Society and the Full Beard
Nowadays I sport a full beard. The kind so dense that I could smuggle gold coins in. So I get to hear this, a lot : Why are you growing a beard? To which I mostly answer,…
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Rains in summer – Tehri Dam?
The monsoon is expected a week earlier this year. The newspapers and the tv channels did cover that. What they have not covered is why delhi has started getting rains during summer. I came to delhi in…
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The hot saasu Maa?
She’s not saasu maa (mother in law) yet. But it is close enough, or what else would you call a guy’s girlfriend’s mom? I have been observing how media’s portrayal of Indian sexuality is changing with time….
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Blood Simple – A review
I could only catch glimpses of ‘No country for old men‘, fighting for the remote in between the IPL cricket matches. From what I saw, I was deeply intrigued by the Coen brothers. So the next logical…
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Parov Stelar
Discovering a musician I really like is a day well spent.
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Om Dar Badar
Thanks to Mudit Chandra for this arcane info. See this video and see the similarities with a recent song with lines going like ‘Emo Scenal Ati Achaar’. I agree with Mudit when he says that if you…
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Bike trip to Chail
The ‘to’ journey was pretty uneventfull. But the return was awesome. Sunday morning we decided to bike around near Chail and then return to Delhi. We had already been to the Kali ka Tibba (kali temple). Still…
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What marketers can learn from Lord Ganesha!
Lord Ganesha is the son of Lord Shiva and Parvati devi. He goes by other names like Vinayaka and Vighneshwara. If we look in the etymology of the name “Ganesha”, it is formed by Gana + Eesh,…
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Thinking aloud
Should I delete all my accounts on social networks? For one I have never used them proactively, so it is not that I will loose something on that front. The only benefits I have had is that…