Yeah this is a social art one should learn.  One is faced with many situations when one has to paint a fake smile on the face, show pleasure, fork out a whole lot of hard earned money and get a gift for someone one wishes were wiped off the face of this earth!  We need [...]

You know the classic melodramatic dialogue one came upon in our Hindi cinema …. during the sixties and seventies Hai Rabba/Hey Prabhu (pause for effect) isko dekhne se pehley meri aankehn band kyon nahin huien Or the other alternative Hey Ram, mujhey is ko dekhne se pehley kyun nahin utha liya Here is a list [...]

I think I am a diehard traditionalist, set in my ways …. at least in some habits …… I have memories of waking up to the sound of the cooker’s whistle drowning down the Vividh Bharati Sounds of the song “Aaj Kal Tere Mere Pyaar Ke Charchey Har Zubaan Par” K. L. Sehgal, Manna Dey, [...]

Kid 2 has finished his 19 years on earth.  How does a Mom feel when her baby kid turns into a full fledged adult? I’ll tell you, I feel old.  It is crazy, freakingly crazy.  I can announce with aplomb on the www when I turn 50 and not feel old.  The sight of my [...]

I dont know how much spam you all get on your blogs! On a good day I get 250 approx!  One a slow day about a hundred! You can call me crazy, but I check out each and every one before deleting, because some friend or fellow blogger may have commented and the spam filter [...]

The only time the Phoenix family has with each other is at the dining table at night.  Normally there are two boys each equipped with a PSP playing some intense game and totally incommunicado because they have head phones attached to their heads.  I swear I am so used to saying absolutely insulting things about them [...]

Dontcha just love her?   Like A.R. Rehman she never goes stale ……. 1.My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn’t.    2.I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.    3..Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to kill them.    4. [...]

HOLI HAI!! There are so many kinds of Holi revellers: 1.  SPORTS ENTHUSIASTIC HOLI REVELLER The first is the kind that gets gujiya, water guns, water balloons, gulal, permanent color into place a few days before the event.  Then he gets his Bahadur, kids etc to join in filling the water balloons the night before [...]

Okay people, I want to share an interesting find with you – a browser that beats our Firefox and Google Chrome browser hollow.   You can read about it here Okay okay, don’t throw a bucket full of chilled water on me and dampen my enthusiasm. My boys have already done that. I hate it [...]

  Try this. It’ll only take you a few minutes.   WHO IS YOUR BIGGEST INSPIRATION?      1) Pick your favorite number between 1-9. 2) Multiply by 3 3) Add 3 4) Multiply by 3 again (I’ll wait while you get the calculator….) 5) You’ll get a 2 digit number…. 6) Add the digits [...]