on the bob of a pendulum

Happy "Independence" Day

2010-08-16T06:11:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we celebrated our 64th Independence Day. Unfortunately, the shining IT fueled economic success of recent years sometimes hides the fact of how far we have to travel before we can realize Tagore's vision of India. "Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Mumbai 26/11 - CST Mumbai 26/11 - The Taj Where knowledge is free; Police action against student protests in

Catching the mist

2010-07-16T04:19:00.000-07:00

When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot time trying to catch the mist. Not water, but mist. I would take an empty glass bottle, and run around helter skelter, always hoping that some of that mysterious, white, wispy, magical “thing” would end up in it. At night, snug in my bed under the warm covers, I used to dream of elaborate schemes of mist-capturing. Quite why I wanted to do this I still don’

Another swing of the pendulum

2010-06-16T16:38:00.000-07:00

All good and bad things come to an end.... eventually. This is my last night at Mumbai - I will be leaving for a brief stay at my home in Kolkata before joining Electronic Arts at Hyderabad. The last few days have been very hectic - completing all the formalities at work, getting vehicle clearances for my bike and arranging to take Gogo with me back to Kolkata - without out of course missing a

Paranoid

2010-03-26T01:01:00.000-07:00

It was a room which was completely dark. And by dark I mean DARK, pitch black. I didn’t know how I wound up there- it felt as if I was in that room forever, and on the other hand I was fairly certain that I had been somewhere else in the recent past. Kind of like an uneasy calm, you know. How did I know it was a room? Actually even I was puzzled. I would not deny that there was a claustrophobic

A little bundle of joy!

2010-01-06T02:19:00.000-08:00

At last something to look forward to in life. I am already feeling paternal :P Her name is Gogo and she is a two month old Labrador Retriever. total golu molu roly poly

Ramblings

2010-01-03T18:28:00.000-08:00

There is something truly sinister about the universal cheer and the joie de vivre that the holiday season brings. Don't get me wrong, I am all for the celebration of hope and spending time with the family and looking forward to a new beginning and what not. In fact, I will not deny that forgetting all your worries and living for the moment has its glorious charms. However, the thing is that the

Insignificant Victories

2009-11-01T13:27:00.000-08:00

Dung-Dung had just gone out to deliver a pizza when the end of days began. It started with a small tremor, barely noticeable at first. Then it started to grow, accompanied with a citywide sound rattling glass (The story is set in a city, genius! Of course in the villages there was no such sound ). Cracks then appeared on the ground, through which the forms of unknown horrors below could be

An ode to sleep (A lazy man's rationale)

2009-10-19T01:15:00.000-07:00

There are many ways in which people can waste their time. Sleeping is NOT one of them. I strongly believe that if people slept for more hours every day, the world would be a much better place. In fact, an ideal world would be something where people do nothing but sleep. In short, something like this - Now I know what everybody is thinking right now! "What a lazy bum! What price to human

Freedom of speech?

2009-09-19T21:50:00.000-07:00

I love the internet. I truly cherish the times when my mindless trawling on the World Wide Web dredges up something so hilariously dreadful, comically depraved, stupidly fascinating and at the same time so damn sad that even some one as zombie-brained as me can do nothing but just sit back and stare at the monitor.Welcome to the Westboro Baptist Church.And say hello to the Phelps family.This man

And there was...

2009-09-11T01:16:00.000-07:00

When I gained consciousness, I found myself alone on the edge of an unknown precipice. Of course, I did not know it at that time, for it was all dark around me. It was my first faltering steps who threw me down into this unseen abyss. The sensation of falling lost all meaning after some time, as my idea of reality adjusted to the fact that solid ground was, in fact, an illusion. This realization

A nut between two wheels

2009-06-20T07:19:00.000-07:00

Biking is one of the few things that keep me interested in my day to day business of living. Yesterday I got the delivery of my new steed, the Yamaha YZF-R15. I envision the coming few days as a challenge as I need to find out the optimum routes of travelling to my office, which is situated at one of the most psychotically congested areas in Mumbai. At the very least (I hope) the bike will grant

Fever Dream

2009-06-14T02:19:00.000-07:00

I am standing on a deserted island, alone in the middle of the ocean. The moon shines down upon the black vastness, its deathly pale light reflected on the backs of the hideous predators that splash about these forsaken waters. I have a raft with me, but do not know how to steer it. In desperation I push the raft into the water, only to see it snapped between the jaws of a narwhal. I am forgotten

Blasphemy

2009-05-10T03:21:00.000-07:00

Every instant of existence gives rise to infinite probabilities, and each of them spawn their own time lines. Infinite branching occurs again at each instant these time lines, and continues till numbers become meaningless; the intersecting lines forming a thick fabric of what we call reality. The great knot at the end of time houses the most exclusive of all clubs. It is known simply as the

The salesman of change

2009-03-24T01:09:00.000-07:00

I once met a man who claimed to have the power to change the world. "Change what?" I asked him."You know, anything. All the bad stuff... stuff that dont work." He seemed genuinely concerned about all the shit that is wrong with this world."Well why havent you done it already?" I asked him. You see, even I wanted the world to change. "I am just taking a general survey first. Then I will change it

The Sanskriti circus

2009-02-11T02:56:00.000-08:00

Valentine's Day is coming, and India is getting ready for one more round of pure black comedy on the national television. For it is on this day the self styled moral police of our country goes Rambo on all those westernized youth who (gasp!) hold hands in public, drink at pubs (egad!), or (dear god!) get pregnant (How is it possible??)!!! Evidently women consuming alcohol was an unheard of

The Coward, being a comedy in two parts - 2

2009-02-09T23:36:00.000-08:00

This is the concluding part of a story I had started some time back. You can read the first part here