Well, this week, yours truly had the honour of writing the first Reporter's Diary for the paper. But the desk, God Bless them, cut out all the funny parts and then printed it. So here's the unabridged version ( Read more... )

My haffy bird-day came and went in a blur. Couldn't eat, and more importantly drink, anything. But the usual nice people in my life sent lots of love my way. So thank you everyone ( Read more... )

First the status update: So I’ve got jaundice - Hepatitis E virus, apparently it takes longer than usual to recover from. And I need to be extremely cautious about what I eat and drink for about six months, I am told. Was hospitalized in a severely dehydrated and almost unconscious condition for a week and am recuperating at home now. Am doing ( Read more... )

He's... all I'd want in a man

He's...
Trusty, wise and dependable
strong as strong can be
extremely good looking, so much so that I have to remind myself to start breathing again when I set my eyes on him, so much so that I know for a fact that people secretly gasp in envy when they see him
very macho, in a Mad Max kinda way
got a salt and pepper ( ( Read more... )

A colleague asked me to distribute some yummy organge barfi he had brought from Nagpur to everyone at work, and here's what the ever-sarcastic RP had to say about it ( Read more... )

Hello world ( Read more... )

True friends are those who hate the people you hate, no questions asked. :-)
Thanks harshada

Every relationship needn't end in marriage.
Every marriage needn't end in children, right?

Why do married folk, even those who are unhappily married, want everyone around them married?

Is it a compulsory punishment for some sin everyone has committed in their past lives?

And what is it with married women who worry excessively about ticking timebombs ( Read more... )

Every weekend a pall of gloom descends on the family. Diwali in Mumbai without Her would have been unbearable... That's why I suggested a trip to Daman - a feeble and futile attempt to run away from memories.
By some unexpected quirk of fate, I happened to get the weekend off. And so I ventured to suggest that we (by we, I meant I'd drive) drive to ( Read more... )

While one is always happy that one is in the pink of health, sometimes, one realises that one simply doesn't appreciate this fact enough ( Read more... )