Maybe I will also get to celebrate my team winning the World Cup one day
The agony of being a supporter of the Netherlands football team, of being denied again and again, forever, while everyone else celebrates.
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The Story of a Life
The story of the life of a Nasrani woman from Kerala who spent her entire life working as a nurse in Europe.
The Kitchen Reformations
There are quite a few advantages of discarding gender roles in everyday life, which is mainly a chance for a better life for everyone in the family.
An Apartment is not a Viable Real Estate Investment Anymore
Everyone needs a home. In ancient times, people built houses to live and last a lifetime. Then modernity happened and the house turned from primarily a place to live to an investment vehicle and a speculative instrument, turning home-buying turned into a high-stakes gamble. In big cities, space crunch dictated that homes be concrete boxes…
I Didn’t Leave Bangalore Only Because of the Traffic
Bangalore had always been the city of my dreams. It had captured my imagination a very long time ago, right during the innocent days of my childhood itself, long before the IT boom that created the so-called “Silicon Valley” of India and the mindless frenzy of greed and destruction turned it into the fustercluck it…
Is Conformism the Key to Happiness?
The most overlooked among all the philosophical premises of The Matrix is the very concept it is based upon, which is the choice an individual makes when given a choice between the Matrix and the real world. There are only two types of people in the Matrix universe; the Bluepills who are all the people who…
Some Thoughts On Change (and India)
One of the biggest challenges one faces living in India is getting change. You go to any ATM, out pop only either pink or yellow colored currency notes. You won’t get change for them unless you spend it in a bar, no matter how much Gandhiji smiles. In fact, lack of easy change is the reason for…
Ladies, Support your Man’s Dreams! The Nivin Pauly Story
If you haven’t yet heard, Nivin Pauly is Malayalam cinema’s latest reigning youth sensation, with a slew of new age blockbusters under his (metaphorical) belt, from the romantic Thattahin Marayathu to thrillers like Neram, the epic 1983 and the cult Bangalore Days. His latest, Premam, is running away to become one of Malayalam cinemas biggest…
Bengaluru Darshana – Wandering Around Bangalore
It was June 07 2015, Sunday. It was bright and sunny at 30 degrees and the sky was a deep blue with sparse white clouds, the kind of summer day which would be criminal to spend indoors. Long stuck in the frustrating 10 km box that included home, office and the ring road in between, where there…
An Ode to the Fast & Furious Franchise. Godspeed Paul!
[dropcap]It[/dropcap] was fourteen years ago when I first met them in a dingy movie theater in the town of Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India. They lived in a universe completely different from mine, lives not even remotely approaching mine. And that was why I was drawn to them. Brian O’Connor, Dominic “Dom” Toretto, Leticia “Letty” Ortiz, Mia…
IT is Getting Old, as are the “IT Guys”
Towards the end of the last century, the world suddenly went abuzz with the talk of a new, fantastic, futuristic invention centered around computers that would apparently shape the future of the human civilization. Nobody knows how it started in India, but by 1997 “Information Technology” was for sure only the second biggest trending topic…
Who Climbs the Corporate Ladder?
In the past few years, I have learned a few things about career progression in corporate life. Every graduate dreams about becoming CEO but it is almost impossible for ordinary hacks who are not exceptional in some way or other (and I am not just talking about talent) to move up the so-called ladder. To…