My mom’s bad at giving directions. I’m worse at following them. So when we set out hunting for an address in a remote suburb in Bangalore last weekend, we ended up in a corner of the city we had no idea even existed. We started driving in the general direction of our destination. We reached [...]
India’s metros are increasingly becoming hotbeds for aggression. Sometimes, these are mindless and avoidable with a little grace and stepping back. At other times, they suck stressed-out individuals into a vortex of ego play and one-upmanship. I got sucked into one such incident last weekend. Having just watched a new, feel-good movie at a [...]
I bumped into a cow on the street two days ago when I was driving on a busy main road in Bangalore. I was at a comfortable speed of 40 kmph and the cow decided to shake away its laziness and dash across the road. I applied the brakes just in time but it wasn’t [...]
A designer-friend was creating a poster, last week, to announce a district-level football match. There was a long list of local leaders and VIPs, whose names had to be accommodated on the poster. The task was a rather complex one considering that the hierarchy of the VIPs had to be upheld while making the list. [...]
As a consumer, I’m a pain in the neck. I have very high expectations of products and services, and will not hesitate to make my dissatisfaction known if something made my unhappy or uncomfortable. And as if to roll out the red carpet for the constantly displeased consumer that I am, every service-oriented business today [...]
Those who have strong faith believe that it can move mountains. Unconditional faith also rises above the rules we’ve created in order to institutionalise social stratification and social restriction. My house help, Mary, displayed similar strong unconditional faith last week when she saw a clay sculpture I had modeled over the weekend. It was the [...]
Impatience has become so common in modern urban living today that tools and services in the market are being created to feed this human trait.
A book launch event I attended last weekend was a ‘family and friends’ affair at a quaint library away from the city centre. The skies opened up and there was a heavy downpour as the debut author was talking about her newly born baby. The event was quite unlike the showy dos most such events [...]
It’s been ten years since I decided that I will avoid the long queues for darshan at Lord Venkateswara’s abode in Tirupati, and instead pray from wherever I am. But last weekend, a bunch of friends planned a visit to Tirupati. I reluctantly agreed to join them because they refused to go on without me. [...]
I spent the mid-week Independence Day holiday on Wednesday, August 15, at a family friend’s new home. It was a small group that gathered for lunch on a relaxed day off. We discussed, amongst other things, the power of imagination. The host’s two-and-a-half-year old daughter, Aditi, recently joined a play home in the neighbourhood. The [...]
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“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
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