Farewell sucks

I knew this day was coming. Just that i pretended otherwise. You don’t want a good event to be interrupted because you are SO used…

Where opinions come and go

Since everybody has an opinion nowadays, we’ve arrived at a stage where we really don’t know how to draw a line. One can clearly see this change exposing itself on the online world. If somebody doesn’t agree with somebody else’s thought process, that somebody becomes this…

One paradox a day keeps delusions away

Have you ever wondered what they mean by “growing in a relationship”? I might be mistaken (as i usually am) but here’s my 50 cent (filing for bankruptcy in advance) on the said topic: I think growing in a relationship is a paradox. If two people are in an union…

That fine line in between

Socrates, Plato, Vincent van Gogh, Mathew Brady, Franz Schubert, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johannes Vermeer, Karl Marx, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, Franz Kafka and Stieg…

Advice rows and columns

Dear 20-year-old-in-office, there’s something about you that tells me that you are at the maroon (pink is for whites) of your health. You are energetic and always on the run. Looks like you’re going to be awesome if you aren’t already. Let’s call it professional rush. It lasts for a few…

Trigger-angry

It’s the age of overreaction. The worst part is there’s no distinction between the online and the offline worlds anymore.

Online sample:

BBC India’s Twitter account goofs up on a tweet and takes its own sweet time to rectify the error. In the…

Q for curiosity

Some anecdotes always make you smile, if not chuckle. I remembered one such incident from my brother’s past this morning.

Our amma had taken him for his kindergarten interview. Needless to add, she was nervous throughout. Although she had done her level best to teach him the…

A matter of lingual inadequacy

If you haven’t watched Winter Sleep (2014) yet, please do. Running for 3 hours and 15 minutes, this Turkish delight is undoubtedly a cinematic gem. It’s filled with beautifully shot scenes and succintly written conversations. In fact, the entire film is a series of dialogues…

Levels of evilness

Ask whoever you like (or don’t) this question on the very basis that humans are evil by design: “What’s the evilest thing you ever did?”

Chances are they’ll take some time before coming up with an immediate answer. Besides, you aren’t asking somebody their age so it’s…

Lyrical disaster

Sayoneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[A vella (obviously) is crying for his girlfriend but he confuses her for his soulmate. Anyway, it doesn’t matter because he’s not going to get her as he needs to lower his prejudiced standards.]