Despite all my attempts not to buy any­more books, I landed up with five more. This time the book shop came to the office cam­pus. With dis­counts. Now how can any­one resist a good bar­gain? Picked up After­wards (Jaishree Misra), River Dog: A Jour­ney Down the Brahma­pu­tra (Mark Shand), Yadav: A Road­side Love Story (Jill […]

(and why they should no longer be called Web World) Can you imag­ine going to a MacDonald’s and being told they had run out of burg­ers? Reliance, how­ever, has run out of data cables! And not one out­let, but every­one of them in the whole of Ban­ga­lore. Armed with all my doc­u­ments I went over to […]

After Cross­words last week­end, vis­ited Oxford Book Shop at the Leela Palace this Sun­day. Resisted from buy­ing any­more books till I get some moolah this month though. Picked up a mag­a­zine instead. Met up with a pho­tog­ra­pher who will be con­duct­ing a three month basic course start­ing from June. Since I’m such an ama­teur, I […]

After weeks of plot­ting and plan­ning we finally made it to Shiok for lunch on Sat­ur­day. My part­ners in crime this time were Aqua (who I was meet­ing for the first time) and Jil (who’s prob­a­bly a lit­tle tired of see­ing me so often :-). We set­tled into the comfy seats and attacked the food […]

Found a really cool lend­ing library with a pretty good col­lec­tion where you can book online and get deliv­ery at your doorstep (for a small price, but very worth it). I’ve been try­ing to find a library since I got here so I am thrilled to bits! It’s a nice con­cept and this is the first […]

Q: Heights of Out­sourc­ing? A: Sonia Gandhi as PM. :) But now, it seems, peo­ple who have been whip­ping them­selves up into a frenzy over the last few days (threat­en­ing to shave their heads/take their own lives), don’t have to worry after all!

Last week­end, I prob­a­bly went through the worst of it (I hope). Fell hor­ri­bly sick. And then got depressed, since I hate being sick. I think after the ini­tial excite­ment it sud­denly dawned on me that I was in a new place. It’s not a nice feel­ing to be sick and alone. I called up […]

Hasn’t the weather been gor­geous? The only prob­lem of course, is that when it starts rain­ing, the roads get mucky, the ricks totally dis­ap­pear and the cab­bies take ages to appear. Or so I found out this Sat­ur­day when I had a din­ner invi­ta­tion in the evening. I called about 3 city taxi ser­vices to […]