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Surfacing 25 Aug 2013 | 07:42 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Past 7 in the morning and already so hot that the laptop responds sluggishly. The world is full of horrible news – ch...
What goes around 13 Aug 2013 | 07:57 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Douglas Adams propounded a unique theory for heavier-than-air flight. Climb to a high place and throw yourself off. A...
The gift of laughter 10 Jun 2013 | 01:41 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Some people are born colour-blind. Some are born without a funny-bone. On balance, the latter group is more to be pit...
A moment of Marvell? 28 May 2013 | 06:22 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE Ten years ago I fell in love. It was a very sweet infatuation, with all the naivete and wonder of puppy love, or perhaps the wilful delusion of ...
Evolution 4 May 2013 | 07:21 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE I was a dinosaur. Not, alas, a snarling male-fantasy T-Rex, or even a velociraptor. I was a brontosaurus. Or perhaps a mastodon. Slow, ponderou...
Making friends. Or not. 1 Dec 2011 | 10:19 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Scum usually does rise to the top, often by sticking close to more solid stuff that floats. I was in a little rowing boat, observing this phenom...
Existential. Very. 16 Sep 2011 | 11:51 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 5 in the morning. My TEETH ache with sleep. The laptop shirks, slows down, offers me irrelevant updates. Top of my in...
Getting warmer 30 Aug 2011 | 03:53 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Writing has become a bit of a … well, not a pain, not quite, since even a pain is a tangible state. More like mental constipation. One of the nic...
Leave them alone ... 28 Feb 2011 | 04:36 pm
Long, long ago (which is another way of saying 1995 or thereabouts), there used to be people who took a conscious decision to drop out of society. They wanted to seek the ultimate truths in life, or m...
The sincerest form of flattery 22 Feb 2011 | 04:10 pm
I could start with Shakespeare, but frankly, it’s a lot more fun to pull out “Tezaab”. Remember 1988 and “Ek do teen”? Rake the ashes of your memory a little more and you’ll find Anil Kapoor as Munna,...
