wonder if my yearning-for-Ahmadabad posts and poems are becoming more soppy. At least they feel entertaining and overly sentimental in retrospective. But then all good and bad writing comes out of powerful, overwhelming feelings.  Internet is another overwhelming thing for me. I’ve not been able to get over the amazement even after [...]

The books I stacked up a few years back are still in the same order.Remember when you cracked a joke about him and I laughed so hard,I spilled tea on the floor.The old fashioned tiles soaked that tea up,Leaving my footprints.Does he still get offended when you joke about him?Please don’t change the curtains or [...]

Warning: I could easily laugh this subject off, take-it-easy as they say, but thinking about it seemed like a good warming up exercise before I start actually writing. It is easy to belong to a group. But it is not that easy to not be a part of a group and still be around its [...]

… well that is how we feel when we open and skim through the self-help, diet, positive thinking, inspiring success kinda books. My favourite people have been bringing these books to me and sometimes, I pick them up as part of my reading experiments. When my favourite professor gifted me M Scott Peck’s Road Less [...]

Before something happens (like my internet crashes, or electricity goes puff, I think of a book and get away, BJP gets more damaged, another stupid comedy releases in Bollywood after Daddy Cool, Life Partner, Love Khichdi or something like that, I get distracted… you get the point…) I need to finish this blog. Before I [...]