Highlight of the day: Being useful

Our beloved motherland, more popularly known as India, has been proclaimed as a ‘developing country’ by suspiciously unnamed and seemingly non-existent people during recent times (exact number of years unavailable). As a permanent resident of this ‘developing country’ with no near-future plans of flying away, I am beginning to suspect that this groundbreaking declaration regarding my ‘beloved motherland’ is just a powerful wisp of rumour started by even more powerful politicians. Now since I am… Continue

I had heard many horror stories about how dangerous Dadar Station is and some of them even downright terrifying ones. So when I finally began earning my own bread and JAM (all conceivable puns intended!), I was, much to my horrific dismay, required to work at an office at Prabhadevi. This meant shuttling from my secluded town to Dadar Station, not just everyday but, hold your breath, during peak hours too! I receive first-hand-near-death experience nearly on a daily basis now and let’s not forg… Continue

As it is a universal practice of readers around the world, I promptly turned the book over to read its blurb. Rahul Srivastava classifies his first endeavour of a book as ‘Teen Fiction’ but dismally fails to live upto it. Not to say that it’s not a work of fiction, but it’s definitely n… Continue

A lazy Sunday evening found me tuning into the much hyped about award show of our film industry, purely for laughs, IIFA Awards. I repeat, purely for laughs. It’s another story that I didn’t get any laughs except for a stray chuckle here and there instigated by the antics of Boman Irani and Ritiesh Deshmukh. They managed to prove beyond even an ounce of doubt that Aishwarya Rai, is infact just beauty and no brains. I have been longing desperately for someone to do this since Aishwarya appeared o… Continue

On June 20, Friday, HT’s front-page headline went something like this “Easy maths or tough maths?” A catchy headline that provoked me to further investigate the article and so I perused it with growing discontent after every line. It seems our SSC Board has been idle with nothing significant to do for a while, so now; they have come out with a very “innovative strategy” to reduce the number of students that flunk in this seemingly tough maths subject in their 10th grade. The “Innovative Strate… Continue