Category: Thoroughly Mundane
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Bhaji Rao Singham is Back…
Bhaji Rao Singham is back, My family wants to view it. My experience with last Singham was bad, I had migraine for the next two days. But it was to be a family outing, and at Inox, which I thoroughly dislike, the rest rooms that stink to the lounge, and the musty smell of pop-corn and…
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Feeling Our Words
Feeling our words, ಆಚಾರವಿಲ್ಲದ ನಾಲಿಗೆ ನಿನ್ನ ನೀಚ ಬುದ್ದಿಯ ಬಿಡು ನಾಲಿಗೆ ವಿಚಾರವಿಲ್ಲದ ಪರರನಿ ನಿಂದಿಸಲು ಚಾಚಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ ನಾಲಿಗೆ. The opening lines of Puranadara daasa a kannada poet, that roughly translates, to characterless tongue, mind yourself, don’t move function to mindlessly hurt others. At the toastmasters one exercise that we have is the way we use the words, and…
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Awrite thaur october.
31st of August, well precisely 91 days for December I reckon. The very reason that both 1st of September and 1st of December always fall on the same day of the week. Plans for the month are immense. The lovely tokens of September days are here, with best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.…
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Choosing Not To Look Away
Choosing not to look away, Last Sunday Janet Attwood was at Goa, she gave us the passion test, and my partner was a young boy in standard eight. One of his passions was to Help The Homeless. I was quite amused. Yet here is what he had to share. “They are not there because they…
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A Wish the magic of the mind
A Magical Mind. Last evening we were planning to go out, and I was hoping it won’t rain. Then I did something very childish, I crossed my fingers promising to open it only when I returned. As kids whenever we had a secret wish, we would cross our fingers and of course not tell it…
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The Black checklist
Being Black. Black the integral part of life. Black the colour of coal, ebony and the unknown. The darkest colour this could be either due to the absence of light or due to total absorption of light. So much so we have a saying in Kannada that says,”yella banna masi nungitu” that translates to the…
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