In a shade over the next 6 hours, India and Pakistan will square off against each other in the latest edition of the cricket World Cup. When most of my friends in the US would be going to bed after a long night of hitting the bars and clubs on a Saturday night, I will be waking up to numerous…
“Happy birthday to you” * 720 times and cutting at least 3-4 cakes used to be the norm on every 09/11 for the last 4/5 years of my life if I was not travelling outside India. My parents and my lil’ sis, Sneha would get a cake delivered to me, my ex-girlfriend would get one and try and surprise me…
All those drinks, those moments I have with people, the way those conversations turn interesting, how you would look at me from across the bar, the alcohol induced laughter, those jokes that were half as funny sober, innocent flirting and how you’d get pissed off, the next guy you’d talk to, seem interested but you wouldn’t really care if it was…
My life is all squares and rectangles…. Clear edges and straight lines…. I trust them when they say there is no grey, however, what they will never find out is that if I love you; there’s a lot of non ‘black and white’!! P.S. : For everyone I have loved in life _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ For all the awkwardness and…
In the world of fast paced blazing broadband speeds, millions of uploads and downloads every day, how many zillion hits and followers you have and if you have managed to trend or go viral, typos have become a regular feature in our lives. Unintentionally or intentionally, typos are cool, typos are hot, typos are ludicrous, typos are acceptable, typos are…
No, I am not crazy. Well, I think I am slightly, but not completely. Not yet! The thing is that after having moved to the US from India, I pretty much hang around a lot by myself. That includes traveling for work and pleasure, eating most meals alone and checking out touristy stuff like museums, art galleries and exhibitions…
Life is but a lot of grey punctuated by a little sunshine here and there. What matters is if those sun filled days motivate you to keep going during the cloudy, gloomy seasons of your life. Sometimes, all of us are so busy running around going through the everyday monotony of life and fall into a pattern that we end…
Love to her was the brilliance that his existence made her life fulfilling, love to him was the idea that her existence kept him from being lonely… Love for her was sacrificing everything for anything that he wanted, love for him was not giving up on what was convenient for him… Love for her was constantly looking out for his…
The one thing that makes me feel like I am in a time machine is being on a train. I love the way train journeys make me feel. They give me a rush. A concoction of so many emotions that if I want to explain it, I would have to probably tell you everything that I experience on a train….
Life comes full circle. Oh! So many times. We just don’t either notice them or are too busy/have moved ahead to care for them. To actually, wait and relish these moments, re-live them. Sitting in this room, this 24th day of January, 2013, I pause to reflect on those July days in the very same classroom on this very desk….
Tj