…jis ki zubaan Urdu ki tarah

Shakti naam ke ek sahab aaj mehmaan-e-khusoosi (chief guest) ki haisiyat se tashreef farma rahe the. Shakti sahab ka taaluq junoobi Hind (south India) se hain lekin woh Mumbai mein hi rehaaish pazeer hain aur ek Angrezi akhbaar ke tafreehi shobe mein sahafi ki haisiyat se kaam…

Corporate touch

Every passing day, i am learning something new. Something i didn’t even bother to sniff earlier. Something i didn’t even know existed earlier. Maybe it didn’t matter. Now it does. And here i am trying to figure out newer things. It’s a healthy phase to be in, not to mention ballbreaking. I am not…

An ear-opener

Did you know that the W in wrinkle/wrist is silent the way it is in wrong? I didn’t. I continued to remain ignorant enough to lick the poor W along. It was only after moving north (I’m so glad i don’t use the word Gurgaon although there’s nothing silent in it, especially after what happened in NH10)…

Give and takeaway

You feel bad for the beggars at the traffic signal, don’t you? So, what do you do about it?

Let me take a guess.

1. You offer money hesitatingly.

2. You offer money promptly.

Three Wise Men

Buddhist monks aren’t someone who you’d like to associate with brands, right?
Or would you?
Well, i saw some checking out bigshot…

Words, anyone?

It just occurred to me today that words are the only constant in our life. Other than oxygen, of course.

[Please tell me i’m wrong in less than 20 words.]

Words have been around us from the moment we took birth. They kept changing and yet they are so…

Neither drink nor miss

I’ve got nothing against alcohol. I just don’t like it mixing with my blood stream. I may not be the most sensible person around but i prefer to be in control of my faculties. I’ve spent more than a quarter of a century without it (if one excuses the occasional cough syrups) and i intend…

Worrior

When in doubt, he worries — and vice versa. He keeps worrying what if whatever good he has fizzles out. Slip slowly out of his hands without him even noticing it. After all, hasn’t it happened before? What if he doesn’t wake up feeling like he did today? What if he wakes up as a different person altogether? What…

Halves and halves-not

The more you look around you, the more it becomes obvious that we are living in paradoxical times. There’s a section of people with scientific temper who want us to believe that global warming is a reality. What they fail to do though is convince the world that the world is going to sink…

People syndrome

People are assholes by default. But not all of them. I know this because i am people. There are more than 7 billion of my kind on this planet and one can safely assume that quite a lot are terrible beings. They succumb to human frailties like ego, envy, anger, gossip and such exciting but ridiculous…