Author: Anand Kurumbur

Have read enough stories of people auctioning varied things like their virginity, to sparing the life of their rabbit for $50,000. Found out that people here have caught on. Stumbled upon this bid on ebay (former bazee) where a guy wants to auction his friends first name. You can read it hereIts most probably a…

Please read the previous entry for context. And all that has set me thinking. let me describe the possible situation. Two people come together … stay together for a while and become friends. Now its highly unlikely that the friendliness quotient (of how good one considers someone a friend) for both regarding each other is…

It was my hostels validictory functiin today, well yesterday but since we were drinking all night long I dont know the difference. I have passed out of my institute last year itself, but i have so many loving juniors whom i consider my brothers i just had to be with them. You have to witness…

Just finished reading Victor Hugo’s, ‘Les Miserables'(eng translation). And like most of them, found the book better than the movie. It has such profound truths in it …i found one which sort of shook me…“Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.” So true.

Came across Rabbi Shergill’s , “Bulla ki jaana mein kaun”, with the result that the hair on my neck refuses to settle down. The video has english translation, which goes as : Says Bulla, who knows who I am! I am not in the mosque of the believer,Nor in false rites.I am not in the…

God created all creatures equal (or so i believe). But when man became the self proclaimed master and enslaved other animals, God was saddened. So he decided to create an animal which would be epitome of freedom. And he created the horse. He had dreams for this noble animal, in which he imagined it galloping…

One of my friends at work has a fascination for the color blue and has so many anecdotes connected to it. Once on a railway station somewhere in U.P, his father had a really hard time when he put his foot down saying that he would go only on the blue train, which was incidentally…

If you alight at Dadar station and exit through the west side, then walk parallel to the highway towards Matunga, through the mish-mashy salad on the ground, leftovers of the morning wholesale sabzi bazaar, then you will pass beneath the iron bridge. Much tear has flowed under this bridge. Handkerchiefs come out of their solitudes…

The hungry one toothed monster was digging into the tarmac. Unable to swallow, the chunks lay upturned, the creamy tar layer crushed underneath, like a pastry shop ransacked. The age old rivalry between the water supply department andt he road developement corporation, wasw at play. Only a few dudes on bikes with exceptional skills tried…

He was a gold medallist from the agra university. His qualification was such that when he applied for a post of bank cashier they made him the manager. But his philanthropist attitude made him give away loans to poor wretched souls (who actually deserved them)and denied big shots. But the higher authorities didnt like this…