Show me the money!

Maybe it’s a good time to talk about money. Black, white, colored, all sorts. There are some lessons i learnt after moving to Gurgaon. Back in Bombay, i didn’t care much for money mainly because i didn’t have expenses. When you’re living with your family, you don’t care about raashan. I barely…

Twinkle Twinkle real star

I saw Twinkle Khanna in flesh for the first time in 2012 while covering an event in Bombay. I was basically a scribe back then who rarely missed Bollywood-related invitations. She came across as very elegant and i thought to myself “she was a terrible actress but she is a sorted…

Endanger alert!

I move on from one being to another. What this behaviour entails is hours spent on tempering my curiosity about a particular…

We need to talk about Caste

There’s a famous quote vis-a-vis Indian politics and election: “Indians don’t cast their votes; they vote their castes.”

The only problem with the above statement is nothing’s going to change unless we address the core issue of our society. Caste, whether you like it or not, is…

What happens in 20s stays forever

Newton proposed the Binomial Theorem at 22. That was also the age at which Charles Darwin gave up on his religious dreams by embarking on a ship to Galapagos Island, ultimately paving the path for modern science with his Theory of Evolution. Bhagat Singh kissed the…

Missus on point

I don’t like going out much. In fact, i never show up at a party lest i’ll have engage with people in hollow small talks. On the other hand, i love talking to my wife. That’s something that hasn’t changed in over three years now. It’s a delight to converse with her about random things. Our…

Change is a lingual constant too

I called English a mythical language some days ago.

And all hell broke loose.

Apparently, mythical is something which doesn’t exist. Like God. Or Atlantis. Their arguments preened toward establishing that if i call…

In the course of time

I grew up in a slum in Bombay. The kind of place everybody wants to escape only to end up in a place — Nashik/New-Bombay/Pune/Gurgaon — that makes you nostalgic about your past. It had everything imaginable. The good. The bad. The makeup. People from all the three communities were present…

Paranoia, please don’t scare me

Democracy is funny but the joke is lost on those who believe in it. 

Americans have elected Donald Trump as their president. It’s official. Understandably, there is a massive wave of despair among the people (both from the USA as well as the rest of the world) about an…

From school to streets

The boy had escaped the boarding school. He was 14, barely interested in studies, chased butterflies, low on attention, high on daydreaming and a huge Rajesh Khanna fan. Not sure how but he ended up in Bombay. When a group of people questioned the seemingly lost kid, he revealed he was…