Learning and Unlearning of Dr.Jekyll and Madam Hyde.
I am just back from lucknow, but kind of confused the routine has not yet set in. My sister’s grandson curls up on to my knee. “Gustavo” he said pointing at the image of a frail man, clad in an above knee dhoti the upper cloth animatedly fluttering and of course the trademark horn rim …
It is Friday and instead of nursing my Robusta at the mango meadows or 91 springboard, and mulling over why Kerala got flooded, I am listening to Maria go combusta... “How can I prove that I am alive? Do you think slicing my wrist will help.” Though the right answer for that would have been, …
Some blighter in his lack of wisdom, said that our learning capacity decreases with age. It really isn’t so, instead of Makemytrip.com and its infuriating customer care we opted to book through Yatra.com who actually do not care for customers. The fly out trip was quite uneventful and just when I accepted that with age …
To me Pravasi always meant traveler So ideally Pravasi Divas should be about Tourists, or if we are talking Indian here, it should be about the travelling Indian, well close enough, Pravasi Divas is about the migrant Indian, who has either given up or on the verge of giving up his/her Indian Citizenship. Oh! he/she …
Welcome to muckmytrip.com... press 1 for current booking...press 2 for whatever, Required number pressed... “goomoningiyamRakeshfrommuckmaiytrip.comhowmayIhelpyoutoday” Pause...deep breathe “Good morning Rakesh, My name is Rastapopulous Mindyourbusinessova, and I have a booking for Timbuctoo on the 30th of February I need to make some changes” “Mr.MIndyouhbisnissnowa...do aih h’av da permission to call yah Rastapopulous?” “okay, but it …
#life lessons The year begins with the deafening sounds of crackers over Mandovi and we realize life is drudge when a normal 10-mnts zip down the drive turns into a 100-mnts stake out. Every channel goes berserk with proposals and projections and choose to call it hopeful prediction. Then comes Loveria the valentine’s madness the …
