Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Salutes

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

About 3 years ago, I think, I had a chance to meet an officer from a lesser known aerobatics team, based in Dabolim, Goa. I had always thought that The Surya Kiran were the only aerobatics team but that the Navy had one too was news to me. They are aptly called Sagar Pawan (The [...]

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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

I had been contemplating leaving blogging for a while, or maybe for good. Maybe I should take a few days off and learn to get inspired again. I am not sure. What I am going to do is let it come to me by itself. As a blogger, I know, you can’t write unless you [...]

Tigers

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Sunday morning, walking from Bangalore’s Garuda Mall to LifeStyle Mall, we pass by The Bangalore Football stadium. A game going on inside, tickets priced at Rs.20, no takers for it. I am tempted to think — In this nation of cricket worshippers, for all we know they could make the entry here free and yet [...]

indievisual lack of patterns

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

A few days after I told my house owner that I would like to vacate the house I am in now, word seems to have spread fast across the estate brokers of my colony. So much that after a few days of it, I notice that my house has a “TOLET” board on. How it [...]

Train notes

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

On the train to home, Goa, I wake up in the morning to find out that my shoes are stolen.
You ever build stories on what you see while you travel? I mean, I see wide barren land on a dark night and there is one hut with a little light out there and I [...]

Save the girl child

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

And if, what you can read from the above image makes you want to read the fine print too, maybe you should check out here and then here.

Tracing Michael: Over the Years

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Back in 1996, one day in the school, a friend told me he had a couple of stickers for the Dangerous tour. What was that, I asked. It was Michael Jackson touring India and I would be stupid not to know it, I was told. The tour was called “The Dangerous Tour”. Oh, Michael Jackson. [...]