Here is a blessing in English: May the guy live 120 years healthily and may the girl live 108 years and bear many boy kids. Sound medieval? Ok. Let’s make it a little more flowery: May the groom live a long and fruitful life of twenty and hundred years and may the bride live a fertile eight … Continue reading What is blasphemy?
There was a “walk-in” at work today. For the uninitiated, a “walk-in” is a large scale invasion of an office premises by hordes of job applicants with dreams of joining the Indian IT Bandwagon. Off late, the recruitment process tends to resemble ranchers inspecting and buying 150 heads of cattle at the Pushkar Livestock Mela. … Continue reading Join Da Crowd. Earn Da Biriyani
This is an excerpt of a conversation I had with my younger brother today. It was about my earlier post. Truth be told, neither of us have been anywhere near this college. But in true jilpa tradition, we speculated about life in Tamil Nadu concentrat….i mean engineering colleges, without actually knowing anything about it. Poetic … Continue reading Loose Gtalk
It is interesting that health insurance works because of mutual ignorance. If the insurer had an accurate idea of when I was going to fall ill, he would refuse to insure me at that point. If I knew when I was going to fall ill, I would only apply for insurance cover at that point. So information … Continue reading Mutual Ignorance
Excerpt from a history text book for class 3, circa 2152, Sector 42, Kurukkupettai Galaxy Long ago, in the era of annoying ringtones, overcharging auto-rickshaws and pointless soap operas, a crime was perpetrated against a generation of kids. Cruel experiments involving sensory deprivation were performed on them. In the name of providing engineering “education”, a … Continue reading Rucking Fules
To compensate for the slow and torturous death by powerpoint treatment meted out to me on Saturday, I decided to let some photons from movies enter my eyes. My neighbour Totoro is an incredible movie. Movie Plot: Large fluffy magical creatures with a penchant for carrying umbrellas who travel by a cat shaped bus with … Continue reading Totoros in Labyrinths
Spent a Saturday in training, while my wife was busy buying products made out of fibres secreted by Bombyx Mori. The instructor unleashed several bolts of sleep rays from his powerpoint gun. I fought a valiant battle with the Kingdom of Sleep, and won a pyrrhic victory. Here is the stream of unconsciousness as I … Continue reading Death by Powerpoint
I flew the good times today. I am a big fan of airline safety instruction videos and thus was keen on being entertained (and informed) by the accomplished actors and actresses usually roped in for these oscar nominated videos. And Lo Behold. Guess who teaches good-times-flyers to buckle and unbuckle their seat belts? Yana Gupta … Continue reading Yana Ma Kannu
Bangalore visited me today. Today, by the way, made an appearance after that annoying guest, yesterday, left…the day before today. I spent a total of 60 minutes in the air, 240 minutes on the road, inhaled 100 cubic litres of polluted air and ate Bisibelebath for dinner. An eventful day. I drank Ethiopian Qahwah at … Continue reading Qahwah
Jalsa refers to a general sense of gratification, illicitly obtained or otherwise. Jilpa refers to a lengthy and convoluted show of superiority without having any substance whatsoever Gilma refers to strange, arcane and mysterious stuff, in other words, extremely interesting things. So far, my life can be summarized as “jalsa in school and college, jilpa at work and … Continue reading Defining terms
