Stereofuckintyping
Supposedly, according to newspapers, I've turned overnight into a mascot for hot steamy dosas, gooey chutneys and probably mundu-barechested-bald-headed-heavy-poonal-wearing middle aged sambhar-burping...
View ArticleFigments: Coffee, chyech and sandai
Sunday mornings are the most happily laid-back. I killed the alarm, laid on my back (I assume a helpless foetal position right about the time I'm supposed to wake up) and muttered "Another ten mins". A...
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Oh ye Googligans!
Alright, I just had my much-justified Sunday afternoon nap. Wait, it's not Sunday yet? Alright, who cares. It's a bloody sunny day anyway.Let's come to the point (and forget about the fact that I'm...
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Maruti, moms and meandering roads
A road trip, however short, is by all means awesome. Mention that it is a family trip, with folks of all kinds cramped into the Maruti and still one shrugs but beams at the thought. So it was that just...
View ArticleFirst love, and two timing.
I fell in love many years back. It was beautiful, being given that feeling when one was young. And the lady was just perfect. Everything I'd dreamed of.. My friends who were also into the phase, (there...
View ArticleRain is..
Lying curled up in the mornings, snoozing the alarm one more time.The lone crow lamenting atop the slippery coconut leaf while the morning express to Hyderabad sounds its melancholy horn.Listening to...
View ArticlePoda, my-rage
I've expressed my love for driving on more than one occasion up here. The following incident is true word for word. Read and let read. The car had been deposited in the service centre for its periodic...
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Au revoir, 2011
The stone Pensieve lay in the cabinet where it had always been. Harry heaved it onto the desk and poured Snape’s memories into the wide basin with its runic markings around the edge. To escape into...
View ArticleMake. Do.
Of late I've come to hate sitting at home in the evenings. What with particularly nothing fantastic happening in life of late all the choice one has is to leg it to the terrace and watch the sun go...
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SerenDippyty
I stumbled home tired after having survived an extremely hot afternoon out in the mercy of harsh urban environs. "Ma, I'm taking a rather long winded route to college tomorrow. Plan to get back in...
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XKCD downloader or 'Ohai regular expressions'
An impromptu post finally made its way through the pipeline. I had been wanting to play around with regular expressions for a very long time but hadn't really gotten down to it out of 1. Laziness, and...
View ArticleIdli-vadai ondhu kodi
Konappana Agrahara is easy to miss if you're the regular Bangalore dweller. For all you know, you might've been dozing off or wishing your car had cruise control when this tiny nondescript place...
View ArticleAneeeka!
On the 29th of November, on a cool winter's night in the outskirts of Bangalore, I did the unthinkable.Rather, hang on. Chronological order of events is always more pleasant. So here goes: After a...
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Jai Maruthi variety dosas
Southwards of the famed Silk Board junction in Bangalore, whose name rarely passes through the mind of a daily commuter without arousing the severest of shudders, lives a long flyover. The elevated...
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Afternoon in Arsikere
"A.S.K", I told the man as I handed him three ten rupee notes at the unreserved ticket counter. "Ask-aa?" he said, as he punched away with two fingers on a well worn out keyboard and handed me the...
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The meandering roads through the delta
Not many people seemed to have heard of Konerirajapuram. "I dont know, but have you been to all the Navagraha temples first?", some of them offered. Going around in Ambassador cars from temple to...
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Ride on
A hundred and sixty years ago, the first passenger train service in India ferried passengers between Bombay and Thane.To me, one of the most profound things I have felt while travelling on the Indian...
View ArticleNocturne
There's this mood that comes over you.. an introspective one. You're neither happy, nor sad. You neither want to reach a conclusion nor let your mind think for that matter. You just want to close your...
View ArticleStalin grad
"That beard of yours.."Dr. R had been inspecting the sheet of paper I had handed him for a few moments. Mycobacterium, Varicella and some of their similarly disease causing kin. Fortunately, I had...
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The gentleman's hanky guide to etiquette
Alright fellas - We're men, and We make Fire and all that, but this is about those few times you felt powerless and pitiably at the mercy of that micro-organism going by the name Common Cold Virus. As...
View ArticleGaadi Barabar!
Night train journeys have always been special, despite a large portion of my train journeys having been overnight. The earth smells different when you stand at the door facing the dark countryside...
View ArticlePen Hospital
Growing up in the sleepy city of Trivandrum in the 90s, early school days were prime "Only 90s kids will know" material. This time, I was nine, and fourth standard marked that coming of age in junior...
View ArticleHats
Night has fallen in the coach. The kid sis has finally relinquished her seat by the window in a matter of minutes after having fought for it for the past half hour, having decided sleeping was a much...
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Quiet flows the Vltava
The boy stood surveying the pink summer dawn breaking over the city. Drunken shouts and dismembered voices from the last of the late night revellers were fading away, and only the chirping of birds and...
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Fernweh
The rain has been lashing out in a ceaseless torrent, with gusts deforming umbrellas and wailing though gaps in windows. The room is dark, save a little lantern with a beautifully calm flame inside. I...
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