Even as IPL got to a rousing start at ChinnaSwamy stadium in Bangalore, an old friend of mine called me and asked what team I was supporting. Being a south Indian, I opted for Bangalore Royal Challengers. After Brendon Barrie McCullum of Kolkata Knight Riders scored 158 off just 73 balls, and the team from … Read more
If you remember, sometime back I had said that I was aiming for a Shah Rukh Khan like six-pack. Well, the girl colleague for whom I was working out quit her job a month back and got married last week. I came to know of her marriage after a fortnight of working out…and ever since … Read more
Shopping in the malls isn`t as easy as it used to be, say…five years back. And I say this after spending my weekend hours of the last six months, in shopping malls. If like me you are also married and spend a lot of your free time in the malls, you would probably agree that … Read more
In early November 2007, I had traveled in an Air Deccan flight from Chennai to Delhi. As always happens with me (and compulsively so!) I wrote a funny piece of my experiences on the flight – and my fantasies with Air Deccan Air Hostess Poornima and Kavita – titled My Flight Back to Gurgaon, alone. … Read more
Giving bath to a baby isn`t as easy as it is made out to be. More so, when two pair of watchful eyes are prying over your shoulder. Yesterday, Rekha and I ran into each other at home and the final verdict was that I wasn`t contributing much to our baby daughter`s upkeep. Arguing that … Read more
When my daughter Rhea was born on March 29, 2007…one of my nephews was waiting in the corridor with me. He wasn`t moving up and down the corridor as I was…but was staring at the sky looking for the stork to bring in the baby. As soon as the nurse brought Rhea wrapped in a … Read more
Year 1997 was a watershed in my life. I was adjudged Tamil Nadu`s second best Naval NCC Cadet (don`t ask me why I wasn`t the first – even my father didn`t dare ask), I spent seven days in UK and three months in Canada. We will leave my Canadian sojourn for now and focus only … Read more
An English teacher known to be a strong lady, wrote these words on the blackboard: “woman without her man is nothing”. She then turned towards the students and asked them to punctuate the words correctly. The boy students wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing.” The girl students wrote: “Woman! Without her, man is nothing.” … Read more