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The Three Musketeers 23 May 2013 | 09:45 am
I finished reading The Three Musketeers yesterday. (These days, as a result of being broke and unable to afford books, all my reading is either review copies that newspapers send me, or out-of-copyrig...
Would You Pledge Money if I Rode for Charity? 5 Apr 2013 | 10:17 pm
I started bicycling last year. I’ve been doing it regularly now for a little over a year, and I’ve improved a lot in the past six months especially. I can now easily ride 40 to 50 kilometres a day. If...
In Defence of Handwriting 6 Mar 2013 | 10:14 am
Sometime last year, Beatzo had a blogpost up where he griped madly about the traditional (and according to him, outdated) obsession with “good” handwriting, and then demolished all the claimed benefit...
That Radha Song 11 Feb 2013 | 09:58 pm
Last year, I managed to get three Hindi songs stuck in my head, or on my playlist, for extended periods of time. (In 2013, the only one so far has been Khamakha from Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola.) The f...
The Uncanny Valley of Parental Conservatism 2 Dec 2012 | 11:46 am
Parental conservatism (or paranoia) is not an on-off state between liberal and conservative, but a continuum from chilled out to liberal to conservative to batshit fucking insane. Parents can be less ...
What a Fine Day For Science 4 Nov 2012 | 10:07 pm
Today, I read Through the Language Glass, about five or six years after Guy Deutscher’s work was first recommended to me by gaspode. Yes, what remarkable timing, I know. Turns out that being a 2010 bo...
Pixar Meets Percy Mistry 2 Aug 2012 | 07:25 pm
I saw Brave (the Pixar movie about the red haired Scottish princess) last month along with Anand. (We then ended up also putting wine based lunch and gourmet ice-cream so it turned into a man-date, bu...
Big City Parochialism 11 Jul 2012 | 07:18 pm
This column by Isha Singh Sawhney is about how badly we, Indian tourists, treat our hill stations. (On a related note, see Hari the Kid’s rant about Indian travellers.) While the complaints in the col...
Calibrating Expectations 22 Jun 2012 | 10:45 am
June has been the last month where I get to live in my own place (well, until I make new arrangements in either Delhi or Chennai. It’s complicated.) As a result, I have been making the most of it by i...
Damn Hoverboards, I Have Bluetooth! 16 Jun 2012 | 10:04 pm
I’ve been thinking about the future recently. What got me started was the news that Total Recall is getting a reboot. I mused that at least it was a reboot that was coming much longer after the origi...
