Well, it’s the end of the year and res­o­lu­tions have to hap­pen. I don’t believe in them, but that doesn’t stop me from mak­ing them! Here they are, in no par­tic­u­lar order: Eat less, drink more (water, folks, water — before you jump to con­clu­sions and I get labelled as an alco­holic) Fin­ish all those things […]

…I’ve got myself two awards! (sob, I haven’t won too many in my ‘short’ life). Oh wait, wait… I did win a sec­ond prize at a debat­ing com­pe­ti­tion in school. And first prize at a flower arrange­ment show (I always had a knack for flow­ers :-). And I won an award at jour­nal­ism school (of […]

A lovely week­end. Went for my first gui­tar les­son on Sat­ur­day morn­ing. Had friends over for din­ner on Sat­ur­day night. Nearly every­one got lost try­ing to find our new place. Some­one com­mented that they thought they were trav­el­ling to Pune! Cooked too much food. Belat­edly, I realised I could have fed another 13 peo­ple. And […]

I have to write about this. Spent four hours today morn­ing run­ning around try­ing to get my phone con­nec­tion back on track. Since I was away, the new phone instal­la­tion work order was can­celled. As a result, I had to go to three dif­fer­ent MTNL offices to find out what to do next. My first stop […]

Decem­ber 13 I nearly miss my flight from Ban­ga­lore. I am early to arrive. But they change the flight num­ber. Silly. I hear my voice on the inter­com and then the speak­ers. “Call­ing pas­sen­ger Anita.… Last call to board” I rush to the board­ing gate. Hurry, says 2–3 offi­cials. (Yah, right, what do you think […]

On my last day in Ban­ga­lore (Decem­ber 12th), I attended a fusion music show that was a part of the Ban­ga­lore Habba (a fes­ti­val to cel­e­brate the city), held at the very impres­sive Palace Grounds. I am espe­cially fond of live fusion music and this one fea­tured Tau­fiq Qureshi (a bril­liant per­cus­sion­ist), Niladri Kumar (an […]

Mar­riage seems to have done won­ders for Dravid :) I’m still recov­er­ing from India’s win in Aus­tralia after 22 years. Phew! That was such a big sleep wait! Dravid’s per­for­mance has also brought about this dis­cus­sion: Is he a more depend­able bats­man than Sachin Ten­dulkar (for all his brilliance)?

The top 100 from BBC’s search for UK’s best-loved novel. Of course, we Indi­ans will have a totally dif­fer­ent list, but since we don’t as of now, here it is: 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prej­u­dice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Mate­ri­als, Philip Pull­man 4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the […]