Category: Us people

  • Seven Billion Dreams One Planet….

    Seven Billion Dreams One Planet…. Consume with care….World environment day June 5th. This is the theme for the this years environment drive. The well being of humanity, the environment and the functioning of the economy, ultimately depends on  how responsibly we manage the planets natural resources , yet, we seem to be consuming far more…

  • The Lords of the Road

    The bus slowly stops, the door opens allowing the hot air inside, suddenly one becomes aware of how cool it was within the bus. it also allows a swarm of people who barricade the entrance these the  “auto drivers,” These people are a tourists first exposure to the city. You can be assured that they…

  • What chronic lateness communicates

    We were planning an event at the International centre Goa. The Program executive told me, doctor, we’ll start at 6pm, that is registration at 6 pm and event at 6pm, by the time people assemble it will 6.30, to keep this schedule, the event was announced at 5.30pm. Some how in my space this seems…

  • Shoe-Keepers

    Like a true Udupi -ite last Thursday I went to the “rayara matta” at Hyderabad, this was the sight that greeted me, I left my footwear outside and walked in, when I came out a girl popped from nowhere and demanded money for the footwear I shooed her away… but it made me think We were…

  • A moment of connect.

    #DilKiDealOnSnapdeal It was a hot afternoon in Hyderabad. The auto stopped at a signal, and I  gazed around next to me was an auto with a family a father mother and a child of about 8yrs. She was drinking water. As she looked at me, I smiled, she turned self consciously the  other way. The…

  • Ridiculing is not funny.

    Not Funny Faking news is one of my favourite sites, and by and large they are quite amusing. Here is the  Faking News that had me thinking, not about the news but to the reactions that people have. I wonder where the thin line between ridiculing and being funny is. http:///2015/03/2-golgappawalas-arrested-for-replying-in-english-to-college-girls-demand-for-extra-chutney/ The tone of the…