Tell me….what comes to your mind when you say MBA? Masters of Business Administration? Monsters of Blah & Ass-licking? Mediocre But Arrogant? Or Married But Available? If you haven`t yet got the hint, well……this post is about Abhijit Bhaduri. Like it happens with all famous men…if you don`t know Abhijit Bhaduri…let me explain….he is a … Read more
Good the historians didn`t go by his first name. If only the historians had gone by Jesus Christ`s first name…it would have been B.J. and not B.C.. If you aren`t literate enough, let me explain. B.C. stands for ‘Before Christ` (and A.D. stands for ‘After Death`)…and if only instead of ‘Christ`, the historians had taken … Read more
Here is a phone conversation I had recently with my girl friend. No, it wasn`t with Rekha, my wife. My girlfriend: Hi!Me: Hey! My girlfriend: I see a bit of sarcasm in your tone.Me: Sarcasm? Why would I be sarcastic? My girlfriend: How would I know? Ask yourself.Me: But pray tell me, how can a … Read more
I don`t know what you are addicted to…but I am addicted to tea. Any kind of tea will do for me – be it Green Tea, White Tea, Black Tea, Herbal Tea or my favourite Japanese Tea. It is funny how an Indian sitting in Gurgaon is writing about something that the Chinese discovered and … Read more
Packing one`s luggage is an art. Especially since, as the old Tata Indica advertisement proclaimed, we love to carry the World with us. The Tata Indica ad is so true…when I sat down to make a list of things to be packed…I first wrote down “The Globe.” Rekha and I spent the whole of last … Read more
My mother always said that I had a million dollar look. I doubted her till I was tall enough to see in the small mirror mounted on our bathroom`s wall. After I saw myself in the mirror, my trust in my mother increased a million times. “She has taste”, I told myself. It has been … Read more
I realized just now that I have been blogging for the last five years. Damn! This itself deserves a blog post. Another humor blogging biggie Great Bong celebrated his fourth year in blogging recently. Unfortunately, I am still suffering from the writer`s block that`s been plaguing me for the last one month. So here goes … Read more
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. – Henny Youngman (1906 – 1998) I have been wearing glasses (not the whiskey ones) since I was in grade one. As proof I even have a mark on the bridge of my nose. Being a south Indian, I … Read more