One Year on…

Has anything changed? Other than the redrawing of maps, dear Putin and Zelenskyy? Other than taking away of precious lives…? The most senior US general estimates that around 100,000 Russian and 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured in the war in Ukraine. bbc.com Both Ukraine and Russia jealously guard their casualty numbers! What […]

Love in the time of Tesla

You know where I ripped the title from 📖 so no prizes for guessing.😊 A couple of years ago, I was a strong believer of this debilitating as well as uplifting sentiment… I too could write a few scores of words in it’s favour. But of late, some electronic and artificial stuff have got in […]

Viva Magenta!

Colour of the year! It’s this all new viva Magenta …bold, bright, beautiful and visibly fearless. One must ‘Magenta up’ to stand out. Viva Magenta is a must have colour in your wardrobe this year – say the fashion gurus. Its bold and brave like 2023… Reading this out loud from the newspaper, I looked […]

Hard boiled and deep fried religion

That’s what is on the menu these days. Everyone out to prove their own as the world’s best, oldest, most scientific, historically secular, closer to God, the religion of God etc. My God and Your God may or may not be the same but coincidentally, Heaven and Hell appear to be in the same place, […]

A Piece of Cake

Wonderful construct! The creamy, spongy, sweet and velvety heaven in every spoonful/bite, full of luscious delight! I am of course talking about the gooey ones with the right oomph 😁 The beautiful stuff needs to be worshipped! What a small little geometric pack of sensual pleasure! Beautiful to look at and every bite a treat […]

At Camp Splendour…

…glimpses of my campsite and it’s verdant surroundings in the Annamalai Hills…yes, I took a break from the usual and what a break it was…

Villains in India

😜Here I am talking only silver screen… Why villains today? Well, our festival of Epic proportions, Dusshera/ Vijayadashami/ Durga Puja just got over. Several villains were slain then in the prehistoric times. And this mega festival celebrates all of them and some more… So, I am back with my musings on what is currently raising […]

He is right…

“What does not kill me makes me stronger” -Friedrich Nietzsche (German: Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker) is part of aphorism number 8 from the “Maxims and Arrows” section of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (1888). This maxim sums up my zeal for moving on…in a big way! Afterall, what makes us? What […]

Decoding life…

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why. Mark Twain Meaning of life… purpose of living, what does it all mean kinda issues come drifting in, time and again. I believe it happens to every individual, someday or the other, sooner or […]

The phoney phone

Sorry, I lost your number as my phone conked out… – everyone Last ten odd years, this excuse gets oft repeated by acquaintances and friends alike. A certain slip in human behaviour is straight away blamed on the man made apparatus 😂 Keeping in touch is slowly being reduced to occasional season’s greetings, random forwarded […]