The Slacker’s Dilemma

There’s a scene from my all-time favourite TV show “The Wire” where one of the drug kingpin’s lieutenant […]

Crowded Planet’s Guide to Hong Kong

The most pervasive philosophical message that has hounded me all of last month has been this Your flight […]

I realize that it’s been a while since my last blog post. As I sat around airports and […]

I saw this video. Then I saw two crows (presumably the ones that dispossessed my neighbour’s Labrador of […]

Surely, somebody, somewhere in the dark recesses of ISRO is speculating that the launch of Chandrayaan was astrologically […]

Did you know that regular urban crows in Madras, the ones with the grey neck have a caw […]

Update before you read this: Lonely Planet seems to be in the process of editing their piece on […]

Preface Update: The general feedback says that the original preface was a little dense, so I’ve moved it […]

One of the side effects of growing up in a media starved era (like the 1980s and early […]

Of all inglorious insults heaped on day to day objects as we go about our quotidian lives, and […]