Rajan posing for a picture

Drinking milk

If today I am a drunkard, I have to blame my mother. I still remember how as a five year old I would hate drinking that yucky glass of milk…

Rajan on Vacation

Stop! Police

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. – Jeff Marder After reading a report on a five year old Policeman in India

Rajan with Ciggar

Mathematics

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. – Carl Friedrich Gauss And I pity the King. Blame it on my not-so-good mathematical experience.

Rajan at Work

What is in a name

Shakespeare said it. And we have lived with it. But there is a lot in a name.

Rajan reading a book

Vishu visit – post interval story

If you have not read the earlier post please do so before proceeding any further. The thing about characters is that they remain characters

Rajan at Lake

Of what could have been

I was thinking of what all I would have been had I not been lucky enough to be where I am today. Confused?

Rhea & Rajan on a Trip

Of cows, urinary bladders and the Vivekananda Rock

Please read this with a pinch of salt. After all, everything you hear and see in this World cannot be true

Rajan with Glasses

My Grandma didn’t go to Jail

Agreed my Grandmother only did her 4th Grade, but she was an intelligent lady. She worked for Indian International Group (IIG) – then India`

Rekha & Rajan in a Function

Male-Bonding

Requested By Kumar @ 02:51 pm | Nov 29th 2004 I need your blogs on Male-Male relationship and feelings. Thanx. Sorry guys. Though I have not

Jammy at the Beach

Diwali was a blast

Diwali was a blast. Pun very seriously intended. It was raining yet my brother-in-law and I went to buy crackers. The initial child-like ent

Jammy at Firestorm Internet Office

What is in a name – a lot

Growing up in India can be difficult. Especially, if your name was Jamshed Velayuda Rajan Ramaswamy. I have endured my name for long…but n

Rajan at Office

The day I drank acid

I got my big, pink lower lips from my father. Nothing hereditary. Plain coincidence. Scene I We were staying in Jallundar, Punjab when I was

Rajan at the Lake View

Ten things I want to do

This is a borrowed idea. Mr Mohan, a colleague and a friend mentioned that I should write about the ten things I want to do before I breathe

Rekha & Rajan at Office

The 21st century woman

My father always wanted me to marry a lady army officer. He started nursing this wish after I failed the National Defense Academy exam, Comb

Colorful Bunch of Flowers

Bird watching

I envy ornithologist Salim Ali. People believed him when he said he was a bird watcher and spent his life time watching birds. My parents ne

Rajan in blue jacket

Shaving….

Has your father ever chased you around the house to apply that dirty lather (that`s what one thought till one started shaving) on your cheek

Rajan's dad standing behind three of his infantry unit soldiers

My father once owned a bank

A series of blogs on my father, in the hope that he doesnot end up reading it. I am in luck: for my father the internet is as good as a fish