Memo to the MPs

(This was a post I wrote on July 30, 2009 and for some reason forgot to publish)
Here’s a suggestion. Instead of training your guns and frothing at the mouth at Sach Ka Samna and how it is destroying the moral fibre of our society (whatever that might mean), why not look at regulating reality shows [...]

Bailouts

I’m not a big fan of these bailouts that are happening left right and centre across the world these days. This request from our very own King of Good Times takes it to the next level:
“Air India is government owned but it is the taxpayer’s money. In our case it is the shareholder’s money; the [...]

WTF Logic of the Day

Post has been edited, a link has been added for your viewing pleasure.
I was sick, had low BP, dizzy spells and the whole works enough to send the entire household into a tizzy and the end result was that I was grounded for three days, plied with good food and was asked to lay off [...]

Vegetarian Nazis

I’m a vegetarian, have always been one and I don’t even like egg. In the sense that I am a vegetarian because we’re Brahmins and my parents raised me on a vegetarian diet and I just can’t bring myself to eating non vegetarian food now. As regards eggs I don’t eat them directly (boiled egg [...]

Arrrgggghhhh

Why must I, a grown adult and my husband, another grown adult get his parents permission for us to go have lunch in my patti’s place on the day of my thatha’s devasam??
One more time the line “You are now married and must act in accordance with their customs” is thrown at me I am [...]

Sick sick sick

This story really was way way too much for me to handle..but the only saving grace is that it ends well…sometimes one wonders whether we really live in the fricking 21st century.
Edited to update: 
 Wow and then this. Today seems to be the day of finding bizarre and shocking baby stories. 

Benazir Bhutto – RIP

Came across this photograph minutes before reports came out that she had died. This caught my eye as it came across as a really powerful photograph…I don’t personally care for her policies or the things she did during the time she ruled. Nothing takes away that she was a brave woman..and she did not deserve [...]

Broadband blues

Dear Mr Airtel Man
 Thank you for installing the broadband connection in my house. I also really appreciate the fact that you think my house is so lovely that you found it fit to give me that drishti pariharam in the form of placing the phone on the staircase. Yes I agree I was negligent in [...]

In our very own backyard

News about school shootings in the US have been doing the rounds for sometime now..how have we reacted? Shock no doubt, dismay..also that sense of smugness..that all this is happening very far away…in the USA Land…we’d think a thought or too about the gun culture in the US, about how the children there are not disciplined [...]

This and that..

So I’ve been away for a bit..work, travel, general depression are all reasons for me not writing all this time.
The weekend was good..we finally went to Cedars for their Sunday brunch..Lebanese and Mediterranean cuisine…had a good meal and we went on to Landmark rubbing our bellies after a very satisfying meal. Those vouchers which had [...]