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 […]
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: […]
As I sit at my computer on BSNL everyday, I wonder if there will come a day when we cease to laugh and simply “lol” ad “rofl.” Perhaps instead of sitting down to write articles, I’ll “rite” and “right” them, […]
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