I thought it was high time that I inter­vene. I’ve been watch­ing the woman the last few days. And I think I can safely say she’s gone slightly looney. I mean, of course, she always showed signs. But lately, it’s been more and more notice­able. For exam­ple: She often rushes around from one room to […]

Met quite a few blog­gers last year. Most recently, it was Lazy Lump who I had a nice chat with over cof­fee, when I was in Hyder­abad (Decem­ber, 2003). Here’s the pic­ture I’ve been mean­ing to post for a while. More pic­tures of my Hyder­abad and Ban­ga­lore trip are also here. On Sat­ur­day night, I met with […]

Have you ready any good tech/IT/human resources or gen­eral man­age­ment books lately? Any­thing worth shar­ing with oth­ers? I need a review of about 3–4 paras. Please get in touch me with me if you’d like to share a review. It’s for a IT recruit­ment site that I look after right now. It will be credited […]

Instruc­tor: What are you play­ing? What are you play­ing?!! Me (Get­ting my fin­gers crossed again): Uh. I think it’s A? No nooo. C? Ah. Uh… Instruc­tor (Most exas­per­ated now as I don’t think he’s had such a dumb stu­dent in a while): You’re play­ing the wrong string, dear. Me (Wish­ing there weren’t so many b***** strings): […]

Let me bring you songs from the wood: to make you feel much bet­ter than you could know. Well, well. they’re finally com­ing to our neck of the woods. Two flautists, both with their inim­itable styles — Ian Ander­son and Hari Prasad Chaura­sia, will be per­form­ing on 31st Jan and 1 Feb in Mum­bai. I nearly jumped […]

I was chat­ting with my sis­ter, thou­sands of miles away, when she excit­edly says to me: “Let’s go some­where!” She’s quite a travel bug and I was pretty caught up with her enthu­si­asm. “You know these guys from work are going to Spain for 160 pounds only,” she con­tin­ues. Sis has just been in the […]

While a few blog­gers have had trou­bled times lately, there are oth­ers who have had pos­i­tive expe­ri­ences through their blogs. The Red­iff Blog Meet got off to a rock­ing start with blog­gers min­gling at Ban­dra Band­stand on Jan 2, Delhi blog­gers met on Jan 11 at TGIF and the Chen­nai blog­gers will be meet­ing on Sunday, […]

Bihu is Assam’s main fes­ti­val. And what I like best about it is that unlike most fes­ti­vals, it is non-religious and asso­ci­ated with agri­cul­ture — observed to cel­e­brate the har­vest­ing sea­son. We cel­e­brate Bihu, three times dur­ing the year. In Jan­u­ary, it is called Maagh Bihu, and usu­ally held on the 14th and 15th of […]