Pertinent Observations

I hear that in certain conservative Brahmin communities, married couples aren’t allowed to sleep together for a number of days after the wedding – apparently an elaborate list of ceremonies and poojas have to be performed before the door is finally closed on them. Weakmax. //

Madman Aadisht (aka ) has put an utterly disgusting GTalk tagline. Something to the effect of an entire religion being a certain female body part. Extremely disgusting and offensive. At least I’m offended by it, and I’m sure lots of others are also. I’m wondering how to respond to this. One thing to do would [...]

i live 100m away from three pizza joints… and all of them deliver… 2 KM away from the nearest adigas, and they don’t deliver! factory outlets of every conceivable brand (indigo nation-scullers, classic polo, louisphilippe-vanheusen-allensolly, lee-arrow-wrangler, reebok, livein, adidad) around here, but of late i mostly shop at fabindia – and the nearest one is [...]

Today the old lady of boribunder (yay, i remember fundaes that were st. peters in school quizzes) started a kannada edition. Simply titled “the times of india”, with “the” being pronounced as it is when it precedes a vowel sound! reminds me of certain peculiarities of bangalore english, at least the variety that people of [...]

If you thought the duckworth-lewis system is complicated, then you need to check out the points system for the Zonal Ranji trophy matches in 1991-92. http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1991-92/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/RANJI_1991-92-RULES.html This was the year when I had started following cricket, and I used the kaveri holidays (we had a few days off in November/December 1991 owing to kaveri riots) [...]

For most of the first half of last year, I used to turn to her whenever I was depressed. She was a great listener, used to patiently hear me out, suggest steps for further action, and by the time I hung up the phone I would actually be feeling great. And the feeling was mutual [...]

If you remember, an “Australia A” team played in the 1994-95 world series cup in order to “compensate” for the weak competition offered by england and zimbabwe. Surprisingly, Australia A made the finals where they came close to beating the senior team in one of the games. Anyways, today I had a look at the [...]

Two days back I received an email from my HR informing everyone that a certain “rokini” was celebrating her birthday that day. Initially i found the name very unusual for a tam (her last name gave it away that she was tam) but then realized that it was just a “different” way of spelling “rohini”. [...]

Having been to two schools with a strong campus lingo, I find it difficult to talk in “normal English”, and often break off into a combination of IITM and IIMB dialects! only saving grace is that a part of it is common to a number of other campuses in India, so people do understand me. [...]

I would like to call it the ability to see the lighter side of things even when the situation is bleak. Some others call it as being frivolous, and not being concerned enough regarding the bleak situation at hand. //