When Your Brother Hacks your Phone

Normally, siblings are not to be trusted around any communication device, but when they use it as blackmail, I refuse to be intimidated, in classic Remember the Titans style. Do what ever you want?! Now, I’m almost curious to see what my brother will do! Especially since there is no wifi and the internet data…

World Book Day!

When a bibliophile feels the need to experience eternal unconditional love, all he or she needs to do is open his chest full of books. We know that love is not a fleeting emotion. So when the UN comes up with a day to celebrate books, isn’t it obvious the bibliophiles are going to be…

Aina Mahal

It has always been crystal clear to me that I was meant to live in a palace, so visiting Aina Mahal was like coming home. The building pulls at your heartstrings from the moment you get off your car. The royal building was the unfortunate victim of the 2001 Bhuj earthquake, but the Indian government…

Godfather References

If there is one book every guy must read it, please read “The Godfather”, but if, like some boys I know, the idea of reading a book repels you at least watch the movie. Because to quote Tom Hanks from the movie “You’ve Got Mail”, The Godfather has all the answers. Someone who has read…

Summer is Come

While this may sound like “You have been sent the Hell fires as a gift” to most Indians, there are a few good things about it. Bangkok celebrates the coming of the season by splashing buckets of water on any and all living things, not unlike Holi, except without impossible to wash off colour. They…

News From NASA

The first coloured coloured photographs of the magnetic Pluto are trending. Perhaps, it is my personal obsession with astrology that assigns the event more significance than necessary or maybe it the mystery of another world that intrigues. Either way, the two blurred specks of the pale orange Pluto and its moon Charon are heralds of…

Greek Mythology

Before Harry Potter.. There was Ulysses. And Jason. And Hercules. Yes. There is a certain romance to stories of Gods we don’t worship religiously. And Greek Gods win the lottery. Homer the travelling writer ensured that every kingdom had heard of Odysseus before the internet. One of the oldest and most intellectual civilisations in the…

Fast and Furious 7

I am not a movie critic, but even a blubbering idiot like me, who basically loves all movies indiscriminately, can tell one of a superior quality. Yes. It has fast cars. And guns. And incredibly satisfying action scenes for your adrenaline high. But what is it that makes this movie the most personal, softening movie…

When You Spend the Day Laughing

There are those days when you just get up on the right side of the bed. It’s neither too hot nor too cold, and everything you look at around you reminds you of what you have achieved. Then your phone rings and you know that laughter is on the cards. Do you remember’s are an…

The Smell of Rain

The special thing about the Indian Subcontinent is that we get our very own unique season, courtesy the Himalayan Mountain range and the South Westerlies, called the Monsoon Season. Rain comes blissfully and predictably in August after the scorching heat of June. This year, however, India decided to skip the summer season altogether, so far,…

The New Season!!

We all know what we would sell to watch a new episode of the Game of Thrones. A kidney? Hmm.. Maybe both? I cannot stand the idea of someone telling me who dies next before I see it with my own eyes! It is personal entertainment for me to threaten a dear friend with spoilers….

Living in the 21st Century

A natural consequence of watching movies from the oh-so-glorious past era, is that usually you want to live there. However, I realised that if I did indeed live in the age where there were no cars, internet, and women liberation groups, I wouldn’t be able to do half the things I can today. Also, imagine…