“It all began on that old bridge on a rainy dawn ......” said the old man, picking up a handful of salted peanuts to munch. “What old bridge old timer?” said the youth impatiently.  The old man took a long draught of ale and thought back. “It was an old wooden bridge that creaked in the middle - rotten damn floorboards.  It was on the river and mist rose from the river.  I was...

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I am proud to be an Indian. I say this in all sincerity, I have seen my childhood in the early sixties, which was rather simple. That was a time when we scarcely had a car in the neighborhood, the streets were empty most of the time and had two wheelers driven by men without helmets. I don't remember streetlights. People who had refrigerators could be counted on your fingers and our teachers...

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You know what?  When kids grow up, they become adults.  And when boys grow up - they become self absorbed, insensitive, taciturn MEN (If I could I would enter sad doleful veena music here or even Paul McCartney's While My Guitar Gently Weeps) To keep the argument balanced I will add this You know what? When women reach a certain age they become Drama Queens - totally demanding drama...

It was a sad week for us. Our friend IHM wrote asking for our prayers for her daughter who was seriously ill.  We prayed, we were anxious ... but this blog entry of hers broke my heart ...... SHE WILL LIVE FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS Born: 19th Jan 1991. Died: 11th Aug 2010. Death be Not Proud A poem by John Dunne Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art...

VISIT YOUR NATIVE PLACE ONCE A YEAR AT LEAST Bike parked in 1985 .... owner still in Saudi Arabia Okay .... not so wordless. Got this as an email...

This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 13; the thirteenth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton. It was long past midnight.  He was standing alone in his room overlooking the vast sprawling grounds of his house.  The doctor had told him that he should exercise a...

Jim Carrey commented on Tiger Woods' countless affairs that came out of the woodwork - he noted that if a husband is philandering to the extent that Tiger Woods appeared to have been, his wife would have had some sort an inkling. By the same logic, if there was a scam of such a huge scale, it seems impossible that the Delhi Government and the Sports Ministry had no clue about it.  And the mild...

This post is written for the indibloggers Emosanal Attyachaar competiton.  Please vote for me here Sourav tagged me on Facebook and requested me to vote for his emosanal attyachaar post.  I voted (my default mode is nice) before I read it.  Gotta work on my default mode.  He has this pic up saying "Love Sucks".  Really?  Soch Lo!!! Unless you're having oral sex, love does not suck.  It...