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!
When a man makes a woman his wife….it is the highest compliment he can pay her. In 95% of the cases it is the last compliment. In the other 5% of cases, the last compliment is when the bags are being packed at the honeymoon location. In most of these cases, this last ‘honeymoon` compliment … Read more
A month back Rekha gifted her father a mobile and asked him to start using it right away. He had always depended on a landline that would stop working because of something as trivial as a neighbor`s fart (lose connections can happen when walls of the house shake!). Rekha did mention to me that she … Read more
My great grand father used to roam around the grass lands of Tamil Nadu with his 1000+ goats and sheep – exactly like the protagonist in Paulo Coelho`s book ‘The Alchemist`. I am not making this up. The only difference between The Alchemist`s protagonist and my great grand father was that ….my old man traveled … 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
A good friend of mine shared these words of wisdom on what marriage is (and can be – that is, if you are newly married). Thought I should share it with you all. Quote 1: After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they … Read more
For the last four days I have been coming from office at 12 midnight. Thank heavens my wife Rekha is in Kerala. I topped this performance last night (or today morning!) by leaving office at 3.30 a.m.. No surprise considering we launched an application called Chak De Girls, on ibibo. In the last five days … Read more
You are going to read a Yahoo! Messenger conversation between a husband and wife. The husband works for an Internet major called www.ibibo.com and wife used to be with Cognizant Technology Solutions, till she decided to give up her career for a few babies (the couple were aiming for twins). The conversation happens at 3.15 … Read more
Here is a series of SMS exchanged between Rekha and me in January, 2004 – way before we got married. I have tried to give you the date and time for easy comprehension. Jan 3, 6.30 p.m. – Rajan: I am going to Bangalore tonight Jan 3, 6.33 p.m. – Rekha: Why? Jan 3, 6.35 … Read more