If you are the man in the house, the only thing you probably cut at home is vegetable. If you are cutting vegetables, I assume you have been man enough to handover all finances to your wife. The person responsible for the financial health of the family generally does cost cutting, but here are a … Read more
Apparently, traveling makes one intelligent and broad-minded. Am not so sure, coz I traveled the whole of last weekend and my spectacles fits me just fine. From puking eight times between 12 midnight and 6.30 a.m. to traveling to Madurai in a 3rd AC with loud pack of Gujaratis, to picking up a fight with … Read more
Room service? Send up a larger room. – Groucho Marx (Not Karl Marx`s brother) I felt exactly like Groucho Marx. Not old and rickety but like Groucho`s, our room at Taj Residency was also small. OK…small for three people. The first time Anand, my room-mate, inserted the key to open the door…he broke the crystal … Read more
Warning: Please read Part 1 published yesterday before you proceed. When pretty girls are around, It is difficult to keep me down. Wow. That sure sounded like a poem. The train was now in Andhra Pradesh. I could tell by the bright colored clothes worn by the locals, Chinranjeevi posters on walls, and YS Rajasekhar … Read more
All companies don`t take their associates to far-flung places for team building exercises. Mine did, and I used it to the maximum. The place was Vishakhapatnam, and about 30 of us were to travel to the place together. We were to travel by the Vizag Express train; in the 2nd class (my favorite). The same … Read more
I generally like to travel by second class. To tell you the truth we travel first class only when Rekha is with me. I know, all this while I have maintained that I preferred the lively atmosphere of the 2nd class to the deafening silence in a 1st class compartment of a train. But that`s … Read more
Did you know the intra-city bus service in Chennai is considered one of the best in India? If you didn`t …chances are don`t read the magazine I have subscribed for. On Saturday, I traveled by bus from Velachery (in Chennai) to the Central station. It was quite an experience. While talking of bus travel, I … Read more
Though I have had my share of Holi celebrations, now it is but a faint remembrance. I am not allowed to celebrate the festival here in Tamil Nadu….they say I am a Dravidian. And it is supposed to be an Aryan spring festival. On Holi day (which incidentally was also a holiday) all the Gujaratis … Read more