Both my family & my in-laws are from small towns. Reason enough for them & their actions to be funny. Here I exaggerate their ignorance and bliss and come up with funny incidents for city-dwellers like you to laugh at!
I am not the selfish type, but there are some things that a man cannot compromise with. His bed, for example. I have been sleeping in my bed alone for the past 29 years, and all of a sudden a bunch of geriatrics (read elders) arrange (?!) for somebody to sleep with me for the … Read more
I did and I am repenting. I watched the movie a few days back and thought the concept of Hakuna Matata was cool and worth implementing. But it was not to be. Hakuna Matata means “Be Happy, no worries.” Something the groovy Bob Marley has already told us in his still groovier song “Don`t Worry, … Read more
Sometimes life can be really cruel to you. It hurts more when you have been trying to be nice. Yesterday, it was raining when I left home to reach office in time. I have been using Rekha`s TVS Scooty ever since we came back after marriage. And mind you, she still has a big ‘L` … Read more
From Madurai to Kannur to Kumarakom and back…Such a Long Journey (now thats a Rohinton Mistry novel…good one…but shows India in bad light). Rekha has started cooking. And I have been taking care of thematerialistic world of consumer durables. God…I need to read somebook on negotiation skills. My parents are here…and my mom has been … Read more
My twenty-four day leave is coming to an end. What a pity. Now I feel like getting into a profession where one just roams around and gets paid. Planning to get into the marriage business. But will Rekha agree? Already started thinking of the errands to run once I get to Chennai. God…save me. Need … Read more
It was one of those moments that can not be captured with a still camera. Or for that matter with a motion camera. Afterall, every moment has its share of hormonal rush, its share of hidden feelings and unsaid words. My marriage reception was coming to an end and Rekha’s family had decided to leave … Read more
Rekha and I are married. At 11.45 a.m. on the 8th of Sept 2004 we were pronounced husband and wife. Thirty two awe-struck friends and relatives from Tamil Nadu looked on even as my soon-to-be-relatives herded me into the Anna Poorneshwari temple at Kannur. Am glad I was given five minutes to wear the ‘pattu’ … Read more
Nameet and I were in Canada together. We have been through the grind together and understand each other fully. We have shared each other`s sorrows…though he tends to have more of them. Today he is a successful entrepreneur in Bangalore driving a Tata Safari and living in a 16K per month apartment. Here in this … Read more