Whenever my parents talked to each other in Kannada, it meant that I wasn’t supposed to know what they were talking about. I called it their ‘secret talk’. Perks of a multilingual environment, one might say. I’m not a very […]
Last night I received an extraordinary compliment. We had a walk- in from TAPMI. Now walk-in in our jargon means a takeaway ordered by the customer by coming personally to the restaurant. This youngster, a young MBA aspirant was waiting […]
I picked up a copy of ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird ‘ at a very young and impressionable age. I remember picking it up and hesitating a little. That moment of deliberation changed my life. I have since gone through […]
TROY: 23rd September 1999……23:30 HOURS It was half an hour before midnight. The Dark Lord felt elation as he stood at the most powerful magical location on the Earth. Snape stood to his right, and Bella to his left. They […]
7 Weird Phobias Nomatophobia: fear of names Phronemophobia: fear of thinking Pogonophobia: fear of beards Didaskaleinophobia: fear of school Chaetophobia: fear of hair Kathisophobia: fear of sitting down Barophobia: fear of gravity 6 Common Phobias Arachnophobia: fear of spiders Agoraphobia: […]
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