Dearest Anant, On the onset would like to congratulate you on the amazing weight loss and what a loss it has been: a total of 108 kgs in eighteen months that comes to a whooping 6 kgs per month. This week hasn’t been too good for me, first a hospital sends me a sms askingContinueContinue reading “Congratulations Anant”
Category Archives: Mindscape
Festival of Colors : Holi
Like the zillion Indian Facebook users across the world, I too posted my pictures of playing Holi with friends and family. Hardly recognizable with the color all over our faces in a tub that was too small to fit 6 adults and 5 kids, we all managed nevertheless. I did manage to get some sizeableContinueContinue reading “Festival of Colors : Holi”
Freedom of Speech and Expression
There is raging debate going on across the country over one’s Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression especially in the context of the incidents at Jawaharlal Nehru University, wherein its Students Union President has been charged with Sedition over some alleged inflammatory speech which has now been proven to be doctored Let us firstContinueContinue reading “Freedom of Speech and Expression”
Jaipur Literature Festival
After years of missed plans and dilly dallying , finally managed to attend the 9th Jaipur Literature Festival like someone rightly described it as the Ibiza of Literature ,it was worth the wait and lived up to the hype and buzz around it. Diggi Palace: The Venue for the festival that has been witnessing theContinueContinue reading “Jaipur Literature Festival”
Friends from Facebook
This Saturday evening just across the chair, where I was sitting while getting my hair colored at the saloon was an acquaintance getting his beard trimmed. We have been Facebook Friends since 2014 with 83 mutual friends as of today!! So while we were getting through the mundane tasks of getting ourselves groomed, we soContinueContinue reading “Friends from Facebook”
Have we stopped reading??
“It’s difficult to quantify precisely the effect of books on our lives – but generally speaking, it’s enormous.” As per a recent survey, India is the eighth largest book producing country in the world. Its performance in the production of titles in English is seven times superior, ranking third in the world, after the UnitedContinueContinue reading “Have we stopped reading??”
Hospital
Florence Nightingale once famously said “It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.” She couldn’t have chosen better words to describe the dark, desolate and depressing hospitals that are supposed to make us feel better. Lately i have hadContinueContinue reading “Hospital”
Back and Blogging
Helooo!! I am back after a long hiatus !! A lot has happened since the last time I was here putting my thoughts in words: some random and some deliberate and hopefully worth a read. The reason I was away were many from social commitments to writer’s block, from medical issues to family commitments. PresumingContinueContinue reading “Back and Blogging”
School’s 20th Reunion
Today returned to my alma mater: Mayo College, Ajmer where I spent the most important formative years of my life and met friends after a gap of nearly 20 years. 20 long years!! Batchmates changed , humbled, unrecognizable from the grind and the rough and tumble of the past 2 decades. Each emotion isContinueContinue reading “School’s 20th Reunion”
Liquor Ban
As was promised in his election manifesto, one of the first major decisions Nitish Kumar does after swearing in as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the fifth time around is to Ban alcohol from the state w.e.f 1st April 2016. Seriously in this age and times is banning alcohol even practically possible?? Besides the obviousContinueContinue reading “Liquor Ban”
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