This is June 2012. These days when you want to watch a video on YouTube, there are ads which start that you can only skip after 5 seconds. I hate these ads because they eat into my meager bandwidth. I watched one of them to the end, the new Mercedez-Benz ad. Why did I do …
Category: Views and Observations
This Chance Life
If you don’t write, it doesn’t get written. So I decide to write again, picking one topic among many confused and overlapping things I keep thinking to write about. This one is about how life unfolds out of control, and has some overlap with my post about butterflies. Of late I’ve realized that many of …
Dear God
Our school prayer, recited together every morning before the beginning of classes and often fondly remembered by me and my schoolmates now, went like this: Dear God, Thank you for everything; Bless me and help me to be good, And to do my studies well. I stopped believing in god when I was very small. …
The Cool Hollow
I read in the paper today about how the awareness about hip-hop and street dance genres is spreading through India. The article featured a couple of break dance groups that now conduct short hip-hop workshops and shows around India. Pretty remote areas too. There was a photo with the article, featuring one of the group …
I hate the word ‘Genius’
Just dug up an old favourite quote: I don’t like this word ‘genius’, especially when they call me that. There are two reasons for that. The first is the burden of expectation. Geniuses are supposed to perform no matter what. They are not common men like us weighed down by chance, by fault, by stupidity …
One Life 