Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • Honey moon travels.

    A trip to the quiet, that is what I would gift to my soon to be married cousin. I would ensure, no civilization, no telephones, to television just a few weeks for the couple. It would be a great time, for her and her new husband to set new goals for their life, discuss their…

  • with Malice to ….

    People always talk don’t they? I think I shall start calling myself a witch. The wicked witch of the west.  I mean people have called me acrid, nasty, rude sarcastic whatever. so might as well have a blast and get benefited from it. And why not? Believe me it is orgasmic it liberates you from…

  • RIP–The Telegraph

    http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/telegram-stop-end-stop-392148 “Taar,” the moustached man  called out. Wearing an ill-fitting brown pant, and a shirt a cross bag and a brown cap a left over from the british civil services.  He was a must in every hindi movie. It created melodrama, the twist in the tale, sometimes even the key knowledge. I   remember as a…

  • The Whiff of Sunday

    The morning rush, Lunch boxes to packed, it is sight to watch mothers in terrible states walking riding the two wheelers to drop their kids. Some cases more visually presentable fathers do it. As we ride down the road, this is believe me between 7.15 and 7.45 am various aroma’s waft, some houses have the…

  • Seasoning life with seasons.

    Rtu samhara, the cycles of season, or rtushringara the romance of season.  That is what it all about cycles, decay and rebirth.  In Sanskrit poetry seasons are entwined with love, both erotic and divine. They are parallel and interwoven. Vasanta spring, the eternal companion of the Kamadev, the lord of love, adorned with flowers and…

  • over the Kaapi.

    KAPI-CHAT, If you thought this is baby talk for copy cat, sorry, buddy but this is the word for profound intellectual conversations that happen over coffee, you kids could choose to call it CHATTING Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love—is what kapi-chat declared about its coffee, as…